Abstract: A fuel pumping apparatus includes a housing, a rotary distributor member mounted within the housing and a plurality of outlets formed in the housing and communicating in use, with the injection nozzles of an associated engine. The outlets are divided into at least two axially spaced groups and all the outlets are disposed on one side of a plane including the axis of rotation of the distributor member.

Abstract: An automotive type ignition distributor featuring a Hall Effect pickup and associated electronic circuitry and a combined distributor rotor and interrupter unit, which distributes the high tension energy to the spark plugs of the engine, acts as an interrupter for the Hall Effect Pickup and provides a return circuit path to ground for electrostatic charges developed within the distributor to protect the semiconductor components within the distributor from damage due to arc flashover.

Abstract: In an internal combustion engine an automatic fuel pump switch connects a fuel pump motor to the battery. An electronic sensing circuit is connected to the output winding of an engine-driven alternator which is also connected to charge the battery. The sensing circuit includes a sensing transistor connected to continuously sense the two instantaneous voltages relating to ground that appear as alternating current (A.C.) voltages at the opposite ends of the alternator output winding and produces an output only when one voltage is above a selected positive level while the other voltage is lower than the first voltage by a minimum amount. A control transistor circuit is connected to the output of the sensing transistor and is turned on to operate the fuel pump only when the engine is turning over at a sufficient rate to start and run.

Abstract: A decompressing device adapted for use in engines for prime mover-equipped bicycles. The decompressing device is operatively connected with the shifting operation of changing the bicycle running over to the engine power running, and the decompressing operation is automatically performed within a predetermined period in the initial starting period of the engine. The decompression is performed simply, and automatically, without requiring special skill and technique.

Abstract: A launcher is described having a tubular body containing therewithin a plurality of headers and pistons, and wherein spaced elastic bands communicating therebetween are caused to be placed in a high degree of tension through a bidirectional ratchet mechanism to controllably propel an object placed in a cup forward said tubular body when a trigger is actuated to release stored energy in the tension bands.

Abstract: A spring support tube for the two helical compression springs loading a piston in a compressed air firearm consisting of at least two tube portions freely movable relatively to one another in the axial direction. The portions can be of the same diameter and disposed one behind the other in the annular space between the springs or being in sliding connection with each other. The sliding connection can be either telescopic or in a tongue and slot arrangement.

Abstract: A barbecue having a rotatable grid is provided with a motor and drive shaft to rotate the grid. The drive shaft is self-adjusting for use with different heights of grid and sizes of barbecue. The drive shaft may be used to adapt existing barbecues.

Abstract: A process and an apparatus for preparation of hot water, using solar energy is set forth. In the process, the water is made to circulate successively in two reservoirs connected in series, and the water is heated from solar energy in one reservoir while the second reservoir can be heated by a known means, such as an electrical resistance. Continuous circulation of the water is created, in a closed loop, by a circulator pump which introduces at least a part of the water discharging from the second reservoir into the first reservoir.

Abstract: A solar energy collector system including at least one heat exchange panel posessing a system of internal tubular passageways defining opposed headers connected by connecting portions of said passageways extending therebetween, said passageways including entry and exit portions extending from opposing ends of said headers to provide ingress and egress openings for a heat exchange medium. The panels include at least one internal, second passageway adjacent and in juxtaposition to said internal tubular passageways but spaced therefrom and independent therefrom.

Abstract: A steam generator derives solar energy by means of a plastic Fresnel lens mounted in a movable framework to follow the sun by means of a manually movable mechanism attached to the steam generator housing.

Abstract: An improved flat plate solar energy collector of integral construction capable of mass production in which metal tubing is eliminated. The collector includes a stamped planar tray and a radiant energy absorber plate connected together to form the inlet and outlet fluid header and the innerconnecting channels therebetween. The planar tray and absorber plate are mounted in a molded insulated housing which includes integrally a storage tank. A fluid medium such as water is heated by solar radiation and circulated through the collector to the storage tank by thermal syphon. Elimination of conventional tubing greatly reduces fabrication costs and increases absorption efficiency.

Abstract: Apparatus is described to measure the pulsatile waveform caused by blood flow to the two ocular globes through which impairment of the blood flow in one internal carotid artery relative to the other is indicative of extracranial carotid occlusive disease.Specifically, apparatus comprising eye cups having an orifice therethrough adhering to the eye by vacuum means enable connective flexible tubing interior air channel access for pressure transducers to measure the ocular globe pulsations. The flexible tubing connecting the eye cup and transducer is additionally connected to a plurality of valves, vacuum pump, and regulator, whereby the regulator and the vacuum pump create a desired partial vacuum and, by means of valves, isolation of air channels between each ocular globe and respective transducer may be accomplished.

Abstract: A plurality of hard rubber rod-like massage members are moved by an electric motor in a plane in a predetermined direction at the open top of a box so that a foot resting thereon is massaged. Steam is directed at the bottom of a foot resting on the massage members.

Abstract: A portable vehicle-carried emergency breathing system including a plurality of bottles containing pressurized breathing gas and associated interconnected piping. An easily disconnectable line leads from the trailer to a manifold secured beneath the platform of the rig and from there to a plurality of multiple outlet manifolds at different locations on the rig. Lines from these manifolds are attached to face masks easily accessible to workers on or near the rig.

Abstract: An inoculator for injecting a fluid through the skin without the use of a needle and in which an ampule of the fluid is replaceably positioned to dispense the required dosage to and from a selected ejector head that receives the dose under predetermined pressure in response to the release of stored energy.

Abstract: The medical altitude chamber is constituted by a pressuretight therapeutic chamber communicating with a source of a gas medium under pressure. It also incorporates apparatus for moistening the gas medium in the therapeutic chamber, said apparatus comprising a liquid reservoir whose lower part communicates through an adjustable throttle with the internal space of the jet pump nozzle, and a pressure regulator which has an inlet for communication with the source of the gas medium, a setting inlet for communication with the therapeutic chamber, and an outlet for communication with the upper part of the liquid reservoir.

Abstract: Heat-sensitive recording materials having a recording layer comprising a soluble heat-sensitive organic high molecular weight compound which is folded to show a granular state on a support, and a recording process for obtaining images which comprises imagewise applying heat to the recording layer to insolubilize the high molecular weight compound and removing by dissolving the portion of the recording layer where the high molecular weight compound is not insolubilized.

Abstract: A tube is removably coupled at a first end to a water faucet and has a syringe at its second opposite end. A slit is formed in the tube. A tubular branch extends from the tube around the slit for accommodating a capsule of medicament fittable through the slit into the tube. A cap removably covers the tubular branch. A clamp is removably and adjustably positioned on the tube intermediate the ends thereof for selectively preventing the flow of water through the tube.

Abstract: An alloyed regenerated cellulose fiber containing an alkali metal or ammonium salt of a copolymer of an alkyl vinyl ether and an ethylene dicarboxylic acid or anhydride is prepared by a process wherein the copolymer is mixed with a viscose solution and the mixture is spun through a spinneret into a suitable spin bath and processed into staple fibers adapted to be used in non-woven absorbent articles such as diapers, tampons, sanitary napkins, wiping cloths and the like. The alloyed regenerated cellulose fiber of the invention has increased fluid absorbency characteristics over fibers of the same regenerated cellulose composition without the alloying material.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for performing dynamic keratometry and keratoscopy. The apparatus projects a substantially circumferentially continuous circle of light onto a cornea and the reflection from the cornea is observable in an unrefracted state through a central opening in the apparatus. Systematically varying the distance of the apparatus from the cornea does not significantly affect the sharpness of the unrefracted reflected image, affecting only its diameter so that the circle of light can be caused to pass over the entire cornea for dynamic examination of its curvature. A particular application of the apparatus is in evaluating the effects of surgery upon corneal curvature both during and after surgery. The method of the invention involves movement of a circle of light across all regions of the cornea from the center to the corneal periphery to determine curvature of the entire cornea.

Abstract: A surgical manipulator useful to apply compressively opposed forces and enable the surgeon to rotate the manipulator and the article it is applied to, with minimal lateral wobble and tremor.The manipulator comprises a pair of prongs, each of which supports a jaw with an operative element such as a needle holder, tissue pickup, nipper or scissors. The prongs are resiliently biased by bias means away from one another in a plane of flexure to spread the operative elements apart, and the prongs can be closed by force exerted on manipulation surfaces carried by the prongs. A spindle includes a knuckle rest which is closer to the joinder of the prongs than the manipulation surfaces. The knuckle rest bears against a knuckle (defined to include the muscle pad between the thumb and the index finger) when the device is held by the surgeon with his thumb and index finger on respective manipulation surfaces.

Abstract: A pair of disposable plastic forceps includes elongated arms, each having a proximal end portion providing a handle and a distal end portion for attachment of a contacting member to each of the arms, and a hinge for movably connecting the arms to one another to provide adjustment of the forceps, the hinge joining the arms intermediate their ends. Desirably, the hinge rotatably and frictionally receives the intermediate portion of each arm to hold the arms in position relative to the hinge after they are adjusted. The distal end of each arm is formed to provide a slot for removably receiving a contacting member. Contacting members of various sizes and shapes are provided, the size and shape selected being dependent in part upon the function to be performed by the forceps. The slot in each arm is defined by a pair of opposed walls. The contacting members include side walls which engage the opposed walls of the slot.

Abstract: Apparatus having parallel-closing jaws for clamping and immobilizing ends of blood vessels to be joined together by suturing without damaging the vessel walls. A spring biasing the jaws together is adjustable to exert no more than 30 gm/cm.sup.2 in squeezing force to vessel walls in each clamp. A stay suture retainer affixed to one or more of the jaws of the apparatus receives ends of two stay sutures passed through the ends of the blood vessels to draw them together, to immobilize the vessel ends with respect to the apparatus during close, finish suturing thereof. Mayfield-type and threaded-shaft clamp pairs are disclosed, each connected to and selectively slidable along a rigid bar for adjustable spacing upon the ends of the vessels to be joined. The clamps are durable and comprise a single piece to facilitate use.

Abstract: A simple easily applied one-piece catheter tube holder originally made flat and comprising two main parts having adhesive thereon for temporary attachment to the limb of the patient, there being a narrow bridge also provided with adhesive and connecting the two main parts, said narrow bridge being foldable in the center thereof to form a doubled member, and having fasteners such as snap fasteners or Velcro for holding the same in position to releasably hold the catheter tube in the desired orientation to the patient.

Abstract: A medical device for electroshock therapy, and more particularly a defibrillator for the treatment of ventricular and auricular fibrillation. Devices of this kind contain a high-voltage generator comprising a transformer with a rectifier connected to its output for charging a shunt capacitor which can be discharged through the patient by means of electrodes connected to it. In order to avoid by simple means the occurrence of dangerous leakage currents and in order to simplify the solving of the problem of high-voltage insulation, the rectifier comprises two branch circuits which are connected to a common transformer winding and which feed the shunt capacitor; furthermore, a high-impedance voltage divider is connected in parallel to the shunt capacitor with its center connected to chassis.

Abstract: A bioelectrically controlled electric stimulator of human muscles comprising an oscillator and a group of stimulator channels, each of the stimulator channels including a sensor for sensing the bioelectric activity of muscles of a programmer, a first integrator, a comparator, a modulator, a power amplifier, a unit for separating an electric signal, electrodes adapted to be connected to muscles of a person whose movement are under control, an amplifier of bioelectric activity of the person whose movements are under control and a second integrator connected to the output of the amplifier of bioelectric activity. The electric stimulator improves the correspondence between a movement performed by a person and a programmed movement. During the course of electric stimulation, pain is reduced and the stimulation signal is automatically correctable with respect to the functional state of the muscles being stimulated.

Abstract: This invention pertains to a combine of the axial flow type in which rotor means extend longitudinally within the combine in association with concaves, the rotor having in axial alignment, a threshing portion and a separating portion rearward thereof and mounted for coaction with respective concaves disposed beneath the rotor. Tailings which are discharged from the separator section of the rotor and concave normally contain a worthwhile amount of crop material intermixed with waste chaff, straw and the like, and further threshing to separate the crop material from the waste material is effected by a rotatable beater and coacting grate which extend transversely to the axis of the rotor and rearward of the discharge end of the separator portion of the rotor and concave.

Abstract: A tobacco substitute made from whole coffee cherries.

Abstract: A smoker's pipe has a mouthpiece opening formed at the intersection of the walls of a smoke-receiving housing. The smoke is cooled and humidified by passing it upwardly through a body of water, the smoke being introduced into the water by a bubble forming means. The bubble forming means has a plurality of apertures which break the smoke into a plurality of bubble-forming streams to reduce the size of the bubbles and to increase the interaction between the bubbles and the water. Carryover of water into the mouthpiece is minimized by providing a deentrainment chamber in the flow path between the smoke cooling chamber and the mouthpiece. In the deentrainment chamber, the smoke ascends and the water descends to drain gravitationally through a check valve near the bottom of the deentrainment chamber. A modular system is disclosed wherein units may be added or removed to vary the number of cooling stages in the pipe.

Abstract: A hair-treating cap for covering a scalp during hair frosting and similar treatments has a head covering which completely covers the scalp of a wearer whose hair is being treated, and over the surface of which covering is provided a plurality of clamps for holding a lock of hair to be treated while preventing treating solution from reaching hair and the scal beneath the head covering. The clamps, which include a rotating lock member for positively gripping the hair, either can be made integral with the head covering or as a separate element sealed into openings provided in the head covering.

Abstract: A mascara wand used with a container has a top for the container with an outwardly extending main shaft. A shaft extension is pivotally secured to the main shaft and carries the applicator bristles thereon. The top has indicia which show the direction of the pivot axis of the extension.

Abstract: A longitudinal automatic sprayer for cleaning glass containers based on two parallel conveyor chains on which transverse beams carrying individual baskets are arranged perpendicularly to the direction of transport. At the beginning of the conveyor, the individual baskets are automatically filled with the unclean glass containers by a transfer device. A delivery device for automatically ejecting the containers is situated at the end of the conveyor. Spray nozzles for rinsing the glass containers are arranged above the conveyor. The individual baskets are checked for breakage by a mechanical scanning device underneath the conveyor chains. At the same time, the scanning device monitors the positioning of the individual baskets appropriate to the working cycle.

Abstract: A double walled tent is supported by outwardly leaning pairs of arches and an interconnecting flexible ridge member. The ridge member is associated with the outer wall or cover, so that the outer wall may be tensioned to form the shelter. An inner wall or cover is suspended from the outer wall by netted webbing which allows circulation between the walls.

Abstract: An earthquake responsive valve having a lever structure which is mounted to swing about an axis and has two arms projecting in different directions and carrying two weights respectively balanced against one another in a relation such that one of the weights normally overbalances the other and retains the valve in open position but is displaceable by earthquake forces to an inactive position releasing the lever structure for valve closing movement.

Abstract: A method of and device for delivering measured quantities of liquid into a fluid in which a pressure differential is created in a fluid flow line and fluid is passed from the higher pressure side to a positive displacement fluid pump and returned therefrom to the lower pressure side and including a positive displacement liquid pump actuated from the fluid pump which feeds liquid to the fluid pump to mingle with the fluid passing back to the fluid flow line.

Abstract: An air chuck fitting to be attached to a flexible pressurized air hose for providing a manual press-fitted connection to the valve stem of an automobile tire or the like, and consisting of a tubular body member attachable to the hose end and having a pressure-seated plunger valve therein, the plunger valve having a plunger extension which, when pressed over the valve stem of an automobile tire, opens both the plunger valve and the air valve of the stem to admit air to the stem, the invention being characterized by the construction of the body member, hose and plunger valve assembly, wherein a single assembly member performs the functions of providing a sealed connection of the hose to the body member, limiting and controlling the motion of the plunger valve, and providing for air passage from the hose to the plunger valve.

Abstract: A load responsive direction and flow control valve for use in fluid power load responsive system. The system is powered by a single fixed or variable displacement pump. The valve maintains a selected constant flow level during control of positive loads and automatically blocks pump flow to the actuator in presence of a negative load, providing the actuator inlet flow requirement from the valve exhaust manifold. The direction and flow control valve is equipped with a load responsive control which during control of positive load maintains a constant low pressure level at the actuator outlet and retains its control characteristics in a system in which multiple positive loads are simultaneously controlled.

Abstract: A valve is operated between open and closed positions by respective solenoids. The valve is latched in each of the open and closed positions by a snap disc mounted in a position fixed relative to the plunger, and a pair of shoulders fixed relative to the valve body.

Abstract: A valve construction is provided for use in controlling fluid flow to a plurality of intake passageways. The valve construction is particularly suitable for use in an internal combustion engine to control the flow of exhaust gases to a turbocharger, the latter having a plurality of intake passageways communicating with the turbine section thereof. The valve construction includes a housing having an inlet for the engine exhaust gases and an outlet communicating with the intake passageways. Disposed within the housing and intermediate the inlet and outlet thereof is an adjustable valve piece which is adapted to be moved to selected positions of adjustment relative to said housing. When the valve piece is in a first selected position, exhaust gases flow through the housing to a first predetermined number of intake passageways. When the valve piece is adjusted to a second selected position, exhaust gases flow through the housing to a second predetermined number of intake passageways.

Abstract: A valve comprises a tube having an inner wall surface inwardly stepped to provide a ribbed peripheral seat in a plane perpendicular to the axis of the tube and between inlet and outlet chambers bounded by tube lengths of relatively greater and relatively smaller cross-sections respectively. A washer disk or resilient material sized to fit with peripheral clearance within the inlet chamber is held spaced from the peripheral step base by ribs outstanding therefrom.

Abstract: Various pipe wall constructions comprising thermosetting resin, randomly disposed chopped glass fibers, sand, circumferentially extending continuous glass filaments, and axially extending glass fibers in various percentages in structural wall portions thereof, and having various protective inner liner and outer wall portions.

Abstract: A device for severing a spiral whose convolutions are threaded through the perforations in aligned marginal portions of two immediately adjacent note books has shears whose halves are provided with cutting edges and deforming shoulders. A system of cams is reciprocably mounted in a carriage for the shears, and the cams have faces which engage the followers of the halves to pivot the cutting edges toward each other whereby the cutting edges sever the spiral between the note books and the shoulders thereupon bend the adjacent end portions of the thus obtained spiral binders in cooperation with the teeth of two locating levers which are pivoted to the carriage and serve to engage the convolutions of the spiral during severing and bending. The note books are held in a predetermined position by the holder of an indexible turret.

Abstract: A machine which converts a strand of wire into a body of meandering shape has two carriers which rotate about parallel axes and respectively carry annuli of pins. One annulus of pins surrounds the other annulus of pins, and each pin of one annulus is adjacent to a pin of the other annulus. When the carriers rotate, neighboring pins of the two annuli move toward each other during one-half of each orbital movement about the respective axes and away from each other during the other half of each orbital movement. A looping device winds the wire alternately about the oncoming pins of the inner and outer annuli while the neighboring pins move away from each other whereby the wire is converted into a meandering body and the wire portions between successive pins are stretched to assume a predetermined shape. The meandering body is stripped off the pins while the neighboring pins move nearer to each other.

Abstract: Apparatus for high-speed production of sets of accurately and identically sized insulated wire leads having wire terminals at the lead ends comprises: a feed mechanism including counter-reciprocating wire feed clamps for simultaneously drawing a plurality of separate strands of insulated wire from a plurality of wire reels; a mechanism for simultaneously straightening and arranging the strands drawn therethrough in parallel spaced apart relationship in a common generally horizontal plane; a severing mechanism for simultaneously severing sets of wire segments of predetermined length from the strands; conveyor clamps for releasably gripping and conveying sets of wire segments; and conveyor means for advancing the conveyor clamps and sets of wire segments therein through processing mechanisms and to a collecting station.

Abstract: The invention relates to a filling system for a secondary battery. A stopper is inserted in the battery and has a liquid channel passing through it, the passage being closable by means of an inlet valve controlled by the level of the liquid in the battery. The stopper cooperates with a filling nozzle which is connected to a storage container for the filling liquid. The nozzle is movable relatively to the stopper and may be inserted through a closable filling opening of the stopper. The nozzle is provided with an outlet opening associated with an outlet valve which cooperates with and is operated by an opening element carried by the stopper when the nozzle is inserted into the stopper.

Abstract: An inflation device for tennis balls and the like wherein a pressure vessel having a resiliently closed discharge valve is provided with an operator fitting on the valve and a hollow impaling element on the operator fitting for passing fluid from the vessel, and an outwardly facing ball seat operatively connected to the fitting for actuating the latter upon depression by a ball on the seat, which ball is simultaneously penetrated by the impaling element for receiving pressurized fluid.

Abstract: An impact tool such as, for instance, a hammer, having a pre-formed fiberglass handle. The handle includes a handle portion and a head portion, the latter being receivable in a socket in the striking head of the tool, with the head portion comprising a ribbed section and a non-ribbed section, with the ribs extending only lineally on the head portion generally lengthwise of the handle, and disposed in spaced relation circumferentially of the head portion, and with the non-ribbed section disposed adjacent the ribbed section and diverging rearwardly in the direction of the handle portion.

Abstract: A device for driving screws, rivets and the like is disclosed which has a nozzle consisting of an upper half part and an under half part, which are movable relative to each other. By pressing a lever with a finger of the operator and then releasing it, the nozzle is opened and closed in order to grasp screws, rivets and the like. Between the two halves of the nozzle a center rod extends coaxially with the nozzle; and, by pressing a grip end cylinder of the device, the nozzle is opened and simultaneously the center rod is thrusted towards the tip of the nozzle so that the rivet or the like may be pushed out. Alternatively, by rotating a rotary cylinder of the device while pressing the grip end cylinder, the center rod is thrusted towards the tip of the nozzle and rotated so that the screw may be driven in a work piece.

Abstract: Electronically excited nitrogen fluoride is formed by reacting fluorine atoms with azide radicals according to the reaction:F+N.sub.3 .fwdarw.NF*+N.sub.2.in a preferred embodiment, the azide radical is provided by using HN.sub.3, and the atomic F is formed by discharging microwaves through either F.sub.2 or CF.sub.4, or by thermally decomposing F.sub.2.

Abstract: An improved tire-slip preventing device consisting of a plurality of cross belts arranged across a pair of parallel cords in the form of a ladder is constructed so that one end of every other cross belt can be detached from the associated cord. The detachable end of every other cross belt is attached to the associated cord after the device has been wrapped about the tire, whereby a very tight fit between the tire and the device can be easily obtained. The last cross belt at one end is made detachable or otherwise one of the cords is provided at an intermediate portion thereof with a separable link, thus permitting the device to be wrapped about the tire without raising the vehicle or driving it onto the device.