Abstract: An enclosure with integral snap-acting mounting feet for mounting a unit, such as a sensor, to a DIN rail. The unit includes a component portion and a mounting portion. The component portion is the sensor or other apparatus. The mounting portion is integrally formed to the component portion through a flexible hinge portion. The mounting portion includes a tab formed on either side of the mounting portion, and a mounting foot integrally formed to each tab. The flexible hinge portion allows the operator to easily snap the unit onto a DIN rail. The unit is then removed from the DIN rail by pulling on either of the tabs, which causes the hinge portion to flex and allows the mounting foot to be disengaged from the DIN rail.

Abstract: A gas spring assembly includes a cylindrical tube, a piston slidable within the tube and defining a gas pressure chamber, a rod extending from the piston through one end of the tube, and a seal assembly including an axially compressible, consumable seal for preventing escape of gas between the rod and the tube. A stop formed in the inner wall of the tube is adapted to engage the piston to limit the extension of the rod to a constant, maximum value, regardless of axial compression and consumption of the seal. The seal assembly is disposed between the stop and one end of the tube, opposite the piston, and includes gas passageway allowing pressurized gas to act on one end of the seal assembly to thereby bias the seal assembly toward one end of the tube.

Abstract: Improved apparatus and method for forming and maintaining a desired configuration in fabric pieces, such as a pocket during manufacture of a product comprising the fabric such as a garment, by the simultaneous application of heat and pressure (without the need of shaping overlays such as paper) to the fabric piece with such apparatus, which has an improved pressing means for maintaining the desired configuration in said fabric pieces while limiting the resultant movement of the heated, compressed product in response to the pressure to which it has been subjected.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for forming and maintaining a fold or crease or a formed shape in or on a fabric piece while a product is being manufactured comprising the fabric. The method comprises the steps of applying an adhesive to selected locations on the fabric piece, forming the fabric piece into the desired configuration, compressing the fabric piece at the selected locations to adhere the selected locations thereof whereby the fabric piece is maintained in the formed, desired configuration during at least part of the manufacture of the product, and thereafter dissipating the adhesive. The method is especially suited to the manufacture of garments having separately attached pieces such as pockets, facings, cuffs, yokes, and the like, wherein to faciliate manufacture, the folds and creases are temporarily made in the pieces and are maintained during manufacture by the adhesive, which is dissipated in the final stages of manufacture of the garment, typically during steam pressing of the garment.