Abstract: A toilet lighting device is provided and consists of a illuminating unit within a toilet seat which will illuminate a toilet bowl, so that the toilet can be used in the dark. A radiating unit within a toilet seat cover can function as a night light when the toilet seat cover is placed in an upright position.

Abstract: A gravity flush toilet system includes a fixture with a water sealed trap and a tank having an overflow tube, a flush valve and a fill valve. A control assembly includes a float assembly with a member for pushing the flush valve toward its closed position as the water level descends. A full volume or a reduced volume flushing operation is selected by alternatively filling or emptying a bias chamber of the float assembly. Water pressure variations are compensated for by increasing the weight of the float with part of the flow through the fill valve as the tank is emptying. A regulated volume of reseal water is carried in a chamber on the float and is discharged into the overflow tube to refill the fixture trap after each flushing operation.

Abstract: A toilet trip lever mechanism for use with pressure flush toilets including a coil-type member formed integrally as part of the lever arm. The coil member acts as a shock absorber during the flushing process to absorb kickback during flushing.

Abstract: A child's toilet with a disposable liner comprised of a main housing having a circular hole formed through a top wall thereof. The main housing has a rectangular hole formed through a front wall thereof extending into a hollow interior. The device contains a sliding bin having a circular chamber formed within a top wall thereof. The sliding bin is adapted for removable securement through the rectangular hole in the front wall of the main housing within the hollow interior thereof with the circular chamber corresponding with the circular hole formed through the top wall of the main housing. A disposable liner is adapted for removable coupling within the circular chamber of the sliding bin.

Abstract: A multi-lavatory system is preassembled to facilitate efficient installation with a minimum of connection points. The multi-lavatory system is connected to a single fluid supply line and a single drainage line. A fluid supply network conducts water from the single fluid supply line to a plurality of lavatory stations. Similarly, a drainage network conducts waste water from the plurality of lavatory stations to the single drainage line. Additionally, the multi-lavatory system includes a unitary lavatory subassembly having interconnected but spaced sink regions. Each sink region is disposed in one of the lavatory stations and is bounded at a frontal area by an upstanding contoured wall that creates an independent washing zone. This facilitates efficient production of the unitary lavatory subassembly and overall multi-lavatory system while providing each user of the system with a sense of privacy in their own independent washing zone.

Abstract: The invention provides a wall stop or spacer which is mounted on the hospital bed and impinges on the skirting of the wall near the floor should the bed be pushed towards the wall with resulting impact. Also, because the engagement is usually at right angles to the wall, the spacer has a width greater than the distance between the studs in the wall so that the load will be distributed across the studs. Further, because the impact is on the skirting, the impact takes place at one of the strongest pans of the wall where the wall plate and studs meet and the skirting passes over these pans to further reinforce the structure. The wall stop can be placed in a deployed position for engagement with the skirting or manually moved into a stored position under the bed to permit an attendant to walk behind the bed when the bed is moved from room to room.

Abstract: This invention relates to a multi purpose baby wrap which converts to a blanket, a bunting, a pad, a fitted wrap, or a shoulder wrap, to provide warmth and/or protection from the elements. A hood (either detachable or integral) may also be provided. It is adaptable for use with a child's car seat (or the like) which is fitted with a restraint system, a front or back carrying pack for carrying infants or toddlers, a stroller or walker, a swing or jumping unit which contains a child, a grocery cart, a high chair, or like equipment in which the infant's legs must be separated.

Abstract: An apparatus adjusts the pressures of a therapeutic mattress surface in accordance with the angular position of that surface. The apparatus comprises an angular position sensor and a rotation sensor which are housed together in an enclosure having a top surface in the form of a circular plate. The circular plate mounts either on the surface of the mattress or on the bottom of a bed frame supporting the mattress. The angular position and rotation sensors measure the horizontal plane referenced perpendicular to the direction of the force of gravity. The apparatus further comprises a controller blower valve assembly which processes data received from the angular position and rotation sensors to maintain, increase, or decrease the pressures within the mattress.

Abstract: A foot stop is used by a bedridden patient to resist the tendency of sliding toward the foot of the bed. The foot stop comprises a first plate that is contactable by the patient's feet, a second plate that is placed against the foot portion of the bed frame, and bars that hold the two plates apart. By pushing on the first plate with his feet, the patient can maintain a desired position in the bed without help. The length of the bars can be adjustable to suit different height patients.

Abstract: A students portfolio type organizer is convertable to form a seat cushion, a lap desk or a rain hat and includes a hinged cover having inner and outer layers of waterproof sheet material defining between them first and second pockets joined by an elongate gusset hinge. Board members and pads of cushioning are retained in respective pockets providing a firm, outer writing supporting surface and a soft, inner cushioning surface. Inside compartments or pockets are provided for the receipt of writing materials. A strap member can be releasably attached at alternative locations as a carrying strap or as a chin strap retaining the cover in partly open position with the inner, cushioned layer engaging a top of a user's head.

Abstract: A hands and arms cleaning apparatus comprised of a housing receiving a water supply line therein and having a water drain secured thereto. A pair of hand receiving holes are disposed within a front surface of the housing. A plurality of water sprayers are secured to an interior of an upper surface of the housing. The plurality of water sprayers are each coupled with the water supply line. A plurality of brushing members are rotatably positioned within a hollow interior of the housing.

Abstract: A lightweight paint roller frame for supporting a long cylinder. The present frame will accommodate a cylinder of a such a length that painting can be accomplished more quickly. This cylinder, because of its length, approximately two to three feet, has a unique support structure. The cylinder has uniformly spaced wheels along its length and is supported on both of its ends by a lightweight frame. To facilitate removal of a cover or nap from the cylinder, a rod which extends through the frame and the cylinder is removed. The frame is lightweight because it is made of plastic. The frame is preferably triangular and the area within the frame is substantially open. Support elements running within the open area of the frame are used to provide additional support to the frame without adding the weight of a solid area.

Abstract: A composite floor pad assembly includes a pair of interchangeable and reversible floor polishing pads having identical external diameters and central openings therethrough of an identical diameter. An intermediate connecting member having a plurality of hook-like members projecting from opposite surfaces thereof and provided with a central opening is detachably connected to opposing surfaces of the two floor polishing pads. A truncated, conical mandrel is also provided over which the pads and connecting member may be placed to facilitate alignment of the pads. The mandrel may be provided with an attachment member for detachably connecting the mandrel to an upper surface of a floor polishing machine.

Abstract: In a preferred embodiment, a tool for applying a viscous material to a curved surface, including: a thin, flexible, planar blade having first and second side edges; and first and second elongate handles depending from the blade, the first and second handles being attached to the blade near the first and second side edges, respectively, and configured to be manually grasped by a user of the tool.

Abstract: A windshield wiper frame connector for use in a windshield wiper assembly for an automobile which accommodates different size wiper arms, wherein the wiper frame connector includes a pair of slots for receiving a pin type wiper arm. The connector also includes a lower space and an upper space for receiving two different sized hook type wiper arms, and includes an angled slot, a hole, and a bayonet lock tongue whereby a bayonet type wiper arm can be easily connected to a windshield wiper blade unit.

Abstract: A mop head wringer is designed to be placed on a bucket and used therewith. The mop head wringer includes a screen basket which is mounted within a supporting frame. The screen basket is to be movable from an upper at-rest position to a lower wringing position. The screen basket is mounted on a shaft with the shaft being rotated as it moves from the upper position to the lower position. A mop head placed within the screen basket causes the screen basket to move from the upper position to the lower position which causes the application of the wringing force by rotation of the screen basket to the mop head.

Abstract: A floor scrubber has four wheels for stable support on the floor. These wheels are attached to the underside of a resilient molded plastic frame so that any vertical movement of any of the wheels is transmitted directly to the frame. The frame is ribbed to be stiff in longitudinal bending, but torsionally the frame is somewhat flexible. The scrubber body, which is attached to the upper side of the frame and is supported by the frame, is also a molded plastic part which is somewhat flexible. The weight of the body and its contents keeps all four wheels on the floor at all times, even when the floor is uneven, by flexing the frame and body as needed. This structural flexibility eliminates any need for an additional means to keep all the wheels on the floor, such as a sprung suspension or a center pivoted axle.

Abstract: A carpet maintainer comprising a mobile support having power drive for advancing the support over an underlying carpet surface, a housing on the support, a cleaning solvent vessel on the support, a discharge spray bar at the support underside for discharging cleaning solvent from the vessel onto an underlying carpet surface, a pair of powered, counter-rotational, elongated brushes at the support underside, adjacent each other, and transverse to the support, the spray bar being forward of the brushes for ejecting cleaning solution on the carpet followed by brush scrubbing and pile pick-up of the carpet, a debris hopper, a suction fan in the housing, an air and debris conducting conduit extending from the hopper to the suction fan, and a collector bag between the hopper and suction fan so that dirt and debris swept up by the brushes is deposited in the hopper or drawn by the fan into the collector bag.

Abstract: A wet/dry utility vacuum cleaner with detachable blower is disclosed. The detachable blower, when mounted in sealed relationship to a lid positioned above a utility vacuum cleaner drum, operates as a wet/dry utility vacuum cleaner. When separated from the utility vacuum cleaner drum, the detachable blower can be used for non-vacuuming applications. The utility vacuum drum lid includes two resilient and deformable latches: a releasable blower latch and a releasable lid latch. The releasable blower latch detachably mounts the detachable blower to the lid while the releasable lid latch detachably mounts the lid relative to the utility vacuum cleaner drum. The releasable blower latch has at least one reinforcing fin for engaging a complementary slot in the lid. The releasable lid latch has at least one slot for receiving a complementary reinforcing fin on the lid.

Abstract: The present invention provides an apparatus for cleaning floors. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes four wheels, two of which are steerable wheels, and a steering mechanism that permits the two steerable wheels to turn to a degree that allows very tight turns to be made by the sweeper. In another embodiment, the apparatus is a sweeper with a cylindrical side broom. Yet a further embodiment of the sweeper includes flaps or seals that form a skirt about the broom and a mounting mechanism for slidably receiving the flap or seal. In a further embodiment, the apparatus is a sweeper that employs flaps with wear indicators that tell an operator when to adjust or replace the flap. In another embodiment, the apparatus is a sweeper that utilizes a pre-filter to remove debris that remains in the vacuum airstream after having passed through the hopper and that is of a size that can require frequent cleaning of a subsequent filtering device.

Abstract: A cleaning roller for a suction head has a substantially cylindrical base body with a cylindrical mantle surface. The base body is driven in rotation about an axis of rotation. Support members are connected to the base body and project radially past the cylindrical mantle surface. At least one elongate wiper blade with a shaft is fastened to the support members so as to extend parallel to the axis of rotation. The at least one wiper blade in its working position projects from the base body in the radial direction. The wiper blade is pivotable out of the working position about a pivot axis defined by the shaft. The wiper blade is made of elastic material.

Abstract: A wall insert is provided for placement in a wall adjacent a swinging door. The insert includes a face plate and a receptacle for receiving the doorknob when the door is fully opened. The method employed allows the door to open wider than usual, while preventing damage in the event the door is opened rapidly and allowed to strike the wall. The insert may be molded from plastic and includes a face plate and cylindrically shaped receptacle affixed thereto.

Abstract: The invention comprises a glider with a head portion (1), a connecting portion (3) and a bottom portion (4), the connecting portion (3) having a smaller side than the bottom side of the head portion or the upper side of the bottom portion, the bottom portion being asymmetrical, and an eye(10), intended to bear a curtain hook towards one side, having been shifted to an outer surface (14) of the bottom portion.

Abstract: A hinge mounting plate assembly enables mounting on a frame of an article of furniture a door of the article of furniture. The assembly includes a hinge arm which is pivotally mounted to a hinge casing and a mounting plate which is mountable on the frame and securable thereto by a screw. The hinge casing is insertable into a hole in the door. The hinge arm is mounted on the mounting plate by two intermediate members. A first intermediate member is mounted on the mounting plate for longitudinal movement in a horizontal direction in the plane of the closed door. The hinge arm is mounted on a second intermediate member for longitudinal movement in a horizontal direction perpendicular to the plane of the closed door. Clamping screws are provided for clamping the first intermediate member to the mounting plate and the second intermediate member to the hinge arm. Such movements being permitted upon loosening of the clamping screws. The two intermediate members are interlockable with each other.

Abstract: A frame hinge has a hinge arm which may be secured to a furniture frame and is connected by way of at least one articulation pin to a hinge pot which may be set in a door leaf. The hinge arm is secured to the furniture frame by a base plate. Arranged between the hinge arm and the base plate is an intermediate plate which is held against the base plate by a clamping screw and is articulatedly connected to the hinge arm. The axis of the articulation is aligned perpendicular to the hinge axis and perpendicular to the plane of the closed door leaf. A gap-adjusting screw is held in the base plate and is supported by its thread either in the hinge arm or in the intermediate plate, with the result that when the gap-adjusting screw is turned the hinge arm and the intermediate plate perform an angular movement in relation to one another.

Abstract: A dual acting, high strength hinge includes an L-shaped, monolithic, formed metal support member. The support member includes a first and a second leg which are joined at a vertex. A first bore passes through the first leg near its free end, and a second bore passes through the support member near the vertex. A first hinge pin passes through the first bore and pivotally attaches a first hinge plate to the first leg. A second hinge pin passes through the second bore and pivotally attaches a second hinge pin to the support member near the vertex.

Abstract: A sliver-delivering machine such as a card and a sliver coiler are each provided with an independent drive including a frequency-controlled free-phase motor. In addition, a frequency converter is connected in common to the motor of each drive for supplying power to each. The motors of the sliver-delivering machine and the coiler have a load-dependent speed characteristic, for example, each is an asynchronous motor with a maximum slip of 3% over a delivery speed range of up to 300 m/min.

Abstract: An apparatus for feeding a fiber batt to a fiber processing machine includes a feed roll; a feed table formed of a plurality of separately movable feed table segments each cooperating with the feed roll and defining therewith a nip through which the fiber batt passes; a plurality of springs each being affixed to the feed table segment to form integral components therewith; and an elongated holding element extending spaced from, and generally parallel to the feed roll. Each spring is affixed to the holding element. The feed table segments are individually movable away from the feed roll against a force of respective springs in response to thickness variations in the fiber batt as the fiber batt passes through the nip. There is further provided a support for rotatably supporting the holding element.

Abstract: Disclosed is a spinning mill machine for the production of fiber sliver and for the deposit of the fiber sliver in spinning cans, with an automatic can replacement device to push out full cans from the machine. A can conveying carriage is centered at the spinning mill machine by means of a centering unit. The can conveying carriage is locked at the machine in order to hold the carriage in a receiving-ready position. A signal transmitter is provided to inform the machine by signal when the can conveying carriage is full. According to the invention the centering unit, the locking unit and the signal transmitter are installed in one single assembly in immediate proximity of the spinning machine.

Abstract: A device for retaining a visored cap upon a wearer's head under high wind conditions includes a strap member and a pair of clamp members that directly engage the strap member and a portion of a visor on a cap. The direct coupling between the strap member and the visor on the cap, which is maintained by the clamp members, is particularly advantageous for maintaining a cap in a desired position on a wearer's head under high wind conditions. The retaining device of this invention also includes an adjustment member that allows a wearer to vary the effective length of the strap member to ensure a snug fit. Each of the clamp members and the adjustment member include a housing having a cavity and an opening formed therein, a pin member slidable in the cavity and having an opening formed therein and a spring to bias the pin member thereby clamping the strap member in the openings.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for carrying one or more bicycles on a motor vehicle and a strap for securing the carrier to the motor vehicle. The strap includes a stretchable and contractible resilient web that is connected intermediate the ends of the strap. A loop is formed in the strap when the strap is not tightened. The web is stretched by tightening and serves to maintain tension in the strap. When tightened, adjacent surfaces of that portion of the strap forming the loop and the web are in close juxtaposition. Separation between adjacent surfaces of the resilient web and the portion of the strap that forms the loop, provides a visual indication of the degree of strap tension.

Abstract: A magnetic latch includes a first member having a protrusion and a second member engaging the protrusion to prevent the first member and the second member from sliding relatively to one another. The second member includes a first magnet to attract the first member and a first solid non-magnetic member located inside a cavity of the first magnet to enhance attraction between the first member and the second member. The second member can be provided with a backing plate to facilitate a magnetic flux path from the magnet to the magnet aperture. The second member can also include a second magnet to attract the first member and a second solid non-magnetic member located between the first magnet and the second magnet. A third solid non-magnetic member can be provided on the outer periphery of the magnets. This design provides a latch with stronger holding power.

Abstract: In an automatic lock slider for a concealed slide fastener, a fastener-element guide post of a slider body has an upper groove receiving a locking lever and a lower groove slidably receiving a sliding end of a pivoting release member. A spring mounted in the guide post acts on an actuating arm of the locking lever to urge a locking pawl of the locking lever to normally project into a fastener-element guide channel of the slider body. An ornamental knob attached to the pivoting release member covers exposed part of the slider body. As the knob is pulled to pivotally move the release member, the locking pawl is retracted from the guide channel.

Abstract: An interengaging fastener member having a plurality of headed elements, which can reduce the noise generated due to the relative movement between the headed elements engaged with each other. The fastener member 10 is made of polymeric material as a one-piece molded article, and includes a generally flat base 14 and a plurality of headed elements 18 projecting from the base 14. Each headed element 18 has a stem 22 arranged on and projecting from the base 14 in a predetermined spaced relationship, and a head 24 formed at the end of the stem 22 and having a contour swollen from the periphery of the stem 22. The head 24 is defined by a generally flat surface 26 adjacent t the stem 22 and extending radially outward from the periphery of the stem 22, a curved surface 28 bulging out with an apex and arranged at an opposite side of the generally flat surface 26 from the stem 22, and a transition surface 30 formed from a second curved surface for connecting the generally flat surface 26 with the curved surface 28.

Abstract: The holder is a plastic tube split lengthwise into substantially mirror image halves forming two opposed clamping members hingedly connected by spring operated handles which activate opening and closing of the clamping members to engage a towel or other items hanging on a support.

Abstract: A casket is provided with an integral memorabilia compartment for the placement, display and storage therein of personal effects and mementos of memorialization of the deceased. In one form the casket comprises a shell, a cap pivoted to the shell, and an openable and closable memorabilia compartment forming a part of the cap. In another form the casket comprises a shell, a cap pivoted to the shell, and an openable and closable memorabilia compartment forming a part of the shell. In both forms the memorabilia compartment is so positioned and configured as to provide convenient access to mourners paying respects to the deceased for placing personal effects and mementos therein and to provide display of the personal effects and mementos placed therein for viewing by the mourners.

Abstract: A container with a lid sealed thereon wholly encloses a space which can contain a casket. The container wall, the lid wall, and the seal bar flow of matter into the space containing the casket. The container wall and the lid wall both also wholly enclose chambers which am filled with concrete. There is a fenestrated spacer attached between the walls of both the concrete filled container chamber and the concrete filled lid chamber with the concrete passing through the fenestrated spacer to link the concrete filling the container chamber to the container and to link the concrete filling the lid chamber to the lid to give the container and the lid the strength of concrete.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a burial casket having a housing having a pocket surface portion, a piece of decorative fabric contacting said pocket surface portion and a resilient flexible retainer member bendably seated within the pocket surface and in a manner such that the fabric is frictionally held between the retainer member and the pocket surface portion, wherein the retainer member has a ribbed surface portion formed on a surface thereof.

Abstract: The prosthesis is manufactured by knitting a foundation yarn with a high degree of heat-shrinkability and at least one effect yarn which is substantially heat stable, immersing the resulting fabric in boiling water so as to shrink the foundation yarn and thereby reduce its permeability to liquids while not affecting the effect yarn significantly so that it is possible to obtain good velvet effects without resorting to very high overfeed rates for the effect yarn.

Abstract: A continuous cast positive grid of lead having substantially improved corrosion resistance and decreased growth in a positive plate of a lead-acid battery and a continuous cast negative grid of lead having substantially increased tensile strength for a lead-acid battery. A web of lead is continuously cast with a series of succeeding grid blanks of uniform thickness which are cold worked to reduce the positive grid thickness by at least 3:1 and the negative grid thickness in the range of about 1.5:1 to 2.8:1 preferably by passing through the nip of each of a plurality of successive compression rollers. Electro-chemically active paste is applied to the reduced webs, preferably flash dried, and individual pasted grids are cut from the reduced and pasted webs to provide positive plates and negative plates for a lead-acid battery.

Abstract: A packaged piezoelectric oscillator is provided which comprises an insulating package body, a piezoelectric element, and a lid member. The package body has an upwardly open housing groove which has a bottom surface formed with oscillator electrodes at both ends of the housing groove. The piezoelectric element is fixedly received in the housing groove of the insulating package body and held in electrical conduction with the respective oscillator electrodes. The lid member is attached to the package body to close the housing groove. The housing groove has an intermediate wider width portion, and each end of the housing groove is provided with a pair of end positioning walls projecting toward each other for providing a narrower width portion between the pair of end positioning walls.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for positioning tooling with respect to a curvilinear workpiece which is curved in a first direction extending along a plane substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the workpiece and which is curved in a second direction extending along a plane substantially parallel to the workpiece longitudinal axis, the degree of curvature in the first direction being greater than the degree of curvature in the second direction. An illustrative example is automatic drilling, inserting and upsetting one or two piece fasteners such as exterior skin rivets on an airplane fuselage. There is provided a head for supporting a plurality of tools at spaced locations around a central axis wherein each of the tools has an operational axis disposed substantially parallel to the central axis and an arrangement for moving the head along paths of travel relative to the workpiece to reach various locations on the workpiece where the tools are to perform operations on the workpiece.

Abstract: In an automatic boot mounting method or an apparatus for practicing the method, a wheel cylinder is held at a predetermined position, and a boot is mounted on the tapered shaft portion of an inserter. The small-diameter shaft portion of the inserter is held with an inserter moving device with the large-diameter shaft portion of the inserter faced to the cylinder body. With the inserter set along the central axis of the cylinder body, the boot is moved to the large-diameter shaft portion of the inserter by a guide plate. The inserter is moved along the central axis of the cylinder body by the inserter moving device until the end face of the large-diameter shaft portion abuts against the end face of the protrusion end portion of the piston.

Abstract: A tool is used for removing a block of babbitt material from the back of a chipper knife such as those used in chipping softwood for further processing. The tool has a vertical base with a channel along its front face and a knife support for supporting the knife in the channel with the block of babbitt metal at the back. A blade is driven along the channel using a pneumatic cylinder to impact on the babbitt metal and dislodge it from the knife. A container at the bottom of the channel collects the dislodged babbitt metal.

Abstract: A hemming machine for forming a unitary closure structure from first and second metal panels includes a lower and upper die mounted and moveable relative to each other for edge hemming a portion of the periphery of panels to form a unitary structure. The machine includes a non-hemming jointing device mounted adjacent to one of the upper and lower dies and operable for jointing a portion of the non-hemmed periphery of the panels as the panels are held between the dies.

Abstract: A retaining device for connecting a tool with an eye of varying geometry to the mating geometry of a tool handle. The retaining device includes: the eye of the tool; the end of the handle; lock wedges with a clearance hole and reaction surface; and a wedge bar of two or more integral bosses with threaded through holes, and one or more integral wedges. The lock wedge reaction surfaces are placed in the reaction surfaces of the handle with the narrow end of the lock wedge toward the slot(s) in the end of the handle. The handle and lock wedges are placed in the eye mating the lock wedges and lock wedge sloping surfaces. The wedge bar is oriented and placed in the slot(s) in the end of the handle; the fasteners are inserted through the lock wedge through hole, through the eye, and engaged in the threaded holes of the wedge bar. The fasteners are then tightened. As the fasteners are tightened; the wedge bar, and lock wedges and handle, are simultaneously drawn into the opposite ends of the eye.

Abstract: A method of making a tube yoke for a drive line assembly is provided. The tube yoke is a unitary element and has a tube seat at one end for mating with a driveshaft tube, and lug ears at the other end for connecting with a universal joint assembly. The method includes forging a body of metal into a net shape body of the tube yoke with a single die-punching stroke, and subjecting the tube seat of the net shape body to a draw and iron operation to form the tube seat into its final pre-assembly form and shape, having a tube seat at one end and lug ears at the other end without machining of the tube seat. The lug ears are machined to enable connection with the universal joint assembly.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a flanged shaft from a forging having a shaft and a flange having an inboard side and an outboard side using a first lathe and a second lathe. The method comprises chucking the forging in the first lathe such that at least the outboard side of the forging may be worked on and finishing at least the outboard side of the flange. The forging is then removed from the first lathe and chucked in a second lathe while referencing the forging off the outboard side of the flange such that the remainder of the forging may be worked on. The remainder of the forging is then finished into a flanged shaft.

Abstract: A machine tool more particularly for drilling and milling, possesses a machine bed, on which a power driven longitudinal slide is adapted to run horizontally on rails. A machining head having a rotary drive device for at least one table forming part of said head, is power moved on the longitudinal slide in at least one further direction of movement. The machine bed possesses two spaced lateral walls, whose intermediate space is designed to serve as a machining zone for receiving at least one work holding means. On the two lateral walls two parallel guide rails are arranged for the longitudinal slide, a third guide rail being arranged with an offset in the longitudinal direction between the two other guide rails. The longitudinal slide is guided using three guide elements on the three guide rails, the power drive being at or adjacent to the central guide rail. On this arrangement a clamping yoke of relatively light design may be employed, which only requires one central drive.

Abstract: A pliers-like tool for twisting the partly stripped end of the multiple-strand core of an insulated conductor, characterized by projections 41 and 42 extending out of the free end of each jaw 121 & 131 and toward the other jaw into the space between them, whereby the projections follow the arc described by the opening and closing jaws, the projections are not coplanar, and space is accordingly left between them, one of the projections is long enough to overlap the other to a limited extent when the jaws are separated, and the surfaces of the jaws that demarcate the space between them are high-friction. The conductor is cut to length, insulation is stripped from the end of the core to a limited extent, the end of the core is twisted between the high-friction surfaces, and a connector is extracted from a belt and crimped around the twisted end, all by the same tool.