Abstract: In some embodiments, a method of manufacturing includes forming and attaching a first embellishment part onto a substrate composing a clothing article by sintering a thermoplastic powder on the substrate. Sintering may occur at a temperature below a temperature threshold, and sintering may further occur at a pressure below a pressure threshold. The first embellishment part may include all structural components of an entire embellishment. The first embellishment part may be a foundation for a complete embellishment. The method may also include forming a second embellishment part using an additive manufacturing process.

Abstract: An integrated portable power unit including a power pack and a generator mounted within a first compartment and including a second isolated air handling compartment. The air handling compartment may include a fan for moving air through ductwork, a radiator for receiving heated cooling water from the power pack and a heat exchanger connected to a compressor for generating cooled water, the compressor and the fan connected to the power pack.

Abstract: An integrated portable power unit including a power pack and a generator mounted within a first compartment and including a second isolated air handling compartment. The air handling compartment may include a fan for moving air through ductwork, a radiator for receiving heated cooling water from the power pack and a heat exchanger connected to a compressor for generating cooled water, the compressor and the fan connected to the power pack.

Abstract: An integrated portable power unit including a power pack and a generator mounted within a first compartment and including a second isolated air handling compartment. The air handling compartment may include a fan for moving air through ductwork, a radiator for receiving heated cooling water from the power pack and a heat exchanger connected to a compressor for generating cooled water, the compressor and the fan connected to the power pack.

Abstract: An integrated portable power unit including a power pack and a generator mounted within a first compartment and including a second isolated air handling compartment. The air handling compartment may include a fan for moving air through ductwork, a radiator for receiving heated cooling water from the power pack and a heat exchanger connected to a compressor for generating cooled water, the compressor and the fan connected to the power pack.

Abstract: A flexible bar handler that comprises a mobile carriage; a lift boom assembly rotatably attached to rotate around a vertical axis of the carriage to swing a distal end of the boom assembly back and forth and pivotally attached to pivot around a horizontal axis of the carriage to raise and lower the distal end of the boom assembly; and a lift bracket comprising an elongated rail with receptor-shaped cross section to lengthwise accommodate a bar, the lift bracket being attached at a point on its length at the distal end of the longitudinal boom assembly opposed to a counter weight attached at an opposite proximal end of the boom assembly, wherein the lift bracket is pivotally attached to a horizontal pin at the point to permit the lift bracket to tilt to one side or the other so as to raise and lower the lift bracket ends.

Abstract: Shipment delivery by a shipper to a receiver is monitored by a sender to identify return events as distressed shipments for sender intervention. For instance, a monitoring engine detects incorrect address, receiver unavailable and receiver refusal return events from shipper tracking status information. A prioritization engine associates the shipper information with sender order information to prioritize the nature of sender intervention. An update engine provides user interfaces to guide sender representatives through resolution of distressed shipments to update delivery of the shipment. A transmission engine communicates the update delivery instructions from the sender to the shipper, such as by sending a XML formatted EDI message.

Abstract: A flexible bar handler comprises a mobile carriage; a lift boom comprising a longitudinal shaft rotatably attached to rotate around a vertical axis of the carriage to swing an end of the shaft back and forth and pivotally attached to pivot around a horizontal axis of the carriage to raise and lower the end of the shaft; and a lift bracket comprising an elongated rail with receptor-shaped cross section to lengthwise accommodate a bar, the lift bracket being attached at a point on its length at a terminal end of the longitudinal shaft opposed to a counter weight attached at an opposite terminal end of the shaft, wherein the lift bracket is pivotally attached to a horizontal pin at the point to permit the lift bracket to tilt to one side or the other so as to raise and lower the lift bracket ends.

Abstract: A flexible bar handler that comprises a mobile carriage; a lift boom assembly rotatably attached to rotate around a vertical axis of the carriage to swing a distal end of the boom assembly back and forth and pivotally attached to pivot around a horizontal axis of the carriage to raise and lower the distal end of the boom assembly; and a lift bracket comprising an elongated rail with receptor-shaped cross section to lengthwise accommodate a bar, the lift bracket being attached at a point on its length at the distal end of the longitudinal boom assembly opposed to a counter weight attached at an opposite proximal end of the boom assembly, wherein the lift bracket is pivotally attached to a horizontal pin at the point to permit the lift bracket to tilt to one side or the other so as to raise and lower the lift bracket ends.

Abstract: A liquified gas dry-cleaning system including a storage tank containing a liquified gas derived from a liquifiable gas, a pressure vessel for containing a liquid bath derived from the liquifiable gas, and a circulating system for transporting the liquified gas between the storage tank and the pressurized vessel. The pressurized vessel includes a compressor mounted in a wall structure of the vessel for use in evacuating a gaseous form of the liquifiable gas released from the liquid bath during a cleaning cycle. Positioning of the compressor in this manner allows heat generated during each compression stroke of the compressor to be directed to the interior of pressure vessel to minimize the effects of a temperature decrease incident to the gaseous evacuation.

Abstract: A liquified gas dry-cleaning system including a storage tank containing a liquified gas derived from a liquifiable gas, a pressure vessel for containing a liquid bath derived from the liquifiable gas, and a circulating system for transporting the liquified gas between the storage tank and the pressurized vessel. The pressurized vessel includes a compressor mounted in a wall structure of the vessel for use in evacuating a gaseous form of the liquifiable gas released from the liquid bath during a cleaning cycle. Positioning of the compressor in this manner allows heat generated during each compression stroke of the compressor to be directed to the interior of pressure vessel to minimize the effects of a temperature decrease incident to the gaseous evacuation.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for the generation of a three-dimensional image representing structures detected within a volume. Two dimensional differential phase measurements are made on backscatter signals. Azimuth, elevation and range are calculated over a statistically large number of spatially diverse backscatter returns and used to construct a histogram of backscatter data. The histogram of backscatter data can be processed with standard image processing techniques to produce terrain maps or volumetric models of the volume of water. A system constructed according to the methods of this invention is capable of producing a three-dimensional map of the volume insonified without mechanical array scanning or electronic beam scanning. A combination of two or more volumetric scanning systems can be used to increase the resolution achievable in modelling the volumetric area.

Abstract: A detector for detecting a communication pulse in the presence of noise is disclosed having a transmitter for transmitting a communication pulse of carrier frequency having a main pulse portion and a pre-pulse portion, the pre-pulse portion being of substantially opposite phase to the main pulse portion, a receiver for receiving the communication pulse, a correlation signal circuit connected to the receiver for providing a correlation signal, the correlation signal having first and second slopes in response to the communication pulse, the second slope being steeper than the first slope, and a comparator connected to the correlation signal circuit for providing a pulse detection output signal when the correlation signal reaches a predetermined threshold, the threshold being set at level to detect the correlation signal at a point on the second slope.

Abstract: A technique suitable for cloning a cDNA having a base sequence coding for the ACTH/LPH precursor is disclosed. The invention is exemplified by the cloning of a cDNA fragment comprising a base sequence coding for the endorphin region. The fragment, hereinafter termed the endorphin gene cDNA sequence, was obtained from cultured mouse pituitary tumor cells known to produce the ACTH/LPH precursor protein.

Abstract: A deburring tool including an elongated arbor formed with a cutting blade recess. A unitary cutting tool has a cutting head with an elongated, flat, resilient blade extending therefrom. The blade is received in the recess, and mounting means secures the end of the blade opposite the cutting head to the arbor in non-pivotal relationship with respect to the arbor with the cutting head projecting from the recess, a portion of the blade extending from the mounting means being yieldable to permit the cutting head to move resiliently inwardly with respect to the recess.

Abstract: Digital apparatus and a method are disclosed for determining the phase angle of a tone signal of known frequency by correlating a clipped version of the tone signal with a reference signal having a repetition rate equal to the tone frequency. Correlation is accomplished by multiplying the clipped tone signal with each of quadrature components of the reference signal and sampling the product signals to provide binary sample trains which are supplied to a pair of shift register accumulators which effectively frame a moving phase measurement window. Reversible counters and associated logic determine the magnitudes and signs of differences in numbers of samples of noncorresponding binary values in each of the accumulators, and provide counts representative of in-phase and quadrature components of the product of the tone signal and the reference signal. The counts are utilized in a digital processor to compute the phase angle of the tone signal relative to the reference signal.

Abstract: Digital apparatus and a method are disclosed for detecting a tone pulse of known carrier frequency in a signal in which random noise is present by correlating a clipped version of the input signal with a square wave reference signal having a repetition rate equal to the carrier frequency. Correlation is accomplished by multiplying the clipped input signal with each of quadrature components of the square wave reference signal and sampling the product signals to provide binary sample trains which are supplied to a pair of shift register accumulators. Reversible counters and associated logic determine the differences in the numbers of samples of noncorresponding binary values in each of the shift registers, and provide counts which are added to produce a moving correlation signal which indicates presence of a tone pulse when it exceeds a predetermined correlation threshold.

Abstract: A powdered metal article having a fused wear resistant coating thereon is described. Specific embodiments of such article are disclosed including a specific powdered metal and a specific coating together with specific structural relationships therebetween. A method of making articles according to the teaching of this invention is described.

Abstract: Apparatus, in a receiver, for detecting the mid-pulse phase reversal of an nput signal s(t) = a(t).sub.BLT cos (.omega..sub.c t + .theta.). The signal a(t).sub.BLT is a modulating signal a(t), having a phase-reversal at its midpoint, after band-limiting by a transmitter, and cos (.omega..sub.c t + .theta.) relates to a carrier having a frequency f.sub.c and arbitrary phase angle .theta.. The apparatus comprises a hard-limiter and amplifier, a phase-lock loop circuit, a multiplier circuit, a low-pass filter, a comparator, serving the function of a threshold detector, a delay timing logic circuit, and a comparator, serving as a zero crossing detector, whose input is connected to the output of the low-pass filter, which detects the mid-pulse zero-crossing of a(t).sub.BLTR.sub.' and therefore of a(t). The apparatus further includes an AND gate, whose input comprises a positive-going pulse whose trailing edge represents the mid-pulse of a (t).sub.