Abstract: A new interior wall construction relies on a new metal stud. The new stud is a U-shaped channel having parallel sides and a generally flat bight. The bight is recessed interiorly of its edges and mounts a wood block. The block is secured by diagonally inserted screws piercing the interior corners of the recess. A sheet rock installer mounts the plaster board so as to have common edges with the stud. Thereafter a carpenter inserts a wood blocking in the stud prior to mounting the door jamb.

Abstract: A portable, compact, light weight, machine for gluing a flexible veneer strip in a groove of a work piece. The gluing machine includes an aluminum housing having a chamber in which an electrical heating tape obtains. The housing is mounted on a base of wood though separated therefrom by a commercially-available BACALITE heat insulating strip. The user is protected from the heated housing by side strips of BACALITE. A slot in the bottom of the housing mounts a readily interchangeable, high-heat transfer bar whose free edge has a surface complementary to that of the groove in which a veeneer is to be fixed. Special side bars are employed for grooves have greater internal dimensions than their openings. A controller also mounted on the base may be utilized to regulate the heating tape.

Abstract: Complex edges of workpieces are veneered by stretching a thin flexible veneer strip over the edges and moving the workpiece edge against a yieldably mounted heated bar having a complementary surface to seat the strip and bond it the workpiece edge. The yieldably mounted bar moves in a second direction as it is moved by the workpiece to fully seat the veneer strip before the adhesive previously applied to the edge is heat-set by the bar.

Abstract: A douche attachment for easy attachment to a hand held shower heat comprises a nozzle, a cone having its reduced end attached to the nozzle and its enlarged end to engage the outer perimeter of the face of a shower head, and a elongated ring of thin flexible material attached at one end of the enlarged end of the shower head and adapted to be gathered behind the shower head and held in place by a velcro strap. The nozzle is formed of a tubular material having ridges and apertures in the valleys between the ridges. The small end of the cone may be attached to the nozzle by any suitable means and may be further formed to hold a screen in place at the entrance to the nozzle. The cone may be formed of soft vinyl which generally holds its shape but can be yieldably deformed. The thin flexible material may be secured to the enlarged end of the cone by any suitable means.