Abstract: A spring on spring condom has one spring action established by the elasticity of the condom material and the spring on spring condom has another spring action established by a spring formation on the condom that is attributable to a combination of the shape of the spring formation and the elasticity of the condom material; a method for forming the condom includes the steps of providing a mold having a spring shape on the exterior of a dipping mold adjacent the end thereof and dipping the mold into an elastomeric material for forming a thin layer of material thereover that when removed from the mold will have the configuration of a spring on spring condom.

Abstract: A one-piece cast metal heat-exchanging forming tool is prepared using an expendable porous preform that is cast in place within a cast metal forming tool. The expendable preform is thereafter extracted to leave behind a network of inter-connected pores and passages within the body of the tool through which a heat transferring fluid may be circulated to transfer heat to or from a substantially non-porous contoured shaping surface of the tool. Fluid distribution/collection lines and vacuum lines may be incorporated in the tool during casting.

Abstract: The invention relates to apparatus for producing fired bulk material, particularly cement clinker, wherein the bulk material is first fired and then cooled. The cooling of the hot bulk material takes place by gasification of a fuel, particularly coal, with steam, the reaction enthalpy necessary for the gasification reaction being extracted from the hot bulk material. In this gasification a fuel gas is also produced which is used for firing the bulk material.

Abstract: A clip-on tip-up apparatus for fishing includes a springy signal arm secured at its lower end to a releasable mounting clamp for attachment to a fishing rod in any of a number of locations. The signal arm carries a brightly colored flag near its upper free end along with a spring clip line clamp which enables the signal arm to be attached directly to a slackened fish line with sufficient force to retain the fish line releasably between opposed jaws of the line clamp and to hold the signal arm in a bent over set position. The fish line pulls free of the line clamp when a fish strikes the bait at the end of the line causing the signal arm to snap upright signaling the fisherman that a fish has taken the bait.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method as well as to apparatus for testing the function of microstructure elements, wherein the microstructure element is driven for testing the emission and/or mechanical properties and the corpuscles emitted or reflected by it are detected and evaluated.

Abstract: A pouring spout attachment adapted to being applied to a pourable-product-carrying container over a location where the container has one of a partial depth cut and an opening formed therein. The pouring spout attachment includes a body and may have a removable cap mounted thereon. The body includes an internal projection, an external mounting flange, and an internal end wall having a web segment cut therein so as to be movable about a pivot or hinge line, and a projection formed on the web segment, such that upon the web segment being pivoted inwardly, the projection is pivoted so as to snap past the internal projection to retain a fully open condition.

Abstract: A roof system comprising a roof substrate with an exposed vertical, rigid drain pipe is covered by a flexible single ply synthetic, plastic cover, with a sandwiched reinforcement fabric, having an opening in alignment with the drain pipes. A patch-shaped piece of the cover material has a drain pipe accommodating opening surrounded by an edge portion perimetrally pressure-heat welded to the cover, the piece having a generally rigid, non-bindable, plastomeric seal ring disc, formed generally of recycled such cover material wherein the reinforcement fabric is disassociated and present in the plastic in the form of randomly dispersed fibres. The disc is only centrally pressure heat-welded to the underside of the piece and has an opening therethrough of substantially the shape and size of the drain pipe. It is the ring disc which is secured to the substrate.

Abstract: A method and apparatus is provided for reducing the combined runout of an uninflated automobile tire and wheel assembly. Runout is reduced by aligning a tire mark located on the tire with a wheel mark located on the wheel, where the tire mark is indicative of the high point of radial runout of the tire and the wheel mark is indicative of the low point of radial runout of the wheel. The location of the wheel mark is tracked using a video camera while the wheel is rotated relative to the tire and rotation is halted once the linear distance between the marks is minimized. The locations within the video image of the tire and wheel marks are determined relative to a Cartesian coordinate system having its origin at the center of the video image.

Abstract: Described is a material handling apparatus for processing heated formed ferrous metal products and/or glass products comprising a face centered cubic crystal intermetallic alloy of a metal aluminide having the property of withstanding repeated thermal cycling from ambient temperature to about 1600.degree. F. wherein the metal is selected from the group consisting of a group VIII metal of the Periodic Table. Also described is an aluminide roll that also is characterized as retaining its ultimate tensile strength at 1600.degree. F. of at least 75% of the tensile strength the roll had at ambient room temperature.

Abstract: An improved light stable polyether/polyol based aliphatic urethane thermoplastic elastomer prepared from reacting inter alia a polyol having low terminal end unsaturation and an organic diisocyanate. The elastomer is characterized by ultraviolet stabilizer being present in a range of 0.25% to 2.0% at a total concentration of 1.0% to 2.0%, an antioxidant being present at a total concentration of 0.10% to 1.0%, and colorants/pigment being present in a total concentration in a range from 1.0% to 2.05% to produce an elastomer capable of withstanding Xenon arc artificial weathering with DE.ltoreq.3.00 after 2450 kilojoules of exposure.

Abstract: A vehicle passenger compartment floor console includes a module receptacle and a plurality of interchangeable storage and appliance modules designed to fit within the module receptacle. The floor console may also include a drum-type carrousel supported for rotation about a generally horizontal axis within the console outer shell. The carrousel holds three storage modules and is positioned to sequentially rotate each module past an access opening cut or formed through the console outer shell. A passenger compartment occupant may use the console to selectively present any one of a number of interchangeable modules for occupant access while traveling.

Abstract: The invention relates to the cooling of red-hot molten blast furnace slag. In this case in order that a substantial proportion of the heat content of the red-hot molten blast furnace slag can be recovered this is introduced together with coal or fuel containing substantially coal into a reactor in which the blast furnace slag is cooled by utilising the heat content of this slag and with the aid of supplied steam to gasify the coal to form a fuel gas, particularly water gas or blue gas containing CO and H.sub.2, which is drawn off separately from the cooled quantity of solids.

Abstract: A load bearing, thermally insulating panel for use to cover an ice surface is made up of a plurality of modular, polymeric floor members having a structural dense body structure and a flat upper wall over which a vehicle can travel. Each floor member has an undersurface with integral, downwardly projecting, load distributing, support pillars within a floor member-surrounding, downwardly projecting marginal wall. A polymeric foam insulative layer of substantially lesser density than said floor member and substantially lesser thermal conductivity is molded within the floor member surface surrounding the pillars to fill the space around the pillars and the space between the pillars and marginal wall.

Abstract: A mortise lock assembly is provided for mounting in a door opposite a strike plate on a door jamb. The assembly includes an automatic deadbolt feature with a bolt retractor arm that directly contacts and applies inward retraction pressure to a latch bolt and a deadbolt in response to bolt retractor hub rotation to retract the latch bolt and the deadbolt. Two deadbolt stops engage two housing stops when the deadbolt reaches the deadbolt extended position and restrain the deadbolt against further outward movement. Coil extension springs continuously bias the deadbolt and the latch bolt against retraction. A dead lock blocker releasably holds the deadbolt in the deadbolt extended position. The bolt retractor arm is additionally engageable with the blocker to release the blocker in response to bolt retractor hub rotation. A trigger releasably engages and retains the deadbolt in the deadbolt retracted position.

Abstract: A wood chipper knife holder assembly for a power driven rotor head has at least one opening in its wood confronting surface for the knife holder assembly which includes a mount block. A counter-knife receiving surface opposite the wood confronting surface of the rotor head is provided on the mount block for a counter-knife and a reversible knife blade with cutting surfaces along opposite transverse edges is received on the counter-knife. A clamp plate secures to clamp the knife in a projecting cutting position. The counter-knife has at least one pair of spaced apart pin openings and the knife blade has at least one pair of complemental pin openings, and pins are received in the knife blade openings and counter-knife pin openings to permit 180.degree. relocation of the knife.

Abstract: A gable-top carton has at least half, if not all, of its spout-forming, folded-in, top sealing panels (33) projecting above an adjacent non-folded-in top sealing panel (32) to permit a user to grasp that projection and pull it forward to open the spout. To provide a flattened gable-top carton, the other non-folded-in top sealing panel (34) may be extended to be tacked down onto an opposite top obturating panel (22) and be formed with a tear strip to facilitate detachment of the turned-down sealing fin (32-35) from the tacked-down part of that other non-folded-in top sealing panel (34) and to cover a pouring edge zone of the adjacent half of the spout-forming, top sealing panel (33). The carton can be made from an appropriately shaped and scored blank.

Abstract: A continuous lamina (3) is indexed through a forming station so as to be arranged around a tubular element (14); edges of the lamina (3) are welded together to form an unexpanded envelope (2a) which is then inflated when the envelope (2a) is closed in a die (11) through opposite sides of which said tubular element (14) passes; a container (2) formed by expanding said envelope (2a) is then filled and closed while a following envelope (2a) is being expanded.

Abstract: A pressure responsive dispensing pump has a hollow housing having walls forming a chamber coupled via an inlet to a supply of dispensable material. An inlet valve controls the flow of the material through the inlet into the chamber. The housing also has an outlet through which material may be discharged from the chamber under the control of a self-sealing outlet valve. At least one wall of the housing is displaceable inwardly of the chamber to reduce the volume thereof and force material out of the chamber via the outlet. The displaceable wall is connected to a flexible hinge which also moves inwardly of the chamber in response to the inward movement of the displaceable wall and thereby assists in discharging the contents of the chamber.

Abstract: Apparatus for crushing scrap vehicle wheels includes a frame constructed from three radially disposed rectangular tube beams each mounting a hydraulic cylinder and crushing head which converge and operate radially to deform a scrap wheel supported at the center of the frame in order to separate the steel rim of the wheel from the surrounding tire casing. Each crushing head is supported against upward deflection by an interlocking slide connection including a slide carriage fixed to each head and slideable along the beam and stationary hold down brackets mounted on the opposite side of each beam and vertically adjustable for controlling the hold down pressure exerted on the carriages.

Abstract: Reinforced concrete slab and girder building structures incorporate shearing connectors with lengthwise support parts to which lengthwisely spaced, transversely extending, rigid load transfer plates affix. A girder structure having one or more lengthwisely extending girders is provided and the shear connectors are fixed to the girders near their support walls below a deck for supporting the slab, the shearing connectors being positioned so that portions of the load transfer plates and support parts project above the girder structure and deck to receive compression forces in the slab which are transferred by the connectors to the girders. The lengthwisely extending connector support parts have connections for carrying a series of lengthwisely spaced rebar rods which embed in the slab when it is poured and transfer compressive load forces to the transfer plates.