Abstract: The sawing guide consists of a guide plate, a press plate, two swivel bolt assemblies, and a plurality of pitch blocks. The press plate and guide plate are positioned on either side of an object to be cut and are secured together by the two swivel bolt assemblies which extend along either side of the object. Pitch blocks are then inserted between the object and the guide plate to vary the attitude of the guide plate.

Abstract: A vertically-elongate monolithic pier body comprises:A deeply-submerged compartmented closed container or container group;A near-surface control chamber system;A deckwork carried above highest wave level;A load-carrying column and wall system extending in part through the container and chamber system, including a pair of perforated flanking walls; andA transverse wall and beam bracing framework extending in part through the container and chamber system, including a top wall and a thick slab base.The pier is intended to stand on seabed in depths of 450 feet to 1200 feet or deeper, to carry petroleum well-drilling and production equipment. The large container group is submerged at a depth where it is subjected to reduced wave pressures. The flanking pair of walls dissipate the energy of incident waves.Fabrication begins in a drydock site with the pier laid out horizontally extended.

Abstract: A fish scaler comprises a specimen hold down plate and a scaler plate moveable toward and away from the hold down plate to and fro on a handle attached to the hold down plate and including manually operable scaler plate operating structure to guide the scaler plate on the handle and comprising an operating handle of modified oval-conical configuration to permit the scaler plate to have perpendicular as well as rotatable motion with respect to the guiding handle.

Abstract: A circuit card guide comprising an elongated channel shaped element having upstanding side walls, each with an upper reach extending inwardly in a reentrant bend and terminating in a downwardly extending lip. The reentrant bend includes portions cut away to leave a contiguous lip portion which is deformed inwardly of the guide to form a resilient leaf spring for engagement with a circuit card.

Abstract: An improved pellet form for achieving relatively high muzzle velocity when discharged from the barrel of a gas rifle, particularly a high-performance air rifle, has a pellet head portion of any suitable profile and diameter providing a free-sliding but close fit for the nominal barrel bore, e.g. the 0.177 and 0.22 standard bores, and has a conventional rearwardly-flaring skirt of conical shell form; improved early gas sealing and improved swaging of the skirt margin is induced by novel bevelling of the inner surface of the skirt margin, the trailing edge being tapered to a thin annulus, while the outer surface of the skirt has a terminal portion formed with conical apex angle greater than the apical angle pertaining to the major length portion of the skirt forward of the trailing edge. The skirt edge is initially an interference fit for a diameter comparable to the diameter across opposed rifling grooves, and is a light force fit into the nominal barrel bore diameter.

Abstract: A collapsible container having sidewalls pivotally mounted on the bottom wall so that all the sidewalls may be folded inwardly on the bottom wall for transportation or storage. Several of the sidewalls are adapted to pivot outwardly to facilitate the unloading of the container. The bottom of the container is provided with legs so that the container may be handled with a conventional fork lift.

Abstract: A process for preparing a bacon product by grinding the small pieces of pork belly into an emulsion and, adding a cure mixture. The emulsion is then cured for a predetermined period and thereafter placed into molds and slowly cooked at varying temperatures. The molded cooked product thereafter is chilled. In an alternate process, the small pieces of pork belly are cured prior to grinding into an emulsion. In a further embodiment, the bacon product is chilled after curing and packaged for marketing.

Abstract: A security device consisting of a box-like container having a discharge opening extending through one face thereof and which may be attached to a door or window of a residence or office, or to or adjacent an area which would be attractive to unauthorized persons, said box-like container has therein a removable and replaceable cartridge containing a disabling gas such as tear gas or the like, or a liquid dye of a particular color, or a potent distinctively smelling gas or liquid to be discharged at an unauthorized person.

Abstract: The tubular unit with vessel engaging cuff structure is a unitary unit including a tube having a compressible cuff surrounding the outer surface thereof. The cuff includes a resilient, porous inner material surrounding the tube and an outer liquid impervious layer which may be bonded to or integrally formed with the inner material. The tube may include means to evacuate fluid from the cuff or, alternatively, separate means are directly connected to the cuff to accomplish such evacuation and contraction of the cuff. Vessel engaging appendages may be incorporated on the cuff.

Abstract: The vehicle weighing system for a towed vehicle includes removable stub axles and a hitch rigidly connected to a load support. The hitch and one or more of the stub axles are gauged in an identical manner. Two active electrical strain gauges are placed in a hole formed in the supporting member to be gauged, such hole extending normal to the direction of the load. The hole is placed adjacent the end of the supporting member which is remote from the load support and the two gauges are oriented to reduce the moment sensitivity of the system to a minimum. The hitch is provided with additional compensating gauges which are not responsive to strain, and the axle and hitch gauges are connected to form a measuring bridge circuit. The gauging holes are sealed by end plugs, a printed circuit board, potting compound and a boot, all of which are flexible so as not to interfere with the weight measurement.

Abstract: The photocomposing machine is adapted to provide over eight thousand characters during operation. Characters are arranged in bands on a plurality of rotating drums, and multiple character keys and alternate keyboard displays are employed to permit selection of a specific character. Basic functional codes such as keyboard identification, type font identification, and shift identification are used to accomplish drum and band selection. A character position code is then used to locate the character in the selected band on the selected drum.A method of justification for characters such as Japanese characters is employed wherein characters of different size are segregated into two groups. The space available from the characters in the smaller sized group is employed in justification.

Abstract: The method and apparatus for fast firing glazed ceramic tile trim pieces includes passing the trim pieces through a firing chamber by means of ceramic rollers which are designed to move the trim pieces in substantially a straight line through the chamber. The rollers include trim piece supporting surfaces which are inclined relative to a horizontal plane to cause gravitational forces to maintain the trim pieces against aligned orienting stops. Deposited glaze is removed from the rollers by periodically increasing the firing chamber temperature to a point where the glaze will release from the supporting roller and redeposit on a porous refractory passed over the roller.

Abstract: A closure member for pierceable access ports of flexible containers of the type adapted for effective safe storage and use of parenteral fluids and similar sterile solutions, the access port having a pierceable access closure diaphragm, wherein the closure member includes a base portion in sealed engagement over the neck of the access port on the container, with a rigidifying and strengthening portion or an insert in sealed engagement therebetween, and a free-standing portion extending from the base portion and having a sealed end, the free-standing portion being connected to the base portion by a fragible thinned material section adapted to be ruptured to permit the free-standing portion to be removed, thereby providing access to the pierceable diaphragm for insertion therethrough of a parenteral solution administration spike.

Abstract: Apparatus for selective controlled volume and rate administration of parenteral solutions, blood and the like, wherein sight and flow control problems caused by splashing and foaming of fluids having high surface tension such as blood are substantially diminished, and flow rates during different time phases of operation are optimized due to an arrangement of structure providing an increased head pressure on flow of fluid to a measuring chamber.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTIONAdministration sets for delivery of parenteral solutions, blood and the like, have been heretofore available to the medical profession, which included volumetric chambers that allowed accurately measured volumes of solution to be administered to a patient. Volumetric sets of this type are especially essential for delivering discrete small volumes to infants and young children who could not tolerate larger, unregulated volumes of fluids. Volumetric control sets of this type are disclosed in prior U.S. Pat. Nos. 3,216,418 and 3,216,419.

Abstract: A simple but effective, inexpensive coin-check operated lock is provided for locking articles such as umbrellas, canes, athletic equipment or a rock or stand to prevent theft or unauthorized use thereof and includes a reciprocating sliding bolt locked in extended position by a rocking latching lever which in turn is held in latched position by a coil spring and is unlatched from the bolt by contact of an inserted coin with a swingable spring biased detent arm which cooperates with a check key to hold the latching lever in unlocked position until the coin is inserted at which time the detent arm releases the check and the latching lever which operates to lock the reciprocating bolt in extended position, insertion of the key check unlocks the mechanism and resets same to receive a further coin.

Abstract: A system for instruction in the manipulation of the chord portion of a keyboard of a musical instrument in 3-4 or 4-4 time includes uniquely written music which provides a student with an identity of the root note of each chord to be played and the timing (but not necessarily the identity) of the corresponding chord triad to follow the root note. In conjunction with the music, an apparatus senses the depression of the root note key by the student, provides a sustained confirming identification of that note, and provides the identity (but not the timing) of the triad notes. The indication is retained until a different note key is depressed. The apparatus is useful independently of the written music or keyboard instrument to demonstrate the 5-2-1 system of fingering chords as set forth in U.S. Pat. No. 3,335,630.

Abstract: Method and apparatus is disclosed relating to the use of a plasma receiving assembly including a container and closure cap adapted to permit aseptic handling, storage and shipment of blood plasma. One aspect of the method is to form the plasma receiving assembly by placing a plasma receiving container within an overwrap having a gas permeable bacterial filter such that the container and overwrap may be gas sterilized followed by mechanical sealing of the container while still in the overwrap. The method further provides for use of the overwrap to lessen the chances of contamination during handling and transfer of the blood plasma including the steps of forming the container in a rigid standardized cylindrical form and limiting the volume of plasma placed in each container so that the plasma may be frozen and removed automatically.

Abstract: A dispensing system apparatus for storing and dispensing cylindrical objects such as rolls of floor covering has a sloped rack on which the rolls are supported and further contains serially arranged dispensing and retaining blades for dispensing a roll near the leading edge of the rack on to a portable pallet carried by a conventional lift truck while retaining the roll behind it and then, by manipulation of the dispensing and retaining means, move the next cylindrical object into a position for dispensing while retaining in the storage facility a plurality of serially arranged cylindrical objects.

Abstract: Apple sauce is produced in a continuous process stream without hand trimming by dicing the untrimmed, sometimes uncored fruit, electronically sorting the dices to reject blemished dices, and cooking and conventionally finishing the accepted blemish free dices. The reject dices are reduced to blemished and unblemished tissue by being either (1) rediced into smaller pieces and resorted, (2) sliced to further subdivide them while in an auxiliary processing path and returned to the process stream for resorting, (3) sliced to further subdivide them and resorted while in an auxiliary processing path whereafter surviving unblemished tissue is returned to the process stream, or (4) blemished dices from the original sorting or from the resorting of step 3 are routed to a separate cooker and fine screen finisher to produce a nearly blemish free fine sauce which in turn is blended with the conventionally finished sauce produced from the accepted dices. The fruit may be lye peeled prior to dicing.

Abstract: The plasmapheresis assembly includes a novel Y connector valving structure to replace conventional tube clamps. This valving structure eliminates dead spaces for blood to collect and clot and provides a fluid tight seal during heat sterilization without causing deformation of the tubing for the assembly. Possible erroneous connection of assembly components with resultant contamination is eliminated by the use of unique mating connectors in place of spikes or needle connectors. These mating connectors are employed in a simple and efficient blood bag construction to provide substantially rigid access ports to facilitate rapid manual manipulation of the blood bags.