Abstract: Dispersing a gas into solution for intentionally directional inflow and outflow through a bandage to a human tissue wound for treatment of said wound with the gas-containing solution. Methods of using the solution to treat a wound are provided. The gas molecules may be mostly oxygen and/or contain supplemental additions of carbon dioxide, nitrous or nitric oxide.

Abstract: A sucker rod pump with no travelling valve consisting of, from the bottom: hold down with pump inlet, lower standing valve, hollow coupling, upper standing valve suspended within the coupling, relief valve, hollow pump housing, solid piston within the housing, and barrel to clean and retain the piston in the housing. The piston attaches to and reciprocating with the rod string. Peripheral channels in the relief valve communicate between the coupling and the housing. A central channel in the relief valve communicates between the upper standing valve and the pump's outlets. The upstroke pulls fluid from the bottom of the well upward through the open lower standing valve, around the closed upper standing valve and into the housing chamber. The down stroke pushes fluid from the housing chamber past the closed lower standing valve and through the open upper standing valve to the pump's exit into the tubing.

Abstract: A sucker rod pump with no travelling valve consisting of, from the bottom: hold down with pump inlet, lower standing valve, hollow coupling, upper standing valve suspended within the coupling, relief valve, hollow pump housing, solid piston within the housing, and barrel to clean and retain the piston in the housing. The piston attaches to and reciprocating with the rod string. Peripheral channels in the relief valve communicate between the coupling and the housing. A central channel in the relief valve communicates between the upper standing valve and the pump's outlets. The upstroke pulls fluid from the bottom of the well upward through the open lower standing valve, around the closed upper standing valve and into the housing chamber. The down stroke pushes fluid from the housing chamber past the closed lower standing valve and through the open upper standing valve to the pump's exit into the tubing.

Abstract: A sucker rod pump with no travelling valve consisting of, from the bottom: hold down with pump inlet, lower standing valve, hollow coupling, upper standing valve suspended within the coupling, relief valve, hollow pump housing, solid piston within the housing, and barrel to clean and retain the piston in the housing. The piston attaches to and reciprocating with the rod string. Peripheral channels in the relief valve communicate between the coupling and the housing. A central channel in the relief valve communicates between the upper standing valve and the pump's outlets. The upstroke pulls fluid from the bottom of the well upward through the open lower standing valve, around the closed upper standing valve and into the housing chamber. The down stroke pushes fluid from the housing chamber past the closed lower standing valve and through the open upper standing valve to the pump's exit into the tubing.

Abstract: A sucker rod pump with no travelling valve consisting of, from the bottom: hold down with pump inlet, lower standing valve, hollow coupling, upper standing valve suspended within the coupling, relief valve, hollow pump housing, solid piston within the housing, and barrel to clean and retain the piston in the housing. The piston attaches to and reciprocating with the rod string. Peripheral channels in the relief valve communicate between the coupling and the housing. A central channel in the relief valve communicates between the upper standing valve and the pump's outlets. The upstroke pulls fluid from the bottom of the well upward through the open lower standing valve, around the closed upper standing valve and into the housing chamber. The down stroke pushes fluid from the housing chamber past the closed lower standing valve and through the open upper standing valve to the pump's exit into the tubing.

Abstract: A ready mix batch hauler system for efficiently transporting concrete mixing materials to a job site. A batch hauler truck is provided having a storage tank pivotally attached to the frame of the batch hauler truck. The storage tank has a first reservoir for holding particulate material and a second reservoir for holding cement. The user positions the batch hauler truck such that the rear discharge of the storage tank is positioned near the front discharge of a front end discharge truck mixer and elevates the storage tank. A first auger draws the cement into the second reservoir through an opening and a second auger draws the mixture of the cement and particulate material through the rear discharge. An alignment structure is preferably utilized for aligning the batch hauler truck with the front end discharge truck mixer.

Abstract: A ready mix batch hauler system for efficiently transporting concrete mixing materials to a job site. A batch hauler truck is provided having a storage tank pivotally attached to the frame of the batch hauler truck. The storage tank has a first reservoir for holding particulate material and a second reservoir for holding cement. The user positions the batch hauler truck such that the rear discharge of the storage tank is positioned near the front discharge of a front end discharge truck mixer and elevates the storage tank. A first auger draws the cement into the second reservoir through an opening and a second auger draws the mixture of the cement and particulate material through the rear discharge. An alignment structure is preferably utilized for aligning the batch hauler truck with the front end discharge truck mixer.

Abstract: An air separator system for separating particulate material into coarse and fine particles without utilizing water. The inventive device includes a trailer, a support frame pivotally attached to the trailer, a tapering body having an outer wall and an inner wall, a motor secured to the body, a funnel connected to a center tube rotatably attached within the body, and a fan structure attached to the lower portion of the center tube for agitating and blowing upon particulate material that enters the funnel from a feed conveyor. A plurality of upper regular members are pivotally attached within the upper portion of the outer cavity created between the outer wall and the inner wall for adjusting the amount of air flow into the outer cavity. A plurality of lower regulator members are attached within the inner wall for allowing the air to return upwardly toward the fan structure during operation to lift the lighter particulate material.

Abstract: The present invention is a method of using a high speed cutting belt for cutting various aggregate and non-aggregate, natural stone and composite building materials with steel or non-steel reinforced materials. The cutting belt comprises a tensile member base, a plurality of cutting segments brazed with brass shim stock to anchors and crimped to the tensile member base, and molded in urethane to form a continuous, flexible belt, said belt having a 90.degree. "V" shaped bottom inner surface and a flat, outer top surface.

Abstract: An apparatus and process for separating contaminants from particulate material for separating undesirable debris from particulate material such as sand or gravel quickly and efficiently for increasing the production of separated gravel. A conveyor having a frame and a belt with corrugated side walls defining a channel for retaining water. The conveyor includes a second roller adjacent a rear portion of the conveyor, wherein a cornice of the second roller is preferably at an elevation equivalent to an upper edge of the corrugated side walls. At least one dividing member having a front edge, wherein the front edge projects into an upper layer of water within the channel for separating the upper layer from a lower layer of the water. Water is supplied to the channel adjacent the rear portion and a mixture of contaminated rock is supplied thereafter through a delivery chute.

Abstract: The present invention is a high speed cutting belt for cutting various aggregate and non-aggregate, natural stone and composite building materials with steel or non-steel reinforced materials. The cutting belt comprises a tensile member base, a plurality of cutting segments brazed with brass shim stock to anchors and crimped to the tensile member base, and molded in urethane to form a continuous, flexible belt, said belt having a 90.degree. "V" shaped bottom inner surface and a flat, outer top surface.

Abstract: The present invention is a high speed grinding system for cutting various aggregate and non-aggregate, natural stone and composite building materials with steel or non-steel reinforced materials. The cutting system comprises a hydraulically driven power head, a guide bar having two water reservoirs and water outlets and a 90.degree. "V" shaped groove on the upper and lower edges and a bar nose shaped to fit on the front edge of the guide bar and a cutting belt mounted on the guide bar, bar nose and a drive sheave of the power head. The cutting belt comprises a continuous tensile member with equally spaced matrix cutting segments affixed thereto and embedded in molded plastic. The cutting belt is hydroplaned on a sheet of water in the 90.degree. "V" grooves. In addition, utilizing the hydraulic principle to "lift" the belt off the bar nose, eliminates the need for a rotating bar nose wheel.

Abstract: The method includes fabricating a plurality of elongated high permeability flux carrying members, and preparing n wire bundles each having a predetermined length. The n wire bundles are wound to provide a distributed winding configuration having a plurality of elongated open spaces. The plurality of flux carrying members are inserted into the plurality of open spaces to provide a winding/flux carrying member assembly. A bonding material is provided around the winding/flux carrying member assembly to provide a rigid structure.

Abstract: An electromagnetic transducer is disclosed that is lightweight and has a high power to weight ratio, with the transducer being capable of operation as an efficient motor, alternator or generator, and being particularly useful, for example, in connection with self-propelled vehicle applications such as passenger cars. The electromagnetic transducer can utilize a shell construction, which enhances heat removal, and includes a magnetic-flux producing assembly, having a plurality of spaced magnetic elements, and an armature assembly formed by a winding arrangement of dispersed conductive elements which are separated by flux carrying elements which, to the extent that such flux carrying elements are electrically conductive, are dispersed in one, two or three dimensions to thus be dispersed-phase flux carrying elements. The armature conductors and flux carrying elements are dispersed to minimize creation of opposing induced current, or eddy currents, depending on the effect produced on transducer operation.

Abstract: An electromotive device is disclosed which utilizes stacks of oriented magnetic material as stator bars. Electrical conductors are wound about the stator bars to create a stator inductor. The stator bars are generally configured to shield the electrical conductor winding from electromagnetic forces and further, to provide a first flux return path for the magnetic flux created by magnets fixed to a rotor for movement with respect to the stator inductor.

Abstract: An electromagnetic transducer is disclosed that is lightweight and has a high power to weight ratio, with the transducer being capable of operation as an efficient motor, alternator or generator, and being particularly useful, for example, in connection with self-propelled vehicle applications such as passenger cars. The electromagnetic transducer can utilize a shell construction, which enhances heat removal, and includes a magnetic-flux producing assembly, having a plurality of spaced magnetic elements, and an armature assembly formed by a winding arrangement of dispersed conductive elements which are separated by flux carrying elements which, to the extent that such flux carrying elements are electrically conductive, are dispersed in one, two, or three dimensions to thus be dispersed-phase flux carrying elements. The armature conductors and flux carrying elements are dispersed to minimize creation of opposing induced currents, or eddy currents, depending on the effect produced on transducer operation.

Abstract: A lightweight electromotive device with a high power-to-weight ratio capable of operating as an efficient motor, alternator or generator includes an mangetic-flux producing assembly comprising spaced magnetic elements, and an armature assembly formed by winding conductive, non-magnetic wire, such as copper wire on flux carrying core or stator bar elements. The elements are shaped to form an eddy current shield for the windings and provide two heat radiating surfaces. This allows the device to operate with minimal eddy current losses and maximum radiation and convection cooling. The armature windings and flux carrying elements are dispersed as a further measure to avoid creating opposing induced currents.

Abstract: A device for removal of matter from shoes and boots is disclosed. The device includes a scraping portion, a mounting portion, and a rotatable member for mounting the scraping portion on the mounting portion so that the scraping portion can be rotated, relative to the mounting portion, between stored and operative positions, with the rotatable member being biased to urge the scraping portion toward the operative position upon actuation of a release mechanism connected with the rotatable member. The device is mounted upon, or integrated with, a handle structure, such as, for example, a ski pole, so that, when so mounted or integrated, the scraping portion is substantially aligned with the handle structure in the stored position and is rotated to a position extending in a direction away from the handle structure in the operative position.

Abstract: An improved method is disclosed for forming a printed circuit board. The desired printed circuit is established on the surface of a plastic core sheet by placing recesses therein conforming to the desired circuit, and a conductive coating is then applied so that the coating is retained at the recesses. Circuit patterns are preferably pressed into one or both sides of the plastic core sheet, and holes can be placed through the sheet to allow circuit connections between the patterns on the opposite sides of the sheet and to receive electrical leads of circuit components. A thin conductive coating is applied by vacuum deposition, and can be thickness enhanced by electroplating.

Abstract: In addition to oxygen concentrator apparatus utilizing two zeolite beds and alternating, pressure controlled pressurization and exhaust cycles, with a swash plate cylindrical pump having a pressure sensitive idle mode, improved oxygen concentrator apparatus is also disclosed. The improved oxygen concentrator apparatus has an isothermal, high volume, low pressure air flow system with unrestricted air conducting lines and ports throughout for more efficient and effective oxygen production. It includes a unique rotary vane pump designed for essentially isothermal air pumping and has precision collet mounted rotor with centering apparatus, tapered vanes for reduced wear and erosion, and combination cast iron pump chamber liner with external aluminum finned casing to enhance both durability and heat dissipation. It also includes a combination double one-way and balancer valve for controlling the flow of oxygen-enriched air downstream from the zeolite beds.