Abstract: A method includes determining a specific or basic vehicle, retrieving a base image or modified base image corresponding to the specific or basic vehicle, and selecting an accessory. The method also includes retrieving an accessory image corresponding to the accessory and animating the accessory image onto the base image or modified base image.

Abstract: A method and system for configuring window tint for a vehicle may include a GUI or series of GUIs. The GUI may allow a user to select desired tint criteria. The GUI may allow the user to select the vehicle make, model, trim, and color. The GUI may allow the user to select the windows to be tinted. The GUI may allow the user to select the film type, such as the manufacturer and model type of the tint film. The GUI may allow the user to select the opacity of the tinted windows. The GUI may allow the user to submit an order for tint based on the selected tint criteria.

Abstract: A vehicle service facility may include an RFID transmitter-receiver. The RFID transmitter-receiver may include at least one RFID antenna. The RFID transmitter-receiver may further include an RFID reader. The vehicle service facility may also include a computer system, the computer system having a programmable processor such as a microprocessor or a microcontroller and processor-readable or computer-readable programming code embodying logic embedded on tangible, non-transitory computer readable media. The computer system is in data communication with the RFID reader.

Abstract: A method includes determining a specific or basic vehicle, retrieving a base image or modified base image corresponding to the specific or basic vehicle, and selecting an accessory. The method also includes retrieving an accessory image corresponding to the accessory and animating the accessory image onto the base image or modified base image.

Abstract: A stacking apparatus includes a feed device that feeds a succession of elongated items to a pick-up station, and a rotating structure having first and second arms at different angles about a rotation axis of the rotating structure. The arms have receiving surfaces mounted thereto that receive the elongated items as a layer at the pick-up station during rotation of the rotating structure as the receiving surface travels past the pick-up station. The apparatus also includes a carriage having layer supporting forks that receive the layer from the receiving surface during rotation of the rotating structure as the receiving surface travels past a layer receiving station. The carriage carries the layer from the layer receiving station and deposits the layer at a layer stacking station from the forks to form the stack of superimposed layers.

Abstract: A stacking apparatus includes a feed device that feeds a succession of elongated items to a pick-up station, and a rotating structure having first and second arms at different angles about a rotation axis of the rotating structure. The arms have receiving surfaces mounted thereto that receive the elongated items as a layer at the pick-up station during rotation of the rotating structure as the receiving surface travels past the pick-up station. The apparatus also includes a carriage having layer supporting forks that receive the layer from the receiving surface during rotation of the rotating structure as the receiving surface travels past a layer receiving station. The carriage carries the layer from the layer receiving station and deposits the layer at a layer stacking station from the forks to form the stack of superimposed layers.

Abstract: A set of legal form blanks intended for conveying information obtained during a single legal transaction to a plurality of legal entities. A horizontal first line of separation is provided across the entire width of the legal form blanks for separation of the legal form blanks after completion into documents having separate uses or purposes. A vertical second line of separation is provided perpendicular to the first line of separation such that left and right sets of legal form blanks are formed. Common information and different but related information can be provided on immediately adjacent legal form blanks of the left and right sets of legal form blanks.

Abstract: A process for forming a package of hot melt adhesive material includes forming a bottom layer of molten non-tacky polymeric material in a container and depositing a bead of molten non-tacky polymeric material along the top edges of an open-faced rigid container and allowing the bead of polymeric material to pour down the walls of the rigid container by gravity so as to coat the inside wall surfaces and bottom surface of the container with a substantially uniform layer of the non-tacky polymeric material. The layer of non-tacky polymeric material is allowed to solidify in the container and form a substantially rigid mold of the polymeric material within the container. The mold is located in a rigid support structure and is conveyed to a molten adhesive filling station. The mold is filled at the filling station with a metered amount of molten adhesive which is allowed to cool and solidify within the mold thereby forming a solidified package of hot melt adhesive material.

Abstract: A temporary identification card having smooth edges is formed from a carrier of continuous form stock having indicia printed on its upper and/or lower surfaces. A retainer patch adheres to the bottom surface of the carrier by means of an adhesive area. The retainer patch has first and second plastic layers chemically bonded to one another. The card is die cut all the way around its perimeter, the die cutting extending through the form stock, the adhesive and the first layer of the retainer patch but not the second layer. The bond between the first and second layers of the retainer patch allows the second layer to retain the card in the carrier until such time as a user chooses to remove the card from the carrier.

Abstract: A business form with adhesive for window mounting comprises a back sheet and a front sheet. The top edge of the top sheet is coextensive with the top edge of the bottom sheet, but the bottom edge of the top sheet is inwardly offset from the bottom edge of the bottom sheet. A line of adhesive is provided to adhere the back surface of the top sheet to the front surface of the back sheet. The adhesive surfaces of first and second adhesive strips overlap the top and bottom edges, respectively, of the back sheet to define respective top and bottom adhesive areas extending outwardly of the top and bottom edges of the back sheet. First and second releasable liner strips are substantially coextensive with and adhesively attached to the top and bottom adhesive areas, respectively, at the adhesive surfaces. Both sheets have a line of tractor feed holes positioned below the first adhesive strip.

Abstract: A centrifugal liquid separator and defoamer for use in a vacuum cooling system including a cooling vessel having a vessel interior for containing a liquid to be cooled, and a vacuum system for applying a vacuum to an interior of the vessel, through a vessel vapor outlet nozzle. This separator and defoamer includes at least one impeller blade positioned in the vicinity of a juncture of the vessel interior and vessel vapor outlet nozzle, this impeller blade being rotated at a speed at which any liquid contacting the rotating impeller blade will be thrown off the blade, and any foam contacting the impeller blade will be converted to liquid and thrown off the blade, in the direction of the vessel interior, by centrifugal action.

Abstract: An alphanumeric color-coded filing system comprising a plurality of coded labels of different sizes having visually-perceptible characteristics corresponding the specific alphanumeric information and a folder having a front and back cover. The back cover has a unitary flap extending substantially the entire length thereof outwardly of the corresponding edge of the front cover, and the flap has a unitary tab extending outwardly therefrom along a portion of its length. The flap including the tab is marked with a plurality of placement guides corresponding in size to the front section of the labels. The placement guides on the tab are all the same size for guiding placement of labels of the same size. The tab defines a location for the placement of primary information, while the remaining portions of the flap defines locations for the placement of supplemental information.

Abstract: An improved wet wall electrostatic precipitation unit of the type wherein a constant liquid stream is maintained over the inside surface of a glass collector tube and a discharge electrode, to which a voltage is applied, extends substantially through the center of the tube between the upper and lower ends thereof, to repel smoke particles, forcing them into the liquid stream. The liquid from the liquid stream, discharged at the bottom of the glass tube is recycled to the top of the collector tube after adjustment of the pH to render the liquid caustic. The caustic nature of the recycle liquid prevents smoke from streaking the collector tube thereby improving efficiency.

Abstract: An improved coating is provided for fiberglass insulation articles which is coated onto the fiberglass insulation, thereby providing the fiberglass insulation with good mechanical properties and other desirable properties such as low emission of volatiles, fire retardency, low potential smoke generation and low air friction.

Abstract: An improved heat collapsible foam coating is provided for fiberglass insulation articles which is coated onto the fiberglass insulation, thereby providing the fiberglass insulation with good mechanical properties and other desirable properties such as low emission of volatiles, fire retardency, low potential smoke generation and low air friction.

Abstract: A unitary shingling apparatus prepares uniformly shingled sets of forms from a continuous, preprinted roll. The apparatus numbers the individual forms in groups of predetermined count, wherein the forms in each group receive identical numbers. Each group is then shingled into its own set. The forms are numbered while still on the web, then separated from the web by a reciprocating knife, transported individually to a predetermined indexing position, and then transferred, glued and shingled onto a shingling conveyor in the shingled, overlapped sets.