Abstract: A guard for protecting a boat transom from being marred by a marine motor mounted on the transom, comprising a generally U-shaped marine motor mounting protector, adapted to be mounted on the transom, including a base and a pair of legs mounted on the base for extending along the sides of the transom to provide a barrier between the transom and any motor to be mounted on the transom.

Abstract: A relatively small watercraft includes a pair of spaced and usually parallel pontoons. A personnel station extends generally between and above the two spaced pontoons. A structural frame of tubular members or bars supports the personnel station; the tubular members may be selectively connected to the pontoons, or the frame may be permanently connected to them. In one embodiment wherein the structural frame and the pontoons are only temporarily connected, a plurality of eye bolts and specially positioned slots are utilized so that the eye bolts need never be removed from the watercraft. (In this embodiment, there are no connecting pieces to ever get lost, even when the three main sub-assemblies of the watercraft are disassembled.) The eye bolts are aligned longitudinally with the slots for disassembly, and turned transversely to the slots to hold the tubular members to the pontoons. Dimples or recesses in the tubular members can be provided to inhibit unwanted rotation of an eye bolt.

Abstract: The equipment is connected through a line to an auxiliary buoyant element to form an assembly of positive buoyancy, the equipment to be submerged and the auxiliary element being at first held in spaced relationship. The equipment is thereafter dropped into water, the length of the connecting line being so limited that the equipment then becomes suspended in water under the auxiliary element without reaching the water bottom. The location of the assembly is then optionally adjusted, and its buoyancy is reduced to a negative value.

Abstract: A binding device for hoses floating on the water surface, particularly, for a plurality of hoses arranged in parallel and floating on the water surface and connecting adjacent two hose lines by chains, comprising a resilient cylindrical cushioning body having a center bore surrounding the chain and including a buoyant member and reinforcing element embedded therein.

Abstract: A torpedo recovery system including an expandable sleeve surrounding a portion of the torpedo. Upon activation of the recovery system gas is introduced into the sleeve, causing it to expand. The sleeve is clamped firmly at two distinct longitudinal positions along the torpedo and is releasably clamped at a third longitudinal position. When the differential pressure between gas inside of the sleeve and water outside the sleeve reaches a predetermined threshold level, the releasable clamp releases the sleeve allowing it to gradually expand to form a doughnut-shaped floatation collar. The expanding sleeve provides gradually increasing drag to slow the torpedo and then positive buoyancy for lifting it to the water's surface.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for launching and hauling in objects such as life-boats, pick-up boats, small submarines and people from the sea, which includes a floating dock suspended from a yoke connected to a jib attached to a floating vessel, the yoke being capable of substantially following the swell movements of the sea. A substantially constant spacing is maintained between the floating dock and the vessel while the dock is floating in the sea.

Abstract: An elongated rectilinear tool for formation of a threaded hole in ductile metal by the coining or flowing of the metal. The tool typically is employed to form through threaded holes in a piece of ductile metal, and features a working end having a boring tip or drill point and a spade section having a flat shank with grooves in its lateral edges. The spade section holds the drill point and extends back a short distance from the working end. The diameter of the tool then enlarges slightly at a small inclined section which is followed by a longer coining tap section. The coining (flowing) of metal forms a thread on the previously smooth wall of the drilled hole, with peaks or crests, and roots. The lateral grooving of the spade section tracks, i.e. fits, into the fully formed threading as the present tool is screwed out.

Abstract: Reinforced concrete bridge decking comprises a plurality of substantially identical, removable, interchangeable reinforced concrete panels having protruding tongues at opposite ends supported on and retained in place by resilient, shock absorbing pads. The panels each have a metallic frame substantially filled with concrete, and an abrasive material layer is bonded on the top surface of the concrete. The abrasive material layer provides a hard, salt resistant, anti-skid surface on the concrete panels, and also serves to strengthen the panels. The resilient pads are readily removable to release the individual panels, so that a tool can be engaged with the panels in the spaces defined between the tongues at the opposite ends thereof to remove the individual panels for maintenance or repair, or to interchange the panels with one another.

Abstract: A pipe such as a sewer line or the like is cleaned by advancement therethrough of a rigid tubular member having at its lead end a nozzle for ejecting a stream of water to dislodge debris, etc., followed by a series of rotary cutters and pushes for removing more stubborn foreign materials.

Abstract: A shock absorbing floor brush assembly for attachment with high-speed floor cleaning machines is provided having a rigid brush disk movably mounted on a shock absorbing hub so that the brush disk rotates with a floating action. The shock absorbing hub is of smaller diameter than the brush disk and has a drive disk with a conventional attachment clutch plate mounted on its top side and fasteners surrounded by resilient material extending from its underside. These fasteners hold the rigid brush disk, when stationary, in parallel relationship with the drive disk but permit the brush disk to move upward during use. The particular construction of the floor brush assembly enables the resilient material to absorb the upward and torque shocks encountered when cleaning a floor and to return the brush disk to its parallel relationship with the drive disk without transmitting the shocks to the floor cleaning machine and its operator.

Abstract: A wiper blade refill assembly for replacement in a wiper blade pressure distributing superstructure includes a combination of an elastomeric wiping element supported by an elongate backing element and a set of adapter clips having depending pairs of opposed adapter claws spaced apart a distance sufficient to slidably accommodate the backing element of the replacement refill unit. The adapter clips include a pair of spaced apart resilient arms having notches at their side edges in which the claws of the superstructure are seated and retained. The backing element is notched on a side edge to resiliently engage and retain an adapter claw.

Abstract: A toner clean-off head utilizing a vacuum for removing liquid toner from a moving record medium having a latent electrostatic image thereon, in which the contact surface of the clean-off head is cylindrical so that the record medium easily conforms to ensure proper removal of the toner with a minimum of applied vacuum. A thin clean-off blade is positioned in a slot in the cylindrical contact surface so that the edge of the blade forms an element of the surface, and an inlet air passage and a toner exhaust passage in communication with vacuum means are defined on either side of the blade.

Abstract: A curtain suspension device including a curtain clasp which is mounted in the slot of a curtain rod which curtain clasp comprises a needle slide member consisting of an oblong mirror-symmetrical plate provided at one of its longitudinal faces with a projection which is T-shaped in cross section and extends along the entire length of the oblong slide member in the symmetry plane thereof to form a slide shoe for sliding movement in the slot of the curtain rod, with the flanges of the "T" acting as guides in the slot.

Abstract: Apparatus for disjointing and removing the leg and thigh portions from the backs of poultry leg and back carcasses pendulously supported by the feet from shackles suspended from an overhead conveyor at spaced intervals with the back of each carcass lying between the legs in a reversed direction from the normal position. The apparatus comprises an endless dismembering conveyor mounted below the level of the shackles and having conveying elements engageable with one side of the carcass backs moving along a path that diverges both horizontally and vertically at an acute angle from the path of the overhead conveyor. Retaining bars are mounted closely above the dismembering conveyor conveying elements to extend axially along the conveyor in a spaced relationship as will contact the poultry carcasses immediately adjacent the juncture of the leg thighs and the backs and retain the backs between the retaining bars and the dismembering conveyor conveying elements.

Abstract: A plurality of stainless steel wires or blades extend between cylindrical end elements on a spindle and may be stressed as desired to place them under tension. The wires or blades may be straight, that is parallel to the longitudinal axis of the spindle or spiralled relative thereto, as desired. The device may be rotated by a conventional electric drill or if electrical power is not available, by a power take-off from any engine such as a stationary engine, marine engine, automobile engine or the like, via a flexible drive cable. The device scales fish with the minimum of damage to the fish and with relative safety to the operator.

Abstract: A shellfish meat extraction tool having an elongated body portion which is manually grasped by the user, a connecting portion extending from one end of said body portion, and a unique meat extraction blade formed at the outermost extremity of said connecting portion.

Abstract: A carding device of the large rotating carding drum type including a comber-cleaner assembly particularly well suited for combing and cleaning universal flat cards is provided. The comber-cleaner including a worker roller and a stripper roller mounted for cooperation with the carding drum is disposed between a take-in roller and a card belt. The comber-cleaner assembly includes at least three curved plaque segments disposed over the worker roller for defining at least two channels for positioning at least two extractor blades for improved removal of residual short fibers and other impurities. A control strip deforms the web as it passes from the stripper roller to the worker roller.

Abstract: A method of and apparatus for regulating out variations in the sliver weight on processing machines such as cards, carding engines, draw frames and the like wherein a first measuring device measures either the absolute cross-section or the relative variations of cross-section relative to a predetermined fixed desired value of a fibre sliver issuing from the machine. The first measuring device forms a corresponding first test signal. An additional measuring device is arranged at a point upstream of the first measuring device with respect to the direction of travel of the fibre material. The additional measuring device produces a second test signal corresponding to the relative variations in the cross-section of the fibre material relative to an average value for these variations formed over a predetermined period. The first and second test signals are used for controlling at least one regulating device which controls the cross-section of the fibre sliver.

Abstract: Various attachments are disclosed employing hook and loop fasteners which are confined in a manner to permit engagement and disengagement only in a shear direction.

Abstract: An automatically locking slider includes a locking spring for locking the slider in position on a slide fastener. The locking spring has at one end a locking prong movable into and out of a slide fastener guide channel and at the other end a first retaining portion resting on a slider body. The locking spring is further provided with a resilient tongue or tongues constituting a second retaining portion which is supported by a pivot means in a plane above and remote from the general plane of an upper body wing so as to permit the locking prong to move angularly about the pivot means.

Abstract: A pile fabric, especially velvet, can have a selection of yarn strands appearing on one of its faces severed by means of a focused laser beam. According to the process of the invention the zone of focus of the laser beam is brought successively into contact with predetermined portions of each of the strands for a period of time sufficient to cause combustion of at least some of the fibers forming each strand.

Abstract: Tenter apparatus for fabric web tenter machines comprises a hook body carried by a circulating conveyor, a tenter table fixedly connected to the hook body and serving as support for the fabric web edge, and a hook flap pivotally mounted on the hook body and biased towards the tenter table, such flap carrying a clamping strip directed towards the tenter table for firmly holding a fabric web edge and at least one other clamp member which is disposed spaced from the clamping strip on the side thereof remote from the fabric web and for which a corresponding recess is provided in the tenter table.

Abstract: Misaligned strands in a graphite fiber on tape are aligned and wound up on reels with a minimum of degradation by the steps of: separating the individual strands, diverging the strands, aligning the strands and winding the individual strands onto separate take-up reels in one continuous operation.Graphite fabric woven from the strands exhibit little or no degradation and have a uniform density and excellent physical properties. The alignment apparatus is inexpensive, simple to operate and occupies a relatively small space.

Abstract: In process for manufacturing shadow mask of Braun tube for color TV comprising steps of subjecting strip of low carbon steel to cold rolling finish, forming holes in the rolled material, cutting it into individual flat masks, annealing each mask at elevated temperatures, conditioning the annealed mask and press-forming the mask into desired shape, the improvement residing in controlling the finish cold rolling reduction within the range between 10 and 35%, whereby the annealing temperature is reduced to 520.degree. to 750.degree. C. The process is applicable to steel strip material containing up to 0.10% by weight of carbon.

Abstract: A machine tool comprises a main support with a machine stand on the main support carrying a headstock alongside a workbench which is mounted advantageously for movement toward and away from the headstock. The construction includes a tool magazine support mounted on the main support and the tool magazine and the headstock are mounted for relative movement in two distinct planes. In addition, the tool magazine carries a rotatable tool magazine disk having a plurality of recesses in its periphery each of which accommodates a tool carrier. The tool magazine disk is supported by the rotation in a third plane distinct from the first and second planes, and cam means are provided between the tool carrier and the tool magazine disk which are effective to lock the carrier to the disk and/or to the headstock in accordance with whether the tool carrier with the tool is to be inserted on the headstock or to be stored in the tool carrier disk.

Abstract: The construction of complex electrical circuits is simplified by performing all interconnections on one side of a component-receiving board, using slotted beam insulation-piercing connectors. Boards with or without metallization patterns are adaptable to the basic approach. Using boards with an X-Y pattern of holes arranged in columns, slotted beam connector elements are readily pressed into one side; and corresponding circuit elements such as dual-in-line packs plugged from the other side into the connector elements. The system is enhanced by a tool which feeds insulated conductor from a source and into selected slotted beams. The tool includes a retractable knife or a retractable cutter with which a given wire run may be terminated. For the manual mode, a sequence of wiring is indicated to an operator by stepping of a laser beam which illuminates successive slotted beams to be connected.

Abstract: The invention relates to a drive for a rotatable mantle roll mounted onto a stationary axle. The mantle is driven by one or more driving gears which are again driven by one or more shafts journalled in a supporting frame located around the stationary axle end. The driving gear or gears drive an internally toothed gear ring connected to the roll mantle. The improvement lies in that the supporting frame which is supported by rolling or sliding elements is placed inside a shell connected to the mantle or inside the mantle as a stationary unit with its different elements. The supporting frame is coupled by special elements not to rotate so that the said location with the mantle is possible.

Abstract: A controlled deflection roll comprising a stationary support and a substantially tubular-shaped roll shell rotatable about the stationary support. Hydrostatic pressure or contact elements are provided for the controlled deflection roll and are supported at the stationary support. A pump for infeeding hydraulic pressurized fluid medium, together with its drive motor, is secured at one end of the stationary support. The drive motor can be a rotational speed-regulated motor and is equipped with a regulator to which there is infed the measured signal of a pressure feeler or sensor arranged at the outlet side of the pump. Preferably, a plurality of pumps together with their motors can be attached at a substantially flat end surface or flat side surfaces of the stationary support.

Abstract: Manually-operated field apparatus is disclosed for applying a pressed-on coupling to the end of a hose. A frame carries two threadedly-adjustable sets of interleaved clamping plates for clamping a hose end therebetween in a predetermined orientation. The frame defines a pair of tracks on opposite sides of the hose parallel thereto, on which are respectively slidably mounted two runners of a coupling carriage for supporting the coupling between the runners coaxially with the held hose end. A manually-operated ball-type screw and nut assembly mounted on the frame is engageable with the coupling carriage for moving it along the tracks toward the hose end for pressing the coupling onto the held hose end.

Abstract: An alignment device for bringing a mask and a wafer into intimate contact with each other for the manufacture of a semiconductor circuit element. In this device, an air-tight chamber is formed between the mask and the wafer. The mask and the wafer are brought into intimate contact with each other by evacuating the airtight chamber. In this case, the mask is made parallel to the wafer or warped toward the wafer. Thus, no non-contact portion is created between the central portions of the mask and the wafer.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of removing a slewing ring (3) from a pedestal-mounted crane (2). A carriage (14) is positioned on a pair of elongate guide members (9) which lie substantially parallel, both to one another and to the plane of the slewing ring (3), and which extend alongside the pedestal (14). The crane (2) is raised relative to the pedestal (4) by means of jacks (7) and the carriage (14) is moved to a position beneath the crane (2). The slewing ring (3) is then positioned on the carriage and withdrawn on the carriage from beneath the crane.

Abstract: A paint roller cage assembly apparatus in which a group of four cage wires are held and affirmatively positioned generally as if at the corners of a square; a cage wire cap with sockets for the cage wires is then applied to one end of the cage wires, and a similar cage wire cap is next applied to the other end of the cage wires, thereby automatically assembling a paint roller cage; the apparatus includes cage wire feeders, and a plurality of cage wire holders in the form of pivotably associated links which may be pivoted to position the wires for the application of the caps.

Abstract: A support frame for garments such as brassieres, swimsuits and the like, and a system for forming the support frames. The wire member of each support frame is formed in a preselected, prescribed configuration and plastic protective end caps are adhered to the wire member end portions in a selected manner. The wire end may be modified by a cutter assembly which includes guiding and aligning apparatus for properly locating the wire frame ends relative to spaced rotating saws to remove selected portions and define a centrally located protruding tip portion intermediate spaced shoulders.

Abstract: An apparatus including feeding and assembling mechanisms by which a strip of terminals will be fed into a work station where a plurality of such terminals are separated from the strip and are forcibly inserted into a terminal holder that has been properly indexed in a receiving position. The apparatus provides a single drive source consisting of a plurality of operational cams for sequentially completing the assembly.

Abstract: In a method of smoothing the edges of a window through a PSG film of a semiconductor device, a masking film is provided under the PSG film, so as to prevent impurities of the PSG film from penetrating into semiconductor substrate during the heating of the PSG film for the smoothing of the edges. A masking film, for example, an Si.sub.3 N.sub.4 film, does not, however, inhibit the penetration of hydrogen gas, which can improve the properties of an MIS semiconductor device.

Abstract: In the fabrication of semiconductor integrated circuits which include recessed oxide isolation regions (29), formation of the undesired "bird's head" and "bird's beak" is avoided by reducing the rate of oxide growth from the sidewalls of isotropically etched recesses (22) while oxide is being grown from the bottoms of the recess regions. A silicon nitride mask (24) formed selectively on each of the sidewalls which has previously been coated with a thin silicon dioxide layer (23) reduces the rate of oxide growth therefrom, so that the oxidized recess regions have substantially planar surfaces after termination of the oxide growth.

Abstract: A method of fabricating light emitting diodes to prevent degradation caused y thermally induced stress. A voltage is applied across the chip to cause it to bend to a prestressed condition while it is being soldered to the header. The biasing voltage applied is continued until after the heat is removed and the solder cooled leaving the diode in the prestressed condition.

Abstract: A superconducting magnet designed to produce magnetic flux densities of the order of 4 to 5 Webers per square meter is constructed by first forming a cable of a plurality of matrixed superconductor wires with each wire of the plurality insulated from each other one. The cable is shaped into a rectangular cross-section and is wound with tape in an open spiral to create cooling channels. Coils are wound in a calculated pattern in saddle shapes to produce desired fields, such as dipoles, quadrupoles, and the like. Wedges are inserted between adjacent cables as needed to maintain substantially radial placement of the long dimensions of cross sections of the cables. After winding, individual strands in each of the cables are brought out to terminals and are interconnected to place all of the strands in series and to maximize the propagation of a quench by alternating conduction from an inner layer to an outer layer and from top half to bottom half as often as possible.

Abstract: Battery grid-making stock expanded laterally outwardly from an unexpanded strip at the center of the stock and having two unexpanded strips at the lateral edges of the stock is filled with battery reactant and cut along a serpentine path transverse the length of the stock such as to segment the stock into a plurality of two-plate sets having lugs carved out of the unexpanded strips and projecting in the longitudinal direction of the stock. Thusly made plates have their lugs projecting from the sides of the plates and in alignment with the top and bottom borders thereof.

Abstract: An apparatus for continuously inverting the orientation of sheaths comprises a rotationally indexing wheel having a concavity at a side surface thereof and a plurality of holes provided around the wheel spaced from each other, the holes extending from the outer periphery of the wheel to the concavity thereof for receiving the sheaths at a first station and transmitting the same to a second station at which the orientation of the sheaths is different from the orientation of the sheaths at the first station. The apparatus further comprises means for consecutively feeding the sheaths to the holes at the first station including means for continuously supplying the sheaths in an upright position in alignment with the hole to which the sheath is fed and means for transporting the sheaths supported by the supply means to the holes of the wheel, and means for releasing the sheaths from the holes at the second station to thereby place the sheaths onto the articles consecutively indexed.

Abstract: A hybrid circuit including IC chips and discrete components wherein a substrate is connected to a lead frame and the lead frame is utilized for securing and positioning the substrate during the mounting and electrical connecting of IC chips and discrete components thereon. Once the entire circuit is connected the lead frame is utilized for securing and positioning the substrate in a transfer mold to encapsulate the substrate with epoxy or the like. In the present invention a pair of matching substrates having interconnected circuits thereon are constructed simultaneously and formed into two interconnected packages which can be tested before or after mounting in a receiving structure. Further, repairs may be made to the final assembly without destruction thereof, since the "component like" circuit package can be replaced without affecting other parts in the system.

Abstract: A charge plate for an ink jet printer comprises a rigid support plate provided with a medially extending elongated slot and an electrode support structure cast in place adheringly against the walls of the slot. The electrode support structure is fabricated from a nonconductive casting resin which is cast against a silicone elastomer mold having a series of upstanding pegs coated with a release agent and an overcoating of conductive epoxy. The casting resin flows around the peg structure and bonds itself to the conductive epoxy coating. The conductive epoxy material transfers from the mold surface to the electrode support structure upon mold separation, so that the casting process produces a series of cylindrical charging electrodes cast in place within charging tunnels in the electrode support structure. The resulting product is subjected to a finishing operation, and flexible printed circuit leads are thereafter attached to the charging electrodes.

Abstract: A dry shaving apparatus has a shearing foil, a reciprocable blade member cooperating with the shearing foil, a pressure spring urging the blade member toward the shearing foil and extending with the former in a first direction, a shearing head frame, and an auxiliary frame insertable into the shearing head frame and mounting the shearing foil so that it is convex. The auxiliary frame is fixed to the shearing foil at one longitudinal side of the former and is resiliently yieldable in the first direction. The auxiliary frame is arrested in the shearing head frame at the ends of the former.

Abstract: The present patent relates to chain pipe-cutters equipped to cut all kind of material. The chain pipe-cutters include: a tensioner which is a deformable system formed by a cylindrical rod fast with a support, a slider slidably mounted on said rod, said support bearing four articulated rockers connected to the slider in pairs by two links and having their lower ends shaped as hooks to permit attachment of the chain thereon; said cylindrical rod cooperating with a handle through the agency of a screw-thread and said handle being formed by two superimposed cylindrical elements and having four superimposed lobes arranged cruciform-fashion.

Abstract: A hand tool with a knife, saw, screwdriver blade or the like in which a handle is formed of two U-shaped members of equal length that are pivotally articulated on a blade-retaining piece at free ends of their respective arms about pivot shafts that are perpendicular to each other. The U-shaped members are swingable in succession over a blade as a protective housing that encloses it. The blade is removably fixed by a screw in a receiving slot of the blade retaining piece. The two shafts are mutually offset or staggered in a longitudinal direction of the blade approximately by a thickness of a base portion of the U-shaped member.

Abstract: A wire cutter having a pair of partially overlapping blade-shaped jaws pivotally connected, each jaw having an operating handle, a pin in one jaw blade being received in a slot in the other jaw blade to limit the pivotal movement, a plurality of holes in said jaw blades, said holes being countersunk in the outer surface of one of said blades, said holes being in alignment when said handles are in the maximum open position for the insertion of a wire to be cut, said holes in non-alignment when said handles are squeezed, thereby permitting said blades to cut wire, and a spring between said handles to return said handles to the open position.

Abstract: An improved filament trimmer of the type in which a rotary drive means having a hollow filament feed shaft is frame mounted and has an improved slinger head attached to said hollow shaft with an arcuate bore therethrough in open communication with the hollow shaft for swinging the cutting filament line in a radial plane to the shaft axis. A positive filament feed control is used for metering the cutting line to or from the slinger head.

Abstract: A housing and cutting line assembly for a vegetation cutting apparatus of the type which cuts with rapidly moving lines extending from a rotating housing includes metallic line guides taking a configuration which addresses the effective guiding of the extending of the lines exteriorly of the housing and the dissipation of heat from the lines. The line guides each have a trailing side wall bearing surface for the associated line, which includes two linear surface portions angularly disposed with respect to one another, and a leading side wall bearing surface which includes a linear surface portion and a curvilinear surface portion. The linear leading side wall surface portion is substantially uniformly spaced from an inner, linear trailing side wall bearing surface portion, and the curvilinear surface portion of the leading side wall bearing surface curves away from this inner surface portion.

Abstract: An instrument and method is provided for accurately determining the geographic coordinates of a specific location on a map. The instrument comprises a flat transparent plastic sheet having a variable length scale printed thereon which is defined by a plurality of straight lines radiating from a common point. Indicia are also printed on the sheet for designating the radiating lines as graduations of a scale comprising either 2.5 or 5 minutes, and with each minute being further broken down into sixty seconds. To determine a coordinate, the location in question on the map is projected to the border along a direction parallel to one set of the geographic coordinates. The transparent sheet is then placed over the map, and the scale is aligned with respect to the border such that the outermost of the radiating lines directly overlie the tick marks on the map between which the projected location falls. The scale is then read above the point at which the projected location intersects the border of the map.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for making a plurality of different keys, each constructed to open each rotary cylinder lock in the same series, or sub-series, called "masterkeying". The disclosed masterkeying tool comprises a calibrated plate, having one or more pin grooves, and a key-supporting platform which moves transversely to permit a selected bitting of a test key to register with a selected pin groove on the calibrated plate. Tumbler pins interposed in the pin groove are seated in a selected bitting of the test key and are aligned in the groove to reach the indicated shear line.The process is repeated for corresponding bittings in each of a series of keys, beginning with the key having the highest bitting and ending with the key having the lowest bitting.