Abstract: A housing for a propulsion system, such as for a plurality of disks, is provided as well as a system and a method for using the same. The housing is shaped to provide a streamlined motion through a fluid, such as air or water. Openings in the housing allow the fluid to flow through the propulsion system. The housing may be attached to a shaft in a motor or engine to provide a drive for the propulsion system contained therein.

Abstract: A blade and a series of blades are provided for implementation into a device, such as, for example, a turbine, a fan, a pump or the like. The blades are substantially flat and include at least one rib or irregularity peripherally formed in the blade equidistantly from the center of the blade. The blade may include one or more ribs and the ribs are formed equidistantly on each blade such that a plurality of blades may be stacked closely without interference from the ribs formed in adjacent blades.

Abstract: A device for electronically modulating a musical tone signal to produce substantially the radiation effects produced by a rotary loudspeaker with the aid of two loudspeakers, in which circuit an amplitude modulator is associated with one loudspeaker and a variable delay device is associated with the other loudspeaker, the musical tone signal being applied to both the amplitude modulator and the variable delay device, and both the variable delay device and the amplitude modulator being modulated synchronously by a sub-audio frequency modulating signal.

Abstract: In an electronic musical instrument, such as an electronic organ, certain organ voices are synthesized by applying a tone signal to a voltage controlled low-pass sharp cutoff filter, the pass characteristic of which has a relatively sharp knee and a rapid rate of rolloff, thereby to sharply attenuate the harmonics contained in the tone signal which have frequencies above the cutoff frequency. The filter works on the principle that by switching one or more frequency-determining resistors in and out of the filter network at a rapid rate and varying the time on versus the time off, the effective value of the resistance varies to thereby alter the cutoff frequency and the character of the resulting sound signal. In accordance with the present invention, precise control over the switching duty cycle is achieved by establishing a reference voltage to which is added a voltage increment according to a binary weighting determined by selection of a particular organ voice.

Abstract: In a circuit for simulating the sound produced when a stringed instrument, such as a bass viol, is plucked, square wave signals of different frequencies from a tone generator are combined to produce a synthesized sawtooth waveform which is applied to a low pass filter to remove the extremely high order harmonics, and then applied to an amplifier the gain of which is controlled in accordance with an envelope signal having a fast attack and a relatively slow decay. The resulting amplified signal is applied to an off-center-biased amplifier which alters the harmonic content of the output signal as a function of decay time such that when the signal is acoustically reproduced it closely simulates the sound produced when a bass viol string is plucked.

Abstract: A pedal tone generator for an electronic musical instrument, such as an electronic organ, having the capability of automatically producing bass rhythm patterns based on a tonic note, includes a memory for storing a plurality of rhythm patterns which has a plurality of outputs for producing a predetermined pattern sequence for each of the notes of the diatonic musical scale, and a circuit for producing signals indicative of which of the pedal keys, usually thirteen, is operated by the instrumentalist. The pedal key signals are binary encoded to produce a plurality of code words each unique to the tone of one of the keys, and each of the outputs from the memory is also binary encoded to be uniquely represented by one of a corresponding number of code words. Code words representing a depressed key and the note instantaneouly being "played" by the memory are added to produce a coded digital signal representative of the sum in the duodecimal system of counting.