Abstract: A vehicle washing apparatus includes a frame extending over a path of a vehicle to be washed and having a front arch, a first arch, a second arch and a rear arch connected by side members. A first pair of wrap around rotary brushes is pivotally connected to the first arch and a second pair of wrap around rotary brushes are pivotally connected to the second arch. The second arch is at a higher height than the first arch and extends over a top of the first pair of wrap around brushes so that the length of the apparatus is shortened.

Abstract: A pig towing device is adapted for movement through a conduit having bends and open T intersections. The pig has a front leading cup and a rear trailing cup adapted to seal with the conduit for propelling the device through the conduit. The leading and trailing cups are spaced apart a predetermined distance to maintain the seal with the conduit as the pig towing device negotiates past the open T intersections. The pig towing device has a flexible body interconnecting the front leading cup and the rear trailing cup. The flexible body is urged normally into a straight position extending along a central axis thereof to maintain the front leading cup and the rear trailing cup spaced apart by the predetermined distance. The flexible body has predetermined limited flexibility permitting it to bend relative to the central axis as the pig towing device negotiates through the bends in the conduit.

Abstract: A drain cleaning tool includes a wear indicator for providing a visual indication to a user of the tool of an amount of wear in the tool. Various forms of the wear indicator and tool include a flexible plumbers cable with one or more wear detector prominences extending between turns of the cable, a tool carried on the end of the cable and couplings on the opposite ends of the cable. The flexible plumbers cable includes an elongate hollow outer body member defining a longitudinal axis and a resilient intermediate body carried within the outer body. The resilient intermediate body carried within the outer body has along its periphery at least one wear detector prominence extending radially outwardly between at least one selected turn of the helically coiled outer body. The at least one wear detector has at least one color change in the radial direction to provide a visual indication visual indication to a user of the tool of an amount of wear in the tool.

Abstract: Pre-moistened wipes for personal electronics are LCD screen safe wet wipes infused with fragrance and packaged in packaging using with Inno-Lok® technology. The wipes are intended for use in cleaning personal electronics including cellular phones, smart phones, PDA's, laptops, computers, MP3 players, music players, digital cameras, GPS devices, video game consoles and handhelds. The wipes remove dirt and grime where germs may reside, thereby limiting exchange of debris from user and device, leaving the device refreshed with fragrance.

Abstract: A combination-type golf club cleaner is provided. A combination-type golf club cleaner includes a body, and a panel attached to the body to remove extraneous substances remaining on a head of a golf club, the panel made of a material capable of generating frictional force or a coarse synthetic material.

Abstract: A multi-positionable manual toothbrush includes a toothbrush body, a toothbrush head, and a spring capable of engaging the toothbrush head at a plurality of angles with respect to the toothbrush body.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a cleaning apparatus providing a user with the ability to perform two cleaning functions with the same apparatus. According to one aspect of the present disclosure the cleaning apparatus includes an elongated body portion having first and second ends, a first tip integral with the first operative end, the first tip including a first solution for performing a first cleaning function on the electronic equipment, and a second tip integral with the second operative end, the second tip including a second solution to the second operative end for performing a second cleaning function on the electronic equipment.

Abstract: A paint brush has a handle and a paint brush head. The paint brush head is detachable from the paint brush handle. The paint brush head may be rotatable to a number of positions relative to the paint brush handle.

Abstract: A guided pool brush and pool cleaning method are described. A guided pool brush may comprise a guiding member and a brush. The guiding member may comprise at least one of a front concave downforce portion, a rear concave downforce portion, a rear concave upforce portion, and a rear flat upforce portion. A pool cleaning method may include pushing a guided pool brush alternately in a backward movement and a forward movement proximate a pool surface, the forces on the guiding member causing the guided pool brush to maintain on the pool surface during the forward movement and at least one of maintain on the pool surface or maintain slightly above the pool surface during the backward movement. The guided pool brush may allow a user to more easily and/or more effectively clean a pool surface by ensuring proper contact of the brush with the pool surface when desired.

Abstract: The present invention provides a bucket and toilet brush. The bucket includes an external cylinder and an internal container. The external cylinder includes a cylinder body, a top opening and a bottom opening. The internal container includes an accommodation space and a top periphery. The top periphery of the internal container is mated with the top opening of the external cylinder. The external cylinder and internal container are made of metals and plastics. The bucket can be applied to toilet brush products, making it possible to reduce the manufacturing cost, prevent corrosion and clean up more easily with better economic efficiency and applicability.

Abstract: A toothbrush head having a bristle carrier, and bristles held in bristle holders, the bristle holders being connected to the bristle carrier by resilient connectors which cause the holders to move resiliently as brushing pressure is applied to the bristles and also cause the bristle holders to rotate. A suitable form of connector follows a conical surface between the bristle holder and bristle carrier.

Abstract: One embodiment of an applicator comprises a brush head with a ferrule, and a brush handle. The ferrule has the head at one end and the handle at the other end. Magnetic elements, at least one of which is a magnet, are attached to the brush handle and ferrule where the two parts connect. The brush head can be removed from the handle, assembled with the handle, and switched easily whenever needed. The ferrule can be kept firmly on the handle by the action of the magnet inside. The head can be retracted by sliding a sleeve mounted on the handle forward over the sides of the head. The head, when removed from the handle, can be washed without the risk of water penetrating the sleeve mechanism. The head can also be replaced or interchanged, which can greatly enlarge the versatility of the brush and also avoids waste of material.

Abstract: A hair brush is shown and disclosed. The hair brush has a row of loops on the first side running from near the handle to the top mounted in a retention material. Next to the row of loops, is located a row of bundles of boar bristles. These groupings of boar bristles are a bundle of individual boar bristles mounted in the retention material. This alternating pattern of lines or rows of loops and bristles continues to the other side of the brush and the last row near the second side is a row of loops. The loops can be configured such that they are parallel to the sides or the top. These rows of loops on the sides of the hair brush help to keep the hair brush from pulling on and possibly damaging the hair extensions that have been installed into a users natural hair. The bundles of boar bristles provide additional shine and manageability to the hair. Also shown is an arrangement of a single loop surrounded by a plurality of bristles and mounted in the retention material.

Abstract: A cleaning implement for cleaning a ceiling fan blade is provided. The cleaning implement includes a frame, a single cleaning cloth, and gripping portion. The frame has an open end and a closed end opposite the open end so that the frame defines a fan blade receiving opening. The opening receives the ceiling fan blade therein when the ceiling fan blade has a width that is smaller than, equal to, or larger than a width of the first fan blade receiving opening. The single cleaning cloth is removably disposed on the frame so that a cleaning surface of the single cleaning cloth can contact at least one surfaces of the ceiling fan blade. The gripping portion is connected to the frame.

Abstract: A rotational remover including a body assembly and a tip drive assembly. The body assembly includes a body front containing a convoluted bearing race, a body back which fastens to the body front and a main spring housed within. The tip drive assembly includes a bearing guide having a threaded barrel at the front end which receives a tip, a center section which receives at least three ball bearings and a spring pivot. The ball bearings are housed in the tip drive assembly rolling in the bearing guide and within the convoluted race formed in the body front assembly. The spring pivot is housed in the body assembly between the main spring and the bearing guide. The depression of the body assembly in a vertical movement actuates the ball bearings within the convoluted bearing race, thereby rotating a tip with a serrated, abrasive surface received in the bearing guide in a rotational movement.

Abstract: A windscreen wiper device comprising an elastic, elongated carrier element, as well as an elongated wiper blade of a flexible material, a connecting device pivotally connected to the connecting device about a pivot axis near one end. The connecting device comprises at least a first part and a second part and first and second retaining means for retaining the connecting device onto the oscillating arm. The first retaining means comprises at least one first protrusion on the second part engaging in a correspondingly shaped hole provided in the oscillating arm, and wherein the second retaining means comprise at least one second protrusion provided on the first part engaging the oscillating arm.

Abstract: Wiper lever (10) with a driven wiper arm (12) and a wiper blade (14) linked to it for cleaning the windows of motor vehicles in particular, which is provided with a band-like, long-stretched-out, elastic supporting element (22) that is curved in the longitudinal direction over its band surfaces (26, 28), which features a rubber elastic wiper strip (30) that can be applied to the window on its concave curved band surface (26), on whose convex curved band surface (28) a coupling element (20) sits to connect the wiper blade to a coupling piece (18) of the wiper arm and the articulated connection is covered by a cap (100) that is held on the wiper blade.

Abstract: A duster and a dusting apparatus using the same are provided. The duster is used for removing a particle. The duster includes a body and at least one detachable member. The body includes at least one connecting member. One end of the detachable member is detachably coupled to the connecting member, and the other end of the detachable member has a colloid part. The colloid part having adhesiveness is used for adhering the particle thereto.

Abstract: The invention relates to a vacuum cleaner of a type comprising an elongated support body (1) including a handle (3) in an upper end of the support body, a nozzle device attached to a lower end of the support body by means of a rotatable joint, and a vacuum unit, including an electric motor, a fan and a debris collecting compartment, being accommodated in the support body. An upper portion of the support body (1) is provided with a layer (7, 8) of a slip reducing material at least on a rear surface thereof.

Abstract: A mobile vacuum cart includes a housing, a vacuum source in the housing, a dust box releasably engaged in the housing and in fluid communication with the vacuum source, an intake conduit in fluid communication with the dust box, wherein the housing accommodates reciprocal sliding action of the conduit between an engaged position in which the conduit locks the dust box in position and a release position in which disengagement of the conduit from the dust box enables removal of the dust box from the housing.

Abstract: An upright vacuum cleaner comprises a floor-engaging head portion 11 having a dirty air inlet 12, an upright body portion 10 pivotably mounted to the floor-engaging head portion 11 for movement between parked and in-use positions, an agitator 13 rotatably mounted across the dirty air inlet 12, a motor for driving the agitator via motor shaft 14, a pulley assembly 15 pivotably mounted for rotation between first and second positions about an axis which extends parallel to the axes of rotation of the agitator 13 and motor shaft 14, the assembly 15 including an idler pulley 16 connected to the motor shaft 14 by a first drive belt 18 and to the agitator 13 by a second drive belt 19, the idler pulley 16 being mounted for rotation about an axis which is offset from the axis of rotation of the assembly 15, and an externally-operable foot pedal 30.

Abstract: In a blower, an engine is carried on the back, and a blower portion having a fan is held through a holding member by hand. One end of a flexible shaft, is connected to an output shaft of the engine and the other end of which is connected to a rotary shaft of the fan. The flexible shaft has a flexible outer tube for connecting a casing of the engine with a housing of the fan, and a rotary shaft formed of a helical coil rounded helically around the axial line of the outer tube and extending axially in the outer tube, one end of the rotary shaft being connected to the output shaft of the engine and the other end of the rotary shaft of the flexible shaft being connected to the rotary shaft of the fan. The rotary shaft of the flexible shaft is connected to the rotary shaft of the fan through a power transmitting direction varying device.

Abstract: A suction hose for vacuum cleaner includes a tubular inner part, a jacket part and a locking device. The inner part is variable in length and includes a hose wall having a coil spring integrated therein, the coil spring being configured to automatically return the inner part from an extended position to a shortened position. The jacket part is configured to completely receive the inner part when the inner part is in the shortened position, the jacket part including a tubular shape. The locking device is configured to fix the inner part, in the shortened position, in the jacket part. The locking device includes a tubular member configured to surround the inner part, the tubular member including a first part of a first snap-fit device configured to cooperate with the jacket part so as to connect the tubular member and the jacket part.

Abstract: A high voltage bushing and flange with an interior seal. The high voltage bushing includes an outer insulating material. The high voltage bushing includes a flange with an interior seal comprised of at least two flange O-ring channels; at least two O-rings; a sealant channel; and a quantity of sealant filling the sealant channel.

Abstract: The present invention provides a door stop assembly that includes a retention mechanism that is releasably secured to a portion of a structure, and a decorative head piece that is one of selectively coupled to and permanently affixed to the retention mechanism. Optionally, the retention mechanism includes a track on which a recess defined by the decorative head piece is selectively slid, thereby coupling the decorative head piece to the retention mechanism. The retention mechanism is releasably secured to one of an adjacent wall or structure. Alternatively, the retention mechanism includes a flange that is integrally formed with the decorative head piece, wherein the flange is configured to receive one or more screws.

Abstract: A vehicular checker-equipped door hinge device is provided that includes an inner tube (6) joined to a female bracket (1), an outer tube (7) joined to a male bracket (2), and a check force generation mechanism (20) provided between the two tubes (6, 7), the mechanism (20) including a plurality of retaining members (22) that are mounted on the outer tube (7) so as to be arranged in the peripheral direction and that are capable of moving toward and away from the inner tube (6), and a plurality of resilient members (23) individually urging these retaining members (22) toward the inner tube (6); each of the retaining members (22) is provided with a detent projection (26) projecting so as to abut against an outer peripheral face of the inner tube (6), a plurality of detent grooves (27) that the detent projection (26) engages with and disengages from in response to relative rotation of the inner tube (6) and the outer tube (7) are provided on the outer peripheral face of the inner tube (6), and a pressure-receiving

Abstract: A furniture glide is provided that is mountable on the terminal end of a furniture leg having an outer surface. The furniture glide includes a cup having an outer surface and an inner surface defining a cavity for receiving the furniture leg. Matted material is molded into the outer surface of the cup.

Abstract: A handle for the portable computer having one or more scanning functions for interacting with information objects in the logistics environment. The handle is releasably secured with the housing of the portable computer such that once attached, the handle facilitates directional pointing of the portable computer by the user. The handle comprises the handle body having the grip portion shaped for grasping by the hand of the user of the portable computer, the proximal end of the grip portion for coupling to the housing of the portable computer such that the proximal end having the proximal surface for mating with the adjacent surface of the housing, and the distal end of the grip portion. The handle also has the actuator assembly for affecting the operation of the one or more scanning functions and is located in the grip portion of the handle body, the actuator assembly for coupling via the control coupling to one or more components of the portable computer providing the one or more scanning functions.

Abstract: An ergonomic handle comprises a handle central body coupled with a shaped portion extending from the central body to the rear of the handle with reference to a running direction, the shaped portion defining a top bearing surface thereon a hand of a user can bear and a bottom handle surface to be gripped by the user fingers, said handle further comprising ventilating means for allowing air to circulate therethrough.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a buckle. More particularly, the present invention is to provide a buckle enabling a belt, which is inserted through an inlet thereof, to be fastened between the upper fastening plate of the body and the elastic movable plate inside the body by installing the fastening plate respectivley in the upper part and the lower part of the buckle and further installing the elastic movable plate, which has an arch shape that the center is convex, inside the buckle body.

Abstract: Manufacturing of solar concentrators require the placement of primary optical components, a parabolic mirror for example, on a relatively fiat front panel in a predetermined alignment within a certain tolerance limit. Clips, in accordance with embodiments of the present invention, can be used to facilitate locating, placing and securing the primary optical components on the front panel, thereby enhancing manufacturability of the solar concentrator.

Abstract: One exemplary embodiment can be a clasp for securing a man-way cover in a vessel. The clasp can include a hinged member. Generally, the hinged member has a first position for securing the man-way cover and a second position for unsecuring the man-way cover.

Abstract: A securing element (30) made of bent wire for a tubular heater (2) of a washing machine (1), which comprises a first mounting portion (31) for connecting the securing element for the tubular heater to a mounting base (11) of a washing machine, and a clip portion (31c) extending upwards from the mounting base (11) with at least two opposing wire arms (32, 33), each one of the arms having four portions which come into contact with the tube of the tubular heater.

Abstract: One exemplary embodiment can be a clamp for securing a tray in a vessel. The clamp may include a jaw. Generally, the jaw has a first offset position with the tray unsecured, and a second aligned position with the tray secured in the vessel.

Abstract: A clip has an opposed jaw end, a bridged back end and defines a slot extending across the bridged back end. It is connected to an article, for example, another clip or a float, which has an enlarged spherical head extending longitudinally therefrom. The head of the post has a diameter which is slightly greater than the width of the slot so that the connected item has rotational freedom of movement by receipt of the spherical head through the slot.

Abstract: Messenger clamps can be formed from two messenger clamp halves. Messenger clamps and messenger clamp halves can include break away portions, which allow a messenger wire to fall when subjected to high impact forces such as a tree falling on the messenger wire. A messenger clamp half for use in forming a messenger clamp can include an inside face having a first clamping groove and a second clamping groove, and an outside face having at least one fault groove. A break away portion of the messenger clamp half can include one of the clamping grooves, and can further includes at least a portion of the fault groove.

Abstract: A tether for electronic devices employing a plug having a first end adapted for engagement to a tether and a second end formed of non conductive compressible material having an exterior surface defining an exterior circumference adapted for frictional engagement with the interior circumference of an electrical socket. The second end can be formed of compressible material having an exterior circumference slightly larger than the socket for a biased and frictional engagement. An axial void can also be provided to accommodate electrical conductors projecting into the socket.

Abstract: A button of a shoulder position adjuster device is provided including an outer surface portion which, at a normal state, is generally continuous with an outer surface of a cover facing an inner space of a passenger compartment. Flexible left and right outer lateral walls are formed continuously with the outer surface portion and have lock portions which are locked on to a side member at the normal state and which are released from the locked state at the time of a pulling operation. Additionally, a pair of connecting walls are provided which extend from the outer surface portion towards a guide rail side in the left and right outer lateral walls and connect the latch pin.

Abstract: An automatic binding device for coupling at least two containers includes a latch being twisted during insertion/disengagement into/from a coupling hole of corner castings; a pair of housings for covering a circumferential surface of a rotating shaft of the latch; and a torsion spring for re-rotating the latch substantially to its original condition before rotating, the torsion spring being installed at the circumferential surface of the rotating shaft. Furthermore, the automatic binding device for a container is provided with the indicator capable of allowing a user to see the present state of the binding device with the naked eye.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a closure for clamping shoelaces of shoes in place, having a clamping device, by means of which the shoelaces (18, 20) can be fixed in place, and which is arranged in a housing (312) forming a chamber for receiving the ends of the shoelaces (18, 20). For creating a shoelace closure, which prevents the ends of the shoelaces from dangling loosely, the shoelaces (18, 20) can be introduced through at least one opening (320, 322) into the chamber, and the clamping device is embodied in the chamber, where at least one clamping face is immovably maintained on the housing (312). A cover (316), closing off the chamber, is movable between an open position, in which the clamping device and the ends of the shoelaces are easily accessible, and a closed position, in which the chamber, along with the ends of the shoelaces located therein, is closed.

Abstract: A drapery clip ring for hanging drapery on a drapery rod, the drapery clip ring including a ring arranged to receive the drapery rod therethrough, a gripping means connected to and extending away from the ring, and a pleat endoskeleton connected to and extending away from the ring, the pleat endoskeleton being arranged proximate the gripping means, wherein the pleat endoskeleton is adapted to provide an internal framework of a pleat formed in the drapery, and the gripping means is operatively arranged to secure the pleat formed in the drapery.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a micro-hinge pivoting two pieces of an electric device is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: a) forming a shaft having a mounting end and a rotating portion and a round block between the mounting end and rotating portion; b) forming a sleeve having a slot and an inner diameter slightly smaller than an outer diameter of the rotating portion; c) providing a connecting element having an connecting end and an extending end; d) combining the connecting end and sleeve; and e) inserting the rotating portion into the sleeve.

Abstract: A MEMS hysteretic thermal device may be formed having two passive beam segments driven by a current-carrying loop coupled to the surface of a substrate. The first beam segment is configured to move in a direction having a component perpendicular to the substrate surface, whereas the second beam segment is configured to move in a direction having a component parallel to the substrate surface. By providing this two-dimensional motion, a single MEMS hysteretic thermal device may by used to close a switch having at least one stationary contact affixed to the substrate surface.

Abstract: A valve stem puller or holder, comprising an elongated handle with a clevis at one end, the clevis being formed by two side portions, and a hollow, partly cylindrical stem connector pivotally mounted between the side portions and movable between a first position in which the stem connector is coaxial with said handle and a second position in which the axis of the stem connector is at a large angle to the handle. The stem connector has an inner end in the form of a nipple configured to receive air pressure supply means, and the base of the handle between the side portions has a spring mounted detent element positioned so as to interact with the inlet of the nipple to releasably hold the stem connector in place.

Abstract: A set of bolt holes through which bolts are inserted are formed in left and right sides of a large end section. The bolt holes are substantially parallel to the axis of a rod section and are located such that the centers of the bolt holes are each displaced from the center of a cut surface. When a first mandrel and a second mandrel are press fitted to a joint hole of the large end section and are cut and split, the area of contact of the second mandrel on the movable stage side with the inner wall of the joint hole is set greater than the area of contact of the first mandrel on the fixed stage side with the inner wall of the joint hole.

Abstract: Unwanted high frequency sound caused by air passing over a pore in the air passageway of an IACV casting is reduced or eliminated by creating a stepped diameter adjacent the pore in the air passageway.

Abstract: A composite of a magnesium part or a magnesium alloy part and a resin composition, improved to have high corrosion resistance, is manufactured by: a step of shaping a magnesium alloy part 1 from a casting or an intermediate material; a step of immersing and chemically etching the shaped part in an acidic aqueous solution; a step of immersing the chemically etched shaped part in an aqueous solution containing potassium permanganate and forming on the surface thereof a thin layer having manganese oxide as a component; a step of inserting the part, on which the thin layer has been formed, into a metallic mold for injection molding and injecting into the mold a resin composition selected out of a resin composition whose main component is polyphenylene sulfide, a resin composition whose main component is a polybutylene terephthalate resin and a resin composition whose main component is an aromatic polyamide resin and then integrally affixing the magnesium alloy part 1 and the resin composition 4; and a step of sub

Abstract: A method and apparatus for making a mesh reflector that may be used to produce a shaped reflector is provided. The mesh reflector may be an umbrella-style deployable mesh reflector capable of approximating both parabolic and arbitrarily shaped reflecting surfaces, including those with regions of reversed curvature. The reflecting surface may be provided by a soft mesh attached to a highly pre-tensioned net composed of two sets of substantially parallel chords forming a plurality of parallelogram-shaped facets. The net/mesh may be made to conform to the desired shape by pulling and/or pushing on it at each of its facet corners via a set of finely adjustable tension ties and/or compression rods, the distal ends of which react against a set of pre-tensioned catenary-shaped chords disposed on the aft side of the mesh.

Abstract: A method of joining a multiple member work-piece includes stacking the members of the work-piece on a die such that a first of the members rests on the die. Next, a rivet is driven into the second member until the rivet penetrates the members and deforms. The rivet is then welded to the first member to strengthen the riveted joint. Different mechanisms may be used to accomplish the welding. For example, a laser beam may be directed through a passage in the first die to target the area of the riveted joint to be welded. Alternatively, the die set, rivet, and first member may be arranged to form an electrical circuit that welds the joint via resistance heating. An assembly of a multiple member work-piece and a rivet made according to the method is also provided.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of manufacturing a patterned media Ni stamper comprising depositing a perfluorodecyltrichlorosilane release layer. The release layer eliminates bonding at the master-stamper interface. A permanent master for manufacturing a patterned media stamper is also provided.