Abstract: A plat reference system for coordinating reception of data from plural information sources and controlling the output of data-signifying energy representing the data from such sources to produce any output presentation for human or machine receptors, including a sensor input resolution unit having rotation translation timing capacity incorporated therein, for receiving information data from plural predetermined spatial locations. A spatial reference unit having spatial reference mathematical information stored therein is provided to apply mathematical functions therefrom to the input resolution unit to translate the input data from the sensors to a spatial referenced correlated form. A plat reference unit supplies a prescribed plat reference to a comparison and encoding unit for comparing the output from the resolution unit to the plat reference to control timing of the output energy to provide the prescribed output presentation.

Abstract: Terminal trainer keyboard and display apparatus for teaching keyboard operations and knowledge items and skills, including a keyboard array of touch keys representing individual characters and keyboard operations each having a switch associated therewith, a visual projector to be located within view of the trainee having a viewing screen onto which lesson information is displayed projected from a training film having sensor activating code bars beside the film frames denoting the correct key location for the displayed lesson instruction. The keyboard includes a light emitter at each key for illuminating its associated key, and an electronic circuit is coupled to the switches and receives correct key location signals from the sensors detecting the code bars to activate correct and incorrect readout counters to indicate the number of correct and incorrect key activations and to activate the light emitter at the correct key location when a key at an incorrect location is activated.

Abstract: Automatic loom stopping apparatus for detecting yarn breakage or improper shedding defects and generating loom stop signals to be associated with a loom comprising two or three vertically spaced monitoring light beam units forming horizontal transverse light beams perpendicular to the warp yarns spanning the warp yarn path. One of the beams forms a center beam located to pass through the open shed and the other beam or beams located to be interrupted by or both of the shed sheets occupying the upper or lower limit shed positions. Detector signals responsive to interruption of the light beams by yarns are processed and applied to gating circuits and NOR or AND circuits to detect yarn breakage, broken heddles, and other shedding defects.

Abstract: A ball and funnel type yarn tension control apparatus for tensioning a running length of yarn such as textile yarn or the like, wherein a plurality of tensioning devices form a controlled channel and are controlled by an electronic control circuit having a manually adjustable tension setting potentiometer for adjusting a circuit to provide output voltages to the tension devices of the channel adding selecting tension values to the yarn. The tension control devices each comprise an electromagnet coil structure and associated core structure including pole pieces adjacent one or a pair of ball and funnel tensioning stations in each tension device to exert magnetic attractive forces on the ball member and vary tensioning of the yarn leaving the yarn tension device. Degaussing circuit means are also disclosed for applying intermittent negative going pulses to the electromagnet coils during downward adjustment of the tension setting potentiometer to minimize residual magnetic effects.