Abstract: A wheel puller for use on large wheel and tire assemblies has a plate adapted for attachment to a tire rim. A back plate is spaced apart from this plate and extends across the axis of the wheel hub. Two wedge blocks are placed between the back plate and the wheel hub on either side of the center line of the wheel hub. A driving wedge is inserted between each wedge block and the back plate.In the process of using the wheel puller, the driving wedges are alternately tapped with a light hammer to pull the rim away from the hub. If necessary wedging spacers may be inserted between the driving wedges and the backplate to increase the distance that the wheel rim may be driven off the hub.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for interconnecting a drill collar and a stabilizer in axial alignment is disclosed. The tool includes an upper plate and a lower plate held in spaced, parallel relationship to one another with the upper plate having a plurality of peripheral holes around it. A plurality of rods project between the upper and lower plates, each one of the rods being mounted at a bottom end to the lower plate and inserted adjacent its top end in sliding relationship through one of the peripheral holes in the upper plate. A spring is placed around each of the rods for biasing the top plate away from the lower plate, and an attachment pin projects downwardly from the lower plate for insertion into a kelly pin hole on an oil rig. A stabilizing pin projects upwardly from the upper plate, and a rotatable plate is rotatably secured to that stabilizing pin intermediate the ends of the stabilizing pin.

Abstract: In a machine tool with an inclined machine bed in which two independently movable cross slides are provided, which carry turret heads with tool receivers automatically interchangeable tool grippers are adapted to bring the tools in predetermined positions into respective tool receivers.

Abstract: In an electric motor having a plurality of magnets bonded to a rotor hub, a composite sleeve is disposed over the rotor hub and magnets. The composite sleeve may be wound directly upon the rotor hub, or the composite sleeve may be wound upon a mandrel and slid over the rotor hub.

Abstract: A magnetic head (1) includes a core of a magnetic material having two parts (2, 3) spaced apart from each other to form a non-magnetic transducing gap (4) which is bounded on one side by a winding aperture (5) extending in the gap-bounding surface of at least one of the core parts and narrowing towards the transducing gap. To produce an accurate gap dimension the part of the winding aperture (5) immediately adjoining the transducing gap (4) is formed by a channel (6, 13, 20, 21, 32, 33) of a defined depth. The channel is formed in the gap-bounding surface of the core parts by means of an etching process. During the etching of the channels polishing marks may be simultaneously produced, the polishing marks serving as guides for subsequent grinding/polishing stages in the production of the magnetic head.

Abstract: This invention pertains to an improved means of making electrical and mechanical contact to metal foil electrode in an electrochemical cell. A conductive element is used which has a multiplicity of teeth projecting therefrom. The teeth pierce through the metal foil electrode and are bent over to be flush with the electrode surface. A strong mechanical and electrical bond results.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to self-piercing fasteners, such as studs, bolts or nuts, the method of attaching such fasteners to a panel and fastener installation apparatus, including the installation head and die button. The fastener includes a self-piercing and riveting annular wall which is driven into a panel supported against a die member by the installation head. The die member includes an annular die cavity surrounding a central projecting die portion which is telescopically receivable in the free open end of the fastener annular wall. The free end of the fastener annular wall includes a piercing surface which mates with a piercing surface at the outer edge of the projecting die portion to pierce a slug from the panel.

Abstract: A tandem clip system comprising a driving tool and a magazine for push-on clips of the type adapted to engage the post of a workpiece extending through a perforation in an element to which the workpiece is to be fastened. The push-on clips are arranged in tandem fashion in a strip thereof. Each clip comprises an integral part of the next adjacent clip with a line of weakening therebetween. The driving tool is conventional, having a driver and actuating means therefor. The driver is provided with a modified tip for severing the forwardmost clip from its strip and driving it on its respecting work piece post. The tool has a modifed guide body with a drive track for the driver tip. The clip feed mechanism is affixed to the guide body and actuated by the driver tip to advance the forwardmost clip to the drive track after each tool actuation. The guide body also has a clip support assembly for supporting each clip in the drive track including the last clip of a strip.

Abstract: A method for producing adhesive contacting of an IC on a substrate of a LC cell, comprising suspending the leads of the IC, in the opening of an insulating frame by means of the leads surrounding the leads with conductive adhesive and adhesively securing them on the substrate by means of the frame.

Abstract: An anisotropic elastomeric conductor is fabricated by stacking a plurality of first and second sheets, where the first sheets include a plurality of parallel electrically conductive fibers and the second sheets are composed of electrically insulating material. By introducing a curable elastomeric resin into the layered structure of sheets, and then curing the resin, a solid elastomeric block having a plurality of parallel electrically conductive fibers running its length is obtained. Individual elastomeric conductors suitable for interfacing between electronic components are obtained by slicing the block in a direction perpendicular to the conductors. The conductor slices so obtained are particularly suitable for interfacing between electronic devices having planar arrays of electrical contact pads.

Abstract: The device is a cutting tool for opening cardboard boxes and the like including a handle with rounded ends a blade slot and an adjustment opening. There is also provided a razor blade and an adjustment device to position the blade longitudinally within the blade slot.

Abstract: An artistic technical knife which has a double-edged blade having a sharpened point at its terminus and a number of frangible recesses extending at oblique angles from one edge of the blade to the opposite side of the blade to divide the blade into a number of triangles; a blade holder; and a push knob for extending and retracting the blade from the blade holder; wherein the outermost triangle on the blade can be severed and removed at the outermost cleavage recess to provide a new sharpened point at the terminus of the blade.

Abstract: In an inner rotary cutter for an electric shaver fomed by providing a rotary disk at its circumference with a plurality of blade sections at prescribed intervals, a cup-shaped base section is provided which is formed by extending a cylinder section from a circular section in the axial direction to a prescrived length, the base section on its circumference is provided, in one body, with vertically extended sections projecting in the axial direction, each vertically extended section at its tip is provided, in one body, with a horizontally extended section projecting approximately in the radial direction, and the front edge of the horizontally extended section in the direction of rotation is formed into a blade. A ceramic blade may be glued on the end face of the horizontally extended section.

Abstract: A punch tool provides two generally longitudinal handles joined by a transverse pivot pin that is carried in a resilient bushing. One of the handles defines a straight bore that houses a sliding punch die and further defines a support for a mating, stationary die. The second handle is joined to the sliding die such that relative movement between the handles causes the sliding die to move within the bore, toward or away from the stationary die. Flexibility of the bushing permits the pivot pin to shift its axis longitudinally of the tool while permitting straight movement of the sliding die.

Abstract: A tape measure case incorporates an actuating element to project a marking element through a guide aperture for marking at a measured distance. The marking element can be a pencil lead. It is accommodated within the case, and the bulk and shape of the case are little changed from conventional.

Abstract: In a process for establishing the driving direction of a vehicle by an electronic compass fixedly mounted in the vehicle and which is provided with a magnetometer having a computerized evaluation circuit the local curve (O) of the earth field (He) is determined from five measuring points (M1 . . . M5) which are established by turning the vehicle and corresponding signals are stored. The parameters for the center point displacement (Hs), the shape (ellipse) and the turning (angle .alpha.) of the local curve (O) in the vector diagram (x,y) are calculated by the computer by means of an algorithm with five unknowns for the five measuring points and thereafter the direction of the earth field (He) is computed. Subsequently, the vehicle is oriented to a predetermined cardinal direction and a correction angle is determined from the difference of angles between the cardinal and north directions and the earth's magnetic field direction measured by the compass.

Abstract: An adjustable carpenter's square is formed by having a main beam with a head secured to an upper portion of the main beam with a slide secured to the upper end of the main beam. The head and the slide are partially rotatablely secured to the main beam. The head and the slide are slideably and adjustably connected to each other also in addition to being connected to the head.

Abstract: A device (gage, data station, and software) and method to measure mean radius and deviations from mean radius of nominally cylindrical or conical shapes in a plane perpendicular to the nominal axis of revolution using curvature measurements at uniformly spaced intervals about the circumference is described. The system divides the contour of interest into equal segments and measures the local curvature at each point. The group of measurements combines with a closure constraint to produce a condition of mathematical overcompleteness. This is used to minimize the accumulation of measurement error.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for applying ultrasonic energy to a continuously moving web of paperboard at the same time it is being press-dried by being subjected to pressure and heat.

Abstract: An improved, high efficiency rotary drum dryer and method is disclosed which achieves outstanding thermal efficiencies by provision of a multiple-pass rotary dryer designed so that the product to be dried is first conveyed through an outermost drum of relatively large cross-sectional area and then through succeeding internal drums of progressively smaller cross-sectional areas. In this way, the velocity of induced air currents traveling through the dryer increases from pass to pass, with the result that the net velocity of product through successive passes also increases. The preferred dryer also includes housing structure in surrounding relationship to the innermost drum permitting introduction of relatively low humidity ambient-derived air into the central drum so as to lower the partial pressure of moisture in the drying atmosphere, thus promoting the final stage of drying.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is an equipment provided with a fabric deodorization loop and a fabric cooling loop, both of which are connected in closed loop to the container into which the fabric is delivered, and an activated charcoal cooling loop, it too being a closed loop, connected to the filters of the deodorization loop.

Abstract: An antiwear and nonskid protective element for a shoe heel, which comprises an outside first part in which a through opening is made the surface of the cross section of which is greater on the side in contact with the heel of the shoe than on the side of its free end; and a second part comprising a head, whose shape and dimensions correspond approximately to those of said opening, and a rod provided with a rigid inside reinforcement, the rod being able to be driven with force into a hole made in the heel for the fastening of the element. Thus, an effective and reliable fastening of the element to the free end of the heel.

Abstract: A multi-layer shoe insole comprises a lowermost metal layer connected to a polyethylene foam layer via a film of polyethylene. An uppermost layer in the form of a felt material is connected to the polyethylene foam via a textile net embedded in a layer of synthetic resin. The insole is provided with a removably attached arch support and a removably attached heel cup. The layers of the insole are stitched to one another by a pair of threads which also serve to maintain the peripheral edge of the insole are a smooth line.

Abstract: An improved detachable tooth bar for use with excavating buckets wherein the improvements are in the provision of stops against which the lip of the bucket bears; in the positioning of the outermost tooth of the tooth bar so as to be near the corner between the lip of the bucket and the upright side of the bucket in cooperation with; the provision of a projection of the bar beyond the outside edges of the bucket serve to break up the material through which the bucket is pressed and thereby avoid the build-up of distorting forces on the bar's mounting plate and mounting plate securement means.

Abstract: A laundry feeding machine features a conveyor moving through a suction induction tunnel. Articles are held at their upper edges by an automatically releasing clamp to hang in front of the induction tunnel. Upon release of the clamp, a valving system is immediately actuated to apply suction to suck the article in to lie flat on the conveyor to be transported thereby. In one version of the invention, a nip roller based at the outlet of the system engages the leading edge of each article as it passes through, whereupon the valving system is actuated to suck the remainder of the article into a suction chamber having a smoothing blade at the entrance port thereof, so that as the article is drawn out of the suction chamber by the nip roller, a smoothing action occurs. A system of computer-controlled valve actuators responsive to properly laced photosensors governs all valving operations automatically.

Abstract: A mobile comprised of photographs and like planar objects in combination with a mailer. A plurality of photograph mounts are provided for mounting photographs along a flexible cord. The resulting mobile is collapsed into a small pile and placed in a mailer. The cord is secured to a detachable tab portion of the mailer so that the mobile is readily removed from the mailer for immediate display through detachment of the detachable tab portion. The photograph mounts used further permit selection of either a vertical or horizontal mounting of the photographs, and accommodate photographs of different size.

Abstract: A modular frame structure including a plurality of elongated frame side sections having means for retaining an article to be displayed, a plurality of frame corner sections for joining adjacent frame side sections to one another, alignment means for insuring alignment between the corner sections and their adjacent side sections and a threaded member extending generally parallel to the longitudinal axis of the side sections for securing the corner sections to their respective adjacent side sections.

Abstract: A manually changeable digital display device capable of displaying the numerals zero through 9 comprises a background panel having an optic or brightly colored face and a one-piece foreground panel adjacent to and parallel with the background panel. The one-piece foreground panel has seven elongated windows or openings which expose seven corresponding segments of the background panel. Each of the windows is covered by a flap which is integrally formed with the foreground panel and is hinged thereto. The desired numerals are formed by opening and closing the appropriate flaps to expose the appropriate corresponding segments thereby displaying the desired numerals. Two or more such digital display units can be arranged side by side to display the numerals 10 through any desired number.

Abstract: A display panel illumination device has a display member for transmitting predetermined information, a light source for illuminating the display member, and a light guiding member for guiding light emitted from the light source to the display member. The light guiding member is made of a flexible transparent or translucent material.

Abstract: A firearm including a barrel holder for accommodating interchangeable barrels. A breechblock housing, connected to a stock, includes in a forward zone thereof, a recess having an abutment surface for absorbing recoil forces, with the barrel including a tubular member fixedly connected to a rear end thereof and including an extension fitting into the recess. The tubular member has a relatively large axial length and extends forwardly from a locking mechanism beyond a cartridge chamber of the firearm. The extension is provided at the rear end of the tubular member, and the abutment surface has an undercut portion partially extending over the extension from above. A downwardly projecting second extension is provided at the front end of the tubular member, with the second extension including a locking bolt recess. The breechblock housing extends up to a zone of the second extension and carries, at that location, a locked bolt cooperating with the locked bolt recess.

Abstract: A longline assembly includes an elongated main longline element, a plurality of longitudinally spaced gangion lines attached to the longline element, and a plurality of hooks on the outer extremities of the gangion lines. The gangion lines each include a monofilament core element and a braided outer casing which is formed in a tight solid braid pattern over the core element to firmly secure the outer casing to the core element. The core elements add preselected degrees of stiffness to the gangion lines to maintain them in substantially outwardly extended relation to the longline element during fishing operations, and the outer casings provide improved surface characteristics which facilitate handling and knotting or otherwise terminating of the gangion lines.

Abstract: An automatic sprouts culture bag having a plurality of longitudinal culture unit bags for storing sprout seeds, connected in series and may be hung on a lateral rod or wall for nursing sprouts in the air in conjunction with a water-dropping device arranged above said longitudinal culture unit bags for feeding water in drops from either a water bucket of a water faucet to said longitudinal culture unit bags, a plurality of siphons arranged in offset between two adjoining longitudinal culture unit bags for siphoning water from the upper longitudinal culture unit bag into the lower one for submerging the sprout seeds stored in an inner perforated bag received in said longitudinal culture unit bag, and an outer dark bag enclosing said longitudinal culture unit bags to prevent the sprouts from being exposed to the sunlight in order to form a dark environment for better growth of the sprouts.

Abstract: A subirrigation mat has a substrate covering an area across which several potted plants are to be irrigated. Connected along the substrate are a plurality of channel members upon which the plant containers sit. A main conduit connected at respective open ends of the channel members provides irrigating fluid concurrently to each channel member. This fluid flows through outlet holes in the channel members and into the containers placed above the holes. A valve can be associated with each outlet hole to close it when a container is not placed above the hole. A cup can be associated with each outlet hole or valve to facilitate communication between the hole in the channel member and the hole in the bottom of the container.

Abstract: Membrane-forming polymeric systems comprising the molecular association product of a polymeric carboxylic acid having at least 10% of the monomer units containing free carboxylic groups with an ethoxylated nonionic surfactant; methods for the preparation of such polymeric systems; and a broad range of applications for such systems with particular emphasis on the release of diverse active agents at a continuous and controlled rate.

Abstract: Cutlery sharpening method and apparatus for sharpening a cutlery blade edge wherein the blade edge to be sharpened is pivoted into and yieldingly moved along a blade sharpening surface when moved in one direction and pivoted out of and moved above the blade sharpening surface when moved in an opposite direction.

Abstract: A workpiece holding assembly is operable in combination with a machining apparatus, such as a grinding or milling machine, for presenting a workpiece to a cutting tool of the machining apparatus in various different angular positions in order to adapt the machining apparatus for producing undercut areas, such as dovetail-shaped slots, in the workpiece. The workpiece holding assembly includes a base which is mountable on a machining apparatus, a gimble which is rotatably mounted on the base, a mounting assembly for securing a workpiece on the gimble and a drive assembly for automatically rotating the gimble to tilt the workpiece. The workpiece holding assembly is preferably utilized in combination with a machining apparatus of a type having a computerized numerical control, and it is preferably adapted to be interconnected with the computerized control for automatically controlling the rotational movement of the gimble.

Abstract: A cutting disk mounting assembly includes opposing end plates with a stub shaft attached to an exterior surface of one end plate. The plates have a first axial bore formed in the interior surface of the one plate and a protruding axial hub formed on the interior surface of the other plate. The hub is sized to fit in the first bore so as to align the plates in a clamping relation with their interior surfaces located adjacent to one another. A second axial bore is formed through the other plate and the axial hub thereon and a third axial bore is formed through the one plate so as to open into the first bore therein. The third bore aligns with the second bore when the hub is fitted in the first bore. Also, the third bore contains threads which threadably interengage with a threaded fastening screw when the latter is applied through the second bore to attach the aligned plates together in the clamping relation with respect to a cutting disk when the latter is disposed therebetween.

Abstract: An orbital sander/grinder has on one side of its housing a rotatably mounted disk holder which is brought into orbital motion by means of a drive mechanism that is inside the housing, and is coupled with an eccenter. The eccenter is rotatably mounted on one side in the housing, on the other side in the disk holder, while the rotational axis in the housing is radially offset relative to the rotational axis of the eccenter in the disk holder, but the two axes run parallel to each other. A balancing weight for compensating the unbalance rotates in synchronization with the eccenter. To ensure sanding/grinding with a minimum of vibration, means are provided to compensate for the transverse forces generated by the abrasive and/or cutting forces that are exerted at the eccenter.

Abstract: A hand-held grinding machine with a device for the suction of grinding dust comprises a motor with a motor shaft, an eccentric drive for driving a support of a grinding sheet. The machine further includes a fan wheel which carries an element for compensating for imbalance mass of the eccentric drive.

Abstract: Machining apparatus (10) which can be mounted on the cage (15) of a slew bearing (12) to grind the bearing surface (23) of a rail section (13). The machining apparatus is provided with a grinding profile 30 which it may follow to perform the desired cut along the rail section (13).

Abstract: A geodesic dome includes a strut assembly including groups of primary struts having end connectors, each of which has a first hinge loop pinned to a second hinge loop of a successive primary strut end connector so that the end connectors formed closed rigid hubs from which the primary struts outwardly extend. Interconnection of the primary struts by means of the end connectors forms a plurality of primary triangles. Each primary triangle is divided into four secondary triangles by means of three secondary struts having their ends connected to the midportions of the three primary struts forming the primary triangle. Each primary strut and each secondary strut is composed of a pair of glued-together pre-finished wooden beams, the hinge loops of the primary strut end connectors being attached to opposite sides of a plate attached between the wooden beams at each end thereof. A plurality of straps are also attached between the wooden beams and extend from the outer surfaces of the primary and secondary struts.

Abstract: An expansion joint for a grain silo is sealed by a mesh-reinforced diaphragm having its peripheral edge-portions bonded to surfaces of the silo adjoining the joint to form a continous seal around it. The intermediate portion of the diaphragm has a flexible bulging portion protecting the joint and spaced from it. The diaphragm is made by covering the joint with a separating strip and applying a thick continuous layer of a viscous sealing agent over the exposed faces of the strip and the adjoining silo surfaces. The mesh is incorporated into the layer and has stiffly-resilient strands extending in the direction of flexing of the diaphragm. The layer cures to form the diaphragm which separates spontaneously from the separation strip the first time the silo expands, to form a bulging portion in the diphragm around the joint.

Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for the removal of accumulated snow loads from roofs. The apparatus comprises a plurality of upper and lower brackets affixable to a planar roof surface in spaced configuration thereon. Each bracket has one or more slots capable of receiving and retaining a wire. Actuation of the system by pulling a wire causes the wire to be released from the upper brackets, and to slice through an accumulated snow load, breaking the seal between the snow and the roof and resulting in the snow sliding off the roof.

Abstract: A plug (P) is present in the bore (B) of a wedge gripping device (W) in a barrel (1) of a grip. The device (W) is formed of tapering segments (4) which are held apart by the plug (P). When a length of wire or strand element (E) is received in the device (W), the plug (P) is diplaced out of the bore (B) so causing the device (W) to grip the element (E).

Abstract: A steel joist is disclosed consisting of a web, a bottom chord and a double top chord construction consisting of two elongated substantially identical portions each being of S cross-section and being connected to or integral with the web.

Abstract: A roofing tile comprises a rectangular panel having first and second longitudinal edge portions adapted to extend in the slope direction of a sloped roof and an upper lateral edge and a lower lateral edge is adapted to run parallel to the horizontal edges of the sloped roof. The upper lateral edge and the first longitudinal edge portion has an upstanding ledge portion. The second longitudinal edge portion has a raised portion with a downwardly extending flange. The raised portion is adapted to overlap the upstanding ledge of the first longitudinal edge portion of an adjacent tile. The bottom lateral edge portion has a downwardly extending flange adapted to overlap the upstanding ledge at the upper lateral edge portion of a further adjacent tile. A lower portion of the first longitudinal edge portion is provided with fastener access means whereby a fastener can be passed therethrough to anchor the tile to the roof.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a bagging machine which handles bags linked together in a chain-like arrangement, the machine being of a construction that the movement of the chain of bags is controlled such that the bags in the chain, especially those in the filling zone and lead up to the filling zone, can be precisely positioned.

Abstract: At the upper side of the star wheel bottle feeder of a bottle capping machine, a chamber which encompasses the bottle neck is attached at each pocket in the periphery of the star wheel in which the bottle neck is registered as it is transported in a circular orbit. At the top side, the chamber has an opening for a reciprocating sealing element which revolves with the star wheel. The chamber has a circular internal bore and an opening on its radially outermost side that allows bottles to be passed through it and into a pocket on the star wheel. There is a nozzle slot at the radial inside of the chamber diametrically opposite from the outside gas exit opening. The gas input slot has an elbow connected to it and the elbow is connected to a gas distributor valve which is, in turn, connected to a source of carbon dioxide.

Abstract: A method of producing film-wrapped packages or packaged units, wherein a package or packaged unit is wrapped in a film hose formed by helical wrapping of the film (web) (30). In front of the wrapping front advancing relative to the package, a tear-up thread is also enclosed by the forming film hose. A wakening (tear-up) line is formed in the film hose in the vicinity and along the length of the tear-up thread. Here, an abutment for a spiked roller (10) is formed by a stationary tongue (12) above a conveyor belt (6) and below the film (web) (30).

Abstract: The apparatus incorporates a conveyor having a generally horizontal upper run which includes container receiving and supporting apertures, at a first station. At a second station along the conveyor path, the containers are each filled with a predetermined amount of a flowable product which is dispensed into each of the containers during relative vertical separating movement of a filler nozzle with respect to each container. Thereafter, each of the product-filled containers is conducted to a third station along the conveyor path wherein a closure fitment is positioned within the opening of the filled conical container. At a fourth station along the conveyor path, a crimping device mechanically crimps the upper edge of the container about an upturned annular flange of the closure fitment to thereby form a mechanical connection between the closure fitment and the conical container.