Abstract: A restraint apparatus is provided for limiting pivotal movement of an attachment receiver of a loader when the attachment receiver is coupled to a mounting frame of a work tool.

Abstract: A method is provided for managing graphics files associated with a presentation. The method comprises the steps of storing a first graphics file corresponding to an image in a first graphics resolution in a database, generating a second graphics file in a second graphics resolution from the first graphics file, storing the second graphics file in the database, indexing the second graphics file to the first graphics file, receiving a presentation type for the image, determining an optimum graphics resolution for the image based on the presentation type, and selecting a graphics file from the database for use in the presentation based on the optimum graphics resolution.

Abstract: A method is provided for detecting pirated copies of a serialized software program located on a remote computer.

Abstract: A method of presenting electronic data includes intelligently linking presentation data with data stored in a database that the presentation data was selected from. The presentation data is linked with intelligence information to permit searching of the presentation data and the data stored in a database that the presentation data was selected from based on the intelligence information.

Abstract: A data file management system for web browsers includes a program configured to search data files upon an activation of an event.

Abstract: Methods for accessing product information data and detecting pirated copies of a serialized software program include transmitting a data request query related to a selected product from a remote computer to a main computer, identifying a subset of product data related to the selected product stored in the memory of the main computer based on the data request query, transmitting textual data from the subset of product data from the main computer to the remote computer, transmitting only updated graphics data from the main computer to the remote computer, and combining the textual data received from the main computer with graphics data stored in the memory of the remote computer to provide complete product information data related to the selected product. The methods also include storing a program serial number, the remote revision level corresponding to the program serial number, and a validation code for a remote program corresponding to the serial number.

Abstract: An apparatus and method are provided for displaying product information data related to at least one product. The method includes the steps of transmitting a data request from the remote computer to the main computer, transmitting the variable data and display information from the main computer to tie remote computer, transmitting updated constant data from the main computer to the remote computer, and storing the updated constant data in the memory of the remote computer. The method also includes the steps of integrating constant data stored in the memory of the remote computer with the variable data received from the main computer using the display information received from the main computer to format the constant data and the variable data to generate the product information data related to the at least one product, and displaying the product information data generated by the remote computer during the integrating step on a monitor coupled to the remote computer.

Abstract: An apparatus and method are provided for presenting a plurality of product images for review by a user on a computer including a display, a memory, and an input device. The method includes the steps of displaying a plurality of product images on the display, providing product image review boxes on the display for a side-by-side comparison of selected product images, receiving a user input selecting a product image from the plurality of product images displayed on the display, and displaying the selected product image in one of the review boxes for a side-by-side comparison with at least one other selected product image. The product images include both a product image and a selected background image. The step of displaying the selected product image includes the step of integrating the product image with a selected background image to provide a customized product image on the display.

Abstract: A method for accessing product information data includes storing product data including graphics data and textual data related to a plurality of products in a memory of a main computer, storing a first subset of product data including graphics data related to at least one product in a memory of the remote computer, and transmitting a data request query related to a selected product from the remote computer to the main computer.

Abstract: A system is provided for detecting pirated copies of a serialized software program. The system has a remote computer including a remote memory for storing a program, a remote revision level, and a program serial number. The system also has a main computer including a main memory for storing the program serial number, the remote revision level corresponding to the program serial number, and a validation code for a remote program corresponding to the serial number. The validation code indicates whether the program stored in the remote memory is valid or invalid. The system changes the validation code to invalid upon detection of a difference between the remote program revision level received from the remote computer and the remote program revision level stored in the memory of the main computer corresponding to the program serial number received from the remote computer.

Abstract: An electronic catalog system and apparatus is provided for producing information related to a selected product on a remote computer. The system and method performs the steps of storing and maintaining variable data and constant data related to a plurality of products in a memory of a main computer and storing constant data related to a plurality of products in a memory of a remote computer. A product is then selected from the remote computer memory for which product information is desired. A constant data revision status in the memory of the main computer is then compared with a constant data revision status in the memory of the remote computer, and constant data in the memory of the remote computer is updated with constant data stored in the memory of the main computer, if necessary.

Abstract: A boom pivotally mounted for rotation about a vertical axis on a support vehicle which may be a floating barge or heavy truck. The boom is extensible and retractable in the radial direction and mounts, at a distal end, a cable supporting a dredging apparatus. The dredging apparatus in a preferred embodiment comprises a single cutter head assembly mounted above and just forward of a single pump both of which are driven by electric power supplied by a generator on the support vehicle. In a preferred embodiment, the cutter head comprises a central support section and a plurality of blades attached to the central support section at each end with a mid-portion extending outwardly of the support section. In a further preferred embodiment, the pump assembly comprises an electric motor in a sealed housing, connected to a pump including an impeller driven by a shaft connecting the impeller and the electric motor.

Abstract: Methods are provided for producing a laminate particularly useful in producing warm moisture-resistant wearing apparel for industrial applications and sportswear. The laminate is superior in flexibility and comfort when worn while still providing appropriate moisture protection. In addition, the method includes procedures for providing a combined textured and creped surface for varying the appearance and degree of flexibility and "feel" to garments comprised of the laminate. The methods include joining a non-woven fibrous web such as a needled felt to a foamed synthetic resin web, such as polyurethane foam, and thereafter, through controlled tension, temperature and roll pressure, joining a film, such as a synthetic resin film, to the exposed foam surface through a heated roll nip, followed by embossing. The degree of "crepe" and texture or embossing imparted to the laminate varies inversely to each other, as desired, to provide a variety of different appearing and appealing fabric surfaces.

Abstract: A pulverizing device is disclosed wherein selected members of the device that are subjected to extreme wear conditions are provided protection from wear by, in some cases, forming the member of the hard wear resistant material and structurally attaching it in the machine or, in other cases, covering the member with a sheet of hard wear resistant material and structurally fastening said sheet in the machine.

Abstract: A die segment for a briquetting roll in which the roll is a steel body which is provided with a peripheral groove having a radially outwardly facing bottom wall which is made up of planar chordal segments and having side walls at the side edges of the bottom wall with one side wall inclined inwardly in the outward direction and being in the form of an annular segment of a cone concentric with the axis of the roll and the other side wall substantially radial. The die segments are bodies of hard wear resistant material mounted in the groove, one on each chordal section of the bottom wall of the groove and each has one side inclined to fit the inclined wall of the groove with the other side spaced from and diverging from the radial side wall in the outward direction. Wedge bars between the radial side wall of the groove and the opposed sides of the die segments are utilized for clamping the segments in place in the roll.