Abstract: A corn buttering device for applying a coating of butter or butter substitute to an ear of corn comprising a pan for containing a heated liquid and a receptacle mounted in the pan for containing liquid butter. The pan is provided with a cover which has a recessed upper surface for receiving and supporting an ear of corn therein. The recess in the cover is provided with an elongate slot which communicates with the butter receptacle when the cover is moved downwardly to tilt the receptacle and cause butter to pour through the recess slot and contact an ear of corn. The recess slot is normally closed by a movable wall member which is displaced from the slot during downward movement of the cover on the pan. The cover containing an ear of corn therein is maintained in an upper position on the pan until manually displaced to a lowermost position for applying butter to the corn.

Abstract: A fishing lure retriever for quickly and reliably releasing and retrieving lures, plugs or other fishing tackle which have become entangled on obstructions, vegetation or timber during the fishing process. The device comprising a disk-shaped, weighted body having a frontal opening located therein and a suspension closure rotatably joined together by connecting apparatus which are spatially disposed within the aforementioned frontal opening and which securely engage the suspension closure holding it in place for being disposed about a snagged fishing line so that it can slidably travel along said line from a point spatially disposed between the tip of a fishing rod and the snagged lure, thereby freeing the ensnared lure and allowing both to be retrieved by the angler for inspection, repair, and subsequent reuse.

Abstract: A fuel economizer system and fuel flow control valve arrangement for an internal combustion engine having a fuel supply tank, a main fuel supply line connecting the tank to the carburetor inlet of the engine, and a fuel pump in the supply line for delivering fuel to the carburetor inlet. The control valve arrangement is located in the fuel supply line between the fuel pump and the carburetor inlet, and includes a first control valve which is automatically incrementally adjusted between closed and open position by a diaphragm motor which is operatively connected to the intake manifold of the engine such that changes in vacuum in the intake manifold automatically adjust the control valve to proportionally increase or decrease the supply of fuel to the carburetor inlet.

Abstract: A cover for a padlock including a top cover portion having a top wall, side walls and end walls, the top wall defining shackle leg receiving openings, and the top and side walls having a generally U-shaped protrusion therealong to permit expansion and contraction with size variation of the padlock. A bottom portion of the lock cover includes a bottom wall, side walls and end walls that are removably connectable to the top cover portion, the bottom wall having an elongated membrane therein to receive a key and having shoulders to hold the lock body out of contact with the bottom wall. Side walls of the bottom cover portion have a generally U-shaped protrusion therealong to permit expansion and contraction.

Abstract: A hairpin style cotter key of wire-like stock having a pair of cooperable legs, utilizing the resilient means provided by said stock to create safe, reliable, and quick clamping means to various structural components to be held in place by the combination and interaction of the piercing means of the shorter straight leg and the receiving means of the longer intersecting leg in conjunction with the aforesaid leg of the present device.

Abstract: A multiple access fluid connector unit having two connector elements adapted for connection to a source of fluid or a fluid administration device and sealed on an opposite end. A plurality of spacially separate access ports are provided along the length of the elements, in communication with a fluid manifold that extends along the element. An outer end of each port has a removable cover to maintain the port sterile prior to use. Ports on one element are associable with ports on the other element to provide fluid flow through the unit. After association of two ports, when desirable to disconnect, the associated ports are severed from the elements and the element is resealed adjacent the cut. Two further of the sterile ports can thereafter be uncovered and used to reinstitute fluid flow through the unit.

Abstract: An improved oil filter unit particularly adapted for use in conventional engine oil filter fittings of automotive vehicles, wherein a filter housing having a central oil flow tube may be permanently installed on the oil fitting of the engine to provide filtered oil flow through the entire length of the filter medium disposed between the central oil flow tube and the walls of the filter housing. A removable closure cap with filter medium support means is provided for ready replacement of the disposable filter medium in the housing.

Abstract: A composition for short cut, synthetic polymeric staple fibers that are used in a wet lay application for the production of nonwovens is disclosed and claimed herein along with a fiber having the finish thereon and the process for dispersing the fiber in an aqueous medium. Synthetic polymeric filaments are cut into staple lengths, generally in a range of from about 1/4 to about 3 inches in length, and are dispersed in an aqueous medium in conjunction with a composition that includes as an essential ingredient, an ethoxylated primary emulsifier that contains at least five moles of ethylene oxide, and exhibits a surface tension of at least 30 dynes per centimeter in a 0.10 weight percent aqueous solution at 25 degrees Centigrade plus or minus 2 degrees Centigrade. Optionally, a lubricant may be added to the finish composition to improve processability of the fiber during manufacture. The lubricant should be compatible with the primary emulsifier.

Abstract: A heavy duty press including spaced apart, inturned, U-shaped vertical supports welded to a horizontal support structure extending therebetween at contiguous surfaces, a work support table adjustably receivable on the vertical supports and a spring biased, power operated carriage received above the work support table, the carriage having guide sleeves at opposite ends that are received around the vertical supports and carrying a work element to act on a workpiece on the table. The vertical supports have elongated vertical slots to permit an elongated workpiece to be acted on and clamps associated with the vertical supports may be employed to hold an elongated workpiece.

Abstract: An improved work machine of the eccentric piston type which may be employed to translate force of pressurized fluid into rotary shaft motion in an external combustion type engine system, as a pump for pumping fluids in a fluid handling system, and as a fluid actuated motor. The work machine comprises a housing having an internal compartment with a peripheral lobe. An inner body is mounted for non-rotational orbital movement in the housing. The inner body housing, and a movable wall member located in a peripheral recess of the inner body form variable-volume fluid intake and discharge chambers in the housing compartment during orbital movement of the inner body. Pressurized fluid supplied to the fluid intake chamber of the housing imparts non-rotational orbital movement of the inner body in the housing and corresponding rotational motion to an output shaft on which the inner body is eccentrically mounted.

Abstract: An improved electromechanical filling yarn indicator for use in a pattern-controlled outside filling yarn supply weaving loom to translate motion of fill yarn control cords of a jacquard harness or other pattern control mechanism into electrical signals for transmission to activating solenoids of fill yarn control box selectors which present selected fill yarns from outside filling yarn supply packages to the fill yarn carrier for insertion into the warp shed of the loom. The fill yarn indicator comprises a plurality of slidably movable bars, each having an electrical contact connected to a power supply and engageable with one of a pair of electrical contacts spaced along the path of sliding movement of the bars. Each contact of the pairs of contact is connected to a respective actuating solenoid of fill yarn control box devices located on either side of the loom.

Abstract: An improved method and apparatus for removing solid contaminants from the air comprising a generally stationary horizontally disposed cylindrical housing having a pair of spaced opposed vertical end walls and a peripherally disposed filter medium wall extending therebetween to define a filter compartment, a reduced air inlet opening in one end wall for introducing air to be filtered into the compartment and initially directing the same in a path of travel to the other end wall for deflection and recirculation through the compartment in a generally circular path before passage through the cylindrical filter medium wall for filtration thereby, and a plurality of contaminant discharge openings spaced about the lower peripheral portion of the other end wall for directly removing contaminants in the air from the compartment before their entrapment on the filter medium of the unit.

Abstract: An improved wall ventilator for use in building constructions comprising a housing having peripheral wall members defining a ventilating passageway therethrough, a supporting lattice extending across the passageway and defining a narrow elongate slot, a manually adjustable louver section having a plurality of panels extending in side by side relation across the passageway behind the support lattice and being interconnected for pivotal movement about adjacent side edges of each other, hinge means pivotally interconnecting an end one of the plurality of panels to an adjacent side wall portion of the housing, and a manually engageable control knob attached to the opposite end one of the plurality of panels extending through the lattice slot and slideable therealong to fold and unfold the panels upon themselves about their interconnected side edges to open and close the ventilating passageway of the housing.

Abstract: A gastric feeding device for introduction into the stomach of a patient from the nasal or oral opening thereof comprising an elongate flexible collapsible tube having a longitudinal passageway with a wall thickness incapable of independently sustaining a tubular shape in the absence of internal support in the longitudinal passageway, a relatively rigid fitting having a through passageway attached to the proximal end of the collapsible tube for introducing an elongate flexible support tube into the length of the passageway to support the same during intubation, and for introducing a fluid into and throughout the length of the collapsible tube passageway to contact the inner wall surface thereof after intubation to permit removal of the support tube therefrom.

Abstract: A step stool defining a U-shaped opening in a rear portion of same with at least one elevated step in front of the U-shaped opening, whereby the stool may be received about a portion of the base of a toilet bowl. Threaded bolts are received in threaded openings through side walls of the stool to be tightened against the sides of the toilet bowl to stabilize the stool thereat. A generally U-shaped insert is also provided which may be received and held within the U-shaped openings of the stool to convert the stool to a conventional step stool.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for knitting fleece fabrics on a knitting machine having two sets of needles disposed for movement in planes disposed at angles to each other to form a fabric construction; and wherein one set of needles is employed exclusively to knit a jersey ground construction from relatively lightweight yarns, while selected of the other set of needles are employed with selected needles of said one set to inlay a much heavier yarn along selected courses to pass alternately over and be tucked under groups of one or more consecutive wales of the knit ground construction without forming stitches therein. The heavy inlay yarns are drawn by the selected needles of the other set to appear primarily on one face of the fabric, and these selected needles which hold the inlay yarn are retracted to less than full welt position to dispose the inlaid yarn below the plane of knitting movement of certain of the needles of said one set.

Abstract: An improved temperature regulated wall ventilator comprising a housing defining an air flow passageway therethrough, a plurality of louvers mounted in side by side relation in the housing passageway for pivotal movement about their longitudinal axes to open and close the air flow passageway, and temperature responsive helical spring control means located in the air flow passageway on an inner end portion of a stub shaft mounted on the housing. One end of the helical spring is attached to one of the louvers, and the other end of the spring is operatively attached to the stub shaft to prevent its relative rotation with respect thereto.

Abstract: An improved wall ventilator for use in building constructions comprising a housing having a peripheral wall member defining an air flow passageway, a first louver section comprising a fixed panel having a plurality of openings therethrough and attached to said peripheral wall members to extend across a front portion of the passageway, a second movable louver section comprising a plurality of movable panels extending in side by side relation and having a plurality of openings extending therethrough and alternately spaced with respect to the openings in the first louver section fixed panels whereby imperforate portions of each section of panels overlie the openings of the other when the movable second section panels are located in a common plane and in a first position immediately adjacent the rear face of the fixed panel to close the housing passageway, and a temperature responsive bimetallic spring operatively connected to the movable panels to pivot the same away from the first fixed panel to a second positi

Abstract: A four-cycle internal combustion engine comprises a housing defining an internal compartment having one or more peripheral lobes, an inner body mounted in the housing for non-rotational orbital movement and having a plurality of peripheral lobes corresponding in number to the number of compartment lobes, and with a peripheral recess in the inner body between inner body lobe. A movable wall member is mounted for movement in each inner body peripheral recess and defines with the housing and inner body, a variable-volume fluid intake and compression chamber. The inner body is mounted in the housing compartment so that each of its peripheral lobes moves in a circular orbit into a respective one of the compartment lobes during movement of the inner body, and the inner body lobe, housing, and movable wall member define a variable-volume power chamber and exhaust chamber in each of the compartment lobes during movement of the inner body.

Abstract: An improved surface wind batcher and method of collecting material in roll form while maintaining positional stability of the roll during its rotation comprising a pair of rotatably driven parallel side-by-side spaced support rollers which support and peripherally drive a roll of web material fed thereto in continuous length form. The rollers are mounted in movable bearings operated by pneumatic pistons which are automatically actuated during roller and roll rotation to increase the distance between the support rollers and thereby ensure positional stability of the rotating roll on the support rollers. Upon completion of roll formation, the support rollers are actuated to automatically doff the roll of material therefrom and return them to initial closely spaced position for formation of another roll.