Abstract: A system for determining the concentration of oil in a mixture of oil and water including an aligned photocell and a displaced photocell spaced therefrom to receive direct and reflected and/or refracted light through a scatter cell from a laser. A logarithmic amplifier is connected from the aligned photocell because a logarithm of the output thereof is a linear function. The displaced photocell output is essentially linear over a typical range above 200 parts per million (ppm). The output of the logarithmic amplifier is essentially linear below about 200 ppm. The linear portion of each output is combined by a switch when the logarithmic amplifier output passes through a selected threshold level.

Abstract: A lined gate valve having a seat proportioned such that the ratio of the unit bearing stress to the unit shear stress is substantially 0.68. In one form of the valve, the seat comprises a plastic ring having an embedded metal band. The seat is removable and is held in place by the end pressure of a pipe flange. The seat can be removed by tapping against the seat in an axially outward direction. In another form of the valve, the seat is integral but has the same proportions as above recited.

Abstract: A cable assembly and construction method to enable a cable to be pulled lengthwise in a conduit or otherwise, wherein a perforate plate is placed among insulated wires in a bundle emanating from one end of the cable jacket or sheath. The wires are bonded to each other and to the plate by potting. An epoxy or resin may be used, if desired. Alternatively a paraffin potting step may be employed to provide a base for a resin, a paraffin block being potted between the jacket and the resin.

Abstract: A machine to assemble electrical contact retention clips automatically in an insulator including a slotted tube expandable by a tapered plunger to embed an electrical connector retention clip in a heated and softened insulator after having been inserted into an insulator bore by a ferrule slidable on the tube.

Abstract: A method of calibrating a densitometer to meter two gases of different molecular structures by empirically deriving a hole size function of the indicated error for one gas in the density equation of the other and performing tailored reboring of the hole in a production unit in accordance with the hole size derived from the function by determining the full scale error thereof.

Abstract: A temperature controlled heat delivery head for heat staking electrical contact retention clips in rapid succession in an insulator. A large heat-conductive body acts to store heat and to deliver it to a substantially smaller heat-conductive projection. The body is maintained at, for example, about 820.degree. F. The projection is maintained at, for example, about 830.degree. F.

Abstract: An ink-jet printer of the continuous-droplet-stream type which, in place of electro-static deflection of the stream, uses a pneumatic deflector. Deflection may be on an "on-off" basis for line at a time printing, or on a continuous basis for character-by-character printing. It may also be used in facsimile receivers.

Abstract: A turbine flowmeter having a rotor with a hub and conventional blades outside the hub. An impeller is fixed inside the hub to keep an axial pressure on the rotor to maintain it axially slidable but spaced from a diffuser at each end of the hub. Alternative constructions include upstream diffuser passageways and a hub somewhat larger than the upstream diffuser.

Abstract: A flowmeter sometimes called ultrasonic, but sometimes not ultrasonic including two phase locked loops, a portion of each of which form a common path through amplifiers, an electronic attenuator with automatic gain control, a pulse detector, and a pulse or phase comparator. The pulse comparator, through switches, controls first and second voltage controlled oscillators on a time shared basis. First and second counters are connected from the first and second voltage controlled oscillators, respectively. The first and second counters supply transmission pulses to submerged first and second facing transducers, respectively, at different times. The voltage controlled oscillators are always driven until a later counter pulse coincides with a corresponding received pulse. Time sharing is, in part, accomplished by beginning energy propagation in opposite directions at successive times and before either pulse is received.

Abstract: A drop-on-demand ink-drop printer (as opposed to a continuous-droplet-stream printer) has a printhead through which ink flows continuously. In the vicinity of the orifice through which drops are expelled there is a constriction, for instance a Venturi tube, which (a) maintains a negative meniscus at the orifice, and (b) prevents any accumulation of detritus or gas at the orifice. The ink drop is expelled by some form of shock-wave producing means.

Abstract: A permanent or detachable assembly to pull an electrical plug and receptacle into a mated position including, for example, preferably two jackscrews positioned through flanges on the plug and receptacle at opposite ends thereof, the jackscrews having surrounding keying devices which prevent plug and receptacle mating if not aligned. For example, the keying devices may be mounted to corresponding flanges in one of six positions. This makes it possible to allow one and only one plug out of six to mate with a corresponding receptacle. Thus, a wrong connection between a plug and a receptacle is impossible when no more than six types of connections are provided. However, other connections and/or positions are possible.

Abstract: Apparatus to guide and to clamp a memory sheet (recording media) for use.

Abstract: A valve is operated between open and closed positions by respective solenoids. The valve is latched in each of the open and closed positions by a snap disc mounted in a position fixed relative to the plunger, and a pair of shoulders fixed relative to the valve body.

Abstract: The heat of combustion K.sub.1 of a gas is determined by burning the gas in air in a chamber and cooling the combustion products with air to a final temperature equal to the air and gas input temperature. With mass flowmeters, the gas flowrate W.sub.1, the cooling air flow rate W.sub.3, a T.sub.2 temperature sensor, and a sensor for the cooling air input temperature T.sub.3 are employed with a computer to derive K.sub.1 as follows: ##EQU1## where K.sub.3 is the specific heat of the cooling air. Alternatively an outlet temperature T.sub.1 may be substituted for T.sub.2.

Abstract: A tamper-proof and theft-proof electrical connector including a termination unit with a hexagonal front portion internally threaded to be fitted to an externally threaded output terminal of a distributing source. The unit has a rear portion smaller in diameter than the front portion. An annular groove is provided in the rear portion, and a cylindrical clip is retained in the groove. The clip has leaf spring tines which have ends that are spaced from but extend outwardly and toward the front portion. A locking shield is then provided which covers the entire length of the termination unit. The locking shield has an annular portion to fit between the tines and the front portion. The locking shield can be removed with a tool that depresses the tines.

Abstract: A plastic laminate including a wedge having sides with a large radius and one or two grooved plates, flat when unstressed, and stressed when clamped to the wedge to conform to the radii thereof. The grooves then are three-dimensional and easily guide the print wires of a mosaic printer. Another advantage is achieved in that both wedge and plates can be molded with little or no difficulty in that the wedge mold surfaces are simple to machine, and the plates are initially flat and thus easy to mold. Close solenoid spacing is also made possible.

Abstract: A coaxial cable and an electrical connector therefor including a back-nut threaded to a body to receive a female fitting. The body has a stop for the back-nut. The back-nut has an internal shoulder. The body has an internal frusto-conical surface. A conductive ferrule is also provided. A cylindrical member clamps a cylindrical portion of the ferrule to the cable outer conductor. The ferrule has a shoulder. The ferrule also has a slotted frusto-conical surface to fit against the frusto-conical surface of the body. The slots form spring projections that are held in pressure contact with and in good electrical contact with the said body surface. The back-nut shoulder pushes the ferrule toward the body as the back-nut is threaded thereto. The back-nut has a flange behind which a gasket gland is retained. The clamping member is held in axial compression between the ferrule shoulder and the gasket gland.

Abstract: A night set-back thermostat which may or may not be operable on a two-wire line with one or two series switches and with the possibility for provision of digital time, temperature or other storage and/or data entry or reentry apparatus therefor.

Abstract: A vibration densitometer having a magnetostrictive drive with a coil, and a crystal pick-up. A loop circuit including a driver amplifier provides the coil with current which leads the crystal voltage by 90 degrees for maximum efficiency.