Abstract: A suspension apparatus is provided for hanging a space heater having a generally circular top cover for use in a livestock or poultry house. The suspension apparatus is designed to decrease the distance from a support cable end to the top of a space heater, thereby increasing the clearance between the space heater and the floor of the animal house. The suspension apparatus includes a Y-shaped member having a first arm and a second arm that are substantially equal in length. The Y-shaped member additionally includes a third arm that is shorter than the first and second arms. The first, second and third arms of the Y-shaped member are substantially in a common plane. An extension arm is provided, which is slidably mounted on and in parallel relation to the third arm of the Y-shaped member. The first and second arms of the Y-shaped member and the extension arm are engageable with apertured tabs typically provided on a top cover of a space heater. A hook element is fashioned on the extension arm.

Abstract: A clamping bracket for clamping an object to a structure includes a bracket having height (H), an opening for receiving the object, two sides, and an end, said two sides having a cutout provided therein for receiving the structure; and, an adjustable gripping member attached to the sides for adjustably protruding into the cutouts so that the object is clamped between the end and the structure and the gripping member clamps the structure to the bracket.

Abstract: A retractable window covering panel including spaced apart parallel sheets of flexible fabric with vanes adhesively secured therebetween. The covering includes a roller or head rail with a wrinkle and buckle compensating structure such as longitudinal lobes or ribs to prevent creasing, wrinkling, or buckling of the window covering when rolled up. The head rail has means for attaching the window covering to insure proper alignment of the window covering. A bottom rail is secured to one or both sheets. An anti-skew device is provided.

Abstract: An articulable projecting plug is disclosed that provides for interchangeable mechanical connection between one of several electronic-signal ports such as video-signal ports, and housing/support structure associated with an electronic device such as a flat-screen television. The plug also accommodates video communication between a video-signal source and such television. The plug includes joining structure constructed to bring the plug into contact with the port and hold them both in such joined relationship. The joining structure includes an outer surface and holder structure for holding the first end of an elongate conductor so that joinder of the plug with the port will also result in contact between such first end and the port. The plug also includes an elongate projecting member terminating with first and second ends, with the first end being operatively connected to the joining structure so that the projecting elongate member extends from it and away from the port.

Abstract: A clevis hanger for supporting conduit comprising a lower U-shaped member having a pair of generally parallel arms, each arm having an upper end, and an upper hanger member having a pair of spaced-apart arms depending generally downward therefrom. Each arm of the upper hanger member has an upper portion and a lower portion. The lower portions of are horizontally spaced apart such that the lower portions are located adjacent the arms of the lower hanger member. Each of the arms of the lower hanger member and each of the lower portions of the arms of the upper hanger member has an opening therein. The openings are in generally horizontal alignment with one another when the upper and lower hanger members are connected. An elongate fastener is adapted to be inserted through the aligned openings to connect the upper and lower hanger members.

Abstract: A new mouse pad support pedestal for supporting a mouse pad on an arm of a chair. The inventive device includes a clamp device having a stationary clamping portion and a moveable clamping portion for attaching the apparatus to an arm of a chair, a support pedestal adapted to retain a mouse pad thereon, with the support pedestal being attached to the stationary clamping portion in a manner permitting adjustment of the support pedestal along the stationary clamping portion.

Abstract: A seat slide device comprises a rail unit consisting of upper and lower guide rails and rollers disposed between the upper and lower guide rails. The upper guide rail includes a substantially channeled member consisting of a downwardly-opening, channeled portion, a vertical portion extending vertically and longitudinally from an upper wall of the downwardly-opening, channeled portion, and flanged portions formed at lower ends of both side walls of the downwardly-opening, channeled portion. The flanged portions of the upper guide rail are slidably engaged with the respective flanged portions of the lower guide rail when assembling. The vertical portion, the downwardly-opening, channeled portion, and the flanged portions of the upper guide rail are integrally formed by bending a piece of metal sheet. The vertical portion is formed by doubling over the metal sheet at an essentially center of the metal sheet.

Abstract: A first embodiment of the invention is a clip assembly which includes a hollow cylindrical portion with an unjoined portion along a longitudinal portion of the periphery. Mating elements are formed on both sides of the unjoined portion. In a mated configuration, the mating elements extend radially from the hollow cylindrical portion. The first mating element includes a distal laterally engaging male mating connector and a distal laterally engaging female mating connector longitudinally adjacent thereto. The second mating element includes similar mating connectors but in reverse order so that the female connector of a mating element engages the male connector of the other mating element. The clip assembly further includes panel thickness adjustment wings peripherally adjacent to the mating connectors. The panel thickness adjustment wings flex to engage structural panels of various thicknesses against detent elements.

Abstract: A cable support assembly which includes at least one elongate flexible spine member and a plurality of open ended support members mounted on the flexible spine member and spaced apart from one another such that the open ended support members define a support surface.

Abstract: A cymbal holder assembly including a holder base adapted to hold a cymbal, a mounting base adapted for mounting on a cymbal stand, a screw and a wing nut fastened together to fix the holder base and the mounting base together, and a constraint device mounted around the screw and retained between the holder base and the mounting base to prohibit the holder base and the mounting base from a relative rotary motion, the constraint device being released for permitting the holder base to be turned relative to the mounting base to adjust the angular position of the cymbal on the holder base when the wing nut is loosened.

Abstract: A shelf supporting bracket for a scaffold comprises a pair of spaced apart angle irons connected together by a first cross bar at the rear and a second cross bar located inwardly from the open front end. A diagonal brace bar extends downwardly and forwardly from the rearwardly facing end of the spaced apart angle irons and first cross bar, terminating forwardly at a location below the second cross bar and on a line that extends from the forwardly facing wall of the second cross bar normal to the direction in which the angle irons extend. A semi-cylindrical socket member is secured to the forward end of the diagonal brace bar to receive a lower portion of a scaffold upright when an upper portion is received through the open front end of the spaced apart angle irons and rearwardly to abut against the forwardly facing wall of the second cross bar. A pin is then inserted through a pair of aligned apertures of the spaced apart angle irons to the front of the scaffold upright.

Abstract: A support or pad for equipment, especially electrical transformers, is disclosed. The pad is designed to permit multi-directional access to its underside; consequently, it need not be positioned specially once a transformer is mounted to it, but rather is accessible in almost any upright orientation to the tines of a fork-lift truck. In some embodiments the tine-receiving recesses do not abut an opening for electrical cables attached to the transformer, the opening instead being bordered by sections of the full depth of the pad. The multiple recesses of the pad thus fail to communicate with the opening, blocking any path along the underside from the periphery of the pad to the cable opening itself.

Abstract: A device for retaining two individual members in an adjacent condition includes a support base with an arrangement for attaching the support base to a first of the two individual members, a latching arm pivotally mounted to the support base, a biasing member attached to a distal end of the latching arm for causing the latching arm to pivot downwardly under gravity's influence with a portion of the latching arm extending upwardly beyond an upper surface of the base and a receiver having an arrangement for attaching the receiver to a second of the individual members and a receiving member extending from the attachment arrangement in a manner for at least partially surrounding the latching arm with the receiving member defining an opening through which the biasing member may be passed for placing the two individual members in an adjacent relation.

Abstract: A longitudinally adjustable column for chairs, tables or the like, comprising a vertical tube and a longitudinal adjusting element arranged inside the tube. The longitudinal adjusting element has a cylinder with an axially movable piston rod, and is mounted on a base plate which is held in place inside the tube. The base plate is held in place on one side by an inwardly-bent deformation of the vertical tube, and on the other side by at least one supporting surface on the inner wall of the vertical tube. The deformation is formed by bending a face at one end of the tube in the direction of the inner wall of the tube, so that the outer wall of the tube rests against one side of the base plate.

Abstract: An inspection indicator for a fall prevention safety device of the type which includes a housing, a drum rotatably mounted in the housing, a cable adapted to be wound around the drum, and a centrifugally operated brake mechanism which is activated in response to an initial fast rotation of the drum in the unwinding direction and brakes the rotation of the drum to prevent further unwinding thereof. The inspection indicator comprises a pin which is secured to and extends from the brake mechanism and a spring loaded member which is releasably secured to the housing of the safety device against the restoring force of a spring. The pin is adapted to release the spring loaded member thereby causing the same to be ejected outwardly from the safety device in order to indicate that the safety device has been activated and/or to indicate that the safety device has been in use for a predetermined period of time.

Abstract: An exhaust pipe supporting device includes a generally elliptical body portion integrally formed of an elastic material, such as rubber. The body portion includes a first holder portion having a through-hole to receive a support member associated with a car body, a second holder portion having another through-hole to receive a support member associated with the exhaust pipe. A pair of lateral walls connect the first and second holder portions by attachment at opposite ends to opposed sides of the first and second holding portions. The first and second holding are held in this manner in spaced apart relation to each other, and a central connector is disposed intermediate between the first and second holder portions and connected at opposite sides thereof to the lateral walls. The central connector portion includes a central portion formed as a mass section, which optionally includes a metal mass portion, and opposite lateral portions which extend from the mass section to the opposite sides.

Abstract: A shock-absorbing and height-adjusting assembly for mounting a seat onto the seat-supporting framework tubing of a bicycle frame. A standard, commercially available, adjustable-length gas spring (hydropneumatic spring), of the type used for the control column of adjustable height chairs, is slideably contained within a hollow receiver attached alongside or within a lower portion of the bicycle seat supporting framework to which the gas spring piston rod is affixed with the upper end of the gas spring in underlying contact with the lower end of a vertically extending elongated cylindrical seat supporting guide tube supported in alignment with the gas spring for axial and non-rotational movement within a bushing assembly affixed to the uppermost portion of the bicycle seat supporting framework.

Abstract: A vehicle seat slide mechanism for a vehicle includes a lower rail fixed to the vehicle floor, an upper rail attached to a seat and supported on the lower rail so as to be free to slide thereon, a locking plate disposed between the lower rail and the upper rail and operable to limit sliding motion of the upper rail relative to the lower rail and to free the upper rail from this limitation, an operating lever disposed underneath the seat for operating the locking plate, a converging first wall formed on the locking plate so as to be engageable with teeth, which are formed on the lower rail, in the direction in which the upper rail slides relative to the lower rail, the first wall being so adapted that the teeth assume a first position or a second position, and a second wall formed on the locking plate and capable of engaging the upper rail in the direction of locking plate movement when the teeth are at the second position.

Abstract: A flagpole holder which folds flat against the wall when not in use. A spring-loaded hook releases a cover member which pivots outwardly and upwardly to an extended position in which the flagpole is passed through an opening in the support. The lower end of the flagpole enters a receiving area in the base plate and is engaged by the upwardly attentioned hook portion which previously held the cover closed.

Abstract: A banana hanger which has a base member with a hole therethrough, the base having a top and a bottom. A hollow banana, for example, made of plastic or wood is provided and has an opening in the top and the bottom thereof. A rod extends through the banana, the rod having a banana hanging hook on the top end thereof, outside of the banana, and a bottom end, outside the banana, disposed in the hole in the base for holding the banana hanging rod and artificial banana in a desired position.