Abstract: The invention concerns a method and apparatus for severing the jowl muscles of a half pig's head, in order to facilitate subsequent boning of the half head to provide bone and pig's head meat as the end product.For this purpose, in one embodiment of the invention, the half pig's head (19) is placed on a moving conveyor (11) comprising a series of stainless steel plates (12), the half head being held securely in a predetermined position by a locating and supporting means (13 to 18) welded to the plate (12). The half head so held is presented by the conveyor to a fixed wedge member (20) pointing in the opposite direction to that of the conveyor movement, the wedge member acting to force the jaws of the half head progressively further apart to sever the jowl muscles.Preferably, the outer skin or rind of the half head is removed before the latter is placed on the conveyor.

Abstract: Apparatus for and a method of extracting the liquid component from a product by placing the product in one of a pair of adjacent side-by-side generally parallel compression chambers having a common wall, moving the common wall transversely of the longitudinal axes of the chambers to reduce the volume of one of the chambers thus compressing the product therein and forcing the liquid component from the product, and conducting the liquid component from the first to the second chamber as the product is being compressed in the first chamber.

Abstract: The debris and pith removal from bagasse fiber is significantly enhanced by the flow of fiber from one depithing zone into a fiber washing zone and then to a second depithing zone without any intermediate settling of piling of the fiber. The fiber is maintained in a separated condition throughout the first depithing zone, the washer and the subsequent depithing zone. The result is a bagasse fiber having a greater quantity of the debris and pith removed with much less fiber damage.

Abstract: A security wallet be attached to the waistband of a person's garment for disposition between the person's body and the garment is securely but detachably mounted to the waistband by a locking device comprising an inverted U-shaped clip, at least one latch member on said clip interiorly thereof having a serrated edge thereon, and means comprising a rotary shaft for moving each said latch member from a first open position adjacent one wall of said clip to a second closed position wherein said serrated edge thereof is adjacent the other wall of said clip. The latch member or members in open position permit easy attachment of the clip to and easy detachment of the clip from a waistband, and in closed position confine waistband material between each latch member and said other wall of said clip so that attempted removal of said clip from the waistband results in the serrations on each latch member digging into the waistband material and preventing removal of said clip and wallet from the waistband.

Abstract: A clamp structure for clamping a hose-like member onto a circular support and capable of contraction from a larger to a smaller diametric dimension without loss of the circular configuration and without any internal projections, especially for use with relatively harder and thinner hose-like materials, in which the area underneath the ear is covered off during contraction to prevent leakage thereat and in which the open ends of the band can move relative to one another to change from the larger to the smaller diametric dimension while retaining a circular configuration where in engagement with the hose-like member.

Abstract: An improved security buckel for a wrist watch metal bracelet is disclosed which utilizes a first and second frame work, one mounted within the other, which are provided with a limited amount of relative sliding movement. A spur of the first frame work is in engagement with or is disengaged from a first traverse element of the second frame work when the two frame works are respectively in a first and second relative position. An inflexible removable traverse element is attached to the first frame work and to a first portion of the metal bracelet. A locking band attached to a second portion of the metal bracelet passes under the first traverse and is engageable with the spur when the frame works are in the second relative position and further passes through a space defined by the inflexible removable traverse element and a second traverse element on the first frame work when the frame works are in the first relative position.

Abstract: A buckle device for safety belts having a latch member pivotally mounted to a base member which serves as a load member and engageable with notches of a tongue member when the tongue is inserted into the base member so as to latch the base member and the tongue member together, resilient member for biasing the latch member in notches engaging direction, and a manually operable member for moving the latch member against the bias of the resilient member to unlatch the tongue member. Either of the latch member and the operable member has camming surfaces which engage engaging portions of the other of the above two members, whereby the sliding movement in the tongue insertion direction of the operable member is transformed to the substantially pivotal movement of the latch member.

Abstract: A paper clip formed as an essentially unitary loop is made of resilient material and comprises an isosceles triangle base portion, a first clipping portion and a second clipping portion. The first clipping portion and the second clipping portion can clip positively the documents in different directions respectively.

Abstract: A clamp for pipes or the like has a band whose width is constant save for two recesses in the marginal portions of one of its end portions which is received in the housing of the clamp. The bottom wall of the housing has projections which enter the recesses and the recesses are bounded by S-shaped lugs, at least at those ends which are nearer to the respective end of the band. Such lugs abut against the respective end face of the bottom wall of the housing to prevent extraction of the band when a threaded portion of the band meshes with a tightening screw which is mounted in the housing and can be rotated in a direction to reduce the size of the loop between the end portion and the threaded portion of the band.

Abstract: A grinding disc for use with grinding apparatus adapted to grind grain and the like. The grinding disc includes an opening centrally located therein, with the perimeter of the opening forming a plurality of teeth projecting toward the center of the disc. The teeth are separated by generally horseshoe-shaped notches. The grinding disc further includes a plurality of groups of channels on one face thereof defining grinding ridges therebetween and extending from near the periphery of the disc inwardly to the opening in the disc. Certain of the channels in each group intersect with certain other channels in at least one other group to form a cross-hatching of channels.

Abstract: A combination burial vault and casket and funeral and burial method or system using the same in a funeral and burial service. An interiorly decorated "surround" or false casket frame having a hinged top is disposed over the base of the vault and cooperates with the interiorly decorated base of the burial vault to provide a casket during visitation at the funeral home. Carrying handle structures are provided for carrying either the assembled base and the surround or false casket or the assembled base and cover of the vault, with the remains of the deceased therein, to the cemetary after the visitation and funeral services at the funeral home.In one practice of the invention, when the base and cover of the vault are assembled at the close of services at the funeral home, the surround or false casket with the carrying handle structures thereon is retained at the funeral home for reuse.

Abstract: A sanitary napkin is provided containing a perfume composition and means for inhibiting migration of components of the perfume composition. Means comprise providing within the napkin at least one elongated narrow strip element. The strip element carries the perfume composition and extends generally longitudinally within the napkin. Preferably, the strip element is a cellulosic string.

Abstract: An elastic roller for use in an image forming apparatus comprises a rigid shaft member, an internal layer provided around said shaft member with a determined thickness and consisting of a porous elastic member containing therein pores for holding liquid, and an external layer covering said internal layer and consisting of a flexible liquid-permeating member provided with a number of through holes, said roller being provided with a means for applying a tension to said external layer in the axial direction of said roller.

Abstract: A two part pressure-relief valve is made and assembled to a container part by making a lid for the container with a through-opening, injection molding into the opening a valve housing having a valve chamber, and pressing a valve into the valve chamber.

Abstract: A spring compressing tool is provided to efficiently compress a coil spring on the suspension system of an automobile. An elongated threaded rod includes a head disposed on one end adapted to be engaged by a common wrench or similar tool whereby the rod may be rotated. A plate having a central aperture to receive the threaded rod and to hold it in position while the spring is compressed is adapted to be removably mounted on the spring tower of the suspension system. A hook assembly to engage the coil spring is designed to receive the threaded rod and travel on the rod as the rod is rotated, thereby compressing the coil spring.

Abstract: An automatic tool changing device comprises the head of a machining center and a drum vertically movably mounted on the outer end of the head, and rotatably arranged around a center shaft which is projected from the central portion of the drum to slant downwardly are a large number of arms each having an arbor holding portion at the forward end and formed in a predetermined position on the central back surface with an elongated groove adapted for engagement with a geneva drive pin, whereby when one of the arms is engaged with a main shaft or spindle in the head, the remaining arms are continuously arranged on each side of the engaged arm above a position spaced by a predetermined angle therefrom.

Abstract: Method for the manufacture of membrane separation units suitable for the separation of components from mixtures containing them. These separation units can be made from elongated anisotropic hollow fiber membranes and can be used for the separation of olefinic compounds from saturated materials.

Abstract: A process for making a panel having a supported member formed either of a simple or multiple glass window and a supporting part formed of preformed parts received on and at spaced locations around the glass window for supporting a light frame thereby to accommodate the panel for use as a window or door.

Abstract: A system comprising a plurality of complementary numerically controlled machine tools in which different workpieces are each subjected to appropriate selected machining operations on selected machine tools in a selected order by appropriate delivery of common form pallets loaded with the workpieces. Transporters deliver pallets between the machine tools, a storage rack, and work-setting stations where workpieces, automatically delivered in bins from a bin store, are loaded on pallets. Tool magazines are delivered between a rack and the machine tools by transporter. Transport and machining operations are computer controlled, and monitors feed back signals indicative of location of pallets, tool magazines, and bins in the system.

Abstract: A tool changing mechanism or assembly for a machine tool, which has a spindle for rotating a tool on an operating axis and has a tool storage magazine having at least one tool receiving means such as a socket for supporting a tool on a storage axis, has an improvement which enables increased distances between the spindle and the storage axis. The improvement is that a tool changing arm is mounted on a housing or a shuttle to rotate about a first axis and the shuttle is mounted on the frame of the machine tool so that it can be moved between two linear positions as the arm is rotated so that the axis of rotation of the arm is shifted in a linear path.

Abstract: A semiconductor wafer is appropriately doped to create a P-N or P-I-N junction, and metallized on both its planar surfaces with electrode material. The wafer is then bonded to a second similarly processed wafer. Without damaging the semiconductor material, the stacked wafer is processed so as to delineate a plurality of diodes on each side of the center metallization, such that the diodes on each side are registered with each other. The center metallization is then cut so as to yield a plurality of stacked semiconductor diodes.

Abstract: Thick double heterostructure (Al,Ga)As wafers comprising layers of gallium arsenide and gallium aluminum arsenide on a metallized n-GaAs substrate are separated into individual devices for use as diode lasers. In contrast to prior art techniques employed with thinner wafers of mechanically cleaving the wafer in mutually orthogonal directions, the wafer is first separated into bars of diodes by a process which comprises (a) forming channels of substantially parallel sidewalls about 1 to 4 mils deep into the surface of the n-GaAs substrate (b) etching into the n-GaAs substrate with an anisotropic etchant to a depth sufficient to form V-grooves in the bottom of the channels and (c) mechanically cleaving into bars of diodes. The cleaving may be done by prior art techniques using a knife, razor blade or tweezer edge or by attaching the side of the wafer opposite to the V-grooves to a flexible adhesive tape and rolling the assembly in a manner such as over a tool of small radius.

Abstract: A precision transducer for position measurements comprises a pair of supports, one of which is movable with respect to the other. Each support is provided with an electric winding constituted by equidistant serially connected printed circuit conductors extending transverse to the direction of movement. The winding of one of the supports comprises a plurality of groups of conductors connected in series and intercalated with the conductors of the other group(s). Each group of conductors is printed on one face of a substrate, the other face of which bears auxiliary conductors connecting the conductors of the groups in series, through metallized holes formed through the substrate. The substrate is bonded to the said one support after the printing of the auxiliary conductors on the said other face, the groups of conductors being printed on the said one face after the substrate has been bonded to the support.

Abstract: A leakproof, side terminal battery of the thin-wall type comprising a terminal insert formed by injection molding a thermoplastic body about a conductive spool, which insert is mated with an aperture in the battery case wall and welded to a boss surrounding the aperture. The body includes a plug portion for insertion into the aperture and a flange portion for welding to the boss. The conductive spool preferably includes an extension projecting into the battery for fusing to the battery's innards at a location remote from the wall.

Abstract: An apparatus for interengaging a pair of rows of slide fastener coupling elements on a pair of stringer tapes, respectively, with a pair of top end stops mounted on the stringer tapes respectively at confronting ends of the rows of coupling elements, includes a base and a pairing guide mounted on the base and normally defining a substantially Y-shaped guide channel including a pair of branched guide passages for receiving disengaged rows of coupling elements, respectively, and a joint passage for discharging interengaged rows of coupling elements. The pairing guide comprises first guide means fixed to the base and including first flange means defining the branched guide passages, and second guide means movably supported on the base and including second flange means normally defining the joint passage. The Y-shaped guide channel is thus normally defined jointly by the first and second flange means.

Abstract: A machine for assembling washers on headed screw blanks, comprises a turntable having peripheral recesses into which the washers are inserted. Elevators in the form of vertically swinging arms are mounted on the turntable about the periphery thereof, extending generally radially of the turntable, and are cam controlled to swing vertically relative to the turntable. In their upwardly swung position, recesses in the outer ends of the arms receive screw blanks beneath the heads thereof, the arms then swinging downwardly to insert the screw blanks in the washers that are in alignment below the screw blanks on the turntable. At the discharge side of the turntable, a slideway is provided for complete assemblies; but incomplete assemblies are detected and are disassembled with the parts returned to storage.

Abstract: In a method of manufacture of a multilayer ceramic board, a conductor land is formed and baked on a first substrate. A second substrate on which the wiring pattern is formed is then electrically connected to the first substrate via the land. An error in the substrate due to shrinkage at the time of sintering is thereby compensated by the conductor land. This assures the formation of a highly accurate wiring pattern on the sintered substrate surface, despite shrinkage of the ceramic during sintering of the raw sheets of ceramic.

Abstract: A method of assembling a semiconductor integrated circuit in which a semiconductor integrated circuit chip with bumps is bonded to a flexible film circuit substrate. The assembling method of the invention comprises a step of making the highest layer of the bump of solder or a low melting point metal treating the surface of the flexible film circuit substrate by gold-plating, and bonding the semiconductor integrated circuit chip and the flexible film circuit substrate with the former mounted face-down on the latter.

Abstract: Electrical heater construction having a substantially closed housing containing controls therein and having a bracket unit carrying electrical heaters externally thereof, the housing having connectors detachably interconnected to the heaters externally to the housing and electrically interconnecting the heaters to the controls within the housing to be operated thereby. The housing has an externally accessible detachable arrangement and the bracket unit has a detachable arrangement detachably interconnected to the detachable arrangement of the housing in a manner that is accessible externally to the housing whereby the detachable arrangement of the bracket unit can be detached from the detachable arrangement of the housing without access to the interior of the housing so that the heaters can be detached from and/or attached to the housing without requiring the opening of the housing.

Abstract: A heat-recoverable article comprises a memory metal member to which has been imparted both thermally-recoverable and resiliently-recoverable strain. The resilient strain is retained by means of a disburdenable keeper, preferably one made from fusible or chemically degradable material, which can be removed, for example, by heating or chemical treatment, to allow resilient recovery. The article is preferably so constructed that it can be heated to obtain both thermal and resilient recovery simultaneously. One preferred form of article is a radially expanded longitudinally split tube, the keeper being positioned in the split. Such an article can be used as a connector to secure an earth lead to the sheath of a mineral-insulated cable.

Abstract: A portable, electrically energized, cordless grass trimmer device is disclosed having a rotatable hub which is adapted to alternatively mount, for substantially balanced rotation therewith, a flexible cutter strip and a line cutter and mechanical counterbalance.

Abstract: The invention concerns the field of the solar shadowscopes. The apparatus according to the invention is characterized by the fact that the conditions of sunshine are recreated by the displacement of the light source in the relation to the apparatus and that the final position of the light source is given by the real position meeting exactly a given theoretical position of the shadow on the date scale and on the hour scale of a point "T", actually shown by the point of intersection of two wires set in the light beam.Application to the determination of the shadows on a model.

Abstract: A totally portable, hand-held measuring device utilizing an insertable sliding probe to measure material or structural part thicknesses. The position of the probe actuates electronic circuitry which digitally displays the grip length of the fastener to be selected. The device provides a fast and accurate means of determining the fastener with the correct grip length for each assembly.

Abstract: Apparatus for measuring the wear of a shaft bearing includes a liquid, a source of fluid, a valve, sight gage and a transducer. The transducer has a probe which may be urged against the shaft by admitting fluid from the source to a chamber in the transducer. The liquid is in enclosed subsystem comprising the sight gage, an expandable chamber in the transducer and a connecting line. As the probe is urged against the shaft, the expandable chamber expands in a relationship to the movement of the probe. More liquid enters the expandable chamber, causing a corresponding decrease of liquid in the sight gage which is measurable. Upon completion, the fluid is vented, which allows the probe to return to a rest position.

Abstract: An adjustable locator for positioning furring strips on a supporting surface in desired spaced relation provides an elongated body member with a hooked end that engages a first furring strip and has a channel-shaped member in spaced relation thereto for holding a second furring strip so as to locate it on the supporting surface.

Abstract: A sight mount for an archery bow embodying a bracket adapted to be mounted upon a bow. A sight support is mounted on the bracket for pivotal movement in a plane parallel to a plane extending longitudinally through the bow on which the bracket is mounted. Adjustment members are mounted on the bracket at opposite sides of the sight support with one adjustment member yieldably engaging the sight support to restrain pivotal movement thereof in one direction. A movable member is carried by the other adjustment member and is movable to selected positions toward and away from the sight support to hold the sight support at selected angular positions relative to the bracket.

Abstract: The present device includes a pair of wires which are located one above the other in a plane that lies parallel and orthogonal to the center lines of a path which a scanning head is going to view, as it travels in a scanning excursion. The wires are held taut and when they are in vertical alignment to the human eye (for convenience as reflected in a tilted mirror) then material to be scanned along a certain path can be centered under what appears to be "one wire" and in this way the scanning head will pass directly over the proper portion of the material.

Abstract: A digital drafting machine for measuring and displaying a distance on a drafting surface comprising a first triangle with a vertical straight edge and a second triangle with a horizontal straight edge slidably engaged with the first triangle along the vertical straight edge. A drive in the form of a drive wheel and pulleys with a cable rapped therearound disposed in the first triangle with the cable connected to the second triangle, the drive wheel being rotatable to displace the second triangle with its horizontal straight edge along the vertical straight edge of the first triangle. An optical horizontal displacement measuring device is connected to the first triangle and includes a light sensor for sensing the passing of the drawing surface to measure the linear displacement of the first triangle when it is drawn horizontally across the drawing surface.

Abstract: A process for mechanically dewatering fibrous organic wastes such as sewage sludge. The undewatered waste is passed into the first end of a cylindrical dewatering zone having a porous outer wall. A helical blade rotated within the dewatering zone pressurizes the waste and moves it to the outlet at the second end of the dewatering zone. A filter media comprising a cylindrical substantially unagitated layer of fibrous material derived from the waste is retained within an annular space located between the outer edge of the helical blade and the inner surface of the porous wall. Two or more dewatering zones and mixing zones are used in series to achieve the desired degree of dryness.

Abstract: A process and apparatus for fluidized bed operations wherein the fluidized bed includes an upper fluidized zone and a lower fluidized zone, with each of the upper and lower fluidized zones equipped with agitating means therein. Positioned intermediate the upper and lower fluidized zones are a plurality of tubular zones. Substantially parallel to the fluidized zones is a discharge leg positioned to receive fluidized solids from the lower fluidized zone in which the fluidized solids are fluidized in the leg at a level substantially equal to the level of fluidized solids in the upper zone whereby a portion of the solids can be removed from a repositionable discharge means in the discharge leg. The process involved in this invention utilizes a fluidized system for starch drying wherein the moisture content of the starch supplied to the fluidized bed is controlled to a level not exceeding 27% whereby the fluidized bed can be operated at higher temperatures without damaging the starch.

Abstract: An assembly for removing contaminants from gas, comprising a cylinder having therein a spiral path-forming member, a layer of absorbent fluid, and substantially filled with mass transfer media.

Abstract: A damper structure for a clothes dryer vent is disclosed. The damper structure comprises a support member adapted to be inserted inside the dryer vent adjacent the inside wall of a house, and a damper plate mounted on the support member, so as to form a closed air space between the damper plate and the regular closure damper of the dryer vent for minimizing heat losses through the dryer vent. In order to fit a dryer vent of circular cross-section, the damper structure comprises a central damper element hinged at the top of the support structure and two lateral damper elements hinged one on each side of the central damper element for allowing full opening of the damper plate into the tubular dryer vent.

Abstract: An industrial dryer particularly suited for small parts has a tub to contain the parts and a helical ramp along the interior tub wall. Vibratory motion makes the small parts move along the ramp. The tub has a double wall, the inside space between the walls defining an air plenum. The interior wall of the tub is formed with exit spaces through which the hot air emerges and blows over the parts as they move along the ramp. The plenum is continuously supplied with hot air to replace the losses. A unique method of forming the ramp from stair-step segments and partitions forms special conduits which focus hot air streams upon the parts as they move along the ramp in staircase fashion.

Abstract: A food holding cabinet having a closed loop air circulating system to control both heat and humidity, the system including a blower having an air inlet at the front-top-center of the interior of the cabinet, the outlet of the blower being connected to an elongated heating tube the discharge end of which directs heated air over a water reservoir containing a plurality of upwardly projecting removable heat transfer plates. The quantity of moisture introduced into the flowing air is controlled by varying the number of heat transfer plates. The heated and humidified air flows downwardly through a duct at the rear of the cabinet, the duct having rows of perforations aligned with the undersides of product containing trays or baskets in the cabinet, the air being drawn through the cabinet for return to the blower inlet. Heat is controlled by a temperature controller having a probe mounted in the inlet to the blower.

Abstract: The standard pronunciation of a word in any language is recorded on a segment of wide magnetic tape which is mounted on a flexible card or sheet. For visual reading of the same word, spelling or character is printed on the same card. A device is provided to transport and guide each card so as to have sound recording portions of the card make a sliding contact with the electromagnetic transducer head.

Abstract: A thrust producing shoe sole and heel having fluid-proof cavities respectively located in the heel portion and in the sole portion which underlies the metatarsal ball area of a foot for which the sole and heel is sized, the two cavities being connected by a restricted passageway. The material underlying the two cavities at the bottom of the sole and heel is resilient and wear-resistant. Fluid, either gas or liquid, is contained within the cavities and passageway in such pressure and amount as to cause bulges below the normal bottoms of the sole and heel, whereby at rest a foot on the sole and heel is cushioned comfortably on the fluid in the bulges, and in walking fluid under bulge producing pressure alternates through the passageway between the two cavities, producing shock absorption and an alternate lifting effect by the bulges which provides forward thrust both in the heel portion and the metatarsal ball area that facilitates walking.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a moldable foot wedge which when suitably treated as by heat, becomes deformable so that the person for whom the wedge is to be customed fit is allowed to stand on the wedge thereby deforming same to conform identically to the contour of the person's foot, thereby filling voids. An area below the rear heel on one side thereof is defined as a plug which is not subjected to the heat treatment so that a beneficial cant of inclination can be provided to the wedge by not allowing this cold plug to be heat treated and thereby deformed. A method associated with the article is similarily disclosed.

Abstract: A running shoe having an outer sole and a midsole. The midsole includes two groups of apertures extending therethrough. The first group of apertures is located in the forefoot portion of the midsole and a second group of apertures is located to the rear of the first group and contiguous with the arch portion of the midsole. The apertures in each group are disposed in an array of transverse rows, with the apertures in the first group being disposed closer to one another than the apertures in the second group.

Abstract: (a) A device for protecting cyclist feet;(b) wherein there is a sleeve wrapping the extremity of the foot up to the opening of the shoe, as well as means for fixing said sleeve to the pedal of a cycle.

Abstract: A snow plow having a blade movable by a plurality of drive devices actuated by switch members is controllable by a stick shift having a hand grip at one end and contacts at the other end for engagement with the switch members. The stick shift is pivotal from a neutral position in a selected one of a plurality of paths into engagement with the switch members, and includes in combination with its hand grip two additional switches for controlling at least one additional operation of said blade independently of the position of the stick shift.