Abstract: A bearing system for positioning and supporting a rotor having a vertical shaft coincident with a main rotation axis included in a flywheel used for energy storage and high surge power in vehicular applications includes first and second radial force generators disposed in a first plane perpendicular to the rotation axis of the rotor, the first and second force generators including only electromagnets, third and fourth radial force generators disposed in a second plane perpendicular to the rotation axis of the rotor, the third and fourth force generators including only electromagnets, and upper and lower axial force generators each containing an electromagnet and a permanent magnet. According to one aspect of the bearing system, each of the force generators includes control circuitry having simple and complex lead networks so as to permit the force generators to rapidly respond to vehicular transients while maintaining a desired bearing stiffness.

Abstract: A flywheel support system isolates the flywheel and its motor-generator from the driving environment of an electrically powered motor vehicle. A suitable liquid, placed between the outer and vacuum housings of the flywheel assembly, provides buoyancy and damping to the vacuum housing, cooling of the motor-generator, and serves as one of the barriers to rotor energy and angular momentum transfer in the event of an accident or failure. During normal operation, a shearable mechanical gimbal system keeps the vacuum housing centered in the outer housing, reacts the spin moments generated by the motor-generator, and provides a path for the electrical leads into the vacuum housing. In the event of bearing seizure or rotor failure, the mechanical gimbal will shear and allow the vacuum housing to gradually spin down against the fluid. A system of both active and passive axial and radial magnetic bearings supports the rotating assembly including the rotor of the motor-generator.

Abstract: A flywheel assembly used for mobile energy storage incorporates a molecular pump and an internal chamber containing molecular sieves. The molecular pump shares the shaft, bearings, and motor of the flywheel rotor, and maintains the high vacuum desired in the vicinity of the flywheel rotor. The gases which evolve from the rotor during its operational life are pumped into the chamber containing the molecular sieves where they are adsorbed.

Abstract: Ammonium and alkali metal zinc lactate complexes used in oral compositions such as gingival and subgingival irrigating solutions, dentifrices, mouthwashes, and the like as well as in other preparations for treating oral lesions.

Abstract: Alkali metal zinc gluconate complexes used in oral compositions such as gingival and subgingival irrigating solutions, dentifrices, mouthwashes, and the like as well as in other preparations for treating oral lesions.

Abstract: An ammonium or alkali metal zinc tartrate used in oral compositions such as mouthwashes, gingival and subgingival irrigating solutions, dentifrices, and the like as well as in other preparations for treating oral lesions.

Abstract: A glove donning and removing machine includes a pair of glove donning cylinders in which a negative pressure is created to inflate gloves mounted to the rims of the cylinders. This enables a person to insert his/her hands simultaneously in both gloves. The glove donning cylinders are selectively pivotable toward and away from the user and are also rotatable, allowing for fully adjustable orienting of the cylinders and of the gloves mounted to the cylinders. Actuating switches for controlling inflating and deflating of the gloves are located within the cylinders for allowing manipulation of the switches from within the glove inflating cylinders. Separately of the glove donning cylinders, a pair of glove removing cylinders are provided for removing a pair of gloves from a person's hands. According to one embodiment, trapezoid shaped resiliently mounted segments, disposed at the opening into the glove removing cylinders, serve to snag the cuff portion of a glove and to thus pull the gloves off a person's hands.

Abstract: A chart recorder is described, which is especially useful in recording the temperature of a cargo being shipped, which can be constructed at low cost and which provides a tamper-resistant and accurate record. The recorder includes a strip of pressure-markable paper having an inner portion wound into a roll and an outer portion forming a leader. The leader extends past a marking station, a transport that pulls the leader, a storage space within a housing that encloses the rest of the mechanism, and through an opening in the housing with the outer end of the strip attached to the outside of the housing. During recording, the chart is pushed by the transport station into multiple folds lying in the storage space of the housing. The strip can be removed by pulling on its outer end to pull it out of the housing. Pulling of the outer end releases the strip from the marking and transport stations.

Abstract: Disclosed is an improved process for purifying waste water in which a waste water containing contaminants, including dispersed solids, water-immiscible organic materials, and metallic cations, is first introduced to a sedimentation zone to remove water-insoluble materials having a density higher than that of water, then to a flotation zone to separate as an upper layer water-insoluble and water-immiscible materials having densities lower than that of water. The waste water stream is then introduced to an adsorption zone, where activated carbon particles are added to adsorb remaining water-insoluble and water-immiscible materials, following which the solids are removed in a liquid-solids separation zone. The aqueous phase from the last zone is then passed through a cation exchange zone to remove cations.

Abstract: A behavior shaping device is disclosed for eliminating nocturnal sounds, such as snoring. The device comprises the generally well-known microphone amplifier and alarm means, with the alarm means being actuated when the input level is above a predetermined level. As part of the behavior shaping technique, a counter is provided to indicate the number of times the alarm is sounded in a predetermined time period to permit the lowering of the threshold level as the number of times the alarm is sounded decreases. Memory means are provided to store the counts generated in accordance with the time periods and to provide a display of the respective counts registered.

Abstract: In an apparatus for parking vehicles in vertically arranged pairs, there is provided a base frame including two spaced stanchions. Each stanchion includes a generally vertically extending portion secured to the base frame at the lower end thereof, and with the upper end of the stanchion being inclined at an acute angle of approximately 12.degree. to the vertical. Each stanchion incorporates an elongated guide for slidably receiving a slide associated with a platform that is dimensioned to receive a vehicle, and which is elevated between a generally horizontal, lowered position to a slightly inclined elevated position by a hydraulic actuator in order to elevate the platform to enable a second vehicle to be parked beneath the platform. In the elevated position of the platform, the vehicle is prevented from rolling off the platform by engagement of one set of tires with a chock disposed on the platform, and by virtue of the inclination of the platform.

Abstract: An indexing system for filling machines used to fill small containers transported on an endless conveyor belt, which includes a container-driven star-wheel, a member preventing the free rotation of the star-wheel and a cam-operated control for enabling and disabling the free, container-driven rotation of the star-wheel.

Abstract: A motor operated power saw is mounted on a table by employment of a tiltable platform so that the saw is lowered to cutting position by manually depressing a handle. Surrounding the upper half of the saw blade is a composite guard consisting of a main guard and a movable nose guard which, when the blade is in elevated non-operating condition, cover the exposed portion of the blade. The main guard is pivotally mounted on the tiltable platform and is provided with a cam follower which, upon engagement with a cam track on the table, automatically elevates the main guard and accompanying nose guard as the blade is advanced through a cutting operation.

Abstract: A power actuated miter saw has an adjustable rotatable mounting with respect to an elongated work holder so that the saw can be set in any one of a number of angular positions for the cut. The saw is lowered by a forward facing handle adjacent to which is a circular scale showing the angle. Mutually rotating parts have a 360.degree. bearing ring between them near the perimeter to provide abundant stability and also seal the movable members to keep them free of dust. A sawdust discharge travels with the saw blade to collect and discharge sawdust generated by the operation in a direction away from the operator. The saw blade is guarded while at rest as well as during a cutting operation on the work.

Abstract: An electric capping machine for crimping the caps of containers, in which each cycle of operation takes place fully automatically, once initiated by the operator; in the course of each operation, a container-receiving member is automatically raised into engagement with a spring-loaded abutment roller of the crimping mechanism which, upon further upward movement, causes the crimping roller to be positively brought into engagement with the edge of the cap by the use of a quadrilateral linkage connection actuated by a cam follower; to increase the safety to the operating personnel, both hands must be placed in a predetermined position relative to the machine before the cycle of operation can be initiated.

Abstract: An improvement in the production of all reconstituted tobacco sheet material is described which involves the reaction in situ of catalase and hydrogen peroxide within the mass of ingredients, including tobacco, which are ultimately formed into the finished reconstituted tobacco sheet.