Abstract: An improved solar operated ventilator cover is disclosed for covering an aperture disposed in a horizontal surface. The cover has sidewalls with a cover opening and a top surface with an internal wall extending between the sidewalls and the top wall. An orifice is defined in the internal wall for enabling the flow of air within the cover. An electric motor has a motor shaft with a fan blade positioned proximate the orifice. A photovoltaic cell is connected to the electric motor for rotating the fan blade proximate the orifice to establish the flow of air through the cover opening.
Abstract: An improved control system for a movement actuator is disclosed for moving a member between a retracted position and an extended position. The movement actuator comprises a cylinder having a piston with a fluid supply providing pressure to a first and a second side of the piston. A control applies a first and a second fluid pressure on the first and second sides of the piston for moving the member from the retracted position toward the extended position with a force related to a difference between the first fluid pressure and second fluid pressure for reducing the possibility of damage to an unintended object in the path of the member. The control applies the first fluid pressure on the first side of the piston upon the member being in proximity to the extended position for moving the member into the extended position with a force related to the first fluid pressure for insuring proper positioning of the member.
Abstract: A support is disclosed for adjustably supporting a distal end of a measuring cord relative to a ground surface. The support includes a body member having a longitudinally extending slot. A first and a second pin is slidably disposed within the first and second apertures in the body member with the first and second pins being able to be driven into the ground surface to vertically position the body member relative to the ground surface. A hook is slidably mounted within the slot for supporting the distal end of the measuring cord and for horizontally positioning the distal end of the measuring cord relative to the ground surface.
Abstract: An improved automatic transmission is disclosed comprising an input shaft, an output shaft and a countershaft with the input shaft rotating the countershaft. A plurality of countershaft gears are secured to the countershaft and are in rotational engagement with a plurality of drive gears rotatably mounted on the output shaft. A plurality of clutches are mounted between the output shaft and the drive gears for transferring rotational power from the input shaft to the output shaft upon engagement of a selected one of the plurality of clutches, respectively.
Abstract: An improved battery plate and method of making for an electric storage battery. The battery plate comprises a plurality of metallic fibers of a single or plural diameters randomly oriented and sintered to provide a conductive battery plate with a multiplicity of pores defined therein. The metallic fibers are formed by cladding and drawing a plurality of metallic wires to provide a fiber tow. The fiber tow is severed and the cladding is removed to form metallic fibers. The metallic fibers are arranged into a web and sintered to form the battery plate.
Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for a combined turret and closure seal for a hand operated dispensing device having a closure for securing to a container to dispense a fluid from the container. The turret comprises a tubular portion and a gasket portion with the tubular portion engaging with the pump body. A closure is securable to the container and defines a closure shoulder. A boss is disposed on one of the tubular portion of said turret and the pump body for cooperating with the closure shoulder to interlock the turret and the pump body to the closure for securing the pump body to the container with the gasket portion of the turret providing a seal between.
Abstract: A biochemical membrane encapsulated by a synthetically-derived neuraminic acid residue, to mask the surface of the membrane from recognition and removal by the scavenging RES cells of the body.
Abstract: An improved recycling water cooler for a water cooled refrigeration system comprising first conduits interconnecting the water cooled refrigeration system and the recycling water cooler and the ambient water source for enabling the flow of water therebetween. Second conduits interconnect the water cooled refrigeration system and the recycling water cooler and the drain for enabling the flow of water therebetween. A first and second valve is interposed in the first and second conduits for enabling heated water discharged from the water cooled refrigeration system to enter the recycling water cooler to be cooled thereby and to be returned to the water cooled refrigeration system when the first and second valves are disposed in a first position. The first and second valves interconnect the water cooled refrigeration system to the ambient water source and to a drain for operating the water cooled refrigeration system in a conventional manner when the first and second valves are disposed in a second position.
Abstract: An improved terminal orifice system is disclosed for a hand operated dispensing device for dispensing a product from a terminal orifice. The improved terminal orifice system comprises a spin chamber communicating with the terminal orifice with a plurality of feed channels providing communicating between the hand operated dispensing device and the spin chamber for spinning the product about an axis within the spin chamber prior to discharge from the terminal orifice. Each of the plurality of feed channels is tapered to control the flow rate of the product into the spin chamber.
Abstract: An apparatus (16) for diagnosing faults in the electrical circuit of a motor vehicle which has a microprocessor (90) connected to a wiring harness (10) of a vehicle for controlling selected operations of the vehicle as a diagnostic microprocessor (22) which is coupled to the vehicle microprocessor (90) and wiring harness (10) by way of a multipin connector (14) and either an autotest circuit (44) or a manual breakout box (42) and reference probe (18). The microprocessor (22) also has a further test probe (20) for connection to the various terminals in the wiring harness (10). A plugin module (28) stores information particular to the vehicle and the test and the diagnostic microprocessor (22) monitors the vehicle microprocessor (90) and interprets any fault signals received from this using the information in the plugin module (28) to carry out a diagnostic test of the vehicle wiring harness (10) to locate the fault.
Abstract: An apparatus and method is disclosed for an improved flexible eduction tube for discharging a liquid product from a container with a dispensing mechanism comprising a mixture of a flexible material with a dense filler material distributed within said flexible material to provide a specific gravity greater than the liquid product within the container for enabling an input aperture of the eduction tube to remain below the level of the liquid product within the container when the container is tipped from a vertical orientation. In another embodiment of the invention, the eduction tube comprises a flexible material and rigid means for providing a non-flexible eduction tube prior to insertion of the eduction tube within the container and for providing a flexible eduction tube upon contact with the liquid product within the container.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 22, 1993
Date of Patent:
June 18, 1996
Assignee:
Aptar Group, Inc.
Inventors:
Peter J. Walters, Mark Neuhalfen, Ronald E. Kieras