Abstract: Both apparatus and the method is directed to a sampler array carrying a plurality of samplers in which the array has a trip assembly with a plurality of lanyard release pins. One moving member in the assembly contains a pivotal cam which is spring loaded in order to pass a plurality of lanyard release pins in one direction, but to move in the opposite direction and depress the lanyard release pin thereby releasing the lanyard to a preselected sampler for purposes of closing the same and entrapping a sample by the exact sampler desired by the operator at the surface. The method then contemplates counting the degrees of movement of a moving trip wheel having a release cam in one direction in which each sampler lanyard release pin is bypassed, and thereafter reversing the same having the lanyard release pin which is desired to be activated confronts the angled under surface of the lanyard release cam which, when reversed, will depress the lanyard release pin and release the lanyard to close the sampler.

Abstract: A method of calibrating pipette position in an automated assay instrument employing a conveyor for holding assay cartridges and a transport for transporting a pipette between various locations is accomplished by alignment of a pipette stem with targets located at various locations within the system. Two targets are located on a tray having a plurality of reservoirs for holding liquid, and one target is located on a dummy cartridge carried by the conveyor. An indicator having a spring-loaded tab is used in conjunction with a pipette stem modified by inclusion of a circumferential slot for receiving the spring loaded tab. The stem is inserted into the indicator and locked therein, with limited sliding being provided by movement of the tab within confines of the slot. Alignment marks are provided on both the stem and the indicator to permit visual alignment of the stem relative to a target upon abutment of the indicator with the target.

Abstract: A system for a gauge well in a liquid storage tank with a floating roof including a floatable container located inside the gauge well and having a flexible laterally or radially serrated flange extending outward from the float and in contact with the inside of the well pipe to prevent vapor from the liquid stock from rising in the pipe. There may be a pair of such flexible flanges vertically spaced apart with the lower seal being just above the level of the liquid stock in the well pipe. A tape is attached at its lower end to a weight in the well pipe below the float and its upper end is connected to a winch outwardly of the upper end of the well pipe. A vertical passageway through the float is provided for the tape to pass freely therethrough and the float is freely slidable on the tape. The container includes a closed opening which is selectively opened to fill with the liquid stock at any selected level in the tank.

Abstract: A method of carrying out an accelerated light fastness test on a sample of a material to be used under certain conditions of air convection along the surface thereof, is constituted by the steps of positioning a sample to be tested with the surface thereof which is exposed to light during intended conditions of use of the material spaced at a distance from a light source having a constant intensity of light radiated therefrom for causing the surface of the sample to receive a desired intensity of light, and positioning a filter between the surface of the sample and the light source and spaced a distance from the surface of the sample for causing air between the filter and the sample to be at the convection conditions corresponding to the certain conditions of air convection at the surface of the material under its intended conditions of use, whereby the temperature conditions of the material at the surface facing the source of light are made to correspond to the temperature conditions during the intended use

Abstract: A lightfastness testing chamber comprises an enclosure for samples being tested and at least one, and preferably a plurality of, lamps for irradiating samples in the enclosure. A monitor of the light intensity from each lamp present is provided. By this invention the monitor may comprise a light transmission rod, and preferably one such rod for each of the lamps, having one end positioned adjacent the lamp and another end in communication with light intensity measuring apparatus positioned more remotely from the lamp than the one end. The light transmission rod is preferably positioned on a side of the lamp that is substantially opposed to portions of the lamp that directly irradiate samples in the enclosure. Also, the samples may be moved by an elevatable platform or the like toward and away from the irradiating lamp or lamps to vary as desired the intensity of irradiation applied to the samples.

Abstract: A container for breath alcohol simulator solution comprising a self-standing 4 mil polyethylene bag having a removable label designating the quantity and calibration concentration of the fluid contained within the bag. The label may be removed from the bag and affixed to the breath alcohol simulator. A plurality of the filled bags are packaged in an upstanding position within a front and top opening carton having a pivoting lid for transportation, storage and use. The bag may be torn open and the fluid contents poured into a cavity within the breath alcohol simulator, or the bag may be opened and placed partially or entirely within the breath alcohol simulator with a gas inlet extending into the bag beneath the fluid level. Alternatively, the bag may be placed within a breath alcohol simulator having a gas inlet or outlet equipped to puncture the bag, with the simulator solution then being discharged into the cavity, or the air passed through the simulator solution within the bag.

Abstract: Described is an electronic insect repellency and attractancy tester used for measuring repellency and attractancy of compounds or compositions such as ketones, ketoesters, alcohol and/or esters for or against such insects as Musca domestica L. (Diptera:Muscidae) or Aedes aegyptae. The apparatus includes inter-related active and passive insect interest electronic detecting, measuring and recording systems, an enclosed insect feeding and/or stimulating systems, a steady state radiation supply system and a steady state air treatment agent supply and conduction system.

Abstract: Apparatus for examining an elongated cylindrical body having an axial bore, such a rotor shaft, which apparatus includes an energy transducer which is supported by a drive rod to be advanced within the bore while obtaining readings indicative of the physical condition of the body, a drive unit supporting the rod, and a fixture for supporting the drive unit in order to center the drive rod within the bore, the fixture being supported by the body and including a mechanism for adjusting the fixture in order to establish the desired axial alignment of the drive rod. The fixture is provided with an arrangement for supporting a calibration block which is used for calibration of the apparatus, the arrangement being adjustable relative to the fixture to bring the calibration block into a desired position relative to the transducer when the drive unit is mounted on the fixture.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method and apparatus of indentation testing of variable types of specimens which includes mounting an indenter member onto a thermally expandable member, mounting the specimen to be tested on a pedestal, loading the specimen with the indenter member by thermally expanding the thermally expandable member and measuring applied force to and displacement of the specimen so as to determine the hardness or other material properties of the specimen. The indenter member is thermally insulated from the thermally expandable member prior to thermally expanding the thermally expandable member. The thermal expansion driven indentation system in the present invention allows for controlled application of precise and continuous reproducible loads to produce stress-strain plots. Continuous indentation testing with this system has yielded results which correlate well to Rockwell fixed load hardness tests on standard test blocks.

Abstract: A tool for piercing an electric distribution transformer tank for obtaining a sample of oil therefrom to be tested for PCB contamination is disclosed. The tool includes a threaded body with a wrenchable fitting on one end and a tank punch pin on the other and is adapted for threadable insertion into a threaded hollow shaft of a ground lug nut attached to the tank. The pin is advanced in the lug nut shaft to pierce the tank by wrenchably rotating the fitting. Hollow shafts formed through the pin, punch body and fitting provide a path for the flow of oil from a space in the lug nut shaft between the hole in the tank and the end of the punch body to a syringe which contains a threaded tip inserted into a threaded shaft in the fitting when suction is drawn by the syringe on the shafts after the hole is punched and the pin is backed slightly out of the hole. A threaded nut seals the threaded shaft in the fitting after the filled syringe is removed from the tool to prevent oil leakage.

Abstract: A portable automatic test system which is deployable as separate modular elements in a plurality of separate protected transit cases, which after removal of the case covers, are stacked one upon the other to form the final test system. All electrical connections between adjacent modular elements are by zero insertion force connectors or low insertion force connectors positioned between the top and bottom of the adjacent elements. Moreover, the electronic components of each element are readily available through a file drawer design allowing ready access to individual printed circuits boards therein. The system controller also functions in a dual role, serving also as a portable maintenance aid.

Abstract: A method of measuring an average particle size of granules. The method computes the average particle size on the basis of an n-order moment M.sub.n of an image of granules accumulated in a pile or of the image subjected to binarization or floating binarization. The method is capable of highly accurate and stable measurement on granules having many irregularities in the surface thereof and accumulated in a pile. The method can be used to continuously measure in real time the particle size of granules in a rotary tray of a rotary tray-type rolling granulating machine thereby adjusting the feed rate of a liquid binder to automatically control the particle size.

Abstract: In a meter for an automobile comprising a meter case, a pointer driven by a meter drive unit, a dial plate having a display area and a graduations, characters and patterns display part formed on a base, the dial plate having a ground color providing a background to permit recognition of the position of the pointer, and an illumination lamp located on the rear side of the dial plate mounted in the meter case so as to illuminate the dial plate from the rear side or from the front side through a light guide member, at least one of the display area and the display part of the dial plate is formed by evaporation of a metal film permeable to light.

Abstract: An inspection drain plug that is removably connected to an aperture in a fluid reservoir. The drain plug comprises an outer hollow body having an open first end and an open second end, the first end being removably connected in a fluid flow relationship to the aperture of the fluid reservoir. A valve mechanism is connected to the outer body, such that the valve mechanism may be selectively operated between an open and closed position, so that the first end of the outer body is closed when the valve is in the closed position. The drain plug also comprises a biasing mechanism, whereby the valve is biased toward the closed position. The first end of an inner hollow body, having an open first end and a closed second end, is removably inserted within the second end of the outer body. Upon insertion of the inner body within the outer body the closed second end of the inner body operatively engages the valve, thereby selectively moving the valve between the closed position and the open position.

Abstract: The present invention is an air gun solenoid tester which includes a test fixture that holds the air gun solenoid in such a manner that air can be supplied to the air gun solenoid being tested through the test fixture and air can exit from the air gun solenoid through the test fixture. A source provides air to the test fixture in response to a fire pulse which is provided by a fire pulse circuit. The fire pulse circuit also provides the fire pulse to the air gun solenoid. A network connected to the air gun solenoid and to the fire pulse circuit evaluates the air gun solenoid under test in accordance with the fire pulse and an electrical response from the air gun solenoid.

Abstract: The invention concerns a procedure for controlling the quality of printing, wherein measuring marks (11, 12, 13 and 14) are placed on the printing base, such as a paper web, beside and/or among the actual printing are employed. A lighting unit (1) and an electronic camera (2) trained on the paper web (3) and the operation of the camera at least is synchronized with the transport speed in the printing process. With the camera (2) an image is recorded from a measuring area (9) on the paper web (3), which area contains measuring marks (11, 12, 13 and 14). The image is stored in an image memory (5). The image is taken from the image memory (5) to be processed, whereat the measuring marks are identified and located therein and on their basis the printing quality is checked.

Abstract: Pressure sensing device having a housing (12) with a bottom wall (14) and interior surface (16) and having upstanding edge wall (18) around the periphery of said housing (12). A layer (22) supports a pressure sensing element (30) and its circuitry. A porous gas permeable support layer (40) overlies said pressure sensing element (30) and includes a gas chamber (42) adjacent to the pressure sensing element (30). A gas permeable membrane (50) is supported on said support layer (40). The elements are sealed with respect to the housing as is wire or cable (32) leading from the pressure sensing element (30) to instrumentation remote from the sensing device for readout of measurements by the sensor device (10).

Abstract: A beet tare-taking mechanism and associated sample bucket, wherein the bucket travels in a long narrow elliptic path requiring minimum clearance. A direct drive gear powers a central arm at the end of which is journaled a tare bucket arm carrying the bucket at its outermost end. The tare bucket is geared to rotate with respect to the central arm as it rotates about the central shaft, alternately folding across the mechanism and extending directly outward from it, causing the bucket to travel in the aforementioned elliptic path.

Abstract: A liquid drainage system is disclosed comprising a combination urine meter element and drainage receptacle, the urine meter element having front and rear walls defining a chamber adapted to receive and measure urine output.

Abstract: An apparatus for determining the collectability of dust particles is disclosed herein. The concept of collectability and collectivity are employed to establish fundamental equations which are solved by the use of data obtained by passing a dust laden gas through a sampling train having a plurality of impingers. The weight of material collected in each separate impinger is determined and using these individual weights a mathematical matrix is set up from which the collectability of the dust particles is obtained. The collectability of a given dust particle is defined as its impinger efficiency when the impinger is operated in strict accordance with design specifications. Collectivity is defined as the collectability distribution of a mixture of dust particles having different collectabilities.