Abstract: A Y-shaped flow splitter passes papermaking fluid with some fibers with reduced clogging and has a flat surface opposite the leg of the Y where the flow divides into the two arms of the Y. A generally flat rectangular surface is positioned opposite the leg of the Y of the flow splitter which divides the flow evenly without providing a place for fibers to collect and thus clog the flow through the splitter. The splitter allows the flow to a pair of dilution tubes to be controlled by a single valve with a single flow passage reducing clogging and valve cost. The flow splitter is constructed of stainless steel by a by casting process. A process known commercially as the Extrudehone process is used to produce smooth flow passages.

Abstract: A plurality of like wedge bars are formed with a groove between two lands. The wedge bars are assembled into a cylindrical screen, with the grooves defining screening slots of a uniform width. The wedge bars may be electron beam welded or furnace brazed to support rings. Alternatively, the wedge bars may be held in place by slots in support rings and circumferential clamping applied by jack wedge assemblies. Multiple cylindrical segments may be connected together into a single screen cylinder by an ear and slot arrangement. The screen cylinder so formed may have slots of 0.004 inches or less in width, and may be formed of a wide range of wear and corrosion resistant materials.

Abstract: A thermoformed thermoplastic truck bedliner has at least one pair of under-cut load restraint pockets formed by portions of opposed bedliner sidewalls. The pockets are recessed from the sidewall so that a load restraining member such as a 2.times.4 beam may be pressed downwardly to be snapped into engagement with the pockets. The pockets support the boards in a horizontal orientation, with the wide dimension of the board extending from front to back within the liner to give greater board stiffness against loads shifting from front to back. The pockets may be formed in either under the rail bedliners or in over the rail bedliners. In an alternative embodiment, each under-cut pocket is formed in a cross shape such that a board may be positioned horizontally or vertically.

Abstract: In a twin wire former a headbox injects stock onto a forming wire with which a second forming wire is brought into gradual engagement. A forming shoe directs the two wires along a path of increasing curvature, above which water is drained by adjustable auto slices. The two wires with the web therebetween then follow an oscillating S-shaped path between seven S-rolls and are directed upwardly through three individually loaded press rolls with increasing pressure to about four hundred and fifty pounds per linear inch at the last wet press. Drainage pans collect water from the upper surface of the twin wires and water thrown off the upper press rolls. The press rolls are individually pneumatically pivotable to increase nip pressure, and collectively pivotable to open all the nips. Next a high pressure dry nip can increase the fiber content of the web to thirty-five percent fiber.

Abstract: An aqueous germicidal composition for the treatment or prevention of infectious diseases of the hoof in animals, comprising a copper salt, a quaternary ammonium compound, and a peroxide is disclosed. A method for treating or preventing infectious diseases of the hoof in animals, comprising topically administering an effective amount of an aqueous germicidal composition comprising a copper salt, a quaternary ammonium compound, and a peroxide is also disclosed.

Abstract: A transparent thermoformed thermoplastic blister has a product bubble which protrudes from a flange which is connected to a backing card. The bubble has an access opening which is selectably uncovered by a pivotable door hinged to the flange and to a hinge panel by parallel hinges, with the hinge panel hinged to the flange to define an over-center hinge arrangement. The lengths of the hinge panel and door, as well as the spring constants of the hinges may be selected to form a closure which will tend to remain opened once opened, or alternatively one which will automatically spring closed when finger pressure on the door is released. The closure may alternatively be formed in a clamshell package. The physical manipulation of the door is similar to the throwing of a light switch, and hence is readily apprehended by new users.

Abstract: An L-shaped support has a rearwardly extending tubular arm formed of a thin-walled tube. The end of vertical leg of the support is cold formed into a U-shaped, double-walled channel which fits between the sides of a brace which is rigidly mounted to the trailer hitch of a vehicle. A plastic bracket has a split ring clamp which fits over the rearwardly extending arm of the support. The entire bracket may pivot about the axis defined by the arm. An alternative embodiment attachment device for restraining a bicycle tube on a horizontally extending carrier arm is formed as a single molded part of thermoplastic rubber. The attachment device has a strap with an array of two rows of holes which engage with a square array of four mushroom-head type fasteners to attach the end of the strap to the attachment devices.

Abstract: For replacement of automotive windshields by aftermarket installers, two mirror image grips have a curved tubular handle which is welded to a sheet metal base with two legs which are at an obtuse angle to one another. The curved handle allows smooth repositioning of an installer's hands as the large windshield is shifted into position on the automobile, the obtuse angle base provides sufficient clearance for the full range of hand positions. Each leg of the sheet metal base is positioned to abut against an installer's hand during different stages of windshield lifting, i.e. when the windshield is vertical, and when it is inverted and horizontal. The grips are used to lift and position a windshield with a bead of urethane thereon into the pinch weld of the automobile.

Abstract: A thermoplastic sheet is thermoformed to produce a bedliner with molded side walls which extend under the side rails of a pick-up truck. Each liner side wall has dished portions or recesses on each side of the truck box wheel well. The recesses extend beneath the truck box rail and provide access to truck box side wall structure such as board holders. Each recess is defined by a skirt which extends outwardly from the inner portions of the side wall to a generally vertical outward side wall panel which defines the outward portion of the recess. The skirt extends horizontally, for example in the plane of the board holder pocket, and extends upwardly on each side of the recess. An undercut stiffening flange is formed to extend inwardly from the outward side wall panel, and runs between the upwardly extending portions of the skirt. The undercut flange, together with the skirt and the outward side wall panel defines a rigidifying shell which contributes to the overall stiffness of the bedliner side wall.

Abstract: A bag breaking apparatus has an apron feeder type conveyor with an apron constructed of over-lapping pans. Thin upstanding triangular teeth are mounted to each pan parallel to the direction of motion of the conveyor. Bags of trash are supplied to the conveyor and progress to an outfeed end. A roll is positioned over the conveyor near the outfeed end. The roll is driven about the axis of the roll. Triangular teeth mounted to the roll interdigitate with the teeth on the conveyor thus rending the bags which pass between the roll and the conveyor. The roll can be raised and lowered to accommodate bags of different sizes and is pivotable to swing upwardly when faced with oversize or excessive amounts of trash and thereby allow the material causing the jam to pass under the roll and off the outfeed end of the conveyor.

Abstract: A papermaking machine uses a low pressure water jet mounted on a pneumatic actuator for movement at least as fast in the cross machine direction as the paper web moves in the machine direction for a distance of 2 to 12 inches. The jet rapidly cuts a tail with a blunt edge of 2 to 12 inches wide from the web. The actuator is mounted on a screw or belt driven carriage to traverse the web and expand the tail after it has been threaded through the dryer section until the tail encompass the entire web and thus completes the threading process. A controller coordinates an air jet positioned beneath a doctor blade and a vacuum suction roll which engages the last press roll. The air jet and vacuum suction roll are actuated when the blunt end of the tail engages the doctor blade. In this way a tail with little or no streamer is formed and blown onto a dryer fabric supported on a vacuum suction roll which leads the tail into a single tier dryer section.

Abstract: Paper cards for use in three-dimensional paper sculpture, wherein the cards have perforated images thereon produced by a laser beam directed by a computer-controlled movable mirror to the back surface of the cards in a predetermined pattern. Indicia for assembly of individual image elements are burned in the back of the cards during the cutting process.

Abstract: A method for dehydrating capillary materials such as moist walls and/or floors of a building structure of masonry or concrete through the principle of electro-osmosis by applying pulsating DC voltage of a specific pulse pattern to primary electrode means embedded in said structure, said primary electrode means (4) forming anode means, and secondary electrode means (5) embedded in the ground outside the structure and forming cathode means to be interactive with said anode means, said pulsating voltage having a pulse pattern with a total pulse period T, comprised of a positive pulse of duration T+, a negative pulse of duration T-, and a neutral period or pause of duration Tp, wherein:0.8T<T+.ltoreq.0.98T;0.0T<T-.ltoreq.0.05T;0.02T<Tp.ltoreq.0.15T;and3 seconds<T.ltoreq.60 seconds.Suitably, T+=0.95 T; T-=0.01 T; and Tp=0.04 T.

Abstract: The invention provides a thermoplastic bed liner that is molded with side walls which are formed using large draft angles and which are hinged to the bottom wall along fold lines so that the side walls are pivotable from as molded positions to substantially more upright installed positions. To finish the molded bed liner, blank or cutout sections are removed from the front corners of the bed liner and from between wheelwell covers and the bottom wall of the bed liner. Removal of the cutout sections permits the side walls to be pivoted between their as molded positions and their installed positions.

Abstract: A closed cell foam tubular muff encircles the helical coil portion of an automobile cellular phone antenna, the muff has a slanted top surface and reduces pressure differentials around the coil. The streamlined muff thereby reduces wind-induced whistling of the antenna. An alternative device is a solid cylindrical foam insert with a plurality of depressions formed therein which engages within the coil of the antenna. Both devices not only reduce the pressure effects which lead to whistling, but also, because of their foam composition, contribute to a damping of any randomly occurring vibrations.

Abstract: A flashlight outer sleeve is formed of rubber which has an integral camouflage pattern. Because the multicolored elements of the sleeve are fused together, a scratch or abrasion will not appreciably alter its appearance. The rubber sleeve is formed in a compression molding process. Multilayer rubber sheet assemblies are prepared for the compression molding process by first die-cutting camouflage pattern shapes from thin sheets of rubber of two or more colors. The die cut shapes are placed on rectangular base sheets and pressed into temporary engagement to create multilayer sheet assemblies. The sheet assemblies are disposed in conventional rubber compressing molding molds and are heated. As the base sheet and the pattern shapes are comprised of identical rubber material, except for color, the heated rubber flows such that the multilayer assemblies take on the shape of the molded parts.

Abstract: A calender employs an open-stack like arrangement with a single vertical beam or support column on each end of the calender. In combination with the support beam, a special swing link is used to support tension loads on the open side of the calender. The nip is thus straddled by structural members between the support column and the link. This combination has the ability to support high linear nip loads, as high as 3,000 PLI or higher. The link has pin connections at both ends so that when one pin is removed, the link can be swung open for roll removal or accessibility. Thus, the strength of the closed-stack calender is combined with the visibility and ease of access of the open-stack calender by the employment of tension links which replace one of the support columns utilized in a closed-stack calender.