Abstract: An assembly of two sliding portions with respective folding legs comprises a supporting frame deployable on a bed or the like so that infrared radiation may be used from an ordinary electric blanket lifted-away from a sleeper's body, thus freeing the sleeper from body contact with any blanket; the assembly is lightweight and portable and can be set-up for use and folded for storage without any tools, gravitational force being used to hold the subassemblies together.

Abstract: The disclosure is directed to a water-powered toothbrush appliance or the like wherein the water-powered motor for driving the toothbrush is mounted in a hand held housing. A valve for controlling fluid flow to the water-powered motor is mounted in the housing and a valve control portion is rotatably mounted by the housing at an area thereof which generally underlies the thumb of a hand holding the appliance. The valve control portion is rotatable by the user's thumb to actuate the valve. In order to efficiently utilize the space within the housing, while maintaining optimum proportions thereof for convenient handling by the human hand, the valve is mounted within the housing on the side of the motor more distant from the valve control portion and the valve control portion is mechanically connected to the valve by an actuator which is arranged to pass directly through the nutating action motor.

Abstract: A floor mop or the like is shown including a mop removably, replaceably mounted to a mop carrier, for instance using conventional Velcro hook and fleece fasteners. The mop carrier is pivotally mounted to a mop handle via a bearing arrangement that includes sleeves on the carrier and handle, pinned together with a pivot pin that is non-rotatable relative to the carrier but which provides for a limited degree of rotation of the mop carrier relative to the mop handle upon overcoming a moderate degree of friction between the pivot pin and mop handle bearing barrel that results from a snut fit between specially contoured surfaces of these two members.

Abstract: A conduit cleaning apparatus suited for manually cleaning elongated pipes, with particular reference to chimneys, has a unitary flexible pushing member of spring steel having a predetermined rectangular cross section providing sufficient stiffness to operate a brush within a chimney, including the transfer of thrust through a significant angle of curvature, while permitting elastic deformation of the pushing member so as to traverse sharp corners encountered in certain clean outs, and also for close coiling within a carrying frame. The brush, which is detachably mounted on an attachment adaptor secured to one end of the pushing member has a plurality of stiff tines deflectably mounted on spring means to permit a significant degree of coning of the brush in either direction during insertion or withdrawal past an obstruction. The arrangement permits the use of brushes of shaped planform, to accord with the cross-sectional shape of the conduit being cleaned.

Abstract: A utility brush for automatic cleaning of toilet bowls which includes a generally cylindrically-shaped housing containing a motor, and in a preferred embodiment, a timer, with a shaft coupled to the motor and extending through brackets in the housing to removably carry a tapered, generally cone-shaped brush projecting beneath the housing. The brush is "stepped" or shaped and configured to match the interior shape of toilet bowls for thorough cleaning, and the housing is provided with a mount bracket for removably securing the housing to the rim of the toilet bowls with the brush projecting downwardly inside the bowls. The brush is electrically operated and may be designed to rotatably clean the toilet bowls in multiple, timed sequences.

Abstract: A combination apparatus for the simultaneous shampooing and steam cleaning of a rug, carpet or the like including a main cleaner which is supplied with hot sudsing cleaning solution from a remote reservoir that is simultaneously dispensable directly on to a carpet or the like beneath the cleaner for deep cleaning of the pile thereof and on to rotatable scrubber pads disposed on the bottom of the cleaner. The pads rotatingly engage the carpet or rug to agitate the pile thereof to further effect the cleaning operation and a vacuum apparatus included in the cleaner extracts the spent cleaning solution and dirt or other foreign matter from the carpet or rug by means of a vacuum funnel extractor which extends transversely across the front of the cleaner.

Abstract: A butt hinge includes a first hinge plate with a pair of axially spaced outer gudgeons extending from an edge of the first hinge plate, a second hinge plate with a gudgeon formed of two axially spaced gudgeon sections extending from an edge of the second hinge plate between the outer gudgeons extending from the first hinge plate, and a hinge pin extending through the gudgeons of the first and second hinge plates for pivotally connecting the first and second hinge plates. The pin is fixed against rotation within the outer gudgeons of the first hinge plate, and a bearing bushing within each of the gudgeon sections of the second hinge plate supports the pin for rotational movement about its axis when the first hinge plate is pivotally moved relative to the second hinge plate.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided for electrically stunning animals, in particular pigs. The apparatus comprises a restrainer in the form of two endless conveyors positioned to form a V-shaped passageway between opposed operating surfaces which hold an animal and further comprises a pair of electrodes extending downwardly into said passageway. Said electrodes are arranged side by side to engage or contact the sides of the head of the animal. The electrodes are shaped to conform to the contour of an animal's head. Said electrodes preferably are formed by plates having the outwardly turned edge parallel to the adjacent operating surface while the other edges first diverge upwardly and by a curvature merge into converging parts. The plates have a profile such that they also converge in the direction of conveyance.

Abstract: An electric pressure switch for use with textile machines and the like has a U-shaped tube filled with a liquid. One of the legs is above the liquid level in communication with a source of variable fluid pressure, for example a fiber feeding chute of a textile machine and this same leg, with the other leg, is provided with two or more vertically spaced detecting arrangements which detect changes in the position of the liquid level which occur as the fluid pressure fluctuates, and such detections are converted into electrical signals which can control various functions, such as the drive for fiber feeding devices or the like.

Abstract: Flat cleaning system for a card equipped with a set of revolving flats, in which the flats (12) consist of a T-shaped profile, and in which, by temporary sealing, of the room between the webs 18, 18a of two neighboring flats (12,12a) using a sealing element 30, a longitudinal duct is formed, in which duct an air stream is generated. By this air stream, any fly waste accumulated on the back side of, and between the flats 12, 12a is eliminated. The air stream in the duct, generated by lateral suction, cleans any fly waste and dust particles accumulated in the duct out of the duct, only low energy suction being required.

Abstract: A device for increasing the tension in a taut rope segment by increasing the path length which the rope must travel. The path length is increased by first engaging an essentially straight line segment of rope at two points spaced apart on the rope segment and physically restricting the ability of the rope to move in one transverse direction at these points. The path length of the rope is then increased by deflecting the rope outward, away from the straight line pathway at a point between the two points of restricted motion.

Abstract: The invention relates to a buckle for a safety belt for vehicles comprising a tongue-shaped insertion part (1) and a sleeve-shaped receiving part (2), a primary lock (10) being provided in the receiving part, which lock is pivoted on a shaft (9), which is parallel to the plane of the insertion part and perpendicularly arranged relative to the direction of insertion of said insertion part, the primary lock exhibiting one or several projections, which cooperate with corresponding stop dogs (11) on the insertion part. According to the invention the primary lock comprises a double armed lever, of which the end located nearest to the insertion opening of the receiving part, i.e.

Abstract: A pulse rate monitor for use while exercising. A clothespin type finger clip remote from the counting and display unit grips the user's finger in a predictable, mechanically stable manner. A light emitting diode, strobed to reduce battery drain, transmits infrared radiation through the finger, and electronic circuitry monitors the modulation of radiation caused by changes in capillaries with each heart beat. The circuitry includes an active load for the phototransistor, which, by means of bandpass filtered feedback, enhances heart beat signal and reduces sensitivity to ambient light, noise, and variations in phototransistor characteristics.

Abstract: Ceramic body containing embedded metal electrodes is provided with end termination configurations using a paste containing base metal particles, glass frit and MnO.sub.2 ; the body and end terminations are co-fired to provide a ceramic capacitor.

Abstract: An apparatus for working of pipes or tubes, rod or bars, and the like, in the field of sanitary and heating installations, with electromotor drive. A drive machine is provided as the basic machine, and workpieces or working tools are selectively drivable or powered for carrying out a multiplicity of working procedures individually or in combination with each other, including, for instance, thread-cutting, tube-bending, cutting-off or separating, welding, and pipe cleaning.

Abstract: Composite powder metal parts made of separate and distinct powders are produced by forming a low density preform of a first powder and then using the preform to define a part of the cavity employed to accommodate the second powder prior to final compaction. The cavity employed in forming the preform is defined by a die wall and a major diameter of a trailing section of a concentrically disposed core pin. A second cavity for the second powder is formed between the preform and the minor diameter of the distal section of the core pin.

Abstract: A machine for inserting tire valves on wheel rims designed for receiving tubeless tires comprises pneumatic, electrical and/or electronic apparatus for logically programming a rim conveyor, apparatus for detaching a single rim and successively positioning same in waiting, operative and discharge positions, apparatus for exerting a pressure against the detached rim in the operative position for engagement with a rotary drive, apparatus for rotating the rim, apparatus for detecting the valve hole in relation to an axis ZZ of the emitting and receiving elements of a detection cell, apparatus for positioning the valve hole on an axis YY common to a centering spindle and to a cylinder carrying the valve to be inserted into the valve hole, apparatus for selecting a valve for each rim, apparatus for positioning the valve into the rim hole, and apparatus for holding the rim during the valve positioning operation.

Abstract: A clip driver for driving such a type of clip as having opposing holding webs the front edges of which are resiliently pressed to each other to form lips for clipping sheets of paper or the like. The clip driver has a casing in which formed is a longitudinal guide way for guiding the clip, a clip driving member for driving the clip along the guide way and clip opening member with bifurcated inclined leg portions diverging toward the front end of the casing. In use, the clip is driven forwardly by the driving member so that lugs extending laterally from the holding webs slide along the diverging surfaces to forcibly open the clip overcoming the resilient pressing force to permit the sheets of paper or the like to be placed between two holding webs of the clip. As the clip is further driven forwardly, the lugs clear the guide surfaces of the clip opening member to allow the holding webs of the clip to be closed, thereby to clip the sheets of paper or the like.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for converting a lockstitch sewing machine to a machine for decorating fabrics with at least one untwisted strand of keratinous fiber applied in a pattern to the fabric. In general, the method consists of removing the throat plate, feed dog, presser foot, bobbin, bobbin case and needle bar from the lockstitch sewing machine and inserting instead a needle block having means for securing a plurality of standard punching needles therein, a throat plate apertured to correspond with the plural punching needles carried by the needle block, a presser foot apertured to correspond with the spacing of the needles in the needle block whether passage of the punching needles therethrough and a presser foot with a guide passage for the fibrous strand and a feeddog with sufficient clearance for the punching needles carried by the needle block.

Abstract: A method of forming buried contacts that eliminates the possibility of the inadvertent removal of portions of the silicon body is described wherein a patterned nitride masking layer is formed on portions of conductive interconnects and gate lines. Thereafter, a second oxide layer is grown in order to surround the masking nitride layer. The nitride layer may now be easily removed using a hot phosphoric acid dip which will etch away only the nitride layer to form contact openings in the oxide layer without affecting the underlying layer.

Abstract: An integrated system and process for the continuous formation of p-n junctions in solar cells in a cost-effective manner and under computer control. The integrated system essentially comprises an ion beam implanter, an electron beam annealer and a combination vacuum lock-and-wafer transport system, all disposed within a unitary housing maintained under a common vacuum environment.The integrated system employs no wet chemistry operations and, is characterized by high reproducibility and narrow solar cell performance distribution.

Abstract: A process for fabricating solar to electrical energy conversion units, includes the forming of arrays of parallel-connected strings of series connected solar cells selected from a number of different categories of cells. The categories are defined by different ranges of cell currents at a set cell voltage, a set level of incident cell face radiation and a set temperature. Each string of an array consists of cells from the same category; but strings of cells from different categories are used in the same array. A goal array current range for the arrays may be correlated with the average current of a group of cells at the set conditions, or with the estimated average for a group of cells to be manufactured, so that a selected number of strings for the arrays multiplied by such average falls within the range. According to a particular fabricating process, nine solar cell categories covering a total of approximately 0.

Abstract: Apparatus and process for manufacturing a finned tube, said apparatus comprising a tube feed assembly which has absolute control over the rotational speed of the bare tube being processed as well as the linear feed rate thereof, a grooved roller assembly (when forming an applied fin "G" tube) to materially improve the material flow distribution of the tube during groove formation, a fin forming assembly which deforms the finning material to permit the use of thinner finning material and which compensates for fluctuations between feed rates of the finning material and rotational speed of the tube or presentation rate of the grooved tube to the deforming finning material during fin swageing, and a fin swageing assembly.

Abstract: A portable power driven chain saw (20) having an automatic oiling system (54) including an externally adjustable control valve (60) which meters an adjustable flow of oil (69) therethrough unidirectionally and to stop the flow in the valve when the chain saw (20) is stopped. An improved oil pump (58) is provided of the rotor (72) vane type. The adjustable member (124) of the control valve (60) has a longitudinal opening (130) for the flow of oil (69) therethrough to the guide bar (24), also the opening (130) slidably carries the stem (144) of the check valve (140) which provides for the unidirectional flow.

Abstract: This invention relates to a draw punch and its purpose is to punch a hole in sheet metal or the like, particularly in inaccessible places, such as an electrical outlet box or other terminal outlets. Moreover, the metal slug is split into two pieces and is removed easier.

Abstract: A rotatable portable saw has a saw blade 2 which is pivotally mounted with respect to plate 15 so that the position of the blade relative to the plate 15 can be altered to alter the depth of cut. In a modified form the saw blade can be angled slightly to the direction of traverse of the saw so that the width of the cut can be made slightly greater than the width of the blade. In use the saw is traversed across a workpiece with the blade positioned to produce a scribing cut in the surface of the workpiece and then traversed back across the workpiece, after lowering the blade position relative to the workpiece, so that the workpiece is cut right through. In this way, for a given directional rotation of the blade, the blade can be made always to approach the surface being cut so that splintering of the workpiece is substantially reduced or eliminated.

Abstract: A device for drawing circles is provided which is compact in form and has no sharp points. The device is comprised of a disk rotatably carried on a sheet adjacent and concentric to a hole in the sheet. The disk and sheet each have a series of holes therein spaced from a center point of the disk into which the tip of suitable writing instrument may be placed to rotate the disk or sheet with respect to the other, thus inscribing a circle on a desired surface.

Abstract: The holder of the present invention is comprised of a clamp for receiving and securing a measuring tape with its zero end being located at a known position. The clamp is pivotally joined to a base which contains a magnet for attaching the base to a ferro-magnetic surface. The apparatus is attached to the surface by positioning the base in a manner such that the zero end of the tape is located at a first meausring point. The tape is then extended by the user to measure the distance from the first measuring point to a second measuring point, which is remote from it, without the necessity of having a second person to hold the zero end of the tape.

Abstract: An instrument composed of a measurement head (1) and a fixed stop (2) which are connected by a body (3) formed of interchangeable extension pieces (4, 5), the instrument being intended to check the dimensions of bulky parts.The two contact stops (12) of this instrument are offset at the end of two parallel measurement feelers (10, 11).With each of these two contact members there is associated an instrument for measuring their inclination, which consists of an electronic clinometer (25, 26).The two clinometers are connected to an apparatus (30) for reading the inclination of the two measurement feelers.The inclination of one of the two measurement feelers (11) is adjustable by means of an operating screw (17).In this way it is possible to reestablish parallelism of the measurement feelers when the instrument bends, upon measurements of large dimensions.

Abstract: A multiple hole gauging tool for use with a variety of straight-edge members, comprising an elongated rod having a transverse slot aperture therethrough for slidably receiving a straight-edge member therethrough, a threaded stud member at one end of the rod adjacent the slot aperture, a cap member threadedly carried by the stud member and being tightenable against the straight edge for locking the rod at a selected position along the straight edge, the cap member having a cylindrical hole engagement surface around the outer periphery thereof. The rod member is provided with a window aperture for reading indicia on the straight edge while the outer surface of the cap member comes in several different sizes to fit different diameter holes. Insert members are provided for effectively changing the size of the aperture to accommodate different size straight edges.

Abstract: An apparatus for positioning a workpiece comprises four measuring devices which collectively render possible the fabrication of a continuous bore at a workpiece. One part of the bore is produced from one side or face of the workpiece and the other part of the bore from the opposite side or face of the workpiece and both parts of the bore are in alignment with one another. The first measuring device serves to enable rotating a rotatable table through any desired angle, the second measuring device for enabling displacing a slide through any desired amount in the X-direction. According to the invention the third measuring device serves for the exact positioning of the rotatable table at 0.degree., 90.degree., 180.degree. and 270.degree.. Finally, the fourth measuring device ensures that the rotatable table and a work spindle axis precisely intersect.

Abstract: A weir pattern device including an elongated body and one or more elongated wing members telescopingly received on said body for adjusting the length of the pattern device to span the width of a flow channel for which a weir is to be made, a plurality of parallel vertical profile rods mounted on the body and the wing members for vertical positioning so that the bottom ends of the profile rods engage the contoured bottom surface of the flow channel, in operative position. The pattern device further includes at each end, a pivotally mounted foot or shoe member adapted to bear against the corresponding sides of the channel. These shoe members may include an elongated upright bearing piece of moldable or plastic material for conforming to the side surface of the channel.

Abstract: A crampon binding for convenient installation on mountaineers' crampons comprises a cooperative assembly of various sizes of neoprene elongated extensioners each especially contoured and equipped with centerline openings, to be adjustable folded over longitudinally, to extend from the sides of mountaineers' boots adjacent the sole edges up alongside the boot to the lacing eyelets or lacing hooks, to serve as tension members carrying the binding loads. When installed they are folded over conventional securement rings already secured to conventional small uprights spaced about coventional crampons. Their adjustable folded over longitudinal length is maintained upon installing aluminum screw posts, with their respective aluminum locking washer, through their selected aligned centerline openings. The contour of these extensioners provides progressively wider portions to contact the mountaineer's boot to more uniformly distribute the compression binding loads into the boot.

Abstract: A laminated insole for a skate boot is disclosed. The insole includes a base layer moulded in a relatively rigid plastic material and an inner layer of a relatively resilient material laminated to the base layer. The base layer has a raised central portion in its outer surface which provides a strengthening spine for the insole and which is surrounded by a relatively flat peripheral surface portion onto which the margin of a lasted upper can be secured in constructing a boot. The raised central portion has a thickness corresponding generally to the thickness of the margin of the upper so that the bottom surface of the upper/insole combination is generally flat.

Abstract: A control system is disclosed for a dredging device which includes a submersible pump having one or more chambers. Each chamber defines an air port through which air can be delivered to and exhausted from the chamber, a material discharge port for discharging liquid and solid material from the chamber, and a chamber suction port for admitting liquid and solid material to the chamber. Air control valves are provided for alternately exhausting air from each chamber to admit material to the chamber through the suction port and for delivering air to each chamber so as to discharge material from the chamber through the discharge port. The control system operates these air control valves in accordance with a selectable timed cycle to achieve optimum efficiency in the dredging operation.

Abstract: A resonantly driven tool for forming a trench in base material is disclosed. A channel member is adapted to be aligned with the path of the trench to be formed. The channel member has a floor inclined upwardly toward the rear, and oppositely disposed sides projecting upwardly from the floor. The channel member is open front and rear, and the channel member is advanced along the path of the trench to be formed. A cutting blade is located at the leading end of the floor of the channel member, and is mounted so that it can reciprocate relative to the channel member. The cutting blade engages the material in which the trench is to be formed as the channel member is advanced. A resonant system is provided with an output vibratory in at least near resonance. The resonant system is supported to move with the channel member, and is operatively coupled to the cutting blade to drive the cutting blade intermittently forwardly.

Abstract: A snow removal device includes a truck unit having a forward cab portion and a rear storage portion. An elongated V-shaped container is disposed in the rear storage portion, wherein the container has a curved base, a pair of upwardly extending end walls, and the container is pitched downwardly from a front to a rear of the storage unit. A mechanism is included for injecting the snow and ice into the container as well as a heating assembly disposed in the storage portion for melting the snow and ice for discharge through the gate valve.

Abstract: Control apparatus for a snowplow blade or the like, includes a control shaft movably mounted to a housing, so as to have first and second end portions extending respectively inwardly and outwardly of the housing. A control circuit is mounted in the housing and a plurality of momentary contact switches are electrically coupled with the control circuit and mounted in the housing for selective actuation by the control shaft end portion in the housing. A resilient member is in engagement with said control shaft end portion in the housing for resiliently returning the control shaft to a predetermined neutral position. The control circuit comprises solenoid control circuits for energizing a plurality of solenoids to effect movement of the snowplow blade. A first circuit portion is responsive to ones of the switches for energizing ones of the solenoids for respectively controlling the snowplow blade in left and right turning motions and in upward lifting motion.

Abstract: A liquid crystal calendar display device presents a full month of dates in a large-sized format. Sunday is always located in the left column or in the alternative in the right column of the calendar display regardless of the day which is the first date in the presented month. Only 16 electrode patterns are used to form all dates, and months of twenty-eight to thirty-one days are accommodated. Display elements are driven by a V-2V AC amplitude selective multiplexed system.

Abstract: A rotatable sign adapted to be driven by air currents to provide successively changing indicia to a viewer is disclosed. Indicia formed of light-reflective material and mounted on a dark background is located at different levels on at least two of three side panels of the sign to provide the illusion of a vertically moving sign. The rotatable portion of the sign can be inverted to reverse the direction of rotation.

Abstract: The invention is a telescope mount for firearms that is provided with a deflectable wing. The wing may be adjusted into a tighter mating contact with a base member to compensate for variations in manufacturing tolerances and also to compensate for wear that may occur in ordinary use. The deflectable wing may be tensioned as a spring or may be adjusted by wedges or by wedging screws until the desired fit is attained.

Abstract: A rifled gunbarrel has stepped relief narrowing width of lands on the sides which normally transmit torque to projectiles, the narrowing extending about one projectile length to the muzzle for isolating the influence of torsional relaxation of gunbarrel, which is normally a trajectory-perturbing factor on projectile emergence, while continuing radial contact for projectile guidance along the gunbarrel axis as the gunbarrel unwinds.

Abstract: A fishing box is disclosed which incorporates the following built-in features: tackle box, seat, life preserver, fishing rod carrier, cooler, worm and minnow bait compartment, fish compartment, lid-table tray, a flip-out side table, a ruler for measuring the lengths of fish, a fish net holder, towel rack, and an accessory attachment for supporting an accessory such as a portable radio.

Abstract: An improved seed marker tab comprising an elongated flat tab element proportioned to have one end thereof inserted in the soil to a predetermined level with the other end thereof projecting above the soil. The tab is formed of stiff, relatively thin, self-supporting material and the end portion that is inserted in the soil has preferably an indentation or pod formed in one end thereof. Openings provided at the back of the pod for receiving seeds specifically determine number and location of seeds mounted on the tab. Filler material covers the seeds overlying the openings to complete the assembly. The improved seed marker tab results from a new process whereby vacuum means are used to hold the seed in place while the tab assembly is completed.

Abstract: This invention is a method for asexual reproduction of coniferous trees. It combines in vivo hormone treatments with in vitro tissue culture for multiplication of a clone of the original genotype. The first step is repetitive cytokinin treatment of the living tree, preferably on weekly intervals. This will induce buds or shoots, usually in axillary locations or at the apex of fasciles. These shoots have a morphology typical of juvenile plants or even newly sprouted seedlings. In culture, the buds will give rise to juvenile-like shoots. The shoots or buds are placed in various media to induce growth and further budding. These second order buds are again placed in a growth medium to give rise to shoots that can then be rooted. The method appears unique in its ability to rapidly and inexpensively multiply a large clone of genotypically superior trees of physiologically and morphologically mature age.

Abstract: In the illustrated window raiser, the window is raised or lowered by a motor which drives a screw engaged with a nut constituting a slide guided in a slideway by means of two symmetrical crossed arms. The arms are connected to the slideways at the base of the window and to two fixed center slideways and are connected to each other at their crossing point by an articulation carried by the nut. The articulation rigidly interconnects two semi-arms constituting one of the arms and disposed on each side of the other arm which is in a single piece. The two arms are capable of undergoing angular movements on each side of the axis of the articulation. A drive comprising a pinion and a rack cable may be substituted for the illustrated screw and nut mechanism.

Abstract: A sliding door employing a runner wheel assembly of the invention typically comprises a frame of hollow extruded frame elements. The hollow section of the bottom frame element is provided with two such wheel assemblies, one at each end, supporting the door for sliding movement, each assembly comprising a wheel retainer member and a wheel carrier or support member releasably secured to the retainer member. In normal use the wheel carried by the wheel support member projects through an opening of the bottom frame element to cooperate with a track. When the door is lifted from the track the wheel support member can be pivoted relative to the retainer member to a position from which it can be removed and replaced through the opening.

Abstract: A corrugated metal door having a damaged lower section is repaired by removing the entire lower damaged section, including the door bottom frame member and portions of the door side frame members, and replacing same with prefabricated door repair section.

Abstract: This invention is directed to facilities for storing food in a controlled atmosphere wherein the temperature is regulated and the relative humidity is regulated. An important element in achieving a controlled atmosphere for the storage of food is the storage building. If the storage building is, properly, designed and constructed so as to provide a vapor barrier and also to provide thermal insulation, the storing of the food is made easier for realizing a desirable stored product. With the combination of a vapor barrier and also thermal insulation, there is less possibility of condensation of moisture in the storage building.

Abstract: An earthquake-proof foundation for a lateral burner-type coke oven battery, comprising, a foundation baseplate connected to the ground, a mounting plate positioned above the baseplate for supporting the coke oven battery and a plurality of sliding devices interposed and connected between the mounting plate and the foundation baseplate to permit lateral and transverse displacement of the mounting plate with respect to the baseplate. The mounting plate includes a plurality of openings and ferroconcrete pegs are bonded to the foundation baseplate and extend upwardly into the mounting plate opening. Elastic elements are connected between the ferroconcrete pegs and the edges of their associated openings to resist transverse and lateral displacement of the mounting plate with respect to the foundation baseplate.