Abstract: A resettable fire link includes a first member (12) that pivotally supports a latch arm (20) thereon with a bi-metallic coil spring (30) interposed between the first member and the free end of the latch arm to normally bias the latch arm into a latched position with a release plate (50). The bi-metallic coil spring pivots the latch arm to a release position upon being elevated in temperature.

Abstract: A packaged camera assembly comprises a camera enclosed by a clam shell container of elongated rectangular shape so that the container is at least about twice as long as it is wide. A camera is supported between closely confronting transparent main walls of front and rear sections of the clam shell container which have outwardly projecting pockets for receiving the front and rear halves respectively of the camera. The camera is supported in the container so that the long dimension of its front face angles at least about 45 degrees and preferably about 60 degrees from the narrow dimension of the container. The container preferably has a display card sandwiched between said transparent main walls, the card having an aperture through which the camera passes. The container has support means along its long and short margins to support the packaged assembly upright for display with its long dimension upright or horizontal.

Abstract: The invention is a method for the vapor deposition of a thin metal film onto a polymeric surface. The method comprises the steps of placing the polymeric surface within a vacuum chamber, and evacuating the chamber to a near-perfect vacuum. The chamber is next filled with argon gas. Sufficient voltage and amperage are applied to the argon gas within the chamber to electrically excite that gas, thereby creating a cloud of free argon electrons which prepare or impart a charge to the polymeric surface. The argon is then evacuated from the chamber, and the chamber is then placed at a suitable plating vacuum. The improvement in the present invention comprises the use of a metal yarn comprised of thin strands of that metal. A conventional electrode, such as a tungsten electrode, disposed within the chamber and wrapped with this yarn is energized sufficiently to rapidly vaporize the metal. The rapidly vaporized metal is transported towards and then coated onto the prepared, charged polymeric surface.

Abstract: Automatic apparatus for dispensing a food material such as pizza meat. The apparatus utilizes a rotatable valve for conveying a food material from a source thereof to an intermediate, or portioning, cylinder, to a main cylinder where it is introduced into a dispensing station which includes a reciprocatable knife plate. An air actuator is used to rotate the rotatable valve. Non-contact solid state sensors, and pneumatic control valves are employed to control the continuous movement of a food material through the apparatus.

Abstract: A creep feeder furnishes a blow molded container with an inner chamber, a top port and a bottom port. The top port provides passage for feed into the inner chamber and is closed by a snap fit cap. The bottom part provides a throat, narrowing valve seat and narrower delivery tube. A blow molded, hollow valve is enclosed in the bottom part and operates with the valve seat to dispense feed upon demand of an animal. The valve has a bulbous head with a gradually narrowing under surface that engages with the valve seat to close the bottom port. A narrower valve stem hangs in the delivery tube, and the delivery tube keeps the valve substantially aligned in the bottom port to insure proper sealing between the head and valve seat. The device dispenses feed upon an animal pushing up the bottom end of the stem and spacing the head from the seat. Feed in the chamber then flows down through the bottom port.

Abstract: A multiwalled plastic container and method for making the same is disclosed having a barrier liner and an outer wall providing structural support for the liner. The container provides increased protection against separation of the liner and structural wall especially at the rim defining the opening of the container. This is accomplished by a wrap around liner lip construction wherein the liner extends from the inside surface of the structural wall around the top rim surface of the wall and downwardly depends therefrom along the outer surface of the structural wall. To downwardly depending leg of the liner lip is recessed within the outer wall surface providing adding protection against liner separation.

Abstract: A demountable acoustical panel structure having a honeycomb core, and a thin, dense, sound transmitting glass fiber sheet of uniform thickness adhered to each of the oposed major surfaces of the core. One of the thin sheets advantageously carries segments or patches of a separable fastening means to enable the panel structure to be installed on a supporting surface provided with cooperating segments or patches of a separable fastening means by simply aligning said fastening means.

Abstract: A camera has a housing with a multi-panel wrapper adhesively secured thereto. The wrapper is printed on its outer face with markings, indicia or decorations desired. The wrapper has front, top, bottom and side panels arranged to be applied to like walls of the housing. Joint portions and tabs extend from the panels to cover bevels occurring at the margins of the housing walls. The camera has a side mounted viewfinder and a notch in the side panel to facilitate application of the wrapper on the housing. The wrapper is made from an integral sheet of plastic material cut to the dimensions of the housing walls.

Abstract: An electronic device for displaying preset amounts of food categories allowable in a daily diet, for permitting a digital entry representative of food consumed, and for subtracting that entry from the preset amount and displaying the result.

Abstract: A unique device for intubating an ostomy, formed by a percutaneous endoscopic technique including a multi-lumen tube, having at least a fluid delivery lumen and an inflation lumen. The tube includes a port near one end to dispose the inflation lumen to ambient air and an outlet at an other end to convey fluid from within the fluid lumen into a patient. A retention member, preferably an inflatable cuff, is joined near the other end of the tube and is inflatable and deflatable through the inflation lumen. In a deflated state, the cuff assumes an edge-free outer configuration to facilitate intubation of the device into the patient. In a fully inflated state, the cuff assumes an outer configuration defining an edged, generally flat surface to more diffusely contact and abut against inner tissue surfaces surrounding the gastrostomy. Joined to the one end of the tube is an elongated tapered sleeve which encloses the one end of the tube.

Abstract: A golf putter comprising a putter blade or head having a forwardly-angled striking face to impart immediate overspin to the ball being struck and said putter further including a relatively large square handle or grip for enabling alignment of the palm of the hand with the projected line of ball travel.

Abstract: A field electroluminescence element has a transparent electrode disposed to form a single-level plane with a substrate surface so that a luminescence layer is provided on the planar surface in order to prevent any irregular crystallization and to improve the reliability of the element.

Abstract: An intermittently driven cyclic drive member for operating a system of a tape player between a plurality of operative positions thereof includes a quick-return lock for re-establishing a locking position with respect to the drive member. The quick-return lock is actuated to a released position during only the initial movement of a power plate, returning immediately thereafter to an intercepting position and remaining positively fixed there throughout the entire remainder of the actuation stroke of the release member. Provision is further made to couple the locking system of the present invention to a second system of the player, as for example a drive disconnect plate, so that the aforementioned unlocking condition cannot be established unless the second system is properly positioned.

Abstract: A temperature conditioning device acheives a fast rate of temperature change in air or gas applied to stress thermally an electronic component by establishing separate cold and hot gas paths from a two-way directing valve interior the device cabinet to a nozzle assembly retaining the gas of selected temperature around the electronic component. An evaporation coil of a mechanical refrigeration system chills the air or gas in the cold gas path interior the cabinet and a tube heater adjusts the air or gas temperature in the cold gas path to that selected. A quartz enveloped nickel-chrome filament heater adjacent the nozzle assembly heats the air or gas in the hot gas path to the temperature selected.

Abstract: A video tape recorder includes a pinch roller mechanism driven by a capstan motor to closely fit to a capstan a tape running from a rotary head. The tape is driven in a selected mode by a reel mechanism driven by a tape loading motor. Different mechanisms and members of the recorder are activated at proper relative timings which are established by a timing control mechanism driven by the capstan motor.

Abstract: A reset circuit controlled by a comparator circuit detecting the voltage of the power supply and incorporating a circuit which outputs reset pulses with a constant period and inhibits output of the reset pulses when it receives a reset inhibition pulse from a microcomputer.

Abstract: Unique structural members for retail merchandising display, especially gondola shelving displays comprising an elongated framing extrusion being generally I-shaped in transverse profile to define two parallel longitudinal channels, an elongated linking/framing extrusion having a longitudinal channel along one side and on an other side a curved grasping arm parallel to a like curved hinging arm, and a merchandising display component support extrusion having a plurality of vertically aligned and stacked generally L-shaped longitudinal channels.

Abstract: In a reduced pressure gaseous phase thin film growth device, in which the pressure within a bubbler is detected during bubbling of an organo-metallic compound and depending on the pressure thus detected, a pressure difference valve disposed between a pipe for introducing trimethylaluminium gas and a reduced pressure reactor is controlled so that the pressure within the bubbler is kept to be constant.