Abstract: Apparatus and a method forming a container having a base member with opposed walls and an interior that is capable of storing items below a top plate member for supporting objects exterior to the container; with the top plate member extending into grooves of the opposed walls and being slidable on rollers, with respect to the base member without disturbance to any objects supported thereon, to expose and allow access to the interior. The top plate member can form a plurality of separate sections that are moveable away from each other.

Abstract: An auxiliary display for displaying pictures and other material in connection with electronic display devices. The auxiliary display in made in a frame attachable to an electronic display such as a monitor, wherein the frame includes an outer member having an opening, a backing for the outer member for suspending a photo against the opening. The suspension can be against a trap door, which is closable by rotatable fasteners against the backing.

Abstract: A valve connector adapted to facilitate fluid access between components is formed by a housing having a through channel. An elastomeric support secured to the housing biases a valve element or plug in the channel into sealing engagement with the support. When a fitting is inserted to depress the plug, it stretches the support and opens a passage through the channel, for example by canting the plug. When the fitting is removed, the stretched support contracts and returns the plug to its position of sealing engagement where the plug, support and housing are swabbable to eliminate pathogens that could otherwise enter the channel when the plug is depressed to open the channel and permit fluid flow therethrough.

Abstract: Apparatus for the removal of accumulated material, such as snow, by an elongated control member attached to the edge of a curved scoop, with a strut mechanism extending from the elongated control member to the curved scoop and attached to a mechanism for facilitating the movement of the curved scoop over a surface having accumulated material.

Abstract: Adaptation of a seating surface to a wide range of environmental conditions by applying a stretchable cover of a looped pile fabric, formed from blended materials, to the seating surface and promoting the retention on the seating surface of the stretchable cover which also is absorptive of fluids and insulative because of the blend of materials forming the cover.

Abstract: A rolled product dispenser with an automatic brake and release, in which a compression spring maintains mounting shaft pressure to hold the product dispenser in a housing, with holding caps wedged into the ends of the roll that rotates coaxially with respect to a peg disc having a stop peg positioned in relation to adjustable grounding pegs by which prescribed contact is maintained with the housing, the stop peg being engaged by a centrifugal flag that rotates with the roll as product is being unwound until a sufficient rotational speed caused the flag to hit the stop peg and stop roll rotation, serving as an automatic brake, following which tearing of the product produces a recoil that releases the flag, the speed at which the centrifugal flag impacts the stop peg being adjustable by changing the position of the stop peg in relation to the mounting shaft axis of rotation.

Abstract: Improved performance and versatility of a free-reed instrument by linking a key of the instrument to a variable geometry chamber, which provides modifications in musical tones. The instrument can be an accordion or other free-reed instrument, and a passageway of the chamber is manipulated to alter the combined pitch and timbre of the tones.

Abstract: An apparatus allows for the alignment of objects with respect to one another. With a base element having an upper extendable member positioned upon and movable relative to the base. Recesses are provided on either end of the base and extendable member which allow for the apparatus to hold objects in alignment with respect to one another. The apparatus may be used to align door jambs and window frames when installing portals within a wall structure. Fasteners may be loosened to allow for relative movement between the base and extendable member. When the proper length is attained the fasteners are tightened allowing the apparatus to hold the aligned objects until the objects are set in place within the final construction.

Abstract: Individual cells in a memory array are structured and interconnected to permit detection and identification of the locations of errors known as Single Event Upsets (SEUs), with the correction and identification of an affected cell made using only a single parity bit for a group of cells in a memory array, eliminating the necessity for reading an entire memory in order to detect SEUs immediately, and eliminate large numbers of non-useful correction-code cells in order to increase the net useful density of cells in a memory and tolerate a larger rate of SEU events than for previous methods, additionally eliminate the need for purification of packaging materials for memory arrays by removing most radioactive materials and providing a further economic benefit by eliminating the need for organic coatings, which can cause reliability hazards, and to block alpha particles originating in packaging.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for the sizing of annular objects by cutting through an arcuate portion of the object to be sized; separating and straightening the cut ends of the object; placing sizing stock coated with solder into temporary adherence with a holder and then placing the stock, while held in the holder, between the cut ends; followed by heating the holder and the stock to release the sizing stock from the holder and cause solder paste to adhere the stock to the annular object between its cut ends.

Abstract: A dynamic random access memory circuit for storing an information signal using both a data input line and a data output line for a two-transistor dynamic ram cell memory circuit is disclosed. The circuit is incorporated into an integrated circuit array of similar cells. Because of the nature of the circuitry, the data input and output lines of each cell in the array are laid out in parallel, and the data-out line of one random access memory cell becomes the data-in line of the adjacent random access memory cell. Thus, while the addition of a separate line for data-in and data-out adds structure to a single cell, it reduces the overall structure of an array of such cells, and results in a more compact construction of a memory array.

Abstract: A flow control device with an inlet for the flow of fluid and a movable member sealing the inlet and having a flexible body for controlling flow by the extent to which the flexible body of the movable member is buckled. The movable member extends between the inlet and an outlet and is expandable laterally with respect to the axis of a channel for the outlet in order to control flow. A member external to the flow control device can activate the moveable member which can take the form of a plug seated in the inlet by depressing the plug from its seat. The movable member also can be bell-shaped with its upper portion sealing the inlet and slotted walls straddling the outlet.

Abstract: An exterior roll door for providing access to the interior of a trailer mounted on the outside, with door tracks on the outside in channels in the sides of a header, forming top rails, the door tracks having open sides facing outwardly and mounted inwardly from the rear edge of the trailer along the header, with the tracks along the header, before reaching the top corner of the trailer, curving towards the outer edges of the trailer, and then back to form top rails substantially flush with the roof of the trailer to allow the door to seal the trailer when in a down closed-position, while allowing the door to clear the corner of the trailer during opening, and then allowing the opened door to sit above the roof when in the up, fully-open position.

Abstract: The method of temporarily storing items below a fixed position support by providing a container for the storage of items and strapping the container to the support below its lower surface with a strap that is narrower than the container and extends over the support from a connector on one side of the container to a connector on the opposite side of the container, with an upper surface of the container in contact with a lower surface of the support to permit the container with stored items to be held against a lower surface of the support and elevated above a ground or floor surface to avoid contact with dirt, debris or moisture that may be upon the floor or the ground; when the support is an occupied seat, a retractable cord extending from the occupant to the container can provide a reminder that items are in temporary storage below the seat, so that when the occupant decides to leave the vicinity of the seat, a pull is exerted by the cord against the occupant.

Abstract: Metal oxide fine powders and thin films prepared by exchange reactions between organosemiconductor oxides (such as disiloxanes) and metal coordination compounds, metallic halides, or organometallic compounds in inert environments and anhydrous solvents.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for analyzing energy emanating from a source by converting energy from the source into spectral components distributed according to frequency along a flat field, combining the spectral components into a beam, detecting the beam which combines the spectral components and demodulating the spectral components.

Abstract: Analysis of energy emanating from a source having a focal plane by converting the energy from the source into modulated spectral components simultaneously distributed according to frequency along a flat field, using, for example, a modulator, and then detecting and demodulating the spectral components, for example by a fast Fourier transform or synchronous demodulator with a ruled grating interposable between the source and the detector and a linear variable bandpass filter interposable between the source and the detector.

Abstract: A rapid fire electromagnetic launcher system (EML) employs a plurality of capacitor modules which are charged by an equal number of modules of lead acid batteries. The invention comprises the combination of standard automotive lead acid batteries for charging an electrolytic capacitor array which is switched into an Electromagnetic Launcher (EML) by means of silicon controlled rectifiers, and a control circuit for controlling the loading and launching of projectiles at a very rapid rate. The system includes a multishot preinjector and rapid fire controller for operating the system in a safe and reliable manner. The system includes a preaccelerator, magazine and barrel. The combination eliminates the low power density limitation of the batteries, the requirement to repetitively commutate energy out of an inductor, and allows for a modular system than can be expanded to provide higher energy to each projectile in the burst.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for identifying a refrigerant by determining the spectrum of the refrigerant in the absence of a sensing reagent and converting the spectrum into an indicium of the type of refrigerant.

Abstract: Valve apparatus and method with an elastomeric disk fixedly disposed between inlet and outlet members and being deformable to permit flow through the inlet to the outlet. Deformation of the disk in the direction of pressure through the outlet is limited. The elastomeric disk can be circular with a linear or non-linear slit and be clamped between the inlet and outlet members. The structure for limiting disk deformation can take the form of a pilot integrated into, and extending across, the inlet member in centrally or non-centrally apertured form.