Abstract: EtOH-H.sub.2 O binary mixtures to serve as raw feed liquids for distillation and vapor treatment systems intended for the production of substantially anhydrous ethyl alcohol are desirably derived from the fermentation or enzymatic conversion of sugars. A preferred source of sugars is honey which may be produced in massive volumes in environmental controlled structures containing vegetation, hives and bees which are associated with automted devices for emptying the hives of their accumulated honey. In one system, the honey is produced on honeycombs which are removed from the hives and emptied by immersion in hot water. Honey is recovered from a water solution thereof by separation of melted wax and fermented to a 6-12% beer suitable for use as a raw feed liquid.

Abstract: The invention, in its preferred form, involves a pair of complementary substantially half-nut sections adapted to be manually assembled about a stud having a damaged thread to be repaired, the side walls of the half-nut sections being substantially arcuate to form a cylinder when assembled, to receive a socket adapted at one end to snugly slide over the assembled nut sections to retain them in their assembled positions. To preclude relative rotation between the socket and the assembled nut sections, one or both half-nut sections is provided with a planar slope intersecting the proximate arcuate outer surface, which planar slope is adapted to be engaged by a pin passing through the socket along a cord thereof, when the socket is slipped over the assembly nut sections.

Abstract: A power actuated toothbrush is provided wherein the brush consists of a plurality of tufts which are individually driven by means whereby the tufts are forced to move coaxially back and forth against the teeth to give a jackhammer-type action. The tufts may be driven mechanically, or by a fluid drive, preferably pneumatic. The tufts automatically adapt for irregularities in the teeth and gums and enter the sulcus and embrasures for thorough cleaning.

Abstract: A dental care device which encourages more frequent tooth cleaning. The device comprises a brush body consisting of a brush core provided with bristle members, which brush body is surrounded in full or in part by a solid, palatable mass of physiologically acceptable materials. The device has the appearance of, and is to be treated as, a sweet.

Abstract: A brush structure is provided including a laminated core of plastic sheet and fiber sheet. A laminated tube of plastic sheet and fiber sheet is also provided in the present invention.

Abstract: A brush device comprising a plurality of tubular units arranged in alignment and a cap to construct a column externally sealed by a sealing coat. The front end of each unit is provided with a brush head, and the portion around the brush head and the rear end of each unit respectively form the male part and female part of a socket joint, the male part being slightly longer than the female part, thus forming a slot at the junction of two adjacent units radially extending around the periphery of the column, which slot provides a guide to facilitate one to make a cut around this portion to remove an exhausted unit.

Abstract: An implement includes first and second elongated legs that are joined by a first hinge between respective one ends thereof to permit those legs to be folded toward and away from one another. The legs are mutually shaped to define a cavity within a handle when folded together about the hinge. Third and fourth elongated legs are each of a size to be nested within the portion of the cavity defined by a respective one of the first and second legs. A second hinge couples one end of the third leg to the other end of the first leg. A third hinge couples one end of the fourth leg to the other end of the second leg. Finally, a fourth hinge couples together the other ends of the third and fourth legs.

Abstract: Device for removing dust from a winding machine, including an air suction channel disposed alongside and adjacent to a run-off coil, the air suction channel having at least one suction opening formed therein in longitudinal direction of the run-off coil.

Abstract: A shock resistant caster assembly having a wheel positioned in a housing formed of at least two sections vertically displaceable with respect to each other, one of the housing sections being coupled to the wheel at its rotational axis. A shock pad of elastomeric material is positioned between the housing sections for resiliently cushioning the vertical displacement between the housing sections.

Abstract: A device for holding small animals in a position to be skinned including a backet having two legs extending outwardly therefrom, a slot located near the ends of each of the legs for receipt of an eyebolt, a U-shaped clamp which snaps onto the outside of the ends of the leg adjacent to the slot for receipt of the end of the eyebolt, and a nut for threading onto the end of the eyebolt.

Abstract: The converging space between the moving-in or inbound surface of a loosening roll and the surface of a feed roll contains a suction duct, which is brought into close vicinity of the fibre loosening zone located between the two rolls, and which is used for sucking off of dust released in this zone. The suction duct is supported by the body forming the fibre feeder trough. Detrimental deposits of impurities in the subsequent processes, e.g. in the open-end spinning rotors, thus are greatly reduced.

Abstract: A strain relief clamp for supporting the signal cable dependent from a communications headset. A unitary, integrally molded plastic structure is provided having a pair of toothed jaws joined by a hingeless support member and lever actuated to effect a secure clamp action on the wearer's apparel. A pair of yieldable clamp arms with a cooperating clamp retainer ring are provided to adjustably position and secure the signal cable to the unitary strain relief clamp.

Abstract: The present application discloses a tenter arm swinging apparatus in which the swing of a tenter arm is performed by rotating a nut threadedly connected to a fixed screw shaft, and arm swinging means is housed in a case housing said nut.According to the present invention, the whole apparatus may be constructed in a very compact structure and installed readily and conveniently, regardless of the spatial conditions outside the apparatus.

Abstract: A method including transporting a cloth composed of twisted yarns continuously through a plurality of wet-heat treating chambers, which have a stepwise temperature gradient from 70.degree. C. to 100.degree. C. and are provided with an appropriate impact device to apply beating and rubbing forces to the cloth, in the direction from the low temperature side to the high temperature side of the chambers to de-twist the yarn of the cloth so as to crape the cloth successively. A cloth composed of highly twisted yarns can be advantageously and effectively de-twisted and craped due to the effect of the swelling of the cloth as well as the beating and rubbing forces applied to the cloth in each of the wet-heat treating chambers.

Abstract: An improved fluid operated forwarding and drawing apparatus for continuous filamentary materials including a jet nozzle structure defined by a fluid outlet port from a fluid plenum chamber and a filament guide tube where the nozzle has a converging acceleration zone, a throat, a diverging expansion zone and a converging transition zone. A small diameter friction tube abuts an exit to the transition zone. The device is adjustable during set up and operation whereby close manufacturing tolerances are not required and operating parameters of the nozzle may be easily varied. The device is operable at low air pressures, low air consumption and low noise levels while handling filamentary materials at high linear velocities. A process for drawing and forwarding filamentary materials is also disclosed.

Abstract: A piezoelectric transducer having at least one active element consisting of a film of polymer material is disclosed. Electrodes are formed on the two principal faces of the film after polarization of the film. The film is endowed with piezoelectric properties under the sole action of an electric field oriented along the normal to its principal faces and without any need for preliminary stretching. The anisotropy induced as a result of this orientation is solely electrical.

Abstract: An apparatus for the disassembling and the repairing of nailed wooden pallets having upper and lower deckboards nailed to stringers. The apparatus has a carriage that is reciprocable across a support frame. The carriage has a pair of longitudinally extending supports with cutters at the end thereof for movement therewith. Inverting apparatus is mounted on said carriage and connected to said carriage supports for rotating said carriage supports and their cutters selectively 180.degree. to align said cutters with a stringer in a pallet. A locking apparatus are used for securing the pallets on said support frame for the cutting of the nails that secure the deckboards to the stringers.

Abstract: A die assembly for making a pin-back button is taught. The die assembly comprises a base die part, a crimping die part, a ring die part and a top die part. Each die part is mountable on the next in the order given to form the die assembly. Cooperating means are provided on the base die part and crimping die part and on the ring die part and top die part to determine the depth to which the base die part enters the crimping die part and the top die part enters the ring die part. Each die part is rotatable with respect to that die part on which it is mounted to bring selected ones of the cooperating means into and out of registry to enable each die part to perform its functions in proper sequence to assemble a pin-back button.

Abstract: Pin bores of excavator forebooms are subjected to impact and side loading, causing wear which eventually leads to wobble of the foreboom. The close tolerance required in reboring such bores has previously necessitated transporting the foreboom to repair shops with large machine tools and jigging capacity for such massive structures. The present invention provides a fixture embodiment (30) adapted to rebore a workpiece (10), such as a foreboom, to within close tolerances in conjunction with an easily portable powered drill or the like. Reboring operations may be performed at any convenient site. Fixture embodiment (30) comprises a guide member (32), a structure (40) for holding the guide member (32) to the workpiece (10) in a precisely positioned relationship, a boring bar (52) and a supporting and aligning structure (70). A method for reboring the workpiece (10) is also disclosed.

Abstract: A piece of foam plastic is introduced into a pocket of a life jacket fitted to it and made of flexible material, through an opening formed at the edge of the pocket. The circumference of the opening is shorter than the circumference of the piece of foam plastic. The piece of foam plastic is compressed between two arms in a U-shaped manner and then further compressed until the legs close. The pocket with the extended opening at its front is pushed over the bent piece of foam plastic. The arms, insofar as the opening permits, are spread apart. The pocket together with the piece of foam plastic located therein are pulled off of the two arms. The opening is then sewn up.

Abstract: A method is described of prestressing structural members wherein there are a pair of longitudinal elements, a plurality of strut elements and a plurality of diagonal members. A plurality of joint connector means enable the strut elements and diagonal members to be interconnected rigidly together as an inner latticework, and the latter to the longitudinal elements. The inner latticework is initially left freely moveable relative to the longitudinal elements, and a prestressing tensile load applied only to said latticework. While the prestressing load is being applied, the longitudinal elements are rigidly secured to the inner latticework. When the prestressing load is then removed, the diagonal members remain in tension, the strut elements remain in compression and the longitudinal elements acquire a compressive load. The prestressing load should not generate any moments or rotational forces at the junctions of diagonals with the strut and longitudinal elements that have not been accounted for.

Abstract: A personnel dosimeter includes a plurality of compartments containing thermoluminescent dosimeter phosphors for registering radiation dose absorbed in the wearer's sensitive skin layer and for registering more deeply penetrating radiation. Two of the phosphor compartments communicate with thin windows of different thicknesses to obtain a ratio of shallowly penetrating radiation, e.g. beta. A third phosphor is disposed within a compartment communicating with a window of substantially greater thickness than the windows of the first two compartments for estimating the more deeply penetrating radiation dose. By selecting certain phosphors that are insensitive to neutrons and by loading the holder material with neutron-absorbing elements, energetic neutron dose can be estimated separately from other radiation dose. This invention also involves a method of injection molding of dosimeter holders with thin windows of consistent thickness at the corresponding compartments of different holders.

Abstract: A method for forming bipolar semiconductor devices and compiementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) field effect devices on a single crystal substrate wherein source and drain contact regions of one of the CMOS devices is formed simultaneously with the formation of a base region of the bipolar device and source and drain contact regions of the other one of the CMOS devices are formed simultaneously with the emitter region of the bipolar device.

Abstract: A method of fabricating a semiconductor integrated circuit device wherein a substrate having a particular crystallographic orientation is selectively etched so as to form surface depressions of different depths. An epitaxial layer is grown from a Si--H--Cl system on the surface of the substrate having the surface depressions formed therein. The epitaxial layer is grown under conditions effective to achieve faster lateral growth than vertical growth so as to form the epitaxial layer with regions of three different thicknesses. Subsequently, additional regions of the semiconductor integrated circuit are formed in the epitaxial layer regions of different thicknesses so as to complete the device.

Abstract: An apparatus for mounting electronic components on a printed board substrate comprisesa component feeder for sequentially feeding the electronic components in an aligned row,a chuck which receives and rectifies by pinching the position of the electronic components,a vertically movable mounting head, which holds by air suction one of the electronic components preliminarily pinched and rectified of the position by the chuck, and goes down through a wide open gap of the chuck to mount the electronic component on an accurate position of the substrate.

Abstract: Apparatus and process are described for telescopically mating top and bottom molded petri dish members wherein the top and bottom members positioned in spaced, substantially coaxial face-to-face relation are moved along a predetermined path, and during travel along such path are moved toward each other into telescopic assembled relation.

Abstract: A method of forming a ceramic circuit substrate allowing mounting of high integration density semiconductor elements. The method provides a multilayered ceramic circuit substrate having via holes formed with high accuracy and high integration density wiring patterns by forming metallic conductive balls to connect the conductive wiring patterns of upper and lower layers; a ball arranging plate having many holes placing on a green sheet uniformly in close contact; filling the holes of the plate with the embedding the conductive balls by pressure into the green sheet; and thereafter baking the green sheet individually or in a stacked layered arrangement.

Abstract: This invention pertains to a mustache trimmer have a 360.degree. circular cutting edge. The trimmer comprises an annular holder and an annular razor blade telescoped into said holder with the cutting edge of the razor blade exposed.

Abstract: A pair of elongated levers are pivotally interconnected at a first pair of corresponding ends for relative oscillation and one of the first ends of the levers includes a lateral projection having a flattened terminus on its free end defining an abutment surface facing toward the opposite end of the corresponding lever. The terminus is provided with a slot therein including an open end opening outwardly of one peripheral portion of the terminus and a closed end generally centered relative to the plan area of the abutment surface. The lever not equipped with the lateral projection includes a laterally projecting bifurcated arm on its first end pivotally attached at its free end to a mounting lug on the first end of the other lever.

Abstract: The gauge includes a calibrated, elongated stick or rod to which is affixed an elongated, transparent sampler tube. A bottom valve is operable within the sampler tube and is capable of direct opening by contacting the bottom of the tank with the valve stem. The valve is also remotely operable through a cable of sufficient length to extend upwardly exteriorly of the tank for manual operation above grade level. The transparent tube extends from the bottom of the gauge stick and may be relatively short for sampling possible water contamination at the bottom of a tank or may extend several feet in length to allow core sampling throughout the entire height of the tank contents.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for aiding the alinement of an element, carried on supporting surface, requiring parallelism to a reference plane or axial orthogonality to that reference plane. A first and second ring are disposed between the element and surface and the second ring, having an interfacing plane, is manipulated such that the interfacing plane is parallel to the reference plane. Suitable attachment is made to assure fixture of the second ring relative to the first ring which is fixed with respect to the surface.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a sundial employing a new type of gnomon comprising an opaque design printed on a plate of transparent material. The sundial described is designed for use in a specific locale, thereby enabling greater accuracy. The design of the casing of the sundial is therefore influenced by the choice of where it is to be used.

Abstract: Dehydrating method for a root vegetable such as a radish, carrot, turnip and the like of which the root is used for food, by providing openings inside a portion of a root vegetable prior to application of a conventional dehydration process wherein moisture included deep inside a portion of a root vegetable can be dehydrated suitably without spoiling of flavor, efficacy ingredients or beauty of the surface.

Abstract: An improved, fuel efficient crop drying system and method is disclosed which makes use of the waste heat from a primary rotary drum dryer in order to predry the crop in a two-pass, indirect heat exchange dryer. The predryer and primary dryer are coupled in a pneumatic (negative pressure) conduit loop so that crop is conveyed in serial order through the dryers. The predryer includes respective, adjacent, two-pass air and crop paths disposed within a tubular shell, and the entire predryer is axially rotated during operation thereof. The ultimate volumetric air discharge from the system is significantly reduced as compared with conventional rotary dryers, and the saturated wet scrubbing which occurs in the predryer displaces a high percentage of particulate matter from the gaseous discharge to the water discharge, thereby reducing atmospheric pollution.

Abstract: A continuous stream of moist tobacco particles is withdrawn from a magazine by a carded belt conveyor, and successive increments of the stream are weighed prior to transport past a measuring unit which ascertains the initial moisture content of successive increments of the stream. The signals which are generated by the weighing device are used to regulate the speed of the carded conveyor so as to insure that each unit length of the stream reaching the measuring unit contains identical quantities of tobacco particles per weight. The stream is thereupon transported through a moisture increasing unit wherein the stream is traversed by ascending currents of steam and wherein one or more nozzles sprinkle metered quantities of water onto successive increments of the stream.

Abstract: There is disclosed a cushion pad for sport shoes and the like and a method for manufacturing such a pad and the combination of such a pad with a sport shoe and the like. The pad of the present invention is fabricated from a flat web of closed pore foam of cross-linked ethylene vinyl acetate-low density polyethylene copolymer. The pad is formed between two opposing molds to present a shape having a cup-like depression adapted and constructed to accept essentially the heel portion of a human being. The so-formed pad is then cut out of the remainder of the formed web in a manner whereby the pad provides support from just in back of the first metatarsal joint to the sides and back of the calcaneus. It has been found that the resultant pad made within the purivew of the invention requires only a few sizes to fit most of the feet of possible users.

Abstract: A snow thrower comprising a shock resistant drive system for rotating a cylindrical drum having a plurality of outwardly radiating paddles for scraping snow from pavement or the like. The snow is thrown by the paddles into communication with a directional vane assembly adjustable for deflecting the snow to either side.

Abstract: Snow removal apparatus has a housing open at its front end in which a central fan blower is mounted. Mounted to the housing forwardly of and flanking the central fan are a pair of vertically rotating clearing screws. Each of the screws is also provided with a deflector which is movable in a circular path concentric with the axis of rotation so as to provide a selectively positionable backing or rear wall therefor.

Abstract: A skid shoe for a snow plow blade is attached to the plow moldboard at the pre-existing bolt holes used to fasten the blade to the moldboard such that the shoe is mounted close to the cutting edge of the blade. Hard carbide wear bars or strips are fastened to the skid shoe for reducing the abrasive action on the cutting edge of the blade thereby prolonging the life of the blade. Each wear bar consists of a steel envelope packed with a carbide-bronze matrix. The wear bars are weldable to the skid shoe and easily replaced by welding a new bar on the top of an old one or by welding a new bar directly to the skid shoe. The steel envelope works to hold the carbide-bronze matrix together, and the ductile bronze gives the hard carbide additional durability and shock absorption, which means longer shoe life with less blade wear.

Abstract: An advertising display (22) for the back of a pick-up truck (28) and the like includes a frame (24) removably secured to the load bed of a pick-up truck (28) and an advertising medium (30) bearing a plurality of advertising messages mounted in a downwardly-sloping fashion on the frame (24), making the advertising (30) visible from the rear of the truck (28). A transparent sheet (62) mounted over the rearwardly-sloping frame (24) provides a protective cover for the advertising medium (30). In one embodiment, the advertising medium (30) includes a roll (31) of advertising material (30) which is mounted to a spool bar (75) on the frame (24). The advertising medium (30) is sequentially displayed along the rearwardly-sloping wall of frame (24) by a manually operated or motor-driven roller bar (79). A guide bar (77) is provided to guide the advertising medium (30) from the spool bar (25) to the roller bar (79).

Abstract: A pair of tooled leather inlays are adhesively attached to bottom surfaces of a pair of inlay grooves disposed in a pair of wooden grip members attached to the handle of a pistol.

Abstract: An apparatus for transferring liquid onto the surface of a roller for ultimate transfer onto plants, and a method of constructing a storage tank component of the apparatus. A sponge is disposed in a housing adjacent a roller so that the sponge extends outwardly from the housing into contact with the roller periphery. Liquid is dripped onto the sponge, and excess liquid drains through openings in the bottom of the housing into the storage tank. The storage tank is formed by two plastic pipes bent at a middle portion with an opening between them at the apex of the bend of the top pipe. The top pipe is cut-off to provide an open top complimentary to the sponge housing bottom. Liquid from the tank is recirculated back to the pipe dripping liquid onto the sponge.

Abstract: A planter double walled providing a central bottom chamber and a series of spoke-like air-passageways leading from the chamber to near the top of the planter where they have air vents, the double walls bulging to the inside of the planter container to form the chamber and air-passageways and there being aeration and moisture draining openings, in the relatively depressed areas between bulged walls, leading from the container to the chamber and gravel-like filtration material covering the aeration and moisture draining openings to prevent blockage thereof, and the chamber being domed above the level of the aeration and moisture draining openings.

Abstract: Obstacle sensing apparatus for a pivotal door has a drive for operating the door between open and closed positions. Linkage is provided between the pivotal column which supports the door for swinging movement and a platform pivotally mounted on a fixed adjacent structure. When an obstacle is encountered the reactive force pivots the platform through the linkage and activates switches which reverse the drive. Elastic blocks keep the platform centered except when an obstacle is encountered.

Abstract: An apparatus for abrading and finishing the inner surface of an unusual shape, for example the inner ring of a gerotor device, with a tool holder adapted to carry honing stones for movement along the part surface and driven by a mating part engaging a stationary ring mounted inside the assembly and affixed to the drive spindle housing. The stationary ring has an identical shape to the workpiece being machined to guide and synchronize the tool holder in an eccentric path during the abrading operation and the workpiece and stationary ring are orientated to maintain the synchronous relationship. The apparatus while being rotated is also reciprocated transversely to the workpiece surface causing the stones to move in a helical path.

Abstract: In a cam grinding machine, a first diaphragm chuck is provided on a spindle rotatably supported on a rocking table for clamping one journal portion of a cam shaft and a second diaphragm chuck is provided on a support spindle rotatably and slidably supported by a tailstock in coaxial alignment with the spindle for clamping another journal portion of the cam shaft. Accordingly, cam portions of the cam shaft are ground with journal portions of the cam shaft being used as a reference.

Abstract: Belt sanding apparatus including a frame having parallel, spaced horizontal tubular elements, mounting head elements which are slideably positioned on the horizontal tubular elements, table members pivotally attached to vertical tubular elements adjustably mounted in the mounting head elements, the table members being adjustable as to fixed positions relative to horizontal about an axis perpendicular to the horizontal tubular elements of the frame, and a sanding mechanism, mounted upon an arbor element which is pivotally attached also to vertical tubular elements adjustably mounted in another mounting head element, the arbor element being adjustable as to fixed positions relative to horizontal, with the sanding mechanism including a rotatable sanding belt, a guide for the sanding belt adapting the belt to travel an extended path transversely of the horizontal tubular elements of the frame, and further including the motor drive for the sanding belt, whereby the apparatus is adapted to expose the edge of a work

Abstract: A capacitor trimming system for a quartz-crystal oscillator in a watch and/or a clock for providing a punctual watch and/or a clock has been found. The system comprises an oscillation circuit including at least a quartz-crystal piece, a trimmer capacitor for adjusting the oscillating frequency of the quartz-crystal piece, a semiconductor electronic circuit for operating said quartz-crystal piece, and apparatus for adjusting automatically the trimmer capacitor so that the oscillating frequency becomes the same as the desired reference frequency. The trimmer capacitor comprises of at least a fixed outer trimming electrode, an inner common electrode fixed parallel to said trimming electrode and a dielectric body sandwiched between the two electrodes.

Abstract: A building wall construction employing liner panels and facing panels. Liner panels are positively secured and releasably secured between adjacent horizontal frame members of the building. Facing panels are positively secured at their mid-region to a horizontal frame member and are positively secured at one end to a liner panel and releasably secured at the other end to a liner panel. The resulting building wall will fail at predictable pressure differentials.

Abstract: A prestressed structural member is described in which there is provided in combination a pair of longitudinal elements, a plurality of strut elements, a plurality of diagonal members and a plurality of joint connector means for rigidly interconnecting the strut elements and diagonal elements together and the same to the longitudinal elements. The longitudinal elements are spaced apart and prestressed in compression. The strut elements are also spaced apart and each strut element extends between the longitudinal elements, and is disposed orthogonally of a line equidistant from each longitudinal element. The strut elements are also prestressed in compression. The diagonal members are oriented diagonally in pairs in box sections or bays delimited by the longitudinal and strut elements and with the strut elements form a lattice structure. The diagonal members are prestressed in tension.