Abstract: A motorized floor stripper for stripping a floor covering away from a floor surface. The floor stripper has wheels and a motor mounted to a frame. An operator uses handles on the frame to move the floor stripper across the floor. The motor is coupled to an eccentric driver, which may be an eccentric cam. The eccentric driver is coupled in turn to a driven member. The driven member is coupled to the frame at a coupling point, and a working element such as a blade is attached to the driven member opposite the eccentric driver. When the motor drives the eccentric driver, the driven member drives the working element in a motion that depends on the configuration of the eccentric driver, the driven member, and the coupling point. By adjusting the location of the coupling point relative to the frame, the operator may adjust the motion of the working element to achieve a motion particularly suitable for removing the floor covering that is being stripped away from the floor.

Abstract: A border cutter for use with a cutter blade carrier for cutting a strip of carpet, the carrier having a blade plate for a cutting blade, the border cutter including a surface plate for movement along a piece of carpet, and having a guide edge and a cutting blade opening normal to the guide edge, and having spaced guides with aligned slots for receiving the carrier plate for positioning a blade at the blade opening. The spaced guides extend parallel to the blade opening, with each guide having a plurality of slots extending therealong in alignment with the slots of the other guide, providing a plurality of locations on the surface plate for the blade carrier. One of the spaced guides includes a channel for receiving a guide toe plate of a blade carrier support of the blade carrier.

Abstract: A cooling structure for an electric iron having a sole plate, a heater carried at the sole plate, an electric circuit for the heater, and a housing mounted on the sole plate, and further including a lower flow path defining sheet and an upper flow path defining sheet, with the lower and upper sheets mounted on the sole plate with a substantially uniform spacing between the lower and upper sheets, with the lower sheet engaging the sole plate around the periphery of the lower sheet, and with the sheets being generally flat with downwardly sloping leading, side and trailing edges.

Abstract: A hand powered carpet stretcher is provided with the improvement of an anti-sway device to prevent lateral or transverse movement of the stretcher tubes during stretching while permitting sideways relocation and longitudinal adjustments of the stretcher between stretching operations. The anti-sway device comprises connecting means for rotatably connecting the stretcher tubes to the head and tail block of the stretcher and at least one carpet gripper tube which is adapted to be mounted on the stretcher tubes for rotation therewith and is provided with spiked wheels for engaging a carpet surface, the axis of rotation of each spiked wheel being orthogonal to the longitudinal axis of the stretcher tubes.

Abstract: A combined water repellent and preservative for wood prepared in a concentrate for mixing with water and utilizing 3-iodo-2-propynyl butyl carbamate.

Abstract: A low-friction boot for a floor-covering trimmer having a base provided at the rear thereof with an upwardly extending handle and carrying at the front thereof at least one forwardly and downwardly extending blade. The boot is of a size and shape to completely cover the bottom of the base and is equipped with attachment means engageable with the base. The boot is also provided at the front thereof with an opening for the blade. At the front, rear and ends of the boot are upstanding walls which cover the front, rear and ends of the base of the trimmer. With such a boot, friction is minimized when trimming linoleum-like floor coverings in particular, and scratching or otherwise marring such coverings is prevented.

Abstract: A hot-melt carpet seaming tape having means for cooperating with a specially designed electric iron to maintain registery of the tape and iron while the heated iron is moved along and over the tape beneath the abutting edges of carpet segments to adhere the segments to the tape and together in a novel process for accomplishing the same.

Abstract: A carpet gripper with headless carpet anchoring pins or prongs and a method of making same. A carpet gripper including: a strip having upper and lower surfaces and inner and outer edges; headless carpet anchoring pins or prongs extending upwardly through the strip from the lower surface of the strip through and to a level above the upper surface of the strip; each prong being inclined upwardly and outwardly toward the outer edge of the strip from the lower end of the prong to its upper end; the lower end of each prong being bevelled and having a surface which is obliquely oriented relative to the prong, which is at least generally perpendicular to the upper and lower surfaces of the strip, which faces generally inwardly toward the inner edge of the strip, and which is in a plane extending generally longitudinally of the strip; and the apex of the bevelled lower end of each prong being crimped toward the outer edge of the strip and being embedded in the lower surface thereof.