Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for making an overshoe made of non-woven fabric, wherein a blank is used, constituted by two identical sheets in the form of a parallelogram and connected along one of their large sides by a gusset adapted to form the sole and along their small sides by lines of join, also joining the opposite faces of said gusset. The invention is more particularly applicable to the manufacture of disposable overshoes.

Abstract: A drain auger guiding tool comprises an elongated rigid body having at its front a reaction surface facing to one side of the body. A medial portion of an auger is engaged against that surface while a more rearward portion of the auger extends along the body at said side of it, and a more forward portion is flexed around the front end of the body, toward its other side, by an auger flexing hook swingable about an axis near the front of the body. For swinging the hook, a tension rod extends along said other side of the body and has an actuator at its rear end and a supple eccentric connection with the hook at its front end.

Abstract: The carpet cleaning device of this invention includes a liquid application means, liquid removal means and carpet brushing means. A reciprocating motion is provided to a pivoted brush by means of a rotary shaft having an oblique crank portion carrying a bearing whose outer race is connected to the brush. The shaft axis, center line of the bearing, and the brush pivot axis all intersect at a common point thus transforming rotary motion of the shaft to an arcuate, reciprocating motion of the brush.

Abstract: A substantially vertical drum skinning apparatus includes an improved knife, a cushioned drive and an overriding brake, all for improving a skinning operation. The knife is pivoted near the drum and is spring biased toward the drum to an adjustable stop, so that the knife is relatively rigid in line with the primary skinning force applied thereto. It is free to move slightly through a defined area and against a yieldable bias force for facilitating the clean removal of the skin. The drum is driven through a skin clamp, and a flexible cushioned drive coupling for transmitting force to the drum drive shaft and facilitating clamp engagement, and smooth removal of the skin is included. An improved overriding brake holds the drum positively until the skin is tightly clamped and is easily removable for changing worn brake plates.

Abstract: An apparatus for shackling and handling live poultry is based on gathering the live fowl on foot at the farm and conveying successive groups of the gathered fowl into shackles in which the live fowl are transported from the farm to the processing plant. At the processing plant, the shackles containing respective groups of fowl are adapted to be releasably supported on the processing conveyor for suspending the fowl during processing.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for forming a relatively porous patty of plastic food material that is subject to shrinkage during cooking. One embodiment of the apparatus includes a foraminous member having a plurality of apertures and a piston slidably disposed in a receiving chamber on one side of the foraminous member. A pressurizable feed chamber is provided with a feed mechanism for feeding and pressurizing the food material and forcing the material through the apertures and into the receiving chamber. A mold is provided for being aligned with the foraminous member and for receiving the material as it is discharged from the receiving chamber by movement of the piston. The discharging material impinges upon a wall of the mold to form a patty in which the material defines interstitial voids therein for entrapping air and providing retention of cooking juices to promote more rapid and uniform cooking of the patty.

Abstract: The invention relates to the method of making a beater roll comprising a body and a saw tooth wire helically fitted to the surface of the body wherein the helical convolutions are in spaced relation and wherein a sealant is employed to seal repetitive gaps or spaces between the base of the wire and the smooth cylindrical surface of the beater roll, such repetitive spaces or gaps being caused by placing the set necessary to accommodate wire clothing to the cylindrical surface of a roll as used in open end spinning.

Abstract: A carding machine has a web delivering assembly including cooperating upper and lower rollers and a web guiding device for withdrawing and gathering a fiber web discharged by the web delivering assembly. The web guiding device includes a guide element arranged immediately downstream of the rollers as viewed in the direction of advance of the fiber web. The guide element has at least one operationally stationary guide face extending transversely to the plane in which the fiber web advances. The guide element further has an upper longitudinal edge extending along the upper roller in the immediate vicinity thereof and a lower longitudinal edge extending along the lower roller at a sufficient distance therefrom for allowing waste to drop out downwardly from the fiber web as is passes from the rollers to the guide element.

Abstract: The apparatus is usable with a funnel wheel and a tube which undergoes tumbling movements for receiving a rope-like strand of fibers from a card or drawing frame and piling the strand of fibers in cycloidal loops in a ramp, through which the rope-like strand is moved to be loaded into cans, typically known as spinning cans. The ramp may be tubular, and may be vibrated. The ramp leads to a first support which is provided with clamps for holding a can. The first support is tiltable, and means are provided for severing the rope-like strand between the ramp and the can when the can is filled to a predetermined extent. A tiltable twin support is provided with clamps for receiving and holding a filled can from the first support, and for receiving, holding and transferring to the first support an empty can to be filled. The twin support can be tilted and moved transversely for receiving a loaded can from the first can support and transferring an empty can to the first support.

Abstract: A device for obtaining a control signal corresponding to the density of the fibre covering lying on a fibre carrying element such as the cylinder, the licker-in, the take-off roller, or the doffer of a card. The device includes a holder which extends over the width of the fibre carrying element to span the width of the fibre covering on the fibre carrying element. This holder contains means responsive to the density of the fibre covering which produces electric output signals corresponding to the density of the fibre covering.

Abstract: What is disclosed is the construction of a unitized attachment device utilizing a common snap fastener which allows ornamentation and/or jewelry to be readily placed in the hair, or may be used as a fastener for a wide variety of ornaments for personal or household decoration.

Abstract: A one-piece tie of synthetic plastic material is disclosed having a flat head through which the strap passes, after looping around a bundle of cables for example, for its serrations to interlock with the teeth of a pawl which is pivoted at one end. The strap is introduced through the head from the pivoted end of the pawl, and increasing back-tension in the strap, after the tie is tied, causes the strap to pivot the pawl so as more firmly to grip the strap.

Abstract: A coupling for hoses and companion fittings comprising a circling clamp formed of a plurality of individually identical shell members or segments. Each shell segment includes, at a first end, a bore for receiving a connecting bolt and a projection for engaging a portion of a lock fastener. At the opposite end, each shell segment includes means for engaging the connecting bolt and companion means for carrying the releasable lock fastener.

Abstract: A thin-walled hollow metal cylinder is rotatably held at its ends between holding flanges which are mounted with a pressure-tight seal on an opposing aligned pair of rotatable hubs. The spacing between the hubs can be adjusted. In one embodiment, the hubs are supported on a hollow pipe arbor and make a pressure-tight seal against it. In another embodiment, one hub is mounted on a stub shaft which is held in bearings and another is held in the head stock of a lathe in proper alignment. In both cases, a pressure medium, air, is supplied to the inner space of the cylinder through the arbor at a pressure of about 0.5 to about 1.0 atmospheres to increase the inherent rigidity of the cylinder. This improves the stability of the cylinder for various processes, such as for photoengraving of the surface of the cylinder to prepare it as a screen-printing stencil.

Abstract: The disclosure concerns a stone roller for use in a paper making machine as a pressure roller, or for other like uses. The stone roller may be comprised of granite. To prevent roller cracking and sagging, it is axially stressed by clamping plates at opposite ends. A plurality of tie-rods preferably placed closer to the periphery than the axial center of the roller, pass through the roller and join and draw together the clamping plates so as to axially stress the body. Either a single large diameter borehole or a plurality of boreholes are provided in the roller body, through which the tie-rods pass. The open space in the boreholes may be filled with a filler, such as concrete. To protect the tie-rods from abrasion, they may be covered by a protective sheath of plastic or rubber. In an alternate form, the stone roller body may be comprised of an axial series of roller body parts, having complementary formations on their adjoining faces for properly relatively positioning them.

Abstract: A method of stuffing an aerated expanded flexible filler into a snug fitting cover, wherein air is evacuated from the filler while resting upon a support so as to shrink the filler and permit rapid application of the cover thereto. The apparatus includes a cantilevered chambered support with multiple openings in its filler supporting surface and selectively operable means for withdrawing air from the chamber and an air impervious sheet draped over the filler and the support.

Abstract: A device for use in casting concrete piles in a mold consisting of a bottom section and two side walls. The piles are formed with lengthwise reinforcement rods, on the ends of which are attached interconnecting members passing through the end fittings of the pile. The device is characterized by an alignment member arranged to be positioned in the mold. Abutment faces on the alignment member are arranged in engagement with the side walls and the bottom section of the mold at right angles to the longitudinal extension thereof. The alignment member is provided with shoulders forming points of abutment for engagement with the ends of the interconnecting members. A pulling means is arranged to engage in the center of said end fitting members and with the aid of a support means provided in said alignment member to urge the ends of the interconnecting members into abutment against the shoulders of the alignment member, when said tightening means is tightened.

Abstract: A one-way clutch having radially movable sprags is utilized to repair a drive assembly including a carrier which drives an output gear through the one-way clutch with the worn surfaces on the carrier and the gear being ground down a total of 0.006 inches with the sprags adapting to the resulting spacing by appropriate radial movement.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing mechanical parts from the raw material of metal scrap such as shavings and turnings of castings and steel and press chips of steel, includes the steps of: preparing the metal scrap including shavings and turnings; forming a billet by pressing metal scrap; heating the billet to the forging temperature, whereby a satisfactory plasticity is given to the billet for plastic deformation of metal scrap in the succeeding process; and forming the heated billet into a forged workpiece by use of a semi-closed forging die. The shape of the billet is determined such that, in this forging step, the respective portions of the billet are subjected to plastic deformation having a given plastic deformation rate, whereby material flow sufficient to generate metallic bond at the respective portions is caused, and burred portions are formed on portions of the forged workpiece mainly subjected to extrusion press during die-forging.

Abstract: An anterior total contact hyperextension orthosis apparatus method of making a hyperextension orthosis. A stockinette is placed on a patient's body and marked for pre-determined patient features. A cast is formed on the patient's body for making a drape mold. The stockinette markings transfer to the cast and to the mold. The mold is modified including conforming the mold to the measured patient's breast portion and breast position, and the orthosis body is drape formed on the mold. The orthosis body is a molded plastic material having a breast support portion formed to be supported on the patient's breast, along with a pubic support portion and a center support portion formed between the breast support portion and the pubic support portion to conform to the patient's body therebetween to apply pressure primarily to soft tissue. Straps are attached to the anterior body portion and to a lumber pad for attaching the brace to the patient.

Abstract: This invention relates to methods and apparatus for making electrical connectors and, in one embodiment suitable for use with a multiplicity of parallel planar arrayed, spaced-apart insulated conductors, comprises means for and the steps of retainably positioning the conductor array above the crimp retainer portions of interconnected connector members, inserting the conductors into the connectors, positionally affixing the conductors to the connectors as by crimp means encircling the cable insulation and crimp means enveloping the exposed cable conductors, shearing the strips which interconnect the connector members to each other, and inserting the cables and their associated connectors into an associated connector block.

Abstract: An MOS process for fabricating multi-layer integrated circuits particularly suited for SOS fabrication is disclosed. Transistors are fabricated both on the substrate level and in an overlying polysilicon layer. Processing techniques for aligning source and drain regions with a buried gate are described. In one embodiment, a photoresist layer is exposed to light directed through the sapphire substrate, thereby employing the buried gate as a masking member. Laser annealing may be used to provide larger crystals of silicon in the polysilicon layer.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a closed gate MOS transistor having a self-aligned drain contact is presented which insures that the drain contact will have the minimum required geometry. The method employs a self-aligned procedure which insures that the drain contact will be the minimum dimensions to insure a high speed device. Also, the completed device includes a dual layer passivation overcoat which insures a hermetically sealed device.

Abstract: The method entails laying out NPN transistors in a bipolar integrated circuit in a manner which prevents crystal dislocations from making the transistor unreliable. The long edges of the collector contacts are aligned in a direction substantially perpendicular to the direction between the collector contact and the emitter-base junction.

Abstract: A crimping system for crimping electrical wire connectors which have a body with a plurality of longitudinal wire receiving openings in one end and a cap telescopically received in one face of the body for movement into the body from an open position to a crimped position to connect wires inserted into the openings. The system includes a carrier strip retaining the aforesaid connectors in open sided receptacles at spaced locations and a hand tool into which the strip is fed for the crimping of the connectors onto wires.

Abstract: A shaving apparatus comprises a cutting unit provided with at least one cutter having associated therewith a lead cutter movable relative to the cutter. The lead cutter is connected to the cutter by means of a connecting element formed of a material having rubber-elastic properties.

Abstract: A razor cartridge including a blade seat, a seat blade, a cap blade, a cap and a spacer between the blade wherein cutting edges of the blades are exposed for shaving. The spacer is provided with a series of projections, at least some of which extend beyond cutting edges of the blades for diminishing contact between the blades and the skin to reduce potential for scraping and produce improved comfort in shaving. Preferably, various spacer projections of the series extend forwardly differing amounts to compensate for differing skin deformations along the length of the razor blades.

Abstract: A shaver unit comprises at least one blade unit, a case member and a cover member. The case member has a blade accommodating space defined therein for accommodating the blade unit while the shaver unit is not in use for shaving and a blade fitting recess for fittingly and detachably receiving the blade unit while the shaver unit is used for shaving. The cover member is detachably attached to the case member to cover the blade unit accommodated in the accommodating space. The case member further has a portion serving as a handle gripped by the user's hand during shaving.

Abstract: A knife for personal use includes a frame of two substantially identical frame plates held in registering parallelism by a spacer pinned in position. The frame plates have generally circular openings therethrough in alignment on a transverse axis. The openings each depart from circularity by including one and preferably two extended pockets. A blade at one end having an identical opening and a pocket or pockets has such end disposed between the plates and pivotally held therein by a flanged, threaded sleeve passing through the openings and secured by a ring nut. The sleeve at the flange end has a cross slot to define sleeve pockets registering with the plate and blade pockets. A headed bolt extends reciprocably and yieldably through the sleeve and at one end has a cross bar adapted in one position to seat in the blade pockets, in at least one of the plate pockets and in the sleeve pockets.

Abstract: Cutting dies are mounted for parallel movement in a scissors-action handle assembly employing pivot pins mounted both forward and rearward of the pivot axis of the handles, and one of the engagement openings for a pivot pin in each die is longitudinally extended for necessary clearance. The cutting edges of the two dies are at one longitudinal end of the tool extending beyond the portion of the dies between the two pivot pins. Parallel action is guided by a pair of guide pins longitudinally spaced and to the maximum extend possible located in the plane of the die cutting edges. A compression spring is centrally located between the guide pins to bias the dies to open position. When the dies are of the kind adapted to trim venetian blind slat ends, one die aligns the blind slat by transverse ribs to the cutting edge.

Abstract: The specification discloses a motor housing, with a handle of the circular saw type, and a cantilever saw bar carrying a saw chain is secured to the housing in a position extending downwardly from a guide foot of the housing. A retractable guard bar normally is held in a position holding a guard loop around the nose end of the saw bar, the guard bar being positioned at the rear of the saw bar. The guard bar is mounted slidably on the motor housing, and, when a latch is manually released, the guard loop may be pushed up along the saw during a boring (nose cutting) operation. In an alternate embodiment, a foot attachable to a foot of a circular saw motor carries a saw bar and a guard bar with a guard loop surrounding the nose end of the saw bar.

Abstract: A lattice template for locating aircraft structure and pilot holes behind flat or contoured surface panel structures. The lattice structure of template strips positioned by bridge structures or flexible cables enables adjustment of template strips within the lattice template thereby enabling coordination with its respective structural element to accommodate tolerances of assembly.

Abstract: A functional gear checking machine for determining a number of gear characteristics from a composite input signal received from a linear voltage differential transformer is disclosed. The signal from the sensing transformer is coupled to a demodulation circuit which, in turn, is coupled to several type of signal processing circuits, each of which contains a memory, and each of which processes and separates the components of the composite signals in order to provide output signals that are indicative of the desired gear characteristics. The output signals that are developed are a function of the voltage between two reference levels, at least one of which is established by the associated signal processing circuit.

Abstract: A test probe positioning machine includes first and second stepper motors connected to spaced first and second vertical pivot pins extending from a support. A flat slide surface is disposed on the support adjacent and perpendicular to the vertical pivot pins. First and second elongated threaded shafts driven by the stepper motors engage first and second threaded nut blocks. The nut blocks are pivotally connected together by a vertical pivot pin and are supported upon a low friction foot element which slides along the slide surface. An insulating probe support is connected to one of the nut blocks and can be raised or lowered by a solenoid in response to a control signal received from a control system. The control system converts triangular coordinates to pulse signals which control the stepper motors to position the probe support.

Abstract: In a process that involves use of a fluidized bed of solid particulate material wherein fludization is obtained by passage of a gas through the bed, and the bed is stabilized by including discrete magnetizable particles in the bed and applying a substantially uniform magnetic field to the bed, temperature gradients that occur in the bed when the process in which the fluidized bed is used involves release or absorption of heat are reduced by periodically removing the magnetic field in a cyclical fashion. The period of magnetic field removal is long enough to destabilize the fluidized bed with respect to the positioning of fluidized particles so that the particles will move about in the bed, but the period of removal is not so long as to permit the unstabilized bed to exhibit a boiling or bubbling effect. The ratio of "on" time to "off" time is generally within the range of from about 4 to 1 to about 4000 to 1.

Abstract: A method of drying green ceramic articles with a hot air stream in a drier, wherein the green articles, immediately or soon after entering the drier, are heated to 100.degree. C. while the moisture content thereof is maintained equal to that of the green articles at the beginning of heating step.

Abstract: A fluid bed dryer utilizing a rotating air distribution disc to deliver rotating streams of air to the fluid bed includes salvage apparatus which accumulates, concentrates and returns particulate material which falls from the fluid bed during the drying operation to the fluid bed. A salvage ring is mounted below and completely encircles the disc to receive and accumulate particles of material which fall from the fluid bed to the disc and are flung from the disc by centrifugal force. A collector which is positioned within the salvage ring and driven by the disc, sweeps the internal area of the salvage ring to concentrate the accumulated particles of material and deliver them to a funnel which is connected to a passageway leading back to the fluid bed. The collected particles of material are returned to the fluid bed by air pressure created by pressure differentials within the dryer apparatus.

Abstract: An educational toy comprising a frame structure provided with two compartments for separately receiving each one of a series of selective quiz and answer boards, a flexible channel bar having a plurality of selective electrical connections, and two mechanisms to show whether the answer is affirmative or negative when an answer board is placed to match a corresponding quiz board via said flexible channel bar.

Abstract: A shoe shank support suitable for being molded into a unit sole for a ladies high heel shoe provides increased stability and resistance to flexing and comprises a shank of metal strapping sufficiently long to extend from the heel area to approximately the beginning of the ball of the foot and a heel post which extends the height of the heel. The shank may be generally flattened and include a strengthening rib or it may be oval in shape. The heel post is attached to the heel area of the shank by being inserted through a hole and tightened in position by a reversed wing nut. The threaded end of the heel post extends the length of the heel and protrudes a small distance therefrom to provide a mounting for top lifts on the bottom of the heel. Additional holes may be provided in the shank for positioning the shank in a mold and preventing slippage of the shank during the molding process.

Abstract: A moldable article useful for making a form-stable article is described. The moldable article comprises a formable material that is a moldable polymeric or prepolymeric substance that can be cured to a form stable state and a curing agent, in close proximity to the curable substance but isolated therefrom, in frangible hollow fibers. In use, the frangible hollow fibers are ruptured to release the curing agent and the moldable article, in a first configuration, can be shaped to a second configuration in which it is maintained until the formable material is cured sufficiently for it to be form-stable in the second configuration. The moldable article can be used to make molds, casts, support for a portion of the human or animal anatomy, or other articles with diverse utilities.

Abstract: Footwear, such as a running shoe, comprising a sole and an upper, the sole having heel, arch and forefoot sections, and medial and lateral sides. The sole is so formed that when it is unstressed and disposed on a generally flat horizontal surface the upper foot-supporting surfaces of the heel and arch sections are inclined generally downwardly from the medial to the lateral side of the sole. The arch section at the medial side of the sole is constructed for supporting the bottom of the arch of the foot at a predetermined elevation in relation to the heel and forward part of the foot. The arch section is compressible at its medial side no more than a predetermined distance on impact of the shoe during running.

Abstract: An identity band which comprises an elongate strap and a latch portion which forms a slot through which the strap is pushed to form the band into a loop. The strap has a series of apertures therein providing a series of transverse stop surfaces alternating with a series of transverse camming surfaces. Within the slot there is a latching element. As the strap is pushed through the slot to form the loop, the camming surfaces in turn cam the latching element out of the path of the strap to permit passage thereof through the slot. The stop surfaces are arranged so that, if an attempt is made to pull the strap in the opposite direction through the slot, one of them engages with the latching element to prevent such movement of the strap. Both the stop surfaces and the camming surfaces meet the upper and lower faces of the strap portion at angles other than right angles. The latch element is wedge-like and mounted at its thicker end.

Abstract: An address sign, especially for houses and other buildings, is provided with full time lighting so that the sign is easily readable under both day time and night time conditions from long distances. The lighted sign also provides low intensity illumination in a localized area such as a house entrance. The sign comprises a back plate and a translucent box-like cover having a length about four times greater than its width. A plurality of at least four miniature lamps are disposed on the back plate along the center line of the cover with certain spacing from each other and the front and side panels of the cover to provide uniform illumination of the cover. Opaque numbers are secured to the front panel of the cover and are preferably black to provide high contrast for easy day time and night time reading.

Abstract: A fire-arm having a bolt assembly which includes a bolt received by a bolt carrier and axially movable relative thereto and a T-shaped ejector set freely in a T-shaped recess in the bolt and retained in the recess by the bolt carrier while being held axially relative to the bolt by the T-shape of the extractor and the recess. In a first position of the bolt relative to the carrier the extractor is held in a first position in which it engages a cartridge for extraction from the chamber and in a second position of the bolt relative to the carrier the extractor is movable to a second position from which it can move to engage a cartridge.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an improved reloading device of the type described in my prior U.S. Pat. No. 3,769,732 wherein the center shaft of a revolver cylinder is utilized to displace a latching mechanism retaining a ring of cartridges by the rims thereof. This latching mechanism is in the form of a slidable center post which in one position will oppose the inward bending of a plurality of cantilevered fingers each provided with a semicircular projection abutting the rim of the cartridges, and which, upon the invert articulation thereof, will release the cartridges for insertion into the cylinder. Included also are spring-loaded carriers conformed to support the foregoing reloading devices and to eject the devices into the hand of the wearer upon release.

Abstract: A crab pot handling apparatus comprising a sorting bin means for receiving, holding and disposing of the contents of a crab pot, and a crab pot launcher for holding and launching a crab pot. The crab pot handling apparatus is pivotally mounted on the gunwale near the side of a crab harvesting vessel. The crab pot launcher is comprised of a first planar launching deck with crab pot engaging means thereon. The sorting bin is pivotally positioned adjacent the crab pot launcher. The sorting bin means is comprised of a structural frame with sorting surface and fencing means along portions of the periphery of the sorting surface and is rotatable into juxtaposed position over the aforementioned crab pot launcher for baiting and launching pots whenever no sorting function is required.

Abstract: A gig for hunting frogs and fish having a tubular body, with a rear end portion attachable to an elongated handle. The tubular body has tines fastened to it. One end of each tine is inserted in holes positioned around the body to make contact with the inside surface of the tubular body while a rotatable clincher ring is placed forward of the rear end portion and the holes to secure the tines against the outside surface of the body. The clincher ring has a gap in it which allows the removal and replacement of a defective tine, by rotating the clincher ring until the gap is above the tine to be removed.

Abstract: A closeable fish net comprising a frame including a U-shaped portion beneath which a container is suspended and defines with the frame an opening for entry of fish into the container. A cover is slidably supported by the U-shaped portion for movement between a retracted position in which the opening for the fish is open and an extended position in which the opening is closed. An actuator rod is coupled to the cover to move the same between the retracted and extended positions and a finger-engageable portion is provided on the end of the actuator rod.

Abstract: An improved animal trap of the leg-hold type has a trap pan formed with a grid having all lower surfaces tapered to a knife edge so that there is no requirement to cover the trap pan with paper or plastic when covering the entire trap with fine dirt to disguise the trap from the animal. The dirt placed over the trap is permitted to fall beneath the inventive grid pan, since the sharpened lower surfaces can easily penetrate this dirt. Stabilizing legs are attached to the trap frame to permit the trap to be firmly anchored in the ground when it is set.

Abstract: A miniature fireplace for a doll house, the fireplace producing a flickering light, by including at least one miniature electric lamp hidden behind logs placed on a grate fitted into the fireplace, the lamp being in an electrical circuit with a flasher unit, a switch and a dry cell battery hidden behind the fireplace facade.