Abstract: The torque of each club about its shaft measured with the club oriented at the angle at which it is used to address the ball is substantially the same as the corresponding torque of every other club in the set.

Abstract: An apparatus and method to form a metal containing degenerate dendrites are disclosed. Molten metal is cooled in a receiving means and agitated by rotating blades connected to a rotating shaft. Solid metal, such as dendrites, deposited on inner wall portions of the receiving means are removed by suitable means, such as a scraping blade, in operable combination with the rotating blades. The so produced metal can be cast by conventional metal casting processes.

Abstract: A solid composite with a magnesium or magnesium alloy matrix with degenerate dendrites therein and up to about 30 weight percent solid, substantially insoluble oxide particles dispersed in the matrix, the oxide being selected from at least one member of the group consisting of aluminum oxide and magnesium oxide.

Abstract: The disclosure is of an improved method and apparatus for separating blood into light, substantially liquid phase and its heavy, substantially cellular phase by centrifuging a blood filled container having disposed therein an inert, gel-like barrier material possessing a density intermediate between the two phases of the blood. The improvement comprises employing a constricted tubular container, the constriction being at the zone where it is calculated the gel-like barrier material will align during centrifugation.

Abstract: An apparatus and method to form a metal containing degenerate dendrites are disclosed. Molten metal is cooled in a receiving means and agitated by rotating blades connected to a rotating shaft. Solid metal, such as dendrites, deposited on inner wall portions of the receiving means are removed by suitable means, such as a scraping blade, in operable combination with the rotating blades. The so produced metal can be cast by conventional metal casting processes.

Abstract: A printer system having local control for dynamically positioning a print head relative to a print medium utilizing positioning and print data signal inputs, including a control unit for receiving and storing data inputs, the control unit including circuit means responsive to the positioning data for arranging and outputing the stored print data to a print head, control circuitry connected to said control unit and head positioning apparatus employing a movable print medium connected to the control circuitry for positioning the head in relationship to the web in response to said control circuitry so that the head is thereby dynamically controlled by the respective data signal inputs.

Abstract: The transfer of agitational forces from a main vessel to an elutriation leg connected thereto is effectively minimized with a slurry inlet and liquor outlet device mounted in the upper end of the elutriation leg. The device includes a slurry flow directing member which receives the gravitational flow of slurry from the main vessel and directs such flow in a downward path of reduced cross-sectional area with respect to the cross-sectional area of the elutriation leg for impingement onto a target member mounted below the slurry flow directing member. The downward slurry flow is radially outwardly deflected by the target member to substantially reduce the concentrated downward forces of the slurry which would otherwise tend to disrupt or restrict the formation and maintenance of a fluidized bed in the elutriation leg.

Abstract: A wire preparation machine for fabricating a continuous length of insulation clad wire into a plurality of cut and stripped wire leads. The machine includes a preparation station whereat the wire is cut and stripped. Located at the preparation station are a cutting mechanism for cutting the wire and a stripping mechanism spaced a given distance from the cutting mechanism for stripping insulation from the wire lead exposing a given length of conductor from the end of the wire lead. An intermittent wire drive mechanism is provided for moving the wire to the preparation station after each cutting and stripping operation. The stripping mechanism is mounted on a stripper mounting means for movement relative to the cutting mechanism so as to vary the distance therebetween. Control means is provided for programming the distance the stripper mounting means is allowed to move the cutting mechanism after each cutting and stripping operation.

Abstract: A connector harness assembly machine which includes a wire preparation assembly for cutting and stripping a reel of wire to provide a plurality of unterminated cut and stripped wire leads of various lengths. The cut and stripped wire lead is then transported by means of a wire transport assembly to a plurality of stations comprising a wire termination assembly. The wire termination assembly includes a wire pickup station whereat the cut and stripped wire lead is picked up, an insulation strip test station including an insulation strip sensor to check whether insulation has been stripped from the wire, a crimp station including crimping means for crimping a terminal onto a wire lead, a terminal test station including a terminal sensor to determine whether a terminal has been properly crimped, a wire reject station including means for releasing an improperly prepared wire lead, and an insertion station where a terminated wire lead is inserted into a connector housing.

Abstract: A connector harness assembly machine includes a wire transport assembly which further includes a conveyor mounted on a conveyor track and having a plurality of wire carriers mounted thereon in spaced relationship with respect to one another. Each wire carrier releasably holds a wire lead in a generally horizontal disposition. The wire carrier is pivotable so that the wire carrier can change positions to carry the wire lead in a substantially vertical disposition for insertion into a housing. The wire transport assembly is driven by an intermittent drive. The harness fabrication assembly has wire grippers for gripping and inserting a wire lead held in the wire carrier upwardly into a connector housing held at the insertion station. Associated with the insertion station is a test probe mechanism to check whether a terminated wire lead has been properly inserted into a connector housing and reject means for rejecting a connector harness assembly which has an improperly inserted terminated wire lead.

Abstract: A motor operated power saw is mounted on a table by employment of a tiltable platform so that the saw is lowered to cutting position by manually depressing a handle. Surrounding the upper half of the saw blade is a composite guard consisting of a main guard and a movable nose guard which, when the blade is in elevated non-operating condition, cover the exposed portion of the blade. The main guard is pivotally mounted on the tiltable platform and is provided with a cam follower which, upon engagement with a cam track on the table, automatically elevates the main guard and accompanying nose guard as the blade is advanced through a cutting operation.

Abstract: A power actuated miter saw has an adjustable rotatable mounting with respect to an elongated work holder so that the saw can be set in any one of a number of angular positions for the cut. The saw is lowered by a forward facing handle adjacent to which is a circular scale showing the angle. Mutually rotating parts have a 360.degree. bearing ring between them near the perimeter to provide abundant stability and also seal the movable members to keep them free of dust. A sawdust discharge travels with the saw blade to collect and discharge sawdust generated by the operation in a direction away from the operator. The saw blade is guarded while at rest as well as during a cutting operation on the work.

Abstract: A vehicle has a bed of open frame construction, divided into a plurality of bays by means of dividers. Article carriers are constructed to be positioned in the bays by means of a loader-unloader such as a lift truck. Each article carrier may be provided with at least one locking mechanism which automatically unlocks when engaged by a loader-unloader, and automatically locks into the bed of a truck when released by the loader-unloader after being positioned in a chosen bay. The article carriers may be pallets respectively having upper plates which are coplanar and define the entire floor of the bed. The open frame construction of the bed may consist of beams at two different levels, and the pallets may have spaced-apart surfaces resting on the beams respectively at the first and second levels.

Abstract: A vehicle has a bed divided into a plurality of bays by means of dividers. Article carriers are constructed to be positioned in the bays by means of a loader-unloader such as a lift truck. The side walls of each article carrier converge downwardly so as to engage the tops of adjacent dividers and guide the article carriers into a chosen bay. The bed may be provided with a longitudinally extending tube which is engaged by the inner end of an article carrier to facilitate its being dropped into position. Each article carrier may be provided with at least one locking mechanism which automatically unlocks when engaged by a loader-unloader, and automatically locks into the bed of a truck when released by the loader-unloader after being positioned in a chosen bay.

Abstract: Disclosure is made of an improved assembly for the collection, separation and isolation of serum or plasma from blood without subjecting the desired serum or plasma to contamination by exposure to the atmosphere and which utilizes a thixotropic barrier material to effect the isolation. A representative embodiment of the improved assembly comprises an air-evacuated glass collection container, a self-sealing, airtight elastomeric closure for the container which is penetrable by a blood bearing cannula and a thixotrope having a specific gravity of from about 1.03 to about 1.09 disposed in a specially constructed reservoir positioned adjacent to the closure member and within the air-evacuated collection container.

Abstract: 1. A method of forming a photosensitive layer of lead sulfide crystals which comprises precipitating the crystals onto a seeded glass support by adding a solution of allyl-thiourea to an alkaline solution of a copper nitrate and a lead nitrate having a concentration of copper between 5 .times. 10.sup..sup.-5 and 5 .times. 10.sup..sup.-4 molar, a concentration of lead between 0.05 and 0.06 molar, and a concentration of hydroxide between 0.55 and 0.75 molar and immersing said seeded glass support in the resulting mixture.

Abstract: Paper-covered gypsum wallboard of increased racking resistance which has been strengthened by impregnation completely through the thickness of the cover paper, at least throughout certain critical areas, by coating and subsequent absorption thereinto of water-free polymeric solutions. A most significant improvement results from impregnation thereinto of a moisture-curing isocyanate resin, preferably a semiprepolymer of a polyisocyanate and a polyol in combination with a viscosity reducing solvent, such as mineral spirits or xylene, and a catalyst. Improved mobile home walls are formed with the impregnated areas of gypsum board back face paper disposed over and adhered to framing members with glue or the like.

Abstract: A differential fluid-pressure transducer having a housing with two spaced-apart fluid inlet openings and two fluid outlet openings. A spool is slidably disposed in the housing and has two oppositely-faced surfaces disposed intermediate the inlet openings, for receiving pressure from each respective inlet opening. The spool has a fluid passageway in flow communication from one of its two surfaces to a compartment at the end of the spool, whereby fluid pressure from one of the two inlet openings acts on both the one oppositely-faced surface and on the end of the spool which defines the compartment, and the fluid pressure at the other inlet opening influences the position of the spool, all for detecting the difference in pressure at the two inlet openings. Also, the spool can slide to a position which flow communicates the compartment to one of the housing outlet openings to thereby relieve pressure in the compartment.

Abstract: A crystallization vessel is provided which includes an elutriation column having an outlet at an upper end thereof and an inlet at a lower end thereof which inlet is in communication with a body of slurry contained therein. Flow regulating means associated with the elutriation column outlet enables the flow velocity within the column to be regulated for controlling the size of crystal particles removed from the slurry body through the elutriation column outlet. A movable baffle in the column is also provided for selectively varying the cross-sectional area of the column and thereby independently regulating the quantity of slurry removed from the slurry body through the elutriation column outlet. In this manner, both the size and quantity of crystal particles removed from the slurry body are independently regulated, thereby providing product crystals of improved size uniformity.