Abstract: An apparatus comprises a reciprocating or Wankel engine, an exhaust gas passageway fluidly coupled to the engine, and a fuel-fired burner. The burner is positioned in the exhaust gas passageway and comprises a swirler configured to swirl exhaust gas of the engine so as to stabilize in the exhaust gas passageway a flame generated by the burner without use of supplemental combustion air when the engine is operating above idle. An associated method is disclosed.

Abstract: According to some embodiments, at least one spring element is provided for a load compensator along with a restraining portion that maintains a pre-load compression for the spring element. Moreover, at least one surface may be provided to transfer force associated with an integrated circuit and a set of electrical contacts.

Abstract: A hydrostatic continuously variable transmission comprises: a hydraulic pump; a power input shaft engaged with the hydraulic pump to transmit power from a power source to the hydraulic pump; a hydraulic motor in hydraulic communication with the hydraulic pump; a casing that houses the hydraulic pump and the hydraulic motor; a port block mounted to the casing, the port block having a block main body and a cover member connected to a power input side of the block main body, said cover member having an outer surface; a cooling hydraulic path provided in the port block in a region where the block main body and the cover member meet, the cooling hydraulic path being connected to a first hydraulic path in the port block, the cooling hydraulic path having a plurality of bends; a cooling fan provided on the power input shaft to provide air flow directly to the outer surface of the cover member.

Abstract: A pressure compensating flow control hydraulic circuit having a holding valve is disclosed. The pressure compensating flow control hydraulic circuit can perform the function of a holding valve so as to prevent the naturally lowering phenomenon of a working unit due to the leakage of a hydraulic fluid when the working unit is located in a neutral position, and can perform the function of a flow control valve when the working unit is operated.

Abstract: The transmission includes an orbital gear complex in combination with a variable hydraulic pump and motor. The input to the transmission is increased in speed by the orbital gearing such that, when the pump and motor are not operating, the orbiter is stationary, and the orbital gearing produces an overdrive condition. A gear reduction is accomplished by rotating the web with the web-rotating device, providing a high gear reduction. The pump and motor are preferably long-piston hydraulic machines with infinitely variable swash plates. The hydraulic machines preferably have wobblers stabilized by full gimbals and hold-down plates with elongated holes for the long pistons to eliminate possible impacts between the hold-down plates and the head ends of the long pistons when the swash-plates are at or near their maximum angle of inclination.

Abstract: A drive mechanism for a Stirling engine includes a piston rod, a displacer rod, a first crankshaft and a second crankshaft. The piston rod has a first end and a second end. The first end of the piston rod is configured to be coupled to a power piston of the Stirling engine. The displacer rod has a first end and a second end, the first end being configured to be coupled to a displacer piston of the Stirling engine. A rhombic drive mechanism comprises a plurality of pivotally connected connection members. The rhombic drive mechanism is configured to convert the linear movement of the piston rod to rotational movement of the first and second crankshaft and to convert linear movement of the piston rod to movement of the displacer rod. A guide is configured to substantially prevent lateral motion while allowing axial movement of at least one of the displacer rod and the piston rod.

Abstract: A combustion unit (15) is primarily intended to feed a turbocharger (18) to generate a compressed air supply to an internal combustion engine (10). The unit (15) is supplied with exhaust gases from the engine and these gases are mixed with air in the unit combust material in the exhaust gases and give and enhanced supply to the turbocharger. The combustion unit is generally cylindrical and air is added to the exhaust gases at the inlet (13) to promote combustion and the combustion gases pass at high speed through an annuler space towards an outlet (17) leading to the turbocharger (18).

Abstract: A method and a system (10) for exhausting gas via a nozzle (19, 21) of a gas turbine engine, for example. The system (10) comprises a nozzle (19, 21) comprising a nozzle body portion (32, 33, 74) defining a nozzle exit (42, 43), characterised in that the nozzle body portion (32, 33, 74) comprises fluid injection means (60), positioned upstream of the exit (42, 43) relative to a fluid flow (F1, F2) created by the operation of the system, for injecting fluid (68) upstream of the exit (42, 43).

Abstract: A combustor has a flow sleeve and a flow liner defining a generally axial flow direction of compressor discharge air toward combustor burners. A casing is secured to the forward end of the flow sleeve defining an annular plenum along the interior of the flow sleeve. Openings through the flow sleeve supply compressor discharge air into the plenum where the air changes direction for flow through apertures into and generally coaxially with the free air stream. The axial injection minimizes or eliminates energy losses due to cross flow injection within the axial air stream while continuing to cool the liner.

Abstract: A method of detecting at least one engine condition of a gas turbine engine using a microphone disposed outside a region of the gas turbine engine to be monitored. The method includes receiving a signal produced by the microphone in response to audible frequencies, analyzing the signal to determine at least one signal characteristic representative of the engine condition, and detecting the engine condition based on the signal produced by the microphone.

Abstract: A control apparatus 50 for a gas turbine engine for an aircraft includes engine control means 52 forming part of an outer fuel control loop and fuel control means/overthrust protector 76 forming part of an inner fuel control loop. Overthrust protection is provided within each of the engine control means 52 and the fuel control means/overthrust protector 76, which are powered and housed separately. Thus, a failure within one of these systems could not result in overthrust and demonstrably reliable overthrust protection is provided within a single channel.

Abstract: A gas turbine engine is piloted with a pilot flow of fuel delivered to a combustor as a liquid. A first additional flow of the fuel is also delivered to the combustor as a liquid. A second additional flow of the fuel is vaporized and delivered to the combustor as a vapor. A fuel injector may have passageways associated with each of the three flows.

Abstract: A fuel injection system has a fuel lance for supplying gaseous fuel to the burner of a gas turbine engine. The fuel lance includes a gas sensor that is used to monitor the concentration of the methane fuel inside the gas pilot channel of the fuel lance. The invention prevents overheating caused by the ignition of the methane fuel inside the fuel lance by monitoring the concentration of the methane fuel during the purge sequence and taking action if a critical fuel air mixture is reached.

Abstract: An absorbent container cover is described. The container cover may be a multilayer container cover. The container cover may include a body. The body may include an interior shell, an exterior shell, and a lining. The lining may include hydrophilic material. The container cover may absorb liquid from an exterior surface of a container and inhibit release of the liquid. The container cover may be sized and/or shaped to fit snugly around an exterior surface of a beverage container (e.g., a glass bottle, a plastic bottle, an aluminum can, a drink box, a cup). At least a portion of the container cover may be elastic. The container cover may be self-cooling. The container cover may be flattened into a substantially rectangular shape and/or folded for packaging or storage before use. The container cover may be disposable.

Abstract: System for cooling a pumpable material comprising an inline continuous mechanical mixer having a feed inlet, a liquid cryogen inlet, and a cooled product outlet; a cryogenic liquid delivery and injection system adapted to introduce a liquid cryogen into the liquid cryogen inlet; and a feed pump adapted to introduce the pumpable material into the feed inlet.

Abstract: System for cooling a pumpable material comprising an inline continuous mechanical mixer having a feed inlet, a liquid cryogen inlet, and a cooled product outlet; a cryogenic liquid delivery and injection system adapted to introduce a liquid cryogen into the liquid cryogen inlet; and a feed system adapted to introduce the pumpable material into the feed inlet.

Abstract: The invention relates to a cooling apparatus, especially for cryogenically preserving biological samples, comprising a duct (5) for delivering a coolant (3) to a cooling chamber (1), a heater (6) that has an adjustable first heating performance (P2) for heating the coolant (3) delivered to the cooling chamber (1), a first temperature sensor (8-10) for measuring the temperature (T2-T4) in the cooling chamber (1), a second temperature sensor (7) for measuring the temperature (T1) of the coolant (3) delivered to the cooling chamber (1), and a regulator (11) for regulating the temperature. Said regulator (11) is embodied as a multiple regulator which detects several temperatures (T1-T4) as control variables and/or adjusts several heating performances (P1, P2) as manipulated variables. The invention further relates to a corresponding operating method.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method for controlling the operation of a unitary air conditioner, which diversify signals to be transmitted using existing connection lines for transmitting signals by adjusting an interval between ON and OFF signals, etc., thereby allowing the unitary air conditioner to be operated in various modes.

Abstract: According to some embodiments, a capillary tube may be utilized to facilitate bubble containment in liquid cooling systems. For example, a system may comprise a first volume to contain a liquid, a second volume to contain the liquid and a gas, a capillary tube configured to hydraulically couple the first and second volumes, an inlet coupled to the first volume to receive the liquid from an electronics cooling system, and an outlet coupled to the first volume to provide the liquid to the electronics cooling system.

Abstract: An ice making machine composed of a water tank for storing an amount of ice making water, an upright ice making plate arranged above the water tank, and a water sprinkler located immediately above the ice making plate to spray ice making water supplied from the water tank to the ice making plate so that the ice making water falls along the ice making plate, in which the ice making water sprayed to the ice making plate during operation at an ice making mode is frozen and formed into ice cubes in the course of falling along the ice making plate.

Abstract: The invention relates to a cassette (1) for molding of ice mass for consumer ice products, comprising at least one inner chamber (14, 21) for a flow of coolant or heating medium, where this flow runs into at least one inner chamber (14, 21) through one or more inlets (16) and out of the cassette (1) through one or more outlets (17). The invention is characterized in that at least the parts which separate the coolant and heating medium from the ice mass are made of a plastic material, where this plastic material has a thermal conductivity which is greater than the thermal conductivity of the ice mass.

Abstract: Refrigerator and an ice maker, the refrigerator including an ice maker, an ice bank for receiving ice from the ice maker, and discharging the ice, an ice moving device movably mounted for receiving ice from the ice bank, and discharging the ice to a dispenser, and a driving device for moving the ice moving device, thereby obtaining ice without bending oneself.

Abstract: An apparatus and method are provided for rapidly cooling small volumes of fluids. The apparatus includes a plurality of cooling elements each including a housing forming a sealable cooling fluid chamber which can house a cooling fluid. At least one spacer is arranged to separate opposed cooling elements and provide a separation distance between the opposed cooling elements. Each of the plurality of cooling elements is arranged to be independently separable to allow ready assembly, disassembly, and cleaning. The plurality of cooling elements can include a stack of disc-shaped cooling elements or concentric cylinders that can be situated in a container and rotated by a motor.

Abstract: A combined air-conditioning ventilator includes a combining member bored with several through holes. A plurality of faceplates are assembled under the combining member and respectively bored with a wind outlet communicating with the through hole of the combining member. At least one wind-collecting box is assembled on the combining member and bored with wind-exhausting vents communicating with the through holes of the combining member for blowing and sending cold air to the wind outlets of the faceplates. A vaporizer, a motor and a blower are installed on the faceplates, with the vaporizer connected with the wind-collecting box. The combined air-conditioning ventilator can be assembled or dissembled quickly and conveniently, saving cost and exhausting out cold air to distant locations.

Abstract: A 3-in-1 diaper bag/cooler/bottle warmer or baby food warmer has three separate compartments. Two outside zip closed pockets each have insulated foil lining and sewn in mesh pockets. One compartment on one side of the bag has cooling packs such as ice packs in the compartment to keep milk and baby food cold. Another compartment on another side of the bag also has wrap around heating packs that can warm up a chilled bottle or jar of baby food. The center compartment between the two outside compartments holds a baby's essentials that will be needed while away from home, such as diapers, wipes, clothes, and blankets and serves as in insulating layer between the other two compartments.

Abstract: A drive system for a refrigeration compressor such as is used in a natural gas liquefaction plant, allowing the desired compressor speed and maximum turbine efficiency to be maintained throughout varying ambient temperature conditions. A gas turbine is used with an electric starter motor with drive-through capability located on a common drive shaft between the turbine and the compressor. A variable frequency drive (VFD) is connected between the electrical power grid and the electric motor for smooth startups, but also to allow excess turbine mechanical power to be converted to electrical power by the motor operating as a generator, and delivered to the grid at the grid frequency. Pulse width modulation technology may be used to reduce harmonic distortion in the VFD's output. The starter motor also functions as a helper motor when the turbine output is insufficient to drive the compressor at the rotational speed needed to meet throughput requirements.

Abstract: A process for the recovery of ethane, ethylene, propane, propylene, and heavier hydrocarbon components from a hydrocarbon gas stream is disclosed. The stream is cooled and is thereafter expanded to the fractionation tower pressure and supplied to the fractionation tower at a lower mid-column feed position. A distillation stream is withdrawn from the column below the feed point of the stream and is then directed into heat exchange relation with the tower overhead vapor stream to cool the distillation stream and condense at least a part of it, forming a condensed stream. At least a portion of the condensed stream is directed to the fractionation tower at an upper mid-column feed position. A recycle stream is withdrawn from the tower overhead after it has been warmed and compressed. The compressed recycle stream is cooled sufficiently to substantially condense it, and is then expanded to the pressure of the fractionation tower and supplied to the tower at a top column feed position.

Abstract: A cryogenic air separation system wherein nitrogen vapor from a higher pressure column and oxygen liquid from a lower pressure column each pass down through a once-through main condenser in heat exchange relation and some but not all of the oxygen liquid is vaporized such that the oxygen liquid and vapor exit the condenser in a liquid to vapor mass flowrate ratio within the range of from 0.05 to 0.5 whereby the need for a recirculation pump to ensure avoidance of oxygen boiling to dryness is eliminated.

Abstract: The devices for manufacturing glass performs comprise multiple gob casting molds, devices for displacing the gob casting molds and an atmosphere regulating mechanism. In one aspect, the atmosphere regulating mechanism independently regulates an atmosphere to which the glass is exposed on the gob casting molds in the casting area, molding area, or removal area relative to an atmosphere of at least one other area. In a second aspect, the atmosphere regulating mechanism divides the molding area into multiple subareas, and independently regulates an atmosphere to which the glass on the gob casting molds is exposed in at least one of the multiple subareas relative to the atmosphere in at least one other subarea and/or at least one other area.

Abstract: A mold split insert for use in a molding stack assembly, and in particular a preform mold neck ring insert for use in an injection molding stack assembly for making bottle mold preforms. The split insert comprises a body with a molding surface configured thereon. The split insert also includes a coolant channel configured in the body with a partition arranged therein. The partition dividing a portion of the coolant channel into a first and a second branch. A transfer coolant channel is configured between the branches.

Abstract: The washing machine comprises a support structure in which is suspended a washing chamber in which a laundry drum is mounted to be rotatable, and in which a detector is provided, capable of providing electrical signals indicating the level of the washing liquid in the chamber. The detector comprises an inductive transducer including a coil and an associated core, the relative position of which is variable according to the level of the washing liquid such that the inductance of the coil varies accordingly. The inductive transducer is coupled to the laundry drum in such a way that the inductance of the coil is variable also according to the weight of the load contained in the drum.

Abstract: A tile sponge washing and conditioning apparatus is disclosed for washing in water a sponge used during a ceramic tile grouping operation. The apparatus includes a frame for disposition thereof within the water. The frame includes a first wall and a second wall which is disposed spaced from the first wall. A first roller has an axis of rotation which extends through the walls and a second roller has a rotational axis which extends through the walls. The rollers cooperate with each other to define therebetween a passageway for the passage therethrough of the sponge to be washed and conditioned such that when the rollers are counter rotated relative to each other, the sponge is squeezed and driven through the passageway so that the sponge is washed and conditioned by the water during passage of the sponge through the passageway. An electric motor is drivingly connected to at least one of the rollers for rotating the rollers.

Abstract: The invention relates to a previously known water-permeable drum for hydrodynamically needling webs of textile materials such as nonwovens, tissue, cloth, knitted fabrics, or similar in order to reinforce and structure said textile materials and/or refine the surface thereof. Said intrinsically stable drum is provided with apertures and a tubular sieve-type cloth or knitted fabric which is made of metal wires, is pulled across the outer circumference thereof, and is fixed to the face of the drum. In order to prevent creases from forming across the area of the sieve-type cloth when the drum is used according to the specifications, the sieve-type cloth or knitted fabric is provided with a coating that stabilizes the intersections of the wires. Said coating should be a galvanically applied coating, e.g. a nickel plating.

Abstract: Household-type front loading and water-recirculating clothes washing machine adapted to automatically measure the nature of the dry clothes loaded in the machine for washing, in which the measurement of such weight of the washload is performed by measuring the amount of water that is absorbed by the clothes in the washload when this is soaked with water to a point at which it is in a dynamic saturation, i.e. steady-state condition. Said measurement of the amount of water absorbed in the clothes is obtained by subtracting the amount of water that is present in the machine, and that does not interact with the washload, from the total amount of water let into the wash tub. The nature of the load of clothes is finally calculated by processing and interpolating the amount of water that is released by said load with respect to the water previously absorbed, and comparing said data with corresponding data relevant to reference textiles, whose nature is known.

Abstract: A lockout device is provided for an instrument having a body and an actuating member extending from the body for operating the instrument. The lockout device includes a bottom member, a cover member, and a flexible member. The bottom member is adapted to be positioned over the body and includes a first holding portion and an aperture for receiving the actuating member. The cover member is connectable to the bottom member for movement between a closed position and an open position, and includes a covering portion for covering the actuating member in the closed position, and a second holding portion adapted to abut the first holding portion in the closed position. The flexible member has a first end connected to one of the bottom member and the cover member. The bottom member and cover member are adapted to receive a cinching portion of the flexible member between the first and second holding portions.

Abstract: A lock is provided with a housing, a shackle movably coupled to the housing, and a locking arrangement movable between a locked state and an unlocked state. The lock includes a receiver arranged to receive a remote input signal including at least one authorization code. The lock includes a logic applying arrangement programmed to selectively store at least one access code responsive to a corresponding authorization code received by the receiver and to energize the locking arrangement to move from the locked state to the unlocked state when an authorization code received by the receiver corresponds with one of a set of stored access codes. The locking arrangement is configured to secure the shackle within the housing when the locking arrangement is in the locked state, and the locking arrangement is configured to allow the shackle to move relative to the housing when the locking arrangement is in the unlocked state.

Abstract: The description relates to a snap fastening for fixing a thin wall, such as a housing wall, door leaf, shutter, or the like, which is provided with an opening, to a wall support such as a housing frame, door frame, wall opening edge, or the like, which is likewise provided with an opening, with a base part that can be arranged at the wall support in its opening, with a head part which extends away from this base part and which has a diameter that initially increases and then decreases again in its longitudinal section from the end of the head part in direction of the base part, which head part is a male plug-in part which, by overcoming a spring force acting radially outward in direction of the diameter, can be received by an undercut female plug-in part that is formed or carried by the opening of the thin wall.

Abstract: A cylinder lock having a body and a modified cam, the cylinder lock being adapted for moving an external element arranged to engage the modified cam, so that the external element slides axially on the cylinder lock body. In a preferred embodiment, the inventive cylinder lock is designed to utilize a helical cam which engages a movable sleeve, and this design is referred to as the HC cylinder lock. When operated by rotating the appropriate key within it, the movable sleeve can be moved in a linear fashion along the length of the HC cylinder lock thus converting rotational motion of the key to axial motion of the external element. This axial motion is used to position at least one locking bolt, of which the sleeve itself may be one, for the function of locking or unlocking a device. The streamlined design of the inventive HC cylinder lock enables efficient placement of a door lock within the hollow volume of a door.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an arrangement for a lock (2) for doors (3). An electromechanical unit (6), with an integral electrically driven stepping motor (7), which is intended to operate the lock handle by actuation of the motor (7), is capable of being applied to the inside (3A) of the door (3). An electronic unit, which is capable of being actuated by an electronic key, is capable of being mounted on the outside of the door (3), which unit is so arranged as to interact with a magnetic field with a predetermined frequency and by wireless communication between the key and the unit. A power supply unit is provided, and a central processor unit is so arranged as to monitor the aforementioned electromechanical unit (6) and an RFID reader contained in the electronic unit. Arranged between the motor (7) and the lock (2) is a rotating driver (13) for transferring the force from the motor (7) to the lock (2).

Abstract: The present invention improves upon conventional composting by adding a dryer to the system to evaporate moisture. In the high efficiency composting process of the present invention, recycled, dehydrated compost material replaces the bulking agent to adjust the moisture of material entering the fermentor. The invention results in a substantial volume reduction of the fermentor.

Abstract: An improved system for processing a liquid manure and producing organic fertilizer includes equipment for separating various components of the liquid manure having different nitrogen to phosphorous ratios and then mixing these components so as to produce an organic fertilizer with a predetermined nitrogen to phosphorus ratio.

Abstract: Disclosed are a fertilizer containing a sparingly water-soluble phosphatic fertilizer and an urea/aliphatic aldehyde condensation product. The process for controlling inorganizing speed of urea/aliphatic aldehyde condensation product comprises adding to the urea/aliphatic aldehyde condensation product a sparingly water-soluble phosphatic fertilizer having special elution characteristics. The fertilizer of the invention and the process for controlling inorganizing speed of urea/aliphatic aldehyde condensation product of the invention make it possible to control the inorganizing speed of the condensation product without changing the particle size or form. The fertilizers of the invention or the urea/aliphatic aldehyde condensation products can provide nitrogen components to plant in accordance with the periods of culture of desired crops and a pattern of absorbing nutrition. This is effective in saving of the number of additional fertilization or nitrogen components left in soil after the period of culture.

Abstract: Dithiocarbamate and phosphite containing fertilizers, as well as methods of making and methods of using these fertilizers, are disclosed.

Abstract: The subject matter of the present invention is a method of shaping a metallic hollow member in a shaping tool (1, 20, 50) at increased temperature and under internal pressure, said hollow member (5) protruding at one end at least from said shaping tool (1), the configuration of the tool mold and/or the shaping parameters acting onto said hollow member being selected in such a manner that said hollow member (5, 59) substantially keeps its original shape outside said tool (1, 20, 50), with said tool being heated in the region of the cavity and a tool, said tool being completely made from a homogeneous ceramic material with the component part being heated inductively, the cavity having a tribological additional coating in order to minimize friction of the component part against the wall and/or the affinity of the component part with the material of the cavity wall.

Abstract: A pierced shell of an austenitic stainless steel having a good inner surface condition is provided, and a means is established which can perform mass production on an industrial scale of a good quality seamless steel pipe of stainless steel. An austenitic stainless steel billet with a P content of at most 0.040% and an S content of at most 0.020% is pierced under conditions such that the pipe expansion ratio H (outer diameter of shell/diameter of billet to be worked) satisfies the following equation to obtain a tube shell of an austenitic stainless steel. {P(%)/(0.025×H?0.01)}2+{S(%)/(0.015×H?0.01)}2?1 When manufacturing a seamless steel pipe of an austenitic stainless steel, the above-described shell is rolled to form a pipe.

Abstract: A spring manufacturing apparatus with a reduced number of driving sources, yet capable of adjusting the relative positions among the bending dices with higher precision when manufacturing a spring is to be provided. A second bending dice mounting slider and a third bending dice mounting slider are symmetrically located about a center line extended from a moving direction of a first bending dice mounting slider. An arm mechanically connects the first bending dice mounting slider and the second bending dice mounting slider, or the first bending dice mounting slider and the third bending dice mounting slider, so that either of a driving source that drives the second bending dice mounting slider or a driving source that drives the third-bending dice mounting slider moves the first bending dice mounting slider, thus to determine a winding direction of a wire for manufacturing a spring.

Abstract: A guide for directing a hot rolled product along a path in a rolling mill comprising at least one annular roller arranged to contact the product. The roller is rotatably supported on a shaft by bearings defining an axial gap therebetween. Fluid is delivered under pressure into the gap and internal vanes respond to the thus delivered fluid by rotatably driving the rollers.

Abstract: A method for the production of a cup-shaped article, in particular a blank of a screw cap for glass bottles or the like, from an enameled metal sheet, using two tools in a stepwise manner: 1) the blank is stamped from the metal sheet in a first tool by the relative motion between a cutting bell cooperating with a blank holder and a drawing block, and the blank is drawn around the drawing block, the width of a flange forming between the cutting bell and the blank holder being continuously reduced with a progressive degree of deformation until the flange reaches a defined width (R?r), and 2) the blank is deformed in a second tool such that the radially outwardly directed flange is deflected toward a profiling introduced in a wall of the blank.

Abstract: The invention provides a pressing apparatus using a motor, in which driving means for fast feed, which lowers a upper die to a position immediately before pressing, and a motor for pressing, which performs a pressing operation, are used to cause the driving means for fast feed and the motor for pressing to operate cooperatively, and only one position detector, which detects a present position of a slider, is provided for a set of the driving means for fast feed and the motor for pressing.

Abstract: A tube bender comprising a mandrel, a forming member connected to the mandrel for coaction with the mandrel to effectuate bending of a tube wherein the forming member has at least two bending positions defined thereon, a handle pivotally connected to said forming member, and a release member movable relative to said handle and configured to be secured in a locked position relative to said forming member when said handle is selectively moved to any of one said at least two bending positions thereby preventing relative movement between said handle and said forming member. The release member enables an operator to move the release member to an unlocked position to permit such operator to move the handle relative to the forming member between the at least two bending positions.