Abstract: A process and apparatus for the manufacture of a deodorant stick holder comprising a perforated cage and a hook for retaining the cage in a toilet pan, the perforated cage itself being formed by two half-cages joined by flanges at their facing open ends. In the method the hook together with a connecting ring, is moulded in one cavity simultaneously with the moulding of one half-cage in another moulding cavity of a single mould. Upon opening of the mould the connecting ring is first displaced axially to snap fit onto the half-cage end flange and the so assembled unit is then stripped from a core of the mould.

Abstract: A novel automatic test measuring apparatus of the pendulum variety for readily and easily determining film and the like hardness is adapted to automate all the operations necessarily preceding the commencement of a measurement stage using, in connection therewith, a recording unit or printer to supply the operator with the numerical results of all the measurements without personal manipulation(s). In making a measurement, the necessary time count for passing from amplitude .alpha. to amplitude .beta. is effected by means of a photo-electric cell. This records the passage of a pendulum arm having a predetermined period during the time that the oscillation amplitude is higher than .beta.. The involved count gives the measured time necessary for the measurement. The automatic apparatus advantageously reduces error relating to each measurement and increases the number of measurements to be effected on one and the same test film to yield a vastly more reliable mean statistical value.

Abstract: Wells and like borings into the earth's surface, especially those for the production of petroleum and gas, are very well and efficaciously cemented with cement compositions or pastes containing, as their effective gel control and cement set retardation agent, an additive that is a resulfonated, alkaline oxidized, hydrolyzed, partially desulfonated lignosulfonate product.

Abstract: A process for assessing the state of surface oxidation of keratin fiber(s), especially human hair, which results following treatment with, inter alia, peroxides and bromates. This process involves applying a porous support to the wet fiber(s) to be assessed, which support has previously been impregnated with an oxidation indicator which is a solution of iodide ions, the normality of which is from 0.2 N to 10 N, the solution also containing from 20 g/liter to 200 g/liter of solubilized starch in a buffered acid medium, and, while the porous support is in contact with the fiber(s), applying to the support a solution of a strong acid, as developer, and subsequently removing the support and examining whether or not there has been a change in the initial coloration of the support.

Abstract: An improved, space-saving bench/table combination assembly which is convenient, compactable and storable, as well as being exceptionally stable and steady in fully expanded disposition, comprises a bench section or portion having pivotally attached thereto a seat back component or portion adapted to be placed at least substantially upright with respect to the seat section which component folds upwardly and outwardly forward ahead of the bench section to present and position its front section in a substantially horizontal plane as a table top from which top depends at its leading or outermost extended edge fold-out legs that are retractable to storage on the back side of the seat back component providing positive and solid table support nicely effective beyond the center of gravity between the leading edge of the table and the bench section of the completely unfolded assembly when it is in such position.

Abstract: An efficient mole catcher is comprised of a pair of hooks with sharp ends that are advantageously barbed and which are placed upright in or on both ends of a board of like base so as to be adapted to catch a mole or the like varmint due to the moving along of the mole its runway so as to go over the first hook without notice; then bump into and get jabbed by the point of the second hook which it runs into causing it to sharply back up and get firmly stuck on the other lead hook then behind him which thus leaves the varmint fixed and snagged to be trapped there to sooner or later die and/or rot in its hole.

Abstract: A sling-shot device comprises, in basic assembly, an enclosed, generally circular "tine" section or impeller holder fixed on the grip or handle portion of the assembly with provision in said circular "tine" section for angularly and rotatably adjusting the secured ends of the elastic power band or the like or equivalent sling or impeller member, said ends being mounted secure at more or less diametrically opposed points located circumferentially on said circular "tine" section so that at least substantially perpendicular aiming (or sighting) and "firing" of the sling-shot is facilitated regardless of the position assumed in operational holding of the sling-shot when other-than-perpendicular (to the ground) handle dispositions are encountered; this accommodating a natural and most comfortable and desired body stance and head-cocking positional relationship assumed because of individual physique, style and mannerism for any given shooter using the sling-shot.

Abstract: An automatic stoppering apparatus for bottles and the like having threaded necks with matching threaded stoppers is adapted upon feed of the bottles into the apparatus wherein they are carried on and by a generally vertically disposed rotating drum to screw the stoppers into sealing engagement with the bottles during rotation of the drum and before discharge of the bottles by means of associated rotatably and vertically movable stopper grasping and attaching heads that cooperate with the rotating drum in operation of the apparatus.

Abstract: Spark distribution method and means of the variable magnetic flux type for nternal combustion engines comprising respective cooperative steps and parts in and for a spark distributor including: a spark shaft inside a housing with a gear on the shaft that is driven thereby and rotatably movable with the shaft by means of at least one integral advance wheel or element that may be of a centrifugal design and which is displaced towards a magnetic flux "captor" element which channels magnet flux towards the shaft, there being in the wall of the housing opposite the advance device a slot roughly perpendicular to the shaft and a corresponding orifice in said advance device which is opposite the slot so that the optimum static adjustment of the spark point being conducted may be accomplished by first positioning the gear with respect to the captor and then setting the distributor from without the housing to a calibrated mark on the external surface of the housing with matched placement therewith of the head of a sett