Abstract: A lavatory seat cover for a closet is disclosed which includes back board of horseshoe or elliptical shape to fit the shape of the lavatory seat, a laminate of stacked lavatory seat cover sheets of the same shape as the back board to be secured onto the block board, adhesive tapes provided onto the bottom of the back board to secure the seat cover onto the lavatory seat, and edge nipping members of soft material provided at the peripheral edges of the back board and the laminate for securing the laminate to the back board. When a person uses the closet with the lavatory seat attached with the lavatory seat cover of the present invention thus constructed, he can sanitarily make always contact at the skin of his buttocks with the lavatory seat through new lavatory sheet by simply separating the old uppermost cover sheet of the stacked cover sheets of the laminate if the lavatory seat cover is placed and fixed in place onto the seat via the adhesive tapes.

Abstract: This invention discloses a disc type kitchen sink drain valve mounted on a strainer that is placed in the well provided in the bottom of a kitchen sink, the drain valve comprising a sleeve fixed vertically and substantially at the center of the bottom plate of the strainer, a valve member having a valve stem slidably inserted in the sleeve, and fixed at the lower end of the valve stem an elastic valve body of disc type capable of moving up and down with the valve stem to open and close the drain port provided at the bottom of the well of the kitchen sink by uncovering and covering the drain port.

Abstract: A waste disposal system is disclosed which includes apparatus for treating water which has been used for cleaning, washing and for flushing toilets and for disposing of waste products by incineration. The total output of the system to the environment is then reclaimed wash water of tertiary treatment quality plus CO.sub.2 and the ash resulting from the incineration of solid wastes. In alternative embodiments, systems designed for ships, multiple unit dwellings or small communities can operate on a substantially continuous duty cycle with full utilization being made, if desired, of the heat energy required for the incineration process, and for substantially reducing fresh water quantity requirements in all such installations through the use of recirculating toilets.

Abstract: A suction outlet assembly providing a path through which water within a whirlpool bath may be pumped out for recirculation. The assembly comprises three principal components, namely, an elbow structure which includes an integral flange and threaded pipe for protruding through a suitable orifice in the wall of the whirlpool bathtub into the interior of the tub; a locking ring having a matching threaded annular surface for securing the elbow structure against the tub wall by tightening the locking ring from the readily accessible interior side of the tub wall; and a suction cover which is designed to engage the locking ring in a fixed spaced-apart relation to provide a finished asthetically appealing appearance to the assembly while providing safe multiple exit paths to the water flowing therethrough. These three components of the present invention are of unique but simple structure which may be manufactured from molded plastic.

Abstract: The chair of a transfer bench includes a single removable arm and four rollers attached to the underside of the chair by four multipurpose brackets. The single arm can be easily mounted on the right or left side of the chair so that the open side of the chair always faces toward the patient regardless of the orientation of the chair on the bench. Each of the roller brackets is fastened directly to the bottom of the chair for additional simplicity and strength. Two spring-loaded safety hooks on the underside of the chair allow the chair to be removed from the bench, rotated 180.degree., and safely remounted on the bench but facing in the opposite direction. A downwardly extending locking stud attached to the underside of one of the tubular tracks of the bench can be engaged by one of the spring-loaded safety hooks to keep the chair from moving when a patient attempts to sit in the chair.

Abstract: The crib is formed of walls of mesh in order to eliminate a multiplicity of rigid vertical bars. In addition, a hemispherically shaped canopy of similar mesh structure is fitted to the crib. This canopy has sections which can be pivoted to an open position to obtain access to the crib.

Abstract: A guard and staircase unit for a drop-side crib, with vertical rods supporting the drop-side thereof, comprises a supporting framework consisting of a plurality of supporting members arranged in a rectangular support. A plurality of supporting members extend vertically from said rectangular support and support a plurality of steps with the top step being at the level of the crib mattress. A guard barrier wall is supported on said vertically extending support members for positioning along the open side of the crib with the drop-side opened or removed. An opening is provided in the guard barrier wall at the level of the top step. A railing is provided along the side of the steps opposite the wall and around the top step. The unit is provided with eyelets or other suitable fastening means for securing the same to the vertical rods of the crib.

Abstract: A male die for making a self-locking threaded fastener where the die has a planar working surface with a plurality of elongated teeth on the surface. The teeth are arranged in a plurality of groups with the teeth of each group extending parallel to each other and to a tangent to a bore in the die. The crests of the teeth extend above the working surface and the roots of the teeth are below the working surface.

Abstract: A bridge pier is constructed from a number of serially gradated cribs nestable one within the other for transportation and manually mountable one upon the other in order of decreasing size on arrival at a site by the use of rotatable davits attachable to each upper-most crib in turn. When used for dry gap bridging the cribs are assembled upon a pair of adjustable length telescopic legs each pivotally connected to a load-spreading grillage and adjustable for use on slopes of up to 1 in 20. Both initial levelling and subsequent adjustment for ground settlement can be achieved by adjustment of the telescopic legs. When required for use in deep water bridging the cribs may be mounted directly upon a pontoon.

Abstract: A car wash mechanism includes a vertical rotating brush mounted on the end of a horizontal boom slidably received in a cage mounted on an upright standard to the side of the path of travel of a vehicle. The bottom of the cage is mounted to the standard for pivotal movement and the top of the cage is pivotally mounted on a slidable carriage. The cage can be tilted between one position in which the boom will extend outwardly of the cage towards the center of the track and a second position in which the boom will retract inwardly of the cage and thereby position the brush closer to the standard. A fluid cylinder is actuated to shift the carriage and thereby tilt the cage under the control of a switch which has its actuator engaged by the cage when the cage is pivoted to the side by a passing vehicle.

Abstract: A plug and ball injector valve is provided which utilizes seals mounted in standard grooves and an arrangement of pressure balancing cavity areas brought into communication with the seals to balance the fluid pressure across the seals before such seals are exposed to unpressurized ports or passageways. A drain port is arranged in the vicinity of the loading port of the valve to limit spillage and leakage of the line fluid passing through the valve.

Abstract: A cleaning and lubricating system is provided. The system includes an applicator comprised of a substrate carrying an excess of cleaning and lubricating compositions, and a buffing member, preferably in combination with the applicator.In operation, the applicator is wiped against a to-be-cleaned and lubricated surface of an article. This action coats the article with an excess thickness of lubricating composition. The coating is then wiped with the buffing member and the excess lubricating composition is transferred to the buffing member so that the coating on the article is now of a controlled thickness. When an excess supply of lubricating composition builds up on the buffing member portion of the system, the buffing member may then be used as a cleaning and lubricating applicator.

Abstract: A composite doctor blade assembly includes a length of steel strip 21, forming the doctor blade, and a similar but narrower back-up blade 22. The strips 21, 22 are clamped between a resiliently flexible carrier strip 23 and an arched resilient strip 24 held together under tension by ties 25 passing through apertures 23a, 24a. To make the blade assembly longitudinally flexible, the apertures are elongated.The plate 23 is clamped in a holder between an intermediate element 11 and a bottom element 12 with the interposition of an interchangeable cylindrical packing element 13. The top element 14 is channel shaped to provide extra rigidity.

Abstract: The feed tube of a long retracting sootblower has a lance tube slidably overfitted thereon which is of an inside diameter somewhat exceeding the outside diameter of the feed tube, to provide a relatively narrow gap therebetween. The open end of the feed tube has a turbulizer mounted therein contoured to impart a helical component to the blowing fluid which blows into the lance tube from the feed tube. At a position spaced upstream from the turbulizer the wall of the feed tube is pierced with a plurality of holes equally spaced throughout its periphery. The holes provide centering jets which oppose vibration of the feed tube and prevent impacting of the same against the interior of the lance tube.

Abstract: A pick-up head for surface cleaning apparatus embodies a horizontal baffle extending between depending side walls of an elongated, downwardly opening chamber. Upper and lower horizontally extending air flow passageways are defined by the baffle within the pick-up head, with air in the lower passageway flowing over and contacting a surface to be cleaned. The upper passageway is restricted at its outlet to create a venturi effect as air passes therefrom. The venturi effect aids in drawing air carrying dirt and debris into the pick-up head.

Abstract: A hinge includes a hinge arm which is adjustable in three directions. An intermediate member is situated between the hinge arm and a mounting plate. One screw clamps the intermediate member to the mounting plate, another screw clamps the hinge arm to the intermediate member, and a third screw acts between the intermediate member and the mounting plate providing an adjustment of the hinge arm in a plane vertical to the mounting plate.

Abstract: An over-center hinge for thin doors of cabinets, especially those of bathroom mirrored cabinets, having a thin door-related part which can be fastened in a mating recess provided on the inside of the door and open at the door edge. The door-related hinge part is divided into an outer mounting plate which can be fastened in the recess of the door and is likewise open at the end adjacent the open door edge, and a separate link holder which can be inserted into the mounting plate from the open edge, on which link holder the supporting arm fastenable to a supporting wall of the cabinet is pivotingly articulated. A cap mounting projection extending from the inside of the door, to which projection there is removably fastened a molded cap which bears a tongue extends into the path of a contact surface provided on the supporting arm and is resiliently compressible by this contact surface against a spring force.

Abstract: There is disclosed an improved load supporting hinge structure which includes concealed bearing units, disposed within an intermediate knuckle of one of the hinge leaves and adjacent to the spaced end knuckles of the other one of the hinge leaves to afford both the desired support and smooth operation thereof. Each of the bearing units includes a first, generally annular, race member defining a first raceway and having a central aperture, a second, generally annular race member defining a second raceway and having an axial extension which engages the hinge pintle and extends axially therealong through the first race member aperture to provide non-bending support for the pintle.

Abstract: In a tiltable window, especially to be mounted in a sloping roof, the lateral members of the sash and frame carry external cover rail sections which in the closed position of the window overlap each other in the area of the hinge device of the window. The hinge device consists of a frame part and a sash part and of an intermediate part connected with each of the two parts by means of two parallel pivot pins which in the closed position of the window are situated within the outer side of the window and are protected by the cover rail sections. During the opening movement of the sash, its hinge part is first rotated in relation to the intermediate part while this part is locked to the frame part by means of a latch, and after the forcedly controlled release of the latch, the sash part and the intermediate part together can rotate further in relation to the frame part.

Abstract: An apparatus for axial shirring of tubular material. A turret has a plurality of shirring tubes thereon and is indexible to move the shirring tubes transversely and is also capable of limited axial movement. A stationary shirring tool cooperates with a shirring tube brought by the turret to a shirring position. During shirring, the shirring tube is stationary as the tubular material being shirred engages a stop member movable axially along the shirring tube. First the stop member is brought towards the shirring tool and then controllably moved away therefrom during shirring. The apparatus also includes a bracing means for centering the folds of the shirred tubular material during the shirring step. At a further position finished shirred tubular material may be compressed and removed from the shirring tube by a pressing means which can operate independently of and concurrently with a shirring procedure.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided for pulling gristle such as tendons from cuts of meat by mechanically holding down an extending portion of the gristle as the cut of meat traverses a path that intersects the location of a wedging jaw that prevents continued traversal of the meat along the path while permitting continued movement of the gristle along the path until it is stripped from the meat. In an optional embodiment, the jaw is a mechanical one that closes to form the wedging jaw that strips the gristle from the meat, after which the jaw opens to release gristle therefrom that otherwise might have been undesirably retained therein.

Abstract: A strap for attaching a watch or other jewelry article to the wrist of a wearer, including non-expansible non-metallic strap members interconnected by a metallic coupling device. The coupling device is adapted to accommodate adjustment or variation of the overall length of the strap to suit the requirements of the wearer. At least one of the strap members has a strap adaptor permanently secured thereto, with at least one tab member protruding therefrom. A connector element on the metallic coupling device has an aperture, notch or the like into which the tab member is received before being bendably deformed to overlap and detachably secure the coupling device to the aforesaid strap member.

Abstract: The invention is a clip used to clip the edge of a web that forms a seat or back of a lawn chair having a tubular frame. The clip is made from a single piece of wire bent into a T-shape with a stem the T-stem having a hook and a C-shaped hole searching lead section which is designed to engage the inside wall of a tube in use to maintain the axis of a hook section extending in a forward direction.

Abstract: Method of forming a cartridge chamber in the bore of a firearm barrel, which comprises driving into the bore of the barrel from the butt end thereof a mandrel of the surface configuration of the peripheral wall and mouth of the cartridge chamber, whereby the bore metal is squeezed into close form-fit with the mandrel, and then retracting the mandrel from the barrel bore.

Abstract: Coating or lining normally-corrodible tubular metal shapes with corrosion-resistant metal coatings or linings is effected by placing the tubular metal shape in concentric telescopic relationship with a tubular shape of the corrosion-resistant metal to provide an assembly consisting of an inner tubular member and an outer tubular member, closing the ends of the inner member, introducing a liquid into the interior of the inner member to fill that member, and then freezing the liquid while confined in the inner member, whereby the outer wall of the inner member is expanded into firm contact with the inner wall of the outer member. The process is typically applied to an assembly of the two shapes in concentric telescopic relationship with one of the shaped defining an inner member and the other of the shapes defining an outer member, a first cap and a second cap enclosing the ends of the inner member in fluid-tight relationship, and means for introducing a liquid through one of the caps.

Abstract: A method for making a joint between a small diameter metal tube and a large diameter metal tube by coating the outside of the small diameter tube with an adhesive and inserting it through a hollow cylindrical sleeve made of metal having the same or greater thermal coefficient of expansion as a small diameter tube such that it extends beyond the ends of the hollow sleeve. An area of the hollow sleeve is deformed circumferentially to displace the adhesive in the deformed area and make metal-to-metal contact between the sleeve and the small diameter tube. A portion of the sleeve is coated with adhesive and one of the sleeve or large diameter tube is positioned around the other with said one having a thermal coefficient of expansion the same or greater than the other and then deforming an area of said one of the sleeve or large diameter tube circumferentially to displace the adhesive in the deformed area and make metal-to-metal contact between the large diameter tube and the sleeve.

Abstract: A fastener is provided for securing an article to a support without making a hole in the support and wherein access can be gained to only one side of the support. The fastener is welded to the accessible surface of the support and the article is clamped to the support by setting the fastener with a blind-riveting tool.

Abstract: A machine tool has a rotating head provided with a radially movable carriage. Transferrable tool holders are clamped to the carriage of the head by a releasable clamping mechanism. A plurality of tool holders are held on an indexable drum, the rotational axis of which lies perpendicular to the axis of rotation of the head. The tool holders are slidably transferred from the drum to the carriage of the head and vice versa by a changer which has a transfer rod and a mechanism for actuating the clamping mechanism.

Abstract: A machining center equipped with an integral robot device having a manipulating hand capable of approaching a spindle of the machining center, a tool storing magazine mounted on a machine body, a workpiece supply table disposed on a floor in the vicinity of the machine body, and a work table of the machine body so that an exchange of cutting tools may be carried out by the manipulating hand between the tool storing magazine and the spindle, and so that an exchange of workpieces may also be carried out by the manipulating hand between the tool storing magazine and the work table.

Abstract: A process is described which achieves self-aligned metal to silicon contacts and submicron contact-to-contact and metal-to-metal spacing for field effect transistors. The insulation between the contacts and the metal is dielectric material having a thickness dimension about a micron or less. The structure is substantially planar. The method for forming this structure involves providing a silicon body and then forming a first insulating layer on the silicon body. A layer of polycrystalline silicon is formed thereover. Openings are made in the layer by reactive ion etching which results in the structure having horizontal surfaces and vertical surfaces. The openings can be in either the areas designated to be the gate regions or a PN junction region of the field effect transistors in the integrated circuit. A second insulating layer is then formed on both the horizontal surfaces and vertical surfaces.

Abstract: A method of making a high speed and high density IGFET read-only memory and encoding it late in said method. A unique ROM structure permits encoding by ion implantation thin apertures in a phosphosilicate glass layer, without requiring ROM output lines passing over the implant apertures or expanding ROM size to obtain highest ROM operating speed.

Abstract: A film of organic electron donor material is formed to a predetermined thickness and shape and then the preformed film and a lithium element are pressed together in a manner bonding the film to the surface of the lithium element to form a coated lithium anode. During the pressing operation, the surface of the lithium element can be shaped to include formations such as corrugations which serve to increase the surface area thereof, and the pressure bonded film is of substantially uniform thickness over these formations. The resulting coating also is substantially free of voids so as to be of substantially uniform solidity. An entire coated anode assembly is formed in one pressing operation, so that bare lithium is not subjected to prolonged atmospheric exposure which, in turn, reduces or substantially eliminates the possibility of nitride formation on the surface of the lithium element which is coated simultaneously while being pressed.

Abstract: A hand tool for cutting the armor of armored cable, comprising two elongated handle members hingedly connected, the first member carrying a manually operated circular saw and the second member having a channel in which the cable is clamped during cutting. The improvement including a clamping plunger carried by a third handle member which is hinged to the second member and manually activated to press the plunger firmly and/or resiliently against the cable to hold it firmly against the wall of the channel during the cutting operation.

Abstract: An apparatus for cutting pipe and casing. An apparatus for cutting pipe and casing having a hinged frame and using the revolution of the device about the workpiece to simultaneously effect cutting of the workpiece.

Abstract: A hydraulic secateur or pruning shears includes a device for continuously and smoothly controlling the separation of its cutting blades. This avoids the disadvantage inherent in conventional hydraulic-assisted pruning shears, in which the cutting blades must either be open completely or closed completely, resulting in the entanglement of branches and other undesirable objects with the cutting blades. The controlling device includes a trigger, distribution apparatus for pressurized fluid, an inlet for the fluid and an outlet for the fluid. At least one of the blades is pivotable and activated by hydraulic apparatus. The blades can be set and maintained at any position between the two extreme positions.

Abstract: A handle attachment for power chain saws to extend the use of the basic chain saw structure for cutting underbrush, weeds and the like. The curved handle attachment is detachably pivotally fixed on the body of the power chain saw and positions the cutting bar in a horizontal position instead of the conventional vertical position when the chain saw is being operated in a normal manner to cut wood. The handle attachment is adjustable to accommodate users of different height and such adjustability includes a link bar pivotally connected at one end to the handle and pivotally connected at the other end to the conventional chain saw handle. The handle of the chain saw attachment is provided with an adjustable position hand grip and a throttle control assembly.

Abstract: A spherical compass having a gravity operated support for automatically positioning its double axis gimbal system into a horizontal plane for selective mounting of the compass with its outer athwartships gimbal system axis mounted horizontally and its fore and aft compass mounting plane oriented at any angle between the horizontal and vertical. The support comprises a gimbal support unit mounted within the pair of hemispherical compass bowls for limited vertical movement from a normal lowered position in frictional damping contact with the inner surface of the lower of the hemispherical bowls to a raised position of reduced frictional contact to permit gravity adjustment of the gimbal system fore and aft axis and the fore and aft lubber lines and compass card into a horizontal plane.

Abstract: On the head of a conventional drawing apparatus, locking means consist of a toothed circular plate 1 integral with the support C, a toothed circular plate 2 integral with the turning handle and rule carrier, the plates 1,2 being concentric and rotating in a same plane, and a third toothed plate 3, forced towards the plates 1 and 2 by springs 4 so as to mesh with the plates 1 and 2 making them integral with each other. This plate 3 is movable axially along a hub E, while maintained perpendicular to the axis of said hub; it may be disengaged from the plates 1 and 2 by exerting a pressure on a pusher 5 which actuates a lever 6 which lifts a small plate 7 connected to the plate 3 by columns 8.

Abstract: An attachment for a drafting machine having a protractor head has a scale which is securable to the head. By operation of the head, the scale is movable on the drawing board between a first position and a second position disposed at a predetermined acute angle to the first position. On the ruling edge of the scale, there is an index point which is usable when the scale is in the first position to mark the location for the placement of a required symbol. A template is mounted below the scale for rotation about an axis perpendicular to the drawing board and this template is provided with a plurality of outlines which serve as stencils for applying symbols to a drawing. An indicator on the structure supporting the template enables a particular symbol outline to be selected and placed in a position which will coincide with the marked location when the scale is moved to the second position.

Abstract: A drying system and method for removing volatile liquid from a liquid bearing web of material by evaporation includes means for moving the liquid bearing web of material through a drying station and heating means, positioned at the drying station, for applying evaporation energy to the liquid bearing web of material to effect evaporation of the volatile liquid from the web. Electrostatic means is provided for subjecting the web of material to a static electrical field at the drying station, whereby the evaporation of volatile liquid from the web is enhanced. Evaporation energy may be applied to the liquid bearing web by bringing a heated surface in contact with the web or by irradiating the web with infrared energy. Alternatively, evaporation energy may be applied to the liquid bearing web by directing heated air against the web.

Abstract: An improved paper drying process and machine are described in which the paper web is supported independently of velocity-induced stresses thus permitting operation at speeds significantly in excess of the prior art for each paper grade. The process requires: (1) transporting the web on a supporting fabric that travels from the last press nip through at least the initial portion of a drying section; and (2) holding the web onto its supporting fabric by employing forces normal to the major web surfaces sufficient to overcome those forces which tend to lift the web from its supporting fabric. The web on its supporting fabric travels a serpentine path through the drying section about drying cylinders with the web alternating between direct contact with a drying cylinder followed by indirect contact with the subsequent cylinder.

Abstract: An improved vacuum box is described for holding a paper web onto a supporting fabric wherever velocity stresses would otherwise separate the web from its supporting fabric and expose the web to those stresses. Specially shaped vacuum boxes are fitted into the dryer "pockets" formed between the rows of a double row of adjacent drying cylinders and the web traveling a serpentine path between them. Pressure differential zones of the box hold the web onto its supporting fabric as the web and fabric travel between heated drying cylinders. A first zone leads the departure of the web and fabric from the web-wrapped cylinder to ensure that the web is positively held to the fabric as it leaves the cylinder. A second arcuate suction zone adjacent a fabric-wrapped cylinder evacuates grooves in the adjacent cylinder.

Abstract: The disclosure concerns a drying cylinder for a paper making machine. The drying cylinder is hollow and is circumferentially grooved along the length of its inner surface. A plurality of collector conduits extend axially along the casing. Suction pipes project from each collector into respective ones of the grooves for sucking condensate therefrom. A siphon pipe is connected to each collector for siphoning off the collected condensate. The siphon pipe is insulated to reduce the temperature differential between the interior and exterior thereof. The suction pipes are shaped and/or spaced so that the suction pipes are able to remove a greater amount of condensate from the grooves in the vicinity of the siphon pipe than from the grooves in the remainder of the length of the casing, for attaining more uniform drying performance by the drying cylinder across the width of the web.

Abstract: A sport shoe sole having a ground sole rigid and of excellent abrasion resistance and an elastic interlayer body bonded to the ground sole, in which the interlayer body is provided at its heel portion with an air inclusion means such as grooves and apertures that open at least to one side of the interlayer body.

Abstract: A vehicle drawn snow tiller for loosening, cutting, grinding, packing and leveling a wide path of snow for improved, more enjoyable skiing. The tiller comprises an elongate rotary snow cutter assembly with radially projecting snow cutting blades distributed over the length and about the circumference of a cutter tube directly powered by reversible hydraulic motors, one mounted upon each of its ends. The snow is cut, selectably, in or away from the direction of travel of the tiller over the snow. An elongate apron disposed over the cutter assembly collects and directs the loose cut snow onto the surface behind the cutter assembly, where it is compacted by the apron and finally leveled and smoothed by a horizontal grooming bar on the trailing edge of the apron. According to one aspect of the invention, an elongate snow splitting baffle may be disposed above the cutter to deflect a portion of the cut snow forward to fall again into the path of the reversely rotating cutter for additional cutting and grinding.

Abstract: Undesirable visual effects, such as blinking, observed when an animated image produced by means of polarized light is viewed by means of a color television camera or a similar device which is sensitive to the angle of polarization of light which it views, are avoided by use of animating lamination which includes, between the layer of polarmotion material and the artwork transparency, an intermediate depolarizing layer of vellum-parchment drawing paper.

Abstract: A gun grip including two sections to be received at opposite sides of the handle of a gun, with the sections including elastomeric bodies forming two side panels having flanges projecting inwardly toward one another at the rear of the handle, and desirably also at the front of the handle, and reinforcing plates embedded within the elastomeric bodies and having edge portions projecting inwardly toward one another within the elastomeric flanges at locations behind the handle and preferably also in front of the handle.

Abstract: A support weapon is provided having two feet that are independent of each other and which are comprised of foldable rods that are capable of angular displacement and which are also capable of being set up and secured in various angular positions so as to vary at will, the height of the support. Furthermore the foldable rods are foldable on themselves and also rotatable and movable in a parallel fashion to the sides of the frame of the weapon.

Abstract: An apparatus for detaching fishes from fish-hooks on a fishing line during hauling of the line comprises a guiding means (1) disposed below the fishing line (2) and having a guiding edge (10) forming an acute angle with the line (2) in the hauling direction thereof and causing arriving fish-hooks (8) to slide along the guiding edge when passing the apparatus, and a detachment means (11) ccoperating with the guiding means (1) for detaching fishes hanging on the hooks (8) when arriving at the guiding means (1).

Abstract: The fishing float comprises a float main body made of a light weight material such as synthetic resin into a hollow or solid configuration and formed with a resistance portion or attached with a resistance body. Since the float main body (1) has a resistance body (2) such as in a disk-like shape at the circumference on its side or a resistance portion at its lower surface, a fish can automatically be caught on a fishing hook by the water resistance exerted upon pulling into the water.