Abstract: A machine tool includes a bed including a bottom surface and legs arranged at three positions of the bottom surface. The bed includes two oblique sides arranged such that the bottom surface has a triangular shape. The machine tool also includes a first support surface arranged on the bed and extending along a substantially horizontal first axis, a work table supported by the first support surface so as to move along the first axis, a second support surface arranged on the bed and extending along a substantially horizontal second axis, which is perpendicular to the first axis, and a machining unit supported by the second support surface so as to move along the second axis. The second support surface is located higher than the first support surface.

Abstract: Provided is an actuator having a piezoelectric element, a diaphragm to which the piezoelectric element is bonded and vibrates according to expansion and contraction displacement of the piezoelectric element, and a first spacer and a second spacer configured to fix both ends of the diaphragm in expansion and contraction displacement direction of the piezoelectric element to a base member. The driving characteristics of the actuator are determined by an effective length of the diaphragm between the first spacer and the second spacer.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for implementing an ultra-high stability stage with combined degrees of freedom for multiple axes of motion. The ultra-high stability stage includes a base, a driving wedge supported by the base and a following wedge supported by the driving wedge. The base and each wedge are formed of a selected stable material having predefined rigidity and low thermal expansion coefficient. Integrated air bearings, respective driving mechanics associated with each of the wedges and guiding components having selected degrees of freedom enable movement about multiple axes of motion, such as X, Y, Z translation axes, and rotation X and rotation Y axes. Another ultra-high stability stage with combined degrees of freedom for multiple axes of motion includes an intermediate wedge between the driving wedge and the following wedge to enable additional movement about a rotation X axis.

Abstract: Fork runners removably secured to a fork optionally permit fork runners to be of a different material from the fork and to be readily replaced. The fork includes an upper surface and a downward depending portion extending therefrom, and the fork runner includes an elongated fastening plate that is releasably secured to the downward depending portion.

Abstract: A door breaching device comprising: a longitudinal chassis having a first and a second extremity; a piston assembly located at said first extremity of the chassis, said piston assembly comprising a piston rod, said piston rod having, at a first end, a head and a second end located inside a piston chamber, said piston chamber having two opposite ends, a first end having an opening adapted for the movement of the piston rod therethrough and a second end located opposite said first end; wherein said piston rod is adapted for linear displacement between a first position where the second end of the piston rod is positioned at the second end of the piston chamber and a second position where the second end of the piston rod is at the first end of the piston chamber; a motor operatively connected to a hydraulic pump which is operatively connected to the piston chamber; a control unit for user input, said control unit being operatively connected to the motor; a two-part head assembly comprising: a fixed jaw, attac

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a stand having an improved structure to stably support a display module and a display apparatus including the same. The stand includes a base, a support bar on which the display module is mounted, the support bar including an opening and being coupled to the base, and a movement preventing unit configured to reduce a gap between the base and the support bar and including a moving block configured to protrude through the opening to be in contact with an inner surface of the base.

Abstract: A leg coupling for a table includes a coupling body for supporting a lower surface of a top plate. The coupling body includes an upper coupling projecting downward. The upper coupling is configured to be inserted into a coupling insertion hole of a leg. A lower coupling with a thread hole is coaxially arranged under the upper coupling. The coupling body includes a bolt insertion hole. A bolt inserted into the bolt insertion hole is screwed into the thread hole of the lower coupling. A peripheral surface of the upper coupling or a peripheral surface of the lower coupling can be press-fitted to an inner surface of the leg. The peripheral surface of the upper coupling has the same diameter as the peripheral surface of the lower coupling. Opposing ends of the upper coupling and the lower coupling have taper surfaces that can be engaged with each other.

Abstract: Fork runners removably secured to a fork optionally permit fork runners to be of a different material from the fork and to be readily replaced. The fork includes an upper surface and a downward depending portion extending therefrom, and the fork runner includes an elongated fastening plate that is releasably secured to the downward depending portion.

Abstract: A supporting structure for supporting a device includes: a base portion configured to support the device; and a plurality of leg portions configured to support the base portion. At least one of the plurality of leg portions includes a height adjusting mechanism whose length is adjustable in a height direction of the base portion, and a ground contact member configured to make contact with a ground. The ground contact member is fixed to the base portion with the height adjusting mechanism sandwiched between the ground contact member and the base portion so as to fix the height adjusting mechanism, and the ground contact member has a ground contact surface formed in the shape of a convex-shaped curved surface.

Abstract: A pry bar for construction applications and methods of using same is disclosed. The presently disclosed pry bar includes a main pry bar member, a handle, and a pry bar head. The pry bar head further includes a top plate, a faceplate that includes two prongs, a tapered slot between the two prongs, and optionally a pivot edge at the top of the tapered slot, and various support members. A method of using the pry bar is provided that includes the steps of positioning a board to be installed and thereby revealing a gap between the board and a previously installed board, positioning the pry bar head with respect to a floor joist and also with respect to the board to be installed and manipulating the handle of the pry bar until the gap is closed, fastening the board in place.

Abstract: A configuration, all components of which are man portable in some embodiments, for holding panels to protect assets against external force and impacts from airborne projectiles. An open box-like stackable frame module holds panels along a side of the frame. Multiple frames are connected to construct a protective barrier, such as a wall. Frames include provisions for connection in a vertical configuration so as to allow stacking of the frames to increase the height of the barrier. A method of installing is also provided.

Abstract: A shim pack to reduce vibration of a stator core is disclosed. The stator core may include a plurality of laminates coupled to a dovetail of a keybar and separated by a space block. The shim pack may include an elongated body extending from a first end including a dovetail slot configured to couple to the dovetail of the keybar to a second end extending radially at least substantially an entire length of an adjacent space block. A stator and related generator including the shim pack may also be provided.

Abstract: An example hammer disclosed herein includes a handle. The hammer also includes a head comprising a neck. The neck has a tapered receiving surface and an end face. The hammer further includes a cap comprising a tapered mounting surface. The mounting surface is surrounding and engaging the receiving surface to permanently affix the cap to the neck. A first circumference of engagement at a first end of a length of engagement between the mounting surface and the receiving surface is greater than a second circumference of engagement at a second end of the length of engagement. The first end is farther from the end face of the neck than the second end.

Abstract: A widener is provided, including: a base, a pushing assembly and a driving assembly. The base includes an inner space, a first passage and a second passage which are communicated with one another, and the first passage is transverse to the second passage. The pushing assembly includes a first pushing board, a second pushing board and a linkage member. The first pushing board is positioned at the base. The linkage member is movably inserted within the second passage. The second pushing board comovably connected with the linkage member. The driving assembly includes a tube body, a driving member and a driving block. The tube body defines a driving space, and the driving block is movably received in the driving space. An end of the tube body is connected with the first passage and the driving space is communicated with the inner space.

Abstract: In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, an information handling system may include a chassis and a retention assembly mechanically coupled to the chassis and configured to retain an information handling resource card. The retention assembly may include a fixed member, a movable member mechanically coupled to the fixed member such that the movable member is movable relative to the fixed member in a linear axis, and at least one fastener configured to mechanically engage with the fixed member in order to maintain the movable member in a desired position relative to the fixed member.

Abstract: A shoring system for concrete slabs is disclosed. One such system includes a drop head with a beam support member which can be moved between lower and upper positions, and a wedge member which locks the beam support member in its upper position by a translational, sliding movement thereof. Wedge member includes a narrower toe portion and a wider heel portion, and the toe portion is insertable past corresponding engagement surfaces on the post of the drop head, to support the wedge member in its upper position. The beam support member has a lower surface engaged by the wedge member and such lower surface is longitudinally spaced from the upper surface of the beam support member, so that there is open space between the wedge member and the bottom surfaces of beam supported by the upper surface of the beam support member.

Abstract: A wedge device for leveling tiles and a clip set for use of the same are disclosed. In one embodiment of the wedge device, the wedge device includes a body having an attachment end, a penetrating edge, a top, and a bottom. The attachment end is coupled to a backstop member and the penetrating edge is configured to penetrate the clip member. The body includes an inclined plane tapering from the attachment end to the penetrating edge. A line-of-sight opening extends along a longitudinal axis of the body to provide visibility through the body from the top to the bottom.

Abstract: A device for closing a building opening, wherein a planar closure element and/or a frame rigidly attached to the edge of the building opening has a frame profile, which by way of two lateral surfaces delimits a profile cavity that is open toward the rebate face, wherein from each of the two lateral surfaces, a profile wall projects toward the direction of the respective other lateral surface. On the projecting profile walls, a metal cover plate and a clamping part are attached such that they are pulled together by screws, with the interposition of the profile walls. On the two projecting profile walls, a clamping part abuts, in each case, both flanks of a groove, the opening surface of which is parallel to the connecting surface between the two projecting profile walls.

Abstract: A device for positioning a reciprocating saw blade within a tube stub, such that the device is inserted into the tube stub and dynamically positions the reciprocating saw blade relative to the interior surface of the tube stub so that the saw blade can make a controlled longitudinal cut into the interior of the tube stub to a precise depth.

Abstract: A lifter system in accordance with the present disclosure includes a vehicle lifter that can be changed in the field by a user between a collapsed-storage mode and an expanded-use mode to lift or stabilize a portion of an object such as an overturned or inoperable vehicle.

Abstract: An adjustable shim is described for attachment to a pre-hung door or a rough opening. The adjustable shim may include a base bracket for mounting the adjustable shim to the pre-hung door or the rough opening, an inner shim, an outer shim, and a first actuator operably attached between the base bracket and the inner shim. At least one of the inner shim and the outer shim is tapered. Rotation of the first actuator translates the inner shim substantially linearly relative to the outer shim, thereby adjusting a combined height of the inner shim and the outer shim.

Abstract: A stabilization device comprising of two identical pieces is disclosed. The pieces can be used individually as stabilizing shims, or it can be interlocked with one another such that it creates an adjustable stabilizer that can be reused again. The piece comprises of an external surface, an internal surface, an interlocking channel within the internal surface, and an interlocking guide that can be inserted into said interlocking channel.

Abstract: A coupler comprises a first channel having a first axis of extension in a first horizontal direction and a second channel having a second axis of extension in the first horizontal direction. The second axis of extension is parallel to and spaced apart from the first axis of extension in a second horizontal direction. The second axis of extension has a pitch angle relative to the first axis of extension in a vertical direction, the pitch angle being less than 180 degrees. The first and second channels each include head-mounting features, the head-mounting features constructed and arranged to retain an elongated head to the coupler while permitting movement of the elongated head relative to the coupler in the first horizontal direction.

Abstract: A dental bite block assembly includes a U-shaped mounting base having an upper bite portion, a lower bite portion, a central portion, an accessory mount, and a first magnetically energetic material embedded in the central portion of the U-shaped mounting base proximate the accessory mount. A dental accessory has a dental bite block mount that is detachably coupled with the accessory mount of the U-shaped mounting base and a second magnetically energetic material disposed in the dental accessory proximate the dental bite block mount. When the dental bite block mount is coupled with the accessory mount, the first magnetically energetic material embedded in the central portion of the U-shaped mounting base and the second magnetically energetic material disposed in the dental accessory are in operable magnetic engagement with each other.

Abstract: A method for removing a dual wheel from a primary wheel of a dual wheel assembly. The dual wheel is secured to the primary wheel while forming a gap between a periphery of the dual wheel and a periphery of the primary wheel. The dual wheel and the primary wheel each may have a tire mounted thereon, with the dual wheel assembly being carried on an axle. The method comprising inserting an uninflated, high pressure airbag at least partially into the gap between the dual wheel and said primary wheel; inflating the high pressure airbag to expand the gap between the dual wheel and the primary wheel so as to separate the dual wheel and the primary wheel; and finally, removing the dual wheel from the primary wheel. Likewise, a similar method can be used to remove a wheel from an axel, the wheel being carried on and secured to the axel while forming a gap between a periphery of the wheel and a periphery of the axel.

Abstract: The spring loaded impact tool is a safety device designed for use with impact tools such as chisels, pry levers, hammers, shovels, scrapers, or tampers. Specifically, the spring loaded impact tool is an enhanced shaft that replaces the traditional shaft that is used as the handle in impact tools. The enhanced shaft further comprises a spring that provides the user greater control over the impact tool compared to the traditional shaft. The spring loaded impact tool comprises an enhanced shaft. The enhanced shaft further comprises an outer shaft, an inner shaft, a compression spring, and a threaded connection.

Abstract: A workpiece clamp device with single side is disclosed. When a bolt is screwed in relative to a base plane, an elastic member is compressed by a first and a second stop portions and a second clamp surface of a driving block is limited by a second wall surface. A first inclined surface is pushed leftward by a second inclined surface so that a tool is clamped by the first clamp surface and a first wall surface. When the bolt is screwed out relative to the base plane, the elastic member is reset due to the compression of the first and the second stop portions. Since the second clamp surface is limited by a second wall surface, the first inclined surface is pushed rightward by the second inclined surface to move the driving block upward so that the force for clamping the tool is released and the tool is disassembled.

Abstract: A turbomachine, in particular, a compressor, having a housing and having at least one housing insert accommodated therein and having a fitting piece for the adjustment of a gap dimension between the housing and the housing insert, wherein the housing comprises, for the adjustment of the gap dimension, a horizontally adjustable guide element into which the fitting piece is inserted, is provided.

Abstract: A yard leveling base for leveling a column during assembly is provided. The yard leveling base is configured to allow for a packed column section of a column to be placed on a top surface of the yard leveling base, the yard leveling base can further include a bottom surface configured to maintain substantial contact with the ground of a remote manufacturing yard, wherein the yard leveling base is adapted to adjust the level of the top surface of the yard leveling base to account for unevenness or slope of the ground of the remote manufacturing yard.

Abstract: The application is related to adjustable supports for holding objects in one or more desired fixed orientations, including but not necessarily limited to objects that lack uniformity as to size and/or shape and/or weight.

Abstract: The equipment and method for moving containers herein proposed consists in a new concept for moving containers in port terminals based on the stacking of containers from the bottom to the top. Such stacking occurs by using a lifting system specifically designed for such purpose and by supporting the containers stack on fixed elevated support at a determined height from the ground.

Abstract: Apparatus for guiding insertion and locking of a printed board assembly (PBA) in an electronic unit may include a housing, a first wedge segment having a sloped planar contact surface and a second wedge segment adjacent the first wedge segment and having a sloped planar contact surface. The first and second wedge segments may be devoid of holes in their respective sloped planar contact surfaces. The wedge segments may be supported in the housing so that the sloped contact surface of the first wedge segment is adjacent the sloped contact surface of the second wedge segment.

Abstract: An adjustable drive mechanism, which may be used to control the elevation angle of a telescope or antenna, is disclosed. The adjustable drive mechanism can include a base plate configured to couple with a support structure and having a first spherical portion facing away from the support structure. In addition, the adjustable drive mechanism can include a gear box having a pinion gear to interface with a driven gear of a telescope or antenna, and a housing in support of the pinion gear and including a second spherical portion configured to interface with the first spherical portion of the base plate. The first spherical portion and the second spherical portion can be movable relative to one another in three rotational degrees of freedom to facilitate alignment and positioning of the pinion gear relative to the driven gear.

Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed herein for guide assemblies. A guide assembly is provided comprising a sliding rail comprising a first channel and a second channel, a first fitting comprising a first retaining rail, wherein the first retaining rail is configured to slide within the first channel, and a second fitting comprising a second retaining rail, wherein the second retaining rail is configured to slide within the second channel.

Abstract: An installation assembly includes an installation member for use along a rough opening frame. The installation member includes a locking ridge. A fenestration interface is provided for use along a fenestration unit. The fenestration interface includes a fenestration anchor near the first end. The fenestration interface is movable within the rough opening frame from an unlocked configuration to a locked installed configuration. In the unlocked configuration the fenestration anchor slides over the locking ridge as the fenestration unit with the fenestration interface is seated within the rough opening frame. In the locked installed configuration the fenestration anchor slides off the locking ridge and the locking ridge is in an intercepting position relative to the fenestration anchor to fix the fenestration interface and the fenestration unit within the rough opening frame.

Abstract: A tow plate shelf device supplements a tow plate of an existing hand cart with a shelf increasing the lateral width of the two plate of the hand cart. The device includes a base shelf and a slot extending into a first longitudinal side of the base shelf. The base shelf is configured for coupling to a tow plate of a hand cart by insertion of the tow plate into the slot.

Abstract: The present invention provides a multi-use firefighting tool. The tool may be used as a stand-alone tool or as a supplement to existing tools. An additional aspect of the present invention is to provide a multi-use tool configured to enable, among other things, forcible entry and valve opening/closing. Further, the tool may be used to supplement a firefighting Halligan tool.

Abstract: An article of manufacture includes a first member configured to be attached to a first support structure, a second member configured to be attached to the first member, and an externally threaded dowel configured to engage an internally threaded hole in the second member. The externally threaded member is also configured to contact the first member. Rotation of the externally threaded dowel adjusts a distance spanned by the first member and second member.

Abstract: The present invention provides a multi-use firefighting tool. The tool may be used as a stand-alone tool or as a supplement to existing tools. An additional aspect of the present invention is to provide a multi-use tool configured to enable, among other things, forcible entry and valve opening/closing. Further, the tool may be used to supplement a firefighting Halligan tool.

Abstract: An apparatus of the present invention is used for movable objects upwardly and downwardly relative to a fixed surface. The apparatus includes a lifting device presented by a pair of blocks movable relative one and the other. A carriage device is supported by the blocks. The carriage device is connected to object to be lifted relative the fixed surface. An actuator is connected to the blocks. As the actuator moves the blocks relative one and the other, the blocks move above the carriage device relative the fixed surface at various distances lift and lower the objects.

Abstract: A pipe flange spreading tool is disclosed. The pipe flange spreading tool includes a pair of wedges and a retainer strap. Each of the wedges has a through-hole and a tapered end. The tapered end is configured to be forced between two pipe flanges of a pipeline to separate the pipe flanges of the pipeline. The retainer strap connects the pair of wedges via the through-holes. The retainer strap includes a first and second end loops configured to be looped around a first and second secured locations of the pipeline, respectively, in order to retain the pair of wedges with respect to the pipeline during operation.

Abstract: A pressure adjuster for changing pressure between a plurality of opposed bodies pressed against each other includes a cam rotatable in a given direction of rotation and having a top dead center on an outer circumferential surface thereof that is distanced farthest from a rotation axis of the cam. A driver is connected to the cam to drive and rotate the cam. A cam rest contacts the cam and is connected to one of the plurality of opposed bodies. A cam regulation assembly is connected to the cam to regulate rotation of the cam at least when the top dead center of the cam passes a contact position where the cam contacts the cam rest.

Abstract: A breaching tool for use by law enforcement or emergency personnel has a curving, tapered wedge at a first end, extending approximately perpendicularly from a tool handle, and providing a striking surface for driving the wedge between a door and door frame, for example. At an opposite end is a tapered chisel tail end, preferably with a claw for pulling nails or other fasteners. The tool may include a loop handle, generally in a trapezoid configuration connected to the main tool shaft, for manipulating the tool in service.

Abstract: A hybrid wedge jack/scissor lift device for lifting heavy loads is provided, the device having a horizontally-oriented actuator coupled to a wedge that acts on lower and upper rollers coupled to a scissor lift. In operation, the actuator can drive the wedge in between the rollers, spreading them apart to raise the scissor lift. When the actuator retracts, the wedge is removed and the scissor lift collapses under the weight of the load. The wedge can be shaped in such a way that the lift has one or more intrinsically safe positions in which the rollers on the scissor lift fit into seats on the wedge, preventing the scissor lift from collapsing in the event of an actuator failure. An optional restraint bar safety mechanism is also provided.

Abstract: A device for loosening and untying knots including a body having a first section and a second section having a plurality of channels, a pusher rod positioned slidably within the first section of the body, a shaft positioned slidably within the first and second sections of the body and being engaged with the rod, and a plurality of prongs, each including a base, a nose and a rail. The rails slidably fit into the channels of the body, and a head of the shaft is engaged with the bases of the prongs. The prongs move between a retracted position, in which the noses are juxtaposed with one another and inserted within a knot, and an expanded position, in which the noses are spaced apart from one another when the shaft is moved within the body, the noses loosen and untie the knot when the prongs are expanded.

Abstract: The invention describes a rescue apparatus (1) with prising arms (4, 5) on a support housing (3) mounted in at least one pivot bearing arrangement (20) with a drive system (2) so as to be displaceable in pincer-like movement about a pivot axis (17) extending perpendicular to a longitudinal mid-axis (18) of the support housing (3). Surface regions (41) with a higher resistance to wear than the resistance to wear of adjacent regions (42) are provided on at least mutually facing internal surfaces (26, 27) of the prising arms (4, 5).

Abstract: The invention relates to a tool (1) for forcing a door comprising: —an elongated shaft (2) having a front end and a rear end; —a handgrip (10) located between the front end and the rear end of the shaft; and—a head (5) fixed to the shaft at the front end thereof, the head having a base part (6) provided with a striking surface (7) on a first side for receiving impacts from a striking tool and a wedge part (8) extending from the base part on the opposite side thereof essentially perpendicularly to the longitudinal axis of the shaft.

Abstract: An assembly and a method for lifting a module of a lithography system from its support and a lithography system including such device are provided. The assembly includes a body and a track. The track comprises a ramp. The body is provided with two wheels. The first wheel vertically may extend a distance h further from a central horizontal plane of the body than the second wheel. An axis of the first wheel may be positioned in the horizontal direction at a distance D from an axis of the second wheel. The track may include a first and a second ramp. The first ramp is positioned at a distance D from the second ramp in the horizontal direction and a distance h in the vertical direction. Insertion of the body between the module and the support causes the module to be lifted from the support.

Abstract: A tool for straightening flooring material laid over floor joists having a thickness includes a square “U” shaped wedge having a pair of spaced apart legs running in parallel. The legs are spaced apart a distance slightly greater than the thickness of the floor joist. A wedge body has a planar bottom side and an upper side tapering with respect to the bottom planar side from a head end downwardly to the distal ends of the legs. A planar chisel plate shaped to conform with the shape of the bottom planar side of the wedge body includes a pair of legs spaced apart a distance slightly smaller than the thickness of the floor joist. The chisel plate includes a chisel edge on each of the distal ends of the legs and further includes a chisel edge along the inside spaced apart edges of the legs of the chisel plate.

Abstract: A pipe flange spreading tool is disclosed. The pipe flange spreading tool includes a pair of wedges and a retainer strap. Each of the wedges has a tapered end, and the tapered end is configured to be forced between two pipe flanges of a pipeline to separate the pipe flanges of the pipeline. The retainer strap connects the pair of wedges. The retainer strap is configured to be looped around the pipeline to retain the pair of wedges with respect to the pipeline during operation.