Abstract: A sealing slide fastener stringer includes a stringer tape made of synthetic rubber and a series of coupling elements of synthetic resin injection-molded on a longitudinal edge portion of the stringer tape. The stringer tape has a thickened sealing member along the longitudinal edge portion. Each coupling element includes a pair of members one on each side of the tape, each comprised of a leg on the edge portion, a neck on the sealing member, and a coupling head projecting beyond the sealing member. The legs are interconnected by a first connector extending through the edge portion, and the necks are interconnected by a second connector extending through the sealing member. The first and second connectors may either be integral or comprise rivets. A single integral connector may alternatively be used to connect the legs and necks of the coupling element members.

Abstract: A fabric casing for elastic cores is provided, which cores have two opposite faces, such as cushions or pads, especially for stuffed furniture and the like.

Abstract: A frame into which a forward end of an automotive vehicle is driven, and secured, so as to prevent vehicle theft, the frame including adjustable bars, so as to clamp snugly against the vehicle, and, in one design, also including rollers against the vehicle wheels, that prevent the vehicle from riding off the frame.

Abstract: A water mattress has a portion of its volume occupied by air or gas filled bodies which lower the total mattress weight and inhibit the under damped natural harmonic motion typical of conventional water mattresses. A method of fabricating the water mattress of the instant invention is also disclosed. The gas filled bodies comprise independent, elongate, parallel chambers having sidewalls which are secured to the bottom panel of the mattress. The chambers are positioned to float between the horizontal midplane of the mattress and its upper surface such that it exhibits the uniform force per area weight distribution characteristic found desirable in such devices. Air is supplied to the chambers through generally aligned access fittings on the chambers and water mattress.

Abstract: A safety belt buckle including a latch for engagement with an opening in a tongue, an ejection spring for the tongue and a bias spring for a push button that can be brought into engagement with the latch, wherein the latch can pivot on an axis approximately perpendicular to the direction of insertion of the tongue, the latch being biased in the unlocked position by the force of the bias spring, and when the bias spring is at least partially extended, the latch is maintained in locking engagement with the tongue by a reinforcing member that moves together with the push button.

Abstract: A belt holding device formed integrally from a continuous and planar blank material and comprising a peripheral frame portion and at least three projections or tongued portions respectively extending from the peripheral frame portion toward generally a center of a central area defined by the peripheral frame portion, and leaving an opening in generally a center of the central area through which a strip of belt can be threaded in position.

Abstract: A positively locking slide fastener assembly of the "zipper" type includes two trains of locking elements or teeth with each of the teeth being provided with an interlocking hook-like extension and a locking surface. Adjacent teeth in each of the two trains are oppositely directed with the hooks pointing up and down, and opposed teeth in different trains have the teeth pointing up and down for interlocking of the opposed trains. The slider for securing the trains together and for unlocking them includes camming surfaces for tilting the opposed teeth to an unlocking position as the opposed trains are brought together or unfastened. In addition, a movable or adjustable pointed element may be provided to assist in the separation of the two trains as the slide fastener assembly is opened. Camming surfaces and the pointed opening element may be secured and put into operation by movement of the slider handle to its operative position.

Abstract: An antitheft device for a steering shaft of a motor vehicle has a latch which is movable between a latching and an unlatching position with respect to said steering shaft. A stop element in the form of a ball is provided in a radially extending opening in a stationary cylinder. The ball overhangs a projecting portion of the latch to prevent the projecting portion of the latch from moving past the ball. A rotating cylinder into which a key is inserted is rotatably mounted on the inside of the stationary cylinder and has a pair of circumferentially and longitudinally spaced detents into which the ball moves as the rotating cylinder moves past the radially extending opening. When the ball drops in the remote one of the detents, the projecting portion of the latch moves past the ball whereupon movement of the rotating cylinder moves the ball out of the detent to prevent the projecting portion of the latch from accidentally moving past the ball.

Abstract: A tool rack providing a pair of transversely spaced tool receiving recesses defined by transversely aligned tool supporting walls; a spring mounted between the walls in position for engagement by a tool inserted in the recesses with the spring positioned to engage a midportion of the tool between the walls and to be resiliently deflected away from the walls to resiliently hold the tool in a three-point support. The walls are preferably inclined to the direction of resilient deflection of the spring and in the direction of increasing the spring deflection upon removal of the tool from the recess.

Abstract: A gravity feed combined display and storage unit for use in a professional salon type environment. The unit is divided into a plurality of compartments separated by a series of bottle supports, T-shaped in configuration, which includes an upright divider member and outwardly depending shoulders. The supports slope dowwardly from the back to the front of the unit where they abut a plurality of bottle stops. The sides of the shoulders are spaced apart a sufficient distance, to support a bottle by the underside of its angle and neck feed, the bottle supports being positioned at a sufficient height so that the bottles hang free and clear from any base surface. The shoulders terminate a sufficient distance from the back wall to that bottles may be placed in the rear, the shoulders supporting a number of bottles.The bottle stops terminate just below the shoulders and the bottle neck, exposing the entire front panel.

Abstract: This invention relates to an improvement in tire locks and more specifically to devices which make spare tires in the trunk compartment of an automobile almost tamperproof from the standpoint of their removal by unauthorized persons.

Abstract: A signal device for a newspaper delivery box includes a hinged actuator located within the box and in the path of movement of an inserted newspaper, and includes a latch portion which projects through an opening in the side wall of the newspaper box to releasably engage a gravity biased, pivotally connected signal flag.

Abstract: In a U-shaped clip made from strip material and intended to close bags and flexible tubes, said clip comprising a web connecting two limbs having outwardly angled end lugs, the improvement which comprises forming the surface of the clip which is to engage a bag so as to provide elevated and depressed zones to grasp the bag more securely. The elevated and depressed portions can be established by forming longitudinal beads on the inside of the clip along the web and limbs or by forming longitudinal grooves on such inside.

Abstract: A separable slide fastener which includes a pair of stringers, a pair of pin members each secured at one end portion of one stringer, and a retainer for separably closing said pin members to each other is disclosed. The retainer may be a slidable one wherein the retainer can slide over both stringers and receive both pin members therein or a fixed one which includes a box having an opening for receiving the other pin member therein fixed to one of the pin members. The pin members are modified fastener elements formed by cutting the coupling heads off from some of the fastener elements positioned at one end portion of each stringer.

Abstract: Safety belt buckle comprising a locking part arranged in a buckle housing and a clasp which can be inserted and latched into the locking part and which can be unlocked by means of an operating mechanism, wherein there is a clasp comprising a plate-like blank with engagement recesses constructed in the vicinity of its lateral edges and with a circular guide surface in the front buckle end area and a locking part comprising two single-armed levers arranged in scissor-like manner about a common pivot point in the buckle housing and which are under the action of a locking or tension spring, said levers having at their free ends locking elements which engage in the engagement recesses of the clasp, said locking elements being in operative connection with an operating slide guided on the buckle housing and opening the levers in scissors-like manner for disengaging the clasp.

Abstract: A velvet type fabric tape for use as closing means or fasteners for garments, curtains and the like. The fastener tape comprises a woven foundation structure, and a number of material-engaging elements raised from one of opposite surfaces of the foundation structure. Each of the material-engaging elements is in the form of a mushroom-shaped loop having a pair of stalks juxtaposed on the foundation structure and an umbrella-shaped head borne on the stalks. The umbrella-shaped head includes a pair of material-hooking eaves each projecting from one of the stalks substantially parallel to the foundation structure for trapping loops on a companion fastener tape.

Abstract: The invention provides a cabinet, especially for storing and dispensing sanitary commodities, characterized in that said cabinet is provided with at least one compartment and at least one latchable door and is further provided with means for attachment of said cabinet atop a bathroom flush tank as an integral unit with the cover thereof, whereby said cabinet and cover are readily removable as a unit to allow access to a flushing mechanism within the flush tank in case of malfunction. The invention also is directed to bathroom flush tank covers whenever provided with such a cabinet and to a kit containing such a cabinet and instructions for attachment thereof atop a bathroom flush tank.

Abstract: Bedding arrangement having a base for disposing on the surface of a bed and an adjustable back support with a frame pivotably mounted at the surface of the base enabling adjustment of the back support into various angular positions relative to the surface of the base. A board for supporting the back of a bed-ridden patient is pivotably mounted on the frame adjacent a head-resting portion of the latter. The board is upwardly pivotable in a direction opposite an upward pivotable movement of the frame whereby the patient assumes a recumbent position raised above the surface of the bed permitting unhindered introduction of a bed pot under the patient.

Abstract: A shelf is supported by at least one shelf support from at least one vertical support having vertically spaced slots therein. The rear edge of each shelf support carries upper and lower extensions which fit into the slots. Abutting surfaces between the upper and lower extensions extend at angles to each other and abut, selectively, the adjacent surface of the vertical support. A downwardly opening notch in the lower edge of each upper extension engages the adjacent portion of its vertical support between the slots therein while the shelf is horizontal. An upstanding projection on the upper edge of each upper extension engages the adjacent portion of its vertical support between the slots therein while the shelf is tilted. Depending projections on the lower extensions abut adjacent portions of the vertical support between the slots therein while the shelf is horizontal and are adapted to move over the portions of the support between the slots upon upward movement of the rear portion of the shelf.

Abstract: A slide fastener stringer includes a stringer tape and a series of fastener elements sewn to the stringer tape on one of the opposite surfaces thereof along its one longitudinal edge by means of double locked stitches composed of at least one needle thread and a looper thread. The needle thread includes a thermoplastic monofilament yarn, and the looper thread includes a spun or multifilament yarn. The stitching has been done from the tape side of the slide fastener stringer. Loops of the looper thread project hardly from the topmost surface of the needle thread loops so that a slider is not likely to wear it out. Each of the needle thread has a constricted portion which serves to keep the looper thread loops from becoming loose. After stitching of the fastener elements to the tape, the thermoplastic monofilamentary needle thread has been heatset to suitably shrink and then become dimensionally stable.