Abstract: Methods of an apparatus for cleaning an electro-mechanical transducer such as a "mouse" used for moving cursors on a computer display terminal comprise a scrubbing ball having a "hook" VELCRO surface and a pad having a "loop" VELCRO surface. The VELCRO covered ball is lightly coated with solvent, inserted into the recess of the "mouse" and rolled over the "loop" VELCRO surface. This rolling action scrubs the interior of the "mouse" and transfers dust, debris and suspended oil from the recess of the mouse to the pad.

Abstract: The invention relates to a cleaning-device combination for cleaning shore water (W) and shore area (S) contaminated by oil (O). The combination comprises at least one brush (1) having an arm and a collecting container (6) having as part of the container or separately a scraper or suchlike for removing the oil adhering to the brush and for directing the oil into the container. The object is to create a combination which as much as possible facilitates and rationalizes this sort of manual cleaning work. The brush of the combination comprises a substantially cylindrical bristled part (2) and an arm (3) centrally secured to it.

Abstract: A feather brush comprises a resilient member having a plurality of feathers inserted thereinto so that their shafts penetrate through to a second side thereof where they are embedded in a body of solid adhesive material so that they cannot be removed therefrom. The brushes are particularly well adapted for use as large area tack brushes employed in the preparation of articles for painting or coating. Also disclosed herein is a method for the manufacture of such brushes.

Abstract: The device includes a coiled extension spring, one end containing a hook for pivotal attachment either to the door or door frame, the other end being open to receive an elongated, tubular guide, one end of which threads into the open end of the spring. The other end of the guide is closed and contains a coaxial aperture through which slides an elongated rod having one end adapted for pivotal attachment to the other of the door or door frame and a piston attached to its second end which is slidably-retained within the guide to position the rod during relative coaxial sliding of the rod and guide, and to stop the rod against further protractive movement when the piston abuts the closed end of the guide. Camming surfaces located radially on the piston cooperate with opposing follower means in the guide, of which two embodiments are disclosed, to clamp the piston in the most extensive position of the rod, which clamping action can be overcome by a retractive force of the rod of a predetermined amount.

Abstract: A compound counterbalance system for window sashes and the like, comprising: a biasing mechanism for easing operation of a window sash and the like, the biasing mechanism being movable at an inherently variable of force; a first biasing force transmission, connected intermediately of the window sash and the like and the biasing mechanism, for increasing the effective range of movement of the biasing mechanism; and, a second biasing force transmission connected intermediately of the first biasing force transmission and the biasing mechanism, the second biasing force transmission having a variable rate of operation predetermined to automatically compensate for the variability of the biasing mechanism, to provide substantial constancy of the biasing force. The biasing mechanism preferably comprises a linearly extensible and contractible spring. In one embodiment, both the first and second biasing force transmissions comprise pulley and cable systems.

Abstract: A hinge of the type wherein a rotor is connected to a front part of a base by link arms in such a manner as to be capable of rotating with respect to the base, and the base is fitted to the fitting member which is fitted to the main body of furniture. The base is provided with a set screw having a ring-like engagement portion at the tip thereof, an elongated hole, and a sliding member having hook portions and pawl portions fitted by a screw inserted through the elongated hole. The fitting member is provided with a notch to which the ring-like engagement portion of the set screw engages from forward side, recesses with which the hook portions of the sliding member are engaged, and a lever having grooves engaging with the pawl portions of the sliding member from forward side, urged forward by a spring rotatably.

Abstract: A closing or holding device having at least one zig-zag shaped access slit. The access slit leads to an opening for placing an object, such as a plastic bag, to be closed or held. The opening may contain slots, teeth, threads, or other gripping means for better gripping the object. The device may contain a label section for descriptive or identifying purposes. The device may also have wrap indentations for guiding and closing the object.

Abstract: An improved method and apparatus for producing hooks on hook-and-loop fasteners, wherein loops on a loop sheet are cut from the outside thereof on one of the legs thereof near loop heads by reciprocating first movable cutting comb teeth of a first movable blade in a direction perpendicular to the axes of first stationary cutting comb teeth of a stationary blade while the loops are guided along the first stationary cutting comb teeth, thereby producing a hook from each loop thus severed, and then the severed leg of each severed loop is further cut from the outside of the loop near a foundation fabric by reciprocating second movable cutting comb teeth of a second movable blade in a direction perpendicular to the axes of second stationary cutting comb teeth of the stationary blade while the severed leg is held in one of the two adjacent guide grooves defined in the stationary blade.

Abstract: There is disclosed a device for guiding and spreading out a moving material web, which includes a spreading station, a guide station and at least one edge-sensing system downstream from the guide station. The spreading station is arranged downstream from the guide station, so that very high web speeds can be realized because the web corrections are executed very gently and without whipping up the correcting pulses.

Abstract: In one embodiment, the oscillating pinch roll assembly or web handling apparatus includes a rotatable spindle having an input which accepts the tubular web. A pinch roller is mounted at the input. A plurality of rollers are circumferentially disposed around the pinch roller and the axis of rotation of those rollers is parallel to the center line of the tubular web. A turning bar is disposed in the interior of the spindle and turns the flattened web exiting the pinch rollers 90 degrees and feeds the horizontal web to a first roller of the plurality of rollers disposed at the periphery of the spindle. The traveling web always passes over this first roller. By rotating the spindle in an oscillatory manner about the center axis of the tubular web, the horizontally traveling, flat web is wound and unwound around the outer periphery of the spindle and is fed to a fixed idler roller.

Abstract: Methods and means for allowing heddles to be drawn-in with warp yarns away from a loom for subsequent loading into the loom. A heddle holder allows rows of drawn-in heddles to be carried to the loom. Removable heddle rod sections allow for the heddle holder to load the rows of drawn-in heddles into intermediate portions of heddle rods of adjacent harness frames. The heddle holder also positions the adjacent harness frames during loading of the drawn-in heddles. Individual warp yarn beam canisters provided with the drawn-in heddles facilitate the heddle holder loading of the drawn-in heddles into the harness frames. A protective covering protects the drawn-in warp yarns as they are transferred from the remote drawing-in site to the loom.

Abstract: The treatment of a filament cable in a device into which it is introduced, in which it is crimped, treated with a gas, and withdrawn, characterized by the fact that the cable is crimped using a crimping device which is operated gas-dynamically, which has been mounted into the front face of a device for the treatment of the cable with a gas, and is thus introduced into this device in the manner of a sluice, and is folded using a slide with an S-shaped section onto a gas-permeable, horizontally transporting base as a crimping cake, is treated there with the gas, and is finally withdrawn from the device.

Abstract: An apparatus for the treatment of workpieces by means of temperature and pressure shocks through the ignition of a combustible gas mixture, particularly a thermal deburring system, is proposed whose workpiece treatment chamber (1, 21, 34) consists of an outer hollow member (3, 22, 35) and an inner hollow member (4, 29, 37) which are guided one into the other and are arranged so as to be movable relative to one another, the inner hollow member (4, 29, 37) having at least one combustion space (10, 31, 32, 39, 40) for receiving the workpieces, which combustion space (10, 31, 32, 39, 40) can be brought into the area of a wall (5, 23) of the outer hollow member closing the combustion space by means of a relative movement of the two hollow members.

Abstract: An improved roller apparatus for treating material webs, in which energy requirements are reduced by decreasing losses caused by fluid turbulence. The apparatus includes a cylindrical, hollow roll, supported on a shaft by hydraulic fluid under pressure. Longitudinal seals subdivide the area between the roll and the shaft into chambers. As the roll rotates, a fluid flow is established within the cylinder, in the direction of rotation. Rather than allow the fluid to establish a turbulent return flow path within each chamber, a return path isolated from the rotational flow is provided. One such return path is a group of channels formed transversely through the shaft, or alternately, recesses can be formed circumferentially in the shaft, covered to separate the return flow from the rotational flow.

Abstract: A method for joining stacked thin plates (metal sheets in particular) or plate sections by stamping dies, and an apparatus for performing the method, in which stacked plate portions are severed by stamping them along a longitudinal portion of their peripheries and pressed them out of the plane of the plate, and in which subsequently, by means of a counterpressure die element, the plate portion nearer the plates is enlarged on the cut sides by swaging, yet without the plate portion remote from the plates being enlarged. Further, during the stamping and pressing operation the counterpressure die element, or the swaging die, remains stationary inside the bottom die 2, but subsequently, during the coining operation that generates higher pressing forces, the yields counter to an elastic supporting force, whereupon the flowing material of the plate piece nearer the plates forms flange portions which grip the plate associated with it from behind.

Abstract: A pad forming device for forming attachment pads in an automotive inner body panel element to provide for the attachment of an outer body panel to the inner body panel. The outer body panel must be attached at a precise location and the inner body panel element is not as precisely positioned. The device has one or more fixed anvils which are positioned at a predetermined position adjacent to, but spaced from, the inner body panel element, the magnitude of such spacing varying with the position of the inner body panel element. Movable floating locators that are disposed on opposite sides of each fixed anvil are advanced toward the inner body panel element until they make contact therewith, at which time the floating locators are locked in a fixed position.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for performing the method, for connecting stacked thin plates 4, 5 (in particular sheet-metal plates) or plate sections, according to which stacked flat parts 10, 11 of both plates are first deep drawn together with one another, after which the bottom area of the deep-drawn flat parts is swaged wider, and wherein the radial expansion of the bottom area of these deep-drawn flat parts is limited, as a result of which a plastic deformation of the material of the plate takes place, particularly in the peripheral area, so that a connection point is created. By means of a crimp 17 present in the peripheral area of the bottom 16 of the blind opening 3 of the die 2, the swaged material flows into itself at the point that is to be connected, and hence the clinching strength, is improved.

Abstract: A method of forming a ball screw member from an elongated workpiece having an outer cylindrical surface, as well as the ball screw member formed by the method. A helical ball screw thread is machined on the outer cylindrical surface, the helical ball screw thread having a helical groove and a helical crest surface. An end journal or other end treatment is formed in the workpiece, the end journal or other end treatment being located during the forming operation relative to the helical crest surface. Alternatively the end journal or other end treatment is formed in the workpiece and the helical screw thread is then machined while the outer cylindrical surface is located relative to the end journal or other end treatment during the machining of the helical ball screw thread on the outer cylindrical surface. The outer cylindrical surface of the workpiece may be centerless ground prior to the machining of the helical ball screw thread.

Abstract: The present invention provides for an apparatus and method for installing weather stripping in a body door opening. In its preferred embodiment the present invention provides a robot which can load itself from a weather stripping station, transfer the weather stripping to the body door opening, and install the weather stripping within the body door opening. The present invention also provides an end of arm tooling device for a robot above described. The present invention also includes a vehicle produced by the robot above described.

Abstract: A fuel assembly fabrication apparatus includes a stationary support fixture and a slide fixture mounted to one end portion thereof for movement therealong. Clamp structures are disposed in spaced relation longitudinally along the stationary support fixture. One clamp structure is mounted on the movable slide fixture and supports a top nozzle and an uppermost one of a plurality of grids of a fuel assembly. The remaining clamp structures are mounted on the stationary support fixture and support a bottom nozzle and the remaining grids. The clamp structures respectively support the top nozzle and uppermost grid and the bottom nozzle and remaining grids in generally parallel relationship with passageways defined in the top and bottom nozzles and sleeves connected on the grids being aligned for slidably receiving therethrough a plurality of guide thimbles and an instrumentation tube of the fuel assembly for attachment to the nozzles and grid sleeves.

Abstract: An apparatus for preparing stacks of armature disks, which comprises a guide track receiving and guiding successive disks in a direction perpendicular thereto to form a stack, a drive arranged to push against one of the stack ends to advance the stack in this direction along the guide track, an abutment arranged to stop the opposite end of the stack driven thereagainst by the drive, and a device for removing a predetermined portion of the stack adjacent the opposite end.

Abstract: The invention involves apparatus for equipping circuit boards with electronic components wherein the terminal pins of the components inserted into openings in the circuit board lying on an anvil. The anvil serves the purpose of severing and bending the terminal lugs by means of suitable cutting tools each consisting of a stationary and a movable knife. Monitoring devices are provided for the terminal pin ends protruding from the openings on the side of the circuit board opposite the components. According to the invention, there is assigned to each terminal pin (26, 27) a magnetic field-dependent sensor (151, 251), whose actuating magnet (131-140, 231) is movable over monitored. Preferably the individual push rods (101 to 110) are guided at a lateral distance between the movable knifes (7, 10; 17, 20), under spring pressure.

Abstract: An insulator-jack for replacing damaged electrical insulators in a string of insulators comprises a pair of threaded rods disposed in substantially parallel relation to one another, a pair of coplanar spaced-apart insulator clamping collars, each being connected to opposite ends of the rods by a pair of lateral arms, wherein one of the insulator clamping collars is movably positionable along the threaded rods by a pair of ratchet members to selectively vary the distance between the two clamping collars. The non-movable clamping collar is provided with an upwardly and inwardly projecting safety tongue which engages the connection between the insulator clamped within the collar and the next-above insulator in the string, and is also provided with inward projections along the internal periphery to securely engage the insulator and thereby prevents slippage of the insulator.

Abstract: This apparatus comprises an x-ray film cassette, comprising first light-tight housing means for a feeding magazine including unexposed x-ray films, second light-tight housing means for the cassette, magazine handling means operating in said first housing means for removing an unexposed x-ray film from the feeding magazine, cassette handling means operating in said second housing means for removing an exposed x-ray film from the cassette and introducing an unexposed x-ray film into the cassette, powered actuator means for said magazine and cassette handling means and interfunctional service means for said actuator means and cassette and magazine handling means, characterized by comprising:(a) a plurality of distinct and superimposed units, each comprising a self-supporting structure (6,7,8), said plurality including:i. one ground unit (1), containing the major portion of said interfunctional service means,ii.

Abstract: A razor and toothbrush assembly comprises a body member having chambers disposed therein and handles slidably disposed thereon, the chambers containing shaving cream and toothpaste dispensers disposed therein whereby shaving cream and toothpaste disposed in the shaving cream and toothpaste dispensers are dispensed from the shaving cream and toothpaste dispensers by pressing the handles against the shaving cream and toothpaste dispensers, respectively.

Abstract: A hole making implement of the cylindrical saw blade type for connection with a drill bit and the chuck of a drilling machine is made as a unitary member of sheet metal. The member has an axially split, central sleeve portion adapted to receive the shank of a drill bit and be inserted into the chuck together with the drill bit so as to be fixable, for operation, without requiring a conventional radial clamp screw. The sleeve portion may be provided on conventional hole saw bodies as well.

Abstract: A hydraulic cutter comprising a pair of blades held by arms extending from a hydraulic piston, said blades being pivotally associated with one another, and having cutting edges at one end and rounded edges at the other end thereof; and said piston comprising an arrow-shaped piston head adapted to wedge between the blades and separate them near their rounded edges as the piston extends along its axis, thereby forcing the cutting edges to close.

Abstract: A pole mounted pruning tool with a pair of cutting jaws, one being pivotally movable in relation to the other to effect a cutting action. The movable jaw is pivoted by an operating lever which has an adjustable length, thereby providing a means of varying the cutting torque.

Abstract: A portable apparatus for pruning tree limbs or trimming hedges, including a cutting head having a hedge trimmer disc or carrier means for a chain bar having a chain saw provided with means for angular adjustment of said chain bar to an infinite plurality of rotary positions relative to said cutting head, said cutting head mounted at the top of a telescoping boom means containing a transmission means of adjustable length which provides intermittent rotary motion to the chain saw or hedge trimmer disc transmitted from a pulling force produced by manual operation or produced by a power source.

Abstract: A hand-held linear measuring device is enclosed within an elongated housing which has a handle at one end and an opening at the opposite end. A wheel mounted on the housing and protruding through the opening rotates as it engages and is drawn across a surface to be measured. As the wheel is rotated, it rotates a selector disk about a parallel axis. A plurality of radially extending elongated slots are formed in the selector disk at equally spaced azimuthal locations. A contact member extends transversely through each slot and is selectively, releasably, fastened thereto at one of a plurality of predetermined radial positions. As the selector disk rotates, it causes the contact members to successively engage an electrically conductive resilient whisker member extending across the path of their advance.

Abstract: A marking device is described which is adapted to be mounted on one side of a tape measure which is comprised of a tape housing having a measuring tape coiled therein for extension therefrom through a tape issuing opening. The marking device comprises a support which is secured to one side of the tape measure housing and which extends forwardly therefrom. An elongated upstanding tubular housing is positioned on the forward end of the support with the lower end of a tubular housing being positioned laterally of the tape issuing opening. A marking member is selectively vertically mounted in the tubular housing which is adapted to be moved downwardly into marking contact with the article being measured.

Abstract: A new solid state electronic position indicator used to determine the horizontal and longitudinal level attitude of a recreation vehicle. This device, mounted on the frame of the vehicle, senses an imbalance condition by relying on a gravity sensitive compound pendulum. The pendulum is rectangular in shape, rotating about a shaft mounted ball bearing. Movement of this pendulum is detected by the electronic sensing circuit. This circuit sends an electrical signal to a visual or audio receiver mounted within a control panel, remote from the sensor. The control panel is normally mounted on dash of tow vehicle. The signal display indicates which side or end of the recreation vehicle requires elevation to attain a level attitude required to safely operate the propane gas operated appliances, e.g. (refrigerator, hot water heater) and provide creature comfort.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of drying a particulate material which is thereafter to be heat-treated, the material and a gaseous drying medium being brought in contact with each other in a drying apparatus, where water is made to pass from the material to the drying medium by heating. According to the invention a pressure above atmospheric is maintained in the drying apparatus and the drying medium in the drying apparatus is substantially steam. Heating is carried out by means of excess heat generated in the heat treatment.

Abstract: A shoe pad includes an air-blowing compression chamber provided in the central space, a protruding tongue plate provided on the end portion of the pad to serve as a shoe-lift and plural concave slots or guide holes formed in the protruding tongue plate for circulating air passages, so that the shoe pad may be put into any shoe to enforce the air circulation in a shoe.

Abstract: A composite outsole has a substantially planar first element with a bottom tread surface, a top surface spaced from the bottom surface, and an outwardly facing side edge extending around the bottom tread surface. A lip extends around the top surface and protrudes laterally beyond the outwardly facing side edge.A second element is molded onto the top surface of the first element. The second element has a peripheral portion overlapping the lip of the first element. An inwardly facing side edge on the peripheral portion is spaced laterally from the outwardly facing side edge of the first element to define a downwardly open groove therebetween.

Abstract: The device comprises a lever, pivotally coupled at its upper end to a ski boot rear quarter, adapted for entraining a cable. The cable is arranged for interconnecting the front and rear quarters of a ski boot in two separate zones, spaced apart from each other along the longitudinal extension of the quarters.

Abstract: A ski boot is provided with indexing means for accurately locating an orthotic in the boot.

Abstract: An insole (10) exhibits on its upper side facing the sole of the foot, in the region of the foot's reflex zones, flat, somewhat lenticular softly resilient massaging cushions (3,4,5,6,7,8), made of latex rubber for example, corresponding in contour and extent to the respective reflex zone to be stimulated.

Abstract: A placer mining apparatus for intaking a slurry of water and ore bearing soils and directing the slurry to an ore separating mechanism is provided with a suction nozzle for intaking slurry and an integral puddling nozzle for selectively supplying water to produce the slurry in a dry area. A digging structure is provided at the intake end of the suction nozzle for loosening and/or burrowing into the soil.

Abstract: A snow-sweeping roller for replaceable attachment to a utility road vehicle (1) having brush-equipped roller (4) rotatably affixed at the underside of the vehicle. To achieve low-wear operation of the sweeper roller (4) and simultaneously low energy consumption, a control device is provided for adjusting and changing roller rpm in accordance with the following factors:(a) The circumferential speed (w) of the roller changes in proportion to vehicle speed (f);(b) The circumferential speed (w) of the roller has a ratio to the vehicle speed (f) that ranges from unity to two; and(c) A minimum value of the circumferential speed (w-min) of the roller is established for when the vehicle is moving slowly or is stationary.

Abstract: The invention relates to a drip-feed valve for electric steam irons, which cuts off the supply of water from the water tank into the vaporization chamber, as soon as the steam iron is temporarily put down on its sole plate.

Abstract: The display plate includes a frame member having a rectangular flat portion provided with at least one opening shaped to accommodate a largest number of the plurality of light-emitting elements and a first and a second major surfaces which face each other, at least one pair of paired tongues protruding from the second major surface of the flat portion to face each other at a spacing and provided with at least two pairs of aligned openings, and at least two columnar lugs each being integrally fixed to one of the tongues in each pair in the at least one pair of paired tongues by a thin webbing. The frame member is made of a plastic. A thin designation card is fit on the first major surface of the flat portion of the frame member and formed with a plurality of openings which are associated in position with the light-emitting elements.

Abstract: A label holder of plastic sheet material is particularly adapted for use on wire rod structures having a horizontal wire rod and one or more vertical wire rods depending from the horizontal rod. The label holder has a central label panel and upper and lower attachment portions. Each attachment portion has a tab with a rod-engaging aperture and slit. The upper attachment portion is folded over the top of the horizontal rod and its aperture is engaged with a vertical rod from behind. The aperture of the lower attachment portion is engaged with the vertical rod from the front. The angle of the label panel is set by adjusting the degree of folding between the label panel and the lower attachment portion.

Abstract: A copy stand for shifting a cursor by a motor one line on a copy at a time in which a cursor holder is coupled to bend slightly and sandwich an endless belt driven by the motor. At the driving time by the motor, a coupling force works strongly by a tension of the belt to shift the cursor by the motor and when the cursor is to be returned to its upper end, the cursor can be easily shifted manually while the belt is stopped.

Abstract: A hybrid fuel metering system has a first circuit (46, 62, 70, 76) to position a valve (18) to direct fuel to a metering valve (20), a second circuit (64, 76) to position the valve (18) to correct engine overspeed and a third circuit (78, 82, 70, 76) to position the valve (18) so that the valve (18) may be manipulated to meter fuel to the engine.

Abstract: A firearm comprises a housing, a barrel extending in a first direction, a chamber structure, a trigger and firing means, wherein the chamber structure is constituted by a chamber member, which is separated from the barrel and is movable in the housing in a second direction, which is transverse to the barrel axis, and an actuating mechanism is provided for reciprocating said chamber member in said second direction between a firing position and a loading position. The actuating mechanism comprises a slider, which is movable in said first direction from an initial position to a stand-by position, said slider is adapted to be releasably locked in either of its said positions and comprises a cam opening, which has a can face that extends over the width that is traversed by the chamber member, and cooperates with an actuating pin, which is coupled to the chamber member for a movement in said second direction and extends in a third direction, which is transverse to said first and second directions.

Abstract: A casing including therein, a circuit board, with a flasher IC chip and a capacitor mounted thereon, a hearing aid type battery removably mounted in the casing in engagement with the circuit board, and a cork holding the battery in place. It also includes an inside coaxial cable leading from an element on the circuit board to an outlet socket in the casing. The lure additionally includes a hook component, which itself includes an outside coaxial cable with a plug at one end detachably inserted in the socket in the casing and connected with the inside coaxial cable. The hook component also includes a light bulb on the extended end of the outside coaxial cable. Fishhooks are secured to the extended end of the outside coaxial cable. The lure has an eyelet for securement thereto of a fishing line.

Abstract: A fishhook shield is designed to cover a hook while a fishing line is being retrieved. A helical spring moves the shield away from the hook when fishing line retrieval ceases. A second embodiment involves a shield shaped like a lure, and a plurality of hooks are retained within the body of the lure. When a fish bites the lure, a trigger mechanism is actuated and the hooks are ejected out of the back of the lure so as to be positioned for hooking the fish.

Abstract: A watering device for plants comprises a plant container which is balanced on a horizontal pivot rod by an adjusting weight member. A water reservoir tank is operatively associated with the plant container so that as the plant container becomes lighter as to a loss of water. The adjusting weight member disposed at the opposite end of the horizontal pivot rod from the plant container actuates a valve in the water reservoir tank and transfer water from the water reservoir tank to the plant container until a balance is again achieved. When the balance is reached, the valve in the water tank is again closed.

Abstract: Process and apparatus for the preparation of synthesis gas by the partial combustion of a carbonaceous fuel with an oxygen-containing gas in a reactor also producing molten slag, the molten slag being removed through a slag discharge in the bottom portion of the reactor and being passed by gravity into a water bath where it is solidified by quenching. Solidified slag floating on the water of the water bath is removed therefrom by lowering the water level in the water bath to a location or point below the lower end of a baffle, the baffle being arranged in the water bath and dividing the water bath into an upper quenching zone and a lower capturing zone, and by raising the water level again to above the upper end of the baffle, thereby capturing floating slag under the baffle, the captured slag being discharged from the water bath through an outlet arranged at or near the top of the capturing zone.