Abstract: A cooking oil cleaner and filter system for deep fat fryers which includes a fryer well for containing either cooking oil to be used in frying, and a cooking oil filtration and recirculation assembly connected to the well. The cooking oil filtration and recirculation assembly is substantially cylindrically shaped and includes a filter housing having a cylindrical outer surface connected to and longitudinally aligned with a pump housing also having a cylindrical outer surface and an aligned pump drive motor mounted on the pump housing. A suitable filter medium is disposed within a filter cavity in the filter housing with a foraminous partition extending across the filter cavity intermediate the filter medium and the pump housing. A gear pump is located in the pump housing and is drivingly secured to the pump drive motor output shaft, with the inlet port of the gear pump communicating with the filter cavity and with the outlet port communicating by means of a suitable conduit with the well.

Abstract: This device for cutting mats for pictures and picture frames, consists primarily of a hinged straight edge secured to another straight edge, the combination having adjustable scale means for accurately measuring and cutting mats.

Abstract: A seismic signal generating apparatus comprising a vehicle including a rearwardly extending bed, a ram-supporting framework pivotally mounted on the bed for pivotation about a horizontal axis, a ram slidably and reciprocably mounted in the framework, and a plurality of catapult springs connected between the framework, and one end of the ram for forceably reciprocating the ram from an elevated status in which the catapult springs are tensioned, to a lowered, impacting position in which the springs are tensioned to a lesser degree. A pair of superimposed metal plates are positioned below the ram on the ground for receiving the impact of the ram.

Abstract: An improved aligning device for machines, in which a support body supporting a machine pedestal is guided in a threaded portion of a base body anchored to or in the ground, and is penetrated centrally by a tension rod, the support body and the tension rod being interconnected through an entrainment device, and the support body being arranged to be vertically adjusted also with the machine placed thereon.

Abstract: A vehicle energy generation system for use with a tubular vehicle tire which includes a pump assembly carried by the wheel rim upon which the tire is mounted and actuated by the periodic radial deflection of the tire as it rolls along the surface supporting the vehicle. A fluid motor assembly is disposed about the rotating axle carrying the wheel and inflatable tire mounted thereon. Conduits connect the pump assembly to the fluid motor assembly to direct pressurized fluid thereto from the pump assembly and return fluid therefrom to the pump assembly. Means are also disclosed for coupling the output of the fluid motor assembly to an electric generator.

Abstract: A rod packing for stripping oil from a string of sucker rods as they are removed from the oil well, and including a pair of interfitting semicylindrical packing halves joinable to each other at a diametrical plane by pairs of mating protuberances and sockets. An axial bore is formed by mating semicylindrical grooves in the packing halves which are in registry when the packing halves are joined. Opposite ends of the axial bore communicate with frusto-conical recesses centered in the opposed planar ends of the joined semicylindrical packing halves, and each of the packing halves includes a pair of spaced, substantially parallel, chordally extending grooves in one of the planar ends thereof positioned to intersect the respective frusto-conical recess in that planar end, and to receive accumulated liquid therefrom.

Abstract: A tube structure for attachment to an irrigation pipe for non-erosively distributing water from the pipe to the ground, the tube comprising a shapeable, deformable tubular first end portion, a plurality of retainer hooks secured to said first end portion and a second tubular end portion. A pair of spaced diffuser screens are positioned in, and extend transversely across, the second end portion of the tube.

Abstract: An improved unbalance vibration generator adapted to be driven at varying rotational speeds while maintaining a substantially constant exciting force throughout a range of rotational speeds. The generator includes an unbalance mass comprising first and second unbalance masses journaled for rotation and angularly offset from each other 180.degree. about the axis of rotation. The first unbalance mass is journaled on the axis of rotation and the second unbalance mass is radially movable in relation thereto. This radial movement is restrained by cam and spring means which provide predetermined non-linear restraint of the second unbalance mass relative to the first unbalance mass.

Abstract: A hydrogen-hydride absorption system comprising two reactor systems for chemically forming two hydride components, means for supplying heat to, and removing heat from, the component systems, means for partial thermal energy recovery from reactors in each of the systems, and means for conveying hydrogen between component reactor systems.A method for deriving refrigeration includes the steps of dehydriding the hydride of a first component reactor using a relatively low temperature thermal source and conveying the hydrogen to a second component reactor to be absorbed, and rejecting heat, decreasing the pressure of both component reactors along with partial heat recovery, supplying heat as a refrigeration load to dehydride the second component reactor and conveying the hydrogen to the first component reactor, and pressurizing both reactors through partial heat recovery and further heating.

Abstract: A toy halo comprising a flexible headband, a halo band and a supporting column interconnecting the headband and halo band. The headband, halo band and supporting column are an integrally formed, single piece unit. The invention also comprises a method of making the toy halo comprising bifurcating an elongated blank of flexible material by removing a strip from a central portion thereof to form two parallel legs joined at one end by a web; then folding the web upon itself along a line extending substantially normal to the longitudinal axis of the blank to form a triple thickness of the blank at the web; then securing the free ends of the legs to the web in its folded-upon-itself status to form the two bands.

Abstract: A sausage slicing machine which includes a framework, an endless conveyor mounted on the upper side of the framework, and a plurality of articulated, automatically operable cradle elements connected to, and movable with, the endless conveyor. A plurality of opposed, circular cutter blades are mounted on the framework over the endless conveyor for rotation about a horizontal axis extending normal to the direction of conveyor movement. The blades are separated by a plurality of spacing and guiding plates and are dimensioned to pass through gaps formed in the cradle elements to cut into patties, a roll of sausage carried in the cradle elements. The conveyor and blades are driven from a prime mover mounted on the framework.

Abstract: A bicycle lock including a drum housing having a cable reel rotatably mounted in said drum housing on a shaft extending through the housing. A torsion spring is operatively connected between the shaft and the reel and is placed in tension by the rotation of the reel in one direction upon the shaft. A two part bar clamp is secured to the outer side of the housing for clamping the housing to one of the bars of a bicycle frame. A flexible securing cable having a lock on one end has its other end portion wound around the reel, and extends through a guide ring secured to the housing in alignment with an opening in one side of the housing. A safety cable is extended from a point of securement on one side of the reel housing to a point of securement to the guide ring, with a bight portion positioned between the points of securement of the safety cable.

Abstract: A system for harvesting and transporting chickens comprising a self-propelled vehicle having finger-carrying chicken harvesting means at one side thereof for picking up and elevating chickens as the vehicle advances; a first conveyor carried on said vehicle for receiving chickens from said chicken harvesting means and moving them to a second side of said vehicle; an elongated telescoping conveyor having one end positioned under one end of said first conveyor at said second side of said vehicle; swingable boom means pivotally mounted on said vehicle and including a flexible suspension member connected to a medial portion of said elongated telescoping conveyor for swingably supporting said telescoping conveyor on said vehicle; and a coop structure adapted for connection to the end of said telescoping conveyor which is remote from said vehicle.

Abstract: An improved pipe bracket and clamp for holding a pipe or conduit in a manner minimizing heat and sound transmission, preventing electrolysis or galvanic action and avoiding pipe rupture through thermal expansion and contraction. The clamp is preferably formed of a resilient synthetic resinous material in a unitary structure comprising a U-shaped body portion having a recess therein in which a toothed jaw portion is formed to receive and engage a pipe or conduit. A clamping portion is hingedly secured to the body portion by an integral flexible hinge and is adapted to fold about the hinge to enclose and engage the pipe or conduit in the recess by means of a corresponding toothed jaw portion formed on the clamping portion. A flange portion on the body portion includes an aperture which comes into alignment with a corresponding aperture in the clamping portion through which apertures a fastener may be received to clamp the pipe or conduit and secure it to a wall structure or the like.