Abstract: An overhead storage system for bicycles and objects that weigh approximately 40 to 50 pounds. The stored object is counter balanced by nitrogen gas spring cylinders so as to make the object virtually weightless to the user-operator. The object is stored flat or horizontally against the ceiling of a garage, porch or breezeway so as to be well above headspace and so that floor space is not taken up by the object. The user-operator pulls the stored object down with a cord similar in ease to pulling down a set of attic type stairs. A boom is pivotally connected to a ceiling mount. A first gas spring allows the stored object to move and rotate in an arc from the horizontal ceiling adjacent position to a vertical position approximately thirty inches from the floor. The boom has a lower telescoping tubular sections with a second lower gas spring holding the tubular sections together. The user-operator pulls down on handles connected to the lower tubular section which lowers the object to the floor.

Abstract: Methods, systems and computer program products are provided that access a single server application executing on a processing system having multiple TCP/IP instances. The single server application may be accessed by establishing a registration repository containing information sufficient to identify to both the single server application and a client application seeking to access the single server application, one of the multiple TCP/IP instances through which the single server application may be accessed by client applications. In such a case, the registration repository is accessible by the multiple TCP/IP instances and the single server application.

Abstract: A sprayer apparatus for dispensing liquid fertilizer, weed control or liquid insecticide from an elongated storage tube using one hand. A see-through plastic storage tube has a spray nozzle one end and a handgrip with trigger on the opposite end. Compressing the trigger moves a trigger rod to move a piston that forces gravity fed liquid through the spray nozzle. The spray nozzle can be located in a housing having a convex curved outer surface along with a wheel protruding from the bottom surface of the housing. The wheel can have conical side edges and a flat exterior side. Alternatively, the wheel can have rounded outer edges. Visible markings on the exterior of the plastic storage tube can tell the user the remaining amount of the liquid stored inside. An optional protruding handgrip can be located halfway down the storage tube for allowing the device to be controlled by two hands. A second version includes a two way valve located inside the storage tube.

Abstract: A tensioner assembly pre-stretches a film web prior to unitizing a pallet load. The film web undergoes three stages of stretching by the tensioner assembly which includes two driven rollers and a resiliently biased dancer roller. The dancer roller engages the film and maintains it under continuous tension loading as the pallet load rotates. An electrical control signal proportional to the angular position of the dancer roller is employed by a control circuit to vary the rotational speed of the pretensioner drive rollers. The film web is stretched in a first stage between a feedstock roll and the first drive roller. A second stage of stretching occurs between the first driven roller and the second driven roller. Finally, the film web undergoes a third stage of stretching between the second driven roller and the pallet load, with the web being maintained under tension at all times by the resiliently biased dancer roller.

Abstract: An elongated, resilient member such as a coiled spring or a belt of elastic material is disposed in lapping engagement with first and second drive rollers for engaging and threading a web around the rollers in response to rotation of the rollers. The drive rollers are rotated in opposite directions and the belt or spring is disposed in a twist, thereby defining a figure "8" lapping pattern. In a preferred embodiment, each roller is circumscribed by a groove in which the spring or belt is reeved.