Abstract: An improved relief valve for use in a diaphragm flush valve is constructed having a sealing member provided with an exteriorly threaded shaft extending down into the diaphragm flush valve with a smaller diameter metal stem extending from the bottom of the shaft, a tube member having a passageway formed by the interior surface wall of the tube member, the interior surface wall having an upper threaded portion to permit the tube member to be screwed to the shaft, and a sleeve member slidable along the metal stem with the sleeve member upper end positioned in the tube member passageway and retained in the passageway by a stop forming part of the tube member.

Abstract: An inkjet cartridge refurbishing apparatus includes a pump assembly with a fluid intake line that can be inserted into a bottle or other reservoir of ink or flushing/cleaning material. Connected to the output of the pump assembly is a fill gun having a fill needle mounted on a handle. The fill gun is operated by inserting the fill needle into an inkjet cartridge and actuating a fill trigger switch on the fill gun. Actuating the fill trigger switch activates the pump assembly to pump ink into the cartridge. An auto-cutoff device may control the volume of fluid pumped into the cartridge.

Abstract: In a fuel tank installation including a fuel tank with an expansion volume, a filler neck connected to the fuel tank for refueling, a fill vent line for venting the fuel tank during refueling and an operating vent line for venting the expansion volume of the tank, electrically operable valve means for blocking the operating vent line are arranged in a penetration area of the fuel tank where the operating vent line extends through the fuel tank.

Abstract: A shear valve assembly for a fuel dispenser that ensures that the energy from an impact to the fuel dispenser causes a shear valve placed inline to the fuel supply conduit to engage if there is a possibility that such impact could cause the fuel supply conduit to break thereby causing a leak of fuel to the environment. The shear valve assembly may be constructed as part of the fuel dispenser during the manufacture of the fuel dispenser, or the shear valve assembly may be constructed separately from the fuel dispenser and attached to the fuel dispenser in the field during installation of a fuel dispenser.

Abstract: A portable, cryogenic gas delivery apparatus includes a chamber which contains cryogenic material, such as oxygen, in both liquid and gas phases. A probe is mounted to move relative to the chamber in response to variations in pressure in the gas phase within the chamber. The probe has one part positioned within the chamber so that it is exposed to the pressure and temperature of the gas within the chamber and a second part located outside the chamber. The probe thus introduces heat from the ambient into the chamber. The probe preferably moves relative to the chamber in response to variations in pressure, moving away from the chamber to reduce the amount of thermal energy introduced into the chamber and toward the chamber to increase the amount of thermal energy introduced into the chamber. The apparatus includes a conserver which receives gas evaporating from the chamber and delivers it in efficient pulses to the end user in response to the user's inhalation.

Abstract: A toilet system which can be rinsed by a rinsing device. A pipe is connected to the toilet pan and leads to a sanitation pipe. Means are provided for transporting a suction material from the toilet pan into the pipe and into the sanitation pipe. Said means comprise two valves which are arranged in the pipe and a pressure chamber is disposed in-between. In order to suction the suction material from the toilet pan, low pressure is produced in the pressure chamber and used to transport said suctioned material. The pressure chamber is embodied as a piston cylinder and the piston is connected to a controllable drive in order to produce the high and low pressure. The inventive toilet system enables rinsing to occur using a very small amount of water and which can be adapted to different toilet pans.

Abstract: A vent system associated with a vapor outlet is coupled to a container (e.g., a fuel tank). The vent system can be used for onboard refueling vapor recovery (ORVR) for vehicles. The vent system includes a first elongated member (e.g., a vent tube), a rotating device, and a second elongated member (e.g., a breather tube) that is coupled between the rotating device and a buoyant device. The buoyant device interacts with materials (e.g., fuel) input into the fuel tank to actuate rotation of the rotating device. Once a predetermined amount of fuel has been input into the fuel tank, the buoyant device rotates the rotating device a predetermined amount, which stops venting of fuel vapor through the vent system. The fuel level continues to increase up the filler pipe until an automatic shut off mechanism of the device controlling fuel input stops fuel flow.

Abstract: A head fitting for a bathtub waste water drainage system is disclosed. The head fitting simplifies leak testing in bathtub waste water drainage system and eliminates the need for a separate test cap and fastening hardware for leak testing. The head fitting includes an internal partition wall and a breakout test plug molded as an integral part of the head fitting. The internal partition wall and breakout test plug initially hermetically seal the flow passage of the head fitting for leak testing the drainage system. The test plug can be broken out from the internal partition wall to open the flow passage after leak testing and without damaging the head fitting. The test plug forms part of the partition wall defined by an annular groove in the partition wall. The groove forms an annular band of relatively thin material (fracture band) that integrally connects the test plug to the partition wall, but allows the test plug to be forcefully separated from the partition wall.

Abstract: A belted applicator for applying a lotion substance, and more particularly a lotion applicator having a retractable belt in a handled configuration that lends to the easy use of the device. The belted applicator includes two handled housing bodies interconnected by a belt. The belted applicator may also include disposable belt cartridges, which include a lotion, or any other substance applied with the belted device. The lotion may be a liquid, a gel, or a powder in a medicinal, massage, moisturizer insect repellent or sunscreen formulation. The belted applicator has leak resistant features that also reduce dripping of lotion from the belt. The belt may feed in sequence, when depleted, with the depleted portion of the belt removed by the user. The belted applicator may also include two interlocked portions that serve to seal the belt within and communicate lotion between the two interlocked portions.

Abstract: A pressure relief valve for flowing media has a closing element (6), whose closing force can be set with both the setting of the closing force and the brief release of the closing element (6) performed with a single setting element. Teeth (22, 23) are provided, by which the threaded sleeve (3) can be actuated such that it can perform a rotary movement and a lifting movement can be performed between the handwheel (2) and the threaded sleeve (3). The teeth are provided between a pin (21) of the handwheel (2) for setting the closing force and a threaded sleeve (3). The closing element (6) is connected to the handwheel (2) such that the closing element (6) follows the lifting movement of the handwheel (2).

Abstract: An ink composition for oil-based ballpoint pens is comprised of a solvent, a colorant and an anti-corrosive wetting agent. The solvent is a water containing water-in-oil-type organic solvent. The colorant is a combination of a dye and a pigment, wherein the pigment is dispersed in the ink with a nonionic surfactant. The anti-corrosive wetting agent is a phosphate based surfactant. An oil-based ballpoint pen using the above ink is also included.

Abstract: A device and a process are used for filling a column with a filler material. The column is provided on two ends with a fill opening or with an intake opening. The column is held by a holding device. Using the holding device the column can be inserted in a tank in which the filler material is located. The column is connected via a connecting line to a negative pressure source. By producing a negative pressure in the interior of the column the filler material can be sucked homogeneously into the interior of the column.

Abstract: The invention concerns painting installations comprising painting machines or robots (6a, 6b, 7a, 7b, 8a, 8b, 9a, 9b), each with a sprayer (12) and a paint reservoir (13), associated with the sprayer and designed to supply it, the machines or robots being arranged along a painting line for motor vehicle bodies (2). Each machine or robot is provided with a fluidic connector, designed to co-operate discontinuously with a dispensing system (14a, 14b, 15a, 15b) comprising a color shade-changing unit. Each dispensing system (14a, 14b, 15a, 15b) is arranged between two consecutive machines (6a, 7a; 6b, 7b; 8a, 9a; 8b, 9b), and is common to those two machines, which are successively connected thereto to fill their respective reservoirs each time there is a color shade change.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an offset pen comprising a holding portion, a writing portion, and an intermediate portion, in which said holding portion is provided for a user to operate by hand, said writing portion is provided with a pen tip for writing, in which a pen tip seat is provided outside the pen tip, and said intermediate portion is used to connect the holding portion and the writing portion so that the writing portion and the holding portion are separately formed on different axes and that a visible space is formed between said writing portion and said holding portion; therefore, when the user operates, the holding portion naturally tilt, while the writing portion keeps vertical to a writing surface for the sake of different axes, so that the user may promptly see the writing result through the visible space; furthermore, a storage chamber is provided in the holding portion, in which pen tips ready for replacement are stored in the storage chamber so that storage and use of the tips may be impl

Abstract: A soap device includes a sheet of flexible netting-like material having a number of perforations and an outer peripheral portion, and a soap material is engaged into the perforations of the sheet of flexible netting-like material, and engaged onto the outer peripheral portion of the sheet of flexible netting-like material to form the soap device. One or more further sheets of flexible netting-like material may further be engaged into the soap material and superposed with the other sheets of flexible netting-like material. The flexible netting-like sheets may be formed into different roughness or coarseness.

Abstract: An apparatus for fabricating a liquid crystal display panel includes a chamber for holding a substrate, wherein the substrate includes first and second metal patterns, a spray nozzle connected to the chamber for spraying spacers onto the substrate, wherein the spacers are charged with a predetermined polarity, and a first power supplier connected to the chamber for applying a first voltage with a positive polarity and a second voltage with a negative polarity to the first and second metal patterns of the substrate.

Abstract: A system for strengthening containers in a high-speed filling operation is disclosed. The system includes a solenoid-driven injector apparatus positioned at an angle to the containers being filled. The injector apparatus includes a chamber connected via an intake line to a supply tank. A solenoid is adapted to open an injector valve, allowing liquefied gas within a chamber to forcibly flow through an outflow line into the container. The solenoid is also adapted to close the injector valve, thereby blocking the liquefied gas within the chamber from entering the outflow line. The injector apparatus also includes a heater positioned adjacent to the outflow line and an adjustment device for the injector valve.

Abstract: A method of filling a portable tank with compressed oxygen-enriched gas includes the steps of providing a coupling such that when a portable tank is connected with the coupling oxygen-enriched gas can flow through the coupling into the portable tank; directing oxygen-enriched gas from an oxygen concentrator to a compressor; compressing the oxygen-enriched gas in the compressor; directing compressed oxygen-enriched gas from the compressor to a reservoir; storing the compressed oxygen-enriched gas in the reservoir; and thereafter directing stored oxygen-enriched gas from the reservoir to the coupling to enable filling of a portable tank with compressed oxygen-enriched gas from the reservoir.

Abstract: There is provided a method of transferring a defined quantity of powder comprising compacting a target area of powder; dipping a tube into the compacted target area of powder to fill the tube with a defined volume of powder; and transferring the defined volume of powder from the tube.

Abstract: A system for transferring a fluid product between a carrier, such as a vessel, and an installation, in particular a fixed installation, for processing and storing the product. The system includes a tubular structure for conveying the product between the vessel and the installation, a device for connection to a manifold of the vessel and a flexible transfer pipe connected to the installation. The connection device and the pipe are connectable to each other at free ends for transferring the fluid product between the vessel and the installation. At least the free end of the flexible transfer pipe includes a product handler for displacing the free end between a position for connection to the connection device and a disengaged position for storage. The invention enables the transfer of cryogenic liquefied natural gas.