Abstract: An improvement for a routing clip is provided by a hinge latch adjacent to the folded hinge portion thereof. The hinge latch includes a male latching member on one side of the hinge portion and a female latching member in a corresponding position on the other side of the hinge portion, both male and female latching members being on one side of the routing clip. When being engaged with the female latching member, the male latching member deflects in a direction transverse to its length to provide a more secure latching mechanism as a back-up to the hinge.

Abstract: A slide selector switch and inlet, outlet device which can reduce cost and storage space through the integration of multiple power input and output devices is disclosed. It can be manufactured easily with less cost and can be installed quickly and conveniently by eliminating the use of screws. The structure of the device includes a slide switch having two sides provided with parallel inner walls. Each inner wall has two sides provided with parallel outer walls. An insulative plate is provided on the top of switching terminals mounted on the slide switch. A power output device is coupled to one side of the slide switch. The power output device is separated by the insulative walls which divide the device into a plurality of insertion holes. Each insertion hole is provided with an electrical contact connected to power output terminals penetrating out of the insulative wall.

Abstract: A thermal printer for printing on a continuous print medium by ink transfer from a thermal print ribbon has a print head which is pivotally mounted and which is driven in an oscillatory pivotable motion by a stepper motor so as to repeatedly bring a linear array of energizable printing elements to bear against a platen roller. The print medium is fed through the printer between the platen roller and the print head. The instantaneous rate of travel of the print medium past the print head is substantially the same as the rate of feed of the print medium to the printer. The ribbon also travels between the print head and the platen roller, overlying the print medium, and is driven in such a manner that it travels at the same rate as the print medium during each printing operation up to a speed equivalent to the maximum printing speed of the print head.

Abstract: An expansion anchor installable in a pre-drilled hole formed in a base material. The expansion anchor includes a bolt having a shaft with a head portion, an opposing end portion, and a threaded portion. A shoulder is disposed on the shaft intermediate the head portion and the end portion thereof, and an expandable sleeve is disposed about the shaft between the shoulder and the end portion of the shaft. The expandable sleeve has an expandable upper sleeve portion and an expandable lower sleeve portion wherein the expandable lower sleeve portion is expandable outwardly before the expandable upper sleeve portion is expandable outwardly. A nut having a substantially conical surface is fixed rotationally in the pre-drilled hole and is engagable with the threaded portion of the shaft. The substantially conical surface of the nut is engageable with the expandable lower sleeve portion so as to expand the lower sleeve portion until the nut is axially fixed in the pre-drilled hole.

Abstract: A stud clip adapted for mounting upon an upstanding threaded bolt or stud comprises a pair of oppositely disposed latch members having a plurality of claw or detent portions defined thereon for engaging the threaded shank portion of the stud or bolt. The latch members may have a predetermined thickness, or may be tapered, in order to provide the stud clip with a relatively low or small insertion force, however, in order to concomitantly provide the stud clip with a relatively high or large retention, removal, or withdrawal force, spring members are provided adjacent to the latch members so as to bias the latch members into forceful engagement with the threaded shank portion of the stud or bolt once the stud clip is mounted upon the stud or bolt, or alternatively, once the stud or bolt is inserted into the interior cavity of the stud clip.

Abstract: A machine for making film packages that includes complementary closure ribs, the machine including a drive for conveying closure ribs transversely with respect to the film and comprising in combination: a rectilinear guide superposed relative to the film and extending transversely relative thereto, the guide being designed to accurately position at least one closure rib transversely over the film; and a device for grasping the leading end of the closure rib and capable of moving transversely along the guide to convey the closure rib therealong by pulling on the leading end of the closure rib.

Abstract: A stabilizer system for an automobile door glass or window component comprises a support platform and a slide mechanism slidable thereon. The slide mechanism has a contact member mounted thereon which is adapted to engage the door glass or window component and exert a predetermined amount of pressure thereon so as to render the same stable during operation of the motor vehicle. Detent latching members are provided upon the support platform and slide mechanism so as to permit predetermined adjustment of the slide mechanism with respect to the support platform, and the support platform and slide mechanism have guide rails, frames, and grooves which permit the slide mechanism to be adjustably moved only in the horizontal direction with respect to the support platform.

Abstract: An edge or corner protector, or corner post support structure, for protecting an edge or corner region of an article, product, package, or palletized load, comprises a core member having leg members disposed at a 90.degree. angle with respect to each other, and laminated layers of paper disposed upon interior surface portions of the leg members with the laminated layers having different width dimensions so as to render the leg with different thickness dimensions as one proceeds away from the apex portion of the edge or corner protector and toward the distal edge portions of the edge protector. The thickest portions of the leg members are disposed within the vicinity of the distal edge portions such that the thinnest portions define a gap region for housing the corner or edge portion of the article or product while the thickest portions engage the sides of the article or product.

Abstract: A stabilizer system is designed for an automotive vehicle having a rear suspension including left and right shackles, each having a first end coupled at a first pivot point to one of a left and right frame member and a second end spaced from the first end and pivotally coupled to one end of a leaf spring. The stabilizer system comprises first and second elongated arms, each of the arms being rigidly coupled to one of the shackles and extending transversely thereof. First and second elongate flexible members tensionably link the arms, the first elongate flexible member being operatively connected to and extending between the one end of the first arm and the opposite end of the second arm, and the second elongate flexible member being operatively connected to and extending between the one end of the second arm and the opposite end of the first arm. Each of the elongate flexible members passes over both of said frame members between its operative connections to the respective first and second arms.

Abstract: A powder-actuated tool cartridge clip comprising a generally elongate body member having major and minor dimensions, a plurality of explosive charge retaining receptacles arranged in series and an indexing member both disposed along the major dimension of the elongate body member. The cartridge clip is disposable in a feed channel of a powder-actuated tool of the type having an indexing mechanism for engaging and advancing the cartridge clip through the feed channel so as to sequentially position explosive charges retained at the cartridge clip in a discharge position. The cartridge clip also includes an indicator mark disposed along the elongate body member for indicating that a last remaining explosive charge retained in the cartridge clip is positioned at the discharge position or has been discharged when the portion of the cartridge clip having discharged explosive charges protrudes from the powder-actuated tool.

Abstract: A carton, and a method of assembling the same, is disclosed wherein the carton closures or flaps have adhesive applied to or deposited upon particular regions thereof such that the adhesive does not interfere with or foul conveyor or support mechanisms use in connection with the carton assembling or erection equipment carton is erected or assembled in accordance with reverse-fold techniques wherein each end of the carton to be sealed has a first inside major flap folded inwardly, a pair of oppositely disposed minor end flaps are then folded inwardly so as to be disposed atop opposite end portions of the first inside major flap, and a second outside major flap is then folded inwardly so as to be disposed upon the minor end flaps as well as covering that portion of the first inside major flap remaining uncovered by the folded minor end flaps.

Abstract: A piston velocity control and stability control system is provided for a combustion powered tool having a self contained combustion engine. The system includes a ring that may be adjusted relative to exit ports in a cylinder of the combustion engine. The ring includes openings which may be incrementally aligned between a completely exposed, and a substantially closed position relative to the exit ports. Displaced air volume within the cylinder exits through the exit ports as a piston advances down the cylinder, and the velocity of the piston will be greatest when the exit ports are completely exposed. User initiated reduction of the effective size of the exit ports by adjustment of the ring will reduce piston velocity as described per application. A nosepiece used to guide the driver blade and position the blade over a fastener is isolated from the cylinder so that the nosepiece remains stable relative to the workpiece upon combustion and until the driver blade strikes the fastener.

Abstract: A method and a machine for wrapping loads of items grouped together in a bundle that may be palletized or otherwise, by means of a stretchable film put into place around the bundle and, where appropriate, a pallet, after the film has been pre-stretched and paid out from a spool or the like on which it is stored in the pre-stretched state with an elongation value of about 150% to 500% and a tension, after relaxation, lying in the range 2 to 7, and preferably in the range 2 to 3 daN/mm.sup.2 of film section per turn.

Abstract: A gripping element for attaching a roofing membrane to a roof includes a generally planar plate having a generally central opening and an oblong peripheral edge. The plate includes a top surface facing away from the roofing membrane, an upwardly projecting rib, and a plurality of gripping formations for preventing slippage of the roofing membrane relative to the plate. Preferably, the central opening is larger in diameter than the diameter of a corresponding shank portion of a threaded fastener so that the plate is permitted a specified amount of rocking when subjected to a membrane uplift force.

Abstract: A plastic fastener for insertion inside a complementary opening in a part in the course of manufacture, in particular, a panel fastener for insertion inside a prismatic hole formed in a vehicle body part; the fastener compromising a head, and a shank in turn compromising elastic engaging members which snap on to respective sides of the opening and are oriented in at least one plane crosswise to the shank; the fastener being characterized in that the shank comprises an appendix projecting axially in front of the elastic engaging members with respect to the insertion direction of the fastener inside the opening; the appendix being pointed, and presenting at least one rib of a width substantially equal to the diagonal extension of the prismatic opening, and of a thickness much smaller than the width; and the rib being oriented, width-wise, in a plane forming an angle with the plane of the elastic engaging members.

Abstract: A method of securing sheet material to a support by means of a screw threaded fastener having a driving head adapted to drivably cooperate with a driving tool such that operation of the tool causes rotation of the fastener and enables the fastener to be driven into the support. The method is characterized in that a hole is formed through the sheet material by means of a drill bit attached to the driving tool so as to drivably cooperate with that tool in the same manner as the fastener drivably cooperates with the tool. The drill bit is removed from the tool after formation of the hole and is replaced by a fastener which is then driven into the support by the same tool so as to secure the sheet material to the support. The drill bit is characterized in that it has a drilling feature in the form of a substantially flat plate extending outwardly on each of two opposite sides of the rotational axis of the drill bit.

Abstract: The apparatus comprises along the riser (10) a return chamber with a front space (30) and a rear space (22) adapted to communicate with the combustion chamber (15) following a first displacement of the riser (10). Once the two spaces (30, 22) have been brought into communication with one another, they are separated from one another and the riser (10) is returned towards the rear in the barrel (9). The two spaces (30) and (22) communicate with one another during the displacement of the riser (10) and the rear space (22) is separated from, the front space (30) following a second forward displacement of the riser (10). As the rear space (22) communicates with the exterior of the apparatus, the expansion of the combustion gases trapped in the front space (30) then returns the riser (10) towards the rear into the firing position.The apparatus serves to fix components to a support material.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a pre-stretched film, and to apparatus and a method of applying outer packaging to packages and to loads, optimized as a function of the structure and in particular the shape of the package or the load, in particular a palletized load, and also as a function of the transport and handling that the package or the load must be capable of withstanding without the outer packaging being dislocated. According to the invention, a stretchable film is stretched over at least one roller having a diameter that varies along its axis of rotation so as to form parallel longitudinal zones in the film that have different degrees of stretching. These zones make it possible, in particular, to track the external outlines of objects to be packaged and/or to provide locally-reinforced bonding, or on the contrary to present surfaces that are more relaxed. The present invention applies in particular to packaging and grouping together loads that may optionally be palletized.

Abstract: A fastener detection system is provided for both internal combustion and powder actuated fastener driving tools, and similar powered fastener driving tools. A sensor disposed at a portion of a fastener supply path detects the presence or absence of a fastener. In the combustion tool, either or both of fuel delivery and combustion ignition are disabled when no fastener is detected. In the powder actuated tool an indicator notifies an operator when the sensor detects the absence of a fastener. The indicator may also be incorporated into the combustion tool.

Abstract: Apparatus for wrapping articles in film material includes a stationary frame supporting a vertically reciprocable frame which in turn supports a rotatable ring member carrying a film carriage assembly by which film is wrapped around a load during rotation of the ring member. The ring member is a cast composite ring of a thermosetting, fiberglass reinforced polyester and comprises a flange by which the ring member is supported for rotation and a body portion on which the film carriage and slip ring members are mounted.