Abstract: An intraocular lens having a lens body which is adapted to pass through the iris of an eye and a pair of pliable loops, each having a generally planar mounting end located at one end thereof and which terminates at the opposite end thereof in a supporting end extending at a selected acute angle from the mounting end wherein the mounting end is formed into a generally arcuate shape which terminates in a protuberant member having a predetermined length which extends substantially normal from the plane of said mounting end in a direction of the angle defined by the supporting end and wherein the supporting end has the distal end thereof formed into an arcuate-shaped loop located in a plane which extends substantially at the selected angle and wherein the pair of pliable loops have the protuberant members affixed posteriorally to the lens body at selected locations wherein the arcuate-shaped mounting ends define a posterior capsule barrier which is adapted to be positioned contiguous to a posterior capsule of an

Abstract: An electrical measuring system for measuring selected parameters of electrical signals derived from magnetic recording and having a frequency within a known frequency range wherein the system includes an input stage having an automatic amplifier for selectively amplifying the electrical signals to a preselected amplitude level, a first circuit which includes a digital peak detecting circuit for producing digital signals representing peak amplitude and the amplitude of the electrical signals sampled at closely spaced intervals and wherein the digital peak detecting circuit includes circuitry for sampling the preselected amplitude level electrical signals at a frequency which is less than the frequency of the electrical signals, a second circuit which includes a first phase-locked loop circuit, a frequency dividing circuit and a second phase-locked loop circuit for producing an output signal representing the frequency of a remnant signal in the electrical signals which is applied to the digital peak detecting c

Abstract: A hydraulic apparatus is shown for moving a heavy load along an I-beam shaped structural member comprising a releasable clamping assembly and a double acting hydraulic jacking cylinder. The releasable clamping assembly includes a ramp plate, a pair of ramp mating members and a pair of jaw members having a cavity defined by opposed sloped walls having a bearing surface which cooperate with a ramp plate and ramp mating members causing the gripping surface of the ramp plate and ramp mating members to engage the flange of an I-beam. The releasable clamping assembly transmits a thrust load from a jacking cylinder thrust to the jaw member which reacts to apply a clamping force to the ramp plate and ramp mating members such that a thrust load away from direction of load travel will result in the ramp plate and the pair of ramp mating plates being urged towards each other to grip the flanged surface of the I-beam and arrest the motion of the jacking cylinder relative to the I-beam.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a transducing sub-assembly for a magnetic head assembly comprising the steps of affixing a transducer onto a substrate wherein the transducing element is located on one side thereof and leads extending from the transducing element are located on a different side thereof and wherein the substrate is formed of a material which is highly resistant to being abraded by a recording medium being transported thereacross and wherein the transducer is affixed to the support surface with the transducing element located adjacent the medium contacting surface and with the leads extending along the supporting surface away from the medium contacting surface; bonding a spacer to the substrate and transducer wherein the substrate and spacer are formed of a material which is highly resistant to being abraded by a recording medium and has a medium contacting surface of a preselected width and spaced sidewalls extending substantially perpendicular therefrom a distance equal to the length of the transduc

Abstract: A secondary grilling apparatus comprises a plurality of interconnected surface members forming apertures therebetween. The surface members are substantially wider than the elements comprising conventional grills and the apertures are substantially narrower than the spaces generally provided between the elements in conventional grills. Adjustable depending prong means for supporting the secondary grill in spaced relation to the conventional primary grill is provided. The secondary grill may furthermore include a removable handle.

Abstract: A locking device for use with an electrical plug having a pair of spaced, parallel tines each of which has an aperture located at a selected end and wherein the apertures are positioned in spaced axial alignment with each other and the locking device includes a housing having an opening which is adapted to receive and pass the ends of the tines, a releasable locking member located within the housing and adjacent to the opening and which includes an elongated member having a circumferentially extending continuous slot formed around the periphery thereof at a selected location and which has a geometrical dimension which is smaller than the geometrical dimension of the outer surface of the elongated member and wherein the elongated member is slideably mounted within the housing for linear movement relative to the ends of the tines between a first position where the slot is remote from the apertures in the tines and a second position where the slot is located between the ends of the tines containing the apertures

Abstract: A support system for a building structure having a foundation formed of a plurality of spaced, parallel support beams wherein each support member includes a planar base having a vertically extending support member which is threaded around its periphery, an elongated thrust member wherein the center thereof is formed into a hollowed-out central area having its interior wall thereof threaded to coact in response to rotation between the vertically extending support member and the elongated thrust member has at least two protruding members extending from the rim thereof, a bottom member having a vertically extending portion which is adapted to receive the elongated thrust member mounted on the vertically extending support member and wherein the bottom member has a pair of aligned base tabs positioned adjacent the planar base, an elongated sleeve member which is adapted to be inserted into the vertically extending portion of the bottom member and wherein the elongated sleeve has two slots which are adapted to rece

Abstract: A method of attaching electrical conductors to a thin film magnetic transducer having a transducing element and a plurality of substantially planar conductive leads formed into a predetermined pattern comprising the steps of mounting the thin film magnetic transducer on a substrate adjacent a medium contacting surface with the conductive leads thereof extending from the medium contacting surface, positioning an electrical circuit member having on one side thereof a plurality of planar connecting elements which have a relatively thin diffusible conductive metal coating contiguous the conductive leads, placing a quantity of curable epoxy bonding material adjacent the plurality of planar connecting elements of the thin film transducer wherein the epoxy bonding material is selected of a material having a curing temperature which is less than the thermal stress temperature of a thin film magnetic transducer wherein at least one of the electrical characteristics and the magnetic characteristics of the thin film mag

Abstract: Apparatus for counting articles traveling in a random pattern along a predetermined path in a selected direction comprising an article counting stage which is positioned along the predetermined path, a source positioned relative to the article counting stage for producing in a scan pattern a plurality of pulsed, spaced parallel beams of radiation such that each article is adapted to independently intercept at least two beams of radiation and to produce therefrom at least two pulses of radiation, each of said beams being directed along a scan path into the article counting stage wherein selected beams of radiation are adapted to be intercepted by a selected portion of the article passing through the article counting stage, a radiation pulse receiver for receiving the at least two pulses of radiation intercepted by and the article and which produces therefrom output signals in a time spatial sequence representing the radiation level of the at least two received pulses of radiation exceeding a threshold level wi

Abstract: An electromagnetic pickup adapted for use with a multistringed musical instrument having strings formed of a ferromagnetic material having a first wire coil wound in a first direction in an elongated oval shape wherein the first coil has a geometrical distance along its elongated axis which exceeds the distance between the outermost strings wherein the first coil includes an opening which extends through the interior thereof, a second wire coil wound in a second direction and in an elongated oval shape, the geometrical dimensions of which are substantially equal to that of the first coil and wherein the second coil includes a second opening which extends to the interior thereof, and wherein the second coil is positioned in a spaced opposed aligned relationship with the first coil with the first opening in axial alignment with the second opening forming a coil stack assembly having a hollowed-out central cavity, a permanent magnet assembly which is positioned in the hollowed-out central cavity with one pole po

Abstract: A secondary grilling apparatus comprises a plurality of interconnected surface members forming apertures therebetween. The surface members are substantially wider than the elements comprising conventional grills and the apertures are substantially narrower than the spaces generally provided between the elements in conventional grills. Adjustable depending prong means for supporting the secondary grill in spaced relation to the conventional primary grill is provided. The secondary grill may furthermore include a removable handle.

Abstract: A foldable, self-supporting, adjustable book holder is disclosed having a first base member formed of an elongated base section having a planar portion which deflects at a bend into an elevated, substantially parallel elongated member wherein the elevated, elongated support member has an elongated slot formed therein which is adapted to receive an elevated boss positioned within and movable within the elongated slot, a second base member having an elongated, substantially planar support member having an elevated boss member formed at one end thereof which is adapted to be positioned into and slidable within the elongated slot, a pair of side members which are adapted to be pivotally connected to the ends of the first base member and the second base member such that the elevated boss is positioned in and is movable with the elongated slot to form a book support when in upright position and wherein the opposite ends of the side members have a plurality of axially aligned openings formed therein to receive an el

Abstract: A liquid fuel prevaporization and backburning induction jet thrust transition tailpipe having a primary inlet adapted to be affixed to a turbojet engine and having a diverging area in the transition tailpipe formed of vertically converging and horizontally diverging walls terminating in a thrust nozzle, a pair of air plenums for directing an air/ram flow into the main airflow path having a bellmouth shaped inlet which communicates with an airflow inducing nozzle which terminates in a chamber having a downstream end opening forming a secondary inlet to the diverging area, a plurality of parallel, vertically spaced curved inductor vanes positioned in the secondary inlets and which are adapted to deflect a secondary airflow passing through the bellmouth shaped airflow inducing nozzle, chamber and secondary inlet into a path through the diverging area which is substantially directed towards the thrust nozzle, an upper and lower liquid fuel prevaporization chambers, fuel injectors, and gas outlets, a vaporized gas

Abstract: An integral housing member for removing magnetic articles from a flow of loosely packed material containing a mixture of magnetic articles and non-magnetic articles is shown. The integral housing member includes an inlet cover having an elongated opening, a hollowed-out central area and an opening located at the bottom of the integral housing member which terminates in a rim engaging lip having substantially the same diameter as the top opening of the trash receptacle. A magnetic article assembly is positioned below the elongated opening and is adapted to be rotated about the longitudinal axis of an elongated support shaft. The magnetic article assembly includes a plurality of triangular shaped metal plates, magnetic members and non-magnetic members, all of which have an aperture formed in the center thereof which has the elongated support shaft passed therethrough.

Abstract: A shockcone and channeled disk-airframe having a top airfoil disk and lower airfoil disk comprising a wedge perimeter extending from the forward nose of a shockcone and therearound the leading edge to the trailing edge of an airframe body wherein the lower part of disk-airframe has a plurality of bottomwardly opened channels extending from the leading to the trailing edge whereto providing the channel walls. The disk-airframe has a plurality of inclined rudders operatively coupled to the vertical fins located rear on both sides of the top airfoil disk-airframe. The airframe is mushroom in sectional shape; the stem of the mushroom is the lower part of a disk-airframe and forms the depth of the fuselage and the walls of channels and the cap of the mushroom is the top airfoil disk which is convex from the wedge perimeter of the airframe within the upper part and providing the cargo space of a disk-airframe. The size of the channels is a minimum 50 percent of the width of the disk-airframe.

Abstract: Apparatus for indexing and accurately registering a selected one of a plurality of deposition masks in operative relationship to a substrate comprising carriage means for supporting a plurality of deposition masks in an aligned spaced relationship relative to each other wherein each of the deposition masks has a selected number of prealigned registration members located thereon in a predetermined pattern and which are adapted to co-act with reference registration members loaded thereagainst, gantry means for supporting a substrate at a deposition station above the surface of the deposition masks having the prealigned registration members located thereon, reference registration members which are located on the substrate or around the periphery of the gantry means and which are directed towards and adapted to be loaded against the prealigned registration members to position the gantry means and the substrate relative to the selected one of said plurality of deposition masks, indexing means for transporting the

Abstract: An improved cross-field diode sputtering target assembly adapted for sputtering a selected material having an ion target wherein a selected surface is formed of a selected material in a predetermined closed loop pattern having a central opening therein, and wherein the selected surface has spaced edges and is formed of a material adapted to be controllably eroded in a diode sputtering process, walls positioned contiguous or adjacent to each of the spaced edges of the selected surface wherein each of the walls extend substantially normal from and beyond each spaced edge of the selected surface of the ion target and a magnetic member having poles positioned in an opposed spaced relationship to each other and enclosing the walls and the ion target for providing a linear magnetic field (B) through the walls, over the selected surface and through the ion target and wherein the magnetic member has a linear magnetic field of sufficient strength for plasma entrapment between the walls and over the selected surface wh

Abstract: An intraocular lens for an eye including a lens body having a first sector end and a second sector end which is adapted to be positioned in relationship to the pupil such as in front of or behind the pupil and two sets of resilient support means wherein each of the resilient support means has one end secured to the lens body around the periphery of the lens within the first sector or the second sector and the other ends of the resilient support means which terminate at an annular shaped guide and support element and wherein each of the resilient support means is secured in the periphery of the lens portion in the first sector end or the second sector end in opposed alignment to each other and positioned at a selected diverging angle relative to the other resilient support means in that sector and wherein the resilient support means extend outwardly from the lens body and in substantially the plane of the lens portion enabling the annular shaped guide and support elements to slideably engage tissue in at least

Abstract: Apparatus for producing an enlargement of a graphic image including a light tight housing having an extended hollowed out central area and a light tight aperture located at one end thereof which is adapted to receive and pass a graphic image to be enlarged to a predetermined location along the center axis of and at one end of the hollowed out housing, a lens shroud including a planar lens support having a fixed focal length lens located in the center thereof and sidewalls extending therefrom and positioned with the fixed focal lens located adjacent the predetermined location and wherein the lens shroud is moveable within the hollowed out central area over a preselected distance to position the fixed focal length lens at any location within the preselected distance and in alignment with the predetermined location, a gantry housing, including sidewalls for defining a passageway which terminates in an opening at one end thereof and a planar matt support at the other end thereof wherein the gantry housing is move

Abstract: A method for controlling the slope of the edge gradient of a layer of vapor deposition material onto a substrate from an evaporation source of vapor deposition material comprising the steps of forming a flux of vapor deposition material having an effective source cross-sectional area and shape from an evaporation source of a vapor deposition material located at a known position, indexing a deposition mask having a plurality of apertures extending therethrough such that the mask is in a spaced relationship from the source defining a source-to-mask distance and positioned in the flux of vapor deposition material to permit the flux of vapor deposition to pass through the apertures, registering a substrate in a spaced relationship from the deposition mask defining a mask-to-substrate distance to permit the flux of the vapor deposition material passing through the apertures in the deposition mask to impinge onto the substrate forming a layer of vapor deposit material thereon, controlling at least one of the effect