Abstract: An apparatus and associated methods for purifying water are provided.

Abstract: A hair appliance providing a naturally, secure, comfortable hair supplement for enhancing the cosmetic appearance of an individual having a head net with a fitted band, surrounding tracks and vertical spacers. Hair, natural or artificial, is carried by at least the surrounding tracks and blends with the natural hair of the wearer. The head net construction allows the personal hair of the wearer to be pulled through the hair opening defined by the fitted band and tracks so the personal hair of the wearer and the appliance hair is blended together to provide a naturally appearing, secure, comfortable appearance. The hair appliance can also provide bangs when a front bang section is included. Additionally, the appliance hair can terminate at a variable length or at generally the same length.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing access to object data stored in an object server in response to a database query. The method comprises the steps of receiving a database query comprising a relational operation with a data surrogate identifying object data stored in an object server, transforming the database query into relational database commands, transmitting the relational database commands to the relational database management system, receiving a response table from the relational database management system, compiling an answer set from the response table comprising an object locator responsive to the database query, and transmitting the answer set to the client.

Abstract: A charge monitoring apparatus measures an electrical charge deposited on a multiple-layered workpiece, such as a semiconductor wafer, in a plasma processing system. The apparatus includes a charge collection electrode (CCE), a non-conducting patterned layer and a voltage or current sensor. The patterned layer is provided on the CCE and includes a plurality of openings that extend through the patterned layer to the conducting surface of the CCE. The openings create a topology having an adequate aspect ratio to cause electron shading to occur during plasma processing of the workpiece. The voltage or current sensor includes an EEPROM transistor that stores information regarding the amount of electrical charge that accumulates on the CCE during plasma processing.

Abstract: A system whereby freshwater and saltwater aquaria water may be stripped and sterilized to near laboratory quality distilled water standards and injected with appropriate chemicals and compounds necessary to reproduce the conditions indigenous to the native habitat of any particular species in which you have chosen to raise in your aquarium. This system is attached to standard washer and dryer water outlets and is connected to the device with a standard 3/4" garden hose. Tap water is run through a cation resin exchange chamber to pull out negatively charged ions and then passes through an identical chamber containing anion resin exchange media to pull the positively charged ions out of the water coming through. The end result being near zero ppm total dissolved solids.

Abstract: A fishing lure comprises a natural stone as a lure body and has fracture surfaces randomly oriented. Preferably a pair of fishing hook and fishing line attachment fittings are securely fastened to opposite ends of the lure body, and a feather may be optionally glued to the lure body.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing access to object data stored in an object server in response to a database query. The method comprises the steps of receiving a database query comprising a relational operation with a data surrogate identifying object data stored in an object server, transforming the database query into relational database commands, transmitting the relational database commands to the relational database management system, receiving a response table from the relational database management system, compiling an answer set from the response table comprising an object locator responsive to the database query, and transmitting the answer set to the client.

Abstract: Intermediates for matched mailer type business forms are constructed in four and six panel formats from a single sheet. Pressure sensitive adhesive discontinuous strips are disposed in marginal portions of the intermediates to align with each other when the intermediates are folded first about a center line, and then either a single longitudinal fold line, or first and then second longitudinal fold lines. The adhesive strips may include L-shaped portions at the intersections of strips. The marginal portions are separated from four or six main panels by perforations. The marginal portions adjacent the longitudinal edges of the sheet may have tractor drive openings. Using the invention standard size mailers containing multiple plies may each be constructed from a single sheet, by running the intermediates through a non-impact printer (e.g.

Abstract: Continuous extrusion apparatus (FIG. 1) including a rotatable, grooved, wheel 2 is provided with a shoe 6 mounted on a pivot 7 to be rotatable between a position engaging the wheel 2 and a dis-engaged position. The shoe 6 carries a tooling cartridge 10 including an abutment block 14, an expansion block 16, a die block 18 and an exit block 20 connected together with bolts 22 and held in position by locking keys 46 and a retaining ring 50. A reciprocable ram 60 registers with the cartridge 10 when the shoe 6 is in the dis-engaged position and is operable to raise a cartridge 10 from an associated heating chamber 56 into the shoe 6 or to lower a cartridge 10 from the shoe 6 into a storage chamber (not shown). By utilizing a cartridge 10, change-over and pre-heating of sets of dies is facilitated, enabling the apparatus to be connected directly to a continuous casting furnace (not shown).

Abstract: Apparatus for the continuous extrusion of metals in which feed is introduced into two (or more) speed apart circumferential grooves in a rotating wheel (or rotating wheels) to contact an arcuate shoe portion and abutments extending into the grooves. The feed is constrained by the abutments to flow through frusto-conical exit apertures of cone angles in the range of 5.degree.-45.degree. in the shoe portion to a chamber which may also be of the divergent frusto-conical form, and is extruded as relatively thin-walled, large-cross-section products. Mixer plates are profiled to distribute flow evenly from the apertures to around the die opening. An extrusion die body for cylindrical extrusions is located and axially centered by set screws. Where an even number of grooves are utilized, an extrusion mandrel may be secured to the shoe portion by a bolt positioned centrally of the grooves and having a passage for injection of lubricant or oxidation inhibiting fluids.

Abstract: A commercial fish-growing system particularly adapted for use at the head waters of irrigation systems comprises an elongated, level ditch having a cross-section in the form of an inverted trapezoid as a fish-growing raceway. Water for the irrigation system is supplied to an aeration raceway in which the water is subjected to a violent tumbling action as it passes down the aeration raceway. After the water exits the aeration raceway, it enters the fish raceway. At the outlet end of the fish raceway, an underwater spillway slopes upwardly from the bottom of the pool in which it is located to a lip located below the water level in the fish raceway; and a cofferdam is spaced from and is parallel to the sloping spillway surface. The cofferdam also is spaced from the pool bottom a predetermined distance, so that water and solid wastes exiting from the fish raceway flow upwardly from the bottom along the sloping spillway surface to be dumped out over the lip of the spillway.