Abstract: A device for securing logs or flat work while said logs or flat work are being cut out of doors in situ. The device consists of a stand and a bow section mounted on a base which secures the log on flat work by means of judicious use of their center of gravity. The device may be adaptable to a wide variety of sizes of logs or flat work and is portable. In one embodiment, the device is constructed of metal pieces having hollow circular cross-sectional areas allowing the base and the stand sections to telescope by means of concentric sections, thus fullfilling the requirement of adaptability described herein.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine comprising a main intake passage supplying air-fuel mixture to a combustion chamber, an auxiliary intake passage supplying air or an air-fuel mixture to the combustion chamber through an injection port, a fuel supplement passage for supplementally supplying fuel to the auxiliary intake passage, a solenoid valve provided in the fuel supplement passage, and a control device for controlling opening and closing of the solenoid valve in response to a signal from an oxygen sensor disposed in an exhaust passage, said solenoid valve controlling supply of fuel to the auxiliary intake passage, thereby regulating an overall air-fuel ratio of the mixture supplied to the combustion chamber approximately to a stoichiometric air-fuel ratio.

Abstract: An automatic centering system is disclosed for use in connection with any two work stations in an automated assembly line, where the workpiece must be transferred, centered, and manipulated at the second work station. The workpiece is transferred along rollers to a staging area where it is restrained and then moved by items of machinery on the outer circumference and the inner circumference, respectively, of the workpiece. A tire released from the tire press may be restrained and then moved over a post-cure inflator apparatus and accurately centered for inflating. After inflating, the tire is directed from the automatic centering system to the next operation.

Abstract: A phosphorescent safety tread made from a laminate including a backing layer, a layer of pressure sensitive adhesive on the backing layer, and a carrier film and which includes, on the surface of the carrier film, a layer of light-colored grit bonded to a face surface of the carrier film and a size coat applied over the grit and aiding in bonding the grit to the carrier film, which size coat includes phosphorescent pigment particles embedded therein for light storage and reflective action and use of the laminate as a phosphorescent safety tread or other similar purpose.

Abstract: An article casing or uncasing apparatus having a conveyor for moving cases through a fixed course wherein a driven case supply conveyor deposits cases onto a driven supply conveyor that has an axially extending opening therein, a driven star wheel positioned in such axial opening parallel to the longitudinal axis of the same and having teeth that protrude upwardly from the case supply conveyor as the star wheel is rotated, the supply conveyor and star wheel being driven in the same direction at upper portions thereof but with the supply conveyor being driven at a faster linear speed than the star wheel or the case supply conveyor to urge the leading end of input cases into engagement with a tooth of the star wheel which retards downstream movement of the case for timed release of a case by continuing drive of the conveyor and star wheel for controlled downstream delivery of individual cases in the apparatus for further processing therein.

Abstract: Confluent ply pneumatic tires including a tire carcass having a crown area and a tire tread on the tire carcass which includes a plurality of confluent two piece plies, each confluent ply piece being anchored at the opposite side of said carcass thereof, one to each of the tire beads and with the tire cords being positioned in the cured tire at uniform bias angles between 2.degree. and 29.degree. inclusive to a radial line at the center line area of the carcass. These "confluent ply" assemblies have each piece extend from one bead up to and across the crown area to terminate short of the opposite tire sidewall, the tire having the cords in these bias plies at the center crown area at one specific bias angle to a tire radius line where all of such cord angles of each individual "confluent ply" piece are inclined in one rotary direction of the tire.

Abstract: A device for clamping or forceful engagement. Top and bottom casing members are maintained in restricted movable engagement with each other. Received within the casing members are a plurality of balls, arranged in layers. Certain of the balls are spring-biased to urge the top and bottom casing members away from each other. In one embodiment of the invention, certain of the balls protrude through the top casing member and adapt to clamp objects of varying geometrical configurations. As forceful engagement is attained, the balls of the device compress and interlock with each other. In another embodiment of the invention, the top casing is without holes and the apparatus may then be used to achieve forceful engagement with an angled surface such as in a clutch mechanism.

Abstract: A method and composition for the in-flight encapsulation of particles such as insecticides, herbicides, molluscicides, acaricides, fungicides, nutrients, pheromones, odorants, fragrances, attractants, repellents, trace elements, plant regulants, and the like is disclosed. The composition comprises, by weight, from 1 to 40 percent of said particles, from 0.1 to 25 percent of a film-forming polymer and from 35 to 99 percent of a liquid which renders said polymers soluble or dispersible. Often, other compounds may be added to impart desirable properties such as other film-forming polymers, crosslinking agent film modifying agents, core agents, and adhesives to improve adhesion to a target. The particle may be in a true solution, suspended, or emulsified through the action of surfactants and/or emulsifying agents. The film-forming polymers include various acrylic polymers and interpolymers of alpha-beta olefinically unsaturated carboxylic acids and N-methylol acrylic amides, as set forth in U.S. Pat. No.

Abstract: A tire press bag well is insulated with at least one envelope. The envelope extends substantially around the bag well within the bag well housing and can be inflated. The envelope, in addition to its insulating properties, can have insulation thereon and the ends of the envelope can be fastened to itself. The configuration of the envelope, once installed, desirably conforms to the shape of the bag well housing. Since heat is applied to a tire press via the bag well, insulation thereof considerably reduces heat loss as well as reduces cure time.

Abstract: Apparatus for performing tests for determining the validity of a paper purported to be a valid instrument is presented. Fundamentally, the invention comprises a tray for receiving a paper offered as a valid instrument and maintaining the same in sliding relationship between a light source and reticle. A photocell is operatively connected to the reticle and senses light passing from the light source and through the paper and reticle. The output of the photocell is applied to an operational amplifier having a dynamic feedback network and the output of this amplifier is characteristic of both a grid pattern upon the paper and the optical density thereof. This output is then passed to an amplifier circuit which establishes an optical density domain and is operative to pass a signal only if the paper falls within such domain. This output is then passed to appropriate integrating and comparator circuitry to ultimately determine the validity of the paper.

Abstract: A method of and an apparatus for producing a seat cushion member by laminating a sheet of decorative surface material, a sheet of usual polyurethane foam material and a reinforcing web of fabric material in the above order, and subjecting the laminate to heating by a conventional heating unit and, at the same time, to high-frequency dielectric heating by a high-frequency welder to locally fuse required portions of the sheet of usual polyurethane foam material thereby welding the three layers into an integral structure.

Abstract: A fluid timer to control the flow of water, the timer having a clock work control which controls the closing of a valve through which the water flows through the timer.

Abstract: A battery analyzer for testing industrial batteries under a constant current load. The analyzer includes a load bank consisting of a plurality of resistors in selective parallel interconnection. The load bank is placed across the battery terminals. Sensors are connected to each of the cells of the battery, as well as the battery terminals, and a multiplexer scans each of the cells and the battery terminals to monitor load current, battery voltage, and the cell voltage of each of the cells. The load bank is continually adjusted to maintain a constant current. The principal control element of the battery analyzer is a microprocessor chip which interrelates with a keyboard for receiving data from an operator. A printer, controlled by the microprocessor, presents a permanent record of the battery analysis, while a display unit, under program control, directs an operator in the use of the analyzer.

Abstract: A re-registering feeder machine which is also an improvement to a separating machine accepts sheets of paperboard or other material with various angles of skew, registers them and feeds them to a following machine. A conveyor deck moves the sheet in a first direction where at the last roll the sheet is held down by a plurality of balls in cooperative rotation with the last roll and its leading edge meets a side register guide having a plurality of pairs of tapered drive rolls to grip the sheet along the margin and move the sheet in a second direction at right angles to the first direction after the sheet has been registered. Coatings on the conveyor rolls except for the last roll which has the cooperatively rotating balls in contact therewith provide a proper friction between the rolls and the sheet allowing the sheet to turn in either direction until the angle between its leading edge and the side register guide is zero.

Abstract: In the field of security validators, slot acceptors have been known which transport paper offered as a valid security past a testing station. Previously known acceptors have been susceptible to defeat by mosaics, stringing, shocking, photocopy duplication, and the like. Additionally, known acceptors have operated in an analog mode, relying uon rudimentary test functions. The invention herein overcomes the problems of the prior art by presenting an acceptor having a note path (18) characterized by changes of direction (22,24), and which is secured at each end by means of unique gate assemblies (78,98). A plurality of sensors (148-152) are positioned along the note path and are controlled to take a multitude of data samples from the paper as it passes along the path. The data is digitized (236) and used for solving complex transforms, the results of which are compared against results obtained from known valid securities to determine the authenticity of the paper offered.

Abstract: [Hydroxy(organosulfonyloxy)iodo]arenes are synthesized in neutral organic solvents by the reaction of ring-substituted [hydroxy(organosulfonyloxy)iodo]benzenes with iodoarenes via ligand transfer. The produced compounds are reacted with (triorganosilyl) arenes or (trihalosilyl)arenes in neutral organic solvents to produce diaryliodonium salts. The diaryliodonium salt synthesis proceeds in regiospecific fashion, aryliodination occurring at the point of attachment of the silicon atom in the silylarenes.

Abstract: A variable length stroke piston is provided in an internal combustion engine having an engine block means including a toroidal shaped cylinder, a piston positioned in the cylinder for arcuate reciprocation therein, a piston rod means pivotally positioning the piston for movement about the center axis of the toroid defining the cylinder, a regulatory shaft positioned parallel to a crankshaft and with a connector link extending therefrom, articulated link means pivotally interconnecting the piston rod to the engine connecting rod and operatively connecting to the regulatory shaft, and means operatively connect the regulatory shaft to the accelerator controlling the engine to rotate the regulatory shaft through a controlled arc with changes in the setting of the accelerator and reduce the length of piston stroke with reduced fuel supply to the engine to maintain substantially uniform compression in the cylinder at all times.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for separation of almond kernels where there is a mixture of almond kernels with almond kernels held with or within the shells the method comprising introducing the mixture onto two contra rotating rollers which are rotating upwardly through a separation gap and which have their axis inclined to the horizontal so as to cause feeding of the mixture from an entry location to an exit location, the separation gap being selected so that with the alignment caused by the roller action, almond kernels without shells will pass therethrough while almond kernels with shells will pass along to an exit location. The apparatus provides two contra rotating rollers held the selected distance apart to provide for the separation and being adapted to be contra rotating and includes abutments in the surface to provide an occasional tipping action to almond kernels moving along the surface of the rollers.

Abstract: New concepts of Components and Unities of Turbo-Machines based on a mathematical theory checked through experiments and permitting to predict the behaviour of a fluid particle subjected to a system of forces;Structures enabling all types of Single and Compound Turbo-Machines to operate through new principles insuring the Maximum Possible Efficiency to these Machines.

Abstract: A pressure sensitive adhesive composition comprising the solids deposited from a mixture of solvents, synthetic rubber and tackifiers and also including a polysiloxane additive in about 6 to 10 percent of the resultant composition, which composition has reduced edge ooze or flow when on sheets subjected to a cutting action.