Abstract: There is provided a shaving apparatus having a shear plate formed with hair-entrance apertures and a cutting unit associated with and rotatable relative to the shear plate. The cutting unit comprises a cutting member having cutters and a hair-pulling member having lead cutters respectively associated with and movable relative to the cutters. A separate coupling piece is provided for securing the cutting member and the hair-pulling member together by passage through corresponding central openings in each such member.

Abstract: A dryshaving apparatus in which a shaving head and an oscillating-armature motor constitute an assembly. This assembly is mounted in the housing of the dryshaving apparatus by elastic elements only, at least one elastic element being a strip-shaped integral hinge extending transversely to the oscillating movement and connected at one end to the assembly and at its other end to the housing. The assembly together with the elastic elements has a mechanical resonant frequency less than the oscillation frequency, divided by .sqroot.2, of the parts of the assembly performing the oscillating movement.

Abstract: A folding knife providing a safety lock mechanism that securely locks the blade in an open position. A bar spring in the handle is anchored at the rear handle end. Its opposite end is freely biased against the edge surfaces of the tang of a foldable blade. The bar spring includes a latch configuration complementary to a catch formed across the tang, which interfit when the blade is open. A transverse pushbutton serves to cam the free end of the bar spring from engagement with the blade when it is to be folded to a closed position.

Abstract: A retractable blade knife 10 comprises an elongate handle 11 which is in two halves 14, 15 clamping therebetween a replaceable blade 12 which can be extended and retracted by means of a cursor 18 and which has "break-lines" 32 for breaking off successive end portions 33. To clamp the blade 12 firmly in use, a screw 27 at the rear end of the handle can be turned to produce relative longitudinal sliding between the two handle halves 14, 15, whereupon an inclined "wedging" surface 17 at the front end of the handle 11 clamps the two halves 14 and 15 together with the blade 12 between them.

Abstract: This invention pertains to means for trimming tree branches. Spaced cutting collars with sharp teeth at one end are crimped upon a flexible cable. Lead weights, sand bags, etc., are attached to and carry the flexible cutting cable into position over the branch to be cut. The cable and cutting collars are oscillated to saw the branch.

Abstract: A portable electric jig saw incorporating an improved lightweight, one-piece saw blade carrier, and an improved floating three-point carrier guide arrangement. The invention is disclosed embodied in both non-orbital and adjustable orbit type jig saws.

Abstract: A coordinate measuring machine for measuring parts using cylindrical coordinates. The machine includes a base, an articulated arm mounted to the base at its proximate end for movement within a plane, and a vertically movable probe assembly mounted near the distal end of the articulated arm. A horizontal measuring rod extends between the distal end of the arm and the base to provide a measurement of the location of the probe with respect to the base, in terms of a radius and an angular displacement. The probe assembly includes means for measuring perpendicular displacement of the probe from the plane of the articulated arm.

Abstract: An anvil in conjunction with an electromechanical probe measures across a tube while a second anvil and electromechanical probe measure across the tube at right angles to the first anvil and probe. Signals from each of the probes are summed and displayed to show the ovality of the tubing. The anvils and probes are mounted to a head that is rotated open to permit placement over tubing and resiliently rotated closed to bring the probes in contact with the tubing.

Abstract: A tool presetting device for longitudinally presetting an end cutting tool in a tool holder for use in a single or multiple spindle automatic bar machine characterized in that the device has a tool holder support which non-rotatably holds the tool holder in a predetermined axial position for axial adjustment of the tool to engage a preset micrometer which is clamped in one end of a micrometer holder. The other end of the micrometer holder is frictionally swingably retained in a selected groove of a grooved bar which is parallel to the tool holder and tool for swinging movement of the micrometer in a plane perpendicular to the tool holder and tool axis from a position laterally clearing the tool holder and tool for axial insertion and removal of the tool holder and tool from the tool holder support to a position whereat the end of the tool may be axially advanced with respect to the tool holder for engagement with the micrometer.

Abstract: A telescoping surveying rod carries on its upper end a laser beam sensor which reacts to a rotating laser beam of conventional type located at a distance. The sensor preferably has a vertical, triangular cross-section piece which supports on each face three solar cells, each cell emitting a signal when the beam strikes it, depending upon whether the sensor is at above or below level. The sensor is actuated throughout 360.degree. and hence need not be pointed at the beam source. An eye level readout device on the lowermost rod section has three lights which are illuminated depending upon which cell is energized. The rod is raised or lowered until the center light is illuminated, whereupon the rod marking indicates the distance below beam level of the foot of the rod.

Abstract: A grain dryer employs an auger assembly featuring a hollow auger shaft through which hot water is circulated to heat the auger flighting and thus the grain. The water emerging from the auger shaft is then used to heat atmospheric air supplied by a blower, which air is then injected into the grain through a set of ports along the auger housing. The injected air entrains moisture expelled from the grain by the hot auger and exits from the auger housing through another set of ports along the latter.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for utilizing solar energy in a water and/or waste management system. At least one rotary chamber having a porous or perforated outer wall structure and an inner disposed filter is oriented within a drying structure having a transparent surface of substantial area for allowing solar radiation to be directed through the drying structure onto said rotary chamber. Water or waste material is directed into said rotary chamber, and free water drained therefrom, leaving a sludge like material within the interior of said rotary chamber. To effectuate drying, the rotary chamber is rotatively driven and solar energy in the form of heat is collected about the exterior of the rotary chamber and utilized to dry the interior sludge. At night and when available solar radiation is minimum, drying is achieved by conventional heating means.

Abstract: A dish drying apparatus including a dishholding member, a housing disposed above the dishholding member, a plurality of outlet openings in the face of the housing adjacent to the dishholding member, a plurality of inlet openings in another face of the housing, duct member connecting the outlet openings in the face of the housing adjacent to the dishholding member with the inlet openings in another face of the housing, air transferring mechanism disposed along the length of the duct member, heating mechanism disposed in the duct member for heating air being transferred therethrough, electrical drive mechanism for the air transferring mechanism, activating mechanism for the electrical drive mechanism and the heating mechanism, housing support mechanism in a face other than a face adjacent to the dishholding member.

Abstract: A technique for simulating the thermal appearance of objects. Electrical rgy is applied to conductive material that is attached to a mounting surface shaped in the form of the selected object. The conductive material is placed to simulate the radiation pattern that the object has been shown to demonstrate.

Abstract: The present educational amusement device includes a horizontally pivoted balance arm and several pairs of matched game pieces. The game pieces of each pair include one which displays a non-verbal symbol and another one which displays the word for that symbol. The game pieces of each pair are equal in weight to each other but different in weight from the game pieces of every other pair. Therefore, the balance arm will assume a horizontal position only if two game pieces placed on it belong to the same pair. A downwardly extending front wall of the balance arm presents a window which registers with and fully uncovers a smiling face symbol on the pivotal support for the balance arm only when the balance arm is horizontal.

Abstract: To improve the walking motion of the foot in the area of the big toe, a foot-supporting sole features a rigid section which, in the area of the little toe extends further forward than in the area of the hallux ball.

Abstract: A self-cleaning, or anti-fouling, shoe spike structure is provided that includes an elongate normally vertical earth-engaging spike with upper and lower ends, means securing the upper end of the spike on a shoe with said spike depending from a normally downwardly disposed earth-engaging surface of the shoe and self-cleaning means comprising an annular debris-repellant barrier positioned about the upper end of the spike. The barrier may be in the form of a movable washer that projects outwardly from the spike and underlies the shoe surface. Or it may be in the form of a stationary non-wetting member surrounding the spike. The barrier operates to allow for substantially free movement of soil and other debris about the upper end of the spike and the portion of shoe surface about the spike thereby preventing accumulation and compaction of soil or other debris on the bottom of the shoe about the spike.

Abstract: Apparatus is disclosed wherein a plow is mounted on a frame so as to form a ditch in the ground as the frame is towed behind a tractor. The frame is of such construction and so attached to a three point hitch that its rear end cannot be lifted without first fixing the angular relation of its pivotally connected parts. A means is provided for fixing this relation independently of manipulation of the three point hitch.

Abstract: The steam iron comprises a water reservoir fitted with a device for injecting water into a vaporization chamber which occupies substantially the entire space formed between the two arms of a U-shaped electric heating resistor and extends to the level of the rear edge of the sole-plate. The vaporization chamber communicates with a distribution chamber by means of recesses formed in the top edge of a partition-wall in the rear portion of the iron. Vaporization takes place on all the chamber walls and the maximum flow path is provided for the vapor, thereby minimizing scale formation.

Abstract: Audio-visual display device is enclosed terrarium containing living plants of normal size. One or more models on small scale of living creatures are located in the terrarium and are powered to move. The small-scale models of the creatures have the effect of making the plants look larger. A pump to produce simulated rain or a music device to produce music are optional additions to enhance the effect.

Abstract: A system for displaying a number of pictures, notices, or similar announcements comprises a number of flexible sheets each provided with pictures, notices, etc. and cooperating with respective suspension devices for suspending the sheets in a divided stacker. The suspension devices, for example in the form of pins, project beyond the sheet on either side thereof and the stacker collects the projecting suspension devices so as to store the sheets, preferably hanging vertically. Each sheet is provided with a substantially stiff outer grip member which is gripped and moved by a feed system. The feed system moves the sheet and the suspension member for the respective sheets so as to displace the suspension member to sequentially display successive sheets or the like.

Abstract: A reflector with illuminated indicia, such as for automotive use, comprising a translucent sheet-like material having reflecting elements on at least a portion of at least one surface thereof and indicia defining means on the rear surface portion of said translucent sheet-like material; reflecting material on the reflecting elements but not on the indicia; a dark, translucent material adjacent to the indicia on the rear surface portion of the translucent sheet-like material; translucent diffusing material adjacent the dark translucent material and located more remote from the translucent sheet-like material than the dark translucent material; and a source of illumination rearward of the translucent material. The invention is also directed to a method of making such a reflector and a method of modifying conventional reflectors.

Abstract: A fishing rod support and warning device comprises an elongated housing, a contact rod resiliently mounted for axial movement within said housing at one end thereof, the outer end of said rod extending from said housing and having support means associated therewith to support a fishing rod. The inner end of the contact rod being adapted, directly or indirectly, to electrically contact a power source upon axial pressure being exerted on the contact rod by the fishing rod to effect closure of an electric circuit comprising said power source and a warning means. Means are associated with said contact rod for altering the degree of resilience of the rod mounting.

Abstract: A tackle box has a horizontal stack of upstanding rectangular housing units. The stack can be opened like a fan for access to contents, as adjacent units are hinged by vertical hinge pins. The pins are readily removable so units can be added or deleted as desired by fishermen. A handle anchor slot in the top of each unit, and flexible carrying handle, facilitate carrying the stack.

Abstract: A pan-type animal trap having a frame, a pair of jaws pivotally mounted on the frame and spring loaded arms pivotally mounted on the frame in cooperating relationship with the jaws to close the jaws. A pan pivotally mounted on the frame and located between the jaws when the jaws are open. A dog pivotally mounted on the frame overlying one of the jaws when the jaws are open and having a free end located under an end of the pan adjacent to the pivotal mounting of the pan. The free end of the dog and the end of the pan under which the free end of the dog is located having openings which are aligned when the free end of the dog is located below the end of the pan, and a frangible shear pin extending through the aligned openings to hold the pan and the dog together and provide the desired pan tension when the jaws are open.

Abstract: The present invention provides an inflatable toy vehicle including a main housing or chassis supported by a plurality of rotatably mounted wheels for peripherally engaging a suitable surface. A rear cargo portion includes a plurality of apertures or windows and encloses a flexible, inflatable sack. Collapsible portions of the sack adjacent the windows are decorated and formed to appear as animal heads so that internal pressure will cause the formed portions to expand outwardly and take the predetermined shape. A pump in the form of a bellows is provided in the front portion or cab of the vehicle and operated by manually reciprocating a figure mounted on the top thereof for inflating the sack.

Abstract: An integral piece for applying to a sharp corner element such as on a window frame, having a base with a recess in its under surface with flanges or ribs on two contiguous sides. Rising from the base is a rounded boss, symmetrical on a diagonal line from the juncture of the flanges. When applied to the window frame, the flanges fit against the edges of the frame forming the sharp corner, and the boss extends both up from the base and generally toward the corner. The symmetry of the guard enables it to fit either corner of the window frame, i.e., either right or left. The guard is held in place alternatively by an adhesive material, or mechanical means such as a screw.

Abstract: The device for guiding and actuating a vertical air-tight sliding door is suspended from two carriages each provided with a right-angled support bracket which is capable of horizontal displacement in a slideway. A bent plate which carries the door is rotatably mounted on an elbowed shaft fixed on each carriage. The bent plate carries a roller controlled by a fork and plate assembly which is pivotally mounted on the shaft and actuated by a jack. As the roller reaches the end of the track, the fork and plate assembly is permitted to rotate, with the result that the door carries out a compound movement of downward displacement and application against the wall.

Abstract: A window assembly, especially for the side door or doors of an automotive vehicle, comprises a window frame having a pair of generally parallel rails formed as channels opening toward a window pane which can be raised and lowered on the vehicle. The window pane is provided with guide shoes or like members received in and guided on the respective channels and affixed to the pane inwardly of respective edges thereof so that these edges can be engaged, even along the face of the pane provided with the shoes or guide members, by seals on the frame or vehicle body.

Abstract: A picture-frame shaped gasket for refrigerators is fixed on the inside margin of the door for preventing leakage of cold, and at least the lower side of the gasket is formed of soft synthetic resin which has been mixed with reinforcing fibres so as to provide a gasket of high strength.

Abstract: A vertically arranged circular or polygonal grinding tank and shafts which are fixed to or rotatably formed on a main shaft plate provided rotatably above the grinding tank are provided. The grinding tank is charged with such proper grinding material as hone grains or a medium and workpieces are held or suspended from the shafts and are submerged and moved into the grinding material. The main shaft plate is rotated, and the shafts are stopped, rotated or moved through different angles. Either or both of the grinding tank and main shaft plate is or are moved up and down so that the workpieces may be ground by the frictional slide and flow of the grinding material. Thus, workpieces and particularly large workpieces can be uniformly ground within a short time and a multi-purpose grinding can be made.

Abstract: An improved throw-away, or single use, adaptor particularly useful with depressed center grinding wheels is described. The adaptor comprises a hollow mandrel having an internal threaded portion for attaching the adaptor to the shaft of a grinding machine. The hollow mandrel has a saucer-shaped disc portion extending axially from the outer portion of the mandrel. The saucer-shaped disc portion has a concave surface and a convex surface. The concave portion is equipped with a plurality of internal rib members and has a flange around the periphery thereof to contact the side of a grinding wheel. The flange portion has a plurality of protrusions, or bosses, thereon adapted to be received in corresponding orifices in the grinding wheel. In operation, as the grinding wheel contacts a work piece, the torque, or stress, is directly imparted to the adaptor, as the adaptor is threadably attached to the shaft of the grinding wheel.

Abstract: An apparatus for finishing work pieces such as by abrading, grinding or polishing wherein said work pieces are carried by a work holder movable through a rectilinear path while being simultaneously rotated about a vertical axis beneath a continuous moving finishing element.

Abstract: An improved superfinishing stone for micro-finish machining of workpieces and a method of making same. The stone comprises a body of readily machinable metal with a cutting face in the form of an abrasive liner adhesively bonded to a contour face complementary to the contour of the workpiece. Coolant passages within the body of the stone extend through the abrasive liner and adhesive substrate and flush coolant directly between the cutting face and the workpiece.

Abstract: An insulating inner panel and an outer panel are assembled together so as to form an internal space which is subsequently filled with light concrete. U-section members or flanged channel bars having uniformly spaced slots are flush-mounted within superposed horizontal channels of the inner panel. At the ends of the wall, metallic fastening pins pass through the slots and the insulating panel and pass round upright members forming part of vertical end beams against which the inner panel is applied. Between the wall ends, the fastening pins are each constituted by a loop having twisted ends and two free end portions which are passed through packing-blocks placed within the internal space and are anchored in the outer panel.

Abstract: There is disclosed an adjustable buckstay system for use in association with the walls of vapor generators or the like and whereby the magnitude of necessary clearances in various connecting elements of the system may be adjusted to reduce or eliminate vibration in the system.

Abstract: A glazed closure assembly such as a window sash or door comprises a pair of upper and lower rails of synthetic resin, a pair of metal attachments mounted in the rails, and a pair of stiles of synthetic resin, the attachments being connected endwise to the stiles by means of screws. A pane of glass is peripherally surrounded by a gasket that is mounted in the slots of the attachments and stiles.

Abstract: Setting block and process for setting up the shuttering for a building wall involving accurate positioning of the wall shuttering with an upwardly protruding positioning rod case in an underlying wall and after the floor shuttering has been placed, the placing the setting block so that its vertical bore grips around the rod.

Abstract: A case packer and/or case unloader apparatus especially but not exclusively designed for packing small bottles in an orderly pattern into a shipping carton, or conversely, removing a case load of such bottles from a carton has a horizontally reciprocable carriage from which is suspended a vertically movable lifting frame. This frame carries spaced pairs of bars movable lengthwise relative to each other. Each bar has a spaced series of depending container engaging fingers with the fingers on one bar having lateral projections thereon extending in a direction opposed to lateral projections on the fingers of the other bar. By sliding the two bars of the pair in opposite directions, the fingers will approach or recede from each other. With the fingers of each pair close together, the frame may be lowered to enter a pair of fingers into the neck of each bottle of a prearranged group. By then moving the bars in opposite directions, the projections on the fingers engage the interior of the bottles.

Abstract: A pair of jaws operable in a common plane between an open and closed position for the selective clamping of a plastic tube or the like, one of the jaws being selectively shiftable out of the common plane in the open position and automatically returned to the common plane upon a closing movement of the jaws.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for packaging cans or similar objects having beaded rims in combination with planar carriers of polymeric materials is described. The cans are arrayed into groups corresponding to rim-engagingopenings or formations on the carriers by a conveyor and the cans are then positioned, aligned and firmly held with respect to the formations by cores inserted into the interstices within the array. The cores are actuated by the position of the conveyor belt via rails at specific stations. While the cores are holding the cans in alignment with respect to the carrier, the cans are inserted into the carriers by conveyor-actuated rams so that the beads on said rims engage the formations on the carriers. The carriers may include the rim-engaging formations along opposite faces.

Abstract: A method is provided for making a package having upper and lower foam cushion inserts which cooperate with each other to enclose an article therebetween which is placed in the package. The method includes the steps of forming convolutions in at least one surface of a piece of foam material to form a first foam insert, and then removing a section of convoluted foam material from the piece of foam material to form a cutout therein. Then, the removed section which forms the second foam insert is applied to one wall of a package with the unconvoluted surface thereof adhered to the wall, and the first foam insert is applied to an opposite wall of the package, with the second insert being in alignment with the cutout area of the first insert, whereby an article placed in the cutout area is cushioned between the foam material on the opposite walls of the package.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for making a reclosable package from a forming web, a covering web and a closure strip. The closure strip is indented at desired intervals and sealed at its lower surface to the forming web. A cavity is formed in the forming web after which a product is placed therein and covered with the covering web. After evacuating the space therebetween the covering and forming webs are sealed together with longitudinal and transverse seals which enclose the product and the closure strip. The upper surface of the closure strip is sealed to the covering web so that when the package is severed between the closure strip and an adjacent longitudinal seal, the closure strip may be opened for access to the product.

Abstract: A method of sterile capping a plurality of I.V. bottles with temporary sterile caps. A plurality of caps are provided in a single sterile package, which package is opened within the confines of a sterile working environment and the caps distributed face-up on a working surface. Packing caps are removed from I.V. bottles within the sterile environment and dilutant added to the bottles. The bottles are then sequentially inverted and press-fit into corresponding temporary caps to achieve a sterile sealing relationship between the bottles and caps.The described method results in a large savings of preparation time, produces less litter, and eliminates a bruised or "red" palm problem encountered in the prior art.

Abstract: A method of controlling, harvesting and handling large acreages of aquatic growths and other underwater products and materials through the use of satellite harvesters coupled to a land or water based transfer pumping station for delivery of the harvest to a remote spoil, storage or processing area.

Abstract: A mobile forage harvester for harvesting crop material, chopping the material and blowing the chopped material to a receptacle, the harvester having a water supply system for periodically injecting a controllable amount of water into the stream of crop material as it passes through said harvester to thereby minimize gumming up of said material in said harvester.

Abstract: A device for baling cut crop, comprising a baling chamber having an inlet port and an outlet port and a compression member adapted to move in the baling chamber, the compressing stroke of the compression member extends along the inlet port to near the outlet port and is equal to or slightly larger than the distance between the inlet and outlet ports; a construction of the device according to the invention is suitable for making bundles having a materially higher "specific weight" than the generally known "straw bales".

Abstract: A wire stranding machine intended for the manufacture of metal cord strands comprises a vertical rotor made in the form of a shaft with casings secured on the ends thereof and internally accommodating reel holders. Parts are provided in the casings for installing reels into the reel holders and guide dies for passing wires. On a portion between the casings the rotor shaft is provided with through ducts. Adjacent the reel holders are electromagnets fixedly mounted for restraining the reel holders from rotating together with the shaft. This makes it possible to decrease the mass and reduce the dimensions of the machine, and to simplify the servicing thereof.

Abstract: Broken ends of a spun yarn are introduced into a hole of an air nozzle device from upper end and lower end of the hole respectively and the yarns are doubled. The doubled yarns are slightly slacked and subjected to air jetting by the air nozzle device to produce a spliced joint. The distribution of twists inherent of spun yarns is changed in the region of the spliced joint by twists imparted to the yarns by the air jet nozzle and at least one fixed portion of the new twist distribution is formed in the spliced joint.

Abstract: A friction false twist device is of the type comprising three parallel shafts located at the corners of an equilateral triangle, and carrying rotationally symmetric friction elements. At least one of the shafts can be shifted in relation to the other shaft or shafts so as to open the device for threading. An additional shaft is arranged in relation to the three shafts carrying the friction elements so that, if connected by a line, the centers of the four shafts preferably would lie at the corners of a generally kite-shaped quadrilateral. Each of the four shafts carrys a whorl, the four whorls being drivingly interconnected by an endless belt of relatively minimum elasticity. At least one other shaft is coupled with said shiftable shaft for conjoint movement such that changes in the circumferential length of the quadrilateral caused by movement of the shiftably mounted shaft are substantially compensated by conjoint movement of the coupled shaft.