Abstract: A solderless electrical connector comprising a printed circuit board and electrical contact terminals mounted therein. A printed circuit board is fabricated to the construction stage wherein conductive circuitry interconnects plated through holes formed therethrough. The exposed circuitry and plated through holes are covered with a conformal coating of insulative material which seals the outer surfaces of the conductive materials from the environment and its effects. The insulative coating obviates the need for solder to protect the conductive materials as well as precludes the use of solder for electrical interconnection therewith. The plated through holes are constructed for press fit insertion of contact terminals in tight frictional engagement therein. The press fit insertion of a contact having an angular edge portion effectively penetrates the insulative coating by deforming it away from that portion of the plated through hole brought to bear against the contact.

Abstract: A standardized access card is formed of a single or a pair of bonded sheets of material including a cavity within which is disposed an integrated circuit assembly for processing electrical signals arranged within the card. The thickness of the assembly is relatively smaller than the thickness of the card and terminal areas of the assembly are accessible through cut-outs in the card which may be open or plugged with conductive material. The card may be formed in a continuous process from a plurality of strips of material which separately provide the card material, the integrated circuit assembly and a cover for the device of the circuit assembly.

Abstract: The method for making a takeout, at a junction point on an electric cable covered by a continuous insulating sleeve, involves joining a conductor element at the junction by frictionally inserting the conductor element through a small opening at the selected point in the sleeve. The conductor element makes contact mechanically and electrically with a portion of the electric cable so that the contact surface is covered by the sleeve along the longitudinal direction. The portion of the conductor element extending outside of the electric cable can be bent to provide the desired takeout. Two conductor elements can be so inserted through said opening, in opposite longitudinal directions, and the external portions thereof mechanically and electrically joined together to form the desired takeout. Such electric junction can be improved by twisting and then soldering the external portions of the conductor elements.

Abstract: This invention relates to a plate wrapping machine for storage batteries. It comprises an embosser for embossing a flat microporous sheet pulled from a supply reel to obtain a storage battery separator, a plate projector for separating and projecting plates one by one out of a hopper, a separator supplier for supplying the above mentioned embossed separator so as to intersect rectangularly with the projected plate and a separator sealing means for sealing the side parts of the embossed separator folded into two to wrap the plate, and wherein the respective components are operatively connected with one another in an on-line operation.The present invention has an advantage that a storage battery plate can be wrapped with an embossed separator quickly at a high efficiency by saving labor so that the cost of the product may be reduced.

Abstract: A plurality of pins (24) held at opposite ends by carrier strip (48 and 50) is positioned within a pin applicator (54) where the pins are moved into nests (66) of a stationary jaw (56). As the pins (24) are moved by a movable jaw (58) into the nests (66), the carrier strip (48) engages a stripper bar (70) to separate the strip from the pins. A flared surface (88) of the movable jaw (58) engages portions of the pins (24) to position the pins axially with respect to planar aligned surfaces (68) of the stationary jaw (56). The movable jaw (58) then clamps the pins (24) within the nests (66).The strip (50) is separated from the pins (24) and the stationary and movable jaws (56 and 58) are moved to insert portions of the clamped pins into apertures (26) of a board (22).

Abstract: A hair cutting appliance includes a hair handling and vacuuming device having a hair passageway extending through the device from a forward intake portion to a rearward exhaust portion thereof. A barber's shear is positioned fixedly with respect to the device to have its cutting teeth disposed transversely of an intermediate portion of the hair passageway. A vacuum cleaner hose is attached to the rearward portion of the hair handling device. The hair handling device includes a first inclined hair ramp disposed between a forward edge of the forward portion of the device and the barber's shear cutting teeth, the interior end of this ramp terminating adjacent to but forwardly of the shear cutting teeth.

Abstract: A hedge trimmer has at least one moveable blade and a second blade. The second blade has trapezoidal teeth. The first blade has rectangular teeth which have a broadened end portion, but, contrary to the prior art, the teeth of the first blade are at least twice as long as those of the second blade. As in the prior art hedge trimmers, the broadest part of each tooth is defined by two juncture points, one on each side of the tooth. For additional safety, in accordance with the invention, the maximum distance between adjacent juncture points of adjacent teeth is 14 mm.

Abstract: An orthodontic appliance is molded either from a ceramic material or metal. When a ceramic material is used, the color of the appliance may be a coordinated with that of a tooth. The appliance has a domed outwardly facing surface which is entirely curved in both the length and width directions and which is free of angular edge surfaces. The appliance may be adapted either for bonding directly to a tooth surface or for welding to a tooth encircling band.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a distance measuring device which may be utilized as a caliper/scale to measure or mark distances without the use of an incremented linear object. A resistive strip is attached along a beam. Two reference devices are also attached to the beam, one of the reference devices being slidably attached. The resistance of the resistive strip between the reference devices is related to the distance between the reference devices. This distance is displayed on a digital readout attached to the distance measuring device. Means are provided for displaying the distance in any one of a number of units, and for scaling the distance. In the preferred embodiment, the beam is glass and the readout device is embedded in the glass.

Abstract: A depth gage for indicating the depth of a hole through a workpiece which is to be attached to a nut-plate by a threaded fastener, comprises a rod with a cylindrical portion adapted to pass through the hole and abut the nut-plate so that a forward section of the rod enters within the threads of the nut-plate. A sleeve slidable on the rod in front of the workpiece can be slid to abut the front surface of the workpiece. Graduated markings on the rod indicate the depth of the hole.

Abstract: A tapered plug gauge is disclosed for making graduated determinations of the inside diameter of a pipe, permitting rapid and effective determination of those pipe lengths which are oversize. The invention has particular utility for certain applications such as in the setting of oil field production casing. Pipe diameter is determined by insertion of a gauge into the pin end of a length of pipe, the outside diameter being noted by the depth of penetration, as indicated by a referenced circumscribed ring on the frustoconical surface of the device, the reference scribe being correlated by calculation assuming a pipe thickness which relates the measurement to the outside diameter to determine whether the pipe is oversize, and accordingly, the suitability of the particular pipe segment for use. The invention can be constructed in a plurality of sizes to correspond with pipe diameters and thicknesses standard in the petroleum industry.

Abstract: An alignment indicator clamp apparatus for aligning the working shafts of a motor and a piece of equipment in order to couple them together having shaft engaging members connected by a cable passing through the shaft engaging members and through a cable tightening mechanism and having at least one indicator mounting post.

Abstract: A holder for a lens-marking pen attachable to the pen oppositely of its working end and having a rest in the form of a spring arm adapted to extend along a side of the pen to a bifurcated termination straddling the pen's marking tip and resiliently biasing the tip away therefrom. In its function as a pen rest, the bifurcation of the spring is placed against a lens or other surface to be marked for steadying the pen which may then be depressed to bring its marking tip into contact with the surface between legs of the bifurcation.

Abstract: A temporary sighting device which can be used on a surveillance camera during installation and adjustment, and which includes front and rear spaced apart, parallel walls, each of which contains a window provided with cross-hairs, whereby lines of sight extending through an intersection of the cross-hairs in the rear window and about the outer perimeter of the front window define the field of view of the camera. In the preferred form, the sighting device is produced from paper card stock and is foldable to a collapsed, flat position for shipping purposes.

Abstract: Improved apparatus for measuring the angular deviation from the vertical of the end of the drill string which includes a housing adapted for insertion in the drill string, a pendulum pivotally mounted in the housing and capable of swinging through large angles, and a substantially perfectly balanced catch link pivoted at the same point as the pendulum and normally coaxially aligned with the end of the drill string. Means are provided for coupling the pendulum and catch link together at a preselected angle and for measuring the deflection of the coupled pendulum and catch link from the axis of the end of the drill string so that the angular deviation from the vertical of the end of the drill string may be determined. Means are provided for signalling the measure of the deflection to the surface.

Abstract: Printing material, particularly textile material, imprinted with solvent- or water-based heat curable printing ink, or with a plastisol ink, is dried and the ink cured by first subjecting the imprinted stock to high velocity jets of temperature-controlled heated air until the solvent or water is substantially removed therefrom, and then, while the stock is still warm, moving the same to another position and further heating the imprinted stock by radiant heat for time sufficient to cure the ink imprint or design thereon.

Abstract: An oven for curing coatings on articles removes the volatile components of the coating by a heated circulated atmosphere directed at high velocity at the coated articles and increasing in temperature between the entrance and the exit of the articles from the oven. Prior to their exit from the oven, the coated articles are exposed to infrared radiation in relatively still air to effect the final curing of the coating. The oven enclosure includes an open portion and a ducted portion. The ducted and open portions of the oven enclosure and the heating means are arranged to contribute to the effective use of energy. Within the ducted portion is a removable fan means supported and driven from outside of the oven enclosure. The ducted portion of the oven communicates with an exhaust opening in the oven enclosure having a damper valve that can be automatically controlled to permit exhaust when the level of the volatile coating material components in the oven atmosphere exceeds a preset amount.

Abstract: Apparatus for demonstrating the operation of a closed loop nuclear steam electric generating plant includes a transparent boiler assembly having immersion heating elements, which may be quartz lamps or stainless steel encased resistive immersion heating units with a quartz iodide lamp providing a source of visible radiation when using the encased immersion heating units. A variable voltage autotransformer is geared to a support rod for simulated reactor control rods for controlling the energy delivered to the heating elements and arranged so that when the voltage is high, the rods are withdrawn from the boiler to produce increased heating and illumination proportional to rod position, thereby simulating nuclear reaction. A relief valve, steam outlet pipe and water inlet pipe are connected to the boiler with a small stainless steel resistive heating element in the steam outlet pipe providing superheat.

Abstract: A psychotherapeutic testing game comprises a game apparatus for providing a game playing atmosphere between a tester and a player. A chance selection device is associated with the game apparatus for selecting the game participation requirements of a player. A plurality of cards for selection by the game selection device contains information to elicit a personal psychological response of a player whereby the player upon giving the response is given an award operably associated with the game apparatus.

Abstract: A method of collecting shellfish using a device riding on the bottom of the water and towed by a boat. The device has a number of obliquely extending tines and a net bag at the back of the tines for collecting shellfish which ride up onto the tines. The device is held by a rope without powered movement of the boat itself and moved selectively with respect to the boat by pulling on the rope through a winch, thereby moving the apparatus on the water bed to collect the shellfish.

Abstract: The specification discloses a perpetual monthly calendar in which numbered belts are adjustable to bring the numbers of a year to a year window, a month belt is adjustable to bring the month (with the number of days therein) to a month window, a day belt having six horizontal rows of numbers adjustable to bring the appropriate monthly calendar to a day window with the first of the month under the day of the week on which the month of a row of the days of the week is above the day window and exposing consecutive day numbers of that month in the day window. A sixth row pointer is adjustably positioned just beyond the last day of the month exposed when next day is in the sixth row. A fifth row pointer is adjustably positioned beyond the last day of the month exposed when the next day is in the fifth row.

Abstract: A picture retaining clip for use at the corners and along the sides of a back-loading picture frame, which clip also may serve as a means for hanging the frame. The clip is a strip of resilient material with a central web and bent ends. When the clip is mounted at the corners of the frame, a tab at each end of the clip abuts a forwardly raised ridge at the rear of the frame. When the clip is mounted along the side of the frame, a flange formed along the central web of the clip abuts either a forwardly raised ridge at the rear of the frame or a rearwardly raised ridge along the front of the frame. A hole and serrations in the central web of the clip receive hooks, nails, wire, and the like for hanging the frame.

Abstract: A wind proof door knob tag especially for use with exterior doors includes integral flexible detent tabs between the opening through which the door knob passes and the opening which conforms to the outside diameter of door knob shaft. The tabs are cammed outwardly upon downward pull over the knob shaft and snap back into position to hold the tag firmly in place on the door knob despite wind conditions, thereby to prevent being blown away. The tab is made of a polyolefin sheet but could be made of a vinyl sheet which at the thickness utilized, prevents unauthorized opening of locks by insertion of this tag between a door and its associated jamb.

Abstract: A device for selectively displaying alphabetic or numeric characters has a housing which contains several stacked prefabricated subassemblies of any required number of units, each unit having an opaque front plate with a rectangular layout of light permeable spots; and there are film receiving slots with guides at both sides of each unit so that a selected part of a film member associated with a unit may abut the front plate while the rest of the film member is curved rearwardly through the slots. One type of film member has a geometric pattern of matching and contrasting elements which cooperate with light permeable spots forming a block number 8 to define any desired arabic numeral from 0 to 9; while another type of film member has a similar geometric pattern that cooperates with light permeable spots in several parallel vertical columns to define any letter of the alphabet.

Abstract: A telescopic sight mount is provided in which no troque is applied to the telescope when mounted. The torque-free installation is accomplished by having a front and rear telescopic mount which engage the telescopic sight and float freely and also by having a rotatably adjustable eccentric union attached to the rear telescopic sight mount. The telescope sight is aligned with the barrel sight by adjusting or rotating the eccentric union. Thereafter, all screws are securely tightened. Since no torque is used during installation, there is no tension on the external telescopic cylinder and no distortion of the lens system, either temporarily during installation or permanently after securing.

Abstract: A process for indicating to a user the status of the supply of cartridges in a magazine. A sonic indicator is used to signal that the magazine is empty; or that it contains one cartridge; or that it is full.

Abstract: A set of traveling sheaves is moved relative to stationary sheaves with the sheaves containing wraps of fishing line from between a spool or source of the line and the hook or terminous of the line. By moving the movable sheaves relative to the stationary sheaves, the line can be quickly retrieved or quickly released when letting out line.

Abstract: Disclosed is a fishing reel seat of the type adapted to attach a fishing reel to a fishing pole and having a stationary ring and a moveable ring adapted to receive the two tangs of the fishing reel. Compound screw threads are formed around the circumference of the main body of the seat for engagement with two locking nuts with threads of opposite hand. The compound thread on the body permits the locking nuts to be tightened against each other by turning in opposite directions to insure a tight locking engagement.

Abstract: A fishing rod tip guard comprising a plastic case with a hinged top into which the tip is placed in an interior slot and the top closed and fastened. The slot prevents the guard from slipping off the tip. There is also room in the guard for the hook or lures that are attached to the line. A modification of the guard makes it useful as a bobber also.

Abstract: The method of making a fishing lure includes the steps of applying a barrier coat to the cavity of a pair of mold halves, slipping an elongated hollow tube or an elongated hollow tube and hollow metal weight onto a mandrel, placing the mandrel across the cavity of one mold half with the tube or tube and weight within the bounds of the cavity, charging the mold cavity and clamping the mold halves together for curing the body. The body is removed from the molds, the elongated mandrel is pulled from the body leaving the elongated tube or tube and weight formed in the body, then painting, decorating and attaching the screw eyes and hooks through the removed mandrel openings.

Abstract: An enclosed passageway which provides a housing that is open at one end and has a back wall member on which is mounted a trap mechanism, is provided. The trap mechanism is capable of being both set and baited from outside the enclosed housing without handling the trap mechanism itself and which is disposable or capable of having the entrapped and killed animal displaced therefrom without personal contact. A tripping member of the trap mechanism is provided to trigger the trap without requiring the animal to contact the bait.

Abstract: The specification discloses a crab-snaring device including a steel ring to which a bait-holder in the form of a fishhook is attached and which is adapted to have a fishing line from a fishing rod tied thereto. A plurality of snares formed by semi-stiff monofilament lines are secured to the ring at spaced points, and in tight frictional engagement and each of these lines is formed into a snare which is angular to the ring. When a crab is pulling on the bait, the person holding the pole feels the pull and pulls the ring to tighten the snares on any legs of the crab (or crabs) extending through the snares to pull the crab up.

Abstract: The invention relates to a doll house having a unique construction of an interlocking front wall and door assembly and an adjacent bay window. The doll house is of the collapsible type having a novel design in its construction. It is constructed of a small number of individual panels which comprise the walls, floors, roof, etc. and a bay window assembly. The panels are provided with grooves and slots so that all the panels slide together easily and support one another. No tools or screws are required for construction and the parts are locked tightly together in a rigid structure by the simple insertion of several small pegs in matching holes provided in the various panels. The doll house has various functional and decorative features including a chimney, rectangular decorative members and an address sign over the main doorway.

Abstract: A toy hand gun, having a socket formed in the forward end portion of its barrel for coaxially supporting a generally cylindrical fireworks-type novelty item. A trigger member is slidably supported by the barrel for movement toward and away from the handle for igniting an explosive charge contained by the novelty item when its firing cord is connected with the trigger member and quickly extracted.

Abstract: A pop-up toy includes a base having an upstanding first stem, with a piston affixed to the end of the stem, a hollow body having a generally cylindrical bore mounted for upward and downward sliding movement on the first stem, a head portion including a second stem having a piston affixed to the lower end thereof, the stem being inserted through an aperture into the hollow body for upward and downward sliding movement. Also included is a flexible air impact bulb and conduit which communicate with the body so as to pressurize the interior of the hollow body to elevate the body upwardly on the stem of the base and to elevate the stem of the head portion upwardly of the body when the bulb is compressed by an impact.

Abstract: An aerodynamic, saucer-shaped toy is provided for use in throwing games. The body of the toy is provided on its convex, upper surface with a plurality of radial extending air spoilers. These spoilers provide discontinuities to the flow of air so that in flight the air flow over the convex surface of the aerodynamic toy is disrupted, creating a turbulent air layer over the moving surface thereby somewhat reducing aerodynamic drag. A depression can be provided in the aerodynamic toy, centrally located in the convex surface, in which can be provided additional spoilers, as desired.

Abstract: A wheeled vehicle having the appearance of an insect, such as a spider, includes a main body portion housing a drive mechanism for propelling the vehicle across a suitable supporting surface. The drive mechanism is shiftable for operating a cord winch for pulling the vehicle or drawing objects toward the mouth of the spider. A plurality of legs are mounted to the body portion by flexible couplings which permit the legs to engage the supporting surface so that they move randomly, during movement of the vehicle, to simulate a crawling action. A cockpit provided on the rear portion of the body is covered by a transparent shield and provided with indicia to define the control quarters of a mechanical spider device.

Abstract: A toy aircraft fighter including a space craft removably supported by a manually actuated turntable and in turn supporting a fighter airplane that may be removed from the space craft. A transparent landing apparatus for the space craft has movable elevator enclosed in an elevator shaft and a string is connected to the elevator to permit it to be manually raised and the elevator moves downwardly by gravity. A pivoted ramp is positioned at the bottom of the elevator shaft with suitable cables being provided for swinging the ramp from operative to inoperative position.

Abstract: There is disclosed a system for heating the atmosphere adjacent a ground surface in an agricultural area as well as the process and apparatus for constructing the system. The system comprises an elongate heat distributing structure which extends through the cultivated area and means for circulating a relatively warm fluid through the heat distributing structure. The heat distributing structure includes a plastic shell member disposed in an upwardly concave configuration having a plurality of imperforate wall conduits bonded thereto. The shell member is filled with sand, crushed rock or gravel to provide a heat sink. The top of the plastic shell member is covered with an asphaltic material which acts to close the top of the heat distributing structure and radiate heat to the atmosphere in the cultivated area.

Abstract: A hothouse has at least two elongate cultivation corridors beside each other for a series of cultivation wagons which are transversely shiftable along the cultivation corridors in order, during the cultivation cycle, to be progressively moved around in the hothouse. A plant treatment area is provided outside the extent of the cultivation corridors for the starting, care and harvesting of the plants cultivated on the cultivation wagons. Transfer wagons are provided for transfer of the cultivation wagons between the elongate cultivation corridors and also for removal of optional cultivation wagons to the plant treatment area, the transfer wagons having a corridor section for receiving the cultivation wagons during their transfer from one cultivation corridor to the other and during their transfer to and from one cultivation corridor and the plant treatment area. The transfer wagons are reciprocal along transfer corridors which extend transversely of the cultivation corridors.

Abstract: Sulfuric acid is admixed with a foaming agent to produce a lather which is then mixed with cottonseed to delint the same. The lint is removed in a dry or semi dry condition.

Abstract: In an installation for continuous vegetable cultivation by the hydroponic system, a plurality of identical containers provided with lateral apertures are superimposed one on the other to create at least one vertical hollow column, provided at regular intervals along its axis with equidistant coplanar apertures (levels of culture) arranged for the insertion of plants. Means are provided for raising and lowering the column and for keeping it vertical, these means being in the form of a cable which is removably fixed to each individual container, and means for spraying nutrient liquid at the top of the column and collecting said liquid at the base, to recycle it to the top.

Abstract: A selected number of troughs containing small plants therein are placed in a parallel relation with each other at one end of a soilless growth chamber. Tubular screw sections having helical grooves therein are employed for advancing the troughs from the loading end of the chamber to the unloading end thereof, the helical or screw pitch being considerably greater at the unloading or harvesting end in order to accommodate for the increased size of the plants as they reach maturity. In other words, the pitch of the helix is correlated with the rate at which the plants mature. Tubular screw sections having different pitches can be substituted when the growth rate differs from one species to another.

Abstract: A horticulture device is provided for rotating a plant as moisture transpires from the plant and evaporates from the container holding the plant. The device includes a spring which is linearly distorted due to gravity as the plant is watered and which is restored as the plant releases the water and the water evaporates from the container. The spring is connected to a motion converting mechanism that converts linear distortion of the spring to rotational motion which in turn is used to rotate the plant.

Abstract: A wrap for flower pots for use by florists and the like having a central portion of metallic foil with a lace pattern edging extending from at least one of the edges of said foil and possibly from both edges. Normally, the lace pattern edging will be provided on a layer of plastic which is of greater dimension in at least one direction than the metallic foil to which it is adhered. The lace pattern may be printed or embossed upon the plastic material while the metallic foil material may be in various colors. The foil to film lamination may be embossed or creped. The wrap offers a quick and economical material for greatly increasing the appearance and attractiveness of conventional type flower pots.

Abstract: A planting system in which the basic unit of the system comprises a plurality of individual containers for growing plants to a stage suitable for transplanting and in which the plurality of containers are secured in a flexible carrier sheet. The securement of each of the containers in the carrier sheet is such that the entire basic unit can be handled in a number of shipping, handling, filling, growing, and transplanting operations in a convenient, unique and efficient manner. Various articles of manufacture are contemplated in the system of the invention which aid and render in the unique and efficient use of the system. Those articles of manufacture include shipping and handling cartons, holding trays, filler plates and portable pack arrangements.

Abstract: A molded plant container having at least one slit along the vertical wall of the container, a separable liquid-tight fastener along the slit edges and a living hinge in a wall of the container permitting the side wall to be separated from a contained root ball. The bottom wall of the container may be provided with readily removable circular areas so as to adapt the container for use in air layering propagation of plants.

Abstract: In a co-pending parent application, a plant watering system comprises a porous inner pot positioned at an elevated location within a water-impervious outer container. Water within the outer container wicks by capillary action up the side walls of the porous pot and wets any soil or like growing medium contained within the inner pot. The lower part of the inner pot is coated with a water-impervious layer to control the elevation at which the wicking water may enter the soil. Also, a special pot liner enables gases to be bi-directionally vented throughout a selected region in the bottom of the inner pot. When desired, water may be drained out the bottom of the inner pot. The inventive process adjusts the percentage of moisture maintained by soil, or the like, by rating the moisture needs of plant species, the season of the year, and the type of growing medium used.

Abstract: The window winder for a slidable window, especially a window capable of being lowered into the window shaft of an automobile, has a threaded cable displaceably guided in a tension resistant and compression resistant manner in a guide tube. The threaded cable engages, in a two part drive casing, a drive pinion which is non-rotatably keyed to a drive shaft journalled in the two half casing of a gear wheel drive equipped with a drag spring brake. The threaded cable is directly or indirectly connected to the window by one or more entraining devices fixed to the cable and penetrating through a longitudinal slit in the guide tube. The guide tube is a slit metal tube in the region of the path of movement of the entraining devices and elsewhere is a plastic tube connected to the drive casing and the metal tube in a non-displacing, non-rotatable manner by means of sleeves injection molded onto the plastic tube.

Abstract: A well pump stripping tool designed for stripping bottom hole oil field plunger-type pumps. The well pump stripping tool used for removing a pump barrel surrounding a plunger when the plunger becomes inoperable due to contamination causing the seizing of the plunger to the inner diameter of the pump barrel. Also the well pump stripping tool may be used for removing well tubing surrounding the pump barrel when the tubing becomes stuck to the outer diameter of the pump barrel.