Abstract: A hybrid mosaic IR/CCD focal plane structure is fabricated on a silicon substrate which contains integrated circuit CCD signal processing circuitry. Contact pads are formed which are connected to the signal processing circuitry and which extend above the surface of the silicon substrate. An insulator layer is formed which covers the substrate and the contact pads. The insulator layer is then lapped to form an essentially planar surface with the contact pads exposed. A mosaic detector array is fabricated on the insulator layer, and thin film electrical interconnects are formed from the detectors to the exposed contact pads to couple the photosignals from the detector array to the CCD circuitry.

Abstract: A machine to assemble electrical contact retention clips automatically in an insulator including a slotted tube expandable by a tapered plunger to embed an electrical connector retention clip in a heated and softened insulator after having been inserted into an insulator bore by a ferrule slidable on the tube.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for making a wire lead which comprises a pair of insulated stranded conductors encased in an insulating jacket, with a two-pronged plug at one end and either untwisted or twisted bare or tinned wires with or without terminals at the other end. The apparatus comprises mechanisms to cut and convey a cable segment, strip the insulating jacket from both ends and trim cut the exposed insulated wires, preshape them, strip and twist the stranded wires at the plug end, attach the plug at that end, and strip and perform appropriate processing operations at the other end, i.e., twist, tin, or terminate.

Abstract: The device or apparatus for assembling banks of battery electrodes comprises a bed which mounts feeders with electrode-containing holders, and the feeders incorporating a mechanism for maintaining automatically the upper level of the electrode pile in the holders. Disposed above the feeders is an assembling mechanism comprising a shaft, one end of which is connected to a drive ensuring its vertical reciprocating motion in alternation with a full revolution around its axis, whereas the other end of the shaft carries radially-mounted grips made with a provision for being disengaged at a certain working stroke of the assembling mechanism by a readjustable kinematic linkage which can disengage part of the grips during the preset working stroke of the assembling mechanism.

Abstract: There is herein disclosed a cartridge feed mechanism that is used with an axial lead component inserter, the mechanism including an indexed cartridge having an outlet port communicating with a gravity slide leading to the inserter's insertion head, the cartridge having a plurality of radially extending compartments adapted to temporarily house axial lead components until the cartridge is indexed registering a compartment with the outlet port.

Abstract: A machine for processing and securing parallel lead electronic components into lead receiving openings formed in a printed circuit board having an improved insert assembly is provided. The machine includes a supply assembly for selectively supplying a parallel lead electronic component to be inserted. A transfer assembly including a plurality of chuck assemblies disposed around a rotary disc for supplying the selected electronic component and displacing the supplied electronic component to a release position. An insert assembly including a holding and guiding sub-assembly for receiving the selected electronic component from the chuck at the release position and a push bar sub-assembly adapted to engage the electronic component at the release position and displace the electronic component to an inserted position in the printed circuit board.

Abstract: A fingernail or toenail clipper utilizing an expandable elastomer intermediate leaf spring members upon which the cutting edges are defined wherein the elastomer expands against the cutting edges during nail clipping to retain the severed nail clipping against the cutting edges until the edges are opened. Additionally, as the elastomer is mounted adjacent the cutting edges it may serve as a gauge to locate the nail relative to the cutting edges prior to severing.

Abstract: A cutter knife having a sheath type holder, a control knob slidably mounted in the holder and a blade attached to and retained by the control knob. The holder is provided with an elongated slot along which the control knob is moved, a longitudinal through passage through which the blade is passed, a slide bore in which a blade-retaining portion of the control knob is slidingly moved and guiding means formed in the back side thereof. The guide means is in communication with the end portion of the slide bore, and are adapted to suitably guide the blade-retaining portion of the control knob. The blade can be moved through the through passage and fixed with a desired projection length from the holder, as the control knob is moved along the elongated slot and fixed to the latter by suitable means.

Abstract: Denture attachments for establishing a connection between a tooth and an adjoining denture include a female housing anchored in a tooth, a male connector assembly with a housing and an expandable insert. The housing is secured to the denture, and is of reduced height relative thereto, whereby a portion of the denture overlies the housing. The housing is secured to the denture, and the insert is engaged in the female housing.In a modification, the housing of the male connector assembly has means to effect a secure connection with a mastic type of adhesive bond.

Abstract: The bracket according to the invention includes the following structure:Flange means provided for securing the bracket to the teeth of a patient. A bearing member having a through hole on an axis that is transversely spaced from the flange means. Connecting means connect the bearing member and the flange means and have a neck portion. A rotary catch is mounted in the bearing member for rotation on said axis and defines with said neck portion and the flange means a channel, which is disposed on one side of the bearing member and open opposite to the neck portion and adapted to receive a wire so that the latter is engageable with the neck portion. The rotary catch channel is rotatable about the axis to and from a wire-retaining position and in the wire-retaining position is adapted to retain a wire in the channel.

Abstract: This holder is characterized by a device with a double ball-and-socket joint mounted on the forward part of its holder and comprising a dual locking lever for simultaneously locking its two ball joints or selectively locking its rear ball joint, and by the use of retaining rings imbedded in the rear part of the dental bridge castings which insure their fastening on the base of the holder and on a connecting stud joined to the rear swivel joint of this holder. Used to study the articulation between dentures connected to the castings.

Abstract: An apparatus for resetting of a dental prosthesis comprising a bottom plate having means for fixing the bottom plate to a support plate, at least two pressure columns fastened to said bottom plate and provided at their upper ends with a connecting cross piece, a movable element connected to the connecting cross piece and adapted to be moved parallel to the pressure columns, means for moving the movable element, a pressure element articulatably connected to the movable element so as to provide a clearance therebetween while permitting relative rotation and adapted to be able to exert pressure on the prosthesis mounted on the support plate, and adjustable stop means for adjustably limiting the travel of the pressure element toward the support plate and the prosthesis mounted thereon.

Abstract: Instead of prying the crown in the direction opposite to the direction in which it was forced onto its cooperating support tooth, the within crown-removal method calls for initially preparing the crown with a vertically oriented cleave, and then projecting crown-spreading members into the cleave so as to produce an enlargement thereof in its circumferential dimension, with the result that the crown is correspondingly expanded circumferentially and thus is readily disengaged from the tooth.

Abstract: A simplified height measuring device useful for measuring the height of persons is provided having telescopically arranged measuring rods with faces containing parallel vertical columns of different types of height measuring units such as English height measuring units, on the one hand, for example, inches, and metric height measuring units on the other, for example, centimeters.

Abstract: A part alignment fixture is provided which may be used for precise variable lateral and tilt alignment relative to the fixture base of various shaped parts. The fixture may be used as a part holder for machining or inspection of parts or alignment of parts during assembly and the like. The fixture includes a precisely machined diameter disc-shaped hub adapted to receive the part to be aligned. The hub is nested in a guide plate which is adapted to carry two oppositely disposed pairs of positioning wedges so that the wedges may be reciprocatively positioned by means of respective micrometer screws. The sloping faces of the wedges contact the hub at respective quadrants of the hub periphery. The lateral position of the hub relative to the guide plate is adjusted by positioning the wedges with the associated micrometer screws. The tilt of the part is adjusted relative to a base plate, to which the guide plate is pivotally connected by means of a holding plate.

Abstract: A method of centering a hollow cylindrical piece of work comprises measuring the outside and inside diameters and contours of the work by means of outside- and inside-diameter-measuring instruments relative to the common centerline of the instruments taken as the virtual center of the work, inputting the measured values with corrections made for any deflection of the work and for any error arising from the instruments, to an electronic computer, and allowing the computer to memorize the information and operate to find the real center of the hollow cylindrical work on the basis of the stored information, whereby the location of the real center and machining allowances necessary for obtaining a product finished to the desired contours can be be computed.

Abstract: A device adapted to rest on the top of a person's head for indicating head movement from a predetermined position includes a box-like member supporting an indicator assembly which includes a part spherical support plate nested within a part spherical wall of the member and being capable of multi-directional shifting relative thereto. The assembly further includes an electrically powered alarm element and a pair of electrical contact switch elements which respond to a deviation of the support member from the predetermined position for switching on the alarm. Prior to use, the assembly is capable of assuming a true vertical position within the box-like support and is thereafter fixed in place so that the normally spaced apart contact elements, when in the predetermined position, are brought into contact with one another upon deviation of the support member from such predetermined position.

Abstract: Apparatus for the storage of hydrogen comprising a fibrous encapsulating material and solid particles of an intermetallic compound capable of reversibly absorbing hydrogen encapsulated in the material, the material being porous to the ingress and egress of hydrogen, but being impervious to the solid particles of the intermetallic compound, and a cylindrical gas tight heat exchange chamber, including an inlet and outlet, enclosing the encapsulated intermetallic compound, the porous, fibrous material being of generally strip form and being spirally wound to form a generally cylindrical body which is housed within the gas tight chamber.

Abstract: A timber drying plant has a drying chamber through which air may be circulated by a fan in a circuit which includes a refrigerating unit. The refrigerant fluid circuit of the unit includes a dehumidification evaporator for outlet air and a condenser in the recycle air flow for returning to the latter least part of the heat extracted by the evaporator. The refrigerant fluid circuit also includes an auxiliary evaporator with control valve means whereby the auxiliary evaporator can be inserted in said fluid circuit so that the refrigerating unit operates as a heat pump absorbing heat from the external atmosphere through the auxiliary evaporator. A supplementary evaporator may also be included in the refrigerating unit and is connectable in parallel with the auxiliary evaporator to increase the heat pump effect. In another position of the control valve means the auxiliary evaporator acts as a condenser in circuit with the dehumidification evaporator to reduce the heating of the recycled air.

Abstract: A drying oven comprises a plurality of superposed endless belt conveyers that feed each to the next lower conveyer. The upper two conveyers are separately fed from individual hoopers; and the third conveyer receives all the material from the upper two. In this way, fruits and vegetables of different sizes can be given different drying times, by running the two upper conveyers at different speeds. A plurality of superposed blowers with selectively adjustable louvers is provided, for regulating the flow of hot air to various of the superposed conveyers; and a fan can blow cooling air horizontally across certain of the conveyers.

Abstract: The devices of the simulation include several individual driving simulators of the same kind, disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 4,077,138 Foerst issued Mar. 7, 1978 being connected to each other via signal lines; each one including computing devices, computing the speed, the parallel track position, the track angle, the sloping position in case of the vehicle being a bike, and the centrifugal acceleration; an interface device transferring the computed data into video signals; a road picture generator; vehicle picture generators; noise generators; an error detection device, and a control device for the simulation of an accident.

Abstract: A teaching device especially suitable for use in teaching reading at the elementary school level. The device, in its preferred form, comprises a lesson sheet on one side of which words are arranged in a preselected pattern. A window card is provided and is adapted to be superimposed on the lesson sheet. One of the windows in the window card has indicia along each of its margins which can be correlated with words on the lesson sheet. When a correct correlation has been made, a correct answer reinforcement in the form of a symbol such as a star appears through another window in the window card. The back of the lesson sheet advantgeously has increments of information arranged thereon in a preselected pattern which correspond to the words appearing on the front of the lesson sheet. The same side of the lesson sheet also provides means for enabling a student to write each of the words appearing on the front of the lesson sheet.

Abstract: A plastic ski boot, comprising a molded shell formed of one solid stock with the sole, an upper insole rigidly situated at the bottom of the shell and above the sole, flexible tightening means taking support on the different faces of the shell, intended to firmly tighten the shell to the foot of a skier, wherein at the level of the heel, at the interior of the space formed between the upper insole and the sole, a rigid member connected to the end of the tightening means which, when it is subjected to a pressure exercised on the rear of the boot by the boltlocking of the rear abutment of the connection of the binding to the boot, exerts on said tightening means a force assuring holding of the foot in the interior of the boot.

Abstract: The end of at least one cable is connected to a float and the other end exerts a tractive effort on one or a number of collecting vehicles which land on the bottom at predetermined points with respect to the point of landing of the ballast which is provided with a pile, anchored in the sea bed, then freed from the float and the vehicle. Means initially secured to the ballast and then detached therefrom serve to convert the upward motion of the float to a displacement of the collecting vehicle along the sea floor.

Abstract: A device for the levelling and profiling of railroad ballast beds has two lateral ploughs, one designed to operate outside each rail. Each lateral plough is identical and comprises a blade connected through a joining member to a main support arm which is movable in a plane substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the track. The support arm is connected to the chassis of the device by means of a hydraulic jack acting at one point on the arm and a double link connected to a second spaced point on the arm. The hydraulic jack is operable to adjust the height of the blade and a further hydraulic jack is connected to the double link to adjust the lateral position of the blade. The arm is preferably of rectangular cross-section and arranged between two lateral supporting walls of the chassis.

Abstract: A plant or garden marker comprising a stake element preferably of plastic material having a stem or shank portion with a sharp point at one end thereof and an enlarged planar mounting surface at the opposite end thereof. An identification member such as a decal is removably applied to the mounting surface and serves to identify plants by means of graphic information or indicia or both. The identification member also can be a sheet element provided with pressure sensitive adhesive. The mounting surface is outlined by a rib-like formation which outlines the location of the identification member. Various identification members can be purchased separately according to different varieties of plants the user intends to grow, and a selected member is affixed to a stake element which then is driven by hand into the ground adjacent the plant or plants to be identified. The same stake element can be used with different identification members simply by removing an old one and replacing it with a new member.

Abstract: A bag including a bag body of net fabric formed by circular knitting from thermoplastic resin monofilament yarns, and a label of thermoplastic resin film affixed to the outer side of the bag body by heat and pressure at specified areas. The label is thermally adhered to the bag body by melting substantially the entire thickness thereof, and partially melting the monofilament yarns on the outer side of the bag body facing the label. The label is thus adhered to the bag with a high degree of stability, thereby assuring that it will not separate from the monofilament yarns.

Abstract: A holding arrangement for translucent pictures in which a curved transparent pane has fitted thereinto a foil. The foil adheres to the pane and fits into the curvature of the pane. The foil is made of elastic transparent material, and pictures are arranged between the foil and the pane. An auxiliary foil may be placed into the first-mentioned foil, and may be made also of an elastic translucent material. A further foil may also be placed between the pane and the first-mentioned foil, and may also be made of translucent material. This further foil of translucent material may be moreover located between the first-mentioned foil of elastic transparent material and the pictures. The pane, on two facing sides running parallel to the longitudinal axis of the curvature, has crimps directed towards the curvature. The crimps engage the foil of transparent or translucent material with two facing sides.

Abstract: A posting device comprising transparent elements fastened parallel to one another to a mounting panel is disclosed. The elements and the panel are preferably made of plastic sheet, to make them flexible, resistant to bad weather and washable. Each element is U-shaped with equal or unequal legs or walls, elastically tilted toward one another, meant to receive strips containing the information to be posted. Adjacent elements are mounted close to each other so that a strip inserted into one of the elements becomes a "captive" thereof. A method to operate the device is also disclosed. It involves lifting the upper wall of an element, inserting the strip containing the information to be posted into the space between the two walls of the element and releasing the lifted wall. Removing the strip is done in an essentially similar fashion. The device can be used to advantage wherever there is a need to post constantly new information.

Abstract: An advantageous and improved construction is provided for a line guiding ring for fishing rods comprising a guide ring a shock ring and a fixed ring, in which a collar is formed on the outer periphery of the upper edge of the shock ring and a seat is formed on the inner periphery of the lower edge thereof. Such a construction renders it possible to lock the guide ring to the shock ring with the seat and the shock ring to the fixed ring with the collar, thereby locking the guide ring to the fixed ring is greatly improved against a one directional force exerted upon the guide ring.

Abstract: This invention comprises a fish holding apparatus especially adapted to hold eels, catfish, and the like, by arranging an elongated box to be supported vertically and having a slide at one end adapted to serve as a cutting board and also having serrated gripping members at one end which coact with a fixed serrated gripping member attached to one side of said end of the box for coaction with the gripping members on the slide. The opposite end of the box also has a foot engageable member to hold the box steady while the slide is being manipulated from an open position in which the fish is extended into the box with the exception of the head and the slide is then moved to engage the head between the serrated members referred to above in order that the mouth of the fish is positioned for removal of the hook therefrom.

Abstract: A toy assembly is presented wherein board means is adapted to receive a plurality of separate light transmitting pegs. The board means generally forms the bottom wall of an enclosure in turn provided with a generally planar cover such that the pegs and other includable portions of the toy may be conveniently stored therein. The inner surface of the cover is provided with a light reflective surface that is upwardly disposed when the cover has been removed and attached to the toy so as to serve as a support for the board means. The board means is disposed at an acute angular relationship to the reflective surface such that light incidence upon said surface is reflected to those peg portions disposed in the board means. This construction eliminates the need of an included light source with the toy as well as forming of a self-contained storage and transport container.

Abstract: An aerodynamic toy having a central portion of circular configuration and a peripherally connecting rim portion. The central portion has a flat top surface while the connected rim portion has a rounded surface. The flat top surface of the central portion is contiguous with the rounded edge portion. The toy is constructed of a soft, flexible, foam material of substantially uniform density.

Abstract: The present invention relates to improvements in facial likenesses or caricatures made of elastomeric materials and reinforced with wire in a manner such that the facial position can be manipulated to selectively alter the expression or appearance thereof and is particularly concerned with an improved eye socket structure and reinforcement therefor.

Abstract: A group of topiary framing members, each carried separately by a planter or flower pot, the pots or planters slideably assembled into a group for contiguous support, one planter by the next. The exposed parts of each plant have a color distinct from an adjacent plant and are supported by a planter separable from the group for trimming to a selected shape provided by the topiary framing member, so that the assembly of topiary frames and plants thereon forms a composite design of trimmed shape, each individual plant of the assembly growing from a separate planter. The group of composite framing members are in the form of an ornamental object, such as animal or person or other, having the appearance of an ornamental single statuary composite, and the plants thereof grow as a group while their planters are separable easily for trimming of the plants, such as slideably, and are then reassembled into the ornamental composite.

Abstract: A rooting media in the form of a resilient, integral body of spongy open-celled hydrophilic polymer forming a first essentially continuous phase extending throughout the body and having passages therethrough forming a second essentially continuous phase extending throughout the body, a quantity of particles of soil mixture distributed throughout the body of spongy polymer and held thereby with a substantial portion of the surface area of the particles of soil mixture exposed and in communication with the passages, the exposed particles of soil mixture providing colloidal contact exchange surfaces in communication with the passages and having collectively a porosity maintenance capacity and a water holding capacity and an ion exchange capacity and a pH buffering capacity; also disclosed is a method of making such a body of rooting media, as well as a release agent useful in that method; there further is disclosed a particular form of rooting media for use in propagation by air layering and a method of propagat

Abstract: In a chamber for cultivating plant growth, a plurality of light fixtures are employed, each containing a high intensity discharge lamp. The bulb of the lamp serves as an inner transparent wall and a globe functions as an outer transparent wall. In the space between the bulb and globe water is caused to flow in order to remove unwanted radiation and heat generated by each lamp before the radiation is transmitted into the growth chamber.

Abstract: A window structure adapted for easy placement in and removal from a conventional window frame. The window structure includes a generally planar, rectangular window pane constructed of glass, acrylic resin, or the like. Also included are four frame members, each having a slot extending longitudinally therein to receive the edge of the window pane. Two of the frame members are dimensioned for placement on the top and bottom edge of the window pane and the other two frame members are dimensioned for placement on either side edge of the window pane. An elongate, wire element formed with a plurality of bends is placed in the slot of each frame member to bias the frame member away from the edge of the window pane and against periphery defining walls of the window frame to securely hold the window structure therein. The window pane includes four apertures each located near a different edge of the pane about midway along the lengths thereof.

Abstract: There is disclosed a channel-shaped sealing strip incorporating a metal carrier covered with flexible material, the metal carrier comprising a series of side-by-side U-shaped elements each of which is connected to the next element by at least one connecting link. At least during the manufacturing process for the strip, adjacent elements are also connected by at least one other connection whose thickness is reduced compared with the connecting link and with the remainder of the metal; these other connections may, and advantageously do, break during the manufacturing process so that, in the finished strip, each U-shaped element is connected to the next element by the connecting link but is also spaced therefrom by distance pieces formed from the broken-off connections.

Abstract: It is desirable to provide a relatively coarse finish at one end of an inner cylindrical wall of a cylinder or a cylinder liner and a relatively finer finish towards another end of said inner cylinder wall. A honing member is provided for rotation and oscillation in contact with the inner cylinder walls. A first section of the honing member has a relatively coarse grit surface and a second section of the honing member has a relatively fine grit surface. The abovementioned oscillation and rotation of such a honing member comprises an improved method for honing a cylindrical wall.

Abstract: Apparatus is disclosed for the surface sanding and fine finishing of contoured workpieces of wood or other similar fibrous material. A rotatable disc-like member having a contoured working surface is provided with surface recesses to accommodate a mating spider which affixes a sheet of abrasive material to the working surface. By matching the contour of the working surface with that of the workpiece, rotational contact results in a fine finish, especially in end-grain areas.

Abstract: A tridimensional modular parts assembly for constructing buildings employing first, second and third modules, each formed by a prismatic body of rectangular base with rectangular perimetral walls extended perpendicularly to a corresponding base having formed holes therethrough. The second modules, coupable to the first modules formed by a rectangular base, with one of its longer sides having a length equal to that of the base of said first modules and a perimetral ring perpendicular to the base projecting from the edges of the base. There are substantially planar members perpendicular to the ring provided with holes therethrough so that they match the holes corresponding to those of the first modules. The third modules are coupable to the first modules, and are formed by a frustropiramidal casing, the larger base of which is substantially equally dimentioned as the base of the first modules. The casing is surrounded at its larger base by a skirt forming a perimetral gutter therewith.

Abstract: A post for traffic signs, electrical or telephone lines, lighting fittings and the like adapted to have minimum resistance when being hit by vehicles and the like, but sufficient stability under normal conditions, having a pipe with a series of intermittently arranged longitudinal, longish and scattered weakened slot-like portions and a covering layer enclosing the pipe and circumferentially stabilizing the pipe portions separated by the weakened portions.

Abstract: The present invention relates to sectional tower structures for most effective use as supporting structures of tall smoke stacks exceeding 250 m in height. Said structure comprises a reinforced-concrete lattice framework made in the form of an one-sheet hyperboloid and constituted by intersecting inclined straight uprights consisting of individual elements. These elements are provided longitudinally with prestressed reinforcement strands anchored in the bands located at the points of maximum convergence of the adjacent uprights. The number of said uprights diminishes from tier to tier and the uprights constituting each corresponding tier except the 1st one, are a straight extension of a part of the uprights of the underlying tiers.

Abstract: A crash rail for mounting on a wall or the like to absorb impacts comprises mounting clips fastened at intervals to the wall, an elongated crash member of a resilient, impact-resistant polymeric material fastened to the clips, and an elongated structural back-up member mounted on the clips between the front wall of the crash member and the wall. A longitudinally continuous impact cushion is interposed between the structural back-up member and the inner face of the front wall of the crash member and permits deformation of the front wall of the crash member, but limits the degree of such deformation, and absorbs part of the energy of an impact to the crash member.

Abstract: An inside and outside corner for construction material used as siding, roofing, paneling and the like. The corner in its natural position has a diameter (depth) sufficient to accommodate siding material with an insulating backing. The corner piece has a stress yield joint for compression to a diameter (depth) to be sized to siding material with no backing material. In a first alternative embodiment, for particular adaptation to plastic siding, the yield joint further comprises interlocking means to retain the corner in position when plastic siding with no backing is utilized.

Abstract: A joint between roof panels of the type comprising inner and outer skins connected in shear-transferring relation by an insulating core. The joint comprises male and female marginal connecting means formed along the upper edges of adjacent side walls presented by the outer skins of adjacent panels. The male and female connecting means are inter-nested, the female connecting means is bent, that is, closed about the male connecting means thereby to provide a primary interlocking connection of the standing seam type. A sealant engaging the male and female connecting means provides a primary weathertight seal at the exposed surface of the roof structure. Complementary mating elements may be formed along adjacent inner edges of the adjacent composite panels to provide a second connection at the interior face of the roof structure.

Abstract: A wall structure is composed of interlocked components which are joined together by pivoting one component relative to the next until the two components snap into interlocking engagement. The components may take the form of wall panels, corner posts, wireways, or the like. In the case of wall panels, each has a side member that includes a web along the side edge of the panel and flanges projecting outwardly from the web. One flange on each web is a pivot flange and the pivot flange of the one side member has a rib, while the pivot flange on the connected side member has a groove which receives the rib. This enables the two side members as well as the wall panels of which they are part, to pivot relative to each other about an axis that is fixed with respect to those wall panels. One of the side members also has a retaining flange which projects outwardly from its web, while the other side member has a connecting flange which projects outwardly from its web.

Abstract: A framing bracket for use in forming wall to wall connections such as "Tee" and "Corner Post" connections in for example house building using wooden building studs and sheet wall construction is comprised of a rectangular base member having a pair of side walls each, side wall connected along a portion of the base plate length. The side walls extend to the approximate central portion of the rectangular base member and provide respectively a pair of connected stop plates which are inwardly depending. The stop plates in combination with the side walls and a portion of the rectangular base plate member form a first partial enclosure for receiving the tip of a conventional building stud thereinto for connection by means of nails or the like. Typically, the upper or lower longitudinal stud of a framed stud wall will occupy this first partial enclosure during a "Tee" or "corner post" connection. (See FIGS. 5 and 6).

Abstract: An improved joint for end-to-end connection of elongated concrete elements by means of coupling members and connecting elements. The coupling member comprises a sleeve section intended to be threaded on or otherwise secured to reinforcement rods of the elongated concrete elements, such as concrete piles, to be joined together, and a tube section, preferably provided with a head. The connecting element is arranged to engage the stub sections of two oppositely disposed coupling members, thus joining together the elongated elements associated therewith.