Abstract: A brush assembly for use with a carpet cleaner of the type comprising a cleaning liquid reservoir, cleaning liquid pump, distributing tubing, control valve, and spray nozzle, for applying a thin coating of cleaning liquid to the fibers of a carpet, and a suction nozzle mounted at the lower end of a stiff wand and including suction lines, a suction pump and a catch reservoir to collect the cleaning liquid and solubilized dirt as the nozzle is moved in a back and forth motion over the carpet, the assembly including a brush including a plurality of stiff bristles fixed at their upper end in a wide support and having free lower ends, a bracket for holding the brush in alignment at the suction nozzle, the bracket including device allowing the brush to move from a first upper position out of contact with the carpet to a second lower position wherein the free ends of the bristles come into contact with the carpet, an elongated cable of terminal length extending from a first terminal end connected to the brush upward

Abstract: This invention concerns a device for confirming an official's call in a field sport, including a flag for waving to visually indicate to others that the event has occurred, a shaft upon which the flag is loosely attached, a handle to support the shaft integral therewith, a power source, an electronic signal generator and transmitter, and a receiver worn by another offical for receiving the signal in confirmation of the official's call.

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: 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: An apparatus for rapidly refilling a dry wall cement dispensing tool from a dry wall cement-filled bucket containing a thick-walled, heavy, metal pump tube for submerging into the dry wall cement contained therein, all of a weight to provide the pump tube with a low center of gravity when set in the bucket of dry wall cement, a cement-moving piston attached to the pump rod for reciprocal motion inside the pump tube, a thin-walled, light weight transfer device lighter in weight than the pump tube, extending outward from the aperture top end of the pump tube and in hydraulic communication therewith including a nozzle device for conveying the cement from the heavy pump tube into the cement dispensing tool, and a thin-walled, light weight pneumatic rectilinear reciprocating device lighter in weight than the pump tube, mounted above the tube of a size easily balanced by hand, interconnected the pump rod and including an actuation valve, for sequentially and rapidly raising and lowering the piston in the heavy pump

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: In a header assembly, for interconnecting an electronic module to a mother board, including an insulating strip and at least one row of spaced-apart pins inserted through holes between an upper face and a lower face of the strip, each of the pins having an upper portion projecting from the upper face and being shaped and dimensioned to interconnect with the module, and a lower portion projecting from the lower face and being shaped and dimensioned to interconnect with the mother board, any adjacent two of the pins being separated by a length of the strip, the improvement which includes a plurality of collars of heat-dissipating material, one of the collars mounted around and in intimate contact with each of the pins, the collars having a peripheral outline shaped and dimensioned to avoid electrical contact with an adjacent pin.

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.