A tapered roller bearing has an elastomeric seal bonded to the thrust rib of its cone, and this seal is provided with a primary sealing lip which extends toward and engages the front face of the bearing cup. At its end the primary sealing lip has three beveled surfaces which are oriented to form two sealing edges. One edge is directed axially and contacts the cup front face, while the other edge is directed radially and is normally set slightly inwardly from the housing bore into which the cup f...

A closure having a peripheral flange portion provided with an annular bottom surface is sealed by the application of heat and pressure to a dish-like container having a peripheral flange portion provided with a cooperating annular top surface so as to define a high quality bonded lamination comprised of the flange portions. The outer portion of the lamination is then curled to form a high strength annular bead which defines the peripheral outline of the side wall of a sealed container.

A lighter, of the type having a tubular fluid and wick container on which a lighter head is slideably mounted, has a plate-like cover on one end of the head, to which is secured a rotatable steel wheel, a cap for the wick-bearing end of the container and a flint carrying tube. The cover is rotatable about the flint tube as pivot from a position in which the cap is aligned with the container to a position uncovering the wick end of the container and in which the wheel is in position for lighting ...

A sealed connector structure is provided for making a fluid-tight connection between a pair of conduits or to one end of one conduit. The connector structure employs a pair of threaded cup-shaped male and female members which define a chamber within which is located a flared end of at least one conduit, a rotatable compression ring on the conduit, and a sealing element between the flared end of the conduit and an adjacent surface of either the male or the female member. The members are threaded ...

A sealed container comprising a body having a rectangular to square cross section, and an upper reinforcement frame, an intermediate reinforcement frame and a lower reinforcement frame fitting around the body and spaced apart from one another, each of the frames being in the form of a ring conforming to the outer periphery of the body. The intermediate reinforcement frame comprises segments removably joined to one another and including one or two handle forming segments. The handle forming segme...

An all glass sealed beam headlamp unit is disclosed having polygon shaped lens and reflector members which is capable of being alternately sealed together with an adhesive as well as being fusion sealed by reason of the sealing rim construction being employed. Specifically, the cooperating and opposing sealing rim surfaces of both members include planar sealing surfaces located at the outer periphery which extend longitudinally without interruption around all sides of said members along with rib...

A container, having a sealable closure, has included therein distilled water, one or more aquatic plants, one or more herbivorous fish, an aquatic algae eating animal, inert particulate material and measured amounts of certain elements. The elements are nitrogen, potassium, phosphorous, calcium and magnesium. An air space is left at the top of the container and a pinhole provided in the closure. This shelf perpetuating, sealed aquarium requires no air pump or heater, and fish food is not added; ...

A container and closure combination wherein the closure includes a stepped ledge area formed by two truncated conical sections that produce a structure resiliency enabling the generation of an effective seal between the mating parts.

A caster utilizing mounting structure, leg structure rotatably mounted on the mounting structure, and a wheel rotatably mounted upon the legs wherein the relatively movable parts of the caster are sealed against the entrance of foreign matter by means of a resilient synthetic material cover. In the method of constructing a caster in accord with the invention components thereof are coated with the coating material, such as by dipping, and the coating material, after curing, is severed at the desi...

A container for surgical instruments or other articles has a body. One end of the body is closed by a cap. A sealing band seals the cap and the body together in a sterile manner. A welded sealing area is formed by welding together overlying portions of the band whereby a visible blemished area is produced when the seal at the welded area is broken.