Abstract: A framer's tool consists of a handle member on which is provided an anvil portion for abutment with the outside surface of a picture frame. An actuating rod extends forwardly from the handle member, and is attached to an operating trigger pivotably mounted therewithin. A driving jaw adjustably mounted on the forward portion of the actuating rod, and has a magnetic component on its lower end for setting framer's points, brads and the like, positioning them with a rearward orientation to be squeezed by the tool into the inner surface of the frame component. The anvil portion on the handle member may have a pair of spaced resilient pads mounted upon it, which cooperate with a rib on the confronting surface of the jaw to bend, and thereby fracture, a prescored piece of glass squeezed therebetween.

Abstract: A fluidized bed heater for uniformly raising the surface temperature of semiconductor wafers. The heater includes a mantle having at least one planar surface for supporting wafers, a bed of particles adjacent the mantle which is fluidized by passing a gas through the particle bed, and a bed heater which heats the bed particles to a uniform temperature so that wafers supported on the planar surface are heated to a uniform temperature. A reactor is also described which contains a reactor chamber for processing semiconductor wafers and a fluidized bed heater for uniformly heating semiconductor wafers in the reactor chamber.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a heat storage element having a latent heat storage material sealed in the container under a reduced pressure. This heat storage element permits effective reduction of air in the heat storage element, and therefore, heat is smoothly transferred from outside to the latent heat storage material through the wall of the container. Accordingly, a heat storage element which has a very high heat storage characteristic is realized. Furthermore, this heat storage element, having almost no air sealed in, has a large heat storage density. When this heat storage element is used in combination with an electric heater element, heat will be uniformly transferred from the electric heater element to the latent heat storage material, involving a very small risk of part of the electric heater element being overheated.

Abstract: A flexible surgical stapler assembly includes a staple firing head assembly and a handle actuator assembly connected to the staple firing head assembly through a flexible spine. The staple firing head assembly includes an anvil assembly defining an anvil surface which provides an array of staple forming depressions. A staple housing on the staple firing head assembly carries an array of staples to be formed. A staple pusher means on the staple firing head assembly is provided for exerting a force on the staples in the staple housing to eject the staples from the housing and form the staples against the anvil surface. The handle actuator assembly includes a housing which defines an inner cavity. A cable carrier is provided within the cavity and is freely slidable within the cavity. A length of flexible cable is connected at one of its ends to the cable carrier and at its other end to the anvil assembly of the staple firing head assembly.

Abstract: A chain saw having reduced transmission of vibration includes an internal combustion engine, a crankcase, and a crankshaft; a support assembly, the support assembly including a frame and at least one manual gripping handle; and a vibration isolation system for connecting the engine and the support assembly and inhibiting the transmission of vibration. The vibration isolation system comprises: a front vibration mount having an axis parallel to the crankshaft for connecting the crankcase to the front of the frame and a rear vibration mount having an axis parallel to the crankshaft for connecting the cylinder of the engine to the rear of the frame. The front vibration mount and the rear vibration mount are disposed so that a first imaginary line connecting their axes intersects an imaginary vertical plane containing the crankshaft at a point above the crankshaft.

Abstract: A manually attachable and detachable, interchangeable magazine system for use with fastener driving tools of the type having a housing containing a driver operating mechanism for driving a fastener by multiple blows and of the type having a housing containing a driver operating mechanism for driving a fastener by a single blow. Each magazine contains a plurality of fasteners and a driver therefor. Each magazine is removably affixable by hand to one of the tool housing and a carrier within the tool housing. In the instance of a multiple-blow tool, the magazine is shiftable with respect to the tool housing between a normal extended position and a retracted position within the housing. In the instance of a single-blow tool, the magazine is fixed with respect to the tool housing. Each magazine can be a refillable and reusable magazine, or a single-use, disposable magazine. Magazines containing different types of fasteners are interchangeable within the system.

Abstract: A novel agenda system unrestricted by a specified year is provided herein. It includes a cover and a plurality of index-tabbed sections assembled in a book-like form within the cover. The sections include a primary divider index sheet section, each sheet of which is of a selected first wide width, and all tabs of the divider sheet section are visible when the front cover is opened. The sections also include a secondary index section, each sheet of which is narrower than the sheets of the primary divider index. Such secondary section comprises a twelve-index-sheet combination (for months) and a thirty-one-index sheet combination (for days). Selected sheets from the primary divider index sheet section, i.e. a "THIS MONTH" sheet, a "NEXT MONTH" sheet, and a "TODAY" sheet are selectively insertable at particularly specified locations within the secondary section. A plurality of selectively-movable, blank and/or pre-printed inscribable sheets are provided, each sheet being smaller in size than the base sheet.

Abstract: A magazine for a stapler capable of storing and feeding staples of different widths. A channel having parallel sides is divided by a central staple support into two parallel spaces. One of the spaces is wide enough to confine one leg of a U-shaped staple between one side and the central staple support. This, in cooperation with the central support, properly supports the staples irrespective of their width.

Abstract: A method of making a label-equipped business form in which a continuous web of business form material is advanced and simultaneously therewith a single ply label-providing web is advanced through an adhesive applying station and thereafter severed and labels derived therefrom applied to the continuous web of business form material.

Abstract: A device for assembling by riveting two or more sections of a sheet element structure wherein the sections (A, B) to be assembled are supported in a fixed stationary mode. A guide beam (16, 116) is clamped firmly against one side of the sections and supports a selectively movable working unit (17, 117) comprising drilling machines (45, 46) and rivet supplying and installing means (48,49) and a riveting hammer (50). A multiple or single point thrust and rivet bucking means (32, 132) is arranged on the opposite side of the sections (A, B) and comprises clamping force producing thrust elements (34; 134) as well as a rivet bucking die (41; 141). A computerized control system (43, 53) governs the operation cycles of the working unit (17;117) as well as the thrust and rivet bucking means (32; 132).

Abstract: Apparatus and method for protecting a document against unauthorized alteration comprising providing, on localized areas of a substrate, a self-contained chemical system which can produce an authorized visible message when subjected to impact pressure, and the same chemical system produces an unauthorized warning indication when any attempt is made to mechanically alter the authorized visible message.

Abstract: A riveting press wherein a vertically movable downwardly yieldable platform supports a selected portion of a textile workpiece between a passive lower tool and a vertically rciprocable upper tool. The upper tool is surrounded by a set of two or more radially outwardly movable and vertically reciprocable grippers having serrated undersides which are moved downwardly and into engagement with the upper side of the workpiece on the platform before the upper tool descends to affix a first component of an article of hardware to the workpiece simultaneously with the application of a second component of such article to the first component and to the workpiece. One such component is supported by the lower tool and the other component is releasably held in sockets of the grippers below the upper tool.

Abstract: This invention is for a publication, loose leaf card file or the like, embodying an improved manual sheet separation format, wherein each aligned single sheet of the stack of flexible sheets has a notch (for thumb insertion) in a free edge of said sheet, the notch centers of adjacent sheets being displaced from each other so that an area of each sheet's individual notch superimposes (and exposes) a portion of the adjacent sheet's face edge; one improvement being the placement of an identification notch marker on each sheet's face edge adjacent to the rim of said notch at an area where each stacked sheet's face edge overlies (and conceals from view) the marker on the underlying adjacent sheet; another improvement being the provision of a recessed thumb pivot area along a common side of said stacked sheets, the pivot area being the area of partial overlap of notches in the free edges of the uppermost adjacent stacked sheets; the pivot area serving as an efficient location for one to grip the stacked sheets and

Abstract: A mirror message label system is provided comprising a transparent plate mirror body having a viewing surface disposed on one side thereof and a reflecting surface disposed on the other side thereof. A flexible, planar label is provided having generally planar front and back surfaces. Indicia is disposed on the front side of the label for direct viewing. Complementary indicia is disposed on the backside of the label, the complementary indicia appearing backward for indirect viewing as a mirror image on a reflective surface. A mounting arrangement is provided for mounting the label on the viewing surface of the plate mirror body with the backside facing the reflective surface of the mirror. This facilitates the simultaneous viewing of indicia disposed on the front side of the label and the mirror image of the complementary indicia disposed on the backside of the label.

Abstract: An end plating machine comprising a frame having an in-feed portion at one side thereof and an out-feed portion at the other side thereof. A stationary platen is provided at opposite ends of the frame below the in-feed and out-feed portions adapted to support the ends of a cross-tie delivered thereto. A conveyor delivers the cross-ties to the in-feed portion whereupon a tie transporter assembly moves the tie from the in-feed portion and delivers the tie to a tie elevator assembly which lowers the tie onto the stationary platens. A robotic claw assembly is provided above the stationary platen for squeezing the ends of the tie to close cracks therein. Each of the robotic claws are operated by a single hydraulic cylinder. When the ends of the tie are squeezed together by the robotic claws, a hydraulic ram at opposite ends of the tie drives nail plates into the ends of the tie.

Abstract: The machine according to the invention comprises a device for feeding at least a continuous belt from a coil, a punching unit provided with at least a punch for punching holes into the belt; a cutter for cutting the continuous belt in segments of the desired length and a unit for applying and shaping the hooks to the belt. The unit includes a feeder for feeding and positioning the locking bushings relative to the belt holes, an inserter for inserting the hooks into the holes provided in the locking bushings and into the holes punched in the belt and a closer for closing the locking bushing about one hook end and for simultaneously shaping the other hook end.

Abstract: A moisture sensing detector of snow, sleet, ice and rain. The detector includes a sensing probe and coacting control circuitry for receiving the moisture signal from the probe and actuating associated equipment such as, for example, a railroad switch heater. The probe includes sturdy substantially elongated electrically charged aluminum electrodes spaced apart a very small distance (1/8" gap for example) by fiberglass strip insulation. Any moisture (even a drop of water) bridging the small gap completes a circuit between the electrodes which triggers the control circuit into actuating the railroad track switch heater or any like equipment. The electrodes are substantially elongated to provide a large sensing area. A heating unit is secured to one electrode to heat the entire length of the probe thereby melting any ice, sleet and snow (since they do not conduct an electrical current) thus permitting the probe to detect resultant moisture.

Abstract: An improved powder-actuated fastener-driving tool is provided which is characterized by (a) improved gas exhaust passages for venting the hot gases of combustion from the interior of the tool, (b) an improved trigger assembly which is simple and reliable in its operation and adapted to be easily disassembled, and (c) an improved cartridge advance mechanism. The invention also includes an improved pole assembly which is detachably secured to the tool and has a unique remote tool-actuating mechanism.

Abstract: The disclosure is of a mechanical riveter wherein rivet-gripping jaws are pulled through a slideway by means of a pull rod. Each of a pair of links is pivoted between one of a pair of squeezable handles and a yoke carried on the pull rod. Means are provided to adjust the position of the yoke along the rod, thus fixing the length of the stroke and the mechanical advantage of the tool.

Abstract: The tool has a reciprocating barrel mounted in a housing and includes a ram mounted in the barrel for driving a fastener into a work surface. The firing mechanism has a firing pin and a firing pin driver which the operator strikes with a hammer to fire a cartridge chambered in the tool. The firing pin driver is biased to a retracted safe position when the tool is not cocked so as to prevent drop fire. A detent pawl is mounted on the ram to provide frictional retention forces for the ram and barrel. The pawl cooperates with a resilient stop mounted on the housing to return the ram from a driven position to a driving position when the barrel is reciprocated in the housing, and the pawl also engages a breechward stop formed in the housing which prevents the ram from contacting a chambered cartridge when the tool is in a breech-closed, ready-to-fire condition. Bellville washer stacks are used to position the firing mechanism. An improved hand grip is also provided.