Abstract: A vehicle lug nut cleaning device is provided including an elongated generally cylindrical sponge having an opening extending longitudinally of the generally cylindrical sponge for receiving a head of a lug nut therein. The elongated generally cylindrical sponge has a sufficient length to allow an end of the generally cylindrical sponge to be trimmed for reuse.

Abstract: A windshield wiper blade assembly having a primary yoke on which is mounted a spoiler which is formed with a curved front side and a generally triangular rear side, the spoiler having one end provided with a first bracket and another end provided with a second bracket, a bottom of the first bracket having two clamping members formed with two opposite semi-cylindrical recesses configured to fit into a first elongated opening of the primary yoke, the second bracket having two curved arms at two ends thereof configured to fit into a second elongated opening of the primary yoke, whereby the spoiler will give a downward pressure to the windshield wiper to prevent the windshield wiper from lifting from the windshield when the driving speed is high.

Abstract: A shoe bottom or side cleaning device which is either portable or installed in a floor of an entrance to a dwelling or building, and is either manually or automatically operated. The device includes a plurality of side-by-side, elongated and rotated brushes, a funnel beneath the brushes, a motor for driving the brushes and a squirrel cage fan for collecting dirt from the brushes via the funnel, and a chamber for accumulating the collected dirt. The chamber can be equipped with a dirt collection bag. A central building vacuum system can assist the device's fan. The elongated brushes can have either a solid core or a twisted" wire core.

Abstract: A vacuum cleaner (10) includes a housing (14), an agitator brush (40) mounted for relative rotation in the housing (14) and a motor (30) including a shaft (42) for driving the agitator brush (40). A flexible belt (44) connects the drive shaft (42) of the motor (30) to the agitator brush (40). Further, a mechanism (50) is provided for disconnecting the belt (44) from either the motor drive shaft (42) or the agitator brush (40). That mechanism (50) includes an element or lug (54) carried on a shifter (52) and an actuator (56) for selectively displacing the shifter (52) and element/lug (54) carried thereon between a first position wherein the element/lug (54) is out of engagement with said belt (44) and a second position wherein the element/lug (54) engages the belt (44), thereby forcing the belt (44) out of engagement with either the motor drive shaft (42) or the agitator brush (40).

Abstract: A device for attaching to a sliding door of a pair of sliding doors and for allowing opening of the sliding door by use of a foot. The device includes a first portion, a second portion, and attaching apparatus. The first portion is attached to the interior surface of the bottom of the sliding door and is engaged by the foot when opening the sliding door. The second portion is attached to the exterior surface of the bottom of the sliding door and is engaged by the foot when opening the sliding door. The attaching apparatus attaches the first portion and the second portion to the sliding door.

Abstract: A clip for facilitating attachment of sheet material to structural beams includes a clip body portion and an adjustable spring arm portion allowing the clip to be adjusted to fit on structural beams of different sizes. The clip body portion includes a first mounting surface and a second mounting surface. The adjustable arm portion includes a first arm panel defining an additional sheet-mounting surface and a second arm panel movable with respect to the first arm panel within a range of up to the width of the first arm panel. The additional mounting surface is substantially parallel to the first mounting surface of the clip body and provides greater mounting and support surface for the sheet material.

Abstract: A micro-adjustable belt structure including a belt head, a micro-adjusting strap, a micro-adjuster and a clip buckle. The micro-adjuster is formed with a dent in which a magnet is fixedly disposed. The clip buckle is also formed with a dent in which a magnetic member such as an iron plate is fixedly disposed corresponding to the magnet. The clip buckle is made of a non-magnetic material. The magnetic member is covered by a protective film for protecting the magnetic member from being rusted. The magnet and the magnetic member attract each other to attach the micro-adjuster and the clip buckle to each other.

Abstract: A clamp with a pair of separable and adjustable arms including a main member. A pair of arms are adjustable coupled with the main member. The pair of arms each have an inner collar portion adapted for adjustable coupling with the main member. A pair of fingers are adjustably coupled with respect to the pair of arms. The pair of fingers each have a threaded rod receivable within the threaded apertures of the pair of arms.

Abstract: A press-stud comprising a female part (11; 317) to which one end (14; 318) of a male part (15; 330) is anchored in the closed configuration by forcing with elastic deformation of a ring (12; 100; 200; 311; 411) that is accommodated in a circumferential groove (13; 316) formed inside the female part (11; 317), the ring being closed, being made of elastomeric material, and being accommodated in the groove (13; 316).

Abstract: The miller comprises a pair of benches situated on both sides of a framework, in such a manner that on the upper crossbar is mounted, displaceable and guidable, a transverse support that carries a couple of vertical arms on which are mounted the corresponding tools, the arms being dispaceable towards one side or the other with respect to the support, while the tool that is borne by each of the arms may move upward/downward, as well as rotate, in such a manner that a combination of these movements produced by their corresponding motors allows simultaniously making two pieces that are symmetrical or the same, as well as effect simultanious digitalized work with one arm and milling with the other, after having mounted the corresponding tool on one arm and a digitalizer on the other.

Abstract: A clinching station for securing a first workpiece to a second workpiece includes control logic receiving a punch position sensor output and processing the punch position sensor output and an established position signature to generate a clinching operation status signal. The clinching station includes a punch and die assembly including a punch and a die mounted opposite each other for movement relative to each other along a working axis. A position sensor is configured to monitor the position of the punch relative to the die, and has an output indicative of the position of the punch relative to the die. The established position signature corresponds to an acceptable clinching operation, and allows the control logic to generate the clinching operation status signal.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and apparatus for installing a propeller assembly in an opening in the bottom of a swimming vessel and for removing the propeller assembly from the opening. The propeller assembly comprises an underwater section including the actual propeller and a top section inside the vessel, between which is fitted a flange element for tightly sealing the opening. The apparatus comprises a hoisting chamber, which is fitted in the opening in the bottom of a vessel, extends inside the vessel to above waterline and surrounds the top section of the propeller assembly. The apparatus further includes guide elements for guiding the propeller assembly during the course of lifting or lowering. In the method, the propeller assembly is lifted away by way of the top of the hoisting chamber after clampings of the propeller assembly to the hull of a vessel are unfastened and hoisting means are secured to the propeller assembly. Installation proceeds in a reversed order.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for serving food utilizing a combination serving cradle and trivet. The device includes handles that permit it to be easily carried without injury to the fingers. The device further includes support legs that raise the serving dish above the table surface to avoid possible damage to the table. In addition, a decorative and insulated fabric cover helps to retain temperatures of food stuffs while being served. The sling wrap design of the fabric cover allows a refrigerant or heating gel pack to be inserted between the fabric cover and the dish or receptacle to further maintain the temperature of the dish while it is being served.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for assembling a multi-panel door. The method includes the steps of fashioning a plurality of rails; fashioning a plurality of panels; fashioning a plurality of mullions; fashioning a plurality of stiles; and preassembling selected rails, selected panels, and selected mullions into sub-assemblies of the door. The sub-assemblies are positioned intermediate a first stile and a second stile in a pre-assembly orientation with the first stile and second stile generally coplanar with the sub-assemblies. The sub-assemblies, the first stile, and the second stile are compressively urged together in two substantially perpendicular axes to create a squared assembly with respect to the two axes. The sub-assemblies are intermediate the first stile and the second stile and are affixed to the first stile along at least a portion of the first stile, and are affixed to the second stile along at least a portion of the second stile.

Abstract: An elastomeric compressor mount has a hollow convex cylindrical head portion which must be passed upwardly through a substantially smaller diameter circular opening in a support foot portion of the compressor. To facilitate the passage of the mount head portion through the support foot opening a specially designed clamping tool is provided which has an arcuate support portion and a clamping portion that may be pivoted toward and away from a concave side surface of the support portion. With these two tool portions pivoted toward each other they are inserted downwardly through the compressor foot opening, opened, and then clamped exteriorly onto the mount head portion in a manner deforming it to a generally U-shaped configuration as viewed along the axis of the mount.

Abstract: A method for forming a work hardened modular component connector for use in orthopedic surgery. This method includes machining a member which forms a portion of the orthopedic implant into an initial configuration having an oversized region. Work hardening a portion of the oversized region of the member. Machining the member into a final precision configuration upon work hardening at least a portion of the oversized region of the member.

Abstract: Stator coils having lead wires inserted into temporary wire clamps (36) at a winding station are electrically tested before the coil lead wires are removed from the temporary clamps. In one aspect, the clamps each include a jaw (54) formed with a wire-engaging surface (88) which scrapes the insulating coating off from a lead wire as it is inserted therein. The clamps are electrically connected to terminal members (90) which are engageable by electrical test terminal members (100). In a modification, the clamps include a wire-scraping jaw having, in addition to a body formed with a sharpened or knife edge, a shield having wire-guiding surfaces engageable by a lead wire being inserted into the clamp. The wire-guiding surfaces are located adjacent the knife edge and are so positioned that the depth of the insulated wire scraped or cut away by the knife edge is only a few thousandths of an inch.

Abstract: A combined thin film magnetic head includes a magnetoresistive reproducing head part and an inductive recording head part. The magnetoresistive reproducing head part is defined between a lower shielding layer and a merged core layer. The inductive recording head part is defined between the merged core layer and an upper core layer and is configured to specify a track width for the recording head part by providing the upper core layer in a localized region W.sub.2. A method of fabricating the magnetic head includes steps of forming an etching-protective layer on a gap layer so as to provide an exposed region W.sub.1 left uncovered which is larger than the localized region W.sub.2 in which the upper core layer is to be finally confined, depositing the upper core layer over the entire surfaces thereof, and etching the upper core layer so as to finally confine the etched upper core layer in the localized region W.sub.2.

Abstract: A core builder machine (10), including an elongated table (12) on which the cores are supported and transferred to the various assembly portions of the machine (10). A plurality of heat exchanger tubes (18) are fed from a tube magazine (16) by a tube dispenser assembly (14) onto the table (12) where they are indexed and adapted to receive a plurality of serpentine fins (36) between a pair of adjacent tubes (18) to form an intermediate core assembly (42). The intermediate core assembly (42) is transferred downstream by a plurality of slides (56, 58) to a core compression section (70) where the intermediate core assembly (42) is compressed. After the intermediate assembly (42) is compressed the header attachment mechanism (75) moves into contact with the sides (56, 58) of the core to attach the headers and form a completed core assembly (110) that can be removed and then brazed.

Abstract: A multipin header connector pin extraction tool having a resilient tool head with pin grasping fingers resiliently held in spaced, pin receiving relationship for receipt of a contact pin to be extracted is attached to an elongate tool shank slidingly received within an elongate bore within an elongate tool handle. A pair of opposed cam surfaces and a plurality of detent ball bearings held in associated bearing access openings are carried by the handle. A locking collar slideably moves between a nonlocking position and, when the tool shank has been moved to pin grasping position and a detent groove has been aligned with the access openings, a locking position. The detent ball bearings are held in locking engagement with the detent groove after the tool handle has been pushed against the tool head which is held against the header to cam the fingers into grasping relationship with the object pin.

Abstract: A clip driver is used for driving elastic clips each having a back portion, and abutment portions for clipping edge portions of sheet-members between the opposite ends of the abutment portions.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a ring applying and clinching device for applying successive C-shaped rings to a workpiece. The device comprises a housing structure and a magazine assembly constructed and arranged to support a supply of releasably interconnected C-shaped rings. Each of the rings have opposing leg portions defining an opening therebetween for providing access to an interior of each ring. The magazine assembly comprises structure configured to move the ring supply in a feeding direction such that a lead ring is disposed in a feeding position ready. A pair of opposing jaw members have ring engaging inner surfaces facing generally towards one another. The inner surfaces engage the lead ring in the feeding position.

Abstract: A method of interconnecting a dual media component assembly for an automotive vehicle instrument panel includes the steps of mounting a first component to a first surface of a unitary bracket, fixing a second component to a second surface of the unitary bracket so as to create a dual component subassembly, and placing the subassembly within a chassis for mounting within the instrument panel.

Abstract: Providing encapsulated electronic components on a circuit board by providing dams on a circuit board around areas on which respective electronic components will be mounted, mounting the respective electronic components within the dams on the circuit board, and printing encapsulating material through a stencil in order to provide deposits of encapsulating material over the electronic components and within the dams.

Abstract: A memory card is comprised of a synthetic resin frame, a memory board housed in a frame, metal contacts for connecting conductor patterns of a memory board and external pins, a connector body formed from synthetic resin having a number of contact compartments in which the contacts are received, a metal cover plate which covers an opening of the frame in which the memory board and the connector body are housed, and a cut-away portion which is formed on at least one of the contact compartments of the connector body and which is opposed to the cover plate.

Abstract: A method of renovating a cabinet for electronic card drawers, the method inculding the following steps creating an unpluggable electronic drawer having connectors on its back face; mounting an adapter intermediate mechanical support in the cabinet to be renovated, which support supports a set of floating backplane connectors for the unpluggable electronic drawer; creating a free zone Z between the back support for the backplane connectors of the cabinet, and the intermediate support; and fitting adapter wiring between the back support and the intermediate supports.

Abstract: There is provided heat exchange tube formed from a ductile metal strip which is formed into a generally circular configuration with the opposing longitudinal edges of the strip welded together. Both surfaces of the strip are enhanced. One surface of the tube is enhanced with protrusions in the shape of truncated cones. The ratio of the pitch between longitudinally aligned protrusions and transversely aligned protrusions maximizes the formation and maintenance of vortexes in a flowing fluid along the tube surface.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a rack and pinion steering gear (10) comprises the steps of: providing a housing (12) with first and second chambers (36 and 42) and threads (44) which partially define the second chamber (42); positioning a rack (14) in the first chamber (36); positioning a yoke (70) in the second chamber (42); screwing threads (94) of a plug (90) into the threads (44) which at least partially define the second chamber (42) to cause the plug to press the yoke (70) into engagement with the rack (14) by rotating the plug about an axis (38) relative to the housing (12) in a first direction (A); and simultaneously deforming the threads (44) which at least partially define the second chamber (42) at a plurality of locations spaced about the axis (38) to limit the amount of rotation of the plug (90) in a second direction (B) about the axis opposite the first direction (A).

Abstract: A personal groomer includes a hand-holdable housing within which is disposed a battery operated motor coupled to a cutting head assembly that protrudes at least partially from a distal end of the housing. An impeller fin assembly is attached to a lower portion of the cutting head assembly for rotation therewith when the motor is energized. Preferably the lower portion of the cutting head assembly and the impeller fin assembly are surrounded by a thimble-shaped member defining sidewall vents and having an opening in its upper surface, through which a distal portion of the cutting head assembly protrudes. A light source is mounted in the housing so as to focus light on hairs to be cut with the groomer. The groomer is cleaned by submerging the distal end of the housing assembly in water and energizing the motor. The resultant impeller fin rotation draws water into the cutting head assembly, and expels the water along with cut hairs and any other debris out the vents in the thimble-shaped member.

Abstract: The present invention is a tool for stripping a sliver-like section of the outer sheath from a multi-conductor cable or insulation from an insulated wire. The tool includes a blade and interconnected blade guide to strip the outer sheath from a cable or insulation from a wire without damaging interior contents. The tool has a handle including an upper and lower arm. The upper arm includes a blade-carrying portion and the lower arm includes a portion for guiding the cable or wire relative to the blade. The blade is pivotally attached to the blade-carrying portion. The upper arm may be springably attached to the lower arm and biased to a position such that the cable or wire can be inserted into the region between the blade and the guiding portion or the lower arm without any significant manipulation of the handle.

Abstract: The pipe cutter attachment has a way mounted on a portable power saw with a reciprocating saw blade. The way is mounted on the power saw by an attaching assembly that accommodates the power saw that is used. A pipe holder block is slidably supported by the way. A pipe receiving slot with an open end is formed in the pipe holder block. The saw blade is in a saw blade slot in the pipe holder block. During cutting of a pipe the saw blade moves into the pipe receiving slot, engages a pipe to be cut and moves toward the open end of the pipe receiving slot. A resilient member urges the pipe holder block toward a position in which the saw blade is in the pipe holder block and ready to engage and cut a pipe seated in the pipe receiving slot.

Abstract: A combination utensil tool with attachable utensils, such as forks, spoons, and knives which are easy to attach and detach from a common handle. The present invention comprises a built up contoured handle preferably having a raised rim on a first end and a downward extending lip on a second end. Attached to the first end of the handle is a shaft having a roller knife (or other type of knife) attached thereto. The roller knife enables the user to cut food with the use of one hand. Attached to the second end of the handle is either a spoon, fork or knife (collectively known as a utensil). The utensil comprises a shaft having a head and a notch. The shafts of the utensils are either straight or have an upward or downward angled bend in order to allow the user to eat with minimal wrist movement. The utensil is firmly coupled to the second end of the handle by a spring loaded release mechanism comprising a rod having a downward projection which permits the user to attach and detach several utensil to the handle.

Abstract: The trimmer is adapted to trim the grass on the vertical or near vertical edges of a lawn bordering a garden. The trimmer incorporates conventional motor driven rotating blade or filament cutting element(s) at the lower end of an elongated handle assembly. There is a shroud around the cutting element(s). The handle assembly is configured such that the open side of the shroud faces the lawn and user when the trimmer is in use, allowing the user to stand and move on the lawn. The lower portion of the shroud contacts the surface of the garden and the edge of the shroud contacts the edge of the lawn to facilitate proper positioning of the trimmer in use. The handle assembly may be configured such that the handle itself is on the opposite side of the plane of the cutting element(s) from the lower end of the shank of the handle at its attachment to the shroud.

Abstract: A ruler device for eliciting judgements about the ratio of factors includes a first base member having first indicia indicating the ratio of factors, and a second base member slidably mounted to the first base member. The second base member moves longitudinally along the first base member, and has second indicia indicating an optical weighing of the factors. The second indicia is adjacent with the first indicia and alignable with respect thereto by relative movement of the first and second base members with respect to each other. When the second indicia are aligned with the first indicia in accordance with a predetermined manner, a value of the ratio of the factors is determined therefrom.

Abstract: A method for determining a torsional structure in the surface roughness of a finished shaft journal includes making a plurality of axial scores on a circumferential strip of the shaft journal, with a high axial measurement point density at different but exactly known circumferential positions as well as with exactly known axial positions. The individual local roughness profiles are printed out in a close sequence with respect to one another corresponding to their positions. The measurement charts are raised or elongated in the radial and axial directions and upset in the circumferential direction. Thus, a topography with multidimensional affinity showing the microstructure of the surface in three dimensions in a diagonal view is obtained. An autocorrelation function is formed from this topography, stochastic elements are eliminated, and a surface topography is obtained that essentially contains only the periodic elements.

Abstract: An apparatus for checking the diameter of crankpins (18) of a crankshaft (34) in the course of the machining in a grinding machine comprises a first arm (9) rotating with respect to a support (5) arranged on the grinding-wheel slide (1) of the grinding machine, a second arm (12) rotating with respect to the first, a reference device (20) carried by the second arm and a measuring device (16, 17, 40-45) associated with a reference device. A guide device (21), fixed to the reference device (20), enables the apparatus to engage a crankpin, in the course of the orbital motion of the crankpin, and limit the displacements of the first arm and those of the second arm when a control device (28-30) displaces the apparatus to a rest position.

Abstract: A marking tape having a plain paper body. The body is dimensionally stable and rippable, with the paper being flexible, but stiff enough to retain a fold therein. The tape has a first surface with a plurality of relative measurement markings and a second surface with an adhesive applied thereto. The first surface is also treated with a release agent, to permit the adhesive layer to release from said first surface when formed into a roll. A longitudinal bending feature is provided, in the form of a score or razor cut which facilitates placement of the marking tape onto a material to be marked.

Abstract: A hanging feature is provided for a clothes dryer. The hanging feature is included on the door, or on the cabinet adjacent the door opening so that shoes or other objects can be hung from the hanging feature and suspended in a position exposed to the hot air within the rotating drum while at the same time being held free from rotation with the rotating drum.

Abstract: A hair drying assembly has a hair dryer that is particularly suited for using one of a plurality of interchangeable brush heads. The hair dryer has an ellipsoid shaped housing with a cylindrical outlet section at one end and a pivotal grip section at the other end. The handle is pivotally and removably attached to the housing. In one embodiment the handle is attached with air inlet passages formed by legs connecting to the housing and additional slots at the inlet end of the housing. Control buttons for regulating the motor are on the pivotal handle grip section. Outlet passages are provided in the outlet section. One form of brush head is hollow with peripheral openings and bristles extending therethrough and another brush head is solid with the bristles fixedly attached. In another embodiment there is a bifurcated handle with spaced arms that pivotally connect to the housing inwardly of the air inlet end.

Abstract: The invention relates to a personal or communal drying cubicle (1), which comprises an outer wall (2) provided with an opening (3) which can be connected up to a duct for supplying drying air, and an inner wall (4) pierced with outlet orifices (7) for distributing the drying air inside the drying cubicle (1), the outer and inner walls (2, 4), which have the shape of a portion of a cylinder, are arranged one with respect to the other in such a way as to delimit between them an internal space (6) with a substantially crescent-shaped transverse section in order to obtain a uniform distribution of the drying air through the outlet orifices (7) with a minimum drop in pressure.

Abstract: A combination infrared/convection dryer or oven for drying travelling webs. A shutter assembly is provided between the infrared radiation source and the moving web in order to selectively expose the web to infrared radiation. Drying efficiency is optimized by adding heated impinged air at high velocity on the machine direction ends and between the infrared elements. The air being discharged on the web is heated as it is pulled across the elements to a centralized return air duct. The return air is pulled into the inlet of a close coupled supply fan which then discharges the air to the nozzles. A portion of the air is also exhausted to atmosphere to maintain the oven enclosure in a negative pressure state, thus drawing fresh make-up air into the oven housing through the web inlet and outlet slots. Flotation nozzles can be used where contactless support of the running web is desired. Enhanced drying of the web and/or a coating on the web at high speed is achieved without a concomitant increase in dryer length.

Abstract: A cover is provided to an opening of a chamber in such a manner to open and close the opening and when the cover closes the opening, the chamber and the cover form a sealed drying process space. In this drying process space, nitrogen gas is supplied to purge the gas in the drying process space to turn into an inert gas filled space. Thereafter, substrates to be treated are brought into the drying process space. nitrogen gas is further supplied to the drying process space and then the substrates are being rotated to dry the same.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for drying a microelectronic structure on wafer substrate using supercritical phase gas techniques and a unique pressure vessel locking mechanism. There is lid and a base with an open cavity to contain at least one microelectronic structure on wafer substrate. Clamping the lid to the base uses locking clamp rings with open jaws large to partially enclose the edge of the vessel. The clamp rings are supported symmetrically about the sides of the vessel. The rings are adjusted between an open position where the rings are clear of the vessel and a locking position where the jaws partially enclose the vessel. The jaws and the vessel share a tapered cam plate and roller system configured to bring the rings into vertically compressive locking engagement on the pressure vessel when the rings are moved into locking position. Mechanical interlocks provide security against back pressure opening the rings.

Abstract: A shoe bar is useful for drying shoes in a conventional clothes dryer. The shoe bar has a relaxed length that is equal to or slightly greater than the inner diameter of the drum of the clothes dryer. The bar ends are inserted into the shoes. The bar is manually bent and placed in the drum. One shoe is placed against the drum inner diameter, and the other shoe is placed proximate the drum diametrically opposite the first shoe. The bar is released. The elastic material exerts a restoring force that tends to return the bar toward its relaxed configuration. The bar is too long to relax completely, so it remains at a working configuration whereat it urges the shoes against the drum. The shoes remain pressed against the drum, so they do not tumble when the clothes dryer is operated to rotate the drum.

Abstract: A textile drying system is presented which draws in a quantity of air from an external space substantially equal to a quantity of air exhausted to the external space. The textile drying system includes one or more textile drying appliances (i.e., dryers) and a single air handling unit. Each dryer has an air input port and an air output port. During use, the single air handling unit provides a first quantity of air from a space outside a room in which the one or more dryers are located to the air input port of each dryer. A second quantity of air is exhausted through the air output port of each dryer to the space outside the room, wherein the second quantity of air is substantially equal to the first quantity of air. As a result, the textile drying system does not draw air from, or provide air to, the room in which the textile drying system is located.

Abstract: A novel shoe cover for medical uses comprises a one piece unit of thin elastomeric material having a pair of side panels in substantially parallel relation to each other. Each of the side panels has a foot shaped portion, an ankle shaped portion and an outer perimetric edge. A bead shaped perimetric section joins the two side panels at their respective perimetric edges, except at an upper edge of the ankle portions. A traction enhancing embossed pattern is formed on a lower portion of the foot shaped portion of the side panels. A novel method for forming the shoe cover comprises providing a shoe cover form which has substantially parallel lateral sides and a peripheral edge thereabout, which comprises a foot forming portion and an ankle forming portion, which has recesses covering substantially all of the foot forming portion of the first and second sides, and which has a textured surface on a lower portion of the foot forming portion.

Abstract: Footwear and its method of manufacture are provided. The footwear includes an upper having a vamp lining with a toe part disposed along an inner surface of the upper is provided. A relatively rigid insole forepart member is attached to a sock liner, the length of the insole forepart being less than the length of the sock liner. The toe part of the vamp lining is then stitched to a peripheral edge of the insole forepart, the vamp lining and insole forepart defining a cavity for receiving a portion of a wearer's foot. A steel toe is then positioned substantially around the toe part of the vamp lining.

Abstract: A ditch trenching device is adapted to be connected to earth moving equipment that use buckets. A dirt port is dimensioned in a lower portion of a bucket. A trencher is attached to the dirt port and is defined by two side members each with a front, back, top, and floor that are spaced apart the width of the dirt port; a floor member with a distal end is attached to the floors; and a back member is attached to the backs. There is an acute angle between the front and floor. A first cutting edge is placed at the distal end and a second cutting edge is connected to the front by the floor.

Abstract: A dragline comprising a main housing, a moving mechanism for moving the main housing over the ground, and a planetary transmission driving the moving mechanism, the planetary transmission including a transmission housing, a sun gear, a ring gear and planet gears centered on a center axis, the planet gears meshing with the ring gear and the sun gear so that the planet gears rotate about the center axis, the planet gears drivingly connected to a carrier, the carrier including a low-friction coating on a carrier annular surface and a carrier cylindrical surface, the low-friction coating reducing friction between the carrier and the transmission housing.

Abstract: A machine for heavy loads comprising a rope support sheave mounted on a boom between upper and lower ends of the boom for movement between a raised position wherein the sheave supports a hoist rope above the boom and a lowered position wherein the rope support sheave is accessible for maintenance.