Abstract: A hand tool for assembling two or more articles along an extended plane. Arcuate motion of a movable handle is converted to axial movement of a presser plate to assemble the articles placed on an aligned platen. The movable handle controls a drive bar which is coupled to the tool frame by pivotally movable links which move the drive bar in two orthogonal directions and to the presser plate .[.to move it in two orthogonal directions.]. by means of pivotally movable links coupled to the drive bar. The .[.movements along one orthogonal axis cancel one another and the movements along the other orthogonal axis are cumulative whereby the.]. presser plate is moved only in the direction of the platen.

Abstract: An anti-siphon and back-flow prevention valve having a main valve chamber including air ports, an inlet at its lower end and an outlet at its upper end. Contained within the main valve chamber is a check valve including a check valve seat, through which the flow of liquid in the valve must pass. The check valve seat has a flexible diaphragm which mates with the check valve seat and functions to block any back flow of liquid from the main valve chamber into the inlet. A flexible ring is also contained in the main valve chamber and mates with the air ports to function as an air valve, allowing air to enter the main valve chamber during low pressure conditions down stream from the valve. The check valve and air valve operate independently of each other, responding to the various air and liquid pressures in and around the main valve chamber. Both valves are normally held closed by the force of gravity and static water pressure within the main valve chamber during no-flow conditions.

Abstract: A three-piece self-retaining conduit anchoring device is disclosed for connecting a co-axial cable assembly with a support structure, including an inner sleeve member, an outer sleeve member concentrically arranged about the inner sleeve member, and a collar member concentrically arranged about the outer sleeve member. One end of the collar member abuts one side of the support, the other end of the collar member being supported against axial displacement by flange portions at the corresponding ends of the inner and outer sleeve members. The outer sleeve member includes a plurality of circumferentially arranged external resilient prongs that engage the other side of the support, which outer sleeve member is connected against axial displacement relative to the inner sleeve and collar members. Consequently, the collar flange and the outer sleeve prongs grip opposite surfaces of the support structure to rigidly connect the anchoring device thereto.

Abstract: In the production of low-carbon steel, particularly low-carbon steel sheet containing less than 0.25% of Mn, improvements in the method and apparatus, which comprises hot rolling a steel having a controlled range content of Mn, O and S contents, then coiling thus hot rolled steel at temperatures between 600.degree.-800.degree. C., further cold rolling the hot rolled plate down to a prescribed thickness, annealing and overaging the steel in a continuous furnace, rapidly cooling the steel near room temperatures and skin pass rolling, leveling, and recoiling the sheet. Thus produced steel sheet is very useful for applications such as pressed automobile body parts which require good workability particularly good drawability.

Abstract: An electronic timepiece having an intermittent driving means for rotating the second hand step by step, in which the second hand may be driven in two or more ways, one of by a large step as driving the second hand at the rate of one step per second and the other is by a small step such as driving the second hand at the rate of ten steps per second. There is provided a large step driving pulse producing circuit, a small step driving pulse producing circuit, a transducer for transducing the pulse into the rotating motion, a large step transmitting means, a small step transmitting means, a train for transmitting the rotating motion to the second hand, and means for changing the pulses applied to the transducer and for changing the transmitting means.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to a garment of a tubular construction having a front and a back with the front being provided with a generally T-shaped slit defined by a leg normal and opening through an upper transverse edge of the front and an arm spaced from and parallel to the front upper edge, the cross-shaped slit defining at a juncture of its arm and leg first, second, third and fourth inboard corners, fifth and sixth inboard corners at the juncture of the leg and the free edge, and cooperative snap securing means for uniting selected ones of the inboard corners to each other and/or to other points on the front to provide the garment with a neck opening, arm openings and arm and shoulder portions.

Abstract: The invention relates to a suit enabling a person while wearing it to walk through high temperature flames and fire. The suit according to the invention comprises an inner impermeable flexible sheet material shaped to cover the entire body of a person, and at least one outer permeable flexible sheet material substantially shaped as the inner sheet material. The inner sheet material and the one or more outer sheet materials are combined together to form a multi-ply assembly adapted to be worn by this person. This multi-ply assembly therefore includes hood or bonnet, arms, trunk and leg portions. By means of an inlet, water is continuously introduced under pressure into the multi-ply assembly between the inner sheet material and the outer permeable sheet material(s). An outlet enables the water to continuously exit from between the inner sheet material and the outer permeable sheet material(s) after having circulated therebetween.

Abstract: This shirt is to be worn by children, and it consists primarily of inflatable chest muscle portions, inflatable stomach muscle portions, and inflatable biceps portions in the arms. It further includes an elastic neck band and elastic wrist bands, for securing it to the child, when it is being inflated, and it also includes an optional cape, that may be snapped on, or adhesively secured to the shoulder portions.

Abstract: A surgeon's glove which is free of mold release powder of mineral origin. The glove is "talc free" and contains on a surface a lipo compound and a surfactant for such lipo compound. The glove is manufactured by a process which includes coating a glove form with a coagulant containing the lipo compound and its surfactant in a dispersion which stay with the glove after it is stripped from the mold providing a mold release surface for such glove.

Abstract: Disclosed is a pair of reversible, wrap-around shorts particularly suited for use by runners or joggers. The shorts have two panels sewn together so that the outer surfaces of the panels are finished surfaces. The outer edges of the panels are folded over toward the opposed panel and are sewn so that the edges of the panels are both disposed inwardly and are captured between the panels thus producing a finished appearance to both sides of the garment. When spread out on a flat surface, the shorts have an hourglass shape. The upper and lower edges comprise the waistband while the narrow inner portion comprises the crotch. Each panel comprises at least two sections. In the preferred embodiment, the panels are produced by sewing together the respective U-shaped inner edges of a pair of horseshoe-shaped sections. The resulting hourglass-shaped panel has a contoured fit when worn. The waistband is typically provided with an adjustable, quick release fastener.

Abstract: A rigid-vane artificial heart pump includes a vane shaft which extends from the gear box into the blood pumping chamber and a torsion seal for hermetically sealing the gear box from the pumping chamber so as to prevent contamination of blood. Check valves are provided to control the blood flow direction and to determine the pump's mode of operation.

Abstract: To obtain an increase of the lateral distance between the longitudinal median axis of the straight prosthesis shank and the center of the joint head, the straight shank has a tapered medial side which changes over to an arcuate side on an arc of a circle which connects the transition point with the point of the smooth passage of the medial side into the prosthesis neck and with the center of the joint head. The angle between the longitudinal median axis and the prosthesis neck axis remains unchanged. This results in a lateral distance enlargement without having to shift the relative height position of the point at which the curved shank side meets the neck in the body, i.e., relative to the muscle origins.

Abstract: The artificial knee joint for an artificial leg includes a pair of substantially parallel pivotable bars which are connected by pivoting joints to an upper part and a lower part of the knee joint, respectively. One of the bars is anterior and the other is posterior with respect to a position of the artificial leg. The upper part has two spaced pivoting joints and the lower part has two spaced pivoting joints. The imaginary connecting line between the pivoting joint of the anterior bar and the pivoting joint of the posterior bar is substantially horizontal when the leg is in its vertical position. The imaginary connecting line between two pivoting joints of the anterior bar is inclined at a small angle to the imaginary connecting line between two pivoting joints of the posterior bar.

Abstract: A disposer mount assembly includes a non-rotatable plastic sink flange having a tubular portion extending downwardly through and beneath the drain opening and terminating in a lip resiliently embraced by an elastomeric cushion mount, a mounting ring with inclined camming slots rotatably mounted on the tubular portion by the cushion mount, and a disposer hopper having an upper flange with lugs projecting radially outwardly therefrom into the camming slots. Selective rotation of the mounting ring cams the lugs upwardly along the inclined camming slots to a final locked position therein in which the correspondingly elevated hopper flange is connected to the mount ring and compresses the cushion mount, thereby to provide a tight resilient seal between the disposer and sink flange to absorb vibration and sound.

Abstract: A water-conserving toilet is disclosed and includes a bowl for receiving waste and a waste outlet extending laterally from the bowl and defining a first, shallow trap arranged so that a relatively shallow body of liquid is normally retained in the bottom of the bowl for preventing gaseous flow through the trap. A flush system is provided and is arranged, when operated, to deliver a charge of flushing liquid into the bowl in a direction to cause said body of liquid to be discharged through said outlet. A waste holding tank communicates with said bowl outlet for receiving waste from the bowl and the holding tank has an outlet extending outwardly from the tank and adapted for connection to a sewer inlet. The holding tank outlet defines a second trap of substantial height capable of preventing reverse flow of sewer gas into the holding tank in use and the holding tank and second trap are arranged to contain a volume of liquid substantially in excess of the volume discharged from the bowl at each flush.

Abstract: An x-ray table footrest assembly comprises a support base for extending across the table top. A platform rotationally mounted to the base. A pair of spring biased latches mounted to the base for engaging side rails on the table top. Sliding bars which move linearly in response to platform rotation are interfered with by the latches unless the latches are securely engaged with the side rails.

Abstract: A water mattress has a portion of its volume occupied by air or gas filled bodies which lower the total mattress weight and inhibit the under damped natural harmonic motion typical of conventional water mattresses. A method of fabricating the water mattress of the instant invention is also disclosed. The gas filled bodies comprise independent, elongate, parallel chambers having sidewalls which are secured to the bottom panel of the mattress. The chambers are positioned to float between the horizontal midplane of the mattress and its upper surface such that it exhibits the uniform force per area weight distribution characteristic found desirable in such devices. Air is supplied to the chambers through generally aligned access fittings on the chambers and water mattress.

Abstract: A mooring and cargo transfer terminal is described, of the type which includes a buoy held at a predetermined height above the seabed as by a single anchor leg, to moor a ship which can drift in rotation about the buoy while a floating hose structure carries fluid to or from the ship, wherein the terminal is constructed to protect the buoy end of the floating hose structure from wave action, while facilitating maintenance of the fluid swivel which connects a nonrotating conduit extending up from the seabed to a rotating conduit connected to the floating hose structure. The fluid swivel is mounted at the top of the buoy for easy maintenance, and a rotating pipe connected to the rotating portion of the swivel extends therefrom and downwardly to an underwater depth below the troughs of waves, so that the buoy end of the floating hose structure is always below the waves.

Abstract: The present swimming shoe is intended for use in connection with breast stroke swimming as opposed to other types of swim strokes. For this purpose the body of the present swimming shoe has a cavity for receiving a swimmer's foot and a bottom or sole as well as a shoe upper. Two thrust or propulsion flaps or flippers are hinged to the shoe body in such a manner that a pulling movement of the swimmer's legs substantially reduces the surface area of the swimming shoe, whereas a thrust or propulsion movement of the swimmer's legs increases the "thrust surface area" in an optimal manner. To this end one propulsion flap is hinged to a longitudinal edge of the sole whereas another propulsion flap is hinged to the longitudinal side of the shoe upper, preferably diagonally opposite the first flap or flipper.

Abstract: In producing a semicircular washer having a projection to prevent rotation formed thereon, a blank material in the form of a flat bar is forced to pass a roll caliber between upper and lower forming rolls arranged in a pair and bent on and along one of the forming rolls while being pressed in the breadthwise direction to become a semicircular washer. The semicircular washer then has its outer marginal portion punched out by means of a punch and a die to form thereon a projection for preventing rotation. The method ensures an increase in the yield of semicircular washers having a projection for preventing rotation and enables the projection to be formed in any position on the washer as desired.

Abstract: An apparatus for remotely cleaning an overhead gutter (10) includes a first and a second fork (17, 25) disposed near the top of an elongated handle (15). The first fork (17) is stationary with respect to the handle (15) and is slid along the interior of the gutter. The second fork (25) is adapted for rotational motion with respect to the first fork (17) in order to selectively engage debris positioned therebetween. The gutter cleaner also includes a pusher blade (47) mounted on the second fork (25) for cleaning under gutter hanger spikes (10e), as well as brush (74) and mirror (78) attachments.

Abstract: A cable and battery terminal cleaner particularly adapted for cleaning the terminals of a side post storage battery and the cable ends attached thereto includes a substantially cylindrically shaped housing. An annular row of wire bristles extends from one end of the housing. Within the row of bristles and extending outwardly beyond the ends of the bristles is a pilot pin which is adapted to fit within the bolt hole of a terminal to act as a guide for rotary movement of the cleaner. The pin may also be pushed inwardly against a spring so that the end of a bolt may enter the opening at the end of the housing to also act as a guide when a cable end is being cleaned. A socket is located on the remote wall of the housing for connecting the entire cleaner to a rotary power tool if desired.

Abstract: An apparatus for cleaning chimneys from a position at the bottom thereof comprising a brush cleaning member and a self-contained pulley system whereby the entire apparatus climbs the chimney from bottom to top in a stepwise fashion due to the actuation of two sets of retracting legs thereby cleaning the entire length of the chimney. The apparatus may be used to interchangeably accomodate different size brushes and legs so that various chimney and flue sizes and shapes can be cleaned.

Abstract: A vehicle window cleaning system disclosed includes window wipers which are movable in a controlled fashion off a glass pane of the vehicle window of the drop glass type, and which are protected, out of view, between a header portion of the vehicle and a molded body extension secured to the vehicle when parked. Actuating arms of the wipers include offset segments which engage and follow a pair of spaced finger guides mounted on the header portion of the vehicle through a park stroke. The guide fingers define guide paths for the blades of the window wipers which closely approximate and track the outer exterior surface of a weather seal which seals the header portion and the glass pane of the window when the weather seal is engaged by the window pane. The molded body extension not only conceals the window wipers but also any unfinished body metal seams and/or welds between the header portion and other metal body panels.

Abstract: A powered sweeping machine is disclosed, particularly suitable for efficiently removing light and heavy weight litter from surfaces such as parking lots, warehouse floors and the like. The machine includes a main frame carrying a hopper and a powered brush. The brush operates through an opening in the lower side of a brush housing. The hopper is separated into a debris receiving compartment and a filter compartment. An air fan and an associated duct recirculates air from the far end of the debris compartment to a zone adjacent the brush. This nonfiltered air is discharged into the brush housing and again moved through the debris compartment to aid in moving debris to the far end of the debris compartment. A fan is provided for withdrawing a portion of the air from the filter compartment and discharging the air to the ambient atmosphere.

Abstract: Vacuum extraction recovery system assembly comprising a compartmentalized vacuum housing having a substantially air tight exterior wall, a vacuum creating mechanism in a first lateral portion of the housing interior, and a wall surface containing a constantly, directly and continuously freely open flow aperture therein and defining together with an adjacent portion of the exterior wall thereat an interior vacuum compartment in a second lateral portion of the housing interior which is laterally remotely spaced from the vacuum creating mechanism, such that the compartment is in constant, direct and continuous freely open flow communication with the remainder of the housing interior through such flow aperture and thereby constantly, directly and continuously maintained under vacuum condition corresponding to that in the remainder of the housing interior when a vacuum is created therein by the vacuum creating mechanism, for instance with the exterior wall having an access opening directly communicating with the c

Abstract: The hose, which is particularly adapted for use with an electrically-driven vacuum cleaning apparatus, comprises a substantially air-tight, flexible tube which is pneumatically coupled between the vacuum pump and the suction head. The suction hose comprises one or more elongated strips which is or are helically wound into tubular form. In a pair of parallelly placed strips, the strip margin of the first strip is secured to an adjacent margin of the second strip at adjoining convolutions of the strips. Electrical conductors are carried by the strips within helically extending cavities formed at the edges or margins of each of the strips and are a portion of that means which electrically couples the cleaning brush to the electrical power supply.

Abstract: A support device pivotally supports a resilient body on the leading surface of either a door or sliding door frame in a manner whereby the gravitational force on the body moves the body between a sliding door and the frame. The body is mounted on a rod which is loosely accommodated in a mounting housing to prevent the transfer of the shock of impact of the door on the body to the housing. The body is manually movable away from the door and the frame, so that the body is positioned by gravitational force in abutment with the leading surface of the door when the door is closed. This permits the door to be securely closed with its leading edge in abutment with the frame. The body is interposed by gravitational force between the leading edge of the door and the frame when the door is open thereby preventing the door from closing fully by preventing the leading edge of the door from abutting the frame and thus protecting hands from being crushed between the door and the frame.

Abstract: A hinge includes a hinge arm mounted on a mounting plate on a furniture side wall. A hinge casing is insertable into a bore in the door. The hinge casing and the hinge arm connected by two hinge links. The hinge has a closing mechanism activated by a spring which acts on one of the hinge links. This hinge link is a lever with two arms, one of which is telescopic.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for accelerating removal of fully ginned seeds from a seed roll established in the roll box of an operating gin stand, whereby the ginning capacity of the stand is enhanced. The apparatus is characterized by improved ginning ribs interposed between saw blades of reduced spacing and characterized by a vertically oriented tail section for directing ginned seeds downwardly between the blades, and a seed extraction tube adapted to extend axially through a seed roll as it is established, said seed extraction tube being characterized by a plurality of apertures for accepting fully ginned seeds, and a conveyor for axially discharging the fully ginned seeds from the tube.

Abstract: Seed cotton harvested by a stripper is blown upward along a duct to an open saw cylinder. The locks of cotton are snagged on the teeth of the saws of the saw cylinder while the air passes to within the saw cylinders and out the ends of the saw cylinder. The locks of cotton knocked from the saw cylinder are reclaimed by a reclamation saw and doffed into the main duct to again be brought to the main open saw cylinder. The seed cotton is doffed from the open saw cylinder into an overhead basket of the cotton harvester.

Abstract: The fastener comprises two fastener members, one of which consists of a tension strap and the other of a strap retainer. One of the fastener members is provided with teeth, which are interengageable with a tensioning lever, which is associated with the other fastener member. Strap-restraining means are also provided, which comprise a locking pawl that is mounted on said other fastener member and cooperates with said teeth.The teeth have inclined tooth spaces and in order to facilitate the operation of the fastener are provided either on the tension strap on its inner side facing the shoe or on the strap retainer on its outer side facing away from the shoe. That part of the strap-restraining means which cooperates with the tension strap extends away from the shoe and is firmly connected to the strap retainer.

Abstract: A safety belt buckle including a latch for engagement with an opening in a tongue, an ejection spring for the tongue and a bias spring for a push button that can be brought into engagement with the latch, wherein the latch can pivot on an axis approximately perpendicular to the direction of insertion of the tongue, the latch being biased in the unlocked position by the force of the bias spring, and when the bias spring is at least partially extended, the latch is maintained in locking engagement with the tongue by a reinforcing member that moves together with the push button.

Abstract: A jewelry clasp comprises a spring-loaded member normally closing a slot, the member being provided with a cam surface operable to move the member out of the slot when a jump ring is pushed into the slot against the cam surface.

Abstract: A seat belt buckle has a latch plate provided with a locking tooth which is biassed into engagement with an aperture in a locking plate, and is provided with a slider operated lever to move the latch plate to release the locking plate. A protrusion is provided on the slider which lies adjacent a portion of the latch plate when in the locking position to prevent the latch plate being disengaged from the locking plate even if the device is subjected to a sudden shock.

Abstract: A clamping apparatus for mechanically separating cellular elements suspended in whole blood solutions. After subjecting sealed packets of whole blood to centrifugal forces which will cause isolation of red and white blood cells, the packet is inserted within the present invention apparatus at the interface of the isolated red and white cells. A pair of parallel, spaced clamping surfaces are brought into juxtaposition with the sides of the blood packet along the cell interface causing the interior surface of the blood packet to mechanically isolate the cells along the edges of the opposed surfaces. A pair of securing arms are urged against a resilient force secured across the clamping surfaces to maintain a substantially constant force along the entire portion of the blood packet in contact with the clamping surfaces.

Abstract: A thin sheet metal strip preferably having a thickness less than 0.015 inch, forms a part-cylindrical portion which integrally connects a folded first ear portion and a second ear portion which is also folded in two embodiments. An integral tongue projects from the first ear portion and may have a pair of parallel longitudinal ribs which project inwardly and interfit with corresponding circumferential ribs formed within said part-cylindrical portion. A sheet metal screw projects through holes within the ear portions, and the second ear portion is adapted to converge toward the first ear portion at a substantial angle relative to the axis of the screw when the screw is tightened for producing a positive non-stripping cocking engagement with the screw. In one embodiment, each of the folded ear portions has a pair of generally triangular side flanges for reinforcing the ear portion, and preferably, the screw engages the tongue to urge it against the hose being clamped.

Abstract: In an exemplary embodiment, transducer combs for ultrasonic arrays or compound scanners, which consist of a specifiable number of transducer elements, are produced by a technically particularly simple and cost-saving manufacturing process, with the following method steps:(a) a plurality of thin strips of transducer element material, in particular, piezo-material, are combined by cohesive bonding into a stack; e.g. on the basis of alternate interpositioning of spacing strips or on the basis of application of spacer beads on the transducer strips of piezoelectric material,(b) from the stack thus formed, individual packets are cut off transversely to the transducer strips,(c) each individual packet is completed as a transducer comb by itself.

Abstract: A production-line robot comprising an operative arm provided at its outer, pivoted end with a support mechanism is coupled via the latter to one of a plurality of tools associated with the robot, the tools being supported in their inoperative position by lock plates or bolts operable by the tool holder of the robot arm. The lock plates may comprise a tool receiving support provided with centering members with which a tool bearing plate is adapted to co-operate in the inoperative tool position, the bearing plate and the end support of the robot comprising mutual centering mechanisms, at least one of them being provided with controlled coupling and uncoupling members so that the robot can pick up and become coupled with one tool automatically and, after using this tool, deposit same upon the corresponding receiving support for subsequently picking up and becoming coupled with another tool waiting on its relevant receiving support.

Abstract: In the method of upholstering a couch or a chair having a hollow frame with a front rail, a series of rows of coiled springs mounted upon and projected above the frame and parallel to the rail, and an edge wire extending tangent and connected to the top coils of the row of springs adjacent the rail, including the step of tying the springs of the other rows together, and to the row of springs adjacent the rail and to the frame; the improvement which comprises the preliminary step before tying the springs of selectively mounting, spacing and securing a plurality of upright edge wire clamps to and along the rail outwardly thereof. Each clamp includes an upright support having an adjustable edge wire retaining block thereon with a depending edge wire retainer. Further steps include selectively adjusting the edge wire retaining blocks on each clamp to a predetermined height with the corresponding edge wire retaininers longitudinally aligned and retainingly engaging the edge wire.

Abstract: A heat exchanger of the formed plate type with a stack of relatively thin material, spaced heat transfer plates. The plates of the heat exchanger are arranged to define sets of multiple counterflow fluid passages for two separate fluid media alternating with each other. Passages of one set communicate with opposed manifold ports on opposite sides of the core matrix. Passages of the other set pass through the stack past the manifolds in counterflow arrangement and connect with inlet and outlet portions of an enclosing housing.An assembly of two plates oppositely disposed establishes integral manifolds for one of the fluid media through the ports and the fluid passage defined between the plates. A third plate joined thereto further defines a passage for the second fluid media to flow between the inlet and outlet portions of the housing. The various fluid passages may be provided with flow resistance elements, such as fins, to improve the efficiency of heat transfer between adjacent counterflow fluids.

Abstract: In performing operations on a continuous slide fastener chain at spaced locations therealong, the slide fastener chain is incrementally advanced to successively advance the spaced locations to an operating station. The chain is advanced from a reel which is braked only when a loop of maximum size is sensed in a loop forming mechanism. Tension is relieved in the slide fastener stringer by means of a continuously rotating capstan which will grip the slide fastener stringer to advance the chain and overcome inertia of the reel.

Abstract: A method of and apparatus for attaching a connecting piece to objects to connect these objects to each other. The connecting pieces each having a filament portion, a head portion attached to one end of the filament portion and a cross-bar portion attached to the other end, are successively severed one by one by the attaching device from a continuous belt of connecting pieces formed integrally from a plastic and having a connecting rod to which the connecting pieces arranged in side-by-side relation are connected through respective connecting portions, and are then attached to the objects to connect them to each other. The improvement resides in a technic which ensures to correctly position the connecting piece to be severed to the severing position even when the connecting pieces in the connecting piece belt are disposed at an irregular pitch.

Abstract: An apparatus for the close fitting and high precision positioning of workpieces to be machined, or constructed particularly for reducing deformations of a workpiece under influence of machine tools, drilling machines, milling machines, grinders, planars, snapers, as well as a method of fabricating the apparatus.

Abstract: The automated assembly of major subassemblies providing for the rapid assembly of parts in predetermined positions by automatically tack fastening (e.g., riveting) mounted parts together or by automatically drilling holes in mounted parts and manually locating other parts is disclosed. After the initial locating steps are completed, assembled parts are permanently fastened together. At each tack or permanent fastener location the automated assembly machine: clamps the parts together with a predetermined amount of force; determines the composite thickness of assembled parts to be fastened together; drills a hole through the assembled parts; selects the correct length fastener to be inserted into the hole; inserts the selected fastener into the hole; secures the selected fastener; and, moves to the next position and repeats this sequence of operations. The illustrated automated assembly machine includes part holding devices (41) mounted on a machine frame (11).

Abstract: An improved dielectric insulator separated substrate for semiconductor integrated circuits is obtained by forming a lamination of at least three thin-polycrystalline layers and dielectric films interposed therebetween on a thick polycrystalline layer of the substrate. A thickness x(.mu.m) of each of the thin-polycrystalline layers is represented by the formula:x.ltoreq.y/40where y is an ultimate thickness of the substrate. By employing the lamination, it is possible to avoid curveness deformation of the substrate due to oxygen diffusion into an exposed polycrystalline layer during doping of an impurity into island regions independently supported by said thick polycrystalline layer.

Abstract: A long stator for a linear motor is assembled from many individual core elements provided with transverse grooves into which one places cable to be retained in the grooves so that they physically interconnect the stator elements and establish a chain-like assembly which can be, e.g., wound on drums and hauled to an installation site where the assembly is affixed to carriers along or on the track on which the movable part of the motor runs.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for making an electrical harness. The harness generally includes at least one connector having a housing with insulation displacement type contacts loaded therein. Each contact is connected to an insulation clad wire, said wires being of different lengths with different segments of insulation removed from the wire ends opposite the connector.

Abstract: There is provided a shaving apparatus including a holder formed with a planar surface having at least two circular apertures. A circular shear plate having hair-entrance apertures is positioned in each circular aperture, and a cutting unit is rotatably associated with each shear plate. A mat covering the planar surface has circular openings respectively corresponding to the circular apertures. The mat is formed from a strip material provided with bristles, which extend outwardly with respect to the planar surface and the outer ends of which are hook-shaped for straightening hairs prior to their engagement by the hair-entrance apertures.

Abstract: In a preferred embodiment, a cylindrically shaped coring device is provided with an axially-slidable side member that alternately ejects and retracts a core-slicing or cutting structure removable of a portion of the core of a fruit, and provided with another axially-slidable ejector member.