Abstract: A front-opening shirt with attached, turn-down collar is adapted for wearing either closed-collar style as with a necktie, or in a casual, open-collar style in which no button, button hole, or other fastener is visible on the free ends of the neck band, thereby improving the appearance of the shirt for such casual wear. The collar is closed by means of a strap or tab which is mounted swivelably at one of its ends on a stud or button on the neck band hidden beneath the turned-down collar adjacent the shirt front, and connected by its other end to a similarly-hidden second button adjacent the other end of the neck band. The strap holds the overlapping ends of the neck band together and a necktie may be placed thereabout and tied at the front in a conventional manner.

Abstract: There is disclosed an ironing table that is uniquely suited for use by tailors, particularly for use by homemakers who have need for a compact ironing table having a plurality of iron-working surfaces which are suited for particular purposes. The table comprises a base formed with a platform and an upright standard thereon having a substantially flat planar upper surface and an outboard edge surface and a plurality of interchangeable elongated members bearing iron-working surfaces of different sizes and shapes. The elongated members are removably attached to the base with first clamping means comprising dowel means carried on the upper end of the outboard edge surface of the upright standard with cooperating eyelet means carried at one end and on the undersurface of the elongated members. The second clamping means comprises key means carried at the inboard end of the upright standard with cooperative keyway means carried at an intermediate position on the undersurface of the elongated member.

Abstract: Two door pivot units are provided for causing radially outward or walking door motion when the door undergoes angular opening motion. In a first pivot unit, a cam follower is pushed with increasing force against a cam as the door opens by an adjustable biasing device. In a second unit, an arrowhead-shaped cam causes radially outward door movement similar to the motion caused by the first unit.

Abstract: A glove construction patterned to be conformal to the articulated movements of the human hand where a plurality of individual parts are designed and constructed to accommodate controlled extension and compression of the outer cover with respect to finger, thumb and metacarpal joints. The finger portions are provided with telescoping sections terminating at the lateral sides of the fingers on a neutral line of the finger joint called "the line of non-extension." The thumb back is comprised of three sections which form a natural thumb contour in the normal working attitude. The finger sections join the hand portion of the glove to provide a natural break line for the palm and metacarpal joints.An outer leather lining for a glove is provided with the inwardly facing surface of the lining having a water impermeable film bonded thereto.

Abstract: Helmets, shoulder pads, thigh pads and other protective equipment employ a cushioning fluid such as a layer of compressed air to protect both the wearer and an opposing player in contact sports. The helmet or other device has outer and inner walls of resilient material spaced apart to form an air chamber. A central plastic shield disposed between the resilient walls imparts shape and rigidity to the device and has multiple perforations to equalize the air pressure throughout the chamber when the walls flex under impact.

Abstract: A fitting for a vehicle seat having a tiltable backrest member includes one hinge member that is connectable to the backrest member and another hinge member that is connectable to the backrest member. A pivot arrangement connects the hinge members for relative pivoting movement, and an arresting arrangement is provided for arresting the hinge members in selected relative angular positions. The arresting arrangement includes a tubular boss on at least one of the hinge members and a pawl that is journalled on the boss for turning movement about the same. A screw or bolt extends through the boss and connects the hinge member to the associated seat member or backrest member.

Abstract: A clamp having two cooperating elements, one element carrying a pair of opposed stub shafts and the other element having a pair of channeled bearings receiving the shafts. A coiled tension spring engages a first stud mounted on the stub shaft carrying element and a second stud or other part on the handle of the bearing carrying element, whereby the spring is effective to (1) urge the jaws of the clamp toward their closed position, and (2) maintain the two elements in assembled relation.

Abstract: An improved counterbalance hinge assembly has a bias spring and uniquely shaped cam for counterbalancing inherently nonlinear forces represented by pivoting loads such as fold up wall type beds, desks, and the like. A cable attached to the spring wraps progressively around the cam surface as the bed or other load is pulled out from the wall, thereby compressing the spring. The effective radius of the cam at a given point is designed in conjunction with the peripheral extent of the cam surface up to that point, to give the desired counterbalancing force as a function of the angular position of the load. In the preferred embodiment, the effective radius is thus smaller with the bed in its horizontal position than with the bed in its vertical position. Additionally, a small offset angle may be provided in the counterbalancing mechanism near the vertical position, to aid in moving the load to and from its stored position.

Abstract: Apparatus for connecting a cylindrical first member to a second cooperating member comprising: a tubular housing adapted for connection to the second member and to coaxially receive a portion of the cylindrical first member; a gripping assembly carried by the housing and movable from a radially expanded position, in which the first member portion may be axially received in and displaced from the housing, to a radially contracted position gripping the exterior of the first member and preventing its axial displacement from the housing; and an actuating assembly carried by the housing, engageable with the gripping assembly and being operable by a force applied externally of the housing for moving the gripping assembly between its expanded and contracted positions, the actuating assembly being self-locking so that upon removal of the externally applied force the gripping assembly remains in its gripping contracted position.

Abstract: A knot simulator for a four-in-hand necktie includes a panel generally shaped, contoured and dimensioned to correspond to the front and side surfaces of a four-in-hand necktie knot and clamp means on the rear of the panel for engaging the free ends of the necktie close to the wearer's collar, to fix the free ends in normal overlapping downwardly extending relationship without tying a knot.

Abstract: An improved two knuckle hinge comprises a pair of adjacent hinge leaves on which long and short axially aligned hinge knuckles are formed. The long hinge knuckle houses a bushing in its end adjacent the short hinge knuckle to act as an anti-friction bearing. A torsion spring may also be housed in the portion of the long hinge knuckle unoccupied by the bushing for urging the leaves together. A pintle, about which the long hinge knuckle pivots, is supported in the short hinge knuckle and extends into and cooperates with the torsion spring, when the torsion spring is present in the long knuckle. Also disclosed is a two knuckle hinge that simulates the appearance of a three or more knuckle hinge. This is accomplished through the use of one or more markings such as grooves in the long hinge knuckle which simulate the appearance of gaps between knuckles.

Abstract: A structure comprising two interlocking hollow semi-cylindrical elements, one of which is larger than and encloses the other, and formed respectively by stamping operations from the material of contiguous edge portions of two sheet metal plates, which structure prevents broadside separation of said plates while allowing free relative articulation through an angle of 180.degree., and producing a tight joint between said plates at each extremity of said articulation and being free of sharp edges when said hinge is either in closed or open position.

Abstract: A device for selectively controlling the cover thread in sewing machines at the completion of the formation of a series of stitches which includes a cover thread positioning member for holding and accurately locating the cover thread for forming additional stitches in continuation of those previously formed or for cutting the thread while it is being held in preparation for forming a different series of stitches.

Abstract: In safety footwear, a middle foot protector is provided bridging the middle region of the foot. A resilient lining is disposed under the middle foot protector. The fastening is located beyond and adjacent to the upper end of the middle foot protector and covering one end of the resilient lining so that, when the fastening is tightened, the upper edge of the middle foot protector does not project below the fastening.

Abstract: A glove for cross-country skiing. The glove flexes as the skier clenches his fist to grasp his ski pole. The glove is neither stretched nor is the hand of the skier within the glove subjected to tension. The invention accomplishes this result by cuts extending transversely across the back of the glove but terminating short of the glove sides. Inserts of flexible covering material are seated within the cuts and secured to the glove back at the edges of the cuts. In the longitudinal direction of the glove, the inserts have a length which is greater than the width of the cuts within which the inserts are seated.

Abstract: A former for moulding a fabric garment shape, said former having hip and waist planes corresponding to a person's body and comprising at least seven members arranged in two groups about an imaginary common line, such that the first group comprising at least 6 interconnected members define a geometrical figure selected from the group consisting of a quadrilateral, pentagon and hexagon at the waist-plane and a hexagon at the hip-plane, and the second group comprising at least one member located between the first group extending at least from the hip-plane to the waist-plane.

Abstract: A self-locking cable tie for forming a plurality of wires or the like into a bundle. The tie comprises a stretched elongate flexible strap portion for positioning about the wires. The strap portion is made of a plastic material comprising stretch-oriented molecules. An integral head portion extends from one end of the strap portion and has a strap entrance face, a strap exit face, and a generally transverse aperture extending from the strap entrance face to the strap exit face for receiving the distal end of the strap portion. The aperture has a predetermined strap path therethrough. The tie also includes a locking means non-integral with the head portion and which has a free end portion extending into the strap path and toward the strap exit face. The free end portion and the strap portion each have an engageable component for causing a localized stress concentration in the strap portion.

Abstract: In an apparatus for sewing articles, such as sewing a slide fastener chain to an opening in an article, stitching of thread to an article is initiated by a manual control and is terminated by an automatic control in response to the sensing of a terminal point, such as the terminal point of an opening, on the article.Article guiding facilities urge folded edge portions of an article toward each other by spring biased members on folding plates.A scroll for receiving and guiding a folded edge portion of an article has an adjustable channel.A linear motion apparatus, such as a dual needle holding mechanism, employs a linear motor driving a camming member which engages a locking member on a movable member to move the movable member to a selected position and to operate the locking member.

Abstract: An easel hinge for supporting picture frames and the like comprising an outer hinge plate and an inner hinge plate both having curled barrels, the inner barrel being positioned within the outer barrel for relative rotational movement therewith without the use of a separate hinge pin, such movement limited by stop means provided by the longitudinal free edge of the outer curl and means for preventing the relative longitudinal movement of said hinge plates comprising an inner barrel tab positioned within an outer barrel slot.

Abstract: A book sewing machine having an incorporated automatic feeder is disclosed. The automatic feeder has two stacks of signatures and acts to remove one signature from each stack simultaneously. The two signatures are both opened and then placed directly astride a sewing saddle of the sewing machine. The sewing saddle carries means for adjusting the spacing of the two signatures, and means for holding the two signatures in place as the sewing saddle moves to the sewing position where the two signatures are both sewn in one operation and then passed for further processing. One embodiment incorporates an automatic paster which applies paste to the signatures adjacent their backbones prior to placing them on the sewing saddle.