Abstract: Disclosed herein is a fluidic clinometer for automatically operating servomechanisms according to the angular displacements of a structure on which the inclinometer is fixedly mounted for integral movement therewith.

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Abstract: A system of helical or spiral bevel gearing that by violating the "law of gearing" restricts the tooth action entirely to the pitch point. The greatly reduced sliding velocity between the teeth of mating gears permits them to be made of "dry bearing" or other moldable materials without exceeding rated PV values, and a multiplicity of contact points moving transversely along the pitch line insures continuity of action.

Abstract: An electrophotographic material is provided herein which comprises a conductive support layer and a photoconductive insulating layer, the latter layer comprising a photoconductive polymeric compound such as poly-N-vinylcarbazole, and a sensitizer having the following general formula ##SPC1##WhereinB represents a radical selected from the group consisting of ##SPC2## ##SPC3##Compounds falling under the latter general formula include such compounds as 2-phenyl-4-[(2'-phenyl-4'-benzopyranylidene) benzyl]-benzopyrylium perchlorate and 2,3-phenyl-4-[(2'-phenyl 4'-benzopyranylidene)benzyl]-6-methylbenzopyrylium perchlorate.

Abstract: A new antibiotic, designated as antibiotic X-5108, is produced by a new species of streptomyces. The new antibiotic is active against gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria and produces growth stimulation and increased feed efficiency in poultry.

Abstract: Apparatus for dispensing items desired by the user in response to the introduction of a valid security card and additional predetermined information. The apparatus includes means for reading data from the security card, keyboard means for introducing additional information and electronic logic for determining the validity of the card and the validity of the predetermined information. A security card is provided including a first area to record the number of uses of said card and a second area to record the date of the last use. The apparatus includes logic to prevent dispensing and to retain the card if the card has been used more than a predetermined number of times or more than once within a predetermined time interval.

Abstract: In a color camera utilizing a color encoding strip filter arrangement in the optical path to separate light from an object into its component colors, an imaging system includes a noninteracting cylindrical lens array to image the encoding filter strips onto a photosensitive medium without the use of a relay lens..[.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION.].

Abstract: Various embodiments of energy absorbing, protective helmets constructed of resilient foam means covered with a tough, pliable surface coating. The helmets are adapted to be worn on a person's head and have openings therein generally conforming to a person's eyes, ears, nose, mouth and chin. In modifications of the helmet, fixed or removable transparent shield means are mounted across the front openings and hemispherical plate means can be disposed at the top of the helmet. Other modifications of the helmet provide guard means across the front openings.

Abstract: A knee prosthesis comprising upper and lower metal members each having an extension adapted to fit into the narrow cavity of the adjacent femur and tibia the member being interconnected with one member entering the body of the other member in which there are half bearing members, the lower member being capable of rotating about the axis of the body and also, to a predetermined extent about the axis at right angles thereto.

Abstract: In a knee structure for a prosthetic limb which allows the shin portion to pivot with respect to the thigh portion about an axle fixed to the shin portion and passing through aligned openings in the thigh portion, a brake-band is disposed slightly less than 360.degree. around the axle, wherein the lower end of the band is pivotably anchored around a pin fixed to the thigh portion and disposed parallel to the axle. The upper end of the band responds to the relatively downward motion of the thigh portion when weight is supported thereby to cause a braking action between the band and axle. A drag adjustment means is provided wherein the thigh portion bears against the upper band and, while the aligned openings in the thigh portion restrain any downward movement of the axle.

Abstract: An implantable double walled tissue augmentation prosthesis consisting of a gel or liquid filled container within a liquid fillable container. A one-way flap valve is positioned within the wall of the liquid fillable container so that liquid may be selectively added to that container for inflation. Following implanting of the prosthesis, the liquid filled container may be deflated by removal of liquid therefrom to reduce any spherical contracture of the prosthesis caused by tissue contraction around the prosthesis. The prosthesis is most suitable for mammary augmentation.

Abstract: A two phase recirculating sanitary system is described in which the flushing fluid phase is temporarily stored in the toilet bowl while the waste phase in the storage tank is being drained. A controllable valve is inserted between the toilet bowl and the waste tank. Prior to draining the waste tank, the controllable valve is closed and the flushing fluid phase is pumped into the toilet bowl where it is stored. The waste tank is then drained and all waste material is removed. The controllable valve is then opened releasing the flushing fluid to cover the bottom portion of the waste tank and the system is ready for use.

Abstract: This invention provides an improved valve closing means for a refilling valve in flushing cisterns equipped with an overflow and refilling and flushing valves adapted to be opened by a lift stem, said valve closing means being mounted in said overflow and movable to an upper position for opening said valves by means of said lift stem and to a lower position for abrupt closure of the refilling valve by water flowing into the overflow when the cistern is refilled.

Abstract: A pool framework made of sheet metal components can be readily erected and/or dismantled by unskilled labour without the use of fixings such as screws, bolts, rivets or welding. A series of flat, upwardly and outwardly sloping wall panels supported on a similar series of base beams form a closed polygon. Adjacent side edges of each pair of wall panels are interconnected by junction assemblies and are surmounted by a coping assembly forming a peripheral upper deck for the pool.

Abstract: An undercarriage or bottom support for a steel bathtub which is attached to the tub bottom by a double stick tape which is positioned between the support and tub bottom.

Abstract: A canister is adapted to be hung in a toilet tank with the lower open end below the normal water level in the tank when the tank is full. A reservoir is situated at the upper end of the canister and communicates with the main portion of the canister and an evaporative liquid is placed in the reservoir. A divider separates the reservoir into two portions, one portion communicating with the main portion of the canister. As the water in the tank empties, air is drawn through the liquid and evaporates some of the liquid and when the tank fills, this air is once again bubbled through the liquid and expelled into the tank, it being understood that the evaporative liquid is preferably provided with deodorant properties.

Abstract: In a preferred embodiment, the cylinder is of substantially large dimensions, such as typically having an inner diameter of about four inches, for the drain compression flushing device, still retaining the conical spout element defining a restricted liquid outlet orifice, and having spaced upwardly from the spout-end of the compression cylinder a circumscribing seating flange angled radially outwardly in a direction toward the handle end such that in an enlarged opening the spout element tends to seat itself firmly to seal while making possible for the orifice to be located far downwardly within space defined by the enlarged drain outlet such as for industrial use and/or for a commode or the like, and such as a large handle.

Abstract: In a convertible sofa-bed in which a mattress is folded over upon itself, a bed-folding linkage is provided which compresses the mattress with great leverage, thus providing means for facilitating the opening and closing of the sofa-bed, even when using relatively thick mattresses. The bed mechanism includes a mattress support having first, second, third and fourth hinged sections whose folding is controlled by the bedfolding linkage. The mattress-compression linkage includes a first link connected to the first or foot section, and a second link connected to the third section of the mattress support structure. An abutment is provided on the third section. The abutment is located so that when the bed is folded up, the second link hits the abutment and this causes the linkage to be pulled tight and locked in place to compress the folded mattress in a compressed condition.

Abstract: Safety trip lock for the drop side of a crib comprising a trip wire having an intermediate offset actuator portion, said wire extending to the ends of the crib and terminating in offset portions similar to cranks, together with a torsion spring maintaining said trip wire in a predetermined position, and latches at the end of the crib, i.e., on the corner posts, for receiving said offset ends in recesses therein, such that the trip cannot be operated unless the entire drop side is raised prior to moving the trip wire actuator.

Abstract: Two vibrator motors are removably attached to opposite rail portions of a bed frame or bed rail by clamp arms which project laterally from one side of each motor housing to hold the motor in a position which is offset from the bed springs. The rail-engaging ends of the clamp arms are covered by resilient caps which grip the rail to prevent the clamp arms from being shaken loose by the vibrator motor. The other ends of the clamp arms of each motor are connected to an elongated bracket which is cast as an integral part of the motor housing, and one of the clamp arms is adjustable relative to the other clamp arm.

Abstract: This device consists primarily of a pair of circular members which are chain suspended, each having a speaker and a mirror secured therein, the units being connected together by means of plate and screws.

Abstract: Mattress fabrics or the like rendered fire-resistant by coating the underside with a polymeric binder having dispersed therein from 30-60% by weight of a flake- or leaf-shaped heat conductive material selected from the group consisting of aluminum and graphite of from 50-400 mesh.

Abstract: A hand tool which can be conveniently used with the staples used to fasten an electrical wire to a supporting structure. The hand tool comprises two lever arms which are pivotally joined at a point intermediate to their respective distal and proximal ends. The proximal end portions of the lever members are formed into handles while the distal portions are shaped into a pair of coacting jaw members. The jaw members are contoured so as to enable them to fit the contour of the staples so as to provide convenience in removal of the staples. The jaw members are also machined to enable cutting of the electrical wire during installation. Removal of staples is further facilitated by mounting a fulcrum member on one of the jaws. A hammerhead is mounted on the opposite jaw and is sized to allow the simultaneous striking of both nails generally required for hammering a staple into place.

Abstract: A tool in its preferred form includes a body, a file carried by the body for filing the bottom and side edges of a ski, a scraping blade carried by the body to remove excess wax and filler and to press wax into the ski surface, and a cork block to serve as a handle and to polish a ski bottom surface. The body may be of any desired shape but is preferably right triangular in planform and shallow compared to its lateral and longitudinal dimensions. A first face has a seat for a file along its diagonal aft margin and a guide wall along its longitudinal side margin which guides the body for longitudinal movement along the ski with the file crossing the ski bottom diagonally. The forward end contains a seat to hold a scraper blade for scraping excess filler and wax from the bottom and for pressing wax into the ski surface. The cork block protrudes from the second face of the body to serve as a handle and also to polish the waxed ski surface.

Abstract: A system for timely holding and releasing an object to be deployed in a petermined environmental medium is disclosed as incorporating a platform, a rotatable drum, and supports for said rotatable drum effectively mounted on said platform. A curved arm is attached to said drum at one extremity thereof, and a latch mechanism is releasably connected to the other extremity thereof. A rope extends around said curved arm, from which the object to be deployed is suspended within a shute, barrel, or slide, the latter of which may or may not be a part of the aforesaid platform.

Abstract: An offshore marine terminal for mooring a tanker and transferring fluids between the tanker and an underwater manifold. The offshore marine terminal comprises a buoyant member having a first end extending above the surface of the water and a second end submerged and extending beneath the water, a bathyal service chamber on the second end of the member defining an underwater habitat suitable for maintaining humans in an artificial atmosphere, an upper buoyancy and ballast chamber to selectively change the buoyancy of the member from a first lowered condition which has the bathyal service chamber positioned around the manifold to a second elevated position which has the chamber disposed above the manifold, and flow lines to transport the fluid through the chamber from the manifold to the tanker. The tanker may be moored to the terminal by a swivel mooring connection that is rotatable about the buoyant member.

Abstract: A swimming system for maximum efficiency in water has a single foot fin with a large fluke and two foot openings leading to foot pockets separated by a cushion. A series of water directed openings extend rearward and outward from a line above the toe portions of the pockets diagonally through the fluke to a line near a tip of the fluke on a rearward portion of the fin. A fastening surrounds the fin near instep areas of the foot-receiving pockets. A leg sheath has a corresponding lower fastening, a cushioning divider between legs and an achilles cushion above a heel portion to streamline the sheath. A reinforced upper waist band fastens to a jacket portion with hand openings which overlie hand fins formed of flat circular plates with finger and palm cutouts mounted between two pieces of synthetic dolphin skin. The helmet with an annular neck encircling cushion completes the streamlined entire body covering with a synthetic dolphin skin exterior.

Abstract: A unitary hollow paddle wheel of a size to receive a person in upright position and composed of two circular pneumatic tubes connected in spaced relation by transverse members that also support a tread which is operated by the person within the wheel to propel the same in a forward or backward direction and through which the person may observe his progress.

Abstract: A triggering device intended to be actuated upon being immersed in water uses a force-transmitting member of variable length in the form of an array of collapsible struts restrained from folding, and hence triggering the device by at least one tensile member of which the strength reduces greatly when wetted.

Abstract: A device for feeding wire stock of fixed length to a cutoff tool in a linear and continuous manner by means of the reciprocating motion of a wire cutting mechanism driven by an eccentric shaft being utilized to sever and sequentially feed the cutoff wire stock one at a time to a die head.

Abstract: A lasting machine having heel wipers, a support for supporting bottom-up a shoe assembly formed of a last having an upper mounted thereon and an insole located on its bottom in position to enable the heel wipers to wipe the heel portion of the upper margin against the insole, and side lasting instrumentalities so located as to wipe the side portions of the upper margin against the insole.

Abstract: The invention concerns a rocker bearing comprising a pair of bearing members, disposed between construction parts, and an elastic pressure cushion between the bearing members and for operation at large bearing rocking angles with improved flexibility of the pressure cushion there are provided one or more groups of sealing bodies at least in part embedded in the pressure cushion, each group containing bodies disposed at intervals in the region of an annular gap between the pair of bearing members.

Abstract: Brushes are held in engagement with car wheels on short spinner sections driven at high speeds to spin the wheels, and vertical pusher conveyor chains are guided under the spinner sections to move the car over and past the spinner sections. In one embodiment, the spinner section includes driven rolls bracketing a path of a pusher arm of the conveyor, and, in an alternate embodiment, the spinner section includes outer-timing belts supporting the wheel and having inner teeth meshing with outer teeth of inner-timing belts coursing inside the outer-timing belts.

Abstract: Overhead frameworks suspending cleaning mechanisms into the paths of cars are supported by pairs of side arches connected rigidly thereto and forming portions of frameworks therewith. In a specific embodiment, the framework is made up of modules, and in another truss-like cross frames suspending cleaning mechanisms are secured to side arches.

Abstract: A double-ended toothbrush having two bristle portions, a major or larger, contoured bristle portion at one end and a minor or smaller wedge-shaped bristle portion at the other, both formed of parallel rows of bristles extending out perpendicularly from a base which is longer and narrower than most available toothbrushes. The larger brush head has four parallel rows of tufts (except at its end) which are shaped or contoured to conform to the natural contour of the teeth and gingivae, with the two outer rows forming a shallow concavity, the shape allowing the use of the natural back-and-forth brushing action. The smaller, interdental brush head is made of six tufts arranged in two parallel rows which are cut in a uni-bevel facing outwards to form a small wedge-shaped interdental brush.

Abstract: A device adapted to be worn on the finger for cleaning the teeth, wherein the device has an outer surface provided with a fabric texture with the fabric being impregnated with a dentifrice material. The device has a tab at the open end thereof for facilitating the placement of the device on a finger.

Abstract: A glass cleaner in the form of a pair of tongs having free end flanges bent at right angles with a section of sponge material on the inner surface of each tong and its flange. The flanges are of different lengths for the cleaning of drinking glasses of different diameters.

Abstract: A device for cleaning the headlamp glass of an automobile headlamp. The device is formed in two main units, a motor unit and a reduction gear unit, which latter carries a wiper blade which, in use of the device, is moved over the surface of the glass to effect cleaning. The motor is mounted inside the headlamp and the gear unit outside, the two being connected together through a hole in the headlamp glass. A resilient seal is provided to make the joint waterproof and there are various arrangements for ensuring that the assembly is correctly centred within the hole in the glass and oriented properly in an angular sense.

Abstract: A multi-purpose cigarette lighter using rechargeable Ni-Cd batteries which comprises a heated coil cigarette lighter for general smoking purpose and which further incorporates a built-in vacuum cleaner and electric lamp.

Abstract: A tool for holding a torch tip and a blank cartridge respective to one another so that the blank cartridge can be detonated and the high-velocity gases issuing therefrom used to clean out the flow passageways of the torch tip.

Abstract: Swivel castors being characterized by providing a supporting shaft at the lower part of the both-side supporting member of a metal fitting which is pivotally fixed to the bottom of a fixed vertical shaft, mounting said supporting shaft on one side-wall of a L-shaped supporting plate, inserting said supporting shaft into a slit which has an appropriate temporary stopping means on its both ends, pivotally supporting the L-shaped supporting plate by said supporting shaft, providing a supporting stand at the end of one side-wall of said L-shaped supporting plate, mounting a supporting shaft on the other side-wall of the L-shaped supporting plate so as to support a rotary wheel, and when the L-shaped supporting plate turns in such direction as the end of one side-wall of the plate is raised and the supporting stand fixed thereto is stopped by an internal stopping edge of the metal fitting and thus the rotary wheel alone comes into contact with the ground, letting the metal fitting and the rotary wheel turn freely

Abstract: A caster socket for articles of furniture for mounting in a receiving slot in the article so that face and back flanges enclose the slot and locate a body which receives the caster swivel post and the back flange has a portion with indexing means to positively locate a stapling gun for driving staples through the back flange to retain the caster socket in operative position.

Abstract: A safety device for automatically closing a door in response to a predetermined condition, such as fire, is provided by a selectively disengageable brake operatively associated with a pivotable door closure arm. The brake includes a flexible cable wrapped around a brake drum, and means to selectively tighten the cable around the drum. A crank-pin rotates conjointly with the drum and engages the door closure arm to expeditiously close the door in the event of fire.

Abstract: An adjustable spring loading mechanism for use in controlling the movement of doors and the like. The mechanism includes a cylinder housing and a piston slideable within the housing. A plurality of biasing means are arranged in the housing in engagement with the piston, and apply individual biasing forces to the piston which cooperate to produce a total resultant biasing force. The biasing means are provided with different effective lengths so as to engage with the piston at different positions in the cylinder and thereby vary the total biasing force.

Abstract: A molding device for producing compressed material such as meat patties and the like. The device is capable of forming meat patties of uniform size and shape and provides for easy removal of the formed meat patty.

Abstract: Inflation gas pressure interior of a flexible tubing, such as a food casing, advancing continuously through multiple sequential production and processing zones, is selectably controlled as between two adajacent zones by defining an intermediate zone in the form of an inflated bubble trapped in the tubing between two nip rolls co-acting against a larger smooth surfaced backing roll, through which inflation gas is selectably bled from one zone to the other.

Abstract: A skinning machine for fish fillets including a conveying surface, an endless band knife running above the conveying surface and a knife guide in the region of the conveying surface, the knife guide being arranged adjustably by a fish fillet.

Abstract: An oyster breaker having a housing provided in one end with an opening through which the lip of an oyster is inserted to be engaged by a rotatable disc within the housing having a shearing member projecting therefrom to shearingly engage said lip of the oyster and form an opening to receive the blade of an oyster knife and facilitate opening the oyster, said disc being mounted on one end of the shaft of an electric motor immediately adjacent said oyster breaker housing, said motor having a housing provided with an opening in one end in which a bearing for the end of said shaft upon which said disc is mounted and said opening in said motor housing, outwardly from said bearing, having multiple seal means specifically designed to prevent the ingress of harmful substances normally produced in the shucking of oysters from gaining ingress to said bearing.

Abstract: The present invention proposes a method of and appratus for making a mat of continuous strands of glass fibers or the like wherein each strand comprises a large number of individual filaments. The strands are deposited in mat form on a collection surface and are flooded with liquid to disperse individual filaments in the overall strand orientation. The flooded filaments are then conveyed to a drainage zone. As they are conveyed, the filaments pass through successive turbulent liquid regions wherein the filaments are locally deflected both counter-current to and con-current with the direction of conveyance, yet the general or overall strand orientation is retained. As a result, the transverse strength of the final mat is materially increased, and the mat has a multitude of fine, controllable interstices as required for some uses, e.g., asphalt-impregnated roofing mat.

Abstract: Button cover comprises a thin first part defining a hole to receive the button and a slit leading to said hole, said first part being hinged to an ornamental second part which covers the button. Spring means are provided for biassing the two parts together and a latch engages the slit when the cover is mounted on a button.