Abstract: A clamping device that can be utilized to clamp an accessory to a bicycle frame provides a housing that can be attached to the frame. The housing includes a slot that slidably receives an anchor attached, typically, to an accessory. A retaining bar located in the housing includes a shoulder that projects into the slot and that engages a groove in the anchor in a normal resting state. The shoulder, by engagement with the groove, retains the anchor in the slot. The retaining bar can be activated by applying force to at least one of two ends located upon opposing sides of the housing. By applying force to one of the ends, the retaining bar buckles, folds or slides so that the shoulder is moved out of engagement with the groove. The anchor can thereby be slidably removed from the slot.

Abstract: An electrically operated coffee making machine wherein a filter holder for a removable filter is mounted in the housing for pivotal movement about a vertical axis between operative and inoperative positions. The handle of the filter in the filter holder is received in a recess of the housing when the filter holder assumes its operative position in which the outlet of a riser discharges hot water into the supply of comminuted coffee beans in a bag within the filter. The bottom wall of the filter has an outlet which permits freshly brewed coffee to flow through the centrally located opening of a flat cover into a coffee pot when the latter rests on a heating platform on the base of the housing. A pivotable valving element is biased by a spring to seal the outlet in the bottom wall of the filter when the pot and its cover are removed, and a pivotable actuator is mounted in the housing below the recess to pivot the valving element to open position as soon as it is engaged by the flat upper side of the cover, i.e.

Abstract: A household slicing machine wherein a disc shaped rotary knife is mounted in a vertical plane and a guard, which is separable from the housing of the machine, is movable in a second plane that is parallel to the vertical plane of the knife between a first position in which the guard cooperates with an adjustable abutment to conceal the knife, a second position in which the knife is exposed and the machine is ready for use, and a third position in which the guard can be detached from the housing. A spring-biased locking element is reciprocably mounted in the front wall of the housing to extend into an opening of the guard when the latter assumes its second position and to extend in front of an end face of the guard when the latter assumes its first position. This prevents accidental shifting of the guard from the selected position because each such shifting must be preceded by manual depression of the locking element.