Abstract: A dispensing apparatus for housing a stacked supply of hooks which permits the individual withdrawal of a lowermost hook from the stack. A dispensing apparatus provides a chamber having an open top, a rear wall, two side walls, a front wall, a spaced floor providing a gap between the floor and the front wall, the front wall providing a longitudinal opening transversing the wall, the opening permitting the passage of a loop portion of each hook.

Abstract: A dispensing apparatus for housing a stacked supply of hooks which permits the individual withdrawal of a lowermost hook from the stack. A dispensing apparatus provides a chamber having an open top, a rear wall, two side walls, a front wall, a spaced floor providing a gap between the floor and the front wall, the front wall providing a longitudinal opening transversing the wall, the opening permitting the passage of a loop portion of each hook.

Abstract: In a reel-to-reel longitudinally scanned tape transport or recorder, a length of media is positioned to fly in transducing relationship with a transducing head. The transducing head is mounted on a rotatable turntable rotor. The rotor includes a substantially circular member with concentric horizontal surfaces projecting in separate vertical planes. A cam shaped contour is fabricated on one of the horizontal surfaces with the transducing means positioned at the peak or crown of said cam shaped surface. There is a gradual roll off between the crown and the lowest point of the cam shaped surface. The roll off creates a converging channel which allows a sufficient volume of air to enter the interface between the media and the head and a diverging channel which allows the air to be bled off.

Abstract: In a rotating head magnetic tape transport, magnetic media is transported from a supply spool to a take-up spool. Interlayer slippage, due to air entrapped between tape layers, is reduced by impressing a waveform on the take-up spool motor voltage during high speed search. The impressed waveform has a high acceleration component. As a result of the impressed waveform, a continual jerking action is imparted to the tape to squeeze out entrapped air and leave said tape in a state of tension or tightly wound.

Abstract: A lubricant gel is made from a poly(alkylene oxide) lubricant, a finely divided silica and a gel-strengthening amount of an ionic salt having a pH of 5.5-8.5 when in 0.1 M aqueous solution. The gel is useful in the inflation chamber of a pnemuatic tire to enable it to run safely in a deflated condition for which purpose the gel should have the required viscosity and mechanical stability.

Abstract: A valve comprising a housing with an inlet and outlet and a chamber in between, a reciprocating gate mounted in a gate seat disposed within the chamber for opening and closing the valve, an upper bonnet for closing the chamber at one end and a lower bonnet for closing the chamber at the other end, the gate being disposed between upper and lower stems which extend into the upper and lower bonnets respectively. Metal-to-metal seals are provided at all junctures between the above members in the lower gate position with back-up seals at the junctures of all moving members.A double edged seal ring integral with the upper stem self-contained within the upper bonnet provides a metal-to-metal seal with the upper bonnet in the upper and lower gate positions of the valve.A metal gasket arrangement is provided between the upper bonnet and valve body whereby the assemblage of all points of contact between the gasket and body form an annular ring.