Abstract: A generic management definition object, described using a CIM MOF file or an Extensible Markup Language document, can be used to format display panels that are independent of a management console. A generic integration layer is created between the management data and the display and behavior of such data. A transformation engine is used to convert data definitions included in management data to a formatted structure that is stored in a repository. A translation engine renders the formatted structure into graphical user interface constructs that are independent of any particular management console architecture. The transformation and translation engines coordinate a set of processes that facilitate the display and manipulation of the management data object's data model. GUI display panels that support the management model are generated in a console neutral manner so that the same panels are displayed from a variety of management consoles.

Abstract: A tool for expanding a tube into engagement with a wall of a hole in a plate and simultaneously forming a flange on the end of the tube has a mandrel having a tapered distal portion. The mandrel receives for rotation and axial displacement a tubular cage. The cage carries expanding rolls, each of which is supported for rotation in a slot in a distal portion of the cage, is displaceable radially, is in rolling engagement with the tapered portion of the mandrel and the tube when the tool is in operation, and is skewed at a small angle to the mandrel axis so as to impart traction to the cage and the mandrel and draw them distally into the cage upon rotation of the mandrel.

Abstract: A tile setter's measuring tool includes a cup slide in the form of an elongate bar having a through-extending passageway along a substantial proportion of its length and a pivot mount at one end, an object guide pivotally mounted to the pivot mount, and a tile cup block slidably engaged to the cup slide by a fastener passing through the passageway, permitting positioning of the tile cup block at a desired orientation and location along the passageway, the tile cup block having an upper surface and a lower surface, each of the upper and lower surfaces being provided with spacers in arrangements that differ from one another.

Abstract: The invention is a heat flux gage applied to a surface, for the measurement of surface heat transfer. All elements of the gage are thin films, deposited on the surface by sputtering or an equivalent process. The gage comprises a plurality of thermocouple junctions connected as a differential thermopile, with hot and cold junctions on the two faces of a planar thermal resistance element. Electrical insulating and protective layers are deposited between the surface and the gage, and over the exterior of the gage. The gage output signal is a voltage indicative of heat flux.

Abstract: A tube expanding and flaring tool comprising a rotatable cage which has a nose guide, size to be received in a tube end that is to be expanded and flared. The cage has a tail shaft by which the cage is to be rotated. There is at least one roller carried by the cage which extends partially through the cage for rolling engagement with the interior surface of the tube. There is a nose surface on the roller with a portion thereof tapering from a first diameter to a second relatively larger diameter. Also there is a truncated conical tail surface on the roller expanding at a predetermined angle form the second diameter to a third relatively large diameter. Further there is means for supporting the at least one roller in rolling engagement with the interior surface of the tube end with sufficient force to expand the tube to a diameter relatively larger than its original diameter and to flare the tube end at the predetermined angle of the truncated conical tail surface of the roller.

Abstract: The invention provides a tube cutter of the type which forces a tool bit against an interior tube wall as the bit is rotated to sever the tube from the inside.

Abstract: A tube expander having a stop collar for limiting the axial movement of the tube end relative to the expander to prevent damage to the tube end. The stop collar is comprised of a hollow stop collar body having the end adjacent to the tube end slotted to slidingly receive a pair of stop members that can be moved relative to each other to vary the size of the aperture extending through the stop collar body. The stop collar members substantially encircle the cage and have surfaces thereon that engage the end of the tube.