Abstract: A support apparatus is usable with an electrical enclosure to provide support to retain a cover portion of the electrical enclosure in proximity to a cabinet portion of the electrical enclosure. The support apparatus includes a shank having a hook-shaped retention element situated at an end thereof that is configured to provide vertical support to the cover portion. The support apparatus can further include a second hook-shaped retention element at an opposite end of the shank that is configured to rest upon an upturned lip of the cabinet portion, or the shank can potentially be affixed to the cabinet portion. Slots can additionally be provided in the cabinet portion, the cover portion, or both to additionally provide horizontal alignment of the cover portion with the cabinet portion.

Abstract: A mounting assembly for coupling an accessory to a frame including a base configured to be coupled to the frame; the base having a hollow portion; the hollow portion including a receiving end including a tapered socket; an internal interlocking portion adjacent to the tapered socket; and a securing end opposite from the receiving end; a shaft configured to be connected to an accessory at a first end and received in the hollow portion of the base in an engaged position, the shaft including a tapered boss adjacent to the first end, the tapered boss configured to engage the tapered socket; an external interlocking portion adjacent to the tapered boss configured to engage the internal interlocking portion; and a second end opposite from the first end, the second end including a threaded surface; wherein when the shaft is in an engaged position, the shaft is static in the hollow portion.

Abstract: A support apparatus is usable with an electrical enclosure to provide support to retain a cover portion of the electrical enclosure in proximity to a cabinet portion of the electrical enclosure. The support apparatus includes a shank having a hook-shaped retention element situated at an end thereof that is configured to provide vertical support to the cover portion. The support apparatus can further include a second hook-shaped retention element at an opposite end of the shank that is configured to rest upon an upturned lip of the cabinet portion, or the shank can potentially be affixed to the cabinet portion. Slots can additionally be provided in the cabinet portion, the cover portion, or both to additionally provide horizontal alignment of the cover portion with the cabinet portion.

Abstract: The invention includes a system for fastening a planar element, which has a cut-out to a component, which has a borehole having a screw thread 5, including a fastening clip, which has a contact section having at least one contact plane for contacting a first side of the planar element facing away from the borehole, the fastening clip having an elastic first retaining element in a connection section, which first retaining element is connected to the contact section and is designed in such a way that, after the planar element 10 has been fastened, the first retaining element reaches through the cut-out of the planar element into the borehole when the contact plane lies on the first side of the planar element.

Abstract: A coupling structure couples first and second casing parts together. The first casing part is formed with a detachment hole. The coupling structure includes one resilient engaging hook projecting from the first casing part and a coupling member disposed between the first and second casing parts and formed with first and second engaging grooves. The resilient engaging hook hooks the first engaging groove in a right direction. The coupling member has a pushing element tending toward the detachment hole. One rigid engaging hook projects from the second casing part and engaging the second engaging groove in a left direction. Manually leftwise movement of the pushing element in the left direction results in simultaneous bending of the resilient engaging hook in the left direction so as to disengage the rigid engaging hook from the second engaging groove, thereby permitting removal of the second casing part from the first casing part.

Abstract: A coupling structure for coupling first and second halves into a casing, includes a first coupling element projecting outward from an inner surface of the first casing half and formed with a detachment hole and a second coupling element projecting outward from an inner surface of the second casing half and for engaging with the first coupling element. Insertion of a detachment tool via an opening in the casing and the detachment hole to abut against the second coupling element results in inward bending of the second coupling element with respect to the first coupling element, thereby disengaging the second coupling element from the first coupling element, hence the first casing half disengages from the second casing half.

Abstract: A connective system for connecting a first body to a second body having an aperture, is provided. The system includes a pin connected with the first body. The pin has a detent surface. A retainer ring having a snap fit engagement with the pin detent surface is provided. The retainer ring also has a locking arm for entry into the aperture of the second body with snap fit engagement with a surface of the second body thereby retaining the second body with said first body.

Abstract: A universal snap-fit system for interconnecting multiple circuit boards in a stacked relationship is provided. The system allows circuit boards to be stacked with a minimum of assembly time. In addition, the system allows circuit boards of varying thicknesses to be stacked, without requiring the provision of system components in a multitude of sizes. The provided system also allows more than two circuit boards to be interconnected to one another in a stacked relationship without requiring multiple sets of attachment holes in interior circuit boards. In addition, more than two circuit boards can be stacked quickly and easily.

Abstract: A square lamp post insertional conjoinment structure comprised of a slip-mount tube and a casing tube fitted onto the slip-mount tube. The slip-mount tube has disposed at one end an internal binding sleeve and, furthermore, an insertional conjoinment section of a stepped arrangement is formed between the exterior of the internal binding sleeve and the interior of the slip-mount tube at two opposing sides and a spring is installed in each insertional conjoinment section. The casing tube has engagement blocks aligned with the springs. When the casing tube is fitted onto the slip-mount tube, its engagement blocks press inward against the springs to facilitate the sleeving on of the casing tube. After the casing tube engagement blocks have passed the springs, the springs rebound to their original positions, locking the casing tube onto the slip-mount tube and thereby achieving the fixed coupling of the casing tube and the slip-mount tube.

Abstract: In a fan including a hub mounted for rotation and a plurality of fan blades, an attachment assembly for detachably engaging at least one of the plurality of fan blades with the hub, the attachment assembly comprising a stop carried adjacent an end of a selected one of the plurality of fan blades, a socket carried by the hub for receiving the end of the selected one of the plurality of fan blades, and an abutment mounted for movement between a first position to permit the end of the selected one of the plurality of fan blades to admit into the socket, and a normal second position against the stop.

Abstract: A game wherein characters are defined to form a data pool. Each character in the data pool is related to and distinguished from the other characters in the data pool by a geographic location data. The data preferably includes actual information such as geographic information, city, country(the character is present in), maps, house plans etc. However, the data can also be fictitious, such as imaginary worlds with imaginary cites towns etc. The character data may be presented to the player for review or interaction to further develop the character. The characters may be randomly selected from the data pool to simulate the possibility/probability of living at the locations corresponding to the data. Several characters may be provided in sequence, each with a potentially different date and location data.

Abstract: The end-to-end anastomosis apparatus is provided with a mounting means which can receive a trocar for making holes in tissue and, subsequently, an anvil shaft for the mounting of an anvil assembly for stapling purposes. The anvil shaft is provided with splines which cooperate with splines on a shell liner within the housing of the apparatus to align the buckets on the anvil assembly with the staples in a cartridge secured in the apparatus. In addition, the anvil assembly is provided with a spring for locking of the anvil housing on the anvil shaft.

Abstract: The quick-locking connector comprises a tubular female body member 14, open at one end to receive a male member 10 therein. A latch 18 is located within the female body member 14 spring-urged towards the open end to engage the male member 10. A plurality of external, longitudinally spaced bearing surfaces 40-43 are provided on the male member 10 and complementary bearing surfaces 40-43 are provided internally of the female body member such that after entry of the male member a quarter turn of the members brings the respective bearing surfaces 40-43 into engagement at longitudinally spaced intervals against pressure from the latch to provide a longitudinally spaced plurality of complementary bearing surfaces 40-41 to be subjected to axial impact forces tending to pull the male and female members apart. A plurality of complementary bearing surfaces 42, 43 may be provided to be subjected to impact forces in the opposite axial direction.

Abstract: The present invention is a reducing coupling adapter, specifically for using known 5/8" sewer cleaning heads with the conventional 7/8" sewer cleaning cable and machine. The present invention simply snaps onto one end of a 7/8" cable at the front of the cable, thereby allowing the smaller 5/8" heads to be used in the sewer cleaning process.

Abstract: Furniture connectors are provided to connect the front plate of a drawer with the drawer side walls and rail members. A slide member which holds a holding bolt is provided in each furniture connector. A spring engages the slide member to pivot the slide member about an axle eccentrically arranged in a housing of the furniture connector and in a radial plane of the housing which is designed like a dowel casing.

Abstract: An improved quick disconnect mechanism between a rotatable end yoke hub of a power take-off and a journal shaft is disclosed. The hub has a central longitudinal passageway formed therethrough which is co-axial with the axis of rotation. An aperture is formed completely through the hub in a direction which is generally perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the hub. The aperture extends at least partially through the passageway formed in the hub. One end of the aperture is formed with a reduced diameter portion, while an end plug is inserted through the other end of the aperture so as to close it. The end plug includes a body portion sized to fit within the aperture and a head portion sized larger than the aperture. Prior to installing the end plug, a locking pin is slidably disposed in the aperture. The portion of the slidable locking pin which extends outwardly from the hub is inclined (relative to the radii of the hub and journal shaft) in a direction away from the direction of rotation of the hub.

Abstract: A fastening arrangement for releasably interconnectable mounted and mounting members with an enhanced degree of theft-proofing, includes at least one female element on one of the members and at least one cooperating male element on another of the members. The female element is preferably provided on the mounted member in the form of a receiving opening having a cross-section corresponding to that of the male element, and a transverse bore extends through the wall of the member from its exterior to the receiving opening, the bore having an inner section and an outer section of which the latter has a small cross-section relative to that of the former and is preferably located so as to be not readily noticeable.

Abstract: In an arrangement for detachable fastening of an end of an elongated member, particularly an end of a foot loop band, in a hole having an undercut, particularly in a sailing borrd, it is suggested that at the end of the elongated member there is a pawl of deformable material which is to be pressed against spring action to the end section of the elongated member leading to the end. During insertion of the end section into the hole, the pawl engages with its end face behind the undercut and thus is secured in the hole.

Abstract: A construction framing anchor (22) for mounting vertical underpinning (20) to a foundation (12) having a sloped top surface or footing (14), the framing anchor (22) including a lower inclined plate (24) connected to the foundation (12), an upper horizontal plate (26) having the lower end of the underpinning (20) secured thereto, and locking means (46) to integrally lock the lower inclined plate (24) to the upper horizontal plate (26) to define a truss (48) to support the underpinning (20) and the load of the structure supported thereby.

Abstract: A retaining ring locking device for preventing longitudinal relative movement of a shaft within a bore utilizes a flat or wire retaining ring. A groove is machined on the shaft as well as the bore and an access window is provided on either the shaft or the device containing the bore. The access window extends longitudinally from and beside the ring receiving groove formed by the alignment of the shaft and bore grooves to the exterior of the device and serves as the access point for threadable insertion of the retaining ring. The encapsulated design provides greater strength and eliminates the need for two separate retaining rings to prevent relative movement in two directions.

Abstract: A spring steel connector for extruded metal lengths such as picture frame members has, in addition to locking tines, a tine projecting in the opposite direction to permit release of the connector.

Abstract: A pin or bolt slidingly supportable in rings at opposite ends, or throughout its body in a sleeve, such as through the eyes of a clevis, is usefully locked against axial displacement by a radially sliding spring-biased detent which fits into a groove of a supporting ring or sleeve, securing it against axial displacement. The supporting ring has a slot extending inward from a support surface and sized to receive a key, such as a disc or a coin, which may be inserted in the slot to engage and depress the detent against its biasing spring, sufficient to displace it from the groove of the ring and thus unlocking and allowing the pin to be displaced in its support by sliding therefrom axially. In a modified form, where the supporting rings of a clevis are dimensioned so small that the radially cut slot would tend to weaken them, the ends of the pin may be secured by extra annular rings or washers mounted adjacent to the main supporting rings of the clevis.

Abstract: A framework comprising hollow rods connected at their ends by connecting members. The hollow rods and connecting members are secured by a novel bayonet connection.

Abstract: A lever-operated latching device for securing in endwise coupled relation a socket portion and mating shank of axially aligned auger sections of an auger mining machine. The latching device is designed to be of minimum radial dimension so as to fit in a hole of limited radial cross section bored by the auger machine, and includes a latch pin that reciprocates in a passage formed in the socket portion between an extended position in latching engagement with the shank and a retracted unlatching position. The pin is biased by a spring toward its extended position and is retractable by a lever that engages a retractor element on the pin and that also acts as limit means that prevents the pin from extending beyond its extended latching position against the force of the spring. Openings are provided to permit removal by the latch pin of debris that could impair operative movement of the latch pin.

Abstract: A door bumper having no visible screws for mounting on a wall for contact with a door knob when the door is opened. A rubber bumper is carried on a housing which is non-detachably secured to the wall by a backplate. The backplate has a flattened V shaped spring with two radially outwardly extending ends which engage a circular notch extending around the inner periphery of the housing.

Abstract: The invention relates to a shaft coupling assembly wherein two shafts are rotationally located with respect of each other by means of splines provided upon the two shafts. The shafts are located axially by the provision of a further member being provided with similar splines, the third member being adapted to be rotated such that its splines may be brought out of engagement with the other splines to lock them together axially. The third member is rotated by means of a bevel gear arrangement which are rotated by means of an adjusting tool. The arrangement is such that the adjusting tool may only be removed when the third member is in the locked position.