Abstract: This invention relates to a mud, or, as it is commonly known in the West, "adobe", construction. The present invention relates to a method of constructing such a wall with interior wire reinforcements which are adapted to tie the foundation, the wall and a roof member, such as a roof truss, into an integral assembly. It includes a series of formed wire "trusses", or tie members, arranged in spaced relationship along the wall extending from a point within the foundation form to a height to include at least one member of the roof truss. Cooperating with the trusses are a pair of laterally spaced, longitudinally extending wire mesh members, the trusses and wire mesh being suitably tied together to form an integral structure. The wall is constructed either by pouring adobe mud into a form, or by plastering a thick adobe mud onto the wire mesh, which will extend through that material and lock itself into it in courses of about twelve inches high.

Abstract: This invention relates to a selection mechanism for a postage meter in which a single Thomas-type mutilated drum actuator is rigidly mounted on a hollow cylindrical drive shaft on which is also mounted the postage meter printing head, and comprises a series of selection bars lying longitudinally of the drive shaft and angularly therearound, each of which bars is set by a suitable manual positioning means, such as a selection wheel, each such bar carrying a yoke to position a driven gear of a first register to be driven by the actuator, a like series of auxiliary setting bars, each of which is rigidly yoked to the respective first setting bar and which carries a yoke for setting a register drive gear of another register of a postage meter. The main setting bar, at its forward end, is provided with gear teeth which drive a gear train that meshes with a rack carried by the actuator drive shaft to set the mechanism in the print wheel.