Abstract: A heat generator assembly in a material processing apparatus includes a heater unit and an elongated deflector structure mounted adjacent thereto. The heater unit includes a plurality of elongated electric heating elements extending in generally parallel relation to one another and being operable for emitting heat radiation. The deflector structure is disposed along the electric heating elements and in circumferential relation partially about the electric heating elements for deflecting the heat radiation in a desired direction away from the heating elements.

Abstract: A batched materials transferring apparatus includes an elongated drum, a bucket disposed in the drum, and a drive arrangement operable to move the bucket relative to the drum. The drum defines an interior chamber having a longitudinal axis. The drum has a top (or side) opening formed in a first end portion thereof and a bottom opening formed in a second end portion thereof with the top (or side) opening being axially displaced from the bottom opening. The bucket has a side opening formed therein and is slidably movable relative to the drum along the longitudinal axis between the first and second end portions. The drive arrangement is mounted adjacent to the drum and connected to the bucket through one end of the drum.

Abstract: A male electrical plug assembly includes an elongated body, a mounting flange, a terminal holder and a terminal retainer, all being made of an insulating material. The elongated body has a plurality of locating elements defined on an exterior surface on one end portion thereof and an annular shoulder defined thereon adjacent to the external locating elements. The mounting flange is adapted to fit over the elongated body and abut against the annular shoulder and has an internal annular wall with a plurality of recesses defined therein being alignable with the external locating elements of the elongated body. The terminal holder is adapted to fit over the elongated body in abutting relation against the mounting flange and has a plurality of cavities and a plurality of slots aligned with the cavities. The cavities and slots are alignable with the internal recesses of the mounting flange and the external locating elements of the elongated body.

Abstract: A material processing apparatus includes a casing having a top and bottom and a plurality of sides defining a pyrolysis chamber for receiving and pyrolyzing feed materials therein into fluid materials and a mass of refractory material disposed upon the bottom of the casing and spaced below the top thereof and extending between its sides. The refractory mass includes an upper surface defining a bottom of the pyrolysis chamber and having an end spaced from a first one of the casing sides to define an ash residue collection cavity therebetween. The apparatus also includes a system of tunnels defined within the refractory mass being spaced below the upper surface thereof.

Abstract: A machine for repetitively cutting depressions of equal desired dimensions and at equal desired spacings between them in a highway surface includes a mobile chassis movable along the highway surface and having a support frame mounted for pivotal movement about a transverse axis, a cutting head mounted to the support frame for rotation about a transverse axis at a predetermined speed to cut a depression in the highway surface, an auxiliary frame pivotally connected about an axis to the support frame, gauge wheels rotatably mounted to the auxiliary frame and supporting the auxiliary frame and the support frame therewith above the highway surface, and a cam and control mechanism drivingly interconnected to the gauge wheels to repetitively pivotally move, in response to rotation of the gauge wheels, the auxiliary and support frames about the respective axes relative to one another and thereby repetitively vertically move in a preset sequence the cutting head between a lowered cutting position and raised non-cutti

Abstract: A material processing apparatus includes a casing having outer and inner spaced walls forming an airtight vessel inside of the inner walls and a channel between the outer and inner walls surrounding the vessel for containing a flow of coolant fluid. The vessel contains a first chamber having an inlet and a second chamber connected in communication with the first chamber and having an outlet. The first chamber receives materials through its inlet. The materials are pyrolyzed in the first chamber. The second chamber receives the pyrolyzed materials from the first chamber. The pyrolyzed materials are oxidized in the second chamber and then discharged therefrom. The vessel defined by the casing is separated into first and second units. The first chamber of the vessel for pyrolyzing materials is disposed in the first unit. The second chamber of the vessel has primary and secondary sections for oxidizing materials in two successive stages.

Abstract: A two-tier groove cutting circular saw blade includes a circular core having sectors defined in circumferentially spaced relation to one another along the periphery, and lands defined in circumferentially spaced relation to one another between the periphery and center of the core. Pluralities of outer and inner cutting segments are secured to the respective core sectors and lands. First and second pluralities of anti-undercut elements are defined on the core respectively between the center and periphery thereof and along the periphery thereof between preselected ones of the lands and sectors for defining first and second exit paths away from the inner and outer cutting segments for flow of material particles generated from the cutting of the groove and flushing of the groove by fluid coolant so as to reduce wear and undercutting of the core adjacent to the inner and outer cutting segments.

Abstract: An aerobic exercise chair includes a main frame and a seat assembly pivotally connected to a rear end portion of the main frame for angular movement relative thereto. A handle assembly is pivotally connected to a front end portion of the main frame and by a connecting link to the front end of a yoke assembly that is mounted to and projects forwardly from a lower support frame of the seat assembly. A user desiring to achieve an aerobic workout sits on the seat assembly, grasps the free end of the handle assembly, and pulls it towards himself resulting in the connecting link forcing the free end of the yoke assembly to move downwardly thereby causing the seat assembly with the user resting thereon to pivot upwardly towards the free end of the handle assembly whereby the user is raised against his own weight relative to the main frame.

Abstract: An electric lighting support assembly includes an elongated hollow tubular arm having a plurality of circumferentially and axially spaced wall portions, an electric light supported on the arm, wiring connected to the electric light and running through the arm, an entry aperture for receiving an electric power supply line into the arm at a first of the wall portions, an access opening for gaining access to an electrical connection between the electric power supply line and the wiring in the tubular arm at a second of the wall portions spaced from the first wall portion, and a cover removably attached to the arm at the second wall portion thereof so as to overlie and close the access opening in the arm such that the cover can be removed and reattached without affecting the electrical connection between the electric power supply line and the wiring. The tubular arm has opposing top and bottom sides and opposing lateral sides.

Abstract: A circuit breaker panelboard has a rear housing that mounts a plurality of circuit breaker modules arranged in a pair of spaced columns. Each module has an actuator associated with it and the plurality of actuators are also arranged in a pair of spaced columns. A front cover is releasably attachable to the rear housing for enclosing the circuit breaker modules and associated actuators. And an improved circuit breaker actuating assembly is coupled to the circuit breaker actuators and to the front cover for facilitating manipulation of the actuators from the exterior of the front cover. The actuating assembly includes operating members and linking members. The operating members of the first group are disposed in a first pair of columns aligned with the pair of columns of circuit breaker actuators and are provided in directly coupled relationships with first alternating ones of the circuit breaker actuators in the columns.

Abstract: A device can be provided in different embodiments for holding different tensions in different length string sections of a sports racquet stringing bed. In one embodiment, a strip of material is applied on the periphery of the head portion of the racquet and is compressed under the string portions extending between pairs of adjacent stringing holes. In another embodiment, the tension holding device is a plurality of cylindrical bands of compressible material which fit about the string portions and within the grommets of the racquet. In both embodiments, the material is compressed by the string portion to generate sufficient frictional force therebetween to prevent slippage of the string portion relative thereto and thereby hold the different length string sections under the predetermined amount of differential tension.

Abstract: A sports racket has a handle and a multi-frame. The multi-frame includes a primary frame defining a throat connected to the handle and a hoop-shaped head connected to the throat and encompassing an open region. The head has a plurality of stringing holes defined therethrough for attaching stringing to the head and across the open region. The multi-frame also includes supplementary frames and ribs. The supplementary frames are disposed in spaced relation and adjacent to opposite sides of the primary frame. The supplementary frames are coextensive with all or a portion of the primary frame head, plus all or a portion of the primary frame throat. The ribs are spaced from one another and extend between and rigidly interconnect the supplementary frames with coextensive portions of the primary frame. The ribs and supplementary frames serve to increase the stiffness of the primary frame, reducing axial and torsional deflections thereof upon striking a ball by the stringing across the open region of the head.

Abstract: A pole top cover assembly includes a generally flat cover plate adapted to overlie an open top end of a tubular hollow pole, an elongated arcuate-shaped bracket formed of yieldably resilient, semi-rigid, semi-flexible deformable material and being disposable along one side of the cover plate, and an elongated fastener rotatably mounted through both an aperture in the cover plate and a hole in the bracket and having external threads threadably engaged with portions of the plate and bracket which form the respective aperture and hole thereof. Rotation of the fastener in one direction relative to the cover plate and bracket causes the arcuate-shaped bracket to engage the plate and to deform and draw toward the one side of the cover plate and thereby expand in length and forcibly engage at opposite ends with portions of an interior surface of the hollow tubular pole so as to retain the cover plate on the pole top end.

Abstract: A two-tier groove cutting circular saw blade includes a circular middle core having sectors defined about the periphery, a pair of side cores disposed adjacent opposite surfaces of the middle core and having lands defined about their outer peripheries, and pluralities of outer and inner cutting segments are secured to the respective middle core sectors and side core lands. Each side core is smaller in diameter than the middle core such that the side core lands and inner cutting segments secured thereon are displaced radially inwardly from the middle core sectors and outer cutting segments secured thereon, thereby adapting the blade for cutting a narrow lower tier and a wider upper tier of the two-tier groove. The blade also includes core anti-undercut features provided on the middle and side cores at predetermined locations thereon for defining exit paths for flow of material particles generated from the cutting of the groove and flushing of the groove by fluid coolant.

Abstract: A storage container for storing cases for holding compact discs and a multi-disc changer cartridge for a compact disc player includes a housing having spaced side walls and bottom, top and rear walls which interconnect the side walls and therewith define an interior cavity being open at a front end of the housing. The housing also includes an interior partition wall spaced from the top and bottom walls of the housing and extending across the interior cavity between and interconnecting the side walls so as to define upper and lower interior compartments in the interior cavity of the housing. The lower compartment is shorter in height than the upper compartment so that the upper compartment is capable of removably receiving and storing therein the changer cartridge containing the compact discs in a given order.

Abstract: A carrier device for transporting sheet material on edge includes a flat bed disposed horizontally when the carrier device is in a transport position, a carriage having a single swivel-type caster wheel underlying and supporting the bed at one end portion thereof for movement across a surface, and a pair of sidewalls attached lengthwise on the bed and laterally spaced from one another to receive a lower edge of the sheet material between them and having sufficient height to laterally confine the lower edge of the sheet material so as to prevent it from being inadvertently pulled or pushed off the bed. The bed has a pair of opposite side edges extending from the rear to a front end thereof and converging toward one another such that the bed side edges and caster wheel cause movement of the carrier device sideways away from and around an object in its path upon engagement of one side edge of the bed with the object. The carrier device also has a pedestal attached below an opposite end portion of the bed.

Abstract: A suction attachment for a hair grooming clipper includes a suction head having a vacuum relief port and a flexible sealing lid for covering the port. The relief port communicates between an internal air flow passage in the suction head and the exterior of the suction head. The sealing lid is movable by a user's finger to regulate the degree of relief of the vacuum provided by the port. The suction head has a flow constriction defined in the air flow passage midway between a front inlet and a rear outlet and proximate the location of the relief port such that regulation of vacuum relief occurs at the region of the passage where the air pressure is highest and air velocity is lowest. Also, a hollow tubular extension at one end can be inserted in the relief port when the port is completely open to prevent clogging of the open port by hair entering the port from the exterior of the suction head.

Abstract: A sports racket has a handle and a multi-frame. The multi-frame includes a primary frame defining a throat connected to the handle and a hoop-shaped head connected to the throat and encompassing an open region. The head has a plurality of stringing holes defined therethrough for attaching stringing to the head and across the open region. The multi-frame also includes supplementary frames and ribs. The supplementary frames are disposed in spaced relation and adjacent to opposite sides of the primary frame. The supplementary frames are coextensive with all or a portion of the primary frame head, plus all or a portion of the primary frame throat. The ribs are spaced from one another and extend between and rigidly interconnect the supplementary frames with coextensive portions of the primary frame. The ribs and supplementary frames serve to increase the stiffness of the primary frame, reducing axial and torsional deflections thereof upon striking a ball by the stringing across the open region of the head.

Abstract: A racket frame, such as for a tennis racket, has a head portion, a handle portion and a throat portion extending between and interconnecting the head and handle portions. The head portion encompasses an open region and has a plurality of stringing holes for attaching stringing to the head portion and across the open region. The throat portion is in the form of a pair of legs in a generally V-shaped configuration. Different cross-sectional dimensional relationships are incorporated in the racket frame to tailor racket frame stiffness. A first cross-sectional dimensional relationship relates to location of the maximum cross-sectional height of the racket frame in a lower extent of the head portion thereof so as to define a dual reverse tapered profile along the cross-sectional height of the racket frame.