Abstract: The method includes providing, arranging, and mounting a line or series of studs, between parallel fixed structures of building so that each stud when as formed and mounted has a more resilient flange and a less resilient flange and so that the more resilient flanges of any two adjacent studs face in opposite directions; equally the less resilient flanges of two adjacent studs also face in opposite directions.The method further includes the step of providing, arranging and mounting wall panels in staggered, alternated relation on the studs with the edges of two adjacent panels being secured to the less resilient flange of the same stud, and the center of each panel is adjacent the more resilient flange of a stud between the first named pair of studs.The studs may have less resilient and more resilient flanges as originally formed, and/or only one flange may be anchored to the channels to make that flange less resilient than the unanchored flange.

Abstract: A retaining wall for supporting the embankment of a cut excavation. The wall structure consists of a skin of concrete, an array of rows and columns of dowels or tendons extending from the skin into the cut embankment and rows of wale beams at the juncture of dowels and the face of the skin tying the components together. The retaining wall is built as the cut proceeds. A cut to a selected depth is covered by a skin of pneumatically applied concrete. The dowels are formed as reinforcing, grout-filled boreholes and the wale beams are formed as reinforced concrete members pneumatically sprayed against the skin.

Abstract: This specification discloses a subsea system for the production of fluid minerals. The system includes a product gathering network provided with production satellites in which the gas-oil-water ratios of each well are periodically tested and the flow rates are automatically controlled. A power distribution network connects a central power station, either floating or bottom supported, at the site or on land nearby, with the various satellite stations and submerged wellhead units. Provision is made for entry into the satellites and diver maintenance at the submerged wellheads. A rigid transportation pipe transports produced fluids to the water surface. At the lower end of the rigid transportation pipe is a designed break-away section which will be broken if excessive strain is encountered. An inverted funnel is located over the break-away section to trap any escaping fluid.

Abstract: A control system for a road grader adapted to maintain the working edge of the grader blade in a preset datum plane so as to establish a uniform graded condition of the surface worked by the blade, regardless of the inclination assumed by the motor grader or the relative angular position of the blade itself. The system includes grade sensor means mounted adjacent one end of the blade to follow a pre-selected grade datum, slope sensing means mounted in fixed relation with the blade for keeping the blade at a predetermined slope with rotation sensing means mounted on the blade supporting ring or circle to detect the relative angular position of the blade. The rotation sensing means provides a correction signal for maintaining the slope angle of the blade at a value which will keep the "cross slope" of the surface established at a predetermined value regardless of the rotary position of the blade relative to the direction of travel.

Abstract: Discrete material transporting and dumping apparatus and method involve a container having an open top closed by hopper doors, a normally closed rear end through which, when open, contents of the container are adapted to be dumped by a pusher structure in the container chamber activated rearwardly by conveyance motivated means such as a hydraulic piston, a drive screw or a cable the end of which is accessible when the rear doors are opened for connection to a transporting conveyance-carried winch cable. The pusher structure is returned to the front end of the container after the dumping operation. The conveyance is adapted to be a flatbed truck trailer having tracks thereon receptive of bottom rollers on the container, whereby the container is adapted to be brought adjacent to a dump site on a railroad flatcar, transferred to the trailer, taken to the dump site, the pusher structure operated to unload the container, and the container then returned to the railroad car. The pusher may serve as a compacting ram.

Abstract: Novel shapes of refractory jamb bricks are disclosed which are readily removable and replaceable without tearing down and rebuilding the novel jamb structure of a heating wall of a coke oven battery.

Abstract: A uniform blend of about 5-95% by weight vinyl chloride polymer having a tensile modulus of at least about 50,000 p.s.i. and about 95-5% by weight of at least one thermoplastic segmented copolyester .[.polymer.]. containing (1) about 5-90 weight percent long chain ester units derived from at least one long chain glycol having a molecular weight of about 600-6000 and at least one low molecular weight dicarboxylic acid having a molecular weight less than about 300, and (2) about 10-95 weight percent short chain ester units derived from at least one low molecular weight diol having a molecular weight of less than about 250 and at least one low molecular weight dicarboxylic acid having a molecular weight of less than about 300. These blends exhibit excellent abrasion resistance which is maintained even in the presence of a large amount of plasticizer, improved low temperature flexibility, impact resistance and increased scuff resistance.

Abstract: This invention relates to new composite materials having, along a director plane, noteworthy mechanical properties, wherein they comprise a resistant material, in flat form disposed parallel to the director plane and flakes or bands or substantially flat form, constituted of or comprising a material with high modulus, said flakes or bands also being disposed parallel to the director plane.

Abstract: A liquid-filled transparent container is spun momentarily to cause the liquid therein to swirl, and successive video frames provide voltage analogs through a television camera. A memory device is synchronized with the camera and stores at least one of the voltage analogs so that a comparator can subtract one successive analog signal from another to generate an error signal if foreign particles are present in the swirling liquid.

Abstract: An alarm clock timer mechanism having a pair of coaxially mounted gear driven cam members with one of the cam members being axially movable to actuate an alarm or other form of control mechanism at a preset alarm time. One of the cam members is provided with a resiliently mounted cam follower which moves axially toward the other cam member at the alarm time. The resilient mounting allows the follower to ride smoothly on a lower surface of the other cam after the alarm time, thus precluding any high torque resetting loads on a timing motor. A manually operable reset mechanism is provided for axially moving the cam members away from each other to move the control mechanism to its off position and to simultaneously reset the resiliently mounted cam follower on an upper surface of the other cam.

Abstract: This invention relates generally to power inverting devices and more particularly, to static inverting devices which produce an output wave shape which closely approximates a sine wave.

Abstract: The invention provides an alignment device for use between a tube socket and a weight-bearing element of an artificial limb in which a desired angular relationship set by jacking screws and maintained by a controlled degree of friction between concentric part-spherical surfaces is maintainable despite the unlocking of clamping screws applying force between the said surfaces.

Abstract: A mechanical prosthesis of the knee to be locked by a brake system, and formed by the thigh and a leg joined by a brake means pierced by a spindle. In the thigh a drum is integral with an inverted U-shaped support, the base of which is fixed to a rigid member on the thigh. The drum is surrounded by a band open at a single point. Above and below this opening it has two parallel and perforated flat radial lugs pierced by a tie-rod, which is bevelled on its upper portion. This upper portion is threadably engaged with a nut pinned to lock it. The tie-rod has an inverted U-shaped lower portion connected with a lever system having unequal arms. The pivoting point or fulcrum of the lever system is seated on a projection of the band.

Abstract: A functional ankle for a prosthetic limb comprising an elastomeric member and a flexible member. The elastomeric member separates the prosthetic foot from the shin. The elastomeric member allows the foot to move relative to the shin while providing plantar/dorsi flexion, inversion/eversion and rotational motion singularly or in combination. The foot and shin are connected by the flexible member which allows relative motion while providing structural integrity.

Abstract: The patented prosthesis device of U.S. Pat. No. 3,813,699 is effectively limited in its drifting movement deeper into its cooperating acetabular opening, which could cause rupture of the acetabular floor, by a laterally oriented lip, even though the size of the lip, in and of itself, is not physically capable of this performance. This is achieved by providing an initial clearance position to the lip and thus allowing a settling movement in the device before the lip is permitted to contact bone structure. During said settling movement, favorable secondary tissue changes occur in the acetabular opening which impede movement; thus, said tissue changes together with the lip making contact with bone structure hold the device in position, whereas premature contact of the lip would have merely indented or otherwise adversely modified the bone structure and interfered with achieving this result.

Abstract: Apparatus for reducing water consumption of a water closet cistern. The apparatus consists of a structure comprising two lateral webs connected to a cross-piece. The height of the lateral webs is substantially equal to or less than the normal water level. Insertion of the structure into the cistern reduces its consumption of water.

Abstract: A device for conserving water used in a conventional water closet comprises a heavy metal cylindrical disc having parallel opposed surfaces and an eccentrically disposed hole extending parallel to the axis. A slot extends radially from the exterior of the device to the hole, which has a smooth bore. The slot may be provided with one or more bosses and cooperating notches in the opposed faces thereof, to enhance the clamping action of the device. The device may be placed with the water closet tank ball valve stem extending normally through the slot, and secured thereon by crimping the device to close the slot faces together. Alternately, the flush valve stem may be disposed through the eccentric hole, and similarly secured by crimping. In a further embodiment the pull chain of a flapper valve may be secured in the device. The added weight of the device causes the flushing action to cease upon release of the flush handle, thereby reducing the amount of water consumed by the water closet.

Abstract: Portable wash stand for use primarily outdoors comprising base means, an elongated vertical support member mounted on the base means, basin and soap dish means mounted on the support member, and faucet means mounted on the upper portion of the support member.

Abstract: An assembly which is designed to function both as a grab bar and as a shower head fixture. A grab bar structure which is adapted to be fixed to a wall has opposed end regions at least one of which has a hollow interior space while a shower head which is to be used for providing a shower spray also has a hollow interior space. A mounting structure mounts the shower head on the grab bar structure with the hollow interior space of the shower head communicating with the hollow interior space at the above end region of the grab bar structure so that in this way the combined assembly forms a combination grab bar and shower head fixture.

Abstract: A flexible cover is stored in rolled condition on a reel at one end of a swimming pool. Cables extend along the pool sides and over a reversing pulley for attachment to a trolley secured to the free cover end. The cable cover reels are driven at the same rotational rate and a cable slack take-up mechanism is provided for maintaining the cover and the cables free of substantial slack throughout reeling and unreeling movement. Means are provided that operate during reeling movement of the swimming pool cover to allow water accumulated on top thereof to flow off the cover into the swimming pool while retaining debris, such as leaves, twigs and the like on top of the cover for movement out of the swimming pool.

Abstract: A device for attaching a sink rim, which is either integral with a sink or which is a discrete structure attached to the sink, to an aperture in a drainboard includes a rotatable member appropriately attached to the sink rim which rotatable member engages the edge surfaces of the drainboard aperture as the sink is lowered into the aperture, thereby securing the sink in the aperture. The rotatable member is mounted on a bracket that is in turn affixed to a downwardly extending flange conventionally provided on the sink rim. The rotatable member has a periphery with teeth or other edge surface engaging members thereon. The rotatable member can be generally circular in configuration and can be mounted for eccentric rotation so that its plane of rotation is generally perpendicular to the edge surface of the aperture.

Abstract: An improved toilet seat which additionally serves as a night light and which aids a person in finding a toilet seat in a darkened bathroom during a night time, the toilet seat being made of resins or plastics that is clear or colored-tinted and the toilet seat having a clear lucite rod cast within its center, one end of the lucite rod being aligned with an electric lamp stationarily supported and wherein the lamp light automatically goes out when the toilet seat is raised.

Abstract: A disposable sink strainer comprising a cylindrical portion having a plurality of openings therein and a bottom portion substantially constituting a disc and integrally connected to and depending from a lowermost portion of the cylindrical portion, the bottom portion being formed with a plurality of holes therein. The cylindrical walls are adapted to fit complementarily in a conventional sink strainer, and have a rim extending horizontally and radially outwardly and integrally therefrom at an uppermost portion thereof.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an edge stiffener for mattresses. The stiffener is of single piece construction and includes a pair of oppositely projecting lateral mounting arms which are adapted to be carried by the upper and lower border wires of the mattress and which bend at their inner ends to define a corresponding pair of angularly disposed cantilever spring portions joined in a centrally disposed anchor loop.

Abstract: The specification discloses a locking apparatus and method for assembling bed frames which simplifies assembly of such frames allowing the same to be easily and quickly accomplished by one person. Included in the apparatus are opposing rigid bracket members joined by a rigid, two-point connection. One connection provides a pivot while a camming means cams the other connection into a corresponding receiving means to lock the members together when one member is rotated about the pivot. The method includes pivotally supporting one member on the other and rotating one member with respect to the other while camming a locking projection into a receptacle to lock together the members and their associated mattress and head or foot support frames.

Abstract: A boat which becomes a wheeled trailer by use of attachable wheels and an attachable tow rod. The boat is fitted with female fittings which engage mating male members fitted on the attachable tow rod and attachable wheel assemblies, with one such female fitting mounted on the bow to engage the tow rod and two such female fittings mounted on each side panel of the boat to engage a wheel assembly.

Abstract: This is an adjustable foot rest assembly for kayaks, including a pair of channel members, with indexing slots and an inverted T-slot along the base, serving as a track along which a pair of foot pad assemblies are slidably moved. The channel members, or guide rails, are secured to each side, inside the front section of the kayak where the feet of the paddler are. The foot pad assembly, including an integrally connected hollow I-beam, a foot pad or rest, and a spring-actuated trigger with indexing pin, is supported in the channel members on which it is adapted to slide from a rear position to an extended or forward position, thereby accommodating the leg length of taller or shorter kayakers.

Abstract: A retriever device for locating a submerged object comprises a base member axially threaded with left hand threads, a spool positionable upon the base member and internally axially threaded with left hand threads, a screw member having contiguous right and left hand threads and holding the spool and the base member in secure position against the object, a retaining member mounted on the base member and including a transverse partition with an axial opening, a float member secured to the retaining member by a water-soluble adhesive means, and including attachment means for a line, and a line attached to the float to secure the float to the spool, and passing through the axial opening of the retaining member in order to be windable around the spool. The device of this invention is also intended to include a gas-generating tablet positionable upon the flat upper surface of the partition of the retaining member.

Abstract: A loading dock leveling apparatus including a ramp pivotable about its rear end and having a pivotable lip on its forward end. Apparatus is provided for projecting the lip outwardly after the ramp is raised beginning when the ramp is walked down to provide that the lip will engage the bed of a vehicle to be loaded or unloaded. The projecting apparatus includes a knuckle joint which pivots to projecting position on the ramp upswing and which is subsequently pivoted by a lever to release the projecting apparatus during the walk down but before the ramp descends to the highest serviceable vehicle level. A lip lock is provided for holding the lip in its projected position until the lip rests on the bed of the vehicle to be unloaded or until the ramp passes well below dock level and the lip lock is disengaged by a lip lock release.

Abstract: Presented is a mechanized apparatus for use in commercial establishments such as beauty parlors and barber shops for cleaning and disinfecting hair brushes and hair combs.

Abstract: An electrical appliance in which a motor-driven roller is rotated, the roller being fitted with any type sleeve designed for a specific task such as washing a window glass, sanding a car body or buffing a surface of an object.

Abstract: A mitt type shoe cleaner having first and second brushes secured to non-expandable flexible thumb and finger receiving sections, respectively. The said sections are secured together by a central section made from elastic material so that the mitt may accommodate various sizes of hands.

Abstract: A meat cutter for removing the backbone of a pork loin consisting of a conveyor apparatus and a cutter assembly for cutting the backbone portion from a pork loin as the pork loin is moved through a cutting station. The cutter assembly consists of a cutter head mounted for movement towards and away from the conveyor. The cutter head is biased for movement towards a predetermined plane disposed above the conveyor and has a leading end disposed in a direction opposite to the direction of travel of the conveyor through the cutting station. A cutter blade is mounted on a head for movement in a cutting path that extends transversely across and is spaced above the conveyor.

Abstract: A support bar for a hanger, in which the bar has a guide rod member extending substantially parallel thereto along all of or at least the major portion of its length, and connecting with catch means at one end of the bar, there being an eye at the other end of the bar, and a hanger with an axially offset slide member which may be slidingly engaged with said guide rod, whereby to support the weight of at least one end of said hanger, while the same is slid along the length of the guide rod, parallel to the support bar and into said catch means, the hanger having suitable engaging means at its other end for interengaging with said eye on the other end of said support bar.

Abstract: A high production textile card system is provided with an automatic variable speed drive system for driving the doffing cylinder from the main cylinder at a slow speed during system start-up and then progressively increasing the speed of the doffing cylinder after start-up. A variable speed belt drive system and clutch system are responsive to the sliver detector switch at the coiler can to control the rotation of the doffing cylinder after the system startup time has elapsed, to either terminate the rotation of the doffing cylinder if the sliver has not been properly threaded through the coiler head, or to increase the speed of rotation of the doffing cylinder with respect to the speed of rotation of the main cylinder.

Abstract: Web forming apparatus of this invention includes a fiberizing roll for separating fibers from a feed mat and entraining them in a gaseous medium, a foraminous forming surface through which the gaseous medium passes and upon which the fibers are condensed to form a fibrous web and a formation duct having an upstream end adjacent the fiberizing roll and a downstream end adjacent the forming surface, whereby the formation duct defines a flow path for the gaseous suspension of fibers from the fiberizing roll to the forming surface; the improvement including passageways at opposite sides of the apparatus adjacent the upstream end of the formation duct for communicating the duct with an atmosphere having a lower pressure than that within the duct for removing air to eliminate the adverse effect of vortices which are created by rotation of the fiberizing roll. A method of forming a fibrous web by employing the abovedescribed apparatus also forms a part of this invention.

Abstract: A corsage holder embodied in a solid elongated plastic molding includes a first longitudinal side adapted to be fitted against the stems of flowers arranged in a corsage. An opposite side of the molding receives tape ordinarily utilized to bind the stems together. At either end of the holder body is a transverse aperture for receiving a corsage pin. The holder is tapered along its length to conform to the natural taper of the tied stems of a corsage. The apertures are formed through projections which locate the apertures outward from the tape receiving surface of the holder body. When taped to the stems of a corsage, the projections are located outward from the taped stems and allow access to the apertures to facilitate pinning of the corsage to clothing.

Abstract: Integrally molded plastic clamping apparatus including a body portion having a plurality of recesses formed therein for receiving longitudinally extending members and including a mounting member and a hinge portion formed between the body portion and the mounting member and wherein the plastic of which said body portion, hinge and mounting member are integrally formed is sufficiently flexible to permit said body portion to pivot away from said mounting member by said hinge portion to permit said recesses to receive said longitudinally extending members and to permit said body portion to pivot toward and in engagement with said mounting members whereby upon a fastener extending through a bore formed in the body portion and an aperture formed in the mounting member and placed in engagement with a support surface the longitudinally extending members are clamped in said recesses and secured to the support surface; the clamping apparatus may also include a plastic tab formed integrally on the mounting member and b

Abstract: A pin assembly adaptable for fastening to the exterior shoulder section of a garment for the detachable retention of a shoulder strap of a bag worn simultaneously with the garment. The assembly is formed of a U-shaped frame to the underside of which a pin is pivotaly mounted, with a hook fixed to the underside of the frame for retention of the end of the pin. A bar is pivotably mounted between the legs of the U-section frame to the frame, with detents on the legs serving to hold the bar in frictional engagement in the closed position of the bar between the frame legs. The bar is mounted at a spaced distance from each of the two frame legs to permit a shoulder strap of a bag to pass over the frame legs and under the bar when the assembly is pinned to the exterior of the shoulder section of a garment worn by the user.

Abstract: An extruded plastic channel receives the plastic film and a plastic locking strip is then engaged within the channel and under opposed overhanging beads on each side of the channel to clamp the film in position. One of the beads on the channel extends downwardly towards the base of the channel and an expansion bead or member extends upwardly from the base of the channel outboard of the outwardly extending bead which can flex sideways under pressure to compensate for different thicknesses of film. One embodiment includes a membrane connection between the downwardly extending bead and the expansion bead so that when the locking strip is snap engaged into the channel, the sideways displacement of the downwardly extending bead also moves the expansion bead outwardly to facilitate the engagement of the locking strip within the channel.

Abstract: A fabric clamp suitable for holding together pieces of fabric, such as surgical drapes, towels and the like, which is relatively compact and inexpensive. The clamp has two resilient arcuate members which are joined together at one end of each member with the arcuate members respectively having convex and concave jaws at their other ends. Latch members extending inward from the arcuate members engage when the clamp is pressed together to maintain the jaws in engagement. Release of the latch members is accomplished by laterally displacing the arcuate members of the clamp. The clamp may have multiple closed clamping positions, and finger members may be provided which are formed on the interior of the arcuate members in position to grasp a tube or other object therebetween when the clamp is closed.

Abstract: A clamping apparatus for holding semiconductor devices in compression is described in which supporting plates are disposed at opposite ends of the apparatus and supporting shafts extend the length of the apparatus connecting the supporting plates. The supporting plates are fixed in place by protrusions in the walls of the supporting shafts. The compressive force is provided by a spring means held in compression by the supporting plates.

Abstract: Method to cut or shear loop pile fabric by moving the loop pile fabric to be cut or sheared over a rotating cutting member which cuts the loops in the fabric but prevents the fabric backing material from being cut by the use of guard members for the cutting blades.

Abstract: Process and apparatus for controlling a pad of yarn in the stuffing chamber of a steam jet crimper by means of mechanical restricting means and a counterpressure of cold fluid.

Abstract: A convector for heating buildings consisting of horizontal convector modules spaced a distance apart, one above the other. Each convector module has heat-conducting tubes, onto which are forced lamella bodies, the side lugs of said lamella bodies being bent in such manner that they are parallel with the tubes. At the front and back of each convector module is attached a cover plate which is bent around the upper and lower edges of the bent side lugs. Preferably, the lamella body in its unbent position is of H-form. A tool for manufacturing the convector modules has a movable cam member for picking up and advancing the lamella bodies and rollers for bending the side lugs.

Abstract: A rubber-sleeved roller including a tubular sleeve preferably fabricated from a plastic material and formed with a smooth internal surface to fit on the smooth outer peripheral surface of a metal core and having a tubular rubber sleeve formed on the outer peripheral surface of the nonmetallic sleeve with the rubber sleeve finish ground to a smooth outer peripheral surface on the nonmetallic sleeve whereby the tubular sleeve structure may be readily interchangeable with a similar sleeve structure on a metal core.

Abstract: An automatic fastening system and method is disclosed for use in fastening deck boards to stringers in a pallet-making machine or the like. The automatic fastening system of the preferred embodiment comprises an adjustable frame having a plurality of staple guns pivotably mounted on the frame and has automatic positioning means, in the form of a wheel, associated with each staple gun for positioning the staple guns by automatically raising and lowering the staple guns as the height of the pallet deck board changes and as the height of the pallet structure changes depending upon whether or not stringer-type pallets or block-type pallets are being manufactured. Also disclosed is an automatic firing pneumatic circuit for the subject fastening system and a method for automatically fastening a plurality of deck boards to a plurality of stringers.

Abstract: Tin coated steel sheet used for seamless steel containers by applying of a coating at least one material selected from the group consisting of nickel, cobalt, copper, nickel oxide, cobalt oxide, copper oxide, tin oxide, copper-tin compound, cobalt-copper compound, cobalt-copper compound, cobalt-nickel compound, nickel-copper compound, cobalt-tin compound, nickel-tin compound and nickel-sulfur compound, onto one or both of the surface of cold rolled and cleaned steel strip or sheet. The coated steel strip or sheet is then coated with tin, and the tin coating may then be flow-melted subsequently.

Abstract: An n-type epitaxial layer is grown on a p-type silicon substrate. The epitaxial layer is photo-etched to provide a plurality of isolated regions of n-type conductivity. A silicon dioxide layer is provided on a surface covering the isolated regions and etched portions. The oxide layer is etched to provide a window which allows external light to fall on the exposed isolated region. Heat treatment steps have been reduced to a minimum to prevent lattice defects from occurring, resulting in a photodiode having a higher sensitivity to the visible spectrum range with less dark current.

Abstract: A planar semiconductor integrated circuit chip structure containing a planar surface from which a plurality of regions of different types and concentrations of conductivity-determining impurities extends into the chip to provide the active and passive devices of the circuit. The surface is passivated with an insulative structure containing at least two layers with a metallization pattern for interconnecting the integrated circuit devices formed on the first layer and via holes passing through the second or upper layer into contact with various portions of this metallization pattern. The via holes are arranged so that a majority of the holes are disposed above surface regions having such impurity types and concentrations that would form Schottky barrier contacts with the metal of contacts formed in said via holes.