Abstract: A door packing assembly can include a pallet having a plurality of frames positioned thereon. The plurality of frames define an interior area, and a plurality of doors are positioned onto the pallet within the interior area defined by the plurality of frames. In further instances, a door container component can be positioned onto the pallet and the plurality of doors can be positioned within the door container component. In this way, the door container component can have a perimeter surrounded by at least some of the plurality of frames.

Abstract: A door packing assembly can include a pallet having a plurality of frames positioned thereon. The plurality of frames define an interior area, and a plurality of doors are positioned onto the pallet within the interior area defined by the plurality of frames. In further instances, a door container component can be positioned onto the pallet and the plurality of doors can be positioned within the door container component. In this way, the door container component can have a perimeter surrounded by at least some of the plurality of frames.

Abstract: A discharge lamp comprising an elongated bulb shaped so that the ends thereof are substantially closer together than if the bulb were straight and containing electrodes respectively near said ends thereof, and a starting air comprising conductive members respectively adjacent to said bulb behind the plane of each of said electrodes, and means electrically interconnecting said conductive members.

Abstract: A discharge lamp comprising an elongated bulb shaped so that the ends thereof are substantially closer together than if the bulb were straight and containing electrodes respectively near said ends thereof, a starting aid comprising electrically interconnected conductive members respectively adjacent to said bulb behind the plane of each of said electrodes, and a conductive material extending continuously along a portion of said bulb and having ends terminating in front of the plane of each electrode.

Abstract: A discharge lamp comprising an elongated bulb shaped so that the ends thereof are substantially closer together than if the bulb were straight and containing electrodes respectively near said ends thereof, electrically interconnected bracing straps around the end regions of the bulb, and a starting aid comprising T-shaped conductive members having bands respectively at least partly around said bulb in the vicinity of each of said electrodes and having stems respectively extending under and clamped by said bracing straps.

Abstract: A screw-in fluorescent light unit having two light levels, for use in a 3-way socket. A reactor ballasts the lamp for high light output, and a positive temperature coefficient resistor (thermistor) is added to ballast the lamp for low light output and to facilitate lamp starting at the low light output. The light-level sequence is off-high-low-high-off.

Abstract: Fluorescent lamps are flashed by modulating the lamp operating current during a given half-cycle. The other half-cycle operation is unmodulated, thereby resulting in flashing from full lamp brilliance to substantially one-half lamp brilliance. In one embodiment, the modulating circuitry is placed in the line cord providing power to the lamp. The circuitry includes a gated diode and a resistor placed in parallel with each other. A full wave line cord embodiment employs a diode bridge. In another embodiment, the modulating circuitry is placed across the terminals of a conventional fluorescent lamp starter so that current is bypassed around the starter. With this embodiment of the invention, the discharge on half of the cycle is extinguished, but current flows through the lamp electrodes, thereby keeping them hot enough to emit electrons and prevent life-damaging high cathode fall.

Abstract: High-speed tool steel cutting blades are inserted in slots in an inexpensive core and retained therein by a high-strength structural anaerobic adhesive. These adhesives are liquids before curing.

Abstract: High-speed tool steel cutting blades are inserted in slots in an inexpensive core and retained therein by a high-strength structural anaerobic adhesive.