Abstract: An adjustable outdoor light fixture powered by an electrical current provided by wire leads capable of producing a variable light beam distribution pattern comprising, a housing having an outside surface and an inside surface and defining a cavity with an open face, a reflector supported within the cavity of the housing, a lens covering the open face of the housing, the lens movable relative to the reflector, and a light source connected to the leads adapted to be attached to the lens within the cavity of the housing whereby the lens and the light source are movable relative to the reflector in order to produce a variable light beam distribution pattern. Also included is a reflex optics reflector for an outdoor light fixture that improves transmittance of light from the fixture.

Abstract: An apparatus for conveying powder. The apparatus includes a hopper for receiving powder, a mechanical conveyor, a sifter and a ribbon blender. The mechanical conveyor delivers powder from the hopper to the sifter. The ribbon blender, which is situated below the sifter for receiving powder from the sifter, has two or more outlets for discharging powder.

Abstract: Folded printed products, held at the fold thereof by clamps, are fed to an opening device. This opening device comprises grippers, each gripper having a stationary gripper jaw and a movable gripper jaw which delimit a slide gap in the closed position of the movable gripper jaw. Along this slide gap there is displaceable a pusher member for the purpose of pushing out of the slide gap the printed product gripped at its open-edge region by the respective gripper. The pusher member thereby acts upon a marginal lap of a first product portion which protrudes beyond the other or second product portion. By virtue of the pre-bending of the printed products, the second product portion is entrained during pushing action at the first product portion and, as a beneficial result of such bending, lifts off from the first product portion upon leaving the slide gap, the marginal lap of the first product portion still being guided in the slide gap.

Abstract: A thermal printer has detachably attached to a frame assembly of a printer a print unit having a built-in thermal head. The print unit accommodates therein an inked ribbon. By a drive member installed within the frame assembly, the thermal head is pressed against the platen roller and consequently driven thereby. The print unit is provided with a unit case and a cover allowed to be opened or shut relative to the unit case. The inked ribbon can be attached to or detached from the interior of the unit case. The unit is capable of incorporating the platen roller therein. In this case, the opening of the cover induces formation of an opening between the platen roller and the thermal head. The unit incorporating the platen roller therein is not required to be provided in the frame assembly thereof with the drive member which would cause the thermal head to be pressed against the platen roller by virtue of a spring member and and consequently induce a displacement of the thermal head.

Abstract: A memory system for use in a text entry system is provided. The system includes a retentive data memory and a system for locking a portion of the retentive memory and a key for unlocking the lockable portion of the memory to allow a predetermined number of bits of data to be written to the memory when the lockable memory is in unlocked state. The system automatically locks the memory after the predetermined number of bits have been written into the lockable portion of memory.

Abstract: A device for sealingly transporting medium, for instance lubricating oil, from a source to a receiving station rotatably movable relative thereto, which device comprises: a source for the medium; and a rotation bearing assembly comprising: at least one rotation bearing; means for receiving the medium from the source, transporting thereof through the rotation bearing assembly in at least partially radial direction and for feeding the medium to the receiving station; and mechanical sealing means.

Abstract: A dry brush cleaning apparatus and method for cleaning printing press blanket cylinders is disclosed. In one embodiment, the invention comprises a frame spanning the width of the working surface of the blanket cylinder; a plurality of rollers, at least one of which is secured to each end of the frame, the rollers being positioned to straddle the blanket and engage the bearer surfaces of the blanket cylinder, at least one of the rollers being a drive roller; a cleaning brush rotatably mounted on the frame; a drive interconnecting the drive roller and the cleaning brush to cause power developed by frictional engagement of the drive roller and the bearer surface to impart rotation to the cleaning brush; and a mechanism for delaying a cleaning engagement of the cleaning brush with the blanket cylinder until after power generated by frictional engagement of the drive wheel with the bearer surface has caused the cleaning brush to begin rotating.

Abstract: An air induction control device for an internal combustion engine comprises means defining a communication passageway for communicating between air at atmospheric pressure and the air in the downstream passageway from a throttle valve. A valve member is disposed in the communication passageway and is moveable toward the downstream direction thereof to open the communication passageway in response to an atmospheric pressure greater than pressure in the downstream passageway. A valve biasing means is disposed to apply force to and bias the valve member in the upstream direction to close the communication passageway in response to the pressure differential between atmospheric pressure and the air pressure int he downstream passageway. A flow restriction element positioned downstream of the valve member comprises calibrated openings defining a primary chamber and secondary chamber, wherein the volumetric proportion of the primary chamber: second chamber: calibrated openings is about 50-70: 25-35: 0.8-1.2.

Abstract: A stern drive system includes a jet nozzle that is pivoted with respect to a mounting bracket and is steered by two hydraulic cylinders. An anti-rotation brace includes a rod pivotably mounted to the bracket and a sleeve pivotably mounted to the jet nozzle. The rod, the sleeve and the pivot mounts are constructed such that the antirotation brace prevents the jet nozzle from rotating about the longitudinal axis of the stern drive system, thereby allowing a modular, compact stern drive which provides advantages in terms of reduced manufacturing cost, reduced maintenance cost, and increased ease of installation.

Abstract: A lawn chair includes a main frame assembly, a pillow frame, a pillowcase, a rear leg frame, a seat frame assembly, two elongated adjustment members and two positioning rods. The main frame assembly includes a backrest frame, a front leg frame and a curved first supporting rod mounted pivotally on the backrest frame at two ends thereof. The pillow frame is attached to an upper end portion of the backrest frame and is covered by the pillowcase. The rear leg frame is connected pivotally to an upper end portion of the front leg frame. The seat frame assembly includes two parallel straight rods connected pivotally to an intermediate portion of the rear leg frame at rear end portions thereof, and a curved second supporting rod mounted pivotally on front end portions of the straight rods at two ends thereof.

Abstract: A molding system including a mold and a molding machine has been adapted to monitor the position of mold element surfaces that move relative to each other to form a mold cavity. The system includes a source of gas under pressure and orifice-forming sensors on a first mold element to direct a flow of pressurized gas from the first mold element. A monitoring system monitors the condition of the gas remote from the first mold element to indicate the spacing between the first mold element and one or more adjacent mold elements as the mold elements move with respect to each other.

Abstract: A barrier-free drainage apparatus includes a trough positioned adjacent the front edge of a platform. The trough has a bottom wall which is positioned below the front edge of the platform, and at least one outlet opening in fluid flow communication with a drain pipe. A grate is positioned inside the trough and has an upper, generally horizontal portion with a plurality of apertures therethrough. The upper portion is supported such each that said upper portion is spaced apart from the trough bottom wall in a generally horizontal position and a top surface of the upper portion is substantially the same height as the front edge of the platform. Another aspect of the invention is the configuration of the outlet openings. A plurality of spaced apart, elongated insert receptacles depend from the bottom wall. The insert receptacles have side wall means and a horizontal base which define a cavity, and each base has two spaced apart outlet openings therein adjacent opposing ends of the base.

Abstract: This invention is directed to bundling and banding machine that forms and bands bundles of firewood into the shape of a stable wood pile that can be easily removed from the machine, transported as a banded bundle and when deposited at its final destination and the bands are removed it will stand as a stable wood pile, with a minimum of distortion or need of restacking.

Abstract: A device for ultrasonic imaging, and methods for the use an manufacture thereof, particularly of small coronary vessels. The device comprises an elongate member with a distal end that can be positioned within a small vessel of a patient's body while a proximal end is located outside the body, a transducer located at a distal end of the elongate member and operable to scan the distal coronary vessels with ultrasonic pulses, and a signal processor connected to a proximal end of the elongate member and to the transducer for generating and receiving pulses to and from the transducer. A motor may be also connected to the proximal end of the elongate member for rotating the transducer.

Abstract: An apparatus for making a pizza toppings disk is disclosed. An apparatus, made in accordance with the present invention includes a conveyor means for transporting forming surfaces, and a plurality of depositing means for depositing onto forming surfaces a quantity of cheese and a plurality of pizza toppings that may include but are not limited to the following items: sliced meats, ground meats, or vegetables, as well as combinations thereof. A fusing means is also included which fuses the quantity of cheese and plurality of pizza toppings to form a pizza toppings disk that may be frozen for storage and subsequent use in assembling a pizza.

Abstract: A charging device for charging a surface of an electrostatic latent image support member used in an image forming apparatus. The apparatus has a rotatably disposed roller confronting the electrostatic latent image support member, a cylindrically formed flexible member having a peripheral length longer than that of the roller and loosely mounted therearound, a guide member for biasing the flexible member against the roller to form a slack of the flexible member at a location confronting the electrostatic latent image support member so that the slack of the flexible member is brought into contact with the electrostatic latent image support member, and a power supply for applying a voltage to the flexible member.

Abstract: In a method for manufacturing DRAMs in a stacked memory cell type, an edge portion of each bit line is bared upon etching a first insulating film, the bared edge portion is etched to from an opening and an inner peripheral surface of the opening is covered by a second insulating film. There is also disclosed a method wherein second and third insulating films and second conductive film are stacked on a first insulating film, a second conductive film is formed and the second conductive film and the first conductive film are partially etched whereby the unetched portions of the first conductive film serve as electrode planes of charge storage electrodes.

Abstract: A wall mounted hair dryer, having a stationary heated air supply, a portable dryer head and a flexible hose connecting the two, is provided with an isolated heater element which controls the temperature gradient profile of the discharge conduit of the air supply unit, thereby maintaining a hot central core surrounded by a relatively cool blanket of air. Consequently, the components of the air supply unit, the coupling hose and the dryer head may all be constructed of economical plastics without component failure due to heat degradation.

Abstract: A neck booklet machine is described which places an elastic band having a booklet connected to the band around a neck of a container. The booklets are vertically stacked in a curved magazine and pulled by a vacuum cup from the curved magazine, which matches the natural curvature of a stack of booklets having an elastic band on one side. The bottom of the curved magazine is open to allow the elastic bands to hang free. The neck booklet is picked up by a carrier pad and held against and transported along a slide plate. A low vacuum nozzle pulls the loose elastic band downwardly to enable a loop of the elastic band to be picked up by a needle point and held precisely below the booklet on the slide plate. The elastic band is pulled down and around an opening horn extending from the needle point as the neck booklet moves along the slide plate by the carrier pad. The opening horn is carried on supports on the bottom and side with a top opening to allow the elastic band to pass over the opening horn.

Abstract: A device for unwinding a coil of cable comprising: a base having a hole; a radial bearing fixedly mounted in the hole in the base, the bearing comprising an inner race and an outer race, the inner race circumscribing a hole; a shaft having a means for engaging the inner race of the bearing while the shaft passes through the hole circumscribed by the inner race of the bearing; a cable support having a hole through which passes the shaft, the cable support being seated on the bearing in engagement with the inner race of the bearing so that the cable support can rotate freely with respect to the base to allow cable to be unwound from a coil of cable which is placed on the cable support, the coil of cable being placed on the case support so that the shaft passes through the center of the coil; and a cable guide which is mounted on the shaft by means of a hole in the cable guide, the cable guide being mounted on the shaft after the coil of cable has been placed on the cable support and being mounted so that it abu