Abstract: An automated water testing apparatus and to a method of using the apparatus to test the amounts of dissolved salts and other solids in a water sample, where the apparatus includes a specially constructed sample bottle which preferably has a flexible wall and is fitted with a filter cap having a mesh top wall through which sample water can be poured to remove suspended matter, several beakers, a desiccator enclosure, a computer containing a database and an inventive computer program for executing method steps, and several devices in communication with and controlled by the computer and the program for executing the method, these devices preferably including a conductivity meter having a meter electrode, a robotic arm having a gripper, an analytical scale, a top loader balance scale and an oven.

Abstract: Clamp is made by injecting a clear plastic PET-G into a mold which forms a slot and four posts for a stainless steel cutter, when the formed clamp is removed from the mold it is then put into a machine that has a heated tube that will allow the plastic to be softened slightly so it can take on the shape of a spring loaded clamp, then cold air is injected into the tube to make the plastic rigid which allows it to hold its shape, the stainless steel cutter has four holes which were punched into the platform which allows cutter to be installed onto the posts, the posts are heated with a concaved hot tip tool that makes a mushroom shaped cap that bonds the cutter to the clamp. Used for keeping line from unraveling on standard size fishing line spools.

Abstract: A system for refining hydrocarbon containing materials in a continuous coking mode may provide a pyrolyzer (1) which may be inclined to effect a liquid seal between a liquid conduction environment (6) and a gaseous conduction environment (7). A heat source (9) may heat the material past the coking point and the system may include a screw or auger (10) which can continuously remove the coke while simultaneously outputting refined products.

Abstract: A method of creating a model of gravimetric flow around two, three and four dimensional representations of masses such as celestial bodies having overlapping gravity fields and plotting the Lagrange points at the correct positions in space between the bodies includes the steps of creating scale representations of the celestial bodies, plotting cascade lines for each celestial body by generating radial lines converging at each celestial body center of mass, the numbers of radial lines for each celestial body corresponding directly to the acceleration due to the relative masses of the celestial bodies and the centripital acceleration, the larger the mass the greater the number of radial lines, thereby revealing interfering regions indicating locations of the Lagrange points; and locating and marking the Lagrange points.

Abstract: A proximity sensor for use with a guidance system of a smart bomb including a ranging radar proximity sensor configured for mounting on a smart bomb and a radome connected to the ranging radar proximity sensor. A laser radiation sensor system is attached to the proximity sensor, which is configured and arranged to detect laser radiation reflected from a target which passes through the radome and output the azimuth and elevation angles to the target to the guidance system.

Abstract: A strain release clamp assembly consisting of a backshell component or female component member and a compression ring or male component member. The female component member is a generally cylindrical component having a plurality of radially directed bearing access ports therethrough for a screw-type adjusting member, a ball bearing, and an intermediate biasing means. The inside surface of the female member incudes a concentric groove with an access channel to the outside surface for containing one side portion of a locking wire inserted through the access channel. The male member includes on the outside surface with a matching concentric groove for receiving the opposite side portion of the locking wire and includes a plurality of spaced apart ball bearing depressions. The female component member receives the male component member and is locked thereto by the locking wire.

Abstract: A self locking electrical connector assembly includes a connector shell and a coupling nut. The connector shell has a centrally located outwardly projecting annular flange with a plurality of retaining shoulders by which the coupling nut is mounted to the connector shell and allowed to rotate but prevented from substantial axial movement. The coupling nut cavity is defined by a front annular retention shoulder, a back access opening opposite the front retention shoulder, a cylindrical surface between the front shoulder and the access opening, an annular retention groove in the cylindrical surface adjacent the access opening and an annular back facing stop shoulder between the retention groove and the front shoulder. A retaining ring held in the retention groove abuts against a back facing shoulder of the shell's annular flange. A front facing stop shoulder of the annular flange abuts against the back facing stop shoulder of the coupling nut.