Abstract: A decoration device for attaching to a windshield wiper featuring a generally flexible elongated strip; a cloth component disposed on a top surface of the strip, the cloth component resembles a tail of an animal, the animal includes a cat, a dog, a lion, a rhinoceros, a snake, a tiger, an elephant, a zebra, a wolf, a dingo, a kangaroo, or the like; and at least one clip disposed on a bottom surface of the strip, the clip is configured to wrap around a portion of the arm of the windshield wiper, the clip comprises a screw clamp for tightening the clip around the portion of the arm of the windshield wiper.

Abstract: The device for temporary repair of auger carrier bearings is an assembly used to serve as a temporary to semi-permanent replacement for the carrier bearings of auger rotary shafts. The assembly comprises a U-bolt having threaded legs and a flat strap having two openings that are aligned with the threaded legs of the U-bolt. The points of contact between the auger rotary shaft and the assembly are the middle of the strap and the arch of the U-bolt. To these points are attached pads of self-lubricating plastic to provide a low friction interface between the assembly and the auger rotary shaft. The device for temporary repair of auger carrier bearings hangs from a plate that spans the tray of the auger and has two openings that correspond to the legs of the U-bolt.

Abstract: An improved alignable pulley or sheave assembly includes: (a) a shaft having a rotational axis and an exterior surface which has a portion that is spherically shaped, (b) a pulley having a perimeter and a central opening with an interior surface that is configured so as to allow the pulley to be mounted on shaft's spherical shaped portion, and (c) a means for locking the shaft and pulley together such that they rotate together while also enabling the pulley to tilt from side to side with respect to a plane that lies perpendicular to the shaft's rotational axis.

Abstract: In a process for beneficiating phosphate rock a slurry is provided having 30% to 70% by weight of a liquid phase and having a solid phase comprising clay, sand, and phosphate rock. In the process, the slurry is exposed to ultrasonic energy released from a sonotrode located within the slurry. The slurry may be exposed to the ultrasonic energy for less than 10 seconds. The ultrasonic energy may be produced by a piezoceramic transducer to have a resonance frequency within the range of from 16 kHz to 100 kHz. The ultrasonic energy may have an intensity within the range of from 0.0001 W/cm3 to about 1000 W/cm3. The ultrasonic energy may create cavitational forces within the slurry. After exposure to ultrasonic energy, clay and sand are separated from the phosphate rock, perhaps using an air flotation process and a cycloning process.

Abstract: The device for temporary repair of auger carrier bearings is an assembly used to serve as a temporary to semi-permanent replacement for the carrier bearings of auger rotary shafts. The assembly comprises a U-bolt having threaded legs and a flat strap having two openings that are aligned with the threaded legs of the U-bolt. The points of contact between the auger rotary shaft and the assembly are the middle of the strap and the arch of the U-bolt. To these points are attached pads of self-lubricating plastic to provide a low friction interface between the assembly and the auger rotary shaft. The device for temporary repair of auger carrier bearings hangs from a plate that spans the tray of the auger and has two openings that correspond to the legs of the U-bolt.

Abstract: The present invention provides for a method of repairing a part, having a damaged portion that has deviated from an original configuration, by using a laser cladding process. The process comprises the steps of applying cladding material to the damaged portion, and irradiating the cladding material with the laser beam until such time as the cladding material substantially bonds with the part thereby forming a repaired area having a configuration substantially the same as the original configuration.

Abstract: A system for the dissolution of gas in a large body of liquid comprising an impeller positioned below the surface of the large body of liquid; a floating hood positioned over the impeller and of sufficient size to capture undissolved gas; a conduit for introducing a feed gas stream beneath the floating hood and directly into the large body of liquid; at least one segregation ring positioned under the floating hood and extending below the surface of the large body of liquid such that a first inner region between the ring and the impeller, and a second outer region between the ring and an outer diameter of the floating hood are created, and a back pressure regulator located in the floating hood adjacent to the outer diameter of the floating hood.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for making continuous rolls of a thin laminate composite that is ideally suited for the large scale production of reclosable bags which can be used for sealably packaging a wide variety of articles, including food products. The bags of the invention, after being opened, can quickly and easily be closed by rolling the open end downwardly upon itself in a manner to sealably deform one or more inelastic, malleable metal filaments which are interconnected with at least one of the laminate side walls of the bag.

Abstract: An automatic fertilizer system apparatus having a liquid fertilizer dispenser for introducing the continuous addition of a selected amount of fertilizer, insecticide, herbicide type chemicals to sprinklers that use an outside waterline. The dispenser having an adjustable metering cap with different diameter through-holes for allowing the contents of the dispenser to be injected into the flowing stream of water which leads to the sprinklers in a selected precise manner. The system splits incoming water into the dispenser, and underneath the dispenser where an orifice having a inwardly facing bevelled through-hole along with the metering cap forms a point of lowest pressure region where the chemicals are injected into an output fluid flow to sprinkler heads in amounts selected and dependent upon by the different sized metering caps.

Abstract: A method of making continuous rolls of a thin laminate composite that is ideally suited for the large scale production of reclosable bags which can be used for sealably packaging a wide variety of articles, including food products. The bags of the invention, after being opened, can quickly and easily be closed by rolling the open end downwardly upon itself in a manner to sealably deform one or more inelastic, malleable metal filaments which are encapsulated within at least one of the laminate side walls of the bag. The novel laminate composite material produced by the method of the invention comprises first and second thin layers of film between which one or more length of the thin malleable metal filaments are sealably encapsulated.

Abstract: A method of making continuous rolls of a thin laminate composite that is ideally suited for the large scale production of reclosable bags which can be used for sealably packaging a wide variety of articles, including food products. The bags of the invention, after being opened, can quickly and easily be closed by rolling the open end downwardly upon itself in a manner to sealably deform one or more inelastic, malleable metal filaments which are interconnected with at least one of the laminate side walls of the bag.

Abstract: An alkaline stabilization process for treating partially dewatered sludge while reducing lime consumption, increasing nutrient values and applicability of the product, and enhancing physical handling characteristics such as dryness, granularity and spreadability including feeding a predetermined amount of partially dewatered sludge to a first mixer, adding a predetermined amount of alkaline material to the sludge in the first mixer, mixing the sludge and alkaline material together in the first mixer to form a mixture, discharging the mixture from the first mixer, directing the mixture to a second mixer, adding a predetermined amount of end product enhancing additive to the second mixer, mixing the mixture and end product enhancing additive in the second mixer to form an end product and discharging the end product from the second mixer.

Abstract: A fiber optic sensor for measuring strain on and within structures. The sensor includes an optical fiber, two reflective markers, and two thin layers of carrier material. The optical fiber is looped multiple times within the two thin layers of the carrier material. The optical signal circulates multiple times through the sensing region, as it is travels through the multiple loops of optical fiber within the carrier layers. The fiber optic sensor can be embedded within a structure, as that structure is being fabricated, or it can be attached onto a preexisting structure. An optical signal generated from a source such as a laser is input into one end of the optical fiber. The signal is reflected at reflective markers at predetermined positions in the optical fiber. The time delay of the signals received back is then analyzed to calculate the strain in the structure.

Abstract: Disclosed is a novel process for the preparation of 2-amino-6-nitrobenzothiazole which comprises contacting 2-mercapto-6-nitrobenzothiazole with hydrogen peroxide in the presence of ammonia. The reaction is conveniently conducted in an aqueous medium. The mole ratio of hydrogen peroxide to mercaptan is preferably about 4:1 and the reaction is conducted at a temperature of about 50.degree. to 100.degree. C.

Abstract: Disclosed is a process for the preparation of 2-aminobenzothiazoles by the oxidative ring closure of an arylthiourea which comprises contacting the arylthiourea with sulfuric acid and a catalytic amount of a bromine compound.