Abstract: A lightweight and inexpensive apparatus for supporting a transmission allows for standardized positioning of mounting brackets on a frame during assembly and readily accommodates minor variations in the positioning of transmissions during the assembly. The apparatus generally comprises a pair of mounting brackets placed in the standardized positions on the frame, a spring which extends between the mounting brackets across the frame, a bushing on the spring which rigidly attaches to the spring and which is capable of receiving a rod which rigidly extends from the transmission, and a rod which is rigidly connected to the transmission. A method of installing variable sized and located transmissions to a fixed location on a vehicle frame.

Abstract: This coupling device locks together overlapped lengths of coil-thread rebar by positively interengaging segments of the device with the threading of the respective rebar rods, and positively interengaging the segments themselves for alignment, and to complete the stress transfer.

Abstract: This disclosure depicts a novel method and system for crimping an elongated malleable metal connector onto two cables or the like and deforming the connector so that in its final crimped condition it is of generally a semi-cruciform/semi-circular shape in transverse cross-section with offset tap cable lodgment.

Abstract: An attachment for a chain saw, suitable for holding a work length gauge, such as a wire log length gauge, to the chain saw so as to facilitate measuring and cutting logs to equal length, is provided for fastening to different handles and/or handle portions of different types of chain saws and for holding the gauge in desired gauging position with respect to the saw chains and cuts. The attachment is adapted to be fastened to vertical, horizontal transverse and horizontal longitudinal handle portions and to hold the log length gauge so that it may extend horizontally and transversely with respect to the chain. Positioning of the attachment on the saw may be effected by removing or loosening the saw handle and sliding the attachment onto it and then refastening the handle. In a preferred embodiment of the invention the attachment may be fastened to the saw handle without the need for loosening or removing the handle.

Abstract: A roller chain conveyor having wire cross flights and attachments for releasably mounting said cross flights on the chain to provide a conveying surface. The attachment has at least one groove therein to receive an extended portion of the cross flight. The attachments may also be used in conveyors having multiple roller chains therein.

Abstract: The subject of this invention is a connector used to connect or clamp together at least two strands, as for example at the nodes or crossings in a net. To make the connector of little bulk and obtrusiveness, while still giving a secure jointing effect, it is provided by a blank which is shaped to furnish openings or passages for reception of the crossing or adjacent strands and is deformed under pressure to enclose and grip these strands at their junction in a small coherent body of small overall dimension.

Abstract: An apparatus for clamping two side-by-side pipes together comprising two recessed holding bodies receiving the pipes therein, two clamping elements having the holding bodies therebetween and a screw interconnecting these four members. Interlocking projections and indentations on one of the clamping elements and its adjacent holding body prevent relative rotation during tightening of the screw.

Abstract: Guide for electrodes in a metal paper printer comprising a multipart arrangement of a guide portion, with parallel grooves for the electrodes, and of a cover portion assembled to the guide portion. The cover portion has a recess extending transversely of the electrodes and retains an elastic, nonconductive, and deformable tube frictionally restraining the electrodes, yet allowing electrode advancement as required.

Abstract: A canoe and paddle support to facilitate attachment of paddles to a canoe for storage, auto transport, and particularly portaging of the canoe. The invention has a body preferably made of a resilient material. The body has a lateral slot adapted to removably retain the thwart of a canoe, a longitudinal slot adapted to removably retain a canoe paddle and oriented in approximately perpendicular relation to the lateral slot, so that the paddle is held in an orientation approximately longitudinal with respect to the center line of the canoe, and a carrying surface facing downwardly when the thwart and the paddle are retained in the lateral and longitudinal slots and the canoe is inverted, the carrying surface being adapted to provide a convenient path for transmitting the weight of the canoe to the shoulders of the person transporting the canoe.

Abstract: A gridworks storage system for a kitchen or any other room requiring wall-mounted storage facilities, the system being constituted by one or more grid modules formed of a network of intersecting wires in selective combination with wire-formed shelves, racks, bins and other accessory components. The module is attached to the wall by a set of columnar brackets whose hollow, resilient heads are split to define a pair of key-hole slots having inlets which are yieldable to permit a grid wire, at the point of attachment, to be forced into and trapped within the circular socket of the slot. The accessory components are connected to the grid module by double-headed couplers, each resilient head of which is split to define key-hole slots having yieldable inlets for linking a wire of the component to the grid module.

Abstract: An improved grate for fireplaces and the like includes a frame having a pair of parallel, spaced longitudinal members, and a plurality of transverse members secured to the longitudinal members in parallel, spaced apart relationship. The distal ends of the transverse members extend obliquely upwardly. A pair of legs members are secured to the opposed ends of the longitudinal members by bolt clamps which also secure an expanded metal screen to the upper surface of the frame. A pair of support arms are secured to distal end portions of a pair of the transverse members, the support arms being disposed in parallel, spaced apart relationship. The support arms extend obliquely upwardly above the expanded metal screen to support a plurality of combustible logs above a bed of coals or other combustible material retained by the metal screen.

Abstract: An assembly of interconnected conduits including first and second conduits each having an aperture extending through its wall surface. The conduits are disposed adjacent to one another and a coupling interconnects them by presenting a fluid flow passage between the apertures.

Abstract: A device is used to connect one rod to at least one other object, such as another rod. This device can be used in accordance with a claimed method to form a lattice, such as an equipment lattice, made of a plurality of rods and at least one connecting device. The device employs a channel to permit press-fitting a rod into the channel. In a preferred embodiment, the device has a tetrahedral body with two orthogonal channels.

Abstract: A protective framework or bar for a motor vehicle, the bar comprising spaced horizontal polycarbonate tubes having free unsupported ends, the tubes being joined and united to a pair of vertical steel bars adapted to be joined to the motor vehicle, the bars being joined by joining blocks adapted to be adjustably positioned along each of the bars.

Abstract: A saddle carriage is provided which is designed to fit onto a cycle stem and carry a saddle. The carriage comprises a support which can be secured to the cycle stem, the support having an upwardly concave, substantially horizontal, cylindrical sector which, in use, overhangs laterally relative to the stem. Superimposed upper and lower jaws are provided for gripping portions, e.g. wires of the saddle, the lower jaw having a lower surface which conforms to the cylindrical sector of the support. A nut and bolt or the like are provided for holding the jaws together, and the lower jaw or the support has a slot which permits relative displacement of the lower jaw and the support despite the presence of the bolt.

Abstract: A pair of scaffold lumber clamps are provided. A first of the clamps includes a pair of elongated generally parallel strap members with adjustable clamp structure connected between corresponding ends thereof for drawing the strap members toward each other for clamping lumber pieces therebetween. The opposing sides of the strap members include pointed projections projecting outwardly therefrom. The second clamp structure includes an angle member having a pair of elongated upstanding and generally right angularly disposed integral flanges. The angle member may embracingly engage a corner of an upright piece of lumber and an elongated bar member generally parallels the outer side of a first flange of the angle member and first clamp structure is connected between that flange and the bar for drawing the bar toward the flange.

Abstract: A clamp arrangement particularly for plastic sheets and including a pair of jaw plates having opposed jaws with clamping means for drawing the plates towards each other to cause the jaws to grip a rod around which a portion of a sheet has been wrapped to hold the sheet in the clamp arrangement. The space between the jaws has substantially the same cross sectional shape as the rod, and the jaw plates include means for receiving rope-like securing means for anchoring the plates and the gripped sheet to a base.

Abstract: A device for releasably fastening objects such as chairs together in spaced-apart relationship comprises a pair of complementary U-shaped gripping means hingedly connected to one another at one end of the device, means for releasably interlocking the device at the other end thereof, and means for maintaining objects in spaced-apart relationship when the gripping means of the device are interengaged.

Abstract: A bar jointing member to secure together two or three bars comprising a one piece housing with a plurality of bores extending therethrough and an aperture in the housing receiving a single tapered clamping bolt, said aperture communicating with each of said bores such that portions of said tapered clamping bolt engage respective ones of said bars to clamp them securely in the bores. The tapered clamping bolt may have said portions formed as flat or knife edges to ensure a good clamping action. The wall of one of said bores may have a further screw threaded aperture therein to receive a screw to secure the jointing member on a bar engaged in that bore to facilitate assembly.

Abstract: A fence construction for maintaining stock in a confined area made from rust resistant metal tubing and constructed without the use of nuts, bolts, or welding. The horizontal rails are hollow tubing connected at their ends with connectors to form continuous rails and the supporting posts are also formed from tubing with rail supporting hollows or indents formed therein to securely support said horizontal rails. Metal bands placed around the posts just below the rails lock the rails into position and the foot of each post is set in concrete. An additional feature is that one or more of the horizontal hollow horizontal rails may be provided with sprinkler heads and the rails hooked to a source of water under pressure for irrigation of the area the fence encloses.

Abstract: A support is connectable with an agricultural machine, and a plurality of agricultural tools is provided which are mounted by mounting elements on the support so that they can be adjusted relative to the support. A single arresting element is provided which arrests all of the tools in their respective positions. The tools have mounting portions extending into a passage in the support and either the passage itself or an auxiliary element in the passage has a wedge face to engage the tool mounting portions.

Abstract: A kettle-shaped drum has an annular recess adjacently below the top end of its hollow body. The flexible drum head includes a peripheral rib disposed in the recess and engaged at the top by a bracket. A plurality of recessed tensioning screws that extend downwardly from the bracket are threaded into a shoulder beneath the recess to permit adjustment of the head tension.A framework for supporting a drum assembly includes a series of elongate frame members that are interconnected by a plurality of identical joints. Each component of the drum assembly is supported on a rod which is in turn received by a joint mounted on one of the frame members. The construction of the joints permits the frame members to be assembled in any desired arrangement and also permits universal positioning of the drum assembly.

Abstract: For connecting together two wires which are to be placed under tension in series connection, a connector has a rigid body pierced by two substantially parallel bores. The wires are passed through the bores and anchored against the tension at opposite ends of the body by suitable anchoring means. The lengths which are to be tensioned extend through the bores. Where a wire has ruptured under tension, the broken ends can be respectively connected to two such connectors, which are themselves joined by a supplementary length of wire. Tension can then be re-applied.