Abstract: A fluid actuated linear slide for producing linear movement has a rigid body with a pair of spaced apart parallel bores for slidably receiving a pair of guide rods and a mounting plate fixed to one end of the guide rods. A fluid actuated cylinder is carried by the body between and parallel to the guide rods and has a casing and a rod slidably received in and extending from one end. The rod is connected with the mounting plate for reciprocating the plate and the guide rods with respect to the body. The linear slide is constructed in such a manner that two or more of the slides can be attached in series for producing movement in one or more paths.

Abstract: A door template for use in cutting a door to fit in a door jamb. The template has inner and outer upright members. A horizontal top rail is secured to the upper ends of the upright members in vertically adjusted position. A horizontal bottom rail is secured to the lower ends of the upright members in vertically adjusted position. Each rail has an outwardly extending horizontal extension bar. The inner upright member has a vertical inner edge. The top rail has a horizontal top edge. The bottom rail has a horizontal bottom edge. The template, after suitable adjustment, is adapted to be laid over a door blank and the proper door size transferred to the door blank by running a marker or the like along the inner edge of the inner upright member, the top and bottom edges of the top and bottom rails, and a straight edge connecting the outer ends of the top and bottom extension bars. The template also includes a drill plate with holes for guiding a drill to form holes in the door for hardware.

Abstract: An electric fuel pump and valve-controlled canister reservoir assembly mounted directly in a vehicle fuel tank with a pump main fuel inlet connected with a primary fuel filter disposed in the bottom of the tank. A pump fuel outlet supplies fuel for a vehicle engine and communicates through an engine bypass system with the canister reservoir to accumulate a reserve supply of fuel. The reservoir canister communicates with the pump inlet through a secondary filter and an inertia/gravity-activated valve module having a free rolling activator ball and associated can-like valve member cooperative with a large diameter annular valve seat to provide a sensitive valve with a large flow controlling cross-sectional area. The valve module thus provides an auxiliary supply of fuel to the pump inlet, preferably in bypass flow relation to the primary in-tank filter, and at a high flow rate when there is an interruption of fuel from the tank to the primary filter caused by adverse vehicle motion and/or orientation.

Abstract: A die transfer system for transferring workpieces through successive die stations in a stamping press includes an enlongated finger bar having spaced fingers for engaging workpices at successive die stations, a first drive mechanism for reociprocating the finger bar longitudinally for transferring workpieces between successive die stations, and a second drive mechanism for reciprocating the finger bar laterally into and out of engagment with the workpieces at the die stations. The second drive mechanism has at least two finger bar drive modules coupled to the finger bar and spaced from each other lengthwise of the finger bar. A drive shaft extends between and interconnects the two drive modules. Each of the drive modules has a crank arm coupled to the drive shaft for rotating the crank arm about an axis parallel the finger bar. A cam plate is coupled to the finger bar and mounted for movement lateral to the crank arm axis and the finger bar.

Abstract: A chip buildup detection and control apparatus having a flow transducer and flow monitor to measure and monitor coolant flow to a cutter of a machine tool for detecting excessive chip buildup on the cutter and removing the buildup on the cutter which decreases machining cycle time while increasing cutter life and machine tool production. Excessive chip buildup on the cutter is detected when coolant flow to the cutter drops below a minimum flow rate limit. Buildup is removed upon detection by initiating a "pecking" cycle where the cutter is retracted from its position of engagement with the workpiece being machined for a predetermined dwell period of time. The machining cycle is aborted if coolant flow does not rise above the minimum limit by the end of the dwell period. If coolant flow rises above the minimum flow limit, the cutter is advanced almost to its previous position of engagement with the workpiece and machining is resumed.

Abstract: In accordance with the present invention, a novel composite prosthesis comprises a vein and a cylindrical-shaped member. The vein is a vein segment removed from a patient and the cylindrical-shaped member, preferably an expandable stent, is glued, sutured, or in some other fashion affixed to the outside surface of the vein. The vein segment of the combination is referred to as a vein graft or vein implant to distinguish it from the vascular structure into which it is inserted as a part of the combination. This composite prosthesis is then introduced inside a body passageway, such as diseased arterial segment or inside a saphenous vein graft segment which by-passes an arterial segment. It may be introduced by placement over a balloon catheter. When the balloon is inflated the stent and vein graft expand. The stent prevents recoil and keeps the vein graft tissue in place, while the vein graft forms a new inner lining for the vessel.

Abstract: A decorative molding system removably installed at a juncture of a ceiling and a vertical wall, said molding system comprising a plurality of thin molding strips of flexible plastic having a length and an upper free edge, a lower free edge, a front surface and a back surface. The upper free edge is adapted to lie against one of the ceiling and the vertical wall along a line spaced from the juncture of the ceiling and vertical wall and flex relative thereto. The lower free edge is adapted to lie against the other of the ceiling and the vertical wall along a line spaced from the juncture of the ceiling and vertical wall and flex relative thereto. A corner in the room is formed by a first flexible molding strip mounted along a first wall and extends toward the corner of an intersection with an adjacent second wall. An adjacent second flexible molding strip is mounted on the adjacent second wall.

Abstract: A decorative molding system removably installed at a ceiling and a vertical wall. The molding system includes a thin molding strip of flexible plastic and a plurality of flexible plastic clips attached at spaced points along the back surface points of the molding strip. A wall track of flexible plastic is mounted adjacent the upper edge of the track on one of the ceiling and said vertical wall. Interengagement is provided on the free end of the clip and the track such that when the thin molding strip with the flexible plastic clips attached thereto is mounted on the track by relative movement, the free end of the clip is moved into the gap and the forward leading edge of the track is engaged. At the juncture of adjacent molding strips, one of the molding strips is provided with a complementary shaped plastic segment spaced from the internal surface of the molding strip to provide a cavity.

Abstract: A nonwoven fabric having good heat bondability which is suitable for use as interlining and cushioning material, and a binder fiber for use in such nonwoven fabric. The binder fiber is a polyester copolymer which includes .epsilon.-caprolactone as a polyester component and has a melting point of not less than 100.degree. C. In the nonwoven fabric, principal fibers are bonded by the binder fiber. The nonwoven fabric has soft feel and is highly resistant to flattening during prolonged use or while in use under high temperature atmosphere.

Abstract: A carburetor with a main fuel jet and a throttle valve in a mixing passage and an apparatus for automatically supplying an enriched fuel and air mixture when an engine is cranked for starting and initial running of the engine upon starting. The apparatus has a mixing chamber with an air intake passage communicating with the mixing passage upstream of the throttle valve, a fuel inlet passage, and an outlet passage for the fuel and air mixture which communicates with the mixing passage downstream of the throttle valve. A valve for controlling the flow of the enriching fuel and air mixture through the outlet passage is manually movable to its opened position where it is releasably retained by an actuator mechanism operably associated with the throttle shaft for releasing and closing the valve when after the engine starts the throttle valve is initially moved from its idle position toward a full open position of the throttle valve.

Abstract: A voltage supply system for use on an IC chip is provided. The system comprises a voltage shifting circuit for transferring an IC chip external input voltage signal range to an operating voltage range of an IC chip internal logic circuit, an IC chip internal logic circuit including low voltage components contributing to major functions of the IC chip, a low voltage signal range to high voltage signal range conversion circuit for stretching the operating voltage signal range of the IC internal logic circuit to an IC chip external output signal range, and a reference potential signal generating circuit for generating reference potential signals.

Abstract: A refrigerant handling system that is particularly adapted for flammable or potentially flammable refrigerants that includes a compressor having an inlet for connection to a source of refrigerant, and a condenser connected to the outlet of the compressor for at least partially condensing refrigerant passing therethrough. An air motor is connected to a source of air under pressure for operating the compressor. The air from the motor exhaust is directed to the condenser for cooling the condenser and thereby enhancing extraction of heat from refrigerant passing through the condenser.

Abstract: In one method of making the wheel the parts are temporarily assembled in a fixture with the connector flanges movably engaged with one another, and the center part is precision located relative to the rim in a predetermined orientation relative to the rim bead seats by bodily shifting of the center part as and if necessary relative to the rim to accomplish such alignment. The parts are then permanently assembled in fixed relationship while so located by permanently securing the connector flanges together in a non-take-apart mode to provide a final predetermined permanently fixed orientation of the center part relative to the rim bead seats.

Abstract: A toe-in angle adjustment mechanism is provided which comprises a geared adjustment plate that is attached to a suspension arm for a rear wheel. The adjustment plate has a bushing centrally mounted therein and is connected to the wheel spindle. A locking plate is provided to prevent unwanted frame movement of the wheel angle during adjustment. The locking plate has an access for a geared adjustment tool for engaging the teeth of the adjustment plate to pivot the adjustment plate and thus the spindle to adjust the toe-in angle of the wheel.

Abstract: A method of forming damage-free buried contacts in a semiconductor substrate without the trenches and pitted areas can be carried out by forming a silicon oxide layer as a gate dielectric layer on top of the substrate, forming a first polysilicon layer on top of the silicon oxide layer, anisotropically etching away the first polysilicon layer by using a first mask and a first etching gas that has high etching selectivity between polysilicon and silicon oxide such that a first portion of the polysilicon layer is left on the top surface of the substrate except the area defining a buried contact, forming in the substrate a zone of a second conductivity type at the area defining the buried contact by implanting impurity ions, removing the silicon oxide layer over the area defining the buried contact and removing the masking layer over the first portion of the polysilicon layer, depositing sequentially a conducting layer and a second polysilicon layer, anisotropically etching the second polysilicon layer over an a

Abstract: A deer decoy comprising a plastic body having opposed sides, each side simulating the rear end of a standing deer. A tail is associated with each side. The tails are mounted on a common shaft for bodily rotation about an axis near their upper ends such that the tails are gravitationally biased to normally hang in a position simulating a natural relaxed condition of repose. An exterior pull string and/or a mechanism within the body is controlled to move the tail relative to said body out of the repose position. The body is made of solid foam plastic or hollow and of two substantially identical halves joined together. The deer decoy body include recesses defining a downwardly open channels along each leg portion of the body rear end and a rod is telescoped in each channel for engaging the ground to support the decoy in standing position spaced above the ground.

Abstract: A low noise high-frequency clock generator using a low speed voltage controlled oscillator which includes 2m differential delay elements connected in series in an inverting configuration, where m is an integer greater than 0. The output of the 2mth delay element is coupled to the input of the first delay element in a non-inverting configuration. M 2-input exclusive NOR gates are provided wherein respective input pairs are taken from positive terminal inputs of adjacent delay elements. The clock generator also includes an m-input OR gate coupled to the m-outputs from the respective m exclusive NOR gates for generating the clock generator output signal. The delay elements have a variable delay associated therewith controlled by a control delay signal DCS. Changes in the delay associated with each delay element changes the frequency of the clock generator output signal wherein the output frequency is equal to 1/(2d), where d is the time delay associated with each delay element.

Abstract: Refrigerant is purified by circulating the refrigerant in a closed path from a first refrigerant container through a filter/dryer unit back to the first refrigerant container. Air and other non-condensibles are purged from the refrigerant in the first storage container during this refrigerant circulation process. Following the non-condensible purging operation, the refrigerant in the first container is transferred through a filter/dryer unit into a second refrigerant container. This second refrigerant container is evacuated prior to transferring the purified refrigerant thereto. Capacity of the filter/dryer unit is monitored, either by monitoring time of operation of the refrigerant pump or monitoring wetness of the circulated refrigerant with the sight gauge.

Abstract: An improved wheel disc and disc and and rim wheel assembly, and method and press apparatus for manufacturing the same. The wheel disc is adapted for telescopic press fit precision mounting into a mating wheel rim to form the wheel assembly. A flat disc blank is progressively die formed into a disc preform having a cross-sectional contour proximating that of the finished disc. The disc preform is then placed in a segmental expand punch and die tooling of the press apparatus which operates to apply radial expansion pressure to substantially the entire inner circumference of the peripheral flange portion of the disc preform to thereby permanently deform the same into a finished flange portion on the disc having precision finished predetermined dimensions.