Abstract: An axially moveable portable tool, such as a drill, and a guide for the tool are disclosed. The guide has a base with a post and a handle attached to and extending from the base. The post and handle are positioned so that a projection of the time of force applied during use to the tool grip and to the handle, both fall substantially within the base footprint. The upper extremity of the post can be provided with attachments that form parallel guide means or with angular sections that form a external guide for standard size and shaped portable tools. The portable tools can be easily attached to the post to assume a specific angle with the base and can be easily removed from it for independent use.

Abstract: The invention is to an improvement for power tool presses of the type that clamp a portable tool, such as a drill, for use as the cutting means. A commonly used base, column, support bracket, rack and pinion and actuating handle are used. The press is provided with a pressure plate that is driven by the actuating handle to drive the cutting means. The power tool is securely and accurately positioned on a guide post or by parallel adjustable guide means. A single simple lock plate holds the power tool in position on the press or releases it for removal from the press. The tool is quickly removed from and quickly and accurately repositioned in alignment on the guide and easily clamped to it.

Abstract: A guide for an axially movable hand-held tool, such as a drill, is disclosed. The guide has a base that supports a pivot assembly including a post attachment with a guide post and an angle locator, used with an adjustment shaft for angle cuts. A "U" bracket adjustably supports the post attachment on the guide base. One end of the adjustment shaft is shaped to prevent rotation while permitting reciprocation of the shaft within the "U" bracket. A handle cooperates with the adjustment shaft to clamp the pivot assembly to the "U" bracket and guide base at selected angles and is used to position and control the guide during use. A spring biases the post attachment toward one leg of the "U" bracket for angle selection, location and retention.

Abstract: An axially moveable portable tool, such as a drill, and a guide for the tool are disclosed. The tool is provided with a gripping means and an internal guideway parallel to the axis of tool movement on the grip side of the tool. The guide has a base with a post and a handle attached to and extending from the base. The post and handle are positioned so that a projection of the line of force applied during use to the tool grip and to the handle, both fall substantially within the base footprint. The portable tool can be attached to the post to assume a specific angle with the base and can be easily removed from it for independent use.

Abstract: A replaceable water filter unit which can be used with a water pitcher, water bottle, or other such water dispensing device utilizes activated charcoal particles which are sandwiched between a pair of pads which may be fabricated of polyester felt batting material. The pads and charcoal particles sandwiched therebetween are installed in a frusto-conical housing with the pads in tight abutment against the side walls of the housing. The opposite end walls of the housing are apertured and each of the pads is installed directly opposite one of these end wall portions. The housing is removably installed in the outlet portion of the water dispensing device such that the water passes through the pads and the charcoal particles when being dispensed.

Abstract: A programmable assembly system for performing any of a variety of operations for different batch assemblies wherein at least some of the batches have different end points is obtained by using a limited capability, high reliable, high speed pick and place robot 30 mounted on a machine base 10 which has the capability of shifting its table 14 in any of three perpendicular directions so that any style changeover between batches the machine base is operated in a program manner to set up for a different batch operation.

Abstract: Two processes and apparatus for chromatographically separating components of a volatilizable mixture on a continuous basis are described herein as specific examples of the continuous preparative chromotographic separation of unwanted volatile species from volatile product by passage through a continuous fibrous textile solid. The volatilized mixture is fed by means of a flowing carrier gas through a column or conduit containing continuous polymeric solid therein such as a fibrous textile solid like yarn wherein one unwanted component of the mixture is significantly retarded in its passage by adsorption processes as compared to the other components of the mixture. The retarded component is that which one wishes to remove from the mixture. The desired product is gathered at the outlet of the conduit. The polymeric solid separating medium is regenerated by removal of the adsorbed component in either of two ways.

Abstract: A calorimeter which measures a naturally induced flow of incoming air in a horizontal entry duct (air-inlet chamber) and through a horizontal elbow duct to an upright straight flue used as a combustion chamber, the measuring system consisting of a thermistor version of a hot-wire anemometer, a bridge circuit with a matched thermistor, and a strip chart recorder, the calorimeter utilizing convective air flow to make practical a method for directly, continuously, and quantitatively measuring, over the entire period of combustion from ignition to extinguishment, the heat emitted by a burning test material positioned in the upright vertical flue, thus providing a realistic, sensitive, and accurate method for monitoring quantities such as the total heat emitted per unit mass of sample, the total heat emitted per unit mass of volatilized portion, the maximum emitted energy flux, and the average burning acceleration, the apparatus being particularly useful for continuously evaluating burning behavior, particularly o

Abstract: The heat radiator takes the form of an extruded member defining parallel fins on its bottom surface and having a flat top surface arranged to be cemented directly to the bottom surface of a transmission fluid pan in an automobile. A special cement having high thermal conductivity is used and the extruded member may be made in modular form so that the entire area of the bottom of the pan can be covered by forming a set of modular units.