Abstract: A dry-type transformer includes at least one high-voltage winding and one low-voltage winding. The windings are operatively connected to one another by an electromagnetic field, and each winding is constructed from winding conductors, wherein the high-voltage winding and the low-voltage winding have a defined distance from one another, and spacers are arranged between the windings and maintain the defined distance.

Abstract: A water closet bolt comprises an upper end and a lower end with a threaded body extending therebetween. The lower end includes an oblong foot and the upper end includes a male or female notch for visually indicating the orientation of the long axis of the oblong foot. The notch also serves as a gripping surface to aid the installer in the installation of the toilet. Furthermore, the bottom of the notch acts as a break-off point to aid the installer in removing an excess portion of the bolt after the completing the installation.

Abstract: A water closet bolt comprises an upper end and a lower end with a threaded body extending therebetween. The lower end includes an oblong foot and the upper end includes a male or female notch for visually indicating the orientation of the long axis of the oblong foot. The notch also serves as a gripping surface to aid the installer in the installation of the toilet. Furthermore, the bottom of the notch acts as a break-off point to aid the installer in removing an excess portion of the bolt after the completing the installation.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a transformer that includes forming a disc-wound coil using a plurality of pre-formed cooling ducts. Each cooling duct may be supported by a support pipe secured between walls of the cooling duct, or by a removable insert. First and second conductor layers are formed, each of which include plurality of disc windings arranged in an axial direction of the disc-wound coil. A spacer layer is formed between the first and second conductor layers to form a plurality of axially-extending passages. The cooling ducts are slid into the axially-extending passages so as to be disposed between the first and second conductor layers.

Abstract: A distribution transformer adapted for mounting to a utility pole. The distribution transformer includes a plurality of coil assemblies mounted to a ferromagnetic core. Each of the coil assemblies includes a low voltage coil and a high voltage coil. The low voltage coils are connected together and the high voltage coils are connected together. An encasement comprised of an insulating resin encapsulates the core and the coil assemblies. The encasement includes a substantially annular body and a pair of high voltage bushings extending outwardly from the body. Terminals extend from the high voltage bushings and are connected to the high voltage coils.

Abstract: A water closet bolt comprises an upper end and a lower end with a threaded body extending therebetween. The lower end includes an oblong foot and the upper end includes a male or female notch for visually indicating the orientation of the long axis of the oblong foot. The notch also serves as a gripping surface to aid the installer in the installation of the toilet. Furthermore, the bottom of the notch acts as a break-off point to aid the installer in removing an excess portion of the bolt after the completing the installation.

Abstract: There is provided a toilet seat sanitary protector changer which may be provided in new public rest facilities or retrofitted to existing facilities. The changer generally includes a seat having a supply assembly positioned on one side and a takeup assembly provided on the opposite side. The seat includes mounting structure for movably mounting the seat to an existing toilet bowl. The changer is configured to receive a supply of a continuous strip of sanitary protective covers in supply assembly and feed the covers across the seat to the takeup assembly. The takeup assembly includes a slotted takeup rod configured to receive a leading end of the strip of covers and a prestressed constant torque spring motor affixed relative to the takeup rod so as to rotate the takeup rod a predetermined number of times. A multiplier gear may be provided to increase the number of turns of the takeup rod relative to the number of turns of the spring motor.

Abstract: There is provided a toilet seat sanitary protector changer which may be provided in new public rest facilities or retrofitted to existing facilities. The changer generally includes a seat having a supply assembly positioned on one side and a takeup assembly provided on the opposite side. The seat includes mounting structure for movably mounting the seat to an existing toilet bowl. The changer is configured to receive a supply of a continuous strip of sanitary protective covers in supply assembly and feed the covers across the seat to the takeup assembly. The takeup assembly includes a slotted takeup rod configured to receive a leading end of the strip of covers and a prestressed constant torque spring motor affixed relative to the takeup rod so as to rotate the takeup rod a predetermined number of times. A multiplier gear may be provided to increase the number of turns of the takeup rod relative to the number of turns of the spring motor.

Abstract: A symmetrical processing system includes a number of processor units sharing a memory element. At least a portion of the memory element is partitioned so that separate memory partitions are made exclusively available to some if not all the processor units.

Abstract: This invention includes a method and system for managing advertisements. The method and system of invention utilizes a searchable database containing advertisements accessible by a remote user, choosing the media environment desired for a proposed advertisement, searching said database for advertisements in the chosen media environment, selecting an advertisement and performing any modifications required for the proposed advertisement, and assigning each published advertisement a unique identifier whereby responses can be identified as resulting from a particular published advertisement.

Abstract: A method of checking a large and/or replicated databases includes forming a position sensitive checksum for each entry of the database to be used in the check. The checksums are then exclusive Ored with one another to form a first database checksum. Periodically, the checksums are again created from each of the entries of the check and a second database checksum formed and compared to the first for a match that indicate checked entries of the database have not changed. In another embodiment, a modification to one of the check entries may be provided, accompanied by a master checksum indicative of what the first checksum should be after the entry is modified. The database entry is modified, and a position checksum value for the entry as modified is created.

Abstract: A diesel engine secondary oil filter is formed from a punched tinned steel spiral lock seam center tube, with a flanged cap at one end and a flanged threaded outlet at the other end. A layer of polyester non-woven media is wrapped in one wind around the center tube. A yarn is wound is a 27-diamond pattern in a first yarn section out to two inches outer diameter. The yarn is tied off. Knitted socks are first placed partially on axial ends of the first wound section, leaving half of the socks extending over the ends. A sheet of activated carbon paper about 1/6 of an inch thick and about 52 inches long is rolled onto the filter cartridge with about nine turns. The carbon paper is made of a cellulose paper impregnated with about 50% activated carbon powder by weight.

Abstract: A method of filtering internal combustion and industrial engine oil includes providing a specially wound filter element in a canister and passing the liquid through it slowly (e.g., 1-2 quarts per minute). The filter element includes a length of cotton/cellulose paper composition yard wound on a core in an irregular winding pattern such that some layers filter smaller (e.g., 1 micron) particles and others further from the core filter larger (e.g., 5 micron) particles. A filter element constructed according to the invention includes a core having a hollow interior, a perforated outer surface in fluid communication with the hollow interior, an open first end in fluid communication with the hollow interior, and a closed second end. A length of yarn of cotton and cellulose paper composition is wound in a series of layers over the outer surface of the core in the irregular winding pattern such that some layers closer the core filter particles down to a smaller size than do other layers further from the core.

Abstract: A dispenser device for products contained in a container under pressure, and having, a dispenser body, a handle connected to the dispenser body, an axial recess extending along the body, and having a forward end and a rearward end, a container support formed on the body, and an opening extending from the container support to the axial recess, a dispenser nozzle extending forwardly from the forward end of the body, and having a dispenser opening and an interior valve seat and a dispensing conduit extending axially, a valve member moveable into an out of engagement with the valve seat, a valve operating rod extending along the axial conduit, and through the recess in the body, the material being able to flow along the axial recess and the axial conduit around the operating rod, and a rear opening at the rearward end of the body with and a seal, an extension of the valve operating rod extending rearwardly through the rear opening, a handle opening in the handle, a connection extending from the rearward extension

Abstract: An improvement in the large-scale recovery of vancomycin-type glycopeptide antibiotics which comprises (1) commingling the fermentation medium in which the antibiotic is produced with a polystyrene divinylbenzene resin such as Dow XFS-43278.00, (2) separating the resin from the medium and (3) eluting the antibiotic from the resin. This improvement avoids preliminary filtration and pH adjustment of the broth, simplifies waste-disposal problems and eliminates antibiotic losses due to mycelial adsorption and filtration.

Abstract: An elongated movable water cooled mold of any desired cross section has an open bottom end which is lowered into a pot of molten metal a predetermined distance with the metal being pulled into the mold under vacuum operated by suitable controls for establishing the desired length of the casting or billet. Water is supplied to the mold while still in the pot to permit the casting to harden and the mold is then removed therefrom and moved to a position close to floor level where termination of the water supply allows the contained heat in the casting to reheat the mold and expand it sufficiently so that the casting can drop free of the mold upon release of the vacuum.

Abstract: Foam fracturing fluids and methods for fracturing well formations using foam as the carrier for the propping agent are disclosed. The foams are stiff stable foams formed of a relative large amount of gas and a relative small amount of liquid. The foams are stable at surface pressures and remain stable when delivered into the well formation at the bottom of the well.