Abstract: This invention relates to a new and improved clamp for the "stick" holes of kidney dialysis patients when the needles are removed from the arm following treatment.

Abstract: In a fork lift truck having a pair of spaced apart forwardly extending tines which are movable vertically relative to the truck to effect a raising or lowering of loads thereon. Each of the tines is provided with a sleeve which is telescopically slidable thereover. A cross member joins the sleeves at their inner ends closest to the truck. A mechanical linkage is mounted on the truck and attached to the cross member. The linkage is arranged and constructed in one position thereof to provide that the fork tines and their covering sleeves are substantially coextensive and in another position thereof to provide that the covering sleeves are forwardly extended relative to the tines on which they slide. This causes the covering sleeves to be tine extensions thus permitting a load carried thereon to be forwardly extended relative to the lift truck.

Abstract: A tricycle type vehicle with two forwardly disposed spaced apart drive wheels and a rear centrally disposed caster wheel. Spaced apart auxiliary drive wheels flank both sides of the rear caster wheel and are arranged for vertical movement on the vehicle. The auxiliary drive wheels may be in an up inoperative position to permit the vehicle to act solely as a tricycle with two driving wheels, or down in ground engaging operative position causing the caster wheel to be raised off the ground and thus converting the vehicle to a four wheel drive vehicle.

Abstract: Each of the tines of a fork lift truck is provided with a sleeve which is telescopically slidable thereover. A cross member joins the sleeves at their inner ends closest to the truck. A mechanical linkage is mounted on the truck and attached to the cross member. Extension of the linkage causes the covering sleeves to be tine extensions thus permitting a load carried thereon to be forwardly extended relative to the lift truck. A bail member having a rectangular perimeter is pivotally mounted at its rear on the lift truck to the rear of the tines and is positionable either in a substantially vertical position adjacent the front of the lift truck or in a horizontal position where the front cross member rests on the top surface of the sleeves. A cross slatted pallet carrying a load is positioned across the forwardly extending tines with their sleeve covers. Each of the sleeves is provided with a fixed lug on its top side.

Abstract: An apparatus for the printing industry relating to the folding of printed webs. More particularly the invention concerns the means for uniformly gripping the full width of a wide printed web at intermittent periods to obtain accurate folding. The gripping apparatus is opened and closed by an endwise shifting of an actuator. A cam at one end causes the actuating member to shift one way and then a cam at the other end shifts the actuating member in the other direction. The actuator member is itself cammed to move fore and aft as it moves endwise and imparts only its fore and aft movement to a movable gripper jaw. There is no arcuate swinging of a rod such as in previous devices and hence there are no adverse effects of torque or twisting occuring during the gripping operation. The present construction permits uniform gripping of the full width of the printed web without any tendency of the operator member to twist and irregularly grip the web.

Abstract: A folding device for printed continuous webs moving at a high rate of speed. The device includes a pair of cooperating rolls between which the web passes. The rolls carry "working boxes" on the surfaces thereof to perform various folding functions on the moving web. Here the function of concern is the gripping of the web. An element on one roll causes the web to be pushed into open gripping elements on the cooperative roll. A bight is formed in the web at the position of gripping. During the concurrent rotation of the rolls the grippers close on the formed bight. Subsequently it is desired to remove the bight from the opening gripping elements. Simultaneously with the opening of the gripping elements there is provided a positive means for raising the formed bight out of the scope of the jaws. This bight stripper prevents any unnecessary entanglements of the fast moving printed web with the gripping elements during the folding of the web.

Abstract: A mower of the multiple rotor type in which each rotor has radial mowing blades extending into the transverse plane of adjacent rotors and the blades of adjacent rotors being vertically offset from one another. More specifically the multiple rotors are transversely aligned and are provided with horizontally disposed discs all aligned in a horizontal plane. The mowing blades on alternate discs are associated with the top side of the discs and the mowing blades on the intermediate alternate discs are associated with the under side of the discs. Thus the cooperative blades of any adjacent discs are vertically offset from one another.

Abstract: "L" shaped spring wire blades for use on drum type mowers. The upper ends of the vertical leg portions of the L-shaped members are fastened to the drum near its upper end and arcuately spaced apart around its cylindrical surface. The vertical portion of each blade projects downwardly at a position closely adjacent the outer cylindrical surface of the drum and passes through an opening in the disc at the base of the drum whereafter the horizontal portion of each blade extends radially outwardly beneath the disc. A hay cutting end of each blade projects radially outwardly beyond the disc to effect cutting of hay as the drum and its unitary disc rotate. The spring wire blade can yield rearwardly about its vertical leg as an axis of torsional twist when its horizontal leg strikes an obstruction. The inherent spring nature of the L-shaped blade will cause it to automatically resume its cutting position when the obstruction is cleared.

Abstract: A steel brace for reinforcing an offset truss intermediate its heel joint and its ridge board. The steel brace has one end thereof nailed into the ceiling joist on one side and has its other end nailed into the roof rafter on the other side. The brace is provided with a deep rib extending longitudinally from one end to a position beyond the center of the brace and a laterally spaced apart deep rib extending longitudinally from the other end to a position beyond the center of the brace in the opposite direction. One of the deep ribs being convexly formed in said steel brace and the other spaced apart deep rib being concavely formed therein. The ribbed steel brace is thus provided with oppositely disposed flat surfaces at the ends thereof to abut the oppositely disposed ceiling joist and roof rafter for nailing thereto.

Abstract: A quickly detachable mounting link and its accompanying flail blades from sleeve lug mounts on a rotor drum. The link is U-shaped and has axially aligned oppositely disposed extensions at the upper end of the U. The depending portion of the U link is adapted to loosely carry the flail blades. One of the extensions is longer than the other and carries a coil spring therearound. The oppositely disposed extensions are adapted to slidably engage spaced apart, axially aligned sleeve lug mounts on the rotor drum. The coil spring in its normal extension keeps the mounting link in its sleeve mounts on the rotor drum. Quick detachment is accomplished by sliding the mounting link in a direction to compress the coil spring and effect removal of the short extension from its sleeve lug mount, whereupon the entire link may be removed from the rotor and the flail blades slid off the link over its short extension.

Abstract: A generally rectangular solar heat collector block or module adapted to operate with its narrow side in a generally vertical position. One face of the collector block is adapted to receive direct sun rays. The ray receiving face having a reflector surface commencing at a position closely adjacent the front and top of the block and terminating adjacent the rear and bottom of the block. A duct is disposed transversely in the bottom of the block and has a depth substantially coextensive with the depth of the block. Insulation is provided in the block rearwardly of the reflector surface. The reflector surface comprises a plurality of adjoining, different angled reflective surfaces which are arranged and constructed to dispense reflected sun heat rays substantially uniformly over an extended portion of the full depth of the duct. The module just defined is adapted to be used in multiples and arranged side-by-side and in vertical banks to form a wall panel for collecting solar heat.

Abstract: A corner bracket for the purpose of joining building walls of wood construction at right angles to one another and having a saddle to receive and effect a joining of an upwardly inclined roof hip rafter at 45.degree. relative to the walls.

Abstract: An applicator for applying liquid adhesive in a desired pattern and quantity to a paper form for the reception and securing of a stencil thereto. The applicator employs a liquid adhesive storage chamber and a spaced apart applicator chamber with an intermediate metering chamber. The applicator chamber is provided with a flexible plastic material having differential densities of porosity and an impermeable coating applied to selected areas thereof to control the deposition of a measured quantity of adhesive in a particular pattern to the paper form.

Abstract: A fruit picking panel with a certain arrangement of a plurality of parallel disposed rotating spindles and a certain arrangement of a plurality of intermingled parallel disposed stationary spindles. Both the rotating and stationary spindles penetrate the branches of a fruit bearing tree. Each of the rotating spindles is equipped with a plurality of angularly disposed adjoining shank sections lying out of the axis of rotation and including one portion thereof which is covered with an elastomer that includes as an integral portion thereof a paddle-like radial extension. When the rotating spindles on the fruit picking panel are rotated, the elastomer covered angular portions of each spindle moves toward and away from adjacent rotating and stationary spindles. When the elastomer covered sections of adjacent spindles pass each other they create a scissors action so that intermediately disposed fruit is safely and effectively sheared from its tree attachment.

Abstract: A generally vertically disposed bin arranged to receive grain to be dried. Moist grain enters the bin through the top at which point it is distributed relatively uniformly over the full planar area thereof. The bin is equipped with a first floor having air passage perforations therein. The first perforated floor is adapted to carry a substantial column of the moist grain thereon which is subjected to the passage of hot air moving upwardly therethrough. An auger sweep is arranged and constructed to regularly remove portions of the grain lying closest to the surface of the perforated first floor and discharge that grain downwardly through a passageway in the first floor where it is distributed relatively uniformly over a substantial column of grain carried on a second floor spaced beneath the first floor in the bin. The second floor also has air passage perforations therein to permit passage upwardly therethrough of cool air.

Abstract: A continuous paper web is fed in a longitudinal path. Glue is applied in transverse strips at regular intervals along the longitudinally disposed continuous web over a part only of the width of the web. A first plow folds over a portion of the web having the transverse glue strips to a position above an adjacent flat portion of the web. An insert or stuffer is fed into the web between the folded over portion and the flat portion and against an inner crotch thereof formed by the fold line. The space between the folded over portion and the flat portion away from the fold is open and forms a wide mouth to readily receive the inserts delivered thereto. This first folded over portion is then closed down over the inserts lying on the flat portion causing the glue strips to seal onto the flat portion. The folded over portion and the flat portion of the web contain inserts between each of the transverse glue strips.

Abstract: A tool for the removal of lead wire boots from the spark plugs of internal combustion engines. The tool has an L-shaped steel hook adapted to engage the underside of a spark plug boot and permit its removal by an upward pulling of the tool. The tool has an elongated silicone elastomer handle molded integrally to the steel hook through openings in a shank thereof. The thick rubber-like silicone handle fully electrically insulates the user from the hook and thus also the high voltages carried by the spark plugs. The handle is sufficiently flexible to permit the user to insert the tool through the maze of appurtenances of the present day crowded engines into the area of the spark plugs. The flexible handle is endowed with sufficient strength to pull the spark plug boots and is equipped with a flat circular ring for easy gripping by the user and for conveniently hanging on a hook when the tool is not in use.

Abstract: The accurate and uniform indexing of paper business forms with line hole punched margins. The index drive overcomes any possible accumulation of errors. A pawl and ratchet device is employed in the feeding of the paper form. The ratchet is rotated approximately one-half tooth beyond the ultimate desired stop. A spring urged arm then pulls the ratchet wheel back that one-half tooth turn so the pawl rests solidly in a single ratchet tooth. It is this same spring arm that pulls back the over-fed paper form. The form pull back is permitted by reason of a magnetic one-way clutch being momentarily released at the end of the mechanical feed-out. The present device is a combination of a mechanical drive with a magnetically releasable clutch to effect a constantly accurate feed out of paper forms resulting in identical positioning of each of the series of continuous paper forms.

Abstract: A drive for a mower of the type having a multiple number of vertically disposed drum cutters. The cutting elements are at the bottom of each drum and cut in a horizontal plane. A horizontally disposed pneumatic tired wheel is associated with and acts to impart rotation to each of the drum cutters. External drive is imparted to effect rotation of one of the pneumatic tired wheels. The other pneumatic tired wheels are mounted to have frictional circumferential engagement with each other and with the driven wheel to cause all of the wheels to be driven.