Abstract: A method of spooling a plurality of operational lines onto a vessel having a plurality of reels for storage of the operational lines, one of which lines is a rigid walled pipeline, the vessel having a level wind apparatus, a pipeline support drum, and a motor unit for each of the storage reels.

Abstract: A telephone answering system for receiving calls from a caller and forwarding caller information to an owner's telephone. An automatic message center which provides instructions to a caller via the owner's outgoing message, receives and stores the caller's telephone number and information on the substance of the call, and then provides a second outgoing message on a telephone line to the owner via a pager or a handset providing the owner with the telephone number of the caller and a coded substance message.

Abstract: A dental laboratory die tray having first and second side members and a bottom member with the side members being joinable to form a housing with an open top and an open bottom, and with the bottom member being holdable between to the side members to close the open bottom when the side members are in a housing closed position. The side members may be moved away from each other to a partially closed position permitting removal and reinsertion of the bottom member, thereby providing a die tray with a closed bottom for some operations and with an open bottom for other operations.

Abstract: A captive screw assembly for an edge lighted panel assembly of the type used in aircraft cockpits and the like. A screw carried in a resilient washer having a lip for retaining the screw and deflectable fingers for insertion into a panel opening for retaining the washer and screw in the panel. Typically the plate carries switches and other components and the panel is attached to the plate by the screws which engage threaded openings in the plate or in nuts carried by the plate.

Abstract: A fluid dispenser having a fluid storage container and a plunger carried in the container, with the plunger being manually pushable inward for dispensing fluid from the container. The container includes a valve cylinder mounted in the container and having an inner opening and an interior passage for slidingly receiving the plunger, with the plunger having a fluid flow passage therein providing a flow path from the cylinder interior to the exterior of the dispenser. A one-way capsule valve is positioned for control of the fluid flow into the cylinder interior and another one-way valve is disposed for control of the fluid flow from the cylinder interior into the plunger passage. The capsule valve comprises a disk assembly of a relatively rigid washer with a central opening, and a relatively flexible resilient seal having an annular rim enclosing the washer and a central flapper joined to the rim and overlying the washer central opening.

Abstract: A heat bond tape for carpet seaming and a method for making the tape. A yarn tape is fixed to a porous carrier strip during the tape knitting by stitching the yarn filaments to the carrier strip. The resulting tape carrier is adhered to a non-porous backing strip by a thermoplastic material, which adhesive material may be melted to join the edges of two pieces of carpet to the heat bond tape in the conventional manner.

Abstract: A clamp for repair of a leak in a pipeline or other structure having a flanged joint. The clamp comprises arcuate clamp sections, typically two semi-circular sections, which are assembled end to end to form a clamp ring about the flanges at the site of the leak. Each clamp section has an inner surface with spaced edges, and a seal tube of deformable metal is attached to each of the clamp sections at each of the edges, with the metal tube having a folded wall with ridges and troughs.

Abstract: An assembnly for connecting the external electrical shield of an electrical cable to an electrical connector by means of an internal electrical shield which is electrically connected at its outer end to the connector, typically by a ferrule, a backshell and a coupling nut along with a clamp ring or band for clamping the outer end of the internal electrical shield to a sleeve of the ferrule, and electrically connecting the inner end of the internal electrical shield to the external electrical shield of the cable by another clamp which clamps the shield ends together, either directly or indirectly.

Abstract: A door closer is set forth having a housing, a plunger rod in the housing with a plunger at the inner end of the rod, and a main spring around the rod between the plunger and a housing end for urging the rod into the housing. An actuator carried at the housing end with an opening for the rod and mounted for transverse sliding motion relative to the rod, with a spring for urging the actuator into a latch space in the rod is utilized. With the door closer connected to a door, the actuator slides into the latch space when the door has been opened, to hold the door open. A further opening movement raises the actuator out of the latch space and a sleeve maintains the actuator raised, permitting closing of the door.

Abstract: A system which detects the presence and bearing of a mass M implemented by having a first field or wave interact with the motion of a charged mass m to produce a second field or wave which is modulated by the tidal effect of mass M. The second field or wave with unique tidal signal is then detected. The system can be implemented as a magnetic resonance spectrometer, gyrotron, cyclotron, Fourier Transform-Mass Spectrometer (FT-MS), or even as a large spinning mass and permits the substantial increase in the sensitivity of practical gravitational mass detectors and gradiometers and thereby permitting the detection of earthbound objects such as ore deposits, ships, submarines, tanks, artillery, and small concealed handguns and may extend gravitational mass detection capabilities to space and galactic objects.

Abstract: A pipelaying system adapted for deployment on a vessel for use in a body of water and having at least one reel for storage and layout of a rigid walled pipeline and including pipe take-off drum for mounting on the vessel for rotation about a horizontal drum axis, a pipe take-off structure pivotally mounted on the axis of rotation of the drum, and a drive unit operably connected to the reel and adapted to permit control of the rate of layout of the pipeline, with the vessel convertible between a pivotal ramp type and an arcuate type.

Abstract: A process and apparatus for the recovery of metals such as silver from phosphate flue dust. The process includes the steps of blending chloride salt and the flue dust to produce a blended material, roasting the blended material in an oxygen bearing atmosphere to oxidize carbon in the blended material producing a gas and to react chloride salt with the metal in the blended material producing a water soluble metallic salt, dissolving the metallic salt in water to produce a solution, filtering the solution to remove solids, and precipitating metals from the filtered solution with the precipitate ready for conventional smelting. The preferred embodiment of the apparatus includes a flue dust hopper and mill and a salt hopper and mill for feeding the dust and salt to a radiant tube dryer and a radiant tube asher for blending and roasting the materials, and a spray chamber at the outlet of the asher for separating solids and gases, where certain of the solids go into solution.

Abstract: A sliding hinge for mounting a nose cone or cover on a nacelle or housing, such as an equipment package suspended from the wing of an aircraft. Typically two hinges are used, positioned at opposite sides of the housing, for pivoting the nose cone upward to provide access to the equipment within the housing. Each hinge includes a sleeve mounted in the housing, a slide block sliding in the sleeve, and a slide arm pivotally attached to the slide block and mounted in the nose. To open the package, the nose is initially slid forward from the housing and then pivoted to an upward position. During this operation the slide arm slides out of the sleeve from a retracted position to an extended position and then pivots upward to the open position, with the slide block remaining in the sleeve.

Abstract: An apparatus for continuously storing a strip of material in a coil, including a flat platter and a drive for rotating the platter, the coil lying edgewise on the platter and the strip including an incoming strip portion leading to the coil periphery and an outgoing strip portion leading from the coil center, an arrangement for applying the incoming strip portion to the periphery of the coil of the strip on the platter as it rotates, in an even number of substantially straight strip sections joined at curved corners providing alternating even and odd strip sections and applying an inward pressure to the even strip sections to form the even strip sections into concave strip sections.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for calibrating a temperature measuring device by operating a heat source at a preset temperature as determined by a temperature sensing resistor and a digitally calculated temperature which varies nonlinearly with the resistance of the resistor, and obtaining the coefficients for the calculation by operating the device at a preset temperature and comparing this temperature with that of a standard temperature measuring device.

Abstract: A valve for control of fluid flow, the valve including a housing having a valve bore with inlet and outlet ports, a seal cartridge slidingly inserted into the bore and having integrally formed seal rings, in sealing engagement with the bore, and a valve spindle carried in the seal cartridge in sealing engagement with the seal rings with the spindle moveable between valve closed and open positions. A valve having two inlet ports and an outlet port with the seal cartridge being selectively positionable in the housing for controlling flow from a selected one of the inlet ports to the outlet port.

Abstract: A pressurized spray paint container having a spray control nozzle at the top with an internal transport tube attached to the nozzle and extending to the bottom of the container. The container bottom is bulged outward so that the container cannot be rested on its bottom, but rather must be stored generally horizontal whereby the paint solids in the container are away from the inner end of the tube.

Abstract: A pour dispenser for pouring fluid from a container and including a body having an outlet nozzle and adapted for mounting on a container, a piston in the body and slideable between a valve open condition providing a first flow path between the container and the nozzle and a valve closed condition blocking fluid flow between the container and the nozzle, a plunger in the piston and slideable between a valve open condition providing a second fluid flow path between the container and the atmosphere and a valve closed condition blocking fluid flow between the container and the atmosphere, and springs between the plunger, piston and body for urging the plunger and the piston to the valve closed conditions, with plunger actuation opening the second fluid flow path and then opening the first fluid flow path.

Abstract: A touch faucet post-mix drink dispensing system for simultaneous dispensing of syrup and soda with a single valve chamber and two poppets in tandem. The poppets are spaced for positive seating and sequential opening of the soda and syrup flow paths with a single motion of the actuating lever resulting in a reduction of the required actuating force and thereby less load on the drink cup and reduced likelihood of damage to the cup.