Abstract: A motion-transmitting remote control assembly (10) of the type for transmitting motion along a curved path by a flexible core element (20) movably supported in a conduit (12, 14) and adjustment means including inner (16) and outer (18) telescoping members for adjusting the length of the conduit. The assembly is characterized by a pair of identicle locking members (22) retained against axial movement by the outer member (18) and radially movable into a locked position in which the locking members (22) are in interlocking engagement with the outer member (18) and with one another so that each locking member (22) is in gripping engagement with substantially 180 degrees of the circumference of the inner member (16) to prevent relative axial movement between the inner (16) and outer (18) members. Each locking member (22) includes a male projection (26) defining a hook (28) for interlocking engagement with a flange (34) of the other locking member (22) sandwiched against a shoulder (30) of the outer member (16).

Abstract: A connector for engaging brake cables of a bicycle, the connector has a bore defined therein, a counter-bore defined therein and in communication with the bore, and a first hole transversely defined therein which is in communication with and perpendicular to the bore through which a bolt extends. A first brake cable and a second brake cable respectively extend from the connector and connect to a corresponding brake arm thereof, a third brake cable extending to connect a brake lever at a first end thereof and passing through a second hole defined in the bolt and extending through the first hole with a second end thereof, the bolt engaged to a nut via a spring and a washer so as to securely position the third brake cable such that the third brake cable is able to be adjusted by unscrewing the bolt and the first cable and the second brake cable exerting an equal force to the corresponding brake arms thereof when the connector is pulled upwardly by the third brake cable.

Abstract: A length-adjusting device for a control cable, which can be made compact, operated within a small stroke and kept securely locked, and can, as well, be assembled easily, comprising: an adjusting pipe (1), having latching teeth (5) thereon, to be fixed with an outer control cable and penetrated by an inner control cable, a base member (2), to be penetrated by said adjusting pipe (1) movably along the axis thereof, and fixed to a stationary member and an adjusting piece (30) with locking teeth (6) to engage with said latching teeth (5), wherein the movement of said adjusting pipe (1) relative to said base member (2) is locked by means of the engagement of said latching teeth (5) with said locking teeth (6), and the extent of said movement is restricted within a concave (4) of said adjusting pipe (1), after releasing said engagement (refer to FIG. 6).

Abstract: A locking system for adjustable car seats, in particular seats of motor vehicles. The system includes: a first row of notches (2), which extends in the direction of adjustment of the car seat and all of whose notches are designed the same and are spaced at equal intervals; a second row of notches (4), which extends parallel to the first row and all of whose notches are designed the same, have in the direction of adjustment of the car seat the dimension and the same distance from each other, like the notches (2) of the first row, and are offset in the direction of adjustment relative to the notches of the first row; and at least first and second locking bodies (6, 7), each of which in its locking position engages with a notch (2, 4) of the first or second row; all notches (2, 4) are designed as oblong holes extending in the direction of adjustment.

Abstract: An actuating assembly in particular for a vehicle seat has an elongate carrier member and brackets projecting from the carrier member. The brackets carry a pivot bar and actuating elements are mounted pivotably on the pivot bar. To afford user-specific flexibility in regard to the arrangement of the actuating elements in the actuating assembly, the carrier member has spaced-apart, transversely extending openings having a cross-sectional profile with an undercut configuration and each bracket is fitted into a corresponding opening with a fitting portion whose cross-sectional profile is matched to that of the corresponding opening to mount the bracket to the carrier member.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a steering wheel involves moulding a steering wheel skeleton 1 and an air bag reception dish 2 integral therewith, placing a folded inflatable bag 3 in the dish, and closing the dish opening with a sealing material 4 which can tear when the bag inflates. The steering wheel skeleton together with its dish 2 filled with the bag 3 and covered with the sealing material 4 is then placed in a mould, and plastic is injected into the mould to form a soft outer covering 5 around the skeleton.

Abstract: A rocker arm mounting stud assembly having a rocker arm mounting stud with adjustable rocker arm fixture mounting for use with a matching trunnion. Further provided is a radius roller tip rocker arm providing a third dimension principle by making the contact point of the diameter of the roller tip, a radius, lean on its pivoting access to control misalignment away from a two dimensional plane. A teaching of rocker arm geometry is provided for establishing precision measuring rules to facilitate the correct and precise installation of the rocker arm. Further provided is a one piece stud lock providing a direct pressure method of holding each rocker arm mounting stud with precise force providing overlapping components for retainment of each rocker arm mounting stud in a precision set predetermined position.

Abstract: A mechanism for driving a transporting device having a frame by at least one of human force and a mechanical driving source, comprises a first part (2, 4, 5) rotated relative to the frame by human force and a second part (17 or 18) rotated relative to the frame by driving the mechanical driving source. An outer ring (13), an inner ring (8) and spoke members (11, 12) are integrally formed with a resiliently deformable material so as to connect the first part and the second part. A first permanent magnet (23)and a second permanent magnet (24) are provided on the outer ring, in such a manner that reed switches provided on the frame senses the angular displacement between the first magnet (23) and the second magnet (24) and each revolution of the first magnet (24) and the second magnet (23). The mechanical driving source in response to the signals which relate to the revolutions and angular displacement and are generated by the reed sensors, are controlled by a controller.

Abstract: A camshaft vibration damper comprises an inertia ring having a friction clutch surface disposed in driving contact with a complementary clutch surface and a spring for biasing the clutch surfaces toward one another. The complementary clutch surface may be disposed on a drive member, for example, a camshaft sprocket or similar structure rotating with the camshaft. The spring is a compression spring, preferably a Belleville spring washer, which biases the two friction clutch surfaces together. The inertia of the inertia ring opposes the instantaneous variations in rotational speed (d.theta./dt) of the camshaft causing relative rotation between the inertia ring and the drive member thereby reducing vibration without resisting camshaft rotation. Relative motion at the clutch face between the inertia ring and the drive member results in energy absorption and dissipation thereby minimizing unwanted vibration.

Abstract: A differential mechanism having two output cam members rotatable about an axis (X--X), each cam member having a single annular frustoconical cam surface thereon of undulating form comprising pairs of mutually inclined surfaces and a plurality of cam followers having end surfaces engaging the cam surfaces of the output cam members. Relative contra rotation of the output cam members causes the cam followers to slide axially and an input member engages the followers which are slidably supported by the input member and moves the followers circumferentially relative to the output cam members. A locking means is also provided for locking the output cam members and/or the input member against relative rotation to lock up the differential mechanism.

Abstract: A wrench for use with a seized engine oil filter typically employed in a mechanical environment in which a conventional threaded oil filter cannot be removed from an oil lubricated engine. The oil filter wrench comprises a cap-shaped housing including a planar top surface and a wall formed orthogonal to the perimeter of the top surface. A plurality of flat keyed edges formed on an interior surface of the wall are provided for engaging a housing of the oil filter. Several threaded shaft and nut assemblies are mounted to the wall for piercing said oil filter housing. The threaded shaft and nut assemblies lock the cap-shaped housing to the oil filter for maximizing the torque on the oil filter when the cap-shaped housing is rotated. A socket receptacle formed in the planar top surface enables rotation of the cap-shaped housing. In a preferred embodiment, the flat keyed edges formed on the interior surface of the wall enable the cap-shaped housing to be fitted over the edges of a conventional oil filter.

Abstract: The chuck, the bar which operates it, and the cylinder and piston assembly which moves the bar are axially hollow and form a vertical duct which is open at the top next to the workpiece and which is open at the bottom over a conveyor with a filter and a unit for collecting and pumping the cutting fluid. The chips from the piece are channelled and removed downwards through the said duct by at least one jet of fluid at high pressure, which has a location and direction such that it strikes the chip after its formation without interfering with the normal jet of fluid at low pressure which is applied to the tool. The said jet or jets of fluid at high pressure consist of the same cutting fluid as that which is directed against the tool at low pressure. The chips leaving the lower end of the said duct fall on to the conveyor which removes them and separates them from the cutting fluid which, when suitably filtered, is returned to circulation by low-pressure and high-pressure pumps.

Abstract: A unique hand wheel engagement/disengagement mechanism for a brake lathe employs a single slide drive motor which drives a drive shaft that provides a power supply to multiple lead screws. The mechanism includes a hand wheel tube which has a compression spring contained within the tube. A push button is also located within the hand wheel tube. The push button has a base which captures the compression spring between the base and the end of the drive shaft. The compression spring causes pressure against the face of the base to push it away from the drive shaft when the system is in its normal, at rest position. The push button includes a shank extending between head of the push button protruding from the hand wheel tube and its base. The shank has a shoulder which reduces the diameter of the shank to create a recess within the hand wheel tube.

Abstract: A retrofit assembly for a tool post adapted for rapid attachment and detachment relative to the compound rest of a lathe for adjusting the positioning thereof and for the presentation of a tool holder relative to the tool post consisting of a single operating body for tightening/loosening the tool post relative to the compound responsively to the turning of a stud on a screw means and for tightening/loosening a tool holder relative to the tool post responsively to the driving force of a manipulating device.

Abstract: A miter box is provided with a simple demountable and adjustable board stop which operates in conjunction with the horizontal upper edge of the miter box backstop to position a board, such as a piece of cove molding, in an acute vertical angular position with respect to the miter box table which allows the board to be cut at the compound angle required for a mitered butt joint in which the cut pieces are mounted at the same relative angle in which they are positioned in the miter box. The box also includes a simple frictional locking mechanism to set the pivotable saw carriage in any selected horizontal angular position over the full range provided by the miter box.

Abstract: A manually operated tile cutter having a carriage slidably mounted on a pair of guide rails supported by a base. An operating lever is pivotally connected to the carriage at a point below the guide rails, and the carriage contains two interconnected operating lever pivot supports which position the scoring wheel at different heights thereby accommodating different tile thicknesses.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a drive of the fluid or electric type having a device for controlling an element for transmitting a driving force to a reciprocating or otherwise moveable or displaceable element and an arrangement for damping the driving force at at least one end of the element's travel. The driving force element is at least single-acting, and the drive may also include mechanical shock absorbers and sensors arranged in the area of the ends of travel. In order to achieve an especially soft striking or contact at the end of travel position of the driving force element, the control device includes a counter-pulse module which, via a pre-positioning sensor associated with at least one movement direction, causes a chronologically settable changeover from a previously flowed-through or activated first switching element associated with a first end of travel position to a previously unactivated second switching element associated with a second end of travel position.

Abstract: A pneumatic booster having a casing (16) formed from a cylinder (32) and a cover (34). The casing (16) is divided into two chambers (18,20) by a movable wall (10). The movable wall. (20) has a plate (12) and a flexible membrane (14). A bead (30) on the outer peripheral edge of flexible membrane (14) is fixed to the casing (16). The flexible membrane (14) forms a fold in a space located between the peripheral edge of the plate (12) and the casing (16). The plate (12) is secured to a hub structure which houses a valve member for operating the pneumatic booster. The plate (12) which is substantially parallel to the end cover has an extension (40) that extends in a forward direction substantially concentric to the cylinder (32). The extension (40) has front part (46) and a rear part (44) with a radial shoulder (42) on the front part.

Abstract: A variable displacement hydraulic motor having a swash plate angle adjusting structure. This hydraulic motor has a main case, a rotary shaft rotatably supported in the main case, a plurality of cylinder blocks rotatable with the rotary shaft and including axial plungers, a swash plate member for contacting distal ends of the plungers, pivot shafts for pivotally connecting the swash plate member to the main case such that the swash plate member has a pivoting angle adjustable relative to the main case, and a first and a second hydraulic cylinders arranged at opposite sides of the pivot shafts as seen in a direction parallel to the rotary shaft. The first and second hydraulic cylinders are secured in a region of the main case opposed to the cylinder blocks across the swash plate member. The hydraulic cylinders are operable to contact the swash plate member to adjust the pivoting angle thereof.

Abstract: A coaxial capacitor contacting and sealing structure, for electrical continuity between parts that move in relation to each other at the ends of a cavity within a hydraulic cylinder employing electromagnetic wave position sensing. The structure employs a contacting and sealing member having a high surface conductivity that is mounted in one of the parts. The mounting of the contacting and sealing member provides force for pressure contact in oil between the parts and to enhance electrical continuity with the part in which the contacting and sealing member is located.

Abstract: A combined sensing and barrier element is provided. This sensing element is most useful as a flexible diaphragm which is also described herein. The flexible diaphragm has a resilient elastomeric body and a sensing element having at least one conductive component and at least two nonconductive components such that the conductive component is positioned between the nonconductive components. A change in electrical resistance is recorded by an electrical monitoring device that is electrically connected to the conductive component. By observing changes in the resistance that deviate from a predetermined norm, significant wear of a diaphragm can be determined prior to its failure.

Abstract: A pneumatic spring brake is improved so as to be not only tamper proof but repairable as well. Such a brake is formed of a spring chamber head and adapter head, both of which define rigid mating rims that are disposed in mutual, longitudinal alignment and in face-to-face relationship. The rims compress the periphery of a spring brake diaphragm therebetween. The rim of one of the heads is fabricated with a plurality of lugs thereon separated from each other by circumferentially spaced gaps therebetween. The rim of the other of the spring brake heads is provided with a corresponding number of radially outwardly projecting flanges having widths smaller than the gaps between the lugs. The flanges project radially outwardly from the head on which they are formed and into channels formed in the lugs on the other head. The flanges are thereby held in registration with the lugs by the compression of the periphery of the spring brake diaphragm between the mating rims of the heads.

Abstract: A fluid actuated linear slide for producing linear movement has a rigid body with a pair of spaced apart parallel bores for slidably receiving a pair of guide rods and a mounting plate fixed to one end of the guide rods. A fluid actuated cylinder is carried by the body between and parallel to the guide rods and has a casing and a rod slidably received in and extending from one end. The rod is connected with the mounting plate for reciprocating the plate and the guide rods with respect to the body. The linear slide is constructed in such a manner that two or more of the slides can be attached in series for producing movement in one or more paths.

Abstract: A drive for turning a pinion shaft provided with toothed ridges by means of a rack the latter is connected on both sides with pistons, which in each case are held by a cylinder with the formation of a working space which may be acted upon by a pressure medium and closed by a cover or piston. In this case, the rack may be mounted for relative movement with respect to a toothed piston. The rack as well as the toothed piston engage with their teeth the toothed ridges of the pinion shaft.

Abstract: A piston having at least one piston ring in combination with a cylinder of a two-stroke internal combustion engine. The piston is made from an aluminum alloy and has a running layer covering at least 80% of the running surface of the piston. The running layer is made from resin-bound graphite. The piston ring has a crowned running surface and is made from cast iron or steel. The cylinder includes a running surface where at least the running surface is made from an aluminum alloy. The running surface has a roughness of less than 1 micron. The running layer on the piston has a thickness between 10 and 20 microns. The graphite particles which form the running layer have a size between 1 and 10 microns.

Abstract: An automatic drip beverage brewing apparatus in the form an urn includes a liquid reservoir, a brewed beverage reservoir, a brewing basket for holding coffee or tea over an opening to the beverage reservoir, a spigot in the brewed beverage reservoir for draining brewed beverage from the brewed beverage reservoir, and a cover which covers both the liquid reservoir and the brewed beverage reservoir. The brewed beverage reservoir includes a liner which provides an insulative air gap between the liner and the housing which defines the brewed beverage reservoir. A warming element is attached to the brewed beverage reservoir liner. A swing arm shower head is positionable over an opening to the brewing basket. A conduit provides a liquid passageway from the liquid reservoir to a liquid heating element to the shower head. The liquid and beverage reservoirs may be integrally formed by a common housing mountable upon a base which houses the heating element.

Abstract: A roasting oven including upper, lower, front, and rear walls and left and right end walls defining, in combination, a hollow envelope having a substantially curved upper surface, the housing including, within at least one of the front and rear walls, an opening for inserting and removing meats to be roasted to, in a normal state of operation, provide a continuously uninterrupted fluid communication between an oven interior defined by the walls, the envelope and the atmosphere; at least one infrared radiation element situated within said envelope of the oven housing, the element facing the oven interior to enable infrared radiation transmitted into the envelope to be reflected about the oven interior, the substantially curved upper surface of the envelope of the housing containing heated air to, in combination with directed radiated energy from the infrared element and reflected radiation therefrom, create sufficient oven temperatures within the substantially curved upper surface of the oven housing to accomp

Abstract: A device for grilling small pieces of food is described which is a basket including a mesh. The device fits inside of conventional grills even when the lid of the grill is closed and can be easily removed for shaking and turning over of the small pieces of food without their falling out. The basket optionally has a removable lid that can be used independently of the device as a cooking surface. When the lid is in place, the entire device may be turned over. When the lid is either off or in the up position, the food inside the basket may be stirred or moved.

Abstract: A continuous process for making fat-free potato chips without using any cooking oil whatsoever. Chipping potatoes are prepared, sliced, continuously monolayered onto a conveyer and squeegeed to remove the excess starch and moisture. The slices are initial cooked on independently controlled conveyers in a primary 3-zone oven where they are first radiant heated and then subjected to two stages of forced air convection heating by driving the air into both surfaces of the slices simultaneously as the moisture content is reduced to 15%. The slices are then final cooked in a dielectric heater where an even controlled heat is applied in two tandem drying zones where the potato slices are subjected to long wavelength (65.8 ft.) radio frequency (15 mhz) waves from two 20 kw transmitters which reduce the moisture content of the finished slices to 7%. The finished potato chips are seasoned and packaged and have the texture, appearance and mouthfeel of deep-fat fried potato chips.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a chopping board for food preparation, wherein the chopping board comprises a substantially planar frame. The frame includes an upper frame surface and a lower frame surface. The upper surface includes a substantially planar chopping surface and bowl support means adjacent to the chopping surface for maintaining a food bowl or cooking pot in a substantially horizontal orientation adjacent to the chopping surface.

Abstract: A container of prismatic shape, in particular with a square ground plan shape, has a bottom, a base frame, and side walls extending upwardly therefrom, wherein a front side wall is pivotably journalled for opening the container, and wherein the container is furthermore equipped with a pressing device provided for compressing the filling material. At its lower side, the front side wall is rigidly connected to the bottom, and the unit thus formed is journalled on the front side of the container so as to be outwardly pivotable. The pressing device is comprised of a pressing lid and a toggle lever mechanism provided for pressing down the pressing lid and actuatable by a hand lever.

Abstract: A safety apparatus is mounted to the side of a bed of a power press machine on which an operator is positioned for ensuring safety of the operator of the power press machine. The safety apparatus includes a table, for supporting the front end portion of a workpiece, fitted so as to be movable toward and away from the bed at substantially the same height as a fixed mold set to the bed side and on the side of the bed where the operator is positioned. A pair of two-hand operation type switches are fitted to the front side portion of the table with a gap between them, and are operated by both hands of the operator. A deactivating switch is provided for deactivating the pair of two-hand operation type switches when a movable mold set to slide portion side of the power press machine approaches to within predetermined distance of the fixed mold set to the bed side to provide a safety state.

Abstract: A stamping machine including a rubber stamping head angular position adjustment mechanism, which can be adjusted to the desired angular position for stamping different workpieces, a horizontal slide adjustment mechanism, which can be adjusted to move the rubber stamping head to the desired horizontal position, an automatic ink feeder, which can be adjusted to supply metered quantity of ink, a scraper carrier, which keeps the scraper blade and the ink application roller unit operated at the same elevation, an ink tray assembly, which is detachable, and a workpiece conveying mechanism, which uses a driving wheel driven by an air cylinder through a rack and a gear to turn a conveying chain in carrying a series of workpiece table plates for a continuous stamping operation.

Abstract: A printing group cylinder of a web-fed rotary printing machine is mounted by its journals on opposed side walls of the machine. A sleeve positioned on or about the cylinder may be slipped on or off of the cylinder through an opening in the side wall. During operation, the opening in the side wall is closed by placing a pair of sliding gates in their closed position. When it is desired to change the sleeve, the opening in the side wall is uncovered by displacing the sliding gates. In order to obtain good print quality, the bearing is formed of multiple interengaging rings, of which at least one is eccentrically shaped. The eccentric shape of the ring causes the axis of the printing group cylinder to move into either a print engagement or disengagement setting when the ring is slidably rotated. The eccentric ring is secured against turning when the sliding gates are opened.

Abstract: A thermal printer prints linerless labels in such a way that printer components will not stick to the adhesive face of linerless labels. Substantially stationary printer components, such as a label guide, transport plate, front panel, and stripper blade, preferably have the adhesive face engaging surfaces thereof plasma coated so that adhesive will not stick to them. An optional cutter provided downstream of the stripper blade also has plasma coated surfaces. A driven platen roller has a surface thereof coated with or covered by a high release silicone, which will not stick to the adhesive, but has high friction characteristics to facilitate drive of the labels. In a direct thermal printer, a plasma coated tear off surface is downstream of the driven platen roller, and stripper belts, a second roller with O-rings, and the like are provided to prevent the labels from wrapping around the driven platen roller.

Abstract: A device for inking a screen roller of a rotary printing machine, with an ink chamber, arranged along side of the screen roller, which has an opening pointing toward the screen roller and which is closed on the front side by side walls and which has at least one ink inlet as well as a chamber body with a circular interior. In order to allow the screen roller to be inked in a manner correct for printing using simple technical devices, the ink inlet into the inking chamber is to allow the creation of an ink roll moved by the screen roller during operation in a rotating fashion.

Abstract: A printing device (10) for a printing press (12) having a cylinder (14) having at least one journal (16 or 18) extending from an end (20 or 22) of the cylinder (14), and a bearing (30 or 32) on the journal (16 or 18) and having an inner edge (44 or 46) located in the range of 1/16 inches to 11/2 inches from the end (20 or 22) of the cylinder (14).

Abstract: A method for cleaning a printing cylinder having a ceramic-coated surface embedded with dried printing ink residue or metal shavings is disclosed including the steps of:(1) contacting the ceramic-coated surface of the printing cylinder with an acid solution for a period of time sufficient to dissolve the embedded dried printing ink residue and embedded metal shavings; and(2) neutralizing the acid solution.The method of the invention is useful for removing dried printing ink residue and metal shavings which become embedded in the ceramic-coated surface of the printing cylinder during the printing operation, without damaging the ceramic-coated printing surface, especially after repeated cleanings, and without posing a waste disposal hazard.

Abstract: A method for mounting a printing plate on a mounting sheet without requiring the intervention of a skilled person working by eye. An original design to be printed is produced on a computer and register marks are added to that design at specific positions. The resultant design data is output to a first printer. A negative of the design and the register marks is produced, and a printing plate is produced from the negative so that the design and the register marks are reproduced on the printing plate. The register mark position data is also output from the computer to a second printer. The dimensions of an article upon which the design is to be printed are input into a second printer and a full size plot of the outline of the article, including the positions of the register marks, is produced from the second printer.

Abstract: A fastening leg of a fastening edge of a trailing end of a flexible plate is inserted into a cooperating mounting slit in a cylinder by utilization of a plate trailing end inserting device. The trailing end of the flexible plate is caused to arc outwardly prior to insertion of the fastening leg into the mounting slot. This causes the effective length of the plate to be shortened.

Abstract: In a rotary stencil printing machine in which a stencil sheet is wound on the outer cylindrical surface of a cylindrical printing drum, with a printing sheet held between backing means and the printing drum, printing ink is supplied from the inside of the printing drum to the printing sheet through the stencil sheet to perform a print, and the stencil discharging apparatus discharges the stencil sheet, the stencil discharging apparatus including: at least a pair of pulleys, each pulley having a axis in parallel with the axis of the printing drum; an endless belt laid over the pair of pulleys provided near the printing drum; a fan for sucking one end portion of the stencil sheet wound on the printing drum to retain the one end portion of the stencil sheet by the endless belt; and a pair of rollers dragging in the stencil sheet beginning with the one end portion retained by the endless belt with the aid of the suction means and conveyed as the endless belt is driven, and move the stencil sheet to a predetermine

Abstract: To provide a railroad car design that allows the car to travel at high speeds over current roadbeds at very low fuel costs per mile a special rail is formed. This rail has the form of a wave shaped on its top with the troughs and crests of the wave repeating themselves every several feet apart continuously down both tracks for the whole distance of the railroad. When a wheel of this multi-wheeled car comes over the crest of a wave it has encountered as it moves down this wave formed track, the wheel immediately begins supporting its computer calculated portion of the weight of the car on a cushion of air pressure forced into its supporting air cylinder at that moment and rolls down the face of the wave in its desired direction of travel.

Abstract: A safety barrier for a subway or railway train including pairs of individual pivoting triangular gate members with a smooth wall panel at the base of the triangle. Each gate member is retractable within a recess in the end wall of the train car near a corner and are expandable to form a partial continuation of the side wall of the train car and to form with an adjacent barrier on the rear end wall a safety barrier to prevent persons from entering the gap between the cars from either side of the train.

Abstract: A bridge interconnects two table tops and is supported solely by the table tops themselves, employing connector bars which normally serve to gang tables together. Alignment pins on the bottom surface of the bridge engage openings in the connector bars. A separate slidable locking bar on the bridge engages each pair of connector bars to attach the bridge to the two table tops.

Abstract: A dismantleable standing table with a table top plate, a supporting construction on which the table top plate rests, and with a base support. The standing table has three parts, which are screwed to each other via screw connections which are detachable by hand without tools. There is a first top part comprising the table top plate, and a second center part comprising the supporting construction for the table top plate, this part includes a supporting inner tube which is concentrically received within an outer standing tube surrounding the inner tube. Furthermore, the standing table has a third bottom part including the base plate and possibly a step ring, this bottom part being connectable with the bottom end of the second part. For the screw connection among the three parts, it is possible to arrange, for example, top and bottom centering rings in the outer standing tube, such top and bottom rings each receive a threaded ring which is screwed to an outside thread of the inner tube.

Abstract: A process for the vitrification of products in the form of solid pieces or particles without the release of dust as a pollutant, according to which there is used a furnace (3) provided with a burner (15). There are introduced into the furnace the products to be vitrified, and the products are permitted to heat in the furnace until they form a liquid or pasty vitreous mass, then this vitreous mass is removed from the furnace and permitted to cool. The internal walls of the furnace are preheated with the burner to a temperature exceeding the temperature at which the products to be vitrified can form a liquid or pasty vitreous mass, then the energy supplied by the burner is reduced substantially or even cut off, before introducing waste into the furnace.

Abstract: A burner block for mounting a burner within a furnace containing a melt to be heated by the burner. The burner block comprises a body having a passageway terminating in a divergent opening. The passageway is configured to receive the burner so that the burner is recessed within the divergent opening and a flame produced by the burner is directed out of the divergent opening and over the melt. The divergent opening has a lower section angled in a downward direction and the lower section has a reversed step to produce a primary recirculation zone beneath the flame, thereby to draw the flame in a downward direction toward the melt. The reversed step is positioned within the divergent opening so that when the burner is in use, a secondary recirculation zone forms between the opening and the melt and further draws the flame in the downward direction toward the melt.

Abstract: Apparatus and process for producing embroidery data to control a sewing machine to form, on a work sheet, an embroidery by sequentially filling with stitches a plurality of closed areas separate from each other. The apparatus includes a memory which stores a plurality of sets of closed-area data each of which represents a corresponding one of the closed areas; and a producing device for producing, based on the sets of closed-area data, the embroidery data to control the sewing machine to embroider each of the closed areas by starting and ending at at least one of (a) a substantially same position and (b) respective positions adjacent to each other. The process includes the step of producing the embroidery data to control the sewing machine to embroider each of the closed areas by starting and ending at at least one of (a) a substantially same position and (b) respective positions adjacent to each other.

Abstract: A single or multiple needle bar tufting machine provided with loop forming fingers above the substrate or base fabric is used to form variable gauge fabrics by laterally shifting the needles during tufting. In this manner rows of loop stitches are formed over the loop forming fingers on the face of the substrate and rows of pile loops are formed on the back side. A variety of novel fabrics and fabrics simulating patterns heretofore only made on looms and knitting machines can be manufactured by utilizing such a tufting machine in connection with yarn feed pattern control devices, pattern control needle bar positioners, and a controllable fabric feed. The resulting fabrics offer many advantages including lower stitch rates, better substrate coverage, less resistance to sliding traffic, increased abrasion resistance, and improved draping characteristics.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided for processing peripheral selvedges of fabric. The apparatus includes a sewing machine unit for sewing up fabrics; an air table mechanism incorporating a number of jet apertures through which air is jetted onto an upper surface of the table in an obliquely upward direction towards a product guide member; a supplementary roller unit which vertically ascends and descends to shift a processable fabric synchronously with feeding of the sewing machine unit; a rotating unit having a fabric holding unit which descends only when sewing of a fabric corner is executed in order to hold and rotate the objective fabric by a predetermined angle and then ascends after rotating the fabric by a predetermined angle; a flange strip supply unit for supplying a flange strip to the sewing machine unit; and a controller unit for integrally controlling operation of the above component units.