Abstract: A container filler and weighing system is disclosed. The weighing system is made up of a scale with a support for a container supported on the scale. A vibrator connected to the support so that the material fed into the container from a feeder is packed and settled in the container. An electronic readout is connected to the scale and a digital readout connected to the electronic circuit whereby the readings can be recorded and an annunciator is connected to the electronic circuit to signal when the container is full. The vibrator connected to the container support delivers a vertical component of force that has an especially good and efficient packing reaction on the material in the container.

Abstract: A cylindrical square for inspecting the angular relationship of a test surface to a vertical support surface on a vertical support member. The flat surface being intended to be perpendicular to the test surface, a dial indicator having a sensing member and a supporting member supported on said support surface. Said dial indicator support being adapted to have a dial indicated thereon to be slid along the top of said cylindrical surface of said cylindrical square whereby the dial indicator will indicate errors in the angular relationship of the vertical surface to the flat test surface.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a roll edge protector for packages of laminar material. The roll edge protector is preferably made of plastic, extruded in the shape of a channel and each section of the channel is cut to form two angular sections of edge protectors, each having scallops that are preferably identical to the other. The angular sections can be formed in indefinite lengths and stored or shipped in coils to be uncoiled and applied to the rolls of sheet material.

Abstract: A support for a basket during weaving is disclosed. The support has a frame made up of a first column and a second column. A basket mold is supported on the first column and a foam rubber pad is rotatably supported on the second column. A hydraulic cylinder has a piston rod attached to the foam pad. The pad holds a basket bottom, having warp and weave members nailed to the basket bottom, to the basket mold. The basket can than be woven, the top handle installed and the completed basket removed from the mold.

Abstract: A golf bag and carrier is disclosed. The bag may be square or round and has an axially extending slot in one side. The bag has a circular open top, a bottom and a side slotted from top to bottom. The carrier has a circumferentially notched top. Circumferentially spaced cups are supported on the carrier bottom and half cylinder channel shaped guides connect the cups with the notches to guide golf club shafts into the cups. The carrier can be rotated to bring the desired club into alignment with the slot so that the club can be removed from the carrier and bag without lifting the club above shoulder height.

Abstract: A dental articulator with two teeth aligning plates is provided. The plates are respectively attached to the upper and lower base means by means of which horizontal, vertical and lateral adjustments of the condylar members can be accomplished independent of one another. The condylar joints are pivoted about a horizontal axis which can be adjusted both laterally and vertically.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for erecting buildings is disclosed. The method involves providing frame elements of a building which may be made up of spaced columns connected together by a beam or beams which may meet at a gable. To erect the frames, each frame is disposed horizontally on the ground with bases of the columns attached by a hinge member to a footing. A spacer bar is supported with one end in a recess in the ground or attached to the frame. A tension member such as a cable is attached to the frame at the gable and is passed over the top end of the spacer post and a vehicle or other prime mover is attached to the tension member to pull the frame to erect position. Each of the hinge members may be made of a socket to attach to the base of a column and a shoe attached to a ground support footing. Each socket is hinged to the shoe by a fowardly facing slot that receives a pin on the socket.

Abstract: A closed loop regulating system suitable for battery plate formation is provided. The circuit incorporates MOS FET and provides compensation for resistance changes that occur in MOS FET devices due to temperature changes. The regulating system also has means to precisely compensate for substantial impedance changes that occur over long time periods of an electroforming cycle for loads of various sizes.

Abstract: A disposable protector for a garment collar made up of a thin plastic sheet of water impervious material glued to a first side of a non-woven material and a pressure sensitive adhesive surface on the second side of the sheet. A removable paper strip is attached to the pressure sensitive material which can be removed and the protector attached to a garment collar band by means of the pressure sensitive adhesive with the non-woven material adjacent the neck of the wearer.

Abstract: Applicant has provided a method for making a vibration damper for damping harmonic vibrations in brake resurfacing operations made up of an elastic tube with slugs of heavy ductile material in it. The slugs are approximately the same diameter as the inside diameter of the tubing and are held in place in the tubing by frictional force or by cement. One slug is used to join the adjacent ends of the tubing. The loop formed by the tubing is placed on a brake drum or disc brake rotor during resurfacing operations. The slugs are coated with liquid cement which lubricates them to reduce friction in getting them into place. The end slug functions to hold the tube ends together and also to function as one of the weights.

Abstract: A vacuum heat treating furnace and quench system in which a load hanger rod with attached load is suspended vertically from the vacuum chamber top cover assembly, and at the end of the heating cycle segment is unlatched and permitted to free-fall through the opened passageways into the quenching medium.

Abstract: A slewing assembly comprises a cylindrical main body and a shackle member, it is characterized that the cylindrical main body includes a pedestal-like member with a terminal to be connected to a radio set or the like and a hollowed cylindrical section for rotatably receiving the shackle member; the shackle member comprises a forked portion containing a slot and a screw hole for pivotally securing an extensile rod antenna or the like and a hollowed cylindrical section to be rotatably received in the hollowed section of the main body, a plurality of grooves surrounding the outer surface thereof are provided for lubricating purpose, one slit extends axially on the entire outer surface of the same, the other one slit extends more than a hemicircumference around the outer surface of the same at the end abutting against the flange of the forked portion, said two slits intersect at right angle to form an integral cross slit so that the hollowed cylindrical section of the shackle member is contractable and expandable

Abstract: A process and structure of a joint for connecting a first panel and a second panel of a floating roof. Each panel being including an extrusion on an edge of said panel. The extrusions being generally U-shaped and each extrusion having two spaced ribs. The clamping bars, each clamping bar having two spaced slots that receive a said rib on each of the panels. The ribs being received in two spaced slots and the bars being clamped together. Before inserting the ribs in the slots a thin uniform layer of an elastomeric material is dispensed in the grooves and struck off to a uniform thickness and cured before inserting the bar into position on said extrusions.

Abstract: A wheel chair including a frame, at least three wheels, a drive mechanism and a single lever control mechanism. The drive mechanism includes a prime mover mechanism and a selective engagement mechanism. The frame is supported by the wheels. The single lever control mechanism is connected to the selective engagement mechanism. The selective engagement mechanism is connected to the prime mover mechanism. The selective engagement mechanism is adapted to selectively transfer power from the prime mover mechanism into forward and reverse movement of at least one of the wheels of the wheel chair.

Abstract: A shoe protector made up of a toe protector adapted to slip over the toe of a shoe and half sole attached to the toe protector. An instep strap is attached to the half sole to support the half sole on a shoe and a heel strap has its ends attached to the instep strap for holding the instep strap in position. The heel strap has an adjustable buckle. A metatarsal protector for use with the shoe protector in likewise diclosed.

Abstract: A machine for marking idicia on small articles of manufacture by means of a laser. Strips of articles in the form of small relatively flat rectangular plate like members are held together in side by side relation in a common plane in plate like frames. The strips are stacked in magazines. The machine has an indexing turret with eight magazine supporting stations, a diametrically disposed conveyor. The full magazines of unmarked parts are loaded onto the machine at one station at the front of the machine by an operator. The full magazines of unmarked parts are then indexed to an unloading station where the lead frames are automatically unloaded from the magazine onto the conveyor where they are transferred past a laser marking station to an unloading station. The laser marker marks an indicia onto each article and the conveyor moves the lead frames to the loading station, where the stacks are reloaded onto an empty magazine.

Abstract: A cardboard box and/or plastic crate partition is disclosed, made up of longitudinal and lateral partition members that are substantially flat and that are substantially identical but for the different lengths for forming lateral and longitudinal partition members. The partition members each have slots that extend about half way across them. These slots in the partition members extend in one direction, receive the partition members extending in the other direction. Shoulders on the partition members of one direction overlie the slots and prevent the partitions from separating from each other.

Abstract: A method and materials for sewing craft sheets of plastic canvas is disclosed wherein an adhesive backed transparent film sheet having a grid pattern thereon color coded to form a picture is affixed to a plastic canvas having a grid pattern the same size as the grid pattern on the sheet. The grid on the transparent sheet is aligned with the grid of the plastic canvas and the grid is then cut to the shape of the picture on the transparent sheet. The person can then stitch the picture, following the color code marks on the transparent sheet grid.

Abstract: The plasma cutting system of the invention includes a constant height plasma arc cutter, a rolling table and a plasma cutter carrying gantry driven from opposite sides. The rolling table is rolled from a loading position where metal sheets are positioned thereon to a cutting position beneath the plasma arc cutter. The plasma arc cutter is held at a constant height above the rolling table. Each metal sheet loaded onto the rolling table is supported on adjustable pins. The entire cutting area is enclosed and vented. The plasma cutter and the rolling table are supported by the cutting system support. A cutter housing supports a transparent curtain, and the transparent curtain encloses the plasma arc cutter. A gantry is supported by the cutter housing, and the gantry supports the plasma cutter. The rolling table includes a table frame, adjustable pins and table wheels. The adjustable pins and the table wheels are connected to the table frame.