Abstract: A device for dislodging a snagged fish hook which is especially suitable for use where the fishing line is at a shallow angle. The device has a self-contained propulsion system and may be clipped to the snagged line. The device will travel down the snagged line and upon contact dislodge the fish hook, the fish hook and device will then float to the surface and may be retrieved by the use of a second line. The buoyancy of the device may be adjusted by the user.

Abstract: A fish lure comprising an elongated, rearwardly tapering body portion having a head end and a tail end, and a plurality of hooks depending from the bottom thereof. The body portion has a bottom recess formed at its head end which provides a water engaging surface for imparting a life-like action to the lure as it is drawn through water by a line attached to the head end of the lure. The tail end of the body portion is provided with a thin, flat, flexible tail-like diving fin which can be bent upwardly or downwardly, as desired, to regulate the depth at which the lure dives through water as the lure is retrieved, as by a jerking action, through water. The tail-like fin is adapted to support an outrigger assembly which, in its preferred form, comprises a pair of wire-like members which diverge outwardly and rearwardly from the tail-like fin, and have hooks attached to the free ends thereof.

Abstract: A substantially flat flexible strip having a first end flanged downwardly for detachably securing the strip to a crab trap screen wire, a second tapered end at least a portion of which is flanged upwardly for detachably securing the strip to at least a second screen wire, and a roughened underside for gripping bait.

Abstract: An apparatus for electrically exterminating insects comprises first and second perforated electrically conductive elements supported in a mutually spaced relationship by insulators which are in turn supported on opposed top and bottom walls. A perforated side wall extends between the top and bottom walls and cooperates therewith to form a protective housing enclosing the first and second conductive elements. The top wall has an access opening therein leading to an interior chamber surrounded by the first conductive element. A carrier having at least one fluorescent light source mounted thereon is detachably mounted on the top wall with the light source protruding through the access opening into the aforesaid interior chamber. The light source and the first and second electrically conductive elements are connected to an electrical power cord by electrical components mounted on both the carrier and the top wall.

Abstract: A two-part box surrounds the bait in the back of the box on all sides, except in front, where the box area is closed by a swinging door supported from its upper edge and spring-urged to a closed position. The door is manually set in an open position in a generally horizontal direction and releasably held there by a support pin or trip rod which is supported to move freely in vertical direction through an opening in the bottom, and the pin is held in the support position when the box is resting on a surface and the door is resting on the pin. On removal of the box away from the surface, the pin drops down and the door closes, so no one can touch the bait until the door is manually re-set in open position.

Abstract: A toy television set whereby the pictures, characters, words, etc., drawn on a plurality of leaves can be seen in succession through a transparent screen as the leaves are turned over successively. The device comprises a case modeled after the cabinet of a real TV set, a transparent screen provided on the front side of the case, a horizontal shaft provided across the center of the screen in the inside of the case, a prime mover adapted to give the rotative power to said shaft, a pair of discs provided at both ends of said horizontal shaft, each of said discs having formed therein a plurality of holes along the periphery thereof, and a plurality of leaves on which pictures, words, etc., are drawn, each of said leaves having extending from both sides of its lower end the insert pieces fitting in the corresponding holes in said discs.

Abstract: A toy construction kit is provided which includes, as basic building elements, a plurality of interlockable plate members, each plate member having a tongue along one side and a groove along the other side whereby two or more plate members can be connected together in tongue and groove fashion to form a composite structural member with the preferred composite structural member being a hollow polyhedron such as a right rectangular prism. The plate members have apertures for receiving dowel members which have a slot extending along their length so that each dowel member may be force-inserted into one of the apertures for being compressively retained therein. The dowel members also have keyhole-shaped apertures on each end for receiving flat panel members and lock pins. Disc-shaped hubs, wheels and angle blocks are provided for being carried by the dowel members. The angle blocks are provided with projecting pins for being received in the apertures of the plate members.

Abstract: A toy rotary aircraft of the "Frisbee" type which is adapted to be manually thrown through the air while spinning about its vertical axis has two disc-shaped members secured together one above the other. The toy has improved stability at slower speeds which adapts it for catching with greater safety and less chance of it being dropped.

Abstract: An airborne toy comprising an inverted substantially dish-shaped body normally containing at least one rolled up toy parachute. A flexible support strand, extending through an axial opening in the body, is centrally connected with a disk underlying the body for normally supporting the toy and maintaining the rolled up parachute within the body recess. Another support strand, radially entrained across the outer surface of the body, connects the toy parachute with the first flexible strand opposite its connection with the disk for lowering the toy to the surface of the earth when airborne and the parachute has been released.

Abstract: A cap-firing arm for a toy figure, the arm being frictionally secured for rotation at the shoulder of the figure by a hollow hub having a pinion gear internally of the figure. The arm is hollow and includes a spring-loaded hammer member slidably mounted therein with a cocking pin extending outwardly through a slot in the lower portion of the arm. The hammer member includes a firing pin adapted for coacting with an anvil secured within a hand mounting member which is slidable for loading the cap. The hammer member includes a tear drop shaped lobe extending through a similarly configured aperture adjacent to the shoulder portion and an actuating rod extending through the hollow hub disengages the lobe upon depression of a back plate of the figure which simultaneously elevates the arm to a horizontal position whereupon the cap is fired.

Abstract: An animated doll configured in the form of a ballerina having a crown on the head thereof connected to an actuating member on the longitudinal center line of the doll, the other end of the member having a cam. One leg can be detented to a fixed position in vertical alignment with the torso of the doll with the other leg thereof being pivotally coupled to the torso with a crank affixed thereto for co-acting with the cam for causing the leg to kick. The actuating member has a square shaft portion engaging a mating aperture within a drive gear which is driven by a motor fixedly coupled within the torso. Upon holding the crown, the doll rotates and one leg can be pivoted by depressing the crown.

Abstract: A device is provided finding particular application in amusement or advertising applications, and includes an enclosure generally having a conventional beverage container shape. The enclosure includes a cylindrical structure having a first end and a second end. Means for attaching a solar cell to the first end of the enclosure includes a structure closing that end. The closing structure has a sleeve extending outwardly from it. The sleeve has a first end integrally formed with the attaching means and a second, free end. The second free end of the sleeve is adapted to receive an electrical motor. The motor includes a rotatably mounted shaft having an end extending outwardly of the enclosure. The outwardly extending end of the shaft has one of a plurality of terminations attached to it. The shaft and termination design determines the kind of movement imparted to the enclosure by the motor upon irradiation of the solar cell by a suitable source of electromagnetic energy.

Abstract: There is disclosed herein an automotive window regulator and drive mechanism which includes a rotatable flexible drive shaft to transmit rotational forces from the regulator arm to a worm gear supported on a lower edge of the window. The worm gear engages a rack secured to a portion of the vehicle so as to vary the position of the window. In one embodiment, both electric motor drive and manual crank drive means are provided either of which may be selectively engaged to drive the rotatable flexible shaft. The regulator end of the flexible drive shaft may be supported in meshing engagement with a portion of the regulator drive gear by means of a pinion pivot arm which arm includes indexing gears to enable the flexible cable to track the worm gear thereby reducing the flexing of the flexible drive shaft.

Abstract: A device for actuating a panel member mounted to a frame member for pivoted movement about a predetermined axis comprising an elongated rod rotatable about its longitudinal axis and mounted at an angle of about 45.degree. relative to said pivot axis. A carrier finger is rigidly connected to one end of the rod and projects at an angle of about 90.degree. thereto. The carrier finger is engageable in a slot in the panel and is operable, upon rotation of the rod about its axis, to effect through the carrier finger and slot, rotation of the panel relative to the frame.

Abstract: A sectionalized door for a barn or similar structure including a plurality of separable panels positioned side by side and fitted together by tongue and groove connections. Top and bottom rails extend across the upper and lower marginal edges respectively of the connected panels.

Abstract: An extender for a combined double hung, double sash guide and weather strip unit is disclosed. The extender is slidably received in the open upper end of the parting bead of the weather strip unit and carries at its upper end prongs. When the extender is driven upwardly, as by raising the window sashes, the extender closes the air gap between the upper edge of the weather strip unit and the head jamb and at the same time the prongs are driven into the head jamb so that the extender also serves to attach the weather strip unit into the window frame thus eliminating the need for top staples or nails.

Abstract: A method for profiling of grinding wheels with diamond and/or cubic crystalline boron nitride, and apparatus for carrying out this method wherein a profiled roller and an abrasive block with corundum or silicon carbide are simultaneously pressed against the contour surface of a grinding wheel.

Abstract: A mechanism for programming the number of increments of feed of a grinding wheel into a workpiece and the extent of the feed of each increment. The mechanism has a cam and a follower operably associated with a grinding wheel to feed the wheel toward a workpiece in response to rotation of the cam. A motor drives the cam and a dial in synchronization with the cam which has a plurality of dogs thereon which actuate limit switches to stop the motor and hence the feeding of the wheel into the workpiece. The number of increments in which the wheel is fed into the workpiece is a function of the number of dogs placed on the dial and the extent of the feed of each increment is a function of the angular position of the dogs on the dial.

Abstract: A multi-part assembly of a honing disc base and a blade carrying cover to permit rotational contact of blade edges and honing surface for correct angle sharpening of the blade cutting edge of rotary type shavers.

Abstract: Method and structure for insulating a building wall, ceiling, or like member supported by studs or rafters along various areas thereof, comprising the use ofan inflatable envelope of gas impervious material wherein the inflatable envelope includes at least two main wall portions;a first heat transfer barrier member substantially fully covering and secured to one of the main wall portions externally of the inflatable envelope;a second heat transfer barrier member substantially fully covering and secured to the other of the main wall portions externally of the inflatable envelope;a member separating the two main wall portions situated within the interior of the inflatable envelope and disposed between two main wall portions; anda valve for facilitating entry of an inflating medium into the inflatable envelope and retaining an inflating medium within the inflatable envelope; the method including installing the structure, securing it in place, and inflating the envelope.

Abstract: A building framework includes a group of A-shaped basic building elements interconnected together to form the framework for a building such as a dome, swimming pool cover and a silo. Each one of the A-shaped basic building elements is composed of bendable material to enable it to flex and thus to enable the framework to assume different desired shapes. The building elements include first, second and third elongated strips, which are connected together to form an A shape defining a triangularly-shaped, centrally-disposed opening. The end portions of the strips form first, second and third pairs of legs extending from the centrally disposed opening. The legs are adapted to be connected to the legs of other similar basic building elements.

Abstract: A swimming pool of circular or oval shape constructed of interleaved extruded aluminum panels with water containing liner secured thereto wherein hoop stresses in the pool walls from the water pressure are withstood along the panels and the joints therebetween. The pool walls are constructed from a plurality of interleaved extruded aluminum panels which are constructed so that when a pair of adjacent panels are positioned relative to each other in a first predetermined position, the male and female joint portions can be slid, one within the other with sufficient extra space or play to allow easy insertion and assembly. However, when the two adjacent panels are then rotated to a different angle relative to each other, the play or additional space is taken up and the adjacent panels become locked together in an essentially unitary construction.

Abstract: An extruded channel member is disclosed for attachment to the frame of a window or door for supporting and retaining a window barrier. The channel member has a relatively flat leg for sealing against the frame and a generally hook shaped leg attached to the flat leg and forming a longitudinal channel which opens substantially parallel to the flat leg. Preferably, the channel member is shaped in cross-section like a shepherd's crook. The channel members are sealingly attached in end-to-end relationship to the window frame and surround the window or door. A transparent barrier is mounted to the channel members to provide a sealed, insulating, dead air space between the room and the primary, all weather window pane. For use with a relatively rigid secondary barrier formed of a sheet of window pane material, or for use with a stiff flexible film such as Mylar, the channel members are attached with their channels opening inwardly toward the center of the window.

Abstract: Spaced apart webs extend between upright sidewalls of a block having parallel upper and lower surfaces. A plurality of the blocks are placed in staggered linear courses to form a wall. Projections extending upwardly from the webs of the blocks are secured in the spaces between the webs of the blocks of the successive course. The projections interlock with the sidewalls for lateral alignment of the blocks, and are spaced from the webs for longitudinal adjustment of the blocks. Corner blocks and end blocks are also provided.

Abstract: A roof tile fastening clip for securing a tile to a batten. The clip structure is formed of a body portion with a hook shaped configuration at one end and a nail or similar fastener incorporated at the opposite foot end.

Abstract: A mounting arrangement for mounting an object to a support structure at a predetermined distance from the latter, comprises an expansion sleeve having an inner hole and insertable into a hole of the support structure, an expander screw adapted to pass through a hole of the object to be mounted so as to support the latter, and partially insertable into the inner hole of the expansion sleeve so as to expand and to anchor the latter in the hole of the structure, and a sleeve-shaped spacer member having an inner hole, and adapted to be fitted onto the expander screw and insertable into the hole of the object to be mounted. The spacer member has resiliently yieldable elements adapted to be spring-loaded after insertion of the spacer member into the hole of the object to be mounted and operative for gripping the latter in the spacer member, and further elements for fixing the spacer member to the expander screw.

Abstract: A chord tie for connecting together adjacent precast concrete building panels and method for tieing together such panels in contiguous relation. Such chord tie comprises an elongated anchor member having an offset portion to be embedded in the concrete during casting of the panel, and a bolt-retaining member connected to such anchor member to receive a fastening bolt. The offset portion comprises a reversely bent portion and the bolt-retaining member comprises a pair of metal straps or plates welded to the anchor member in spaced relation to receive the body of a fastening bolt. The chord tie is cast in the concrete panel, the reversely bent portion retaining the chord tie in such position, and the bolt-remaining means is positioned along the edge of the panel. Two adjacent precast panels are connected together by means of the bolt extending between adjacent chord ties and filler washers are employed therebetween.

Abstract: A grille for use as a sun screen, decorative facing, vision barrier or the like is made up of a multiplicity of modular pieces, each of which is of uniform cross section along its length and has walls having spaced-apart, parallel edges defining a base plane and a portion intermediate the edges spaced from the base plane in one direction. An edge flange extends from each edge of the walls of the piece in a direction generally perpendicular to the base plane and opposite from the said one direction, and a pair of spaced-apart slot flanges extends from the intermediate portion of the walls in the said one direction and generally perpendicular to the base plane. The slot flanges define between them a slot that opens generally away from the base plane, the slot having a width at a location nearer the base plane that is greater than its width at a location farther from the base plane.

Abstract: Apparatus for filling a bag that has a bag pick-up assembly movable from a pick-up position to pick up a flat folded bag from a magazine to a bag release position, a table for supporting the released bag in a generally horizontal condition, a bag opening assembly for grippingly engaging the mouth edge portions of the bag on the table and opening the bag mouth portion, the bag opening assembly including stationarily mounted lower vacuum cups on the table and vertically movable upper cups, a spout assembly for clampingly engaging an opened bag, transferring the clamped bag from a bag transfer position to a filled bag release position, discharge a weighed charge into the clamped bag, and release the filled bag, the spout assembly including spout jaws and bag holders to clamp the opened bag to the jaws, a bag transfer assembly for moving the opened bag on the table to the spout in the bag transfer position, the transfer assembly including a pair of fingers that are movable toward one another and into the bag that

Abstract: A process for packaging bulk commodities such as meat comprises vacuum sealing the commodity into a bag of plastics material and then causing the material of the bag to expand by a further reduction in pressure of the environment surrounding the bag. The material expands into contact with heaters which heat the material and when the environment surrounding the bag is returned to normal pressure, the material closely encloses the commodity.

Abstract: This invention relates to a packaging machine for wrapping light objects, for example paper cups in flexible plastics wrappers. The packaging machine according to the invention is of the general type including a cell conveyor for the objects, lower and upper plastics films respectively fed below and above the objects and welding and cutting means for joining said films together before each object by operating a double weld with intermediate cut. According to the invention, each cell of the conveyor is provided with at least one upper closing arm carrying an idle roller for the lower film and resiliently retained in cell closing position, there being provided first and second cam means acting on said arm to cause momentary displacements thereof into cell opening position when each cell passes through loading and discharge regions respectively upstream and downstream of the film joining region.

Abstract: A hay stacking machine having a platform for supporting a stack of hay. A radial trough extends from the center to the outer peripheral edge of the platform for accommodating hay being transported to it from a rake pickup. The trough includes a longitudinally extending side wall and a bottom wall which extends laterally to merge with the platform top surface. The bottom wall merges at its forward inner end with a portion of the bottom wall extending upwardly to merge with the platform surface. A portion of the platform surface extends over the vertical wall of the trough and over reciprocating out of phase feed teeth in the bottom wall and vertical wall of the trough. An annular frame extends around the platform and rotates relative thereto. A plurality of upright posts are attached to the annular frame. Compression arms extending to the center of the platform are pivoted on the posts and engage hay located on the platform.

Abstract: An apparatus for harvesting and windrowing of corn utilizes one or more conveyor units swingably mounted to a corn harvesting implement such as a combine or corn picker and has horizontally moving cutting means carried forwardly of the conveyor units. As the implement moves through a field of standing corn, the cutting means severs the cornstalks as harvesting heads on the implement engage the stalk and strip the corn ears from the stalk. The conveyors receive and transport the severed stalks to a cornstalk discharge location between the conveyor units to create a cornstalk windrow along the path of the traveling implement. Corn plant residue, such as leaves, kernels, ear husks and the like, resulting from husking, are discharged from the implement and guided by deflector plates onto the windrow to be retained there for curing and later pickup.

Abstract: A tractor drawn and powered impeller mower-conditioner includes a transverse cutter bar comprising a series of pairs of side-by-side contra-rotating cutting disks. An impeller rotor with free swinging flails is mounted above and slightly to the rear of the cutter bar with its axis of rotation parallel to the cutter bar. A hood over the rotor includes a confining forward conditioning plate conforming fairly closely to the rotor periphery to form a conditioning zone and a rearwardly extending deflecting and windrow forming portion. The rotor is disposed and rotated so that the flails intercept cut material delivered rearwardly by the cutter bar and carry it, inside the hood, up and over the rotor through the conditioning zone to be discharged rearwardly into a windrow. The flow of cut material from each pair of disks tends to be concentrated into a rearwardly directed stream by the bite or convergence of the contra-rotating disks.

Abstract: A wheeled carrier for a lawn mower and edger which can be of the nylon line type. The mowing and edging tool is yieldably supported on a frame of the carrier to permit multi-directional operator controlled movement of the tool with respect to the carrier by manipulation of handle bars connected to a support for the cutter. The mounting permits steering a front wheel of the carrier by pressure applied to the handle bars. Rear wheels of the carrier are mounted to be fixed in different positions with respect to the front wheel, and parallel to each other to enable moving the carrier in different straight-line directions with respect to its longitudinal axis.

Abstract: The machine employs a vertically oriented bale-starting chamber and a crop pickup located immediately below such chamber so that materials lifted from the ground by the pickup as the machine advances are fed directly up into the starting chamber to be acted upon by front and rear sets of oppositely moving, vertically disposed belts. A throat area at the bottom of the starting chamber and above the pickup is devoid of compression rollers and other like structure that would squeeze and compress the upwardly fed materials into a mat so that unencumbered free flow of materials up into the starting chamber is assured. A special bale-positioning roll adjacent the bottom of the chamber keeps the bale from riding against belts wrapped around a forward roll so that materials are not wedged in a pinch point where the belts contact the forward roller, and special projections on the forward roller clean out the area just above the latter so as to avoid the accumulation of trash material therein.

Abstract: The pickup assembly has an upright loading duct with a primary conveying impeller located between the upper outlet and the lower inlet of the duct. A secondary crop pickup impeller adjacent the inlet combs through crop stubble as the machine advances and lifts severed crop materials up to the primary impeller where the latter propels the materials upwardly through the duct and out the outlet. Flexible rubber fingers on the secondary impeller are generally T-shaped, having heads that are releasably clamped against the hub of the impeller by an inverted channel which is capable of retaining a series of the fingers at the same time. The secondary impeller floats independently of the duct and has one or more gauge wheels associated therewith to keep the fingers of the impeller from digging into the ground during rotation.

Abstract: Tucker wheelers for use on a hay baler in which hay is picked up from a window in the field, the tucker wheels being mounted on each side of the hay baler, the planes of the wheels being at an acute angle to the longitudinal axis of the hay baler. Each of the tucker wheels comprises a rotating wheel carrying radial wire spokes extending outwardly from the circumference, the spokes being attached to springs so that they can deflect through a wide angle. Each wheel is mounted at an elevation so that the spokes will engage the earth, and the wheel will rotate as the vehicle moves, picking up hay from the outer edges of the window and moving it towards the center of the windrow. Each wheel is attached to the baler with a universal joint mount allowing for use on uneven ground and allowing the wheel to caster when the hay baler is backed up.

Abstract: An improved double twist wire bunching machine has a reel consisting of at least one disk on which a plurality of wire spools can be mounted with parallel horizontal axes. An improved brake tensioning system includes a brake shoe assembly associated with each spool, a tension spring connected to each brake shoe assembly, an actuator ring rotationally mounted on the creel and engaging the ends of each tension spring and a contacting means associated with one wire spool sensitive to the amount of wire on the spool such that as the amount of wire on the spool is decreasing, the contacting means causes the actuator ring to rotate through a proportionate angle decreasing the tension in the tension springs to thereby proportionally and uniformly decrease the brake tension on the spools and thereby maintain a constant tension in the wires being bunched.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing collectively stranded wires for communication cables, comprising a process wherein parallel multi-wire sets obtained by the extrusion method from insulating material and a plurality (2, 3 or 4) of conductor wires arranged in parallel are prepared in such a way that said multi-wire sets are different in color from each other and the number thereof corresponds to that of the conductor wires included in each thereof, and said multi-wire sets are drawn out and separated into element wires which are, after given pre-twisting, sorted into groups each consisting of wires of different colors coming from the corresponding sets and then are wound on bobbins, a process in which said bobbins prepared according to desired number of stranded wires to be collected are mounted on delivery stations of stranding machines through which the wires are stranded and sent out as pairs, 3-conductor or 4-conductor wires, and a process wherein desired number of said stranded wires are collected.

Abstract: A wire construction is provided in which five fine filaments of stainless steel wire are helically overwound about a center filament, also formed of stainless steel. The diameter of the central filament is slightly larger than the diameter of the helically wound filaments, which are of uniform diameter. The wire so constructed retains a high degree of elasticity following manufacture, and is especially suitable for application as an orthodontic wire for use in bracework for straightening teeth, especially the teeth of adolescent children. The wire is formed on a multi-bobbin tubular strander, and during manufacture all of the wire strands are maintained under tension, although the center strand is maintained under greater tension than the helically overwound filaments.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for forming strands into twisted strand units having a twist direction that reverses from section to section wherein the strands are advanced side-by-side successively through first and second mutually spaced twister heads. The strands are formed into twisted strand units by the steps of operating the twister heads simultaneously by revolving the twister heads in a common rotary direction about the strands at substantially the same speed of head revolution thereby causing a first progression of twists of one lay direction to pass from the first twister head towards the second twister head, and a second progression of twists of opposite direction lay to emanate from the second twister head. Twisting operations by the first and second twister heads are simultaneously terminated as the leading end of the first progression of twists reaches the second twister head and a trailing end of the second progressing of twists emanating therefore.

Abstract: An electronic timepiece correction circuit for a digital display electronic timepiece wherein the same digital display is utilized with timekeeping circuitry capable of producing two types of time information to display both types of time information is provided. Mode select circuitry that is coordinately disposable between a timekeeping mode and a correction mode is disposed intermediate a manually actuatable control circuit and the timekeeping circuitry and digital display. When the mode select circuitry is disposed in a timekeeping mode, actuation of the control circuitry will result in the digital display changing from a display of the first type of time information to a display of the second type of time information produced by the timekeeping circuitry.

Abstract: A calendar mechanism for timepieces comprising an annular date dial, an annular month dial provided outside the date dial, an auxiliary lever provided on the date dial having a pawl portion, an additional driving member adapted to be rotated one full turn every 24 hours, and cam means provided on the month dial, which biases the auxiliary lever toward the additional driving member to engage the pawl portion of the auxiliary lever with the driving member in the end of the even months, whereby the date dial may be driven two steps by operation of the usual driving means and the operation of the additional driving member in the end of the even month.

Abstract: An electronic wristwatch including an auxiliary power supply for energizing at least the timekeeping circuit when the main power supply is being removed for replacement is provided. The wristwatch includes a high frequency time standard that vibrates at a high frequency and a timekeeping circuit coupled to the high frequency time standard for converting the high frequency vibrations of the time standard into low frequency timekeeping signals representative of actual time. A display is coupled to the timekeeping circuit for displaying actual time in response to the low frequency timekeeping signals applied thereto. The main power supply is coupled to the timekeeping circuit and to the display for delivering a voltage of a sufficient magnitude to operate the timekeeping circuit and display.

Abstract: An electronic timepiece which is provided with a control circuit receiving as an input a time correction signal from a frequency divider circuit and delivering an output for driving an electro-mechanical converter so as to correct times of the timepiece. The control circuit is operated by an exteriorly operable switch means to select that signal by which the frequency divider circuit is reset when the timepiece is stopped and by which normal movement of hands and forward and backward rotation corrections of times are effected.

Abstract: A control panel unit for a cooking apparatus having a clock construction for indicating the time of day and a timer control unit for selecting a delayed time period and a cooking time period for causing the apparatus to provide a cooking operation for the cooking time period following the elapsing of the delay time period, the clock construction comprising an electronic clock unit and the timer control unit comprising an electromechanical control unit operating independently of the electronic clock unit.

Abstract: The device includes indicator elements capable of sequentially indicating the output of a counter in the forming of a plurality of time bands; an operation command signal distributor capable of generating an output for the performance of an operation having any given object corresponding to one selected from said indicator elements; and operating members for optionally selecting and causing the generation of command signals for the performance of an operation having any given object. The operation command signal distributor is enabled by an operating member when a specified indication element is lighted, to thereby command a selected operation having any given object, the command generation being a function of which indicator element is lighted.

Abstract: An electrically energized timepiece movement is provided with motion work the form of a planetary train entirely supported on the frame of a driving motor. Coaxial planet pinions are excentrically located on a minute wheel, one planet pinion engaging a fixed central gear and the other engaging the hour wheel.

Abstract: A CMOS-LSI including a time information keeping circuit and a display driver circuit is mounted on a flexible film substrate. An upper plastic housing and a bottom plastic housing are provided for tightly supporting the flexible film substrate through screws. That is, the flexible film substrate is sandwiched between the two plastic housings at the periphery thereof, thereby minimizing the flexibility of the flexible film substrate.