Abstract: An external fixation system for treatment of bones includes first and second clamps for locking pins that are inserted into bones. At least one clamp includes a socket having a recess. An attachment post includes a distal portion configured to be inserted into the socket recess. A tightening nut is rotationally coupled to a shaft of the attachment post and has an internal threading adapted to be threaded to the external threading of the socket. When the tightening nut is rotated to cause the distal portion of the post to be further inserted into the recess, the sides of the distal portion of the post create an interference fit with the sides of the socket recess to lock the post to the first clamp.

Abstract: A separator card substrate material for use in high speed document processing machines is imprinted with an array of periodically laterally spaced magnetic strips across an area of the face of the substrate and furthermore a machine readable code array of light and dark blocks representing selected data is imprinted in at least a portion of the same space of the substrate as is occupied by the magnetic strips with the light and dark blocks spanning widthwise dimensions between the strips as well as lengthwise dimensions between the strips. The interleaving of the magnetic strips and the light and dark blocks enables the separator card to be encoded with relatively large fields of optical data enabling the use of low resolution sensors for detecting the optical data used to uniquely identify each separator card without interfering with the function of the magnetic strips.

Abstract: An inspection and/or processing apparatus for sheets such as banknotes includes a stacker wheel arrangement in which, rather than continuously rotating the stacker wheel and decelerating or accelerating the wheel to adjust the wheel speed in order to cause the grooves to align with the entrance chute at the same time that sheets arrive at the wheel, the stacker wheel is rotated only between sheet arrivals, and only for the purpose of indexing the stacker wheel to a new position at which a sheet can enter the stacker wheel without jamming. Indexing of the stacker wheel follows a predetermined profile, and the stacker wheel is held stationary at each predetermined aligned position until a respective individual sheet has entered the stacker wheel.

Abstract: A separator card substrate material for use in high speed document processing machines is imprinted with an array of periodically laterally spaced magnetic strips across an area of the face of the substrate and furthermore a machine readable code array of light and dark blocks representing selected data is imprinted in at least a portion of the same space of the substrate as is occupied by the magnetic strips with the light and dark blocks spanning widthwise dimensions between the strips as well as lengthwise dimensions between the strips. The interleaving of the magnetic strips and the light and dark blocks enables the separator card to be encoded with relatively large fields of optical data enabling the use of low resolution sensors for detecting the optical data used to uniquely identify each separator card without interfering with the function of the magnetic strips.

Abstract: An inspection and/or processing apparatus for sheets such as banknotes includes a stacker wheel arrangement in which, rather than continuously rotating the stacker wheel and decelerating or accelerating the wheel to adjust the wheel speed in order to cause the grooves to align with the entrance chute at the same time that sheets arrive at the wheel, the stacker wheel is rotated only between sheet arrivals, and only for the purpose of indexing the stacker wheel to a new position at which a sheet can enter the stacker wheel without jamming. Indexing of the stacker wheel follows a predetermined profile, and the stacker wheel held stationary at each predetermined aligned position until a respective individual sheet has entered the stacker wheel.

Abstract: To analyze a human patient's heart activity over an extended period of time a portable EKG monitor is attached to the patient through electrodes and the patient maintains a diary of his activities and subjective feelings over a monitoring period. The recorded data is then used to form a graphic record consisting of a plurality of trace segments each representative of short consecutive intervals in the overall monitoring period. These records are necessarily to a very reduced scale and to allow the physician to obtain more detailed information regarding anomolous periods the graphic record is observed and various interesting segments are recorded on a substantially amplified scale. The first macroscopic and the second microscopic display segment are arranged in book form with the enlarged microscopic display segments on opposed pages from the macroscopic display segments to allow their simultaneous review and evaluation.