Abstract: A method for use in designing rotary drill bits comprises determining locations in which cutters are to be provided, determining likely wear rates for cutters positioned at those locations, and using the likely wear rates to chose between relatively high and relatively low wear rate cutters for each location. The cutters all have substantially the same impact toughness.

Abstract: A striking tool having a handle with a head attached thereto. The head having a striking surface. The head being constructed of titanium or titanium based alloy so that the tool can be swung with a higher velocity than a striking tool having a heavier steel head of comparable size with no loss in effective striking force.

Abstract: A ratchet wrench includes a handle and a head. The handle has a motor accommodated within. The head is provided with a ratchet mechanism having a rotary tightening member which is to be rotated by drive power from the motor. A pin extends in a transverse direction with respect to the axis of the handle so as to connect the head with the handle. A crankshaft is connected to an output shaft of the motor. A crankpin of the crankshaft is rotatably fitted into a first drive bush. The first drive bush is fitted into a first drive member such that the first drive bush is slidable in the transverse direction. The first drive member is connected to the pin in such a manner that the first drive member is rotatable about the pin and slidable along the pin. A second drive member is connected to the pin in such a manner that the second drive member is rotatable about the pin and slidable together with the first drive member along. the pin.

Abstract: A ratchet screwdriver includes a handle, a main body, a shank, two check plates, a shifter, a position confining plate, and a tubular housing. The check plates are provided with an inclined edge, a reinforcing edge and a protruded edge. The inclined edge is intended to enable the check plates to be effectively actuated by the shifter. The reinforcing edge serves to enhance the structural strength of the check plates. The protruded edge serves to prevent the check plates from displacing. The main body is provided with two protruded ribs to securely position the tubular housing. The position confining plate is provided with two pillars, with one end of the pillars being received in the guided slot of the main body, and with the other end of the pillars being fitted into a recovery spring to enable the position confining plate to return to its original position.

Abstract: A wrench includes a driving head having an opening and a chamber and a cavity for receiving a gear and a pawl and an actuator. The actuator is coupled to the pawl with a spring for moving the pawl to control the operating direction of the gear. A spring blade is received in the cavity of the driving head and includes a projection engaged with the actuator for positioning the actuator to the driving head. The driving head has one or more cusps for engaging with the spring blade and for preventing the spring blade from rotating relative to the driving head.

Abstract: An improved box end has substantially no projected manipulation element in a trigger member. A channel in the head is in communication with a central opening with a notched member disposed therein and a slope between the head and the handle. The manipulation element is clockwise or counterclockwise rotatable in a distance defined by the width of channel for moving a spring-loaded steel ball from one slot to the other slot of a follower coupled between trigger member and notched member, thereby adjusting the position of notched member for aligning with an object to be held. Further, this wrench is sightly.

Abstract: A frost proof sill cock extraction tool for removing a broken sill cock. The frost proof sill cock extraction tool includes a bar. The bar is elongate and has a distal end and a proximal end. A peripheral wall extends between and is integrally coupled to the distal and proximal ends. The bar is generally hollow and has a hole extending through the distal and proximal ends. An outer surface of the peripheral wall positioned adjacent to the distal end is knurled. The bar has a break therein located generally adjacent to the distal end such that a first portion and a second portion of the bar is defined. The first portion abuts the distal end. The break extends from the peripheral wall to a point generally adjacent to the distal end in an angular relationship to a longitudinal axis of the bar. An inside surface of the first portion is threaded. A rod is elongate and has a first end and a second end. The rod has a threaded outer surface.

Abstract: A bit-storing tool handle is provided that includes a surface of the handle defining a channel adapted to retain the bit, and a fulcrum point contained within the channel for rotating the retained bit out of the channel. The bit-storing tool handle may alternatively include a plurality of channels adapted to retain the bits such that the longitudinal axis of the retained bits are co-linear to the longitudinal axis of the handle and a fulcrum point within each of the channels that promotes the manual rotation of each of the bits about a cooperating fulcrum point so that upon such rotation, the bits extend radially from the longitudinal axis of the handle. The channels include an opening dimensioned and configured to allow the finger of a person to insert under a first end of the bit thereby facilitating the removal of the bit from the channel when an excessive amount of force is required to pivot the bit due to cold weather or similar conditions.

Abstract: A method of cutting a window covering having a longitudinal axis and a second axis substantially perpendicular to said longitudinal axis to a specified length includes providing a cutting apparatus including a base having a cutting surface. The cutting apparatus has a cutting blade slidably mounted thereon for sliding along a movement axis toward and away from the cutting surface. The window covering is then positioned atop the cutting surface of the base and the cutting blade is moved along the movement axis and toward the cutting surface to cut the window covering to the specified length. The movement axis has a first component extending substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the window covering and substantially perpendicular to the second axis of the window covering and a second component extending substantially parallel to the second axis of the window covering.

Abstract: A trim press article handling apparatus includes a punch plate, a die plate, a plunger, and a receiver. The punch plate has a punch, and the die plate has a die cooperating in relative movement with the punch plate to sever articles from a thermoformable web. The plunger is carried by one of the punch plate and the die plate having a tapered advancing head. The receiver is carried by the other of the punch plate and the die plate having a tapered recess configured to receive the plunger. A tapered article locator provided within a thermoformed web also having articles therein is captured between the plunger and the receiver as the punch plate and die plate are brought together there about, thereby imparting alignment of an article in the web between the punch and the die. A method for aligning and severing articles from a web is also provided.

Abstract: A mechanism for cutting an elongated material, such as insulated wire or fiber optic cabling. The cutting mechanism includes a stationary blade housing that includes a recessed blade receptacle. The blade receptacle receives an insert blade that is biased outward by a bias element. A cutting blade having a pair of guide legs is movable relative to the stationary blade housing and insert blade such that a cutting edge of the cutting blade interacts with a cutting edge of the insert blade to sever the elongated material. The cutting blade is received within a blade guideway formed between the blade housing and an attached guide block. The blade guideway guides the movement of the cutting blade between its retracted position and its extended position. As the cutting blade moves to the extended position, the guide legs of the cutting blade contact an outer face surface of the insert blade such that the insert blade and the cutting blade retain the desired orientation.

Abstract: A cover for a rotary die is centrifugally cast with multiple layers to substantially eliminate stress when the cover is cast in an arcuate shape for use in a die cutting system. A locking mechanism attached to ends of the cover is designed to be convenient to install on and remove from a cutting cylinder.

Abstract: A saw chain formed in part from planar cutting link blanks including a cutter portion having a top edge surface and a side surface that intersect to form a line edge. A leading portion of the cutting link blank is twisted out of the plane of the blank so that the line edge becomes the cutting edge of the cutter and extends from the plane of the body to encompass the width of one side of the saw chain. Alternating cutting link are formed to have oppositely extended cutting edges to encompass the width of the saw chain. The cutting links preferably form certain of the center links of an assembled saw chain.

Abstract: An inexpensive, highly maneuverable vehicle is provided for operating within the proximity of landmines. The vehicle is preferably hydrostatically propelled and includes an adjustable hydraulic suspension for providing a varying ground clearance depending on terrain and operation. The vehicle includes “bendaway” or “breakaway” wheels and a smooth underside. The hydrostatic drive system and bendaway or breakaway wheels provide a vehicle which can still maneuver even with one or two wheels disengaged due to removal upon striking a landmine. In a preferred embodiment, the vehicle is constructed to operate as a battlefield ambulance. The vehicle includes a portal formed on the vehicle's underside for permitting the retrieval of injured persons to within the vehicle without subjecting occupants within the vehicle to be vulnerable to hostile fire.

Abstract: The invention provides a rotary actuator having a rack driven in an oscillating manner by an air pressure, a pinion engaged with the rack, and a cushion mechanism for stopping the rack to at least one normal or inverse stroke end in a cushioning manner. The cushion mechanism has an exhaust port open to a pressure chamber at a position close to a chamber end rather than a port hole, a flow amount adjusting mechanism for restricting a flow amount of the exhaust air discharged from the exhaust port, and a cushion packing mounted to an outer peripheral surface of the piston and operating so as to shut the port hole from the pressure chamber immediately before the piston reaches the stroke end, thereby discharging the air within the pressure chamber through the flow amount adjusting mechanism.

Abstract: A combination of an outer casing and a hydraulic cylinder includes a tubular and transparent tube which has two open ends and the hydraulic cylinder is received in the outer casing. A fitting and a piston rod on two ends of the hydraulic cylinder respectively extend from the two open ends of the outer casing.

Abstract: In a swash plate type compressor comprising a piston 4 slidably received in a cylinder bore disposed parallel with the driving shaft and a swash plate 2 obliquely attached to the driving shaft and engaged by the piston 4 through a bearing device, the bearing device comprises a spherical seat 4b composed of a single concave surface formed in the piston 4, and a substantially hemispherical shoe 10 contacting the spherical seat 4b, the outer peripheral surface of the shoe 10 being composed of a skirt portion 12, a top portion 16 having a larger radius of curvature, R2, than that R of the spherical seat 4b, and a transition portion 14 contacting the spherical seat 4b between the skirt portion 12 and the top portion 16 and having a smaller radius of curvature, R3, than that R of the spherical seat 4b.

Abstract: A fluid actuator attaches a hinged safety device to a vehicle and pivots the hinged safety device between retracted and extended positions. The housing of the actuator has a base and a removable cover. A sub-assembly is attached to the base. The subassembly includes a generally planar base member with integral right cylinder, lever arm pivot support and stop posts. A piston slides in the right cylinder and forms a fluid chamber between the piston and a closed end of the right cylinder that is fed through a passage through the closed end of the cylinder. A lever arm is pivotally attached to the lever arm pivot support at one end for pivotal movement between retracted and extended positions, the lever arm extending over the cylinder and having a lip at an opposite end that is spaced from the right cylinder. A pivot arm engages the top of the piston at one end and the lever arm at an opposite end to transfer motion from the piston to the lever arm.

Abstract: An apparatus includes an air compressor containing a piston in a cylinder, a flywheel having an axis of rotation, and an elongated linkage structure interconnecting the flywheel with the piston. A support member projects from the flywheel. A bearing supports the linkage structure on the support member. The linkage structure has an inner edge surface defining an opening in which the bearing is received in an installed position. The inner edge surface of the linkage structure extends continuously in a loop around the opening, and has an annular portion which is interrupted across a circumferentially extending gap. The linkage structure further has a portion configured as a living hinge which enables the gap to enlarge upon flexure of the hinge. This enables the bearing to be installed in the opening with an interference fit between a cylindrical outer surface of the bearing and the annular inner surface of the linkage structure.

Abstract: The invention relates to a piston head (10) of a piston for an internal combustion engine, in particular for diesel engines, comprising an upper part (12) having a piston crown extending substantially perpendicularly to the longitudinal axis (A) of a piston, and a lower part (14) connected with the upper part (12) and having two pin bosses (26a, b), the mutually facing sides of which are arranged at a mutual distance from one another, the pin bosses (26a, b) each comprising a pin hole (40a, 40b) extending perpendicularly to the longitudinal axis (A) of the piston and in each case aligned with the other and a cavity being formed in the junction area (28a, 28b) of the upper part (12) and the lower part (14), which cavity adjoins the piston crown (16) on the pin boss side and opens into the area between the pin bosses (26a, b).

Abstract: An integrated system including an oven and a separator for converting a grease/water mixture exiting the oven into a grease component and a gray water component is disclosed. The oven, which may be considered to be independent of the integrated system, includes a reservoir that acts as a water vapor source and a drip pan for capturing the juice and/or grease that exude from a food stuff as it cooks. A water supply line in fluid communication with reservoir provide for clearing the surface of the reservoir of grease slicks or a grease layer that might interfere with the humidity or water vapor content of the oven. A controller may be provided to regulate the frequency and duration of the clearing of the reservoir surface.

Abstract: A machine for preparing food products, for example lasagne, comprising a feeder which is suitable to take a plurality of lines of product and to feed each line to a respective product conveyor; each line comprises product distribution units suitable to distribute the product in respective containers fed by a conveyance device. The product conveyors extend parallel to each other and one above the other and have different lengths, each product conveyor having a delivery end at a distribution station which is suitable to deposit the product, which arrives from the respective product conveyor, in a container which is supplied to the distribution station by the conveyance device.

Abstract: A system for attaching a food processing adapter to a food processing unit includes an upper processing adapter attached to a pressure assembly of the unit, and a lower processing adapter attached to a holder at a base of the unit. The holder includes a first slot extending horizontally into a top portion of the holder, and a second slot opposite the first slot and extending vertically into the holder. A first tab extends horizontally from the lower processing adapter and is configured to be inserted into the first slot. A second tab extends vertically from the lower processing adapter so as to be inserted into the second slot. A locking mechanism is configured to releaseably lock the second tab in place to prevent movement of the lower processing adapter during operation of the food processing unit.

Abstract: A toaster cover, such as for use with a toaster, that safely and effectively covers a toaster while enhancing usability is described. The toaster cover includes first and second rigid side panels spaced apart from one another. The toaster cover also includes rigid front and back panels extending between the first and second side panels and spaced apart from each other. A rigid top panel is attached to the side panels and the front and back panels.

Abstract: A portable electropressing apparatus is provided with an installing base having an installing surface extending in a plane in parallel with the axial movement directions (horizontal, vertical and oblique) of a pressing ram so that the apparatus may be may be easily and exactly installed with a variety of positional changes with respect to a workpiece to be pressed, wherein the portable electropressing apparatus comprises an apparatus body; a pressing ram provided in the apparatus body and axially movable to import a required amount of pressure to a workpiece to be pressed; an electric drive motor; a drive mechanism including a threaded drive shaft operatively connected to the electric drive motor to be rotated thereby; a transmission operatively connected to the threaded drive shaft and to the pressing ram to convert the rotational movement of the threaded drive shaft into the axial movement of the pressing ram; and an installing arrangement including the aforementioned installing base formed integral with th

Abstract: A press has a press plunger with an adjustable pressure piece. By way of an adjusting device, this pressure piece is supported on the remaining press plunger. A motor-operated tensioning device is additionally assigned to the motor-operated adjusting device. The adjusting device as well as the tensioning device are operated by force, that is, can be operated by corresponding drives. These are connected with a control device which coordinates the work of the adjusting device and of the tensioning device.

Abstract: To adjust positions of pinch rollers without rotating a press drum, in a nonprinting state, the pinch rollers are lifted to upper positions at which the pinch rollers are not brought into contact with the press drum by pivoting arms and cams, and the pinch rollers are moved along a shaft in conformity with width of a print sheet to thereby adjust a clearance therebetween. In starting a printing operation, since the pinch rollers are not brought into contact with the press drum and the width can immediately be adjusted, it is not necessary to move a recess portion of the press drum to location of the pinch rollers by rotating the press drum, therefore a first print time is shortened.

Abstract: A print screen frame assembly used in the textile screen print industry. The frame assembly is formed of electrical conduit comprised of a rigid metallic conduit material which is coated to resist solvents, dyes and other chemicals commonly used in the print screen industry. The frame member is comprised of bendable, durable conduit material formed into a desired shape and secured at a seam to form a unitary frame member. On the top side of the frame member, a taut fabric print screen is attached by an adhesive. At least one spacer with a flat bottom edge is placed on the bottom of the tubular frame member allowing print screens to be easily used in printing presses and to permit frames to be stacked on top of one another for storage purposes.

Abstract: A retractable in-line inking/coating apparatus selectively applies either spot or overall ink/coating to a blanket or flexographic plate on a blanket cylinder or spot coating or overall ink/coating to a flexographic printing plate on a plate cylinder in a rotary offset printing press. The inking/coating apparatus is pivotally mounted on the tower of a printing unit or dedicated coating unit, and is extended into and retracted out of inking/coating engagement by a carriage assembly which is pivotally coupled to the printing unit tower. Because of the pivotal support provided by a cantilevered support arm, the inking/coating apparatus can be raised and lowered through a Ferris wheel arc movement between adjacent printing units. The aqueous component of the printing ink or coating is evaporated by a high velocity, hot air interstation dryer and a high performance heat and moisture extractor so that the ink on a freshly printed sheet is dry before the sheet is printed on the next printing unit.

Abstract: A printing press cylinder for a rotary printing press is light in weight and has vibration dampening properties. A metal foam filling is placed inside the cylinder.

Abstract: A sheet guide unit for a sheet-fed press which will prevent the sheet from flapping or fluttering, and allow sheets of thinner paper to be conveyed smoothly even when using a skeleton cylinder, The sheet guide unit is provided under an intermediate cylinder or a delivery cylinder, and has a curved sheet guide surface with which the lower surface of the cylinder creates a small sheet guide space, the space through which an air stream is directed. An air supply chamber and a pair of air aspiration chambers are provided for directing air through the sheet guide space. An air guide fin which is an outer extended portion of the curved sheet guide surface directs the air from the sheet guide into the aspiration chambers.

Abstract: A manual imprinter for transferring the image of a relief formation to a writing surface, preferably to imprint a document with the number of a security seal personalized by a relief numbering. The manual imprinter, in the presently preferred embodiment, comprises a support art adapted to support the numbered portion of the security seal, and an arm carrying a graphite block, hinged to the arm. The arm has a guide for a manual actuator, to which the graphite block is fixed. When the arm is closed against the arm, the block is pressed against the numbered portion of the security seal, the document to be imprinted being interposed therebetween. The operation of the actuator forces the graphite block across the region of the relief number of the seal, resulting in the transfer of the image of the number to the document.

Abstract: A sheet receiving apparatus in a sheet-fed rotary printing press includes at least one paper receiving bar, an air cylinder, and a moving plate. The paper receiving bar is inserted in a dropping path for a sheet-like printing product to temporarily stop it after printing. The air cylinder moves the paper receiving bar between a wait position and a sheet receiving position. The moving plate supports the paper receiving bar to be movable in a widthwise direction of the printing product.

Abstract: A system for loading and clamping one or more plates onto the cylindrical surface of a rotatable drum, such as used in a platesetter for printing, and for unloading the plates from the drum. The system is characterized by clamps that are movable over the surface, preferably along circumferential tracks, enabling the attachment of multiple plates, end-to-end and/or side-by-side, each plate having any of a wide range of sizes. The clamps are preferably of the dynamic type, whereby the clamping force increases with rotational speed. Also disclosed is a method for mounting and unmounting plates, using the movable clamps, such that allows flexible and convenient arrangement of loading- and unloading stations.

Abstract: A method for producing a printed product, such as a newspaper using a plurality of product and part-product webs. The webs, or selected ones of the webs can be longitudinally or transversely perforated or both. This allows a simple way for accomplishing the removal of parts of the printed product, such as selected advertisements or selected columns of material.

Abstract: The present invention provides an offset printing apparatus for transferring an ink pattern onto a medium to be printed through a blanket. The apparatus includes a detector for detecting an amount of ink solvent impregnated into the blanket.

Abstract: An apparatus for processing a web of material by applying a liquid material to the web, heating the web, cooling the web and moistening the web is provided with an applicator that applies the liquid material to the web, a drying apparatus that heats the web to an initial temperature of greater than about 250° F. and causes the web to have a moisture content of no greater than about 1.5%, a first cooling apparatus that causes the initial temperature of the web to be reduced to a second temperature no greater than about 210° F. and no less than about 100° F., a moistening apparatus that causes the moisture content of the web to be increased to at least about 2.5%, and a second cooling apparatus that causes the web to be cooled to a temperature not greater than about 100° F.

Abstract: A linear ignition system for a metal-sheathed linear explosive including in one embodiment the ends of two metal-sheathed linear explosives are connected by a non-electrically conductive sleeve leaving a gap between the ends, and a Pyrofuze® bridge connects the metal-sheath of one end to the metal sheath of the other end. Electrical contacts are made to the two metal sheaths and application of current to the electrical contacts ignites the Pyrofuze® bridge and the linear explosives. Embodiments can also include an explosive mixture in the gap, using a hotwire bridge, or including booster increments for initiating detonating explosives. The linear ignition systems offer robust, easy-to-install linear explosive devices for applications in automotive, commercial or military aircraft safety systems, other military and aerospace applications, and commercial blasting.

Abstract: A cartridge containing an explosive charge is inserted at the bottom of a short hole drilled in the rock. The cartridge is held in place or stemmed by a massive stemming bar of high-strength material such as steel. The cartridge incorporates additional internal volume designed to control the application of pressure in the bottom hole volume by the detonating explosive. The primary method by which the high-pressure gases are contained in the hole bottom until relieved by the opening up of controlled fractures, is by the massive inertial stemming bar which blocks the flow of gas up the drill hole except for a small leak path between the stemming bar and the drill hole walls. The stemming bar is preferably connected to a boom mounted on a carrier. A preferred embodiment incorporates an indexing mechanism to allow both a drill and a small-charge blasting apparatus to be used on the same boom for drilling and subsequent charge insertion and firing operations.

Abstract: A low cost protective cap that will offer protection of deployable fins for full bore artillery projectiles. A form fitting, composite cap that disintegrates on muzzle exit acts as a protective measure. The cap interfaces with the projectile obturator to form a temporary seal against hot gun gasses. The composition and thickness of the cap allows gas infiltration into the cap material and essentially instant cap degradation upon shot exit.

Abstract: A suspension system configured to provide suspension to a railroad maintenance machine having a frame and a chassis, where the suspension system is selectively operable between work and transportation modes of the machine. The suspension system includes a suspension that is operable between a first position and a second position. The first position is when the suspension is substantially inflated for transportation of the machine, and the second position is when the suspension is substantially deflated for conducting railroad maintenance. Contact with the rail is maintained in either position.

Abstract: A powered pushing unit transfers ads no greater than a predetermined magnitude in one direction along the length of a load transfer system. The pushing unit includes a frame and a source of power for moving the pushing unit back and forth along the length of the load transfer system. A dog for engaging a load is pivotally mounted with respect to the frame. A restricting mechanism applies a load engaging force to hold the dog at a load transfer range of positions until the load is greater than the predetermined magnitude. A toggle joint is mounted between the dog and the frame. The toggle joint forms an angle in a first angular direction to lock the dog in a load engaging position during engagement of a load under the predetermined magnitude. The toggle joint further shifts to form an angle in a second angular direction upon engagement of a load in excess of the predetermined magnitude, thereby allowing the dog to pivot away from the load which is in excess of the predetermined magnitude.

Abstract: An electrically powered vehicle transportation system utilizes a guideway with parallel enclosed rails. Each enclosed rail has an electrical bus bar for supplying power to vehicles on the guideway. The guideway will accommodate dual-mode vehicles that are capable of usage on conventional streets as well as on the guideway. The guideway also accommodates conventional vehicles and ferries that operate only on the guideway. The dual-mode vehicle has a body with axles that are extensible. The axles move from a retracted position, with the wheels recessed within the wheel wells, to an extended position. In the extended position, the wheels locate within the enclosed rails. Conventional vehicles and freight are carried on ferries that move along the guideways.

Abstract: A strong, flexible and vandalism-resistant panel is provided. The panel has a flexible interwoven skeleton structure that is embedded in a layer of polymer material. The skeleton structure is formed from a generally parallel arrangement of linear cross-members interconnecting adjacent links. The links are in the form of a triangular wave pattern and include a plurality of link elements interconnected at their opposed ends or peaks by alternately spaced transverse curves or folds. The linear cross-members are nested in the transverse curves of adjacent links to join the adjacent links. The panel of the present invention is particularly useful as a panel used to cover the space between two adjacent railroad car sections. The formed panels are flexible, cannot be dented, are substantially cut-proof, and are highly vandalism-resistant.

Abstract: The invention relates to the front section of a railway car comprising a motor transverse beam (2) which is horizontally arranged and vertical to the railway car axis (1). Both front section ends are firmly connected to the longitudinal supports located on the sides of a railway car (1), said supports being parallel to the railway car axis (1). The longitudinal supports (10) extend along the railway car axis (1) as diagonal longitudinal supports (3) from the motor transverse beam (2) toward the buffer elements (4). The longitudinal support ends which are situated opposite the motor transverse beam (2) are firmly connected to said buffer elements (4). A coupling support (6) is arranged in the middle of the motor transverse beam (2). Supports (5) which diagonally extend forward are firmly connected to said coupling support and the buffer elements (4). This results in forming a more compact nose of the inventive front section.

Abstract: An overhead storage assembly, vendable as a kit, includes a plurality of panels each of a rectangular planform having dimensions that are integer multiples of conventional structural spacing. The panels may be joined to each other to form a common support surface resting on a plurality of transverse support pieces connected at the ends to hanger assemblies that are attached to the overhead structure of a building. Each panel, moreover, may include off-set elements to increase the sectional stiffness of the panel and the hanger assemblies may comprise matching upper and lower straps that are secured to each other at selected suspension lengths.

Abstract: A table assembly consists of a table top supported by a leg assembly, which includes a vertical tubular leg member. The leg assembly further includes a foot member mounted to the lower end of each leg via a mounting member. The length of the foot member can be varied according to the width of the table top to selectively provide different sizes of tables according to user requirements, while the mounting member is usable for all sizes of legs and foot members to mount the foot member to the leg. A power/communication housing is mounted to the underside of the table top. The housing includes first and second passages isolated from each other via a wall, with power supply cabling and communication cabling placed within the first and second passages, respectively.

Abstract: A variable workstation furniture system having a furniture frame with vertical columns and foot extensions, whereby the lower ends of the columns can be connected to base elements to which the front and rear foot extensions can be connected. The design of the foot is simplified by the parts and assembly, while broadening variation possibilities, so that the foot extensions and the foot intermediate pieces form an assembly. The front foot extensions facing the columns include a column receptacle as a base unit which is open in an upward manner and in which a column can be inserted and connected to the foot extension.

Abstract: A disposable and reusable spacer rack apparatus, for cooperating with a pallet to suppport a stack of thin sheets of printable stock thereon. A spacer rack apparatus includes a body member, having an upper surface and a substantially flat lower surface. The body member has a series of parallel spaced apart grooves formed in an upper portion thereof, defining a plurality of parallel spaced apart divider slats between the grooves. The body member is of a first height at the divider slats, and is of a second, reduced height in the area of the grooves. The grooves are provided for receiving support rods during a printing stock changeover process. Preferably, the spacer rack apparatus is integrally formed as a single unit, out of relatively inexpensive materials, such as cardboard, fiberboard, recycled plastic, or open-celled plastic foam. A method of using the spacer rack apparatus is also described.

Abstract: A mobile workstation capable of supporting various types of electrical or diagnostic equipment for use primarily in the health care environment comprising a work surface supported by a pedestal and a base. The base includes casters for easy portability of the workstation. The workstation further includes a height adjustment mechanism and a counterbalance. The counterbalance may be supported from the underside of the top of the work surface of the workstation for counterbalancing the weight of the equipment that may be carried on the work surface so as to provide versatility when adjusting the height of the workstation from a seated position to a standing position with minimal effort from the user.