Abstract: A jersey hanger assembly is described. The jersey hanger assembly allows homes, businesses, schools, or other buildings to display an athletic jersey as a symbol of team pride or of support for an athletic team or an individual player on the team. The jersey hanger assembly includes a bracket member. The bracket member includes a receiving member. The jersey hanger assembly includes a pole with first and second opposing ends. The second pole end is insertable into the receiving member. The pole has a curved shape between the first and second opposing ends. A jersey flag for hanging on the jersey hanger is described. The jersey flag is material of a fabric cut or shaped to resemble an athletic jersey. The material includes a team logo or insignia. A sleeve or an open seam in positioned in the upper portion of the jersey flag to receive the pole.

Abstract: A jersey hanger assembly is described. The jersey hanger assembly allows homes, businesses, schools, or other buildings to display an athletic jersey as a symbol of team pride or of support for an athletic team or an individual player on the team. The jersey hanger assembly includes a bracket member. The bracket member includes a receiving member. The jersey hanger assembly includes a pole with first and second opposing ends. The second pole end is insertable into the receiving member. The pole has a curved shape between the first and second opposing ends. A jersey flag for hanging on the jersey hanger is described. The jersey flag is material of a fabric cut or shaped to resemble an athletic jersey. The material includes a team logo or insignia. A sleeve or an open seam in positioned in the upper portion of the jersey flag to receive the pole.

Abstract: A jersey hanger assembly is described. The jersey hanger assembly allows homes, businesses, schools, or other buildings to display an athletic jersey as a symbol of team pride or of support for an athletic team or an individual player on the team. The jersey hanger assembly includes a bracket member. The bracket member includes a receiving member. The jersey hanger assembly includes a pole with first and second opposing ends. The second pole end is insertable into the receiving member. The pole has a curved shape between the first and second opposing ends. A jersey flag for hanging on the jersey hanger is described. The jersey flag is material of a fabric cut or shaped to resemble an athletic jersey. The material includes a team logo or insignia. A sleeve or an open seam in positioned in the upper portion of the jersey flag to receive the pole.

Abstract: A manufacturing apparatus for producing filament-wound products such as pressure vessels and pipes includes a mandrel for supporting a pre-form vessel, a mandrel driver structured to rotate the pre-form vessel, and an array of individual filament supports for guiding individual filaments used in producing the vessel. Using the unique aspects of the apparatus which avoids the customary high-angle fiber crossings significantly speeds up manufacturing and thus lowers product cost, increases product lifetime, reduces fatigue stress, and reduces weight of the finished product. Methods of production are also disclosed.

Abstract: A jersey hanger assembly is described. The jersey hanger assembly allows homes, businesses, schools, or other buildings to display an athletic jersey as a symbol of team pride or of support for an athletic team or an individual player on the team. The jersey hanger assembly includes a bracket member. The bracket member includes a receiving member. The jersey hanger assembly includes a pole with first and second opposing ends. The second pole end is insertable into the receiving member. The pole has a curved shape between the first and second opposing ends. A jersey flag for hanging on the jersey hanger is described. The jersey flag is material of a fabric cut or shaped to resemble an athletic jersey. The material includes a team logo or insignia. A sleeve or an open seam in positioned in the upper portion of the jersey flag to receive the pole.

Abstract: A hydraulic distribution valve having two substantially identical, molded plastic shells which are joined at their peripheries to form the distribution valve housing. A shaft is journaled within the housing and extends through one of the shells. A rotor is coupled to the shaft and is rotatably disposed within a rotor chamber defined by the housing. Each shell additionally defines a plurality of axially disposed cavities, where at least two of the cavities of the second shell communicate with the rotor chamber. The second shell also defines an inlet which communicates through a gallery which passes through a portion of the shaft and rotor for communication between the inlet and a control port which is defined by the rotor. The shaft and rotor can be rotated to align the exhaust port with a selected cavity to permit communication between the inlet and the selected cavity.

Abstract: A valve made from substantially all plastic parts that has integrally molded valve seats. A unique valve disk comprises two identical, mirror-image, molded plastic parts. The parts are of thin-walled construction but are joined together to give the valve body a substantially thick cross section with elongated shear surfaces in the radial direction. End flanges on the seal disk parts mechanically trap the soft sealing material and provide the maximum depth along the force line of contact between the sealing seat and the seal disk. The valve body has a cylinder and a cylinder cap of identically molded, mirror-image parts which house a diaphragm that overlies a plastic domed piston. The domed piston is provided with radially spaced circular ribs for supporting the diaphragm against excess deflection.

Abstract: Apparatus for separating water from oil employing a cylindrical, axially compressible, flow-through, oleophilic, hydrophobic reticular foam filter body covered peripherally with and bonded to a flow impervious flexible skin of resin impregnated fabric anchored at one end within a pressure vessel by a flow-through cap assembly sealing the adjacent end of the sleeve to the chamber wall. With the remainder of the sleeved filter body slidably retained and backed within such filter chamber, pressure applied intermittently to its opposite end compresses the filter body to squeeze oil accumulations therefrom. Cap means with one-way valve elements on such opposite end of the filter body permits flow of water through the filter body in one direction while obstructing reverse flow under fluid back pressure introduced into the downstream end of the pressure vessel so as to compress the filter body axially.

Abstract: A flow-through coalescing separator applicable to clean immiscible liquids and to dirt-carrying immiscible liquids, such as dirty oil and water mixtures. A normally retracted piston periodically backwashes and thereupon compresses the filter body in a pressure vessel so as to purge the filter body of accumulations of dirt and hydrocarbons. When the piston is thereafter being retracted by restoration of input liquid flow pressure, positive coupling of the piston to the filter body stretches it back to its original length and thereby to the full functioning open-pore condition despite wall friction and limited rebound capability of the filter body material. The system lends itself to manually controlled operation and to automatically controlled operation, either in the continuous flow-through mode or in the more frequently interrupted retention flow-through mode.

Abstract: An elongated burner for producing a stream of metal oxide soot comprises a burner face having two parallel arrays of orifices for issuing a gas-oxygen mixture to produce two intersecting linear flames. Disposed between the gas-oxygen orifices is an array of orifices for issuing metal halide vapor into the flame. Two parallel arrays of orifices, one on each side of the vapor orifices and closely spaced therewith provide high velocity jets of inner shield gas on opposite sides of the vapor streams. Disposed between the inner shield gas orifices and the gas-oxygen orifices are two elongated slots which are much greater in width than the diameters of the aforementioned orifices. These slots provide a large volume, low pressure dry, nonreactive gas which prevents the flame from "backsplashing" onto the region of the vapor orifices and further prevents the deposition of soot on the burner face.

Abstract: In the sealing of two glass surfaces together in the formation of a hermetically sealed hollow article, it is important that the opposed seal edges be uniformly complementary along their sealing extent, and a method of sagging the seal edge to a desired surface contour is disclosed.