Abstract: Pepper coring and slicing apparatus including a conveyor having individual pepper holding devices for holding peppers with the stem portion upward, a processing station for coring and splitting the peppers, and a discharge station where the peppers are ejected from the pepper holders and dropped onto a conveyor for further processing. The conveyor includes a pair of adjacent plates for holding each pepper by means of a resilient rubber structure half of which is carried on each plate of the pair and between which the pepper is disposable with the bottom of the pepper seated in an opening between the two plates. When the conveyor moves the pepper into the processing station, a pair of side cutting blades and a corer descend from above to core the pepper and slice through the pepper sides while a second slicing knife rises from below through the hole between the conveyor plates and cuts the center of the pepper beneath the core. The core is stripped from the corer and remains with the pepper.

Abstract: A hospital curtain track system utilizing a track switch which permits the use of a single privacy curtain selectively for each of a pair of adjacent bed cubicles. One track switch unit between each two bed environment splices directly with the cubicle track and eliminates extra connecting parts including one complete track leg resulting in minimal installation time and expense. The switch utilizes a pull-chain actuated toggle for shifting a horizontally shiftable switch section into alignment with the desired curtain track.

Abstract: A wind powered electrical generator having a rotatable wind wheel (21) carrying one of the armature (42) or field structures and a plurality of windvanes (45) connecting the rim to a central shaft (28), a stator (39) carrying the other of the armature or field structures, and a supporting structure (22) for the windwheel rotor shaft and the stator. The armature winding is carried by the windwheel at its perimeter, and the field structure is a ring structure which lies just radially outward of the armature winding and is carried by the fixed housing structure which perimetrally surrounds the windwheel. Bearing support (48) provided at the perimeter of the windwheel by low friction bearings carried by the fixed housing structure minimizes bearing stresses developed at the supporting shaft under wind loading conditions.

Abstract: A plurality of drapery carriers are arranged and maintained in an aligned form from the point of production to installation in a drapery track. A group of such carriers are simultaneously molded in multiple cavities and interconnected by a tear strip molded simultaneously therewith so that they may all be removed from the mold as a unit, and may thereafter be handled as a unit until the carriers have been installed in a drapery track. Handling, inventory and installation times are minimized since a connected group of carriers can be handled at one time instead of having to individually deal with separate carriers.

Abstract: A one piece spring latch having a camming surface engageable by the edge of a cooperating latching aperture to deflect the latch element until it passes through the aperture to latching position, the latch element then snapping into overlying latching engagement with the material forming the bounding edge of the latching aperture.The latch is particularly suitable for latching together substantially co-planar panels disposed closely adjacent to one another, as for example the diffuser frame and housing of a fluorescent lighting fixture, a portion of the latching device being of thin cross section and extending between the edges of the panels so that very little clearance between the adjacent panel edges is required. The latch includes release tabs which are physically small and are easily operable by finger pressure.

Abstract: A hollow U-shaped rubber dam device which eliminates the need for a dental assistant to handle a suction tube to maintain a dry field of work and prevent water from a dental drill from running uncontrollably over the patient by providing a structure which by itself maintains a dry field for dental work. The device is constructed so as to provide a suction path through the hollow interior for connection to the standard suction coupling of a dental stand, and to accept the standard dental suction tube fitting as an easily attachable and detachable part. The hollow interior suction path includes means for cleaning out and sterilizing the interior passages formed within a portion of the body of the device. The device is suitably made of radio-transparent material, such as molded plastic, and may remain in place while X-rays are taken without producing shadows on the exposed X-ray film.

Abstract: An external protective shell shipping container into which is loaded a tightly closed primary container for dangerous materials. The protective container is designed to withstand crushing and impact loads in excess of those anticipated in the event of accident, and is also so designed that cracking or breaking of the external shell is taken into account to provide a part of the energy absorbing container design. The external contouring of the container shell avoids sharp corners and provides rounded and sloping surfaces for optimum shock load distribution.The illustrated container is for a long narrow load supported on shock mounts in a free float position within the shell container, the support points being inward from the ends which cantilevers the ends of both the outer shell container and the interior container. A special controlled crush structure is incorporated into the ends of the shell container, and special external contouring provides for ease of handling by fork lift vehicles.

Abstract: The invention provides data processing duplication and internal error checking within an integrated circuit chip at intermediate points along the logic chain. In one aspect of the invention, duplicate functional logic within the chip is utilized together with multiple fault detectors to provide error checking of the primary logic chain, mechanical interconnection failures, and power and clock pulse checking. The detectable failures are both transient and hard failures. Other problems are in addition resolvable by utilization of duplicate complementary logic in place of duplicate functional logic, such other problems including chip contamination during manufacture, mask problems and functional design problems. The multiple fault detectors provide a multiplicity of error signals which are multiplexed within the chip to produce encoded output error signals each of which designates the fault which has been detected within the chip.

Abstract: A hospital curtain track system utilizing a track switch which permits the use of a single privacy curtain selectively for each of a pair of adjacent bed cubicles. The switch and tracks are of two types, one type being a recessed system installable flush with the underside of and as an integral part of an original ceiling installation, and another type being surface mounted installable upward against the underside of an existing ceiling. Self splicing cubicle tracks provide easy assembly and versatility in space planning. One track switch unit between each two bed environment splices directly with the cubicle track and eliminates extra connecting parts including one complete track leg resulting in minimal installation time and expense. The switch utilizes a pull-chain actuated toggle for shifting a horizontally shiftable switch section into alignment with the desired curtain track.

Abstract: A magnetic read/record head having a layer of uniaxially anisotropic magnetic material as the pole faces, which increases the ratio of magnetic reluctance between the pole faces to the magnetic reluctance along the fringing flux path through the recording medium. Two embodiments of the invention are disclosed, one embodiment providing a layer of anisotropic magnetic material in a continuous layer around a complete loop from one pole face to the other pole face, and the other embodiment providing a layer of anisotropic magnetic material confined to each of the pole regions.

Abstract: A combination shipping and storage containers for rolls of sheet material having hollow centers, the container having an interiorly disposed spindle like post extending vertically between opposite ends thereof upon which the rolls are held against radial shifting movement. The container is provided at each of its opposite ends with closure panels which are inwardly foldable from an open position thereof into flatwise superimposed closed positions to embrace therebetween out-turned flaps provided at each end of the post to hold the same in fixedly secured position within the closed container.