Abstract: A helicopter rotor hub assembly for coupling a pair of helicopter blades to a helicopter mast. It includes a yoke assembly and a pitch assembly. The yoke assembly includes a central section and first and second sections extending respectively on opposite sides of the central section. Each one of the first and second sections has a pair of elongated arms defining inbetween a bearing-receiving interspace. The pitch assembly includes first and second attachment plates extending respectively along the first and second sections of the yoke assembly and first and second pitch bearing assemblies. Each attachment plate is connected to a respective one of the helicopter blades. Each pitch bearing assembly extends in the bearing-receiving interspace of a respective one of the first and second sections of the yoke assembly. Each pitch bearing assembly contacts a respective one of attachment plates to allow a pitch movement of the helicopter blades.

Abstract: A helicopter rotor hub assembly for coupling a pair of helicopter blades to a helicopter mast. It includes a yoke assembly and a pitch assembly. The yoke assembly includes a central section and first and second sections extending respectively on opposite sides of the central section. Each one of the first and second sections has a pair of elongated arms defining inbetween a bearing-receiving interspace. The pitch assembly includes first and second attachment plates extending respectively along the first and second sections of the yoke assembly and first and second pitch bearing assemblies. Each attachment plate is connected to a respective one of the helicopter blades. Each pitch bearing assembly extends in the bearing-receiving interspace of a respective one of the first and second sections of the yoke assembly. Each pitch bearing assembly contacts a respective one of attachment plates to allow a pitch movement of the helicopter blades.

Abstract: A portable chamber for hyperbaric and/or hypoxic treatment comprises an open-ended and typically frustro-conical tubular body sized to accommodate at least one occupant, and two end members configured to be respectively received at opposite extremities of the body for closing the body in a seal tight arrangement. The body of the chamber is made of a flexible yet reinforced elastomeric material such as to be collapsible during transport. One of the end members is provided with a door to provide access to the interior of the chamber. The extremities of the body are substantially spherical such as to receive the correspondingly substantially periphery of the end members. When the chamber is supplied with gases during hyperbaric or hypoxic treatment, the spherical peripheries of the end members are urged against the spherical extremities of the body, thereby providing a seal tight chamber. A treatment system comprising the chamber is also disclosed.

Abstract: A portable chamber for hyperbaric and/or hypoxic treatment comprises an open-ended and typically frustro-conical tubular body sized to accommodate at least one occupant, and two end members configured to be respectively received at opposite extremities of the body for closing the body in a seal tight arrangement. The body of the chamber is made of a flexible yet reinforced elastomeric material such as to be collapsible during transport. One of the end members is provided with a door to provide access to the interior of the chamber. The extremities of the body are substantially spherical such as to receive the correspondingly substantially periphery of the end members. When the chamber is supplied with gases during hyperbaric or hypoxic treatment, the spherical peripheries of the end members are urged against the spherical extremities of the body, thereby providing a seal tight chamber. A treatment system comprising the chamber is also disclosed.

Abstract: A vacuum sweeper vehicle has a sweeper body including a frame. A pair of front wheels are supported by an axle apparatus at a forward end of the sweeper body. The axle apparatus is constructed to provide a space between the front wheels. A pair of rear wheels are supported at a rearward end of the sweeper body. A container is coupled to the sweeper body for receiving debris. A suction hose extends between the container and a vacuum nozzle proximal a forward end of the body. The suction hose extends through the space between the the front wheels. A suction device draws the debris from the nozzle, into the container, and a brush coupled to a forward end of the sweeper body sweeps debris from a ground surface.

Abstract: A roadway marker transferring device for a vehicle having a longitudinal axis is provided. The device comprises a support for mounting the device on the vehicle and a transferring member connected to the support. The transferring member comprises a first end and a second end with a transferring section therebetween, the transferring section being at an oblique angle relative to the longitudinal axis of the vehicle. Upon movement of the vehicle, the first end engages the roadway marker at a first position on the roadway, the transferring section then engages and transfers the roadway marker towards the second end of the transferring member wherein the roadway marker is afterwards released at a second position on the roadway.

Abstract: A vacuum sweeper vehicle has a sweeper body including a frame. A pair of front wheels are supported by an axle apparatus at a forward end of the sweeper body. The axle apparatus is constructed to provide a space between the front wheels. A pair of rear wheels are supported at a rearward end of the sweeper body. A container is coupled to the sweeper body for receiving debris. A suction hose extends between the container and a vacuum nozzle proximal a forward end of the body. The suction hose extends through the space between the the front wheels. A suction device draws the debris from the nozzle, into the container, and a brush coupled to a forward end of the sweeper body sweeps debris from a ground surface.

Abstract: A method of cutting a wafer of a semiconductor material, including breaking the wafer along cutting paths using a knife hitting a sheet supporting the wafer in a frame. The method includes using knives of different lengths according to the wafer region in which the cutting path is located using a tool block including apparatus for receiving at least two knives of different lengths and for rotating step-by-step around an axis to change the knife that is active in the wafer cutting.