Abstract: The tool holding cartridge is male and the second cartridge holding part is female and defines a cylindrical bore with diametrically opposed apertures near the forward face of the bore, the apertures carrying ball bearings, biased, so that a substantial portion of the ball bearing intersects and projects into the cylindrical bore. Those portions of the ball bearings that do so, act as a guide and locking means for the tool holding cartridge which has a cylindrical shaft which extends into a tool holding portion into which a tool may be anchored or secured, as may be required. The tool holding cartridge has, along the outer walls of the cylindrical portion thereof, near the proximate end of the cylindrical portion, a circumferential race that intersects with the proximate ends of two diametrically opposed axially oriented lead raceways defined in the outer perimeter of the cylindrical portion and that terminate at the outer shoulder and peripheral wall at distal end of the cylindrical portion.

Abstract: A rotating or carousel-like tray caddy for holding nuts, bolts and the like and consists of a horizontally oriented carousel carrying a carousel holding means into which are fitted removable trays or drawers. The carousel itself has an overall handle on the carousel frame so as to allow the carousel to be moved from place to place, and horizontal rotation of the carousel itself when placed on a surface and the removal of the tray or trays from the carousel, if required.

Abstract: A filter is disclosed which employes two panels of single-faced corrugated paperboard cut into strips or runs, each strip or run glued in an overlaying fashion relative to the one juxtaposed thereto so that the longitudinal axis defined by each corrugation, lies at an angle relative to the plane of the panel of between 45.degree. and 75.degree.. Two such panels are reversingly juxtaposed into an abutting relationship in one embodiment, and against a medial gauze media in another embodiment, to form a novel filter media suitable as a paint arrestor, coating arrestor or the like.

Abstract: A tool holder for holding a chisel or the like includes a fixed jaw member, generally in the shape of the letter C, wherein one arm of the C has an apex communicating with the center of the C and the other arm thereof defines a threaded aperture whose longitudinal axis intersects the apex and a threaded shaft is adapted to travel and threadingly mate with the threaded aperture to bear against the perimeter of a tool that is circular or hexagonal and to urge the tool against the apex, the arms defining a channel or space therein which acts as a sighting channel for the user, on the one hand, and a passageway for easy removal and insertion of the tool, on the other hand. The threaded shaft extends into a resilient handle that absorbs shock.

Abstract: This invention relates to a delivery assembly for delivering molten metal, to a die-casting machine. The system includes a die-casting liquid metal injector with an operative piston having a cylindrical shuttle valve within the assembly and providing for a lower end portion of the assembly to communicate directly to a reservoir of molten metal, particularly corrosive molten metal such as liquid aluminum or the like. In that respect, the injector surface having contact with the corrosive liquid metal are preferably made of a fine ceramic or composite thereof and in the preferred embodiment by partially stabilized Zirconia. The piston, during its molten metal charging stroke, moves the shuttle away from closing off the inflow conduit which communicates to the liquid metal reservoir supply and the internal cavity defined by the assembly is charged with liquid metal.

Abstract: In barbecuing, food generally sticks to a fixed grill rack. This invention provides means for keeping the food "unstuck" while cooling and this is achieved by moving two adjacently disposed grilling racks, one having a fixed elevation relative to the underlying coals, the other relatively movable from a plane beneath that of the fixed rack to a plane above the fixed rack, thereby causing the food to move between movable rack and fixed rack, keeping the food "unstuck".

Abstract: A tool formed as telescopic longitudinal member having a V shaped end piece acts as a retrieval tool for fishing lures caught on objects under the water. The V-shaped piece has a surmounting hook like member, that is removable, for the convenience of stowing but in operation acts as the guide means along which the hook member travels on the fishing line as the rod is pushed down the fishing line to disengage a caught lure below.

Abstract: A portable bat rack is generally shaped in the form of an equilateral triangle with larger sides of the triangular subtending the front and back of the rack while the smallest side subtends the bottom of the rack. The rack is closed at bottom and back and along the sides and carries three laterally disposed shelves, the lowest shelf being no greater than one-half the width the other two shelves, the other two shelves relatively disposed above the smallest shelf and defining a plurality of bat accommodating apertures, preferably in an array of two parallel rows, a forward and rearward row. The rearward row of openings allows bats placed therethrough to rest on the smallest shelf while the forward row of openings allows the bats to rest on the bottom.

Abstract: A collapsible frame is used as a door hanging aid and provides for two articulating U shaped channel members respectively hinged at proximate ends, one to the other together with one of the arms, which moves into a vertical orthogonal position relative to the other arm, which rests on the floor and the vertical arms support two lateral inclined members which stabilizes the unit in a vertical position. The vertical arm also has means to vary the effective width of the vertical channel of that arm so as to accommodate various thicknesses of doors and secure the door therein.

Abstract: Concrete septic tanks have inflow and outflow orifices and near the outflow orifice have screening or baffles which are stapled or bolted to the concrete inner wall so as to force the outflowing liquids to pass a predetermined flow path with the hope to avoid solids passing out of the tank and into a draining tile bed. A novel baffle structure and device for attaching the baffles is disclosed using a linear race with forward and rearward recesses and flexible marginal flap that seals the race onto a core surface of a mold use to fabricate the tank. After the concrete is poured into the mold and partially cured the core is then removed, and the track remains embedded in the concrete and acts as a holding, sealing and anchoring for a baffle, preferably made of a non-corrosive material such as a plastic. The baffle is slipped into the race of the track and seepage across the baffle interface with the tank walls is avoided and the predetermined flow path for the outflowing fluids is ensured.

Abstract: Significant time is wasted in proving the integrity of a weld associated with the welding of a flange onto a pipe. Generally this takes place by bolting the pipe into the circuit and testing the completed circuit. The test plug according to the invention discloses means for placing a seal internal of the pipe and connecting to a flange which has been welded to end of a pipe a flange plate and bolting the flange plate to the flange in the conventional manner. The test plug defines therethrough at least two channels one for conveying into the pipe bounded by the flange plate and the seal a testing media such a fluid or liquid and the other channel for purging the same. The immediate area around the weld can thus be tested for improper welding rather than requiring the total pipe link to be tested in situ.

Abstract: A hat rack adapted to display at various attitudes, a plurality of different peak caps discloses the use of a single longitudinal element carrying a plurality of secondary elements spacially there along, each of the second elements carrying at least two members, preferrably a curved U shaped member at the distal end of the second element, and a vertical U shaped member, relative to the second longitudinal element, about midway there along the said U shaped elements adapted to specifically carry the peak and body of a single cap.

Abstract: An interdental immobilization device consists, in the preferred embodiment, of a longitudinal deformable shaft having a smooth cylindrical portion that terminates as a pointed tip at the distal end and a helical threaded portion at the proximate end. A nut defining an aperture therethrough matingly threads along the helical threaded portion and the length of the deformable shaft is such as to permit the distal portion of the cylindrical portion to encircle the tooth and to loop above the shaft over a segment of the helical threaded portion. In an alternative embodiment, the longitudinal shaft has a detent at the proximate end and there are anchoring fixtures in the form of truncated conics which are adapted to travel along the shaft. One of the fixtures anchors in the detent and the other, is engaged against adjacent teeth by the nut, when the nut is turned down on the helical thread.

Abstract: A resin and transfer molding technique is used to fabricate, in a unitary fashion, a synthetic oar that has as a core, polyurethane and a longitudinal rigid rectangular spline preferably sitka spruce which transverses orthogonally and extends along the longitudinal axis of the shaft of the oar, the shaft handle therefore and opposite paddle end being unitarily molded according to the resin transfer molding technique. Prior to such molding a green oar substructure is made of the shaft and handle on the one hand, and the paddle on the other hand where a multi-layer wrap of synthetic material is formed over the spline in relation to the shaft and in the paddle mold in relation to the paddle and the cavities are cores thereof filled with green polyurethane. The two components so formed, being the green paddle, and the green shaft, are merged together and further wraps of synthetic material overlaid.

Abstract: A bonded strip of similar rod-like members like nails comprise a plurality of shanks aligned in an adjacent side-by-side flat parallel array, each shank having a longitudinal cylindrical shank. The shanks define at one end, a head of larger transverse dimension than the shank along most of the head transverse dimension while also communicating with a point on the circumference of the shank so that 2 adjacent nails so formed may be placed so that the shanks are preferably juxtaposed and are held by a bonding material surrounding each shank and interjoining the next with a meniscus so as to hold the strip rigid. The bonding material preferably has a melting temperature above ambient temperature during normal working conditions.

Abstract: Where automated travel of the vehicle is desired, and there are a number of branches, for directing the vehicle along a variety of different paths, it is be convenient for the vehicle to include a specific sensor means for sensing precoded control instructions placed contigious to the path, whereby to determine which branch path is to be selected by the vehicle as it travels among the main or any of a plurality of branch paths thereof so as to accomplish its task.