Abstract: A method for molding gemstone settings using metal molds is provided. The gemstone settings have unitary seats on the prongs of the settings. The method involves using a core pin mold to form a core pin which is interengageable with a metal production mold for the setting. A gemstone setting is also provided, with a substantially smooth inner prong surface. The gemstone setting provides substantially stronger set gems and reduces the incidences of shattering gems during the setting process.

Abstract: Adjustable display board for attachment to a monitor housing so that items such as notes, calendars, nameplates, pads, mirrors, writing implements, and keys can be mounted adjacent to a monitor screen. The display board can be constructed from molded parts which can flex and/or be molded to fit the contours of various monitor housings. The display board includes a left side frame, a right side frame and a top holder panel that interconnects upper horizontal legs of the left and right side frames. The top holder panel slides along the upper horizontal legs of both the left and right side frames providing the ability to adapt to different monitor sizes and shapes. The top holder panel has retaining edges molded for the purpose of holding various objects such as photographs, messages and other indicia on both of its sides. The left and right side panels provide a surface that functions as a decorative message board and provides a means to attach various other objects temporarily or permanently to it.

Abstract: An ornament with a pivoting display assembly is provided. The ornament includes a flexible frame assembly that allows insertion of the display assembly into the frame assembly, within which the display assembly is pivotable.

Abstract: A golf ball warmer including a fabric container for housing a commercial hand warmer that is activated by contact of air. The fabric container is cubical in shape to house the hand warmer and golf balls, and having a floor for receiving one of the hand warmers. A back surface of the container extends above an opening of the container to form a closing flap. A mesh fabric pocket is stitched to the inside of the flap for receiving another hand warmer. The container can house two golf balls on the warmer disposed on the floor of a container. When the flap is closed the mesh fabric pocket is placed over the top of the golf balls.

Abstract: An article of gold jewelry of hollow construction is lightweight and constructed and arranged for being secured to and slidably movable with respect to a chain or the like. The article has two interfitting pieces of identical construction which are assembled together for forming the article. Each piece is of U-shaped construction and has peripheral edges with step formations formed along the peripheral edges. The arrangement is such that when the pieces are in interfitting, assembled relation, adjacent and abutting edges with the step formations interlock with each other and are welded together to achieve a unitary, enclosed structure. A method for making the article of gold jewelry is also disclosed.

Abstract: A capacitor includes a cathode having a porous coating including an oxide of one of ruthenium, iridium, nickel, rhodiumm platinum, palladium, and osmium, an anode including a metal selected from the group consisting of tantalum, aluminum, niobium, zirconium, and titanium, spaced from the porous coating, and an electrolyte in contact with the porous coating and the anode.

Abstract: A capacitor includes a cathode having a porous coating including an oxide of one of ruthenium, iridium, nickel, rhodium, platinum, palladium, and osmium, an anode including a metal selected from the group consisting of tantalum, aluminum, niobium, zirconium, and titanium, spaced from the porous coating, and an electrolyte in contact with the porous coating and the anode.

Abstract: A packaged electrical component includes an electrical component having at least two electrical leads, the electrical component generating a gas during operation, and a package enclosing the electrical component with the leads extending from the package, the package consisting of at least one selectively permeable material having a relative high permeability to a gas generated within the package during operation of the electrical component and a relatively low permeability to at least one other fluid, such as water, that may be present inside and/or outside the package.

Abstract: An electrolytic capacitor including a metal container having an inside surface and an outside surface and functioning as a cathode of the capacitor, a porous coating including an oxide of one of ruthenium, iridium, nickel, rhodium, platinum, palladium, and osmium disposed at the inside surface of the container in electrical communication with the container, an anode selected from the group consisting of tantalum, aluminum, niobium, zirconium, and titanium, disposed within and spaced from the porous coating, and an electrolyte within the container in contact with the porous coating and the electrode.

Abstract: A method of making an electrical contact to a metal on which an electrically insulating native oxide is formed includes applying atoms or ions to the native oxide, heating the metal and oxide to a temperature and for a time effective to make the oxide, where the atoms and/or ions have been applied, electrically conducting and in electrical communication with the metal. The invention may be employed to establish electrical contacts with native oxides on aluminum, molybdenum, niobium, tantalum, titanium, tungsten, and zirconium. The atoms and ions include aluminum, antimony, arsenic, boron, gallium, indium, phosphorus, and silicon. An aqueous solution of boric acid and trisodium phosphate may be applied to establish electrically conductive regions in an oxide on niobium, tantalum, titanium, and stainless steel after heat treatment. Brushing with palladium wires mechanically applies palladium atoms to tantalum oxide to establish electrical contact to the tantalum after heat treatment.

Abstract: A package for an electrical component that generates a gas during operation includes a selectively permeable body that allows the gas generated within the package to escape while preventing the escape of desired fluids from the package and the entrance of undesired fluids into the package. In a double layer capacitor according to the invention, the body may be a polymeric material, such as silicone rubber or polypropylene, through which carbon dioxide permeates relatively rapidly but through which water vapor permeates relatively slowly. A package including a container and an attached cover includes a resilient member disposed adjacent the periphery of the cover for dissipating forces that might be applied to an electrically insulating seal in the cover through which an electrical terminal passes.

Abstract: An earring clutch defined by a hollow metallic shell filled with an elastomer material. An axial bore extends diametrically through the shell, with each end of the bore terminating at a respective flanged opening. The bore receives the post of an earring in frictional, releasable engagement. To form the clutch, a hollow, apertured shell is submerged in a liquid elastomer material. A vacuum is drawn on the liquid causing the liquid to replace the air in the shell. The shell is removed from the liquid, the liquid elastomer material allowed to harden, and an axial bore then drilled through the hardened elastomer material.

Abstract: An earring clutch defined by a hollow metallic shell filled with an elastomer material. An axial bore extends diametrically through the shell, with each end of the bore terminating at a respective flanged opening. The bore receives the post of an earring in frictional, releasable engagement. To form the clutch, a hollow, apertured shell is submerged in a liquid elastomer material. A vacuum is drawn on the liquid causing the liquid to replace the air in the shell. The shell is removed from the liquid, the liquid elastomer material allowed to harden, and an axial bore then drilled through the hardened elastomer material.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for forming a setting for an article such as a gemstone, and the setting formed, use a sheet metal support member defining channel-like ends that bear against ends of the article. The method includes folding a length of sheet material along an axis to form a support member defining a channel, compressing a central part of the channel while leaving the ends open thereby forming holding channels connected by to form a central web, and affixing a prong member to the web portion of the channel by soldering. The web portion of the channel is notched for receiving the prong member and bent transverse to its fold to bring the channel-shaped opposite ends of the support member into opposition. Support members can be produced to cover a range of gem sizes by trimming and notching the support member of one range size as required to fit a certain gem size in the range. The notching step is aligned such that the support member when bent defines a rectilinear notch for the prong member.