Abstract: The inker and inking method include forming a metering nip between the ink applicator roller of a printing press to which an excess of ink has been previously applied and a metering unit. A uniform film of ink is then formed on the surface of the metering unit and the physical properties of this film of ink are subsequently varied and controlled so that when this film contacts the ink on the applicator roller at the metering nip, a uniform layer of ink of a desired thickness is created and maintained on the applicator roller as it leaves the nip.

Abstract: A bottom coder is provided in which the printing head and its associated inking system are mounted in a drawer type support whereby the top of the device is clear of obstructions such as ink reservoirs and whereby the inking and printing system may be quickly and easily exposed to facilitate cleaning, adjustment and, most importantly, rapid and easy conversion of the copy to be printed to code the desired information on products or packages passing through the machine.

Abstract: An instrument, especially useful in the field of dentistry by virtue of its shape, size, and construction, adapted for example for severing ends from threaded retention pins which have been inserted intra-coronally in natural teeth to aid in retentively adhering tooth restoration material to a tooth being repaired, and operable subsequent to such severance to positively contain a severed end for facile removal thereof from a patient's mouth. The instrument has additional uses in, as one example, the field of intra-oral surgery of a type that includes utilization of wire arch bars in a procedure to immobilize a patient's jaws, where jaw fracture exists, and after placement and affixation, wire ends can be severed and retained by the instrument for removal from the mouth of the patient. The instrument can also be used in the field of orthodontics to, for example, trim or cut wire ends and remove the so-severed wire ends.

Abstract: This fluid sheet solar collector is devised as an assembly to produce a sealed unit which contains an internal collector fluid circulating through a closed loop to pass in a thin sheet over a solar energy absorber surface and to pass in good thermal contact through a self contained heat exchanger to effect a net solar energy derived heat transfer to external devices. The internal collector fluid flows upward in a thin sheet contained between a semi-rigid transparent cover and a solar absorber surface wherein the fluid is heated; flows downward through a heat exchanger wherein the heat is transferred; the net effect is to maintain a thermo-kinetic circulation of the fluid with neither fluid conduits nor high thermal conductivity materials required in the heating portion of the assembly.

Abstract: A self-contained unit similar to a conventional pocket calculator provides indications of the make-up of musical chord triads for use as a self-study aid.

Abstract: A Fecal Matter Collector including a tubular portion of flexible material having a portion operatively associated with a user's rectum and another portion extending through the anal opening and having on the external end thereof a removable collecting bag, and including a gas escape outlet.

Abstract: The sawing guide consists of a guide plate, a press plate, two swivel bolt assemblies, and a plurality of pitch blocks. The press plate and guide plate are positioned on either side of an object to be cut and are secured together by the two swivel bolt assemblies which extend along either side of the object. Pitch blocks are then inserted between the object and the guide plate to vary the attitude of the guide plate.

Abstract: A vertically-elongate monolithic pier body comprises:A deeply-submerged compartmented closed container or container group;A near-surface control chamber system;A deckwork carried above highest wave level;A load-carrying column and wall system extending in part through the container and chamber system, including a pair of perforated flanking walls; andA transverse wall and beam bracing framework extending in part through the container and chamber system, including a top wall and a thick slab base.The pier is intended to stand on seabed in depths of 450 feet to 1200 feet or deeper, to carry petroleum well-drilling and production equipment. The large container group is submerged at a depth where it is subjected to reduced wave pressures. The flanking pair of walls dissipate the energy of incident waves.Fabrication begins in a drydock site with the pier laid out horizontally extended.

Abstract: A fish scaler comprises a specimen hold down plate and a scaler plate moveable toward and away from the hold down plate to and fro on a handle attached to the hold down plate and including manually operable scaler plate operating structure to guide the scaler plate on the handle and comprising an operating handle of modified oval-conical configuration to permit the scaler plate to have perpendicular as well as rotatable motion with respect to the guiding handle.

Abstract: A circuit card guide comprising an elongated channel shaped element having upstanding side walls, each with an upper reach extending inwardly in a reentrant bend and terminating in a downwardly extending lip. The reentrant bend includes portions cut away to leave a contiguous lip portion which is deformed inwardly of the guide to form a resilient leaf spring for engagement with a circuit card.

Abstract: An improved pellet form for achieving relatively high muzzle velocity when discharged from the barrel of a gas rifle, particularly a high-performance air rifle, has a pellet head portion of any suitable profile and diameter providing a free-sliding but close fit for the nominal barrel bore, e.g. the 0.177 and 0.22 standard bores, and has a conventional rearwardly-flaring skirt of conical shell form; improved early gas sealing and improved swaging of the skirt margin is induced by novel bevelling of the inner surface of the skirt margin, the trailing edge being tapered to a thin annulus, while the outer surface of the skirt has a terminal portion formed with conical apex angle greater than the apical angle pertaining to the major length portion of the skirt forward of the trailing edge. The skirt edge is initially an interference fit for a diameter comparable to the diameter across opposed rifling grooves, and is a light force fit into the nominal barrel bore diameter.

Abstract: A collapsible container having sidewalls pivotally mounted on the bottom wall so that all the sidewalls may be folded inwardly on the bottom wall for transportation or storage. Several of the sidewalls are adapted to pivot outwardly to facilitate the unloading of the container. The bottom of the container is provided with legs so that the container may be handled with a conventional fork lift.

Abstract: A process for preparing a bacon product by grinding the small pieces of pork belly into an emulsion and, adding a cure mixture. The emulsion is then cured for a predetermined period and thereafter placed into molds and slowly cooked at varying temperatures. The molded cooked product thereafter is chilled. In an alternate process, the small pieces of pork belly are cured prior to grinding into an emulsion. In a further embodiment, the bacon product is chilled after curing and packaged for marketing.

Abstract: A security device consisting of a box-like container having a discharge opening extending through one face thereof and which may be attached to a door or window of a residence or office, or to or adjacent an area which would be attractive to unauthorized persons, said box-like container has therein a removable and replaceable cartridge containing a disabling gas such as tear gas or the like, or a liquid dye of a particular color, or a potent distinctively smelling gas or liquid to be discharged at an unauthorized person.

Abstract: The tubular unit with vessel engaging cuff structure is a unitary unit including a tube having a compressible cuff surrounding the outer surface thereof. The cuff includes a resilient, porous inner material surrounding the tube and an outer liquid impervious layer which may be bonded to or integrally formed with the inner material. The tube may include means to evacuate fluid from the cuff or, alternatively, separate means are directly connected to the cuff to accomplish such evacuation and contraction of the cuff. Vessel engaging appendages may be incorporated on the cuff.

Abstract: The vehicle weighing system for a towed vehicle includes removable stub axles and a hitch rigidly connected to a load support. The hitch and one or more of the stub axles are gauged in an identical manner. Two active electrical strain gauges are placed in a hole formed in the supporting member to be gauged, such hole extending normal to the direction of the load. The hole is placed adjacent the end of the supporting member which is remote from the load support and the two gauges are oriented to reduce the moment sensitivity of the system to a minimum. The hitch is provided with additional compensating gauges which are not responsive to strain, and the axle and hitch gauges are connected to form a measuring bridge circuit. The gauging holes are sealed by end plugs, a printed circuit board, potting compound and a boot, all of which are flexible so as not to interfere with the weight measurement.

Abstract: The photocomposing machine is adapted to provide over eight thousand characters during operation. Characters are arranged in bands on a plurality of rotating drums, and multiple character keys and alternate keyboard displays are employed to permit selection of a specific character. Basic functional codes such as keyboard identification, type font identification, and shift identification are used to accomplish drum and band selection. A character position code is then used to locate the character in the selected band on the selected drum.A method of justification for characters such as Japanese characters is employed wherein characters of different size are segregated into two groups. The space available from the characters in the smaller sized group is employed in justification.

Abstract: The method and apparatus for fast firing glazed ceramic tile trim pieces includes passing the trim pieces through a firing chamber by means of ceramic rollers which are designed to move the trim pieces in substantially a straight line through the chamber. The rollers include trim piece supporting surfaces which are inclined relative to a horizontal plane to cause gravitational forces to maintain the trim pieces against aligned orienting stops. Deposited glaze is removed from the rollers by periodically increasing the firing chamber temperature to a point where the glaze will release from the supporting roller and redeposit on a porous refractory passed over the roller.

Abstract: A closure member for pierceable access ports of flexible containers of the type adapted for effective safe storage and use of parenteral fluids and similar sterile solutions, the access port having a pierceable access closure diaphragm, wherein the closure member includes a base portion in sealed engagement over the neck of the access port on the container, with a rigidifying and strengthening portion or an insert in sealed engagement therebetween, and a free-standing portion extending from the base portion and having a sealed end, the free-standing portion being connected to the base portion by a fragible thinned material section adapted to be ruptured to permit the free-standing portion to be removed, thereby providing access to the pierceable diaphragm for insertion therethrough of a parenteral solution administration spike.

Abstract: A simple but effective, inexpensive coin-check operated lock is provided for locking articles such as umbrellas, canes, athletic equipment or a rock or stand to prevent theft or unauthorized use thereof and includes a reciprocating sliding bolt locked in extended position by a rocking latching lever which in turn is held in latched position by a coil spring and is unlatched from the bolt by contact of an inserted coin with a swingable spring biased detent arm which cooperates with a check key to hold the latching lever in unlocked position until the coin is inserted at which time the detent arm releases the check and the latching lever which operates to lock the reciprocating bolt in extended position, insertion of the key check unlocks the mechanism and resets same to receive a further coin.