Babcock Industries Inc.

Fki Industries, Inc.

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Charles A Harris

Robert J Simonsen

Nick L Schnarr

An eating utensil includes an elongate hollow body having a proximal end and a closed distal end. The elongate hollow body defines an internal chamber, and has an aperture adjacent the proximal end. The aperture is in communication with the internal chamber. A liquid condiment is contained within the internal chamber. A seal member is bonded to a lip of the body about the aperture. The seal member contains the liquid condiment within the internal chamber until the seal member is removed.

Eating utensils having internal chambers storing liquid condiments

A swivel caster assembly has a molded plastic caster horn with an upwardly opening socket receiving a connector stem, the portion thereof above the caster horn having either a plate, a threaded post, or a smooth post with a retaining ring, for connection to an object to be supported by the caster. The caster horn and the received stem portions of the various connectors are the same, so the same horn can receive any type of connector. The horn is shaped to receive locking features for wheel, swivel, both wheel and swivel, or simply a snap-in cover where no locking feature is desired.

Caster with universal mount and swivel and wheel lock

An all-plastic, swivel caster assembly has horn and stem molded as a homogeneous unit of plastic. A wheel of molded plastic or plastic-rubber combination, supports the assembly. In one version, the horn sidewalls have fingers forming keyhole-shaped slots receiving grooved end portions of a plastic axle borne by the wheel. The axle retaining fingers normally secure the axle in the horn, but are sufficiently resilient to enable intentional removal of the wheel and axle assembly from the horn without tools, for cleaning. In another version, the horn sidewalls have apertures receiving a plastic axle which has a head on one end and a circumferential groove at the other end. An axle cap located at the outside face of one horn sidewall has a slot received on the axle groove, and retains the axle in assembly. The cap has a detent boss received in a detent recess in the horn sidewall to keep the cap, and thereby the axle, in place. In both versions of the assembly, a caster stem retainer of molded plastic, for mounting in a cart or the like, rotatably receives the caster stem and is supported on the upper end of the caster stem by a bearing ball which supports the retainer, and thereby the cart or other device. The stem retainer has a base portion with a skirt thereon covering a platform portion at the top of the caster horn for excluding dirt and moisture.

Caster assembly with integral plastic stem and horn and with removable

A caster assembly has a stem and ball bearing retainer made of a single homogeneous unit of reinforced plastic, a horn made of a single piece of reinforced plastic, a bottom bearing retainer made of a single piece of reinforced plastic, an upper set of ball bearings between the horn and the upper retainer, a lower set of ball bearings between the horn and the bottom retainer, with the bottom retainer being ultrasonically welded to the unitary stem and retainer.

Thermoplastic caster assembly

Caster socket

An apparatus for securing a caster to an object having a hole with interior walls has a tubular body with upper and lower ends, the lower end being adapted to connect to a caster and the upper end being split and defining at least two upwardly extending friction grip arms, the upper end of each arm defining an outwardly extending friction grip portion and the outer dimension defined by all of the friction grip portions being slightly larger than the minimum corresponding dimension of the hole.

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Evansville, IN, United States of America

Charles A Harris