Abstract: A hose connection assembly for a vacuum cleaner comprises a flexible hose having one end connected to the dust-collecting chamber, a hose holder connected to the other end of the flexible hose and removably connected to a connection part of the suction brush, and a handle mounted on the hose holder to assist in connecting and disconnecting the hose holder with respect to the connection part. A mounting portion having a circumferential bead is preferably formed on an outer circumference of the hose holder to mount the handle therein, and the handle is rotatably mounted on the mounting portion. The handle comprises a fixing portion shaped as a cylinder and is mounted on the mounting portion, and a holding portion protruding from one side of the fixing portion in a perpendicular direction, and the fixing portion has a larger diameter than the mounting portion, thereby providing rotatability about the mounting portion through 360°.

Abstract: A dust cover of a vacuum cleaner is installed to be separable from a dust collecting chamber so as to open/close the dust collecting chamber in which a dust bag filtering sucked dust is mounted, and has a support part to which the dust bag is mounted at its inside, thereby easily performing processes of mounting the dust bag to a vacuum cleaner and separating the dust bag from the vacuum cleaner and discarding without an external contamination.

Abstract: The present invention provides a wet/dry vacuum cleaner, or a kit for modifying an existing wet/dry vacuum, that includes a hose that is connected to a lower portion of the vacuum such that a pulling force applied to the hose will be applied to the lower portion of the vacuum, thereby preventing the vacuum from tipping over as the unit is pulled around an area using the hose.

Abstract: A hose connection apparatus of a dry/wet vacuum cleaner comprises a hose holder mounted at an air inlet of a cleaner body, a hose connection pipe connected to the air inlet, and connected to a suction hose at an end thereof, a secondary connection pipe formed between the hose holder and an outer circumference of a dust receptacle to move between first and second positions, and an operation unit for moving the secondary connection pipe between the first and second positions. The operation unit preferably comprises a cover attached to the cleaner body at a pivoting axis, and acts to move the secondary connection pipe between first and second positions depending on the opening and closing operations of the cover. In the first position, the secondary connection pipe is moved toward the air inlet. In the second position, the secondary connection pipe is moved toward and into contact with the communication hole formed at the dust receptacle.

Abstract: A bendable extension pipe for a vacuum cleaner with a body bent by a button manipulation that forms a sealed fluid passage between a vacuum cleaner body and a suction brush, is disclosed. The bendable extension pipe includes a first extension pipe and a second extension pipe. The first and second extension pipes are rotatably connected. A locking button is elastically disposed on the first extension pipe to restrict rotation of the first and the second extension pipes. A sealing cover prevents the locking button from moving out of joint of the first and second extension pipes and seals the first and the second extension pipes.

Abstract: Disclosed is a bendable nozzle improved in construction in such a manner that the nozzle body is folded when cleaning out an angled corner area, whereby a convenience in use is enhanced and a wide area is easily cleaned out. The bendable nozzle for a vacuum cleaner includes a nozzle body which is folded and comes into close contact with a wall when it contacts with an angled corner area of the wall. The bendable nozzle includes upper and lower cases provided with a plurality of suction flow passages within the interior thereof. Auxiliary nozzles are hinged to the opposite sides of the upper and lower cases. A corner nozzle moves forward and backward in cooperation with the pivotal movement of the auxiliary nozzles.

Abstract: This invention relates to a two-piece grommet adapted for holding a cable in an aperture, such as in a desk or work surface so as to absorb any strain imposed on the cable and to provide an attractive covering for the hole drilled to pass the cable. The grommet consists of two portions. The first portion comprises a cylindrical sleeve having a circular lip. The second portion comprises a cap having an extended flange and adapted to frictionally fit into the cylindrical sleeve and against the lip. The cap has an aperture cut into it through which the cable passes. A pivotal tab is connected under the cap to close the aperture when no cable passes therethrough.

Abstract: An office chair castor includes a base, two castor bodies, two beads bases, and two set of beads. The beads of the two sets of beads positioned in portion grooves of the two beads bases are also rotatably positioned in both the grooves of the two projecting annular walls of the base and the grooves of the two castor bodies, permitting the mutual contact dimension of the base and the two castor bodies become small to cause small friction, which may produce little noise and may let the castor bodies not to be stuck but rotate smoothly.

Abstract: An apparatus for use in at least one of movement of at least one of furniture, appliances and movable wall structures and as a protective pad for floors wherein said apparatus is placed between such furniture to be moved and such floors. The apparatus comprises a first member formed from a first predetermined solid material having each of a first predetermined configuration and a first predetermined thickness. An outer perimeter of the first member having a first predetermined length. Such first predetermined configuration has a plurality of surfaces. A second member is formed from a second predetermined material having a second predetermined configuration and a second predetermined thickness and having a first surface engageable with the upper surface of the first member.

Abstract: A knob attachment assembly formed in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention is provided. The knob attachment assembly includes a control device housing (105) and an actuation member (106) coupled to the control device housing, the actuation member including a first engagement surface (140). The knob attachment assembly further includes a gripping device (104) including a first interference surface (158), the gripping device being selectively coupled to the actuation member and positionable between a locked position, wherein the gripping device is coupled to the actuation member by interference of the first engagement surface and the first interference surface, and an unlocked position, wherein the gripping device is removable from the actuation member.

Abstract: An adjustable-pin hinge for mounting doors or hatches onto supporting doorframes. The hinge includes a first hinge element to be attached to the doorframe, a second hinge element to be attached to the door, and a pin to be assembled with the first and second hinge elements to allow mutual rotation thereof. The pin has first and second parts having spaced-apart parallel axes. The first part of the pin is cylindrical and allows free rotation of one of the first and second hinge elements. The second part of the pin includes a keying portion that may be keyed in a number of angular positions on the seat of the first hinge element.

Abstract: A door hinge mask completely protects a door hinge during painting, is reusable, can be used on a hanging door easily and allows movement of the door during the painting process. The device includes two portions used in combination; one portion for protecting the hinge plates and a portion for protecting the hinge cylinder. The hinge plate protector is made from a flexible material and removably attaches to the hinge plates using a magnetic material. The hinge cylinder protector is also made from a flexible material and removably attaches to the hinge cylinder using a magnetic material. The two portions used in combination completely protect the door hinge during painting.

Abstract: A hinge structure includes a pivot shaft, a bracket, a fastening member, and at least one internally toothed clamp ring located between the pivot shaft and the bracket. The bracket and the clamp rings are sequentially mounted on the pivot shaft and the fastening member is screwed to a tightening section at an end of the pivot shaft. The pivot shaft and a mounting arm on the bracket are separately connected to a mainframe and a screen of a clam-type electronic apparatus, such as a notebook computer. The teeth of the clamp rings would firmly engage with and grip at an outer surface of the pivot shaft to prevent the fastening member from turning along with the screen when the latter is pivotally turned relative to the mainframe. Therefore the fastening member would not separate from the pivot shaft after the screen has been pivotally turned many times.

Abstract: A device for treatment of a traveling yarn with a steam-creating medium includes a column of several chambers provided with yarn inlet- and yarn outlet-channels and arranged one over the other, of which one of the chambers is a steam treatment chamber provided with a steam inlet and a condensate outlet with respect to which mixing chambers are respectively operated upstream and downstream thereof, with each such mixing chamber respectively having an air inlet and a condensate outlet. The yarn inlet- and yarn outlet-channels have an opening cross section that, on the one hand, makes possible a pneumatic yarn threading-in and, on the other hand, controls the exchange of air and steam between the chambers such that a steam-air-mixture atmosphere sets in that substantially forecloses the entrance of air into the steam treatment chamber.

Abstract: In an arrangement at a draw frame comprising a suction device for removing dust, fibre dust and the like, in which a funnel and a pair of draw-off rollers are present at the outlet of the draw frame immediately after a web-guiding element, the suction removal device is able to encompass the region between the outlet of the funnel and the nip between the draw-off rollers. In order to catch and remove waste that is released effectively, the flow channel of the suction removal device is able to substantially encompass the intake region of the funnel and projects laterally beyond the intake region of the funnel.

Abstract: The facemask tape-adjuster is an adjusting device for the tapes of facemasks comprising of a upper piece and a lower piece respectively made joint at one edge, in which the inner face of upper piece is made to have pressing region complementary to that which is made on the inner face of bottom piece, which are further mounted between by a two-stage buckling structure, wherein opposing two of four tapes are held between the complementary inner faces reverse-overlapped through opposing ends of the adjuster, which upon first clipping stage there is space given between the two piece allowing the two tapes limited mobility for adjustment, which further upon second clipping stage the space is minimized to such that the two tapes become held fixed.

Abstract: A reversible fastener that can be positioned in one of two alternate display positions without removing the fastener from the underlying garment is provided. The unique configuration of the fastener coupled with a means for rotatably attaching the fastener facilitates the reversibility of the fastener without requiring its removal. The reversible fastener is useful in a variety of applications including garments, jewelry and footwear. Further, one embodiment of the present invention is also useful in providing a structural anchoring means.

Abstract: A fitting portion of a rotational member of a shoestring tying apparatus is fit to a rotational cap serving as an operating member of a fastening member for winding up and fastening a shoestring. The fitting portion serves as a connection between a driving mechanism and the rotational cap. When the user pulls an operating cord serving as a portion of a driving mechanism, a rotational member is rotated, and a spring included in the rotational member is wound. The rotational cap is rotated through the fitting portion due to rotation of the rotational member, thereby quickly rotating the fastening member. Thus, the fastening member can be rotated several dozen times by an operation in which the operating cord is alternately extracted and retracted several times. This provides a shoestring tying apparatus with excellent portability and appearance for easily and quickly fastening a shoestring in a sure manner.

Abstract: Coil-like or zigzag-like linear fastener elements formed of synthetic fiber mono-filaments are attached such that coupling heads project from a side edge of a fastener tape and at least one coupling head thereof located at a top end is moved to the inside of the fastener tape so as to substantially coincide with the side edge. Then, the fastener element is fused to the fastener tape in a state in which an inverted portion project inwardly while the coupling heads are in a non-coupling condition, so as to form a top end stop. The top end stop formed of the linear fastener element includes plasticity and provides an excellent tactile feeling without any burr on the surface thereof.

Abstract: A woven loop fastener product including a fabric base having ground yarns including interwoven warp yarns and filling yarns extending respectively in warp and filling directions, and pile yarns interwoven with the fabric base and forming engageable loops extending from one side of the fabric base for engagement with hooks. The pile yarns include filaments having a nominal diameter and the pile yarn filaments extend from a near side of the fabric base to a mean loop height less than about 30 times the nominal pile yarn filament diameter.

Abstract: A strip-form touch fastener component includes a resin base having a front surface from which an array of molded plastic fastener elements project, and a reinforcing knit fabric directly laminated to a side of the resin base opposite the fastener elements, the fabric having float filament sections extending generally along an outer surface of a back side of the fastener component. The float sections are connected to the back side of the fastener component only at their ends, and otherwise lie against the back side of the fastener component to reinforce the resin base against tearing.

Abstract: A male touch fastener component having a sheet-form base and an array of molded fastener elements having stems and heads having lower surfaces forming an arched crook for retaining loops. The crooks have particularly high crook angles, such that a maximum side angle measured about the crook from a line normal to the forward edge of the stem at an elevation from the base corresponding to a lowermost extent of the tip, to a normal to the lower head surface, is greater than about 180 degrees.

Abstract: Molded touch fastener elements or hooks that feature a head or crook that is quite large with respect to the size of the overall hook, or with respect to the entrance below the hook heads through which the loops must pass for engagement to occur. The hooks are particularly useful for high cycle life applications when mated with low loft loops.

Abstract: A releasable touch fastener includes a loop component and a hook component, with a particularly small overall engaged thickness in combination with a high fastening strength, both in peel and shear. The loop component is a woven material, while the hook component may be woven or molded. The molded hook component includes a scrim reinforcement for tear resistance and sewability. The fastener is useful for high cycle applications, such as on non-disposable garments, footwear and luggage.

Abstract: A plastic male touch fastener component has a sheet-form base and an array of male fastener elements, each including a stem extending outwardly from and integrally with the sheet-form base, and two heads extending in essentially opposite directions in an engagement plane from a distal end of the stem to corresponding tips, the fastener element having an upper surface that defines a well between the heads. The fastener element is dimensioned with proportionately large heads for the size of the fastener, that nevertheless have clearance to distend to release loops. The shape of the fastener element also allows for demold from closed mold cavities.

Abstract: A novelty figurine and carabiner storage assembly is provided. The figurine comprises a head portion, a body portion located proximate to the head portion, and at least one carabiner attachment assembly extending from the body portion for selectively allowing the figurine to be attached to or removed from another item able to receive the attachment assembly. The carabiner attachment assembly comprises at least first and second leg assemblies, with one of the leg assemblies having a selectively openable gate assembly extending therealong. The body portion has at least one substantially hollow interior section and at least one selectively openable door assembly for access into the substantially hollow interior section.

Abstract: A casket comprises a shell having a pair of opposed side walls and a pair of opposed end walls, the walls defining an upper edge of the shell, a lid closeable upon the edge of the shell and a cover securable to the shell and concealing the edge when the lid is open, the cover being at least semi-rigid. The cover preferably conceals only the edge of the shell. The casket can be fabricated of either wood or metal. If metal, the shell edge can carry a rubber gasket for sealing between the shell and the lid, the cover concealing the gasket. The cover can be fabricated from a plastic, cardboard, wood or metal. If plastic, the cover can be molded or extruded. If cardboard, the cover can be covered with a decorative fabric, painted or printed with decorative surface ornamentation.

Abstract: An embedded capacitor structure in a circuit board and a method for fabricating the same are proposed. The circuit board is formed with a first circuit layer on at least one surface thereof, wherein the first circuit layer has at least one first electrode plate for the capacitor structure. Then, a dielectric layer is formed on the first circuit layer and made flush with the first circuit layer. The dielectric layer has a relatively low dielectric constant and good fluidity to effectively fill the spaces between patterned traces of the first circuit later. A capacitive material is deposited on the dielectric layer and the first circuit layer. Finally, a second circuit layer is formed on the capacitive material and has at least one second electrode plate corresponding to the first electrode plate, together with the capacitive material disposed in-between, to form the capacitor structure.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method of making an electrochemical capacitor electrode comprising a collector and an electronically conductive porous layer formed on the collector while keeping an electric contact therewith. The porous layer contains at least a porous particle made of a carbon material having an electronic conductivity and a binder capable of binding the porous particle. The method comprises a plasma processing step of subjecting a material to high-frequency thermal plasma processing in a plasma gas atmosphere so as to yield the porous particle. All the manufacturing steps subsequent to the plasma processing step are carried out in an inert gas atmosphere.

Abstract: A crankshaft production machine for manufacture of crankshafts (15) having centric and eccentric surfaces to be machined, the said crankshafts being chucked rotatably around a C axis (5, 6), comprises a headstock, a counter spindle or tailstock, at least one displaceable longitudinal slide (17, 18), and drive units with motors for the drive motion of the crankshaft around the C axis and for the feed motion of subassemblies for tool spindles (8, 11) as well as the tools, wherein the respective motors in at least one drive unit used to drive the workpiece spindles (1, 3) and in at least one drive unit used to drive the tool spindles (8, 11) are configured as torque motors (2, 4, 10, 13).

Abstract: A device for removing modular forms comprises an elongated shaft having a rearward end and a forward end. A pulling head is fixedly coupled to a forward end of the shaft. The pulling head engages a form to be removed from a wall. A slide hammer is slidably coupled to the shaft for generating an impact force to the form via the pulling head to thereby break a bond between the form and the wall.

Abstract: A drawstringing kit including a needle and a guard is disclosed. The needle includes an eyelet for receiving a drawstring. A tunnel of the damaged product is adapted to receive the needle to facilitate stringing of the drawstring through the tunnel. The guard is positioned about at least a portion of a perimeter of the damaged product. A method for repairing an automotive seat assembly is also disclosed. The method includes the steps of removing a damaged, originally-manufactured drawstring from a tunnel of a seat cover; restringing a replacement drawstring through the tunnel; positioning the seat cover over the seat assembly; and maintaining structural integrity of the replacement drawstring and tunnel. An apparatus for repairing an automotive seat assembly is also disclosed.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for replacing riveted metal components in place on existing metal structures. The method includes the steps of positioning a rivet removing tool at a rivet on an in situ structural component that is maintained in place by a plurality of rivets, encoding the position of the rivet removing tool at the rivet and transmitting the encoded position of the rivet to a processor, removing the rivet, sequentially moving the rivet removing tool to each of the rivets on the structural component that hold the structural component in place, sequentially encoding the position of the rivet removing tool at each rivet, transmitting the encoded the position of each rivet to the processor, and removing each rivet with the tool when the tool is at the rivet, designing a replacement component based upon the encoded positions of the rivets and fabricating the replacement component based on the transmitted rivet positions.

Abstract: A jack assembly is provided for supporting a brake assembly, particularly an air disc brake caliper. The jack assembly includes a base having a telescoping cylinder that extends therefrom. A support member is secured on an opposite end of the cylinder and includes a securing arrangement for attaching the support member to an associated brake carrier. The support member is rotated about a vertical axis, translated along an horizontal plane provided by the wheels on the base, raised and lowered in height by the selectively extending cylinder, and/or pivoted along a connection with the cylinder. In this manner, the jack assembly is advantageously positioned adjacent the brake assembly, the caliper housing secured to the jack assembly, and then the jack assembly carries the caliper housing to a desired location for service.

Abstract: Core sand elements are rapidly and reliably retained in an assembly by driving one or more smooth surface fasteners, such as staples, nails or brads, into the core elements. Such an assembly method comprises positioning at least two core elements in a core assembly, positioning a smooth surface fastener for entry into the at least two core elements, and driving the smooth surface fastener into the two core elements to fasten them in the core assembly. In such a preferred method, the smooth surface fastener comprises a staple with two smooth surface tines connected by a crown and the staple is positioned for entry of one tine into each of two core elements with the crown of the staple spanning the interface between the two core elements.

Abstract: Buoys are used for mooring purposes and as navigational marks. An embodiment of the invention is explained in relation to catenary anchor leg mooring (CALM) buoys. Conventional CALM buoys generally have a hull constructed of steel plate by traditional ship building techniques requiring plate benders. Webs, beams and girders are welded inside the hull which is divided into several tanks. The buoy has a central moonpool and a steel turntable. Bending plate, in effect, doubles its cost. A method of constructing a buoy is disclosed comprising constructing a framework and affixing steel plates to it.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for coupling a tubular member to a preexisting structure. The tubular member is anchored to the preexisting structure and an expansion member is pulled through the tubular member to radially expand the tubular member.

Abstract: An axial swaging tool including a housing defining a chamber, a piston rod held statically in the chamber, a piston conformingly receiving and slidable along the piston rod, a ram conformingly receiving and slidable on a first end of the piston rod, a first engagement member statically positioned on the housing, a second engagement member positioned on the piston, and a spring adjoining the piston and an end of the piston rod. The spring is configured to bias the piston away from a second end of the piston rod, such that the second engagement member is biased away from the first engagement member, the piston rod is biased against a first end of the housing, and piston is biased against the ram, which in turn is biased against a second end of the housing.

Abstract: The method according to the invention for riveting, or self-piercing, by means of a riveting or self-piercing device (8), having a male die (3) guided by a pick-up device (4), both of which in each case can be moved towards a female die (5) and/or a workpiece (6), wherein the female die (5) and riveting or self-piercing device (8) will be connected to one another via a counterforce structure (9). The relative movement between the pick-up device (4) and the counterforce structure (9) is measured by a first sensor (1), and the relative movement between counterforce structure (9) and male die (3) is measured by a second sensor (2). The depth of the riveting or piercing is adjusted with the aid of the two measured values.

Abstract: In a method for integrally forming a protruded shaft in the base of a sealed case for a memory device in which a storage medium is housed, a metal plate for manufacturing the base is placed on a die having a hole with an inside diameter that corresponds to an outside diameter of the protruded shaft, and a portion for forming the protruded shaft in the metal plate is positioned over the hole. The portion for forming the protruded shaft in the metal plate is pressed by a press tool from the side opposite the die, and the material of the portion for forming the protruded shaft is moved into the hole to form a hollow protrusion sealed off at a distal end. The sealed distal end in the protuberance is compression-molded from a direction opposite the press direction of the press tool by a compression tool disposed in the hole, and the protruded shaft is obtained. The protruded shaft with a large effective length that is free of cracks and ruptures can be integrally formed in the base.

Abstract: The method of the present invention is intended to be used in association with a headed fastener such as a tee nut, but not limited to a tee nut. The present method contemplates embodiments of a riveting pin having protuberances that cause the flared end of the shaft to be flared in one or more discontinuous portions of the circumference of the shaft, whereby “push out” and “spin-out” are deterred. Where the length of the fastener shaft is no longer than the thickness of the material through which it is inserted, a first design of flaring pin is provided. Where the length of the shaft of the fastener employed is greater than the thickness of the material through which it extends, a second embodiment of flaring pin is employed. In the former case, at least one discrete portion of the circumference of the shaft is flared into the wall of the passageway through which the shaft extends.

Abstract: A microscale device provides for a nanoscale machining. A tool, similar to probes used in atomic force microscopy is attached to a micro-load gear and is powered by a micromotor. This very small tool allows a variety of nanostructures to be fabricated on a variety of substrates.

Abstract: An attachment for a hand-held power tool, such as a rotary cutting tool, is disclosed. The attachment is configured for selective coupling to a rotary cutting tool and includes a handle that is substantially perpendicular to a central longitudinal axis of the rotary cutting tool when the attachment is coupled to the rotary cutting tool.

Abstract: In manufacturing a stator coil for a rotary electric machine, a U-shaped segment is deformed at the turn portion thereof so that one of two straight portions thereof moves against the other one in a direction generally perpendicular to a borderline which connects two bordering points between the straight portions and the turn portion. The segment is twisted by moving the straight portions apart from each other. The segment is inserted into slots formed in a stator core so that the turn portion and end portions of the straight portions protrude from both axial end surfaces of the stator core. The end portions are folded in the circumferential direction of the stator core. The tips of the end portions are connected to tips of other segments.

Abstract: The aim of the invention is to obtain a cost-effective solution for providing a microsystem with bearings, which have sufficiently high precision and long-term stress resistance. The invention proposes a method for manufacturing, adapting or adjusting a bearing portion in a fluidal microcomponent (M) comprising a stator (30) and a rotor (40,2). Said rotor is rotatably supported on the at least one bearing portion (L10,L11) relative to said stator. Said rotor (40,2) is rotatably supported by a sleeve (10, 11) inserted into said stator (30), for forming said bearing portion, the at least one sleeve being inserted in said stator as a bearing sleeve and comprising an inner surface and an outer surface (10i, 10a; 11i, 11a). Before being inserted in said stator, said bearing sleeve (10, 11) is a separate bearing component comprising an inner surface (10i, 11i) as an inner bearing surface, which is mechanically micro-finished before being inserted into said stator (30).

Abstract: A method of manufacturing media reference surfaces for use in a flexible data storage card is described that includes providing a metal sheet and processing the metal sheet into a plurality of media reference surfaces. The metal sheet has a first side and a second side, where at least one side has an optically smooth surface characterized by an average surface roughness not greater than 8 micro-inch. Each media reference surface is characterized by having at least one curved edge adjacent the optically smooth surface. The processing is characterized by an absence of hand polishing.

Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for using a test slider to test the resonance performance of a head gimbal assembly. The test slider has a two-stripe air-bearing surface to allow the test slider to glide above a surface and a block with a mass equal to the combined mass of the electrical slider and the micro-actuator. The leading edge of the slider is tapered and has a main air groove to facilitate gliding. A back step on the side of the test slider opposite the air bearing surface maintains a parallel gap between the slider and the suspension tongue of the head gimbal assembly.

Abstract: A ferrite assembly has a first conductor and a number of ferrite members. Each of the number of ferrite members has a core. The ferrite members are in electrical communication with the first conductor. The ferrite assembly has a number of current dividing members in electrical communication with the first conductor. The current dividing members define a number of passages for allowing an airflow therethrough.

Abstract: In a method of making an electrochemical device including an electrochemical element comprising a pair of opposing electrode layers, a separator layer disposed between the pair of electrode layers, and an electrolyte existing between the pair of electrode layers; an ionic liquid is applied to at least one of the electrode and separator layers, and then the electrode and separator layers are laminated together.

Abstract: Various models of engines and transmissions can be installed in an engine room model in a relatively easy manner. As a result, efficiency of inspecting the engine room is optimized by using the engine room model and various potential problems which may occur in a mass production of vehicles are discovered and can be prevented in advance.