A machine for depositing pipeline padding material in a pipeline ditch in the form of an attachment for a bulldozer blade which is driven from the hydraulic system of the bulldozer and includes an endless conveyor belt forming the bottom of a horizontally oriented chute or trough which receives padding dirt from a dump truck body or the like and distributes it evenly in the pipeline ditch as the bulldozer with the padding machine mounted thereon moves alongside of the ditch. The padding machine ...

A knee protector for insertion in a pocket in the legs of work pants or the like is of a V-shaped cross-sectional configuration to improve appearance of the pants with the pad in place, to reduce inconvenience of wearing the protector and to provide a self centering effect reducing inadvertent sidewise shift of the padded part of the leg away from its operative position in front of the wearer's knee. A pocket for use with the pad is of a width sufficient for stitching the pocket to the pant leg ...

Fibrous padding in which the fibers are held together by a binder. The binder comprises a mixture of (a) an R.F. sealable dried residue of a thermoplastic latex emulsion, and (b) an R.F. sealable plastic powder of polyester, polyamide, or mixtures thereof which melt in a narrower temperature range than the latex emulsion residue. Such fibrous padding is capable of R.F. sealing with better adhesion to loose weave knit fabrics which are uncoated with adhesive, and the resulting bond exhibits impro...

Apparatus for gathering and processing excavated material which lies in a long pile on the ground adjacent to a ditch, so as to provide padding material which is conveyed onto a pipe lying in the ditch, with the residue from the process being returned to the ground adjacent to the ditch. The apparatus has a gathering head at the forward end thereof and a separator at the rear end thereof. A longitudinally arranged conveyor translocates the gathered material from the gathering head onto the separ...

The present invention provides a helmet with self-adjusting padding designed to adjust to various head sizes of individual wearers of the helmet. The protective helmet comprises a helmet shell having a interior surface, a first helmet pad, a second helmet pad, and at least one expandable band. Each of the first and second helmet pads comprise a first pad section attached to the interior surface of the helmet and a second pad section spaced away from the interior surface of the helmet. At least o...

A method and system that map the defects on the storage media of a disc drive. The method and system calculate the position of the defect and from that position determine the sector that must be flagged as unusable. The method and system also detect the distance the defect lies from an adjacent sector and flags the adjacent sector as unusable if the defect is too close because the defect may grow over time and eventually invade the adjacent sector. Also a method and system that efficiently utili...

A pipeline padding machine is provided comprising a crushing mechanism for crushing large pieces of excavated material into smaller pieces of material that are suitable for use in padding a pipeline or underground cable. In preferred embodiments, the crusher comprises two parallel rollers that are arranged with a selected gap between them. The rollers are driven toward each other, such that excavated material that is fed onto the rollers is drawn into the gap, and pieces that are too large to fa...

There is provided in accordance with the most preferred described embodiment of the invention a stack of tubular right circular cylindrical bodies of resilient foamed plastic material, each having an adherent coating of flexible plastic-based paint. Each body is split along a radiating, longitudinal axis-containing plane and provided with cooperating fasteners within the split to permit easy assembly of the padding about a goal post standard. The color of the flexible coating on adjacent bodies ...

A padding system adapted for a sink including a sink insert having an open upper end, a closed lower end, a front wall, a rear wall, and two side walls. The sink insert is dimensioned for receipt within a sink. The closed lower end has a drainage aperture formed therethrough in a central portion thereof. The drainage aperture is disposed over an existing drain of a sink. The open upper end has a peripheral flange extending outwardly therefrom.

A liquid absorbent pad includes an elastically stretchable basic sheet upon which an absorbent core is periodically bonded. The absorbent core is bonded while the basic sheet is stretched. The absorbent core includes a structure which encourages the formation of corrugations therein when the basic sheet is released. The corrugations enable the flow of material in the troughs of the corrugations, and thereby reduce soilage of the upper surface of the absorbent core by fetal matter. The liquid abs...