Abstract: A device for feeding ammunition in the form of a continuous belt into a weapon carried on an aircraft; the device having a rigid conduit extending longitudinally along a side of the fuselage of the aircraft, and in turn having a rear portion for loading the ammunition, and a front portion connectable to the weapon by a flexible conduit; the rear portion of the rigid conduit being of such a width as to house the ammunition in two rows, in an accordion configuration; and the front portion being narrower to house the ammunition in a single row.

Abstract: A one-way valve is mounted on a wall of a casket for venting gas and vapor pressure build up interiorly of the casket incident to body decomposition.

Abstract: A shaker head for a harvester of plant produce comprises jaws 1, 2 pivotally connected together at 3 and having resilient clamp pads 6 adjacent the free ends thereof. A shaking mechanism is housed in a space in one or both jaws behind clamp pad 6. Jaws 1, 2 are operable by ram 4, 5 to grip part of a plant and, on actuation of the shaking mechanism, to shake it to jar produce therefrom. Each clamp pad 6 is provided with a plurality of bores, each bore extending from a mouth in the gripping surface of pad 6 for more than half the thickness of the pad.

Abstract: An in-line roller skate including a main chassis (1) supporting at least two rollers (5, 6), and an auxiliary chassis (8) which is articulated onto the main chassis and bears at least the rear roller (10). The skate includes a pair of discs (13) which are mounted so as to rotate and the frustoconical faces of which are applied onto the two rear rollers (6, 10) when the skate tilts rearward, braking being ensured by friction of the discs on the rotationally fixed parts of the skate.

Abstract: A process for manufacturing a bundle of hollow carbon membranes comprising the steps of: (a) providing a bundle of hollow cellulose fibers; (b) removing substantially all the absorbed water from the said fibers; (c) heating the fibers to a range of temperatures where it pyrolyzes; (d) supplying to the said fibers, during at least part of the heating thereof and after the water has been removed, a catalytically effective amount of a gaseous catalyst selected from among Lewis acids, and ionic salts that are at least partially volatile at the pyrolysis temperature range.

Abstract: A sprayer tank is molded with an internally extending boss in the tank having internal threads and a shoulder at its base for receiving an O-ring of the hose adapter. Internal tank pressure enhances the seal between the tank boss and hose adapter. The hose adapter has several attributes including the ability to swivel independently of the tank fitting hose nut, pressure release slots and ability to remove the swivel part, supply tube and hose without removing the tank fitting hose nut.

Abstract: A document feeding device mounted on an image processing device such as a copying machine for automatically feeding duplex original documents having images to be read on both sides to an image reading point one by one in such a manner that the document fed from a supply tray is reversed at a switchback part, sent through the image reading point to read the image on one side thereof, sent back to the switchback part to be turned upside down, again sent through the image reading point to read the image on the other side thereof, and then, discharged to a discharge tray. The documents can be rationally transported at high speed with high efficiency, and consecutively discharged to the discharge tray in the same order of page as those initially set on the supply tray.

Abstract: A recordable optical disc on which information is recorded by applying a light beam on the surface thereof, includes: a first recording area on which information is recorded and reproduced while the disc is rotated at a first linear velocity; and a second recording area on which information is recorded and reproduced while the disc is rotated at a second linear velocity. The first recording area and the second recording area include guide grooves having wobble frequency lower than frequency band of EFM signal.

Abstract: The invention concerns a collection of phagemids made up of a promotor, a gene of a fusion between a ligand protein, wherein the ligand protein in its processed state would be of from 40 to 60 amino acid residues, and a bacteriophage protein, at least one transcription terminator sequence, a replication origin derived from a single strand bacteriophage, a plasmid replication origin and facultatively at least one selection marker. Further, the invention concerns a collection of Escherichia coli clones or cells representing the collection of phagemids, a process for isolating phagemid particles with strong binding characteristics for a defined target molecule with the use of collections according to the invention and phagemid particles obtained according to the process.

Abstract: Disclosed is the printing system 1 including the printer 2 and the personal computer 51 through which the command combination is selected according to kind of the print sheet A among four command combinations (the first combination is defined by both the print order standard command and the print direction standard command, and corresponds to pattern 1; the second combination is defined by the sheet plane standard command and the print direction standard command, and corresponds to pattern 2; the third combination is defined by the print order standard command and the sheet direction standard command, and corresponds to pattern 3; the fourth combination is defined by the sheet plane standard command and the sheet direction standard command, and corresponds to pattern 4), further the print condition is determined by the selected command combination, thereby image printing is conducted in the two-sided printing mode by the printer 2 under print control by the personal computer 51 while reversing the feed direct

Abstract: An apparatus for automatically feeding sheets to an image forming device such as a copying machine is provided with a sheet register means formed of one or more outside rollers movable into and out of contact with one or more feed rollers in rotation and one or more inside rollers located side by side with the feed rollers, so that the outside rollers rotate when being in touch with the feed rollers to forward the sheet. The outside and inside rollers are rockingly moved by shifting means, so that, when the sheet is given from a sheet supply unit, the outside rollers is separated from the feed rollers to rest the outside and inside rollers so as to bring the sheet into collision with the resting outside and inside rollers to slightly bend the leading portion of the sheet, consequently fulfilling a registering function of correcting the orientation of the sheet with relation to a feeding direction.

Abstract: A tape dispenser for dispensing adhesive tape which includes a mechanism for preventing roll back of tape on the roll after dispensing thereon through the use of a roller biased or configured to rotate in one direction or otherwise to prevent the tape being dispensed from reattaching to the roll or providing the roll itself with unidirectional operation.

Abstract: A surfacing block (1) has upper and lower surfaces (2, 7) bounded by walls (5) extending between the surfaces (2, 7). The surfaces (2, 7) are of a generally cruciform shape having four arms (4) each of which extend in a direction substantially parallel to the lower surface (7) and substantially perpendicular to two of the other arms (4) of the block. The block (1) has around the boundary of its surface projections (8) and/or recesses (9) for interlocking engagement with recesses and/or projections of a neighbouring block. The shape of the block helps to improve the resistance to movement of the block when laid with similar blocks.

Abstract: A papermaking apparatus such as a Fourdrinier table which includes a long blade and a trail blade. In the first aspect of the invention, the long blade includes an upper undulated surface with vents passing from the upper undulated surface to the lower surface of the long blade which is at substantially atmospheric pressure. In the second aspect of the invention, the trail blade includes an elevator-type device for adjusting the vertical position of the trail blade. The first and second aspects may be used independently or simultaneously.

Abstract: Disclosed are UV-cured heat transfer labels prepared from a mixture containing at least one thermoplastic resin, at least one material for solvating the thermoplastic resin, the solvating material being either a solvent or liquid monomer, and at least one photo-initiable material which initiates curing of the composition.

Abstract: The automatic vertical storage and retrieval system has an extractor for retrieving items stored and presenting the retrieved items to an operator. The extractor is vertically displaceable between and along vertical rails and is driven by an electromechanical chain drive system. The rails have equally-spaced locking slots for attaching pan brackets to form storage platforms for storage pans. The extractor includes an extractor stabilization mechanism having four locking dogs which engage with the locking slots of the rails to support the extractor and any retrieved items, thereby removing the load on the chains of the chain drive system during extraction or deposition of the storage pan(s). Thus, the extractor can be located in the optimal vertical position without the use of a precision linear encoder, and the extractor can maintain this optimal vertical position as the load is transferred to or from the extractor.

Abstract: An on-machine-seamable multi-axial press fabric for the press section of a paper machine is made from a base fabric layer assembled by spirally winding a fabric strip in a plurality of contiguous turns, each of which abuts against and is attached to those adjacent thereto. The resulting endless base fabric layer is flattened to produce first and second fabric plies joined to one another at folds at their widthwise edges. Crosswise yarns are removed from each turn of the fabric strip at the folds at the widthwise edges to produce unbound sections of lengthwise yarns. A seaming element, having seaming loops along one of its widthwise edges, is disposed between the first and second fabric plies at each of the folds at the two widthwise edges of the flattened base fabric layer. The seaming loops extend outwardly between the unbound sections of the lengthwise yarns from between the first and second fabric plies.