Abstract: A filament applicator includes a frame which defines a machine axis through which an elongate element may be guided at an application station at which filaments are to be applied to or introduce into the elongate element, such as an optical cable. A plurality of chambers are provided, each of which defines a chamber axis substantially parallel to the machine axis and mounted on the frame for rotation about the machine axis. Each chamber is substantially closed and has a panel at an axial end of the chamber which is movable between an open position for inserting and removing a wound package of filament material within the chamber and closed position for substantially sealing the chamber and preventing air turbulence within the chamber upon rotation about the machine axis. Each panel has an opening therein through which the filament material can be removed from the wound package.

Abstract: A tool/accessory caddy for removably holding a plurality of tools or portions thereof, such as driver bits and nut drivers. The tool/accessory housing has a plurality of apertures, and is made of a material of sufficient elasticity for enabling driver bits or nut drivers to be securely retained in place in said apertures, and the tool/accessory housing has an apertured portion for the resilient gripping of the tool/accessory housing to a portion of a tool.

Abstract: A processing device is provided with a disk coating port and a cassette or cartridge port both formed on a common top face or surface of the device sot hat a CD ROM as well as a cartridge ROM may be loaded from the top. A main circuit board, in which a CPU, data processors and other circuits are assembled, is positioned so as to underlie both the disk and cartridge loading ports and generally arranged in a plane parallel to the common top face. The disk operating unit is formed of two portions, one having a lower surface on which the cartridge unit may be detachably mounted, and the other having an elevated portion in which the disk loading port as well as a disk driving mechanism is installed.

Abstract: Used for high performance liquid chromatography systems, a degassing unit with degassing performance of high fluid replacement efficiency in a small volume is described, which is composed of (1) a flat rectangular hollow enclosure using two rectangular degassable film sheets which fringes are sealed hermetically to form an internal space, and providing two independent openings at separate positions; one for an inlet to feed eluent in and the other for an outlet to feed it out, (2) two sheet plates with a number of holes, of the same shape as that of the film sheets, each of which is closely fitted to either side of the film sheets to prevent the expansion of the hollow enclosure, (3) a degassing module having the fringe of the hollow enclosure and the fringes of the plates with holes piled in one upon another with a pair of holding frames which allow to expose the outside surface areas of the sheet plates, (4) a vacuum chamber accommodating the degassing module and enclosing the surrounding space around it, a

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and an arrangement for folding and stacking sewing goods disposed downstream of a sewing machine and separated from it by an interspace, wherein a transfer device bridging this interspace and succeeding transport device are available by which the sewing good is removed from the sewing machine and supplied to the stacking device.In the interspace is provided a vertical clamping device through which a portion of the sewing good while being clamped is taken hold of and transported in the vertical direction by a defined magnitude [distance], and subsequently the remaining portion of the sewing good is transported in a transport gap formed by a support surface of the stacking device and the transport device which, with respect to it, can be raised and lowered. The sewing good is therein folded and can be deposited in the correct position by the stacking device.

Abstract: An earthquake-proof object support device comprising, a sphere of a material having strength high enough to support an object to be supported, and a support frame holding said sphere for supporting said object. At least three devices of the present invention are secured to the bottom of an object to be supported and placed on a flat floor. The devices are attached as legs to a large-scaled computer, for instance and placed on the floor of an office building. The object supported by the devices of the present invention stays at its initial position in accordance with the law of inertia when an earthquake occurs, and horizontal motions of the floor of the building are absorbed by the devices of the present invention. A vertical seismic force is transmitted to the supported object but the object is stably held horizontally as is the case with an object in a vertically moving elevator.

Abstract: A device for securing a pinch roller support arm to a chassis of a magnetic tape apparatus. In the device, the chassis includes a round hole which is formed such that it extends through the chassis, and a securing part is outsert molded in the chassis in such a manner that the securing part extends through the round hole. After the pinch roller support arm is fitted with a support shaft provided on and projected from the chassis and a projection provided on the pinch roller support arm is fitted into a fitting hole formed in the chassis, by rotating the securing part around the round hole, the securing part is engaged with the projection.

Abstract: A blade member of a hockey stick defines a profile, and includes an elongated blade body having a front toe end, a rear heel end, a pair of attachment walls which laterally oppose each other and which respectively extend from the rear heel end toward the front toe end, two flange units that project outwardly and laterally from bottoms of the attachment walls to define two accommodating spaces above the flange units, and a connecting portion that extends integrally, rearwardly and upwardly from the rear heel end. A display sheet is disposed in one of the accommodating spaces to abut against one of the attachment walls, has an outer abutment face with a mark.

Abstract: In a hand drier for drying the hands by blowing hot wind at the extended hands, a drying time is contracted. Unpleasant feelings are avoided by excessively increasing the hot wind temperature.By perceiving the hands extended to the drying portion 2 with a hand sensor 9, the air is sucked by the fan 7 and the air is heated by the heater 8 to discharge the air to the drying portion 2. The Peltier effect element 6 is arranged in a ventilation passage from the air sucking opening 4 to the discharging opening 3 so that the heat sucking side A may be thermally exchanged for the air within the ventilation passage 5, so as to remove the humidity of the air.

Abstract: A waste water purifying apparatus utilizes microorganisms, which comprises an inner casing (1), an outer casing (2), a waste water supply tank (3) and an air supply pipe (4). The inner casing is a vertical type and its upper and lower end are open. Plural porous discs 7 of polyethylene which have liquid passages (6) are piled in the inner casing with each space between every two carrier discs.The outer casing is a vertical type whose bottom is closed by a bottom cap (12) and arranged coaxially with the inner casing with a downward circuit (13) for liquid there between. The outer casing has outflow ports (14) for the treated water.The waste water supply tank is for having waste water a head to flow into the outer casing, above which a waste water supply pipe (15) is open. The tank communicates with the outer casing by means of a leading pipe (19) and it is provided with an overflow to keep a water level constant.

Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for manufacturing communication cables with improved, more uniform impedance characteristics at signal frequencies up to and above 600 MHz. The apparatus includes an "inside-out" rigid twisting machine and at least two bobbins supported within each such machine. Each rigid twisting machine includes a drive for spinning each of the bobbins about their respective axes, and fly-off arrangement is provided for flying off an insulated conductor wire wound on each of the bobbins with substantially no tension in the wire when the bobbin attains a first rotational speed. Guides are provided for guiding the wires from each of the bobbins to a closing point where the wires are closed. A double twist bow arrangement is provided which includes second drive for twisting the closed wires at a second rotational speed to form a twinned cable.

Abstract: An Electronic Commerce system enables corporate purchasers and suppliers to electronically transact for the purchase and supply of goods/services. The system includes three major hardware and software components: buyer, supplier and bank/administration. To enable suppliers to supply goods and services online and process electronic orders, several software components are used for operating a supplier processor server and a supplier catalog server. To enable corporate purchasers to purchase products and services online, preferably over the Internet, from suppliers, software is used for operating a customer server to which multiple users may log-on and access the supplier server. An Automated Clearing House (ACH) server may be used to interface with a bank's (ACH) systems.

Abstract: A cable holder for holding a flexible flat cable having a film portion, flat wires running in the film portion, a reinforcement portion where a reinforcement sheet is attached and notches formed respectively in opposite side edges of the reinforcement portion, to electrically connect the flexible flat cable to a connector. The cable holder comprises a holder body, a holder guide portion provided with the holder body, wherein an inner shape of the holder guide portion corresponds to an outer shape of the connector; and a cable holding portion having protuberances formed on the cable holding portion, for engaging respectively in the notches for holding the reinforcement portion of the flexible flat cable such that a distal end of the flexible flat cable projects into the holder guide portion.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for uniquely determining the position of a mobile earth station in a mobile satellite communication system which employs a non-geostationary satellite with a multi-spot beams. A given point of a preknown position on the earth surface is defined as the center coordinate of a three-dimensional coordinate axis, information on the measured distance and Doppler shift amount between a mobile earth station of an unknown position and a non-geostationary satellite is used to repeat the estimation of the position of the mobile earth station a plurality of times, thereby obtaining the position of the earth station with high accuracy.

Abstract: An improved prying bar includes an elongate shank which has a longitudinal axis, a prying hook at one end and a prying chisel at the other end. The prying hook has a tapered portion extending along a direction generally an angle .alpha. with the longitudinal axis and a generally U-shaped portion integrally formed with the shank and the tapered portion. The tapered and U-shaped portions together form a prying footprint surface facing a direction away from the shank. The angle .alpha. is selected to be greater than 90.degree. and preferably selected within the range of 93.degree.-110.degree.. The prying footprint has a minimum transverse dimension which is substantially greater than the minimum cross sectional dimension of the shank.

Abstract: To provide a disc clamp mechanism of a disc generative device which enables a space-saving design to decrease the height of the disc regenerative device and decrease the number of parts, also being easily assembled, by setting a turntable having a plurality of penetrated guide holes at insertion portion of the disc hole protruded at the center of a table body, a press-maintenance plate inserted into an axial portion of the turntable slidably by installing a spring between the turntable and a plurality of disc-pressing pieces which fixedly urge the disc on the table body wherein said disc-pressing piece is installed on the press-maintenance plate so as to be swingable by latching with a guide hole and being swung so that the disc-pressing portion may become smaller or larger than the diameter of the disc hole according to the access or separation to or from the table body.

Abstract: Folding pocket-style knife and screwdriver having interchangeable bits in which a hinged sleeve folds integrally into the knife handle and unfolds to and locks in 90 and 180 degree angles with the handle to provide angled and straight screwdrivers. The sleeve is a retainer for interchangeable screwdriver bits, retained by ball, C-clip or magnetic retainers.

Abstract: An optical access system is disclosed in which subscribers' terminals and optical coupler-splitters of nodes are maintenance-free and required control is effected on the part of the central office alone. At a first position, down-link optical digital signals are generated, which are made "1s" every n bits (n being an integer equal to greater than 2). The optical digital signals, except a train of optical pulses every n bits, are sent as down-link information over a transmission line. At a second position, the optical digital signals, except the optical pulse train, are demodulated from the transmitted down-link optical digital signals, and in an optical gate circuit on which the down-link optical digital signals are incident, up-link optical digital signals based on up-link message data is formed in synchronization with the optical pulses corresponding to every n-th bits and is transmitted to the first position over the transmission line.