Abstract: A magnetic marker comprising a plurality of magnetized fibers oriented substantially parallel to each other is attached to a fringe of ground fabric for production of felt in the form of an endless belt for detecting the travel of the ground fabric and changing various production parameters according to the number of turns which the ground fabric makes around a series of rolls for causing the movement of the ground fabric. Since the magnetic marker consists of extremely thin magnetized fibers, it can withstand the repeated piercing by needles which is required for the production of felt for the purpose of entangling the fibers of fiber web with the ground fabric.

Abstract: Method and apparatus to selectively treat adjacent yarns in draw machine to provide different characteristics in the synthetic yarn being drawn and beamed. The yarn running between the feed rolls and draw rolls is selectively blown upwardly away from the heater to provide portions of heat set and unheat set drawn yarn.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for assembling blinds includes a punching and cutting station, an outfeed station and a lacing stating having a plurality of lacing towers. A guide cable extends between adjacent lacing towers for guiding transported slats. A pivoted backstop at a downstream end of the lacing station yieldingly arrests the motion of incoming slats. The outfeed station of the apparatus includes a continuously driven outfeed drive roller and an opposed pinch roller which may be selectively urged against the drive roller so as to drive a slat out of the outfeed station. Each lacing tower of the apparatus includes a spring-biased spreader which provides longitudinal tension to a tape ladder while preventing longitudinal stringers of the ladder from converging upon each other. The method of the present invention includes operating the apparatus to automatically learn the selected length and arrangement of the blind and to subsequently automatically manufacture a blind to those specifications.

Abstract: A machine tool comprises a frame; a work holder operably associated with the frame; at least one carriage disposed on the frame and movable along an axis; at least one tool disposed on the carriage for operating on a work piece disposed in the work holder; at least one nozzle assembly disposed on the carriage for directing at least one fluid stream to the work piece and the tool; a screw-nut drive operably associated with the carriage, the drive including a lead screw; a device for stretching the lead screw for compensating for thermal growth of the screw during operation; and a resilient strip operably disposed between the frame and the carriage for absorbing impact forces.

Abstract: The invention is a tool for removing and installing valve springs in an overhead valve engine of the type having a stud adjacent the valve spring. In detail, the tool is a locking type pliers having a first jaw with an aperture therethrough for engaging the stud and a second jaw for engaging the valve spring, the second jaw having an opening therein sufficient to allow the valve retainer to pass therethrough. Thus that when the tool is installed with the first jaw positioned with the stud extending through the aperture and the second jaw positioned over the valve spring, the pliers can be actuated to a locked position causing the second jaw to compress the spring with the first jaw reacting the force applied to compress the valve. spring. Upon compression of the spring the valve retainer is freed from the valve spring retaining cap and can be easily removed.

Abstract: A tool includes a solid block body unitary with a plurality of equidistantly spaced-apart blades which project from the body in the same direction, each blade having flat planar opposed faces with the faces of all of the blades being parallel to one another. The faces of each blade are chamfered at the distal ends thereof and are spaced apart by a pair of opposed parallel side surfaces, each inclined to the planes of the faces at an angle which approximates the complement of the helix angle of an associated spring, to facilitate insertion of the blades between the spring convolutions when the spring is extended, to maintain it in its extended condition.

Abstract: A tool (20) for use in the separation of elements in a building set, said elements having a face provided with coupling means which have a wall part extending transversely to the face, and which are preferably disposed in parallel with a side edge, comprises a lever (25) and a gripper means. The gripper means is disposed at one end of the lever and comprises a first jaw area (21,23) intended to tightly engage the side edge of the element, and a second jaw area (22,24) intended to tightly engage the portion of the wall part of said coupling means which faces away from said side edge. The gripper means may moreover comprise complementary coupling means for at least some of said coupling means.

Abstract: An information detection apparatus is disclosed. A plurality of probes are arranged in the apparatus so as to face a medium which carries an information, Each of the plurality of probes produces a detection signal from the medium. A performance testing device is provided in the apparatus for testing the performance of each of the plurality of probes. A detection device in the apparatus selects the signal from at least one normal probe on the basis of the test result of the testing device and detects the information in accordance with the selected signal. By such the construction in the apparatus, the detection of the information can be continuously effected even if one of the probes is broken.

Abstract: A tool for pulling off the clutch mechanism of one specific make of washing machine. The tool has main mounting plate from each end off which passes therethrough an elongated screw. The mounting plate has an enlarged central hole for passing therethrough a large tubular member which is threaded on its outer circumferential surface, and which is hollow in it interior. The tubular member receives in its hollow interior the tubular sleeve of the clutch mechanism when the tool of the invention is used for pulling the clutch mechanism off from the drive shaft. At the bottom of tubular member, there is provided a larger-diameter head, having a pivotal latch. After placing the tubular member over the tubular sleeve, the pivotal latch is closed over cutout portion at the lower portion of the tubular sleeve, whereby the latch is thus in locked engagement with the tubular sleeve but free of contact with the inner drive shaft.

Abstract: In a process for separating overlapping sheet metal panels, which are welded together by a series of spot-welds, the portion of each spot-weld in one of the panels is removed by drilling or milling after which pressure is applied by means of a tool, driven by a pneumatic hammer device, to the remaining portion of the spot-weld in the other panel forcing the other panel away from the one panel and separating of the panels without substantial damage to the panels. Alternatively, a hole saw may be used to separate the spot-weld from the one panel before pressure is applied to the spot-weld to separate the panels.

Abstract: Cylinder-to-cylinder attachment method and construction featuring nonutiltion of mechanical fasteners or bonding, especially advantageous for attachment of cylinders which are composite or to be subjected to hydrostatic pressure. A fastening ring is interpositionally and rotatively engaged and aligned with a toothed axial end of each cylinder whereby the inwardly radial teeth for each cylinder appropriately mesh with the outer grooved circumferential surface of the fastening ring. The resultant joint is easily detachable and less susceptible than conventional joints to damage, breakage, degradation, stress concentrations and fluid infiltration.

Abstract: An article and method for shaping a sheet of material around an object such as a flower pot, the article comprising a ring-shaped collar adapted to be secured around the object. The collar may comprise pinch rings or barbed piercing elements, disposed about the periphery of the collar for attaching the sheet of material to the collar, or the collar may be adapted to be secured around at least a portion of the object so that the sheet of material is held between the object and the collar. The article also may be used alone for shaping a sheet of material.

Abstract: Elongated thin strip stock is blanked to form interlocking laminas for electric motor or generator rotors or stators at successive blanking stations. The laminas are blanked at one station and pushed back into the strip stock to be carried to a final station where the laminas are stacked and pressed into interlocking relationship. The laminas are rotated relative to one another to compensate for thickness variations.

Abstract: A process and apparatus for manufacturing lamina stacks used to form rotor or stator cores for electric motors. In the process of forming a plurality of blanked lamina, a blanking and stacking machine forms dimples in the laminas prior to coaxially stacking the laminas. The lamina may also include interlocking portions so that the lamina stack may be interlocked. The dimples are located at offset positions relative to adjacent laminas to cause the laminas of the stack to be spaced apart. The spaced apart stack may be subject to annealing which relieves metal stress in the stack and causes the formation of a desired non-conductive layer on the surfaces of the laminas. The annealed lamina stack may then be compressed to bring the laminas into abutting relation to be subsequently manufactured into rotor or stator cores.

Abstract: The core of the secondary for use in a linear or other induction motor is a ladder-like stamping with two spaced apart rails and a number of bars extending between and having end portions of one piece with the rails. The bars of the cage can be inserted into the recesses of a core, and such recesses can be provided in one side or in two opposite sides of the core. Each recess can receive a single bar or the bars of two or more discrete cores. The bars can be confined in their recesses by slidable closures or by plugs of a hardened adhesive, a synthetic resin or an impregnating agent.

Abstract: Magnetic components are fabricated as monolithic structures using multilayer co-fired ceramic tape techniques. Fabrication of these magnetic components involves constructing multiple layers of a magnetic material and an insulating non-magnetic mataerial to form a monolithic structure with well defined magnetic and insulating non-magnetic regions. Windings are formed using screen printed conductors connected through the multilayer structure by conducting vias.

Abstract: A gradient coil for MRI is manufactured by including following steps; a stamping step of stamping a plurality of gradient coil pieces having predetermined patterns out of a conductor plate, a forming step of curving the stamped gradient coil pieces in conformity with a curvature of an outer circumferential surface of a bobbin, and a lamination step of superposing the curved gradient coil pieces one on another as a gradient coil(i.e., an x-coil and a y-coil). An insulating adherent sheet having a hole is interposed between the two superposed gradient coil pieces having curled patterns but opposite curling directions to each other. The inner ends of the two interposed coil pieces are electrically connected in series through the hole of the sheet and the outer ends of them provide current input and output terminals. Two pairs of saddle-like x-coils and two pairs of saddle-like y-coils and two solenoid z-coils are further laminated with insulating adherent sheets to form a gradient coil unit.

Abstract: A method of fabricating a thin-film magnetic in which a mask pattern in etching a bottom pole is formed of first and second mask films in this order when viewed from the bottom pole, the first mask film is used for defining, by self-alignment, the length of that portion of the side edge of a top pole which is nearly perpendicular to a magnetic gap, the second mask film makes it possible to etch the bottom pole with high dimensional accuracy, a non-magnetic film is formed on the mask pattern having the bottom pole thereunder and the exposed region of a substrate, and the top pole is formed after the mask pattern has been exposed and removed.

Abstract: A process and a device are proposed for manufacturing sensors, particularly those intended for the determination of pressure forces. In thick-film technology, initially at least one insulating layer (14) is produced on a pressure support (10), whereupon a pressure-sensitive resistance layer (12) and finally conductor paths (13) are applied. In a pressing tool (20-22), the layer arrangement (11-14) is then compressed together with a plastic pressure substance (15). Finally, the pressure support (10) is removed from the pressed article.

Abstract: An electrical system for an automobile comprises a plurality of slave modules connected to one or more respective loads and/or sensors, a power bus connecting the slave modules to a power supply and a signal bus connecting the slave modules to a control module operable to remotely control the switching of power supplied to the loads by the slave modules and/or the sampling of signals from the sensors wherein at least one of the slave modules and/or the control means comprises a thick film printed circuit formed on a metal substrate. The system simplifies the wiring loom of a vehicle and provides circuits which are resistant to vibration and electrical interference.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a tappet used in a valve operating mechanism of a direct acting type in an internal combustion engine. A tip engaged with a center bore of an inner upper surface of a tappet body includes upper and lower convex surfaces and a rounded upper circumferential corner having a certain curvature. thereby preventing concentration of stress even if the tip is subject to high compression load. Thus, durability and reliablity of the tappet are increased.

Abstract: A method for forming a monolithic composite slat for a lightweight pallet. The slat is formed by adhering the crests of a corrugation to one side of a reinforcement sheet, placing another side of the reinforcement sheet in spaced, parallel relation with the corrugation and the first side such that the corrugation is situated between the first and second sides, inserting a flexible fiber in each trough of the corrugation and using each fiber to urge the trough toward the second side, inserting foam-forming material between the first and second sides, and allowing the material to cure, thereby forming a solid, foam-filled slat. The method is advantageous over that of the prior art, as it ensures that the corrugation remains in place during inserting of the foam-forming material.

Abstract: A shaving system having a blade and support structure that define external skin engaging surfaces in front of and to the rear of the cutting edge of the blade, the support structure including a shaving aid composite comprised of a blend of ethylene vinyl acetate and a shaving aid composition adjacent the cutting edge of the blade.

Abstract: A pipe cutoff apparatus comprises a frame having two frame parts, which are clamped together, wherein said apparatus comprises guides for a cutter device movable around the pipe to be cut. A pipe clamping device with clamping jaws is arranged at one frame part and clamps the pipe in a centered position with respect to the frame.

Abstract: A dust collection bag 1 for a power tool comprises a box-like container 10 which is separable into two parts 11, 12 along a plane of the box-like container and the interfitting portions 13, 14 of the two parts are rigid. One part 11 which is suitably a rigid plastics moulding has means 15 for connecting the container to the power tool outlet and the other part 12 has at least part of its wall surface formed of filter material 12a. The parts 11, 12 may be hinged together 16 and have connection means 17, 18 for releasably connecting them to close the container (FIG. 1).

Abstract: A one-handed knife system in which a knife having a blade instantly deployed by pulling on the heel section thereof includes a separable tether which separates under a force greater than the force required to deploy the blade.

Abstract: A power saw has a sword having side walls which form a groove-shaped guide, and two parallel oppositely reciprocable saw blades having one longitudinal side provided with saw teeth and another longitudinal side provided with backs which are guided in the groove-shaped guide. The groove-shaped guide is interrupted by a plurality of recesses.

Abstract: For safely opening drums that may contain hazardous materials, a remotely controllable drum opener attachment is provided, which is powered by air or electricity from a distance by means of a long power cord. The attachment is clamped in position on the drum by an appropriate frame.

Abstract: A collapsible multipurpose hand saw is useful for camping, hunting, backpacking, tree pruning, wood cutting and like outdoor uses. The saw comprises two handles, a crosspiece, a saw blade, a tensioning strap and a tensioning rod. The hand saw is easily assembled and disassembled for storage. The saw blade can be mounted in a vertical or horizontal cutting position. The assembled hand saw can be combined with the case to form an emergency snow shovel. The hand saw has no small parts which are easily lost. The saw tensioning strap can be used to carry firewood bundles and can be used as an emergency sling or tourniquet. The handles and crosspiece can be used as emergency splints.

Abstract: A tape-suspended meridian gyro has an outer housing, an intermediate housing movably mounted in the outer housing and a gyro having substantially horizontal spin axis. The gyro is suspended by means of a tape within the intermediate housing. A pick-off detects the deflection of a substantially vertical upward axis from its central position. The intermediate housing can be moved by servo motors transversely to the substantially vertical upward axis of the gyro. The servo motors are energized by the pick-off through a controller to damp pendulous oscillations of the tape-suspended gyro.

Abstract: A woodworking square having multiple uses. The square may be used to locate long and short points for trimming an opening and may be used to locate pitch line for rafters in a quick, efficient manner. The device also serves as a arc or circle drawing instrument. The device includes ledges so that it may slide against a straight edge and perform a cut or draw a line parallel to the straight edge.

Abstract: A slicing guide marker for marking impressionable food products with an elongated cantilever arm rotatably attached to a support shaft. The cantilever arm having a marking roller adjacent one end and a counterweight slidably carried by the arm. The marking roller having a wheel with a plurality of teeth extending generally radially outwardly of the wheel for marking the food product.

Abstract: An improved measuring and cutting tool is provided, which consists of an extensible tape measure. A mechanism for cutting is on a first end of the extensible tape measure. A structure for guiding is on a second opposite end of the extensible tape measure. The guiding structure will allow the cutting mechanism to make quick and accurate cuts into a piece of soft thin material.

Abstract: The linear measuring device comprises a rail (1) with a fixed measuring jaw (4) and a slide (5) with a movable measuring jaw (6). A holding member (9) with a handle hole (10) is adjustably mounted on the rail (1). The slide (5) has a ring (20) arranged displaceably therein. This ring is connected with a clamping piece (30) via connecting elements (36, 39). This clamping piece, after attaining a predetermined measuring pressure, is brought into the clamped position on the rail (1) and thus permits the maintenance of a constant measuring pressure, the slide (5) being shiftable, with the clamping piece (30) being locked in place, under the action of the spring (32) with respect to the clamping piece (30) whereby the measuring object can be adjusted into the precise measuring position under spring force. The arrangement of handle hole (10) and ring (20) offers the advantage that maximally precise measurements can be quickly performed in correspondence with a scissor-like operation of the device.

Abstract: This invention relates to a vacuum processing apparatus having vacuum processing chambers the insides of which must be dry cleaned, and to a method of operating such an apparatus. When the vacuum processing chambers are dry-cleaned, dummy substrates are transferred into the vacuum processing chamber by substrates conveyor means from dummy substrate storage means which is disposed in the air atmosphere together with storage means for storing substrates to be processed, and the inside of the vacuum processing chamber is dry-cleaned by generating a plasma. The dummy substrate is returned to the dummy substrate storage means after dry cleaning is completed. Accordingly, any specific mechanism for only the cleaning purpose is not necessary and the construction of the apparatus can be made simple.

Abstract: An apparatus (1) for drying the outside of hoses (2), particularly fire hoses is described, which has a pneumatic suction apparatus with suction nozzles (6) located on the hose wall below the hose (2) moved through the apparatus (1) and which is characterized in that the suction nozzles (6) are arranged in spaced succeeding manner in the movement direction of the hose (2) and that the hose (2) is curved in the vicinity of the suction nozzles (6) and that the suction nozzles (6) are externally located on the outwardly curved area of the hose surface. (cf. FIG.

Abstract: Laces are secured through a shoe by a plurality of guides and indentations along the ankle portion of the shoe to tighten and take up slack of a shoelace which includes mating material attached to the ends and which is secured to a shoe by mating surfaces formed of interlocking bristle-like material, such as a hook and loop arrangement.

Abstract: An excavator for constructing an underground continuous wall includes an extensible guide post, an endless chain extending around a chain driving wheel provided at the upper portion of the guide post and a chain sprocket at the lower portion of the guide post, and a number of cutter bits and a number of agitator bars alternately arranged on the chain to form an endless chain cutter and a jet pipe provided in the guide post to be connectable to a fluid supply source and having a number of nozzles branched from the jet pipe. The endless chain cutter is detachably fixed to the end of the boom extending from a vehicle traveling on the ground. The endless chain cutter may be vertically movably mounted on the boom so as to be vertically driven by a driving device. The cutter bits are changeable with harder cutter bits according to obstacles in the ground.

Abstract: A boom support pendant pin retainer for an earth working machine having a retainer plate and a projection for preventing rotational, axial and coaxial movement of the pendant pin. The projection is constructed and arranged to mesh in the void between the pendant pin and an adjacent opening in the gantry structure. The projection prevents rotational movement of the pendant pin and the retainer is secured to each end of the pendant pin and adjacent to the gantry, structure to prevent axial and coaxial movement of the pin.

Abstract: A steam press has a movable upper member which includes a water port cooperating with an electrically energizable element and bottom disposed steam outlet ports. A fixed lower member is disposed below the upper member. The press also has a pump having a reversible piston and connected to a water reservoir. A direct current motor has a rotatable drive shaft reversible in direction to either cause water to be drawn out of the reservoir into the pump or to force water out of the pump to the water port.

Abstract: In a conveyor for carrying linens having processes of gripping any corner and one place on a side including the corner of a rectangular cloth (sheet 1) with clips 45 installed on a movable clamp 35; naturally hanging the cloth by raising with a clamp transfer conveyor; moving the cloth onto the top surface of a table composed of a flat belt conveyor 77 or the like by using the clamp 35; and pulling the cloth onto the table, the conveyor for carrying linens includes a drive section comprising: a clamp body 36; two pairs of wheels 39 supported by shafts fixed to the clamp body 36; a toothed block 37 which has a plurality of tooth-shaped protrusions engaging with a toothed belt 34 for driving the clamp and is installed straddling over the clamp body 36 by a pin 40 inserted into an elongated hole so that it can be moved downward by the height of the tooth-shaped protrusion; and a compression spring 41 which is energized so as to push the toothed block 37 in the engaging direction, and is engaged between the clamp

Abstract: An image presentation card, comprising an image holder, constructed of a transparent sheet of polypropylene plastic. The plastic is bent twice, to form an image holder tab that is backed with pressure sensitive adhesive, and to form an image holder back, which is wrapped around behind the image and tucked into the image holder tab, for holding a ultrasound image within. The pressure sensitive adhesive that backs the image holder tab is used to mount the image holder to a mounting surface. The mounting surface comprises a window opposite the location where the image holder is mounted, so that the mounting surface may be bent, covering the image, except for a cropped portion that can be viewed through the window. The mounting surface may be further bent, to form a cover that can cover the window completely, to protect the image from light.

Abstract: The thin, flat objects are mounted in protective encasements of a size larger than the size of the objects. A holding panel is mounted in a multi-sided frame having a plurality of cut-outs equal to the plurality of cut-outs of the holding panel, the cut-outs of the holding panel and the frame being in alignment. The encasements are mounted in the cut-outs. A restraining panel is mounted in the frame behind the holding panel. The frame is a multi-sided frame having one side which includes a removably attachable portion such that, when the removably attachable portion is removed, the panels can be slid into and out of the frame, and when the removably attachable portion is attached, the panels are maintained in the frame.

Abstract: A rising bubble display device includes a reservoir with a lamp positioned beneath the reservoir. An air pump is mounted adjacent the lamp to pump air via orifices located at the base of the reservoir. A translucent colored element is interposed between the lamp and the reservoir, and this colored element is releasably retained in place such that the user can readily substitute one colored element for another to change the color of the illuminating light. An orifice defining tube is mounted to the reservoir by a sleeve and a threaded cap to provide the necessary seal while allowing ready removal of the orifice defining tube. The reservoir is secured to the base in channels, and the tube is connected to the air pump with a check valve. In this way, the reservoir can readily be isolated from the pump and removed from the base for service.

Abstract: A flexible frame adapted to removably secure a flexible advertising material to the exterior of a vehicle such as a truck trailer. When affixed to the side panels of a trailer, a series of opposed clamps connected to each other by a tensioned rod would firmly keep the flexible material under tension.

Abstract: A double barrel break-action shotgun includes a firing mechanism having a rebound system in which the hammers rebound after firing into a position permitting opening of the gun and are not stressed by the associated mainsprings after the gun is fired. Because the hammers are not stressed in their released positions, they can be easily replaced with different hammers, thus rendering the gun easily convertible for different uses. A simple selector switch is also provided behind the trigger and does not require any wire or complex connections between the switch and the acorn. The bolt actuator includes a simple cam actuator which is detachable from the lever and which is simple to assemble and to replace. Compensation for bolt wear can be achieved by replacing the actuator with one having a surface of a different shape. The breech and breech housing include a bifurcated lug which absorbs recoil forces which would otherwise be imposed on the pivot pin.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for using the primordial fear of dolphin of killer whales to separate dolphin from tuna. The sound of killer whale is recorded, digitized, edited and enhanced to produce digitally synthesized killer whale sounds. These digitally synthesized sounds of one or more feeding killer whale is played under water and in the vicinity of a mixed school of dolphin and tuna and as the dolphin leave said vicinity, catching the tuna in nets. A playback unit is selectively triggered on and off from a remote location.

Abstract: An adjustable ground-inserted fishing rod holder for supporting a fishing rod at a desired angle. The holder includes a stake which may be inserted into a ground surface at the desired angle. A pair of supports are coupled to the stake and may be adjusted to accommodate fishing rods of various lengths. Measurement indicia is provided on a side of the stake and an alternate embodiment includes an oscillator assembly for selectively oscillating an associated fishing pole. A foot engagement element is coupled to the stake so as to aid insertion of the stake into the ground.

Abstract: This invention comprises a weighted, molded, artificial fishing lure having an enlarged belly and thinner torso relative to the belly. The lure generally resembles a wide variety of swimming forage fish and substantially maintains a proper upright orientation when towed through water. The lure also has a dorsal fin with a plurality of spiny rays extending upwardly from its back and a large, protruding eye located on each side of the lure. A hook, eye connector, fresh bait, or any desired configuration or color of jig, worm, apron, etc., may be integrally formed within or secured to a tail portion of the lure.

Abstract: A reusable chunk dispensing rig capable of dispensing chunks at any desired depth in waters being fished comprising an elongated body including a longitudinal axis, a width having a predetermined configuration and a predetermined thickness; a first arrangement coupled to the body to control the descent and ascent of the body in the waters into which the chunks are to be dispensed; a second device having one end thereof closed and secured at a first predetermined location along the width on one side of the body and the other end thereof capable of being opened to receive and dispense the chunks; and an opening disposed at a second predetermined location along the width of the body different than the first location, the opening extending from the one side of the body through the thickness of the body to the other side of the body at a predetermined angle less than 90.degree.