Abstract: The present invention relates to a magnetic therapy and a physiotherapeutic device performing such a magnetic therapy. The therapy involves the application of magnetism which provides a transient penetration of magnetic flux by means of a magnetic field scanning of a whole human body or a portion thereof in a three-dimensional gradient magnetic field. The physiotherapeutic treatment device comprises (1) a bed; (2) two magnets straddling on either side of the bed; (3) a mechanical-electrical transmission system; and (4) an electric control system. Therapeutic and health-care effect is achieved by means of magnetic field scanning of the human body with the body lying on the bed facing upward while the two magnets, at properly adjusted heights and actuated by the control panel, move horizontally along the human body receiving the treatment. Clinical tests demonstrate that this invention has remarkable therapeutic effects upon the treatment of a variety of disorders.

Abstract: A foldable frame for a baby carriage which includes a flexible handrail and a pair of two-way toggle joints for connecting opposite ends of the handrail to a pair of spaced arms, each two-way toggle joint having a butt joint fixedly connected to a respective end of the handrail and a joint stand pivotally connected to a respective arm. The butt joint is pivotally connected to the joint stand by means of a pivot member. A latch member is pivotally mounted between lips of the joint stand. The latch member is biased by a spring into engagement with the pivot member. A groove formed within a forward end of the arm receives a portion of the latch member when the handrail in a fully extended position for preventing pivotal movement of the joint stand relative to the arm.

Abstract: An exhaust gas cleaning device is provided, which is simple in structure and offers good performance in the cleaning of exhaust gas from car engines. The cleaning device includes a conductive cylindrical body through which the exhaust gas passes. A shaft is installed at the center of the conductive cylindrical body. A set of blades is provided on the shaft acting as a fan for sucking the exhaust gas in and out of the conductive cylindrical body. A scraping knife is provided also on the shaft. A static-electric generator having one pole connected to the cylindrical body and the other pole connected to the shaft is used to create an electric field between the cylindrical body and the shaft that ionizes smoke particles in the exhaust gas and deposits them on the inner wall of the cylindrical body. A collecting chamber is provided in communication with the inside of the cylindrical body for collecting deposition of smoke particles scraped by the scraping knife off the inner wall of the cylindrical body.

Abstract: An adjustable hichair includes a seat support having a pair of sleeves at rear respective sides adapted to be inserted into a pair of struts of a chair frame in a slidable manner so as to adjust the height of the seat to a most convenient position.

Abstract: The present invention provides apparatus and method for verifying the identity of a person by comparing that person's face (or selected facial features) with an image generated using data stored on an identification card, badge, tag or other escort memory carried by the person. Both automatic and manual verification apparatus are disclosed, and both employ principal component methods that reduce the amount of data required to be carried by the bearer to under 100 bytes. The process of verifying identity involves combining data from the small escort memory with other image-related data that are general in nature and that are stored at the verification location. The system of the present invention is expected to find use in a wide variety of cases where a person's identity is to be established (e.g.

Abstract: A freewheel gear cluster cleaner for cleaning the freewheel gear cluster of a bicycle, including a first clamping plate and a second clamping plate pivotally connected to the first clamping plate by a pivot pin and fixed with the first clamping plate to the chain stay of a bicycle by a screw, a brush holder having a ball head rod fixed to the first clamping plate between two jaw plates thereof by a screw and a brush coupling portion with a series of steps, and a plurality of brush members respectively fastened to the steps of the brush coupling portion to hold a respective bunch of bristles permitting the respective bunch of bristles to be disposed in contact with either gear wheel of the freewheel gear cluster.

Abstract: A gear cleaner for cleaning the speed change gear of a bicycle, comprised a mounting device, and a brush fastened to the chain stays of a bicycle by the mounting device with the bristles thereof disposed in contact with the gear wheels of the speed change gear of the bicycle, the mounting device comprised of two pivoted clamping plates fastened around the chain stays by a screw bolt, the brush having a circular mounting rod transversely linked to the brush head thereof at one end and fitted into a mounting groove on the lower mounting plate of the mounting device.

Abstract: An angle adjustable grip mounting device including a cylindrical connector fastened to either end of a tubular bicycle handlebar by a short tube and a screw nut by means of the control of an adjusting screw to hold a grip by means of two arched symmetrical clamping plates. The grip has a round head held between two arched clamping plates received inside the cylindrical connector, and retained in position by the two arched clamping plates, which are spaced by an opening on the peripheral wall of the cylindrical connector, are fastened together. The screw nut and the short tube become biased on two opposite sides and firmly retained in the tubular bicycle handlebar as the adjusting screw is turned clockwise to move the screw nut toward the short tube.

Abstract: A clothing hanger assembly includes an upper loop track and a lower loop track and a rack connected therebetween for supporting the upper loop track and the lower loop track. A plurality of hanger units are slidably coupled between the upper loop track and the lower loop track and linked to each other, thereby having a synchronous revolution along the upper loop track and the lower loop track when operated by a user. Each hanger unit includes an upper sliding device and a lower sliding device and a clothing hanger frame rotatably coupled therebetween, such that the upper sliding device and the lower sliding device are used to execute the synchronous revolution along the tracks while the frame can have a free rotation about an axis therethrough when operated by the user.

Abstract: An assembly wherein a lock-up clutch is installed in the engine-driven housing of a hydrodynamic torque converter has a clutch apply member between two disc-shaped walls, and an input element which is riveted to the walls. A first friction disc of the clutch is non-rotatably but axially movably mounted on one of the walls and is located between the input element and a friction pad in the housing. A damper with resilient energy storing elements is installed between the walls on the one hand and the clutch apply member on the other hand. A second friction disc is non-rotatably but axially movably mounted in a cylindrical section of the housing and is disposed between the input element and the first friction disc.

Abstract: An ice cream sandwich wrapping apparatus includes an elevator which raises the ice cream sandwich to a wrapping position at which the wrapper extends over the top of and is draped along the sides of the ice cream sandwich, the elevator including a platform having a supporting surface for supporting the ice cream sandwich; a conveyor positioned adjacent the platform and including a conveying surface substantially coplanar with the supporting surface such that the ice cream sandwich can be pushed from the supporting surface to the conveying surface, the conveying surface including at least one recessed section open at an end thereof adjacent the platform; and a shoe movable in a direction toward and into abutment with the ice cream sandwich when the latter is on the supporting surface of the elevator, the shoe including a rear tucker for wrapping a rear buttom tuck panel of the wrapper about the ice cream sandwich as the shoe travels in the direction toward the ice cream sandwich, and a pusher fixedly connected

Abstract: An ice cream sandwich machine includes a nozzle having a discharge end from which ice cream is extruded; a wafer infeed and delivery assembly cooperating with said nozzle and comprising a pair of wafer trays for feeding wafers against opposite sides of the extruded ice cream and paired, vertically reciprocable wafer pusher blade means cooperating therewith to urge corresponding pairs of said wafers downward for applications to the extruded ice cream bar; an index wheel positioned below the nozzle and having a plurality of pockets therein for receiving the wafers and the ice cream in the assembled form of a sandwich; and a wafer agitator assembly including wafer impact arms for periodically impacting the wafers in the wafer trays, and control arms fixedly connected with respect to the wafer impact arms for controlling the periodicity and impact force of the wafer impact arms of the wafers in the wafer trays in response to periodic movement of the pusher blade means.

Abstract: An ice cream sandwich machine includes an index wheel having a plurality of pockets for receiving ice cream sandwiches; and a conveyor assembly cooperating with the index wheel, comprising spaced endless conveyor chains having a plurality of lugs mounted thereon for removing the ice cream sandwiches from the pockets, and a conveyor track means for receiving the removed ice cream sandwiches, the conveyor track means including a fixed conveyor track formed by parallel, spaced, fixed guides connected together by a plurality of cross-bars and the fixed guides including free ends spaced from the index wheel to provide a drop-out zone for the removed ice cream sandwiches, an adjustable conveyor track formed by two parallel, spaced, adjustable guides having slots therein to provide slidable movement of the adjustable guides over the cross-bars and with respect to the fixed guides between a first position adjacent the index wheel for receiving the removed ice cream sandwiches and a second position spaced from the ind

Abstract: A machine for the manufacture of twisted pastry bars comprises coplanar and spaced-apart supply and discharge belts, the supply belt being advanced intermittently to convey a strip of dough to a cutting station where the strip is cut into successive, transversely extending ribbons. Pairs of facing upper and lower conveyor belts are positioned between the supply and discharge belts, the conveyor belts defining therebetween a coplanar bed for conveying the successive ribbons to the discharge belt which supports and removes the twisted bars. While the ribbons are entrained by the facing conveyor belts, they are gripped at spaced positions against transverse displacement.