Abstract: The paint brush comprises a handle having a male half and a female half with housing receptacle walls and interior partitions with serrated edges of smaller height than the lateral walls. A projecting member protrudes from the housing receptacle of the female half having a bottom opening next to it. A guide is provided in the female half, and a stem with a hook-like nose on a free end thereof projects from the male half. The replaceable applicator part with at least one retention ringlet is held by support and anchorage device. The male half has guide lugs which cooperate with the guide so that when the handle is closed, the hook-like nose passes by and adjacent the projecting member and through the opening in the female half.

Abstract: A collapsible steamer basket for insertion into the interior of a vessel. Vegetables or the like can be placed inside the basket and steamed. The basket has a plurality of foldable apertured leaves which overlap and conform to the interior of the vessel. A built-in signal device is provided for audibly signalling when the interior of the vessel reaches a predetermined temperature to avoid burning of the foods being steamed.

Abstract: This invention relates to a connecting member for a wiper blade and a wiper arm including a plastic structural member and a metallic locking spring. The structural member has a bearing bore as a receiver for a pivot pin. The locking spring is retained at a first end portion and intersects the bearing bore and acts upon the pivot pin by means of its center area. A second end portion of the spring forms a release key positioned behind the bearing bore. The release key of the locking spring is covered by a wing which is intergrally formed as part of the wall of the structural member by means of a film hinge.

Abstract: A windshield wiper system which vertically wipes the entire front windshield of an automobile during both up and down wiping strokes. The system has left and right wiper assemblies horizontally positioned and attached to left and right runner assemblies slidably attached to vertical runner tracks. Driving cables synchronously move the runner assemblies vertically up and down thereby causing the horizontal wiper assemblies to vertically move up and down. The wiper assemblies overlap and thereby establish a continuous horizontal wiping zone across the windwhield. The separate and overlapping wiper assemblies permit a lengthening and contracting of the wiping zone without interference between wiper assemblies. A tensioning cable applied across the wiper assemblies permits adjustment to changing windshield contours without losing contact with the windshield.

Abstract: Brushes for use in cleaning conventional safety razors which are selectively mounted to the wall in a bathtub or shower enclosure in such a manner that the free end of the bristles form a wiping plane which orients the bristles generally parallel to the plane of the blades of the razors so that the bristles will pass between the blades to thereby remove particles therefrom during a natural side-to-side motion of an individual's hand and wherein the brushes may be used to selectively support razors when not in use.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for cleaning carpet tiles is disclosed. The apparatus which accomplishes the present method includes a machine having a frame structure, a loading station connected to the frame structure and adapted for receiving a carpet tile, and an unloading station connected to the frame structure and adapted for allowing removal of a carpet tile from the machine. Infeed rollers are provided a cleaning compartment of the machine for continuously propelling a carpet tile from the loading station and over a nozzle bank which subjects the pile side of the carpet tile to a cleaning fluid spray. A scrubbing roller then scrubs the pile side of the carpet tile, and the carpet tile is next propelled over rinsing nozzles which rinse the cleaning fluid therefrom.

Abstract: A blow-molded thermoplastic drum comprising a carrying and transport ring having horizontal and vertical surfaces formed integrally with the drum shell is disclosed. The end portion of the drum shell opposite the carrying and transport ring is set back in conical fashion. To allow handling with standard mechanized drum handling equipment, a wide channel is formed between the vertical contact surface of the ring and the conical section. To this end, the carrying and transport ring is connected to the conical section of the shell by a wide connecting web which forms the bottom of the channel. The web is supported by a support structure. In a first embodiment, the support structure is zig-zag. In a second embodiment, the support structure comprises radially extending projections. Passageways are located in the bottom of the channel to allow runoff of water.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a packageable toilet utensil comprising one handhold with two hollow bodies articulated with respect to each other, one open holder-forming body intended to receive at least a part of at least the active head of the utensil and one cover-forming body that may be folded on the holder-forming body, the active head carrying stem being mounted pivotally about a pivoting pin of the holder-forming body so as to occupy an active position in the prolongation of the holding-forming body in which position the stem and the active head are locked by folding of the cover-forming body.

Abstract: Improved reinforced plastic tanks and novel mandrel processes for producing them are disclosed. One aspect of the invention is concerned with an external support rib and a method for producing it. According to the invention, the rib is fabricated on a hollow rib form secured to the exterior of a tank with resilient netting and thread. The structure comprises chopped fibers and a resin which does not require a source of external heat to cure. The tank with the rib form secured to it is rotated as the lay-up is applied. Netting and threads are supplied to the rib form and they wrap around the rib lay-up and hold it in place until it cures.Also disclosed is a method for producing a double wall tank incorporating the novel rib. According to this aspect of the invention, the ribs are cured until they are at least tacky. Then, thin flexible panels are wrapped around the outside of the ribs and held in place by a wrap.

Abstract: A stackable, portable chafer assembly comprising a stack of chafter units in which a first lowermost unit has a frame which supports a water pan and the other units of the first unit nest within that pan in compact fashion. The frame of the first unit is designed to support one or more chafter units above it, with the frame of each successively higher unit resting on the frame of the next lower unit, whereby a compact stacked assembly is provided which saves substantially on storage space and which allows the plurality of units to be moved by a single person, avoiding the need to employ one person to move each one of the units.

Abstract: The invention relates to mixing apparatus in which the drive motor and the stirrers are each coupled to the three revolving elements of a planetary gear. In such apparatus the speed of the two stirrers is automatically adapted to the prevailing counter-moment.

Abstract: A brush adapted for selective application of a flowable fluid to a workpiece is formed in its entirety of a heat fusible synthetic material and includes a hollow head section, a plurality of bristles depending from the head section, and a fluid distribution channel defined by a flexible membrane and extending substantially axially within the radial interior of the bristles from the head section of the brush toward the free ends of the bristles. Fluid fed to the brush head is delivered through the head section to the distribution channel and is discharged from the channel onto the bristles within the interior of the bristle tuft and proximate the bristle ends for facilitated distribution among the bristles and ready application to a workpiece by the user.

Abstract: A heat insulation container includes an inner casing, an outer casing on the exterior thereof and enclosing the inner casing and defining a space therebetween in cooperation with the inner casing, and a heat insulating foamed material filling the space defined by the casings. An aperture portion is provided in the container through a wall thereof for allowing a piping of a cooling system to go in and out of the container therethrough. The aperture portion is provided with a frame therearound which comprises an annular resilient contacting member brought into hermetical sealing contact with the inner surface of either the inner casing or the outer casing in the vicinity of a periphral edge of the mouth, and an annular tong-like member engaging sealingly with the other of the inner casing and the outer casing.

Abstract: The ash pan is a composite ash pan and includes an outer pan formed of stainless steel and an inner pan, formed of aluminum, adapted to be removably inserted into the outer pan. The inner pan has a raised central portion for separating and supporting the solid waste from the liquid waste. In the preferred embodiment, the raised central portion extends up to a height about equal to that of the height of the surrounding wall of the inner pan and the height of the surrounding wall of the inner pan is nearly equal to the height of the surrounding wall of the outer pan.

Abstract: A portable wet/dry vacuum cleaner is disclosed having a handle base and a combination nozzle/debris container. The handle base comprises a housing having a motor, a blower driven by the motor, and a battery pack for energization of the motor located therein. The blower is in communication with the container for forceably drawing air and entrained debris in the air into the container, for depositing the debris in the container, and for exhausting air from the handle base. A channel is provided within the outer end of the container, which channel extends inwardly and upwardly, but terminates short of the housing. The latter has an air duct between the nozzle/debris container and the blower having an inlet spaced from the inner end of the channel. A deflector is disposed between the inner end of the channel and the inlet of the air duct for directing debris entrained into the air exhausted from the channel away from the air duct inlet.

Abstract: A vacuum cleaner nozzle comprises a body (10) having a suction passageway (11) extending therethrough, both ends of said passageway being adapted to receive a suction conduit (20). One end of the suction passageway is surrounded by a dust-brush (12) and two rotatable wing members (13) are provided at the other end. Each of the wing members comprises a resilient means (15) provided with a fiber picking material (16).

Abstract: Disclosed is a plant of batch system for producing a composite paving material by using a bituminous waste pavement material, which comprises a heating means equipped with a new aggregate material introduction shoot and a bituminous waste material introduction shoot, the former shoot being connected to a new aggregate material supply passageway and the latter shoot being connected to a reproduction material supply passageway. The plant also comprises a ratio control section which is intended to compare with each other respective supplying indicated values of new and waste aggregate materials as measured by conveyor scales disposed with respect to their corresponding supply passageways, and thereafter proportionally control the value of the waste material relative to the value of the new material so that both the values may bear a predetermined mixing ratio. The ratio control section, thereafter, generates a command control signal to an inverter involved in the waste material supply passageway.

Abstract: A tooth brush having a plurality of rows of bristles of varying stiffness and cut. Outer bristles are directed to the gum line, while inner bristles work directly on the tooth surface. The inner bristles are stiffer than the outer bristles to assure proper scrubbing of the tooth surface.

Abstract: A butter container or like container for preserving a foodstuff has an upwardly open receptacle forming the base, a plate at an upper part of this receptacle for holding the foodstuff and having a portion covered with an absorbent material dipping into water contained in the receptacle. The cover comprises a thin inner wall with an extension dipping into the water and covered on its outer surface with an absorbent material, an outer lid spaced from the inner wall, a water directing channel connecting the inner wall to the outer lid, and perforations in the lid through which water can be poured into the cover to pass via the channel into the receptacle.

Abstract: A razor cleaning device has a suction cup base which supports a stem. The end of the stem supports a cleaning head which has a plurality of bristles. The bristles are disposed in an appropriate angle so that a blade positioned against the bristles in a natural cleaning motion remains substantially parallel to the bristles. A wiping plane defined by free ends of the bristles can be disposed at an actue angle with respect to the bristle direction to apply even pressure and effectively clean twin edges of twin blade razors.