Abstract: A pipette which is formed within a mold in which a raw material of a given tubing thickness is employed, the tubing to be of a plastic material, the tubing placed within the mold and caused to be raised in temperature until pliable, the plastic tube caused to be expanded against the surface of the mold, the drawing tube and the container section of the pipette being formed of a thickness to make such substantially rigid, an enlarged bulbous section connected to the container section, the thickness of the bulbous section to be substantially thinner than the container section and the drawing tube section whereby the bulbous portion may be readily manually compressed and then permitted to retract back to its at rest state causing a drawing of liquid through the drawing tube section into the container section.

Abstract: This patent applies to a kennel which incorporates a number of wedge-shaped partially covered enclosures, annularly disposed in an outer ring and inner ring separated by covered corridors.It incorporates a series of gutters for waste removal which resists the spread of disease by means of an overhanging splash-inhibiting lip. It includes a number of compartment walls, each extending beyond the run and over the top to prevent animals from sniffing each other or coming in contact with each other, thereby inhibiting the spread of airborne and body waste diseases. A carefully designed airflow system, compatible with radiant floor heating, resists cross-contamination of animals from inadvertent intermixing of air; vents and ultraviolet lamp exposure assures purging and purification of compartment air.

Abstract: An electrical switch comprises a body, including a base, an operating member supported by the body for rotational and axial movement relative thereto, an aperture extending through the base and a light source support member received in said aperture. The support member and the wall of the aperture are so shaped that the support member can be located in the base in either of first and second different axial positions relative to the base. The support member includes a blocking element, which in the first axial location of the support member relative to the base extends into the path of either axial or rotational movement of the operating member relative to the body to prevent such movement of the operating member relative to the body. The second location of the support member relative to the base is such that said blocking element lies out of the path of either axial or rotational movement of the operating member so that both movements of the operating member relative to the body are permitted.

Abstract: A cathode ray tube is disclosed which is relatively flat in the viewing direction, including a transparent envelope having at least one generally flat section, a screen arranged within the envelope, an electron gun for projecting an electron beam along a path substantially parallel to the plane of the screen, and first and second deflecting means for causing the beam to scan a line and a frame, respectively, characterized by the provision of a single conductive member of a given potential forming a beam directing electrode spaced from the screen and arranged such that the path of the electron beam lies between the electrode and the screen.

Abstract: The method and apparatus of the present invention are described in which connection (and disconnection) of a plurality of geophones associated with a digital seismic data acquisition system is greatly simplified without sacrificing flexibility as to the number of geophone flyers per station or the interval spacing per station and also without the addition of separate subcabling in the internal linkage of the flyers to the field digitizing equipment. The apparatus includes a multiple-phone flyer-jumper connected to each channel of a remote data acquisition and telemetering circuit (RDATC). Each RDATC acts in combination with a group of geophone flyers, say four, to store, amplify, filter, gain control and digitize analog data from the flyers and then telemeter the data to recording circuitry in the field truck. In accordance with the present invention, each jumper-flyer includes a central multi-conductor cable segment terminating at each of its ends in the central leg of a multi-armed connector.

Abstract: A graphite disc assembly for a rotating x-ray tube embodying a graphite substrate and an anode target of either tungsten or tungsten rhenium joined thereto by a layer of rhodium, osmium, ruthenium, platinum, platinum-chromium, or palladium. .Iadd.

Abstract: An adapter, for adapting an accessory fitting for various size pockets at the margin of protective helmets, has two tapering end walls and front and rear side walls, extending from opposite ends of the end walls, overlapping each other about midway thereof. The front wall is provided with an opening for receiving a projection of the fitting, which normally presses against the inner side of an outer wall of the pocket. The front wall is, adajcent to the opening, provided with a ridge, locally increasing the wall thickness.

Abstract: Improved one-piece bib construction having a neck opening in the form of a triangle with one side generally parallel to the shoulders of the wearer when in use. The opening is formed by severing along the sides of the triangle not parallel to the wearer's shoulders and preferably folding inward along the other side so that a double layer of absorbent material is located in the front neck and chest area of the wearer. The result is a bib that tends to conform closely to the wearer thus reducing gaps and unprotected areas. Embodiments include those wherein the angle opposite the side parallel the shoulders is about 30.degree. to 120.degree. and the longest side comprises 30% to 95% of the total bib width and is centrally located. Materials include absorbent fibrous webs such as cellulose tissue which may be combined with a film backing as well as sheets of impervious films.

Abstract: An intraocular lens designed for placement across the anterior chamber of the eye. The lens is of the non-rigid type and comprises a lens body having opposed support haptics of filament material shaped to provide controlled flexibility and wherein the free ends of each haptic loop are disposed in edge bores in the lens body disposed on radius lines passing through the optical center of the lens body which radius lines subtend an angle of from 2.degree. to 10.degree..

Abstract: The present invention provides a biomechanical ankle prosthesis device comprising a main base plate member adapted for connection to an artificial foot; a connector hinge member having an extended portion pivotally connected to one end of the main base plate member so as to pivot relative thereto about the longitudinal axis of the main base plate member, the connector hinge member being further defined as comprising a hinged portion having a longitudinal axis transverse to that of the main base plate member; a leg attachment member having a top portion adapted for connection to a user and its bottom portion being provided with a hinge portion operably connected to the connector hinge member to allow the leg attachment member and the main base plate member to move relative to each other in essentially the same plane about the longitudinal axis of the hinge assembly defined between the connector hinge member and the leg attachment member; and a spring interposed between the leg attachment member and the main ba

Abstract: A toilet bowl deodorizing device of the type including an odor exhaust passageway connected to a flush passageway extending from a flush tank to a toilet bowl, and a suction fan installed in the exhaust passageway. The device comprises a ventilation control unit installed at an opening in an overflow passageway provided in the flush tank and communicating with the flush passageway, whereby odor removal suction is properly controlled.

Abstract: A sofa bed includes a fixed frame which is provided with a conventional foldable, sectional sofa bed frame. The sofa bed frame is foldable and unfoldable between collapsed and extended positions in a conventional manner. The sofa bed also includes a sectional mattress which includes inner, outer and intermediate inflatable mattress sections which are hingedly connected together. The mattress sections in the unfolded condition serve as a full mattress, and when in the folded condition constitute part of the sofa.

Abstract: A carrier apparatus for use by fire fighters to carry fire hose, and to serve as a personnel carrier; a carrier body of flaccid material about five feet long has a bottom and side walls, and at one end there is an end wall, and portions of the side walls adjacent the end wall being perpendicular to the bottom and end wall. Handles and securing straps are provided. A continuous length of fire hose is placed in two side by side stacks, with a connecting portion from one stack to the other; a strap with hook and pile type fastener, such as sold under the trademark Velcro fastener extends around one stack and is released by force applied through the connecting portion of the fire hose.

Abstract: This invention involves a bed covering incorporating a pouch for a child in which the pouch is part of a fun scene on the bed cover and the child becomes part of the scene while taking a nap. The pouch is of sufficient size to allow free movement of the child and large enough to prevent a child from being trapped in the event that the child becomes twisted around in the pouch. The pouch in this invention is relatively large and is part of the design of the bed cover. The pouch of this invention exhibits localized expansion of the pattern which causes the distortion of the design to be minimized whether or not the pouch is occupied. A unique process to produce localized expansion has been developed and used in this invention.

Abstract: A utility knife comprising a fixed blade and a tool-shaped shank with a pivotally mounted housing selectively movable between a first position about one edge of the shank to use the knife-blade and a second position about one edge of the blade to use the shank as a tool.

Abstract: Method of continuously treating planar textile structures by applying thereto a treatment medium in the form of foam, which includes subsequently applying underpressure to the planar textile structures at a magnitude at which the foam is completely destroyed without any appreciable flow through the material of the planar textile structures.

Abstract: A fastener including an enlarged head portion and a reduced diameter shank portion extending from one end of the head portion. A cam slot is formed in the end of the shank distal from the head portion. The cam slot has a spiral configuration and the entrance end of the full width of the slot is widened to facilitate coupling and uncoupling of the fastener with a cam follower introduced to the cam slot for forming a fastener assembly.

Abstract: The outer prongs and inner expander of an anchor bolt are formed from a cylindrical metal blank with an axis, by lengthwise cutting the blank in planes which subtend different parts of the blank periphery and are inclined inwardly toward one end of the blank at identical wedge angles to the axis, whereby the blank is divided into separate prongs and a common expander, with the prongs and expander having plane companion wedge faces, respectively, and the prongs having cylindrical gripping surfaces.

Abstract: In a machine for cement lasting side portions and the heel seat of shoes, the side portions are lasted by lasting rolls and the heel seat by wiper plates. For applying adhesive, each lasting roll has an associated nozzle which applies adhesive progressively in advance of its associated lasting roll. Furthermore, when the lasting rolls reach the point of termination of side lasting, they remain in pressing engagement with the shoe bottom, but their rotation is terminated, and in this condition the nozzles continue to apply adhesive in the heel seat region. This may be achieved by merely discharging adhesive from the stationary nozzles and allowing it to run into the heel seat, or alternatively the nozzles may track bodily into the heel seat. Thereafter, the lasting rolls and nozzles are retracted and heel seat wiping can take place. The invention may also be incorporated in a machine in which the whole of the shoe bottom is lasted.

Abstract: A portable golf ball cleaner having a container with relatively movable portions permitting a golf ball to be inserted into a ball cleaning space defined by inwardly projecting bristles thereof. A carrier is rotatably mounted to the container wall and includes bristles projecting to the ball receiving space to engage a ball supported on the fixed bristles therein. A manually operable handle is provided on the carrier for rotating the carrier to cause random rotation movement of the golf ball. A quantity of cleaning solution may be placed in the container for use in facilitating the cleaning of the ball by a relative movement between the ball and the bristles in the container.

Abstract: A brush (10) is provided. The brush (10) includes a housing (12) which includes an aperture (28). Bristles (42) are mounted within the housing (12) and extend through the aperture (28). A cover (50) is provided and includes an aperture (52). Cover (50) is slidably mounted to the housing (12) and housing (12) is selectively rotatable within the cover (50). Housing (12) is rotatable to a first position exposing bristles (42) through the aperture (52) of the cover (50) for use of the brush (10). Housing (12) is rotatable to a second position for covering the aperture (28) and the bristles (42) when the brush (10) is not in use.

Abstract: A windshield wiper blade refill unit including an elongate elastic wiping blade having an elongate spline, or backing strip, affixed to it to be received slidably and held detachably in the claws of a pressure-applying wiper blade holder is provided with structures which enable the same refill unit to be used in any one of a plurality of wiper blade holders that have different lengths. The spline is formed with an end portion that extends beyond the working position thereon of an endmost set of the claws of the longest of the blade holders, and this end portion is formed at a plurality of spaced locations with detent means each of which is interengageable with a complimentary clip means for attaching the spline to a blade holder having one of the several lengths.

Abstract: The present specification discloses a combination dust pan and refuse container constructed of inexpensive lightweight materials which is highly transportable and repositionable from an upright refuse transporting position to a horizontal refuse collecting position. The combination dust pan and container is made up of a framework which distends and substantially encloses a conventional disposable trash bag, four circumferentially spaced ground contacting wheels and a dust pan which depends outwardly from the frame near the mouth of the bag. In the transporting position, all four wheels contact the ground and provide a stable base. In the collecting position, the outwardmost edge of the dust pan and two of the wheels which are on a common axle contact the ground. A handle is provided which projects upwardly in both the transporting and collecting positions to facilitate mobility of the pan/container combination.

Abstract: A device comprising two coaxially superposed outer tubes, wherein the innermost, first outer tube is disposed on the stuffing horn of a stuffing device for stuffing tubular casings with a fluid mass such as a sausage mixture. One of the two outer tubes is longitudinally displaceable with respect to the other outer tube. Pivotable elements fastened by pivotable mountings to the second outer tube and by pivotable joints to a connecting arm serve to deshirr and smooth the initially shirred tubular casing. Further, the elements press the tubular casing against the inner surface of an annular stop cylinder and thereby retard the withdrawal of the tubular casing from the shirred portion. The inner diameter of the stop cylinder is preferably smaller than the outer diameter of the deshirred portion of the tubular casing. A system comprising the aforesaid device, a tubular casing, the stuffing horn of a stuffing device, tying or clip devices and a cutting device is also disclosed.

Abstract: A fish processing machine for removing the gills, viscera and blood line kidney from head on fish. The machine includes an adjustable positioning ramp located upstream from a pair of spaced apart belly cutting blades. The adjustment of the height of the positioning ramp combined with the spacing between the belly blades is such that the tongue can be cut away from the jaw but left attached to the gills. The fish is then transported downstream with its tongue riding lower than its head and ribs. A gill removal wheel utilizes the tongue to pull the gills from their gill cavities thus removing the gills and viscera. Another cleaning wheel located downstream of the gill removal wheel removes the blood line kidney. A method for removing the gills, viscera and kidney from head on fish is also disclosed.

Abstract: Disclosed is a tool particularly adapted for removing the legs and bottom part of a shell of a shrimp and for cutting the meat of the partially deshelled shrimp before placing stuffing into the shrimp.

Abstract: A self-ejecting fastener stud is provided for use with a fastener receptacle to form a fastener assembly for fastening two members together. The stud has an enlarged head portion and a shank portion extending therefrom adapted to extend through an opening in one of the members to be fastened and to engage with a receptacle mounted on the other of the two members to be fastened. The stud has a cam follower and the receptacle has a cam surface positioned so that engagement and relative rotation therebetween will shift the stud and receptacle between fastened and unfastened positions. The stud is adapted to be retained on the one member so that it can be shifted between an inserted position with the head adjacent the one member and an ejected position with the head spaced from the one member. A biasing spring is on the stud tending to direct the stud toward the ejected position so that when the stud is released from engagement with the receptacle the biasing spring will shift the stud to the ejected position.

Abstract: The invention serves to hold together the male and the female parts of ground glass joints.As can be seen from the FIGS. 1,2 and 3 this new device consists of two rings (1+2) concentrically placed one above the other. Both rings are connected on their outside by three bow-shaped retainers (5).The two rings (1+2) have one opening (3,4) each on one side. These allow the rings to be slid onto the male and female parts of a glass joint. Both rings then firmly grip the two parts of the joint and hold them together.

Abstract: A device for intermediate storage of thread having the following: a belt conveyor, a drive mechanism, a winding head, having a thread guide arranged along a circular path, through which thread, in the form of loops, is placed upon the front portion of the belt conveyor, in the feed direction, and having a device for taking off the thread at the rear section of the belt conveyor, also having a drive member for activating belt conveyor, which member is rotating in the feed direction and is coupled with conveyor belt, of belt conveyor, or is coupled with a drive member connected thereto through the area defined by the loops. The device can easily be realized mechanically.

Abstract: Surface acoustic wave devices with precisely set frequencies are produced by laser trimming metallization strips on the device while monitoring the device frequency and/or phase shift. The trimming strips may be metallizations added during device manufacture or after device manufacture, or they may include selected ones of the reflecting gratings.

Abstract: The device for supporting a cutting-tool is intended to be placed in a head for machining grooves in a cylindrical rod and mainly comprises a frusto-conical support member having an axial bore through which the cylindrical rod to be machined is capable of passing. The support member is placed within a frusto-conical recess of the machining head and provided with a cutting-tool recess having an opening which defines the profile of the cylindrical rod. The cutting-tool is clamped within its recess by means of a ring which is screwed into the support member and has a control front face for receiving the rod to be machined.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a tool cooling device for machine tools in which a plurality of cooling fluid distributing units are provided on a fixed shaft having a hole formed therethrough and communicating with a source of cooling fluid and each of the distributing units is connected preliminarily to one of the tools with oil holes which are accommodated in the tool magazine of a machine tool, whereby when selected one of the tools is engaged as such with the spindle, the cooling fluid is automatically supplied only to the tool engaged with the spindle.

Abstract: There is disclosed an apparatus for performing conditioning operations including cutting operations such as beveling for welding, chamfering to aid in starting thread cutting, thread cutting and lead cutting and inspecting operations such as bevel or chamfer inspection and threads inspection on the ends of seamless steel pipes or round bars transferred from the preceding forming stage such as the rolling stage. The apparatus comprises a plurality of end processing multifunction machines each capable of performing by itself the above-mentioned processing operations and a plurality of end inspecting multifunction machines each capable of performing by itself the above-mentioned inspecting operations and these machines are arranged on one side or both sides of a single-line transverse transfer system. Each steel pipe or round bar to be processed is subjected to the end processing operations at a single fixed position and to the end inspecting operations also at a single fixed position.

Abstract: A process for making composite bearings with low friction surfaces and metal backings in which the metal backing is used to draw low friction material into the shape of the bearing surface. Heat is used to aid bonding of the low friction material to the backing.

Abstract: The invention provides a method of and apparatus for imparting a required metering form to the longitudinal outer edges of axially extending grooves of cylindrical rotor members of rotary valves by moving an impressing tool or tools having the required metering form thereon against a said edge or edges of a rotor member or members generally in the direction of a chord extending between a point on said edge and a similar point on an adjacent edge of the nearest adjacent groove so as to displace the material of the edge being worked away from the groove.

Abstract: A tool is provided for maintaining an automotive coil spring in a compressed condition during installation in an automobile chassis. The tool includes two elongated plate members each of which has an end that is curved in hook-like fashion and an end with two spaced apart apertures. A pair of parallel chain links extend through the apertures to interconnect the plates. The plates can slide along and pivot around the chain links. The curved end can grasp a spring convolution to keep the spring compressed.

Abstract: An improved button puncher or crimper which is capable of vastly improving the efficiency and ease with which adjacent sheets of metal decking are button punched, pinched or pressed together in order to be permanently joined.

Abstract: Component materials of an article having a metallic element encased within a brittle bulb are reclaimed by passing the article between two rotating rollers spaced apart a distance less than a dimension of the bulb but greater than a dimension of the metallic element thereby shattering the bulb without altering the structure of the metallic element. The shattered brittle bulb material is then separated from the metallic element as with a magnetic separator.

Abstract: Lengths of slide fastener chain are pulled through a shearing station wherein the slide fastener chain is subjected to vibratory shearing at least partially in a direction parallel to the plane of the tapes whereby operating resistance of the chain is substantially reduced.

Abstract: A nut installation apparatus or head and controls for installing self-attaching nuts, such as pierce nuts, in a panel, without the requirement of a large forming die press assembly. The apparatus includes a nut anchor, which holds the first or end nut stationary, a relatively movable die member, opposite the nut anchor, which supports the panel and a resiliently supported nut guide having a passage receiving nuts in bulk or strip form. The panel is biased into contact with the end nut in the nut guide, by the movable die, to install the nut in a panel. The moveable die is impelled toward the nut anchor by means of a two stage piston assembly having a first stage which supplies pressure limited to the elastic limit of the panel, and a second stage which supplies sufficient pressure to pierce the panel with the end nut. A sensor and switching mechanism is integrated with the apparatus controls to assure proper installation of the nut and prevent damage to the apparatus.

Abstract: An improved method of construction for thermal and acoustic insulation blankets is provided wherein a ceramic fiber thermal insulation core is cut along pattern lines and a acoustically insulating thin sheet of lead is molded in conformance with the shape of the ceramic fiber core. A thin, stainless steel foil/fiberglass cloth laminate is placed along the inner most surface of the insulation core so that the laminate serves as a barrier between the insulation core and the object being insulated. A silicone-rubber coated fiberglass cloth is wrapped around the insulation core and accompanying layers of insulation, and the fiberglass cloth is stitched with stainless steel staples. The blanket is then provided with an outer jacket comprised of a flexible knitted, stainless steel wire mesh to form a stocking containing the insulation blanket. The ends of the stocking are stitched with stainless steel staples.

Abstract: A joint is provided between one tube and another tube without the necessity of a heavy thick-walled metal coupling. The joint includes first and an optional second enlarged portions on a first tube with the second enlarged portion near an end of the second tube. A first shoulder is provided between the first enlarged portion and the main body of the first tube. A second annular shoulder is provided at the junction between the first and second enlarged portions. The end of the second tube slips into the first enlarged portion of the second tube and the second tube is then axially compressed so as to form an annular bead which acts against and is contained by the second enlarged portion of the first tube. This axial compression provides both a mechanical interconnection so that the tubes will not axially separate despite fluid pressure or mechanical force, and also provides a fluid tight seal at the annular bead and the second shoulder or second enlarged portion.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an improved stripping machine for removing insulation from flat cable wherein, the cable has a plurality of conductors positioned in substantially the same plane. The instant machine includes a frame having a pair of arms movably and pivotally mounted on the frame. A grinding wheel is rotatably mounted on each of the arms. One of the grinding wheels has a larger diameter than the other grinding wheel. An adjustment device is connected to the arms for simultaneously positioning the grinding wheels relative to the conductors. The arms with the grinding wheels are movable in a direction transverse to a length of flat cable to remove insulation from the cable. The wheels move in opposite directions at the positions where the wheels engage opposite sides of the cable. Drive rollers are mounted on the frame for pulling the cable along the length of the cable and along the length of the table mounted on the frame.

Abstract: A system for producing electrolyte impregnated capacitor elements comprises a reforming device for reforming the leads of capacitor elements which are brought thereto, a clutch device for clutching the reformed capacitor elements, an aligning device for aligning a predetermined number of the reformed capacitor elements, a holding device holding the aligned capacitor elements, an electrolyte impregnating vessel receiving the aligned capacitor elements to impregnate with the electrolyte, a blow-off device for blowing off the excess amount of electrolyte from the electrolyte impregnating capacitor elements, and transmission devices each operated in a predetermined sequence to transmit the capacitor elements between the above mentioned capacitor element treating devices.

Abstract: A transistor and method of forming the same are disclosed. A thick mesa of dielectric material is grown on a semiconductor substrate and two or more layers of polycrystalline silicon grown on the vertical sides of the mesa serve a masking function to define the gate region of the transistor with high accuracy. The mesa and the two or more polycrystalline layers remain in the final device.

Abstract: A monolithic microwave integrated circuit including an integral array antenna. The system includes radiating elements, feed network, phasing network, active and/or passive semiconductor devices, digital logic interface circuits and a microcomputer controller simultaneously incorporated on a single substrate by means of a controlled fabrication process sequence.

Abstract: A high-voltage CMOS process, providing (for 5 micron geometries) both field thresholds and junction breakdowns in excess of 20 volts, wherein only one channel stop implant is used. A double-well process in an epitaxial structure is used. Phosphorus is preferably used as the dopant for the N-tank, and boron is used for the blanket channel stop implant. The boron tends to leach into oxide, and the phosphorus tends to accumulate at the surface, and a high field threshold is achieved over both PMOS and NMOS regions.

Abstract: A passivated semiconductor pn junction is provided which has a high electric strength, one area being heavily doped and being very thin, in particular for radiation detectors. The pn junction has an edge zone at which a depletion zone (surface channel) is provided underneath the passivation layer.

Abstract: Anode butts are removed from the studs of anode rods by stripping the butts from the studs in a downward direction by hydraulic cylinders, the counter-forces of such action being taken up by the yoke which carries the studs. The stripping forces are thus absorbed inside the device and not transferred to other parts of the structure. The butts are stripped off the studs with only slight crumbling.

Abstract: A three-row, fifty-position D-connector for mass termination of flat multiconductor cable includes contact elements having insulation-piercing end portions in longitudinally singular locations and terminal end portions conforming in position to the industry-dedicated D-pattern. A method for making the connector provides for deriving diverse contact element sets from a common contact element strip configuration.