A hair-styling device containing a hand attachmentt and a source for heated air under pressure connected to the hand attachment. The hand attachment is made up of a heat-reflecting member, bands for attaching the hand attachment to a hand, an air chamber, and bristles attached to the air chamber. In one embodiment, the hand attachment is substantially hand shaped and the attachment bands are located on the fingers and wrist so as to allow easy attachment to the hand of the user. In another embod...

A shoe construction including an upper member preferably divided into two pieces, an upper and a mudguard piece in which the mudguard piece has a pair of depending side portions extending beneath the upper and joined along longitudinal abutting edges between the heel portion and the forepart of the upper member. The method of making this shoe includes slip-lasting the upper member after the upper and the mudguard piece have been secured together, and after the bottom edges of the mudguard piece ...

A sleeve style carton for a bottle matrix where the bottles may be either of the short neck type or the long neck type. The carton includes corner flaps that are wrapped around the corner bottles of the matrix, the corner flaps, along with the carton's side walls and end walls, being structured to make the shoulder, neck and cap portions of the corner bottles partially visible when the carton is viewed in side elevation view. Preferably each corner flap is of a height not substantially greater t...

A raised panel-style door and method of making same are described. The structure includes a solid core having a planar veneer support surface regularly interrupted by channels extending in a rectangular course. The channels are inlaid with picture frames formed of decorative wood strips having marginal edges in the plane of the veneer support surface and being recessed therebetween. When overlaid with veneer, surface regions outside the picture frames are made to look like stiles and rails, whil...

An improved satchel-style tackle box wherein access to the storage compartments can be had through the upper end or through the front wall of the box. Hence with the box of the present invention, there is no need to turn the box over in order to obtain access to all its storage compartments. The elimination of the need to turn the box over is accomplished by adding a pull out drawer to the lower part of the box. One or more storage compartments are then developed in the box above the drawer stor...

A cone style universal joint has two yokes defining two pivot axes perpendicular to one another. Four pins, each coaxial with its corresponding pivot axis, are fixed to the arms of the yokes and are journaled in associated cone bearings radially inside of the arms. The cone bearings are snap fit into four sides of a seal block to form a lubricant-tight seal between the bearing and the seal block. Each cone bearing has a 45.degree. frusto-conical surface which engages the frusto-conical surfaces ...

The invention provides an article carrier (10) having a handle (22) formed from flexible material at the top of the article that is to be carried (11). A pair of straps (18, 20) which form article-encircling loops are both connected to the handle (22). Where the straps (18, 20) are connected to the handle (22), each is twisted to make a half turn, i.e., 180.degree. twist, and each is folded against itself to define an oblique angle (A) between portions of each strap (18, 20) on opposite sides of...

An improved gliding-style rocking chair (10) provides a base (12) for continuous engagement of a support surface (94), wherein the base (12) does not move along the support surface (94) during use. Moreover, in the preferred embodiment, the improved gliding-style rocking chair (10) is designed to allow simple attachment of a seat (18) to the base (12). A seat support (16) is provided for the attachment of the seat (18). A plurality of pivoting members (54) is provided for pivotally connecting th...

A basket-style carrier having a top panel for enclosing the carrier. The top panel comprises flaps foldably connected to the side panels which contain openings through which a top portion of articles packaged in the carrier extend. The flaps also include at least one fold line extending parallel to the side panels, allowing the flaps to be folded over so that their free ends extend to and contact the center partition of the carrier. This biases the top panel flap edges against the center partiti...

A crimp-style terminal for a cable includes a base plate serving as a main body for the terminal. One end of the base plate serves as a female type electrical contact section, while the other end of the same serves as a clamping section. A conductor clamping portion and a sheath clamping portion are arranged in the clamping section for tightly holding an unsheathed conductor and sheath of the cable, respectively. A raised flat bottom portion is arranged in the conductor clamping portion so that ...