Abstract: An implement assembly (12) includes an implement (16), such as, for example, a blade (22) of a work vehicle (10), pivotally connected to a frame (14) for supporting said blade (22). The blade (22) and frame (14) are closely positioned to the front of the work vehicle (10) for maximum stability and balance of the vehicle (10). In the implement assembly (12) first apparatus (18) tilts the blade (22) generally vertically. Second apparatus (20), such as, for example, angling cylinders (40,42), moves the blade (22) to preselected angles relative to the vehicle (10). A subframe (50) is pivotally connected to the frame (14) and second apparatus (20). The blade (22) moves along the subframe (50) during tilting and with the subframe (50) to the preselected angles.

Abstract: A single master unit hold circuit which can be utilized for a single or a group of telephone instruments connected to a common telephone line. A single latching circuit is coupled to the telephone line. The establishment of the hold condition may be .[.affected.]. .Iadd.effected .Iaddend.in the off-hook state of the telephone instrument. Each of the telephones of the group has associated signaling capability. Each telephone can generate an actuating signal directly onto the telephone line, which is then detected by the latching circuit, and in response thereto a hold condition is placed on the telephone line. The hold condition is .[.affected.]. .Iadd.effected .Iaddend.via the telephone line, by a momentary actuation of a control circuit common to the hold circuit and the control circuit; the control circuit being a part of the telephone instrument call-out circuit network.

Abstract: An improved process for the production of highly concentrated (N-P.sub.2 O.sub.5) suspension fertilizers effected by the ammoniation of wet-process or other impure orthophosphoric acids in batch-type equipment. The underlying concept which goes to the gist of the instant invention involves the use of a heel of product from a previously prepared batch to provide nuclei and a suitable environment for the conversion of the metallic impurities therein into crystalline habits rather than the usual highly undesirable form of metallic impurity gel-like compounds, which gels cause extremely high viscosities, nonpourability, and complete destruction of fluidity in concentrated ammonium phosphate suspension fertilizers prepared by prior-art procedures.

Abstract: Disclosed is a process for the lamination of metal and propylene polymer layers, comprising extrusion coating the polymer onto the metal, cooling the polymer until it solidifies, postheating the laminate at a temperature above the melting point of the polymer, and quenching the laminate.

Abstract: An adjustable two part belt with locking means comprises elongated belt members which overlap each other and transverse members connected to the ends of the overlapping portions of the belt members and at least partially encircling the corresponding portions of the belt members. At least one of the transverse members includes a clamp means in the form of a metallic strip which encircles at least a portion of the overlapping belt members and which is bendable to clamp the overlapping portions of the belt members against each other to maintain the length adjustment of the belt. The metallic strip means is preferably in a C-shape.

Abstract: The present invention teaches a protective helmet including an improved interior head-support suspension assembly which separates the helmet shell from the head of the user during occurrences of normal and abnormal vertical and lateral forces.

Abstract: An intraocular lens and method of positioning the same in an eye in which the lens includes a layer of material which is soluble in the eye for stiffening the position-fixation members of the lens during insertion thereof into the eye.

Abstract: The risk of surgical injury to the eye during implantation of an intraocular lens is reduced by pre-positioning either all or a major portion of the lens assembly in the anterior chamber of the eye prior to extraction of the cataract.

Abstract: An artificial leg has a ball and socket ankle joint, the socket of which has upper and lower portions. They are connected together and clamped over the ball by a turnbuckle ring. This provides an adjustable shin and foot connection which permits use of a rubber-encased ball of sufficient size, without taking up too much shape within the ankle region. Also disclosed is a movable patella member and a vertically jointed two part foam covering.

Abstract: A Roman tub fixture assembly for mounting a spout to the exposed spout side of a wall or deck having an exposed spout side and an opposite facing hidden side includes a receiver body which is adapted to couple to one or more water pipes located on the hidden side of the wall or deck. A flanged nut is threadably received over the body in order to mount the body within an opening in walls or decks of different thicknesses. A spout hub having a shank portion and a shoulder portion is threadably received along the shank portion within a passageway in the receiver body. The shank portion includes two cylindrically shaped sections which have different diameters, the larger diameter section having external threads and the smaller diameter section having sealing means in order to seal the space between the body and the hub at a location upstream from the threaded portion of the body passageway.

Abstract: The invention has for its object to construct a discharge pit in a manner such that the height of incorporation is adjustable, whereas the effective height of the water trap remains unvaried under any condition so that the dimensions can always be adapted in the factory to the standards imposed by the authorities.In order to achieve the above-mentioned object the invention provides a discharge pit with a water trap comprising a housing that can be fastened to the discharge tube, an annular pot vertically displaceable therein and having a perforated lid adapted to be mounted in the plane of the floor and having a tube stub extending vertically in the pot and having a predetermined height to form the water trap, said pot being vertically slidable in sealing relationship in said housing or around a tube end connected with the discharge tube.

Abstract: A system is described for connecting a bottle to a shower dispenser, which enables connection with only a small angle of turning, which latches the bottle in position while permitting detachment, and which avoids leakage of material during dispensing. The bottle, or container, has a cam on its neck, and the shower dispenser receiver into which the container can be screwed has a slot forming a detent that is deflected by the cam as the container is turned, to resist unscrewing of the container. The bottom of the slot that forms the detent, also forms a stop that prevents further screwing in of the container. The receiver has an internal cylindrical projection that is closely received within the container neck, and which substantially abuts an internal flange within the container, to minimize leakage of liquid during dispensing.

Abstract: An adjustable bed having a frame in which a movable board and a stationary board are arranged in a planar relationship and the movable board is movable out of the plane of the stationary board by a motor wherein a switch included in a circuit for controlling the motor is turned off by a detector when a portion of a human body is caught between the frame and the movable board during lowering thereof, thereby preventing injury to the body.

Abstract: Cushion covers of upholstered sofas and chairs and the like are rendered smolder-resistant by a process for the manufacture of the cushion covers in which the upholstery fabric is lined with a smolder-resistant material to completely surround the two welt cords and underlie the boxed, border or vertical, area of the cushion cover.

Abstract: A configuration and method for reducing the flammability of bodies of organic materials that thermally decompose to give flammable gases is disclosed to comprise covering the body with a flexible matrix that catalytically cracks the flammable gases to less flammable species. Optionally the matrix is covered with a gas impermeable outer layer. In a preferred embodiment, the invention takes the form of an aircraft seat in which the body is a poly(urethane) seat cushion, the matrix is an aramid fabric or felt and the outer layer is an aluminum film.

Abstract: A mattress construction is disclosed herein which includes a base comprising a spring unit and a padding mounted thereto, a sheet material received over the padding and secured by means of a flange material to the spring unit and retaining the padding thereon. A sheet of padding material is glued onto the sheet material and a cover is glued over the sheet of padding material and secured to the sheet material.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for applying a pattern to a continuously advancing web with a foam containing treatment medium. The pattern may be generated in the foam prior to or after the foam is transferred to the web. In one embodiment, the pattern is generated using two foam feeding devices arranged to form a patterned layer on a revolving element positioned over the web. The forward velocity of the web and the speed of rotation of the revolving element are controlled to obtain the desired pattern effect on the web.

Abstract: A bumper assembly for a swimming pool cleaning device has an elongate carrier element on which are rotatably mounted a plurality of bumper elements.

Abstract: An automatic bowling lane dressing applicator and buffer comprising a machine to which are mounted suspended pivotally mounted blade buffers having resilient buffing pads mounted on the periphery of the blades, which buff dressing placed on the lane surface in front of the buffer onto the lane surface, transferring excess dressing into the ball contact area of the lane as the machine is run backward and forward along the lane.

Abstract: A pair of complementary right and left-handed toothbrushes in which each brush has a handle, a brush head formed integrally with the handle portion, a first bend in such handle, formed in a transverse plane, so that the head is angled outwardly with respect to the handle, an axial twist in the handle between the bend and the head so that the head is rotated to lie in a plane displaced angularly outward, and a second bend in the handle between the twist and the head, lying in a plane transversely of the head. The said first bend, axial twist and second bend spatially orientate the brush head into the desired position relative to the handle.

Abstract: Disclosed is a wiping device having a support member which is mounted for oscillating about an axis. A blind passage is formed in the support member in a direction transverse to the axis. A wiper arm supporting at its free end a wiper blade holder, is inserted at its other end into the elongated passage of the support member so as to be rotatable about its axis and to be displaceable in axial direction. A spring-biassed locking member, for example in the form of a pyramidal plug is attached to the end of the wiper arm in a passage and is urged into a matching recess to hold the wiper arm in a working position or when the wiper arm in the plug is displaced from the locking socket to permit the rotation of the wiper blade holder about the axis of the wiper arm.

Abstract: A mounting device for connecting a lid covering a dust collecting space in a vacuum cleaner to the housing of the vacuum cleaner, which includes two spaced pivotable arms each connected to the lid and supported on an axle slidably positioned in an oblong opening formed in the housing.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a vacuum cleaner in which an alarm sound is generated by introducing air from the exterior in bypassing relation to a filter 8 when a suction load imposed on a fan motor 3 exceeds a predetermined value. The alarm sound can be emitted or stopped without adversely affecting the introduction of bypassing air toward the fan motor 3. With such an arrangement, the vacuum cleaner can be used conveniently, and the fan motor 3 is prevented from being burned out.

Abstract: A vacuum cleaner is provided which includes an easily removable recovery tank mounted on a support structure and having a cover on the tank forming a vacuum chamber in the tank, the cover being hinged to the support structure by a hollow hinge. A vacuum fan is mounted on the support structure and draws air from the vacuum chamber through the cover and through the hollow hinge.

Abstract: A hinge lock mechanism (a joint fastener) for lockingly joining at least two panels together at any angle comprising two arms. One of the arms has threads thereon and screws into a floating nut that is located in one of the panels and the other arm has a conical V shaped depression thereon that communicates with a clamping device that has a set screw thereon that is urged against the conical V shaped surface of the arm for tightening the panels together. This hinge lock mechanism forms a continuous edge at the junction of the two panels and cannot be seen from the desired side of the panels.

Abstract: An improved hand operated meat tenderizer is disclosed which is easier to use and to keep clean than those of the prior art.

Abstract: An apparatus for separating sausage links is disclosed. The apparatus has a series of pairs of cutting arms mounted on a circular plate. The arms are moved into contact with the sausage links. As a pair of cutting arms contact the sausage links from opposite sides, they force the links away from the point of contact. There is a cutting element at the end of each arm which cuts the casing between the links when the arms overlap.

Abstract: A device for positioning of fish into their correct position for decapitating is disclosed. This device is applicable in fish-processing machines in which the fish lying transverse to their longitudinal extension in receiving troughs of a chain of troughs are fed to a decapitating tool. To this end, a shifting device comprises a shifting element engaging the snout of the fish and being activated and positioned dependent on the detection of the thickness of the fish in the region of its head. A feeler is coupled to a position sensor which emits measuring signals dependent on the position via a control circuit to control a stepping motor which drives the shifting element.

Abstract: A cotton gin bar including a roller assembly comprising a pair of discs rotatably arranged on the upper portion of the bar at the ginning point, the discs being operative on opposing sides of the bar for detaching lint from the seed. Each roller disc is provided with an annular rib and the gin bar is provided with an annular groove in which the rib is received, thereby defining a rotatable seal. The rotatable seal restricts the passage of small particles such as grit and lint which interfere with operation of the annular bearing on which the roller disc is mounted.

Abstract: The can changing apparatus operates so that the full can and empty can are arranged to move in guide paths which are at a right angle to each other. A simultaneous exchange of the cans takes place with one can being shifted at a constant speed while the other can moves with a speed characteristic which corresponds to a tangent function. The support members on which the arms for pushing the cans are mounted are connected, for example by a rigid curve rod, a resiliently bendable rod, or a linked arm such that one support member moves the other.

Abstract: A clamping device includes three clamping jaws guided at an angle in a hong for engaging an axially displaceable load-bearing rod. Reliable clamping is obtained without alteration of the setting position reached. This is achieved by providing a servo-piston in the housing, which piston is displaceable in both directions by servo-force and is directly connected to the clamping jaws. The frictional force between the rod and the bearing faces of the clamping jaws as well as between the guide faces of the clamping jaws and their associated guide tracks in the housing, as well as the angle of inclination of the guide tracks are such that, in operation, self-locking occurs. The clamping action of the clamping jaws may be released only by moving the servo piston.

Abstract: A releasable compression fastener, such as a clip for use on a garter belt, suspenders, or the like, The fastener has a pair of jaws comprising a base plate designed to be connected to a material, such as a suspender strap, and a flexible clamping plate. An actuating means is attached to the base plate, the latter being adapted to releasably flex the clamping plate against the base plate to close the jaws and clamp a layer of flexible fabric therebetween. The invention involves the use of cooperating, integrating jaws comprising male and female members of specific structure on the base plate and clamping plate to provide integrating locking means for the flexible material clamped therebetween.

Abstract: A high speed fabric napping apparatus is provided in which the fabric is fed in a straight line overpairs of worker rolls, one of each pair rotating in the direction of the pile of the fabric and the other rotating counter to the pile direction. The speed of each of the worker rolls is individually adjustable to control the tension applied to the cloth. A single cleaning roll is adapted to move back and forth amongst a plurality of worker rolls for removing lint collected by the worker rolls.

Abstract: A coffin for properly displaying and transporting a corpse is combined with features of a burial vault or crypt so that only the single unit is needed to inter the corpse. The coffin-vault combination, although inexpensively thin walled, is constructed in such a manner, with particular reinforcing and interlocking means, that numerous units may be stacked, one above another, above or below ground. When above ground they may constitute modules for constructing a mausoleum. Each unit has valves which may be connected to conduits and fluid and gas control units for the single unit, or a column, or columns of units constituting an entire mausoleum.

Abstract: A massaging applicator includes a plurality of stumps 5a, 5b of smaller and large cross-section, respectively. The thinner stumps 5a which bend more easily alternate regularly with the thicker stumps so that two of the thicker stumps are followed by two of the thinner stumps when considered along the obvious direction of massaging, in this case perpendicular to the axis of a handle 3. The stumps may be cylindrical or conical and may be arranged in straight rows or in concentric circles.

Abstract: A velvet-type or snap-together fastener web comprises a warp-knitted ground structure and series of interlooped loops disposed in at least every other wale, each loop including a pair of mushroomed stems projecting from the wale at each course. To produce such a fastener web, a double-faced fabric is knitted on a Raschel warp knitting machine, and is separated into a plurality of strips by dissolving transversely spaced water-soluble threads in the fabric. Each strip is divided into front and back fabric webs by severing thermoplastic thread portions therebetween, leaving a multiplicity of raised stems on each fabric web. The raised fabrc stems are then heated to mushroom their ends.

Abstract: The manufacture of piston rings for internal combustion engines comprises making a ring blank of which the diameter over the outer periphery is greater, and the diameter within the inner periphery is less than that required in the finished ring. A gap is cut in the ring blank to afford two free ends and the ring blank is held in a closed position by the application of a force only to each of the free ends of the ring blank. One or more ring blanks are then clamped in a closed position and machined so that the inner and outer peripheries are circular. This enables a ring to be produced which conforms very closely to a required shape and which thus, in use, provides a good seal between a piston and the associated cylinder of an internal combustion engine.

Abstract: A rotary indexing table having a generally circular top plate rotatably secured to a fixed base structure is disclosed. An outer race annular ring is connected to the top of the fixed base structure and extends radially over a central bore formed in the top face of the fixed based structure. A first ring of teeth is formed on the circular top plate. A second ring of teeth is formed on the outer race annular ring. Both the first and second rings of teeth face toward the central bore in the fixed base structure. A piston is slidably mounted in the central bore. The piston has a third ring of teeth aligned with the first ring of teeth and a fourth ring of teeth aligned with the second ring of teeth. A method of forming the third and fourth rings of teeth on the piston is also disclosed. The method includes mounting a sine block on a work table. Then fastening a rotary indexing table on the top of the sine block. Next, securing the piston to the top of the rotary indexing table.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to a universal joint puller for disassembling a universal joint including its cross, bearing cups and bearings from drive shaft and/or transmission shaft yokes, the puller including a pair of members at least one of which is mounted for sliding movement relative to a pair of rods, the rods having threaded terminal ends for mounting the puller to threaded bores of associated yokes, a screw for forcing the members away from each other during a disassembly operation, a pair of flexible cables adapted to be entrained about the arms of the universal joint cross, and the ends of each of the cables being connected to the movable member such that upon the rotation of the screw in a direction to separate the members from each other, the force generated by the rotation of the screw is transferred to the cables and the arms of the cross to effect the removal of the bearing cup and its associated bearings, the threaded ends of the rod are preferably removably secured to remaining portions of the r

Abstract: A plurality of boring cutters and honing stones are coaxially arranged on a machining head. A bar member is reciprocatingly inserted and splined within a rotary hollow spindle. Both the end opening surface of the spindle and the end of the bar member are taper-engaged with each other so that the bar member may be disengaged and moved forwardly with respect to the spindle. The machining head is coupled with the end surface of the bar member. When the spindle is taper-engaged with the bar member, a workpiece is bored. When the bar member is moved forwardly to release the taper engagement, the workpiece is honed by reciprocating the bar member and the machining head. Thus, the honing operation can be performed with a rigid structure, and both boring and honing operations can be effected by the same machining head.

Abstract: Method of fabricating a monolithic integrated circuit structure incorporating complementary metal-oxide-silicon field effect transistors (CMOS FET's) including providing a body of silicon produced by conventional techniques having a sector of N-type and a sector of P-type each covered by a thin silicon oxide layer and a thin silicon nitride layer. The regions of the body adjacent to each of the sectors are covered by a thicker silicon oxide field layer. Portions of the thin nitride and oxide layers are removed to expose spaced apart zones in each of the sectors. Adherent contact members of low resistivity polycrystalline silicon of N and P-type conductivity are formed in contact with the exposed surfaces of the zone in the P and N-type sectors, respectively. Where N and P-type contact members are contiguous a rectifying junction is produced. The surfaces of the polycrystalline contact members are metallized with a highly conductive material, thereby shorting out the rectifying junctions.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device of a type in which a semiconductor element is formed on an insulating substrate. After ions which break the regularity of the crystal lattice of a monocrystalline semiconductor layer formed on the insulating substrate are implanted to form an amorphous semiconductor layer in part of the monocrystalline semiconductor layer, and after an impurity is doped in the semiconductor layer, a single annealing process is performed to recrystallize the amorphous semiconductor layer and at the same time to activate the doped impurity.

Abstract: A method for making mask aligned narrow isolation grooves for a semiconductor device in which an insulating layer is filled in a groove of the semiconductor substrate to form an island region surrounded by the insulating layer, which comprises the steps of forming a mask pattern on a major surface of the semiconductor substrate in such a manner that its side wall is at a taper angle of 90.degree. or less with respect to a major surface of the semiconductor substrate; ion-implanting an impurity of a conductivity type opposite to that of the semiconductor substrate into the semiconductor substrate using the mask pattern; causing a groove for the insulating material to be formed in the semiconductor substrate around the side wall of the mask pattern; filling the groove with insulating material to form a narrow insulating layer; and diffusing the implanted impurity to form an isolation region surrounded by the insulating material.

Abstract: An apparatus in a form of a tool are disclosed to pre-form bezel wire, which is used for gem stone settings or the like. The tool utilized herein is comprised of a metal block through which is formed an opening for drawing a soft metal wire against a cutting tool positioned orthogonally to the opening. The opening is characterized by larger openings at entrance and exit locations of the opening for ease in fabricating the groove. Collar means are also provided to adapt the opening to different gauge wires.

Abstract: A holder for holding down steadily a crab shell, and a cutter for cutting the shell meanwhile, the holder being toothed so as to grip the shell, and the cutter having a toothed blade for cutting therethrough.

Abstract: In improved cable cutter for undersea use is presented which has a self-cained, pressure compensated hydraulic system which allows it to operate in the deep ocean. The cable cutter is designed to operate from and mate with manipulators of Navy deep submergence vehicles. The concept of this cable cutter is a closed hydraulic system which provides driving force on a piston pushing a cutting blade against an anvil. The hydraulic power is provided by an internal gear pump. The gear pump has a drive shaft which mates with the rotary output of a deep submergence vehicle manipulator. The hydraulic fluid reservoir also serves as a pressure compensator for working in the deep ocean. The hydraulic fluid system comprises a main cylinder which contains the drive piston and a secondary cylinder which consists of a flexible tube that allows fluid pressure equalization with the environment as well as volume compensation. Both cylinders are mounted between manifold components.

Abstract: First and second blade members have pivot bosses through which the blade members are pivotably connected for rotation about an axis perpendicular to the pivot bosses. The blade members have cutting surfaces offset with respect to the pivot bosses to permit previously cut material to pass the blade members without interference. The cutting surfaces are rotatable between an open position and a closed position for cutting the sheet material therebetween. The pivot bosses and the cutting surfaces are adapted for removal of material therefrom to permit resharpening of the offset snips while maintaining the offset of the cutting surfaces. One of the blade members may include a recess to permit cutting of both left-hand and right-hand curves. Integral wire cutting means, integral locking means, and an improved handle configuration are also provided.

Abstract: A coupling for the handle shaft of a flailing line type trimmer which permits angular adjustment of a drive head. The coupling clamps two parts of the handle shaft together. The coupling prevents rotation of one part and permits the selectible rotation of the other. It is preferably formed as a split clamp joining and securely holding the parts in abutment. A pin on the split clamp engages a recess in the end of one handle shaft part to prevent its rotation while a lip on the split clamp engages a circumferential groove in the other handle shaft part to enable it to rotate. A releasable fastener permits loosening of the clamp to allow rotational adjustment of the parts, and their retention at a selected orientation.

Abstract: An attachment is provided for allowing a chain saw sharpener to be used for filing the depth gauge portions of the cutting links on the saw chain. The sharpener is of the type comprising a sharpener body in the form of an inverted U-shaped channel-defining member adapted to be placed over the bar of a chain saw, and a rotary burr with an abradant end portion which is receivable in a selected one of two horizontal guide bores provided in the sharpener body. The depth gauge attachment comprises an elongated gauge bar and means for removably affixing the gauge bar within the upper portion of the sharpener body channel so that the gauge bar occupies only a portion of the channel length.

Abstract: A device for monitoring the movement (advance or velocity) of an electrode wire comprising a measuring roller against which the wire is urged by a pressing roller flanked by a pair of grooves in a housing. The wire is captured in these guide grooves by a jaw carried by a lever swung in the housing, thereby greatly simplifying the opening and closing movements of the device.