Abstract: A fitting for retaining a cylindrical tube includes a fitting body having a hole extending through it. The hole includes a cylindrical main cavity located at one end of the body into which an end of the tubing can be inserted. A circular retaining shoulder is located on the tubing so that the shoulder is within the main cavity when the tubing is placed in the fitting. A closure, such as a snap ring, is installed at the open end of the main cavity to hold the shoulder within the main cavity. The closure has a circular hole within it to receive the tubing. An elastomeric seal is mounted within the main cavity between the shoulder and the closure. The inner diameter and the outer diameter of the seal cause the seal to be compressed between the tubing and the wall of the main cavity.

Abstract: A replaceable mounting ring is disclosed for use with a water closet coupling which is interposed between a water closet drain and a sewer pipe. The mounting ring fits on a channel in a flange near the inlet end of the water closet coupling. The mounting ring comprises two arcuate members, each having a U-shaped cross section formed by a base and a leg on each side of the base, with the base having a lower surface between the two legs. A corresponding end of each arcuate member has an extension from the lower surface of its base of a size which allows the extension to engage the lower surface of the base of the opposite end of the other arcuate member. These extensions enable the ends of the arcuate members to form a mounting ring having a U-shaped cross section.

Abstract: A plastic mounting ring comprises two plastic arcuate members each having a flat upper profile, a flat lower profile and a predetermined thickness. Each plastic arcuate member has a lip extending radially inwardly with an inside diameter that allows it to engage the sides of the channel formed by the flange on the water closet coupling on which it is to be mounted. A corresponding first end of each arcuate member has a notch out of the lower level of its thickness. A second corresponding end of each arcuate member has an extension, coplanar with its flat lower profile, which engages the lower surface of the base of the opposite end of the other arcuate member. The members are fitted together to form a mounting ring having a flat upper profile and a flat lower profile. The mounting ring can be used to replace a flange formation of an installed water closet coupling without removing the total water closet coupling.

Abstract: A powered pushing unit transfers ads no greater than a predetermined magnitude in one direction along the length of a load transfer system. The pushing unit includes a frame and a source of power for moving the pushing unit back and forth along the length of the load transfer system. A dog for engaging a load is pivotally mounted with respect to the frame. A restricting mechanism applies a load engaging force to hold the dog at a load transfer range of positions until the load is greater than the predetermined magnitude. A toggle joint is mounted between the dog and the frame. The toggle joint forms an angle in a first angular direction to lock the dog in a load engaging position during engagement of a load under the predetermined magnitude. The toggle joint further shifts to form an angle in a second angular direction upon engagement of a load in excess of the predetermined magnitude, thereby allowing the dog to pivot away from the load which is in excess of the predetermined magnitude.

Abstract: The invention relates to a liquid controlled disk braking device having a brake disk, brake caliper, and a caliper carrier. The brake disk is postionable on the roller of a main hoist and forms a brake pair together with the brake calipers. A combination of service and emergency calipers, each caliper being responsive to fluid pressure, is used to effect operational and stationary braking. Service calipers are used to apply operational braking forces against the brake disk when the disk is rotating, applying braking forces when subjected to fluid pressure. Emergency calipers are used to apply braking forces when the brake disk is stationary or when liquid pressure to the caliper has been removed or lost.

Abstract: A bracket assembly and method for positioning a cooling fan thermostat on a motorcycle engine so that the mounted thermostat is more responsive to actual changes in engine temperature. The bracket mounts on the engine's engine block near the base of the cylinders and positions the thermostat close to the cylinders' cooling fins. This positioning leaves the thermostat well below the lines of air flowing from the fan and prevents the thermostat from cooling before lowering the engine temperature below the preset maximum level. This positioning also leaves the thermostat closer to the cylinders which are the most significant sources of heat in the engine, making the thermostat more convectively responsive to the engine's actual temperature.

Abstract: The present invention relates generally to methods for the synthesis of various solids such as diamonds, diamonds films, boron nitride and other similar materials. This invention specifically relates to utilizing novel sources of reaction species (e.g., in the case of diamond formation, novel sources of carbon and/or hydrogen and/or seeds) for the manufacture of various materials and the use of such materials for various commercial purposes.

Abstract: A battery's impedance is measured by a technique that normally uses a current divider network which is connected to the battery. The circuit used according to this technique has a current generator producing a regulated current signal and has one or more sensing impedances which are normally positioned electrically parallel, or in some alternate embodiments in series, with the battery. A DC-blocking capacitor prevents the battery voltage from draining into the one or more sensing impedances. A magnetic field sensor or comparable device measures the magnitude and/or phase of current passing through the sensing impedances. Substitution of a number of calibrated impedances into the circuit in place of the battery permits an initial mathematical computation of the battery's impedance utilizing this technique. Thereafter battery impedances can be computed with the current without using calibrated impendances.

Abstract: An adjustable, shelf hanging clip for hanging shelves on storage racks is constructed from at least two rectangular sections of material joined at an angle which can be about 90°. At least one of these rectangular sections has a pair of hook-shaped support and latching tabs extending from its exterior surface, with the ends of the tabs extending toward one another. The hook shaped tabs are adapted to be received into a pair of adjacent, vertically spaced holes in the columns of the storage racks. The hook of the upper tab fits over the bottom of the upper hole so that the top inside surface of the hook is the bearing surface and the outside surface of the lower tab is the bearing surface on the bottom of the lower hole. The other rectangular section of the clip has a notch at each of its ends. The bottom surface of each notch is a separate, preselected longitudinal distance from the inside bearing surface of the nearest tab.

Abstract: A conveyor system has a load support structure which enables loads to be moved along the conveyor. The load support structure has an input position at which loads can be placed into the conveyor system, an unload position at which loads can be removed from the conveyor system and a load storage area located between the input position and the unload position. The conveyor system also includes a plurality of sensors including an input sensor which senses when a load is at the input position, an unload sensor which senses when a load is at the unload position, and a filled sensor which determines when a pre-selected portion of the load structure has been filled with loads. A propulsion system moves loads along the load support structure. One such propulsion system includes a tram which reciprocates along the load support system. A control system responds to the sensors to cause the propulsion system to move one or more loads to the unload position whenever the unload position is empty.

Abstract: A set of caissons for use with wave generators for swimming pools has its vertical walls prefabricated out of stainless steel prior to installation. These vertical walls include a stainless steel end wall at each end of the caissons and a stainless steel back wall extending transverse to the back of the caissons. Partition walls extend to the floor between adjacent caissons and to the ceiling of these caissons as required by the wave generator with which they are used. Stainless steel baffle dividers can also be installed within selected caissons to inhibit the production of waves within individual caissons. Additionally, a stainless steel front wall traverses the front of the set of caissons and extends from the ceiling of the caissons to a selected distance above the floor of the caissons.

Abstract: The present version of the invention relates to the field of reading stands in general. This version of the invention discloses a portable stand that provides a magnifier for either writing or reading so that the user can engage in either activity and be afforded magnification of the written or printed page in a variety of locations and circumstances. The invention consists of a side support member, rear support member, and magnifying panel. The panel and support embers are manufactured of material that is clear, durable, scratch resistant, and rigid, such as acrylic or the like. The support members are rectangular in shape and are formed with a plurality of mounting grooves that run in parallel along the longitudinal axis of the support members. The side support member is formed with a retaining groove placed near the vertical or shorter edge of the member for receipt of the rear support member in tongue and groove fashion.

Abstract: Teeth within a patient's mouth are moved by an orthodontic method of treatment in which orthodontic appliances are installed at a desired time during the treatment on the teeth to be moved. Cortical bone adjacent the roots of the teeth to be moved is partially decorticated. Bone grafting material is installed between the partially decorticated cortical bone and the mucoperiosteum. The orthondontic appliances are adjusted thereafter as needed to move the teeth toward the positions desired. One orthodontic appliance which can be used for applying orthopedic force between a patient's anterior teeth on one side of an edentulous area and a patient's posterior teeth on the other side includes a front body, a back body and a screw member operatively connected between them. The screw member is adjustable to cause the front body and the back body to move away from one another and to move toward one another while transmitting an orthopedic force between them.

Abstract: A turbine meter used for measuring the volume of fluid flowing through a conduit includes an elongated housing having an upstream end and a downstream end and a rotor mounted within the housing. A plurality of turbine blades are mounted on the rotor at an angle with respect to the axis of rotation of the rotor which causes each of the rotor blades to have a high pressure surface which faces toward the upstream end of the housing. Each of the rotor blades also has a trailing edge closest to the downstream end of the housing. An extension is included at approximately the trailing edge on the high pressure surface of at least one and preferably a plurality of the rotor blades. The extension has a length and forms an angle with respect to the high pressure surface of the rotor blade on which it is mounted which causes the percentage of error of the accuracy of the meter across a chosen operating range of the meter to be within predetermined limits.

Abstract: An improved rotary fluid meter is provided having expansion chambers for conditioning pressure pulses that may occur in the flow of fluids. The pressure pulses, which inhibit the meter's ability to accurately measure, may originate from within a metering device or from without it. The pressure pulses may be generated upstream of the meter. Fluid flows into the meter through a fluid flow conduit. At least one flow conditioning chamber which is of such a volume and a shape as to enable it to substantially dampen pressure pulses so as to improve the accuracy of the rotary meter is provided along the fluid flow conduit.