Abstract: A system for controlling the lateral position of a sheet of composite material as the sheet travels longitudinally through a curing oven. The system includes roller guide assemblies along the edges of the sheet. Lateral positioning of the sheet is controlled by varying the gripping of the sheet by the roller assemblies as it travels longitudinally through the oven. The degree of variable gripping is controlled by a feedback system which includes sensors located adjacent to the roller assemblies at spaced locations along the composite sheet material edge as it travels longitudinally through the curing oven.

Abstract: A building automation system comprising: means for conditioning air; means, associated with the air conditioning means, for distributing the conditioned air to at least one space to be conditioned and means for sensing environmental conditions in the at least one space to be conditioned. The building automation system also includes means for managing the operation of the conditioning means, the distributing means, and the sensing means; and means, using wireless two-way transmissions, for operably linking the managing means, the conditioning means, the distributing means, and the sensing means.

Abstract: The present invention comprises a water spout for use in a bathtub, sink or the like and has at least one inlet and a plurality of outlets for discharging the water. The outlets are arranged in arcuate fashion and are sufficiently spaced to enable discrete streams of water to flow from the outlets. The outlets are disposed substantially in a single plane and define a central arc having an angle less than 180.degree..

Abstract: A surgical drape comprises a main panel and a "critical zone" panel secured thereto. A fenestration is formed by cutting through the "critical zone" panel. The main panel is a light weight fabric having a relatively high coefficient of friction. The "critical zone" panel comprises a barrier panel lying against the main panel and an outwardly facing absorbent panel, having an irregular surface. In an another embodiment, the critical "critical zone" panel is folded to form troughs for capturing liquid incident to a surgical procedure.

Abstract: An integral hybrid molding and weatherstrip for attachment to a vehicle includes a core member and a first layer extruded to the core member. A second layer abuts the first layer at one edge thereof, and is extruded to the core member. The first and second layers are of a thermoset and thermoplastic material which is co-extruded in-line.

Abstract: A coating composition is provided for various substrates which renders them receptive to thermal transfer images formed thereon and provides the substrates and images with resistance to moisture, abrasion, and solvents. A mixture of radiation curable oligomers, monomers, and optionally a free radical initiator are blended together, coated onto a substrate, and then cured. Other optional components in the coating include an adhesion promoter, coloring agents, pigments, and/or fillers.

Abstract: A glass run channel strip for providing an improved chamfered surface transition from an end flange of a vehicle to a slidable window pane, said glass run strip comprising a core member, a first chamfer forming lip portion extending from the core member in a direction toward the glass run channel and normally positioned at an angle to a window pane, said first lip portion including an outer surface for forming a chamfered surface between the end flange and the window pane, said lip portion being under cut at its attachment to the core member for allowing flexible hinging of the lip portion, wherein a second lip portion extending into the glass run channel, said second lip portion for deflecting the window pane during movement of the window pane relative to the strip away from the end flange to an extend which ensures that the first lip portion will hinge to its normal position for forming the chamfered surface transition.

Abstract: A lower power, noise rejecting TTL-to-CMOS input buffer, without the use of a current consuming voltage reference, has the characteristic of recognizing a logic LOW as less than 0.8 volts and a logic HIGH as greater than 2.0 volts for DC TTL signals while drawing only leakage current from its Vcc power supply, and simultaneously possesses the characteristic of rejecting high-amplitude Vin noise. For an input signal rapidly rising from zero to three volts, the buffer output switches at an input signal level of approximately 2.5 volts; and for the input signal rapidly falling from 3 to zero volts, the buffer output switches at an input signal level of approximately 1.4 volts.

Abstract: Upright containers of non-rectangular shape move downstream in a plurality of parallel columns and in laterally aligned rows toward a load station where the containers are deposited row-on-row into partitioned packing cases. The cases move continuously through the load station end-to-end and are indexed to the rows of containers by depending pegs that move in between the containers from above. The pegs are provided in flights of an overhead flight bar conveyor and camming means keeps these pegs oriented perpendicular to the upright containers as the legs move in between the containers to control the containers dropped at the load station.

Abstract: Groups of articles are received from a conventional drop packer grid, into one side of a rotatable carrier that defines pockets for receiving the articles. Each pocket is defined by upright fingers that form funnels for each article. These fingers are resiliently deformed by a star shaped cam located alongside each pocket so as to close around each article and hold it securely while the carrier is inverted. A second set of pockets accepts a second charge of articles while the first charge is dropped into a case lifted into place below the carrier. This case can be so positioned while the fingers are closed to reduce the verticle height through which the articles are dropped.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of making a catalyst containing vanadium antimony and tin in the oxide state which comprises making an aqueous slurry of a mixture of source batch materials comprising compounds of the elements to be included in the final catalyst followed by drying and heat calcining the mixture to an active catalyst, using as the source batch material for tin a stannous salt of a C.sub.1 to C.sub.18 acyclic, monocarboxylic acid containing no ethylenic or acetylenic carbon-to-carbon unsaturation.

Abstract: In a co-rotational scroll apparatus having two interleaving scroll wraps secured to end plates rotating about parallel, non-concentric axes to produce a relative orbital motion, a means for enhancing lubricant flow through the scroll wraps. One or more passages are provided in one or both of the scroll end plates, each passage disposed to discharge lubricant between the scroll end plates, discharging adjacent the outer end of the scroll wraps immediately before the point where the scroll wraps form the first compression chamber to provide lubricant to the entire scroll wrap length. Lubricant is provided to the passages by a combination of pickup tubes affixed to the scroll end plates and inlet openings in the scroll end plates. The inlet openings accept lubricant discharged from the bearings in the apparatus. The pickup tubes rotate with the scroll end plates and remove lubricant from a sump adjacent the scroll end plates.

Abstract: Olefins such as propylene and isobutylene are converted to the corresponding unsaturated nitriles, acrylonitrile, and methacrylonitrile, respectively, by reacting a mixture of the olefin, ammonia, and molecular oxygen-containing gas in the presence of a catalyst containing the oxides of bismuth, molybdenum, iron, nickel and magnesium, at least one element selected from the group comprising potassium and cesium, and optionally one element selected from the group comprising cobalt, phosphorus, manganese, tellurium, sodium, cerium, chromium, antimony and tungsten wherein the sum of cesium and potassium is at least 0.1 to 0.4.

Abstract: An unloading arrangement for a rotary screw compressor includes discrete and different unloading apparatus associated with the male and female rotors respectively. The unloading apparatus associated with the male rotor is an axial piston continuous unloader movably disposed in a bore which is remote from but in flow communication, through a series of ports, with the compressor's working chamber. The unloading apparatus associated with the female rotor is a step unloader which, when opened, unloads the compressor in a single, relatively large capacity step. The compressor is therefore capable of being unloaded both over a continuous operating range and in a discontinuous, stepwise fashion. By duplexing compressors of this type, continuous capacity modulation of a multiple compressor system is made available over a large operating range without the employment of compressors unloaded by slide valve mechanisms.

Abstract: A multi-axle vehicle equipped with an antilock braking system which provides regulated braking operations to prevent locking of the wheels when the vehicle is braked and spinning of the wheels when the vehicle is started up, comprises a front axle, first and second rear axles, the first rear axle being a drive axle and the second rear axle being a liftable following axle, wheels mounted on each of the axles, rotational speed sensors producing signals indicative of the rotational speeds of the wheels associated with each of the wheels mounted on the front axle, on the drive axle, and on the following axle, brake cylinders associated with each of the wheels, a circuit supplying a pressure medium to the brake cylinders so that a braking pressure is applied to the wheels, and at least one electronic control unit which controls the braking pressure applied to each of the wheels.