Abstract: A method and apparatus for producing flavorful instant coffee. The method includes the conventional steps of grinding and roasting the coffee beans. Also included are a step of collecting the aromatic compounds driven off during roasting and adding these aromatics to the water soluble coffee components prior to packaging.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for producing flavorful instant coffee. The method includes the conventional steps of grinding and roasting the coffee beans. Also included are a step of collecting the aromatic compounds driven off during roasting and adding these aromatics to the water soluble coffee components prior to packaging.

Abstract: An adjustable mattress foundation for beds, having head, and foot sections of adjustable inclination, and a stationary center section for supporting the user's buttocks, with locking gas springs being employed as force providers and counterbalances in selectively adjusting the angle of inclination for the head and foot sections, with the actuation of the head and foot sections being effected by the pivoting a single control rod. Changes can be made in the torque application of the device on the foundation head and foot sections for different weights and stiffnesses of mattress by a simple adjustment. The width of the stationary section has a minimum width requirement in order to minimize the force required to make changes in inclination in the head and foot sections with respect thereto, and have minimum stress exerted on the mattress.

Abstract: A charcoal grid arrangement for barbeque grills, which grills are of the type comprising an open top receptacle defining a floor that is apertured at its center to receive and hold a discretely separate bowl forming a tinder receiver and ash collector at the central axis of the receptacle, with the receptacle supporting a food cooking grid across same from which is adjustably suspended the charcoal grid over the tinder receiver, with the charcoal grid itself being in the form of an open framework comprising a plurality of spaced apart rods of similar gauge fixed together in essentially parallel coplanar relation to have the charcoal grid define a central axis that is aligned with that of the receptacle, with the charcoal grid on its underside having a pair of spaced apart holder rods secured thereto in spaced apart coaxial relation and vertically aligned with a pair of coaxially aligned radii of the charcoal grid central axis and defining confronting but spaced apart end portions, and with the charcoal grid a

Abstract: A motorized treadmill exercising device comprising a generally planar frame equipped with a planar slider bed and head and tail rollers journalled respectively at the head and tail ends of the frame, over which an endless plastic belt is trained.

Abstract: An arrangement for mounting a domestic appliance, such as a machine, within its cabinet that provides, in the case of sewing machine heads, both free arm to storage and flat bed to storage positions as well as a fifth position orienting the sewing machine to permit access to the machine, of side bobbin access type machines, bobbin from the top of the cabinet, with the connection of the appliance head to its cabinet being by way of a pair of fixed oppositely disposed pins at the front side of the assembly and a pair of oppositely disposed retractable pins spaced to the rear of the fixed pins, with the pairs of fixed and retractable pins cooperating with brackets located one each adjacent the respective ends of the head that are anchored to the cabinet, and with the sewing machine being oriented with regard to the fixed and movable pins such that the center of gravity of the sewing machine is located basically between the fixed and retractable pairs of pins, to provide a gravity assist biasing action on the sew

Abstract: A barbeque grill with paper start facility comprising an open top receptacle defining a floor that includes one or more draft openings of adjustable size, a tinder receiver, that receives the tinder forming paper, in association with the receptacle at its central axis and in alignment with the draft openings, a charcoal support grid and means for removably mounting same in the receptacle over the receptacle floor and above and adjacent the upper end of the tinder receiver, a charcoal receiver in the form of an open ended sleeve of impervious sheet metal material that includes a pair of oppositely located handles adjacent its upper end, which charcoal receiver is proportioned to be disposed in substantially congruent relation with the tinder receiver and on the charcoal support grid above the tinder receiver, and a food cooking grid and means for removably mounting same in the receptacle above the charcoal grid after the charcoal is ignited by igniting the tinder.

Abstract: A treadmill exercising apparatus comprising a generally planar frame equipped with an inclinable, planar slider bed, a driving head roller, and an idler tail roller, both journalled in the slider bed and respectively at the head and tail ends of the frame, over which an endless belt, formed by a low long term creep or stretch resistant synthetic resin extruded film, oriented of polyester or nylon, is trained, with the slider bed having a top slider surfacing formed from one of the same materials or from Masonite hardboard sheeting, across which the upper run of the belt rides, with the head and tail rollers each being formed from a rigid metallic material and provided with a belt centering crown, which, at least in the case of the driving head roller, is provided with an elastomeric coating or covering that defines the crown surfacing, whereby the coefficient of dynamic friction of the belt riding on the treadmill slider bed is no more than about 0.

Abstract: A treadmill exercising apparatus of the inclineable slider bed type in which the apparatus frame at its head end is equipped with a cross member that is coupled to a pair of spaced apart threaded screw members for changing the inclination of the treadmill frame, in which the coupling of the frame cross member to the respective threaded screw members is by way of special nut assemblies that each include a tubular member or shell fixed to the respective ends of the frame cross member, a lower nut member that is keyed to the tubular member involved at that end of the cross member, and is in load transmitting relation to the screw member it engages, and on which, the respective tubular members rest, and an upper nut member that is keyed to the respective tubular members for lost motion movement relative thereto, but which is not in load transmitting relation to the respective screw members, whereby the upper nuts are free to float longitudinally of the respective screw members to accommodate tolerance variations

Abstract: A barbeque grill with paper start facility comprising an open top receptacle defining a floor that includes one or more draft openings of adjustable size, a tinder receiver, that receives the paper, in association with the receptacle at its central axis and in alignment with the draft openings, a charcoal support grid and means for removably mounting same in the receptacle over the receptacle floor and above and adjacent the upper end of the tinder receiver, a charcoal receiver in the form of an open ended sleeve of impervious sheet metal material that includes a pair of oppositely located handles adjacent its upper end, which charcoal receiver is proportioned to be disposed in substantially congruent relation with the tinder receiver and on the charcoal support grid above the tinder receiver, and a food cooking grid and means for removably mounting same in the receptacle above the charcoal grid after the charcoal is ignited by igniting the tinder.

Abstract: A treadmill exercising apparatus comprising a generally planar frame equipped with a planar slider bed and head and tail rollers journalled respectively at the head and tail ends of the frame, over which an endless nylon belt is trained. The treadmill frame at its head end is equipped with a cross member that pivotally mounts a motor assembly including an electric drive motor and shaft driven by same that is keyed to a stepping pulley aligned with a stepping pulley keyed to the head roller, and between which a drive pulley belt is tensioned by a tensioning device that subjects the motor assembly to uniform spring biasing action about the pivotal mounting of the motor assembly for uniformly tensioning the pulley belt into drive transmitting relation with the respective pulleys, and with the motor assembly including a hand crank arrangement for manually relieving the pulley belt tension for changing of the pulley belt with respect to the stepping pulleys for convenient speed changing of the treadmill belt.

Abstract: A control and program input arrangement for industrial process programmable controllers, and specifically for the controller microprocessor that provides manually operated mode operation and user programming controls that avoid the need for a coded terminal for user desired program entrying or modification, which arrangement comprises a control panel assembly including a master control panel section and associated status control panel sections, and manually operated keyboards associated therewith, that provide for manually effected shifting of the processor between tape reading, automatic operation, and manual operation modes, as well as for manual effectation of entry of programs into the programmable controller system memory at specific sites or slots of the memory map, checking of the accuracy of such entries, revision of such entries or previously made entries, and cancellation of same, without requiring use of the tape and tape reader components and associated parts of the system.

Abstract: A barbeque grill with paper start facility comprising an open top receptacle defining a floor that includes one or more draft openings of adjustable size, a tinder receiver in association with the receptacle at its central axis and in alignment with the draft openings, a charcoal support grid and means for removably mounting same in the receptacle over the receptacle floor and above and adjacent the upper end of the tinder receiver, a charcoal receiver in the form of an open ended sleeve of impervious sheet metal material that includes a pair of oppositely located handles adjacent its upper end, which charcoal receiver is proportioned to be disposed in substantially congruent relation with the tinder receiver and on the charcoal support grid above the tinder receiver, and a food cooking grid and means for removably mounting same in the receptacle above the charcoal grid after the charcoal is ignited.

Abstract: A membrane switch control panel arrangement and a label assembly for labeling same, for providing for in field applied identification of the control panel legend upon assembly of the switch, in which the control panel arrangement is of the keyboard switch type providing for touch sensitive switch actuation, with the control panel arrangement circuit board circuiting, membrane or touch sensitive switch components therefor, and the control panel legend sheet switch location indicia therefor being arranged in superposed modular group form, and columnarily arranged, spaced apart switch actuation and observation sets, which sets are disposed in spaced apart rows and extending crosswise of the panel in a columnar configuration, with the legend sheet being delineated to receive and have adhered thereto individual in field marked labels that are to bear the switch identification indicia of the adjacent switch location indicia row.

Abstract: A treadmill exercising apparatus comprising a generally planar frame equipped with a planar slider bed and head and tail rollers journalled respectively at the head and tail ends of the frame, over which an endless nylon belt is trained, with the slider bed having a top, slider, surfacing, formed by plastic sheeting, across which the upper run of the belt rides, and the head and tail rollers being formed from a rigid metallic material and provided with a belt centering crown, which in the case of the head roller is formed by an elastomeric material. The frame at its head end is equipped with a cross member in which are threadedly mounted in spaced apart relation a pair of threaded screw members that support the head end of the frame for adjustment of the slope of the treadmill.

Abstract: A beverage carbonator device comprising an outer main container for holding the beverage as it is being, and/or after it is, carbonated, which is open at its upper end and has a beverage dispensing off-on control valve or spigot at its lower end, and a carbonation generating and pressure regulating assembly arranged for mounting within the container in sealed application to the container open end. The assembly in one form includes a lower carbonating gas generating tank that is to receive and contain the carbonating gas generating substances, which tank is removably connected in sealed relation to an orificed floor of a carbonating gas receiver that is closed at its upper end by a flexible diaphragm, with the receiver in turn being secured to a cover that is part of the assembly and that is sealingly applied to the container upper end.

Abstract: A membrane switch control panel arrangement and a label assembly for labeling same, for providing for in field applied identification of the control panel legend upon assembly of the switch, in which the control panel arrangement is of the keyboard switch type providing for touch sensitive switch actuation, with the control panel arrangement circuit board circuiting, membrane or touch sensitive switch components therefor, and the control panel legend sheet switch location indicia therefor being arranged in superposed modular group form, and columnarily arranged, spaced apart switch actuation and observation sets, which sets are disposed in spaced apart rows and extending crosswise of the panel in a columnar configuration, with the legend sheet being delineated to receive and have adhered thereto individual in field marked labels that are to bear the switch identification indicia of the adjacent switch location indicia row.