A small transmission which is used with riding lawn mowers, snowmobiles, etc. has a brake combined therewith in one unit. Manufacturers of lawn mowers, etc. can buy the transmission and brake in one package and save considerably in assembly costs. The new brake is easier to operate than those heretofore known, involving less friction, and is subjected to less wear. The new brake also has a stationary jaw or puck holder which enables it to be made less expensively, and other components of the bra...

A small current switch comprises a pair of juxtaposed, resilient conductive wires each carrying a coiled reinforcement formed intermediate its ends. One end of each wire is secured to an insulating base. One of the wires has its other end extending in a straight form while the other end of the other wire is bent substantially at right angles so as to extend in a direction perpendicular to the one wire, the free end of which is mounted on a switching member. The switching member may be moved to b...

A skeletal building frame and buildings configured therefrom that can be assembled and disassembled by unskilled personnel with a minimum of tools and connectors. A preferred embodiment is a module fabricated from lightweight, low cost polyvinyl tubing consisting of a rectangular base connected at its corners by elbows, a ridgepole supported by vertical members connected to the base end members, and a plurality of arcuate ribs formed by passing straight tubes through lateral openings in the ridg...

A staircase having a small base area is formed with one or more stringers and a plurality of horizontal treads placed along the stringer, the leading edges of alternate treads being set back from the usual tread edge and the setbacks alternating from side to side along the treads. The arrangement permits the treads in their unset back regions to overhang one another while the setback regions permits the foot to clear each tread in passing through the tread thereabove or therebelow. The arrangeme...

Repositionable lift apparatus is constructed of a boom pivoted at one end near the upper end of a post. The other end of the boom pivotally supports a platform and a power cylinder is provided to pivot the boom to raise its other end from a loading position to a working position. In the loading position of the boom one end of the platform is a grade so that a vehicle may be rolled thereon. In the working position of the boom a stop means on the platform engages the boom to position the platform ...

Apparatus for continuously conducting processes of cleaning, pickling or other fluid treatment of small articles such as metal turnings, cuttings, tags, bolts or coin blanks has rotating inclined drum carrying internal scroll with interruptions for providing countercurrent flows of treatment fluid flowing downward and articles moving upward; special embodiments provide for multiple stage treatments passing through plurality of coaxially rotating drums.

A small article packaging apparatus is provided and comprises a housing which is subdivided into six separate working areas. An elongated conveyor strip is fed sequentially through each of the six working areas while an elongated closure strip is fed through and covers the conveyor strip in the final three working areas. The first working area includes labeling means for imprinting desired indicia on the conveyor strip while indentation means at the second work area forms an indentation in the c...

An electric motor, particularly a small synchronous motor, which includes a stator made in two identical portions designed to be joined face-to-face, each portion stamped from sheet metal to form a number of pole teeth as well as members for interconnecting the stator portions and for providing a magnetic return path.

A portable, remote controlled hot deseamer apparatus equipped with a nozzle arrangement and an ignition device which is suitable for selective hot deseaming or flame cutting of a workpiece.

A small size, portable bender operable from a domestically available A.C. source of the order of 100V having the drive shaft turned through the intermediary of a clutch from a motor to perform a bending operation. Bending angle control means is provided to regulate the clutch to discontinue the bending operation at a desired angle.