Abstract: A storage and tote box for tools such as, for example, punches and dies for the production of pharmaceutical tablets and caplets which includes a container for accommodating a plurality of tools with a tray being removably accommodated in the container for suspending the respective tools therein. A support is provided on the upper surface of the tray for supporting an upper portion of the respective tools above the upper surface of the tray, with the positional locking arrangement being provided on the tray for locking the respective tools in position relative to the tray. A lid is provided for covering an open end of the container, with the lid being provided with a recess for accommodating a bottom of a further container thereby permitting stacking of a plurality of individual containers.

Abstract: A corrugated seal for connecting two relatively movable structures and for conducting fluid between the two structures. The corrugations of the seal are arranged at a sloping angle in the direction of fluid flow to prevent the accumulation of fluid in the folds of the corrugations.

Abstract: A digital data processing apparatus for manufacturing process control includes input elements for inputting digital signals representative resource elements consumed in a manufacturing process, resource elements produced by the manufacturing process and manufacturing relations between at least one consumed resource and a set of one or more produced resources. These manufacturing relations include at least one of an operational relation, a planning relation, and a financial relation. A production modeling element generates and stores a production model representative of the manufacturing relations. The modeling element includes a sub-element for generating digital signals representing manufacturing one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-one, and many-to-many relations between consumed and produced resource elements.

Abstract: A method of heat activating the interior surfaces of the top closure, fin forming panels of a paperboard carton of the type shown in U.S. Pat. No. 4,732,275 to thereby render their PE coating tacky prior to folding the panels to form the carton top closure. The geometry of the two fin forming panels is such that their interior surfaces require a U-shaped heating pattern, as opposed to heating their entire areas. This U pattern is achieved by a specific hot air jet arrangement on an otherwise conventional nozzle block and by moving the nozzle towards and away from the carton as the carton moves past the nozzle block. The method also includes heating by a second nozzle block, to increase the rate of production of closed cartons. The fin forming panels of the cartons may also be preheated.

Abstract: A device having a planar body with communicating flexible tubular members on its opposite sides having a one-way air valve therebetween may be used by a person performing mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on a second person such as in the practice of cardiopulmonary resuscitation commonly referred to as CPR. One of the flexible tubular members is designed to be positioned in the mouth of the person receiving the resuscitation and retained therein by portions of the planar body of the device being held against the person's lips and cheeks while the other of the flexible tubular members is positioned in the mouth of the person performing the mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. The one-way air valve controlling communication between the flexible tubular members is arranged to permit air to be delivered into the mouth of the person receiving the resuscitation and to prevent air from the receiving person's mouth from moving upwardly into the mouth of the person performing the mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.

Abstract: A damper mechanism of the slide gate type includes two curved seal segments positioned in back-to-back abutting relation to function as the primary flue seal. A seal door when closed extends between the upper ends of the seal segments and applies compression to the spaced appart ends to form, in combination with the seal segments, a closed chamber which functions as a secondary seal. Means are provided for applying a thrust force to the upper end of one of the seal segments to move that seal segment into abutting relation with the other seal segment when the slide gate is withdrawn. In a preferred embodiment, the thrust force is applied by the seal door during its closing. In another preferred embodiment, the closed chamber formed by the seal door and seal segments is enlarged and compressed air is pumped into the chamber to improve its functioning as a secondary seal.

Abstract: A steam control value for a steam chest such as used in a nuclear plant with an improved muffler portion. The muffler portion includes window openings of predetermined dimensions. A ring portion is below the window opening having a plurality of pockets. Each pocket is aligned with one of the window openings. This design greatly reduces vibrations which may damage the valve.

Abstract: A tool assembly for shaping workpieces, which comprises a reciprocable punch having a working end engageable with a die to shape a workpiece therebetween. The punch is mounted at its driven end on a reciprocable punch actuator and extends through a floating punch guide having an end adjacent the die which is axially and circumferentially engaged with a recess in the die to align the die and punch axes during the workpiece shaping operation. A workpiece feed tube opens laterally into the punch guide, and the punch guide is reciprocable in response to reciprocation of the punch to open and close the discharge end of the feed tube so as to assure singular feeding of workpieces to the die cavity.

Abstract: The atomizer of the present invention serves for generating free atoms and an atomic cloud by heating a sample for analysis. The device includes a preferably tubular cuvette for receiving the sample, and the cuvette consists either of a basic body of carbon, which is enveloped by a pyrolytic graphite layer, or only of pyrolytic graphite layers. An electric supply unit for Joule heating the cuvette is in contact with the cuvette by contact members. In order to achieve a radial temperature distribution in the cuvette such that the inner wall of the cuvette is at an essentially higher temperature than the outer wall of the cuvette, the contact surfaces of the cuvette and the contact surfaces of the contact members contact each other in such a manner that the electric current applied during operation of the atomizer preferably flows through the inner wall of the cuvette.

Abstract: A gate valve apparatus suitable for controlling the flow of fluids in a conduit, especially gases in high temperature applications, is disclosed. The apparatus includes a gate member adapted for sliding movement through an aperture in the gate valve assembly. Each opposing side of the aperture has fixedly mounted cooperating flat sealing strips to seal the aperture in both the conduit-open and conduit-closed positions. In certain embodiments a plurality of substantially parallel gate members, each having aperture sealing means, may be used to provide increased sealing effectiveness for highly toxic gaseous mediums.

Abstract: A portable spectrophotometric apparatus and method therefor for measuring the percentage of carboxyhemoglobin (COHb) in blood. The apparatus comprises a spectrophotometer and wavelength selection filters for testing a reference sample having a hemolizing agent and sodium hyposulfite and a treated blood sample with the hemolizing agent and sodium hyposulfite and providing a two component COHb-Hb system for determining relative absorbance values of the two samples at light wavelengths of 420 nanometers and 432 nanometers, the wavelengths corresponding to respective peak absorbance of the components in the high absorbance Soret region on opposite sides of an isobestic point formed by the intersection of their respective absorbance-wavelength curves. The ratio of the derived relative values is compared against predetermined data to determine the percentage of carboxyhemoglobin in the blood.

Abstract: Electric signals are recorded on a recording medium having a light sensitivity extending to wavelengths shorter than 475 nm, with an array of electrically switched lanthanum modified lead zirconate titanate (PLZT) light gates located between a light polarizer and a complementary light analyzer. The light gates are illuminated through the polarizer with light whose wavelength essentially is longer than 475 nm. Such light is selectively gated through electrically switched light gates through the analyzer and to the recording medium having a light sensitivity extending to wavelengths shorter than 475 nm. Information recordings may be made in this manner over extended periods of time without the typical performance degradation through photoinduced birefringence observed with conventionalPLZT electrooptic shutters.

Abstract: A snap-in metal strip, longitudinally bent into a V shape with the upper ends of both arms of the V being turned outward to the horizontal, thus creating longitudinal lips on the strip, is used to seal an elongate gap, for example a narrow space between adjacent, closed blades in a louver damper. The strip is releasably held on one side of the gap by means of two, opposed, crevice-like channels into which the lips of the strip fit.

Abstract: A sliding gate valve comprising a housing; a sliding gate; an enclosed void space between the gate side edges and the wall of the housing when the gate is in the closed position; and a purge line for injecting pressurized fluid into the void space; improved by gate side edge sealing means comprising a downstream seat mounted on the interior wall of the housing and an upstream seat assembly comprised of a rigid, elongated channel on the interior wall of the housing, parallel to, and upstream of, the gate when in the valve-closed position, the channel having a back wall and at least one side wall, the back wall being substantially parallel to the gate; a rope positioned lengthwise in the channel; the channel having an elongated metal strip flexibly attached along the first of its two long edges to a side wall of the channel so as to sandwich the rope between the back wall of the channel and the rear surface of the metal strip; the seat assembly being positioned such that when the gate is closed the gate's upstr

Abstract: Sealing means for sealing between a moving member and a fixed frame with which the moving member cooperates, said sealing means comprising rigid, elongated, channel means (on either the frame or the moving member), said channel having a back wall and at least one side wall; a rope which is resiliently compressible across its width positioned lengthwise in said channel; and an elongated metal strip having opposing front and rear surfaces, said strip being flexibly attached along the first of its two long edges to a side wall of the channel so as to sandwich the rope between the back wall of the channel and the rear surface of the metal strip, the channel means, rope, and metal strip being positioned such that the complementary part (either the moving member or the frame) can press against the front surface of the metal strip in sealing engagement therewith, urging the strip against the rope, the resilience of the rope providing a pressure counter to that exerted by the complementary part.