Abstract: A drive for the rolls defining a main drafting zone of drafting arrangements of long spinning machines, wherein in order to prevent drafting defects caused by distortion movement of the rolls, the latter are driven from one end by a first gear arrangement and from the other end are interconnected rigidly drivewise or slippage-free, respectively, during the standstill of the spinning machine via a second gear arrangement and via a freewheel clutch.

Abstract: An adjustable frame structure is provided which is particularly useful for supporting macrame while it is being put together. At least three legs are pivotally and slidably secured at one end to an annular ring. Thus, the legs are easily spread apart from each other and the height of the frame is easily adjustable. Furthermore, since the legs can be easily spread apart, the device enables a chair to be easily placed between the legs and thereby provide a comfortable working position. In addition, a cord and pulley is provided in order to adjust the height of the macrame with respect to the frame.

Abstract: A concealed furniture hinge which comprises a stationary hinge portion and a cup-shaped pivotable hinge portion, both pivotally interconnected by two links to form a four-bar linkage. The stationary hinge portion comprises a securing plate and two parallel upstanding bearing flanges. Pivot pins for the respective links are secured in the bearing flanges at a height so that, when the hinge is closed, they project into the cup-shaped hinge portion to at least beneath the top of a securing flange thereof. Said securing flange comprises at least one flat member which, in the closed hinge condition, is disposed adjacent the securing plate of the stationary hinge portion.

Abstract: Over-center hinge for thin-walled doors of cabinets, especially of bathroom mirrored cabinets, having a shallow, door-related hinge part which is articulately joined to a supporting arm fastenable to the supporting walls of the cabinet, and which can be fastened, preferably by cementing, in a matching recess provided on the inner side of the door. A molded piece (36) is removably fastened to the door-related hinge part (12) and bears a tongue (34) which, upon the hinge's closing movement, extends into the path of an engaging surface (pivot eye 15) provided on the supporting arm (18) and can be displaced resiliently against a spring force by this engaging surface, and on which the engaging surface slips during a part of the closing movement beyond a dead-center position on one side of which the tongue (34) exerts on the supporting arm (18) a force in the hinge-opening direction and on the other side of which it exerts thereon a force acting in the hinge closing direction.

Abstract: A method and a workpiece is disclosed herein for adding three or more different bobbin cords into a desired pattern. The disclosure employs a background of a plurality of working cords arranged in spaced apart rows through which a main knot holding cord is threaded and tied in a multiplicity of double half hitches. A first bobbin cord of a different color than the other cords is introduced into the workpiece adjacent a pair of double half hitches on the next working cord and the bobbin cord passes through each half hitch of the double half hitch. The free length of the bobbin cord may be hidden behind subsequent work in the pattern for re-use by additional double half hitches. Additional bobbin cords of various colors may be introduced on other working cords by tying double half hitches thereon while permitting the main knot holding cord and the bobbin cord of different color to pass through each half hitch.

Abstract: From a common eccentric drive shaft rotation is transmitted to a group of parallel driven shafts spaced from each other.Set on each one of the driven shafts is a sun gear meshing with its satellite gear having an inner rim. All of the satellites are rigidly interconnected into a single block moving from the eccentric shaft parallel to itself such that each point of said block describes identical circles with an eccentric radius e and the following condition is met for each planetary pair:e=r.sub.2 -r.sub.2 =const,whereinr.sub.1 is the pitch circle radius of the satellite gear inner rim, andr.sub.2 is the pitch circle radius of the sun gear.The gearing of the invention may help simplify the design of multiple spindle multihead machines and drill heads.

Abstract: A multi-station laundry feeder including supply apparatus for a plurality of article conveyors, multiple stations at each conveyor, and an article transporting conveyor utilizable by the multiple stations for transversely placing articles on the transporting conveyor. The operators remove individual articles from the supply conveyor, drape them across the transporting conveyor, touching an adjustable bar which is positioned to automatically appropriately align the articles, and release them.

Abstract: A holder molded of suitable elastomeric material cradles a plug-in relay in operating position, with access openings for calibration adjustments, visual inspection of contacts, and plug coupling of connecting leads. The holder is mounted to a mounting plate and/or the shelf by bolts inserted into cylindrical openings in the bottom of the holder and through a web or diaphragm molded as an integral part of the holder. A spacer tube placed over each bolt spaces the holder a selected distance above the mounting plate. Washer disks of the elastomeric material are placed on both sides of the diaphragm and a lock nut secured onto the bolt to fasten the holder in place. The diaphragms, disks, and spacers combine to provide vibration damping and shock isolation for the relay.

Abstract: Protective headgear comprising, a relatively rigid shell for covering the wearer's head. The headgear has a bumper for the shell comprising, a flexible cover attached to a front of the shell adjacent a lower front edge of the shell, with the cover having a recess facing the shell, and a pad of high energy attenuation material received in the recess.

Abstract: An improved uniform for ice hockey players is disclosed which provides improved protection for the player and a more streamlined appearance compared with traditional uniforms. The uniform includes an inner protective garment for the lower portion of a wearer's torso including the hips and the thighs, and an outer garment in the form of a long-legged pant to be worn over the inner protective garment and conventional shin pads. The inner garment comprises a shell provided with a plurality of pockets capable of receiving protective pads and including flap-like pouches at the sides of the shell for receiving hip pads. The pouches have lower portions which are free of attachment to the shell so as to permit relative movement of the underlying parts of the shell and allow a wearer reasonable freedom of bending movement at the hips. The pant includes ventilation panels for permitting air to pass through the garment.

Abstract: A throat guard which provides protection across the sensitive throat region as disclosed. It is composed of U-shaped bands of semi-rigid flat material, for example leather or semi-rigid plastic that are adapted to overlappingly co-act and to nest, so that when disposed in the nested area they provide an expanse of protection smaller in area then when unnested. Hence, when the band is positioned and placed about the neck, the discrete U-shaped band forms a movable expanse which co-acts with the head between chin and chest to continually provide a protected buffer or covering for the neck. Such device is particularly useful when playing contact sports, such as field hockey, ice hockey or lacrosse.

Abstract: A collapsible headpiece is worn to provide protection from impacts to the head during an emergency situation. Multiple inflatable flaps, mounted on a skullcap, are connected with a gas supply apparatus mounted on the headpiece.

Abstract: An improved device for disposing roving in the form of overlying epicycloids inside a fixed box, provided with two sun gears and one planet gear, the planet gear being rotated by the sun gear which is rotated by a gear wheel, and another sun gear coaxial to the first sun gear, being rotated by a worm, wherein each epicycloid gear is centered and in case supported by three pairs of bearings disposed at 120.degree. to each other, the outer ring of the bearing coated with appropriate self-lubricating resin.

Abstract: An adjustable frame assembly for releasably clamping fabric material for needlework in which four identical frame members are detachable and adjustable relative to each other to form a frame of a selected size and which employs clamping elements cooperating with the frame to hold fabric material in a taut relationship to the frame without puncturing the fabric.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to an ironing device comprising an iron having an electrically heated and temperature regulated sole, at least one temperature sensor positioned in the vicinity of said sole, and a heater connected to an external electric supply. A temperature regulator is positioned remote from the iron for controlling the current supply to the heater and is responsive to the temperature sensor. The temperature sensor has at least one temperature-dependent resistor and at least one compensating resistor connected with the temperature-dependent resistor. An actual-valve input sets the desired temperature of the sole. The temperature-dependent resistor is also connected to the actual-value input.

Abstract: In a fiber tuft feeding apparatus the throughgoing tuft quantities are sensed, signals representing such quantities are emitted and in response to the signals, a tuft quantity metering member, such as a feeding roll is controlled by analog setting signals.

Abstract: An arrangement for driving the traveling flats of a carding machine. A drive gear is readily releasably secured to the carding machine at one end of the flats for driving the flats in one revolving direction and, for driving the flats in another revolving direction, the drive gear is removed from the one end of the flats and readily releasably secured at the other end of the flats.

Abstract: A drive for a plurality of rotary components of a carding machine comprises a first gear connected to and driven by a motor, a second gear affixed to a shaft and connected slip-free to the first gear to rotate the shaft, a third gear affixed to the shaft, fourth and fifth gears connected to respective first and second rotary components of the carding machine and driven slip-free by the third gear, a sixth gear affixed to the shaft, seventh and eighth gears connected to respective third and fourth rotary components of the carding machine, an additional shaft connected to a fifth rotary component of the carding machine, a ninth gear affixed to the additional shaft; the sixth gear driving slip-free the seventh, eighth and ninth gears, a tenth gear affixed to the additional shaft; and an eleventh gear connected to a sixth rotary component of the carding machine and driven slip-free by the tenth gear.

Abstract: A ring notebook carries a flexible, rectangular, opaque base sheet provided along one longitudinal side with spaced holes through which the rings of the notebook protrude. One surface of the base sheet is provided with a smaller, transparent, rectangular yarn retaining sheet secured to the base sheet along the upper and lower borders of the retaining sheet by a pair of straight, parallel, heat sealed, transversely extending end securing strips. Between the end securing strips are a plurality of equally spaced, transversely extending parallel, heat sealed divider strips, the divider strips and the end strips separating the retaining sheet into a plurality of transversely disposed, open ended pockets which receive skeins of yarn.

Abstract: Improved apparatus and method for forming and maintaining a desired configuration in fabric pieces, such as a pocket during manufacture of a product comprising the fabric such as a garment, by the simultaneous application of heat and pressure (without the need of shaping overlays such as paper) to the fabric piece with such apparatus, which has an improved pressing means for maintaining the desired configuration in said fabric pieces while limiting the resultant movement of the heated, compressed product in response to the pressure to which it has been subjected.