Abstract: An above ground tower foundation uses embedded tension/compression components secured to a ground level cap. The components each terminate distally in a below ground soil or rock anchoring structure. The components embed without deep wide area site excavation or dewatering. The components with their distal anchoring structure provide exceptional bearing and tension capacity to the foundation, and high resistance to overturning moments acting on the tower. The tension/compression components may be straight or tapered piles with distal end helical fins, piles with a distal end grouted soil or rock anchor, caissons with a distal belled section, caissons with a distal end grouted soil or rock anchor, helical screw anchors or any combinations thereof Construction of this foundation comprises the following steps. A minimal ground-level excavation is established for the cap. The tension/compression components embed into deep, high-strength soil layers without deep below ground excavation. The cap is formed.

Abstract: This invention is a method for forming a chemical conversion coating on ferrous metal substrates, the chemical solutions used in the coating and the articles coated thereby. By modifying and combining the features of two existing, but heretofore unrelated, coating technologies, a hybrid conversion coating is formed. Specifically, a molecular iron/oxygen-enriched intermediate coating, such as a dicarboxylate or phosphate, is applied to a ferrous substrate by a first oxidation. The intermediate coating pre-conditions the substrate to form a surface rich in molecular iron and oxygen in a form easily accessible for further reaction. This oxidation procedure is followed by a coloring procedure using a heated (about 120-220 F.) oxidizing solution containing alkali metal hydroxide, alkali metal nitrate, alkali metal nitrite or mixtures thereof, which reacts with the iron and oxygen enriched intermediate coating to form magnetite (Fe3O4).

Abstract: A method of making a pasta filata cheese can use equipment and methods typically used in making processed cheese. The method produces a cheese having all of the characteristics of a traditional pasta filata cheese in improved yields and with reduced waste by-products. Pasta filata designates cheeses having a plastic pliable homogeneous stringy structure, and includes such well-know cheeses as mozzarella and provolone.

Abstract: A tapered part measuring apparatus and method measures male and female tapered or conical parts. The apparatus and method use non-contact linear measurement technology for accurate and repeatable measurements, particularly of tapered parts with large deviations from their desired measurements. The tapered part suspends in non-contact position to the non-contact linear measurement probe on a true vertical axis to accurately assume the same position on replicate measurements.

Abstract: Devices for injection of medicines into a human body are designed for one-time use during inpatient or outpatient treatment. The reuse of an injection device having a bellows 3 as an injection container is prevented by providing a locking attachment which prevents backward motion of a bottom 4 of the bellows 3 and which is mounted on elements of the device brought together during the injection (the bottom 4 of the bellows 3 and the housing/needle holder 1). A locking attachment is made in a form of a pair of interacting elastically deformable hooks 6 with a beveled catch and a female part in the form of a hole 7 with a ledge 8. At the instant the injection is completed, the sharpened end 10 of the needle 2 punctures a partition 9 in the bottom 4 of the bellows 3, further preventing reuse.

Abstract: A bowling shoe with a replaceable tip comprises a shoe upper, a shoe sole mounted to the shoe upper, and a plurality of replaceable shoe tips. The shoe sole has a selectable traction area from a toe end and across the width of the shoe sole. Each tip has a margin substantially equal to a margin of the traction area. Each tip covers and conforms to part of the adjacent shoe upper. The surface of each tip has a different coefficient of friction. A selected tip secures to the traction area and part of the adjacent shoe upper. The tips are interchangeable, to provide traction according to support surface conditions and an individual wearer's preference.

Abstract: A wedge-soled bowling shoe has selectable percentages of regions of different coefficients of friction of traction characteristics and different coefficients of friction of slide characteristics on a shoe sole surface. The shoe gives the bowler precise control over relative amounts of slide and/or traction action of each shoe. The bowler can readily change the relative amounts of slide and/or traction action of each shoe by changing a replaceable sole member of the desired percentages of regions of high or low traction and high or low slide to accommodate differing conditions and differing styles of bowling. Using one of a plurality of pairs of replaceable sole members, a first member of each pair is constructed of two materials, each of a different coefficient of friction to provide slide characteristics and a second member of each pair is constructed of two materials, each of a different coefficient of friction to provide traction characteristics.

Abstract: A traction device for mounting on an endless track includes these components: an axial threaded shank with a head at one end, a T-nut with a base and a neck extending from the base, so that the neck is mountable on the shank, with the base at the shank head, a washer plate threadably fastenable on the T-nut on the shank, and a stud threadably mountable on the washer plate on the shank, to fasten the stud to the shank. The endless track is positioned between the T-nut and the back plate, with the shank extending through an opening in the track. A stud for a traction may be metal or nonmetal, such as composite with a metal insert. A paddle is mountable on a plurality of traction device pediments across a width of the track.

Abstract: An extrusion calibrator, to calibrate the exterior profile of a thermoplastic extruded product exiting from an extrusion die, has a modular calibrating cassette of calibrating plates in a surrounding shell. One calibrating cassette is readily interchangeable within the shell for another calibrating cassette of a different extruded product cross-sectional profile. The cassette plates have planar surfaces, free of fluid-conducting pathways, which greatly reduces the time, cost and skill required to establish vacuum and coolant conducting routes through the extrusion calibrator. Fluid conducting routes to conduct vacuum and coolant through the calibrator are established by vacuum and coolant conducting manifolds and channels in the shell interior and by interplate spacings mating with these channels.