Abstract: Disclosed are a printer and a stacker and methods. The printer prints selectively on one or both sides of a printable web and sheets or labels are cut from the web and stacked in the stacker. The printer has an unwind mechanism that accepts and holds web rolls of different widths in center-justified relationship with respect to a print head. The printer has a spindle for mounting an ink ribbon core with a detent for center-justifying the ink-ribbon with respect to the print head.

Abstract: Disclosed are a printer and a stacker and methods. The printer prints selectively on one or both sides of a printable web and sheets or labels are cut from the web and stacked in the stacker. The printer has an unwind mechanism that accepts and holds web rolls of different widths in center-justified relationship with respect to a print head. The printer has a spindle for mounting an ink ribbon core with a detent for center-justifying the ink-ribbon with respect to the print head.

Abstract: Disclosed are a printer and a stacker and methods. The printer prints selectively on one or both sides of a printable web and sheets or labels are cut from the web and stacked in the stacker. The printer has an unwind mechanism that accepts and holds web rolls of different widths in center-justified relationship with respect to a print head. The printer has a spindle for mounting an ink ribbon core with a detent for center-justifying the ink-ribbon with respect to the print head.

Abstract: The present invention is related to glucoamylases having at least 80% sequence identity to a Trichoderma glucoamylase having the sequence of SEQ ID NO: 4 and biologically functional fragments thereof. The invention is also related to DNA sequences coding for the glucoamylases, vectors and host cells incorporating the DNA sequences, enzyme compositions and methods of using the glucoamylases in various applications.

Abstract: Disclosed are a printer and a stacker and methods. The printer prints selectively on one or both sides of a printable web and sheets or labels are cut from the web and stacked in the stacker. The printer has an unwind mechanism that accepts and holds web rolls of different widths in center-justified relationship with respect to a print head. The printer has a spindle for mounting an ink ribbon core with a detent for center-justifying the ink-ribbon with respect to the print head.

Abstract: This invention relates to a method of immobilizing biocatalysts including protein and cells by co-precipitation with silicate or organosilicate matrices through the action of an organic template molecule. The organic template molecule is in general a polyamine such as polyethylenimine (PEI), or polypeptide compound bearing at least two or three basic residues selected from the group consisting of lysine, arginine, histidine, proline, hydroxyproline, N-methylhistidine, ornithine, taurine, ?-hydroxylysine, and ?-hydroxy-?-N,N,N trimethyllysine. The invention is also directed to a silica biocomposite comprising co-precipitates of active biocatalysts, silica or organosilicates, and an N-containing organic template molecule. Such silica biocomposites are useful in biocatalysis, and other applications requiring an immobilized biocatalyst. Preferred biocatalysts for this invention are enzymes and whole cells.

Abstract: There is disclosed an improved stacker, method of stacking sheets such as tags, and a stack of sheets. The stacker and the stacking method produces a stack of sheets, wherein same-size sheets are stacked so that the endmost sheet or sheets in one batch are offset or staggered to provide batch separators in a stack of sheets. The stacker includes an improved sheet feed mechanism that enables sheets having different characteristics to be fed without disassembling any portion of the mechanism or the stacker.

Abstract: A coater and drier system for uniformly depositing a film on a substrate or backing member. A vacuum bar positioned under the substrate is utilized to smooth out and make the substrate uniform as it passes beneath a spreader bar member or roller member in order to provide a layer of film forming liquid material on a substrate of a prespecified thickness.

Abstract: An impedance blocking filter circuit is used in telecommunication systems for interconnecting between incoming telephone lines carrying Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) signals and a customer's terminal equipment in order to block impedances above a desired frequency. The impedance blocking filter circuit includes a low pass filter circuit having at least one capacitive pole providing component. The impedance blocking filter circuit also includes a tank circuit coupled in series with the at least one capacitive pole providing component to provide impedance matching for the customer's terminal equipment.

Abstract: An impedance blocking filter circuit is used in telecommunication systems for interconnecting between incoming telephone lines carrying Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) signals and a customer's terminal equipment in order to block impedances above a desired frequency. The impedance blocking filter circuit includes a low pass filter circuit having at least one capacitive pole providing component. The impedance blocking filter circuit also includes a tank circuit coupled in series with the at least one capacitive pole providing component to provide impedance matching for the customer's terminal equipment.

Abstract: Compounds of Formula I wherein the substituents are as described in the specification or pharmaceutically acceptable salts or stereochemically isomeric forms thereof, useful for treating diseases related to calcium imbalance and metabolism.

Abstract: A mounting block has a plurality of insulation displacement connectors or terminal clips, mounted in openings in the block in traverse rows which are evenly spaced along the length of the block. The block is a dielectric body of conventional shape having fanning strip sections at its opposite margins. The insulation displacement connectors or terminal clips are loosely received through holes in the block and have a pair of wire-receiving prongs that are symmetric about a central axis so that the terminal clips do not require a specific orientation relative to the center line of the block. The terminal clips each have a wire-retaining receptacle near the upper end and are slit so that a wire may be slid down and the wire insulation displaced for electrical connection to the terminal clip. The slit forms resilient arms that are tapered from an upper end downwardly.

Abstract: An electrical connector reduces cross talk between conductors carrying high frequency signals between input and output terminals. The connector has a lead frame with conductors that have generally parallel portions, but wherein some of the conductors have portions formed as out of the plane of the parallel portions as a hump. The humps have sections that provide spring contacts for engagement with a plug. The cross talk between specific conductors is further reduced by including capacitive coupling between selected conductors, and by positioning the conductors in desired locations relative to the conductors of other pairs of wires. The connector is provided with a load bar system for permitting easy coupling of the individual wires to input terminals.

Abstract: A connector for connecting electrical wires includes a housing or enclosure that surrounds contacts for making a connection to a plug. The housing is filled with a colloidal gel environmental protection material that includes particles that will absorb electromagnetic radiation, particularly in the radio frequency range to form a colloidal gel. The gel can be any one of the existing polyurethane, or silicone based gels used for environmental protection of connectors, such as telephone jacks. The particles are preferably made from either Parites or ferrites and range in size from 5 microns to 100 microns. The loading of the particles can be between 5% and 80% of the overall weight of the finished colloidal gel. The colloidal gel can be formed so that it is sufficiently cohesive to form into strips that can be wrapped around connectors as well.

Abstract: A printed product transfer assembly for supporting and carrying printed product from one station in a printer apparatus to another station includes a transfer structure including a product conveying surface, a blanket including fiberglass having several outwardly protruding fiberglass fibers and being secured snugly over the conveying surface; a flexible resilient material secured snugly over the blanket and engaged against circumferential movement relative to the blanket by the fiberglass fibers, and having several ridges for engaging and conveying the printed products and for cushioning the printed products to prevent marring of printing ink.

Abstract: A printed sheet transfer assembly for supporting and carrying sheets from one station in a printer apparatus to another station includes a transfer structure including a sheet conveying surface, and a flexible resilient material secured tightly over the conveying surface and having several ridges for engaging and conveying the sheets and for cushioning the sheets to prevent marring of printing ink. The material may include an ultra-soft cotton fabric. The conveying surface includes a matte finish. The transfer structure is optionally a transfer cylinder. The material may be secured over the conveying surface with hook and loop fasteners.

Abstract: A modular jack assembly includes a bridging card having conductors for establishing the desired bridging connections. An insert carrying the connector wires of the jack is placed in the jack such that the wires are received in edge slots of the bridging card to provide the electrical connections to the conductors on the card.

Abstract: An improved dynamic seal for the longitudinal slot in a pressurized cylin of an aircraft catapult system having a shuttle adapted to travel at high speed through the slot. The seal includes a flexible, elongated sealing strip extended along the slot in sealing relation therewith to close the cylinder, and a series of ball detents mounted along the length of the slot on each side thereof for urging inwardly against the sides of the sealing strip thereby providing support for the strip throughout the length of the cylinder. When the shuttle, adapted to guide the strip internally of the cylinder as it passes therethrough, travels through the slot, the ball detents maintain the strip in sealing relation with the slot thereby preventing whipping of the strip forwardly of the moving shuttle.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for electronic collation of sheets of a recording medium, such as paper, printed on one or both sides from electrical signals received at a printer. For printing multiple sets on one side only, the signals are written into a memory in the order in which they are received. The first set may be printed in the desired page order on a recording medium fed through the printer as the signals are received. Additional sets are printed in the same page order by writing the contents of the memory into the printer as many times as necessary as the recording medium is fed through the printer. For printing multiple sets on both sides, the signals representative of every other page are written into the memory and organized into two ordered sequences.