Abstract: A gripping assembly is provided that includes a pair of gripping members that are attached to, or formed unitary with, the opposed faces of the jaws of a gripping tool or vise, and a set of adapters that are releasably attached to the front faces of the gripping members. The gripping members are provided with a variety of different surface configurations for engaging and securely holding a large number of different shaped objects. The adapter members are also provided with a variety of different shaped surface configurations that, when attached to the front surfaces of the gripping members, adapt the gripping members of the assembly to engage and securely hold a large number of different shaped objects. The gripping members of the assembly are also provided with a flexible overlay that is attached over the front surface configurations of the gripping members to enable them to securely hold objects therebetween without scratching or marring the objects.

Abstract: A roller door assembly has means for tensioning same wherein a load is applied to a bottom edge of the roller and means for counterbalancing the weight of the door wherein a load is applied to the roller, the loads exerted by both said means being dependent on the amount of door off the roller.

Abstract: A trigger sprayer having a nozzle assembly with a foam-inducing tube in front of its nozzle outlet orifice, an elongated pin having a convex tip for sealing the orifice, a door supporting the pin, and a hinge connecting the door to the nozzle assembly and strategically located to prevent interference between the pin and the tube when the door is swung about its hinge.

Abstract: A Vendors' Structural Complex that provides products and services to consumers in an efficient and cost effective manner comprises a central warehouse having facilities for several separate vendors to store their goods, prepare their goods and perform their services, customer order stations separate and remote from the central warehouse and accessible to consumers in their vehicles enabling the consumers to order the goods and services of the vendors housed in the central warehouse, and several pick-up station locations separate and remote from the central warehouse and accessible to consumers in their vehicles enabling the consumers to receive their ordered goods at the pick-up stations.

Abstract: A point-of-purchase illuminating display comprises a vertical display panel having three sets of lights mounted to its front surface. A first set of lights is spacially arranged around a left side of the display panel perimeter. A second set of lights is spacially arranged around a right side of the display panel perimeter. The third set of lights is arranged in the shape of an arrow pointing upward and is positioned on an upper portion of the display panel between the first and second sets of lights. A digital control circuit controls sequential illumination of the first and second sets of lights beginning from the bottom middle of the display panel and sequencing around the left and right sides of the panel to the top mmiddle portion of the panel. Following the sequential illumination of the first and second sets of lights, the third set of lights is simultaneously illuminated twice by the digital circuit control. The control circuit then resets to or repeat the cycle.

Abstract: A radially adjustable anvil roll assembly for use in a die cutting cylinder of a rotary die cutting press is comprised of a cylindrical sleeve having an internal bore, a shaft extending longitudinally through the internal bore of the sleeve and supporting the sleeve for rotation thereon, and an adjustable bearing assembly having pluralities of bearer rolls that engage in rolling engagement with an exterior surface of the anvil sleeve and adjustably position the anvil sleeve radially on the shaft, thereby adjusting the radial spacing between the cutting edges of the die cutting cylinder and the anvil surface of the sleeve.

Abstract: A shelf system having a wire shelf and end brackets. Snap mechanism in the form of hooks latch the transverse rods of the shelf to the end brackets.

Abstract: A chair restraint for supporting a patient in a sitting position from a chair or the like includes an upper torso support member having an orthotic support panel readily removable therefrom. The orthotic support panel is made from a plastic which is readily deformable by a heat gun or the like such that it may be custom fit to surround the patient both from his back and sides to provide lateral support to the patient. The upper torso restraint member includes a pair of straps extending forwardly to wrap around the front of the patient to thereby secure the patient within the upper torso restraint member. A seat cushion member includes a flat panel stiffener to provide a firm base for the patient and an interior cushioning member which is inclined generally rearwardly to thereby cradle the patient within the restraint. A center divider member of cushioning material provides two separately defined areas for receiving the patient's legs.

Abstract: A sliding receptacle is provided that is comprised of a receptacle container for supporting an opened bag, and a platform extension and looped band for retaining one or more folded bags. The sliding receptacle is also provided with a pair of laterally spaced and longitudinally extending rails secured to its underside, and a pair of tracks that engage the rails in sliding engagement. The tracks are mounted in a laterally spaced, longitudinally extending disposition on a flat horizontal base surface and the receptacle is mounted for sliding fore and aft movement on the tracks. The receptacle rails are provided with fore and aft stop abutments that limit the extent to which the receptacle may slide over the tracks, and the receptacle rails are provided with slots dimensioned to enable the rails and the receptacle to be disengaged from the tracks by elevating and leveling the rails and receptacle relative to the tracks, and sliding the rails and receptacle forward over the tracks.

Abstract: A garden equipment support rack has a fixed frame in combination with a removable basket. The fixed frame has a first single wire element that is bent to form a basket support rack. The basket has a front, a back, and two opposite side walls. At the upper edges of the side walls, there is a continuous peripheral wire that functions as a flange portion by which the basket is removably supported on the basket support rack. The basket is for containing such assorted things as trowels, garden gloves, small pots, packets of seed and fertilizer, and so on, and is easily freed from the basket support rack for transport. The fixed frame also has several wire elements that are bent and arranged to form a pair of garden tool support assemblies. Each garden tool support assembly can removably support one or several garden tools.

Abstract: A pivotally mounted U-shaped bracket assembly is disposed beneath the bottom of a bag containing a quantity of bulk dry material and surrounding a pourspout in the bottom of the bag. An air cylinder comprising an inflatable bladder positioned opposite the pivotal mount of the bracket selectively pushes the bracket upwardly into the bottom of the bag to dislodge the dry material and separate it into its original granulated or powdered form and break up any agglomerations or solidifications thereof which would otherwise interfere with the free flow of dry material from within the bag and through the pourspout. A vibrator is vertically mounted on the outboard end of the bracket and introduces vibratory forces into the material as the bracket deflects the bag to further aid the free flow of material.

Abstract: This invention relates to a deflection yoke device provided with a correction circuit in which horizontal and vertical misconvergences appearing on a screen of a color cathode-ray tube are corrected.

Abstract: A flashlight including a tube for receiving a battery, a control ferrule threadedly engaged on the upper end of the tube, a face cap and a reflector engaged on an upper end of the control ferrule, a sleeve and a socket engaged in the upper end of the tube for receiving a light bulb, a ring engaged in the sleeve and electrically connected to the upper end of the tube, the light bulb including an annular flange connected to the ring and being caused to move relative to the reflector when the control ferrule is rotated relative to the tube.

Abstract: A system for automatically counting people as they move past a selected location, and for measuring their heights. The system includes emitters for emitting beams toward persons moving past a selected location to generate reflected beams from the person, such that the included angle of the emitted and reflected beams is a function of the person's height. A detector detects the reflected beams and generates signals representative of the included angle, and thus representative of the height of the person. The signals representative of the height of the person are converted to data that may be used for evaluation purposes. The system is particularly adaptable for use in retail stores for determining the number of shopper units in the store during selected time periods and evaluating store performance based, in part, on the conversion of shopper units to actual customers.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a pneumatic or hydraulic rotational power drive particularly suited for a ball stopcock type valve, the power drive consisting of a power cylinder being located coaxially to the rotation axis of the cock plug, the piston rod stroke of which is convertible, via a spindal drive, to the rotary movement of a driving member being positively engaged with the cock plug. In such arrangement, the power cylinder may be designed comprising a piston or diaphragm, and for double action, i.e., working in either direction or working solely unidirectional while being reset by means of spring action.

Abstract: A system and method for automatically steering a boat in a body of water along a course to maintain a selected depth of water adjacent the boat. The actual depth of the water adjacent the boat is automatically detected. A desired depth is selected to be maintained adjacent the boat as the boat moves along. The actual depth and the selected depth are compared and the course heading of the boat is changed to a new course heading toward equalizing the actual and selected depths in response to detecting that the actual and selected depths are not equal. A depth reference is established defining whether the shallower water is to the left or right side of the boat, and the course heading is changed toward equalizing the actual and selected depths further in response to the depth reference.

Abstract: A tracker touch apparatus used with a keyboard apparatus having a plurality of selectively depressed keys includes at least one strip magnet support by the apparatus in a position transversing over the tops of the keys. A metal plate is secured to the top of each key of the keyboard in a position just below the strip magnet. Initial depression of a keyboard key is resisted by the magnetic attractive force of the strip magnet for the metal plate secured to the depressed key. The magnetic resistance to keyboard key depression imparts to the keys a desired "feel" of depression.

Abstract: A torque beam assembly is provided with a bushing clamp assembly at one end and an axle seat assembly at a second end that reduce the torsional stress exerted on the torque beam during normal suspension operation of a vehicle employing the torque beam assembly. The bushing clamp is formed as a cylinder having a slot through one side of the cylinder wall that is resiliently biased open to facilitate the insertion of a pivot bushing into the cylinder and the removal of the bushing from the cylinder. The pivot bushing is provided with troughs in its end walls and cavities that extend into the bushing from the troughs that together reduce torsional twisting stress exerted on the torque beam. The axle seat assembly is provided with inboard and outboard side plates that each have first ends connected to the torque beam and second ends that are flared outward and spaced further apart from each other than are the first ends.