Abstract: An adjustable quick-release buckle, particularly for masks or similar, of the type provided in combination with a strap (1). The strap has a set of equally spaced teeth (101), projections, transverse ribs, or similar, arranged along the strap (1), and at least on the end portions of said strap (1), covering a predetermined length, and the buckle (2) has removable means (4, 5), preventing the strap (1) from sliding in the loosening direction, and allowing it to slide in the opposite tightening direction, said means (4, 5) being controllable, when the strap (1) is in the disengagement position, also in said loosening direction.

Abstract: A load-support system for supporting a load employing an instantaneously adjustable hook which is freely slideable along a tie-down or load-support cord to any selected operative position where the hook is positively latched to the cord by turning or twisting the hook relative to the cord to a position wherein the inboard end of the cord exiting from the hook is disposed at an acute included angle relative to the longitudinal axis of the bore in the hook through which the cord extends. Such twisting or turning action serves to bias a latching element in the hook into latched engagement with the cord, preventing loosening—i.e., decrease in tension—of the effective length of the cord yet, at the same time, permitting movement of the cord through the hook in the opposite direction to increase the tension on the effective length of the cord while the hook remains positively latched thereto.

Abstract: A magnetic closure with mutual interlock for bags, knapsacks, items of clothing and the like, comprising a female element and a male element with regions for accommodating magnetic elements for mutual coupling. A particularity consists in that there are provided, on the female element, guiding means for coupling to the male element and, on the male element, mechanical engagement elements which are adapted to contrast the mutual sliding of the male element and the female element.

Abstract: An assembly of sliders for zippers for plastic bags and the like and the accumulation of the sliders for use in form, fill and seal machines is disclosed. The sliders are oriented and mechanically or adhesively joined into chains. Mechanical assembly of sliders may be accomplished by snapping sliders together or slideably mounting sliders on a strip. Sliders may be adhesively assembled together by taping, welding, gluing, or melting the sliders. Sliders and chains of sliders are accumulated in cartridges, carriers, coreless rolls, spools or trays which are then connected to form, fill and seal machines for attachment of the sliders to a zipper and attachment of the zipper with a slider to bags.

Abstract: A tie down device for sheet material such as tarpaulin and the like is disclosed. The device includes a bar and a sleeve. The sleeve has a slit extending from end to end thereof for receiving the bar as well as sheet material which extends around the bar and outwardly through the slit of the sleeve on opposite sides of the bar. In addition, a rope is secured to the bar which extends through the slit when the bar is received in the sleeve. The rope enables the device to be placed under tension so that the bar binds the sheet material extending around the bar against the sleeve. This binding action firmly secures the sheet material to the device and thereby prevents the sheet material from slipping out of the device between the bar and the sleeve. The device also includes means for preventing the bar from sliding out of the sleeve when the device is placed under tension. A tent pole having a tie down device attached at one end of the pole is also disclosed.

Abstract: A seat belt buckle of the general type disclosed in GB-A-2238074 in which the slider (44) has extending downwardly from its body (46) clips (76) having side flanges (78), the flanges being formed with chamfers (80). The body (74) of the locking member (24) is provided with elongate slots (72), into which the clips (76) can be pressed, the flanges (78) retaining the slider in place. The length of the slots (72) and of the clips (78) is chosen to allow adequate sliding movement of the slider (44).

Abstract: An outermost diameter calculation unit for calculating an outermost diameter d of a take-up beam and a correction amount calculation unit in a warp repair assisting apparatus are combined. The correction amount calculation unit calculates a corrected rotation amount &thgr;ao in the forward direction of the take-up beam necessary to position an abnormal portion of warps at a specified operation position on the take-up beam. A driving unit moves the abnormal portion to the operation position by rotating the take-up beam in the forward direction by an amount corresponding to the corrected rotation amount &thgr;ao. Therefore, the abnormal portion of the warps can be easily repaired.

Abstract: The present invention realizes spreading a sheet on a frame member by a simple structure and a simple process, and prevents uneven tension charged against the sheet. In the sheet spreading method of the invention, a core member for a backrest of a chair which is heated to around 200° C. in a furnace is put into a flow dipping tank filled with powder resin. As a result, a resin coating is formed on the surface of the pipe constituting the core member. Also, a mesh is placed on a metal mold and clamped. Since a recess corresponding to the shape of the core member is formed in the top side of the metal mold, the mesh is spread on the core member with a tension charged against when the core member having the above-mentioned coating is pressed into the recess.

Abstract: Apparatus for inserting a corner member into channel-shaped flanges of a duct. The corner member has first and second legs. The duct includes longitudinally extending duct panels. The channel-shaped flanges of the duct extend laterally from at least one end of the duct panels. The apparatus a corner member support mechanism adapted for supporting the corner member, a duct moving mechanism, and a pressing mechanism. The duct moving mechanism has a duct pusher moveable between a first position and a second position. The duct pusher imparts a moving force against the duct upon movement of the duct pusher from its first position to its second position.

Abstract: In order to permit a fast, precisely centric fastening of rotating tools, such as drills or milling tools in clamping sleeves, of such clamping sleeves or of workpiece holding devices, such as clamping chucks 4 in spindles 1 of turning machines, respective holding surfaces 9/10, 23/24 are provided in the respective parts to be connected with one another with profiles 11, 12, 25, 26 which are coordinated with one another in pairs and which each have at least two wedges 13, 15. The wedges rise over imaginary cylindrical reference surfaces 14, 16 radially toward the outside and inside and each drop again steeply onto the reference surfaces and are offset in the circumferential direction by identical angles and have a joining gap in a joining position.

Abstract: A vulcanizing machine for producing pneumatic tires includes an exchangeable segmented mold comprised of tread mold pieces for defining the outer contour of a tire tread portion, and upper and lower side mold members engaged with the tread mold pieces, for defining the outer contours of the sidewall portions. The tread mold pieces are detachably connected to connector segments which are slidably engaged with a container ring so that vertical movement of the container ring causes radial movement of the connector segments relative to the tread mold pieces. After production of tires of a predetermined size has been completed, the mold is removed from the machine by moving the container ring upwards to disconnect the connector segments from the tread mold pieces, and disconnecting the upper side mold member from a top plate of the machine.

Abstract: Processes and apparatuses for partly disassembling tape cassettes having at least one closure flap comprise separating the closure flap from the cassette or from the cassette housing at an early time, before, during or shortly after the opening of the cassette. Several process methods and examples of apparatus are specified. The separating methods and apparatuses can be expediently used for all tape cassettes with one or more closure flaps, it being possible for these to be any type of audio, video and data cassettes.

Abstract: A method of producing a vibration isolation mount assembly comprising at least one metal bracket member bonded to a volume of a resilient elastomeric material. The bonding of the elastomeric material to the metal bracket is improved by electrostatically spraying the metal brackets with an epoxy coating prior to adhering the rubber to the metal bracket members, but after vulcanization of the rubber material.

Abstract: A method of making a rotating removable data storage device hub, such as a hub for a micro-floppy magnetic data storage disc, that has a core of plain carbon steel and a primary coating. The hub also includes a vapor corrosion inhibiting layer on the primary coating. The plain carbon steel can have about 0.5% or less carbon. The primary coating can be tin, nickel, zinc, chrome, paints, epoxies, epoxy-urethanes, phenolic resins, and combinations thereof. The vapor corrosion inhibiting layer may include an amine to reduce the rate of oxidation of the plain carbon steel core.

Abstract: Methods are disclosed by which wooden railroad ties are pre-plated prior to use in constructing and/or repairing railroad lines. Methodology disclosed comprises placing two plates on top of each of a succession of wooden ties, temporarily positioning disclosed one of the two plates on each tie with a distance or spacer template temporarily clamping the two plates accurately to the tie using a jig, starting a field spike and a gauge spike (usually with one or more sledge hammers) into each wooden tie through the selected apertures in each plate, and further driving the started spikes into the associated tie (usually using a jackhammer). Typically, the field spike is located outside the field flange of the plate and is driven until the head of the spike is contiguous with the plate. Typically, the gauge spike is displaced through an aperture in the gauge flange of the plate until the head is about 1½ inches above the plate.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for performing mechanical operations on a workpiece secured on a first member for movement relative to a second member in at least one of three orthogonal directions at a precision in the &mgr;m range. Selectively energizable magnets are provided between the first and second members cause the first member to assume a floating state relative to the second member and to provide such movement. The second member is provided with a chamber for receiving the first member and is with openings for the controlled flow of pressurized fluid to augment the action of the magnets.

Abstract: An aircraft engine shipping system includes a frame assembly for supporting the aircraft engine, and a cradle assembly mounted on the frame assembly for securing the aircraft engine to the frame assembly. The frame assembly includes shock absorbers to provide continual shock absorption to an aircraft engine loaded thereon. The shipping system may be configured in either a truck or air transport mode. In the truck transport mode, the aircraft engine is secured to the cradle assembly by way of an aft ring which attaches to the aft portion of the aircraft, and a pair of cradle arms which attach to the forward portion of the aircraft engine. In the air transport mode, the aircraft engine is attached to the cradle assembly by way of the aft ring, and a forward ring which attaches directly to the fan of the aircraft engine. In the air transport mode, the cradle arms are disconnected from the aircraft engine and rotated away from the engine in a stowed position.

Abstract: A table saw for use in dismantling wood pallets is provided with a table and band saw blade having course over table to cut nails between face boards and stringers as pallet is moved through blade. Table has convex, arcuate fence about which pallet may be twisted to facilitate cutting of nails. Table is shiftable horizontally relative to the saw blade to adjust position for use by single operator with short pallets or two operators with long pallets.

Abstract: A lamination ceramic chip inductor includes at least one pair of insulation layers; and at least one conductive pattern which is interposed between the at least one pair of insulation layers and forming a conductive coil. At least one conductive pattern includes a conductive pattern formed as a result of electroforming.

Abstract: A heat exchanger assembling apparatus includes a tube loading device for loading tubes of a heat exchanger, in an aligned state, in a tray having partitions at intervals, a fin supply device for supplying fins supplied through a chute to spaces between the partitions for the tubes in the tray, by transferring the tray at intervals, a support supply device for supplying erected supports to spaces between the partitions at the outermost side in the tray, a vision inspector for inspecting whether the fins, the tubes, and the supports are appropriately arranged in the tray without any missing part spaces, a discharging device for discharging the fins, the tubes and the supports from the tray to a table and aligning the fins, the tubes, and the supports with respect to a width direction and a lengthwise direction, a transfer device for gripping the fins, the tubes, and the supports and transferring the fins, the tubes, and the supports to a header assembly table, and a header assembling device.

Abstract: An electronic component mounting apparatus includes a plurality of pickup nozzles (1) which are attached to the periphery of a rotary table, that intermittently rotates. The apparatus also includes a cylindrical cam (105) having a cam groove (106, 107a, 107b) which allows the pickup nozzles (1) to move up and down. A first roller (5) is attached to a first slide portion (4a), which is equipped with the pickup nozzles 1. The first roller runs within the cam grooves (106, 107a, 107b) to make the pickup nozzles 1 move up and down. A second roller (6) is attached to a second slide portion 4b, which is attached to the pickup nozzles (1). The second roller runs within the cam grooves (106, 107a, 107b) to make the pickup nozzles move up and down together with the first roller. Also, springs (9) are provided for biasing the first and second rollers (5, 6) into contact with the two side surfaces, respectively, of the cam grooves (106, 107a, 107b).

Abstract: A hand-held crimping tool is characterized by having an elongated body and a lever arm which is pivoted at one end to the body to actuate a plunger having a chuck and spring-loaded biasing member movable toward and away from a seat on a die portion into which a coaxial cable end can be inserted in facing relation to the biasing member, a plurality of crimpable connectors in succession being loosely assembled on each cable end between the biasing member and seat so that when the lever arm or handle is squeezed toward the body and imparts axial movement to the plunger to force a preassembled crimping ring on each connector to radially compress each connector into sealed engagement with the cable end, the biasing member will compensate for differences in length of said connctors.

Abstract: A method and a resulting communication cable is disclosed which provides multiple degrees of control of fluid wicking propensity within the interior of the cable by impregnating the cable with a sealing composition and curing the sealing composition therein. The cable includes a central strata, a penultimate strata and an ultimate strata concentrically disposed. The central strata includes a central signal transmission medium circumscribed by a dielectric having an etched exterior surface. The penultimate strata includes a braided conductor circumscribing the dielectric and an inner jacket surrounding the braided conductor and including an etched exterior surface. The penultimate strata further includes at least one non-continuous zone of sealing composition impregnated into the braided conductor and bonding with the etched exterior surface of the dielectric. The ultimate strata includes a braided sheath circumscribing the inner jacket and an outer jacket surrounding the braided sheath.

Abstract: A method of controlling a mounting unit having a shaft operated under servo control using a current driven actuator, comprises the steps of detecting interrruption of the servo control, and switching from a positioning control mode to a constant current control mode for supplying an constant amount of current to the shaft actuator to suspend the shaft. In an embodiment the method further includes engaging a gripping device, for holding the shaft, so as to keep the shaft from free-falling when interruption of the servo control is detected, and maintaining the constant current control mode at least until the gripping device grips the shaft. Still further, the current control mode optionally includes the steps of maintaining the supply of the constant amount of current for a predetermined period of time, and disengaging power supplied to the actuator after the predetermined period of time has elapsed.

Abstract: In a mounting system including a loading station having a transport conveyer for conveying printed circuit boards, a mounting machine for fabricating circuit devices by attaching electronic assemblies on printed circuit boards supplied thereto from said loading station, and an unloading station having a transport conveyor for conveying circuit devices supplied thereto from the mounting machine, the loading station includes a discriminating device for discriminating the kind or type of printed circuit boards and for generating a discrimination signal for instructing the kind or type of the printed circuit board. A mounting process in the mounting machine is selectively set by the discrimination signal from the discriminating device. According to this mounting system, even when many kinds of circuit devices are fabricated by many kinds of printed circuit boards, mounting processes can be successively carried out by one mounting line.

Abstract: A method for producing a foil circuit board including a plurality of flexible electrically non-conductive and flexible conductive layers, which are laminated together. The non-conductive layers are positioned between the conductive layers and two of the conductive layers are the outermost surface layers of the foil circuit board. The circuit board includes flexible areas and rigid areas, and the flexible areas are provided by etching the board to remove at least part of one of the outermost surface layers and an adjacent underlying non-conductive layer.

Abstract: A method for producing a metallic carrier body includes introducing a sheet into a receptacle. The sheet undergoes at least partial deformation upon introduction into the receptacle. A catalyst carrier body for an exhaust gas system of an internal combustion engine may be produced by the method.

Abstract: An exhaust treatment device for an internal combustion engine includes a generally cylindrical substrate and sealing system which are swaged in place within a one-piece housing. The one-piece housing includes segmented inlet and outlet gas shields and diffusers which are spun from a single piece of tubing which also contains the substrate. The spun inlet and outlet gas shields and diffusers have segmented configurations including multiple concave and convex sections produced by spin-forming of the housing. The exhaust treatment device is assembled without the need for welding or any other high temperature operation.

Abstract: A heat exchanger has a header tank, plural tubes through which refrigerant flows and a connector for connecting the tank to a pipe. The header tank has a pair of protruding portions protruding from an outer surface of the header tank and integrally formed with the header tank. When the connector is bonded to the tank by brazing, the connector is disposed between the protruding portions, and each of the protruding portions is bent toward the other at a protruding end thereof by plastic deformation. As a result, the connector is clamped by the protruding portions and is fastened to the header tank. Thus, the connector is readily and tentatively fastened to the header tank before bonded to the header tank by brazing.

Abstract: A method of fabricating a module having fluid flow channels in communication with a diaphragm valve using self-bondable polyimide sheets wherein the sheets are directly interfacially bonded to one another except in the region corresponding to the diaphragm valve without using an adhesive is disclosed.

Abstract: A backflow prevention assembly has a unitary housing with a passage therethrough, two threaded regions formed in an inner surface of the unitary housing, and two valve assemblies positioned in the passage to prevent fluid flow in a direction. Each valve assembly has an annular mount having a threaded outer surface that engages one of the threaded regions on the inner surface of the housing. The threads can be formed by placing a die having a thread on an outer surface thereof in contact with an inner surface of the unitary housing, and pressing on the outer surface of the housing.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an improvement in a fixation roll consisting of several heat pipes embedded in the thick wall of the hollow cylindrical core in the axial direction, and features the fact that each of the heat pipes consisting of a copper tube and encapsulated water as the operating fluid is heated to allow the water as the operating fluid to evaporate to generate pressure and cause the heat pipe to expand and tightly fit onto the inner wall surface of the cylindrical bore in the core so as to form an integral and monolithic structure comprising the heat pipe and the core. Since the heat pipe is firmly fitted to the inner wall surface of the cylindrical bore in the core, a high quality fixation roll exhibiting a uniform surface temperature distribution is provided. Since the installation of the heat pipe is effected by means of the tube expansion, no strict dimensional control of the diameters of the bore for inserting the heat pipe as well as the heat pipe is required.

Abstract: A split ring assembly method includes rotating a drive spindle within the bore of a cylindrical housing, the spindle having a drive pin adapted to engage the gap in one face of the split ring positioned axially on one end of the spindle to rotate the ring. An opening wedge is biased into engagement with the opposite face of the split ring and has an edge positioned to enter the other ring gap in response to ring rotation to cause the ring to progressively open along its split.

Abstract: Opposite ends of the central section of an armament support plank structure are secured to the floor area of an aircraft cabin area, in a load transfer relationship with an underfloor support beam, by securing a skin doubler member to the support beam and replacing a portion of an existing floor panel which overlies the support beam with a specially designed apertured plank mounting plate which pivotally receives mounting struts. When it is desired to operatively mount the support plank structure on the cabin floor area, the struts are pivoted upwardly relative to their associated mounting plate and secured to the opposite ends of the central support plank section. Armament loads on the opposite ends of the central support plank section are efficiently transferred to the underlying, skin doubler-reinforced support beam.

Abstract: The invention relates to a reciprocating type electric shaver comprising blade heads including a slit blade, a slit inner blade, web blades, a web outer blade, a slit outer blade, a web inner blade for cutting the beard introduced from perforations of said web outer blade with said web outer blade, said web inner blade being slidable connected to the inner surface of said web outer blade and reciprocating, wherein said slit outer blade has on the planar upper surface having slits therein, a flat portion substantially parallel to the axis where the peaks of the adjacent web blades are aligned in a line, said slit inner blade being slidable inside the flat portion, said slit outer blade having a blade edge projecting outward at the web blade side beyond the side walls of said slit outer blade, with said blade edge located at side edges along the reciprocating direction of said slit inner blade on the flat portion, and the blade edge is formed on the upper surface with a tapered face successive to the flat porti

Abstract: A multipurpose folding tool (30, 280) including a pair of folding scissors (32), in which scissors blades (80, 82) are movable about pivot shafts (78), between a stowed position and a deployed position in the handles (34, 36). A rocker (94, 96) is moved by a spring (106) in the tool handle and in turn urges a scissors blade toward an open position. In one embodiment four springs (104, 106) hold the handles together with the folded scissors stowed within the handles. When the scissors and other tools are folded into their stowed positions in the handle of the multipurpose tool of the invention the tool has a smooth outside configuration allowing the tool to be carried in a pocket without causing undue wear. A handle (34 or 36) may be constructed as a sheet metal channel or a handle (282, 284, 382, 384) in two pieces at least one of which includes a perpendicular flange taking the place of a channel bottom portion so that each blade or tool bit may be accompanied by a separate spring (318, 418, 420).

Abstract: A cable cutting device having one handle of the cutter placed parallel and closely adjacent to the cable which is to undergo cutting. When a cable is about to be cut, the cable and the handle of the cutter are placed in a side by side relationship and both the cable and handle of the cutter are grasped by the user. The remaining handle is attached to a ratchet mechanism in the cutter and is oscillated to drive the cutter by means of a ratchet device to cut the cable which is still being grasped by the user. Now, the severed cable may be suitably disposed of in a controlled and safe manner. If the user is a utility lineman, the safety associated with the above operation cannot be overemphasized.

Abstract: A process for making a cutting instrument includes cutting a blank from a plate or strip of Type 60 Nitinol, having a thickness of between 0.005″-0.500″ using an abrasive waterjet, wire electron discharge machining or laser cutting, and grinding top and bottom surfaces of the blank by rotating a grinder having cubic boron nitride or diamond abrasive particles on a cutting surface of said grinder against the knife blank at a surface speed of about 5000 to 7000 surface feet per minute and grinding to a depth of about 0.001 to 0.005 inches per pass to remove material along the blade surface. The surface of the blade is polished to a surface finish smoother than 20 microinches RMS using Turkish emery abrasive grinding/polishing materials on a buffing wheel driven by a high power motor. The blade is then finish polished to a mirror-like luster of 2 microinches RMS or less using a fine diamond buffing compound and a buffing wheel running at about 3000 RPM.

Abstract: In a process for arranging an angle scale at an index disk for rotational measurement systems, wherein the index disk is provided with a central opening for mounting on a carrier shaft, a clamping device which deforms elastically in the radial direction when the index disk is mounted on the carrier shaft is arranged in the opening, the index disk is subsequently mounted on a reference shaft and the angle scale is then arranged on the index disk so as to be exactly centered with respect to the center axis (A—A) of the reference shaft. The index disk formed in this way accordingly has a clamping device along the circumference of the central opening, which clamping device is deformed elastically in the radial direction when the index disk is mounted on the carrier shaft, contacts the outer surface of the carrier shaft accompanied by tension and, in doing so, centers the index disk in its mounted state relative to the carrier shaft.

Abstract: A device for detecting the wheel angle of forklift rear wheels is disclosed. A cylinder steers the rear wheels by means of steering mechanisms based on manipulation of a steering wheel. The steering mechanisms include kingpins that support the rear wheels to be rotatable in relation to a rear axle. Each kingpin rotates integrally with the corresponding rear wheel. A wheel angle sensor, which includes a potentiometer, is fixed to the rear axle by a bracket. The position of the sensor corresponds to the position of one of the kingpins. The sensor detects the rotational angle of the kingpin as the wheel angle of the rear wheels.

Abstract: A level comprises a frame defining first and second parallel channels and first and second rails fitted slidingly in the first and second channels respectively. The level is adjustable in length by sliding the rails in the respective channels of the frame.

Abstract: A leveling device has a housing, a support surface which is fixed with the housing, an adjusting device including at least one adjusting screw which is displaceable outwardly and has an adjusting thread which is engageable with a counter thread for adjusting the adjusting screw, the counter thread being formed as a partially side of a slider which is displaceable transversely to a longitudinal axis of the adjusting screw and disengageable from the adjusting thread.

Abstract: Method and device for verifying and measuring a double-toothing sprocket wheel (14) to identify the respective positions of the teeth (24) of the two toothed rings (27a, 27b) thereof, in which method use is made of a pair of contacting elements, a first lower (23a) and a second upper (23b) contacting elements which lie in different parallel planes, the contacting elements cooperating respectively with one groove (25) of the first ring (27a) and one groove (25) of the second ring (27b), in which method a first contacting element (23a) is constrained to lie in a position which is fixed radially with respect to the longitudinal axis (17) of the sprocket wheel (14), and the second contacting element (23b) is progressively displaced in a radial direction with respect to the longitudinal axis (17) of the sprocket wheel (14) until it reaches a position of maximum possible advance, the position of maximum advance being compared with a reference position to establish a condition of alignment between the terminal ends

Abstract: A method of measuring the height of a foot arch precisely and easily using two essential heights of the foot arch is disclosed. In the method, a foot cast is primarily cast by pouring plaster into a foot mold. Thereafter, a first intersecting point and a second intersecting point are determined. The first intersecting point is determined by making a first line and a third line intersect. The second intersecting point is determined by making a second line and the third line intersect. The first line is a straight line extending from the center of the second toe to the center of the heel end. The second line is a straight line extending from the center of the big toe to a point spaced apart inwardly from the center of the heel end by ⅛ of the total distance of the heel end. The third line is a center line of the transverse arch of the foot. Finally, a first height and a second height are measured while the foot pattern is set in an upright position.

Abstract: A technique for measuring distortion in a structure of interest, such as a spacecraft antenna reflector (18), and optionally compensating for the distortion. A first set of targets (22) on the structure (18) is scanned by an attitude transfer system (24) to measure the angular location and range of each target relative to a reference point on another structure (12) having a frame of reference. The orientation of the structure of interest is them determined from the measured locations of the targets. A second set of targets (60 or 82) on the structure of interest is scanned by a figure sensing module (26) located at a reference point on the structure itself. From measured angular locations and ranges of the second set of targets, any shape distortion in the structure of interest can be determined, and distortion may be corrected with the use of actuators (98).

Abstract: A construction tool and method for its use in laying out stud marks. The tool is adjustable and is especially suited for laying out stud marks on a rafter of a pitched roof so as to be aligned with the corresponding stud marks on a sill beneath the rafter. The tool includes an elongated measuring member; stud-marking members attached to the measuring member in spaced, transverse relation therealong, at least one of the marking members being adjustable along the measuring member; measurement indicia on the measuring member that enables the spacing between the marking members to be set; and conversion indicia on one or more of the members that sets forth the relationship among various roof rises and stud spacings on sills and rafters. The method involves laying out markings on the sill and rafter boards with the tool including the steps of placing the layout tool along a first of the boards, e.g.

Abstract: An instrument for measuring alignment of a magnet relative to a pole plate for a voice coil motor of a disc drive. The instrument includes a base and a platform coupled to the base and adapted to support a plate. The platform including a platform hole. A set of incrementally sized pins are included. The set of incrementally sized pins have incremental diameter dimensions to provide a selection of pins for insertion through plate hole and platform hole to match the dimension of the pin relative to the actual plate hole dimension to limit movement of the plate and magnet during measurement to reduce measurement errors.

Abstract: The hood is fitted with a fan in the crown that directs air flow upward from the hood interior. The hood has a liner that provides an air distribution plenum between hood and liner. Air flows from the plenum toward hair being dried from holes in the plenum. Some of the holes are, preferably, fitted with movable jets which can be rotated to provide the out flow pattern preferred for the particular hair style being dried.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for drying a coated paper web (W) or the like web. The apparatus (10) comprises sequentially in the running direction of the web—a turning device (16) arranged on the first side of the web and provided with blow nozzles (20), with which the running direction of the web to be dried is turned in a non-contacting way, and web drying devices (30, 30′) arranged on the first and the second sides of the web, in which the web is dried in a non-contacting manner. The apparatus further comprises a counterpart (18) provided with overpressure nozzles (24), arranged on the second side of the web at the point of the turning device (16), for stabilizing the web run by means of blows generating a local overpressure between the web (W) and the carrier surfaces of the overpressure nozzles (24).

Abstract: A lighted slipper comprises a slipper body having an exterior surface defining an opening for receiving a foot of a wearer. The lighted slipper further includes a pair of light housings mounted to the exterior surface forward of the foot opening. Each light housing presents a planar top side and an aperture through a front side. A light is forwardly mounted within each light housing and electrically coupled to a battery which is also mounted on the exterior surface and provides an electric current for energizing each light. A switch housing encases the battery and includes a switch for selectively delivering current from the battery to the lights. A shaft is rotatably coupled to a hub within each light housing. A plurality of colored lenses are radially attached to a plate depending from said shaft such that the lenses may selectably be positioned between the light source and the front side aperture.