Abstract: A media storage or display assembly is adapted to stand erect and receive multiple media storage cartridges therein. The media storage assembly comprises at least one modular media storage unit having multiple upright members, multiple intermediate shelf units, a lower base and an upper base. Each multiple upright member is releasably secured in a receiving socket in the lower base and additionally releasably secured in a receiving socket in the upper base. The multiple intermediate shelf units are disposed intermediate the upper base and the lower base upon the multiple upright members. Each intermediate shelf unit has multiple keyhole shaped ports disposed therethrough adjacent an outer peripheral rim of the shelf unit, each port adapted for receiving one of the upright members therethrough and having a mechanism for slidably engaging the upright member associated therewith.

Abstract: In a filling system for moving a supply of liquid through an automatic nozzle, a filling adaptor affixed to a fill pipe of the container for receiving the automatic nozzle has a safety closure at a discharge end thereof to reduce spillage of liquid from the container upon tipping of the container.

Abstract: An electronic eye depth testing method comprises a three dimensional cubic space displayed on a display screen, wherein the cubic space has a first image of a three dimensional object and a second image of a three dimensional object randomly placed within the cubic space. The first image is located at the intersection of two perpendicular horizontal planes and a vertical plane perpendicular to said two horizontal planes and the second image is located at the intersection of two perpendicular horizontal planes and a vertical plane perpendicular to said two horizontal planes. A subject to be tested for depth perception is directed to move the images into convergence in the center of the cubic space.

Abstract: An automated fueling nozzle for transferring fuel from a fuel storage tank to a vehicle fuel storage tank has a vacuum sensing arrangement disposed outboard of a discharge end of an outlet spout of the nozzle to interrupt the flow of fuel when the tank is substantially full to prevent reflux of fuel from the vehicle tank through the inlet conduit of the vehicle tank.

Abstract: A solid-foods dispenser adapted to receive a stick of solid edible material and dispense the material in at least one ribbon of desired thickness is disclosed. The solid-foods dispenser comprises an elongate housing having structural walls defining a chamber bounded by terminal ends, the chamber having an internal configuration generally corresponding to the configuration of the stick of material to be dispensed. A first closure adapted to be removingly engaged to one end of the elongate housing has an advance associated therewith and a second closure adapted to be fitted to the other end of the elongate housing has an interchangeable die associated therewith. The advance has a plunger for dispensing the stick wherein the advance moves the plunger. The plunger has a forward end surface configured to mate with the interior surface of the second closure and is positioned within the housing and movable therewithin.

Abstract: An improvement in a pitched hip roof construction of a building construction is provided wherein the building construction has at least four wall sections, the roof construction comprising roof decking portions joined at at least the exterior hip junctures thereof, the outer edge of the roof construction overhanging the walls of the building construction and terminating in a roof edge plate affixed to the ends of roof rafters which are adapted to support the decking portions and the subsequent exterior roofing materials. The improvement in the roof construction further comprises having a roof drip edge applied over the terminal end of the decking portions and the roof edge plate, wherein the end of each juncture has means for covering affixed thereto prior to applying the exterior roofing materials.

Abstract: A stuffer device for supplying a substantially continuous stream of elastomeric feed stock in a fluid state to an inlet port of at least one injection molding machine is provided. The device comprises a feed stock advancing unit remote from an injection molding machine having a conduit associated therewith connecting the feed stock advancing unit to the inlet port of the injection molding machine and a controller for the feed stock advancing unit to provide a measured amount of feed stock to the inlet port commensurate with the needs of each injection cycle.

Abstract: A storage rack system comprises free standing modular units which are releasably joined and secured together. Each modular unit has identical parallel end frames separated by at least two parallel support tubes fitted into sockets in the front face of the frames. End frames of the units may be joined in a back to back relationship to extend the storage rack system lengthwise end to end to occupy available horizontal space and may also be releasably engaged bottom to top to occupy available vertical space. Holes for joining the frames together are within each of the sockets. The support tubes may be telescoping to assist in occupying the available horizontal space. The modular units may be optionally joined in a vertically offset relationship. The modular units of the storage rack system may be separated and rejoined in another configuration without unloading the items stored on the individual units.

Abstract: A fueling nozzle having a rotatable locking ring adjacent its discharge end and adapted for mating with and being secured to a fuel receiving tank adapter at a common datum line has a receiving antenna associated with the nozzle and the fuel receiving tank has a transmitting antenna associated therewith. The fueling nozzle is activated by information transmitted as a continuous radio frequency signal from a continuously operating identity transmitter mounted on a vehicle desiring fueling. The identity transmitter is powered by the vehicle power source and requires no special activation by the user. The receiving antenna comprises a circumferential band completely encircling the nozzle and is insulated therefrom and secured thereabout. The receiving antenna is in such close proximity with the transmitting antenna as to interrupt transmission of the information and to cause cessation of a fueling operation upon withdrawal of the fueling nozzle from the fuel tank by more than a maximum functional distance.

Abstract: A safety pressure relief valve assembly is provided wherein the safety pressure relief valve assembly has a first tubular body with a first end and a second end, a wall of given thickness with a bore through the body with an internal flange and a valve support in the bore, a means on the first end of the body for attaching the body to the venting system of a fuel tank, a valve seat in the internal flange, a valve member adapted for resting on the seat and having a stem extending from one side of the valve member, a biasing means for biasing the valve member against the valve seat in a direction toward the first end, a discharge means in the second end having an enclosing flange for the second end, a second tubular body of larger internal diameter than the external diameter of the first tubular body with one of the open ends of the second tubular body affixed to the enclosing flange wherein the enclosing flange and second tubular body comprise means preventing the inclusion of foreign objects from entering the

Abstract: A paint stripe and a process of applying the paint stripe upon a substantially horizontal surface is provided. Reflective particles are applied in at least two streams upon the substantially fluidic upper surface of the paint stripe. The first stream of particles of greatest size is applied to the paint stripe before subsequent streams, each particle of each of the streams becoming embedded into the fluidic upper surface approximately fifty percent of the maximum dimension of the particles. Capillation of the paint carries the reflective particles of the subsequent streams in an upward manner along the outer surface of the reflective particles of the first stream. The reflective particles of the subsequent streams are then embedded in the fluidic upper surface of the paint stripe at an angle approaching the perpendicular to the horizontal surface.

Abstract: A mooring device for securing of watercraft to a structure having spaced apart planking is provided. The mooring device comprises a shaft, an elongated head mounted transverse to the shaft on one end, a T-shaped handle removably mounted on the other end, a clevis, an enlarged plate disposed on the shaft and a biasing spring encircling the shaft adapted to bias the plate toward the bar. The mooring device has a locking bar associated therewith which is substantially a planar elongated bar having a wedge shaped offset portion on one end, a T-shaped handle support on the other end and a shaft support intermediate the ends. The offset portion is adapted to be disposed between the planking with a knee of the bar bearing against the top surface of the plate. The locking bar is rotated in the plane of the bar until the offset portion bears against the underside of the plate, the shaft support on the back of the body bears against the shaft and the handle support underlies the T-shaped handle.

Abstract: A golf putter having a shaft with a grip at one end and a head at the opposite end, the head having a heel end, a toe end spaced longitudinally from the heel end, a top surface, a rear surface, a bottom surface and a substantially planar front face, the head comprising an open molded compounded thermosetting polymeric resin composite enclosing a weighted mass. The weighted mass has an aperture in the mass extending from the heel end to a central portion with a portion lying parallel to and spaced from a front edge of the mass for receiving the terminal end of the putter shaft. The weighted mass has needle like projections on its bottom surface suspending the mass above the bottom surface of the head. The mass may be "g" shaped with the tail of the "g" lying in the toe end of the head and the leg lying parallel to the planar front face. The shaft is glued to head.

Abstract: An automated fueling facility comprising a fuel receiving station, at least one fuel storage tank, at least one fuel dispensing station all these components connected by associated transfer piping and a central data collection station having novel secure fueling operation is provided. Each of the components is in electrical communication with the central data collection station through an interface terminal which processes a digital data string of information from vehicles desiring fueling. The interface terminal compares the transmitted information to selected stored information, authorizing properly coded vehicles access to fuel from the fuel dispensing station and ceases fueling operations at the respective fuel dispensing station when the digital data string is interrupted. The fuel dispensing station has a fuel dispensing nozzle adapted for mating with and being secured to a fuel receiving tank at a common datum line.

Abstract: A mooring device adapted for removably attaching a watercraft to a dock is provided. The mooring device comprises an upright pivot shaft having a T-shaped handle on one end and a T-shaped locking bar on the other end. A biasing spring, clevis and tension plate are also mounted on the shaft intermediate the ends, with the T-shaped locking bar being rigidly affixed to the end of the pivot shaft. The tension plate is biased toward the T-shaped locking bar by the biasing spring, with the biasing spring bearing against one side of a support affixed to the upright pivot shaft. One arm of the clevis rests against an opposite side of the support with the other arm of said clevis spaced from the T-shaped handle. The T-shaped handle is firmly affixed to the end of said upright pivot shaft opposite the end having the T-shaped locking bar. The shaft of the mooring device has a locking element associated therewith for lockably attaching the mooring device to the docking platform.

Abstract: A patient bracelet system is provided having at least one bracelet adapted to be worn about a portion of the lower arm of a patient wherein the bracelet has means to secure the bracelet about the arm. The securing means comprises a plurality of bulbous projections extending from one surface of one end of the bracelet and a plurality of grooves adapted for receiving the bulbous projections therein in at least one surface of the bracelet in an end opposite the first end, the grooves additionally being adapted to receive a portion of a medicant delivery system therein. In one embodiment, at least two bracelets are secured about the forearm in spaced relation one to the other by stay means, each of the stay means being adapted to be secured in at least one of the plurality of grooves in each of the bracelets.

Abstract: An electronic imaging apparatus is provided which has means for detecting the presence of internal structure in an opaque or translucent object. The apparatus has a light source directing a beam of light towards the object from one side and a light receiver on another side thereof to convert invisible light passing through the object into a visible image. Means to record the image produced is made available as well as means to produce a three dimensional image or drawing.