Abstract: An artificial fish bait of the jerk bait class having an elongated tailing portion with a flat belly behind a much shorter head portion having a longitudinal arcuate recess on its underside and a transverse arcuate recess on its upper side with a nose protruding to extend below the line of the flat belly. When pulled from the front end, the bait dives quickly and easily, and then rises gradually when the line pressure is released.

Abstract: An improved, frictional, interconnecting toy block arrangement having a body means with walls defining a body cavity. The body means of the block is fabricated of two separate body members coupled together along a median plane. Coupling means are provided on the two body members to retain the two body members together. Each of the two body members may be provided with a different appearance, such as, for example, different color, different surface texture, or the like. A female interblock coupling means is provided as an integral part of each of the two body members and the female interblock coupling means comprises a skirt member extending into the body cavity and defining the male interblock coupler means receiving aperture. For the two body members of the body means coupled together the apertures in each are aligned and the inner ends of each of the skirt members within the body cavity are provided with interconnection structure for coupling the inner ends of the skirt members together.

Abstract: A roller skating doll includes a pair of roller skates and an internal drive mechanism permitting the doll to skate in a realistic manner. The skates may be removably secured to a pair of legs movably mounted to a torso portion of the body. A pair of arms are operatively associated with the drive mechanism and similarly move in a realistic and natural cyclical path. The head is designed to pivot in accordance with the weight distribution of the body to maintain balance. The drive mechanism includes a plurality of specifically shaped cams to move the legs in a predetermined cyclical path. Each leg is pivoted generally outwardly at the end of its power stroke by a second cam drive mechanism.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an illuminated eyeball for toys which comprises a plurality of light emitting diodes (LED), a power apparatus for supplying electrical power to said plurality of light emitting diodes and a plurality of switches which placed under the suitable parts of a plaything's body. By means of the touch or switch of the abovementioned switches, the light emission diodes can emit changeable light.

Abstract: An apparatus for selective application of liquid herbicide includes a tubular handle which serves as a reservoir for containing the herbicide and for supplying the herbicide to an integral applicator head. The reservoir handle has a valve for controlling the herbicide dispensing flow rate of the applicator head which includes at least one elongated wicking element by which the herbicide is wipingly applied on undesired vegetation.

Abstract: Methods for the production of seed for growing hybrid rice comprising the planting of rows of male parent seed interspersed with rows of female seed, synchronization of heading and pollination.

Abstract: A plant growth and care system, wick veins, for all containers, utilizing a multi-treated combination of flat sheets of layered wick materials combined and formulated according to the best knowledge of the horticulture science per species of plant, said treated wicks, coated and veined with preferred plant aids are placed flat out across the bottom of container covering drains, preventing soil leakage, two or more strips for larger containers according to size. Wick veins provide plant food treatment and moisture storage, also dissolution and distribution throughout. They also provide oxidation aeration to condition plant aids and foods. They also furnish adequate drainage to all types of sealed surface containers, glazed, plastic, glass, etc., now known as beautiful but deadly.

Abstract: The emergency-opening sliding door comprises at least one door-leaf constituted by a panel which is stationarily fixed with respect to a panel frame attached to the door casing and at least one movable panel coupled to the frame by means of a roller track which permits displacement of the movable panel in sliding motion in a direction parallel to the fixed panel. The door is provided with an articulation system for permitting a movement of rotation of at least one of the panels about a vertical axis. The driving means for displacement in sliding motion are secured to the panel frame so as to be driven together with the frame in its movement of rotation.

Abstract: An operator for a casement-type window having a frame and a sash mounted by a slider adjacent an edge of the sash for rotational opening and closing movement about a slider pivot axis with linear movement of the slider. The operator has a first sector gear fixed to the sash with the gear center offset relative to said slider pivot axis and a second gear meshing with the sector gear and functioning as a drive gear with a first link functioning to hold said gears in meshed relation and a constraining link connectable between the sash and the window frame with the constraining link and said first link acting to guide the opening and closing movements of the sash.

Abstract: A prefabricated door assembly which includes a panel, a pair of jambs and two combined header and thresholds. The jambs and combined header and thresholds form a rectangular frame into which is fitted the door panel. The panel is pivotally hinged to one of the jambs. Each combined header and threshold is adapted to be mounted either upon a foundation or under an overhead support, depending upon the vertical orientation of the panel and location of the door hinge.

Abstract: A retainer for use in a refrigerator door or the like in which insulative material is foamed during a foaming process in the interior of the door. The door or the like is formed of separate shell and pan portions which have edges which are inserted in respective opposing slots of the retainer. Fins are provided on surfaces of the retainer opposite the shell and pan portion edges to form a seal therewith which retains the insulative material within the interior of the door during the foaming process. The fins are made of a material which is softer and more flexible than the material of the remainder of the retainer and the fins eliminate a need to clean foamed insulative material which leaks through the seams between the retainer and the shell and pan portions during the foaming process from the exterior surfaces of the shell and pan portions.

Abstract: A single housing multi-sander assembly having a drive wheel mounted on a drive shaft, an idler wheel, a ring-shaped housing surrounding the radial drum surface of the drive wheel, an idler wheel mounting assembly, and structure for supporting the idler wheel mounting assembly a predetermined distance from the drive wheel. A closed loop abrasive belt passes around the radial drum surfaces of the respective drive wheel and idler wheel. The ring-shaped housing has a pair of radially spaced split through ways in the radial surface of the ring-shaped housing which function to form a path through which the closed loop abrasive belt passes. The ring-shaped housing has a support land located adjacent each of the split through ways to provide a support surface against which the underside of the closed loop abrasive belt may be pressed during sanding operations.

Abstract: A grinding system for grinding the crankpins on a crankshaft having an even plurality of symmetrically spaced pins comprising a number of cylindrical grinding machines equal to half the plurality of pins each for grinding a single pin located at a distinct radial and axial position, apparatus for depositing a crankshaft at a selected start location, apparatus for displacing the crankshaft from the selected start location sequentially to each of the grinding machines and to an end location so that half of the pins will be ground, apparatus for transferring the crankshaft, with half of its pins ground, from the end location to the start location and for turning the crankshaft end for end so that the crankshaft will be again displaced by the displacing apparatus sequentially to the grinding machines so that the remaining half of the pins will be ground.

Abstract: A device, for honing the axially-facing cutting edges of a rotary shaver cutter, has two parts which are rotatable one with respect to the other. Within one part there is disposed a frictional element abutted by the cutter so as to prevent relative rotation between the cutter and that part. The other part carries an abrasive abutted by the cutting edges of the cutter. At one end, the device has a first recess, on one part, which receives a finger or thumb tip, or an end of a holder, and is smooth for easy relative rotation. At the opposite axial end, the device has a second recess, on the other part, which receives a thumb or finger tip, or another end of the holder, and is formed to prevent relative rotation. The outer part has a circumferential surface adapted for frictional engagement with a running surface such as a table top.

Abstract: A brush suitable for use with floor maintenance equipment and having both abrasive nonabsorbent bristles and nonabrasive absorbent bristles. The bristles are fairly evenly intermingled in each tuft, and the brush includes a plurality of tufts such that the brush face presents a substantially intermingled mix of both bristles. To enhance the cleaning qualities of the brush, the percentage of abrasive nonabsorbent bristles may be increased. To enhance the finish applying and buffing qualities of the brush, the percentage of nonabrasive absorbent bristles may be increased.

Abstract: A greenhouse structure (No. 1 or No. 2) having a curved roof wall formed of two spaced-apart plastic layers (30 and 34) with troughs (32) at the lower sides thereof, and a circulation system including blowers (42,42') connecting the top of the wall and the ends of the troughs to an insulation storage receptacle (A) by means of ducts (38, 39, 40, 41, 43 and 44), whereby the roof wall chamber is selectively filled and emptied.

Abstract: A rain gutter system including plastic rain gutters mounted in place either by a hanger fastened directly to a vertically extending fascia board or by a metal strap which snaps onto the hanger and is mounted to the roof when there is no fascia board or when the fascia board is not vertical.

Abstract: A sectionalized drilling mast, power arrangement and support means therefor includes base means to support the drilling mast means when reclined and when erect.

Abstract: A simulated log for construction and indoor or outdoor decorative use such as a divider panel or as a log beam comprised of at least two semi-circular imitation log siding sections comprising an outer covering with a simulated grain wood containing an insulated filler. An upright support has the central rear portion of the covering secured along its diameter. A pair of thicker uprights are secured to the first upright on the edge of log and have the outer ends of the covering secured thereto. The supports form an integral part of the log.

Abstract: A device for use in building, particularly for use when bonding bricks in a wall. The device comprises an elongated strip (10) of substantially rigid material forming a main web and having a plurality of flange members (12) projecting therefrom at predetermined distances along the main web. The flange members form, or are capable of forming, substantially a right angle with the main web. The flange members may project from one or both sides of the main web, and may be joined by wires to flange members of an adjacent device.

Abstract: A package forming and sealing machine receiving articles confined within a conveyed tubular wrapper of sheet material, a rotor having sealing and cutting heads radially adjustable for changing the span between adjacent heads on the periphery of the rotor, there being a swingable jaw and a stationary jaw on each of the heads, a locking linkage to operate the swingable jaw, a rotary shaft to operate the linkage, and substantially continuously driven from a sprocket through a disengageable clutch operated by a trip arm and stationary stop cams also radially adjustable with respect to the rotor axis, a chain loop embracing revolving sprockets on the rotor to produce operation of the swingable sealing jaws.

Abstract: For automatically suspending large sacks successively from a filling device, each flattened sack is folded at least once onto itself. Every sack is in turn brought up to stops on a table and scanned for alignment by photocells. The mouth of the sack is pulled open by suckers, transferred to gripper mechanisms which are carried by swing arms and provided with hinged grippers co-operating with wedges inserted in the open mouth, and the sack is then swung from the table to the filling device where it is pushed onto a funnel.

Abstract: This invention is a vacuum bagging device which consists of a receiving bag separated from the product to be conditioned by a flexible and deformable spout. This spout is electropneumatically operated. The receiving bag is made of a material which can be thermo welded. It receives under vacuum the product to be conditioned which remains in this state until the welding operation takes place, the latter being achieved by thermocompression of the upper part of the bag. The operations are synchronized by a programming electromechanical circuit. This invention can be used for fast conditioning and bagging of powdery, granulated or pulverized products, whatever their quantity.

Abstract: A net for protecting an animal against flies, insects, and the like is provided, with the net being attached to the animal by means of a flexible main plate with holes which receives therethrough an affixing plate having a plurality of rounded extensions insertable through the holes. The net is clamped in place upon the main plate by a closure plate receiving the rounded extensions therein in locking fashion. The main plate has a plurality of fingers extending from each side edge for abutment against the skin of the animal in order to space the net from the skin of the animal.

Abstract: In an infeed housing for a harvesting and threshing machine there is provided an improved infeed housing design that redirects the flow of crop material along its predetermined path of travel at a selectively creatable discontinuity in the floor of the infeed housing to ensure the ejection of stones and other non-frangible objects subsequent to their detection and prior to their reaching the threshing and separating apparatus of the combine.

Abstract: Apparatus and method to provide a novel false twisted slub yarn by combining a core yarn and an effect yarn in a fluid tangling zone. The linear velocity of the effect yarn is raised to allow slubs to be produced in the combined yarn in an air jet apparatus.

Abstract: A new ring rail having air-suspended spinning or twisting rings suspended in air bearings is proposed, the improvement residing in that an intermediate ring is releasably connected to a bearing stator in an outer ring and thus can be quickly exchanged at any time.

Abstract: Specific impulse of hydrazine thruster is augmented by electrothermally heating the hot gas in heater passages 36 and 37 as it passes from hydrazine dissociation chamber 14 to thrust nozzle 28. Tubular ceramic electric resistance heater 31 performs primary heating. Specific impulse can be raised from 230 to 300 seconds.

Abstract: A mixer at the exit opening of a high performance jet engine to prevent premature migration of the core flow into the duct stream thereby operating to eliminate hot streaks in the augmentor and nozzle areas during augmentation. The mixer consists of a concave fillet positioned on the pressure side of the turbine exit guide vane and exhaust case at the trailing edge.

Abstract: A multicylinder internal combustion engine is provided with fuel-air mixture feed devices associated with two different cylinders or groups of cylinders, and an exhaust conduit system in which two catalyzers are disposed, one downstream of the other. The exhaust produced by the first group of cylinders impinges on both catalyzers, while the exhaust of the second group of cylinders is fed through only the second catalyzer. During a predetermined partial load range, fuel is supplied only to one of the cylinder groups, while both cylinder groups are fed with fuel once this load range is exceeded. In a preferred embodiment, the turning on of fuel to the second cylinder group is effectuated by a cam disk that also serves the function of simultaneously controlling the supply of air through throttle valves to the respective cylinder groups.

Abstract: A compact solid state turbine heat engine can be devised by pairing the Nitinol elements. Each element is characterized by being in thermal contact with at least one hot water and one cold water bath and mechanically coupled to at least one driven pulley and driver pulley. A second Nitinol element is similarly configured with a driver pulley, driven pulley, hot and cold water bath. The driver pulley associated with the first nitinol element is mechanically coupled to the driven pulley of the second Nitinol element. Similarly, the driver pulley of the second Nitinol element is mechanically coupled to the driven pulley of the first Nitinol element. The paired Nitinol elements form a compound solid state turbine engine wherein each Nitinol element lies in a single plane and wherein the engine may be combined with a plurality of such pairs for increased power output.

Abstract: The invention relates to a power-assisted braking device of the kind having a master piston sliding in a master cylinder, a jack having a piston linked to the master piston by an interconnection such as a rod, a source of auxiliary hydraulic pressure, and a distributor which feeds the jack with auxiliary hydraulic pressure and which is operated by a brake pedal and two mutually articulated levers. The unit consisting of these two levers cooperates with a fixed point and has three working points of which the first cooperates with the pedal, the second cooperates with the distributor and the third cooperates with the master piston. According to the invention, the first and second working points are located on one of the levers (the primary lever) and the fixed point and the third working point are located on the other lever (the secondary lever). This enables the distributor to be acted on directly by the pedal thereby providing more precise operation.

Abstract: Centering and cooling equipment for a hydraulic vibration generator, with a pulsation generator pressurizing a cylinder containing a movable piston, composed of a feed system and a flushing system. The feed system includes spring-loaded non-return valves connecting a fluid reservoir to feed pipes connecting the pulsation generator to the cylinder chambers, and operates to supply cool pressure fluid from the reservoir when pressure in the cylinder chambers falls below a predetermined level. The flushing system includes a control bush/control plunger unit, bush and plunger of which are respectively connected to the piston and cylinder or vice versa, the plunger cooperating with channels in the bush to connect either feed pipe to a return passage according to the off-center position of the plunger in the bush. This system operates to withdraw a quantity of pressure fluid, dependent on pressure and stroke, from the cylinder chambers with each piston stroke.

Abstract: A hybrid vehicle comprises an internal combustion engine and a motor/generator, which are controlled by a microcomputer. The internal combustion engine is rendered capable of a running operation in a region of a better fuel consumption characteristic. Outside the above described region, the motor is cooperatively driven with the internal combustion engine to provide a driving torque or only the motor is energized by a battery to provide a driving torque. On the other hand, when the hybrid vehicle is driven with a torque smaller than a predetermined lower limit value of the torque of the internal combustion engine, the redundant torque is used to drive the generator, so that a regenerative power is absorbed by the battery.

Abstract: The invention relates to a fuel system for a gas turbine engine wherein an annular combustion chamber 10 has an annular series of pairs of first and second nozzles 15,16. In one mode of operation fuel is supplied only to the first nozzles 15. In another mode, fuel is supplied also to the second nozzles. The change has to be made during operation of the engine. If the first and second nozzles had separate supply manifolds, the manifold pertaining to the second nozzles would have to be primed and purged respectively when initiating and terminating the use of the second nozzles. To avoid this difficulty the first and second nozzles are supplied by a single manifold 12 and the second nozzles are controlled by individual valves 21 situated close to the latter nozzles and operated collectively by a fluid pressure supply 26,27.

Abstract: Disclosed is a cryogenic gel, and a process for making such a gel from a liquid cryogen having at least a methane component, which normally comprises a majority of the cryogenic liquid, by flash vaporizing the cryogen so that a relatively small portion of the weight of the cryogen becomes vaporized while a remainder forms a mist of small cryogen droplets suspended in the vapor. After flash vaporization, a gelling agent is injected into the cryogen vapor-mist mixture. The gelling agent is present so that it forms between about 0.1% to about 25% (by weight) of the resulting gel and is selected so that it is a solid at the temperature of the liquid cryogen and a liquid or a gas at ambient temperature. Water and methyl alcohol are preferred gelling agents. After the injection of the gelling agent the mixture is segregated into a gaseous phase and a condensed phase or gel comprising the liquid cryogen droplets and the injected gelling agent.

Abstract: An improved process for producing a flowable liquid-solid mixture comprising a continuous liquid phase and a discontinuous solid phase comprised of discrete, frozen particles of the liquid, which process flowing a stream of the liquid through a closed conduit, introducing a cryogen into the closed conduit and into the flowing liquid stream so as to flow concurrently therewith, whereby the liquid-solid mixture is formed, and discharging the mixture from the conduit.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for controlling an engine driven air conditioning system in an over-the-road vehicle in which deactivation of the air conditioning system is signalled upon certain occurrences and in which actuation of a vehicle brake light for a predetermined set period of time overrides any otherwise signalled deactivation.

Abstract: A frost sensor circuit which employs a thermistor (10, 20) to sense the amount of frost present on the cooling coils of a refrigerator, air conditioner, or the like, and to inhibit defrosting that would otherwise occur at regular intervals, in those cases where the frost present is not enough to justify a defrost function thereby to limit defrost heating to those cycles requiring it, thus saving electrical energy. This is done by mounting the thermistor at or on the coils to collect the same amount of frost as the coils and to have the defrost cycle control (11) energize the same for a timed interval, melting the frost thereon and thereby determining the amount of frost build-up.

Abstract: The invention relates to a compact heating assembly of the heat pump type, comprising a heat pump circuit having a compressor, an evaporator and a condenser, wherein the evaporator and condenser parts, together with means for heat exchanging heat carrying fluids against the same, are arranged in a housing. The evaporator and its heat exchanger means and the condenser and its heat exchanger means substantially form an essentially vertical helical conduit system which encloses an inner space, wherein the compressor, possible circulation pumps, etc. are arranged. The device can be burrowed in the ground, and the inner space is accessible via an inspection cover arranged at the top.

Abstract: The mass flow rate of helium from a container is controlled by two disks having highly polished mating surfaces and mounted for rotation relative to one another. Each of the disks has at least one axial through passage, at least one of the disks having a through passage which is eccentric to the axis of rotation of the disk. Use of a plurality of through passages in one of the disks, one or more capillary grooves emanating from one of the through passages in one disk and terminating in the circular path described by the through passage in the other disk for controlling the flow rate is illustrated. For example a step motor in combination with a wobble plate rotates one disk in very exact steps relative to the other.

Abstract: An item of jewelry is disclosed which includes an elongated mounting base in the form of a straight, curved or angled bar, or the like, of polygonal cross-sectional configuration having one or a plurality of gems longitudinally slidably mounted thereon with each gem including a gem mount having a hollow passageway interfitting with the bar to provide sliding movement. The passageway in the gem mount is in the form of a split sleeve constructed of ductile metal to enable the sleeve to be placed onto the mounting bar and the opposed portions of the sleeve squeezed together by a suitable tool in order to close the split sleeve into close encircling relation to the bar thereby securely mounting the gem mount on the bar to enable the number of gems and gem mounts on the bar to be varied by adding on additional gems and gem mounts as desired by the purchaser or owner of the item of jewelry.

Abstract: A constant velocity universal joint wherein its outer race has a larger radius of curvature than its inner race at the transverse sectional surface of the ball rolling groove at the point of contact between the ball and the ball rolling groove. Concave and convex surface portions of a ball rolling groove have a characteristic such that when the inner and outer races have the same radius of curvature at the transverse sectional surface of the ball rolling groove, the contact stress of the ball rolling groove of the outer race becomes lower than that of the inner race. By varying the radius of curvature on the transverse sectional surface of the ball rolling groove of the outer race from that of the inner race to render the contact stresses of the two grooves equal to each other, it is possible to facilitate working of the grooves and yet to achieve the same degree of precision finishes as has hitherto been achieved.

Abstract: A device for damping vibrations of a drilling tube by the slip between the ube and a fly-wheel which surrounds the tube and is frictionally connected to the tube by a slotted sleeve which is axially displaceable by adjusting means for adjusting the frictional connection. The adjusting means are connected to the sleeve by bearings so that they can be actuated while the tube and hence the sleeve and the fly-wheel are rotating during drilling.

Abstract: A laundering device for use in cleaning articles of clothing composed of a plurality of components adapted to be disassembled when not in use and stored in a container, the device is composed of a frame with downwardly extending removable support legs and a reciprocal shaft including either a motor drive or hand drive for reciprocating the shaft so that when the lower end, which extends between the legs is reciprocated within a flexible pliable bag of soapy water impervious material, a plunger attached to the shaft agitates the water so that the articles of clothing may be laundered.

Abstract: A locking apparatus for portable devices and having a base member for securing to a surface, the base member having a conically tapered receptacle for rotatably receiving a similarly configured bearing plug of a base plate member configured for securing to a portable device. The bearing plug is provided with a reduced diameter portion in alignment with the lock pin of a key operated lock, movement of the lock pin into the neck portion retaining the base plate member relative to the base member while permitting rotation of the base plate member.

Abstract: Exchangeable key covers, and a related system and method, each key cover at least partially enclosing the proximal end of a hotel or like key, each cover being preferably formed of synthetic resinous material, such as polyethylene, and removably force-fit over the proximal end of the key to display room identification indicia and, if desired, other indicia, whereby no key interconnecting chains, tags or the like are required and the key covers are easily and accurately exchanged between keys in correspondence with rotation of the locks.

Abstract: An inverted press for producing multiple drawn metal containers combines in one press the functions of cupping and drawing presses. The press includes a blanking and cupping station and several drawing and redrawing stations, disposed one adjacent the other and rendered serially operative by a vertically reciprocable slide assembly. At each stage of operation the material, semifinished article or finished article is under complete control. A method for producing a drawn container by multiple forming and reforming of a drawn article, is also provided.

Abstract: A straight tubular ferrous blank of a circular section, starting material of the invention is deformed in its section along its whole length and bent to form a fork with two legs or blades, the thus formed tubular fork is set in a sectional forming die of top and bottom molds; the die has a concave corresponding to a protuberant socket and has also at its end an opening into which a mandrel having a recess corresponding to the same protuberant socket is introduced; the tubular fork set in the sectional die is subjected to the oil hydraulic bulge-forming process together with the mandrel simultaneously forced into the opening to bulge-form the socket, and the desired front fork blank of the single unit type is obtained.

Abstract: A hydrostatic pressing apparatus comprising a container having a cavity for accommodation of a blank and communicating with a high pressure source, and a die and a plug which seal the cavity on opposite sides and which are installed in movable locks. The apparatus has a power frame formed by two slabs which are arranged on opposite sides of the container at a distance from one another which is slightly greater than the container length. The die is arranged outside the container and bears with its lock against one of the slabs, and the plug lock bears against the other slab, the cavity of the container being of different diameters along its length, the diameter being the largest on the plug side so as to obtain at the plug a force sufficient for causing the power frame to move to press the die against the container during hydrostatic pressing.