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The Representation of Abstract Words: What Matters? Reply to Paivio's (2013) Comment on Kousta et al. (2011)
Vigliocco, Gabriella; Kousta, Stavroula; Vinson, David; Andrews, Mark; Del Campo, Elena
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, v142 n1 p288-291 Feb 2013
In Kousta, Vigliocco, Vinson, Andrews, and Del Campo (2011), we presented an embodied theory of semantic representation, which crucially included abstract concepts as internally embodied via affective states. Paivio (2013) took issue with our treatment of dual coding theory, our reliance on data from lexical decision, and our theoretical proposal. Here, we address these different issues and clarify how our findings offer a way to move forward in the investigation of how abstract concepts are represented. (Contains 1 footnote.)
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Gordon Rich, an investment banker at Credit Suisse First Boston who constructed some of the largest mergers in corporate history and was known on Wall Street for his irreverent personality, died yesterday. He was 43.
The cause was injuries Mr. Rich suffered in a car accident early yesterday in South Nyack, N.Y., while he was traveling to his home in Demarest, N.J., a spokesman for Credit Suisse First Boston said. He fell asleep while driving on the New York State Thruway, according to police reports. His wife, Mary Ann, suffered minor injuries.
Mr. Rich played a crucial role in the highflying world of mergers and acquisitions, negotiating deals on behalf of the corporate raiders of the 1980's and the conglomerates of the 1990's. Mr. Rich's role in the takeover fight for RJR Nabisco is part of the book ''Barbarians at the Gate,'' which chronicled the battle.
A graduate of Swarthmore College, Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School, Mr. Rich started his career as a lawyer. He joined First Boston, before it was acquired by Credit Suisse Group, after working for the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.
Mr. Rich, who was called Gordo, was best known among his colleagues as what many described as a blue-collar investment banker, a sometimes stubborn anti-establishment executive in an industry steeped in tradition. Constantly playing pranks on colleagues, he once checked real estate records to find out how much one of his partners paid for his house. He then broadcast the price over the company's voice-mail system. ''You'd miss a piece of business, and he'd come into your office while you're on the phone and give you a chest bump and say, 'The Yankees won! The Yankees won!' '' said Donald Meltzer, co-head of mergers at Credit Suisse First Boston. ''He reminded us not to take everything so seriously.''
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The Boutique Bed & Breakfast Hotel, 45 Tagaytay-Nasugbu Highway, Silang Crossing East, Tagaytay, Cavite
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Wanted to try the churros waffle with strawberry but it wasn't available so I settled with the one with chocolate syrup, pb and banana.
It was good but I would have loved it more if it wasn't super crunchy. Yikes . The serving was big though, good for 2-3 persons.
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8th Stop: Tsokolateria Cafe
This is our 8th Stop and this is one of the best restaurant that we experienced in Tagaytay. From the interior set-up, service and the food.
Tsokolateria Cafe offers dishes that infused or comes with Tsokolate. Yes, everything with chocolate. Chocolate will always made me feel happy. Midz, Kristin and I had Homemade Crispy Bacon with Tsokolate for Php260.00 and Jayson, Midz, Russel and I also order Tablea Champorado for Php320.00 and the rest got Tsokolate with Chili and a normal one without spice.
Homemade Crispy Bacon with Tsokolate (Crispy House Bacon dipped with Tablea Syrup) -  5/5
"The crispy bacon is very addicting. Dipping with Table Chocolate gives more flavor. I cannot resist the combination of sweetness and saltiness of the tsokolate and crispy bacon, trust me! You will ask for more of it. Ang sarap. Bitin nga eh! Hahaha!"
Table Champorado (The old fashioned way, mountain rice cooked in rich native table served with adobo flakes, chicharon and crispy fish chips) -  5/5
"Who doesn't want champorado served with tuyo? (Gosh! I am craving now while I am writing this review) But this time the champorado was infused with tablea "lasang lasa mo yung tsokolate" and instead of tuyo they used daing and chicharon, it's one of the best alternative to replace the tuyo (medyo sosyal! Hahaha) and I would say Masarap!
Overall, I really like the place especially the elegant design of Tsokolateria Cafe. The staff provided superb service too. And the price of each dishes were very readonable. Definitely, I will going back again to this place, I will include it in my itinerary in Tagaytay.
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It was Bonifacio Day, and we were at Tagaytay, stopping by restaurants in the area one after the other, and Tsokolateria was one of those many stops.
It's my first time to visit this restaurant, and if I wasn't on a food crawl, I would probably be lost, because this place is inside a hotel.
We walked up the stairs on a black carpet, and were welcomed with a beautiful lobby area. The furnitures near the entrance are just WOW. Mala-Mano po.
As you walk to the veranda, you'll be even more mesmerized by the canopy sofas and the view.
Guys, this place is named "Tsokolateria" for a reason, and the reason is because everything in the menu contains chocolate. We ordered the Tablea Champorado and the homemade crispy bacon tsoko.
Tablea Champorado P250
Mountain rice cooked in rich native tablea, served with adobo flakes, chicharon and crispy fish chips. This one's food for sharing. For us, I think there were 4 of us who shared the dish, having a bowl each. Their champorado wasn't sweet and wasn't too bitter either, which is why I loved pairing it with the salty, thin crispy fish chips.
Homemade crispy bacon tsoko P260
Crispy pork cooked like lechon kawali and cut into not-so-thin bacon strips, with tablea syrup on the side. The bacon alone was so good. You'd think that it'd go best with vinegar, but it kinda depends. We asked for vinegar to pair this bad boy with, but we later found the chocolate better partnered with the bacon than the vinegar. I do believe that only certain mixes of vinegar (with salt and pepper, etc.) will beat their tablea syrup as a dip.
Their service was also okay, but that ambiance is sure worth mentioning. I wonder how wonderful the experience would be if you were out there on sunset Maybe I should come back to find out for myself 🤔
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Tagaytay is one of my favorite places in the South. I love its weather. I also like the restaurants that can be found here so I see to it that I visit Tagaytay whenever I have free time.
The last time I went here I discovered Tsokolateria. This restaurant is everything chocolate. I literally wanted to try everything in the menu but hey, it's not possible. Gluttony, eh? Anyway, I had the following.
🔵 Tsokolate Eh! (160php) –Very thick and rich chocolate drink. I loved that this is served with batirol and that made the experience more legit. Anyway, they also have Tsokolate Ah! What's the difference aside from eh and ah? Yes, I was also curious so I asked the server. He said that Tsokolate Eh! is richer in chocolate so it's mas malapot compared to Tsokolate Ah! which is more diluted. Interesting, eh? uhm, ah?
🔵 Black Risotto and a dash of tablea powder (320php) – this has squid, black ink, Davao's tablea powder and gata. This is their version of squid ink rice meal. I found this really flavorful despite its saltiness. It had really generous amount of squid but the taste of the tablea powder was not evident.
🔵 Strawberries Overload Waffle (285php) – this was heavenly. What would go wrong with cream + strawberry, right? Plus the chocolate sauce was really good that it made the combination even better.
🔵 Banana, Peanut Butter, Casuy, and Chocnut Waffle (275php) – I like to believe that all waffles from Tsokolateria are good 'coz this second order was very delicious as well. I liked that the pieces of banana were still fresh when served. The chocnut and peanut butter went well with the waffle. The presentation was also perfect.
Tsokolateria's ambiance is homey yet classy. There were only few customers when I visited the place making my visit more relaxing and peaceful. I also like their outdoor set-up and I think this restaurant can be a date place for couples. The service was impeccable. The servers know each of the item in the menu. And lastly, aside from the drool-worthy food, the place is also IG and |ooloo worthy. There are beautiful artworks too especially in the receiving area and near the comfort rooms.
P.S. You can also order food from The Original Hawaiian BBQ as both restaurants are located in Boutique Bed and Breakfast.
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Okay, this is becoming a habit. This is one of the recommended place when visiting tagaytay. This and Hawaiian BBQ are both served in this cute boutique hotel.
My third visit here calls for a night experience. Yeah, a good excuse to indulge on tsokolateria's sweet offerings.
How can i ever express my strong recommendation for all visitors to try their sizzling champorado. All my three visits consist this snack. Really good to eat even at night, specially a chilly night. (It's chilly almost every night at tagaytay!) plus it's affordable good for 2-3 pax for 260PhP.
banana, cashew and peanut butter waffles @285PhP
Another great find! This is good for 2-4 pax. The wafgle is so crispy on the edges and flaafy in the middle. It got generous amount of banana slices and cashew nuts. There's a scoopful of not so sweet peanut butter; whip-cream on top as well. Ehat's more is it got good honey and chocolate on the sides. I really enjoyed the honey on my crispy waffle
Affordable it really is.
What's more interesting is they got chocolate sampler shots, 9 different chocolate flavors in a shot glass (over 500PhP) and a pan de sal (savory) sampler which contains 9 different pan de sal flavors fir over 800PhP. Maybe i will try one of this on my next visit.
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Our 7th stop calls for an afternoon snack. There's no better place to be especially when traffic is already forming outside.
Find a good place to relax and eat good "chocolate-infused" foods here at tsokolateria.
tsokolate e chilli blends
I recently knew the difference between O and E. The tsokolate Eh is bitter and a little thick while O is sweeter and thinner. The chilli is separated from the drink, which is good because you get to adjust its mildness. I added two pieces of those chopped chilis and it was tolerable. The chilli will be felt in the throat area right after the chocolate taste
Again, the sizzling champorado was good as before. Better cause im with great company. Wifi is fast here.
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Let me tell you how wowed i am at the beautiful scenery and ambience of this restaurant at tagaytay. For those who do not know, this branch is its second of its kind. The first one is at Baguio (well, to be honest i have not been to Baguio!) thank God it has a branch here so i can finally taste its chocolatey offerings!
This branch is inside the Botique Bed and Breakfast Hotel and there is about 4-5 parking space just outside. (Just in case there's no more slot, you could try the Ayala Serin Mall in front of it.
The ambience is very lovely! Given the blue skies and cool breeze of tagaytay, the place got fancy-gypsy-comfy couches and curtains al fresco! No questions asked-- i have to stay outside to experience the ambience fully even though it's 2 in the afternoon.
The server quickly took notice of me rainbow puking at the place and asked me right away where i wish to be seated. I quickly took a shaded table, but mentioned that i will be needing his assistance later to transfer my food to a beautiful spot somewhere near the terrace couches.
sizzling champorado @240ish php
This was the waiter's recommendation to me. I quickly agreed because i just want to have a quick afternoon snack rather than having a meal (which they also offer). The order came in about 10 minutes. I actually rainbow puked again as i encounter for the first time a sizzling champorado. It really was sizzling! With that order comes a mouthful of dried fish (tuyo) and chicharon! Boy! The chicharon got meaty parts too! Ask for a small bowl as you cannot eat it right from the very hot palayok. Pour the milk over the sizzling (boiling!) tablea based champorado. They use black mountain rice which is absolutely healthy, i don't mind eating a lot of it. The chicharon and tuyo PERFECT pair for the snack! I am absolutely speechless. Let me give the verdict as the best champorado ive tasted by far! This is good for two!
tsokolate eh @160php
This was recommended as well. A very solid tablea based chocolate drink. It's not right away thick to taste. It was rather thin and sweet at first then it becomes richer and darker as you drink more of it! The order was again good for two. Too bad i was alone that time-- felt greedy and at the same time guilty of consuming more than enough. Hehe.
I would not recommend this if you will be ordering the champorado already as it tastes just the same. I would suggest the one with the chocolate chicharon disc that melts as you pour over your chocolate (good for 1) or the tsokolate eh with chili (to spice things up)
I enjoyed my whole stay. It was a little let down to smell cigarette smoke from some customers sharing the ambience with me. Well at least i really get to like the food offerings and am willing to go back for some more chocolatey dishes.
Yes, there's a washroom if you turn right right after you enter the hotel reception area. Wifi is fast.
I totally spoiled myself with this experience! 🏼
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Tsokolateria Artisanal Cafe. Famous for everything Cacao & Everything local.
2nd stop of our Tagaytay foodtrip last July 22 was at Tsokolateria. A romantic place for chocoholics like us to enjoy each others company. Located inside The Boutique Bed & Breakfast Tagaytay. It has an amazing view of Tagaytay and close to nature, leafy ambience.
Because of the cold weather and it was raining that early evening , we got their best seller tablea house blend. It's good for the two of us, hubby and I loved this drink. Hand made the old fashioned way.drinks are the most popular to order here in Tsokolateria.
More than just drinks, Tsokolateria has a lot of chocolate infused dishes in its extensive menu. I tried their Banana, Peanut butter, Casuy, & Chocnit Churros waffle. It's a double waffle so it's hard to finish it. It's good for two persons already. I'm so full that time, if you loved waffle you'll surely enjoy it. Hubby got the waffle with salad.
Foodies are given more dessert options and variety that could spice up their out of town visit. Granted that chocolates dishes might be overly sweet, it is done perfectly and executed well enough to enjoy the meal here at Tsokolateria.
They have wifi here and service was good. Try it here for more chocolatier experience
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Hello once again, my friends. As I sit here looking out the window at the shining sun I can only think of how soon great weather will be here. It is rapidly approaching for sure. And with it brings all the great spring and summer foods, salads, fresh veggies from the garden and, of course, grilling. But what if that didn't bring you good thoughts. What if regardless of the season, food turns your stomach. Literally. Let me backtrack for a moment.
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I'm not a tough person.
Don't let this cashmere sweaterfool you.
I'm a tender heart.
I don't get itwhen people act tough.
I don't understand it.
To me, when you act tough,you're just saying,
"Hey, I've been through a lotof horrible stuff in my life,
"and I survived it,
and now, I'm readyto attack anybody."
"Like a pit bull."
I want a demeanor that says,
"I've never been throughanything at all...
and I'm just a pug ridinga decorative pillow."
"Where will I go today?Who knows?
But I shall be carried."
(Ron giggles)
(audience laughs)
Oh, you like that giggle?
Not used to a large black man
that giggleslike a Asian princess?
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My entertaining style tends to be quite casual: I either have dinner parties where everything is served family-style, or I set out platters of food - home-made sausages that have been cooked on the barbecue and other dishes prepared in the kitchen - for a buffet type of meal. These recipes work for either type of party because most of the work can be done in advance, and they taste good at room temperature.
Thai lemongrass chicken in pandan leaves (pictured)
The hardest thing about this recipe is figuring out how to wrap the chicken securely in the pandan leaves. To learn how to do it, I interrupted my normal YouTube viewing of kittens and penguins, and searched "wrapping chicken with pandan leaf" - the WokkingMum video is a great tutorial. Once you start, you'll realise it's not that difficult.
500 grams boneless chicken thighs
2 red bird's eye chillies
2 garlic cloves, minced
2 shallots, minced
3 lemongrass stalks
80ml Thai fish sauce
20 grams oyster sauce
20 grams palm sugar or soft brown sugar
20ml fresh lime juice
A pinch of ground white pepper
About 15 pandan leaves
Oil, for frying
Thai sweet chilli sauce mixed with some fish sauce and minced bird's eye chillies to taste
Cut the chicken thighs into large-ish chunks and put them into a bowl. Slit the chillies lengthwise and scrape out and discard the seeds, then finely chop the flesh. Cut off and discard the rough, dry parts from the lemongrass stalks, leaving only their juicy cores, then cut them into 2mm-thick rounds. Put the chilli, garlic, shallot and lemongrass into a mortar and pound to a rough paste, then mix in the fish sauce, oyster sauce, sugar, lime juice and pepper. Pour this mixture over the chicken and stir to combine thoroughly. Cover with cling-film and refrigerate for several hours, stirring occasionally.
Wrap the chicken in pandan leaves, following the instructions in the video, then trim off the ends of the leaves to create a "handle" about 5cm long.
Pour oil into a wok to the depth of about 8cm and heat to 180 degrees Celsius. Carefully put the pandan-wrapped chicken into the hot oil and deep fry for about five minutes, or until cooked through. Drain on paper towels, then serve with a bowl of the sauce.
Moroccan eggplant salad
I had the pleasure of meeting cookbook author Anissa Helou a few years ago when she visited Hong Kong - we ate masses of dim sum and talked almost non-stop about food. This salad is based on a recipe in her book, Mediterranean Street Food.
400 grams Chinese eggplants
4 garlic cloves, roughly chopped
90ml extra-virgin olive oil
800 grams canned Italian tomatoes, well drained then roughly chopped
½ tsp ground cumin
½ tsp paprika
Crushed red pepper flakes, to taste
About 25ml fresh lemon juice
15 grams fresh coriander, chopped
Fine sea salt
Peel the eggplants and cut them into chunks. Place the pieces on a heat-proof dish and scatter the garlic cloves on top. Steam the ingredients until they're very soft, then use a potato masher to roughly crush them to a paste that's still slightly chunky.
Heat the olive oil in a skillet and add the tomatoes, cumin, paprika and red pepper flakes. Season with salt then cook over a medium flame, stirring often, until most of the liquid has evaporated. Add the eggplant/garlic mixture to the skillet, along with the lemon juice and chopped coriander. Stir in some salt then sim-mer for about 15 minutes, mixing often. Cool the mixture to room temperature, then taste for seasoning and adjust as needed - it might need more lemon juice and/or coriander. Serve with pita bread.
Curried lentils with roasted garlic, petits pois and yogurt
This is a dish I make often, using different types of lentils depending on what I have in my cupboard. Sometimes I use red lentils, which cook very quickly and are tender; other times I use Puy lentils, which take longer to cook and have a firmer texture.
10 large garlic cloves, unpeeled, divided
10ml olive oil
350 grams lentils
1 bay leaf
250 grams frozen petits pois
20ml aged balsamic vinegar
1-2 tsp curry powder, or to taste
10ml fresh lemon juice
20ml fresh orange juice
60ml extra-virgin olive oil
70 grams whole milk yogurt, preferably Greek labne
Fine sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Put eight of the unpeeled garlic cloves on a square of aluminium foil and drizzle with the olive oil. Loosely wrap the foil around the garlic and bake for about 45 minutes, or until it is very soft. When the cloves are cool enough to handle, strip away the papery skin then shred the garlic into small pieces.
Rinse the lentils then put them in a sauce-pan and cover with water by about 2cm. Add the bay leaf, two garlic cloves and a sprinkling of salt. Bring to the boil over a medium flame then lower the heat, cover the pan partially with the lid and simmer until the lentils are just tender. Add the petits pois and simmer for 30 seconds. Drain the ingredients but do not rinse them, then put them into a bowl. Discard the bay leaf and garlic.
Quickly whisk the balsamic vinegar with the curry powder, lemon and orange juices and the extra-virgin olive oil. Stir this mixture into the hot lentils and petits pois, seasoning them to taste with salt and pepper. Stir in the roasted garlic then leave the ingredients until they're just warm, stirring occasionally. Gently stir in the yogurt, then serve warm or at room temperature.


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Designer: GamFratesi
Manufactured by: Gubi
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The tables in the Paper Table series consist of three round tables in either oak or walnut veneer. Available in three different heights and tabletop sizes. The veneer on the table top is laid in two directions. The tables have a wooden base with 3 legs. The edges of tabletop and base are the same veneer as the top. The thickness of the table top is 20 mm.
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Founded in 1967 to showcase the postmodern furniture designs and textile catalog of husband-and-wife duo Gubi...


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Fiona Hill, Clifford G. Gaddy
Siberian Curse: How Communist Planners Left Russia Out in the Cold
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Год издания: 2003
Страниц: 240
Can Russia ever become a normal, free-market, democratic society? Why have so many reforms failed since the Soviet Union?s collapse? In this highly-original work, Fiona Hill and Clifford Gaddy argue that Russia?s geography, history, and monumental mistakes perpetrated by Soviet planners have locked it into a dead-end path to economic ruin. Shattering a number of myths that have long persisted in the West and in Russia, The Siberian Curse explains why Russia?s greatest assets?its gigantic size and Siberia?s natural resources?are now the source of one of its greatest weaknesses. For seventy years, driven by ideological zeal and the imperative to colonize and industrialize its vast frontiers, communist planners forced people to live in Siberia. They did this in true totalitarian fashion by using the GULAG prison system and slave labor to build huge factories and million-person cities to support them. Today, tens of millions of people and thousands of...


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|Feb 18, 1986
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|Apr 6, 1983
|Priority date
|Apr 6, 1983
|Fee status
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|Gregory O. Beglinger, Edward P. Massof, Richard J. Schwind
|Original Assignee
|Phillips Plastics Corporation
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|Patent Citations (10), Referenced by (48), Classifications (8), Legal Events (5)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
This invention relates to two-piece plastic fasteners wherein one piece comprises a grommet body having a head from which resilient legs project forwardly and the other piece is a plunger-like pin that is receivable through the head for lengthwise forward motion between the legs to an operative position at which the pin holds the legs diverged; and the invention is more particularly concerned with a two-piece plastic fastener that can be readily molded in one piece, with a frangible flashing connecting the pin and the grommet body, and capable of being produced by means of simple equipment having mold parts that move only in one pair of opposite directions.
Two-piece plastic fasteners of the general type to which this invention relates are exemplified by the following U.S. Patents: U.S. Pat. No. 2,941,439, issued in 1960 to G. M. Rapata; U.S. Pat. No. 2,542,144, issued in 1951 to H. Kearns; U.S. Pat. No. 4,276,806, issued in 1981 to H. Morel; U.S. Pat. No. 3,417,438, issued in 1968 to J. T. Schuplin; and U.S. Pat. No. 3,385,158, issued in 1968 to L. H. Morin.
The prior patent that is probably best illustrative of the problems confronted and solved by the present invention is U.S. Pat. No. 3,918,130, issued to L. R. Poe in 1975. In general, the fastener of that patent comprises a grommet body having a head and a bifurcated shank that projects forwardly from the head and comprises a pair of legs that are laterally spaced from one another. After the grommet body has been inserted into aligned holes in a pair of workpieces that are to be fastened together, a plunger-like pin is driven forwardly through the head and between the legs to an operative position at which the front end portion of the pin holds the legs diverged to prevent the fastener from backing out of the workpieces.
In certain of its embodiments, the fastener of the Poe patent has a so-called web that is connected between the front ends of the legs of its grommet body. The web tapers forwardly to provide a reduced, coaxially conical front end portion on the shank of the grommet. The patent assigns to this web a function which relates to the structural integrity of the grommet body itself, but the web obviously has another and very desirable function when the fastener is inserted into aligned holes in a pair of workpieces that it is intended to connect, in that the web serves as a pilot that smoothly guides the grommet shank into the holes, even if the holes are not in good register with one another or the fastener is brought towards the holes in somewhat off-center relation to them. Without such a piloting web, it often happens that the front end of one leg of a grommet shank gets caught against a surface of the workpiece alongside the hole. Since the fastener tends to be installed with a fast and vigorous jab, such a hang-up may deform the fastener, but it will in any event necessitate some further manipulation of the fastener. For the installation of one fastener, such a fumbling and delay would be inconsequential; but an operator who works with plastic fasteners often installs hundreds or even thousands of them during the course of a shift, and therefore any feature that facilitates insertion is significant in terms of both economics and morale.
The fastener of the Poe patent had another desirable feature, in that its grommet body and pin could be molded in one piece, connected by a readily frangible flashing. Molding the two parts of a fastener in one piece was not broadly new with Poe, having been generally disclosed, for example, in U.S. Pat. No. 3,411,397, issued to D. W. Birmingham in 1968 and in the above mentioned Rapata Patent U.S. Pat. No. 2,941,439. The fasteners of the Birmingham and Rapata patents had to be molded with the use of an elongated core-like mold element that extended axially between the grommet legs and defined the slot between them, projecting rearwardly into the grommet head to the front end of the pin, to define a pin receiving bore in the grommet head. This elongated core element had to be withdrawn axially forwardly from between the legs after the fastener was molded, whereas mold parts that defined the external surfaces of the fastener had to move apart laterally.
Molding equipment comprising an axially forwardly movable core element was obviously unsuitable for producing the fastener of the Poe patent in its above described embodiment, because of the web connecting the front ends of the legs. Poe's fastener was therefore configured for molding in a single piece without the use of movable cores or the like, but to achieve this objective Poe arranged the head of the grommet body to comprise two complementary parts that defined spaced apart opposing surfaces. In the unit as molded, flashings that connected the pin to the grommet body extended only along the opposing surfaces of the head parts. In one embodiment of Poe's fastener the two parts of the head were connected by a thin web, but that web was present only at one side of the pin; at the other side of the pin the two head parts were unconnected, leaving a very large radially extending slot-like gap between the head parts that was continuous with the slot between the legs. Furthermore, the thin web that connected the two head parts was adjacent to the front surface of the head, leaving a deep groove in the grommet head, at its side remote from the legs, that appeared to be a continuation of the slot-like gap in the head at the other side of the pin.
Once the flashings were broken in Poe's fastener, the pin could be driven partway forwardly in the grommet to a detent-defined retracted position, but in that position, owing to the gap in the head, the pin had a substantial amount of side play in the grommet and could be rather easily removed from the grommet by lateral movement through the gap in the head. To prevent separation of the pin from the grommet during shipment and handling, commercial versions of the Poe fastener were delivered to the user with the flashings unbroken. This posed problems for the user. The pin, as it was driven forwardly in the grommet, received insufficient axial guidance, owing to the large radially extending gap in the head and the ease with which the head parts could be flexed apart to enlarge that gap; and consequently the pin could readily skew out of coaxial relation to the grommet.
Other problems grew out of the capability of the head parts for flexing convergence and divergence about the small web that connected them. Directly under the head of the pin was a lug-like projection that was intended to enter the gap between the head parts when the pin was driven all the way forward in the grommet, thereby preventing convergence of the head portion of the grommet in response to forces that tended to produce relative shifting between workpieces connected by the fastener. However, if a fastener hole in a workpiece was slightly undersize, the grommet could be inserted easily enough into the hole, but the head parts would be held converged, narrowing the gap between them to block entry into that gap of the lug-like projection on the pin. Under these conditions, the pin could not be driven all the way forward to its operative position without the use of enough force to damage head portions of the grommet and the pin.
These problems with the fastener of the Poe patent were all due to the configuration of the grommet head, insofar as it was essentially formed in two distinct parts that were connected--if at all--by only a small web. (In one embodiment of the Poe fastener the parts of the head were connected with one another only very indirectly, by means of the web at the front ends of the legs.) In turn, the reason for forming the grommet head in two substantially separate parts was to enable production of the fastener by means of molding equipment that comprised no axially movable mold elements. The gap in the head allowed a laterally movable male mold element to define the front end surface of the pin and to core the aperture in the grommet head through which the pin moved forward as well as the slot between the legs of the grommet.
The fastener of the Poe patent has advantages--particularly with respect to low production costs--that have earned for it a certain amount of commercial success. On the other hand, such commercial success as it has enjoyed has clearly demonstrated and emphasized the problems that it presents, which impose rather stringent limits upon the applications for which it can be employed. Evidently it has not heretofore been obvious to those skilled in the art how the manifest deficiencies in the Poe fastener can be remedied without sacrifice of its clearly desirable features, and particularly its front web that serves as a pilot for its grommet shank and its capability for production by means of molding apparatus having mold parts that move only in a pair of opposite directions.
The general object of the present invention is to provide a two-piece fastener of the character described that combines all of the following desirable features that were heretofore regarded as being to a significant extent incompatible with one another:
A web or strap connecting the front ends of the legs of the grommet body, serving as a pilot that smoothly guides the fastener into a hole in a workpiece;
The head of the grommet body being unbroken around its circumference, to be in completely surrounding relation to the pin, so that the head guides the pin and confines it against skewing as the pin is driven forwardly, and so that the rear end portion of the grommet body, comprising the grommet head and its adjacent portions of the legs, is substantially rigid against laterally flexing expansion and contraction;
Capability for being molded as a unit that comprises the grommet body and the pin, connected by a frangible flashing; and
Capability for being so molded by means of simple and inexpensive molding equipment comprising mold parts that move only in one pair of opposite directions.
A more specific but very important object of this invention is to provide a two-piece plastic fastener of the character described, capable of being molded as a unit having a frangible flashing that extends completely around the pin and integrally connects its front end with the grommet head, so configured that the pin can be driven partway into the grommet body to a preassembled position at which its removal from the grommet body is securely resisted but from which the pin can be readily pushed all the way forward to an operative position wherein it holds the grommet legs diverged.
Another specific but important object of the invention is to provide a two-piece plastic fastener of the character described that is capable of being produced by means of apparatus wherein mold parts move only in one pair of opposite directions, wherein one of said mold parts has a cavity that defines external surface portions of the fastener and another of the mold parts is a core-like element that moves both with and relative to said one mold part and functions as an ejector for dislodging molded units from said cavity in addition to serving as a core element of the mold itself.
It will be evident that it is also a general object of this invention to provide a two-piece plastic fastener that has a novel configuration which adapts it for production by means of simple and inexpensive molding equipment but which nevertheless involves no compromise with functional and performance characteristics.
In general, these and other objects of the invention that will appear as the description proceeds are achieved in a two-piece plastic fastener wherein one piece comprises a grommet having a head with a flat front surface and having a pair of laterally spaced legs that project forwardly from said head and define between them a sidewardly and forwardly opening slot. The other piece comprises a pin receivable through said head for lengthwise forward movement in said slot to an operative position wherein a front end portion of the pin holds the legs flexingly diverged. The fastener is initially molded as a unit wherein said two pieces are connected by a frangible flashing. The fastener of this invention is characterized by said head having a forwardly opening radially extending groove in its front surface that is substantially equal in width to said slot, opens unrestrictedly from one side of said slot and extends to the periphery of the head. Said groove defines a web-like portion of said head which is substantially thinner than the remainder of the head and which extends across and along said groove in rearwardly offset relation to the front surface of the head. Further, the pin in the fastener as initially molded has a front end surface that is substantially flush with the front surface of said web-like portion and has its front end portion connected with said head by a frangible flashing that extends substantially all around the pin and has a thickness substantially equal to that of said web-like portion.
In a preferred embodiment, there is a U-shaped pilot on the grommet, having a narrow bight portion at its front that is substantially concentric with said head and having rearwardly diverging legs, each connected at its rear end with one of the legs of the grommet. The bight portion of the pilot is preferably conical and forwardly tapering.
It is also preferred that the pin have a pair of oppositely facing lengthwise extending ridge surfaces thereon, one at each of a pair of opposite sides thereof, and that each leg of the grommet have a lengthwise extending ridge surface which opposingly engages a ridge surface on the pin, so that the several ridge surfaces cooperate to confine the pin to lengthwise movement between the legs.
Apparatus for molding the fastener as a unit wherein a front end portion of the pin is connected with said head by a frangible flashing is characterized by a pair of cooperating die members, each having a cavity that opens to a flat surface on the die member, one of said die members being movable relative to the other in a pair of opposite directions normal to its said surface, to and from a mold-closed position in which said surfaces are engaged. The cavity in each die member defines one longitudinally extending half of the said unit that includes a half of each of said legs of the grommet. The apparatus further comprises an elongated core element that is lengthwise movable in said directions with and relative to said one die member, which core element cooperates with said die members to define a rear portion of said slot, a front end surface on the pin, and a forwardly opening radially extending groove in the front of said head that opens unrestrictedly from one side of said slot and extends to the periphery of the head, which groove has a forwardly facing surface therein that is in rearwardly offset relation to said flat front surface of the head and is flush with said front end surface of the pin.
In the accompanying drawings, which depict what is now regarded as a preferred embodiment of the invention:
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a fastener of this invention, as initially molded, as seen from the rear of it;
FIG. 2 is a front perspective view of the fastener as initially molded;
FIG. 3 is a view in side elevation of the fastener as initially molded;
FIG. 4 is a view of the fastener in rear elevation, i.e., as seen from the left side of FIG. 3;
FIG. 5 shows the fastener in front elevation;
FIG. 6 is another view in side elevation of the fastener as initially molded, rotated about its axis through 90� from its position shown in FIG. 3;
FIGS. 7, 8 and 9 are views in cross-section, respectively taken on the planes of the lines 7--7, 8--8 and 9--9 in FIG. 6;
FIG. 10 is a view in longitudinal section of the fastener as initially molded (but with most of the pin omitted) taken on the plane of the line 10--10 in FIG. 9;
FIG. 11 is a view generally similar to FIG. 10, but taken on the plane of the line 11--11 in FIG. 9;
FIG. 12 is a detail view in side elevation of the pin stem in the vicinity of its rear detent grooves;
FIG. 13 is a detail view in longitudinal section through the legs of the grommet body in the vicinity of the detent lugs;
FIG. 14 is a view generally like FIG. 3 but showing the pin driven partway into the grommet body to its preassembled position;
FIG. 15 is a view generally like FIG. 14, but showing the fastener installed in a pair of workpieces to be connected by it and with its pin driven all the way forward to its operative position;
FIG. 16 is a view in section of molding apparatus for producing fasteners of this invention, with the die members shown in their positions for a molding operation, ready to receive an injection of molten plastic;
FIG. 17 is a view generally similar to FIG. 16, but showing the die members fully separated and a molded unit being ejected;
FIG. 18 is a view in section, generally on the plane of the line 18--18 in FIG. 16;
FIG. 19 is a view in elevation, taken from the left side of FIG. 16 and with portions shown broken away to illustrate the gates through which plastic is injected into the die cavities;
FIGS. 20 and 21 are detail views on an enlarged scale of the die halves, at the respective sides of the die cavity designated by the arrows 20 and 21 in FIG. 16;
FIGS. 22 and 23 are detail views of die members, taken on the mating plane of rigidly connected parts of the die members and looking in the respective directions designated by the arrows 22 and 23 in FIG. 16;
FIG. 24 is a view in longitudinal section through the complete, closed mold for producing a fastener, taken on a plane substantially corresponding to that of FIG. 6; and
FIGS. 25 and 26 are perspective views of the combined core element and ejector of the molding apparatus of this invention, as seen from opposite sides thereof.
In a two-piece plastic fastener F of this invention, one of the pieces comprises a grommet 5 that has a generally disc-like head 6 and a concentric, forwardly projecting, bifurcated shank 7; and the other piece comprises a plunger-like pin 8 which is receivable through the head 6 and which can be pushed forwardly between the bifurcations or legs 9 of the shank 7 to an operative position (shown in FIG. 15) in which the stem 13 of the pin holds the front end portions of the legs 9 flexingly diverged. The pin 8 preferably has an enlarged head 10 at its rear end, to facilitate driving it forward in the grommet, and in the operative position of the pin its head 10 is closely adjacent to the rear surface of the grommet head 6. The head 10 of the pin can have a reduced diameter front portion 11, to facilitate rearward withdrawal of the pin from its operative position, for removal of the fastener from a workpiece.
A very desirable feature that is preferably incorporated in a fastener of this invention is a generally U-shaped pilot 12 on the front end of its grommet shank 7, formed in one piece with the grommet. The bight portion 14 of this pilot 12 is a more or less conical bullet nose, and its relatively slender strap-like legs 15 diverge rearwardly and are connected at their rear ends with the front ends of the legs 9 of the grommet shank 7. The front end portion of the grommet shank 7 has a frustoconical outer surface 16 that has a taper continuous with the external surfaces of the pilot legs 15 and the bullet nose 14. It will be evident that the front end portion of the grommet 5, including the pilot 12, is configured for easy entry into registering holes in a pair of workpieces 17, 18 (FIG. 15), even if the holes are substantially out of alignment with one another and/or if the fastener is substantially out of coaxial relation to the holes at the start of its insertion into them.
With the pin 8 well to the rear of its operative position and the legs 9 of the grommet shank 7 relaxed (e.g., FIGS. 2, 3, 14), the grommet shank has an outside diameter that is, in the main, substantially uniform along its length, from its head 6 to the beginning of the taper 16 on the frustoconical front end portions of its legs. However, along each leg, at its side remote from the other leg, there extends a rearwardly tapering rib 19 that gives the shank an effective maximum width just behind its conical front end portion and whereby the grommet, upon initial insertion into a workpiece, is restrained against withdrawal from it.
The legs 9 of the grommet shank are laterally spaced apart to define a slot 20 that opens sidewardly through the shank and extends forwardly in it from the grommet head 6. This slot 20 narrows towards the front ends of the legs 9. More specifically, the front portions of the grommet legs have opposing inner cam surfaces 21 that are forwardly convergent, so that as the stem 13 of the pin 8 is driven forwardly between the legs 9 to its operative position, it flexes the legs apart, holding the legs diverged to securely retain the grommet in connected workpieces 17, 18, as illustrabed in FIG. 15.
With the exertion of a substantial rearward force upon the head 10 of the pin, the pin can be drawn back from its operative position to a detent defined preassembled position, illustrated in FIG. 14, wherein the grommet legs 9 are relaxed so that the fastener can be withdrawn from workpieces in which it has been installed. The preassembled position of the pin is defined by laterally opening notches 23 in the pin, near its front end, in cooperation with detent lugs 25 that project inwardly from the opposing faces of the grommet legs 9 and are located just in front of the grommet head 6.
In the operative position of the pin, its notches 23 receive the front inner corners 24 of the grommet legs. Those corners 24 can be beveled or rounded, as shown, so that they do not substantially resist rearward withdrawal of the pin to its preassembled position; or if the fastener is intended for non-removable installation, the leg corners 24 can be substantially square so that their engagement in the notches 23 securely resists rearward withdrawal of the pin. In either case, the operative position of the pin is detent defined by engagement of the lugs 25 in a second pair of laterally opening grooves 27 in the stem 13 of the pin, located a short distance forward of its head 10.
As initially molded, the fastener of this invention is in one piece (as shown in FIGS. 3 and 6) wherein the front end of the pin 8 projects into the grommet head 6 by a few thousandths of an inch and is integrally connected with the head. The axially short zone where the pin and the grommet head 6 are thus united comprises a frangible flashing that extends completely around the stem 13 of the pin and is readily broken by a forward force upon the pin. The fastener could be delivered to the user with the flashing intact, but a substantially higher force is needed to break the flashing than to drive the pin from its preassembled position to its operative position. Furthermore, the pin is adequately resistant to both rearward and lateral displacement from its preassembled position. Preferably, therefore, the pin is driven to its preassembled position as a step in the production process, by means of a known type of automatic machine, not shown.
A novel and important feature of the fastener of this invention, the significance of which will become clear as the description proceeds, is that its grommet head 6 is formed with a radially extending forwardly opening groove 29 in its front surface, which is otherwise flat. This groove 29 has the same width as the slot 20 through the shank, opens unrestrictedly from one side of that slot, and extends out to the periphery of the head 6. It defines in the grommet head 6 a relatively thin, flat web 31 which extends across the groove 29 and all along it and which is in rearwardly offset relation to the flat front surface of the remainder of that head. The web 31 is only about as thick as the flashing that connects the pin and the grommet head in the fastener unit as initially molded. In that unit, the front end surface 32 of the pin stem 13 is flush with the front surface of the web 31; hence, as explained hereinafter, the coplanar surfaces of the web 31 and the pin stem 13 can be defined by a single mold element which is movable laterally and which cores out the groove 29, so that there is no need for an axially movable core to define a hole in the grommet head through which the pin stem passes.
Notwithstanding the radial groove 29 in the grommet head and the thinness of the web 31 which that groove defines, the grommet head 6 is effectively in one rigid piece that completely surrounds the pin stem, and it is therefore capable of affording stable axial guidance to the pin after the flashing is broken.
Another feature that confines the pin to axial movement between its preassembled and its operative positions is that, as seen in cross-section, the stem 13 of the pin is formed with a lateral offset that defines a pair of ridge surfaces 33 which face in opposite lateral directions and extend along its full length. The inner surface of each leg 9 of the grommet is formed with a substantially complementary lateral offset, defining a ridge 34 that opposes the adjacent ridge 33 on the pin. The ridge 34 on each grommet leg extends forwardly along it only to the cam surface 21 on the front portion of the leg, which is substantially flat across the width of the leg and is inclined forwardly and towards the other leg. At one side of the ridge 34 on each grommet leg the leg has a radially outwardly offset inner surface 35 that is substantially coplanar with its cam surface 21 and extends rearwardly along the leg from that cam surface to the detent lug 25 on the leg; and from the lug that surface continues rearwardly in substantially parallel relation to the axis of the shank. At the other side of the ridge 34 the leg has a radially inwardly offset surface 36 which extends all the way back along it from the cam surface 21 and which is parallel to the axis of the shank.
Apparatus for molding initially one-piece fasteners of this invention comprises a generally conventional molding machine (FIGS. 16-19) having complementary die members 40, 41 that are respectively fixed to a stationary platen 42 and to a platen 43 that is movable in opposite mold-closing and mold-opening directions, towards and from the fixed platen 42. As is conventional, the machine has several sets of die members attached to its platens 42 and 43, defining a number of die cavities for producing a corresponding number of fastener units in each operating cycle. The machine also has the usual injection mechanism 45, gates 46 through which molten plastic flows from the injector to the die cavities, and channels 47 through which cooling water is circulated after each injection.
The complementary die members 40, 41 (FIGS. 20-23) of each mold-defining pair part on a plane which contains the axis of the fastener and which intersects both legs 9 of the grommet shank along the longitudinal centerline of the ribs 19 on those legs. To facilitate making the die members 40, 41, each of them comprises two rigidly connected parts 40a, 40b and 41a, 41b, respectively. In each case, one of these parts 40a, 41a defines a longitudinal half of all of that part of the fastener unit that is in front of the front surface of the grommet head, and the other part 40b, 41b defines the remainder of that longitudinal half of the unit.
As can be seen from FIGS. 20-23, the stem 13 of the pin 8 is defined by cavity portions 13', 13" in the respective die members 40, 41 that are in laterally offset relation to one another when the mold is closed. The ridge surfaces 33 along the pin stem are thus defined by parting plane surfaces of the die members. In like manner, each of the die members has a male or core portion 20', 20" in its cavity that defines the slot 20 between the grommet legs, and when the mold is closed these male portions are in laterally offset relation to one another to define the ridge surfaces 34 on the grommet legs.
Cooperating with the die members 40 and 41 is an elongated core element 51 that is lengthwise movable, both with the movable die member 41 and relative to it, in the mold-opening and mold-closing directions. Along most of its length this core element is guidingly confined in a slot 52 in the movable die member 41, for lengthwise movement between a molding position, shown in FIGS. 16 and 24, and an ejecting position shown in FIG. 17. When the mold is closed, the front end portion of the core element 51 defines the groove 29 in the grommet head, the front end surface 32 of the pin stem, the detent lugs 25, and the rearmost portion of the slot 20 in the grommet shank.
Following an injection, as the movable platen 43 moves away from the fixed platen 42 to its mold open position, carrying with it the movable die member 41, the core element 51 initially moves along with that die member. The portion of the core element 51 that is in the die cavity has a very slight rearward inclination along its length, as best seen at 53 in FIG. 24, and has very small rearward projections 54, so that it cooperates with the head-forming portion of the cavity in the movable die member 41 to retain the molded piece in that die member and thus draw the piece out of the cavity in the stationary die member 40 as the movable die member separates from the stationary one.
When the movable platen 43 arrives at a position (shown in FIG. 17) at which the movable die member 41 and the molded piece therein are well clear of the stationary die member, an ejector mechanism 57 is actuated to move the core element 51 and a pair of ejector pins 59, 60 in the direction towards the stationary die member. During this motion of the ejector mechanism 57 the movable die member 41 remains stationary in its mold-open position, and therefore the core element 51 and the ejector pins 59, 60 cooperate to dislodge the molded piece from the cavity of the movable die member 41. However, once the molded piece is substantially out of that cavity, the core element 51 stops its movement in the mold closing direction, but the ejector pins 59, 60 continue to move in that direction, to disengage the piece from the core element. Thus clear of all parts of the molding machine, the piece drops down between the die members to be collected for transfer to a machine (not shown) at which the pin 8 is driven partway forward in the grommet to its preassembled position.
The ejector mechanism 57 comprises a platen-like carrier 61 which is guided for motion in the mold-opening and mold-closing directions and to which the ejector pins 59, 60 are fixed. The ejector pins extend through guide bores in the movable die member 41 that open to its cavity. One ejector pin 59 engages the stem 13 of the fastener pin, about midway along its length, and the other ejector pin 60 engages the bullet nose 14 on the pilot.
The core element 51 is connected with an elongated actuator 62 that has an abutment head 63 on its front end which is hooked into the rear portion of the core element and which is received in a chamber 64 in the movable die member. To define limits of lengthwise motion of the core element 51 relative to the movable die member 41, opposite surfaces on the abutment head 63 of the actuator engage opposite end surfaces of the chamber 64. At its rear end the actuator 62 has a plunger head 65 that bears against the front coil of a compressible spring 66. The rearmost coil of the spring 66 is engaged against a spring seat formed in a cylinder-like spring chamber 67 on the platen-like carrier 61. Hence, as the carrier 61 is moved in the mold-closing direction relative to the movable die member 41, its motion is initially transmitted to the core element 51 through the spring 66 and the actuator 62, so that the core element is compelled to move forward with that carrier and the ejector pins 59, 60; but when the core element actuator 62 reaches its front limit of travel, defined by engagement of its abutment head 63 against the front end of the chamber 64, continued forward movement of the carrier 62 (and the ejector pins connected with it) merely results in compression of the spring 66.
During mold-closing motion of the movable die member 41, the abutment head 63 on the core element actuator 62 is engaged by the rear end of the chamber 64 to reestablish the core element 51 in its position for molding.
From the foregoing description taken with the accompanying drawings, it will be apparent that this invention provides a two-piece plastic fastener which has a bullet-nose pilot portion connecting the front ends of the legs of its grommet shank, to guide it into more or less aligned holes in workpieces that it is to connect, and which has a grommet head that is circumferentially rigid and integral, to afford good, stable guidance for its pin, but which is nevertheless capable of being molded in one piece by means of molding equipment having mold parts that move only in one pair of opposite directions.
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