A portable electronic device includes a casing, a circuit board module, a display module and a fastening unit. The casing has spaced-apart horizontal top and bottom walls, each of which has parallel front and rear edges and parallel lateral edges, and a vertical surrounding wall interconnecting the front edges and the lateral edges of the top and bottom walls. The top and bottom walls and the surrounding wall cooperatively confine a receiving space with a rear opening formed between the rear edg...

Unique brackets, which form a bracket assembly that may be placed at any location of various components to form an assembly piece, such as furniture are disclosed. An assembled furniture piece made of furniture panels interconnected with attached engaging and receiving brackets is provided. The engaging and receiving brackets are positioned on components to facilitate the connection of the components. A method to assemble furniture having preformed arm, base, seat and back components is provided...

An interlock secures adjacent panels of ready to assemble furniture in a selected angular relationship and includes a rigid elongated core member including at least a pair of elongated faces thereon disposed in a predetermined angular relationship (usually at right angles) to one another. A plurality of connecting bolts are fixed to the core member and projecting outwardly from each of the elongated faces in predetermined spaced relation to each other along said faces. These connecting bolts are...

Pressure sensitive paper adhesive tape which is especially designed for use in libraries and archives to restore, preserve and assemble paper substrates such as books, documents, charts, drawings, engravings and the like. It contains a transparent to opaque base paper weighing 10-50 g/m.sup.2 which is coated on one side with a self-adhesive (self-sticking) material, and the coated side of the tape may be covered with a silicon-treated separating paper. The self-adhesive material composition cons...

A set of different sized container assemblies, each container assembly consisting of a container and a matching lid, are disclosed in which same size containers nest, same size containers stack, and each smaller size container assembly is received within a larger container assembly, each lid having generally downwardly depending flange means which are radically spaced to receive the upper wall portion of an associated container, the assembly including cam means which assist in the assembly of a ...

For any optically interconnected assembly, the packaging tasks include alignment of one or multiple optical devices, and attachment of aligned modules to a common substrate. The concept disclosed here is a packaging method to assemble pre-aligned optical modules on a common structure called motherboard. The apparatus consists of two components: device carrier or motherboard with openings on the sides and adjustable plugs in the form of pins or balls. The method and apparatus utilize plugs as con...

A valve assembly kit consisting of a plurality of specialized surgical instruments used for a reproducible, standardized technique to rapidly assemble a heart valve in the operating room from autologous tissue. The specialized surgical instruments of the valve assembly kit of the present invention are used to tailor, process (preserve) and assemble an autologous pericardium heart valve in relation with the anatomical configuration of the left ventricle and mitral annulus. The valve assembly kit ...

A ready to assemble furniture construction, such as a chair, includes frameless, self-supporting panel members which easily collapse into a flat configuration and expand into a self-supporting volumetric structure. In a preferred chair construction, a seat panel, back panel, and a skirt panel are supported between two, spaced panel members each of which are defined by two like-shaped flexible sheets which are secured together in a predetermined configuration which allows the sheets to expand fro...

A cyclicly-operable molding machine for producing and assembling cope and drag mold parts. A rotary turntable which supports four pairs of flask sections is repeatedly indexed to move the pairs repeatedly and successively in a circular path through four stations, namely, (1) a working station where the flask sections are variously and automatically handled and in cooperation with a pattern-carrying match plate are filled and compacted with foundry sand so as to produce the two mold parts, (2) a ...

A vibration welding apparatus for welding synthetic resin parts together by vibrating one of the resin parts while the resin parts are in contact with each other. An upper jig for supporting one of the synthetic resin parts, a lower jig for supporting the other of the snythetic resin parts and a vibrating member to which the upper jig is attached are provided in the apparatus. The jigs are held together by bolts which can withstand the vibrating motions. Head portions of the bolts are inserted i...