Abstract: A pressure control apparatus includes an air pump which is pneumatically connected to an air mattress, with an air pressure sensor in the mattress for detecting the current air pressure within the mattress. A central control unit is interconnected with the pressure sensor and the air pump and is programmable to add or remove air from the mattress to control the pressure within the mattress. A plurality of position sensors in the mattress will detect the posture and/or position of an occupant of the bed and transmit this information to the control unit. The control unit can then determine the actual position of the occupant and adjust the air pressure within the air mattress accordingly.

Abstract: A patient support includes an alternating pressure pad having separate sets of alternately inflatable cells and at least one further inflatable cell under the pad, with a support for the head of a patient lying thereon, and a control mechanism arranged to maintain alternate inflation and deflation of the cells of the pad to deflate the cells at the head end of the pad and also to inflate the cells under the pad in order to raise the level of the chest of a patient supported on the pad.

Abstract: A quick-availability scribe utilizes a body having a generally rectangular center format, each corner of the rectangular format extending to a curved space along the ends of the body to define a number of curved slots. Each curved slot has a first side perpendicular to an adjacent side edge, an inward curving middle extent, and a second side terminating at an acute angle to form an acute angled edge extending across the thickness of the material. Adjacent slots at one end of the body may share an outward curved transition extending between their acute angled termination edges of their second sides, but any shape transition may be used. Up to four slots can be accommodated while keeping an overall generally rectangular or square format. It is preferable to arrange adjacent slots at the end of a generally rectangular body to skip the next most adjacent scribing magnitude in order to avoid invading too much of the material forming the transition extending between the acute angled termination edges.

Abstract: A pool cover cleaner for cleaning a pool cover through a siphoning process is provided for use on above ground pools. The pool cover cleaner has a brush which scrubs the cover during removal of water from the surface of the pool.

Abstract: An improved oral brush is provided that includes crimped bristles. The oral brush includes a body and, extending from the body, a plurality of crimped bristles. One such oral brush is an electric toothbrush, with a brush head having a preferred arrangement of tufts of crimped and straight bristles that are flexed by cyclic motions of the brush head toward and away from the tooth.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a portable electric cleaning device to clean various household items. The cleaning device comprises a housing, a motor, a cleaning module, and a battery set. The housing has a handle and a chassis. The motor is installed in the chassis of the housing and comprises a rotating axle. The cleaning module has a cleaning head for cleaning various home appliance and home environment, and a connecting end installed on the rotating axle. The battery set is installed in the housing for driving the motor so as to rotate the cleaning module.

Abstract: A new shower head cleaning attachment for attachment to a shower head to permit cleaning therewith of a bathtub or shower stall. The inventive device includes a scrubbing brush with an elongate portion and an agitating head with a plurality of outwardly extending bristles. The scrubbing brush has a passage therein extending between the elongate portion and the agitating head. The agitating head has a plurality of apertures into the passage of the scrubbing brush. One end of a flexible hose is detachably coupled to an end of the scrubbing brush to fluidly connect the hose to the passage of the scrubbing brush. The other end of the hose has a shower head connector to fluidly connect this end of the hose to a shower head.

Abstract: A scrubbing apparatus comprises a holding member, which holds the outer circumference of the substrate from its back surface and has an opening to expose the back surface of the held substrate toward the bottom side; a supporting member, which supports substantially the center between two opposed sides of the holding member; a scrubbing brush, which comes in contact with the exposed back surface of the substrate from the bottom side; a brush drive mechanism, which transfers the scrubbing brush along the two opposed sides of the holding member; and a rotation drive mechanism, which drives to rotate the holding member together with the supporting member. Thus, a space can be saved, and the back surface of the substrate can be scrubbed.

Abstract: A body scrubbing device for scrubbing and massaging the back and lower body of a user. The device includes a generally U-shaped housing having a spaced apart pair of arm portions and a main portion connecting the arm portions of the housing together. A scrubbing member is positioned between the arm portions of the housing. The scrubbing member has opposite first and second ends and a longitudinal axis extending between the first and second ends of the scrubbing member. The first end of the scrubbing member is rotatably mounted to a first of the arm portions of the housing and the second end of the scrubbing member is rotatably mounted to a second of the arm portions of the housing. A motor for rotating the scrubbing member about the longitudinal axis of the scrubbing member is provided in the interior space of the housing.

Abstract: A motorized chimney sweep having a battery, a DC motor with twin drive shafts extending therefrom in opposite directions in a horizontal orientation, and two debris impacting members attached near a distal end of each drive shaft which are rotated through a generally vertical arc during use. In use, the debris impacting members rapidly strike debris which has built up within the shaft of a chimney to knock it free from the walls.

Abstract: A device for removing objects from a contained area or pipeline. A cutting means comprising at least one rotating, semi-rigid cutting arm of sufficient diameter, length, and material such that it is rigid enough to cut an object while having sufficient flexibility to avoid damaging an interior wall of said pipeline and to increase cutting area during operation. The cutting member, attachable to a shaft which is rotated by a standard motor, rotates concentrically with a longitudinal axis of the pipeline causing the semi-rigid cutting arm to move and flex during operation. The device may be employed inside a pipeline in both axial directions toward either end of said pipeline.

Abstract: A backing plate that removably attaches a sponge to a mop head includes a top surface, that removably attaches to the mop head, and a bottom surface, to which the sponge is attached. At least one male attachment member is located on the first edge of the top surface of the backing plate, for removable attachment to a corresponding female member on the mop head. At least one female attachment member is located on a second edge of the top surface of the backing plate, for removable attachment to a corresponding male member on the mop head. In the preferred embodiment, each male attachment member on the backing plate includes a lip and each female attachment member on the backing plate includes a C-shaped member.

Abstract: A twist mop having a handle, a wringing actuator, and a mop head into which an end portion of the mop handle extends and which is releasably and substantially irrotationally coupled at first and second opposite ends thereof respectively to said end portion of the mop handle and to the actuator, the actuator being movable relative to the handle to effect torsional wringing of the mop head; the mop head being demountable from the handle and actuator by decoupling it from the actuator and from said end portion of the handle and withdrawing said end portion of the handle from the mop head in the direction from said first to said second end of the mop head.

Abstract: A hand held video display screen cleaning tool has a body with a bottom cleaning portion secured to a top gripping portion. A cleaning element is secured to the bottom portion for dusting and removing static charge from a video display screen by pressing elongated bristles on the cleaning element against and dragging the elongated bristles a multiple of times across the video display screen.

Abstract: An articulated broom, comprising a joint located between a base having an attachment plane for the bristles and the end of the handle, said joint comprising a pin connected to said base and adapted to allow the rotation of a hub at the end of the handle, said hub being attached to said pin so as to provide a certain amount of friction therebetween; abutment elements of the hub being provided in a first end position in which the handle is perpendicular to the bristle attachment plane, and a second end position.

Abstract: A mop includes a handle; and a mop head secured to the lower end of the handle, the mop head including a main body of a generally rectangular parallelepiped configuration and having a lower surface, extensions formed at opposite sides of the main body to form first and second shoulders, each extension having a lower surface which is parallel and coplanar with the lower surface of the main body, a foam pad secured to a lower surface of the main body, first and second U-shaped hold down bars pivotally arranged on the main body, the hold down bars releasably engaging and holding down a piece of material which is wrapped about the foam pad by engaging ends of the piece of material on the first and second shoulders, and a releasable lock down assembly which releasably holds the first and second hold down bars on the first and second shoulders, respectively, the lock down assembly including protrusions extending from the main body to secure the hold down bars to the main body and to releasably lock the hold down ba

Abstract: To house drive components in a single drive section casing and shorten a link member, a mirror (57a) is held by a mirror casing (56). A right-and-left motor (61) and an up-and-down motor (62) are housed within a drive section casing (55). If the motors (61, 62) are driven, a tilting mechanism unit tilts the mirror (57a). A wiper motor (63) is housed within the drive section casing (55). A wiper drive transfer unit for transferring rotation of the wiper motor (63) is housed within the drive section casing (55). Furthermore, a link mechanism section (D) and a rotary shaft section (E) for transferring output of the wiper drive transfer unit to reciprocal rotary motion are housed in the mirror casing (56). By the reciprocal rotary motion converted by the link mechanism section (D) and rotary shaft section (E), a wiper main body wipes the surface of the mirror.

Abstract: A heated windshield wiper blade system which includes a gel filled core which extends the length of the windshield wiper blade and which gel filled core includes material which is both heat conducting and electrically conducting while a electrical conductor extends the length of the gel filled core so that when electrical current is supplied to the electrical conductor and when the gel filled core is grounded to the vehicle's body, the gel filled core heats thereby heating the entire windshield wiper blade. The heating system is controlled by an on/off switch located on the vehicle's dashboard while a voltage regulator controls voltage and the heat level of the gel filled core.

Abstract: A wiper blade is proposed, which is used to clean windows of motor vehicles. The wiper blade has load bearing frame for a wiper strip placed against the window and displaceable over the window crosswise to the longitudinal extent thereof, and a wind deflector strip disposed on the load bearing frame and extending approximately parallel to the wiper strip, which wind deflector strip has a wind baffle facing into the relative wind, one longitudinal edge of which is located nearer the window than its other longitudinal edge located behind the first longitudinal edge in terms of the approach direction of the relative wind. Universal use of the wiper blade is obtained if the wind deflector strip can be mounted suspended from the load bearing frame or standing upright on the load bearing frame, and in each of the two mounting positions has a wind baffle oriented toward the relative wind.

Abstract: A movable-head cloth-cutter bristle block cleaner for cleaning a conveyor-type bristle bed trained between the rotatable end units of a cloth cutter. The cleaner has a movable head attached to a cable cylinder which is coupled to the frame of the cloth cutter. The head moves substantially the entire width of the bristle bed. In one embodiment, nozzles are placed in several rows on the head and are positioned so that they extend into the bristles of the bristle bed. The movable head is coupled to a supply of compressed air. When the bristle bed moves, high volume, high pressure air is delivered to the head and then shoots out of the nozzles. The jetting action of the gas leaving the nozzles effects removal of debris contained within the bed. Because the cleaning head moves across the entire width of the bristle bed, fewer nozzles are needed to clean the bristle bed. This allows the air pressure coming out of the nozzles to be delivered at a high level.

Abstract: A fugitive dust collection system includes a dust collecting suction unit which is connected to a hood through a flexible hose. The hood surrounds an unloader for unloading bulk cargo of a dusty nature from the cargo hold of a ship or barge. The dust collection system forms a vertical curtain of air which absorbs a dust cloud or air borne contaminants and transports them to the dust collecting suction unit through the flexible conduit.

Abstract: An auxiliary brush holder for a vacuum cleaner which can hold a plurality of auxiliary brushes. The auxiliary brush holder has a frame having an opening into which an extension pipe is inserted, an extension bar which is integrally formed with a lower portion of a first end of the frame and extends downwards therefrom so as to be inserted into a receptacle formed at a body of the vacuum cleaner, and two arcuate ribs which are integrally formed at a lower portion of a second end of the frame and upwardly extend to an upper surface of the frame. The two arcuate grooves are defined between the two arcuate ribs and the second end of the frame and the arcuate ribs are regularly spaced out by a predetermined distance apart from each other. The auxiliary brush holder can hold a plurality of auxiliary brushes with simple construction, so the user can easily use the required auxiliary brush while the cleaning work is being carried out, thereby improving cleaning efficiency.

Abstract: An electric vacuum cleaner comprising a vacuum cleaner body, a hose to be connected to the vacuum cleaner body, a support pipe to be connected to the hose, and a suction device to be connected to the support pipe. The suction device is provided with running wheels, and the vacuum cleaner body is able to be detachably fastened to the support pipe so that it is supported by the wheels of the suction device when the vacuum cleaner body is attached to the support pipe. The cleaning workability is thus improved, and the external appearance of the vacuum cleaner body in a condition of being detached from the support pipe can be improved.

Abstract: A trash can which also houses a vacuum cleaner. The trash can has three compartments. One for housing a 30 gallon trash bag, a second for housing a vacuum hose and various vacuum attachments and a third for housing a vacuum motor and dust collection bag.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a vacuum cleaner suction apparatus comprising an upper cover connected to a lower cover which has a void for installation of a rotary brush with a plurality of rotary vanes along a rotary shaft, first and second diaphragms with grooves at both sides of the void and a third diaphragm to form a duct over the second diaphragm and a certain shape of an air inlet between the lower cover and the first diaphragm to infuse outside air, thereby improving the suction efficiency of transporting the dust and foreign objects sucked through an air inlet, the void and a connecting pipe and thereby simplifying the number of parts and improvement of productivity as the rotary brush is driven by suction force of outside air and turning effect of the rotary vanes.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a grommet capable of easy installation by reducing an insertion resistance when conducting an insertion of the grommet into an opening of a vehicle panel. The configuration of the grommet allows molds for forming the grommet to have reduced processing costs, and molding and installation time can also be decreased. The grommet includes wire harness holding areas for tightly engaging around the periphery of the wire harness and an engagement area which fixedly engages an opening provided on a vehicle panel. A tapered area connects a wire harness holding area and an engagement area with a near-conical tapered surface extending over the outer surface of a tapered area, and a plurality of linear convex areas are provided to extend from a wire harness holding area to the engagement area, in an insertion direction of the grommet over the entire periphery on the tapered area.

Abstract: A door security device, the device comprising in combination:a bracket (3) defining a stop wall, the bracket (3) having a pivotal mount (18,20) to mount, in use, to an inner face of a door (10); andan elongate prop (1) having a first end (2) and a second end, (4) the first end (2) of the prop (1) having a pivotal mount (6, 8) to mount, in use, to a surface (13) such as a wall adjacent the door (10) and the second end (4) of the prop (1) being adapted to co-operatively engage with the stop wall (16,17) of the bracket (3) to brace the door (10) against the adjacent surface (13) when the bracket (3) is in a first radial orientation but to disengage the stop wall of the bracket (3) when the bracket (3) is turned about the bracket's pivotal mount (18,20), the bracket (3) being turnable about the mount (18, 20) by use of a key means (21) which is co-operatively engageable with the pivotal mount (18,20) of the bracket (3) from the outer face of the door (10).

Abstract: An adjustable cabinet hinge includes a door wing to be mounted on a door, a frame wing to be mounted on a frame and rotatably connected to the door wing, and an adjustment module. The adjustment module includes a substantially cylindrical, externally threaded base portion, an adjustment portion having an external shape that facilitates adjusting of the adjustment module, and an internal cavity extending through the adjustment portion and the base portion for receiving a mounting screw. The frame wing includes an internally threaded aperture configured to mesh with the externally threaded base portion of the adjustment module.

Abstract: A lower hinge engaging structure for a refrigerator which is capable of providing a substantial door supporting force which is proportional to the weight of the refrigerator door and preventing a deformation of the refrigerator door. The structure includes a lower hinge inserted into a lower surface of a refrigerator door for supporting the weight of the refrigerator door, a hinge support member installed behind the lower hinge for supporting the lower hinge, and a hinge plate inserted between the hinge support member and the lower hinge for supporting the lower hinge toward the hinge support member by a predetermined force which is generated proportionally to the weight of the refrigerator door.

Abstract: A hinge structure for interconnecting a swing door to a trailer body or the like and which allows the door to breakaway form the trailer body when an excessive shear force is applied to the hinge indicative of the door impacting against a surface or improperly engaging an adjacent trailer body.

Abstract: An arrangement for sorting a first category of fibers having a first set of properties into at least a second category of fibers having a second set of properties and a third category of fibers having a third set of properties. The arrangement comprises a sorting channel including at least one travelling teeth laden carrier surface driven in a first direction within the sorting channel. The sorting channel further includes at least a first inlet and at least first and second outlets. A first energy field flows through the sorting channel in a second direction. The first category of fibers are plied to the travelling teeth carried on the driven carrier surface and the first energy field causes at least the longer fibers from the first category to be held latched onto the travelling teeth as it washes and strips away shorter fibers and impurities producing the second category of fibers.

Abstract: A flat-head carder, equipped in the tangential area between the main drum and briseur with a fiber-guiding wedge fitted with a discharge opening provided at a tangential direction to the surface of the drum and prior to their tangency, connected to an aspirating nozzle.

Abstract: Unit for opening and separation of the impurities, for machines for opening or carding of flock textile material, comprising separator blades for the removal of the impurities, consisting of a triangular cutting blade, which is mounted on the support with its inner surface disposed according to a small angle, relative to the tangent to the surface of the covering, and with the vertex disposed downstream from the motion of the cylinder.

Abstract: The invention concerns a process and a device for recording a parameter on several slivers (11) fed to a controlled drawing frame. In order to produce a more accurate measured value and at the same time influence the slivers to the smallest possible extent, several measuring elements (9) are provided which are individually assigned to the slivers and whose measured values are converted to a single measured value for the control.

Abstract: Device for processing the web of fibers obtained from a carder, by transforming it into a strip, subjecting it to drawing, and collecting it in a container, in which the drawing means consist of a plurality of drawing stations, each of which comprises two or more pairs of rollers, each of which is actuated by its own motor, and is piloted by a control unit which distributes the drawing between the stations.

Abstract: A reusable clip for closing plastic bags comprises a pair of jaws which are hinged together, and a releasable latch. One of the jaws is provided with a rib, the other a channel within which the rib is received, wherein at least one of the rib and channelled jaw being formed in medial portions with a lacuna as seen in profile, with a clearance between such medial portions when the jaws are closed. The lacuna assists in locating the clip relative to the bag, and permits the gathering of the neck of the bag whereby a substantial reduction in the size of the clip is possible in comparison to prior art clips.

Abstract: A fastener system which can be utilized with leather type fabric, such as shoes for attaching decorative pieces which consists of a flat disk shaped member which has a protruding component which interlocks with another flat disk shaped component which has a receiving component. The tolerances allow the two disk shape components to be affixed together such that they hold an ornamental piece in a certain position. The two disks sit parallel with each other or can be dimensioned to allow one to sit into the other such that on one side the two pieces create a relatively flat surface in relationship to the surface of the fabric. These configurations permit the ornament to be attached to the clothing without the feel of a lump or projection to the person wearing the article. This result is highly desirable, for example, at the instep of shoes where ornaments are often attached and the body is sensitive to any lump or projection.

Abstract: A wire clamping device including a body, at least one bore through the body for an end of a wire and at least one channel in the body converging at an acute angle and into communication with the bore towards an inlet end of the bore. An abutment is at an end of the channel remote from the inlet end of the bore, and a wedge is movable along the channel between the abutment and a region of communication with the bore. A face of the wedge facing the abutment is provided with an undercut groove, and a hole is provided through the abutment for passage therethrough of a rod-like tool provided with diametrically opposed projections at one end for pulling engagement with the undercut groove by partial rotation of the tool from an insertion position.

Abstract: A cable clamp may be constructed from a hollow body, a wedge-shaped member and a means for dislodging the member from the body. The body includes a tapered channel that is sized and shaped to accommodate the member and round, flat or rectangular cable sections. The means for dislodging the member include an aperture extending from one side of the member to the other, at least one cylindrical bearing surface positioned at the upper end of the body, and a camshaft. The camshaft has at least one cylindrical end with an inward facing end and an outward facing end. A cylindrical shaft in orthogonally and eccentrically mounted to the inward facing end. The camshaft is positioned so that the cylindrical shaft will bear against the inner surface of the aperture and the end portion will bear against the bearing surface. When the camshaft is rotated, the cylindrical shaft will cause the aperture and the wedge-shaped member to be displaced upwardly from the body.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for connecting two strand ends such as those found on jewelry pieces such as necklaces, chains and bracelets. The method and apparatus involve fastening the two strand ends using a connecting member attached to one strand and a receiving member attached to another strand end, wherein the connecting member may be removably fastened to the receiving member using a predetermined sequence of simple movements and rotations.

Abstract: In an attachment structure for attaching a fastener member to the wrist of a glove body, a first attachment is to be mounted on and along an open edge of the glove wrist and has a plurality of longitudinally arranged socket holes, and a second attachment is to be mounted on and along an edge of the fastener member and has a locking portion to be removably fitted in the respective socket holes to be engageable with a locking hole of the first attachment. The fastener member can be attached to the glove body by snap action as the locking portion of the second attachment is inserted into the respective socket hole of the first attachment.

Abstract: A clamp for joining the ends of a cord, including a cup-like hollow shell into which the ends of the cord are inserted, and a retaining member plugged into the shell to hold down the ends of the cord, the retaining member having a clamping unit at one end plugged into the shell, and a head at an opposite end stopped outside the shell, the clamping unit having a tapered hollow block fit tightly in the shell, a rectangular frame suspended inside the shell, two elongated connecting walls connected between the tapered hollow block and the rectangular frame at top and bottom sides, a receiving hole defined within the rectangular frame which receives the ends of the cord, and two springy clamping arms respectively raised from left and right side walls of the rectangular frame and terminating in a respective serrated end block, the serrated end blocks of the springy clamping arms being forced inwards and clamped on the ends of the cord at two opposite sides to hold down the ends of the cord in the retaining member w

Abstract: A snap latch device has a handle with a pair of cam members extending from a lower end. The device also has a flexible snap which protrudes from the handle. The front end of the snap has a barbed lip. The device is designed to interlock a shuttle assembly to a stationary chassis. The device is pivotally mounted to the shuttle which carries a board with connectors. The device is movable between an engaged position and a retracted position. In the engaged position, the cam members engage an end wall on the chassis and the snap inserts through and engages a hole in the shuttle. The mechanical interlock between the cam members and the end wall rigidly secures the shuttle in the chassis. The device is moved to the retracted position by pulling back on the snap to dislodge the barbed lip. This release allows the device to rotate so that the cam members disengage the end wall. After the snap and cam members are clear of the hole and end wall, respectively, the shuttle may be completely removed from the chassis.

Abstract: A clothes hanger clasp, particularly to a clothes hanger clasp that will not easily fall off but can be loosened in a convenient way, includes a metal plate roughly in a "U" shape, where the metal plate is divided into an upper clasp plate and a lower clasp plate that are somewhat curled inwardly. On the upper clasp plate is a protruding part and a force applying mechanism that is curled inwardly. The protruding will enable stronger elasticity to for clothes hanger clasp, and, acting with the upper and lower metal clasp plates, it will tightly clasp onto the clothes hanger. The force applying mechanism facilitates easy application of force to loosen the hanger clasp, and it is designed so that the hanger clasp will not fall off easily, but it can be loosened in a convenient way.

Abstract: An elongated semi-product from which a clasp can be formed includes at each end at least one through-penetrating hole wherein when bent to form said clasp the semi-product forms a generally closed cavity with the mutually opposite ends of said product forming overlapping legs and the openings at the ends of said semi-product being intended to coincide in one position of the legs to enable said stem-part to be inserted easily through the two holes in said legs, wherein in another position of said legs the holes provided in the edge regions of the ends of said legs will be pressed against a portion of reduced diameter on the stem so as to hold an ornament in place. According to the invention, at least one of the two opposing openings in the semi-product has an elongated and irregular shape so as to include at least two holes of different sizes, and at least one opening extends transversely to the longitudinal axis of the semi-product.

Abstract: A napper fabric processing machine implements a number of improvements. First, the worker rolls are aluminum, reducing their weight and attachable to the cylinder using a quick release mechanism, enabling quick replacement. The worker roll are also easily serviceable and accessible from the side of the machine. Further, carding wear is monitored electrically by detecting torque generated by the motors driving the worker rolls. Finally, a tensioning system is used for the drive belts, negating the need for cylinder disassembly to replace the belts.

Abstract: This invention provides a wet process for manufacturing a nonwoven fabric, including the steps of: forming a fibrous web by supplying raw material fibers together with water onto a slope of a net-shaped wire conveyor band running on a plurality of rolls; completely forming a nonwoven fabric over the wire conveyor band by supplying water jets to the fibrous web over the wire conveyor band; transferring the formed nonwoven fabric from the wire conveyor band to another conveyor band; and drying the nonwoven fabric. Also disclosed is an apparatus using the wet nonwoven fabric manufacturing process.

Abstract: A casing has a processing chamber and a drying chamber defined therein by a partition mechanism. The processing chamber houses an impelling mechanism for impelling a mixed stream of glass beads and water toward a gear. First and second drying mechanisms are successively brought into the drying chamber by the partition mechanism. While the gear is being processed, i.e., peened, by the impelling mechanism in the processing chamber, a previously processed gear is dried in the drying chamber. Gears can quickly and efficiently be peened, washed, and dried successively in the casing.

Abstract: A camshaft holding tool and a corresponding method for operation in a dual overhead camshaft engines is described. In one embodiment, the holding tool includes a double ended stud having a knob portion, and first and second threaded shafts that are threaded in opposite directions. The holding tool also includes first and second holding members defining apertures that are threaded in opposite directions to screwably receive the first and second threaded shafts;, respectively. The first and second holding members each includes a curved portion having one or more teeth for complementing camshaft sprockets. Each tooth of the first and second holding members is used for engaging adjacent teeth of respective camshaft sprockets.

Abstract: A method for repairing pallets includes the steps of sorting the pallets into groups depending on the type of repair that initially needs to be made to each of the pallets. After the initial repair, the remaining damaged portions of the pallets ace repaired in separate processing lines. In certain instances, pallets from different groups can be combined for subsequent processing. Apparatus for repairing pallets includes an inverter for turning pallets face-up or face-down without manual effort, and a deckboard spreader for separating deckboards to enable defective deckboard-supporting blocks to be removed and replaced.