A device for the stacking of flat books or book pads in which a pivotally mounted conveyor transports the books or pads to an associated, work-actuated unloading mechanism which consecutively drops the books or pads from a constant height to form a stack of predetermined height on a table or pallet. The conveyor is driven by a piston-cylinder power means which is actuated in response to a stack height scanning device.

A hair roller pad for protecting the head of the user from the pinching or poking of hair rollers. The pad comprises a relatively thin rectangular-shaped member having an elongated slot adjacent one end thereof. The pad is formed of a reusable flexible moisture-absorbent material, such as resilient polyurethane foam, with the slot permitting free flow of a tress of hair therethrough for winding upon a hair roller. In one embodiment the pad is provided with sections which are separable from the r...

Each worn original pad in a vehicle disc brake assembly is replaced with a replacement pad corresponding in substantially all respects to the original pad with the exception that it is slanted at its outer edge to slightly diminish its effective friction surface by an amount sufficient to preclude its engagement with incrustations which have accumulated on the rotor disc of the brake assembly and encroached on the outer periphery of the zone of the rotor disc engaged by the original pad during i...

Method for the dry forming of fibrous pads employ a pad forming member closing the lower end of a pad forming area. The pad forming member preferably is in the form of a condenser roll having three-dimensional pockets, or cavities about the periphery thereof. Each cavity includes an opening into it, and the cavities are brought into communication with the pad forming area as the condenser roll is continuously driven during operation of the apparatus. Each cavity is defined by foraminous bottom a...

Thin, absorbent pads with soft, flexible edges. The pad structure comprises a fluid pervious non-woven cover sheet, a central absorbent batt of comminuted wood pulp fibers, and a fluid-impervious backing element. Each element is coextensive with the others. The integrity of the central absorbent batt is maintained in the x and y directions by adhering the cover sheet and fluid impervious backing element to the respective top and bottom surfaces of the central batt by light applications of flexib...

Improved biasing pads for eyeglass frames are provided for positioning between the lens portion of the frames and the temple bars in abutting engagement therewith so as to bias the temple bars inwardly against the head of the wearer. The biasing pads are made up of one or more plys or layers of a yieldable, nonresilient material and are adhesively applied to the eyeglass frames in layers so that the thickness and biasing effect of the pads may be varied as desired.

Goaltender's protective plastic pads comprising a rectangular front face or layer of yielding but self-sustaining thin plastic material and a thick backup rear padding of cellular foamed plastic material having a longitudinal semicylindrical groove in the rear thereof to accommodate the leg; and a separable ankle-piece at the bottom, the entire pad being adjustable merely by cutting the front face to the desired length and reapplying the ankle-piece to the shortened pad.

An apparatus for forming corner pads utilizing a plurality of plies, each of which is adapted to be folded into a trihedral angle arrangement, wherein the plies are successively fed into juxtaposed relation while adhesive is applied to predetermined surfaces of certain of the plies, and the plies are successively formed into trihedral angle arrangements while being successively placed in contiguous, nesting relationship to secure the nested plies together by the adhesive to maintain the same in ...

An apparatus for fabricating foam pads having a generally flat inner surface with a depending peripheral edge, the flat inner surface including a dense outer crust. A spring assembly is adapted to be disposed so that the terminal face portions thereof contact the outer crust and with the depending edge of the pad confiningly receiving the spring assembly to prevent lateral displacement therebetween. The apparatus includes an open top mold, and a mold insert which is adapted to be floatingly posi...

A method and apparatus for fabricating a conical seamless bra pad preform for subsequent molding into a finished pad. The material used is fiberfill or the like and a blank, cut from such a sheet, or from a sandwich of two sheets, is indented by a conical member which has pins spaced over the surface of the cone for engaging the material. Variable thinning of the material is achieved by the action of the pins in engaging the material successively. A second embodiment involves a series of coaxial...