Abstract: The disclosure is of a cathode ray tube having a face plate for displaying information and carrying an electrode assembly which is curved to couple intimately to the face plate. The electrode assembly includes a shield against radio frequency interference and an insulating support sheet having an inner surface and an outer surface, on each of which an array of rows and columns of conductive areas is formed. On the inner surface, the rows of conductive areas are electrically connected together to output contact pads at a side edge of the sheet, and, on the outer surface, the columns of conductive areas are electrically connected together to output contact pads along the lower edge of the sheet. Each outer conductive area overlies and is capacitively coupled to an inner conductive area. A column conductor which extends from a contact pad at an edge of the outer surface of the sheet is capacitively coupled to each column of outer conductive areas.

Abstract: An apparatus for cutting a tying band of a coiled material comprising a cutter for cutting the tying band, and pinch rollers for pinching and transferring the tying band after it is cut out. The cut comprises a lower cutter and a pair of upper cutters pivotally mounted on the lower cutter. The lower cutter is connected to a hydraulic cylinder and adapted to be moved up and down along a guide which is obliquely mounted to a base member by the actuation of the hydraulic cylinder. The tying band is being cut out between the lower cutter and the upper cutters.

Abstract: A process is disclosed for making a bent metal tube having a metal-ceramic liner for thermally and acoustically insulating the tube. A generally straight metal tube is first lined with a metal grid before bending the tube to a desired shape. Heating of the grid and a ceramic slurry coated thereon forms the slurry into a monolithic ceramic body with the metal grid embedded therein so that the resultant liner provides a durable thermal and acoustic insulation for the tube. Insulated tubes for internal combustion engine exhaust systems are advantageously made by this process with the liner positioned within the tube to provide heat conservation, lower under-hood temperatures, lower noise, and longer tube life as well as allowing the use of lower grade and lighter gauge metal for the tube. The ceramic slurry is disclosed as being coated on the grid before the grid is inserted into the tube, after the insertion but before the bending, or after the insertion and the bending.

Abstract: A clutch spring compressor tool for use in removing an annular clutch piston from the interior of a tubular transmission housing by axially moving the clutch piston to compress circumferentially spaced axially extending springs, normally urging it into a first position away from that first position, to a second position, to create a space to gain access to remove a C-ring spring captivatingly securing the clutch piston within the tubular housing; wherein the tool is composed of a base sized to overlay one end of the transmission housing and it includes a fixed upstanding threaded shaft to extend into the tubular housing and through the clutch piston; and wherein it further includes a ring body movable along the shaft and the ring body has a pusher surface sized to overlay and register with a depressible keeper ring normally holding the clutch piston in the first axial position; and an operator threadably engaged on the shaft for applying axial pressure to the ring body to axially move it and thereby the keepe

Abstract: A method of repairing a joint between a tube and a tube plate comprising removing an end portion of the tube and replacing it with a connector explosively welded to the tube and the plate.

Abstract: A top-drive filling spindle having wear on its tapered tip can advantageously be retipped by cutting the worn tip thereoff up to a predetermined point thereon; boring a hole into the middle of said cut spindle tip; placing a male through hardened replacement tip in said hole; securing the tip thereon; and, grinding the thusly secured sleeve to the standard taper for top-drive filling spindles. With the application of the through hardened sleeve, it is anticipated that spindle wear would not occur for perhaps six to twelve years or more--a two to three fold increase over the life of spindles currently used by those skilled in the art.

Abstract: There is provided a tubular connector or the like comprising a socket like means and an annular elastic sealing member to be fitted into the socket in pressing contact with the inner peripheral surface thereof. To assist in the assembly of the sealing member internally of said socket the socket and sealing member is each provided with a plurality of marks spaced apart circumferentially thereof in corresponding relation to the other. The sealing member is fitted into the socket by inserting the sealing member into the socket with the marks on the sealing member set to the corresponding marks on the socket and pressing any slack portions or depressed portions of the member against the socket radially inwardly peripheral surface, whereby the sealing member is secured in uniform pressing contact with the said socket inner surface over the entire outer periphery of the sealing member.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a diamond tool having a shank, comprising accurately arranging a diamond chip on an upper surface of a base body in such a manner that the cutting edge of the chip projects from the end of the body by a predetermined distance, provisionally securing the chip to the upper surface of the body by means of an adhesive, fitting the body and an insert having an exposed clayish fixture in a U-shaped channel of a lower die to penetrate and position the cutting edge portion of the chip into the fixture of the insert, passing an upper die against the lower die after the fixture is cured, charging a predetermined amount of powder metals into a vertical hole formed in the upper die, pressurizing the powder metals by a press rod which is inserted in the vertical hole while heating the upper and lower dies in order to sinter the powder metals on the upper surface of the body and in the U-shaped channel of the lower die, thereby to rigidly fix the chip to the body, and shaping the body so as to pr

Abstract: A metal ladder is fabricated from a pair of spaced rails in which the rails have web portions which are provided at spaced intervals with inwardly directed embossments. Each of these embossments has an opening into which one end of a tubular rung is inserted and swaged to the rail. The embossments act as ribs to carry the load toward the flanges constituting the stiffer portions of the rail thereby increasing the strength and effectively reducing the web flexure and angle changes between the rungs and the rails, due to sideward forces in ladder use. By reason of the built in stiffness web thickness may be reduced resulting in savings in materials. Additionally, intermediate these embossments, just described, the web portion of each rail is formed with one or more outwardly directed embossments.

Abstract: A multiple stage press of the type having a plurality of punches and dies mounted in substantially parallel planar die sets and including a tool changing mechanism comprising a magazine for holding the tools, a transfer mechanism movable for carrying tools from the magazine to the die sets and from the die sets to the magazine, the transfer mechanism including a gripper arm pivotable about an axis inclined relative to the planes of the die sets, the gripper arm being mounted on a slide so as to be rectilinearly movable parallel to the planes of the die sets, whereby a tool carried by the gripper arm may be positioned between the die sets.

Abstract: A process for forming planar liquid crystal matrix array chips including the steps of electro-plating a conductive material over a smoothing layer thereby filling the contact holes with conductive material or alternatively placing a photoresist over the micro circuit, electroplating over the photo resist, which is then dissolved leaving conductive posts. The smoothing material is applied around the posts and the surface then polished, made flat and reflecting electrodes attached.

Abstract: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for accommodating at least one winding comprising at least one coil and a stator assembly including a magnetic core having axially extending insulated slots. One method involves confining a portion of leading end turns of the at least one coil and axially inserting side turns of the at least one coil into respective slots of the magnetic core by moving the confined portion of the leading end turns axially through a bore of the magnetic core and by moving transitional segments of the leading end turns axially along their respective slot entrances communicating with the bore. The method further includes guiding the side turns, which hang freely and trail the confined portion of the leading end turns, into their respective slots by displacing the side turns toward the bore prior to their entry into their respective slots.

Abstract: When it is not possible to place magnets into their final assembly before magnetizing them, the performance of high energy magnetic materials having a nonlinear demagnetization characteristic at room temperature is improved by heating the magnetic material, magnetizing the heated magnetic material and then placing the resulting heated magnetic into its final assembly and letting it cool to room temperature.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for making an encapsulated electrically conducting component is provided. A wire is placed across a mold cavity for forming substantially one-half of the component body. A substantially flat-surfaced second mold having a groove is placed against a first mold to hold the wire in the groove and in alignment with respect to the cavity of the first mold while fluid plastic material is injected therein to encapsulate a substantially semi-cylindrical surface portion of the wire and form one-half of the conducting component body. Next, a third mold is placed against the first mold. The third mold has a cavity defining substantially the remaining half of the component body. The fluid plastic is injected through the first mold and into the cavity in the third mold to form a completed, composite molded body.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing plastic bonded electrodes and battery plates, having a preselected porosity. The electrodes and battery plates are adapted for use in electro-chemical power sources. A loose active mass is mixed with a plastic material and a plasticizing and/or pore forming agent. The mixture is homogenized and thereafter rolled onto a metallic current collector so that a plastic skeleton is formed thereon or therein. The active mass then reacts with an electrolyte so as to act as a two-phase electrode.

Abstract: Detachably mounted on a sliding table are a plurality of part tape or belt feed units each of which intermittently feeds to a lead wire cutting station a part tape or belt holding a large number of parts of the same type, each of which has lead wires extended in opposite directions and coaxially of a main body of the part and attached adjacent to their ends to parallel strips of tape or belt in equidistantly spaced apart relationship with the lead wires of the adjacent parts. The sliding table moves in either direction so that the desired part tape or belt feed unit is moved to a part feed position at which the desired part tape or belt feed unit feeds the part to the cutting station. At the cutting station a cutter unit cuts off from the part tape or belt the lead wires of the part, thereby separating therefrom the part having lead wires of a predetermined length, and the lead wires are bent in the same direction.

Abstract: A speed control subassembly is made by providing a generally flat heat sink plate having a laterally-formed collector strip at its upper edge. A double-sided-adhesive insulator tape strip is stuck to the heat sink, this tape having a hole large enough to receive a thyristor chip so that the thyristor anode contacts the heat sink with solder paste therebetween. Two formed terminal strips extending in opposite directions are stuck to the tape so that one contacts the cathode and the other contacts the gate of the thyristor chip with solder paste therebetween. A chip capacitor is placed across the terminal strips with solder paste therebetween. A small force is applied to the capacitor and then heat is applied to the stack of parts to solder the parts together and to the heat sink and to set the adhesive resin. This subassembly is then placed into a trigger switch housing and connected to the contacts and variable resistor thereof to provide a trigger speed control switch for portable tools.

Abstract: A tool for facilitating the insertion of an electrical contact into a contact receiving bore of a resilient electrical connector together with a unitary control mechanism for such a tool. The tool has bore enlarging means including a sleeve and a rod coaxially aligned within the sleeve for insertion into the bore of the connector for enlargement thereof. The tool also includes a unitary control mechanism operatively associated therewith which enables relative movement between the sleeve and the rod. The unitary control mechanism includes spring release means which in a first position resists rearward movement of the sleeve and the rod, in a second position permits rearward movement of the rod but resists rearward movement of the sleeve, and again in the first position permits rearward movement of the sleeve for relative sequential movement between the sleeve and the rod.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for loading film cassettes, in particular Super 8 Cassettes, with a film and a spool at the end thereof, wherein the loading device comprises means for conforming the said loop of film in shape to the shape of the narrow passages, and means for pushing the film so conformed sideways into the cassette.

Abstract: An improved twin blade razor system having a unitary member positioned between the pair of blades for both spacing the blades and ejecting shaving debris from that space. The unitary member, which may conveniently be of injection molded plastic, includes a spacer portion, an ejector portion, and biasing means connecting the ejector portion and the spacer portion for biasing the ejector portion to a normally retracted position relative to the blades and spacer. The ejector portion extends across in front of but is substantially discontinuous behind the spacer portion, resulting in a compact front-to-rear configuration for the unitary member which may be housed in a relatively compact twin blade system. The ejector portion is manually displaceable to an advanced ejecting position. The biasing portion may be one or more beam springs connected and configured to reduce distortion and/or stressing of the relatively moving portions of the member during actuation.

Abstract: An improved scoring tool has a uniquely configured tip arranged to be inserted into a cooperative recess provided in a pistol-shaped handle. The handle has an upper tip-holding portion, and a graspable portion extending downwardly away from the tip-holding portion. The front surface of the graspable portion is provided with a plurality of undulations to accommodate the fingers of an operator grasping the handle with a prehensile grip. The improved tip is provided with a sharpened point formed by the mutual intersection of four surfaces. A modified tip is provided with a glass-cutting wheel. The shape of the handle allows the operator to maintain adequate control, while exerting greater downward pressures to more deeply and clearly score sheet material.

Abstract: An elongate handle extends upwardly rearward from a frame which carries a forwardly extending boom. A motor carried by the frame rotatably drives a cutter head assembly at the free end of the boom. The frame is supported by a rearwardly located pair of wheels and a forward wheel assembly, the latter being vertically and pivotally adjustable for control of the cutter head assembly. The cutter head assembly is also pivotally adjustable about the longitudinal axis of the boom in response a rotatable hand grip at the free end of the handle. Lock means are provided to retain the wheel assembly and the cutter head assembly in selective positions.

Abstract: A package opening arrangement comprised of a body member having a lower portion and an upper portion spaced a predetermined distance therefrom and an end portion coupling first ends of the upper portion and the lower portion together. The upper portion overlies the lower portion and a section thereof is substantially coextensive with the lower portion. The second end of the upper portion is provided with a package cutting means which may be a point. Limit means are provided on the lower portion for limiting the insertion of the second end of the upper portion into the package to be opened.

Abstract: A razor for wet shaving which is connected to an aspirating device wherein running water creates a suction adjacent the cutting edge of a razor blade for instant removal and transport of severed beard and lather to the stream of running water and also to pull the shaver's skin into tighter conformity with the head of the razor.

Abstract: A two-part stress-reliever employs a first member supporting an upright flange and a second member bifurcated and straddling said flange. An elongated slot in the flange receives a pass-through pivot pin carried by the second member and said slot also includes a resilient body biasing the pivot pin to its normal unstressed position in said slot.

Abstract: A dowel pin for removably mounting a dental model cast relative to a base cast, the dowel pin being a two-part structure to define a head portion and a shank portion extending therefrom, where the portions are threadedly engaged together in an axial alignment with each other. The head portion is adapted to be fixedly secured in the dental model cast so that the exposed end thereof is flush with a flat surface of the dental model cast. The shank portion is adapted to be removably insertable into a complimentary opening provided in the base cast, preferably with a sleeve member being provided in the opening to slidably receive the shank portion therein. The portions are selectively engageable and disengageable from each other whether or not the model cast is mounted upon the base cast. Accordingly, the dental model cast can easily be cut into segments after the head portion is secured therein.

Abstract: A dental tool such as a drill, burr, anchor and the like which is receivable in a dental hand piece for operative positioning thereof with respect to the teeth of a patient, the dental tool having a body member provided with an operative end portion for association with the teeth and a shank extending from the operative end portion for association with the hand piece. The head portion of the shank is provided with a first arrangement including a flat surface to provide driving engagement between the shank and the hand piece, and a circumferential groove for receiving a latching member of the hand piece for removably engaging the shank in the hand piece. A second similar arrangement is spaced downwardly on the head portion, where additional arrangements may be provided on the shank downwardly along the head portion as desired to provide a series of locations for driving and latching the shank in the hand piece.

Abstract: A novel dental surveyor for use in analyzing and working upon dental models is disclosed. The surveyor contains one or more vertical tools, such as marking tools, wax relieving tools and tapered tools. Rotation of a spindle received within a sleeve about its longitudinal axis, combined with horizontal sliding of tool housings upon tool support means attached to said spindle, allows the tools to contact the entire surface of a dental model while always remaining oriented in the vertical direction. The surveyor may also be equipped with e.g. a grinding or drilling tool and means for locking such a tool against horizontal movement while in use.

Abstract: A dress pattern adapted from a master pattern that is of variable size and has a bodice section and a skirt section which are separate but adjacent one another. The pattern is based on the concept of graded measurements at the periphery of the pattern. With the exception of the center front section, the pattern is characterized by having a center front section, a front neckline, a shoulder seam, a front armhole, an underarm seam and a bust dart. The skirt section itself is characterized by the addition of graded measurements on each section.

Abstract: A device for measuring the length of a string of well pipe as it is run into or pulled from a well bore and for counting the number of pipe collars connecting the pipe sections together includes a support frame having an opening therethrough for accommodating a pipe string. A laterally moveable carriage is mounted on the frame. A measuring wheel and a roller are connected to the carriage. Tension springs connect the roller to the carriage for urging the roller and measuring wheel into engagement with the well pipe and pipe collars. An actuator is connected to the roller for registering lateral movement of the roller. Recoil springs connect the carriage and the frame for absorbing the force of the shock caused by contact of the measuring wheel with the pipe collars and means are connected to the measuring wheel to convert rotational travel of the wheel to the length of the pipe string measured.

Abstract: A tape measure equipped with a stopper which stops a rule when the rule drawn into a case by an elastic force is pulled out from the case is disclosed. In this tape measure, by a button-pushing operation, a pressing piece of the stopper is caused to slide in the direction vertical to the rule, and the pressing piece is held and maintained in the state where the pressing piece has pressing contact with the rule or in the state where the pressing piece is separated from the rule.

Abstract: An improvement in micro-calipers including a main beam, a mount slidably mounted on the main beam, a dial gage carried by the mount, a rack bar mounted on the main beam which has a toothed marginal portion, a pinion mounted on the dial gage which engages with the rack bar, a disc mounted on the gage which has a plurality of electrically conducting and concentrically disposed projections, an electrically conducting pointer coupled to the pinion and rotatable over the projections, a first lead in sliding electrical contact with the pointer, and a second lead in electrical contact with the projections. The leads are attached to first and second contacts of a calculator result-key or the like, so that a predetermined longitudinal displacement of the mount with respect to the main beam from a first position to a second position results in a predetermined number of interruptions in conductivity between the leads.

Abstract: To draw lines in a direction leading to a point it is necessary to locate the ruling edge of a common ruler or straight-edge on the fixed point each time such a thin line is drawn, and in the case of thick lines care has to be taken to put the ruling edge away from the fixed point by a distance equal to one-half the thickness of the line to be drawn.When the fixed point is a comparatively long distance away necessitating the manipulation of a long and hence cumbersome straight-edge, the process becomes tedious and laborious and tends to lack in accuracy.The invented ruler with its telescopic and rotating action combined with its aligning device is intended to facilitate the accurate and quick drawing of such lines.

Abstract: PCT No. PCT/US 79/00076 Sec. 371 Date Feb. 12, 1979 Sec. 102(e) Date Feb. 12, 1979, PCT Filed Feb. 12, 1979, Ser. No. 30,391.A displacement transducer (1) has a housing (12) with an opening (14) and an input rod (22) which extends from the housing (12) through the opening (14). A roller assembly (32) is positioned within the housing (12) and is associated with the input rod (22). A vibrating reed (42) is fastened to the housing (12) and the roller assembly (32) is in contact with the reed (42). As the input rod (22) is displaced, the roller assembly (32) moves and changes the vibrating length of the reed (42) and the natural vibratory frequency of the reed (42). Thus, a change in rod (22) displacement causes a change in the vibratory frequency of the reed (42).

Abstract: The invention pertains to a measuring set for determination of the sagittal depth and the average central curvature of soft contact lenses which consists of two measuring units based on the principle of depth gauges and the common electronic indication part. The apparatus serves for rapid and inexpensive selection of the correct contact lens according to the shape and peculiarities of the patient eye. Each measuring unit consists of a fixed part formed by a support plate, a stable conductive hollow screw, and a coaxially fitted conductor insulated from the screw and protruding above the insulation, and a movable part formed by a conductive nut bearing an insulation bushing for the protruding conductor and a scale and put on the screw.

Abstract: A device is provided for sensing the magnitude and direction of angular departures of a towing vehicle from a path which will bring a hitch mounted thereon into engageable relationship with a hitch mounted on a trailer, for registering the changing distance between such hitches, and for indicating the angular values and direction of such departures and the distance between hitches to an operator of the towing vehicle. The construction permits approach of the towing vehicle toward the trailer from any access angle without requiring adjustment of the device for different angles of approach and without introducing error. Automatic scale expansion of the distance indication occurs as the distance between the vehicles shortens.

Abstract: A combined distance and gradient gauging device is disclosed, including a base member, and at least one arm member slideably connected with said base member for parallel longitudinal displacement between collapsed and fully extended positions relative thereto, respectively, characterized in that the arm member is manually displaceable between a plurality of predetermined longitudinally displaced intermediate positions, relative to the base member so that the remote end extremities of the base and arm members are spaced at corresponding predetermined gauge distances, respectively.

Abstract: Steam curable agglomerates of particulate material are cured by passing steam at elevated temperature and pressure through a bed of such agglomerates in an autoclave. The flow direction of the steam through the bed is periodically reversed, at least during the temperature raising period of the autoclaving process, to reduce the autoclaving time and produce cured agglomerates of substantially uniform quality.

Abstract: A mechanical refrigeration system is arranged to function as a heat pump for the purpose of drying material, such as shelled corn for example, with ambient air being first passed through the refrigerant condenser to be heated, then passed through the material to be dried, and then passed through the refrigerant evaporator and discharged back to atmosphere.

Abstract: An apparatus for scavenging condensate from the interior of a cylinder, such as a drying cylinder of a papermaking machine, which is heated by means of condensable medium. The apparatus comprises a siphon arranged in the cylinder and forming a mainly radial passage. One end of the passage opens in the vicinity of the inner circumferential surface of the cylinder while the other end of the passage is in communication with a condensate scavenging pipe which extends along the cylinder axis and is in communication with a region outside the cylinder to scavenge condensate from the interior of the cylinder. The passage formed by the siphon is composed of a plurality of parallel and mutually delimited part passages. A pressure difference sensing means is arranged in the cylinder to sense the difference between the pressure in the cylinder and respectively a pressure depending upon the pressure drop in the siphon and a preset reference pressure.

Abstract: An apparatus for drying particulate material includes an elongate housing having a chamber therein. A drum is positioned in the housing and has opposite ends thereof extending through open ends of the housing. The drum is mounted for rotation about its longitudinal axis. The exterior surface of the drum and the interior surface of the housing are spaced apart and form an annular space adapted for flow of heating medium therealong. An inlet opens into the annular space and is directed for introducing heating medium in a generally tangential direction relative to the annular space such that the heating medium flows in a generally vortex manner along the length of the annular space to the outlet. A tube is positioned in the drum and extends along a major portion of the length of the drum. The tube is in flow communication with the annular space for receiving heating medium therefrom.

Abstract: In regenerating an adsorbent by eliminating water and an adsorbed matter which are contained therein, the adsorbent is indirectly heated while descending within a drying furnace and is indirectly heated while ascending within a regenerating furnace in order to prevent the adsorbent from scattering due to water vapor and the adsorbed gas separated by the heating of the adsorbent and to prevent the adsorbent from burning itself due to heat.

Abstract: An apparatus for circulating high temperature air at approximately 20,000 cubic feet per minute through an enclosed room in which fruit are stacked in sweat boxes on pallets. A fan draws the heated air from a heat source into a plurality of inlet ports at the bottom of the housing. A damper position at each of the inlet ports deflects the hot air entering the drying room upwardly between the stacks of containers in the drying room and the corresponding side wall of the housing towards said top, the hot air passing between the top of the stacks of containers in the room and the top of the housing, and down between the stacks of containers in the room and the opposite side wall of the housing. A recirculating port in the first-named side wall through which the fan draws the air from the opposite side wall between the individual containers in the stacks and across the fruit within the containers and back to the inlet of said source.

Abstract: A sealing device for sealing the gap between two spaced, adjacent surfaces is disclosed. The device comprises an inflatable flexible hose disposed within the gap and which, when inflated, completely fills the gap to effect a seal. The hose may be secured to one of the surfaces and will, when evacuated, lie substantially flat against this surface in an unobtrusive position.

Abstract: Scheme and knowledge trainer apparatus for teaching trainees sortation scheme and knowledge items and skill for sorting such as mail sorting and the like, comprising an electronic sortation training console having a switch panel depicting plural horizontal rows and vertical columns of sort blocks symbolizing discrete sort locations each having a touch sensing switch and changeable indicia strips for providing the sort blocks with legends denoting sort location titles therefor. A visual projector is provided for receiving a training film having frames for successively displaying lesson information on a viewing screen depicting sort location legends correlated with the legends on the console blocks and having apparatus for producing correct location signals denoting the correct console sort block location for the displayed legends.

Abstract: An electronic teaching aid including a circuit board having a plurality of numbered rows for possible questions and a plurality of circles to indicate a plurality of possible answers for the question in each row. A probe is inserted in the circle selected as the answer, and in doing so perforates a covering sheet. If the answer is correct or incorrect the probe completes an electrical circuit, thereby producing an output to light a light, ring a bell, activate a counter, or whatever desired.

Abstract: Method and apparatus are disclosed for determining the extent of mutuality as between partners in respect to a given question involving a form of multiple choice answer. The partners initially consider the question and multiple choice answer selection. The partners then, privately and in turn, record their answer on a comparator instrument. The instrument is then actuated to invoke a signal indicating the extent of mutuality with respect to the question. The apparatus is a calculator-type instrument having memory storage capacity for sequentially receiving the answer from the respective partners. Upon actuation, the instrument compares the answers and invokes the signal indication.

Abstract: A device suitable for use in a game and method for the education, enhancement and therapy of occular, motor, and occular-motor skills, wherein the device comprises an elevated reservoir containing inscribed elements which can be selectively released through at least one perforation to a plurality of sloping chutes connected beneath the reservoir, and including a lower terminus of the chutes and inscribed racks which permit a subject to move the elements to detents in the racks. The method comprises the steps of examining the elements selectively released from the reservoir, determining a substantially identical or analogous inscription on a rack, and placement of each element released in turn thereon.

Abstract: It is known for sports shoes, particularly golf shoes, to have carriers anchored in their soles for receiving replaceable studs provided with screw-threaded connecting portions. The invention provides a carrier of plastics material having an internally-threaded tubular body open at at least its lower end. The sole is moulded around the preformed carrier. The carrier has retaining formations to anchor it in the sole. The retaining formations comprise outwardly directed fins. That part of each fin adjacent to the body extends lengthwise, while the outer parts are less extensive and are interconnected by integral linking means, such as an annulus. The body portion extends beyond the linking means. In use the sole material envelopes the fins and the linking means.

Abstract: In a ski boot designed to be put on from the rear, the foot-retaining system, located within a rigid shell, on a level with the metatarsus, comprises securing means consisting of two straps. One end of each strap is secured to the shell in the vicinity of the sole of the boot. The foot-retaining system is also provided with an adjustable tension device consisting of a bolt accessible from outside the boot, and nuts. A boot according to the present invention assures satisfactory foot retention in the metatarsal area, distributes the necessary pressure over all or part of the metatarsus, and allows the skier to adjust the loads which he applies.