Abstract: A plate type ice maker for forming chunks of hard ice in which a member provided with an ice-forming passage having a cutting edge at one end thereof is moved over a plane freezing surface to cause ice crystals scraped from the freezing surface by the cutting edge to be forced into the forming passage in which they are subjected to compressive forces sufficient to form a rod of hard ice which emerges from the other end of the passage and which engages a breaker surface which fractures the rod to form a hard piece of ice.

Abstract: A method for determining the concentration of oil-phase fluid in an earth formation containing indigenous oil-phase fluid and aqueous liquid. A zone in the formation is irradiated with neutrons when the zone is filled with indigenous oil-phase and aqueous liquid. The thermal neutron capture rate response of the zone is measured with respect to the first irradiation. Substantially all indigenous oil-phase is removed from the zone and the zone is filled with only an aqueous liquid substantially equivalent in compositions to the indigeneous aqueous liquid. The zone is irradiated with neutrons a second time and the thermal neutron capture rate response of the zone is measured with respect to the second irradiation.

Abstract: A new gear design providing increased load-carrying ability while being particularly adaptable to manufacture by lower-cost forming methods with powder metal or plastic materials. The teeth of the gears are unconventional in appearance, having a generally elliptical face outline formed by oppositely curved root and topland lines so that the height of each tooth face is maximum at midpoint and reduces substantially to zero at the length extremeties. The teeth are substantially inclined .Iadd.depthwise .Iaddend.to the pitch .[.line.]. .Iadd.element .Iaddend.and each gear has a large and small end, the tooth slots being invisible when the finished gear is viewed along its axis from the large end. The disclosure includes constructions and calculations for designing conjugate pairs of such unconventionally-shaped gears having preferred running characteristics.

Abstract: A rotary card file in which a card holder supported for rotation by a base structure has a plurality of trays that extend from a central hub and are equipped with retainer tracks that keep the cards in file alignment when the card holder is turned to position the tray in an upwardly facing access position, and which support the cards suspended from the tray when the card holder is turned to position the tray in a downwardly facing storage position .[...]. .Iadd.; and which in one embodiment of the invention, that shown in FIG. 9, has means for removably holding the trays against radially outward movement from the rotary card holder during traverse of the trays along the lower part of their circular orbit. .Iaddend.

Abstract: Integrated circuit suitable for any desired supply polarity by means of a rectifier bridge two rectifiers of which are designed as current injectors.

Abstract: An armored garment for protection of the torso from projectiles. The garment is comprised of unitary panels of pliable ballistic material capable of stopping bullets from most handguns. Double protection is provided for the front of the body where protection is most often required.

Abstract: An incontinent's bed wrap is generally a trapezoidal sheet of substantially absorbent and water impervious flannelette material which serves as a wrap-around skirt. Snap fasteners are carried at corners bounding the narrowest edge of the sheet for fastening around the waist. A flap is folded over to a back side of the sheet along each edge of the sheet to define a frame for receiving a disposable absorbent pad.

Abstract: A bone implant for attaching fibrous connective tissue such as a tendon or ligament, either artificial or natural, to bone, which comprises a tapered porous plug, preferably of sintered metal; a tendon prosthesis having such a plug at its distal end is also disclosed.

Abstract: A hip-joint replacement having an endoprosthesis of the acetabulum and an endoprosthesis of the proximal portion of the femur connected with the endoprosthesis of the acetabulum, the endoprosthesis of the proximal portion of the femur comprising an intramedullar nail, a neck into which said pin smoothly turns, and a spherical head secured on said neck. On the end of the neck there is formed a slot for receiving a taper pin whose widening portion faces outward, the height of the taper pin exceeding the depth of the slot formed in the neck. The spherical head has a slot broadening toward the interior of the head which serves to accommodate said neck with said taper pin. The proposed principle of connection of the neck with the head of the endoprosthesis of the proximal portion of the femur improves the reliability and strength of the artificial hip-joint, while simultaneously providing a simpler manufacturing procedure.

Abstract: A sink shampoo unit that includes a spray head assembly that is removably attachable to a faucet in a sink, and the assembly providing manually operable means for injecting a metered quantity of a liquid shampoo into water discharging from the spray head during the shampooing operation. The spray head assembly when not in use is removably disposed in a container. The container is of such shape that when the spray head assembly is used, the container may serve as a drain board to direct water used in washing the hair back into the sink, when the container is angularly disposed in the latter.

Abstract: The assembly and disassembly of such a bed is provided by a resilient clamping of the tips 7 of the side panels B and D on the posts 4 of the head and foot panels A and C, while said side panels and said head and foot panels form a dihedral greater than 90.degree.. The side panels are adjustable in height by means of a sliding movement of the tips 7 along the posts 4. The insertion of the mattress support S forbids any accidental disassembly of the bed.

Abstract: A bed comprising a platform composed essentially of an expanded polystyrene foam mattress support base or platform upon which a conventional mattress may be supported. The polystyrene foam platform has a panel and an open lattice of flat ribs therebelow with a taut sheet of paper across the bottom.

Abstract: A liner restrainer which in a first embodiment comprises an extruded synthetic resin clip having a leg portion for retaining the clip in position relative to the interior surfaces of a water bed frame, a central portion bowed to provide a storage space and a spring bias and a head portion for bearing against the frame and a water bed liner to hold the liner in place. In a second embodiment, the liner restrainer comprises two extruded elements, a clip section and a rail section, which function like the first embodiment to hold the liner; each embodiment is inexpensive and very easy to use so that a water bed can be assembled very quickly and easily. Readjustment of the liner can also be accomplished easily and quickly.

Abstract: Tire change assist tool to facilitate mounting and demounting a wheel-carried tire on axle lugs. The invention comprises such a tool comprising an axially elongated rigid bar; socket means forming a wrench at one end of the bar adapted for axle lug nut engagement, means defining a fulcrum axially of the bar and terminally opposite the socket end thereof, and bar side arm means between the bar ends operatively associated with the fulcrum to support the wheel and tire for universal movement in ground-elevated relation responsive to the bar pivoting on the fulcrum and within the wheel locus of registration with the axle lugs.

Abstract: The method of stiffening a selected area of a shoe component of flexible sheet material in which a layer of molten synthetic polymeric material is coated on the area to be stiffened, rigid, preferably heat-softenable, granules are applied to the coating layer while the coating material is soft to cause the granules to adhere, and the shoe component is pressed against a second flexible shoe component with the coating and granules between the parts and with the coating in heat softened condition to force the coating material through openings between the granules and into wetting engagement with the second shoe component. The assembled shoe components may then be shaped and the polymeric material cooled to form a layer of hardened polymeric material with the granules locked in it as reinforcing stiffening bodies.

Abstract: A method and a machine for stiffening part of a flexible workpiece, such as the toe portion of a vamp, causes it to register with the tacky layer of a correspondingly shaped molten deposit of thermpolastic which simultaneously is being cooled to effect release. The entire deposit is transferred to the selected toe area and smoothly covers any surface irregularities or apertures. The surface receiving the molten deposit is flat and cooled but not recessed so that peripheral portions of the upper layer of the deposit are not chilled as rapidly as its under layer and remain deformable during register of the toe portion therewith. A workholder preferably includes a substantially rigid margin clamping means cooperative with a yieldable work engaging pad, a relatively non-compressed portion of the pad unmasked by the clamping means defining three dimensionally the adhered charge printed onto the work.

Abstract: A foot to be cleaned is placed on a treadle in a housing. In response to depression of the treadle, a bellows is pressurized causing a foot cleaning solution to be dispensed from the bellows to a conduit. A port in the conduit is positioned above a pair of horizontally disposed, rotatable brushes that are located beyond the forward end of the treadle. In response to the treadle being depressed by the heel of the foot, the bellows is compressed and the solution is dispensed through the port onto the foot via an obstructed flow path. The brushes are positioned so that the toes of the foot being cleaned can be inserted through a gap between the brushes. The gap is approximately horizontally aligned with the upper surface of the treadle.

Abstract: A headlamp wiper assembly for a motor vehicle having twin headlamp units. The assembly comprises a backing plate having a pair of apertures therein to accommodate the twin headlamp and a further offset aperture which accommodates a wheel box unit. A shaft of the wheel box unit carries a single wiper blade and is oscillatable through substantially 180.degree. so that the wiper blade can clean both headlamps. The wiper blade is parked, when not in use, so as not to obscure the headlamps.

Abstract: An adjustable seat back support capable of permitting adjustment of the seat back from a substantially upright position to a reclining position, and in addition being freely movable from upright position to a forward displaced position facilitating access to the rear seat of a two-door motor vehicle.

Abstract: A door positioned adjacent a door frame or jamb has a hinge which comprises an elongated profile bracket mounted on the frame and extending over at least a part of the door height. Said bracket includes a leg with an extension on said leg having a first arcuate outer surface on one side and spaced therefrom a second arcuate inner surface of reduced radius. The door has along one edge a transversely arcuate bearing surface which cooperatively receives said first arcuate surface. A support mechanism on the door is spaced from said bearing surface and retainingly engages said second arcuate surface whereby the arcuate bearing surface of the door moves over said first arcuate surface and said support mechanism rotates over said second arcuate surface. The mounting of said profile bracket on said door frame or jamb includes a second extension on said leg opposite from and a mirror image of said first extension including corresponding first and second arcuate surfaces.

Abstract: A method of stunning an animal prior to slaughter involves heating at least a portion of the brain of an animal, using electromagnetic wave energy which penetrates the skull of the animal. The temperature of substantial portions of the brain is raised to a minimum of 41.degree. C in some cases and to higher temperatures in others. Heating of the brain is effected for a period of less than ten seconds and, preferably, for a period in the range of from 1 second to 7 seconds. The frequency of the electromagnetic wave energy is from 100 to 10,000 megacycles.

Abstract: A method for forming discrete fibrous pads including the steps of entraining fibers in air to form an air-suspension of fibers and directing the suspension selectively to different predetermined regions of a pad-formation assembly to form discrete fibrous pads on the assembly.

Abstract: A collar including a flexible strap with an integral fastening head at one end through which the other end of the strap can pass. Two flexible blocks are provided on the fastening head to define a passage for the free end of the strap, and these blocks preferably have edges or teeth to engage the strap and prevent withdrawal thereof. The strap may also have teeth.

Abstract: The enlarged head portion of a preferably unitary molded bundling strap comprises, in one embodiment, a pair of independently supported, spaced, parallel barb means depending within an obliquely oriented opening extending through the head portion, the barb means being oriented in such manner as to be subjected to a non-deflecting force directed essentially along the longitudinal axis of the respective barb means upon coacting locking engagement with the selectively inclined mating surfaces of a plurality of transverse teeth located along one surface of a flat, flexible strap-like member extending from the head portion.

Abstract: In a closure strip for retaining the open end of a flexible-walled container, such as a paper or plastic bag, in a closed condition, comprising one or more wire elements extending longitudinally of the strip and supported on a web of material, such as paper or plastics, the web is extending in at least one lateral direction to provide a large, substantially flat area on which information about the container contents can be enclosed.

Abstract: An L-shaped clip of sheet metal is provided with a pair of resilient fingers having their connected ends offset from the plane of the clip leg that they are integral with, the fingers then curving upwardly at a decreasing radius with two points or teeth at the upper end of each finger, the four points (two on each finger) all being at different elevations. When cutting out a section of a panel to form an opening, such as in a counter top to accommodate a kitchen sink, an appropriate number (usually four) of clips are inserted into the saw kerf so that the resilient fingers prevent the cutout panel portion from falling, the various points or teeth frictionally pressing against the otherwise detached panel portion to releasably retain the panel portion in place.

Abstract: An improved metal button assembly adapted to be attached to a fabric by an automatic sewing machine without producing a pucker in the fabric in which a stamped sheet metal shell is formed with thread-receiving holes and with a peripheral flange for retaining an unperforated plastic blank swaged into the shell, the blank being formed with a central area of reduced thickness which is pierced by the sewing needle in the course of attaching the button to the garment, the blank having an undersurface lying generally in the plane of the flange edge and being sufficiently rigid to avoid puckering of the fabric.

Abstract: The invention is concerned with cable couplers which enable cables used in the stressing of contiguous concrete construction units to be joined together with the ends of the units close together. The coupler consists of a housing having at least one blind passage therein of generally rectangular cross-section and with one pair of walls oppositely divergent towards the blind end of the passage which houses a wedge assembly co-operating with the divergent walls and adapted to secure at least one cable end in the housing. The invention also provides for the housing to have a further passage therethrough with a pair of walls oppositely inclined to those of the first mentioned passage so that a cable may be similarly secured in the housing from the opposite direction.

Abstract: A tie down bracket for receiving and engaging a bight or loop in a flexible member, such as a rope or cable, such tie down bracket including a base plate having secured thereto a spring mounting body. The spring mounting body includes a projecting finger which cooperates with a spring mounted on the body. The spring defines with the base plate an opening adjacent the finger for receiving and retaining the bight or loop of the flexible member.

Abstract: There are disclosed two embodiments of a fastener, a method of using a fastener, and a fragmentary portion of a mold. The fastener has a socket and a head joined by a flexible filament. The socket has a disc-shaped body, a transverse opening through the body, projections extending into the opening, and a post joined to each projection. The posts extend into the space within a side wall of the opening. The projections flex when the head is inserted through the opening, but the posts prevent attempted withdrawal of the head through the opening thereby preventing uncoupling of the head from the socket. The projections are so close that when the head is inserted into the socket, some of the plastics polymeric material of the projections deforms permanently, thereby work hardening the projections at the deformation.

Abstract: The bottom wing of the slider body has a pair of lateral extensions which are angled toward the top wing. When the slide fastener including this slider is attached to an article such that the opening therein is bounded by one or two pairs of edges disposed in opposed or abutting relationship, the lateral extensions from the bottom wing serve as guide members to raise the rear edge portions of the respective stringer tapes out of the plane of their element-carrying front edges. Since the article edges are thus held over, and under, the slider body, they are prevented from becoming caught between the top and bottom wings of the slider body during slider movement along the fastener elements.

Abstract: A spring hook having a hook mouth closeable by a slide guided on the hook shank, which slide is spring loaded in the direction of the closed position of the hook mouth. A plug in - snap assembly is provided between the slide and the hook shank.

Abstract: A clip is disclosed for insertion into a C-shaped header for use in stiffening the header and concurrently attaching the stiffened header to an I-beam or the like. The clip includes a portion for insertion into the channel of the C-shaped header, said portion substantially filling a cross-section of the channel and contacting a substantial portion of the interior walls thereof, and one wall of the clip having integrally depending from one end thereof at least one leg or clip for engaging the I-beam and attaching thereto.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to the provision of improved and advantageous facilities for the on-line adjustment of the length of the compressive shrinking zone in a so-called two roll compactor. The compactor shoe is supported at each end, by a pair of primary levers arranged to pivot around the axis of a feeding roll. By movement of the primary levers, the tip of the compacting shoe, forming the upstream end of the compressive shrinking zone, is movable toward or away from a roller nip, formed by opposed feeding and retarding rollers and constituting the downstream end of the compressive shrinking zone. A simple, reliable and precise adjustment feature is provided, enabling the operator to easily and quickly effect precision adjustment of the position of the shoe tip, while the equipment is in full speed operation, so that the processing of materials in the compactor may be optimized.

Abstract: The disclosure is that of conditioning equipment for performing either straightening or overfeed calendering operations upon circular knit fabric tubes and includes a feed stand, a control roll station, a drive roll station, a steaming station and a calender station. A horizontal spreader extends from the control roll station to the calender station and provides a circumferential drive for the fabric tube at the control roll station, a face drive therefor at the drive roll station and an internal edge drive therefor along at least that portion of the length of the spreader that extends from the control roll station through the drive roll station. Thermo-fixing of the conditioned fabric tube also may be effected.

Abstract: The disclosure is that of conditioning equipment for performing either straightening or overfeed calendering operations upon circular knit fabric tubes and includes a feed stand, a control roll station, a drive roll station, a steaming station and a calender station. A horizontal spreader extends from the control roll station to the calender station and provides a circumferential drive for the fabric tube at the control roll station, a face drive therefor at the drive roll station and an internal edge drive therefor along at least that portion of the length of the spreader that extends from the control roll station through the drive roll station. Thermo-fixing of the conditioned fabric tube also may be effected.

Abstract: The disclosure is that of conditioning equipment for performing either straightening or overfeed calendering operations upon circular knit fabric tubes and includes a feed stand, a control roll station, a drive roll station, a steaming station and a calender station. A horizontal spreader extends from the control roll station to the calender station and provides a circumferential drive for the fabric tube at the control roll station, a face drive therefor at the drive roll station and an internal edge drive therefor along at least that portion of the length of the spreader that extends from the control roll station through the drive roll station. Thermo-fixing of the conditioned fabric tube also may be effected.

Abstract: A cutting insert of hard wear resistant material which provides a cutting edge useful over very wide ranges of metalworking conditions and effective for reducing cutting machine power requirements and providing safe and efficient chip control, simultaneously. The cutting insert has a narrow land area along the cutting edge and a wall means leading downwardly and inwardly from the inner edge of the land area and a planar surface extending inwardly from the lower edge of the wall means. The insert is free of any "chip groove," having a rising rearward wall, per se, and dimensions are given wherein it has been found that chip formation and breakage occur as naturally as possible with a minimum of work effort input for bending or breaking the chip. Power consumption is reduced and individual chip formations are controllable over a wider range of work conditions than heretofore possible.

Abstract: The cutting insert of the present invention has such shape that use of the same in a machining operation creates a greater than conventional surface pressure on the contact surface of the insert, such pressure causing an extremely thin, localized, area of the contact surface to attain an elevated temperature creating a flow layer therein. Such area reduction is effected by the formation on the contact surfaces of the notches inside of the cutting edge of the insert.

Abstract: A shank has a support surface for an apertured reversible cutting element and has a hole opening into the support surface at an acute angle. A clamping stud has a clamping head which is engageable in the aperture of the cutting element and has a shaft which is displaceably guided in the hole in the support surface. A control screw is adjustably mounted in the shank beside the shaft of the clamping stud, in operative engagement with the shaft. An annular groove on the surface of the control screw is engaged by the single tooth formed in the shaft of the clamping stud by two milled recesses. The control screw has smooth-walled cylindrical peripheral surface portions on both sides of said groove which are in engagement with the bottom surfaces of said recesses.

Abstract: For filling and adjusting double-membrane cassettes acting as link members in piston metering pumps, the sealing surfaces of the membranes are first coated with a resilient pressure-deformable cement. The membrane cassette is introduced still unclosed into a thermostat where an adjustable, uniform pressure is applied to the upper membrane. The membrane cassette is then filled under an excess pressure of from 0.2 to 1 atm. and closed. After closing, the membranes of the cassette are brought into plane-parallel alignment in an evacuation unit.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing self-cleaning spring filters and at least two different spring filters are disclosed. One filter formed by the method comprises a helically grooved hollow mandrel with holes in the grooves and a helical spring closely fitted therearound. The pitch of the spring convolutions is opposite to that of the mandrel grooves so that the mandrel provides lateral support to the spring equivalent to that provided by a solid cylindrical bar for maintaining uniform diameter and concentricity of the spring convolutions while eliminating lateral displacement thereof during high load operations. While this one filter is secured at its bottom to the well, a modification requires securing thereof only at its top to the well with a packer.

Abstract: There is disclosed a slider fitting and end stop applying machine wherein a combination unit includes an end stop anvil mounted on an arm and a slider jig supported by a support member. The arm and the support member are mounted for pivotal movement about respective axes which are spaced apart laterally from one another. The arm and the support member are operatively interlocked in crossing relation, so that the anvil and the jig move automatically toward and away from each other during the travel between the slider fitting station and the end stop applying station. The jig is provided with means for automatically releasing the slider from the jig when the combination unit reaches the end stop applying station.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method are provided for assembling micro-filter units having a barrel, a plug adapted to be inserted in the barrel, and a filter disc clamped between the barrel and the plug, which are characterized in that the filter disc is punched out and seated in the barrel in a single stroke of a punch.

Abstract: An adjustable spring compression tool for use primarily in connection with the removal of springs form a vehicle chassis.

Abstract: A tool for use in demolition of frame structures to preserve the lumber for reuse. A frame is secured to a timber, to which a board to be removed is nailed, by quick acting means including an overcenter connection. A pressure foot projecting from the frame bears against the back of the board to be removed. By a screw-acting mechanism in the frame the board is forced away from the timber over its entire width without splitting, pulling the nails as it does so.

Abstract: A plant container is formed from a plastic foam cup having a funnel-shaped sidewall and a disk-shaped bottom closing the small end of the sidewall by severing a first portion of the cup, including the bottom and a part of the sidewall, from a second portion of the cup, including the remaining part of the sidewall, along a plane perpendicular to a central axis passing through the cup and inserting and wedging the first portion into the second portion.

Abstract: This invention provides a removal arrangement for a fastener element which includes spaced exterior portions of a first diameter with a frustoconical portion in between, the frustoconical portion tapering from the first portion to a shoulder that connects to the third portion. A resilient retainer ring fits within a groove in a grommet attachable to a workpiece and encircles the fastener element at the first and third surface portions, and is engageable with the shoulder for preventing separation of the fastener element from the retainer ring. In the removal of the fastener element, an expansible member is extended over the fastener to encircle it at the third surface portion, the expansible member presenting an exterior surface substantially that of the first diameter of the fastener, bridging between the first and second surface portions so that said fastener element can be withdrawn from the retainer ring.

Abstract: This is concerned with a method of making a fuse puller, preferably by molding plastic in which two arm members are formed with leaves or arms and spacers at each end thereof and at least one of the arm members has one end free or open so that it may be interleaved or inserted between the spaced arm members, generally in the middle thereof, of the other arm member.

Abstract: A combined skin or rough turning and smoothing roller tool comprising a body having a diametrical slit for a rough turning tool and an axially adjustable basket mounting smoothing rollers axially spaced from the slit. A frustoconically surfaced ring is disposed in an annular recess of the body forming a support surface for the rollers and the body is formed with a feed canal for a cooling-lubricant material. Outlet bores are provided in a space between the slit and the basket and communicate the feed canal with the surface of the body, the latter having a screw thread on an end adjacent the basket for a borehole feed tubing.