Abstract: A drilling and reaming screw is disclosed having a drill tip and a pair of frangible wings as a reaming means. The frangible wings are formed from the shank so that they include inner portions within the shank diameter and outer portions outside the shank diameter. Upon reaching a workpiece of predetermined hardness, the outer portions are adapted to break off from the shank along a line lying entirely beneath the surface of the shank such that no harmful protuberances remain.

Abstract: This invention relates to an improvement in tire locks and more specifically to devices which make spare tires in the trunk compartment of an automobile almost tamperproof from the standpoint of their removal by unauthorized persons.

Abstract: A drilling and tapping screw constructed from a 300 series stainless steel material which has the corrosive resistance of the high chromium high nickel content stainless steel while still being capable of drilling through carbon steel materials or the like. The product is constructed by forging the point at very slow forging speeds, resulting in a drill screw which is a predominantly martensitic structure at the drill point while predominantly austenitic in the shank and head regions.

Abstract: An adjustable spacer-cam assembly designed to close gaps which fall within a predetermined range of widths. The assembly includes: a cam plate which has a peripheral increasing-height ramp, a spring washer, and a threaded fastener. Serrations on the underneath surface of the fastener head engage serrations on the upper surface of the washer forming a friction clutch by which the cam plate is driven. Torque is transmitted from the washer to the cam plate by projections on the bottom of the washer which engage in apertures in the cam plate. The spacer-cam plate is driven until the ramp wedges between the members forming the gap causing the friction clutch members to slip.

Abstract: A device for braking the motion of the float of a float type liquid-level gauge used with a liquid container, comprising a casing, a vane member disposed in the casing in such a manner as to produce a motion relative to the casing, a fluid placed to fill the inner space of the casing now containing the vane member and retaining an extra space for permitting the relative motion of the vane member, and a path formed in the casing to permit flow of the fluid inside the inner space of the casing during the aforementioned relative motion of the vane member inside the casing. In actual use, the casing is fixed in position and the vane member is connected with a member adapted to move in conjunction with the float of the float type liquid-level gauge. When a sudden, momentary displacement occurs in the liquid level in the liquid container with which the liquid-level gauge is used, the float kept on the liquid surface by buoyant force tends to follow the displacement.

Abstract: The device described herein is useful in applications which formerly required both a thermal cut-off device and an electrical fuse. This device will open an electrical circuit in response to either an increase in ambient temperature or an increase in electrical current. A bracket is provided to support a radial lead thermal cut-off device. The bracket is of a general C-shaped configuration and has an extending lead bar that is crimped into electrical engagement with an input lead, and one radial lead of the thermal cut-off device is crimped into electrical engagement with the second input lead. A helical conductive coil has one end welded or otherwise secured to the C-shaped bracket, and the second lead of the thermal cut-off device is crimped to the other end of the helical coil which is positioned over the thermal cut-off device so as to surround it. Thus, an ambient temperature rise may cause the thermal cut-off device to open the electrical circuit; or alternately the heat generated by the I.sup.

Abstract: A low profile keyswitch for electrical keyboards is disclosed which has the capability of being operated either as a contactless analog type of keyswitch, or as a mechanical contact type of keyswitch. The keyswitch may include a pair of normally-closed contacts that are opened when a separator bar that is integrally formed in the interior of the plunger passes between the contacts as the plunger is depressed. Alternately, a permanent magnet may be carried on one side of the plunger to control the magnetic saturation state of a closed-loop magnetic core which, along with a pair of U-shaped conductive lines that thread through the core, is inserted into a retaining well formed by a pair of walls that project upwardly from a horizontal surface of the base at a location adjacent the side of the plunger that carries the magnet.

Abstract: An integral stud member having shank portions extending from either side of a radially extending flange. A first shank portion including thread convolutions with means to form mating internal threads in an associated workpiece. The surface of the flange opposing the first shank including generally radially extending rib-like surfaces which serve as the means to drive the fastener in place. The rib structures are configured to permit a driver to softly engage the flange and to lock the fastener from backing out of the workpiece after a secondary work surface has been clamped over the flange.

Abstract: Fastening device of plastics material for a round hole, designed to receive a screw enabling mounting with a high gripping torque and this even in thin sheet metal. It includes a principal element capable of becoming clipped in a round hole of a support and a complementary element which is engaged in the upper portion of the first element. A mounting screw passes through the element and becomes self-tapping in the lower portion of the body. The advance of the screw causes, at the same time, the descent of the wedge and the reascent of the low portion of the principal element, which results in gripping expansion of the whole within the hole. The invention can be used for the mounting of any parts by means of a screw in a member clipped in a round hole with high gripping torque.

Abstract: A combination tool capable of drilling a hole in a workpiece, driving a fastener into that hole, and withstanding the vibrational environment of a rotary hammer is provided. An adaptor having a tapered portion which is inserted in the chuck of a power tool, such as a rotary hammer, has a polygonal drive transmitting configuration on its other end. A longitudinal bore extending at least partially along the axis of the adaptor receives a drill bit. The bit and bore have mating external and internal tapers to insure driving engagement. Once the bit has drilled a hole in a workpiece, a drive collar is slipped onto the polygonal drive transmitting portion of the adaptor and the fastener-engaging recess thereof used to drive a self-tapping fastener into that hole.

Abstract: A two piece hole-drilling and fastener-driving assembly consists of a three-sectioned drill bit and a three-sectioned drive collar. The drill bit has a fluted drilling section, a hexagonal driving section and a tapered section adapted to be received in a complementarily shape chuck of a rotary hammer. The drive collar has a first hexagonal portion which mates with the hexagonal drill bit section and is driven thereby. A second tubular portion receives the drilling section when the hexagonal portions are engaged. A third portion includes a fastener-engaging recess. This portion may take the form of a removable socket and the collar provided with a spring-biased ball retainer to hold the socket thereon and a second such retainer to hold the collar on the drill bit. The drill bit is inserted in the rotary hammer chuck and a hole is drilled in the workpiece. The drive collar is then slipped over the drill bit and a self-tapping fastener driven into the just-drilled hole.

Abstract: A holder comprises a leading portion adapted to retain in position thereon an electronic/electric part, a base portion adapted to be secured to a distributing base panel and a shank portion serving to interconnect the leading portion with the base portion and having a hole pierced therethrough for guiding the lead wire of the electronic/electric part to the lower side of the base portion. The holder permits a given electronic/electric part which is set in position on the leading portion to be securely retained at a distance from the distributing base panel, with the base portion fastened to the base panel and the lead wire of the part passed through the hole and connected to the prescribed point of connection on the base panel.

Abstract: A multipackaging device made from resilient plastic material and flat strip stock for producing a plurality of such devices. The strip comprises a pair of rows of bands of laterally aligned container encircling bands, each which define noncircular apertures. The plurality of bands are integrally connected by first web means joining laterally aligned pairs of bands and second web means joining longitudinally adjacent bands in a given row. The laterally innermost section of each band being generally V-shaped with an apex region and pair of legs extending from each apex with the first web means connecting laterally opposed legs of each pair of laterally aligned bands. This construction permits the strip to be stretched laterally by application of forces solely at the outer edge of the strip so each aperture is reconfigured from a noncircular aperture to a substantially circular aperture for application about a container.

Abstract: A package for a linear array of bottles or the like and a carrier included in the package made of sheet plastic material configured to be generally tubular, having side walls diverging downwardly from an upper region which is interrupted by longitudinally spaced openings for receiving the inserted neck portions of the bottles in supporting engagement with at least side marginal edges of the apertures. The bottom wall of the carrier is designed to include lower apertures formed therein in registry with the upper apertures. The portion of the bottom wall intermediate the lower apertures is V-shaped in cross section permitting lateral forces to decrease the upper aperture dimension as the carrier and package is grasped in regions intermediate the bottles.

Abstract: A planting system in which the basic unit of the system comprises a plurality of individual containers for growing plants to a stage suitable for transplanting and in which the plurality of containers are secured in a flexible carrier sheet. The securement of each of the containers in the carrier sheet is such that the entire basic unit can be handled in a number of shipping, handling, filling, growing, and transplanting operations in a convenient, unique and efficient manner. Various articles of manufacture are contemplated in the system of the invention which aid and render in the unique and efficient use of the system. Those articles of manufacture include shipping and handling cartons, holding trays, filler plates and portable pack arrangements.

Abstract: A thermal cut-off fuse comprises a housing, a pair of terminals opposed to each other within the housing, a sliding means constantly urged by a spring, a thermal pellet adapted to melt at a fixed elevated temperature and remain in a solid state at normal room temperature and, by virtue of the solid state, restrain the sliding means from the forward motion imparted thereto by the spring and consequently serve to form a continuous space between the pair of terminals, and a conductive material disposed within the space to establish electric continuity between the terminals. When the ambient temperature is elevated to reach the fixed level, the thermal pellet melts, to release the sliding means and allow it to move under the force of the spring into a position where it severs the continuous space and consequently breaks the electric continuity between the two terminals.

Abstract: A thermal switch for automatically opening a circuit when the ambient temperature exceeds a predetermined level is disclosed which utilizes a sensing pellet formed of an organic-glass bead mixture. The organic-glass bead pellet retains a pair of leads in contact with each other when the ambient temperature is below the melting temperature of the organic material. The addition of the glass beads to the temperature sensing pellet allows the compressive strength that is needed to hold the leads together to be more reliably controlled. In the process of combining the organic material and the glass beads, to form the pellet, the organic material is first melted so as to flow around the beads. Manufacture of the thermal-sensing pellet in this manner eliminates the voids which occur in the pressed organic pellets that are conventionally used in thermal sensing devices.

Abstract: An inserted-blade cutter assembly uses a laterally projecting finger formed integrally with each removable blade which is engagable with a reference-positioning surface on the cutter body to precisely position the blade. Two locking caps have frustoconical surfaces which engage similarly shaped end portions of the blade members providing a sufficient radial force to counter centrifugal forces and thereby retain the blades in the body member. The locking caps also provide a sufficient axial force to keep the blade finger in contact with the reference-positioning surface to provide precise cutting tooth alignment during the cutting operation. This structure obviates the need for individual fasteners, shrink fits, or adhesives thereby facilitating blade removal and replacement.