Abstract: A guide for drilling holes into broken threaded fasteners includes an oblong bar having a stepped slot along its length and a drill guide at one end. Securing sliders travel along the stepped slot and are secured to a structure to be repaired by threaded fasteners through the sliders. Once secured with the drill guide aligned over the broken threaded fastener (possibly with the assistance of an optical sighting device to mark the central axis of the drill guide), the operator drills through the drill guide and into the broken fastener. The tool is removed and the broken fastener can be extracted by various means.

Abstract: Vehicle event recorders are arranged with integrated web servers to provide a simple user interface and control mechanism which may be address with commonly available hardware and software. A vehicle event recorder of these inventions couples to a network having a workstation node. The workstation having either of the many available web browsers can be used to view, address, control, perform data transfer, et cetera, by way of data exchange in accordance with simple IP protocols. A vehicle equipped with these systems returns to a household to make a network connection. A local server is used to see all exposed system controls as provided by predefined web pages provided by a web server integrated as part of the vehicle event recorder unit.

Abstract: A saw guide for increasing a gap between deck boards is an apparatus that includes a base panel, a blade hole, a front guide tab, a back guide tab, a binding clamp, and an alignment rail. The apparatus is used in conjunction with a circular handheld saw to more precisely widen the gap between two deck boards. The circular handheld saw is mounted onto the base panel by the binding clamp. The blade of the circular handheld saw is positioned within the blade hole, and the alignment rail is used to properly orient the blade. The front guide tab and the second guide tab are located on opposite sides of the base panel and are used to guide the cutting direction of the circular handheld saw.

Abstract: A mobile communication device configured to operate in at least a first mode and a second mode is provided. The mobile communication device includes a housing, a light emitting unit configured to emit at least a first color when the mobile communication device is operated in the first mode and to emit a second color when the mobile communication device is operated in the second mode, and a filtering unit having at least a first pattern associated with the first mode and a second pattern associated with the second mode. The filtering unit is configured to display the first pattern with the first color in the housing when the mobile communication device is operated in the first mode and to display the second pattern with the second color in the housing when the mobile communication device is operated in the second mode.

Abstract: A portable terminal with a stylus pen includes a battery accepting recess formed on a face of the portable terminal, and a guide hole provided at a side of the battery accepting recess. The stylus pen is inserted through the guide hole such that the stylus pen is coupled within the portable terminal in a state where at least a part of the stylus pen is accommodated in the battery accepting recess. The portable terminal allows a stylus pen accommodating space to be used as a space for receiving a battery pack such that a battery pack with an expanded capacity can be coupled therein.

Abstract: A material measuring device has a base and a support, in which the base is provided with a mounting system adapted to hold the support in one or more fixed positions over material to be measured, in which the base has a first end, and in which the fixed positions are spaced apart from the first end.

Abstract: A guide clamp including a generally, straight elongate guide bar, a first clamp assembly mounted at one end of the guide bar, a second clamp assembly slidingly mounted along the guide bar, the clamp assemblies being adapted to clamp a workpiece therebetween, an end cap affixed to an opposite end of the guide bar, wherein at least one of the clamp assemblies includes a clamp body that is pivotable with respect to the guide bar.

Abstract: A fence is described for attachment to a cutting table or in combination with a cutting table. The fence includes pair of elongated guide rails with brackets configured to be mounted to the cutting table. An endless chain is provided on each guide rail, trained about sprockets rotatably mounted on the guide rail. Each chain includes a working flight that extends along the associated guide rail. Each chain further includes sprocket tooth receiving spaces. A shaft interconnects, one of the sprockets on one guide rail with one of the sprockets on the remaining guide rail such that rotation of the shaft will result in all the sprockets rotating in unison, causing uniform and equal movement of the chain. An elongated cutting guide is provided with aligning lugs that are releasably received within selected tooth receiving spaces of the chains in such a manner that the cutting guide may be selectively engaged with the chains and lifted from the chains.

Abstract: A monitor device for marking a reference location on a computer screen. The reference location can be, for example, a data point on the screen that a user needs to note. This would be advantageous, for example, when the user is checking a spreadsheet of data. Often when the user refers back and forth between a computer screen and a hard copy, the user loses track of the user's place on the screen. The monitor guide can be used to keep track of where the user is on the screen. The monitor guide features two rods that move with respect to the screen and intersect at a point used to mark the reference point.

Abstract: An adjustable handrest for artists which is capable of attachment to a frame for supporting a worksurface on which a painting or other work of art may be applied. The handrest includes an elongated hand support member which spans the work surface and each end of which is independently vertically adjustable with respect to the other. The handrest is equally well-adapted for use by left-or right-handed users.

Abstract: A portable saw guide and T-square and method of use where an accurate and straight saw cut is desirable. The T-square saw guide has an alignment arm and a flexible guide arm which can be quickly and accurately secured to a work piece such as a sheet of plywood by a clamping mechanism in order that a worker may use a guide edge of the T-square to accurately maneuver and guide a saw along a desired course despite variations in the surface of the work piece. The guide arm forms a flush linear contact between a surface of the workpiece and the saw guide to compensate for any non planar irregularities such as a bow, sag or warp in the work piece to cause continuous contact between the saw being guided along the guide edge of the T-square to produce a straight cut along the work piece.

Abstract: A measuring machine produces an essentially linear movement in a moving part by transforming rotary movement to linear movement through a transmission element having a high modulus of elasticity in a longitudinal direction, and which is flexible in a transverse direction. The transmission element has two ends which are each fastened to the same mechanical element, and the transmission element is given a pre-stress which is greater than a maximum force encountered during acceleration while the machine is in use.

Abstract: A guide tool for performing a work function step such as cutting or drawing a line along a workpiece including a guide plate having planar opposite sides, a longitudinal slot, a first straight guide edge substantially parallel with the slot, guide flanges along opposite sides of the slot defining a guide channel on a first side of the guide plate, and two clamps adapted for assembly with guide plate, the clamps having a first jaw including a guide member slidable along the guide plate channel and a second jaw extendable through the guide plate slot and a pressure plate for securing the clamps to a workpiece along opposite sides of the workpiece, and clamp handles formed integral with the jaws and spring biased apart to urge the jaws together for clamping the guide plate to the workpiece, and the clamp handles being positioned in spaced relation from the first side of the guide plate for ready access by a user from the first side of the guide plate when the clamps are assembled with the guide plate and the gui

Abstract: A support assembly includes a base having end edges along which extend toothed racks for engagement of a clamping bar having meshing detents on its end portions, the clamping bar providing a guide track for a DIY mat cutter. The base is invertible to present English system and metric system distance-measuring features on its opposite side surfaces.

Abstract: Drawing boards and drawing instruments for use therewith. The surface of the board (1) has a set of parallel-running, evenly spaced magnetic poles (2) across it. Each drawing instrument has a cylinder (10) with similar parallel magnetic poles running essentially axially along it. The cylinder is freely rotatably mounted (12) and preferably held a little bit away from the board surface. The cylinder (10) preferentially orientates with its magnetic poles aligned with those (2) on the board surface. This orientation can be accurately maintained across the entire surface of the board without the use of cumbersome mechanical arrangements to ensure alignment of drawing instruments. When not required for use, the drawing instrument may simply be removed from the surface of the board. A ruler/protractor device (3) and a carriage bearing a pair of rules set at right angles are described.

Abstract: A template that facilitates record keeping by commercial bus and truck drivers. A plurality of parallel, elongate slots are formed in the template to guide the driver's marking pen across a page in a log book having preprinted driving periods printed thereon. A larger, vertically extending window member at the right end of the template allows the driver to record total driving hours on the page. The template is clipped to the right end of the page in use and thus also provides a book mark function.

Abstract: A mahl in the form of a beam adjusted as to height over a base for support of an artist's canvas, with carriages at opposite sides of the base to carry the mahl in spaced relation over the base and supported canvas, with adjustment for said spaced relation, with braking to position the mahl between top and bottom ends of the base, and with a protractor turntable for universal disposition of the canvas with respect to the mahl.

Abstract: A checkbook using conventional, standard bank checks and preprinted record keeping sheets in booklet form where the data written on the check is simultaneously transferred onto one of the preprinted recording sheets. A first template, insertable in an inner pocket, has opposed outer guides for receiving slides of a cooperating second template, which cooperating second template has an elongated window and is movable along the guides of the first template for positioning its window in registry with a blank transaction line on the preprinted sheet, whereby upon the placement of a check over the cooperating second template and the writing of the check, data is simultaneously transferred onto the preprinted sheet.

Abstract: An enclosure for an electrical data input apparatus which is formed of a top section and a bottom section to form a case. The case has a top section which provides operational access to the electrical data input apparatus, such as a graphics tablet input device, with additional accesses for switching functions, amenable both to right-hand and left-hand use by an operator. The switching function accesses are distinguished one from another by different access hole shapes in order that appropriate switching functions may be effected via those switching function accesses without the necessity of looking away from the computer display and thereby breaking the attention of the operator.

Abstract: A removable handguide for painters or draftsman, adapted to be secured on an easel, and comprising a frame constituted by an upper crosspiece, a lower crosspiece, and two uprights, and at least one horizontal bearing bar slidably mounted on the uprights. At least the upper and lower crosspieces are each comprised by two separate half crosspieces, and a sliding member slidably mounted on the half crosspieces allows the adjustment of at least the width of the frame to the dimensions of a panel to be painted. The horizontal bearing bar has two legs each of which is provided at its free end with locking structure for locking the bearing bar along the uprights and each of which legs is secured by hinges to a sliding member slidably mounted on the uprights. The locking structure is preferably comprised by ferrules made of a material which is highly resistant to sliding, thereby preventing sliding of the bearing bar along the uprights when the bearing bar is in service position.

Abstract: A guide clamp is disclosed which includes a clamping jaw at one end of a guide bar. An opposing shifting jaw is slidably carried on the guide bar to permit a workpiece to be embraced by the jaws. A pull rod associated with and parallel to the guide bar is connected to a lever on the clamp jaw. The shifting jaw locks onto this pull rod when the jaws embrace a workpiece and actuation of the lever then pulls the jaws together to clamp onto the workpiece and hold the guide clamp thereon. The shifting jaw will lock onto the pull rod by engaging a smooth-surfaced pull rod with a frictional grip or by engaging threads or notches on the pull rod with a locking grip. Guideways to guide and hold tools, jigs and the like are provided on the guide bar.

Abstract: A braking assembly adapted for attachment to the extremity of a drafting parallel and to the underlying drafting table utilizes a stationary tensioned strand which engages locking means on the drafting parallel. The braking effect is secured by depressing a movable arm which urges a resilient pad into gripping engagement of the strand.

Abstract: A guide clamp is disclosed which includes a clamping jaw at one end of a guide bar. An opposing shifting jaw is slidably carried on the guide bar to permit a workpiece to be embraced by the jaws. A pull rod associated with and parallel to the guide bar is connected to a lever on the clamp jaw. The shifting jaw locks onto this pull rod when the jaws embrace a workpiece and actuation of the lever then pulls the jaws together to clamp onto the workpiece and hold the guide clamp thereon. Tuideways to guide and hold tools, jigs and the like are provided on the guide bar.

Abstract: Two rails, each having a straight edge, two ends and a cross section defining a channel, are placed in an end-to-end butting relationship to form a continuous straight edge. A joiner plate has an arcuate cross section and has lateral margins for being received in the rail channels. The plate is placed in the rail channels and is fastened to the rails so as to deflect the plate downwardly and force the lateral margins of the plate tight against the rails to align the rails and hold the rails together.

Abstract: A board has indexed tracks along each side with parallel transverse bars having end feet riding in the tracks and a marker being laterally adjustable between successive like separated positions along the bars for setting a marking position on a sheet of paper mounted on the board by releasable retaining means to identify to a blind person the end of ruling or marking upon the paper. A disc is also mountable for rotation and angular indexing on the board with a crosspiece adapted to slide in the tracks carrying a rotatable arm with marking means adjustably positioned thereon for drawing circles and rectangles on paper mounted on the board.

Abstract: A guide for use with a powered hand saw for making controlled cuts in a workpiece at an infinite number of angles. The guide includes a pair of parallel spaced rails, a pair of carriages slidably mounted on the rails, and for each carriage, a clamping assembly for clamping the guide onto a workpiece. Each clamping assembly includes an arm having an inner end swingably mounted on the associated carriage. Each carriage also includes disengageable stop-lock mechanism for locking the associated clamping-assembly arm in a preselected angular position relative to the carriage. Provided on each arm is a pointer for pointing at angular position markings on the associated carriage.

Abstract: Fixed on the board (1) is a support (8) in which is rotatably mounted a shaft (7) which is rigid with two pulleys (5a, 5b) each cooperating with guide means (3a, 3b) respectively for the straight-edge. Mounted between the support (8) and the shaft (7) are a rotary sleeve (14) and a spring which is wound around the shaft (7) and is rigid (at 19) with the shaft and (at 17) with the sleeve (14) in the support (12) but is withdrawable so as to permit the regulation of the torsion of the spring (18) and the balancing of the straight-edge.

Abstract: A device for supporting and guiding a master sheet in relation to an item of artwork comprises a carrier in the form of a rectangular frame having means for locating a master sheet on the frame, an intermediate guide which cooperates with the carrier to restrain the carrier to reciprocate in its own plane relatively to the intermediate guide solely in a first direction, which is parallel to two sides of the carrier, and means for supporting the intermediate guide upon a drawing board while restraining the intermediate guide to reciprocate parallel to the plane of the carrier relatively to the drawing board solely in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction.

Abstract: A portable drafting device for drawing parallel lines, consisting of a rectangular flexible plastic material, two guides applied each on one of the short sides of the board, at least one slider adapted to slide on one of said guides, a rule fastened to at least one slider to slide therewith above said board for drawing parallel lines, said board being capable to be rolled into a roll for rendering it easily transportable.

Abstract: A drafting set, including a drawing board and a T-square, the board having a foldable easel on its rear side for supporting the board in various adjustable positions, the T-square including a slidable shoe on its outward end for bearing against an edge of the board which is opposite an edge against which the T-square crosshead bears, and permanent magnet means holding the shoe and crosshead from falling away from the board edges.

Abstract: A writing guide for writing letters and words in a transverse line on a sheet mounted on the flat surface of a baseboard, includes a rectangular frame movable along a detent rod carried by the baseboard. The frame is rotatable around the rod to enable the sheet to be placed on and removed from the baseboard. The frame has two rigid spaced rails joined by rigid end plates. A flexible string has two laterally movable sections disposed between and parallel to the rails to define a space for writing transversely along the sheet. The string may be connected in electric circuit with an electrically operable sounding device, power supply, and metal tip of a writing implement, to sound an alarm when the tip of the writing implement contacts one of the string sections.

Abstract: A navigational aid to define the direction relative to a reference direction of a line between two designated points on a chart of the kind comprising a base surface for the chart, a rotatable direction indicating member having one or more directional indices and being displaceable relative to the base surface carried by two mutually cooperating support means of which a first one is movable relative to the base surface in one direction along a stationary rectilinear guide means, and the second one is movable in a direction perpendicular thereto along a rectilinear guide means carried by the first support means. In a device according to the invention said first movable support means constitutes a first rectangular transparent frame, carried in guide means located at each one of two opposite edges of the frame by each one guide rail which is stationary relative to the base surface and along which this first frame is movable in said one direction.

Abstract: An improved T-square which is self-supporting consists of a main body and a carriage. The main body consists of an elongated straight edge member having a head at one end thereof formed with a mounting channel for receiving a marginal edge portion of a drawing board for movement therealong. The carriage has a second mounting channel formed therein for engaging a support rail which is spaced from the first edge of the drawing board. The carriage is movable along the support rail. A resilient tensioning device is provided which connects the carriage to the main body. A luminaire chamber is formed in the main body in close proximity to the straight edge and a luminaire is operatively mounted in the luminaire chamber to illuminate the straight edge of the body. In addition, a sensor is provided for detecting improper alignment of the T-square with respect to the board on which it is mounted.