Abstract: A dewatering bucket set includes a main bucket including a main bucket body having a rim and defining therein a first accommodation chamber, and a dewatering basket unit including a dewatering bucket and a dewatering bucket rotatably mounted in the dewatering basket. The dewatering bucket has amounting flange extending around a top open side thereof and detachably fastened to the rim of the main bucket body to suspend the dewatering bucket in the first accommodation chamber of the main bucket body.

Abstract: A steam cleaner comprising a cleaning head; means for supplying steam to the cleaning head to be emitted thereby; means for supplying a cleaning agent to the cleaning head to be emitted thereby; and control means for controlling the emission of steam and cleaning agent by the cleaning head; wherein the control means is operable to cause or permit the emission of cleaning agent by the cleaning head while the emission of steam from the cleaning head is at least substantially prevented.

Abstract: A motor enclosure for a vacuum cleaner motor having an air inlet and an air outlet may enclose the vacuum cleaner motor and the motor enclosure may form a channel structure around the vacuum cleaner motor for guiding at least a part of an airflow exiting the air outlet of the vacuum cleaner motor during use to turn by an angle of 360° or more about an axis that is perpendicular to a line between the air inlet and the air outlet of the vacuum cleaner motor. Further, a mounting suspension may connect the vacuum cleaner motor to a housing of the vacuum and may suspend the motor enclosure, for example such that the motor enclosure is only connected to the suspension and the motor enclosure is connected to the motor and the vacuum cleaner only via the suspension.

Abstract: A vacuum cleaner (10) having a hollow body (11). The body (11) includes a coupling (12) providing a conduit (13) to which air under reduced pressure is delivered. The body (11) has a transverse slot (16) that faces the floor surface to be cleaned. Forward or rearward of the slot (16) are wheels (20).

Abstract: A floor mat for a vehicle includes an adapter plate for engaging the vehicle's mat retaining system, a mat portion, and a fastener for securing the mat portion to the adapter plate. The configuration of the adapter plat allows the mat portion to be transversely, longitudinally, and rotationally aligned and secured to the vehicle's floor despite variations in the arrangements of different vehicles' mat retaining systems.

Abstract: A door actuating device, including a housing, at least one drive unit which is disposed in the housing and can be coupled to a door leaf, and at least one spring energy accumulator, which is in operative connection with the drive unit, and which includes a spring disposed therein under spring pretension, wherein the spring pretension of the spring is realized by means of a spring adjusting device, which includes at least one screwed sealing plug, which can be connected to the housing, and an adjusting nut, where a cylinder is configured at the screwed sealing plug and oriented towards the spring, at which cylinder the adjusting nut is linearly guided, where a setting element which is guided by means of the screwed sealing plug and, at least in sections, can be brought non-positively and positively into engagement with the cylinder, and which bears against the adjusting nut, serves for adjusting the spring pretension.

Abstract: An overhead door closer comprising including a housing, an output shaft with a cam disc, which shaft is rotatably movable supported in the housing, a link-plate carriage with two rotatably movable pressure rollers supported in the link-plate carriage, wherein the pressure rollers roll on the cam disc, a piston which is linearly guided in the housing, a piston rod which with one end is connected to the link-plate carriage, and with the other end is connected to the piston, and a closer spring, which, on the side of the piston facing the link-plate carriage, abuts at the piston.

Abstract: A spring hinge for spectacles is described having a hinge part (2) forming a bearing fork (1) for a hinge axis (3), having a guide head (6), which is provided between the two fork legs (8) of the bearing fork (1) and is fastenable on a spectacle part (7), for the hinge part (2), and having a coiled spring (13) between the guide head (6) and the hinge part (2), which is displaceable in relation to the guide head (6), on the side of the guide head (6) facing away from the hinge axis (3). To provide simple design conditions, it is proposed that the section of the hinge part (2) accommodating the coiled spring (13) be implemented as a hinge housing (11), and the guide head (6) comprise a middle part (9), which penetrates the bearing fork (1) of the hinge part (2) between the two fork legs (8) and forms a pivot axis for the hinge housing (11), having lateral guide flanges (10) which encompass the fork legs (8) on both sides.

Abstract: A clipboard device having an elastic retainer member which is alternately deployable to hold papers or other items in place on the front or rear surface of the clipboard and related methods of manufacture and use.

Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed that relate to binder clips. For example, one disclosed embodiment provides a binder clip comprising a generally triangular clamp including a first side between a mouth and a first vertex, a second side between the mouth and a second vertex, a third side between the first vertex and the second vertex, a first wing extending away from the mouth to a first wing end, and a second wing extending away from the mouth to a second wing end such that the first wing and the second wing are substantially coplanar. The binder clip further comprises a first arm pivotably connected to the wing at the first wing end, and a second arm pivotably connected to the wing at the second wing end, the first arm and the second arm cooperatively useable to open the mouth.

Abstract: A detachable button system has a fixed base component permanently attached to a garment and a detachable button component. The base and the detachable button components each have cooperating attachment elements that allow the components when assembled to function as a button. The button component may be easily detached by the user, and replaced with a different button component. The attachment elements may be a mateable combination of a slotted abutment cylinder and cooperating pin catch, a mateable combination of a threaded cylinder and threaded pin, or the like. The base component may have a disc or shank which can be sewn or otherwise attached to the garment.

Abstract: Cable lacing tie devices and methods of using the same are disclosed. The cable lacing tie devices include a head assembly and a cable lacing tape. The head assembly being configured to retain a first portion of the cable lacing tape within the head assembly and having a length of the cable lacing tape extending from the head assembly. The head assembly further adapted to retain a second portion of the cable lacing tape extending from the head assembly. The methods of using the cable lacing tie devices to hold together a plurality of objects with a cable lacing tie device include retaining a first portion of a cable lacing tape in a head assembly, looping the cable lacing tape around the plurality of objects and retaining a second portion of the cable lacing tape within the head assembly.

Abstract: A buckle includes a base that receives therein a pressing board having a front end pivotally coupled to the base and a rear end provided with a clutch portion for clutching a tooth of a head strap, and an operating member that is received in the base and corresponds to a back of the pressing board. The operating member has two buttons, and an arcuate bar pressing against of the operating member are pressed inward, the arcuate bar deforms and pushes the pressing board to swing outward, making the clutch portion disengage from the tooth of the head strap, so that length adjustment of the head strap is allowed. After the adjustment, the pressing board automatically swings back due to the tension of the head strap, so that the clutch portion clutches another of the teeth of the head strap to position the head strap.

Abstract: An improved fastener with an annular sealing flange disposed above a lead-in base clip portion adapted for insertion into an acceptance opening in a panel or other structure. A heat-shrunk seal is disposed about the perimeter of the annular sealing flange in partial covering relation to upper and lower surfaces of the annular sealing flange to provide an enhanced sealing relation between the sealing flange and the panel.

Abstract: A safety spike device for retaining paper or other frangible material is discussed. The device has been developed to allow for persons to safely spike and retain paper or other frangible material. The spike has a downward facing spike tip and is able to move up and down relative to the base which is generally positioned on a table, counter or other flat surface.

Abstract: A ratchet machine includes a receiving member that is arranged and configured to receive a distal end of a removable actuation handle. The distal end fits within an aperture of the receiving member. The aperture includes a supporting surface region. The supporting surface region fully supports a mechanical interaction between the ratchet machine and the removable actuation handle.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for gripping and tightening laces for proper functioning of footwear, the apparatus comprising a lace with an outer surface, a first end, and a second end, wherein the outer surface at each end may be covered by an aglet, and the outer surface between each aglet has at least an aperture, each aperture forming a closed loop extending through the lace and normal to the outer surface, said aperture sized such as to allow for the insertion of at least one finger into each aperture. The method of using the apparatus comprising the steps of selecting the corresponding apparatus length based upon desired application; threading the apparatus through lacing guides; inserting at least one finger through at least one aperture in the apparatus; and pulling on the apparatus; whereby tensioning the apparatus to the desired tightness for proper functioning of the footwear has been accomplished.

Abstract: This inurnment container (urn) for cremated remains is designed for use in a Cemetery Mausoleum and to occupy the cavity between a sealed Crypt and its decorative facing. The depth of this container and the design to fit the limited available space within the cavity will allow the use of previously unutilized space for the interment of the cremated remains immediately adjacent to an occupied Crypt without the necessity of disturbing the sealed Crypt.

Abstract: A memorial urn includes a central core having at least one vessel stored therein, the vessel functioning to house and identify cremated remains. A protective outer shell having a one or more commemoratory items is positioned about the core. One or more lighted elements illuminates the outer body, and a candleholder is positioned onto the outer body. A base unit is removably secured to the bottom of the outer shell.

Abstract: A tool, system, and process for finishing a cylindrical member is provided. The finishing tool includes an opening. The opening is sized to receive a cylindrical member. The interior wall of the tool opening is configured to reduce a roughness of the cylindrical member. The opening has a second cross-sectional area that is less than the cross-sectional area of the member. A retainer can secure the member. In response to the opening interior wall slidably contacting a finishable area of the member as the finishing tool is moved relatively closer to the member at a relative force, the roughness of the finishable area of the member is reduced to a second roughness.

Abstract: Gasket insertion apparatuses with bendable arms that provide quick, safe and efficient alignment and installation of gaskets between opposing flanges of a flange assembly. Methods to install gaskets between opposing flanges by aligning gaskets within a flange assembly using alignment arms of an insertion apparatus.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for a positioning system for electromagnetic riveting. The apparatus comprises a plate and a biasing system physically associated with the plate. The plate is configured to be positioned relative to a first workpiece, and is further configured to electromagnetically engage an electromagnetic tool. The biasing system is configured to physically engage a second workpiece. The biasing system is further configured to hold the plate in a desired position relative to the first workpiece during a number of operations performed by the electromagnetic tool while the plate is electromagnetically engaged with the first workpiece.

Abstract: A cutting tool holder extraction devise comprising a cup, having a back portion having a rearward socket and a front portion having a forward tool socket, and a spacer section having an axial bore with a back orifice opening in the bottom of the rearward socket and a front orifice opening in the bottom of the tool socket; an expandable jack, the jack having an axial bore, and a front face; the front face of the jack is removably engageable with the rearward socket of the cup; a threaded bolt, the bolt having a front end and a rear end, the bolt removably disposable through the cup bore and through the jack bore; and at least one nut, removably attachable to the threaded bolt.

Abstract: A protruding portion is formed on a rear side of a side plate, namely a side surface forming guide passage. The protruding portion is intended to prevent a thrust metal from being put to the guide passage with the left and right ends being in the wrong position. Accordingly, a height of the protruding portion is smaller than a depth of the oil ditch of the thrust metal, the width of the protruding portion is smaller than the width of the oil ditch. Also, regarding to the formation position of the protruding portion, when the thrust metal is truly set to guide passage, the center of the protruding portion approximately accords with the center of the oil ditch of the thrust metal.

Abstract: A vehicle body component mounting system is provided with, along a conveyance path for a vehicle body, an upstream component mounting work area using a cell production system, a central component mounting work area in which the vehicle body is conveyed by an overhead conveyor, and a downstream component mounting work area using the cell production system in this order. Components other than principal components are mounted to the vehicle body using the cell production system. The cell production system is adaptable by increasing the number of component boxes, and thus an increase in the length of the line is prevented. The increase in the length of the line is prevented by using a line production system as a base and also using the cell production system as a part thereof.

Abstract: A portable, modular display system and method for use that can esthetically display food or other items on a rigid surface(s) or a series of steps that are illuminated, and these modules can be assembled into a variety of decorative configurations enabling adaptation to an event venue.

Abstract: A facility (1) processes multi-core cable (2) having a screening braid and/or foil sheathing, inner conductors (2a), and/or internal filler. The facility (1) includes stations (3, 5-10, 12) each for at least one respective processing step of cable stripping; the opening up, trimming, and folding back of any screening braid present; the removal of any foil present; and the removal of any internal filler present. A transport device transports cut-to-length cables to and from these stations (3, 5-10, 12). The transport system (13) connects stations (3, 5-10, 12). At least one control unit (17) may be provided, whereby all stations (3, 5-10, 12) may be automatically operated.

Abstract: A system and method are provided for mounting, removing and retaining brake pads in disc brakes, such as air-operated disc brakes utilized on commercial vehicles, in a manner which does not require the use of separate brake pad retaining devices while providing positive retention of the brake pad. A preferred embodiment includes a brake caliper mount having brake pad abutment surfaces having radially-oriented and lateral grooves which permit a brake pad with corresponding projections on is lateral sides to be inserted through an opening of the brake caliper into the radially-oriented grooves until the backing plate projections are aligned with the lateral groove, and advancing the brake actuator behind the brake pad to place the brake pad in an operating position in which the actuator prevents the brake pad from realigning with the radially-oriented grooves until the actuator is retracted to permit brake pad extraction.

Abstract: A method for assembling a propshaft assembly. The method can include: providing a tubular member, the tubular member having an annular wall with an inside circumferential surface; twisting a damper; installing the twisted damper in the tubular member; untwisting the damper in the tubular member such that the damper engages the inside circumferential surface of the annular wall. A machine for assembling a propshaft assembly is also provided.

Abstract: A surgical cutting blade for cutting bone material when the blade is coupled to a hand-held surgical saw includes a distal portion comprising a plurality of cutting teeth, a shank portion adjacent the distal portion, and a proximal portion adjacent the shank portion. The proximal portion may include a longitudinally extending slot having a proximal opening. The slot may be shaped to receive a portion of the surgical saw through the proximal opening. The proximal portion may have a plurality of deflectable fingers respectively separated from a plurality of main body portions by respective gaps. The plurality of deflectable fingers may extend adjacent the longitudinally extending slot, and may deflect into the gaps to increase and decrease a width of a portion of the slot.

Abstract: The apparatus comprises a stationary first part, a movable second part, and a link arm mechanism connecting the first part and the second part. The first and the second link arm are interconnected with a fifth articulated joint. First ends of the link arms are connected with articulated joints movably on the first part. Second ends of the link arms are connected with articulated joints on the second part. The second part is moved with a first actuator in a first direction, with a second actuator in a third direction and with a third actuator in a fourth angular direction around the fourth articulated joint.

Abstract: A jig apparatus fastening loaded trays having light emitting devices received therein, includes a body and first and second extending portions. The body has a bent structure in a length direction thereof. The first and second extending portions are respectively bent and extend from a first end and a second end of the body in the length direction thereof.

Abstract: Disclosed is a wire clamp, comprising: a clamp body; a pair of arms coupled to the clamp body; and a piezoelectric actuator having a longitudinal axis extending between a first end and a second end, the actuator being coupled to the pair of arms at the first end and to the clamp body at the second end. The second end of the actuator is coupled to the clamp body by a preload mechanism for applying a preload force along the longitudinal axis, and the preload mechanism comprises at least one wedge having an inclined surface which is slidable over a mating inclined surface. Also disclosed is a method of applying a preload force to a piezoelectric actuator of a wire clamp, as well as a jig for applying a preload force to a piezoelectric actuator of a wire clamp.

Abstract: Provided is a stator for a rotary electric machine, capable of reducing a space on an end surface of a stator core on an inner diameter side to reduce a size in an axial direction to realize a compact size by maintaining an insulating distance corresponding to a potential difference. In the stator for a rotary electric machine according to the present invention, a coil portion includes a coil main-body portion (21) and a second connecting wire (23). The second connecting wire (23) includes a first bent portion (24) and a second connecting-wire end portion (23A). The second connecting wire (23) is configured so that a differential value of a length z in the axial direction of the stator to a length r in the radial direction of the stator is ?z/?r?0.

Abstract: An assembling method of a coil and an elastic plate of a voice coil motor assembly includes a coil support, a coil wound on the coil support, and two opposing lower elastic plates disposed on an upper part of the coil support. The outer edge of an upper flange of the coil support has at least two opposing protrusions which are arranged radially. The coil has a head end and a tail end which are respectively wound on the two protrusions. The two lower elastic plates are respectively connected with the coil wound on the two protrusions by welding. To prevent the head end from slanting, the lower elastic plates are mounted on the coil support through the operation of an automation apparatus to be soldered with the coil wound on the protrusions.

Abstract: In a device for producing and/or processing a workpiece, in particular circuit boards (1), in a work station (2), in particular for printing a corresponding blank or for checking finished circuit boards (1), at least one mark (15) is provided on the workpiece. In this arrangement, at least one reference (14), which can be brought into alignment with the mark (15), is provided in the work station (2).

Abstract: A sealing process of LED modules includes a waterproof wire put through a wire-through hole of a heat sink to be connected with a positive-negative solder joints on a PCB board, which are subjected to glue sealing treatment. A waterproof sealing process is operated between the waterproof wire and wire-through hole. The PCB board is fixed on the heat sink. One sealing ring is placed into a groove. A ring of liquid silica gel is evenly applied along the other groove. The heat sink installed with the PCB board and the waterproof wire are inversely buckled on the lens set which is fixed with the solid silica gel ring and liquid silica gel.

Abstract: Provided is an apparatus for mounting an electronic component having a plurality of board insert type leads on a board. The apparatus includes a mounting head having a chuck unit which chucks one of the plurality of leads of the electronic component to hold the electronic component, and a mounting head moving unit which moves the mounting head to insert the leads of the electronic component held by the mounting head respectively into lead insert holes provided in the board.

Abstract: Provided is an apparatus for mounting an electronic component having a plurality of board insert type leads on a board. The apparatus includes a mounting head having a first chuck unit which chucks one of the plurality of leads of the electronic component, a second chuck unit which chucks another one of the plurality of leads and a position adjusting unit which changes relative positions of the first chuck unit and the second chuck unit to hold the electronic component, and a mounting head moving unit which moves the mounting head to insert the leads of the electronic component held by the mounting head respectively into lead insert holes provided in the board.

Abstract: Certain processes for manufacturing an electrochemical sensor module include etching a Silicon wafer to form precursor sensor bodies, disposing sensor fibers along rows of the precursor sensor bodies, securing a rigid layer over the sensor fibers, dividing the wafer, rigid layer, and sensor fibers into individual precursor sensor bodies, and joining each precursor sensor body to a component body to form sensor modules.

Abstract: A three-dimensional neural probe electrode array system is described. Planar probes are microfabricated and electrically connected to flexible micro-machined ribbon cables using a rivet bonding technique. The distal end of each cable is connected to a probe with the proximal end of the cable being customized for connection to a printed circuit board. Final assembly consists of combining multiple such assemblies into a single structure. Each of the two-dimensional neural probe arrays is positioned into a micro-machined platform that provides mechanical support and alignment for each array. Lastly, a micro-machined cap is placed on top of each neural electrode probe and cable assembly to protect them from damage during shipping and subsequent use. The cap provides a relatively planar surface for attachment of a computer controlled inserter for precise insertion into the tissue.

Abstract: A device for simultaneously stripping at least two cable ends surrounded by insulation material includes a cutting device having first and second cutters that are movable relative to each other in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the cable ends. The cutting edges of the first and second cutters are disposed substantially in the same plane and are movable towards each other such that the cutting edges simultaneously cut into the insulation material of the at least two cable ends. In addition, the cutting device and the cable ends are movable relative to each other in the longitudinal direction of the cable ends to simultaneously pull-off the cut insulation material from the at least two cable ends and thereby strip the at least two cable ends.

Abstract: An integrated shaft bearing assembly is provided having a housing with at least one bearing located in the housing that supports a shaft that extends through the housing. A vent ring is located at one axial end of the housing, with the vent ring having a radial flange that extends toward the shaft. A face seal assembly including a seal support ring is fixed on the shaft. The face seal assembly includes a bellows spring connected to the seal support ring, a face seal carrier connected to the bellows spring, with the face seal carrier supporting a face seal against the face of the radial flange. Here the vent ring is integrated with the integrated shaft bearing and provides a surface for the mechanical seal as well as venting to avoid pressure build up in a region of the mechanical seal between the mechanical seal and the bearing.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a die forged crankshaft to be mounted in a two or more cylinder reciprocating apparatus includes: an upsetting step that includes upsetting a billet having a constant cross-sectional area along an entire length thereof to form a blank having an enlarged cross-sectional area at a region between a portion to be formed into a leading crank arm of the crankshaft and a portion to be formed into a trailing crank arm thereof; a die forging step that includes die forging the blank formed in the upsetting step to form a forged blank having a shape of the crankshaft with a flash; and a trimming step that includes trimming the flash from the forged blank formed in the die forging step. This makes it possible to improve the material utilization and to use a billet having a cross-sectional size as small as possible.

Abstract: An apparatus for removing a turbine blade, the apparatus including a main body having a front plate including at least one securing opening for receiving a securing bolt, a rear plate having a fixture groove, and first and second side plates, and a base block configured to slide along the fixture groove of the rear plate.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a fluid power transmission includes a first step of assembling a blade/core provisional assembly having a plurality of blades movably linked to a core, involving aligning the plurality of blades on a blade alignment jig, laying the core over a group of blades while extending a projecting piece provided on each blade through a latching hole provided in the core, and bending an extremity part of the projecting piece thus preventing the projecting piece from coming out of the latching hole, a second step of setting the blade/core provisional assembly at a predetermined position on an inside face of the shell, and a third step of carrying out brazing between the projecting piece and the latching hole and between the blade and the shell. Such method provides a high quality impeller of a fluid power transmission by joining a shell, a blade, and a core.

Abstract: A forging apparatus carries out a method of manufacturing a gear having external teeth on an outer circumferential wall surface thereof and internal teeth on an inner circumferential wall surface thereof. First, an internal tooth forming die is inserted through a through hole defined in a workpiece. Next, a pressing die is caused to abut against the workpiece, and an external tooth machining die finishes the external teeth while preventing a support die from being lowered under action of damping mechanisms. Thereafter, a pressing die presses the workpiece to apply a load in excess of a preset load for the damping mechanisms. The support die is then lowered to lower the workpiece along the internal tooth forming die. At this time, the internal teeth are formed on the inner circumferential wall surface of the workpiece.

Abstract: [Problems] To present a manufacturing method of gears for a speed change device, capable of manufacturing gears for a speed change device by using a manufacturing apparatus, small in the load when forming, and small and simple in structure, and capable of obtaining gears for a speed change device not limited in gear deforming positions, small in generation of strain, and large in strength.

Abstract: The present invention relates to orthodontic positioning appliances that represent teeth in desired positions and related systems and methods. An appliance can include teeth receiving cavities shaped to receive and apply a resilient positioning force to a patient's teeth. An appliance can include an outer component having a surface representing teeth in desired positions. An outer component can be integral with an appliance. An outer component can be separate and configured to couple with an appliance main body.

Abstract: A method for forming cladding panels includes providing a panel forming unit comprising an embossing unit, a punch press, a stamping die, a shear press and a roll former, wherein a panel media is moved through the panel forming unit, placing the panel media proximate the panel forming unit and feeding the panel media into the panel forming unit, embossing a texture defined by the panel media using the embossing unit, pressing guide lines and guide indents into the panel media using the punch press, stamping a relief pattern into the panel media using the stamping die such that the texture is defined within the relief pattern, cutting the panel media into panels using the shear press and forming at least one flange on an edge of each of the panels using the roll former, wherein the panels each include a flange, the texture and the relief pattern.