A wheeled device for attachment to furniture legs. The device has a lifting surface in a channel which fits under a horizontal furniture leg crosspiece and which upon rotation of the wheels under the crosspiece elevates the furniture leg(s).

To gain access to the cutting edge of a saw tooth in the direction of both the back and the front face of a tooth in a single grinding process, the grinding tools (27,37) are adjustable in relation to both their respective pivoted arms (2,3) and with them relative to the machine frame (11,12). Only the primary pivoted arm (2) is driven up and down by a drive (43), pivoting the secondary arm (3) with it by a drive joint (6). Because the pivot axes of pivoted arms (2,3) are not parallel, a univers...

A device which facilitates the speed loading of shells into a shotgun and which is accurately alignable with the magazine of the shotgun for readily repeatable operation. Such device comprises a mechanism for providing a location position relative to the magazine, and an elongated tube, adapted to contain a plurality of shells in end to end relation. The tube includes an opening defined in one end thereof through which such shells are inserted into and removed from said tube. At least one projec...

A system for facilitating instruction of musicians in playing of a stringed musical instrument of the type having a plurality of strings and a plurality of frets such as a guitar. The system includes means for producing signals representing musical notes to be played, this means including an array of switches (which may take the form of capacitors), one switch being provided for each note. The switches are positioned beneath each string, which may constitute one of the components of respective s...

A method of facilitating the alphabetical dictionary sorting, by computer, of words based upon characters from a multilingual alphabet, especially the repertoire of characters defined in the new standard alphabet known as ISO 8859/1. This invention uses an encoding scheme to determine the language dependent sort orders for the characters defined in ISO 8859/1. This encoding scheme removes the dependency of sorting on the character set's internal collating representation. This method allows the s...

The device facilitates tying a variety of knots similar to the commonly termed nail or tube knot. It is flat and generally rectangular with a hole at one end and a fork at the other. The fork is two-tined, narrower than the remainder of the device and centered widthwise on it. The profile change from full width to fork width forms angled shoulders at the base of the tines. The depth of the slot between the tines is greater than the distance from the tips of the tines to the junctures of the shou...

An evaluation facilitating circuit is for selectively evaluating each of block of a logical circuit to be checked which is divided into the plurality of blocks. The evaluation facilitating circuit includes a data hold circuit for selectively latching level signals of nodes of each of blocks and a data hold and transfer control circuit for controlling the data hold circuit.

A method and apparatus for assisting individuals to achieve the mental and physical relaxation which often characterizes successful meditation. Minute saccadic eye movements are monitored, and the individual is made conscious of any such movement by a sensible signal, such as an audible tone. By reducing undesired saccadic movements, the individual attains the desired state of psycho-physical relaxation. The preferred apparatus, carried by eyeglasses-type support, utilizes reflections of non-vis...

A solenoid operated cut valve controls flow through a vent passage leading from a float chamber for a carburetor for an internal combustion engine. A normally closed switch opens in response to high temperature of the engine, and a normally closed timer switch opens at the start of cranking and closes again after a predetermined time of cranking. The switches are connected to the solenoid to prevent increase in pressure within the float chamber from delivering an excessive amount of fuel to the ...

The invention provides a method of facilitating vegetation with the aid of a fungal mycelium biomass in admixture with a polybutadiene and application forms comprising such components.