Abstract: A multi-purpose paint stick is described. The paint stick allows a painter to scrape paint from the inside of various size cans, to comb his paint brush to remove unwanted particles, to suspend a paint strainer over a can to mix paint, to measure exact amounts or proportional amounts of components of a multicomponent paint, to support the paint stick over an open paint can to allow draining, to hang the paint stick on a dowel or thin piece of wire to allow draining and to support paint brushes over an open can to allow paint to drain therefrom.

Abstract: An implement (10) for effecting repairs to a garden hose assembly (30) comprising a central hub element (16) having a plurality of arm elements (17) radially projecting therefrom and bearing a tap unit (12) a die unit (13), a removal unit (14) and an insertion unit (15), wherein the insertion (14) and removal (15) units may both be employed to refurbish the interior of both the male (32) and female (33) hose couplings.

Abstract: A side and heel lasting machine. The machine serves to adhere the unwiped margin of a shoe upper assembly, whose toe portion has been wiped, to the periphery region of the assembly insole. Lasting pads are employed to keep the margin in position during application of adhesive from nozzles that are spring loaded to press outwardly and track the upstanding margin when adhesive is applied in the region between the insole and the margin. The pads are then raised and urged inwardly to press the margin onto the insole. The top edge of inner lasting pads are folded onto the insole to achieve during wiping action; the direction of forces upon the top edges of the lasting pads is changed during wiping to increase downward wiping forces upon the margin. A quick-release mechanism is provided to permit removal and replacement of the lasting pads without need to remove any screw-type fasteners.

Abstract: A mop head of polymeric material having a hood, to be placed on a handle end, and a bendable mop retaining bar, integrally joined at one end to an end of the hood and having a flexible finger at the other end. The finger terminates in an enlarged portion which releasably engages the hood through an opening in the hood to lock the bar in place and thereby secure the mop on the mop head.

Abstract: A two-bladed windshield wiper adapter which tilts the wiper blades in the sweep movement direction. The adapter is formed with a plug receiving portion loosely fitted to a cross plate having two plug members disposed perpendicular thereto for receiving the wiper blades. The adapter has the ability to pivot and tilt at the position where the plug receiving portion is coupled to the cross plate.

Abstract: A universal nozzle which has a tubular body with a coupling end that fits on the hose of a vacuum cleaner and an inlet end distal from the coupling end. The nozzle has a smooth bore and is made from a resilient material which is manually deformable such that the inlet opening and configuration can be altered by the operator to suit operating conditions. The nuzzle material has sufficient resiliency to regain its original configuration after being manually deformed and to resist collapse because of suction pressures whether in a deformed or undeformed condition. A synthetic organic compound such as plastic resin or a natural material alloyed with fillers or reinforcing agents to produce a formulation having a Shore-A hardness of 60-95, preferably 80.+-.10, is a particularly suitable nozzle material.

Abstract: A furnace for burning a particulate fuel compacted into a plug which includes a force feed of particulate fuel through a compacting means and into a tubular furnace in which burning is expected within the compact fuel plug by injecting air through the furnace wall.

Abstract: The invention relates to hinge preparation assembly for mounting in each of the mortises formed in the hinge jamb of a steel frame. The hinge preparation assembly includes a hinge reinforcement member having a plurality of spaced apart threaded openings for mounting a leaf of a standard weight hinge set thereto. A hinge conversion means is removably mounted to the hinge reinforcement member so that upon its removal, the hinge preparation assembly is converted from a standard weight hinge preparation to a heavy weight hinge preparation and capable of mounting a leaf of a heavy weight hinge set thereto without requiring changing the hinge jamb of a steel door frame or modifying the hinge mortises thereof.

Abstract: A device for cleaning crustaceans having slender, elongated bodies includes an elongated body having a tapered portion at one end, a deheading portion at another end, and a handle adjacent to the deheading portion. The tapered portion has an arcuate section and is adapted for lengthwise insertion into the body of the crustacean through the channel that contains the sand vein of the crustacean, and is further adapted to rupture the shell of the crustacean upon insertion. The deheading portion includes a cutting edge that is perpendicular to the length of the body of the device. A deveining means is disposed on a side of the tapered portion that includes the inside of the arcuate section. The deveining means includes an elongated ridge, wherein a portion of the ridge adjacent to an end of the device is parallel to a bilateral plane which divides the body of the device, and another portion of the ridge is skewed to one or the other side of the plane.

Abstract: A card clothing for a stationary or movable carding segments of a carding machine includes at least two rows of groups of tips. The rows are located one after another in the direction of carding and each row extends transversally of the direction of carding. Each group has from two to six tips positioned one after another. The groups of the tips in the first row are laterally spaced from each other a distance equal to at least three widths of each group. The groups of tips arranged in the following row are laterally offset relative to the groups of the previous row, as seen in the direction of carding, a distance equal to at least the width of one group.

Abstract: Apparatus for producing a web whose width exceeds the working width of a machine having a number of take-off units and a table for conveying the web, for the production of webs from fibrous material, more particularly cards, carding machines, or pneumatic non-woven formers, the device having deflectors (12) which are associated one each with the take-off units (10) and which, as considered in the operative direction of the machine, are spaced apart from one another by a distance corresponding to the width of the taken-off web, the deflectors (12) extending at an angle to the operative direction of the machine, such angle corresponding to half the angle between the operative direction of the take-off table (10) and that of the table (14) for conveying the textile, and a corresponding method.

Abstract: An apron for a draft apparatus being suitable for use with a pneumatic high speed spinning frame. The apron includes a front side rubber layer, a reverse side rubber layer adhered to the front side rubber layer and core cords interposed between the two rubber layers. A ratio of thickness between the front side rubber layer and the reverse side rubber layer is set to a value within a range from 3:7 to 1:9.

Abstract: A collar fastener for bringing the two tapered sides of a shirt collar together wherein the fastener hooks into the under-surface or back surface of the collar on each side. The fastener fits unobtrusively under the necktie so as to make it substantially invisible to others. A spring disposed between the arms of the fastener serves to apply spring pressure.

Abstract: Adjustable toggle type attachment device for a ski boot, with a series of notches constituting a rack fixed to an element to be tightened, and a tightening lever connected through a traction element to another element to be tightened. An abutment longitudinally adjustable in a continuous manner is provided on the lever, and the traction element is supported thereon.

Abstract: The invention disclosed relates to an improvement for tying devices which can be secured to laces particularly on shoes for holding the shoelace knot in place. The device disclosed employs a mechanism for securing a portion of the device to the shoe and enabling the device to be reused for securing a knot in place each and every time the laces are tied. In the embodiment disclosed, the invention also incorporates elastic or semi-rigid means for engaging the shoelace knot from opposed sides to impede the knot from becoming untied while simultaneously exposing the knot for view and maintaining the normal appearance of the bow.

Abstract: This invention pertains primarily to supplementary fastening devices in the form of jawed openable clips having a slot in one or both jaws used for fastening the hook of a garment hanger or other hook including device to a clothesline or other generally linear member. Certain embodiments can additionally be used for fastening two linear members together in a crossing relationship.

Abstract: A mechanism for the lathe-working of longitudinal, cylindrical, or slightly conical work-pieces (88), preferably cartridge cases for firearms, which uses at least two driven rotating spindles (80) located in a housing (17). The housing (17) is rotatable around an axle (16) and is rotated by a hydraulic or pneumatic cylinder (22, 23) into a series of operating positions. Tools for working the cartridge cases (88), (a) a shaper for the extractor groove (93) and the extractor flange (92) and (b) a cut-off piece (103), are both attached to a cut-off sled (101). This cut-off sled (101) is guided back and forth on a main sled (94) laterally with respect to the axis of rotation of a spindle (80). The main sled itself may be moved in the direction of the axis of rotation of the spindle (80). In this manner, the length of the cartridge case is determined exactly. Furthermore, each rotating spindle (80) is driven individually.

Abstract: A self-contained inflatable variable crown roll having a circumferential cavity between sleeve and arbor has means to connect that roll cavity to an external high pressure fluid pump when the roll is not rotating. The roll preferably has a reservoir within its arbor which is charged with hydraulic fluid and valved means connecting the roll cavity with the reservoir. The reservoir preferably encloses a fluid-tight bag which is inflated with a gas to maintain pressure therein as hydraulic fluid is withdrawn. A collecting chamber is preferably included within the arbor for receiving hydraulic fluid released from the roll of cavity.

Abstract: The cavity or gap between shell and arbor of a hydraulically inflatable roll also houses metal support elements which may be adjusted to fill that gap partially or wholly. The roll support elements are mating wedges, preferably a pair of sawtooth profiled metal ring assemblies with inclined faces bearing on each other. The degree of support is varied by moving one assembly axially on the other. Hydraulic apparatus for so moving an assembly is contained with the roll arbor.

Abstract: A fabricated reciprocating piston pump having a power end frame characterized by spaced apart elongated precut steel plate members forming the frame sidewalls and forming bearing support members for supporting the jackshaft and eccentric shaft bearings. The shaft bearings are mounted in cylindrical sleeves which are supported by respective pairs of the frame plate members. The pump includes crossheads which are of rectangular cross-sectional shape having flat parallel bearing surfaces and which are supported in the frame by elongated crosshead slide plates which may be adjusted laterally and vertically to align the crossheads with the axis of reciprocation of the pump piston rods. The pump fluid end is made up of premachined cylindrical tube and bar stock sections which are welded together into a unitary assembly including the pump cylinders, the suction and discharge valve housings, and the suction and discharge fluid manifolds.

Abstract: A whirlpool system has the air and water mixing systems adjacent to the pump. The air and water mixing system is connected to inlets and outlets within a tub by flexible pipes, preferably--or optionally by semi-flexible or rigid pipes. The outlets or inlets within the tub are preferrably mounted in the tub from the inside of the tub.

Abstract: This pocket tool is employed for installing "E"-rings on Diesel injector pump rotor assemblies quickly. Primarily, it consists of a main body for use as a force producing instrument, for final seating of an "E"-ring, and it houses a guide pin when not in use. The guide pin is used to enlarge the openings in the ring, so as to enable the ring to receive the headed posts of the rotor assembly.

Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for threadedly fitting a buttress tapered external thread portion and a buttress tapered internal thread portion each other. A detecting internal thread portion provided on the gauge is threadedly fitted into the buttress tapered external thread portion, and the buttress tapered internal thread portion is threadedly fitted into a detecting external thread portion provided on the gauge. As a consequence, a helical locus position of the tapered external thread portion and a helical locus position of the tapered internal thread portion are detected. Next, after the gauge has been removed and in the state wherein the thus detected helical locus positions are put in order each other, the tapered external thread portion and the tapered internal thread portion are relatively turned whereby these tapered external thread portion and tapered internal thread portion are threadedly fitted each other.

Abstract: An insertion tool for a helically coiled wire insert of the type used for tapped holes in parent material that is generally softer than a fastener being screwed into the tapped hole, whereby a mandrel having a threaded lead portion and a pivotal pawl inserted in a groove below the threaded portion so that the pawl engages a recess of the insert, in order that the insert may be screwed into the tapped hole. The pivotal pawl also permits removal and reinsertion of the tool after the coil insert has been installed.

Abstract: A removal tool for a tangless helically coiled wire insert of the type used for tapped holes in parent material that is generally softer than a fastener being screwed into the tapped hole, whereby a mandrel having a threaded lead portion and a pivotable pawl inserted in a groove below the threaded portion so that the pawl engages a recess of the trailing end of the insert, in order that the insert may be extracted from the tapped hole. The pivotable pawl is automatically disengaged from the insert when the mandrel is pulled back, allowing the mandrel to free spin out of the tangless insert.

Abstract: A method for the production of a multilayer capacitor block.Two superposed metallized films are carried by an entraining caterpillar track into a cavity in such a manner as to form a stack of successive folds. In a first operation, the horizontal displacement of a support performs a transverse compression of the stack, and the displacement of a movable bar performs a vertical compression of the stack. The stack thus compressed is then coated with molten metal by spraying, in such a manner as to form an elementary block.

Abstract: A tool adapted for use by a pipefitter in welding a length of pipe to a fitting in which one end of the pipe is accommodated with a predetermined spacing between the end of the pipe and an internal shoulder within the fitting. The tool has jaws which may be clamped on the pipe when the end of the latter is in abutting engagement with the shoulder of the fitting and includes spacers that are movable to a position between the jaws and the end of the fitting to provide a predetermined spacing between the free end of the pipe and the shoulder of the fitting. The tool also includes scribers for marking the pipe and the fitting in such manner as to facilitate verifying that such gap has been provided between the end of the pipe and the shoulder of the fitting.

Abstract: A modification to an existing adapter for reciprocating saber saws which supports the saw blade on the top of the adapter for making "flush with" cuts along the intersection between floors and walls, the improvement providing a second mounting for the saw blade clamping clip on the side of the adapter for making "flush to" cuts in a floor perpendicular to a wall with the cut ending at the wall.

Abstract: A method for installing a modular sliding roof panel assembly in a vehicle having an opening in the roof. The sliding roof panel assembly includes a roof panel movably mounted on a housing. A reinforcement ring having a central aperture with a shape complementary to the shape of the roof opening is connected to the housing prior to attachment of the reinforcement ring to the edges of the stationary roof structure bounding the roof opening.

Abstract: A pipe covering for flanged insulated pipes. The pipe coverings are characterized by the presence of toroidal protrusions and tapered sections extending outwardly from the protrusions.

Abstract: A method is disclosed of using a robot with a single fixture to install a headliner in a vehicle body on an assembly line wherein both the configuration of the vehicle body and the material and/or color as well as the configuration of the headliner vary and are combined at an assembly station.

Abstract: A method of forming one end of a sidepocket mandrel into a tubular shape having an internal diameter large enough to receive an orienting sleeve, moving an orienting sleeve through the formed end, securing the sleeve to the mandrel, and reforming said end for reducing the internal diameter of the end sufficiently to form a premium female thread therein. The method of making an integrally formed sidepocket mandrel having a one-piece body with a main bore and an offset bore. Both ends are formed into tubular shapes while leaving a middle section unworked whereby the middle section forms a main bore and an offset bore. The tubular ends are reduced in size and shaped to form thickened walls which are aligned at the opposite ends of the main bore. During forming, one end, such as the bottom, is formed approximately sized for receiving thread, and the other end, preferably the top, is formed with an internal diameter sized to pass an orienting sleeve.

Abstract: This invention is related to method and devices for applying and holding a wafer chuck assembly against an X, Y, .theta. alignment plate, said system including latching a wafer chuck assembly with a chuck handling device while inserting alignment pins carried by the device into corresponding V-like grooves in the chuck assembly to form a rigid unit, mounting the unit on pins extending from the X, Y, .theta. alignment plate, releasing the latching to allow the chuck assembly to fall downwardly a short distance until it rests on the X, Y, .theta. pins, and extending two pistons from the chuck handling device to engage the wafer chuck assembly to urge it snugly against the X, Y, .theta. alignment plate until the chuck assembly and alignment plate are locked together by vacuum means.

Abstract: A device for removing a band (2) wrapped around a bundle (1) of sheets by means of a cutting device (11). The cutter (7) of the cutting device is arranged on the plane on which the bundle is transported in such a way that it dips into a side face of the bundle, cutting along the entire length of the bundle and thereby severing the band located at right angles to the side face. The severed band (2) is grasped on the side opposite the cutting by a hook (13) of a pull-off device (12) provided opposite the cutting device (11), and removed at right angles to the direction in which the bundle (1) is transported.

Abstract: A system for quickly changing tool blocks for a turning or other machine wherein the tool block is shifted between a set-up fixture and the turning machine by an appropriate means such as a robot arm. The tool block is provided with a vertical keyway and parallel horizontal dovetails utilized as reference surfaces for tool set-up and as clamping surfaces in the machine or mounting fixture. The block has appropriate clamping members to retain one or more turning tool bits in operative position for use in the machine.

Abstract: A method for making a semiconductor device is described in which overlapping polycrystalline silicon layers are deposited over selected portions of a semiconductor substrate and insulated from the substrate and from each other, thereby providing an improved semiconductor device for use in a random-access memory integrated circuit.

Abstract: The contact for N channel devices in a CMOS process is formed by ion implanting N-type impurities through contact apertures in the dielectric layer to a depth less than the source and drain regions and a layer of conductive material is applied without intermediate etching and delineated.

Abstract: A MESFET is fabricated using a self-aligned gate process. This process uses a vertical (anisotropic) etch to self-align the gate and source/drain. The vertical etch, in conjunction with a two-level insulator, creates a barrier between the gate and source/drain, so that when metal is deposited and reacted, and any excess removed, the gate is selfaligned with the source/drain, and contacts to the source/drain and gate are well isolated. The alignment obtained by this process is advantageous in that series channel resistance is reduced, and a more compact structure is attained for improvement in packing density.

Abstract: In a semiconductor element using avalanche multiplication such as a light-receiving element or a microwave oscillating element, a semiconductor A and a semiconductor B which satisfy the following condition:X.sub.A <X.sub.B, X.sub.A +E.sub.gA <X.sub.B +E.sub.gBwhere X.sub.A is the electron affinity of the semiconductor A, E.sub.gA is the forbidden band width of the semiconductor A, X.sub.B is the electron affinity of the semiconductor B and E.sub.gB is the forbidden band width of the semiconductor B, are layered and an electric field is applied in parallelism to the layer, whereby an impact ionization coefficient rate is obtained by junction of the different kinds of semiconductors. At least one of the semiconductors A and B is composed of a mixed crystal comprising three or more elements, and the mole fraction of said one semiconductor is varied to thereby control the value of the impact ionization coefficient rate.

Abstract: A semiconductor device and method for making same having three transistors, NPN, PNP, and junction field effect, concurrently formed integral to a common semiconductor device.

Abstract: Apparatus for connecting the ends of stator windings to stator supply terminals comprises a stator holding device which holds a wound stator with each winding end held by a holding element and an insertion and clamping device which is displaceable toward the stator holding device and which comprises a tong-like gripper for each winding end which is swivelable toward and away and laterally with respect to the stator holding device 2 under variable tension. The grippers engage the winding ends and displace them into the respective supply terminals, whereupon the terminals are clamped by a clamping device.

Abstract: A method of making a rotor, for a dynamo-electric machine, which has a number of arcuately formed rectangular loop coils arranged edgewise in a cylindrical configuration, employs injection moulding. Moulding material is injected between adjacent coils and penetrates between and around them to form an encapsulating framework. Entry of moulding material into the central apertures of the coils is prevented by inserts. By directing the moulding material inwardly, and spacing the coils slightly from the mould core, encapsulant also penetrates behind the coil faces to form a thin skin. By use of a shutter member, which may be an integral end cap, coil terminations can be led out of the mould cavity through apertures in the shutter to protect them from damage during the moulding process.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for the production of armatures for small electric motors is provided wherein the armatures are clamped in specially designed workpiece holders and continuously processed in successive work stations. The stations may include an armature loading station, a collector pressure-fitting station, a winding station, a welding station, an electrical testing station and an armature discharge station. The transportation of the workpiece holders through the apparatus is effected by a revolving conveyor belt which moves the workpiece holders individually or in groups to the successive work stations. At each work station, the workpiece holder is raised from the conveyor belt, secured in the work station, and connected by clutch devices to corresponding actuating devices within the work station.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided to enable a press to automatically apply an electrical connector to a printed circuit board. A locator block is secured to a floating pin holder plate which is mounted to a press ram, the connector is placed in position and partially inserted on the board and the board is secured and accurately disposed below the locator block. The locator block has a recess which surrounds the connector when the locator is lowered by the ram, urges the connector to the vertical and in turn urges the floating plate a slight but important two-dimensional horizontal increment to be precisely positioned and oriented with the connector. When the position of the locator block/floating plate assembly is thus adjusted, the locator block retracts exposing push pins mounted in the floating plate which enter cavities in the connector, engage the terminals therein, and push the terminals fully into plated through-holes of the board.

Abstract: An electrical component placement head control for automatically spacing the component inserter of the head from a printed circuit board comprising of a stop limiting downward movement of the head that coacts with a control shaft having an eccentric cam surface controlling the position of the stop.

Abstract: A machine for connecting successive rows of coil springs together into a coil spring assembly. The machine, in preferred form, initially picks up a row of coil springs by inserting a pick up finger into the barrel of each coil and moving the springs onto a support platen. In the course of transporting the coils between pick up and the support platen, the pick up fingers change the spacing of the coils. The springs are then compressed against the support platen to a desired height through use of a reciprocable compression bar. Thereafter, and through use of rotatable transfer fingers on a transfer shaft, the springs are removed from under the compression bar, and are moved into clamping dies. Leading rotary transfer fingers on the transfer shaft first pull the row of springs out from under the compression bar, and trailing rotary fingers then push the springs into the downstream one of upper and lower clamping dies.

Abstract: An improved cake cutter device of the type having a cutting blade removably attached to a gear housing with rack and pinion means in conjunction with a plate to determine the length, and a helical screw in conjunction with the cutting blade to determine the width of a piece of cake to be cut, and securing means to secure the cut portion of the cake in position with the cutting blade, the improvement comprising a handle mounted perpendicularly to the plane of the housing of the cake cutter and trigger means for moving the rack means, a platform member to support the cake cutter to prevent touching of the cutting blade with the surrounding premises, and a V-shaped cutting blade with a curved apex.

Abstract: A chain saw safety braking assembly includes a sensing arm pivotally mounted to the housing and having a protrusion. A portion of the sensing arm is located in front of the gripping handle and is arranged to move from a first position to a second position in response to being struck by an appendage of the operator. A flexible brake band is disposed around the peripheral surface of a brake drum, and includes a first end anchored to the housing and a second end coupled to the sensing arm protrusion, such that when the sensing arm moves from the first position to the second position the flexible brake band is moved from a position free of the brake drum to a frictional braking relationship with the brake drum. A latch is rotatably mounted to the housing and is adapted to releasably engage the protrusion on the sensing arm. A spring anchored to the housing cooperates with the latch such that the latch yieldably holds the sensing arm in either the first or the second position.

Abstract: A ruler device for use in marking-off which comprises a reference rail fixed to a surface table by means of a magnet, an orthogonal rail mounted on the reference rail detachably and shiftably along the reference rail and extending in an orthogonal direction relative to the reference rail, and a shifting table mounted shiftably along the orthogonal rail and being provided with a marking-off pin or scriber.

Abstract: Apparatus for lifting a cutter track guide or cloth alignment bar extending across the top surface of a cloth cutting table. On each side of the surface there is a section including a supporting frame in fixed relation to the surface, a lifting member near the frame and movable longitudinally, pivotally and substantially perpendicular to the surface, a guiding arrangement carried by the frame and in guiding contact with the lifting member, and a weight balancing arrangement carried by the frame and connected to the lifting member for applying thereto a force substantially equal and opposite to the weight associated with the track or bar acting on the lifting member. A force transmitting and equalizing arrangement includes a belt and pulley combination connected to the frame of each section and associated with each of the lifting members and with the track or bar.