Abstract: An apparatus for shifting the body weight of a skier from a skier's legs to the skis for enhancing the skier's performance and minimizing leg strain comprises a spring assembly including a loop of elastic rod-shaped material stretchable during crouching movement of a skier's legs between a standing position and a fully crouched position of the skier. A housing defining an elongated channel for enclosing a portion of the loop supports the stretchable material and parallel rod-shaped branches terminating in a base bend. The base bend is secured within one end of the housing. The housing also includes a socket for receiving rigid poles therein and supporting the poles in vertical positions above the skis. The top ends of the poles have pulleys therein over which a cord is fed extending from a top bend of the loop of elastic material to straps disposed about the thigh or thighs of the skier's legs.

Abstract: An apparatus for shifting the body weight of a skier from a skier's legs to the skis for enhancing the skier's performance and minimizing leg strain comprises a spring assembly including a loop of elastic rod-shaped material stretchable during crouching movement of a skier's legs between a standing position and a fully crouched position of the skier. A housing defining an elongated channel for enclosing a portion of the loop supports the stretchable material and parallel rod-shaped branches terminating in a base bend. The base bend is secured within one end of the housing. The housing also includes a socket for receiving rigid poles therein and supporting the poles in vertical positions above the skis. The top ends of the poles have pulleys therein over which a cord is fed extending from a top bend of the loop of elastic material through grommets located in a skier's pants to straps disposed about the thigh or thighs of the skier's legs.

Abstract: An apparatus for shifting the body weight of a skier from a skier's legs to the skis for enhancing the skier's performance and minimizing leg strain comprises a spring assembly including a loop of elastic rod-shaped material stretchable during crouching movement of a skier's legs between a standing position and a fully crouched position of the skier. A housing defining an elongated channel for enclosing a portion of the loop supports the stretchable material and parallel rod-shaped branches terminating in a base bend. The base bend is secured within one end of the housing. The housing also includes a socket for receiving rigid poles therein and supporting the poles in vertical positions above the skis. The top ends of the poles have pulleys therein over which a cord is fed extending from a top bend of the loop of elastic material to straps disposed about the thigh or thighs of the skier's legs.

Abstract: A free sliding hand rest particularly for use as a typing assist device includes a pair of end brackets which support highly polished stainless steel bars therebetween and free sliding resting pads easily movable on the stainless steel bars. The resting pads are configured to simulate and thereby accommodate curves in an operator's hand and wrist for enabling relaxed and proper positioning of the hands for extended periods of typing or key input operations.

Abstract: An apparatus for shifting the body weight of a skier from a skier's legs to the skis for enhancing the skier's performance and minimizing leg strain comprises a spring assembly including a loop of elastic rod-shaped material stretchable during crouching movement of a skier's legs between a standing position and a fully crouched position of the skier. A housing defining an elongated channel for enclosing a portion of the loop supports the stretchable material and parallel rod-shaped branches terminating in a base bend. The base bend is secured within one end of the housing. The housing also includes a socket for receiving rigid poles therein and supporting the poles in vertical positions above the skis. The top ends of the poles have pulleys therein over which a cord is fed extending from a top bend of the loop or elastic material to straps disposed about the thigh or thighs of the skier's legs.

Abstract: A cutter for use in stripping ends of a circular-section conductors insulated with silicon-rubber type material that heat will deteriorate so that a heat stripping is precluded, provides a vehicle that is manually moved across a table top with a length of the insulated conductor to be stripped rolled along the table top in the rolling embrace of a plurality of rollers of the vehicle, guiding and forcing it down while a blade bears down on the insulation at a position offset from the conductor that is insulated. Different roller-lengths protect against slippage of the insulated conductor. Adjustment for various sizes of insulated wire and cable is provided also in different versions of the invention.

Abstract: An improved thermal wire stripper of the type having a slotted metal thermal strip tensioned between the ends of a pair of upstanding, parallel electrodes, provides a gauge selection rotatable member mounted on one of the electrodes and having successive steps for coacting with successively smaller parallel-jaw portions of the slot to prevent nicking wire in stripping it of insulation. A forked support braces the metal thermal strip against excessive deflection that wire stripping might otherwise cause, a plunger actuated slug-flicker flicks away dangling insulation bits left by stripping operations, and a strip-length gauge and finger shield are also provided.

Abstract: A wirestripper for thermal stripping a length of insulated wire includes a "V"-shaped flat metal strip of nickel chrome alloy 0.2 mm thick and having first and second arms 1 mm wide and 3.2 cm long extending from a vertex. The "V"-shaped strip is supported between a support post at the vertex and a respective electrode post at the end of each of the arms, with the electrode posts and support post being parallel and biased apart to tension the "V"-shaped strip. The electrode posts are spaced apart a sufficient distance to permit the length of wire to be stripped to be passed laterally therebetween and between the first and second arms into the vertex for stripping. The serial resistance of the "V"-shaped strip between the electrode posts sufficient for energization of the strip by a 1.2 volt battery connected to the electrode posts.

Abstract: A wire stripper provides for one-hand thermal-stripping of thermoplastic insulation from wire in a substantial range of wire sizes without need for adjustment or alternation in manipulation of the wire relative to the stripper or of the stripper relative to the wire. The stripping operation requires merely insertion of a free-end of thermoplastic-insulated wire in the larger end of a teardrop-shaped slot in a flat conductive strip tensioned between electrodes passing current through the strip, then withdrawing the free end of wire out of the slot in a direction wedging the insulation in the smaller end of the slot as the wire is withdrawn from it, either with or without a twist of the free end. A novel electrode mount both maintains tension on the flat conductive strip when it is heated and serves as closure of a box that holds the current transformer supplying the electrodes.

Abstract: A system for remote starting of an internal combustion engine including remote means for initiating the starting sequence which may comprise a radio receiver in combination with a remote transmitter. Upon receiving the signal from the transmitter, a series of digital pulses is initiated which pulses are counted and translated into a set of sequential outputs. Certain of these digital outputs are utilized to initiate the provision of fuel to the internal combustion engine, the provision of power to a starting device for the engine, as well as the provision of ignition power. Means are further provided which are responsive to the actual ignition of the engine and serve to inhibit effectively further attempts to start the engine by the automatic starting system. Additionally, means may be provided for inhibiting subsequent attempts to start the engine after a predetermined number of starting attempts have failed, in order to prevent discharge of the starting battery.