Eagle-picher Industries, Inc.

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John W Decker

Mieczyslaw Talik

Sandra M Decker

Myron W Tubbs

An article of athletic footwear or legwear comprises a flexible interior member manipulable to receive at least a portion of a wearer's foot and a first pair of disk members coupled to opposed exterior surface portions of the flexible interior member and positionable over the lateral and medial sides of the ankle joint. Each disk member defines a substantially convex, outwardly facing exterior surface portion. The article, which may be an athletic shoe, ski boot, skate, or the like, further comprises an exterior assembly defining an interior cavity dimensioned and arranged to receive the flexible interior member while the interior member is worn on the foot of the wearer. A second pair of disk members are coupled to opposite interior surface portions of the exterior assembly within the cavity. Each disk member of the second pair has a substantially concave exterior surface portion dimensioned and arranged to receive the convex exterior portion of a corresponding disk member of the first pair in complementary engagement. Accordingly, each disk of the first pair is rotatably engageable with a corresponding disk of the second pair. This interlocking arrangement of rotatable disks results in a system which allows the ankle to rotate about an axis, while transferring axial loads to the ankle.

Ankle supporting system for athletic footwear including mating

A water bed sheet structure is arranged to accommodate extended configuration sizes of water bed mattresses, wherein the sheet structure includes overlapping at first ends of first and second sheets selectively securable together utilizing an elongate row of fastener structure.

Water bed sheet arrangement

In the manufacture of a gasket wherein a rigid, compression-limiting component is formed by molding in situ against the side of a preformed compressible gasket component to bond therewith, a narrow channel is pressed into the face of the gasket component during the molding operation. The gasket material is permanently deformed in this channel, which runs on the gasket face adjacent the edge of the side to which the rigid component is molded. The channel provides a durable, reproducible demarcation between the compressible and rigid components. Formation of this channel in molding has been found to prevent flashing of the material being molded, over the gasket face.

Method of making a two-component gasket

A three-piece heat resistant gasket having a rigid body molded of heat insulating material forming a relatively thin web around the fluid passage to be sealed. Two resiliently compressible gasket elements in the form of flat slabs of heat insulating materials are secured to the opposite faces of the web around the fluid passage, with their outer faces lying slightly above bolt hole-containing bosses, formed as part of the body, which limit the compression of the gasket elements. The provision of a large number of small cavities in the web, which are closed by the gasket elements, significantly reduces the rate of heat transfer through the gasket.

Three-piece heat resistant gasket

Shims having improved torque retention, tensile strength, resistance to deformation, and low water absorption are formed from a resin-impregnated, cellulosic fiberboard, soaked in a solution of about 1 to about 20% by volume of methylene-bis-(4-phenyl isocyanate), and cured.

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Stockbridge, MI, United States of America

John W Decker