Abstract: The invention is directed to a multi-adjustable paint applicator assembly including an elongated handle with a first adjustment assembly that provides angular movement of an upper handle portion with respect to a lower handle portion. A base is rotatably connected to the handle by a second adjustment assembly that provides rotational movement of the base with respect to the handle. The base also has an upper portion with a receiver that slidingly engages a projection extending from a paint applicator. The paint applicator may be a paint brush, roller or pad with an applicator surface. The first and second adjustment assemblies each include a fastener and an arrangement of mating members that intermesh with another arrangement of mating members, wherein the fastener provides tension between the arrangements to releasably secure the angular or rotational position.

Abstract: There is provided a hinge design which includes: (1) an alignment edge along each leaf of the hinge for aligning the hinge during installation, (2) a tapered pin with a bulbous extremity for easier installation, (3) a cam device in the form of a threaded insert positioned in a leaf of the hinge for affecting the adjustment of the hinge to correct the hang of the door, and (4) a security tab for interlocking the leaves of the hinge to prevent removal of the door when the pin is pulled from the knuckles. As an alternative secure design, the hinge is formed with a flexible plastic region between the leaves to function in place of the knuckle/pin combination and thereby prevent separation of the leaves.

Abstract: The method disclosed herein begins with a molded housing (13 or 31). In one embodiment (20) the molded housing (13) has a ground shield (14) that is formed by thermally spraying a metallic conductive material onto the housing (13). Electrical connections are then made to link an electronic circuit on a printed circuit board assembly (21) to the ground shield (14). In another embodiment (30), the molded housing (31) has a plurality of elements (such as an indented channel (32), extrusions (33), a slot connector (34), and a notch (35)) that are thermally sprayed in selected areas to form a plurality of connective elements required by the electronic circuit of the printed circuit board assembly.

Abstract: A decal (51) having a conductive pattern is first fabricated. This fabrication includes plating a layer of a conductive material (22) using a thermal spraying method. After completing the fabrication of the decal (51) having the conductive pattern, the decal (51) is then affixed to a component (81). In one embodiment, heat and pressure is used to bond the decal (51) to the component (81). In an alternative embodiment, the decal (51) is placed in a mold (61) from which the component (81) is to be molded. Resin (71), forming the component (81), is then placed into the mold (61). After molding, a device comprising the component (81) with the conductive pattern is thus formed. The result of both embodiments is a device with a conductive pattern affixed on at least one of the device's surfaces.

Abstract: A telephone receiving apparatus (100) rigidly retains a telephone handset (200) without the need for a release lever. In the preferred embodiment, a moveable boss (108) and a rigid boss (106) engage corresponding notches (208 and 206) in the earpiece of the handset during insertion. The handset (200) is removed by moving it forward until the rigid boss (106) is cleared. The improved telephone receiving apparatus of the present invention may be advantageously utilized in mobile telephones and a variety of other applications where a telephone handset is subject to shock and vibration during normal use.

Abstract: This invention in general relates to improvements in telephone directory binders for telephone books used in public telephone facilities and like books, where the books and binders are subjected to hard use and often are the target of vandalism and theft; and to improvements in lanyards for hanging the binders, the securing thereof in the binders, and improved wall mounting members to secure the opposite ends of the lanyards on a wall or other surface, e.g., adjacent the public telephone.

Abstract: One piece, molded, looseleaf books adapted to hold paper sheets with punched holes therein, said books having a spine with a longitudinal, vertical cavity in the rear, outer face, a removable, snap-in or press-in spine insert fitted in said cavity, said book optionally having a pivotable lower segment adapted to swing about a horizontal, transverse hinge to provide a diagonal leg serving as an easel-like stand for the open book, a second, longitudinal, vertical cavity in the inner face of said spine, a snap-ring assembly mounted in said second cavity, a front cover panel and a rear cover panel pivotally connected to opposite longitudinal edges of said spine by living hinges, and one or more shallow cavities in the front face of said front cover to receive graphic insert panel(s).Still another innovation pertains to the shape of the rear, outer face of the spine.

Abstract: Book binders with a front cover panel, a rear cover panel, and a spine which is a cross wall connected along opposite longitudinal edges thereof by living hinges to said front cover panel and said rear cover panel; a first, rectangular strip, having three free sides, mounted on and projecting substantially at a right angle to the spine near a living hinge, a second, rectangular strip, having three free sides, mounted on and projecting substantially at a right angle to the spine near the other living hinge, said strips being substantially parallel, whereby edge portions of pages of a book may be inserted between said opposed strips and mounted in said book by adhesive or by stitching, stapling or the like through said strips and said edge portions.

Abstract: One piece, molded looseleaf books adapted to hold paper sheets with punched holes therein, certain of said books having a spine with front and rear walls and a back wall connected at its longitudinal edges to the front and rear walls by integrally molded living hinges; a rear cover panel and a front cover panel respectively connected to said front and rear walls by a living hinge, a plurality of tubular posts mounted on the rear wall and extending toward the front wall, and a plurality of plugs respectively comprising a stem mounted on the front wall and a head sized and positioned to slidably and frictionally seat in each tubular post when the front and rear walls were pivoted to be substantially parallel; and others of said books being two piece, molded books without a spine between the front and rear cover panels, which have an integrally molded strip connected to each panel by a living hinge, a plurality of posts on the lower strip, and post-penetrated holes on the upper strip.

Abstract: Looseleaf notebooks having an integrally molded spine and front and rear cover panels with living hinge connections to the spine, the inside faces of said covers having a shallow, rectangular cavity for holding instructions, labels, decals, cards, etc., one or more snap-on pockets for holding a variety of articles, and pairs of snap-in ribs to hold pencils, rulers, etc.; the spine-remote edges of said panels optionally having integrally molded handles for carrying the notebooks, and page marker strips hingedly mounted on the rear cover panel.

Abstract: One piece, molded, looseleaf books having a plastic spine and front and rear, plastic cover panels integrally molded with the spine and hingedly connected to the spine by living, plastic hinges, said spine having on its inner face a plurality of tubular posts on which a snap-ring binder is mounted and is secured thereon by drive or clinch rivets pressed into the tubular posts.

Abstract: Weatherproof portfolios which are integral moldings of a thermoplastic polymer forming an elongated spine having a first side panel and a second side panel respectively hingedly mounted on respective, opposite, longitudinal edges of said spine, each panel having two integrally molded side flanges connected by an integrally molded top flange to form two, respective, substantially identical enclosures on respective panels, the longitudinal edges of said two side flanges and said top flange of the respective enclosures being aligned when said side panels are swung about their hinges from an open position toward each other and into abutting contact in the closed position, and grooves in the longitudinal edges of the side and top flanges on one side panel and longitudinal mating tongues or ribs on the longitudinal edges of the side and top flanges of the other side panel to provide substantially weathertight seals when the portfolio is closed.

Abstract: Book binders and books made with said binder, said binders comprising integral moldings of a spine having a substantially planar, longitudinal panel and a front cover panel and a rear cover panel respectively hingedly mounted on opposite, longitudinal sides of said spine; paper pages positioned in said binder between said cover panels, and one edge of said pages being fastened by staples or stitching to said planar panel in said spine; a rectangular, longitudinal cavity in the outer, rear face of said spine, the bottom wall of said cavity being said substantially planar panel, and a rectangular spine insert of mating dimensions with said cavity being mounted in said cavity and covering the bottom wall and any parts of said stitching or stapling which are exposed on said planar panel.

Abstract: Binders for telephone directories subjected to hard use, vandalism and theft, as in public telephone facilities and the like, and having a front cover panel, a rear cover panel, and a spine along whose opposite longitudinal edges the front and rear cover panels respectively are hingedly connected by living hinges, a thin metal member with oppositely extending wings adapted to lie between and against the bound edges of the pages of the directory and a thin-edged tongue adapted to penetrate the bound edges of said pages and project through a slot in the spine, a hole through the spine-projecting part of said tongue, and ring means coacting with said hole and said spine for locking said tongue and said wings in book-securing position to prevent removal of said telephone directory from said binder, said spine preferably having a thick segment with a transverse passage aligned with the hole in said tongue, and said ring means being passed through said passage and said hole to secure said metal member on said spine