Abstract: An apparatus for rotary dumping of rail cars, including a backside airflow diverter, a backside hood for removing contaminated air from the back side of the pit and at least two baffles on a rotational frame, the baffles each presenting a leading edge that contacts the backside airflow diverter during at least a portion of rotational motion. At least one air intake is positioned to pass through the upper surface of the backside diverter into the backside hood at a location where pressure in the backside hood is maintained at a substantially neutral or negative level even when pressure in the material receiving pit is increased by a down rush of air caused by the exit of the load from the railcar.

Abstract: A method, system and computer readable medium for providing targeted advertising during execution of an application is described. A server system assembles an application including 3D objects and advertising texture maps directed towards a demographic. The application is then provided for download over a network to a client system, which belongs to the demographic. The client system then executes the application, which maps the texture maps onto the 3D objects during execution. The client system displays the 3D objects during execution of the application. The server system sends periodic updates consisting of texture maps to the client system. The client system maps the updated texture maps onto the 3D objects during execution.

Abstract: An apparatus for controlling temperature and humidity of a conditioned space uses an outside air cooling coil circuit in fluid communication with coolant from a cooling supply. Outside air is introduced over the outside air cooling coil circuit through a damper having open and closed positions. A valve in fluid communication with the coolant supply and the outside air cooling coil circuit has an open setting for permitting and a closed setting for preventing the circulation of coolant through the outside air cooling coil circuit. An HVAC unit control is operatively associated with the valve and the damper for controlling their operation. An occupancy control generates a signal indicating the presence of a human within the conditioned space and is operatively associated with the HVAC unit control.

Abstract: A known gas operated firearm has been modified to be of more compact size and reduced weight while retaining the firepower, the features, and most of the components of its predecessor. A bolt assembly reciprocably mounted in a longitudinal cavity of a receiver assembly for movement between recoil and battery positions has a forwardly facing pressure surface and first and second longitudinally extending coaxial bores. The annular flange of a firing pin is slidable in the second bore and the bolt assembly includes a transversely extending retaining pin engageable by the annular flange to define an aftward terminal position of the firing pin. A recoil assembly includes a pair of tungsten weights mounted in the longitudinal cavity for rectilinear movement with the bolt assembly between the recoil and battery positions and includes means to bias the bolt assembly toward the battery position.

Abstract: A known gas operated firearm has been modified to be of more compact size and reduced weight while retaining the firepower, the features, and most of the components of its predecessor. A bolt assembly reciprocably mounted in a longitudinal cavity of a receiver assembly for movement between recoil and battery positions has a forwardly facing pressure surface and first and second longitudinally extending coaxial bores. The annular flange of a firing pin is slidable in the second bore and the bolt assembly includes a transversely extending retaining pin engageable by the annular flange to define an aftward terminal position of the firing pin. A recoil assembly includes a pair of tungsten weights mounted in the longitudinal cavity for rectilinear movement with the bolt assembly between the recoil and battery positions and includes means to bias the bolt assembly toward the battery position.

Abstract: The present invention provides a connector bar for making electrical connections to terminals having a lug body with an externally accessible interior cavity and a binding screw. The connector bar includes an elongated body having two ends and made of electrically conductive material. At least one of the ends having a solid cross-section with a configuration which creates less distortion in the sides of the lug body compared to a round cross-section configuration when the binding screw contacts the end with torque applied for making the pre-determined mechanical and electrical connection. Preferably, the cross-section configuration of the end is defined by a flat top surface larger in width than the contact area of the binding screw, two arcuate sides having an arc value approximately the same as the interior cavity of the lug body, and a flat bottom surface smaller in width than the top surface.

Abstract: An electrical distribution load center consists of a non-conductive enclosure and a circuit breaker bus bar support panel that are interconnected by interlock members that can be snap-fitted to secure the two panels to each other. The support panel also has a latch member so that the bus bars can be mounted onto the panel in a heat-staking, insert-molded or snap-fit arrangement. The support panel also has elements for locking the circuit breakers onto the panels in conducting contact with the bus bars. The enclosure and the support panel are enclosed by a non-metallic trim panel that has a non-metallic door hinged thereto and which carries a latch for latching the door to the trim panel.

Abstract: The present invention includes a terminal barrier for use in an electrical distribution load canter having a housing defined by side walls upstanding from a back wall. Within the housing are input terminals connecting a service line to a main circuit breaker and output terminals connected to a plurality of branch circuit breakers. The barrier is a generally flat, thin body positioned to separate the input terminals from the output terminals. The barrier includes interlocking elements for disengagingly connecting one end of the barrier to the side wall of the housing. The barrier also includes elements for fastening the opposite end of the barrier to the housing while simultaneously engaging the interlocking elements and supporting the barrier in a plane parallel to the back wall of the housing.

Abstract: The present invention provides an interior assembly for an electrical distribution device having at least one bus bar integrally formed with branch stabs for electrically connecting to terminals extending from a plurality of circuit interrupters. The assembly includes a generally planar support base having a front face and back face for mounting bus bars. A cover for the front face and a back shield for the back face of the support base have sufficient size to substantially cover the bus bars. The cover and back shield include means for securing the body to the device so that the position of the cover prevents contact between the bus bar and a person's finger or equipment particularly when an individual circuit interrupter is mounted to the device.

Abstract: The present invention provides a cover for an exposed bus bar attached to an electrical control device having a contour mounting surface for circuit interrupters. The cover includes a generally planar body member having sufficient size to substantially cover the exposed bus bar. The cover includes means for securing the body to the device so that the position of the body prevents contact between the bus bar and a person's finger or equipment particularly when an individual circuit interrupter is mounted to the device.

Abstract: An electrical distribution load center consists of a non-conductive enclosure and a circuit breaker bus bar support panel that are interconnected by interlock members that can be snap-fitted to secure the two panels to each other. The support panel also has a latch member so that the bus bars can be mounted onto the panel in a heat-staking, insert-molded or snap-fit arrangement. The support panel also has elements for locking the circuit breakers onto the panels in conducting contact with the bus bars. The enclosure and the support panel are enclosed by a non-metallilc trim panel that has a non-metallic door hinged thereto and which carries a latch for latching the door to the trim panel.

Abstract: A sustained release oral pharmaceutical composition consists essentially of a recompressed mixture of a water-sensitive pharmaceutical agent, a high molecular weight hydrophilic cellulose polymer, and a lubricant. The mixture is compressed into a unitary mass, comminuted, and recompressed into tablets without the use of solvents.

Abstract: Method and apparatus are disclosed for cutting a slit along the length of a pipe in such a manner that expansion of a diameter of the slitted pipe is possible without creating a gap at the slit. This is accomplished by advancing the pipe to be slit past a cutting edge that non-radially traverses the inner and outer circumferences of the pipe wall. In a preferred embodiment the cutting edge, which traverses the pipe wall, is positioned tangentially with respect to the inner circumference of the pipe wall and extends from the inner circumference to intersect the outer circumference of the pipe wall.

Abstract: According to this invention various hygroscopic malflavored drugs can be proceeded by a unique wet granulation process wherein a slurry of the drug in water is dried in combination with colloidal silicon dioxide and, in a particularly preferred embodiment microcrystalline cellulose with the colloidal silicon dioxide absorbing onto the drug particles.The result is a protective coating of silicon dioxide which masks unpleasant taste and odor and also reduces the adhesive of the granulation onto the punch faces used in the manufacture of the granules. By adsorbing silicon dioxide on the particulate surface of the malflavored hygroscopic drug, the drug becomes not only easier to handle but the unpleasant tastes and/or odors are masked making the fiinal product more susceptible to proper patient compliance.

Abstract: A dosing disc capsule machine has a tamping pin carried in a mounting block for extending into openings in a dosing disc to compact powder in the openings to form a plug. The plug is then transferred into a capsule body by an ejection pin. In accordance with the invention, a load cell is positioned above the tamping pin in the mounting block for measuring the compressive force exerted on the powder by the tamping pin. The load cell occupies the space normally occupied by the overload spring in such dosing disc capsule machines. Thus, modification of the tamping pin is not necessary, and the simple substitution of parts makes it possible to interchange the instrumentation from one machine to another. Further, the modifications are minor and do not affect the normal operation of the machine.