Abstract: A flat panel display spacer metering apparatus comprises a motor-driven rotatable disc, having a plurality of cavities distributed around a first surface of the disc. As the disc is rotated, its cavities are filled with spacers from a storage and fill device, configured as a hollow cylinder installed in a bore of a metering block. To facilitate transfer of spacer elements stored in the storage cylinder into cavities in the disc, an axially biased plunger continuously pushes the spacer elements against the first surface of the disc. As a result, whenever rotation of the disc exposes one or more of its cavities to the open end of the cylinder, spacers are forced into and fill the cavities. As the disc is further rotated and successive ones of its cavities are filled with spacers, the filled cavities are brought into alignment with a spacer element ejection head. The ejection head continuously directs a fluid, such as dry nitrogen gas against the cavity-containing surface of the disc.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of and apparatus for remotely time setting a ballistic fuzing device from an off-board setting device non-conductively coupled to the fuzing device. The fuzing device has a free running or astable multivibrator with non specific frequency tolerance specifications In the practice of the invention, the fuzing device contains a means of generating a time base from a conventionally designed multivibrator circuit, such as an R/C circuit, but not one that utilizes a quartz crystal as its time base. Said multivibrator is set into oscillation during a programming time, at which time the frequency or period of oscillation is measured, and via proper electronic circuits said period is transmitted from the fuzing device to a setting device via a nonconductive link.