Abstract: This disclosure relates to the use of electron beam curing and bonding irradiation in an in-line process of laminating a decorative layer, such as printed paper, to an adhesive-coated particle board panel or the like, wherein an electron-curable top coating is adsorbed into the paper and, under the electron-beam irradiation, cures with the adhesive to produce a monolithically bonded paper-to-panel polymeric structure with a hard scratch and abrasion-proof surface imparted to the paper.

Abstract: The invention relates to a miniature high-energy continuous spark electronic igniter composed of a magnetic pulse generator having a magnetic flux attracting gap, a voltage-stabilizing circuit, a signal amplifying circuit, a two-stage switching circuit, a protection circuit, a voltage-raising output circuit, a trigger signal circuit, an oscillation maintaining control circuit and a trigger signal continuous current circuit. The igniter is adapted to withstand both overload and largely varying supply voltage.

Abstract: The present invention is concerned with an anti-backlash device for a pump shaft comprising an asymmetrical idler (3) pivoting around a fixed axis (4) and an elastic device (5) which produces a restoring force that tends to press the idler (3) against the surface of the pump shaft (1). The anti-backlash device further embodies at least one fin (7) firmly attached to the idler (3) and preferably arranged nearly perpendicular to the direction of flow of the pumped fluid, so that the motion of the fluid will produce a force which, when applied to the fin, yields a moment with respect to the idler axis slightly greater than that produced by the restorative force applied in the opposite sense.

Abstract: A multi-prism optical viewing instrument is provided for enabling stereoscopic viewing down tubular and/or deep body channels or cavities, such as the ear canal, nose, vagina, etc., too narrow to permit of viewing with both eyes, and while providing illumination down the channel or cavity without obstruction of the field of view.

Abstract: A biconical antenna for ultra broad-band linear polarization operation in which capacitive sleeve VSWR tuning is effected between the apex regions of the two cones and zig-zag substantially V-shaped spokes are provided conically diverging from the cone base peripheries.

Abstract: Heavy metals and compounds thereof and other toxic materials in industrial wastes, sludges, soils, incinerated ashes and the like are fixed and stabilized in a char residue, obtained by critical region pyrolyzing techniques and appropriate proportions of carbonaceous materials intimately mixed with the sludge, to encapsulate the heavy metals with carbon bonded thereto which effectively detoxifies the residue and renders it immune to any substantial leaching out or later exposure to the toxic metals, such that the same is environmentally safe for such uses as landfill and the like.

Abstract: A novel delivery method and vestibule system for underground and similar conveyors, particularly longitudinally traveling conveyors carrying successive automobile-storage platforms, involving under an open vestibule floor area, conveyor loop structures that carry the platform upwardly into the open floor area for car delivery or removal, with automatic gating and walkway insertion to permit safe parking or retrieval of the car by the owner without attendant assistance, other than car platform selection and platform delivery command.

Abstract: A method of stopping nose bleeds at the Little's area employs a single-piece flattened strip of material that is inserted into a nostril. The strip has sufficient rigidity to permit the strip to be manually inserted by grasping a lower region between the thumb and fingers, has side surface area sufficient to cover the Little's area, and is flexible enough to conform to the shape of the Little's area. The nose is compressed from the outside into direct engagement with the intermediate region of the strip and thereby clamps the strip against the Little's area in direct conforming pressure-applying engagement with the surface network of the Little's area to terminate bleeding of vessels within the network.

Abstract: A locking clamp for a wheel secured by external lug bolts to an axle of a trailer or other vehicle and having an inner annular hub peripherally surrounded by a tire, the clamp having, in combination, first and second interlocking L-shaped members, the first member comprising a chock as one leg and carrying a tubular bar the inner surface of which is to be juxtaposed against the rear of the tire, and the other leg of which extends inwardly of the inner tire side surface; and the second member comprising an L-shaped tubular bar the front leg of which is of cross-section less than that of the first member tubular bar in order to slide through the same and extend inwardly therebeyond, with the other leg extending parallel to the said other leg of the first member but across the outer side of the tire and carrying a hub disc adjustable to cover the wheel outer hub lug bolts and prevent access to the same; and means at the inward extension of the second member front leg for receiving locking means.

Abstract: The invention provides a novel computer-operated touch screen video display system in which the human operator by first touching a sub-area or chamber of the screen containing predetermined graphic information and then pointing on the screen to a different sub-area or chamber where it is desired to display said information may cause the processing equipment automatically to effect the transfer of said graphic information to and display of the same at the different sub-area, while also storing the information in the memory of the processing equipment.

Abstract: A Loran-C communications technique and system are disclosed involving appropriate encoding of communication messages and logical multiplication and inversion of encoded signals prior to phase modulation of the Loran-C pulses, with novel bit-flip connections for producing complementary plus and minus modulation position shifts in the first and third and second and fourth, etc., of the Loran-C pulse groups, and with perfect balance irrespective of the nature of the raw data and irrespective of skywave interference.

Abstract: A novel method of adapting Fibonacci number weighting to raw binary code data of variable length to use the code as a fixed length code by using only those code sequences with a fixed number of cells rather than a fixed number of bits, converting the code to a continuous numerical sequence useful particularly for linear media and data transmission. Encoder and decoder systems useful to enable storing or recording and reading or utilization of the Fibonacci code in bar code, magnetic and other media.

Abstract: An improved vehicle or other object-tracking and location system, preferably, though not essentially, of national scope, wherein transponder or transceiver-equipped stolen or missing vehicles or other objects may be located and/or tracked, as by appropriately-equipped police direction/finding tracking vehicles, through homing-in on periodic transponder reply radio transmissions automatically activated by command activation signals broadcast on the same carrier frequency as the transponder reply signals and with encoded vehicle identification information that causes the intended vehicle transponder so to reply, and with provision for modifying the command signals to require an increased rate of periodic transponder reply signal transmission to assist homing-in on the selected vehicle.

Abstract: Device for controlling drive couplings of motor bogie axles of a locomotive. The axles are individually driven by motors (4, 5) controlled by a control assembly receiving signals from sensors (6) which are constituted for measuring the vertical load of at least one motor axle and are mounted on the primary suspension of the axle.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for determining the location of a designated point on an electrically sensitive touch-screen surface while minimizing aberrations introduced by non-uniformity in the field applied to the surface, by attaching a plurality of field-producing discrete point electrodes to widely spaced points on the surface in a predetermined geometric pattern and by measuring the currents drawn from the point electrodes upon the capacitive touching of a designated location on the surface.

Abstract: Uniformity of hot melt coatings on thermally sensitive plastic and other webs is maintained by use of a silicone or other rubber-like web back-up roll the dimensional stability of which is maintained during hot melt coating of the webs by a heat-conducting idler roll directly contacting the back-up roll temperature and a heat transfer source for temperature deficiencies on the silicone roll surface, aiding constant nozzle-to-web spacing irrespective of temperature variations and line speeds. Provision is also made for the introduction of chilling, if required.

Abstract: A process is described for modifying the surface of polymers such as polyolefins and the like to improve the wetability by barrier and other coatings and to enhance interlayer adhesion by graft polymerization through initiation by electron-beam radiation, optionally with an added electron energy acceptor.

Abstract: In a Loran-C message communication system a method of obviating errors in navigation locking caused by sampling reception at the conventional symmetrical pulse modulation time intervals in advance of and in delay from the normal transmission interval, through rendering the pulse modulation assymetrical to a degree that compensates for different cycle amplitudes at sampling points above and below the desired sixth zero crossing used for navigation position determination.

Abstract: Combined driven and idler dog chain assemblies engaging opposite sides of a main chain conveyor enable the driving of heavily loaded and long conveyor systems at one or more selected straight-line track sections, with minimal wear.

Abstract: The invention concerns a Doppler radar kinemometer intended to measure the speed of a railway vehicle. According to the invention, it includes two antennas (1,2) mechanically connected to one another such that their axes form a determined angle between them. This angle is preferably between 60.degree. and 120.degree.. For safety operation, the antennas are each supplied with ultrahigh frequency waves (F1,F2) by their own wave generators (4,5), and each furnishes corresponding Doppler frequencies (Fd1,Fd2) to a distinct processing unit (11,12), with the signals coming from these two processing units then processed within a computing assembly (15) which supplies the value of the measured velocity.