Abstract: Winter sports goggles are secured by a two-sided headband made of a double layer of insulating fabric. Downward extensions of the fabric on the sides provide earcovers. The two sides of the headband overlap around the head and are adjustably connected by mating strips of hook and loop fasteners. An advertising logo may be affixed to one or both sides of the headband. The goggles are contoured with a foam edge contacting the face. Foam covered openings on the top and bottom edges of the goggles allow moisture to escape from behind the transparent windscreen which filters ultraviolet rays. A narrow band of elasticized material sewn between the fabric layers of the headband connect each end of the headband to the goggles through a slotted extension from the goggles on each side or through slotted hooks snapping into openings in the sides of the goggles.

Abstract: An exhaust fixture adapted to be connected to a toilet, the toilet having a bowl, a water tank having a normal amount of water therein and an upper, peripheral edge, an overflow pipe located within the tank, and a lid adapted to fit about the peripheral edge of the tank; the exhaust fixture comprising spacers disposed between the lid and the tank creating a gap for the passage of air there between, a flexible strip, the flexible strip being a closed loop with a perimeter smaller then the perimeter of the upper, peripheral edge of the tank, the flexible strip being positioned around the tank and the lid sealing the gap and forming a substantially air-tight band there between, the flexible strip having air flow passages for allowing air communication with the tank interior and a hose connector having an inlet for connecting and allowing air communication with the air flow passages of the flexible strip and an outlet, the exhaust fixture further including a blower connected to the outlet for the withdrawal of ga

Abstract: A head rest assembly is provided for use in conjunction with a bathing fixture such as a hydro-massage whirlpool. A pillow is provided which can be easily connected and supported by the jet nozzle assembly. A support bracket is partially enclosed in the pillow for connection with the nozzle assembly. The nozzle assembly has a living hinge feature which allows adaptation to various curvatures of the tub wall. A magnet can be connected to a bracket and a reed switch is connected to the nozzle assembly which serves as a safety feature.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a bending joint of a collapsible baby playing bed, which comprises:two inner tooth members each having a tubular portion connected with an upper frame of the bed, and teeth; two fitting blocks each having teeth engaged with the teeth of the tooth members, and two opposing sectorial recesses; a connector having two pairs of opposing sectorial projections engaged with the recesses of the fitting blocks, and a recessed portion; two springs; a push cap fitted on the recessed portion; two bolts each passed through the connector, one the spring, one the fitting block, one the tooth member, and a nut. The bending joint of the bed is first and formost lifted upward to loosen a tight engagement of the teeth of the fitting blocks and the teeth of the tooth members and then the cap is pushed inward so that the sectorial recesses of the fitting blocks can disengage and the inner tooth members can be pivoted downward.

Abstract: A spring loaded pin is provided at both ends of the bottom rails of the movable side and an engageable head is fixedly mounted on each of the posts between which the movable side is mounted. The spring loaded pin is allowed to ride in a guiding track which is formed of a vertical elongated section and a return section provided at the top of the elongated section and as a continuation of the latter, the track being provided in the two posts mentioned above. A shoulder is formed in the elongated section above the junction between the return section and the elongated section. The track has sloping down and rising portions to exert different resistances against the spring loaded pin indicating to the operator that locking is about to take place, that the movable side is about to be unlocked or is in the process of being lowered. This device is safer and easier to operate than presently known devices.

Abstract: A foldable cradle frame including a front foot, a rear foot, and an upper rod that are interconnected by common connecting bodies. The rear foot and the upper rod are pivotally connected to the connecting members and are rotatable through respective openings in the connecting members toward the front foot. Accordingly, the entire structure may be folded to provide a relatively compact structure. The rear foot is compressible along its axial length via an intermediate spring, to contribute to a rocking motion of the cradle. In addition, the cradle frame includes a U-shaped tubular member pivotally coupled to the front foot for receiving a portion of a cradle seat that is adapted to be fitted therewith.

Abstract: An improved anatomical support apparatus including an upper substrate engagable with a body surface of a user, and a support substrate attached to the upper substrate. The upper substrate having a first honeycomb core formed of undulated strips of resilient thermoplastic material, thermal compression bonded together to form cell walls defining a plurality of contiguous regularly shaped cells. Each of the cell walls having an upper extremity and a lower extremity. Each upper and lower extremity of the first core forming either a planar or a contoured surface. The upper substrate further includes means for maintaining the first core in its expanded configuration. A stack having at least one support substrate attached to either the upper or the lower extremity of the first core. A support substrate including a second honeycomb core formed of undulated strips of resilient thermoplastic material, thermal compression bonded together to form cell walls defining a plurality of contiguous regularly shaped cells.

Abstract: A tube for a waterbed includes a generally cylindrical tube body having a top, a bottom, and a pair of side walls extending from the top to the bottom. The tube body defines a longitudinal axis of the tube. First and second tube ends in combination with the tube body form a watertight enclosure. A fill valve is provided through which the watertight enclosure may be at least partially filled with water. Metering walls are disposed in the watertight enclosure generally transverse to the longitudinal axis of the tube, each pair of metering walls defining a tube section therebetween. The metering walls extend across the tube body from one side to the other and are sealed to each side wall. The metering walls have a top portion that is spaced from the top of the tube body to permit the metered flow of water from one tube section to another. They may also have a bottom portion that is spaced from the bottom of the tube body.

Abstract: A multipurpose kitchen tool includes a housing having an upper end, a lower end, a front edge, a rear edge, and two side walls. The upper end has an opening formed in a central portion thereof extending into a channel through the housing. One of the two side walls has a hexagonal opening formed therein extending into the channel. A thermostat has an elongated shaft slidably received within the channel of the housing through the opening in the upper end thereof.

Abstract: An armored bridge-laying vehicle with a laying device for bridges or bridge sections located one on top of another, wherein a single laying girder is rotatably mounted on a support ring structure on the tower ring. The laying girder is pivotable around a horizontal pivot bearing, and the pivoting is performed by a piston-and-cylinder unit. Telescopic U-shaped girders are arranged inside the laying girder, and the top edges are located in the same plane as the upper chord edges of the laying girder. The bridge elements are laid by a flanged feeding unit, support rollers and a pivotable arm in the rear of the laying girder.

Abstract: This invention involves a system and method for the installation of a prefabricated composite structural members. The system utilizes deck panels which have a plurality of steel C-beam pairs attached to the underside such that a series of channels is formed. Bored through each deck panel is a plurality of access holes which projects through the panel and into one of said channels. Thus, installers can access underlying bridge girders from the surface of the deck panels thereby allowing for top-side installation. The system also provides a top-side vertically adjusting device for raising or lowering the deck panels to allow for the top-side installation of shimming devices.

Abstract: Self-propelled underwater electromechanical apparatus for cleaning the bottom and the walls of swimming pools, having an electric motor which operates a propeller turbine for circulating the water and a driving unit for transmitting movement to a roller travel system. The electric motor and the driving unit are made with an open structure in which the swimming-pool water freely circulates. The electric motor is of the brushless type and both the winding of its rotor and that of its stator are embedded in an impermeable resin. The driving unit has a reduction unit with an output shaft operating two roller travel systems mounted on opposite sides of the apparatus. Devices for achieving reversal of movement consisting of a shaft extension oscillating between two different working positions, are arranged between the output shaft and the two travel systems.

Abstract: A toothbrush is disclosed which comprises a rotatably mounted toothbrush head, 100, a connection member, 150, for connection to a linear reciprocal drive means contained in hand-held casing and a flexible member, 160, formed preferably from steel wire or ribbon disposed between the connection member, 150, and the head, 100, and for converting linear reciprocal motion of the connection member to rotational motion of the head.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to make an engaging section between a holder section and a toothbrush section of a motor-driven toothbrush more simple, manufacture thereof easier and also minimize the production cost as well as to achieve minimization and weight reduction thereof, and also to improve the reliability of insertion. For this purpose, an engaging/receiving hole or bore is formed in the toothbrush section of the motor-driven toothbrush, and a projection of the holder section is inserted into the engaging hole for fixing the toothbrush section to the holder section. Also the engaging projection is formed on said holder section and the toothbrush section is made of resilient material to provide the engaging hole having a round cross-section into which the projection is inserted.

Abstract: The present invention provides a staggered swing brush head assembly of an electric toothbrush. There are two swing bodies adjoin in the head part of the toothbrush by a swing bar. They can wobble to the opposite direction as the rear swing body is driven to swing by an eccentric cam of a drive rod. By this means the vibration force of the electric toothbrush can be eliminated to the less, and the action of the brush hair is in accord with the correct method of cleaning tooth. On the other hand, the rotating drive rod with the threaded blade drives the water and the powder infiltrating into the shell trunks out through the slots under the centrifugal effect.

Abstract: An improved pipe cleaning tool employing a cutting head and propulsor utilizes a plurality of roller cutters on the cutting head. The rolling cutters are coupled in a pairwise fashion to a rotatable car. The rotatable car in turn is pivoted to the cutting head. Each of the cars and, hence, the radial disposition of each of the roller cutters, is resiliently urged by a spring bias into a preferred radial disposition relative to the longitudinal axis of the cutting head. Moving the pipe cleaning tool through a curve or past other internal obstruction within the pipe is facilitated by rotation of the roller cutter cars and their corresponding roller cutters. In one embodiment, the propulsor disks in the propulsor unit are comprised of a plurality of rigid metal segments pivoted to the propulsor body.

Abstract: A combination cleaning and plunger tool consisting of a handle portion having at one end a brush for cleaning surface areas. The other end of the tool includes a cylindrical plunger portion which can be used to move refuse from the bottom of a sink into a garbage disposal unit. Located between the plunger and handle portion is a plate member including depending legs. The plate member is larger than the drain opening of a sink and the plunger is smaller than the drain opening, so that the plunger can force material through the drain opening and the plate will limit the movement of the plunger. The plate is provided with legs so that liquid can freely flow into the drain opening when the tool is used during the plunging action or when it is merely in a stored position with the plunger located in the drain opening when it is not being used.

Abstract: Discs for devices such as automatic swimming pool cleaners are disclosed. The discs incorporate one or more flutes, or raised areas (arched protrusions), extending generally radially from adjacent their central portions to their peripheries. The peripheries themselves, moreover, may include upturned areas (lips) between flutes, and both the discs and footpad may include ramped segments facilitating movement over obstacles extending from swimming pool surfaces.

Abstract: A rubber blade assembly for a windshield wiper, including a casing, two master blade holders pivoted to the casing to hold two assistant blade holders and a rubber blade, wherein the casing has a cowling which protects the rubber blade against the radiation of sunlight and gives a downward pressure to the rubber blade against the windshield upon the bearing of the force of thy wind, an elongated mounting slot longitudinally disposed at the cowling in the middle for mounting a connector, which connects the casing to a wiper drive arm, a plurality of circular recesses at two opposite ends of the cowling for bearing the force of thy wind, and a transverse pivot hole in the middle below the cowling and connected between two opposite pivots holes of the connector by pivot means.

Abstract: A ram air duct directed to a vehicle's windshield receives ram air from behind a vehicle's engine coolant radiator which air is rammed through the radiator to heat the air and into the ram air duct by motion of the vehicle causing a heated air curtain over the windshield. During use at slow speeds, a fan may assist air movement from the radiator into the ram air duct. Supplemental heat may be obtained from electric heaters or the engine exhaust manifolds or both. To reduce vehicle drag due to its trailing vacuum and to the turbulence it causes, an air-collecting scoop is provided at the top of the windshield to receive air of the curtain as it leaves the windshield. The collected air is then ducted to the rear of the vehicle and exhausted into the trailing vacuum to reduce vehicle drag.

Abstract: There is mentioned an air nozzle/flexible whip cleaning means for ductwork which is connected to a source of high pressure air using at least a plurality of connectable lengths of semi rigid plastic pipe 8. The means comprises at least one primary air nozzle 1 to which a flexible tubing whip 4 may be attached. At least one round headed reverse air nozzle 11 and at least one round headed forward air nozzle 12 may be included, the purpose of the nozzle heads and flexible tubing whip being to direct air in different directions as helpful for the purpose of removing dust, debris and unwanted foreign matter from the interior of ductwork.

Abstract: A combined self-contained implement features a broom or brush assembly for sweeping large areas of debris into small piles with a rechargeable battery operated vacuum assembly for aspirating the dirt piles into a bag. The broom and vacuum assembly are slidably mounted relative to one another so that either the bristles or the vacuum extends below the other for unimpeded sweeping or vacuuming. The large areas are swept without battery power. A small, light vacuum pick-up will serve a large area because it is only used for efficiently picking up the small area dirt piles.

Abstract: A suction line has a stiff suction tube and a flexible suction hose having a connecting end. A connector for connecting the connecting end of the flexible suction hose to the stiff suction tube to form the suction line having free ends is provided. One of the free ends of the suction line is connected to a vacuum source. The other free end of the suction line can receive a vacuuming tool. The stiff suction tube has a longitudinal axis. The connector is rotatable about an axis extending transverse to the longitudinal axis.

Abstract: A furniture hinge (10) comprises a first cup-shaped element (11) and a second arm-shaped element (12) pivoted together to rotate reciprocally from an open position to a closed position. The arm-shaped element (12) is made of sheet metal with one end (20) bent to wind round a hinge pin (21) supported in the cup (11). The bent end of the arm-shaped element (12) also defines bearing surfaces (22) for a double twist pressure spring (23) which pushes the first and second element towards the closed position starting from a position close to the latter. A U-bolt forms the hinge pin (21) and a pin (26) supporting the spring.

Abstract: A continuous textile processing system and method are disclosed for producing a nonwoven web containing bleached cotton fibers in a single line system which includes a supply of fibers such as a bale opening device, a plurality of fiber delivery lines transport the fibers through a fiber opening process where the fibers are individualized and opened. The opened fibers are collected and fed through a blending system. The blended fibers are passed to a continuous flow bleaching unit comprised of a forming station and a bleachery. The bleached web is passed through a drier unit. The dried web is subjected to further processing which includes carding machines forming a blended fiber web and a hydroentangling machine stabilizing the web. The web is then rolled and readied for other processing. The final nonwoven web consisting of bleached cotton fibers may be made into highly purified and absorbent wipes, pads, and other articles for medical, industrial, or domestic use.

Abstract: An improved bale opening machine comprising beaters rotating at high speed in the gaps within a grid of shoes which bear on the bales being worked and which extend longitudinally into that region comprising a series of grooved wheels for leading and conveying the fibres into the region of action of the beaters. The conveying wheels also operate in the gaps between said shoes.

Abstract: An apparatus for depositing sliver in a coiler can includes a pair of cooperating pressure rolls; a coiler head rotating about a rotary axis and having a sliver inlet for receiving sliver from the rolls and a sliver outlet situated eccentrically with respect to the rotary axis for discharging sliver from the coiler head; a movable coiler can platform disposed underneath the coiler head for receiving an upwardly open coiler can thereon; and a severing device for severing the sliver at a location downstream of the rolls as viewed in a direction of sliver run. The position of the sliver outlet on its circular path, the position of the platform in its motion path and the running length of sliver are determined.

Abstract: An ostomy pouch clamp for closing off the bottom end of the pouch having pivoted clamping elements, one element having a trough channel for receiving the other blade element therein. The improvement in this clamp results from (1) single or multiple knife like sealing ribs or lip edges on the blade member bottom for engaging the pouch walls against a flat bottom of the trough channel and (2) latch means located midway between the ends of the clamping elements for pressing the two elements together (as well as releasing them) and producing an audible snapping signal to alert the user that the latch means is in the proper location. The latch means is easy to locate by the user and distributes the force pressing the elements together more equally than prior art devices.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a supplemental seatbelt buckle cover system. The seatbelt buckle cover of the present invention is adapted to be removably positioned over a seatbelt buckle to protect a user from such a seatbelt buckle which may have inadvertently heated while in an automobile. In its broadest context, the cover includes a upper open end, a lower open end, a first open side and a second open side, as well as a slot positioned along the rearward wall of the cover. The slot allows the cover to be positioned over the shoulderbelt of a seatbelt or, in the alternative, the lapbelt of a seatbelt, rotated 90 degrees and slid onto the seatbelt buckle. Two springs are positioned within the opened first and second sides of the cover to allow the cover to be resiliently positioned and securely maintained upon the seatbelt buckle.

Abstract: A method wherein a thin card web which contains meltable synthetic fibers as well as natural fibers is processed into a thicker web of fleece. The synthetic fibers are initially melted to prestrengthen the web. Then the web is saturated with the appropriate fluid finishing agent for making the web flame-resistant and the like and this web can then be readily dried on a screen drum dryer. It is at this point that the web layers are accumulated into a proper fleece in a cross layer unit which transfer the end product to a heat treatment assembly for heating to effect vulcanization, curing or setting of the synthetic fibers.

Abstract: A rivet fastening apparatus and method for joining two pieces by forming a rivet from the material of the pieces. First and second dies are used and the second die is moved into the first die to form a punched out hole and circumferentially spaced tabs in the pieces. The position of the dies are reversed relative to the pieces and the second die is advanced into the first die a second time so that a portion of the second die gives a radially outward direction to the tabs and another portion of the second die flattens the tabs against one another and against an outer face of one of the pieces to form a rivet head. One second die is shaped to form a round hole and four tabs and another second die forms a triangular hole with three tabs. Another embodiment has a punch rod in the first die that forms a smaller hole that is enlarged by a second die with a center through hole that receives the punch rod.

Abstract: A snap ring applicator having a pair of scissor arms connected to a pivot element. The snap ring applicator includes a linear activating device connected to a driving element. The driving element contacts the angled activating surface contained on the rear end of the scissor arms. The linear movement of the driving element forces the rear end of the scissor arms together which causes the scissor arms to pivot about a pivot element and thereby separates the front ends of the scissor arms. Contained in each front end of the scissor arms is a snap ring pin, which is sized to engage a snap ring. When the snap ring applicator is activated to move the front ends of the scissor arms apart, the snap ring pins act to expand the inner diameter of the snap ring. When expanded as such, the snap ring can then be passed over the pipe or shaft to which it is to be applied. The snap ring applicator is then deactivated, which returns the snap ring to its original size, thereby securely positioning the snap ring as desired.

Abstract: A tool for removing seals from wheel hubs is shown and described. The tool comprises a handle or lever portion having an upstanding hook portion and a cross member in connection with the hook portion. The hook portion is perpendicular to the plane of the cross member and the bottom of the hook portion is about flush with the front edge of the cross member. The front of the tool is placed in the bore of the wheel hub and flush against the seal. The tapered ends of the cross member will be aligned against the seal and will hold the hook portion in place when the lever is pivoted.

Abstract: A platform for indexing and clamping metal studs and like building structural members together for manufacturing metal framed walls or trusses of buildings. The platform includes spaced members for supporting studs, plates and the like placed there upon, and is sufficiently open between the spaced and properly placed members to allow applying screws to both sides of the structural members for connection of joints. The platform may be manually loaded with the appropriate framing structural members with the platform in a horizontal position with the indexing stops upward. The indexing stops are used to position studs, and powered clamps are provided to secure the studs in place against the stops. Screws may be applied to a first side of the framing, followed by the platform being rotated 180 degrees under motor or like power to expose the second side of the framing to allow the application of holding screws thereto.

Abstract: An apparatus for mounting and locking a keylocking insert in a threaded opening in a parent material includes a driver adapted for sequential mutual and relative rotation with the insert, drive means for rotationally driving the driver in response to a force applied thereto, and a press for operating the keys into a locking position. The driver has a threaded stud for threadably engaging interior threads of the insert to mount the insert in the parent material by threadably engaging the insert exterior thread with the threaded opening and advancing the external thread into the threaded opening in response to the mutual rotation of the driver. The press has a first end surface for engaging the keys of the insert and longitudinally moving toward the insert to operate the keys to the locking position in response to the relative rotation of the driver. The insert is thereby both mounted and locked by rotation of the driver.

Abstract: A punch tool and method for removing one or more wheels from an axle is provided. The punch comprises an elongated member having a first end configured for receiving a nut therein. The first end has an aperture dimensioned to prevent angular rotation between the aperture and the nut. The aperture has an inner periphery with a bore formed therethrough. The bore extends from the aperture towards a second end of the punch. A desired wheel to be removed is located. A plurality of lugs comprising a stud, an inner cap nut, and a nut, secure the wheels to the axle. The first end of the punch is disposed over a nut coupled to a cap nut, for coupling the punch to the nut. The cap nut may extend through the aperture and into the bore. The diameter of the bore prevents the punch from damaging the cap nut. The second end of the punch is struck with a heavy implement. The implement causes force to be applied to the nut from the punch along the longitudinal axis thereof.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for assembling photographic film cassettes each comprising a spool assembly and a pair of shell halves. A plurality of pallets are stepwise conveyed on a pallet conveyer. Each pallet has a spool holder, an intermediate holder and a shell holder. Parts of the spool assembly are sequentially fed to the spool holder and are assembled into the spool assembly at the spool holder. The spool assembly is transferred from the spool holder to the intermediate holder to be turned from a vertical into a horizontal orientation. Thereafter, the spool assembly and other parts of the photographic film cassette are sequentially fed to the shell holder and are assembled into the photographic film cassette at the shell holder.

Abstract: A method of assembling telescopically a flexible tubular segment with a length of tubing involves the use of an assembly apparatus which controllably stretches a tubular segment. The free end of a portion of an end of a length of tubing is inserted through the stretched tubular segment a preselected distance. The stretched tubular segment is allowed to relax around the inserted portion of an end of the length of tubing, thus assembling the tubular segment with the end portion of a length of tubing. The tubular segment and portion of an end of a length of tubing that have been assembled together are then ejected simultaneously from the assembly apparatus.

Abstract: Method for completing personal computer cards of prescribed accurate dimensions includes nesting side walls with side channels and end walls with end channels to close an enclosure of a personal computer card and then qualifying, or conforming, the dimensions of the closed enclosure to the prescribed dimensions of the personal computer card by forming the nested walls and channels, preferably by impacting the nested walls and channels within forming dies, to attain the critical length, width and thickness prescribed for the personal computer card.

Abstract: An integrated circuit extraction tool for extracting sockets or microprocessors having a staggered pin grid array (SPGA) pin arrangement. Such tool includes an elongated base having a first end and a second end, each end forming a set of teeth that permit entry and extension of the teeth, diagonally, through the staggered pins of the socket or microprocessor. In the preferred embodiment, the first end is disposed at ninety degree with respect to the elongated base. Further, the elongated base is formed with a curvature to enhance the leverage action necessary for an extraction operation.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for production of a copper clad, electrically insulated base for printed circuit boards, wherein a foil, of copper, copper alloy, aluminum or aluminum alloy by electroplating on preferably both sides furnished with a 1-35 .mu.m thick unpatterned layer of copper or copper alloy, is under heat and pressure laminated with the copper surfaces facing an electrically insulating, resin containing base. The copper layers are electroplated onto the foil in such a way that the layers after lamination strongly adhere to the insulating base and at the same time exhibit a very poor adhesion to the foil, which easily can be stripped from the copper layers without splitting these. The foil works during the lamination as a mold plate, whereby conventional mold plates can be excluded. The invention also comprises the use of such a copper clad foil as a combined mold plate and base for the copper layers during the lamination.

Abstract: Terminals of a wire harness are sorted for each contact of a unit structure to which the terminals are to be connected. The sorted terminals are temporarily held by a jig in a configuration which matches the arrangement in which they are to be connected to the corresponding contacts. The terminals are arranged in rows in the proper connection arrangement, and are transferred to the contacts and connected in this state. A retainer is then placed in the unit structure containing the connected terminals, thereby holding them in place. It is consequently possible to reduce the frequency of erroneous insertion, and to improve operating performance markedly.

Abstract: A method for fabricating a liquid ink printhead orifice plate for use in a liquid ink printhead and printer. The liquid ink orifice plate is formed of a thermal plastic resin which is stamped between an orifice plate mandrel which includes the ink carrying features and a flat mandrel. Once the orifice plate has been stamped, excess material is removed from the orifice plate to reveal ink carrying features of the stamped orifice plate. The orifice plate mandrel is formed by electroforming a mandrel on an etched silicon wafer which defines a plurality of ink carrying channels and ink reservoirs. The electroform mandrel can be made of any number of metals which includes nickel.

Abstract: A method for forming a contoured regulator seat in the substrate of a fluid flow regulator having a membrane with an elastic flexure. The method may involve the steps of deflecting the flexure into the substrate to form the contoured regulator seat while the substrate is in a first, soft condition; continuing that deflection until the substrate is in a second, hard condition; and then ceasing that deflection. The method may include the steps of micromachining a regulator channel into the substrate prior to performing the deflecting step, and then deflecting the flexure into the regulator channel during the deflecting step.

Abstract: A finger/toe nail clipper assembly 10 comprises a lower arm 2 unitary with vertical side walls 4 and 6. The arms 2 and 14 are spaced in overlying arrangement, fastened at one end 8 and terminating in spaced facing jaw formations 14a and 2a. The jaw formations 14a and 2a comprise concave center blade sections 32 and 34 and angular side blade sections 42 and 44 that terminate in sharpened cutting edges and engage the center blade sections 32 and 34 and the side walls 4 and 6. The side blade sections 42 and 44 function as movable slots to fit various-sized finger/toe nails. When the blades 32 and 34 and 42 and 44 are engaged in "cutting" position, the interior chamber 24 of the device 10 is completely enclosed by the interior facing surfaces of the arms 2 and 14, side walls 4 and 6, and blade sections 32 and 34 and 42 and 44. The invention 10 eliminates the deflection and obstruction problems caused by the conventional mounting pin by providing other mounting means for the actuating lever.

Abstract: A slicer for slicing cheese and the like articles of food comprising a slicing string being connected to a finger grip at one end. Moreover, the slicer is provided with a shank having an insertion portion adapted to be inserted into the cheese and a gripping portion adapted to be gripped by the user. A second end of the string is connected to the insertion portion.

Abstract: An autoretracting box-cutting knife has a housing dimensioned to be held in the hand and having a longitudinally forwardly projecting front end, a blade slide displaceable longitudinally in the housing between a front position and a rear position, and a blade secured in the slide, projecting forward from the housing in the front position of the slide, and retracted back into the housing in the rear position of the slide. In accordance with this invention a blade-actuating crank has an inner and an outer end and is mounted on a pivot on the housing that defines for the crank a transverse pivot axis. Interengaging formations on the crank and holder offset from the pivot can move the crank with the holder between a rear position with its outer end projecting laterally from the housing in the rear position of the holder and a front position in the front position of the holder.

Abstract: The instant device consists of a circular top plate made of ALMAG 35 aluminum and magnesium alloy material with a centerhole and three through holes near its rim and 120.degree. apart from one another into which three cylindrically shaped pins have been tightly pressed. Three identical beveled metallic blades with rounded holes in them are swivably received one each by the pins. A circular bottom plate also made of such ALMAG 35 material has a centerhole and three broken holes for receipt of the bottoms of the pins when the device is fully assembled plate to plate and held with a bolt and nut from below the bottom plate via the centerholes and adapter means to the rotatory head of a motorized brush cutting unit.

Abstract: A cutting tool capable of cutting slices of a predetermined thickness. The cutting tool includes an elongate handle, a sheet-like blade connected to the handle and having a sharpened lower cutting edge, an L-shaped support piece connected onto the blade adjacent to the handle, the support piece having a part thereof perpendicular to the blade and provided with an internally threaded hole, a press piece consisting of a press seat, a horizontal upper portion and a vertical portion perpendicular to the upper portion, the press seat being dimensioned to match the part of the support piece with the hole and having an elongate slot, the vertical portion having a width slightly greater than that of the blade, and a rotary knob having a cap and a shaft projecting from a bottom thereof, the shaft having outer threads for matching the hole of the support piece so that the shaft may be passed through the slot of the press seat and locked in the hole of the support piece.

Abstract: A combination of a base attachment structure and a cutting tool, where the base attachment structure includes a connection bolt (8) inserted and movably fitted in an aperture (9a) formed in a curved plate (9) of a gear housing (2) and a cross-shaped slide aperture (11) formed in an arch-shaped projection member (10) extending from a base (7). The connection bolt (8) includes a first upper threaded portion (8a) having threads running in a first direction to form a left-handed screw, and a second lower threaded portion (8b) having threads running in a second direction, opposite to the first direction, to form a right-handed screw. The first threaded portion (8a) is fitted into a hole (12a) formed in a pressure plate (12), whereas the second threaded portion (8b) pierces into an aperture (13a) formed in an arch-shaped clamp plate (13) and is then screwed to a right-handed fixation nut (16).