Abstract: An implantable cardiac defibrillator includes a housing having a thickness dimension that is smaller than either of the length and width dimensions of the housing. Within the housing is an energy storage capacitor having a thickness dimension that is smaller than either of the length and width dimensions of the capacitor. The capacitor includes a first plate layer, a second plate layer, and a dielectric layer separating the first plate layer and the second plate layer. The first plate, second plate and dielectric layers are arranged spirally about an axis parallel to the thickness axis of the capacitor, with the thickness axis of the capacitor being substantially parallel to the thickness axis of the housing. The capacitor is arranged as an annulus having an open center. A battery is disposed within the open center in the same plane as the capacitor. A circuit board and header are arranged in another plane stacked atop the battery and capacitor.

Abstract: A tibial spacer saw guide for guiding the resection of a bony defect of the lateral or medial condyle of the proximal tibia to accommodate a spacer to be implanted beneath a tibial baseplate of a tibial prosthesis. The saw guide includes a plate having a plurality of locating holes corresponding in spacing and location to pins extending from the inferior surface of the tibial baseplate. The plate has medial and lateral guide edges for guiding a sagittal osteotomy where the guide edges are located relative to the locating holes, and thus relative to the pegs of the tibial baseplate. The saw guide also includes an anterior block extending from the plate and having a plurality of slots for guiding a horizontal osteotomy for the spacer of selected depth. The plate rests on an initially resected surface, and thus the horizontal osteotomy for the spacer is located relative to the initial osteotomy surface.

Abstract: A device for holding and displaying collectable cards and the like has a base including a planar portion having a card receiving area thereon for receiving a collectable card. The base includes a ridge upstanding from the planar portion and substantially circumscribing the card receiving area, except for an opening through the ridge that permits lateral access by a person's finger to a card received on the card holding area. The ridge has inner sidewalls delimiting the card receiving area and arranged orthogonally to each other. The adjacent inner sidewalls have laterally recessed corners set back from a point of intersection of imaginary extensions of the adjacent inner sidewalls, such that a corner of a collectable card, whose adjacent sides are in engagement with adjacent inner sidewalls of the ridge, would not engage the ridge, thereby preventing damage or deformation of the corner of the collectable card.

Abstract: A sanitary toilet seat cover includes a flexible ring-shaped seat portion having an upper surface and a lower surface and a diametrical axis. A flap portion extends generally radially outwardly from the seat portion along the diametrical axis. Releasable fasteners are provided for releasably fastening the flap portion to the seat portion when the seat portion is rolled up, the fasteners including first and second mutually engagable fastening elements, the first fastening element being fixed to the flap portion and the second fastening element being fixed to the seat portion. The sanitary toilet seat cover is compactly arranged for storage by folding the seat portion in half along the diametrical axis, rolling up the folded seat portion upon itself semi-circumferentially starting at that end which is opposite the flap portion, and folding the flap portion endwise across the rolled-up seat portion and engaging the first fastening element of the flap portion to the second fastening element of the seat portion.

Abstract: A solar collector involves an elongate main boom having a longitudinal axis and a solar collector frame. Brackets are provided for pivotally mounting the solar collector frame to the main boom for pivotal motion about a first pivotal axis substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the main boom. A first motor is mounted to the main boom and has a rotary output shaft coaxially aligned with the first pivotal axis and drivingly connected to the frame for pivoting the frame about the first pivotal axis. A plurality of solar collector elements are pivotally mounted to the solar collector frame for synchronized pivotal motion with respect to the frame about respective second pivotal axes disposed substantially parallel to one another and substantially transverse to the longitudinal axis of the main boom.

Abstract: A sorting apparatus for sorting fiber suspensions heavily laden with rubbish and other contaminants, which sorter has two successive sorting units each having a ring-shaped strainer space, which are likewise successive, and an accepts space with a rotationally symmetric strainer between the accepts space and strainer space. The first sorting unit is pressurized above atmospheric pressure; diluting water is fed to the second unit strainer space; and a rotating plate is mounted between the first and second sorting units to control the flow between the strainer spaces.

Abstract: A device comprising a body in which is formed a chamber in which fuel is mixed with air; a cylindrical mixture delivery duct the opening of which is controlled by a throttle valve; and a body cover to which is fitted a fuel injector for supplying atomized fuel into the mixing chamber; the aforementioned mixing chamber comprising at least a first and second portion defined by differently tapered surfaces, and a third portion defined by a cylindrical surface equal in diameter to the aforementioned cylindrical mixture delivery duct; the axial length of the cylinderical surface of the third portion of the mixing chamber, measured between the axis of the throttle valve and the top edge of the third portion itself, being at least equal to the radius of the circular contour of the aforementioned throttle valve.

Abstract: An intake manifold and cylinder head intake passageway for an air-cooled internal combustion engine. The manifold is substantially S-shaped and generally vertically oriented and communicates a carburetor having a horizonal bore with an overhead valve cylinder head having a horizontal intake passageway located at an elevation above that of the carburetor. The manifold has a turbulence inducing ridge at the entrance from the carburetor and the cylinder head intake passageway has a similar ridge at the entrance from the manifold. Each elbow bend in the manifold and in the cylinder head passageway is provided with a flat area at the outside curve of the bend which prevents puddling of fuel in the arcuate section of the bend and which causes any fuel which collects there to be spread out in a thin film which is then reintroduced into the air stream by a wedge-shaped ridge transverse to the flat area and rising therefrom to a ridge peak.

Abstract: A coating device for coating moving material webs running over a backing roll has a front wall, coating element, and side seals cooperating to provide a sealed application space for the material web near the backing roll, which application space is preferably at a pressure above atmospheric pressure and has a coating mixture flowing therein from a chamber. A baffle connected to the front wall provides a run-out gap therebetween and cooperates with the backing roll to provide a hydrodynamic pressure gap at the material web run-in side, such that coating mixture from run-out gap is entrained by the speed of the material web for reintroduction to application space through hydrodynamic pressure gap.

Abstract: On the cooling roll with outer roll shell 7 and inner, preforated roll shell 8 of an inner body 6, the inner body features endways and centrally at least one distributing component 22. Extending through this distributing component are channels 19 that are parallel with the roll axis, for one, and interposed radial channels 28 which, for one, serve the connection of an endwise space 14 that is located between an axial end of the inner body and the hollow roll end with one of the coaxial supply or drain channels of the journal 20 and, for another, serve the connection of the interior space 3 of the inner body 6 with one of the other coaxial supply and drain channels 25, 26 or vice versa.

Abstract: An air-cooled engine having a vertical crankshaft and a horizontal cylinder. The cylinder is cast aluminum alloy and has the intake and exhaust valves located next to one another on one side of the cylinder, with the carburetor located on the other side of the cylinder. An intake cross-passageway integrally cast in part with the cylinder passes under the piston bore to connect the intake valve to the carburetor. For casting purposes, the lower side of the passageway is open in the cylinder casting to permit removal of the passageway casting core and forming an opening having side walls extending transverse to the piston bore extending from the passageway to the exterior of the cylinder. A cover having side walls corresponding to and lying adjacent the side walls of the opening is disposed in the opening. The cover has a curved inner surface corresponding to the curvature of the passageway.

Abstract: The present invention is an air guide box. The box has a guide wall intended to lay adjacent to a running web. The guide wall has an air suction channel and a discharge opening. A drive jet blows air into the air suction channel to create suction, with the air being expelled through the discharge opening.

Abstract: An intermittently operating unwinding apparatus has a splicing unit with a cross member which is movable against and at right angles to the web expiring from a winding roll. With a separating device positionable against the cross member from the other side of the web, the web is separated by lifting the empty spool mounted in the unwinding apparatus out of its unwinding position. A new parent roll whose web beginning is provided with an application of adhesive is transported by means of a conveyor to the unwinding position and the web beginning positioned relative to the splicing unit. The splicing unit holding the separated web-end at the cross member is radially moveable against the new parent roll, where the web-end meets the beginning of the web and is attached by means of the adhesive. The web length required to lead the web-end to the new roll is made ready by a dancer roller.

Abstract: An elastic coupling (1) of disc construction and of the kind in which two coupling halves (2, 3) rotationally interlock and have helical compression springs (5) tangentially arranged in ports (4) in the coupling halves, which transmit torque from one coupling half to the other. So as to avoid the springs curving outwards at high rotational speed and/or with a low loading, under the effect of centrifugal force, sliding members (10) are loosely inserted into the ports. The sliding member can either be constructed with a concave groove (11) which partially surrounds the spring from outside and is disposed between the coils of the spring and its respective ports, or in the shape of a bar (10a) which is loosely inserted coaxially into the spring.

Abstract: A dryer section in which a paper web to be dried meanders successively over several drying cylinders, which are arranged in two rows one above the other. To the top row of cylinders is allotted a top supporting belt and to the bottom row of cylinders a bottom supporting belt. Between each two drying cylinders each of the supporting belts runs over a carrier roll. At the open paper draws are provided web stabilizers of which each exhibits several nozzle elements with one air blow slot each and a web-guiding surface interacting with it. The direction of flow of the blow air is at all nozzle elements the same as the direction of travel of the paper web. Each web stabilizer is designed as an exhaust-air box surrounding the nozzle elements, to which an exhaust-air pipe is connected.

Abstract: A food preparation oven includes an enclosure defining a chamber for receiving a food product therein. A heater and a fan are provided for heating and recirculating the air within the chamber. A foraminous wire mesh conveyor loop passes through the chamber for supporting and transporting a food product in and through the chamber. A plate having an upper infra-red radiant emissive surface is disposed within the conveyor belt loop. A plurality of lower duct fingers located below the conveyor belt loop communicate with the outlet of the air recirculating fan and are configured for directing columnated jets of hot air upwardly through the lower loop portion of the conveyor belt loop such that the hot air impinges on the lower surface of the radiant plate. After heating the radiant plate the hot air passes around the edges thereof and enters a plurality of upper return duct fingers disposed above the coveyor belt loop. The upper return duct fingers area in communication with the inlet of the air recirculating fan.

Abstract: An intermittently operating unwinding apparatus has a separating device with which a web-end is formed on the lifting-out of an empty spool from the guide ways of an unwind unit. A holding device holds the web-end in a plane which extends parallel to the guide ways, on which a new winding roll located in waiting position rests with its roll axle. The machine has a splicing unit with a cross member arranged parallel to the guide ways to which the beginning of the web of the new parent roll can be joined. During transport of the new parent roll out of the waiting position into its unwinding position the splicing unit is moved by dogs engaging at the roll axle against the holding device and the web-beginning joined to the web-end.

Abstract: A sorting apparatus has a first casing section (1) with a larger diameter and a second casing section (2) with a relatively smaller diameter, which casing sections are generally aligned in series. A rotor (6) has rotor parts which are coordinated with each casing section and appropriately adapted. An impeller rotates in a churning space (5) of the first casing section (1) and a drum type rotor section (9) in the second casing section (2) supports sorting elements (16), which rotate in a strainer space (12) formed by a cylindrical strainer basket (11). This provides both despeckling and sorting in the machine, and separates the rejects with a high solid content.

Abstract: A nozzle-like, machine-wide stock channel forms a stock discharge opening to which is allocated a device for adjusting the basis weight cross direction (CD) profile of the paper web produced in the paper machine. The device has a profile bar extending across the machine width. This is connected to an expanding member supported at the headbox in which are arranged pressure chambers disposed in succession across the machine width. By pressurization of the chambers of the expanding member consisting of an elastic material, this can be deformed. The deformation is transferred to the profile bar and in this way the effective width of the stock discharge opening changed.

Abstract: A golf practice apparatus simulates the response of natural turf to the impact of a golf club head during a conventional golf club swing. The apparatus includes a platform for the golfer to stand on, a main frame connected to the platform adjacent thereto, and an inner frame carrying an upper surface mounted within the main frame and connected thereto such that the rearward end of the inner frame can translate forwardly and the forward end of the inner frame can translate initially forwardly and thence downwardly in a generally arcuate path when the upper surface is impacted by the golf club head. The platform is configured as a hinged box which can be folded together to form a closed case in which the main frame and associated components can be stored. A ball storage ramp including a golf club head actuable ball filter is removably attachable to the main frame.