Abstract: An article of dress comprising a first piece and a second piece. The first piece comprises a leg covering of decorative light weight material having an upper edge and a lower edge, and capable of being worn as a single unit covering only one leg. The first piece has a length whereby it is capable of extending from above the knee to below the knee of the wearer. The second piece covers a substantial portion of only one leg of the wearer, leaving the other leg exposed, whereby the first piece can be viewed when worn on the other leg of the wearer.

Abstract: A nursing garment in the form of a loose fitting poncho having an opening at its upper end to enable it to be drawn down over the head of the wearer, and a rigid annular neckpiece in the form of a hoop secured to the fabric of the poncho and surrounding the opening. The poncho is intended to fit loosely over at least the upper portion of the body of the person wearing it, and the neckpiece is intended to fit loosely around the neck of the wearer. The garment provides a simple and inexpensive means for permitting a mother to nurse her baby in public without fear of exposure. Moreover, the neckpiece provides a simple means for enabling the mother to look down into the interior of the garment to observe the baby.

Abstract: The invention describes heat-insulating fabric articles, for example a jacket, comprising an outer layer (17) preferably of synthetic material such as woven nylon, and a lining (19) joined together by a network of quilting seams (3) to form pockets. Each pocket is filled with closed polystyrene beads (21) so that movement between the beads is possible but migration of the beads to other regions of the pocket is inhibited. Such a garment is heat-insulative even when wet, and when dry promotes the formation of a static charge in the interstices between the beads.

Abstract: An invertible head cover in the form of a cap is provided including a flexible crown portion, a head encircling band portion extending about the open side of the crown portion and a visor portion supported and projecting forwardly from the front marginal portion of the head encircling band portion. The head cover inner and outer surfaces on opposite sides of a vertical front to rear extending plane bisecting the hat are of different colors and the color of the inner and outer surfaces of the cap on a first side of the aforementioned plane are red and the inner and outer surfaces of the hat on the other side of the plane are black.

Abstract: A loss prevention guard for pockets which includes a flat, resilient, insert having a bowed central portion and a pair of substantially planar end portions. The hem of a pocket, adjacent the mouth of the pocket, is provided with a pair of spaced slots into which the ends of the insert are inserted, leaving the central bowed portion of the insert bowed inwardly into contact with the clothing to which the pocket is attached, i.e., the back of the pocket. The bowed central portion of the insert is preferably provided with an abrasive having a high friction contact with the article to be guarded, for example a wallet, to prevent the article from slipping by the insert.

Abstract: This invention provides a stack of tear-off lenses for rapid and easy mounting over a main goggle lens. The invention overcomes the previously discussed disadvantages of excessive mounting time and effort. A method of manufacturing the stack is also provided. In addition, a goggle incorporating the stack of tear-off lenses, as well as a kit for adapting a goggle for tear-off lenses, including the tear-off lens stack and a retaining post member, are disclosed.

Abstract: A urination deflector for attachment to a toilet seat is formed using a sheet of flexible plastic material which is provided with hook and loop fastening arrangements which maintain the device to the toilet seat and provide for folding of the device into its functional configuration.

Abstract: The cover for a swimming pool has a side facing the water and an opposite side facing away. The cover defines an elongated cavity having a single flooding opening facing the water and arranged at one end of the cavity for flooding the pool, the cavity having a venting port at an end thereof opposite to the one end having the flooding opening. A vent valve in the port can close the port and a connection to a source of gas under pressure leads to the cavity for supplying the gas under pressure to the cavity to displace the water in the cavity. The mass of the cover exceeds that of the displaced water in case the cavity or cavities are flooded.

Abstract: A flexible tube exhausting pumped water into a spa tank and whipping by reaction to exhaust of water therefrom. A number of articulated plastic sleeves encircling the tube and guiding the tube to whip only in a vertical plane. The sleeves being pivotally connected to pivot about horizontal parallel axes. Adjacent sleeves having abutments limiting bending of the harness and the tube. An end sleeve being secured against rotation but being slidable longitudinally of the tube so that the harness can adjust longitudinally of the tube during whipping of the tube.

Abstract: A hydrotherapy system is provided including a hydrotherapy tub with a water circulation pump and motor. Electrical proximity sensor terminals are mounted to the tub on the outside surface, one at a relatively low level for detecting the presence of water in the tub and a second preferably at a higher level for detecting the presence of the user to serve as an "on" and "off" switch which the user can operate by placing his hand in proximity therewith. Neither of the terminals requires physical contact to be actuated. Each is connected to circuit means for establishing the presence of an object in proximity with it and each of the terminals is operatively connected to the pump motor so that the pump motor will operate only when both of the terminals are actuated.

Abstract: A patient transfer mat for aiding the moving of a patient who cannot move oneself. The mat includes a center section and a pair of wing sections integrally and hingedly attached thereto and adapted to be placed under the patient. The mat including grasping openings in each end with slots adjacent thereto for securing a strap therethrough to secure the patient to the mat. A pair of mats are placed under the patient to move the patient by sliding or lifting.

Abstract: An apparatus for releasably securing a mattress cover or bedclothes to a mattress or bed, including a generally rectangular anchoring device to be positioned below the sleeping surface of the mattress, and fastening members for connecting the anchoring device to a mattress cover or other bedclothes. Each fastening member has a protective cover for protecting the mattress and/or the bed frame from damage from the fastening member. In one embodiment, the anchoring device is a continuous member, while in another embodiment the anchoring member is formed of at least two relatively movable members, with clamps, carried on the movable members, that releasably lock such members together to fit the size and shape of the mattress.

Abstract: A domicile for leaf cutter bees includes front, end and rear panels, a base and top panel and a lid of weather resistant material. The domicile is supported on legs which are fitted to the end panels and to each of which there is fitted an angle bracket carrying an upstanding locating pin. The base is inserted between the end panels and located by holes engaging over the locating pins. The tops of the end panels are provided with a bracket carrying locating pins over which the top panel is located. The top panel has cross angle members attached by bolts or pin hangers. The lid is fitted over the top panel and located by the locating pins. Guy wires are fitted to the locating pins to stabilize the unit. The nest holder is suspended from the top panel by a hanger, each nest being a plurality of blind tunnels.

Abstract: This invention is for a hand tool comprising a body or a shank having a first end and also a second end. The first end may be a curved end having a circular passageway. The curved end with the circular passageway can be positioned around the upper end of the valve housing so as to allow a wrench to be placed on the hexagonal cap or hexagonal nut to rotate the same. The second end is in the form of a finger and can be positioned between the valve housing and an upright pipe so as to be able to use a wrench for rotating a connecting between a pipe and the valve.

Abstract: Pipes, tubes and the like, for example, in heat exchangers, can be cleaned internally using sonic energy, a relatively incompressible pig and a flushing liquid.The flushing liquid is supplied via a pressure outlet from a quick operating valve to one or more launchers for launching pigs. The launchers are mounted on either an x-y frame movable support or a rotary axis adapter and radially movable support for positioning the launchers with respect to the ends of the tubes to be cleaned.

Abstract: A primary wiper arm includes a mounting head for securing the inner end to a pivot shaft, the outer end being pivotally secured to a pivot block. A drag link includes a ring bearing and a disk journaled in the ring bearing having mating spherical concave and convex surfaces respectively. This disk is mounted at the pivot shaft bearing housing eccentrially to the logitudinal axis of the pivot shaft. At its outer end the drag link is connected to the pivot block at a point spaced from the connection between the primary arm and the pivot block. A connector is provided for securing the blade to the pivot block. The arrangement effects relative angular movement between blade and arm assembly and permits gyrating movement of the drag link.

Abstract: An improved pipe cleaning machine of the type which uses an elongated flexible coil spring or plumber's snake formed of helically wound spring wire which is housed within a rotatable spring storage reel, or drum, and is withdrawn therefrom for insertion into the pipe to be cleaned. The machine of the present invention embodies a novel dual drive arrangement which enables the drum to be rotated and the spring wire, or snake, fed into the pipe either by means of a small electric hand drill, which can be affixed to one shaft of the dual drive arrangement, or by a hand crank which can be detachably interconnected with a second shaft of the dual drive arrangement.

Abstract: A device for monitoring the process of toothbrushing has a handle that is electrically connected to signalling means. The handle has a neck and the neck is designed to consecutively receive various heads of toothbrushes. Removable and replaceable heads, with numerous bristles thereon, can be consecutively mounted on said handle. There are sensing means on the neck to continuously measure a bending moment of the area to which said sensing means is attached. As pressure is exerted on bristles of the head, that pressure is transmitted to said neck and the signalling means can be activated. The device is useful in teaching appropriate methods of brushing, thereby reducing or eliminating abrasion of the teeth. In addition to pressure, the device is able to monitor frequency, duration and direction of brushing.

Abstract: A novel wiper assembly suitable for use in checking fluid levels by a dip stick comprising a pad holding frame having a fluid absorbent pad mounted therein, a shaft on which the pad holding frame is adjustably mounted and a mounting clip integral with the opposite end of said shaft. The wiper assembly is adapted for mounting on a dip stick receptacle tube, optionally of two different sizes, and is desirably constructed wholly of plastic materials.

Abstract: The squeegee device is for cleaning both flat and curved surfaces. It has a handle and a squeegee blade assembly mounted together by a rigid coupling bracket to form a rugged joint. The handle can be positioned in one of at least four positions relative to the blade assembly to facilitate either a push and pull cleaning operation or a side-by-side sweeping cleaning operation.

Abstract: A windshield wiper shaft is mounted in a bearing bushing, wherein the bearing bushing and the wiper shaft rest against each other with conical bearing surface portions to compensate for possible radial play. This is important in constructions in which the bearing bushing and the wiper shaft are injection-molded from plastics material.

Abstract: A wiper blade rubber of an elongated configuration comprising a base portion of large thickness, a swinging portion substantially of a trigonal cross section, a neck portion connecting the base portion and the swinging portion and a thin plate-like lip portion disposed at the top end of the swinging portion. The basic material constituting most part of the base portion, the neck portion, the swinging portion and the lip portion is formed with soft and flexible rubber mainly composed of vulcanized ethylene-propylene rubber, and at least the surface of the lip portion is disposed with a surface layer constituted with a blended rubber composed of acrylonitrile-butadiene rubber and polyvinyl chloride resin and surface layer has a chlorinated surface layer.

Abstract: A mopping unit comprises a bucket, a wringer with two squeeze rollers mounted at the top of the bucket, and an operating mechanism to produce relative closing movement of the rollers. The operating mechanism comprises a foot pedal mounted at a lower level on the bucket and a toggle operating linkage operative on depression of the pedal to produce the relative closing movement of the rollers. At the end of the closing movement of the rollers the toggle linkage goes over-center to lock the rollers at a predetermined spacing in an operative mop-wringing position.

Abstract: A vacuum cleaner includes a cleaner housing accommodating a motor-driven air blower and having a dust collection chamber defined in a front end thereof. An upper cover is detachably hinged at an end to the cleaner housing for closing an upper portion of the dust collection chamber and has a slanted surface inclined downwardly toward the front end. The upper cover has an inlet hole defined in the slanted surface for communication with the dust collection chamber when the upper portion of the dust collection chamber is closed by the upper cover. A connector pipe connected at one end to an intake hose has an opposite end rotatably coupled to the inlet hole. The connector pipe is bent at such an angle as to be directed substantially vertically when the hose is directed upwardly.

Abstract: The invention relates to a sweeper machine for floors and bounded surfaces, e.g. the floors of workshops and warehouses, courtyards, having engaged with the machine frame, a removable container for collecting the swept trash supported by pivotally-mounted guides engaged by swivel members extending in a crosswise direction to the machine's longitudinal axis and cooperating to define a small frame intervening sealingly between a suction assembly in the frame and a suction mouth of the container, and with snap-action hook-up elements provided between the frame and the pivotally-mounted guides and spring members projecting from the frame and acting by spring contact on the container.

Abstract: The door member of a self-closing hinge includes a cup which is concealed within a pocket formed in the inner side of a door. A curl on the frame member of the hinge pivotally receives a hinge pin which is carried by the cup. To effect the self-closing action, a leaf spring is mounted on the outer side of the end wall of the cup and includes a tongue which extends through an opening in the end wall and into resilient bearing engagement with the curl.

Abstract: A side door hinge mechanism for a motor vehicle includes a pair of top rotary center shafts supported on an end of the door at a top portion thereof, a pair of top rotary center shafts supported on the vehicle body, a pair of bottom rotary center shafts supported on the door, and a pair of bottom rotary center shafts supported on the vehicle body. The bottom rotary center shafts are aligned with the top rotary center shafts. A top control arm in rotatably connected at opposite ends to one of the top rotary center shafts on the vehicle body and one of the top rotary center shafts on the door. A bottom control arm is rotatably connected at opposite ends to the bottom rotary center shafts which are aligned with the top rotary center shafts which are rotatably connected to the top control arm. A main arm is formed integrally in the vertical direction, and i rotatably connected at its end portion to the remaining top and bottom rotary center shafts.

Abstract: A cutting support is illustrated in use on a poultry deboning conveyor and the like as having a plastic cutting shell with a conical wall open at the bottom and a sealing means carried at an upper portion of the conical wall positionable upon a conical fixture in upright position to receive a body cavity of poultry so as to be accessible to an operator for manual deboning. An important object is to make a removable and inexpensive way to debone poultry in the most sanitary means.

Abstract: This invention is a process and device for electrically stunning and stabbing of slaughter animals by using electrodes which from both sides grip round the snout of the animal and after stunning pull up the head to stretch its neck so that sticking of the carotid artery can take place into the property positioned neck by a properly positioned and guided knife which knife can be mounted upon an electrode.

Abstract: A moving frame (10) comprises a clamping means (25) and a tensioning bar (33) provided with grippers (35) and mounting on a rotary plate (29). By means of a jack (43), it is possible to vary the distance between the members (11 and 12), and to stretch the half-carcass (1). After the half carcass (1) has been gripped in a vertical position, the moving frame (10) is placed in a horizontal position by the action of the pinion (47) cooperating with the sector gear (46). In this position, the muscles are successively cut off from the carcass and the skeleton remains held in the moving frame (10).

Abstract: A hand operated, plier-like tool for cracking crabs and crab claws is provided, the tool having concaved portions in jaws for gripping and cracking the crabs or claws and the end of the tool defining a curved needle nose portion with teeth thereon for picking out exposed meat.

Abstract: Device for producing superposed webs of non-woven fabric on the exit side the end comber of a carding machine, particularly for feeding a needle quilter for felting. The device comprises an adjusting unit including a series of conveyor belts movable parallel to the direction of arrival of the web, and a traversing unit fed by the adjusting unit and including a feeder belt having a first section movable parallel to the conveying direction of the adjusting unit and a second section movable at right angles to this direction for feeding a belt delivering the web with fibres arranged longitudinally. The traversing unit is capable of performing an alternating rectilinear movement in a direction parallel to the conveying direction of the adjusting unit, in synchronism with the latter, and feeds the web to an end layering belt, which belt is movable parallel to the delivery belt and has a width corresponding substantially to the distance travelled by the traversing unit.

Abstract: A combing cylinder of a comber in spinning machinery has a combing cylinder having grooves having substantially rectangular cross-sectional shapes at regular intervals, each of the grooves having a small groove, and a plurality of laminated needle plate members having concave recessed portions at a position corresponding to the position at which the small groove is provided. An anti-slip member is locked in a space formed by the concave recessed portions and the small groove. The laminated needle plate member is formed by laminating needle plates, each having a concave recessed portion at one side of a needle inserting part and a connecting member locking part in which a connecting member is fixed.

Abstract: An improvement to a cam lock mechanism suitable for use in a wide variety of rope and belt tightening apparatus including boat anchor systems and tree seats and climbing aids to insure the positive engagement of the cam locking device employs a transverse rib which substantially spans the rope receiving gap between the ears on the cam wheel bracket.

Abstract: The pin incorporates a cylindrical body in which two sliding components are mounted, the two sliding components being intended to engage in lug holes or between the cheeks of a bracelet link or of a fastener. The sliding components have a threaded portion which is intended to be screwed into the lug holes so as to ensure locking of the pin. The cylindrical sliding components may either be held apart by a spring, or may be screwed into the tube.

Abstract: A mounting fastener 2 which includes various combinations of base plate 30, mounting bracket 4, and fastener 18 is disclosed. The mounting bracket 4 is a formed wire bracket to provide the stand-off distance between a supporting structure and a mounted panel. Mounting bracket 4 has a pair of parallel feet 6 and a pair of parallel legs 8 extending upward from these feet and a yoke 10 joining the legs in a generally transverse plane (which may or may not be parallel with the feet 6) over the feet, yoke 10 defining a collar 14 into which fastener 18 is resiliently snapped. Opposed tips 16, one extending at the end of each foot 6, adapt mounting bracket 4 for resilient snap engagement to a panel member. Bracket 4 snaps into engagement in channels 38 and tip holes 40 of the base plate 30. A simpler form of bracket 50 is adapted to hang on a supporting structure, also effecting the spacing of the mounted panel from the supporting structure.

Abstract: A device suitable for fixing panels comprises a male part having a mounting head and an elongate body between the mounting head and a retaining head. The retaining head has a retaining surface directed towards the mounting head, a snap-fastener surface, and a retaining edge defined by the intersection of the retaining surface with the snap-fastener surface. A female part of the device has a receptacle for the body of the male part and at least one circumferential sector for retaining the retaining head of the male part in the axial direction. The retaining edge is adapted to penetrate the retaining sector(s) to provide an axial retention opposing withdrawal of the male part from the receptacle in the female part.

Abstract: The present disclosure is concerned with a two piece reinforced clothes peg which is mounted on the transverse rod of a clothes horse, and consists of a pair of jaw members, joined together along one common edge thereof, and a J-shaped clamping member which is detachably engaged with the paired jaw members on the surface of which there are defined properly shaped niches for receiving the legs of the clamping member so that the jaw members can become closely and tightly clamped together for holding a piece of hanged clothes firmly in place with the help of a plurality of projecting stripes defined on the inner surface thereof; and the clamped jaw members can be released by simply pushing upward the front enlarged flange of the J-shaped clamping member.

Abstract: A two section mechanical fuse is disclosed. A first spring biased section fabricated from a wire is bent to a triangular configuration. This triangularly bent wire has two overlapping base portions held in side-by-side juxtaposition by the spring force of the wire. A bar having a radially extending tongue is captured within the triangular bent wire section. The tongue is captured between and protrudes outwardly from the side-by-side overlapping base members drawing the attached bar into contact with these side-by-side members. Under normal tensive strain the tongue and bar form the fused link in any tensive member to which the device is inserted, for example the teat cup assembly to a retractor in a dairy farm. Where force exceeding the fused limit is encountered, the tongue draws the bar between the two triangular base pieces. Forced opening of the two side-by-side members occurs, the fuse parts, and breakage elsewhere is averted.

Abstract: This invention is an apparatus for the handling and setting of all commonly used burial vaults and vault covers.Specifically this device quickly, efficiently and safely allows burial vaults to be held above the surface of the ground in a position that facilitates the lowering of a casket therein; and allows the vault cover to be properly displayed during graveside services and to be properly sealed on the vault and for the assembled vault unit to be lowered into the grave.

Abstract: A spreader roll that operates to convey flexible sheet material in its manufacture via a bowed shaft which supports a plurality of thermoplastic bearing units which are spaced laterally on the shaft by spacers to maintain a clearance space between sleeves in the bearing units. The end bearing units have sleeves and bearings therein that are sealed from external contaminants by a locking sleeve, an annular seal and end caps. A cylindrical sleeve encompasses all of the bearing units and is operative to contact the sheet material to be conveyed.

Abstract: A method for aligning bearing covers at bearing sections of a crankcase in which bearing covers of a crankshaft bearing are aligned by way of fastening bolts and subsequently machined-in fitting pins and wherein the bearing bore for the crankshaft is subsequently machined. Thereafter, the crankshaft is assembled whereby the bearing cover is at first aligned by the fitting pins and is then fixed by means of the fastening bolts. Not only a secure support of the bearing cover at the bearing sections is assured thereby, but also narrow tolerances which favorably influence the bearing support of the crankshaft, can be maintained without problem.

Abstract: A single-piece thermally isolated multi-point injector for a hydrazine fuel catalytic gas generator having a series of integral feed tubes each with a fuel passage and with the fuel inlet ends thereof spaced apart for ease of manufacture and inspection and associated with a distribution manifold. The feed tubes are arranged in spaced-apart circular arrays to facilitate formation thereof from an investment casting or by radial electrochemical machining cuts. The fuel injector retains the thermal isolation features of a welded or brazed capillary tube injector, but eliminates leakage points encountered in such a structure. The outlet end of each feed tube has a porous member associated therewith to obtain a uniform flow path of hydrazine fuel in all directions onto a catalyst bed.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of manufacturing a composite material burner ring made wholly of a composite material. The burner ring is manufactured by winding a carbon or ceramic type refractory material about a toroidal form until a specific material thickness is obtained. The burner ring elements, such as radial arms, fastening clips or fuel feed tubes are then fastened onto the winding. Each of the elements may be formed in mirror-image halves and may be assembled onto the burner ring body in adjacent pairs, each one of the pairs facing in an opposite direction. The winding of the composite material is continued until a final thickness is obtained, thereby integrally attaching the burner ring elements to the burner ring body. The assembly is then subjected to a carbonization or ceramization head treating process.

Abstract: Truck windshield sealing mouldings for GM or Ford products use a tool having a rectangular opening through which the insert moulding is fed to force same into the sealing moulding but this tool and configuration is not usable with truck products produced by Dodge and some foreign manufacturers. The present tool includes a flattened front end portion having a V-shaped aperture formed therein with the narrow apex of the V directed towards the pointed end of the tool. A preferred embodiment includes the aperture widening into a rectangular rear opening so that the tool can be used with the majority of truck windshields sealing mouldings including GM, Ford, and Dodge products as well as several foreign truck products.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to an extractor tool for removing valve lifters from an engine block or head in a fast convenient manner and with a minimum of manual dexterity or strength. The prior art devices provide tools having complicated force multiplying linkages and camming devices associated with a plurality of groove engaging fingers which are only adapted to engage a single groove or oil hole in the valve lifter body. The present invention overcomes these deficiencies by providing an extractor tool which is adapted to engage multiple grooves within the valve lifter body and assures precise alignment therebetween to eliminate any cocking of the lifter body relative to the extractor tool during removal of the lifter from the enginer block.

Abstract: A carbon steel with at least 1% by weight carbon and at least one carbide-forming alloying element such as chromium is forged into a construction machine-tool part for engagement with abrasive material, the forging provides a fiber extension direction which coincides with the principal direction of abrasive action.

Abstract: A roller or wheel of the type in question has rolling bearings (5) which must be pre-loaded; a unit and relative method of assembly as disclosed offers simple fitment of component parts, accurate pre-load, and economy of manufacture. The two bearings (5) are checked axially by external limiting means (9) and internal limiting means (8); the method of assembly features a step of compacting the component parts axially to the point where the reaction produced by the parts thus urged together offsets the applied compacting force, and a subsequent step of spreading the external limiting means (9) in such a way as to arrive at the requisite bearing pre-load.

Abstract: A new and improved method of making an opening extending between opposite faces of thin sheet material comprises the steps of forming a depression in one of the faces of the sheet material resulting in a projection opposite the depression on the opposite face protruding outwardly thereof and removing the projection to form an opening extending completely through the sheet material between said opposite faces.

Abstract: An apparatus for automatic treatment and machining of tubular sleeves. The apparatus comprises a number of stations in which various kinds of treatments and machining operations are performed. Each station comprises a clamping means in which the tubular sleeve rests while the treatment or machining operation associated with that station is being performed. Each station also comprises a movable carriage designed to adapt the station to tubular sleeves of various lengths.At each end of the tubular sleeve the stations are provided with one pivotable arm each, designed to lift the tubular sleeve away from the clamping means and advance it in a controlled manner to the next station. The stations are equipped with tools designed to treat and machine the tubular sleeve. One of the tools is movably mounted on the carriage.