Abstract: There are practical difficulties in dosing a component of a composition into its container, such as a personal care product into a hand-holdable dispenser on a filling line, due in part to the short time that is available for the operation. The difficulties can be ameliorated or overcome by employing dosing apparatus in which a metering pump feeds a flowable material such a liquid through a dosing nozzle positioned above a container intended to receive a charge, the nozzle having a plurality of individual spouts spaced apart from each other so as to prevent their individual streams coalescing and the spouts extending sufficiently below its support to prevent droplets from adjacent spouts coalescing.

Abstract: An audio/visual distribution system includes head end equipment for receiving a radio frequency audio-visual (A/V) signal from an information source, and a plurality of transmitters and receivers. The transmitters are coupled to the head end equipment and tune to any of a plurality of RF channels, convert the RF signal to a baseband A/V signal and transmit the baseband signal over twisted pair cabling for a distance of up to 2000 feet. The receivers receive the baseband signal and reconvert the baseband signal to an RF signal. The transmitters utilize differential drivers which receive voltages from a filtered split supply power source in order to drive the baseband signals over twisted pairs. The receivers include equalizers utilized in conjunction with the video signal, and differential amplifiers. The receivers generate NTSC baseband (stereo) audio and video signals and/or an RF signal.

Abstract: There are practical difficulties in dosing a component of a composition into its container, such as a personal care product into a hand-holdable dispenser on a filling line, due in part to the short time that is available for the operation. The difficulties can be ameliorated or overcome by employing dosing apparatus in which a metering pump feeds a flowable material such a liquid through a dosing nozzle positioned above a container intended to receive a charge, the nozzle having a plurality of individual spouts spaced apart from each other so as to prevent their individual streams coalescing and the spouts extending sufficiently below its support to prevent droplets from adjacent spouts coalescing.