Abstract: An electrical rail conductor assemblage for an insulated electrification system, including an elongate electrically-conducting rail having a longitudinal groove for receiving a cooperable collector shoe and for guiding it for travel along the rail. The rail has opposite wall portions which border the groove. The wall portions have thin wall sections with rounded longitudinal edges that constitute the mouth of the groove of the rail. The rail is covered by an essentially tubular, insulating, hollow, resilient and rigid cover member enveloping essentially all portions of the rail except for the mouth of the groove thereof. The cover member has a longitudinal cut which registers with the mouth of this groove, and curved, longitudinally-extending snap-on retainer portions that extend along the cut and are adapted to snap over the rounded longitudinal edges of the rail. These retainer portions extend in a circumferential direction through substantially a full semi-circle.

Abstract: A tick extracter consisting of a pair of manually operable, electrically insulated jaws in the form of tweezers adapted to grasp the body of the tick, and an electrical source to supply one or more electrical pulses to the jaws so as to jolt the tick and cause it to loosen its grip on the flesh of the victim. The electrical source can be a piezo-electric crystal connected to the jaws of the tweezers by a flexible electrical cord, and can be manually controlled as by another hand, to effect the production of the electrical pulses from the crystal.

Abstract: A strut construction having outer and inner telescoping strut members capable of relative extending and collapsing movements. The outer strut member has a socket for a locking piece which is captive but moveable therein. A release member is captive and slidable on the strut construction between locking and release positions. The release member has spaced-apart shallow and deep internal pockets for respectively receiving, depending on its locking or releasing position, portions of the captive locking piece in the outer strut member. The inner strut member has a shoulder which provides shallow and deep pockets to respectively receive other portions of the captive locking piece.

Abstract: A hinged strut construction has a pair of elongate, rigid strut members and a hinge structure connecting adjoining ends of the members to each other. A slide device releasably locks the strut members in an aligned, extended position. The slide device consists of an extendable and retractable locking pin which is axially movable on one strut member and which can be extended into or pulled out of an axial socket of the other member. A collar that is movable on one strut member connects with the locking pin to effect the movement of the pin.

Abstract: A hand-held dispenser for holding and dispensing various grooming, household, cosmetic and the like liquids features only two parts to effect a turn-to-open-or-close function. A plastic bottle or container part has an integral neck portion for discharge of the contents of the container. The bore of the neck portion is so formed that it provides a valving action in conjunction with a turnable cap part that is carried by the neck. Adjustable positioning of the cap part on the neck portion enables different rates of flow to be had from the container part.

Abstract: A dispensing cap construction for containers includes a cap body for attachment to a container neck, the cap body having a discharge spout portion, and a closure cap turnably carried by the cap body and overlying the spout portion. The closure cap has a non-round orifice, and a stopper blade located in the closure cap and receivable in the orifice so as to close off the same. Resilient oppositely-disposed spaced-apart support legs are connected with the stopper blade and mount the latter on the spout portion. The resilient legs retain the stopper blade against outward axial movement with respect to the spout portion of the cap body while simultaneously enabling limited rotary movement of the stopper blade with the closure cap as the latter is shifted axially outward on the cap body, to thereby effect removal of the stopper blade from the orifice.

Abstract: A container closure having an originality ring which can be attached to a container with little force and easily removed, while making certain that the originality ring either detaches completely from the closure cap or is at least damaged visibly. The retaining elements comprise a rocker having first and second legs connected to the originality ring via an elastic web. The first leg points obliquely inward and the second leg points outward.

Abstract: In order to make it possible to empty in particular, large containers with a crew of just one person, an emptying device with a tilting/lifting device 1 and a control unit 4 is described to which a trigger switch 2 is connected which is actuated by the container to be emptied as it approaches the lifting/tilting device and which triggers the raising phase of the lifting/tilting process automatically. When a preset raised level of the lifting/tilting device is reached the control unit interrupts the raising phase. In addition, a first manual actuator 8 to trigger the automatic emptying process, which actuator has an effect upon the control unit 4 only after the interruption of the lifting process, is connected to the control unit. The control unit 4 contains a programmable device 5 into which the preset raised level can be inputted.

Abstract: A regenerable deep bed filter element and method for making it, the element being provided as a closed system, in the case of which a deep bed filter (21), disposed inside at least one hollow-cylindrical chamber (17), is formed by a bulk material filling of regenerable, filtration-active substances of a particulate and/or fibrous structure. The hollow-cylindrical chamber accommodates radial flow by means of porous inner and outer peripheral walls (18, 19). The deep bed filter can be either washed, or regenerated by flushing back with water, steam or chemical cleansing agents, during which the filtration-active substances remain inside the chamber (17).

Abstract: A filter cartridge with a filter element inserted in a receiving space formed by a central cylindrical flow pipe 32 and a peripheral wall 34 is in terms of its possibilities of use and possibilities of adaptation to filtration problems substantially improved in that the filter element consists of fleece-like filter material and in that in its radial direction it comprises mutually enclosing zones of different filtering properties. For practical purposes, these zones can follow one another without any transition or they may be constructed with filtering properties which are varied in stepwise fashion. The filter element can be formed by the combination of a pleated filter fleece with a rolled-up filter fleece, the pleated part of the filter element being optionally on the inside or the outside.

Abstract: A strut construction having outer and inner telescoping strut members capable of relative extending and collapsing movements. The outer strut member has a socket for a locking ball which is captive but moveable therein. A release collar is captive and slidable on the outer strut member between locking and release positions. The release collar has spaced-apart shallow and deep internal pockets for respectively receiving, depending on its locking or releasing position, portions of the captive ball of the outer strut member The inner strut member has a shoulder means which provides shallow and deep pockets to respectively receive other portions of the captive ball.

Abstract: A dispensing cap construction having a closure button which is pivotally mounted in the upper portion of a tubular cap body. The closure button and the cap body have communicating discharge passages, and the button has an orifice at the end of its discharge passage. The button orifice is normally closed by the upper wall of the cap body, and such wall is resilient and has a bulge which extends into the button orifice to act as a detent thereby to minimize the likelihood of the botton becoming inadvertently opened.

Abstract: The description relates to an adjusting device 1 for microscopic movements and comprising a carrier element 3 with, fixed on the carrier element 3, drive elements 6a, 6b, 6c which have a piezoelectric transducer which utilises the shear effect and which have a bearing element 5 which rests on the drive elements 6a, b, c. So that such an adjusting device 1, regardless of its position, is able to carry out high-precision reproducible microscopic movements, in particular also movements in a vertical direction being possible while under load, the form and disposition of drive element 6 and bearing element 5 are designed for the performance of a guided microscopic movement. In addition, a pressure applying device 8 is provided which presses the bearing element 5 and the drive element 6 against one another with a predetermined force. Preferably, the pressure applying device comprises at least one magnet 17 which attracts the bearing element 5 with an adjustable force.

Abstract: A panel-mounted electrical power outlet receptacle for receiving a power plug to transfer current from circuitry located at the rear of the panel. The receptacle has a molded plastic body of tubular open-ended configuration, with an integral transverse wall intermediate its ends. A first double-ended metal terminal post is molded into said transverse wall and projects into both open ends of the body, the ends of the post being respectively receivable in sockets of cooperable separable fittings that are receivable in the body ends. There is a second double-ended metal terminal post in the form of a stamping, which is carried by the transverse wall of the plastic body. It also projects into both open ends of the body. The transverse body wall has an opening through which the second terminal post extends, and there is a snap locking construction on the plastic body and the second terminal post, which is activated upon insertion of the second terminal post in the wall opening.

Abstract: A flexible fleece-like filter material is provided wherein in a matrix-like basic framework consisting of synthetic or natural fibres, ultra-finely fibrillated fibres and/or inert porous particles are incorporated as a filter medium, the filter medium forming, anchored in the matrix, chain structures provided with a cationic or anionic charge or possibly charged with other substances which influence the filtering properties or with immobilised cells and/or catalysts. A fleece is formed with a thickness of between 0.5 mm and 5 mm and preferably up to 2 mm, which is flexible and which can even be pleated. This filter material can be produced by a simple method without harming the environment.

Abstract: A closure and applicator cap adapted to be attached to the neck of a container which holds a flowable product. The cap includes a molded plastic cap body having a tip portion and an axially-extending discharge passage in the tip portion. The wall of the tip portion has an annular exterior cut extending completely around its circumference. The cut forms an annular zone of weakness in the wall of the tip portion. This zone of weakness is disposed in a first plane which is transverse to the axis of the tip portion, and which is offset downwardly of a second and higher plane containing the uppermost external annular edge of the cut. The tip portion has a flat extremity above the cut to enable it to be grasped and shifted so as to rupture the zone of weakness of the tip portion and expose the discharge passage thereof for the dispensing of product therethrough. Optionally, reinforcing struts are molded integral with the flattened extremity of the tip portion, to increase strength against inadvertent breakage.

Abstract: A weldless and solderless fluid distribution piping system incorporating solely mechanical retention of one or more inlet/outlet fittings in holes in the side wall of a pipe. In each case, the fitting has at one end a fishmouth configuration and an annular bead, and this end end is first inserted into the hole in the pipe and the bead thereafter forcibly expanded into tight mechanical and sealing relationship with the edges of the hole. A deformable and resilient sealing gasket can optionally be interposed between the fitting and pipe to provide an improved seal, if desired. Novel apparati and a method for attaching such fittings to a pipe are also disclosed.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for repairing a heat-exchanger of the type having a tube sheet in which the extremities of exchanger tubes are mounted. The method involves unrolling tubular insert stock from a supply roll, straightening the unrolled insert stock by passing it through a straightening device which has its output disposed substantially in alignment with one of the exchanger tubes to be repaired and at a location adjacent the mounted extremity of the exchanger tube, and forcibly pulling the straightened insert stock into the one exchanger tube. The pulled-in insert stock is then cut to length, and the ends radially expanded against the inner walls of the exchanger tube, and sealed to the tube sheet.