Abstract: Cooperative supports for fishing rods and the like wherein upwardly open U-shaped and V-shaped members are individually swiveled on vertically mounted axes, the U-shaped member being resilient with detents of varied size for the reception of a range of rod diameters at one end thereof, and the V-shaped member being rigid and with a rack and pinion manually operable and held by detent action to engage and snub a range of rod diameters at the other end thereof, the two dissimilar supports releasably securing the handle at said one end and the tip portion at said other end of the rod for its safe storage.

Abstract: Multi-rod holder and alignment device which is removably-securable in non-rotating position within a conventional rod holder mounted on a boat. The device has a support stem having two or more lower alignment slots, and two or more upper rod-holder tubes which extend substantially vertically, relative to the support stem, each tube being designed to receive a fishing rod handle and having alignment pins for securing the fishing rod against rotation therewithin.

Abstract: A reel mount assembly of cylindrical structure includes a cylindrical body having a stationary sleeve mounted on one end and a slidable sleeve mounted on the other end having a male thread over a certain range, and a threaded annular member adapted to mate with the male thread. The slidable sleeve is engaged with the threaded annular member in such a manner that they are rotatable with each other. At the engagement position the annular member is fitted over the slidable sleeve, and vice versa. The outer member has a rigidity sufficient to prevent its expansion, and the inner member is contractive inwardly due to its resiliency.

Abstract: An insect capturing device of substantially hollow construction comprises a generally rectangular bottom panel, a generally rectangular top panel, four side panels extending between the top and bottom panels, four generally triangular entrance ways formed at the intersections of adjacent side panels and the bottom panel, and four internal baffles each of which is disposed within the device and each of which partially obstructs an associated one of the entrance ways.

Abstract: An insect feeding station having a base portion with inner walls spaced from outer walls to form a poision compartment, offset openings in said walls, offset opening means in the floor of said base, and, optionally, transparent means in the cover to view said poison compartment. Thus the insect feeding station may be entered from the sides or the bottom and is useful for earth insects. When at least a part of the cover is transparent, the poison compartment may have a contrasting and luminous color under the poison to make removal of poison easily detectable.

Abstract: A hand held self-contained vacuum which is equipped with interchangeable detachable combs. Within the handle of the Aspirator is a disposable paper container for the entrapment and disposal of fleas. The Aspirator being attached to a small portable electric motor by a six-foot-long plastic hose. The motor being powered by plugging into any household electrical power outlet. The Aspirator is worked across the coat of a dog or cat, with or without the combs attached, and suctions fleas into the paper container inside the handle of the Aspirator. The fleas trapped inside can then be removed and disposed of through a small trap door on the top of the aspirator handle.

Abstract: An ignitable kindling material and cooking fuel which is dry to the touch, non-tacky and essentially odor free is provided by impregnating a combustible cellulosic matrix, such as a wood fiber insulating board, with a liquid impregnant made up of specified proportions of a paraffin wax, a motor oil, a mineral oil and animal fat.

Abstract: A toy stacker assembly for pre-school children which inspires players to improve their skills in regard to size and color discrimination, hand-eye coordination and in other respects vital to proper childhood development. The toy is constituted by a multiple post ring stacker operating in conjunction with a series of cards each displaying a different pattern of rings of various colors and sizes stacked on the posts. The player is required to replicate the pattern of the selected card on display, the cards in the series presenting progressively more difficult patterns.

Abstract: A toy vehicle having a motor drive mechanism with a control arm actuable from a first position to a second position for changing the speed thereof, the vehicle having a pivotable linkage arm with a cam follower coacting with a cam movable in response to vehicle travel for pivoting a trigger foot against the control arm for moving it from the first position to the second position.

Abstract: A reversing mechanism for a toy motor driven wheeled vehicle having a driven axle with attached wheels supported on a chassis. The axle is supported on the chassis so that it is shiftable laterally relative to the chassis. The reversing mechanism includes an apparatus to shift the driven axle laterally relative to the chassis between forward and reverse driving positions upon engagement of the front or rear of the vehicle with the firm obstructing object. A pair of spur gears are positioned on the driven axle and are spaced in generally fixed relation to each other with each gear freely rotatable on the driven shaft. The shaft is freely slidable through the gears. A clutch member is affixed to the driven axle for rotation therewith and is positioned between the spur gears. The clutch member has rotationally opposite effective one-way clutch teeth on the sides thereof facing the spur gears.

Abstract: A wiper bar system, transversing a tractor's path, comprises a fluid housing with open fluid channel therein, a wiper blade and a moisture absorbent wick surrounding the wiper blade. The fluid housing is mounted to the rear face of the wiper blade with a portion of the wick interposed therebetween. The spatial relationship between the fluid housing and wiper blade is adjustable by the user to control the amount of fluid/herbicide flowing from the fluid channel to the interposed wick and ultimately the amount of fluid/herbicide delivered to the portion of the wick surrounding the weed-contacting surface of the wiper blade.

Abstract: A window assembly for controlling light and ventilation and preventing undesired passage through the window opening has spaced horizontal fixed slats, spaced horizontal movable slats which may be moved vertically to partially or wholly close the spaces between the fixed slats, and vertically spaced tool steel bars extending across the window opening and anchored at their ends in the building structure in which the window assembly is mounted.

Abstract: A door and frame molded of glass wool and a binder and having polyester resin impregnated into outer surface portions.

Abstract: A grinding machine for releasable attachment to reel type mower units for the sharpening of the cutting components thereof. This grinding machine has a base which rests upon the ground with extensions therefrom for releasable attachment to the mower unit. A grinding head supported on the extreme end of arms is positionable in a sufficient number of directions such that a grinding wheel thereof may be brought into contact with the edge of the cutting elements whereupon the rotation of the grinding wheel brings about the sharpening of those cutting units. The grinding head components are mounted upon a carriage which is moved along the base in a direction parallel to the axle of the mower unit whereby the continuous length of each of the cutter elements may be sharpened. Further attachments are provided whereby the grinding machine may also be used to sharpen the bed knife of the mower unit.

Abstract: A machine for superfinishing annular workpieces such as bearings, including a mechanism for rotating the annular workpiece about a first axis of rotation, a holder for retaining in fixed relative positions a plurality of holding stones, and a mechanism for moving the holder to selectively bring any one of the honing stones into contact with the outer surface of the annular workpiece being superfinished.

Abstract: Grinding machine for pins of heavy crankshafts on which the crankshaft is eccentrically mounted in a rotatable clamping arrangement on both sides, where the crankshaft pin to be ground is located in the rotational center of the clamping arrangement and on which the pin can be ground with a grinding head of a cylindrical grinder, with at least one relief arrangement for the crankshaft to supply an eccentrically rotating main bearing with constant, vertically applied force counteracting the dead weight of the crankshaft. The relief arrangement exhibits at least one relief bow for mounting of the main bearing to be supported whose suspension point essentially rotates in a location vertically above the main bearing and synchronously with equal eccentricity as the main bearing.

Abstract: A surface grinding machine capable of being computer operated and having a multi-function capability for performing conventional slot and surface, plunge, side wheel, creep feed and short stroke grinding in any desired combination or sequence. A table containing a workpiece is driven by a highly tensioned, circulating primary belt drive system capable of providing a desired grind with a desired length and speed upon command. The base is formed as a unitary body, and the table travels on ways which are formed integrally with the base. The column containing the grinding wheel assembly moves with respect to the workpiece along cross ways transverse to the table ways which are supported along their length by the base. The column drive is coupled to the column by a mechanically and thermally isolated ball screw nut mount which eliminates screw nut shoulder weave and reduces thermal conduction into the column.

Abstract: A grinding and polishing apparatus wherein an air grinder is incorporated in the tool attaching spindle of a machining center main body in exactly the same manner as in the other exchange tools so that grinding and polishing operations can be performed. The tool attaching spindle is centrally formed with a tool mounting bore and a compressed air feed passage. The air grinder is attached to the tool mounting bore and driven by fluid being fed from the compressed air feed passage. The apparatus further includes air feed control means, whereby supply of fluid to the compressed air feed passage is started after the base portion of the air grinder is mounted in the tool mounting bore and supply of fluid is stopped immediately before the air grinder is removed from the tool mounting bore.

Abstract: A fluted twist drill point splitting/web thinning apparatus is disclosed which permits simple point splitting/web thinning of conventional sharpened twist drills. The apparatus is uniquely designed such that either of the two operations, that is point splitting or web thinning, can be simply and accurately carried out with the same assembly. The apparatus also includes the provisions of a grinding wheel dressing diamond mounted on a forward face of the apparatus.

Abstract: A joint for connecting together two or three framework members is disclosed. In one form there are two framework members which intersect. Inside one of the members there are two arms which protrude from one end of that member. The protruding portion of each arm has a groove therein and a tooth beyond the groove. The grooves and teeth face away from one another. The other member has an internal cavity with a slot-like entrance to the cavity bounded by lips. When the protruding ends of the arms are close to one another, the arms can be inserted through the slot-like entrance so that the lips enter the grooves and the teeth hook behind the lips. A screw passes through one of the arms and this can be tightened to that it bears on the other of the arms to force them apart and into engagement with the lips.

Abstract: Prefabricated elements for a quick assembling of buildings and building works in general. Said elements are realized in the form of plinths, beams, rooms, staircases, roofs, floors and panels provided with a base by means of which said panel result to be independent for what concerns the stability, all of said elements being provided with a particular shape and with particular means so as to allow the assembling for the construction of a building of one or more floors, whereby the stability of said building is guaranteed, according to the different cases, by the own weight of the elements and/or by reinforcing means realized during the assembly.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for making false ceilings comprising a series of parallel strips of fabric of reduced width, reinforced transversely, tensioned longitudinally and oriented vertically in a mean horizontal plane located at an appropriate height below the ceiling of the construction, wherein each strip is tensioned individually and independently of those strips which surround it. The invention also relates to the false ceiling made by carrying out said process.

Abstract: A flexible flashing device for vertically stacked, building siding panels having a resiliantly deformable spacing means for accommodating the structural expansion and contraction of the underlying framework of a building. The flexible flashing device incorporates a waterproof flashing member for preventing the intrusion of water into abutting ends of vertically stacked, building siding panels. Additionally, a method of preventing contraction buckling of vertically stacked, building siding panels caused by improper installation is provided whereby the flexible flashing device is inserted between the abutting ends of two vertically stacked panels.

Abstract: Fire screening glazing panels comprise at least one layer 2, 6 of intumescent material such as hydrated sodium silicate sandwiched between flat vitreous sheets 1, 3, 7.To promote fire resistance in a simple and economical way, at least one (and preferably only one) vitreous sheet 1 has a thickness of 6 mm or more, preferably from 7 to 10 mm. The or each other vitreous sheet 3, 7 has a preferred thickness range of 2.5 to 4 mm. The thicker sheet 1 is best located in the interior of a panel with three or more vitreous sheets and it or any other vitreous sheet may be made of boro-silicate or other low expansion or high softening point vitreous material.

Abstract: An alignment device for vertically aligning adjacent wall panels is adapted to be mounted in the lower corner of a wall panel to engage an identical alignment device and in an adjacent wall panel. The alignment device includes a central, vertical mounting column and a pair of horizontal, spaced and vertically offset alignment ledges extending in front of the lower portion of the mounting column. A horizontal wall panel rear support ledge extends to the rear of the lower portion of the mounting column. The alignment device provides positive vertical alignment with respect to two adjacent wall panels whether such panels are horizontally aligned or positioned angularly with respect to each other about a vertical axis.

Abstract: An insulating window structure has an inner glass pane spaced from an outer glass pane by a spacer frame extending around the panes so that the panes define between them, within the frame, a gas-filled space. According to the invention, at least one of the panes is anchored to the frame by a resilient connecting unit having a spring characteristic (restoring force plotted along the ordinate versus displacement plotted along the abscissa) which has a substantially horizontal portion at the center of this characteristic and at which the working point of the resilient unit is provided.

Abstract: Modular building elements which form when assembled a network of conglomerate or reinforced concrete as a bearing structure which is also anti-seismic.The modular elements are to be used for constructing flat or flat and/or vaulted brickwork, with or without air spaces. Each type of element is completed by a polyvalent modular element to be used as a single accessory for any corner, meeting point, cross wall attachment, etc. All the modular elements are equipped with groove devices suited to their particular characteristics to ensure that the assembled structure seals in conglomerate in each point, uninterrupted throughout the entire brickwork. The conglomerate network formed by the combination of all the molding characteristic of the modules is made up of vertical and horizontal seams designed to replace the pillars and beams of a reinforced concrete framework. This is anchored to the modular elements, at the same time attaching them to one another.

Abstract: A suspension ceiling grid having removable grid members is disclosed. Such grid is of the basketweave type and includes a plurality of grid assemblies interconnected to form a grid. Each assembly is provided with a similar first or male connection at its ends and second or female connections at its center. In the grid, the assemblies are interconnected so that the male connections of adjacent grids meet with and connect with the female connections at the center of the assemblies to provide a basketweave type system. Each grid assembly includes two similar grid members each having a first connection at one end and one-half of a second connection at its other end. In the assembly, a removable clip provides a semipermanent connection between adjacent ends of the two members and the two halves of the second connections cooperate to provide one full second connection. Individual grid members may be removed from an existing grid and replaced without creating the situation in which the grid is unstable.

Abstract: A plurality of V-shaped metal web members serve to interconnect two elongated wooden members for forming a truss or joist assembly. The two elongated wooden members are arranged so as to extend parallel to each other with a spacing therebetween. The metal web members are placed in the spacing between the wooden members and have their extremities connected to the wooden members. Each of the metal web members has connector nail plates located both at its apex and at each of its extremities. Struck out from each connector plate are a plurality of pairs of teeth with each pair of teeth leaving a corresponding slot between them. All of the teeth extend from the same face of the metal web member. Each of the connector plates at the two extremities is connected to the apex connector plate by a leg member. Each of the legs has at least one groove which extends from the same side of the metal web member as the teeth.

Abstract: Shim elements or spacers designed for use in side-by-side relation between structural steel beams and hanger assemblies which are united by means of pairs of variably-spaced bolts. Each shim element comprises a flat, U-shaped rectangular plate element having leg extensions of different widths and lengths and a central recess adapted to receive a structural bolt. The invention involves providing a universal shim element which is useful in pairs in any one of three different distances by which structural steel-uniting bolts are conventionally separated.

Abstract: By providing a fully equipped, prefabricated, self-contained building, completely constructed with all exterior and interior walls and roof, but having no floor, floor members or floor-supporting members, a unique, prefabricated, preconstructed, self-contained building is achieved, ready for installation on a floor forming foundation to complete the building construction. In the preferred embodiment, the prefabricated, preconstructed building incorporates an interlocking tenon and mortise construction at each interconnecting corner of intersecting wall members.

Abstract: The invention relates to a limited torque applicating mechanism for applying caps to the threaded necks of containers. Torque is transmitted to a conventional cap applicating head from a rotating power shaft by positioning a ring of permanent magnets on either the driven or driving element and disposing a ring of high magnetic permeability material concentrically adjacent on the other of the driven or driving elements so that the torque transmitted between the driving and driven elements is limited by the magnetic attraction between the ring of permanent magnets and the ring of high permeability magnetic material. The apparatus further incorporates a mechanism for adjusting the relative axial position of the ring of permanent magnets with respect to the ring of high magnetic permeability material to permit selective adjustment of the amount of torque transmitted.

Abstract: An accordian fold molded packaging tray is disclosed having article engaging surfaces thereon which change orientation relative to articles stored in the tray such that when articles are placed in the tray such surfaces help to channel the stored articles into position within the tray and then the surfaces are rotated into engagement or proximity to such stored articles to hold the articles during subsequent shipment and storage. This change in orientation of the article engaging surfaces is accomplished by reduction of the overall dimension of the tray which causes the article engaging surfaces to rotate about fold lines formed in the tray.

Abstract: A loading and indexing mechanism for loading articles into successive compartments in a circular tray is shown. It is particularly adapted for use with slide transparencies and their circular trays. The mechanism uses a pawl and gear arrangement to catch and hold successive compartments of a tray in registration with the insertion station. Cams are used to cause turning of the axle on which the tray is mounted and engagement and disengagement of the pawl and gear in coordination with each insertion operation.

Abstract: Apparatus for providing cylindrical paper rolls with envelopes consisting of inner discs which are adjacent to the end faces of the rolls, of blanks which are draped around the peripheries of the rolls and whose marginal portions are folded over the inner discs, and of outer discs which are pasted over the folded marginal portions of the blanks has a feeding unit which delivers successive rolls axially to a monitoring station where the dimensions of the rolls are ascertained by sensors and where the recesses in the end faces of the rolls receive expandible clamping heads of a lifting device serving to advance the rolls, in horizontal positions, past a draping and thereupon past a blank-folding station. The heads are movable toward each other in response to signals from the sensors to enter the recesses of a roll at the monitoring station, and such heads deliver successive rolls to an intermediate conveyor which, in turn, delivers successive rolls to an orientation changing device.

Abstract: An apparatus for producing tubular-pouch packages with heat-sealed transverse seams. In order that the bottom seam will harden rapidly following the securing process, a cooling medium is blown onto it by a nozzle. The nozzle is disposed in the tubular body from which tubular-pouch packages are made and is directed at the pressing plane of the transverse-seam welding apparatus.

Abstract: An annular or closed loop rotatable frame or `flyer` (1), such as is used in a stranding machine of type, in which two or more wires, fibres or strands are stranded to a cable, e.g. intended for telecommunication, the flyer being arranged to rotate around one or more bobbins (10, 11). The frame (1) is journalled in two diametrically opposite points (8, 22) and is prestressed at these two journal points in a direction perpendicular to the centrifugal force produced by the rotation. In this way a bending moment in the opposite direction is produced making it possible to increase the speed of rotation of the flyer.

Abstract: According to the method of the invention, the broken end of yarn and the end of the fibrous strand are caused to move simultaneously opposite to one another and, after the ends of yarn and the fibrous strand are brought close together, they are caused to deviate from the path of their initial movement and to run at a distance from one another in such a manner that during the untwisting of the end of yarn it engages the end of the fibrous strand to form a knot. In an apparatus for carrying out the method for piecing the end of yarn to the end of the fibrous strand, there is provided a device for gripping and transferring the end of yarn to the pulling device, which is formed by a pipe having an outlet pipe connected to a source of reduced air pressure.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for supplying vacuum to a serving device which travels along a multi-station parent textile machine such as a spinning frame and providing a servicing operation such as yarn piecing or package doffing to the stations of the parent machine are disclosed, wherein a vacuum duct, which has vacuum outlet openings corresponding to the individual stations of the machine and lids rotatably supported for closing the vacuum outlet openings, is arranged along the parent machine and the servicing device includes a nozzle which takes in vacuum from the duct. The nozzle is advanced toward the vacuum duct just before the servicing device reaches a station which calls for the servicing, and the end of the nozzle rotates the lid to uncover its vacuum outlet opening and then is stopped in alignment with the opening. Then, the nozzle is moved with the servicing device to rotate the lid thereby closing the outlet opening, whereafter it is retracted to its original position.

Abstract: A false-twist apparatus has three parallel shafts carrying interleaved sets of friction disks interconnected by drive belts for joint rotation; one of these shafts is journaled in a stationary mounting plate while the others are journaled in a carrier pivotally connected with that plate for swinging about a fulcrum offset from the three shaft axes whereby two of the disk sets can be separated to facilitate the introduction of a yarn into the intervening twisting region. A whorl on the carrier-supported shaft nearest the fulcrum is normally driven by frictional contact with a continuously moving tangential belt but is disengaged from that belt in the swung-out position of the carrier so that the disks are arrested during introduction of the yarn.

Abstract: Apparatus for withdrawing a thread from a spinning station comprises at least two withdrawing rollers, which are preceded by a reciprocating thread guide and are succeeded by a winding device, which comprises a traversing device. In order to ensure that a reciprocating motion will be imparted to the thread guide, the latter is provided on one arm of a double-armed lever, which is freely rotatably mounted and provided on its other arm with another thread guide which is disposed between the withdrawing rollers and the traversing device.

Abstract: An anti-icing system for a rotating blunt nose bullet of a gas turbine engine uses a rotating thermosyphon effect to create a circulation within a chamber connected for rotation with the nose bullet which draws hot air from a downstream region of the engine forwards to impinge on the nose bullet over a small region close to the engine axis. This avoids complications with separate hot air supplies or electrical heaters. As shown in FIGS. 3 and 4 of the drawings, in one embodiment of the invention the chamber consists simply of a tube closed off by the nose bullet and in combination with an engine main shaft which extends to the turbine region of the engine to draw hot gas from this region. Alternatively, the chamber may extend only to the downstream end of the first compressor.

Abstract: A coolable stator assembly 18 positioned outwardly of an array of rotor blades 32 in a gas turbine engine is disclosed. The stator assembly includes an outer case 48 and an outer air seal 76 positioned outwardly of the array of rotor blades by the outer casing leaving a variable clearance gap G therebetween. The outer case has an upstream flange 52 and a downstream flange 54 for joining the outer case to adjacent cases 46, 50. A coolable rail assembly 22 for varying the diameter of the outer air seal and the clearance gap G is attached to the outer air seal. Various construction details for improving the sealing effectiveness of the stator assembly are developed. The coolable rail assembly is supported inwardly of a plurality of spray bars 26 from the upstream flange and the downstream flange. In one embodiment, a first section 102 and a second section 104 of the outer casing support the rail assembly from the flanges.

Abstract: A method for removing particulates from internal combustion exhaust gases in a system which includes a first gas conduit which connects with an engine exhaust pipe and which communicates with a trapping chamber containing means for filtering or trapping particulate matter present in the exhaust gas. A second gas conduit connects with said first gas conduit at a location upstream of the said trapping chamber and leads to a regenerating chamber which contains an electrically conductive substrate which carries an oxidation catalyst. A third gas conduit carries the hot gas from the regenerating chamber and connects with said first gas conduit at a location also upstream of said trapping chamber. The electrically conductive substrate material within the regenerating chamber is part of an electrical circuit and is heated by current passing therethrough.

Abstract: An exhaust gas cleaning device comprises at least one exhaust gas flowing passage, at least one particulates collecting member composed of two filter elements having different heat capacity, which is disposed within the exhaust gas flowing passage and heating means which is interposed between the filter elements so as to be closely contacted therewith. The filter element having smaller heat capacity is disposed on the upper stream side of the heating means and the filter element having larger heat capacity is disposed on the downstream side thereof. The filter element having smaller heat capacity is rapidly heated by the heating means and the heat of the filter element having smaller heat capacity is transmitted to the filter element having larger heat capacity. All of the particulates collected by the particulates collecting member can be burnt off with excellent heat efficiency.

Abstract: A lift truck is disclosed with a changeable speed electric motor for driving a single positive displacement pump to supply the power steering and various work handling hydraulic load circuits. Manually actuable selector means are operatively connected with the load circuits and a speed range control means is operatively connected with the selector means for energizing the electric motor in different speed ranges according to the actuation of the selector means. A priority demand valve is connected between the pump and the respective load circuits and supplies fluid to the load circuits, giving priority to the power steering circuit. The speed range control means includes speed regulating means for the electric motor. The motor is energized from the battery and the regulating means includes a pulsing circuit with a motor current feedback to vary the mark/space ratio of the pulses produced by the pulsing circuit.

Abstract: A highly supercharged engine with a high mean effective pressure (m.e.p.) is equippped with a cooling system including a radiator for the liquid cooling of the engine and a radiator for the supercharging air delivered by a turbocompressor. The liquid radiator is positioned upstream of the air radiator in the air-flow generated by a common blower.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine has an air-fuel ratio control system, an exhaust gas recirculation system and an ignition system. At least one of the systems is adjusted when the intake air temperature is very high so that fast combustion is suppressed. The adjustment is effective to prevent detonation or similar unusual combustion which may occur under a very high temperature of the intake air.

Abstract: An ignition timing control apparatus for an internal combustion engine having a supercharger in which a feedback control of decreasing the supercharged pressure is done in order to obviate knocking, wherein when a detection is made of a knocking with a detection of decrease in the controlled supercharged pressure under the condition of a constant throttle opening-degree, the ignition timing just at the detection of knocking is held for the control of ignition timing.

Abstract: A solar energy conversion plant is composed of a number of conversion units. Each unit is a hot gas engine coupled to a generator. All hot gas engines are connected to common tube mains one of which contains working gas of high pressure while another contains gas of low pressure. A compressor is arranged to maintain the pressures in the mains and is separately governed.