Abstract: A deposit-collecting and transporting security apparatus provides a deposit container arranged to be lockably mounted for receiving and collecting deposits from a depository outfeed apparatus. In order to remove the container for transport to a deposit processing facility, a container-closing lid panel is slid onto the container into position closing the confines thereof against access whereupon the lid panel is automatically locked in place against removal. Thus locked against removal, further slight sliding movement of the lid panel overrides and disengages a container mounting lock, thereby permitting the container to be removed from the depository for transport only after the lid panel has been installed and locked into operative position securing the confines of the container against access.

Abstract: A golf club head is provided with a forwardly facing ball-striking face and a shaft-anchoring bore having a longitudinal axis disposed forwardly of the ball-striking face. A plane located on the longitudinal axis and extending perpendicular to the ball-striking face divides the head into a heel portion and a toe portion, and weight is added to the heel portion to provide the heel portion with a total weight equal to the total weight of the toe portion.

Abstract: A staple removal tool includes an elongated handle mounting a U-shaped cover member supporting a U-shaped base member formed with a forwardly projecting staple lifter tongue. A crimping arm is pivoted on the base member for movement toward and away from the staple lifter tongue and is actuated by a hand lever located under the handle and pivotally secured at its forward end to the cover member. A spring loaded link member is attached at one end to the hand lever and at the opposite end to the crimping arm, whereby pivoting of the handle lever effects pivotal movement of the crimping arm. A crimping bar is secured to and spaced from the base member to receive the clamping arm between them. The staple lifter tongue engages under the bridge portion of a staple, such as a roofing staple, and leveraging of the handle pulls the staple from its wood anchor.

Abstract: A seedling planter is formed by an elongated hollow container component of square cross section open at its upper end and closed partially at its lower end by crossed webs which provide support for the lower ends of a plurality of elongated tray components each having two joined walls secured together at their lower ends by a bottom wall. Anchor grooves on the lower inner sides of the container side walls slidably receive the lower edges of the tray components, with the inner sides of the tray walls facing the inner sides of a pair of adjacent walls of the container component. Four tray components thus are receivable removably in the container component, and plant growth medium may be filled into the four components formed by the four tray components and confronting walls of the container component. Seeds deposited in the growth medium grow into seedlings, and each seedling with its growth medium is removable with its associated tray component from the container component.

Abstract: The injection of synthetic resin into the cavities of a plastic molding press is provided by a plurality of electrically driven plunger mechanisms each of which includes an elongated rotary screw connected to the output of an electric motor. The screw is threaded operatively to an elongated plunger which extends into the fixed mold and is arranged to support a pill or preform for injection into the runner leading to one or more mold cavities. The electric motor of each plunger mechanism is controlled by a computer program which is capable of varying the velocity and pressure delivery of material to the mold, as well as adjusting the temperature of the mold.

Abstract: A skeet throwing device includes a frame mounting a pair of rotary wheels spaced apart a distance less than the diameter of a skeet member which is delivered to the wheels by a carriage movable toward and away from the wheels; either manually or by an extensible fluid pressure cylinder. In a powered arrangement, a skeet support adjacent the carriage supports a vertical stack of skeet members, and a skeet pusher on the carriage is disposed to engage the bottommost skeet member of the stack and move it forwardly from under the stack. A skeet guide on the skeet support guides the bottommost skeet member forwardly and laterally from the skeet support onto the carriage for delivery to the rotary wheels.

Abstract: A freeze resistant aqueous coolant solution for use in Perkins tube type heat exchangers is formed of one or more metal salts selected from the alkali metals of Group IA and the alkaline earth metals of Group IIA of the Periodic Table. Depending upon the composition of the metal tubes of the heat exchanger, the concentration of the metal salt ranges from about 5% to about 10% by weight of the solution and the pH of the solution ranges between 7.3 and 11.5.

Abstract: A concrete forms wall spacer is provided in the configuration of a truss having top and bottom horizontal frame members interconnected by angularly extending reinforcing struts. The top frame member is configured to rest upon the upper edges of a pair of spaced concrete form walls, and end portions of the top frame member are extended downward for abutment by the outer sides of the spaced concrete form walls, to define the desired spacing between the walls. Supported by the bottom frame member are a pair of spaced clip members each configured to removably support a pair of lengths of rebar which extend horizontally in opposite directions to other longitudinally spaced form wall spacers. A pair of vertically spaced rebar supports are mounted on the top and bottom frame members for frictionally securing a vertically extending length of rebar for forming a structural tie between a concrete footing and a vertically extending concrete wall.

Abstract: An automatic teller machine (ATM) cassette security system divides the interior compartment of an automatic teller machine into a service-related area and a cash-related security area. A lock bar positioned to prevent access to cash cassettes establishes the cash-related security area while allowing service-related activities. The security system may be modified to also prevent movement of the transport housing by modification to the lock bar.

Abstract: A cervical collar is formed by folding a blank of resilient foamed elastomer or synthetic resin along a longitudinal centerline and enclosing the folded blank in a stretch fabric cover. The rounded, folded edge contributes increased deflection resistance through the vertical dimension of the folded blank and is configured for placement against the jaw areas of a wearer. Openings in the blank allow installation of plugs or air bladders to adjust the vertical dimension and deflection resistance of the collar to accommodate application to necks of various heights and strengths.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided for receiving a wheelchair and its seated occupant and tilting the wheelchair rearwardly into a position in which the seated occupant is disposed in a substantially reclined, supported condition for therapeutic and other advantageous reasons. To accomplish this, the wheelchair tilting apparatus utilizes a base frame arranged for placement on a ground surface, the base frame pivotally mounting the rear end of a wheelchair supporting tilt frame assembly having an upstanding backrest member arranged to support the chair and occupant reclined thereagainst when the apparatus is in operative, tilted condition.

Abstract: A deposit collecting and transporting security apparatus provides a deposit container arranged to be lockably mounted for receiving and collecting deposits from a depository outfeed apparatus. In order to remove the container for transport to a deposit processing facility, a container-closing lid panel is slid onto the container into position closing the confines thereof against access whereupon the lid panel is automatically locked in place against removal. Thus locked against removal, further slight sliding movement of the lid panel overrides and disengages a container mounting lock, thereby permitting the container to be removed from the depository for transport only after the lid panel has been installed and locked into operative position securing the confines of the container against access.

Abstract: An apparatus for the high-volume manufacture of assembled wall frame structures for use in the residential and commercial building industry is arranged to receive and support a pair of laterally spaced apart top and bottom plate members and move them longitudinally in indexed, stepwise increments through a stud-inserting and fastening station in which wall stud members are automatically positioned to engage and extend perpendicularly between the plate members at predetermined intervals therealong, whereupon the opposite ends of a stud member are secured to the opposite plate members by a fastening device, whereby complete wall frame assemblies may be quickly and efficiently made on a continuous basis according to desired specification as ordered and thence delivered to a construction site for erection.

Abstract: A swimming exercising and training tether device includes an elongated tether line connected at one end preferably through a coil spring or other elastic, shock-absorbing member, to an anchor adjacent a wall of a swimming pool and at the opposite end detachably to the back panel of a harness worn by a swimmer. The attachment to the back panel is in the area intermediate the shoulders of the swimmer. Intermediate the ends of the tether line it extends freely through a loop or ring secured to the back panel of the harness in the area intermediate the hips of the swimmer. The loop or ring functions to raise the hips of the swimmer to the level promoting most efficient swimming posture in the water.

Abstract: Recovery of ethanol from the exhaust stacks of a bread-baking oven is achieved by passing the stack emissions through an adiabatic humidifier where the emissions are humidified to near saturation. The unevaporated water content of the humidifier is collected for separation of the ethanol content. The humidified emissions are passed from the humidifier to the vaporization chamber of a heat exchanger where the gas content of the humidified emissions is separated from the moisture content thereof, and the moisture content is collected for recovery of the ethanol content.

Abstract: A dust collector includes a hollow housing having a bottom solids outlet, a top clean air outlet and an intermediate dust laden air inlet. A plurality of vertically elongated filter assemblies are mounted in spaced relation within the housing. Each filter assembly includes an open framework covered by a sheet of filter material in the form of a glove that converges downwardly from the open upper end to a closed end engaged by a tensioning nose bar which serves to stretch the glove over the framework. Dust laden air enters the inlet, passes downward to the bottom ends of the filter assemblies, thence upward to the filter assemblies where the dust and other particulates are collected on the outer side of the filter sheets and the air passes through the filter sheet and upward into the top clean air outlet. The particulates collected on the filter sheet periodically are released therefrom and gravitate downward into the bottom solids outlet for removal.