Abstract: A tool kit includes an assemblage of components for aligning and installing a ball bearing set in a skate wheel. Ball bearing sets conventionally have outer and inner annular bearing races and a central axle hole. The assemblage includes a base having a lower surface and a cylindrical wall defining an upwardly opening cavity in the base. A generally planar, upwardly facing annular shoulder at the top of the wall surrounds the cavity. The assemblage also includes a guide shaft tool mounted in the cavity. The tool includes an elongated guide shaft extending upwardly from the base. The longitudinal axis of the shaft is extends concentrically relative to the shoulder of the base and generally perpendicularly relative to the plane of the shoulder of the base. A collar on the shaft presents another upwardly facing shoulder surrounding the shaft.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for supplying a slider to a slide fastener stringer in motion along a path of travel for the purpose of attaching the slider to the slide fastener stringer are disclosed. The apparatus comprises in combination a slider chute for delivering one slider after another in an upright posture, means for rotatably and releasably supporting the delivered slider at the lower end of the slider chute, means for rotating the slider so as to shift its upright posture to a horizontal posture, and a gripper for nipping the slider on opposite lateral surfaces thereof. The gripper is adapted to reciprocate in a vertical direction between the lower end of the slider chute and an assembly position in a path of travel of the slide fastener stringer positioned as separated downwardly from the slider chute.

Abstract: A key member, a method for insertion and/or removal of the fuel rods in a nuclear fuel assembly using the key member and a method of disassembling the nuclear fuel assembly using the same key member are disclosed. The key member has first projections and second projections formed on the opposite faces of an elongated key body. In the insertion or removal of the fuel rods or in the disassembling the nuclear fuel assembly, the key member is inserted into the grid and rotated to bring the first projections and the second projections into engagement with the straps of the grids and the springs on the straps to thereby the springs are deflected in a direction away from the dimples opposing to the springs. In this situation, the insertion and removal of the fuel rods can be carried out.

Abstract: For tightening or loosening a threaded connector which has a part to be turned with a plurality of engaging formations, a power tool is utilized in which at least two pawls engage the engaging formations and are displaced to turn the part which is to be turned, and at the same time the pawls are arranged so that a distance between the pawls is smaller than the distance between the engaging formations so as to reduce a power stroke of the drive of the power tool.

Abstract: A molded article having an embedded bracket, such as a whirlpool tub, the mold and a method of molding the article. The article includes a rigid shell having a non-finish side and a finish side. The non-finish side is coated with a polymeric material. The polymeric material encloses a bracket and distributes the weight of an attached object, such as a whirlpool motor, over adjacent polymeric material. The bracket is affixed to the rigid shell in a spaced relationship and includes a surface for attaching to an object by attachment means such as a blind bolt. The bracket may also be affixed to the rigid shell by supports which are welded to the rigid shell.

Abstract: A door has a pair of spaced stiles at its side edges, a top rail extending between the upper ends of the rails, and a pair of synthetic resin skins providing the faces of the door and adhesively bonded to the stiles and rail. The skins have opposed flanges along their top and bottom edges which abut to form top and bottom peripheral walls, and they also have opposing spaced lips along the side edges thereof which extend along a portion of the outer surfaces of the stiles. The peripheral walls provided by the flanges have vent openings extending therethrough, and a cellular synthetic resin core is bonded to the skins and fills the interior space between the skins bounded by the stiles, rail and bottom flange. Baffled passages are provided between the vent openings and the interior space. In making She door, after the skins have been assembled and adhered to the stiles and rails, the stiles and flanges effectively seal the interior space which they define and this assembly is placed in a heated press.

Abstract: A method of automatically deciding procedure for machining parts, in which the parts configuration data is input. The input parts configuration data is compared with a plurality of predetermined ordinary parts data which correspond to a plurality of predetermined patterns of the machining processes, respectively. One of the predetermined patterns is determined as a design of the machining process corresponding to the input parts configuration data. Machine tools and machining specifications for each process of the determined patterns are determined in accordance with the input parts configuration data.

Abstract: A device for automatically fixing bus bars and after-fixing bus bars on an insulating board includes a workpiece setting table, on which a bus bar plate and an insulating board are set, is moved towards an upper die and a lower die, which are provided with an insulating board holding section and a bridge cutting and bus bar fixing section. The upper die is moved downwardly and upwardly, so that the bridges are removed from the bus bar plate, and the insulating board is picked up. Thereafter, an insulating board holding board holding the insulating board is moved to the bridge cutting and bus bar fixing section. The upper die is moved downwardly and upwardly again, so that bus bars are fixed onto the insulating board. As the upper die moves downwardly and then upwardly, the bridges are removed from the bus bar plate, and the insulating board and the intermediate product are lifted.

Abstract: A process for the adjustment of various components of a relay involves use of measuring devices which monitor the respective components as they are slid, or shoved, into mounting positions and, in response to the components achieving correct, or desired, positions, automatically issue signals to welding apparatus to automatically weld the components in these desired positions relative to a base plate.The process of this invention is particularly suited for uncomplicated, cost-effective and fully automatic adjustments of relay components during their assembly, and this is particularly true for small-structure, or micro, relays.

Abstract: A component 10 for making A15 Nb.sub.3 Sn superconducting wire is of plane-filling cross-section after removing temporary additions 6, 7. It consists of a central pillar 1 of aluminium (later replaced by tin) surrounded by a two-deep array of polygonal copper columns 2/2a containing niobium rods. Many (e.g. 61) components 10 are voidlessly stacked together and extruded. The niobium rods adopt and retain a uniform distribution with minimum intervening material. This "sixty-one" member retains its shape during the extrusion and is itself of plane-filling cross-section. Several of them are voidlessly stacked together and on heat-treatment of the whole, the tin diffuses over a relatively short path and hence consistently into the rods, whereby there is formed a kilofilament Nb.sub.3 Sn wire.

Abstract: A radiant electric heater is manufactured by a method which involves providing a base of microporous thermal and electrical insulation material having at least one groove formed in a surface thereof, and providing an elongate electrically conductive strip to serve as a heating element. The elongate electrically conductive strip is located edgewise into the groove and surface pressure is applied to the base of microporous insulation material in a region adjacent to the strip to deform the base and to urge microporous material of the base into contact with the strip so as to secure the strip in the groove.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing individual strain sensors (20) each comprised of a generally rectangular substrate (21) having first and second major surfaces opposite to each other, a strain detecting element (23) formed on the first major surface of the substrate and having at least one pair of strain sensing areas (23a), and a pair of grooves (24) defining respective areas (21a) of low rigidity and formed in the second major surface of the substrate (21) at respective locations adjacent the opposite ends of the substrate (21) while extending across the width of the substrate with the strain sensing areas (23a) of the strain detecting element (23) positioned in register with the respective grooves (24). The strain sensors (20) are prepared from a single plate material (30) of any suitable size having first and second surfaces opposite to each other and eventually forming respective substrates (21) of the individual strain sensors (20).

Abstract: An apparatus for inserting U shaped tubes in a heat exchange core includes a track which includes a pair of parallel channels for receiving the limbs of the tubes and for guiding the limbs on three sides, a slide for pushing the tubes along the track and into the heat exchange core, and restraining means for closing the fourth side of the channels to guide the limbs, the restraining means being adapted to move out of the track as the head of the tube and the slide pass along the track.

Abstract: A wire winding machine is provided that allows the connection of electric motor armature coil leads to slot-type commutators. The machine uses rotations of a flyer and rotations of the armature to perform much of the needed movement during the lead attachment process. The system uses a guide member to guide the wire into the commutator slots during rotation of the flyer. The guide member guides wire from the flyer toward the slots during both the initial insertion of the wire and the subsequent process of forming a loop in the wire.

Abstract: An assembly apparatus for assembling a sub-assembly of a swash plate type fluidic apparatus includes a holder adapted to hold an end of a driving shaft, a horizontal rail, a curved rail connected with the horizontal rail, a plurality of carriers adapted to seat pistons and a pair of hemispherical shoes as well and to move on the horizontal rail and the curved rail, transporting means adapted to move the carriers on the horizontal rail and the curved rail, a first orienting member adapted to positioned the shoes in spherical seats of the pistons with its surfaces, and a second orienting member disposed connectably with the first orienting member and including surfaces which incline gradually to an inclination angle of a swash plate. The carriers are moved continuously on the horizontal rail and the curved rail by the transporting means.

Abstract: A method of mounting a semiconductor device to a heat sink where an opening in the circuit board is formed and sized to allow the semiconductor device to pass therethrough, where a heat sink is positioned on one side of the circuit board and a load is introduced on a second side of the circuit board and applied to the semiconductor device forcing it against the heat sink.

Abstract: An electronic circuit assembly (100) includes a circuit carrying substrate (150) on which electrical components (130) are mounted using solder deposits (125) having an essentially planar surface. A solder deposit (125) is created by forming a recess (155) in the substrate (150), providing a metallic pad (110) about the recess (155), depositing solder paste (120) on the metallic pad (110), and reflowing the solder paste (120) on the metallic pad (110). The electronic circuit (100) is assembled by placing electrical components (130) on the substrate (150) having solder deposits (125), and by further reflowing the solder deposits (125) on the metallic pad (110).

Abstract: This invention provides a method of forming a circuit wiring pattern which cannot be formed by a prior art method such as etching or plating. This method comprises a step of forming trenches for forming a circuit wiring pattern at predetermined positions on at least one of the surface of an insulating base material and then filling a conductive material into the trenches, a step of removing conductor layers in such a manner that the conductor layers formed by the step described above exist only in the trenches formed in the insulating base material and gap portions of the circuit wiring pattern comprising the conductor layers formed in the trenches of the insulating base material are exposed, and a step of forming an insulating surface protection layer.

Abstract: A generally wedge-shaped vibration damper for rotor blades of a gas turbine engine has a pair of scrubbing surfaces and is loosely retained in a pocket incorporated in the rotor blade platform. The pocket is partly defined by a plurality of surfaces which orient the damper so that it is slidably displaceable and rotatable only in a predetermined plane. During rotation of the rotor disk, the damper of one rotor blade is displaced in a plane transverse to the rotor axis of rotation by centrifugal forces to a position at which one scrubbing surface of the damper abuts a side surface of the platform of the adjacent rotor blade and the other scrubbing surface abuts an inner surface of the platform of the rotor blade in which the damper is inserted. The scrubbing action of the damper serves to damp vibratory motion in the platforms of both blades.

Abstract: A heat exchanger and method of making same is disclosed. The heat exchanger is particularly useful for cooling automotive engine oil or transmission fluid, the exchanger being located inside the radiator or other part of the engine cooling system. The heat exchanger is made from a plurality of stacked plates formed of cladded metal, the plates being assembled into face-to-face pairs, each pair having a turbulizer located therein. The plates also have outwardly disposed dimples which are in contact when the plates are arranged back-to-back. The turbulizer is thicker than the spacing between the assembled plates prior to brazing the assembly. The dimples maintain good contact between all heat transfer surfaces while the assembly is completed by brazing.

Abstract: An insertless perforated mill roll body adapted to be detachably sleeved upon a roller shaft for the grinding of a fluid-containing material such as sugar cane and extracting fluid such as sucrose juice therefrom. The insertless perforated mill roll body includes a plurality of shish-ke-bab-like fluid channel strings to be encased in the roll body, each fluid channel string including a hollow fluid channel preferably defined by a channel wall member which generally extends between the two axial ends of the roll body with a plurality of fluid passage members affixed thereto. The roll body is formed by casting a castable material such as cast iron or steel to enclose the fluid channel strings, whereupon a hollow center bore is provided to receive the shaft therethrough. Each fluid passage member contains at least one generally radially extending fluid passage to allow communication between the outer periphery of the mill roll body and the fluid channel.

Abstract: A wet-shaving razor unit having at least one vertically-displaceable blade responsive to forces encountered during shaving. The razor unit also includes laterally-disposed vertical return springs extending from and continuous with both ends of the razor unit for supporting the blade. The return springs allow vertical displacement of the blade in response to forces encountered during shaving and return the blade to a resting position in the absence of such forces.

Abstract: A light weight electric-powered radial saw intended to cut overhead limbs employs a housing having a forwardly direction U-shaped receiving yoke, and a rearwardly directed fitting which receives an elongated handle. An annular saw blade is rotatively supported within the yoke by a plurality of idler rollers journaled to the housing. An electric motor positioned within the housing has a drive shaft that extends in parallel relationship above the saw blade. A drive transmission device such as a gear is interactive between the drive shaft and the saw blade.

Abstract: A powered coping saw has a frame that includes a first leg, a second leg and a third leg. A blade is reciprocally movable in a first and second direction with respect to the frame. First and second blade mounting brackets are provided for mounting the respective first and second ends of the blade. A blade driver is coupled to both the first and the second blade mounting brackets for actively driving both the first and the second ends of the blade in both the first and the second directions. The blade driver includes a motor, a transmission, a first drive member, and a first pivoting arm member. The first pivoting arm member has a first end pivotally coupled to the first drive member, and a second end. A reciprocally moving arm member has a first end pivotally coupled to the second end of the first pivoting arm member, and a second end. A second pivoting arm member has a first end pivotally coupled to the second end of the reciprocally moving arm member, and a second end.

Abstract: A gunsight comprises a unitary frame for securing to a gun. The frame has a ring with a lens at its front end. A light source is secured to the frame rear end to project a light spot onto the lens. The lens and the light source may be independently adjustable in the vertical and horizontal planes, respectively. Alternatively, where the light source is fixed, the lens may be adjusted in the vertical and horizontal planes. The light source and the lens are positioned relative to each other and to the gun barrel axis such that the light spot projected onto the lens is reflected to a shooter's eye who then lines up the light spot onto a target to take aim.

Abstract: Disclosed is a northfinding apparatus having a single rotation rate sensor secured to a platform. The output of the rotation rate sensor is corrected for tilt and tilt rate of the platform. Measurements of the tilt and tilt rate and the rotation rate are combined to provide an azimuth angle of the platform relative to north.

Abstract: A self-positioning caliper is provided having an elongated base adapted to rest on a flat horizontal surface; a stationary jaw and a movable jaw projecting upwardly from the elongated base, the movable jaw being held by tension, for example gravity, against the stationary jaw. When the object to be measured is inserted between these jaws via a V-shaped recess provided at the upper end thereof it pushes the movable jaw away from the stationary jaw by the distance which is measured by an electronic measuring unit mounted to move with the movable jaw by the same distance and to measure the same and display the measurement. The caliper may also include side plates allowing measurement of the length or height of an object which is not readily measurable by the caliper's jaws.

Abstract: A substrate drying apparatus comprising a vessel in which IPA is contained, a chamber enclosing the vessel, a heating heater for heating IPA into vapor in the vessel and in that region in the vessel where a plurality of substrates are vapor-processed, a mechanism for carrying the plural water-washed substrates into the vapor-processing region in the vessel, a mechanism located above the vapor-processing region in the vessel to cool the IPA vapor into solution drops, region in the chamber located above the cooling mechanism where the substrates can be dried while removing IPA from the substrates, and gas supply and exhaust devices for causing gas to flow from above to below in the drying region in the chamber.

Abstract: A dryer has an internal drying chamber for accommodating articles that are subjected to a heated circulating air to remove moisture from the articles. An air mixing chamber contains a first fan for moving air through a heater into the drying chamber. A second fan draws air out of the drying and mixing chambers and discharges air through a filter into the external environment. The heated air in the drying chamber is mixed with fresh air and recirculated through the drying chamber to minimize heat losses and increase drying effectiveness. Ultraviolet lamps within the drying chamber destroy contaminants in the air and articles within the chamber. A boot dryer, located in the drying chamber, has fans that move air through tubes used to support boots, shoes, skates and socks. Ultraviolet light in the boot chamber destroy contaminants in the air in the boot chamber. One modification of the dryer located within a locker room is used to remove moisture and odors from the air in the locker room.

Abstract: A clothes drying apparatus is adapted for use in association with a soap dish of the type having a planar, generally rectangular back section with a front surface and a rear surface. The vertical back section has parallel horizontal long sides, parallel vertical short sides, an upper region and a lower region. The lowermost extent of the lower region includes a frontwardly extending planar, horizontal ledge with a small thickness and corners. The upper region includes a frontwardly extending planar, generally rectangular horizontal segment with a small thickness. The segment also includes a centrally located, generally oval shaped aperture extending therethrough. The soap dish is adapted to be affixed to a vertical mounting surface. A clothes drying apparatus comprises a central shaft with an upper section and a lower section. The lower section has a contiguous long concave depression shaped in a generally semi-circular configuration.

Abstract: A moist web of exposed and developed photographic film or photographic paper is continuously advanced through a drying unit wherein selected areas of the path for the web are monitored by devices which generate signals denoting the heat absorptivity of monitored portions of the web. Such signals are processed and utilized to regulate the intensity of heat which is emitted by batteries of heating elements at both sides of the path for the running web. This ensures that the less developed portions of the web are subjected to sufficient heating action and that the more developed portions of the web are not overheated. The monitoring can involve ascertaining the intensity of heat which has penetrated through successive portions of the running web and/or ascertaining the intensity of heat which is reflected by successive portions of the running web and issues from heating elements designed to emit heat of known intensity.

Abstract: The invention relates to a plastic shoe with improved ventilation, in which the ventilation openings 7 located in the vamp area 6 of the shoe upper 5 are connected with one another by having their orifices located on the inside of the shoe upper 5 in a bulging out part 8. An additional arcuate chamber 9 is formed by the bulging out part 8 and is limited by the adjacent not bulging out part of the wall surface, which is dedicated, in connection with the ventilation openings 7, to a predetermined degree of good ventilation of the shoe in the area of the instep of the foot.(The reference numbers are those shown in FIG. 2.

Abstract: A sports shoe having a vamp and a lower support part which includes a sole, and a wedge arranged on said sole, a mounting insole an additional insole, which is in contact with the user's foot. The shoe includes, associated with the lower support part, an insert including elements which are elastically deformable under pressure and which are enclosed in an airtight casing advantageously of a plastic material, the insert being arranged in a seat provided in the wedge and in the mounting insole in a position corresponding with the heel of the foot. A further insert may be provided at a different location in the shoe.

Abstract: Cross-country ski boot, in particular for performance of the skating step and produced from an outer sole, on a front part of which the ski is attached, and comprising a lower upper fitted with a heel counter on which is jointed a rigid collar designed to enclose the lower part of the leg and which extends from the joint to the top of the upper beyond its upper end. The boot comprises an elastic device for the longitudinal angular control of the ski in the air in relation to the sole of the boot, during the return phase of the ski. The device may be a strap made of an elastic fabric, which connects the collar to the upper so as to cause an automatic return movement of the upper toward the collar, and, in consequence, the automatic lifting of the front part of the ski when the ski is not in a forward-propulsion phase.

Abstract: An ironing board structure which may be readily mounted on, or integrated into, a variety of vertical surfaces. The entire ironing board structure is preferably not more than one inch thick. An ironing board is cut from a planar sheet of material. The ironing board is pivotally held in the opening left in the planar sheet of material. Advantageously, the ironing board is cut from a single unitary planar sheet of material which will also form a frame for the ironing board. When in its storage position, the ironing board is substantially coplanar with the remaining planar material which forms a frame and takes up very little space. When in its service position, the ironing board is oriented perpendicularly to the frame and the ironing board protrudes out from the frame so that it is usable for its intended function. The structure of the ironing board and the frame allows the structure to be very efficiently and economically fabricated and installed and exhibit strength and rigidity.

Abstract: A magnetic name plate assembly includes a name plate and a retaining member which are magnetically receivable in face-to-face relation so that a user's garment may be sandwiched therebetween. The name plate and the retaining member are provided with interengaging elements that interlock with the fabric sandwiched therebetween and effectively limit relative movement of one member with respect to the other.

Abstract: A tamper-resistant owner identification badge for bicycles comprises a hardened steel badge debossed with a registration number, a reward offer, and a toll-free phone number. An aluminum sticker inscribed with the owner's personal information is attached to the badge. The badge, formed by two opposing casing members, is mounted around the seatstay tube of a bicycle. Two screws sunken into counterbores hold the casing members firmly together. Sealing discs tapped flush into the counterbores permanently deny access to the screws, so that removal of the badge is extremely difficult for even the most experienced thieves. The personal information on the badge provides anyone who sees the bicycle, but particularly law enforcement authorities, a means to compare the person possessing the bicycle with the characteristics of the rightful owner. Even if the sticker is removed, the reward offer and the toll-free number will help to induce any person who finds the bicycle to report the discovery.

Abstract: A refrigerator door includes an outer metal shell having an outer rectangular panel connected to four inwardly turned side panels connected to an inwardly facing peripheral flange. An inner liner has a peripheral flange in registry with the outer door shell flange, a central wall and a pair of vertical, inwardly projecting sidewalls connecting the central wall to the liner flange. Each sidewall includes a scallop in the form of an inwardly opening notch at a select aligned longitudinal position of the inner liner. The central wall includes a transverse inwardly opening recess groove extending between the sidewalls at the select longitudinal position to provide an expansion joint to prevent bowing when an insulation cures in the space between the liner and the shell and when the refrigerator is in operation, thus cooling the door. Moreover, C-shaped beams in the door aid in providing strength to further prevent bowing.

Abstract: An interchangeable sign system for locating indicia relative to a predetermined display includes an integral support member having a spacing portion and a retaining portion, and an indicia bearing member having a front indicia bearing surface and a flat rear surface including a retainer for freely, slidably engaging the indicia bearing member and the support member. The retaining portion and the spacing portion are not collinear but intersect at a junction to form an intersecting angle of between about 10 degrees to 170 degrees with respect to the spacing portion to orient the indicia bearing member in the line of sight of an observer when the indicia bearing member is above or below the observer's level line of sight. In the preferred embodiment, the retainer defines an open ended channel superbonded to the rear surface of the indicia bearing member.

Abstract: A deer lure and method is presented whereby urine from a domestic goat is utilized. An absorbent cotton is saturated with undiluted urine and is suspended in a substantially triangular type area configuration whereby the sides of the triangle are each about twenty yards in length with absorbers at the points of the triangle. Additional urine is placed on the ground in the center of the triangle. Both buck and doe are attracted as the scent producing urine as it permeates the atmosphere. A method of collecting urine from domestic goats and apparatus is also provided utilizing a mesh covered pan.

Abstract: A fishing rod having a handle section, a tip and a counter-balance assembly is provided. The tip is attached to one end of the handle section and the counter-balance assembly is coupled to the other end of the handle section. The torque applied to the handle section of the fishing rod by the tip of the rod is offset by a an equal and opposite torque applied to the handle section by the counter-balance assembly, consequently locating the balance point of the fishing rod in the handle section of the fishing rod.

Abstract: An apparatus for adjustably and detachably connecting an additional fishing rig consisting of a hook and a bait to a fishing line is described as having a slider member and a stop member. The slider member is freely moveable on the line while the stop member can be fixed thereon at a desired distance from the usual fishing rig. The stop member is larger than the slider member to prevent the slider and the leader thereon from moving closer to said usual fishing rig than a predetermined distance. The slider member has coiled members connected by angler portion to which a leader is tied.

Abstract: A fishing lure assembly includes a body portion having a head end, and a cylindrical neck extending outwardly from the head end. The lure assembly further includes a removable head portion having a cylindrical bore in a first end thereof, and a contoured surface at an opposite second end thereof. The neck of the body has a bayonet slot formed therein. The neck further has a leader eyelet extending outwardly therefrom for attachment of a fishing line. The cylindrical bore of the head portion has a rib element which extends radially inwardly into the bore at the outer end thereof. An inner end of the bore includes a slotted aperture. The neck of the body portion is slidably received into the bore in head portion wherein the rib element is slidably received into the bayonet slot and the leader eyelet extends through the elongated aperture in the inner end of the bore so as to extend outwardly from the second end of the head portion.

Abstract: A rodent trap operates by electrocuting the animal as it moves to steal the bait from a space above a depressible platform. The platform includes a downwardly swingable plate that is covered by a woven fabric panel. Edge areas of the fabric panel hang downwardly into a water bath located below the platform; water is drawn upwardly by wick action so that the platform fabric surface is wet. As the animal moves along the platform its feet and body become wet due to contact with the wet platform surface. The weight of the animal depresses the platform, which activates a hidden switch, thereby completing an electric circuit which electrocutes the animal while it is on the platform. The wetting of the platform surface facilitates the electrocution process.

Abstract: An insect trap for use in capturing flies, ants and other insects, which insect trap utilizes a slowly moving baited conveyor belt to convey insects into the interior of the trap. In its preferred embodiments, the trap also features means for the continued refurbishment of the bait supply on the slowly moving conveyor belt.

Abstract: A device for drawing current from an electric fence to attract and electrocute insects. The device includes a grounded hollow tubular member with apertures in liquid communication with a source of insect lure. A single or double strand of wire is supported by insulators mounted in parallel along said tube. The wires engage said electric fencing such that insects attract to said tube by the aroma of the lure and are electrocuted by contacting the wires and grounded base.

Abstract: A tree stand for supporting a Christmas tree in an upright position has a remote watering box/water storage tank disguised to resemble a wrapped gift/Christmas present under the tree. Water can run through tubing positioned under the tree skirt from the bottom of the remote watering box to the bottom of the watertight tree stand. When a ball valve (or similar valve means) in the water line is opened, the level in the stand will rise to the level of the water in the tank. Water can be easily added to the watering box/storage tank to maintain it at the desired level without a person having to crawl under the tree. The tree stand has four legs which can fold up to give the stand a compact shape which can nest within the remote watering box reducing the amount of storage space required when the stand is not being used.

Abstract: Remote control equipment for remotely opening a vehicle door. A manual operated remote control transmitter transmits a signal to a receiver mounted on the vehicle which causes door mounted motor actuators to unlock and unlatch the door after which a prebiased mechanical door opener functions to open the door wide enough to permit ready access to the vehicle.

Abstract: A door which can be automatically opened and closed can have an additional releasable connection for allowing the door panels to be manually opened by disengaging the door panels from the device for automatically opening and closing the doors. In particular, two-panel doors which execute a combined sliding and rotational motion around a vertical axis of rotation during the closing and opening motion can be configured with such a device to make it possible to use the doors in evacuation and emergency routes, i.e. routes in which a manual force can be applied from inside to open the door panels. Further, so that the door does not remain open, there can also preferably be switches or circuits in the construction which indicate that a manual opening of the door panels has occurred, in which case an electronic signal can be generated to place the drive device in motion, to thereby automatically restore the connection between the door panels and the drive system.

Abstract: A closure lock which utilizes the operating motor for moving of the closure as the locking mechanism. A shorting circuit is applied across the motor when the closure is in an at-rest position. Any attempt at manually moving of the closure between the closed position of the closure and the open position of the closure will require the rotor of the motor to be rotated relative to the stator of the motor. This requires a significant amount of motor drag to be overcome which is difficult and thereby functions as a locking mechanism preventing operating of the closure. This closure lock can be bypassed by an authorized person by the opening of a manually operated switch which will permit the closure to be easily moved between its open and closed position.