Abstract: A multichannel parallel LD/PD module comprising a bench, a plurality of lightpaths having an initial narrow width region, an intermediate width enlarging region and a final wide width region, a plurality of photodiodes or a photodiode array mounted on the narrow width region, a wavelength selective filter formed on the narrow width region for selectively reflecting receiving beams, a plurality of light emitting devices fitted behind rear ends of the lightpaths on the bench. Traveling in element fibers in an outer ribbon fiber, receiving signal beams go into the lightpaths via front ends and are reflected by the wavelength selective filter slantingly upward at the narrow width region. The reflected beams go into the photodiodes and are converted into photocurrents in proportion to the receiving signals.

Abstract: Routers for trunk telecommunication systems currently operate at 2.5 Gb/s. Next generation routers will be requires to switch 128 input data streams into 128 output data streams, each data stream being at a data rate of 10 Gb/s. Current routers employ massively parallel electronic switches to route data at 1.25 Gb/s. Such technology is reaching its limit and a new approach to high-speed switching is required. The present invention provides an apparatus and method for enabling such high-speed switching by providing a data compression apparatus which comprises a pulsed chirped laser (226) coupled to a modulator (218, 220), the modulator (218, 220) being coupled to a multiplexer (232) and a compressor (228). A chirped laser pulse having the duration of a data packet is modulated with data received on an input channel and then passed through the multiplexer (232) and the compressor (228) in order to generate a compressed modulated data pulse for high speed switching.

Abstract: An oscillating microscopic or tomographic optical input image is directed at a tunable Bragg cell and a tuning control device applies a fluctuating AC hetrodyne signal to the cell, such signal having a phase locked template with respect to oscillation of the optical image, causing the cell to hetrodyne and correlate a phase locked matching template with the oscillating optical input image. A time integrating detector integrates output signals from the Bragg cell while illuminated point sources of the optical image are interconnected with corresponding imaging points upon the integrating detector via a high resolution holographic lens array within the Bragg cell. The array consists of recorded interference patterns between tiny one micron point sources of light produced by an optical fiber with broad wave fronts of light. A DC signal applied to the Bragg cell along with the AC signal enables beneficial wavelength discrimination and averaging.

Abstract: A developing device has a structure in which a toner is supplied from a toner supplying container to a first toner container by a toner supplying device and also the toner is conveyed from the first toner container to a second toner container by a toner conveying member disposed so as to lie in the space between the first and second toner containers. Thus, the developing device has a reduced size and also stably supplies the toner to two developing rollers corresponding to the first and second toner containers.

Abstract: Disclosed is an image forming apparatus that uses a plurality of removable cartridges and that is so adapted that a desired cartridge can be exchanged with ease. The apparatus includes a cartridge management unit which, in accordance with a command supplied from a move-cartridge designating unit of a host computer, causes movement of cartridges possessed by an image forming unit.

Abstract: In order to provide a developing device and a process cartridge that are capable of preventing leakage of developer at low cost, for example, a developing device comprises: a container, having an opening, for containing a developer; a developer carrying member, rotatably disposed in the opening, for carrying developer; and a developer collecting member mounted to the opening of the container so as to be kept out of contact with the developer carrying member.

Abstract: Sealing film for a toner cartridge or container, wherein said sealing film comprises a layer with a thickness comprised between 20 &mgr;m and 1mm and with at least one preferred substantially linear tearing direction, said layer being provided with surface elements extending in a direction different from the preferred tearing direction.

Abstract: Sealing film for toner cartridge, wherein said sealing film comprises a layer with a preferred linear tearing direction, said layer being provided with longitudinal surface elements defining there between the strip to be torn out, whereby said longitudinal surface elements extend in an inclined direction with respect to the linear tearing direction, in which the strip to be torn out is associated to a pulling means having a sufficient tearing resistance for preventing a separation between the pulling means and the strip to be torn out during a tearing operation.

Abstract: Sealing film for toner cartridge, wherein said sealing film comprises a layer with a preferred linear tearing direction, said layer being provided with longitudinal surface elements defining there between the strip to be torn out,

Abstract: To be able to insert bands of an arbitrary length into a machine unit, for example intermediate carrier bands given an electrophotographic printer device, the band is seated on tubes. The tubes are pushed into receptacles arranged in the machine unit. The band can then be slipped over the transport and guide drums arranged in the machine unit. Subsequently, the band is tensed and the tubes are pulled from the receptacles.

Abstract: An electrophotographic printer is provided with a toner cartridge that is inserted/removed from said printer via its top side. The insertion and removal of the toner cartridge sets/releases the pressure on fuser rollers in order to facilitate clearing print media jams in the printer's fuser region.

Abstract: A driving device for driving a plurality of driven members of the present invention includes a first drive source for driving first one of the driven members. A second drive source drives second driven members other than the first drive member. An idler gear intervenes between the second driven members for transmitting the output torque of the second drive source. The second driven members are matched in rotation variation phase to each other during assembly.

Abstract: In a developing device of the present invention, in a developing zone where an image carrier and a developer carrier face each other, the developer carrier carrying a developer thereon moves at a linear velocity of 150 mm/sec or above, but below 500 mm/sec. The amount of the developer conveyed to the developing zone by the developer carrier is between 65 mg/cm2 and 95 mg/cm2. A magnetic flux generated on the developer carrier in the developing zone by a magnetic pole has a flux density having an attenuation ratio of 40% in the direction normal to the developer carrier. The flux density in the direction normal to the developer carrier, as measured on the surface, is between 100 mT and 200 mT. Magnetic grains, which constitute the developer together with toner grains, have a saturation magnetization value of 40×10−7×4&pgr; Wb·m/kg or above, but below 50×10−7×4&pgr; Wb·m/kg.

Abstract: A color image forming apparatus comprises: a speed detector for detecting the speed of an intermediate transferring body or a driven roller that is driven by a conveying belt; a calculation device for calculating a difference between a target speed and the speed of the intermediate transferring body or of the conveying belt obtained by the speed detector; and a drive controller including a speed correction unit for employing the speed difference obtained by the calculation device to correct the speed of the intermediate transferring body or of the conveying belt. According, to an image quality control method for the color image forming apparatus, in the low-speed printing mode, before an actual image is formed on a transfer material conveyed along the conveying belt or on the intermediate transferring body, speed correction is performed at the 1/1-speed.

Abstract: An image heating apparatus for heating an image formed on a recording material includes a heating member having a heat-generating layer, and magnetic field-generating means for generating a magnetic field to induce an eddy current in the heat-generating layer. The magnetic field-generating means includes a core and a coil disposed around the core in a longitudinal direction of the core.

Abstract: An image heating device having a predetermined amount of heat generation with a small electric current. The device comprises a heat-generating roller (1) having magnetism and conductivity, an exciting coil (5) opposed to the peripheral face of the heat-generating roller (1) and adapted for allowing the heat-generating roller (1) to generate heat with electromagnetic induction. The exciting coil (5) is composed of a bundle of 60 copper wires of a 0.2 mm diameter are extended in the direction of the rotation axis of the heat-generating roller (1) and they are circumferentially wound along the circumferential direction of the heat-generating roller (1). The bundled wires are arranged in close contact with each other in the circumferential direction of the heat-generating roller (1) so as to cover the upper half of the heat-generating roller (1).

Abstract: There is disclosed a cleaning apparatus which has a cleaning member for cleaning a surface of an image bearing member, a developer carrying member for carrying a developer cleaned by the cleaning member, a developer receiving member arranged below the cleaning member in a direction of gravity to receive the developer dropped from the cleaning member, and a developer carrying path for interconnecting the developer receiving member and the developer carrying member.

Abstract: A method for generating a watermark on a photo picture using a thermal printer. The thermal printer includes a thermal printhead for heating an ink ribbon and sublimating color dyes stored in the ink ribbon on a photo picture. The ink ribbon includes a plurality of sequentially arranged color frames. Each color frame includes a plurality of dye frames with different color dyes and a dye frame with overcoating. The method includes using the thermal printhead to heat a color frame with a plurality of different color dyes and to sublimate the color dyes on a photo picture and using the thermal printhead to heat the dye frame with the overcoating and to heat different areas on the color frame by two distinct time periods.

Abstract: A card cartridge includes a housing having a pair of opposing side walls, a top, a front wall, a back wall opposite the front wall, and a base. The housing includes an interior cavity that is sized to accommodate a stack of cards, a card access, and a card output slot. The card access allows a card transport mechanism to engage a lead card contained in the housing and feed the lead card through the card output slot.

Abstract: A multi-purpose pen-shaped container includes first and second receptacle bodies, an applicator device, an end cap, and a coupling unit. Each receptacle body has an axis, first and second end portions, and a peripheral wall that is disposed to surround the axis so as to define a receiving chamber. The first and second end portions of each receptacle body are formed with a coupling member and a connecting member, respectively. The applicator device has a base portion that engages the connecting member on the first receptacle body. The end cap has a tubular cap wall that cooperates with the base portion of the applicator device to define a receiving space for receiving a cosmetic applicator therein. The coupling unit engages removably the coupling members of the first and second receptacle bodies.

Abstract: A nail care accessory which is in a form of a housing with a tight fitting lid which can be pulled off to reveal an applicator to which a nail varnish, nail varnish remover or other substance for treatment of the nails, is conveyed by internal channels from a reservoir inside the housing. The applicator is protruded and retracted by applying pressure to elastic parts of the housing. The reservoir may be replaceable or refillable or the reservoir and applicator as a unit may be exchanged to allow use of different colours. A nail varnish applicator and a nail varnish remover can be incorporated in a single accessory, located end to end so that one is at one end and the other at the other end, of the accessory. A flow control valve may be provided, actuated by pressure on the applicator when substance is being applied to a nail. The walls of eth reservoir can be made compressible to allow pressure to be applied, to place the substance under pressure, to assist in it coming out of the accessory at the applicator.

Abstract: A collapsible pen including a telescopically extensible barrel and a ballpoint refill cartridge having a ballpoint tip removably attached to the barrel. The pen further includes a ballpoint tip cap that releasably attaches to the refill cartridge. The extensible barrel includes an outer tubular member and at least two and most preferably three inner tubular members concentrically and coaxially mounted with respect to both the outer tubular member and to one another. Each inner tubular member has a smaller outer diameter than the overlying tubular members. The ballpoint tip cap, adapted for attachment to a key chain, is releasably attached to either the outer tubular member of the barrel or to the refill cartridge to cover the ballpoint tip. The pen has a fully extended length and a collapsed (retracted) length. With a barrel consisting of three inner tubular members, and the cap removed, the fully extended length of the pen is greater than twice the collapsed length of the pen.

Abstract: A method and apparatus to apply wax or solutions to cars, car tires, car seats, walls, floors, and the human body using a rolling brush or gloved mitten so that when you either push the roller brush or gloved mitten against a surface or roll the rolling brush against a surface or compress a hand squeeze type pump, a solution is pushed to the rolling brush or hand mitten. The apparatus is made connected to the roller brush and container, hand mitten and container or can be made as a tool to be attached to many product containers. It consist of a cylindrical brush or hand mitten, a pump device, a pipe system that delivers a solution to the roller brush or hand mitten, a cap that can be screwed onto various product containers. Also a hollow connecting tube is used to extend the length of function.

Abstract: An apparatus for spreading liquid materials comprises: a provision unit for providing the liquid material; a guiding unit, coupled to the provision unit, for providing a flow path of the liquid materials; and an absorption unit, covering one portion of the guiding unit, for absorbing the liquid materials supplied from the guiding unit and applying the liquid materials to a designated region of a body.

Abstract: A highly durable conical nib is provided which also realizes a significant improvement in a nib productivity and a significant cost reduction. The conical nib comprises: a plurality of separated combtooth pieces being able to converge progressively toward front ends thereof and combine to form a virtually conical shape and that the front ends thereof combine to form a virtually spherical shape; a holding member capable of arranging the combtooth pieces along a circumference; and a converging member capable of converging these combtooth pieces; wherein the plurality of separated combtooth pieces are assembled by the holding member and the converging member, both separate from the combtooth pieces, into a conical nib having a writing tip at the front end thereof and an ink feeding path between each combtooth piece.

Abstract: “Magic Brush” would consist of a brush featuring a somewhat rectangular plastic base having rounded ends. Base would provide a handle as well as a reservoir for storing liquid shoe polish inside the plastic handle and or have a additional reservoir on one end of the handle. In addition, a plunger mechanism would rest upon one end of the brush on the face of the handle. Extending from the base would be a plurality of bristle positioned within the bristles located within the front of the brush directly beneath the plunger, would be a groved sponge applicator through which the polish would travel when the plunger was pressed. Between the plunger and the applicator there is a valve mecanism is to control the polish flow located inside of the polish reservoir.

Abstract: A toilet cleaning apparatus comprising a toilet brush head; a toilet brush handle (2) separated from the brush head by a brush shaft (1); a portion of the brush handle being adapted to contain a cleaning fluid and being in fluid communication with the brush head by a conduit; the handle being adapted to be reciprocally displaced along the conduit between a first position remote from the brush head and a second position proximate to the brush head so urging cleaning fluid from the handle to the brush head; and, a non return valve within the conduit adapted to allow the flow of fluid from handle to brush but to prevent the flow of fluid from brush to handle.

Abstract: The invention discloses a transfer device (10) for sheets of material filed in a folder, the transfer device (10) including a base member having a longitudinal axis and a pair of flexible, elongate, transfer (14) members arranged on the base member, the transfer members (14) being displaceable between a stored position wherein they are orientated substantially parallel with the base member and an operative position wherein they extend transversely relative to the base member. The invention is characterised therein in that the transfer members (14) are displaceable between their stored and operative positions about pivot axes (18) which are orientated transversely to the longitudinal axis of the base member. The invention also discloses a file folder having a transfer device (10).

Abstract: A joint for a telescoping rod includes a body having a cavity defined in the body to receive a sleeve in the body. A hole is longitudinally defined in a lower portion of the body and communicates with the cavity. The telescoping rod includes an outer tube securely inserted into the hole in the body and an inner tube inserted into the body. The inner tube penetrates the sleeve and is partially received in the outer tube. A locking member is rotatably mounted on the body and has a threaded rod screwed into the sleeve to cause the sleeve to make the inner tube securely abut the inner periphery of the outer tube.

Abstract: The present invention pertains to a ball-and-socket joint (1) with a housing (2) closed by a cover (3), with a bearing shell (5, 6) and a joint ball (4) accommodated therein rotatably and tiltably with a ball pivot, wherein the said bearing shell (6) provided with projections and offsets on its outside as well as an entropy-elastic, pretensioned spring element (7) are fixed by the cover (3) in the housing (2), wherein the bearing shell is formed by lower and upper bearing shells (5, 6), both of which are closed, and the lower bearing shell (5) extending partially over the upper bearing shell (6) is provided on its overarching inside (5b) and the upper bearing shell (6) is provided on its outside (6a) with the said projections and offsets (20, 21; 11, 12) with which the said entropy-elastic spring element (7) cooperates in a positive-locking and/or non-positive manner under the action of the cover (3) in its closed position and nonrotatably couples the two bearing shells (5, 6) with one another.

Abstract: The present invention of a table corner strengthener includes a supporting frame, a plurality of side connecting beams and a supporting post; both of the side connecting beam and the supporting post are hollow columnar bodies; the side supporting frame in the supporting frame has an outer periphery to be fitly inserted into the inner periphery of the columnar body of the side connecting beam; the features thereof are that all the side supporting frames are fixedly jointed two by two through the fastening connection between two adjacent and vertical lateral planes of a columnar wedge; the supporting frame is also placed into a cut opening inside the supporting post through the wedge thus to engage with the supporting post; a screw hole inside the supporting post fitly corresponds to a through hole on the lateral plane of each side supporting frame in the supporting frame; therefore, the action force exerted from the supporting frame onto the supporting post can be shared by the cut opening to increase the stre

Abstract: A connection device in which a hook member is carried in a casing member for both rotation about an axis of the hook member and movement longitudinally of the hook member inwardly and outwardly relative the casing. An actuating member is provided to displace the hook member simultaneously for rotation and axial movement. The connection device is particularly adapted to be used as an element of a releasable joint for modular frame construction of frame members having T-shaped longitudinally extending slots. With the hook member in an unlocked position, the hook member extends from one frame member carrying the hook member and permits passage into a slot of another frame member with the hook member in the slot in the unlocked position, the hook member may be moved to a locked position by rotation and withdrawal of the hook member relative the frame member by which it is carried so as to catch the head of the hook member in the T-shaped slot and draw the two frame members together.

Abstract: A lamp rod comprises a retaining seat and an inserting rod. A wire connecting box has a plurality of via holes at a periphery thereof. A lateral side of the retaining seat extends with an inserting portion exactly passing through the via hole of the wire connecting box. A positioning ring is positioned at an interior of the wire connecting box for locking the inserting portion. One end of the retaining seat far away from the wire connecting box has two sliding grooves. One end of the inserting rod coupled to the retaining seat is installed with an inserting seat. Two sides of the inserting seat have stepped guide blocks. The guide blocks are exactly engaged with the two sliding grooves of the retaining seat. Thereby, in transfer and storage, the inserting rod can be pulled out from the wire connecting box so as to occupy a smaller space.

Abstract: In a clamping assembly having a first component (1) and a second component (2), which has an essentially cylindrical outer jacket (21), is attachable to the first component, has a support surface (20) supported against the first component (1) and which is able to be clamped against the first component (1) via a clamping sleeve (3) that is slid onto the outer jacket (21) and can be screwed onto the first component and via a snap ring (4) that comes to rest against a first clamping shoulder (35) formed on the inner wall (33) of the clamping sleeve (3) and against a second clamping shoulder (22) formed on the outer jacket (21) of the second component (2), it is proposed that the snap ring (4) be configured as a detent that deflects elastically in a radial direction and that the outer jacket (21) of the second component (2) be provided with an undercut (24) behind the second clamping shoulder (22), when viewed in the axial direction, into which the elastically deflecting snap ring (4) is able to be deformed radia

Abstract: An attachment to a drainage hose for use on a stockpiling barge that includes: a fluid pervious bag formed of a flexible fabric material, the fluid pervious bag having an open end and a closed end, a ballast material attached to or retained within the closed end of the fluid pervious bag, and means for securing the open end of the fluid pervious bag about a hose. Also disclosed are the attachment in combination with a drainage hose and a stockpiling barge, a method of filtering runoff water from a stockpiling barge through the use of the attachments, and a method of preventing non-dissolved organic or inorganic contaminants from flowing from a stockpiling barge into a body of water through the use of the attachments.

Abstract: A process of extracting halogenated organic compounds, and particularly PCBs, from soil, sediment, slurry, sludge and dehalogenating the compounds contacts a contaminated soil sample with an extraction medium of a mixture of an alkane and a water miscible alcohol. The organic compounds dissolve in the extraction medium which is separated from the soil by passing water upwardly through the soil. The extraction medium floats to the surface of the water and is separated. Thereafter, the extraction medium containing the halogenated organic contaminants is subjected to ionizing radiation to radiolytically dehalogenate the compounds.

Abstract: Processes and methods relating to treating contaminants and collecting desired substances from a zone of interest using subterranean collection and containment barriers. Tubular casings having interlock structures are used to create subterranean barriers for containing and treating buried waste and its effluents. The subterranean barrier includes an effluent collection system. Treatment solutions provided to the zone of interest pass therethrough and are collected by the barrier and treated or recovered, allowing on-site remediation. Barrier components may be used to in the treatment by collecting or removing contaminants or other materials from the zone of interest.

Abstract: A method for installation of an underground pipe includes an initial step of boring a pilot hole through the ground at a predetermined grade angle by extending a drill string having a steerable boring bit mounted thereon through the ground. Upon reaching an end location for the pilot hole, the bit is removed from the drill string, and an expander having a diameter greater than the pilot hole is attached to the drill string, which expander is backed by an impact device such as a pneumatic impactor including a striker that delivers repeated impacts to a rearwardly facing surface of the expander, and by a pipe drawn along behind the expander. The expander is pulled back through the pilot hole at the grade angle while the impactor is operated to aid progress of the expander through the ground and pull the pipe into place behind the expander.

Abstract: A method of lowering a floating body of a floating foundation and carrying a structure projecting above the water surface to an end position located beneath the water level, includes threading, through each of the upwardly projecting tubes, which are secured to the floating body above-through-openings formed in the floating body, a cable or a rod and connecting the cable or rod to a set-in-ground anchor, lowering the floating body, with the uptake devices provided at the free ends of the tubes, to the end position of the floating body beneath the water surface against buoyancy of the floating body, and fixidly securing the cables or rods, in the end position of the floating body, to the floating body and cutting off sections of the cables and rods above fixation points of the cables and rods with the floating body and removing the tubes.

Abstract: A four-sided insert for milling cutters with negative radial angle of the cutting edges for three-dimensional milling from a solid, which has an upper face, or rake face, that is delimited by four sides that constitute the cutting edges of the insert. The four sides are opposite in pairs and connected to corresponding sides of the lower face by lateral faces. Two opposite sides of these four sides constitute main cutting edges of the insert and the other two sides constitute secondary cutting edges. The lateral faces that connect the main cutting edges to the lower face of the insert have, proximate to one end or tip of the cutting edge, a positive lower relief angle that is greater than the lower relief angle, which can be positive or negative or nil, proximate to the other end or tip of the cutting edge.

Abstract: A tool head for securing a tool in a machine tool has a stationary spindle bearing housing, a spindle rotatably supported in the spindle bearing housing, and a modular tool changing insert for receiving a tool. The tool changing insert is exchangeably arranged on the spindle or a holder. An internal cooling medium supply device supplies a cooling medium directly from the spindle bearing housing into the tool changing insert. The cooling medium supply device preferably supplies the cooling medium laterally into the tool changing insert via an auxiliary housing.

Abstract: A hole of a hole size is cut in a composite material workpiece by selecting a milling cutter having an effective cutter size less than the hole size, mounting the composite material workpiece in operable relation to the milling cutter, rotating the milling cutter about an axis of rotation, and advancing the milling cutter longitudinally into the composite material workpiece parallel to the axis of rotation at a rate of longitudinal advance, while laterally moving the milling cutter perpendicular to the axis of rotation to interpolate the hole. The rate of longitudinal advance is controlled such that the hole remains substantially a flat-bottomed hole as it is cut. The composite material workpiece is desirably affixed to a backing fixture with an adhesive material during the cutting of the hole.

Abstract: A high-speed spindle unit for milling and drilling machines. The spindle unit has a spindle housing on the front end portion of which a terminating ring detachably mounted and a rotationally driven tool spindle which is supported in at least a front roller bearing inside the spindle housing, a ring nut being attached to the front end portion of said spindle. Between the terminating ring and the ring nut a pre-dimensioned ring-shaped gap extending in the radial direction is formed, the gap width of the gap being decreasable to zero with increasing axial load acting on the spindle.

Abstract: A multiple-axis machine (11) for working on an object (131) and a machine tool head (27) therefor. The machine (11) includes abase (13) housing an annular bearing (19), which has a central axis (21) along which the object (131) being be worked on is disposed. A ring journal (23) is concentrically and rotatably disposed within the bearing (19). A journal drive (25) is mounted to the bearing (19) for engaging and controlledly driving the ring journal (23) in rotation or counter-rotation relative to the bearing (19). The machine tool head (27) includes a holder (73) for a tool (85) to be connected thereto for working the object (131) and three fingers (75) for engaging and supporting the holder (73) in a variety of orientations relative to a main axis or plane of the object (131). Three corresponding cylinders and barrels (77) are provided for accommodating and changing the position of the fingers (75) to orient the holder (73) relative to the main axis or plane in any of the variety of orientations.

Abstract: A collapsible assembly for loading and transporting vehicles in a cargo container having a roof, a floor, two elongate side walls, and front and rear walls, includes two pairs of spaced vertical posts, one pair being at the front end of the frame and another pair being at the rear end. Front and rear horizontally mounted crossbars support two ramps for carrying a vehicle when the assembly is in its open position. Each crossbar has two members of equal length rotatably and slideably attached to the posts and connected together by a hinge that allows each crossbar to be folded in half interiorly of the frame thus pulling the posts together in a collapsed closed position for storage purposes.

Abstract: A tie down device for securing modern sport type motorcycles having a full fairing to a truck or trailer bed without damaging the fairing. The device has a support T-bar that is secured to the central portion of the steering area of the motorcycle by a central stabilizer rod. The T-bar includes a tie down bar perpendicular to a stabilizer rod having a height stop. The stabilizer rod fits within a center-bored nut on the steering stem and into the frame neck of most sport motorcycles. Adjacent to and spaced inward from each end of the tie down bar are handle bar stabilizing hooks and tie down eyelets for attachment of standard tie down straps. The invention provides tie down points for securing the motorcycle without attaching the tie down straps to the motorcycle, thus avoiding damage to the fairing and handle bars.

Abstract: A load restraint for use in a container is disclosed. The road restraint comprises a support to locate and extend generally vertically within a first locating formation (such as a corrugation in a wall) within a container. A transverse member extends from the support member across the container to engage with a second locating formation (such as another corrugation). A load engaging member is secured to the transverse member to extend from the transverse member to engage a load within the container. The load engaging member is adjustable in position with respect to the transverse member whereby it can contact a load spaced from the transverse member over a range of distances.

Abstract: A method and fastener for distributing an anchoring material and securing abutting honeycombed panels in a generally perpendicular alignment. The fastener is provided with a pointed tip to penetrate into undrilled portion of the inner cellular structure of one of the panels. The hollow fastener allows for the injection and distribution of an anchoring material into the ruptured cell core and into predrilled bores in the first panel.

Abstract: A detachable fastener includes a screw element and a securing ring. The screw element and the securing ring each include cooperating wedge-shaped surface tooth arrangements and two different pairs of stop surfaces. The wedge-shaped surface tooth arrangements face one another and form sliding surfaces sliding upon one another in a loosening direction of rotation resulting in an increase of the axial force. The first pair of stop surfaces transmits torque in a tightening direction of rotation. The second pair of stop surfaces transmits torque in a loosening direction of rotation. The stop surfaces are arranged with a clearance existing between one another such that the wedge-shaped surface tooth arrangements can slide upon one another without skipping.

Abstract: An article of manufacture for protecting the lug nuts retaining wheels or rims of vehicles, particularly boat trailers and the like, from corrosion and, ultimately, freezing of the lug nuts, consisting of a flexible, water-impermeable cylindrical cap open at one end and adapted to be positioned over each lug/lug nut assembly securing the wheel or rim to the hub of the vehicle, the cap having an open end for positioning the cap over the lug/lug nut assembly, the end of the cap opposed from the open end being closed, the cap containing a viscous reagent for protecting the lug/lug nut assembly against corrosion prior to being positioned over the lug/lug nut assembly; and lug/lug nut assemblies including same.