Abstract: A pressure limiting valve has a piston sliding inside a piston bore in a piston guide. A valve spring and a spring plate move in a spring sleeve which has an adjusting screw at an end opposite the spring plate. The spring plate has flow-through openings. The piston extends into a blind bore in the spring plate. The piston guide, which forms the bottom of the spring chamber, has a funnel-shaped recess which extends to the inside wall of the spring sleeve. The spring plate support surface for the valve spring is below the top of the piston.

Abstract: The present invention provides an insertable compact disc tray for standard single CD jewel boxes. The tray allows for conversion to multiple disc retention and has first and second sides with rosettes, for examples, for engaging and for holding first and second CDs. The tray has a shelf which fixedly attaches between first and second outer hinges of the box, and an attached leaf. A living hinge is provided between the shelf and the leaf for allowing rotational movement therebetween, with the user accessing the oppositely mounted CDs through rotation of the leaf around the living hinge. Upward rotation of the leaf allows for the insertion of a graphics card under the shelf and tray before or after the shelf and tray are inserted in the box. The shelf traps and holds the upper edge of the graphics card end and cooperates to hold the graphics card in fixed position during raising and lowering of the cover and the tray.

Abstract: A construction toy system comprises straight and curved tube beams and injection molded beams. The beams have joint end in the continuation of the bodies. The joint ends area separated from the bodies by flanges surrounding the edge of the beams. The flanges are created to prevent the beams from pushing through when connected to connectors. The connectors comprise plural cubes with six cylindrical receivers to where the beams are connected, creating structures from the beams. The receivers have an aperture equivalent to the joint ends of the beams and each receiver incorporates an interior surface for holding the joint ends of the beams.

Abstract: The present invention is an apparatus for suspending objects such as plants, specifically in a clip and string combination for applying upward direction. One end of the string is fastened to the object to be supported. The string is subsequently placed over a horizontal support wire above the object. The other end of the string is attached to an upper arm of an S-shaped clip, which is bent in two planes and which may alternatively incorporate more adjacent arms. The portion of the string between the object and the support wire is woven between the arms of the clip, which is then pushed downward on the string until it is taut. Periodically, as in the cycle of a plant, the clip can be adjusted along the string.

Abstract: A furnace with two hot zones holds multiple analysis tubes. Each tube has a separable sample-packing section positioned in the first hot zone and a catalyst-packing section positioned in the second hot zone. A mass flow controller is connected to an inlet of each sample tube, and gas is supplied to the mass flow controller. Oxygen is supplied through a mass flow controller to each tube to either or both of an inlet of the first tube and an intermediate portion between the tube sections to intermingle with and oxidize the entrained gases evolved from the sample. Oxidation of those gases is completed in the catalyst in each second tube section. A thermocouple within a sample reduces furnace temperature when an exothermic condition is sensed within the sample. Oxidized gases flow from outlets of the tubes to individual gas cells. The cells are sequentially aligned with an infrared detector, which senses the composition and quantities of the gas components.

Abstract: Thermal insulating underwear for divers is made from plastic laminated material with insulating gas-holding bubbles uniformly disposed over an inner surface. The materials are formed in a tube and edges are joined to form clothing. Gas trapped in bubbles throughout the clothing spaces a diver's suit away from a body, preventing heat loss by relatively efficient conduction, and providing gas-filled spaces which ensure relatively inefficient heat loss from a diver's body portions, including extremities.

Abstract: A single magnetostrictive amorphous metal sensor element is mounted on a piezoelectric resonator plate with an intervening layer of a viscous fluid, an oscillator stresses and vibrates the plate at a resonant frequency, creating a standing wave in the sensor element which is a metallic glass ribbon. Electromotive forces are generated in first and second pickup coils mounted at symmetrically spaced positions about the ribbon centerline. The electromotive force generated by each pickup coil is demodulated by a lock-in amplifier with a signal supplied by the oscillator. The demodulated outputs are amplified so as to balance the sensitivities. Outputs of amplifiers are provided to a differential amplifier which produces the gradiometer output indicative of magnetic field gradient.

Abstract: A treatment delivery apparatus comprises a metallic object and a treatment carrier device which is connected by a heat-sensitive biodegradable connector link to the magnetic object. This carrier device contains the treatment, i.e. the drug, to be transported. An electromagnet is positioned outside of the body part for producing a magnetic field which captures the magnetic object. This electromagnet may be either a simple coil system attached to a robotic arm which moves the electromagnet adjacent the body part, or a multicoil electromagnet system surrounding the body part. In either case, the robotically moved electromagnet or multicoil electromagnet system moves the magnetic object within the body part to a desired location. A computer controls either the robotic arm or multicoil current magnitudes and directions. This computer also provides visualization for observing the location and movement of the magnetic object and carrier device.

Abstract: Drive system for the knife grids of a double-lift open-shed Jacquard machine, which is mounted entirely above the Jacquard machine, and which comprises a central drive shaft which at both ends drives a set of conjugate cams which imparts motion to two follower levers which lie diametrically opposite each other. These follower levers carry out a to and fro pivoting movement in opposite phase to each other, about a transverse axis of symmetry, in between their arms. With each pair of follower levers two knife suspension bars are connected to said arms by means of drive rods in such a way that they move up and down in vertical, parallel planes in opposite phase to each other. A number of knives are suspended in the weft direction on every two knife suspension bars moving in phase, which are situated on either side of the machine in the warp direction. The lift and the inclination of the knife suspension bars are adjustable.

Abstract: A cleaning system has a pail and a formed wire equipment holder constructed in a cylindrical shape to fit within the pail. The formed holder is constructed of coated metal wire. Any suitable material may be used. A centrally positioned bottle holder retains a bottle of a cleaning agent. The remainder of the space between the bottle holder and the holder boundary is sectioned into separate compartments to hold various cleaning implements--a sponge, a brush, a cloth, a scrubber, and a pumice stone. Wire feet support the base of the holder above the floor of the pail. The holder is also equipped with a folding wire handle to permit easy portability and removal from the cleaning pail.

Abstract: A Hawley-type retainer is formed with a reinforcing design carrier laminated within a colored plastic retainer body and partially surrounded by a clear or colored plastic mound, which is laminated within the colored plastic body. The clear or colored and highly visible design on the carrier adds interest and identification to the retainer, promoting its use and location and preventing loss or accidental destruction. The invention is attractive to children so they wear the retainer often.

Abstract: A press which is particularly adapted for pressing casings, cable shoes or such items onto a body, having a steering element supported against a drive which on one hand is connected at the press plunger, and on the other hand, is connected with the cylinder, and which upon movement of the press plunger in the working direction, moves the steering element at a fraction of the speed of the press plunger, whereby a locking device, actuated by the workpiece to be pressed, connects the steering element with the press plunger in such a way that the steering element moves with a speed equal to that of the press plunger and that there is an arresting device at the steering element which, in a predetermined position of the press plunger, blocks pressure medium feed to the work room of the cylinder.

Abstract: To optimize valuable processor time required for the execution of the main control program in an engine control system, execution of no more than two interruption programs in preparation for execution of a frequency calculating program is provided.

Abstract: A monoclonal antibody MHS-5 which specifically binds to a seminal vesicle specific antigen, SVSA, wherein the seminal vesicle specific antigen is secreted by the principal cells of the seminal vesicle epithelium. The method for producing this monoclonal antibody is also disclosed.

Abstract: A lock mechanism comprises a housing and a rotor mounted within a bore of the housing having a skirt, the rotor and skirt being rotatable by a knob. A lock opening and closing lever is rotatable between locking and unlocking positions and a rod is drivably connected to the lock opening and closing lever and serves for connection to a latching device.A securing and release lever drivably connected with the rotor through a drive tang and a slot permitting lost motion is movable by an actuator independently of the rotor.

Abstract: A flowmeter has meshing rotors mounted on shafts. The bores of the rotors have plural longitudinally extending grooves which flow materials through the grooves and out of the bores to promote long, accurate running of the flowmeters. Radial faces of counterbores and end faces and lands of the rotor are provided with radial extensions of the axially extending grooves to provide flow of the material through the grooves.

Abstract: A control mechanism for the selection of the weft yarns in rapier looms with presenting needles on presenting levers, controlled by a plurality of levers and connecting elements from a series of electro-magnets, wherein the presenting and control levers can moves rotatably to and fro about the respective shafts on which they are mounted.

Abstract: A method for increasing fertility in males with impairment of testosterone synthesis, comprising the step of injecting slow-release microcapsules or microspheres containing testosterone directly into the testes. The testosterone-laden microcapsules or microspheres act as temporary Leydig cells and release testosterone directly into the testicular parenchyma and maintain high intratesticular concentrations of testosterone needed for spermatogenesis.