Abstract: A suitable automatically operating apparatus is proposed for producing reinforcing cages for rectangular pipes made of concrete. Longitudinal-wire sections, which are parallel to the pipe axis, are held together in a framework. The latter essentially comprises a perforated frame, which cannot be moved in the longitudinal direction, and a receiving frame, which can be displaced relative to the perforated frame. Rectilinear transverse-wire sections, angles or bent brackets are welded onto the longitudinal-wire configuration, to be precise onto the respective side surfaces of the longitudinal-bar configuration in a freely selectable manner. Fitting apparatuses which can be displaced perpendicularly with respect to the longitudinal-wire sections are used for this purpose. In addition to the wire thickness, it is also possible to select the spacings between the transverse-wire sections provided in each case.

Abstract: In order to control, in a wire shaping apparatus with a rotatable wire intake device (10), friction of the wire at the bore wall of a wire holder (52) which finally leads the wire towards the shaping station, and in order to reduce it to zero if necessary, it is suggested to provide said apparatus, the wire holder (52) of which can be rotated programmably controlled about the wire axis, with a remote controllable wire brake device (114) which acts radially upon the wire being fed along, and the wire brake device is programmably controlled.

Abstract: A combination of a bending mandrel (29), an anvil (15) and an electrical connector(1). The bending mandrel (29) of this combination has a bending face (35) and the anvil (15) of this combination has a curved bending face (18). The electrical connector (1) of the combination has a housing (2) of electrically insulating material with a connection side (13), a connection pin output side (11) and a contact side (8) and is provided with a number of contact elements (6) of electrically conducting material accommodated in channels (5). Each contact elements has a contact end (7) situated at the contact side (8) of the housing (2), for contacting a further connector. They each also have a connection end provided with an L-shaped connection pin (9).

Abstract: An integrated circuit package with a two dimensional array of leads that each have a foot portion which is bent at an angle relative to a vertical column portion of the leads. The foot portion of the leads are typically soldered to the surface pads of a printed circuit board. The leads are formed by a tooling apparatus which has a bending device that bends the foot portions of the leads onto a bending die. The tooling apparatus insures that the foot portions of the leads are all coplanar with the printed circuit board.

Abstract: A wire bending jig adapted for jewelry manufacture having one or more arrays of holes for receiving bending pins. The jig has means to hold the tare end of the wire stock, freeing the hands for the work of bending wire. The bending jig may be held in one hand, mounted to a work table, or mounted in tandem on a base for complex tool construction.

Abstract: A device (10) for manipulating a wound coil (18) includes a mechanism for grabbing a wound coil (18), a first pair of opposed fingers (12), and a second pair of opposed fingers (14). The first pair of opposed fingers (12) oppositely engage a start lead (20) of the wound coil (18) and move along an arc from a first position where the start lead (20) is tangential to the inner circumference of the wound coil (18) to a second position where the start lead (20) is chordal to the inner circumference of the wound coil (18). The second pair of opposed fingers (14) oppositely engage a finish lead (22) of the wound coil (18) and move along an arc from a first position where the finish lead (22) is tangential to the outer circumference of the wound coil (18) to a second position where the finish lead (22) is chordal to the outer circumference of the wound coil (18).

Abstract: Wreath ring making machine having a ram torque stabilizer and an angle plate for imparting an offset angle to one rib arm. The wreath ring has a circular spine and C-shaped ribs disposed about the spine, the ribs having a back and two arms. The machine includes a pneumatic cylinder having a central axis connected to a ram, which is connected to a female die, which moves against a male die. A frame running parallel to the cylinder axis has the cylinder attached at the distal end and the male die attached at the proximal end. The stabilizer includes a stabilizer bracket attached at an intermediate portion of the frame and a corresponding stabilizer follower attached to the ram, where the stabilizer follower is slidably received by the stabilizer bracket, and stabilizes against torque in the ram and cylinder. The stabilizer significantly reduces torque on the cylinder and the resulting maintenance.

Abstract: An apparatus which is used to impart a specific configuration to substantially flat elongated strips of deformable wire binding elements for stacks of overlapping perforated sheets or the like has a transporting unit serving to advance binding elements lengthwise in a predetermined direction along an elongated path, a unit which converts strips in a first portion of the path into transversely curved intermediate products having a substantially C-shaped cross-sectional outline and a shape which at least approximates the predetermined configuration, and an altering unit which serves to deform--in a second portion of the path downstream of the first portion--at least those intermediate products the shape of which departs from the predetermined configuration.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for treatment of stator coil lead wires for an electric rotary machine, in which a plurality of coil lead wires extending in the radial direction of a stator for an electric rotary machine are movably arranged between two plane-like or cylindrical-surface members opposite to each other; the plurality of coil lead wires are pressed in a predetermined gathering direction by a lead wire pressing member which is capable of moving between the two plane-like or cylindrical-surface members, so that the plurality of coil lead wires are transformed and gathered into a predetermined shape. Thus, the coil length required for treatment of the stator coil lead wires can be reduced, and the lead wire treatment can be performed quickly and automatically.

Abstract: A device for bending the ends (17) which result from cutting to size a metallic binding spiral (9) includes a contrasting member (4) provided at the front with two pairs (12, 12') of flat lugs, mutually parallel and orthogonal to the axis of the spiral (9), suitable to securely retain the roots (16) of the two prongs (14) of the spiral (9) between which the cut has been performed, and a pushing member (7) provided at the front with a central tooth (13) radiused to the body of the pusher (7) and also orthogonal to the axis of the spiral (9), suitable to bend the ends (17) parallelly to the prongs (14) by interacting with said contrast (4). The contrast (4) and the pusher (7) move along substantially orthogonal axes under the action of double-acting pneumatic jacks.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a fuse comprising a fuse element (10), in the form of a single wire, which is formed together with at least one terminal (11,11a,11b), in the form of a number of twisted wires. The fuse element and the conductor(s) are formed from the same wire, whereby part of the wire is moved back and forth a number of times to form at least one ring (21) or loop. The ring or loop is twisted into a conductor (11,11a,11b) in the form of a number of twisted strands, whereby one of the twisted strands is formed to be included, in part, in the terminal (11,11a,11b) twisted together with an additional number of wires and to constitute, in part, a fuse element (10).

Abstract: An apparatus for forming a curved, flat sided surgical needle, which comprises a frame member including an anvil member having an arcuate surface profile; a movable first die member for simultaneously imparting an arcuate profile and at least a pair of first opposing flat surfaces to a body portion of a needle blank and adapted to receive a needle blank, the first die member having an arcuate needle forming surface which is substantially parallel to the arcuate surface of the anvil member; a first side tool for curving a tapered end portion of the needle blank about the anvil; a transfer tool adapted to slide the needle blank along the anvil a side press adapted to import second flat surfaces to a second pair of opposing sides of the body portion of the needle blank; a second side tool member for curving a drill end portion of the needle blank about the anvil; and an ejection tool for moving the needle blank away from the anvil.

Abstract: Radially expandable endoprostheses or stents are provided, as well as their method of manufacture. These stents include a plurality of adjacent generally circumferential sections that are substantially axially positioned with respect to each other. At least one of the generally circumferential sections has a generally circumferentially disposed expandable segment that imparts circumferential and radial expandability to the stent.

Abstract: A resilient member handling apparatus comprising a frame, a mechanism on the frame for bowing successive resilient members, and a mechanism on the frame for forming a nested complement of the resilient members, the mechanism for forming including a first cage member stationarily mounted on the frame, and defining a primary chamber adapted to receive a resilient member, a second cage member stationarily mounted on the frame, and defining a secondary chamber adapted to receive a plurality of the resilient members, a mechanism for feeding resilient members one at a time into the primary chamber from the mechanism for bowing, and a mechanism for transferring the resilient members one at a time from the primary chamber to the secondary chamber.

Abstract: An illuminator assembly is disclosed which is formed from a light emitting diode (LED) having two electrode pins extending therefrom which are cut to predetermined lengths. One lead then is formed to provide a circularly shaped spring support base and the other lead is bent to provide an attachment portion extending through the center of the opening formed by the spring support base. A capture spring of conical configuration then is attached to the centrally disposed lead which extends through the spring support base opening. A compressible coil switching spring then is attached to the spring support base. The assemblage thus formed is employed with a battery of a variety having a forward face which engages the free end of the switching spring and which includes a rod shaped electrode extending from the center portion thereof.

Abstract: In a method of the present invention, a wire stent, having a cylindrical shape defined by a series of alternating longitudinally overlapping opposing loops, is fabricated from a wire formed into a planar serpentine configuration. The wire is centered over a semi-cylindrical trough in a flat plate and then pressed into the trough by a forming bar so that a portion of the wire assumes the semi-cylindrical shape. A pulling tool, having a hook at one end, is engaged at the hook with the exposed loops of the serpentine configuration for pulling the exposed loops over the exposed portion of the forming bar to form a generally cylindrical shape from the wire. Once the wire is extracted from the trough and the forming bar is removed, a folded balloon catheter is inserted through the cylindrical shape and the wire is tightly pressed about the catheter.

Abstract: A two-wire structure for use in suspending plastic bags on a rack is formed by inwardly bending each of the end portions of a single straight length of wire such that each lies against the middle portion thereof with their terminal ends butt welded together and with an upwardly directed looped protuberance formed on each end of the two-wire structure. Each end portion of the two-wire structure so formed is then bent to provide cantilevered support arms extending at right angles from each end of the middle portion thereof which forms the back of the two-wire structure by which the cantilevered support arms are attached to a rack. Such a construction provides the upwardly directed looped protuberances for use as safety precautions on the ends of the cantilevered support arms and further assures that each of the cantilevered support arms is provided with a continuous surface throughout its length.

Abstract: This invention is an annular or garter spring having a welded overlapping region. In this invention, the end tips of a straight spring fit within the spaces between coils at the opposite end of the spring. This result is reached by first hooking an end tip of the spring through the first whole coil at the opposite end of the spring, then placing the opposing end tip between the first and second full coils of the first side of the spring. The coils at the ends of the spring are then clamped to so that each end tip aligns alongside the first full coil of the opposite end of the spring. When that position is reached, the spring will form a virtually perfect ring, and the intertwined coils may be welded together to maintain the garter spring shape.

Abstract: A machine for transforming zigzag wire to the slotted tubular form ready for use as a binding element comprises means for feeding a strip of zigzag wire longitudinally, means for arresting the feed of each prong of the wire strip as it reaches a shaping station, means for clamping each prong at that station and means at the station for shaping each clamped prong. The shaping means comprises two or more forming tools mounted on rollers which are driven by drive shafts, at least one roller being angularly adjustable relative to its drive shaft. This allows the operation of the forming tools to be synchronized so that symmetrical shaping of the zigzag wire is achieved. The feed means are rotary and means are provided whereby the feed of each prong is arrested for at least one eighth of each revolution of the rotary feed means. The shaping of the zigzag strip is facilitated and improved since the strip is held stationary for a relatively long period of time.

Abstract: A machine for transforming zig-zag wire to slotted tubular form ready for use as a binding element comprising means for feeding a strip of zig-zag wire longitudinally, means for momentarily arresting the feed of each prong of the wire strip as it reaches a shaping station, means for clamping each prong at that station and means for shaping each clamped prong into the desired configuration characterised in that the clamp is operated by clamp actuation means at least twice for each revolution of rotary feed means. This has the advantage that the clamping means may be operated at much lower speeds than the feed means and the shaping means thus allowing the output ot be increased by at least fifty percent over known machines with no danger of overheating.

Abstract: An apparatus for bending leads axially protruding from a component includes a pair of spaced apart discs mounted on a shaft. Each disc has a plurality of generally V-shaped cutouts that are axially in registry with the cutouts on the other disc such that the component is retained in a registered pair of cutouts. The span between opposing leading and lagging surfaces defining each cutout, is related to the radius of curvature of a partially conically shaped lagging outboard edge of the cutout by a predetermined function. In other words, due to the V-shape of the cutout, the head is held at a certain radial position in the cutout between the leading and lagging surfaces of the cutout. At this radially coincidental point, the span of the cutout of course equals the diameter of the lead. The radius of curvature of the lagging outboard edge of the cutout at that radially coincidental point is made a predetermined function of the diameter of the lead, for example equal thereto.

Abstract: Improved techniques are provided for obtaining a desirable surface finish of two or more visually distinct selected colors. A mat is prepared by selectively weaving wire between fixed pins on a board. Once removed from the pins, the mat may be molded about the surface of an object painted a first selected color. A second color is then applied over the mat and the object, resulting in a desired dual-color finish after the mat is removed. The techniques of the present invention are particularly well suited for obtaining a high quality marble-like finish on objects of various sizes, shapes, and materials.

Abstract: Apparatus for bending or deploying selected, individual, stripped, electrical wires at the stripped free end of a ribbon cable. The apparatus comprises a base having a box-like recess with fixed components or plate-like members or shims to individually position the wires to be bent. The fixed components include tall positioning shims with notches extending downwardly to contact the insulating web of a ribbon cable between its stripped wires and to properly position the web and the wires. The fixed components also include short ground wire shims located between some of the tall positioning shims for receiving, thereadjacent, ground wires of the received ribbon cable. The fixed components also include short signal wire shims located between others of the tall positioning shims for receiving, thereadjacent, signal wires of the received ribbon cable. Also included within the apparatus are bending fingers operatively associated with the fixed components for reciprocal movement with respect thereto.

Abstract: In a machine for producing a hanging member or hanger from a wire portion, the hanging member is obtained by cutting off the wire portion from a wire unwound from a wire roll. The wire portion is inserted by feed means in the holding and deforming station of the machine, and is centered in a binding of a pack of sheets introduced into the station. Following the closing of the binding holders and movable clamping jaws, a hanging ring is bend in the wire portion by means of a movable bending tool. In the machine, the hanging member is produced fully automatically without any manual intervention and inserted in the binding of the pack of sheet, independently of the type of binding used.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a stator lamination for a dynamoelectric machine. A length of steel wire is formed into alternate straight and undulated portions and is formed into a coil such that the inner turn of the coil coprresponds to the undulated portion and the outer turn corresponds to the straight portion of the wire. The coil of wire is placed in a die cavity of a die that has a configuration corresponding to a stator lamination. The loops of the undulated portion are placed in radially extending grooves of the die cavity and the outer turns of the coil are placed in an annular groove of the die cavity. The die and a punch are utilized to coin the wire to the shape of the die cavity.

Abstract: A binding comb shaping device for producing profile-bent binding combs for comb binding of sheet layers has rotary bending tools with bending sliding edges and/or in the form of rolling members, which, between advance cycles of the binding comb blank, move past shaping edges of shaping anvils in arcuate paths and thereby in a substantially vibration-free manner and at high working speeds give the binding comb blank its profile shape.

Abstract: In an apparatus for manufacturing springs, a frame body has guide rails on which a pair of movable bodies are mounted to be movable. Each of the movable bodies has rotatable holding rollers between which a wire which is to be processed is held, and each body also has a shaping roller for bending the end of the wire in a coil. Arranged between the shaping roller and the holding rollers are a guide member for defining the supply passage for the wire, and a pitch rod for determining the pitch of the coil formed. When the holding rollers are rotated, while holding the wire, the movable bodies are moved toward each other by the pulling force exerted to the wire, and the wire is supplied from between the paired holding rollers to the shaping roller through the guide member. The pitch rod is reciprocated as the movable bodies run, and as one turn of the wire coil strikes against the pitch rod, making it possible to form spiral springs at both ends of the wire.

Abstract: An apparatus for forming a continuous length of flexible retaining splints including a plurality of body sections interconnected by eyelet sections. Each body section includes a number of core wires which are wire wrapped by a wrap wire. The eyelet sections include loops formed by at least one of the core wires. The apparatus includes a production zone into which the core wires are extended. Downstream of the production zone, at least one of the core wires is formed into a loop about a pin. The wrap wire is then wire wrapped about the extended core wires in the production zone. After completion of the wire wrapping, the loop is transferred from the downstream location to an upstream location where the loop is retained in place by another pin. This transfer also extends another portion of the core wires into the production zone to be wire wrapped. The process is repeated many times so that the continuous length of flexible retaining splints is formed.

Abstract: The present invention provides an automatic machine for curving thin and rectilinear metal elements of the wire, strip or tube type.According to the invention, this machine comprises a nipper (2) adapted for positioning and holding on a first axis (X) a metal element section to be bent, as well as two bending devices (3, 4) movable on each side of the nipper (2) along a rail (7) parallel to the axis (X). Each bending device comprises two jaws (17 and 18) between which the metal element section may be clamped at each stop of the bending device, as well as a bending finger adapted for rotating about an axis perpendicular to the axis (X) in line with the noses of the jaws (17, 18) which form the counter bending parts. According to an essential characteristic of the invention, the nipper (2) may further execute an angular rotation about the axis (X).

Abstract: This invention relates to material handling of helical coils of resistance heating wire, hangers for use in handling the wire coils, an assembly of hangers and coils and a method for handling such coils on hangers wherein the manufacture of resistance heating wire can wind and stretch the wire into a coil for a customer, form eyelets at both ends of the coil that are to be used as electrical contact terminals, and then assemble a plurality of coils side by side in a group with eyelets at each end of the coils being on a respective hanger. The hangers have a sleeve-like handle and an integral L-shaped rod arranged so that the coils can be mounted on the hanger by slipping the rod through the eyelets. The assembly of a pair of hangers and a group of coils can then be shipped as a unit to the customer where the customer need only remove the group of coils as a unit and mount the hangers on a T-shaped rack by slipping the handles over posts on the rack.

Abstract: In an apparatus for manufacturing a spring unit, a pair of movable bodies are slidably mounted on a guide rail which is extended on a frame structure. A pair of rollers are provided on the respective movable bodies and a grip mechanism is arranged on the frame. The ends of a single wire are held between the pairs of rollers and the intermediate portion of the wire is gripped by a grip mechanism so that the single wire is stretched between the movable bodies. A swing arm is axially and swingably supported on each of the movable bodies and a forming roller is pivotably fixed to the respective swing arms. A guide is arranged between the forming rollers and the rollers and a pitch rod is arranged between the guide and the forming roller.

Abstract: In a method and an arrangement for winding and forming helixes of elastic synthetic plastic and metal wire the wire is supplied from a wire supply device, windings are then wound from the wire so as to form straight winding legs connected by head curves, the windings are then separated to provide distances therebetween, the separated windings are widened in correspondence with the distances between them produced during the separation and the finished helixes are supplied to a helix supply device.

Abstract: The present invention concerns superconductor lengths constituted by superconducting filaments based on a ternary chalcogenide of molybdenum (PbMo.sub.6 S.sub.8) assembled within a stabilizing matrix based on copper. The invention provides a method of fabricating superconducting filaments consisting of mixing a powder of a ternary chalcogenide of molybdenum with a metal powder of smaller granulometry and chosen from the components of the chalcogenide in question, or from the group of metals consisting of aluminum, silver, gallium, rhenium, and titanium, in sheathing the mixture of powders obtained by means of a metal wall constituted from one of a group of metals formed by molybdenum, niobium, tantalum, titanium and vanadium, and in subjecting the superconducting lengths obtained after drawing and cold working using conventional wire drawing techniques to a final heat treatment consisting of heating to a temperature of about 800.degree. C. for at least twenty hours.

Abstract: Wire forming apparatus has a pair of rotary dies movable together and apart on a rectilinear path. The dies are adapted to hold a length of wire at opposite ends thereof such that on contra-rotation the dies approach each other while deforming said ends into coils.

Abstract: A hand held sure grip slingshot for launching projectiles is provided including a method and apparatus for its manufacture. The preferred embodiment of the slingshot comprises generally a one piece frame and a sling which includes a pair of elastic members detachably connected to the one piece frame and a pouch connected at its ends to the elastic members and intermediately positioned on the sling. The one piece frame is preferably constructed of structural wire and includes a handle commencing at its lower end, looping finger guides intermediately positioned on the frame at the top of the handle, upward extending and separating arms forming with the handle of Y-configuration, and spiral retaining loops at the upper end of the frame at the tops of the upward extending arms. The looping finger guides, adjacent to the top of the handle, comprise apertures, through which fingers of the operator's hand may be insertably positioned to minimize rotation and slipping during use of the slingshot.

Abstract: Stacks of marginally perforated paper sheets are assembled with prefabricated C-shaped binding strips at timely spaced intervals by moving two or more stacks simultaneously to a binding station so that the perforations of their sheets form a row, moving at the same intervals a strand of coherent strips lengthwise and cutting groups of discrete strips from the leader of the strand at a severing station which is remote from the binding station, transferring successive groups from the severing station to the binding station including moving the strips of each group sideways at least once and spreading the strips of each group by moving at least some strips of the group axially and away from the neighboring strips, and inserting the strips of a group into and closing the strips of such group in the perforations of stacks of sheets at the binding station. The apparatus can make stationery articles with one-piece binders or with so-called skip binders consisting of two or more spaced-apart coaxial binders.

Abstract: A wire binding machine for accepting and closing together wire binding elements of the Wire-O type to bind a stack of sheets, the machine being controlled to present two or more elements to the closing or binding station with the option of a gap between the elements so that if required a calendar hanger can be fed between the elements prior to the closing operation, the elements being spaceable by means of a first or feed conveyor feeding up to a parallel section of a second or spacing conveyor and pushing the elements from the first to the second conveyor with an interval representing the desired gap.

Abstract: An apparatus retapes axially taped electrical components into quasi-radially taped component. The apparatus feeds the axially taped electrical components to a work station one-by-one, at which one pigtail or lead wire of each component is bent around a bending mandrel by means of a bending element protruding beyond a rotatably or swingably mounted carrier, so that, after bending, the component with U-shaped leads is held suspended from the bending mandrel on its bent lead wire. An inserter device transfers the component with the bent lead wire onto a receiver of a transport element by sliding the component held suspended on the bending mandrel onto the receiver of the transport element, which then stepwise transports each bent component away from the work station.

Abstract: A method for making a formed wire in a predetermined shape by merely bending a clamped wire from its opposite ends toward its center portion, unclamping the bent wire to allow release of any bending-induced tortional stresses, and rotating the bent, unclamped wire around the unbent wire axis without twisting; and an apparatus for carrying out the method, which comprises a wire support, wire a selectively operable clamp, a rotating pin wire bender for bending the clamped wire from the opposite ends to the center portion, and a chuck for locating, holding, and rotating the bent, unclamped wire around the unbent wire axis.

Abstract: Stacks of marginally perforated paper sheets are assembled with prefabricated C-shaped binding strips at timely spaced intervals by moving two or more stacks simultaneously to a binding station so that the perforations of their sheets form a row, moving at the same intervals a strand of coherent strips lengthwise and cutting groups of discrete strips from the leader of the strand at a severing station which is remote from the binding station, transferring successive groups from the severing station to the binding station including moving the strips of each group sideways at least once and spreading the strips of each group by moving at least some strips of the group axially and away from the neighboring strips, and inserting the strips of a group into and closing the strips of such group in the perforations of stacks of sheets at the binding station. The apparatus can make stationery articles with one-piece binders or with so-called skip binders consisting of two or more spaced-apart coaxial binders.

Abstract: A method for the manufacture of stopper wirings which consists:in shaping wires to a profile including in a first plane a central portion in the form of an arc of circle and two straight branches,in disposing the shaped wires to form a complete ring, the straight branches extending outwardly from the ring,in twisting each branch along a first portion of its length starting from the ring,in twisting locally the remaining portion of each branch in a zone intermediate between the twisted portion and the outer end,and in rolling the end of the remaining portion of each branch in the shape of a loop to form one leg of the wiring.

Abstract: A device for broiling elongate food articles, such as hot dogs, sausages, etc., comprises a rod having a handle at one end, and food retaining baskets connected with the other end of the rod. The baskets are detachably connected with the rod by support wires which extend laterally from both the open and closed ends of the baskets, and have bent over free ends which form eyelets through which the rod is closely received. The rod end opposite the handle is threaded. The support wires at the open ends of the baskets are threaded over the threaded area of the rod, onto a lower portion thereof, to non-fixedly mount the upper ends of the baskets. The support wires at the closed ends of the baskets are disposed on the threaded area of the rod, and a pair of threaded nuts are positioned on opposite sides of the support ends, and are tightened against each other to fixedly, yet detachably, mount the lower ends of the baskets on the rod in a predetermined configuration.

Abstract: An illustrative embodiment of the invention produces comb-like bookbinding wire stock in a manner that significantly reduces wire breakage during manufacture as well as unequally stressing or stretching or marring the surface finish of the wire from which the stock is formed. An indexing unit drives a pair of forming arm members that pivot under the control of a cam surface. These members align and wind a wire strand onto pins that protrude radially from a pair of parallel, axially spaced rings. Operation of a reciprocating side pusher and center pusher shaft press the wire strand onto the adjacent pins and a wire flattening roller presses one side of the partially formed stock against the adjacent pin surfaces to produce the "back" for the comb-like stock. A rotating pinch roll "sets" the fingertip portions of the tines on the stock.

Abstract: A frusto-conical shaped wire basket is formed of a plurality of upright wire loops welded in substantially perpendicular relationship to a plurality of wire rings. The baskets are formed by first welding wire connecting members to a plurality of arcuately shaped lengths of wire. Each of the arcuate lengths is of a different length and radius, and they are arranged concentrically in order of decreasing radius. The relative lengths of the arcuate segments are determined by the desired size of the finished basket. When the wire connecting members are welded to the arcuate segments in the first stage of basket production, there is formed a basket flat. The flat is then subjected to a conventional pinch roller mechanism which bends the flat into a conical shape. At that point the ends of each arcuate length are in face-to-face relationship and form a circle. The ends are then butt welded to close each circular ring to complete the wire basket.

Abstract: A collapsible frame for supporting a container is manufactured from two loops formed from a single length of wire which are intertwined to form a handle and sprung to form base members which are yieldably urged apart. An inwardly narrowed neck portion is formed intermediate the handle and the base members to provide points of support for the container. A containment loop encompasses the neck portion of the frame and inwardly urges the points of support against the container as it is pushed into position within the containment loop. The base members are capable of being pressed into a planar assembly when the container is removed to allow a plurality of similarly constructed frames to be compactly stacked.

Abstract: An exercising device has a body made from one solid continuous piece of contoured rod using the variable friction resistance rope principle. The body is formed having two spaced rod sections, one end of each of the rod sections bends inwardly and extends towards a center line with the two rod sections then bending to extend substantially parallel to a point where they then bend towards each other and join to form a curved end; this arrangement forms a neck and shoulder portion. The two spaced rod sections taper towards each other where they form short parallel rod sections at the opposite end of the body with the ends of the rods joining to form a second curved end. Resistance is varied by passing the rope around the rod a selected number of turns. The number of loops around the rod directly affect the friction resistance developed.

Abstract: A collapsible frame for supporting a container is manufactured from two loops formed from a single length of wire which are intertwined to form a handle and sprung to form base members which are yieldably urged apart. An inwardly narrowed neck portion is formed intermediate the handle and the base members to provide points of support for the container. A containment loop encompasses the neck portion of the frame and inwardly urges the points of support against the container as it is pushed into position within the containment loop. The base members are capable of being pressed into a planar assembly when the container is removed to allow a plurality of similarly constructed frames to be compactly stacked.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the manufacture of a hyperfrequency delay line. The method comprises using a single metal wire shaped by the coiling thereof, said operation comprising bringing the wire into the form of contiguous coils. Coiling is followed by a wire cambering operation during which the coils are deformed at regular intervals in the axis of the line by using wedges, in such a way that the line is formed by a succession of identical groups of three coils in which the first and third coils have identical but oppositely directed inclinations with respect to the axis and in which half of the second coil remains contiguous with the first coil and half remains contiguous with the third coil. Application to the manufacture of double helix delay lines, of ring and bar and ring and loop lines, used in travelling wave tubes functioning as amplifiers.

Abstract: Fiber-shaped metal-containing spacing elements having a well-defined diameter of less than 100 .mu.m for spacing two plates in an indicia display device, such as a liquid crystal cell, are produced by providing a wire composed of a metal selected from the fourth to sixth adjacent groups of the Periodic Chart of the Atoms, converting the peripheral surface layer of such wire into a brittle metallic compound and breaking-up the so-treated wire into desired size individual spacing elements. By utilizing metal wires, an exact diameter dimension can be attained and by chemical conversion of the wire surface, the produced metal wire loses its ductility and can be easily broken-up into desired size elements. Spacing elements of the invention are useful in all types of indicia display devices particularly in multiplex liquid crystal display devices.

Abstract: A web of undulate wire is converted into a series of coherent C-shaped binders of the type known by the trademark Wire-O and used to bind stacks of paper sheets or the like in the making of steno pads, brochures, calendars and similar stationery products by continuously moving the web lengthwise at a constant or variable speed, by imparting to successive increments of one marginal portion of the moving web a concavo-convex shape in stepwise fashion so that the one marginal portion resembles (in cross-section) one-half of the letter C, and by thereupon imparting to successive increments of the other marginal portion of the moving web a concavo-convex shape in stepwise fashion so that the thus converted other marginal portion becomes a mirror image of the converted one marginal portion. The imparting steps include deforming the respective marginal portions from the inner toward the outer edges thereof.