Abstract: A voice computing environment includes a library of items, each item having one or more excerpts. Users are enabled to assign a unique voice tag to each item in the library. Each voice tag comprises three words or less. The system monitors for potential duplicate voice tags in the library. When such duplicates are detected, one or more alternative voice tags are recommended to the user.

Abstract: An I-beam clamp, used for engaging the bottom flange of an I-beam or bar joist, includes a pair of threaded rods and a pair of brackets that can be moved relative to each other along the threaded rods. One of the brackets, a clamp bracket, has a set screw configured to engage a top surface of the I-beam flange, to hold the clamp in place once it is installed on the I-beam. The other of the brackets, a nut bracket, has half-threaded portions for selectively engaging the threaded rods, to hold the nut bracket in place relative to the threaded rods, and to disengage from the threaded rods, in order to allow positioning of the nut bracket along the threaded rods. The nut bracket may include a spring clip or other device to provide force to bias into engagement the threaded rods with the half-threaded portions.

Abstract: An I-beam clamp, used for engaging the bottom flange of an I-beam or bar joist, includes a pair of threaded rods and a pair of brackets that can be moved relative to each other along the threaded rods. One of the brackets, a clamp bracket, has a set screw configured to engage a top surface of the I-beam flange, to hold the clamp in place once it is installed on the I-beam. The other of the brackets, a nut bracket, has half-threaded portions for selectively engaging the threaded rods, to hold the nut bracket in place relative to the threaded rods, and to disengage from the threaded rods, in order to allow positioning of the nut bracket along the threaded rods. The nut bracket may include a spring clip or other device to provide force to bias into engagement the threaded rods with the half-threaded portions.

Abstract: A structural attachment fitting for bracing includes a clamp, and a bracket pivotally coupled to the clamp. The structural attachment fitting is part of a sway brace assembly for providing sway bracing for a conduit, pipe, or other system. The clamp is a generally C-shape clamp having a slot for receiving different types of sway braces, such as pipe, angle, or strut. The slot has multiple sections or parts configured to receive different thicknesses of material. A lower leg of the clamp may have a rounded top surface that better engages a pipe used as a sway brace. A set screw of the clamp is tightened to presses the sway brace against a step on the lower leg of the clamp. The set screw is angled toward a closed end of the slot. The pressing of the set screw tip against the sway brace deforms the sway brace material.

Abstract: A reinforcing bar splice secures together reinforcing bar ends by utilizing, at both ends, both tapered-thread coupling and coupling involving a filler, such as a grout or an epoxy. The splice may include a central tapered-thread central sleeve or coupler, and a pair of collars that are screwed onto externally-threaded ends of the central sleeve. The central sleeve has a channel therethrough with tapered internal threads at both ends, and a center internal relief. The internal relief is an increased radius center portion that ensures full thread contact between the tapered internal threads and external threaded sections of the rebar ends. The sleeve has externally-threaded ends that are engaged by internally-threaded ends of a pair of collars. Distal to their internally-threaded ends, the collars have filler-material-receiving channels. The channels include plural sloped surfaces for aiding in securing filler material between the collars and the rebar ends.