Abstract: A system comprising a pulper configured to (i) accept surfactant, a liquid and fiber stock and (ii) generate a foam that suspends the fiber stock, wherein the foam has a half-life; a headbox configured to receive the foam-suspended fiber stock from the pulper and displace the foam-suspended fiber stock onto a forming wire, wherein a time it takes the foam-suspended fiber stock to move from the pulper to the headbox is less than the half-life; and a foam return device that removes at least some of the foam from the forming wire and returns the at least some of the foam to the pulper.

Abstract: A multi-layered web is disclosed that is resilient and/or elastic in the Z-direction. Thus, when the web is compressed, the web assumes a compacted state and then expands to an expanded state when the compressive forces are removed. In one embodiment, the multi-layered web includes a middle layer made from a resilient blend of fibers positioned inbetween two outer layers. The middle layer, for instance, can contain elastomeric fibers, three-dimensional fibers, and/or debonded fibers.

Abstract: A system comprising a pulper configured to (i) accept surfactant, a liquid and fiber stock and (ii) generate a foam that suspends the fiber stock, wherein the foam has a half-life; a headbox configured to receive the foam-suspended fiber stock from the pulper and displace the foam-suspended fiber stock onto a forming wire, wherein a time it takes the foam-suspended fiber stock to move from the pulper to the headbox is less than the half-life; and a foam return device that removes at least some of the foam from the forming wire and returns the at least some of the foam to the pulper.

Abstract: An access tool for smashing against a door knob of a door is describe and comprises a pair of telescoping cylinders. The outer guiding cylinder includes a side wall concentric of an axis of symmetry. A hoisting handle of U-shaped cross section is attached at one end of the outer cylinder (the hoisting handle including a pair of transverse legs having openings near the termini thereof) using a bolt-nut combination. The bolt includes a bolt shank extending through a pair of diametrically opposed openings in the side wall of the outer cylinder and thence through the openings in the transverse legs of the handle, whereby achieving pivotable attachment of the hoisting handle. The inner cylinder also includes a side wall that differs from that of the outer cylinder in that a stepped end wall is provided in the mid-region thereof. The stepped end wall includes a central opening for receiving an anvil bolt.

Abstract: An assembly for producing heat/mechanical energy by combustion of sugar includes a combustion chamber and a means for fluidizing sugar. Fluidized sugar is injected into the combustion chamber, optionally in combination with a hydrocarbon fuel and ignited. The combustion gas energy can be recovered as usable mechanical energy using conventional piston crank shaft or turbine asssemblies. Exhaust gases have reduced levels of noxious pollutants relative to exhaust gases from internal combustion engines not burning sugar fuels.

Abstract: Camera-processor apparatus of the type adapted to record and develop a lengthy roll of strip recording medium includes a heat-processing device which is adapted to concurrently heat-develop all images of a multi-image segment of such medium and to concurrently disengage from heating relation with all images of such a segment. A storage device downstream from the apparatus recording station alternately stores and feeds such multi-image segments to the processing device, thus allowing complete and uniform processing of one multi-image segment in a stationary condition while a subsequent multi-image segment is recorded in a moving condition.