Abstract: A tree climber comprising a pair of climbing members, adapted to be affixed to the user's feet by quick release straps. Each climbing member includes a support arm extending forward from a platform portion and terminating at one end of a moveable hook shaped clamping portion which engages the back side of the pole. Several embodiments show a clamping portion which is adjustably affixed to the terminus of the support arm with either a slidable collar and tube configuration or a clamped configuration. Another embodiment includes a slidable collar affixed to the platform portion, the support arm extending therethrough to a desired length corresponding to the diameter of the pole. The adjustable clamping portion of any of the embodiments may be used in combination with the extendable support arm to accommodate a wide range of tree trunk or pole diameters and to easily traverse protruding limbs which would otherwise arrest further vertical progress.

Abstract: A substrate-type plug-in fuse to be directly inserted into slots of a pair of pressure terminals, including a substrate on a surface of which a fuse-forming pattern and terminal-forming patterns are provided, wherein the substrate is made of elastic material so that the terminal portions of the substrate can shrink and press against walls of the slots when inserted in the slots, thereby maintaining good conductivity between the fuse and the pressure terminals.

Abstract: A method of pumping particulate solids that have an initial bulk density which is lower than its structural density; the method comprises providing a flow channel (12) having an inlet (120) and an outlet (129) and including (i) an annular drag flow channel segment (L1) formed between a stationary outer wall member (14) and a rotating circular inner wall member (16); and (ii) a straight channel segment (L2) formed between a first planar and stationary wall portion (148) and a second planar and stationary wall portion (182); the inlet (120) of rotary channel (12) is that of the drag flow channel segment (L1) while the outlet (129) of flow channel (12) is that of the straigth channel segment (L2); no axial cross-section of the flow channel (12) between the inlet (120) and the outlet (129) is smaller than the axial cross-section of the inlet (120); the particulate solid is passed through the flow channel (12) so as to increase the initial bulk density and avoiding significant melting and/or thermal degradation of

Abstract: An apparatus for in-line cropping and/or chamfering of a plastic tube. The apparatus includes pressure rollers for deforming a tube section and cutting devices to perform the cropping and/or chamfering operation. The control of movement of the pressure rollers and cutting devices is carried out by a combination of a face cam and a rotor disc; the face cam and rotor disc have the same diameter and may be given rotary speeds which are related to each other in any desired way. Control is carried out preferably by use of an interference box.

Abstract: A shield connector comprises a connector housing. A plurality of terminal pins having a bent section is supported by the connector housing. A cover is arranged to cover substantially the entirety of the terminal pins so as to shield a noise signal from the outside. The cover has a capacitor accommodating section. A capacitor is arranged within the capacitor accommodating section so as to support one ends of the respective terminal pins. An insulating section is so arranged as to cover an exterior of the capacitor. In a preferred embodiment, the cover has an upper cover element and a lower cover element. The insulating section is made of a resinous material.

Abstract: A method and device for measuring the shape and dimensions of a workpiece which is to be cut by a sawing machine. The method includes detecting the width of the workpiece, detecting the contact angle or contact position when the saw blade contacts the workpiece, detecting the presence or absence of a workpiece vertical side surface, judging whether the cross-sectional shape of the workpiece is round or square from data including the width of the workpiece, the contact angle or contact position, and the presence or absence of a workpiece vertical side, and displaying and calculating the dimensions of the workpiece. The device includes a width detector for the detecting the width of the workpiece, a contact angle detector for detecting the contact angle or contact position when the saw blade contacts the workpiece, and a vertical surface detector for detecting the presence or absence of a workpiece vertical side surface.

Abstract: An apparatus having a vacuum chamber is provided which comprises a vacuum chamber that can hold a pressure therein at a pressure different from the outside pressure, a load-lock chamber formed at a portion of the vacuum chamber, for transferring in and out an object between the outside and the vacuum chamber while holding the pressure in the vacuum chamber at a pressure different from the outside pressure, and a piping apparatus having valve mechanism, which performs the intake and exhaust of gas with respect to the load-lock chamber. The piping apparatus comprises a passage formed in the wall of the vacuum chamber, the passage communicating with the load-lock chamber and being exposed to the outer wall of the upper lid so as to be connected to means for inhaling and exhausting gas, valve members disposed on the outer wall, for directly opening and closing the passage, and means for actuating the valve members.

Abstract: A press machine is disclosed for which the main components are a movable ram and a striker device connected to the ram. The striker device includes a striker for striking a tool of the press machine and a drive mechanism to adjust the position of the striker with respect to the tool.

Abstract: A connector includes a first housinng and a second housing fitted to each other. The first housing has an engaging portion and the second housing has an elastic lock arm. The front end in an inserting direction of the elastic lock arm is integally connected to the second housing. The elastic lock arm extends in the inserting direction, which rear end in the inserting direction forms a free end. A lock projection is integrally formed on the elastic lock arm. The lock projection engages the engaging portion to be depressed by the engaging portion when fitting the second housing to the first housing, and has a first sliding face sliding on the engaging portion when depressed by the engaging portion. The first sliding face is formed such that an inclination angle thereof is substantially the same as a maximum bending angle of the elastic lock arm. The lock projection has a second sliding face disposed on a front side of the first sliding face.

Abstract: An improved arch support device and shoe incorporating such device. A device and shoe incorporating the device is disclosed which include rigid members for supporting and distributing weight along the foot both forward and rearward away from the arch and a flexible member for cushioning the heel region of the shoe during standing, walking or other movement.

Abstract: A pair of electrical connectors for releasably connecting a first terminal with a second terminal, comprises: a first connector having a first terminal; a second connector having the second terminal; a manual lever having a base end so mounted on the first connector as to be rotatable in a plane parallel to an insertion direction of the first connector into the second connector, and a free end; an engaging arm provided with a base end rotatably mounted on an intermediate portion of the lever and a free end formed into an engaging portion; engaging means including a hook for catching the engaging portion of the arm, an abutting portion on which the engaging portion of the arm abuts, the hook and abutting portion being provided in the second connector as to be releasably engaged with the engaging portion of the arm.

Abstract: An improved electrical connector is described herein. The electrical connector comprises a female connector member having including a plurality of electrical terminals therein and a male connector member including a plurality of electrical terminals therein. The male connector member is adapted to fit to the female connector member to establish electrical connection between the terminals of these connector members. The electrical connector further includes a connecting member for establishing electrical connection among at least two of the terminals of one of the connector members to constitute a branch circuit among wires connected to these terminals. The connecting member is adapted to be removably fitted between the at least two electrical terminals, and to achieve electrical connection therebetween through the connecting member when the connecting member is fitted.

Abstract: The press is of the type including a pair of tool holders mounted in a frame and carrying cooperating tools (die and punch). At least one of the tool holders is motor driven and is movable towards the other tool holder. According to the invention, the press includes a first driver arranged to make one of the tool holders travel a fairly long distance towards the other tool and a second driver, distinct from the first, for making this same tool holder or the other tool holder perform, a subsequent, fairly short working stroke to bend the sheet metal and to effect any coining of the bend. Preferably both of the tool holders are movable, the second driver being arranged to make the respective tool holder complete a fairly short bending stroke, and the press includes a third driver, distinct from the first and second, arranged to make the same tool holder and the other tool holder complete a vertical stroke for coining the bend.

Abstract: An oscillatory angular speed detecting apparatus is disclosed which includes a pillar-shaped oscillator body and drive and readout piezoelectric transducers attached to first, second, and third surfaces of the oscillator body, the first side surface being perpendicular to the second side surface and the third side surface being parallel to the first side surface, in which vibration of the oscillator body is transduced into a readout signal by the readout transducer. A phase detecting device detects variations of phases of the readout signals, and an amplitude detecting device detects variations of amplitudes of the readout signals, and the angular speed is detected from the phases detected by the phase detecting device and/or the amplitude detected by the amplitude detecting device.

Abstract: A connector-mounting structure for mounting a pair of mating connectors for connecting wires conducting electrical current comprises a bracket which is mounted to a member of an automobile, for example. A first connector which houses a plurality of first terminals with wires connected thereto is placed in the bracket. A second connector which houses a plurality of second terminals with wires connected thereto is connected to the first connector. Pivot pins, slots or slot and a hole, and stopping members are formed in the bracket and first connector so as to hold the first connector at a first position for connecting the second connector to the first connector and to retain the first connector at a second position to which the first connector is moved from the first position by turning.

Abstract: A shearing machine for shearing a plate workpiece includes a frame; a ram having an upper cutting blade and being mounted on the frame in a vertically movable manner; a worktable being fixedly mounted on the frame and having a lower cutting blade to define an opening between the upper cutting blade and the lower cutting blade so that the plate workpiece to be sheared may be fed from the front side of the upper blades into the opening with a portion of the plate workpiece extending to the rear side of the opening; a conveyor being mounted on the frame for supporting the portion of the plate workpiece and for conveying the sheared portion of the plate workpiece to the rear side of the shearing machine, the conveyor being vertically movable in response to the vertical movement of the ram; and a drive shaft means having an eccentric member for driving both the ram and the conveyor reciprocalby up and down so that the conveyor descends before, or simultaneously with, the actual cutting into the workpiece by the up

Abstract: A device for transferring a workpiece to be presented for working includes a carrying member for picking up the workpiece from a withdrawal station. The carrying member includes an chute for receiving and transferring a product to a collecting station upon completion of the working.

Abstract: Connection-condition checkable connectors to be electrically interconnected are provided with a pair of connector members to be interconnected. One of the connector members is provided with a cantilever-like resilient detection arm extending in a longitudinal axis which is coincident with a line along which the connector members are moved to be interconnected. In order to resiliently deform the detection arm in connecting operation so as to move the same temporarily in a direction substantially perpendicular to the line, and then to permit the detection arm to return to its original position, the detection arm has a projection and the other of the connector members has a counter projection. A plurality of detection marks are provided for the detection arm and the other of the connector members so as to be arranged side by side in a direction perpendicular to the line.

Abstract: A manufacturing process for a pressure connecting terminal which includes an electrical wire connection portion having a slot for pressuring and electrically connecting an electrical wire therewith is disclosed. The pressure connecting terminal is manufactured by punching a blank out of a flat metal base plate in accordance with a predetermined pattern and folding said blank into a predetermined shape. Further, said manufacturing process comprises the steps of: punching said flat base plate so as to create at least said slot; plating at least said slot which is created in said punching step; and folding said blank into said predetermined shape after said plating step.

Abstract: An apparatus for transferring a machine part, with a frame body, a pair of machine part gripper members each supported on the frame body for sliding in predetermined direction, a resilient member for energizing the pair of machine part gripper members to move toward each other. Also disclosed is a gripper member movement mechanism for disengaging the pair of gripper members against the resilient force of the resilient members and a gripper member lock mechanism for locking the movement of the gripper members when the gripper members are at a predetermined distance from each other.