Abstract: A Media Delivery Diagnostic System can be deployed in response to a customer complaint or in an autonomous fashion. When a customer complains to a Media Delivery Service Provider, the complaint can be passed to a diagnostic service center. The diagnostic service center can initiate a query or command and transmit the query or command to a Media Distribution Device (MDD). The query or command can be processed by an intelligent diagnostic agent residing in the MDD. When the intelligent diagnostic agent receives the query or command, it can perform a diagnostic evaluation of the MDD and any other devices connected to the MDD. The intelligent diagnostic agent can transmit diagnostic data back to the diagnostic service center. The diagnostic data may be operational data and/or operational parameters related to the MDD, the identification of a problem with the MDD, or an indication that the intelligent diagnostic agent failed to identify a problem in be MDD.

Abstract: A greeting card or document holder constructed from an elongated piece of plastic folded in half along its longitudinal axis, the two halves are then bonded together along a line running parallel with the fold. An adhesive is located inside the two flaps created by the fold adjacent to the longitudinal edges opposite the fold. The two adhesives are located such that they can attach to the front and back surface of a greeting card or other brochure.

Abstract: My invention is a transparent plastic holding devise for all types and sizes of flat thin objects. This new Universal Holder enables people to secure objects in an orderly manor into clip ring style binders for visual presentations. It's main purpose is to allow people to save and view their valued greeting cards in the same manor photos are viewed in photo albums.

Abstract: A method for removing boron from a boron trifluoride-catalyzed polyalkyl hydroxyaromatic reaction product which comprises: (a) diluting the polyalkyl hydroxyaromatic reaction product with an inert solvent to give a polyalkyl hydroxyaromatic reaction product concentration in the range of about 40 to about 80 weight percent; (b) filtering the diluted polyalkyl hydroxyaromatic reaction product in the presence of a filter aid in combination with (1) magnesium silicate, (2) water or (3) a mixture of magnesium silicate and water; wherein the water is present during filtration at a concentration of about 100 to 1,500 ppm, based on the diluted polyalkyl hydroxyaromatic reaction product; with the proviso that when water is used in the absence of magnesium silicate, the filter aid is diatomaceous earth; and (c) recovering a filtrate containing the diluted polyalkyl hydroxyaromatic reaction product having less than about 10 ppm of boron present.

Abstract: An electrical conductor terminating arrangement such as an electrical connector includes a contact-making element which makes good contact with an electrical conductor in response to axial pressure displacement over the contact-making element of a displaceable element to exert a radial force on the contact-making element and to co-operate therewith for providing ongoing pressure engagement between the contact-making element and the electrical conductor without the need for the continuance of axial pressure on the displaceable element after a predetermined axial displacement of the displaceable element.

Abstract: A photographic element having a light sensitive layer and containing a dye of the formula (I): ##STR1## wherein: X.sub.1 and X.sub.2 each independently represents the atoms necessary to complete a 5- or 6-membered heterocyclic nucleus;X.sub.3 represents the atoms necessary to form a 5- or 6-membered ring structure, which may be substituted;R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 each independently represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group or a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group;R.sub.3 represents H, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group or a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group;r and s independently are 0 or 1; andW represents one or more counterions as needed to balance the charge of the molecule.

Abstract: An antistatic composition comprises a hydrophilic colloid, e.g. gelatin, and a plurality of surface active agents comprising an anionic surface active agent and a cationic surface active agent. At least one of the anionic and cationic surface active agents comprises at least one polyoxyalkylene group. The accumulation of electrostatic charge on an element, e.g a photographic element, may be prevented by coating a surface of the element with an aqueous dispersion of the antistatic composition and drying the coated surface.

Abstract: In a flow measurement system comprising a primary flow sensor and a secondary electronic conversion apparatus for converting high and low fluid pressure signals from the primary flow sensor to an electronic signal output representative of fluid flow, a process for calibrating the system as an integral unit, comprising the steps of applying a plurality of known reference fluid flow rates to the primary flow sensor over the system's operative range of flow conditions, sensing the electrical output of the secondary electronic conversion apparatus for each of the said plurality of reference fluid flow rates, establishing a correction factor for each of said recorded values of electrical output which will tend to linearize the relationship between fluid flow rate and the electrical output of the measuring system, and storing the correction factors in non-volatile memory in a microprocessor which is part of the secondary electronic conversion apparatus.

Abstract: A dye of the formula (I) below, and photographic elements having a light sensitive layer and which element contains such a dye: ##STR1## X.sub.1 and X.sub.2 each independently represent the atoms necessary to complete a 5- or 6-membered heterocyclic nucleus;x and y are, independently, integers from 0 to 3 provided x+y is no greater than 4;p and q each independently represents 0 or 1,each L independently represents a methine group;R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 each independently represents an alkyl group or an aryl group, andR.sub.3 represents an alkyl group, aryl group or heteroaryl group;W1 is a counterion as needed to balance the charge of the molecule.

Abstract: A golf cart is arranged to include a plurality of parallelepiped wells to receive a stack of golf ball buckets therewithin for storage and transport of the golf ball buckets with or without golf balls contained therewithin relative to a driving range in a golf course environment. The invention includes a modified aspect of a plurality of container members hingedly mounted together securable relative to an underlying cart structure arranged for pivotment to an aligned orientation relative to the various wells.

Abstract: A heat exchanger element in the form of a cylindrical tube with an integral external helical fin extending along at least the major part of the tube length; the integral finned tube being formed by an extrusion or injection moulding process from a rigid setting plastics material. The invention includes heat exchangers incorporating or formed by the heat exchanger elements.

Abstract: An animal feeding device including a housing defining an upper food storage compartment having a bottom discharge opening, a closure slideably mounted below the compartment for opening and closing the discharge, an arm pivotally mounted to the housing and connected with the closure for moving the closure between the open and closed positions, and moveable tabs between the arm and the closure to vary the manner of engagement between the two, thereby varying the movement of the closure in response to movement of the arm.

Abstract: A multiplexer device is provided for multiplexing data in the form of randomly developed, variable width pulses from a plurality of pulse sources to a master storage. The device includes a first multiplexer unit which includes a plurality of input circuits each coupled to one of the pulse sources, with all input circuits being disabled when one input circuit receives an input pulse so that only one input pulse is multiplexed by the multiplexer unit at any one time.

Abstract: An adjustable shelf device is used with a conventional filing cabinet, shelving or the like to readily form the cabinet space into various sized compartments to thereby permit efficient use of the cabinet space. The shelf device includes a pair of shelf structures which have overlapping vertical and horizontal shelves that are longitudinally shiftable relative to each other to permit adjustment of the overall length of the shelf device to thereby accommodate cabinets or shelving of various sizes. Vertical dividers project into registering openings in the overlapped portions of the shelf structure to releasably lock the shelf device in an adjusted position.

Abstract: Disclosure is made of an apparatus for reacting carbonaceous material with heated hydrogen to form hydrocarbon gases and liquids suitable for conversion to fuels wherein the reaction involves injection of carbonaceous material such as pulverized coal entrained in a minimum amount of gas and mixing the entrained coal at near ambient temperature with a separate source of heated hydrogen. The hydrogen is heated in a coil having an increasing inside diameter. The heated hydrogen and entrained coal are injected through a rocket engine type injector device. The coal particles are reacted with hydrogen in a reaction chamber downstream of the injector. The products of reaction are rapidly quenched as they exit the reaction chamber and are subsequently collected.

Abstract: A mine roof support of the type having a canopy supported from a base structure by hydraulically extensible legs and a cantilever roof-engaging member pivotally attached to the forward end of the canopy, is provided with a selectively positionable laterally extending cantilever member by means of which the effective roof-engaging surface of the canopy can be extended, the lateral cantilever member being optionally provided with a forwardly projecting cantilever member by means of which the effective width of the roof-engaging member can also be extended.

Abstract: An apparatus for converting thermoplastic waste material into a commercial-grade granular material wherein the waste material is introduced into a chamber containing a rotating cutter which shreds and frictionally heats the thermoplastic material which is thereafter cooled by cooling water added to the material while the cutting operation continues. The cooling water or vapor is then withdrawn or exhausted from the container under negative pressure leaving the granular material dry. Also, solvents are removed from the material. The cutter blade may include baffle bars which provide frictional heating surfaces for heating the thermoplastic waste material.