Abstract: A conventional shoe last is provided with an adapter assembly to facilitate lasting of boots and/or other ankle-covering malleoli circumventing footwear. The assembly includes an upward extension that has medially, laterally adjustable medial and lateral portions, each preferably with an adjustable cup-forming member, and each with a skirt for filling in around the thinner top backpart of the conventional shoe last. The V-notch of the conventional shoe last is provided with an adjustable cone portion that at least partially covers the cone portion of the shoe last in order to provide the close fit needed for active wear boots.

Abstract: This brush provides a quick and easy way of cleaning a broiler grill, and it consists primarily of a block, having a multiple number of bristle clusters, which are spaced apart from a center row of steel pegs. It further incudes a removable handle, that clamps onto the block.

Abstract: A windscreen wiper blade assembly including a rubber element, a backing strip connected to the rubber element, a pair of yokes with one ends thereof being connected to the end portions of the rubber element, and a connecting means including connecting pin connecting the yokes with one another. A surface portion is defined on each of the yokes intermediate its opposite ends, and which extends generally along the longitudinal center plane of the rubber element such that the surface portions are adjacent to and face one another. The connecting pin extends perpendicular to the surface portions of the yokes.

Abstract: A windscreen wiper blade harness comprising a plurality of metal yokes of channel cross section having at least one secondary yoke nested within and pivotally secured to primary yoke adjacent its end includes a plastic spacer of channel cross section disposed between the primary and secondary yokes for preventing metal to metal contact and providing the pivotal connection, the spacer being formed with a pair of internally extending aligned trunnions, one on each cheek which pivotally engage corresponding holes in the flanges of the secondary yoke, externally extending projections aligned with the internal trunnions which engage in corresponding holes in the flanges of the primary yoke and a radially extending flange which abuts the end of the primary yoke.

Abstract: The invention relates to a hinge for suspending a door, especially a glass door, on an item of furniture, with a hinge arm fastened on the furniture and a hinge part to be fastened on the door, in which, when the door is closed, this hinge part is situated within a first surface of a second surface of the hinge arm. The invention is characterized by the fact that one of the surfaces has a ratchetting face and the other surface is provided with a spring loaded ratchetting element which snap fits behind this ratchetting surface.

Abstract: A multi-element connection for structural members adapted to connect the structural members in co-linear arrangement and to automatically lock these members in such position, which connection is adapted to be rotated or folded to bring such structural members into such co-linear or lapped position with respect to each other, the connection being comprised of a latch element secured or integral with one of the members and a clevis element secured or integral with another of said members, the latch element having a cam surface and an arcuate notch with end abutments whereby a latching member in said clevis element may ride on the cam surface and be brought into engagement with said notch to lock said elements and co-joined structural members.

Abstract: This meat grain template is formed from a three-dimensional prism having a spaced upper end and lower faces. The lower face contacts the meat and inclined passages are provided lying on a common plane perpendicular to the lower face and extending through the prism to receive and direct grain markers into the meat. The upper end openings of the passages define at least one reference line by which the template may be rotated into correct alignment prior to insertion of the marker. A method of determining the direction of the meat grain for specific units of meat is disclosed which facilitates cutting the meat across the grain.

Abstract: A fish filleting machine comprises a conveyor for transporting the fish tail forwards, belly filleting knives, back filleting knives, rib knives, first severing knives for the severing through of the flesh strip, and second severing knives for the severing of the fillets at the tail root of the fish. A closed guide track for the backbone of the fish is arranged between the belly filleting knives or the back filleting knives and the second severing knives. The first severing knives lie between the belly filleting knives or the back filleting knives and the rib knives and are connected with control means, which are actuated synchronously with the conveyor and bring the first severing knives into a setting crossing the guide track before and arrival of the end of the abdominal cavity of the respective fish.

Abstract: The disclosure is of a machine for removing the meat from the prepared body of a crab, lobster or other crustacean by means of a jet of compressed air.

Abstract: An assembly is illustrated for use in connection with the main cylinder and the like of a carding machine wherein an annular shroud has a segmental portion of reduced thickness for providing a ledge type bearing surface for support and securement directly to the card frame, the shroud also having a bearing receiving recess so that the cylinder mounting shaft may be supported within the shroud. The bearing has a pair of parallel inserts, spaced on each side of the shaft, having thickened inner portions for engaging the inner race of the bearing for removing the bearing while the cylinder is carried within the card frame. The shroud provides an arcuate mounting surface for positioning stationary card flats facilitating the provision of means for resiliently carrying the flats yieldably urging them downwardly while permitting adjustment of the settings.

Abstract: A clip to grip paper is adapted to carry advertising indicia. The clip comprises two cooperating gripping jaws. One or both of the jaws is formed with a thin planar land such that the land and jaw are formed as a single piece thereby monolithically to define a plate-like clamping plane. A resilient element maintains the jaws in a given alignment and causes the jaws to exert a clamping pressure. Each planar face of the plate-like clamping plane provides a means on which the advertising indicia is placed.

Abstract: A push button for locks of safety belts whose top side closes off flush with the housing receiving the same or is arranged recessed in the housing; the lateral guide surfaces of the push button and the corresponding guide surfaces in the lock housing are thereby provided with a large number of projecting and recessed areas.

Abstract: A jewelry clasp having a male member adapted to be inserted into an opening in a female member, and the female member including a releasable locking mechanism clasping the male and female members together, wherein a retaining guard is releasably placed onto the male member for preventing jewelry from sliding off the male member. The thickness of both the female member and the retaining guard being greater than the diameter of the opening of the jewelry which receives a chain therethrough. The male member can be used to thread beads, or other jewelry onto the chain with the retaining guard then being placed on the male member so that the beads or other jewelry will not slip off the chain.

Abstract: A hose clamp wherein one end of the clamping band is movable to any desired longitudinal position of the band so as to initially take up the slack of the band during installation of the hose clamp. This same end is held without being permanently attached to the clamping mechanism.

Abstract: Lightweight grids for lead-sulfuric acid type storage batteries are characterized by their laminated reticulated open meshed portions for retaining chemically active, lead-based paste materials. The laminated portions comprise a support layer of a rigid or semi-rigid plastic, an electrically conductive lead foil layer coextensive with the plastic layer, and a sulfuric acid resistant adhesive bonding layer between the plastic support and foil layers. In a preferred embodiment, the grid wires and nodes are twisted relative to the principal plane of the grid so that the lead foil layer is oriented to face the grid header portion and act as a ledge for retaining a desired battery paste. Such laminated grids may be rapidly and inexpensively formed by expanded metal processes of the type used to make battery grids made entirely of lead.

Abstract: The invention is a method of assembly for a ball-and-socket joint of the preloaded type with automatic taking up of play, comprising a housing, a pivot, a bearing element disposed between these later and a locking ring. After the disposing in the housing of the various components of the joint, the latter is axially loaded until a predetermined value is obtained for the tilting torque, and once this value is obtained, the ring is crimped in the housing by means of punches acting radially, without alteration of the predetermined value of the tilting torque. Application of the ball-and-socket joint assembly in particular for suspension or steering of an automobile vehicle.

Abstract: An orifice fitting mechanism for pipeline flow measurement systems includes a fabricated body structure that is so fabricated that internal and external body plate connection welds may be effectively utilized in order that the body structure will have sufficient structural integrity to withstand the forces of high pressure service. Internal and external welding of the body plates is enhanced through the provision of internal hub rings that define portions of the internal through conduit structure of the body and also define a properly oriented transverse opening that effectively receives an orifice plate carrier assembly in sealed relation therein. The hub rings also provide for close positioning of pressure tap passages as desired for accurate flow measurement. A replaceable valve support mechanism is employed allowing the slide valve system of the orifice fitting to be field replaceable without requiring replacement of either of the upper or lower body sections.

Abstract: A method of making a heat exchanger consisting of a conduit having a plurality of passes joined by integral return bends which comprises(i) bending two strips of material together in a zigzag manner to form a stack of substantially parallel passes, the two strips being displaced laterally with respect to one another,(ii) bonding the two strips together along lines substantially parallel to their longitudinal edges to form a flat, serpentine conduit, and(iii) inflating the conduit by applying internally a fluid under pressure.

Abstract: An improved rod-baffled heat exchanger in which the tube bundle thereof comprises a plurality of tubes supported intermediate their ends by at least one outer support ring and a plurality of baffle rods carried by the outer ring and extending between parallel tube rows. The baffle rods are movable from a first position wherein the tubes adjacent thereto are loosely supported by the rods to facilitate assembly, to a second position wherein the tubes are firmly engaged and radially supported by the rods. Various novel forms of baffle rods are disclosed along with a novel method of construction of the improved heat exchanger.

Abstract: An apparatus for inserting a resilient band on a container, which comprises a support member adapted to receive on its top wall the container, a first set of segments arranged circumferentially about the support member, a second set of segments arranged circumferentially about the first set of segments below the top wall of the first set of segments to define therewith a band-receiving area, and a pair of springs opposing, in one case, the downward movement of the support member and, in the other case, the downward movement of the first set of segments; the second spring has a higher spring modulus than that of the first spring so that downward movement of the container on the support member causes, first, a radial outward movement of the first set of segments to stretch the band until the container contacts the first set of segments whereupon the first set of segments moves downward within the second set of segments and the band moves in engagement onto the container.

Abstract: A tool with a body member which can be braced between the engine block and an adjacent wall of the automobile has a sharp-pointed member movable under the control of a hand operated lever arm to penetrate a freeze plug in the engine block and become wedged in the plug so on reverse movement of the lever arm the plug is removed from the engine block. For use in inserting a new plug, the sharp-pointed member is replaced by a flat headed one which drives a new freeze plug into the appropriate block opening on appropriate operation of the lever arm.

Abstract: Tire and wheel mounting guides for use with wheel mounted tires adjustably positions opposed support members against the tread of the tire so that the tire and wheel are held in movable relation to a hub of a vehicle on which the tire and wheel are being positioned.

Abstract: A monolithic two axis gimbal suspension system for a tuned inertial instrument includes flexure hinges which are formed monolithically integral therein to define the pivot axis of the suspension system, each monolithically integral flexure hinge having aligned pairs of skew, crossed bridges integral with the relatively rotatable gimbals of the suspension system. The suspension system is used in a dry tuned gyroscope to suspend the gyro rotor from the gyro spin shaft. A method for making the monolithic suspension system comprises electro discharge machining of a monolithic workpiece mounted on a movable mandrel. Monolithically integral flexure hinges comprising skew, crossed bridges formed therein, interconnect gimbal portions which are formed in the workpiece. Construction of an improved tuned gyroscope employing the monolithic suspension system in a single compartment housing is described.

Abstract: A fastening system having a continuously curved countersink section in an aperture through a plurality of workpieces, with a corresponding rivet having a continuously curved head portion substantially congruent to the continuously curved countersink. Rivets equipped with the continuously curved head surfaces taught herein, when mated with a continuously curved countersink, provide sufficient resistance to fastener pull through, cause cold working of the rivet upon insertion of the rivet into the aperture and impose an elastic load upon the workpiece and rivet, strengthening the joint.

Abstract: A tubular pipe rail jointing system consisting of posts and rails makes use of fittings on the posts providing sleeves into which ends of the tubular pipe rails are telescopingly received. For effective fabrication and erection it is preferable to cut the tubular pipe rails to proper length on the site. To assure a rugged installation, a dimple is pressed into the sleeve with a pressure punch of special construction. A cradle forming part of the tool fits around half the circumference of the sleeve while the punch under high pounds per square inch pressure is pressed progressively into the sleeve, at a point diametrically opposite the cradle, until material of the sleeve, deformed by the punch, is forced into a depression formed simultaneously in the end of the tubular pipe rail. The assembly described becomes interlocked by what has been termed a swedge lock.

Abstract: A method of making transmission mode glass-sealed negative electron affinity (NEA) gallium arsenide (GaAs) photocathodes, utilizing germanium (Ge) as the seed crystal and multilayers of GaAs and gallium aluminum arsenide (GaAlAs) grown by metal alkyl-hydride vapor-phase epitaxy. The GaAs serves as the photoemitting layer and the GaAlAs serves as the passivating layer. The Ge, GaAs,GaAlAs combination is sealed to a glass support substrate which serves as the input window for the device. Finally, the Ge is removed and the GaAs is activated.

Abstract: A method of forming connection networks for an integrated circuit device, by forming an orthogonal array of grooves in a substrate, with the grooves of one array deeper than those of the other array; and by providing conductive strips at the bottoms of the grooves and at selected regions of the groove side walls which strips serve to provide a desired pattern of interconnections.

Abstract: An improved method of manufacturing coreless armatures typically for coreless motors, according to which a coreless cylindrical coil and an insulative disk member carrying commutator segments and rotary shaft are mechanically strongly coupled together without any adhesive agent, is provided. A radially inward compressive force is applied to the outer periphery of the coil within which the disk member is inserted at position for the coupling until coil windings partly bulge inwardly to clamp the peripheral edge of the disk member whereas a substantial part of the windings is compressed dense and into a smooth cylindrical shape.

Abstract: Described herein are self-regulating conductive articles comprised of an extruded length of polymeric material containing not more than about 15% by weight conductive carbon black, the resistivity of the extrudate following prolonged exposure to temperatures in excess of the crystalline melting point or range of the polymeric matrix in which the black content satisfies the equation:2L+5 log.sub.10 R.ltoreq.45.Wherein L is percent by weight black and R is resistivity of the extrudate expressed in ohm-cm. The articles exhibit room temperature resistivity in the range from about 5 to 100,000 ohm-cm and may be employed, e.g., in heat tracing and thermostating applications.

Abstract: A method for making a combination heater and temperature sensor comprising the steps of forming a heater element pattern in a thin sheet of resistive material and concurrently forming a temperature sensor in a non-interfering portion of the same sheet of resistive material, the forming of the heater and sensor element patterns being carried out by a photoetching process.

Abstract: A titanium oxide resistive-type exhaust gas oxygen sensor having a unique microstructure of interlocked highly irregular, flake-like particles forming a highly durable porous body preferably having a surface area greater than about 3 square meters per gram. A method for producing such particles and forming them into such a high surface area body is also described.

Abstract: An apparatus for detecting whether or not the leads of electronic components such as dual in-line package type IC components have been properly inserted into printed circuit boards and also for properly clinching the projecting portions of the leads to the rear side of the boards. The apparatus comprises a pair of openable or closable lever main bodies, levers pivotably supported on the lever main bodies by pins disposed at right angles with the opening or closing direction to come into contact with the leads to be detected, elastic members for delivering a lever main body closing force to the levers, and photoelectric means mounted on the lever main bodies for detecting the movement of the levers relative to the lever main bodies.

Abstract: A manipulator mechanism for handling small electronic components consists of a number of pairs of fingers, each pair being movable independently and being capable of being used for electrically testing the component. The mechanism can position the component accurately above its required location on a printed circuit board and movable push rods are used to insert the electrical leads of the component into their required positions.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a hand held and hand actuated tool for terminating wires into terminals housed in a connector. More particularly, the invention includes an indexing system which advances the connector through a notch either before or after a wire is terminated therein. The indexing system employes a wheel which drives the connector and an indexing lever, operating off of the wire stuffing ram, which drives the wheel.

Abstract: A slider applicator includes a rocker housing pivotally mounted on a support frame for angular movement in a plane transverse of a path of travel of a slide fastener stringer to which a slider is to be applied. The rocker housing supports a support rod on which a slider holder is mounted, the slider holder receiving a slider from a chute when the rocker housing is in a horizontal position. The slider holder is turnable about the axis of the support rod through a train of bevel gear during the angular movement of the rocker housing, so that the slider supported on the slider holder will be oriented for attachment to the stringer when the slider holder reaches its vertical position. Means is mounted on the support frame for adjusting the orientation the slider will have upon the slider holder being in the vertical position.

Abstract: A portable apparatus for peeling off mats and the like glued on floors, etc., or of wallpaper and the like pasted on walls. The apparatus comprises a motor-driven machine with oscillating drive means to which a cutting tool blade (knife edge or saw edge) is connected and, during the operation of the machine, performs an oscillating movement in the plane of the tool, which tool performs a cutting or sawing movement substantially reciprocatory in the longitudinal direction of the cutting edge.

Abstract: A manually actuated tool for cutting openings in sheet paneling from the room side after the paneling is secured in place. The basic construction consists of a pair of cooperating sharp blades at the forward end of the frame of the tool located in overlapping relation so that one blade is a leading blade and the other a trailing blade. Under the method of the invention the opening to be cut in the paneling when it is secured in place is laid out by initially securing a wire or wires around the backing over which the paneling will later be placed and then using a magnetic device after the paneling is in place to locate and mark the outline of the opening on the front of the paneling. The tool is then manually moved over the marked outline on the paneling to cut out the portion of the paneling to be removed.

Abstract: A composite indicator for use with overlay process color screen tints in offset color printing comprised of a composite screen made of relatively angled color screens. The respective dot patterns of the color screens have the word of the process color associated with that angle worked in by an out-of-phase dot pattern with respect to that screen background dot pattern. An overlaying color screen, when properly angled, causes, by out-of-phase moire pattern effect, the name of that color to be visually readable as a relatively lighter or darker pattern on a contrasting background.

Abstract: A displacement measuring device is disclosed that is particularly useful for measuring and remotely indicating the displacement of a piston rod relative to the cylinder of a power actuator of an earth working implement. The device includes a variable resistor controlled by a gearless actuator connected with the piston rod so that the effective resistance of the resistor is varied depending upon the axial displacement of the piston rod relative to the cylinder. An indicator is connected by electrical circuitry with the variable resistor to display the amount of piston rod displacement relative to the cylinder. A plurality of embodiments of the device are disclosed with one disclosed embodiment including a cable wound about a pulley mounted on the rotatable control shaft of the variable resistor with the cable having one end fastened to the piston rod and a retraction spring to maintain the cable taut regardless of piston displacement in either axial direction.

Abstract: A composite casing for a coilable rule comprises a pair of inner, plastic case members and a thin, outer metal case which receives the plastic case members in a close fitting relationship. A center post is received in central openings provided in the plastic case members to support a measuring tape and coil spring of the rule. One end of the center post has an enlarged head and its other end receives an assembly screw extending through holes in the metal case to engage and hold the metal case in firm assembly with the plastic case members. A series of knurls is formed on the center post for engaging one of the plastic case members to hold the post firmly in place. Alternatively, the center post may be formed as an integral part of one of the plastic case members. A plurality of deformable ribs may be provided on the exterior surfaces of the plastic case members to engage the metal case and firmly hold the assembly together.

Abstract: A line of sight adjustment mechanism for an optical gun sight which includes windage and elevation screws which bear against an internal component of the sight that defines the line of sight of the sight. A spring biases the internal component against the windage and elevation screws. Hardened steel balls are set into the internal component and affixed thereto at approximate positions to provide point contact between the internal component and the windage and elevation screws, and between the internal component and the spring. Adjustment friction is thus reduced with a resultant reduction in tracking error.

Abstract: Apparatus for use in lyophilizing a substance in a container and sealing the substance within the container after lyophilization. The apparatus includes an upper portion positionable about a resilient stopper in frictional engagement therewith, and a structure supporting the upper portion. The supporting structure is positionable on the open end of the container to space the upper portion and the stopper axially therefrom and define at least one fluid path communicating with the interior of the container. The upper portion and the supporting means may define an axial passageway for conducting the stopper from the initial position to a sealing position at least partially within the open end of the container upon application of an axial force to the stopper.

Abstract: A method of removing water from activated carbon is disclosed. Briefly, the method comprises (a) passing liquid 1,2-dichloroethane through a bed of activated carbon until a bulk water phase ceases to exit the bed or until from about 60 to about 80 weight percent of the water present in a water-saturated bed has been removed and (b) removing substantially all of the remainder of the water present by use of vacuum or by passing hot air or hot nitrogen through the activated carbon.

Abstract: Inlet and outlet air temperatures are provided to a preprogrammed microcomputer first to maintain the inlet air temperature at a fixed value and second to sense when the outlet air temperature has risen above a sensed plateau value on the outlet air temperature characteristic curve by a predetermined percentage factor. This percentage factor is used to determine from the plateau temperature the temperature value at which the drying cycle is to be terminated. In this way, the drying cycle is terminated at a particular percentage moisture content in the clothes load irrespective of the size of the clothes load being dried.

Abstract: An air-impingement film dryer having an automatic self-adjusting vent for controlling the intake air flow in response to the increased demand caused by the presence of film in the drying chamber.

Abstract: A bottom for a fluidized bed conveyor is composed of a plurality of members provided with openings and located in contact with each other so that their points of contact are gas impermeable at least during operation of a fluidized bed. The openings may be formed as circumferentially closed holes and/or as laterally open recesses. The members may laterally abut against each other, or may be provided with interengaging lateral projections. The members may be located so that at cold temperatures small intermediate spaces remain therebetween, which spaces are closed during operation as a result of thermal expansion of the members under the action of high working temperatures. Bracing element or elements may be provided which urge the members toward one another.

Abstract: A steam lock is connected to the processing chamber in which textile goods are treated with an organic solvent which is immiscible with water. The web of material is led through this lock. This steam lock consists of an evacuation chamber which is separated from the processing chamber by a pair of sealing lips, of a plurality of steam chambers which are separated from each other and from the evacuation chamber by constrictions, and of a compensating chamber which is also separated by a constriction from the steam chambers. All the chambers are connected to a condenser and a water separator by means of a suction duct. The steam chambers are equipped with steam pipes which are adjustable and provided with slit nozzles, and superheated steam is supplied to these steam pipes.

Abstract: An endless textile web is processed by passing it through an elongated tubular member defining a treatment zone which is disposed within a chamber. A jet of treatment air is directed against the web near the inlet end of the zone, the jet being directed away from the inlet end to convey the web and cause it to expand and flutter as it moves. An apparatus is disclosed in which tubular member is bent into a sinous shape. Air filtering, treating and blowing apparatus are included.

Abstract: A traction device for removable attachment to a user's shoes to assist in walking on ice has a steel plate with depending ice-piercing teeth and an elastic attachment band. The teeth lie in transverse planes and are struck and bent from a flat plate.

Abstract: The present invention provides apparatus attachable to an Alpine ski boot for aiding the wearer in walking. This apparatus comprises an auxiliary sole attachable under the sole of the ski boot and having an upper surface for accommodating the ski boot sole and a lower surface for engaging the ground. A given curvature is provided on the lower surface for approximating the normal heel-to-toe walking motion. A pocket in a leading end portion of the auxiliary sole surroundingly engages a toe portion of the ski boot sole. An elongate, elastically deformable cord grippingly engages the heel portion of the ski boot. This cord has a pair of studs attached to its respective ends. A plurality of stud-engaging slots are spaced at predetermined intervals longitudinally of the auxiliary sole for releasably engaging these studs to provide a range of adjustment of the effective length of the unstressed cord.