Abstract: A mattress sling for a bed with side rails, comprised of a base portion to be positioned between a mattress and mattress support, and two spaced, opposed side portions made of a meshed material having releasable securing means for securing each side sheet to a side rail vertically removed from the mattress, to prevent injury to bed occupants by maintaining the mattress in bed alignment and closing off any gap between a side rail and the mattress or mattress support.

Abstract: A synchronized wrapping machine which receives a series of articles to be wrapped and forms and heat seals a wrap of heat sealable material around each article. The incoming articles are longitudinally aligned and are thereafter conveyed in preselected spaced relation into a tube continuously formed of longitudinally overlapped heat sealable material, with the tube thereafter being heat sealed together and severed intermediate adjacent articles. The overwrapped articles are engaged by upper and lower article carrier holding cups and are transported longitudinally between upper and lower indexing conveyors which drive the article carriers. During traverse of the indexing conveyors, the overwrapped articles are turned 90.degree. by the article carriers and the severed ends of the wrapping are tucked and folded before engagement with an end sealer which heat seals the ends together.

Abstract: Ink compositions are provided which are suitable for use in ink jet printing on coated or uncoated substrates to form images which are highly resistant to abrasion and highly penetrant by virtue of the penetrating characteristics of a select solvent system. The ink compositions have improved handling safety and performance characteristics, and contain, in a preferred embodiment a penetrating solvent blend comprised of from about 50 to 90% n-propyl acetate as a major solvent, methyl cellosolve as a high boiling secondary solvent, and, as an auxiliary solvent a lower aliphatic alcohol; from about 3 to 25% by weight of a low molecular weight B or C-stage, modified phenol polymers; a colorant; an electrolyte; and optionally, a surfactant.

Abstract: A holder for a smoking-pipe in the form of a substantially rigid or flexible sheath attachable to a support, the sheath having front and back walls defining a cavity and being sufficiently close to one another and sufficiently taut laterally and transversely that they frictionally pinch-hold a pipe stem in the cavity. An interior wall surface can have a high friction surface area, and the sheath can include tautening means to tauten the walls, to increase the frictional hold of the pipe stem.

Abstract: Reflective device for use with a source of flash illumination, and method, for providing indirect, or, simultaneous direct and indirect illumination of a scene to be photographed. A reflective member, interposed at an angle between the flash source and scene, intercepts flash illumination and reflectively redirects at least a percentage of it for indirect illumination. Reflective member passing means allow some flash illumination therethrough for similtaneous direct illumination, the amount being variable by regulating means such as movable shutters or polarizer sheets mounted on the reflective member. Means are provided for varying the angle of interposition of and for rotating the reflective member. Mounting means for mounting reflective members onto flash units accomodate various removable reflective members.

Abstract: A warning device, and a receptacle adaptor, the former being connectable between an electrical appliance and power source, for warning of a power interruption to the appliance, and including the receptacle adaptor having a reciprocable spring-biased pin in a channel, communicable with a micro-switch and an appliance plug grounding prong, for activating an alarm when the prong is withdrawn from the channel.

Abstract: A holder for a smoking-pipe in the form of a substantially rigid or flexible sheath attachable to a support, the sheath having front and back walls defining a cavity and being sufficiently close to one another and sufficiently taut laterally and transversely that they frictionally pinch-hold a pipe stem in the cavity. An interior wall surface can have a high friction surface area, and the sheath can include tautening means to tauten the walls, to increase the frictional hold of the pipe stem.

Abstract: A method of hermetically pressure-resistantly double seaming a metal end closure to a metallic container body whose wall is highly-worked, has a substantially axial grain direction and is less than about 0.057 inch thick at its marginal end portion, which includes forming a body curl of the marginal end portion and double seaming the end closure thereto, and, the resulting double seamed metallic container whose double seam includes six substantially axial metallic layers, two of which are a radially compressed body curl.

Abstract: A bulge, formed in and cut from an end closure central panel, is reformed into an opening tab by reducing the bulge height and its sidewall angle to extend its brim horizontally outward under the rim of the opening from which the bulge is cut, and the brim is coined to further extend it under the rim. Alternatively, an outwardly extending shoulder can be formed in the bulge sidewall, and ironed out to cooperate with the reduction in bulge height in extending the bulge brim outward under the rim. During reforming and coining, the bulge/opening tab is held in a substantially horizontally fixed position relative to the rim to provide a uniform brim-to-rim underlap.

Abstract: A lasting piece of shrinkable, preferably oriented thermoplastic polymeric material is attached, preferably by stitching, to a shoe upper lasting margin and is shrunk by being heated, if it is thermoplastic, to between its glass transition temperature and melting point. Shrinkage of the lasting piece lasts the shoe upper to the last. The lasting piece can be a lasting string, endless band or strip, or a sheet, web, net or welt. Lasted shoe uppers and articles of footwear are produced by the above method.

Abstract: A spray nozzle having one or more elongated, tunnel-shaped channels, each formed by a top wall, and two fixed substantially vertically depending side walls for encompassing substantially the entire body of an elongated object such as a permanent wave rod or hair curler, the walls having perforations therein for directing a liquid spray at substantially the entire body of the object when it is axially in the channel.

Abstract: Flow control apparatus and method for controlling the flow of gravity fed substantially cylindrical objects through a gravity runway wherein a starwheel, a star-shaped ferrous pulse rotor and a ferrous rotor are each spaced from each other and axially fixed to a free wheeling shaft mounted in a frame connected to a gravity runway such that the starwheel lobes jut into and rotate through the gravity runway. Each starwheel lobe engages each of a successive line of gravity cans as the cans fall through the runway. A magnetic sensor is mounted on the frame near the star-shaped pulse rotor such that as cans free fall past the starwheels and rotate the free wheeling shaft star points on the pulse rotor rotate past the sensor and disturb the sensor's emitted magnetic field. For each disturbance, the sensor emits an electrical pulse signal.

Abstract: Improved apparatus for testing end closures for leakage, of the type which includes a test chamber formed by a vertically reciprocable upper chambered member and a fixed lower chambered member having seating means for seating the end closure in registered position thereon, the improvement in the upper chambered member comprising end closure movement preventing means for contacting the end closure to prevent its premature movement and loss of registration from its registered seated position during vertical movement of the upper chambered member.

Abstract: An open-ended cylindrical container body whose body wall marginal open end portion includes an annular body curl, and comprises metal less than about 0.0057 inch thick for a drawn and ironed container body, and less than about 0.002 inch for the metal foil liner of a composite container body, a method of securing a metal end closure to the curled container bodies by mechanical engagement and compression of end portion of the end closure cover hook substantially axially against the body curl, and the hermetic pressure-resistant containers formed therby.

Abstract: A composite frame-like holder for a plurality of articles such as containers, a blank for the composite holder, and a method of forming the holder from the blank. The composite holder is an aggregate of singly or multiply severable holder units which can be severed from the composite in a manner that maintains the integrity of the severed unit and of the remaining composite. Each unit has a sloping leg panel with an aperture for receiving an article, a vertical side panel and a top panel foldable over the article and having means adjacent its edge for securing it to the holder unit. The method includes folding the blank along its center line to place its sections in superimposed, substantially mirror-image juxtaposition, securing one section to the other along their center strips, severing the center line, depositing containers in leg panel apertures and securing the containers to the thereby formed holders.

Abstract: A method of extruding bark and of forming a solid article, solid synthetic fuel or fireplace log comprising from about 60 to 95 percent by weight bark, which comprises physically blending pieces of combustible thermoplastic of an extrudable size with pieces of bark also of an extrudable size and having less than 7 percent preferably less than 2 percent moisture, to form a bark thermoplastic mixture of from about 60 to 95 percent by weight bark and about 2.

Abstract: Improved aqueous electrocoating materials and methods providing improved coating deposits on metal substrates are obtained by adding an alcohol having from 1 to 8 preferably 2 to 4, carbon atoms to an organic coating resin having reactive sites at least partly but not completely neutralized, so that the alcohol is at least partly dispersed in the resin. The alcohol is preferably added before diluting the resin with water and is about 2.0 to 20 weight percent, preferably about 10 weight percent based on the resin.