Abstract: A bracket assembly for mounting a rack to a floor includes a bracket. The bracket includes a rack-mounting surface having at least one pair of rack-mounting openings for mounting the bracket to the rack, and a floor-mounting surface extending from the rack-mounting surface. The floor-mounting surface has at least three pairs of floor-mounting openings for mounting the bracket to the floor.

Abstract: An accessory for a chair having two or more front legs, for use in cooperation with at least one of the front legs of the chair and for providing a good platform for a person's foot or feet while sitting in the chair working on motor skills, the accessory comprising one or more board items comprising one or more board-like items, including planks, of various thicknesses having on or in each item at least one restraining device having one or more chair-leg contacting surfaces that will prevent a child, while sitting in the chair, from moving the board-like item out of its functional place with his feet. The chair accessory is used with a chair including a child's chair to provide a foot rest when the chair occupant's legs are too short to allow the occupant's feet to reach the floor to provide stability necessary to permit more advanced fine motor development.

Abstract: Disclosed is a chair accessory comprising one or more board-like items, including planks, of various thicknesses having on or in each item at least one restraining device having one or more chair-leg contacting surfaces that will prevent a child, while sitting in the chair, from moving the board-like item out of its functional place with his feet. The chair accessory is used with a chair including a child's chair to provide a foot rest when the chair occupant's legs are too short to allow the occupant's feet to reach the floor to provide stability necessary to permit more advanced fine motor development.

Abstract: Recoil artillery systems and isolation systems are provided. An isolation system is provided for mounting an inertial navigation system onto an artillery system having a barrel adapted to move along a longitudinal axis during a firing sequence. The system includes an inner cradle, an outer cradle, first and second elastomeric isolators, and a first single axis damper. The first elastomeric isolator is mounted between the inner and outer cradles. The second elastomeric isolator is mounted between the inner and outer cradles. The first single axis damper is aligned substantially parallel with the longitudinal axis and includes a first end and a second end, the first end is mounted to the first inner sidewall, and the second end is mounted to the first outer sidewall.

Abstract: A system for mounting a component in an aperture of a supporting surface has a mounting flange surrounding the component to be mounted, and at least two clamp dogs attached to the mounting flange and located adjacent a rear surface of the mounting flange. The component is inserted into a mounting hole cut in a sheet rock surface or ceiling tile, so that the flange abuts the front face of the surface. The clamping assemblies are located on the rear face of the surface. There is a pivoting system for pivoting the clamp dog around an axis. The pivoting system is operable from both the front surface and the rear surface of the mounting flange so that the clamp dogs can be actuated from either side of the sheet rock or ceiling tile.

Abstract: A holder for holding electrical lines in aircraft construction comprises a base and a component extending away for the base for holding the electrical lines, the holder being made of plastic. The plastic may be a glass-fiber reinforced polyamide material. The component may be formed of the same material as the base in a single injection molding process and may have ribs formed that provide substantial stiffening to the component.

Abstract: A hanger assembly adapted and/or configured for use in hanging, supporting, and/or securing building components, such as ducts, pipes, and the like, between structural members, such as joists, studs, rafters, or the like, and methods of making and/or using the hanger assembly. In some embodiments, the hanger assembly includes one or more threaded fastening members that are each pre-disposed and/or captured within the structure of the hanger assembly prior to use. One or more captivating mechanisms and/or structures can be provided to selectively couple one or more of the fastening members within an opening in the assembly such that the fastening member is held in place within the opening prior to use.

Abstract: A digital voice and/or data communication cable hanger provides a saddle support on a shaft fastened to a ceiling or beams or side wall by an integral fastening loop at one end. The other end of the hanger is shaped into a support loop for the cable. A saddle having the support shaft running through it closes the support loop to prevent cable from slipping out. The cable hanger is made by a tool using a rotating spool designed to shape the rigid shaft into a fastening loop at one end and a support loop at the other end. A second support loop can be selectively attached to the shaft between its ends.

Abstract: A frame hanging tool has an elongated body member formed with a plurality of openings. Inserts are removably fastened to the body member in the openings. The inserts are each configured to receive and guide fasteners such as nails and screws. One of the inserts has a level for indicating whether the fasteners received in the inserts are aligned level with respect to each other. In this manner, a person is assured that the object being hung will be level.

Abstract: A combination mouse pad and computer disk holder includes a pad which comprises a body having a top surface and a bottom surface joined by an edge of a selected thickness. The pad further has a pocket therein of dimension sufficient to receive a computer disk. Preferably, the pocket is open to the edge of the pad to allow access to a computer disk that may be stored in the pad.

Abstract: A frame hanging tool has an elongated body member formed with a plurality of openings. Each of the plurality of openings has an opening edge and a recessed border formed at least partly around the opening edge. The inserts have an overhanging edge that has a shape corresponding with the recessed border for removably fastening the inserts to the body member within the openings. The recessed border can have a protrusion and the overhanging edge can have a recess, or vice-versa, the recess aligned with and corresponding to the protrusion. The protrusion and the recess can be curved or linear in shape. A shape of the recessed border can correspond with or be slightly smaller than a shape of the overhanging edge. The overhanging edge can have a tapered corner for easier insertability. The inserts are each configured to receive and guide fasteners such as nails and screws.

Abstract: An object hanging tool includes an elongated body member having at least one removable insert holder for removably fastening, to the body member, an insert for receiving and guiding a fastener to be secured to a structure. The insert holder is slidably disposed at an edge of the body member, and has a holder opening with a holder opening edge and a recessed border formed at least partly around the opening edge. The recessed border self-secures to an overhanging edge of the insert upon placing the insert into the holder opening. The recessed border can have a protrusion and the overhanging edge can have a recess, or vice-versa, the recess aligned with and corresponding to the protrusion. A shape of the recessed border can correspond with or be slightly smaller than a shape of the overhanging edge. The inserts are each configured to receive and guide fasteners such as nails and screws.

Abstract: A computer is disclosed having a flat panel display device and a disk drive unit, each pivotable between a closed position wherein they serve as covers for the housing of the computer, and an open position, wherein access is provided to the internal components of the computer, including a motherboard and drive assemblies housed in the disk drive unit.

Abstract: A locking device installed in a cargo support to lock a retractable tube, including a holder frame fastened to the outer tube of the retractable tube, a rack moved in a longitudinal sliding way defined between two parallel lugs of the holder frame, a driving lever pivoted to the holder frame for moving the rack, and a locking block pivoted to the holder frame and retained by a spring to lock the driving lever, wherein a L-shaped locating plate is mounted in the holder frame for the positioning of the outer tube of the retractable tube, having a round hole on a transverse section thereof through which the inner tube is inserted into the outer tube, two stop flanges bilaterally extended from a longitudinal section thereof and respectively engaged with respective end notches on the holder frame, and a lug extended from one stop flange and fastened to a lug at the holder frame; the holder frame and the locking block are respectively made of iron.

Abstract: A computer monitor housing comprising first and second hemispherical shells having sizes such that one of the shells can nest substantially completely inside the other, a video display panel supported within the first shell, a supporting pedestal secured to the first shell, a powered drive for pivotally moving the first and second shells about a substantially horizontal diametrical axis in such a manner that the shells are relatively movable between a closed position in which the shells are positioned with their concave sides facing so as to conceal the video display panel and an open position in which the shells are nested one inside the other for revealing the video display panel.

Abstract: An ornament hanger comprising an elongated loop shaped structure having an arcuate ornament supporting portion at one end and an attachment portion at the other end. A bendable closure member cooperates with the supporting portion to inhibit ornaments from disengaging from the ornament hanger. A part of the arcuate ornament supporting portion has an enlarged cross section with respect to other parts of the arcuate ornament supporting portion to provide strengthening of the supporting portion permitting heavy ornaments to be supported by the ornament hanger. The enlarged cross-sectional portion is dumbbell shaped. A part of the dumb bell shaped enlarged portion being asymmetrical such that one end of the enlarged portion in cross section is larger than the other end.

Abstract: A support assembly for a vehicle seat, including a first slide mechanism adapted to be mounted under one side of the seat, a second slide mechanism adapted to be mounted under a seat opposite said first slide mechanism, and a lock connecting the first and second slide mechanisms. The first and second slide mechanisms include a support defining a track and a bracket slidable along the track in the directions of relative motion parallel to one another. The lock includes a first and second series of stations fixed with respect to the respective supports and first and second latches pivotally mounted to respective seat brackets which are engageable with said series of stations. The latches are pivotably mounted about a first and second axis of rotation parallel to one another. An actuator comprising a pivot shaft is connected to the first latch and is rotatably secured within a mount so as to be rotatable about a third axis of rotation which is perpendicular to the first axis of rotation.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a knuckle bracket for use in mounting a vehicular shock absorber. The knuckle bracket has an outer bracket and an inner bracket, the outer bracket comprising an annular portion and a pair of clamp portions extending in parallel from the annular portion, the inner bracket comprising a bent backrest portion and a pair of support pieces extending in parallel from the backrest portion. The support pieces of the inner bracket are inserted between the clamp portions of the outer bracket, and a reinforcing bracket is provided at least between the support pieces of the inner bracket to prevent deformation, tilting and disengagement of the knuckle bracket.

Abstract: A web protection system for a sink having at least first and second sink basins separated by a partition wall with the partition wall having an upper horizontal surface. The system includes an elongated web protector having a U-shaped cross-section which fits over and protects the partition wall. A colander having a pocket to hang over the partition wall is also provided. The colander can be used with the web protector or a separate adapter to fit properly over the partition wall.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a knuckle bracket for use in mounting a vehicular shock absorber. The knuckle bracket has an outer bracket and an inner bracket, the outer bracket comprising an annular portion and a pair of clamp portions extending in parallel from the annular portion, the inner bracket comprising a bent backrest portion and a pair of support pieces extending in parallel from the backrest portion. The support pieces of the inner bracket are inserted between the clamp portions of the outer bracket, and a reinforcing bracket is provided at least between the support pieces of the inner bracket to prevent deformation, tilting and disengagement of the knuckle bracket.

Abstract: A panel is disclosed for use in double floors, a number of attachment holes are formed in the rear surface of the panel main body. The leg parts fit into these attachment holes in a state in which a step on the outer circumference of a leg part faces the panel main body. An elastic ring is placed between the step of a leg part and the panel main body. Projections, which are deformed when a leg part is inserted into an attachment hole of the panel main body and which fill the gap between the outer circumference of the leg part and the inner surface of the attachment hole, are formed on the outer circumference of the leg parts.

Abstract: A bicycle utility carrying rack has a two piece clamp and a separate carrying grid. One clamp piece is bent to form a square-ended head which fits in a channel in the grid. The grid can be assembled to the clamp in one of two mutually perpendicular orientations for flexibility in mounting at various points of a bicycle frame. A single bolt secures the grid to the clamp and once assembled, the grid cannot turn about the bolt to another position unless disassembled from the clamp.

Abstract: Stator structure for a gas turbine engine is disclosed which has retainers 26, 28 for engaging a heavy component, such as an electronic engine control 18. The retainers restrain the component against movement during installation. Various construction details which permit the stator structure to engage the component during assembly and yet allow for easy removal of the component are developed. In one embodiment, the stator structure includes a pair of circumferentially spaced retainers 26, 28 having channels 44 which open to each receive a mating element 46 on an engine component to support and position the component during installation.

Abstract: A shower curtain support has a shower curtain rod mounted by opposing wall brackets on parallel end walls of a shower stall. The rod slidably suspends a conventional shower curtain across the front opening of the shower stall. Spiders on the terminal ends of the rod are indexably received by spider plates of the wall brackets to dispose the rod in a number of radial orientations relative to the wall brackets. In another embodiment for infinite radial orientations of the rod within the full range of 360.degree., outturned flanges on the rod ends, sandwiched between inturned flanges of compression nuts and closed ends of threaded studs projecting from wall brackets, allow such infinite radial orientations of the rod relative to the wall brackets.

Abstract: A portable supporting and stabilizing structure is disclosed that is particularly well suited for securely maintaining a preselected orientation of a utility surface, such as, for example, a work surface, an equipment mounting surface, or a food tray by, and adjacent to, the thighs of a seated user of the utility surface. The structure includes a supporting section for support of the utility surface and a stabilizing section connected with the supporting section and receivable adjacent to the thighs of a user of the structure so that, when force is exerted by the user's thighs against the stabilizing section of the structure, changes in orientation of the surface are resisted thus securely maintaining the position of the utility surface during use thereof. Structures are disclosed which are collapsible and which are selectively configurable for employing inward or outward exertion of the thighs by the user against the stabilizing section of the structure to stabilize the utility surface.

Abstract: Apparatus for carrying loads, particularly a pallet comprising spacers (2,3). Two or more pallets are interconnected by means of pairs (1,5) of spacers provided in the adjacent areas of the said pallets. Such spacer pairs, one body of which belongs to the one pallet and the other one to the other pallet, are interconnected by severable means such as a bridge and/or a shrink film and/or tapes (12) allowing a so construed multiple pallet to be produced, transported, used and stored as a unit. In operation, one pair of spacers is provided to be severed and another one held together by the said interconnectors, so that the latter forms a hinge for positioning any of the separate pallets forming a multiple pallet.

Abstract: Disclosed as the present invention is household furniture, particularly furniture which is very easily assembled and disassembled. The present invention is specifically directed to furniture which is scaled in size and in assembly complexity for children. A particular embodiment is disclosed in which the furniture package is provided with full child-size parts and with a smaller sized set of paper or cardboard parts matching the child-size parts, thus enabling the child to visualize the completed furniture pieces as well as the assembly process.

Abstract: A wall mounting bracket assembly comprising a one piece plastic body including a front wall, an integral peripheral wall extending from the front wall and an integral peripheral flange for attachment to a wall of a building. In use the body is mounted on the building and then siding is applied to the wall of the building and the edges of the siding are brought into closely adjacent relation to the peripheral wall of the body. A plastic flange member having an axial wall is telescoped over the peripheral wall of the body and until the flange engages the siding. The axial wall of the flange and the peripheral wall of the body having interengaging projections and recesses so that the flange is selectively locked in position.

Abstract: An improved wall bracket and kit for making such a bracket for hair dryers and like small electrical appliances is disclosed which uses two plastic coated malleable wire bracket members that can be hand-bent to the desired shape to receive any one of many different shapes to receive any one of many different sized and shaped appliances. One wire member is longer than the other and has a performed U-shaped end loop for hanging the appliance electric cord looped over it. In one embodiment of the bracket and kit, the wire members are mountable in a two-part base that is also a cover plate for an electrical power outlet (e.g., that is commonly next to a bathroom sink) so that the hair dryer can be conveniently stored in an accessible place. In a second embodiment, the base is generally circular and mounted by either a central screw and/or adhesive.