Abstract: Two composite structures are fastened together using an electrically conductive, threaded fastener. The composite structures have insulating surface regions and inner regions which contain conductive fibers. The threaded fastener is provided with large contact areas through the inner regions to facilitate discharge of high curent densities from the composite materials while minimizing localized heating. This significantly increases the life of the composite material.

Abstract: A waterproof camera window provides a transparent, unitary protective cover that seals both the light source and camera lens and a submersible camera, and comprises a generally planar, optically transparent window bearing a non-transparent masked portion incorporated into its outer and inner surfaces, in the area between the light source and the camera lens.

Abstract: A film speed code changer for use with an encoded film cartridge which contains film. The encoded film cartridge has a coded surface with a conductive surface with a non-conductive region. The dimensions of the non-conductive region provide a film speed code. An automatic camera is able to read film speed data for the film. The film speed code changer includes a sheet of flexible material, a layer of adhesive material and a backing sheet. The sheet of flexible material has a conductive surface and a backing surface. The layer of adhesive material adheres to the backing surface of the sheet of flexible material. The backing sheet covers the layer of adhesive material and is peeled away so that the backing surface of the film speed changer can be adhered to the coded surface of the encoded film cartridge. The film speed code changer also include an insulating material is applied to form a non-conductive region on the conductive surface of the sheet of flexible material.

Abstract: A focus detection apparatus for a camera comprising: a condensor lens being arranged close to or behind a predetermined focal plane of an objective lens of the camera. A pair of image separation members for separating the image of an object formed on the predetermined focal plane by use of light having been passed through said objective lens into two images which are arranged behind the condensor lens symmetrically with respect to the optical axis of the objective lens, wherein the correlation between the two images formed separately is measured in order to detect the focus condition of the objective lens; said image separating members including a mask members for projecting the exit pupil of the image separation members within an exit pupil of a cata-dioptric lens system as the objective lens.

Abstract: A sheet-exposure stand supporting a photosensitive sheet on its sheet-placement surface, the photosensitive sheet being composed of a light-permeable substrate that is coated with pressure-rupturable capsules that contain chromogenic materials and photosensitive materials that are hardened when illuminated with light, and the sheet-placement surface being coated with or made of a light-reflective substance, and a method for the formation of images using the same.

Abstract: A support for defining an end point of the vibrating portion of the strings of a stringed musical instrument comprises a base having a slot with walls which converge to an apex line. At least one rocker has walls which converge to a knife edge complementary to the apex line, where the angle between the walls of the base is larger than the angle between the walls of the rocker to allow the rocker to rock in the slot while the knife edge engages the apex line. The rocker has an arc-shaped surface centered at the knife edge for contacting at least one of the strings and moving with the string in a direction along the length of the string while maintaining the end point of the vibrating position of the string at a constant position relative to the base in the direction along the length of the string.

Abstract: An adjustable, articulated, underwater strobe arm assembly, comprising: at least three links arranged in end-to-end relation, for adjustably interconnecting items of photographic equipment; at least one link including longitudinally endwise spaced pairs of sockets to receive and adjustably tighten on balls carried by other links; the one link includes two elongated link sections, each of which carries two of the sockets; hinge means associated with and interconnecting the sections, to allow relative rotating of the sections about a first axis extending longitudinally; and clamping means carried by the one link to effect relative rotation of the sections about the longitudinal axis, in response to tightening of the clamping means, whereby the sockets tighten onto the balls to prevent relative rotation.

Abstract: A photographic camera is disclosed for use with a film cassette in which a filmstrip has a row of metering perforations in its imaging portion, adjacent a longitudinal film edge, for engagement with a metering pawl of the camera, and a row of take-up perforations in its leader portion, adjacent the same film edge, for engagement with a take-up spool of the camera, and a film spool is rotatable to unwind the film strip off the spool to thrust the leader portion from the cassette. The camera includes a film sensing member for normally maintaining the metering pawl removed from a film advance path between the cassette and the take-up spool to prevent the pawl from erroneously engaging the leader portion at one of its take-up perforations.

Abstract: An electrical appliance utilizes felt for causing a corona discharge to allow accumulated static electricity to be discharged, and a conductive member having a grounding effect and constituted by a pressure washer or the like is provided in the vicinity of the felt, at a distance of 4 mm or greater therefrom. The felt is made of acrylonitrile-copper sulfate composite fibers.

Abstract: A musical instrument of substantially conical shape that has a rim and spokes, the rim being substantially circular. The spokes number at least three and are of equal length, emanating from a second rim. The second rim is not in the same plane that is defined by the rim but shares the same axis with the first rim. The instrument can be played by striking it with a stick or another instrument. The sound the instrument gives can be changed by varying the diameter of the rim or the number of spokes, the orientation of the instrument, the material of which the instrument is made, or by loosely attaching a cymbal to the interior of the cone defined by the instrument's configuration.

Abstract: A single reflex type electronic camera includes an imaging lens unit and five reflecting units beyond an image formed by an objective, and a finder optical system wherein an image can be observed with a high finder magnification and at a position easy to observe similar to that found in a single reflex camera using silver salt films.

Abstract: An electrical dissipator comprising a multiplicity of fine electrically conductive wires having their proximate ends fitted into a hole in an electrically conductive base member and secured therein by crimping to securely grip the ends of the wires. One embodiment of the base member comprises a hollow tube allowing connection over an existing traditional lightning rod. In another embodiment, the base member comprises a solid rod or hollow tube having its proximal end threaded to allow the traditional lightning rod to be unthreaded from its threaded base and replaced. In a third embodiment, the base member comprises an apertured flange for bolting to the structure to be protected from lightning.

Abstract: The discovered xylophone has a plurality of metal pipes which are respectively supported by way of foam-rubber pads on a support frame the lateral members of which has support channels, in which are positioned the foam-rubber pads. A fastening wire extends through small holes in one protective strip atop the metal pipes and one lateral frame members respectively so as to retain the pipes in place.

Abstract: The invention refers to a length measuring device, with which a working length of a work piece may be determined for milling machines and sawing machines. The measuring device comprises one unit with a movable buffer which is laid out and secured parallel to the table on a level and vertical to the cutting tool of the machine. An electrical sensor device operable relative to an electrical ruler is synchronized to move with the buffer and the sensor device is electrically connected with an indicator to provide a read out of the measurement.

Abstract: An instructional aid support and protective accessory for use with woodwind instruments which includes an elongated body portion which extends in substantially parallel and covering relationship with respect to the tone holes and/or keys of the instrument and to which is mounted a fingering guide having a plurality of spaced channels therein which are used to positively control the horizontal and vertical finger positioning relative to the tone holes and/or keys of the instrument.

Abstract: A focus adjusting apparatus including an immovable cylinder secured to a camera body, a cam ring which is associated with the immovable cylinder to rotate and move in the optical axis directions and which is provided on its outer periphery with a circumferential groove or projection, a thrust member having a projection or groove which is engaged by the groove or the projection of the cam ring. The thrust member is capable of moving together with the cam ring in the optical axis direction and rotating relative to the cam ring. The apparatus also includes an adjustment fixing device for moving the thrust member in the optical axis directions to fix the thrust member to the immovable cylinder at a desired position.

Abstract: A film cassette is disclosed wherein a filmstrip beginning with a relatively short non-protruding leader portion can be advanced automatically to the exterior of the cassette responsive to rotation of a film spool in a film unwinding direction. The filmstrip has one metering perforation per film frame in a relatively long imaging portion and several much closer spaced take-up perforations in its leader portion. Preferably, the take-up perforations are located along a different longitudinal edge of the filmstrip than the metering perforations are located, to positively prevent the possiblity of mistaking one of the take-up perforations for one of the metering perforations in a camera.

Abstract: The present invention describes a burn-out frame for a copy print machine, comprising a support table on which a film or a printing plate is intended to be mounted, and a copy print frame having exposure light for providing a print of one and the same original film or a series of different original films onto the film or printing plate, and in which the print frame comprises a frame having a transparent glass plate (11), which at the bottom surface thereof is formed with at least one downwardly opening groove (12, 14) for vacuum connecting an original film (13) and eventually a masking film (15), and one or more bores and/or channels (16, 17) opening in said groove (12) for connecting the vacuum groove(s) (12) to a source of sub-pressure, and in which part (19) of the print frame glass corresponding to the largest image area of the original film (13) is clear, and parts (18) of the transparent plate located outside said largest image area are diffused.

Abstract: A manually operated handle for panoramic cameras. The handle has a shaft which extends upwardly for contact with a panoramic camera. The shaft is caused to rotate by the moving of a rack along the side of the handle. A pair of one-way clutches causes the shaft to move only in one direction.

Abstract: A tremolo device for a guitar which includes a flat plate pivotably mounted about a fulcrum on a guitar body, a bar secured to the flat plate to receive and anchor strings of the guitar, at least one tension spring for exerting pressure against the flat plate and the bar in one rotating direction, against the tension of the guitar strings, a tremolo arm screwed into the flat plate to oscillate the flat plate and the bar to thereby produce a tremolo effect, a stabilizing plate provided on the bar to stabilize the initial position of the flat plate and the bar, and an abutting mechanism provided on the guitar body to support the flat plate and the bar through the stabilizing plate. The stabilizing plate has a dead point on the periphery thereof, and when the abutting mechanism comes into contact with that dead point, the flat plate and the bar can be most stably supported by the abutting mechanism.