Abstract: An electrochemical device having one or more cells, a bipolar carbon-plastic electrode element providing in combination a separator, cathode and anode, the cathode and anode each having a space formed therebetween, catholyte and anolyte electrolytes circulated from and to reservoirs therefor via distribution connector means to or from a feed or discharge orifice in the appropriate cathode space or anode space. The distribution connector means is provided with at least a configured offset pathways interconnecting feed or discharge channels and the cathode or anode orifices. The pathways of a connector can be interconnected by a cross-channel having a varying area cross-section whereby shunt current protection capabilities are provided so as to reduce or eliminate detrimental orifice blocking depositions. In one embodiment the cross channel can be provided by means having a constant cross section, but variable length.

Abstract: A polyphase winding of ladder-like configuration for a linear motor is installed into a prearranged inductor assembly having a plurality of parallely arranged grooves, the inductor being attached to the underside of a T-shaped type carrier; a vehicle runs on that carrier carrying a drum for storing the winding (cable assembly), and there is a deflection system which runs the winding from the drum towards the underside of the carrier in near-tangential disposition whereby a tool resiliently mounted on an outrigger causes rungs of the ladder to be sequentially forced into the grooves of the inductor and, possibly, locked therein.

Abstract: A hand tool has spreadable jaws to grip a pin grid and/or socket. The same jaws are positionable vertically with respect to each other to insert and/or withdraw a pin grid into and from a socket.

Abstract: The invention relates to a wiring tool for wiring electric, multipin plug connectors, connector strips or the like, using clamping cutter techniques, comprising a support for the binder receiving the lines to be connected and an opposed support for the binder, the support being adapted to be displaced with respect to the opposed support parallel to itself and towards the opposed support, the support being supported in its mounting, in accordance with the invention, on at least one wedge adapted to be linearly displaced by means of a pushrod.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for presenting fasteners seriatim at a predetermined position in a predetermined orientation for subsequent transfer or fastening. The invention includes a container for jumbled similar fasteners, reciprocating or other lifting means having an arm extending to a distal end within the container, and passive pickup means on the distal end configured to receive a fastener from among the jumbled fasteners and hold it by cradling as the pickup element moves upwardly through the jumbled fasteners to a position thereabove. The method and apparatus can repetitively present one type of fastener to one position, an array of one type of fastener to several positions, or an array of plural types of fasteners to plural positions.

Abstract: A pilfer proofing system and method for electric meter boxes having a meter base box, which carries a plug-in terminal block set and a meter box cover having an opening through which a plug-in-meter passes to engage contact jaws or sockets the terminal block set. An anchoring bar is secured to the meter stops and a conventional meter locking collar is secured to the cover and the bridge of the locking collar is secured to the anchoring bar. Metal extension adaptors are secured to the meter blades for entering into the contact jaws or sockets of the terminal block set and a conventional locking ring is utilized to lock the meter in place on the added meter collar thereby providing a substantial obstacle to easy pilfering of electricity.

Abstract: A molded buswork and method of manufacturing the buswork, including a conductive T-shaped member having openings at the ends, insulated cables having the insulation at the ends of the cables stripped away to expose the ends of the conductors, an individual exposed conductor being crimped in each open end of the conductive member, the conductive member being supported in a cavity mold by the cables, the cavity mold being filled with a thermal-setting silicone rubber, the silicone rubber curing in the mold to encapsulate and bond to the conductive member, the exposed ends of the conductors, and the insulation on each cable.

Abstract: A flexible coaxial cable has a special plug connector with a tensile strength comparable to that of the cable at the connecting point to the cable. This plug connector (14) consists of a nipple (1) which is threaded with a plug sleeve (3). Between these two plug elements is arranged a contact ring (2) which is soldered to the covering (23). This contact ring (2) includes a bore (13), through which the soldering can be optically controlled and the vapors can be vented during soldering. The end surfaces of the contact ring (2) and the cable dielectric (21) are face-turned. Accordingly, the cable lengths can also be precisely determined. The exposed inner conductor (20) is soldered to a plug pin (4). The plug dielectric (5), plug pin (4) and the plug housing (3) itself are held in rigid positions in the plug housing (3) by means of a bore (10) filled with epoxy resin (9) and by a constriction (11) in the plug pin (4).

Abstract: A slitter is disclosed for slitting a cable-like item longitudinally to a controlled depth with a blade. The cable-like item is drawn through a guide which is shaped to correspond to the cross-section of the item, thereby ensuring proper twist as the item is drawn under the slitter blade.

Abstract: An attachment for greatly increasing the versatility of a conventional chain saw is capable of being mounted to a wide variety of chain saw models. The attachment is mounted to the chain saw in place of the usual chain bar. The attachment includes a rotatable spindle which may be driven through a roller chain or a V-belt drive. The spindle is adapted to drive tools such as abrasive wheels and drills. The attachment includes a housing which pilots and holds such equipment as water pumps, the impellers of which are rotated by the attachment spindle. The invention includes a sliding guard to which is mounted a chain tightening device. The guard is secured at a location which depends on the chain saw housing size so as to permit the adjustment device to bear against the chain saw housing, thereby imparting controlled tension to the driving chain or belt.

Abstract: A magazine type knife has a magazine which can be fitted in and removed from a magazine storage cavity formed in a main body of the knife. The magazine comprises a magazine case, a base plate, a first elastic body and a second elastic body, all of which are inseparably assembled together, but with which, when the magazine is removed from the main body, the second elastic body is freed to cease to press a forward end portion of the base plate toward a left wall side of the magazine case, thereby making it easy to insert blades into the magazine case.

Abstract: A blade for a vibratory cutter having a plurality of serrated teeth. A plurality of first teeth provided on one side of the center line of the blade are angled in one direction, and a plurality of second teeth provided on the second side of the center line are equally angled to the first set of teeth in the opposite direction. When used in conjunction with a vibratory tool, the blade will sever material in two directions parallel to the surface endeavored to be cut.

Abstract: This relates to a utensil such as a spoon which is collapsible to occupy a minimum of space. The utensil preferably has a handle formed in two parts joined together by a hinge with there being a releasable interlock between the two handle parts adjacent the hinge for maintaining the handle parts in longitudinal alignment and as an extension of one another. The handle parts may also be provided with cooperating interlocking structure for maintaining the handle parts in longitudinally aligned overlapping relation when the utensil is collapsed. This abstract is not to be constructed as limiting the claims of the application.

Abstract: A device is disclosed to make slits through the bark of a log with a chain saw. The chain saw has a blade with a chain which runs over its extreme free end which is preferably semicircular in shape. Rotatable guide rollers are mounted on both sides of the extreme end of the blade and are preferably coaxial with the semicircular end. The lateral surfaces of the guide rollers face each other and guide rollers in operation hold the chain of the chain saw in contact with a log to be cut for cutting slits of a given depth through its bark.

Abstract: A waste heat boiler is used to provide hot air to the drying hood of a Yankee dryer and to provide steam to the inside of the Yankee drying cylinder.

Abstract: A nozzle assembly is provided for use in apparatus for treatment of particulate material wherein the particulate material is conveyed through a treatment zone in fluidized condition, said fluidization being accomplished by a high velocity flow of gas directed against an imperforate member provided by the conveyor which gas flow is discharged from an elongated slot defined by the nozzle assembly and whose lengthwise direction extends in the direction that the particles are conveyed.

Abstract: A fluff filtering device within a convection drying and/or setting machine for treating a textile material web includes a device for circulating an air stream through the textile material web, a device for heating the air stream, an active filter screen with a frame of a given thickness disposed substantially horizontally in an operating position upstream of the heating device in the air stream for preventing fluff and other deposites from reaching the heating device, the active filter screen being substantially horizontally removable from the machine for cleaning, the active filter screen being upwardly movable into another position by a distance at least equal to the given thickness, and another screen slideable under the active filter screen into the operating position when the active filter screen is in the other position.

Abstract: A clothes dryer has, within a cabinet, a vacuum chamber in which a perforated drum is rotatable, a loading doorway in the cabinet, through which clothes to be dried can be fed into the drum, being provided with a door which, when closed, seals the vacuum chamber. A motor rotates the drum and a vacuum pump withdraws air and water vapor from the vacuum chamber and the contained drum, electric heating elements in the chamber heating the drum and its contents.

Abstract: Improved footwear for physical exercise, such as running or jogging, in which a segment of the shoe extending beneath the third, fourth and fifth metatarsal-phalangeal joints on the lateral side of the shoe is comprised of a crepe or spongy rubber material, which is substantially more flexible than the material which comprises the remainder of the solepiece. This configuration reduces the resistance of the solepieces to the flexure of the foot along the third, fourth and fifth metatarsal-phalangeal joints, thereby reducing the stress on the corresponding foot muscles and allowing the stronger foot muscles which operate the first and second metatarsal-phalangeal joints on the medial side of the foot to do most of the work in flexing the foot during the running motion. As a result, the weaker muscles in the lateral side of the foot are not overly stressed and the direction of motion of the foot at the toe lift-off is substantially in the desired direction of running.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a ski boot made of plastics material comprising a shell adapted to receive the foot, whereinthe rear part of the shell presents a rigid, flexible portion which follows the shape of the bottom of the rear face of the leg;and the rear of the boot presents a means adapted to push this rigid, flexible portion towards the front of the shell.

Abstract: The flex control device comprises a pin element associated with the ski boot shell and extending through an elongate aperture formed in an impression defined on the leg portion or lining quarter. Receivable in the cited impression is a small shaped plate having a slot to allow said pin element therethrough. The device further includes a means for releasably locking said small shaped plate in a first position wherein the slot is aligned with the elongate aperture, for a combined rotary and sliding movement between the leg portion or lining quarter and shell, and in a second position wherein the slot extends crosswise to the elongate aperture.

Abstract: A mobile snow-disposal unit having a vehicle including a sealable snow-collection receptacle having a water-holding internal compartment and an engine for propelling the vehicle utilizes a vacuum pump for lowering the internal pressure of the receptacle, when sealed, and a heat exchange system for routing waste heat from the engine to the internal compartment. By lowering the internal pressure of the receptacle so that the boiling temperature of water held by the internal compartment is about equal to the temperature of the waste heat entering the internal compartment, water held within the internal compartment is converted to steam for readily melting the collected snow.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a snowplow blade to be attached to a small all terrain vehicle. The snowplow blade comprises a lower portion constituted by a rubber sheet, the bottom edge of which is urged forwardly by a ground-engaging bar biased forwardly by springs. The rubber sheet and the ground engaging bars are free to yield rearwardly against the springs, when sufficient resistance is encountered. The invention also pertains to an attachment for connecting the snowplow blade to a vehicle. The attachment is constituted by a frame having a main point of connection with the vehicle at the rear end thereof, the front end of the frame being suspended from the chassis of the vehicle. Also described is a removable scraping edge mounted to the lower edge of the rubber sheet.

Abstract: A rotating display element which is provided with a display surface member having a plurality of display surfaces which are selected by rotating the display surface member, and a display unit which uses the display element. The display surface member of the rotating display element has incorporated therein a permanent magnet type motor mechanism and is driven by the permanent magnet type motor mechanism. The rotor of the permanent magnet type motor mechanism has first and second double-pole permanent magnet members, and its stator has first and second magnetic members having wound thereon first and second exciting windings, respectively. The display unit has first and second power supply means for supplying power to the first exciting winding of the permanent magnet type motor mechanism and third and fourth power supply means for supplying power to the second exciting winding.

Abstract: In a fire arm of the self loading pistol type having a reciprocating breech block slide (B) with a detachable breech block insert (F) holding a cartridge extractor (M) and a firing pin (S), the insert (F) is held in position in the slide (B) by means of the rear sight (N) of the fire arm. The rear sight is of bifurcated construction, the two limbs locating in respective vertical slots in the sides of the insert (E) and the top in a transverse slot in the slide (B). One limb (N3) of the bifurcation may contain screw means for adjusting the height of the rear sight, such adjusting means thereby being protected against damage and dirt.

Abstract: A gun for firing center-fire and rim-fire cartridges, having a center-fire pin and a rim-fire pin mounted for axial sliding motion within a receiver, a hammer, and a firing selector mounted on the hammer for selectively engaging the rim-fire pin and the center-fire pin upon movement of the hammer toward the firing pins upon actuation of a trigger mechanism.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a retaining mechanism for the magazine of automatic and/or semi-automatic rifles, in particular to a type of magazine which is provided with a lateral securing slot. The hook (6) which is designed to engage in the slot (4) of the magazine (3) is fixed to a spring-loaded arm (8) located transversely in the body (1) of the weapon and can be moved either by means of a button (9) attached to one end of the said arm (8) or by means of a rocking lever (12) mounted at the other end of the arm (8). The hook (6) can thus be operated from both sides of the weapon.

Abstract: The present invention provides a knotless weight boom 1 for a fishing line 2 comprising an elongate body 7 having a laterally extending boom member 8 for use in weighting the boom 1, said body 7 having at least one longitudinally extending transverse slot or channel 12 having an inlet 13 provided, intermediate its ends 14, with generally tongue shaped elongate retainer 15 extending from the inlet 13 of the respective slot or channel 12 and having a root portion 16 extending laterally from one side of the slot or channel 12 at or in proximity to said inlet 13.

Abstract: A fishing sinker which may be rapidly attached to and removed from a fishing line. The sinker comprises a mass of high density material which is generally symmetrical about a given axis and which has a longitudinal bore extending along said axis. A radial slit joins that bore to the exterior of the mass. Completing the assembly is a molded plastic insert which is adapted to be pushed into the bore in the mass. The insert also has a slit extending approximately halfway through the radial dimension thereof, and the insert is sized so that it can be rotated within the bore of the mass. By aligning the slit in the insert with the slit in the mass, a fishing line may be inserted into the aligned slits and then, when the insert is rotated, the line is captured and precluded from falling out.

Abstract: A portable, insulated bait container for maintaining a variety of live bait types in a plurality of bait compartments. The container includes a pivotal carrying handle and a close fitting top for mounting over each of the provided compartments. At least one of the compartments being water filled and adjacent to which a life support compartment containing a battery operated aerator is included along with circuitry for automatically at selected times aerating the contained water. Alternatively, switch means permit manual operation.

Abstract: This invention pertains to a bee smoker device that includes an enveloping wire network that decreases the chances that a beekeeper or hives or surrounding equipment will be hurt or damaged by the hot housing of the bee smoker.

Abstract: The process of this invention uses 2 bars to tip alfalfa or clover hay forward while a third bar holds spray devices that deliver liquid chemical drying agents to the crop in such a way that most of the chemical is applied to the plant's stems and very little is applied to the plant's leaves. Effectiveness of the liquid chemical drying agents is maximized in this way.

Abstract: A one-piece, integrally formed tie apparatus is provided for releasably suspending a vine or the like from a line. A line engaging portion releasably engages the line and a vine holding portion loosely surroundingly holds the vine or the like. The vine holding portion comprises an elongate flexible arm integrally depending from the line engaging portion and elastically deformable to define a loop for loosely surrounding the vine or the like. A first coupling means is integrally formed with the flexible arm. A second coupling means is adapted to connect with the first coupling means to form the flexible arm into a closed loop around the vine or the like. One of the coupling means is responsive to application of a predetermined amount of force to the flexible arm substantially in at least one direction for releasing the other coupling means to open the loop and permit removal of the vine or the like.

Abstract: Synthetic seeds are produced by encapsulating asexual plant embryos with a nontoxic, biocompatible, water-soluble coating material. The encapsulation is effected by mixing asexual embryos with a synthetic coating material, dispensing such mixture as droplets onto a sterile surface, and drying such droplets to constant weight at room temperature to form detachable wafers consisting of one or more asexual embryos embedded in the synthetic coating material.

Abstract: A burglar bar apparatus and method of assembly, for safety and security, suitable for installation in apertures of buildings is disclosed. The burglar bar apparatus comprises a totally unwelded structure with primary components being a gate member having cross rods and lateral rods, mounts for attaching the gate member to the aperture, and a locking mechanism to secure the gate in the aperture. The method for assembling the burglar bar device consists of cutting appropriate lengths of rods into a grid gate that restricts the movement of the individual rods, mounting the grid gate in the aperture, and locking the grid gate for preventing unauthorized ingression or egression.

Abstract: This disclosure depicts a mechanism for guiding movement of a door glass in a motor vehicle door having a door panel, front side door frame, and a rear side door frame that leans forwardly. The mechanism includes a door frame glass guide formed in the front of the rear side frame, for guiding a rear end edge of the door glass in the vertical direction and restraining the rear end edge of the door glass from moving in the direction of the thickness of the door glass. The mechanism also includes a front guide for guiding the forward end portion of the door glass in the vertical direction at least to a predetermined partially opened portion below a beltline portion of the door panel and restraining the door glass from moving in the direction of the thickness of the door glass.

Abstract: A portable skate sharpener has an elongated hollow main body having an electric motor adjacent one end, the electric motor having an output shaft extending in a longitudinal direction in the main body, and a grinding wheel mounted on the shaft for rotation in a plane perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the main body. The main body has an aperture below the grinding wheel for receiving an upper edge of an upturned skate blade to enable a skate to be sharpened when held in an inverted position by holding the main body with one hand adjacent the motor end and another hand adjacent an opposite end of the main body and, while the motor is operating to rotate the grinding wheel, manually moving the sharpener in a direction transverse to its length with the skate edge in the body aperture and in engagement with the grinding wheel.

Abstract: A polishing apparatus is provided with a fixed gear and at least one planet gear which meshes with the fixed gear to make at least one spindle coupled to said planet gear perform orbital revolution and own rotation by making the planet gear rotate around its own axis while orbitally revolving said planet gear around the fixed gear, thus rotating the workpieces fitted to said spindle in the polishing bath to be subject to fluidized polishing with the media filled up in the polishing bath, wherein said spindle is formed as a cylinder in which a rotary shaft is arranged rotatably and a rotating mechanism for rotating the rotary shaft is provided to rotate the workpieces at the same time the rotation of said rotary shaft, thus permitting the workpieces to be uniformly polished.

Abstract: A smoothing machine for wood panels, particularly wood panels having contoured surfaces with parts in relief, includes a substantially horizontal conveyor belt, a support structure overlying the belt, and a plurality of smoothing units carried by the structure. Each smoothing unit comprises a support frame and an abrasive roller rotatably supported by the frame and driven by a motor mounted on the frame, the rollers facing the belt and having coplanar horizontal axes of rotation. In the machine, each of the frames is pivoted about a vertical pivot axis on a motor-driven rotor rotatably supported about a vertical axis of rotation by the support structure, and the frames are releasably fixed to the rotor. The machine enables multi-directional smoothing whereby it is possible to smooth even very irregular panels.

Abstract: The machine described comprises a rotary drum (13) provided with an opening (23) blocked by a door (24). Said door comprises locking means and the machine is equipped with an automatic locking-unlocking device (26) to automatically lock the door (24) on the drum (13) or to unlock and raise it to clear the opening (23) of the drum. This machine further comprises means (17) for loading the drum and mechanical drive means for the drum (13).

Abstract: An orbital barrel finishing machine employs rotatable drums which are removable from the machine. A coupling member mounting a plurality of angularly spaced axially extending pins engages slots of a second coupling member to provide a rotational drive engagement for the removable drums. The drums are uncoupled from the drive engagement by axially displacing the drums. A releasable latch assembly is employed to secure the drums in the coupled drive position. The orbital barrel finishing machine is employed as a component of an integrated automatic finishing system wherein the rotatable drums may be automatically removed from the machine, unloaded, loaded and returned to the machine.

Abstract: A feed control apparatus for a numerically controlled grinding machine having a work table movable in a first axis direction, a wheel head provided thereon with a grinding wheel of the angular type and movable in a second axis direction perpendicular to the first axis, wherein the feed control apparatus comprises a memory for storing an instruction for effecting relative movement between the work table and the wheel head, and command data indicative of a movement amount of the wheel head in the second axis direction, a computer for reading out the stored instruction and command data to calculate a movement amount of the work table on a basis of the read out command data and for producing first and second output signals respectively indicative of the movement amount of the wheel head and the calculated movement amount of the work table, and a feed mechanism responsive to the output signals from the computer for effecting the relative movement between the work table and the wheel head to move the grinding wheel

Abstract: A rail grinding device comprising at least one reprofiling unit (80,81) driven along the track by a railroad vehicle (83); a jack (85) to displace in height the reprofiling unit with respect to the railroad vehicle (83) and to apply at least one tool of the reprofiling unit against the rail. The reprofiling unit (80,81) comprises at least one support (81) angularly displaceable with respect to the railroad vehicle (83) carrying several reprofiling tools (94,95) forming a group of tools. A positioning device (102), (104) and locking device (106,107) fixes the positions of the support (81) for which one (95) of the reprofiling tools (95,96) of the group of tools is located in working position.

Abstract: To manufacture a sound absorbing grinding wheel, vibration damping foils (2) and zones of the grinding compound forming the grinding layers (1) are alternately inserted or poured into a mold (5) and compressed. The obtained grinding wheel blank (7) is cured in a furnace at temperatures from 150.degree. C. to 200.degree. C. The foils (2) are of butyl rubber.

Abstract: A rotary cylinder hone includes an elongate drive shank connected to a carrier arm holder which supports a plurality of arm assemblies having abrasive units carried at the ends thereof. Each arm assembly has a pair of flanges formed at the end opposite the abrasive unit and a projection of the carrier arm holder is receivable therebetween. The flanges have apertures formed therein for receiving a circular retaining ring. The retaining ring is received by a generally circular slot provided in the carrier arm holder projections and serves to support the arm assemblies to the carrier arm holder for pivotable movement in a plane extending generally radially of the drive shank center line, thereby eliminating the need for individual attachment means for each of the arm assemblies.

Abstract: Leader filter for being mounted at the top of a leader extending down the side of a building and below the discharge opening formed in the bottom of a rain gutter attached to the building adjacent the edge of a roof upon which rain falls, said leader filter for preventing entrance thereinto of leaves and other debris which cause leader clogging and the stoppage of rain flow through the leader, including a generally closed hollow leader filter including a top, two sides, a bottom, front and back, the sides are provided with a plurality of longitudinally extending, generally horizontally disposed rows of slots such that there is no generally vertical path of rain flow down said sides which is not interrupted by at least one of the slots, the slots are of a predetermined size sufficiently small to generally prevent the entrance thereinto and into the generally closed hollow leader filter of the leaves and other debris, the top is for receiving rain from the rain gutter discharge opening and for diverting the rai

Abstract: A lightweight electrical utility line transmission tower is disclosed, which is designed to be easily transported by helicopter or truck. The tower uses a single, hollow support column which is positioned in a foundation hole. The column is directly embedded in the ground, and requires no special auxiliary concrete foundation. Two tapered tower arms are secured to the column in a V-shaped configuration by an improved connection and reinforcing apparatus. Attached to the tower arms is an elongate crossarm to which transmission lines are secured.

Abstract: The invention relates to modular building construction and to modules for use therein. The modules may be used for floor, wall, ceiling and roof construction in single story and multi-story buildings. The floor, ceiling and roof modules are constructed of at least two sheets of rigid, foamed plastic material such as polyurethane and polystyrene of the same width and length which are offset laterally with respect to each other by 50% of the width and length, thus providing floors, ceilings and roofs of staggered construction. The spaces left in the upper layer by the offset are filled in by partial sheet of the same plastic material of the same thickness so that all the edges of the sheets of the assembled floor, ceiling or roof modules are aligned.

Abstract: A ground anchor for channel posts has an angle iron leg driven into the ground and an upright fin plate or strip secured to the upper end thereof to stabilize the leg against tilting. The channel post straddles the angle iron leg receiving the apex of the leg in the channel thereof and is deformed to spread its legs apart into tight gripping relation with the angle iron. The spreading apart of the legs may be effected by drawbolts which fixedly connect the channel post with the angle iron leg or by a tool applied to the post adjacent the leg permitting the post to enter a socket on the leg formed by the fin plate or strip whereupon releasing of the tool permits the spread apart post legs to spring back toward their free state position thereby bottoming the base of the post in the socket. The spread apart legs of the post tightly grip the angle iron leg. The post may be removed from the angle by releasing the drawbolts or by again applying a spreading tool to free the post from the socket.

Abstract: A damping building structure, in the form of a floor joist, spanning two separated supports. Oscillations in the joist are damped by a pair of overlapping plates which are clamped together by one or more nuts and bolts. One of the plates is secured to the floor joist being damped, and the other of the plates is secured, directly or indirectly, to ground. The friction between the overlapping plates acts to damp any oscillations in the floor joist. A spring may be interposed between one of the plates and the nut or bolthead, and, if desired, a friction material may be sandwiched between the plates. The damping arrangement may be secured to the floor joist at one end, at both ends, or at mid-point of the span between the two supports.