Abstract: In a capacitor chip processing apparatus, including a rotating loading wheel mounted on a spindle and carrying an inventory of chips, passageways formed in the wheel for receipt of chips from the inventory in controlled alignment, a belt containing resilient masks and having chip receiving holes brought into registration with the passageways, and motor-driven loading pins to advance, during the loading cycle, to push the chips from the passageways into the holes, a subassembly machine to detect and correct chip misalignment in the passageways, containing a load cell in communication with the loading pins and arranged to measure the resistance to pin travel as the pins come in contact with the chips in the passageways, a computer apparatus to compare the measured real time resistance to pin travel with a set resistance value from a list of absolute values or empirical studies, and a controller apparatus, activated by the computer apparatus, to control the motor-driven loading pins and the loading wheel in a re

Abstract: The process of producing a reverse osmosis membrane by the steps of preparing a liquid mixture of N-vinyl pyrrolidone, maleic anhydride and maleimide, wetting a porous membrane with the mixture and irradiating the wetted membrane with laser energy with energy sufficient to polymerize the mixture to form a terpolymer of N-vinyl pyrrolidone, maleic anhydride and maleimide on the membrane.

Abstract: An electrically powered security system for monitoring and controlling access to a protected area and having multiple levels of alert signal commensurate with the level of security threat to the area; a siren for communicating multiple levels of alert signal, both visual and audible, progressively including: a low level, medium level and full level alert consisting of a voice warnaway, a series of audible chirps, or blinking lights; an electrically erasable and programmable read only memory for permanently storing system operational parameters and a controller for using the operational parameters for controlling the operation of security system, the security system including a remote transmitter to remotely test all input sensors and remotely disable specific sensors from operation, thus having control of any combination of variable audio and/or audio-visual alarm response, the security system further including a light control for automatic light engagement and mutual cooperation with windshield wipers.

Abstract: The invention is a nail clipper that is made up of a pair of upper and lower co-extensive, yieldingly-resilient and cooperatively-opposed members having correspondingly-mated inward and outward end portions, the outward end portions of the members superimposed upon each other and fixedly joined together, the inward ends spring biased and spaced-apart in divergent relationship and including transverse confronting jaws with mating primary cutting blades of requisite curvature and clipping ability, a lever extending angularly upward from a pivotal mounting at a divergent portion of the legs and including a cam-like surface for angular movement with the lever thereabout to squeeze the blades together in a clipping action when the lever is rotated toward the joined ends of the legs, and an index finger end piece attached to the members at the fixed junction for receipt of the distal phalange of the user's index finger therein to operatively support the clipper between the thumb and the end of the forefinger in a p

Abstract: A metered serving dispenser of cup-strength quantitites of granular material, having few parts, that may be erected as a free-standing device, or hung from an overhanging surface or mounted on a vertical surface, such as a wall, to dispense dried powders and granulated foods into a container, such as a cup, for mixing with water for ingestion.

Abstract: A chassis for encapsulating a standard desk-top mounted electronic computer for juxtaposed mating with computer accessories in a EIA-configured rack including a base plate defined by spaced-apart side walls and spaced-apart front and rear walls, the walls extending upward therefrom to a common contiguous upper edge enclosed by a top plate to create of EIA-sized enclosure, a support plate bounded by the walls and located intermediate between the base plate and the top plate to divide the enclosure into a lower bay and a separate upper bay, the upper bay of a size and shape to encapsulate the computer therein and the lower bay of a size to receive a power supply for the computer and other accessories for interfacing with the computer, a ram air cooling device in the air thereinto for cooling the accessories and power supply and for providing a separate stream of cooling air from the lower bay to the upper bay to cool the computer encapsulated therein and provide additional air for use by the computer's internal

Abstract: A shock sensor includes a mass suspended in a flexible support arranged to resonate when subjected to a mechanical shock, a microphone spaced closely to the mass, the mass and microphone forming a first air pressure chamber with the flexible support for transmittal therethrough of air pressure waves from the resonating mass to the microphone, the microphone arranged to produce an electronic signal when it detects changes in air pressure from the pressure waves traveling through the chamber.

Abstract: A control circuit for limiting the current flow to a direct-current driven motor, to reduce current spikes at motor start up, including a voltage-regulated, current-passing device for passing current from a direct voltage source to the motor, the device having a default configuration such as to permit full current flow there-across when the voltage is initially applied, a voltage drop device interposed the voltage source and the voltage-regulated, current-passing device responsive to the current flow to the motor and a variable-voltage output device responsive to the voltage drop developed in the voltage-drop device for providing a subsequently changing voltage for input to the current-passing device for limiting the current flow therethrough following initial application of the voltage.

Abstract: A foldable insert to collate an open box for receipt, withdrawal and reinsertion of two separate stacks of stationary items, the box defined by a flat base of overall rectangular shape having a pair of vertical end walls held in spaced-apart arrangement by a pair of vertical side walls, all attached through devices that define the rectangular periphery thereof, the insert including a narrow display portion extending transverse to the ends of the box defined by a pair of spaced-apart elongated side edges and a pair of shorter end edge, a first support section extending from one of the elongated side edges toward one end of the box for passing under one stack of items, including an upwardly directed support portion, a second support section extending from the opposite elongated side edge of the display portion reversibly down under the display portion and then toward the other end of the box for passing under the second stack of items, including an upwardly sloping portion to angle the items upward toward the o

Abstract: A control circuit for limiting the current flow to a direct-current driven motor, to reduce current spikes at motor start up, including a voltage-regulated, current-passing device for passing current from a direct voltage source to the motor, the device having a default configuration such as to permit full current flow there-across when the voltage is initially applied, a voltage drop device interposed the voltage source and the voltage-regulated, current-passing device responsive to the current flow to the motor and a variable-voltage output device responsive to the voltage drop developed in the voltage-drop device for providing a subsequently changing voltage for input to the current-passing device for limiting the current flow therethrough following initial application of the voltage.

Abstract: A traction device including, in combination, an elongated flat surface of a length and width to accommodate a human patient in a supine position, the surface defined by a foot-end and a head-end arranged in a spaced-apart relationship, device for elevating the foot-end above the head-end in a tilted fashion, and a foot retainer pivotally attached about the foot-end for retaining the patient's feet therein when the patient is in traction, wherein the elongated flat surface exhibits an extremely low coefficient of friction for allowing the patient's body to stretch and slide freely downward therealong under its own weight when pitched in a head-down position.

Abstract: A ball retrieving storage device including an elongated hollow tube opened at one end for reception of a ball, the tube having formed in the opened end a circumferential groove concentrically arranged therewith opening inwardly toward the hollow interior of the tube and defined by upper and lower groove side surfaces, a yieldable ring of measured thickness concentrically located in the groove, the ring having an internal diameter slightly smaller than the outside diameter of the ball to be retrieved, wherein the groove is wider than the thickness of the ring to allow the ring to be moveable therein and displacable upward therein in response to the upward pressure of a to-be-retrieved ball from below when the opened end of the tube is passed over the ball, and wherein the groove has a first depth, in the area of natural repose of the ring, and a second depth in the area of the upward displacement thereof, wherein the second depth is greater than the first depth to allow the ring to expand under the upward pres

Abstract: A control circuit for limiting the current flow to a direct-current driven motor, to reduce current spikes at motor start up, including a voltage-regulated, current-passing device for passing current from a direct voltage source to the motor, the device having a default configuration such as to permit full current flow thereacross when the voltage is initially applied, a voltage drop device interposed the voltage source and the voltage-regulated, current-passing device responsive to the current flow to the motor and a variable-voltage output device responsive to the voltage drop developed in the voltage-drop device for providing a subsequently changing voltage for input to the current-passing device for limiting the current flow therethrough following initial application of the voltage.