Abstract: A rear hinge arrangement for holding the lid of a record player to the console. A lock plate is affixed to the rear top portion of the console, said lock plate having a defined receptacle portion to receive and hold an insert component of an attaching member of the rear hinge. The attaching member has the aforementioned insert component held in place by the lock plate receptacle portion, and, an outer section extending out of the receptacle. On said attaching member are a pair of first and second side plates, said side plates have juxtapositioned a first set of opposite axial apertures. Pivotally joined to the attaching member is a rectangular supporting member with a pair of second side plates likewise with a pair of juxtapositioned opposite axial apertures which are positioned alongside the first side plates in axial alignment therewith. At the rear of the supporting member is a hollow receiving portion for receiving and holding a lid.

Abstract: A hinge construction composed of two cooperating leaves provided with a deflectable resilient retention means to retain sashes, particularly basement windows and various other similar devices installed to swing open from the bottom or vertically, in a predetermined open position, whereby maintaining a sash in an open position until an overriding force is applied thereto intended to effect its closure, the retention means having a retention groove and a stop limiting range of hinge movement.

Abstract: A knob for the cover of a pan or similar container which is used for waterless cooking. The knob is installed in an opening formed in the pan cover. A vent passage extends from the pan cover opening to an outlet in the lower peripheral portion of the knob. A disc is provided for closing the vent passage and a slidable tubular housing is provided with lifting surfaces to lift the disc and open the vent passage. The knob can be partially disassembled for cleaning by rotation of the outer tubular housing.

Abstract: An improved molding apparatus is provided for forming patties from an agglomerable edible material, particularly meat in frozen flake cut form. The apparatus includes a rotating turret with a plurality of mold cavities and reciprocable pistons. The turret rotates between a feed station where the edible material is fed upwardly under pressure into the mold cavities and a discharge station where the formed patties are ejected and separated by a continuous cut-off band. An improved cut-off band is also provided in which the band is disposed at a slight angle to facilitate its entry into the interfaces between the bottom surfaces of the pistons and the formed patties. The leading corners of the pistons are chamfered to receive the blade. The band is looped between a pair of pulleys on adjustable supports for providing the desired inclination of the band. Scrapers and spray nozzles are provided to maintain the cleanliness of the band and the pulley grooves.

Abstract: A stop motion apparatus is disclosed for disengaging a drive motion on a carding machine in response to the detection of a desired operating condition wherein the carding machine is of the type having motorized drive means for imparting a drive motion to the carding machine when engaged and actuator means for selectively enaging or disengaging the drive motion. The stop motion apparatus includes a base for attachment to the carding machine and a pivotable arm assembly carried by the base. A linkage assembly connects the pivotable arm assembly to the actuator means of the carding machine. The pivotable arm assembly has a first position in which the actuator means disengages the drive stopping the carding machine and a second position in which the actuator means engages the card drive.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus is disclosed for a coarse defibering of pulp bales with tools that work over the entire cross section of the bales in such a way that the tools strike against the feeding direction of the bales and lifts the fibers out of the bale.

Abstract: In a drawing device for sliver comprising two endless moving elements having cooperating working runs between which the sliver passes, at least one of the elements is constituted by a plurality of bars extending between a pair of parallel carriers (e.g. chains) and each bar has a convexly curved outer working surface from which penetration members, (e.g. needles) extend.

Abstract: The buckle includes an anchor secured on one side portion of the front of a ski boot and a buckle structure coupled to the opposite side portion of the ski boot. The buckle structure includes a flexible metal strip coupled at one end to the said opposite portion of the ski boot and having its other end pass through a manually operable lever drive mechanism capable of incrementally driving the strip through the drive mechanism. With this arrangement, the lever drive mechanism can be manually hooked to the anchor on the one side of the ski boot and then actuated to incrementally drive the strip through the mechanism thereby tightening the boot to any desired degree. By providing a continuous smooth engaging surface on the strip, the drive mechanism effectively can adjust the degree of tightening through an infinite number of incremental positions.

Abstract: An ornamental attachment for being mounted on a slider pull tab for a slide fastener comprises a body having a pair of upper and lower plates between which is defined a channel for receiving therein the slider pull tab, there being means in the channel for locking the pull tab upon full insertion thereof into the channel. An elongate land and a pair of grooves one on each side of the land are provided on at least one of the upper and lower plates, the land being resiliently engageable flatwise with the pull tab for its positional stability in the channel against wobbling movement. The upper and lower plates include a pair of resilient lips between which the pull tab is insertable into the channel, one of the lips having a pair of retainer means for holding the inserted pull tab therebetween against sideways displacement in the channel. Such retainer means may be on a pair of spacers interconnecting the upper and lower plates, the retainer means projecting into the channel toward one another.

Abstract: This invention provides improved apparatus for clamping together a pair of flanges of a processing vessel. The apparatus includes an elongated tubular stem having a handle at one end thereof for applying torque to the stem. Means defining a surface at the other end of the stem for engaging one of the pair of flanges in the clamping position of the apparatus is provided together with means defining screw threads on at least a portion of the interior of the tubular stem. An elongated threaded stud is at least partially received in the threads of the tubular stem. The end of the stud remote from the stem has a pivot axis defining means thereon for pivotally connecting the stud to the other one of the flanges of the processing vessel.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a one-piece tubular clamping assembly formed from a plastic type material and comprising a first clamping arm engageable with a flange positioned on a second clamping arm to create a unique lever and fulcrum structure capable of securing one or more concentric tubular members in place or blocking a flow path through a tubular member. The present invention further comprises a novel locking mechanism for preventing accidental disengagement of the clamping assembly.

Abstract: This invention relates to gate type tentering clip with pivotally mounted jaw in which the jaw is provided with a new and novel pivoting movement and the method for making the same.

Abstract: A method of fabricating an improved multiple grid electrode having a plurality of discs by simultaneously forming a dimpled segment in a sandwich structure consisting of metallic discs separated by spacer material. The dimpled sandwich structure is then machined, forming a series of vanes on the dimpled portion by an appropriate method, such as electrical discharge. After machining, the spacer material is etched away, leaving only the vaned discs, forming grid electrodes.

Abstract: Apparatus for assembling an electrical connector housing (15) and a conductor mounting comb (41) comprising a pair of clamping mechanisms (14, 27) for clasping the housing (15) and comb (41) which mechanisms are brought together by a press (10) to force the housing (15) about the prewired comb (41). The conductors (52) are arranged in the comb (41) which in turn is supported between two fixed jaws (28, 29) of a lower clamping mechanism (27), the conductors (52) being arranged in slots (54) of one jaw (28). The housing (15) is clasped between two jaws (16, 17) of an upper clamping mechanism (14), one of which terminates in a blade (21), the blade (21) rising to a conductor folding ramp (22). As the press is operated, the upper mechanism (14) moves downward, the blade (21) cooperating with a second blade (33) on a lower jaw (28) to trim the conductor (52) ends.

Abstract: A coating roller having a cylindrical drum with a replaceable cover formed of a sheet metal substrate upon which is bonded a resilient plastic outer surface layer. A pair of closely spaced, parallel, longitudinally extending rigid strips are positioned upon the drum surface and fastened at their opposite ends to the drum ends for short distance sidewise movement towards and away from each other upon the drum surface. The drum surface, except for the area covered by and between the strips, is coated with an even thickness layer of a substantially incompressable, resilient, elastomeric material upon which the cover substrate is wrapped. The ends of the substrate are formed to engage with their adjacent strips so that movement of the strips towards each other locks the cover upon the drum and reverse movement permits disengagement of the cover ends from the strips for removal of the cover.

Abstract: A process for making a light-weight, heavy duty steel piston for a disc brake. The initial blank is formed to include the piston nose radii and angle. The blank is then simultaneously rolled by three rollers, one of which rollers forms the piston boot groove, another of which rollers maintains the outer diameter of the main portion of the piston, and the other roller of which forms near the outer end of the piston an overall diameter which is less than the main overall diameter. During the rolling step, the metal deforms to form a contour opposite the base of the piston boot groove such that the thickness of the wall between the contour and the base of the piston boot groove is smaller than the thickness of the main portion of the wall, but yet is strong enough to withstand heavy duty disc brake operation throughout the life of the disc brakes.

Abstract: A structure having at least two joined contiguous parts, of which at least one is straight and of uniform girth throughout its length, is jacketed with a given fluorocarbon resin by first cross feed extruding a jacket of said resin onto said one part, next providing a joint between said one part and another part, and thereafter coating at least said joint, any exposed surfaces of said one part present between said joint and the adjacent end of said jacket, and a narrow circumferential band at said adjacent end of said jacket with said given resin by spraying in dry powder form, and then applying heat to fuse said sprayed on resin. A heat exchanger is described where the exchanger tubes constitute the straight parts and the manifolds to which they are brazed the other parts.

Abstract: A switch assembly comprises a deformable electrically insulative substrate with a plurality of grooves formed therein extending in a direction parallel to a given axis. Electrically conductive wires are disposed in the grooves and extend beyond one end of the substrate. The grooves have a width and a depth such that the wires are accurately positioned in the substrate and securely held therein. The wire is secured in the groove by a tool having a concaved end portion which stradles the wire and is moved toward the substrate until the cut out portion essentially contacts the top of the wire, and the substrate material flows onto the wire for locking the wire in the groove.

Abstract: The specification describes a new and improved Schottky-gate field-effect transistor (FET) and process for fabricating same wherein selective and multiple ion implanatation doping steps are used to form source, drain and channel regions in a semiconductor body. The semiconductor body is then selectively etched to expose the source and drain regions previously formed, while leaving intact a mesa-shaped, high resistivity stabilizing region of the semiconductor body overlying and electrically stabilizing the ion-implanted channel region. The semiconductor body is then partially passivated with a chosen dielectric layer having two openings therein for exposing source and drain regions, respectively, and a third opening which is aligned with the channel region. Ohmic contacts are deposited in the source and drain openings, and thereafter a V-shaped groove is etched in the mesa-shaped region overlying the channel region to expose a very small area of the channel region.

Abstract: A process for constructing self-aligned electrodes overlying a surface of a semiconductor substrate is disclosed. The process utilizes a substrate which is substantially transparent to infrared radiation. One step of the process includes forming spaced apart ones of the electrodes with a conductive material that is highly absorbtive of infrared radiation. Subsequently, a continuous layer of heat sensitive polymer is formed over and between these spaced apart electrodes. The resulting structure is exposed to infrared radiation which heats the spaced apart electrodes. This heat polymerizes the heat sensitive polymer layer in all regions that directly overlie the spaced apart electrodes. These polymerized regions form a mask that is used to construct other electrodes between and in alignment with the spaced apart electrodes.

Abstract: A stator having a plurality of permanent magnets with a cylindrically shaped outer surface and with at least one planar opposite surface is manufactured to close tolerances of the air gap with the aid of a plurality of ferromagnetic link members, equal in number to the number of permanent magnets and adapted to come into planar contact with those surfaces of said permanent magnets which are pointing away from the air gap. The permanent magnets are placed into a cylindrically shaped sleeve, the inner diameter of which corresponds to the desired inner diameter of the air gap of the stator. A sleeve of a ferromagnetic material may be used for holding said permanent magnets in intimate contact with the sleeve. The link members are shaped so as to be brought into generally planar contact with at least part of the inner surface of two adjacent ones of the permanent magnets. An adhesive is used to secure the link members to the permanent magnets.

Abstract: A low cost, high tolerance molded coil is disclosed together with a method of constructing the same. A wound coil is provided with connection leads. A mold having a mold cavity therein for the formation of an integral outer core and for supporting the coil is provided. The mold also produces integral securing portions for securing the coil to the outer core. The wound coil is placed in the mold cavity and a pre-molded and pre-shrunk plastic inner core is positioned inside of the coil substantially along the coil's longitudinal center line. A heated molding plastic is injected into the mold cavity so as to form the integral outer core for supporting the coil and securing portions of the coil. The molded coil is cooled and removed from the mold without withdrawing the inner core from the molded coil, which thereafter remains in the finished product. By use of the pre-molded and pre-shrunk plastic inner core, shrinkage and other deformations of the outer core is prevented.

Abstract: A rotary indexing apparatus for automatic insertion of devices on printed circuit boards has a main support member attached to the insertion machine and a circular locating and supporting member rotatably supported by the main support member. Apertures are provided in the circular member over which can be positioned printed circuit boards. Generally four such locations are provided, particularly for insertion machines with an inserting head which inserts devices at two positions successively. By indexing the table between each complete cycle, devices are inserted in two directions, at right angles to each other, by insertion occurring first at one location and then at another location after the circular member has been indexed.

Abstract: A clamp-squeezing apparatus for automatically urging a cable-engaging clamp of an electrical connector into clamping engagement with a cable is provided. The apparatus is particularly adapted for use in conjunction with wire-terminating apparatus. The squeezing apparatus comprises a movable carriage including a slidable plate on which is mounted a connector nest and pivotal squeezing arms having cam followers and squeeze jaws on opposed ends thereof. Upon movement of the carriage and nest into a desired position, the cam followers are urged by cam tracks in which they ride to urge the squeeze jaws together and squeeze the connector cable clamp into engagement with a cable.

Abstract: This invention pertains to means for and a method of trimming branches of trees and particularly branches high above the ground, by means of spaced cutting collars with sharp teeth at one end crimped upon a flexible cable, without using a pole saw, climbing the tree, or using a ladder. Means are also provided in the form of lead weights, sand bags, etc., to carry the flexible cutting table into position over the branch desired to be cut.

Abstract: A scissors comprising first and second pivotably connected arms, each including a finger engaging portion and a remote tip portion. Each arm is constituted in entirety of a plastic material and has a recessed seat in which a metal blade is mounted. The blade is removably mounted in the seat by engagement of a hole in the blade with a corresponding projection on each arm in the respective seat from the bottom surface thereof. The projection is of truncated conical shape and the hole in the blade is sized and shaped to engage the respective projection and enable removal of the blade by the elasticity of the plastic material of the projection.

Abstract: An anti-tangle, feed correcting improvement for line handling in a filament trimmer circular cutting head of manual-feed, commercially available type having a slotted-rim-cup-shape and holding the spool or spools of filament with cutting length of filament emerging from the slot, includes an elongate retainer fixed integrally in the cutting head across the slot at an intermediate location providing room for filament cutting-end swing above the pin and room above and below and behind the elongate retainer for manipulation to feed a fresh length of filament when necessary; in an embodiment provision is made for manually slipping the filament past an end of the elongate retainer to facilitate feeding more filament.

Abstract: A turret-type hand punch adapted primarily for punching holes in leather, imitation leather, or other plastic material. Means are provided on the punch to receive the cut portions of the leather or the like and to retain the same therein during the punching operation so as to prevent the littering of the area where the punching is taking place, with the punched out pieces of leather and the like.

Abstract: A band saw construction including a plurality of rollers defining a saw blade path which is continuously arcuate except for the straight cutting section. A friction belt drive with associated guide rollers provides the motive force for the saw blade. Tension on the saw blade is adjusted by means of a pivotal roller carriage which is adjustable with respect to the main frame of the band saw with the roller carriage being horizontally adjustable with respect to the main frame.

Abstract: A rigid light weight guard for chain saws is provided which includes a bar of soft metal mounted to the chain saw motor housing which is of a width slightly less than the saw chain, and which extends over the top of the saw chain spaced therefrom and down over the end below the center line of the saw chain and which permits of downward, horizontal and upward through cutting without interference by the guard.

Abstract: Apparatus for attaching a removable denture to a natural or an implanted fixed root system. The invention embodies a small resilient ring that provides circumferential retention of the denture and the inherent resiliency of the ring enables ease of placement and removal.

Abstract: An orthodontic appliance to be used in a straight-wire technique setup as an auxiliary for applying closing forces between spaced teeth, wherein the appliance is mounted on a bracket attached to a band or pad. The appliance includes a base attachable to the bracket and an arm extending from the base and terminating in a hook for the attachment thereto of a force transmission member, such as an elastic. The appliance is attached to the bracket so that it is removable from the bracket after the use of the appliance has been completed and while the bracket remains mounted on a tooth.

Abstract: An auxiliary fluid supply unit that is adapted to be used in conjunction with commercially available professional dental and medical equipment to permit the user to select a variety of fluids to be administered to the patient during dental and other procedures.

Abstract: An auxiliary enclosed fluid supply unit or system that is adapted to be used in conjunction with commercially available professional dental and medical equipment to permit the user to select a variety of fluids to be administered to the patient during dental and other procedures and maintain desired levels of sterility in the operative cite of the patient.

Abstract: A rack for supporting and systematically organizing dental clamps according to shape and size includes a support and a plurality of posts extending generally upwardly therefrom, the posts each having at least one partially circumferential slit disposed essentially perpendicular to the axis of the post, and containing a permanent magnet exposed at the inner end of the slit. In use, the bow portion of a clamp is placed in a slit, the slit serving to mechanically support the clamp on the post and the magnet serving to retain the clamp in the slit, even though the rack be jostled while being moved from one place to another, or tipped, or subjected to any other action that would tend to dislodge the clamp from the slit if not otherwise held.

Abstract: A shaft position transducer constructed and defined with a pair of rotary scales for measuring increments of rotation in the English or metric systems. The rotary scale movements are sensed by means of solid state light sensing packages for producing output signals in phase quadrature. The light sensing packages are mounted in the correct relationship without the need for adjustments.

Abstract: An engraving machine of the pantograph type wherein long life and precision is obtained in plastic or other soft materials by offsetting upper and lower sections of the pantograph arms in a plane perpendicular to the axis of the pivot bores and shafts thus reducing the effective diameter of the bores to correct the shaft to bore fit as a result of wear and manufacturing tolerances.

Abstract: A solderless electrical connector construction for making connections between a plurality of conductor pairs (23) and a corresponding row of single, double-bladed (16, 17) insulation-piercing terminals (11) extending from the top surface (12) of a terminal block (10). The blades (16, 17) are oppositely directed from the ends of the terminals (11) and are adapted to seize and pierce the insulation of conductor pairs (23) maintained in vertical channels (21) in a pair of conductor mounting blocks (20, 30) as the latter are closed into abutment along the surface (12) of the terminals block (10). The channels (21) are extended around the mounting blocks (20, 30) to provide strain relief.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for determining the geometrical position of peripheral points of bodies, especially of bodies of rotation, is disclosed. The points are measured relative to an axis of the bodies by a sensing gauge head. The head is preferably carried on an upper carriage of two carriages that move at right angles with respect to one another. The sensing gauge head carries a stretched wire which serves as a measuring face. When the measuring wire makes contact with the body to be measured, an electric circuit is closed to trigger an optical signal. Acoustic and/or motor controlling signals may also be triggered by the contact with the body. A contact brush may also be provided on the sensing gauge head to warn the operator that contact with the measuring wire is imminent.

Abstract: A measuring bridge coupled to a vehicle by means of a plurality of vertical elements attached to datum points on undamaged portions of the vehicle to properly orient it to the vehicle. In addition, vertical measuring elements attached to datum points in damaged portions of a vehicle are supported on the bridge for movement in two perpendicular directions and a plane parallel to the vehicle and extend along their length to follow and monitor the reforming of the vehicle during the application of force. The measuring bridge is supported by a plurality of air pressure cylinders to maintain proper orientation of the bridge with respect to the vehicle.

Abstract: An ultraviolet light curing apparatus for curing inks and other coatings on cans and similar containers in which the cans are passed by a conveyor about a source of ultraviolet light and, as the cans rotate about the source, they receive virtually all the light rays from the ultraviolet light source by means of the ultraviolet light being reflected by reflectors rotating circumferentially around the light source.

Abstract: A device for removing contaminants from gas or other fluids. Such device includes, in a column, a tortuous pathforming member, such member including a plurality of path dispersal elements, all for assuring intimate contact between such gas or other fluids and a contaminant absorber.

Abstract: A process for drying and granulating sewage sludge. Wet sewage sludge is dried in either a thermal drying zone or a mechanical dewatering zone comprising a cylindrical chamber having a porous wall and a centrally mounted rotating helical screw conveyor which does not contact the porous wall. A plasticizer is added to the dried sludge and the resultant mixture is extruded to form fertilizer granules. Also disclosed is a process for filtering suspended solids from a water stream using the apparatus of the mechanical dewatering zone.

Abstract: A heated metal plate drying system for drying either green veneer or partially dried veneer can have a plurality of modular hot presses mounted on a frame. At a loading station, individual sheets of veneer to be dried or redried are fed into a hot press, and at an unloading station the dried veneer sheets are unloaded from the system. Within each individual modular hot press, a direct contact drying process occurs that functions to reduce the moisture content of a veneer sheet down to the desired uniform level such as within a range of from 1 to 10%. The drying process accepts veneer of different species, thickness, and beginning moisture contents and the controlled process variables include contact time, temperature and pressure.Each individual modular press can be multi-opening and has the ability to open and close on command. Specially designed heated metal plates are part of each press and each plate has substantially parallel grooves on at least one surface.

Abstract: The rotatable dryer drum in a dehydrator for crop material is provided with a plurality of centrally disposed flighting panels for escalating turbulence in the material-entraining heated airflow passing through the drum as well as to increase the available heat transfer area, thereby significantly improving the efficiency of the dehydrator. The panels are supported in offset, thermally isolated relation to the sidewall of the drum by a series of elongate struts spaced along the length of the drum and extending between the sidewall and the panels such that the flighting resists thermal warpage and requires only a minimum amount of welding for installation. In preferred forms there is provided a dropout chamber adjacent the drum outlet for collecting material separated from the airflow, the chamber having a mechanical conveyor for bulk discharge of the collected material.

Abstract: A mechanical device for assisting in the application of fingernail polish or enamel, and subsequent drying, makes use of a housing containing an electrically operated fan which moves an air stream upwardly through the housing and out the top. A bracket serving as a hand rest and finger support having a specially constructed attachment to the housing is movable to a position above the air stream where its attachment releasably retains the bracket in finger supporting position and in the air stream. The specially constructed attachment is such that when the bracket is thus positioned an extension of it on opposite sides, protruding beyond the housing, elevates the housing above a supporting surface on which it may rest to assure an abundant supply of air to the fan. When not needed as a hand rest in finger supporting position, the bracket pivots to an endwise location where it can serve as a carrying handle.

Abstract: An automatic memory-trainer presenting problems to a trainee in a sequence controlled by the trainee's success in answering correctly. The sequence adapts itself to concentrate practice on those facts with which the trainee is having greater difficulty. Repetitive practice is such that difficult problems are interspersed with easier ones in a manner planned to continually test and expand the trainee's ability to recall the difficult facts.

Abstract: A terrain model board and method of construction for use with the closed circuit television display system of a vehicle simulator is disclosed. According to this invention a multiplicity of panels containing the detail of a simulated terrain are joined together in a manner which allows quick and easy disassembly of one or all of the panels. A packing strip having a cord secured to its top surface is inserted into the spaces between adjoining panels prior to filling the spaces or seams with an elastic and adhesive seam filling compound. Thus, one or more of the panels can easily be removed for repair or replacement by simply gripping the string and pulling it up and along the seam thereby cutting through the adhesive.

Abstract: The present invention consists of a new set of diacritics, which when applied in the English alphabet in conjunction with the existing or traditional system of diacritical markings, provides through the single combined set, the ability to couple correct pronunciation of words with the correct spelling thereof.

Abstract: An astrological fortune-telling device is comprised of a base plate having twelve houses, a rotatable plate provided with the twelve depicted constellation signs, orbits for placement of markings corresponding to planets, a transparent cover, and a transparent rotatable disk provided with fan-shape areas.