Abstract: An industrial caster wheel assembly including a base member, a wheel, side plates, a housing, a pivot axle, a suspension assembly and an adjustment assembly. The suspension assembly includes an adjustable axle, a support member, and a plate. The support member allows one of the wheel and the base member to rotate about the pivot axle as the adjustable axle compresses the support member by contacting the plate. The adjustment assembly adjusts the height of the industrial caster wheel by adjusting the pressure applied by the adjustable axle to the support member. The industrial caster wheel assembly may alternatively include at least one adjustment assembly that can be placed in contact with at least one of the second axle to press the second axle at least indirectly against the elastomeric support member or the first axle to press the first axle toward the center of the housing.

Abstract: An industrial caster wheel assembly including a base member, a wheel, side plates, a housing, a pivot axle, a suspension assembly and an adjustment assembly. The suspension assembly includes an adjustable axle, a support member, and a plate. The support member allows one of the wheel and the base member to rotate about the pivot axle as the adjustable axle compresses the support member by contacting the plate. The adjustment assembly adjusts the height of the industrial caster wheel by adjusting the pressure applied by the adjustable axle to the support member. The industrial caster wheel assembly may alternatively include at least one adjustment assembly that can be placed in contact with at least one of the second axle to press the second axle at least indirectly against the elastomeric support member or the first axle to press the first axle toward the center of the housing.

Abstract: A power winch is described which includes drive means with an output shaft, lock means to prevent reverse rotation of the shaft and a drum clutch assembly. The drum can be selectively engaged with or disengaged from the drum shaft. The lock means prevents the drum from rotating in reverse when it is engaged with the drum shaft. The power winch can be made compact and portable and can be powered by a small internal combustion engine.

Abstract: A ground anchor is described for anchoring one end of a cable. The anchor includes an elongated stake member, attachment means on the front edge of the stake for attachment of one end of a cable, a support arm connected at one end to the upper end of the stake, and retention means on the opposite end of the support arm. The retention means holds down the cable when tension is applied. The support arm is preferably pivotable between an outward position for use and an inward position for storage and transport.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for efficiently allocating bandwidth to data, control and multiplexer overhead and for providing flexible data rates and control rates are provided. The apparatuses of the invention are used in a time division miltiplexer which multiplexes for transmission over and for receipt from at least one aggregate line in accord with at least one frame, data and control information from a plurality of channels and multiplexer overhead information.

Abstract: A bit interleaved multiplexer system permitting byte synchronization of apparatuses communicating thereon without the consumption of additional aggregate bandwidth is provided. The system comprises a multiplexer, a demultiplexer, and an aggregate line. The multiplexer includes a transmit frame which includes a memory means and at least one recirculating counter which is programmed according to a framing algorithm, and a transmit data buffer and transmit mark buffer for each terminal which is to be connected to the system. Every time the transmit frame requests a predetermined bit of a byte (e.g. an MSB), a "1" is marked in the mark buffer. When a bit leaves the mark buffer it causes the terminal to write a bit into the transmit data buffer, with the written bit being an MSB when the bit leaving the mark buffer is a "1".