Abstract: A method and apparatus for Variable Data Printing that adds performance requirements to a raster image processor (RIP) memory optimization that employs memory bands within the page composition process. Documents containing both recurring elements as well as non-recurring elements are sorted into element lists depending on their frequency of recurrence and their layering position. The recurring elements are retained in rasterized form, while the non-recurring elements are rasterized as they are used in output memory. One pass assembly in raster image processing of the elements occurs when the recurring elements are blitted into memory and the variable elements are RIPped on the fly.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for Variable Data Printing that adds performance requirements to a raster image processor (RIP) memory optimization that employs memory bands within the page composition process. Documents containing both recurring elements as well as non-recurring elements are sorted into element lists depending on their frequency of recurrence and their layering position. The recurring elements are retained in rasterized form, while the non-recurring elements are rasterized as they are used in output memory. One pass assembly in raster image processing of the elements occurs when the recurring elements are blitted into memory and the variable elements are RIPped on the fly.

Abstract: A spice container assembly includes a removable closure body for a spice container that is detachably secured to a stationary tubular holder. The spice container in turn, is held by the closure body via a magnet, to facilitate one-handed removal of a unit comprising the spice container and the closure body from the holder. The spice container is retained in or on the closure body by a magnetic force which is used to seal the spice container.

Abstract: An apparatus for the injection molding of tire treads on reinforcing belts (tire-tread rings) comprises a belt support which is substantially incompressible but is yieldably mounted on a back-up structure and defines a mold cavity with a pair of half shells which close around the support. When the injection-molded tread is released by opening of the half shells, the support can be relaxed and the tread structure picked up by a transfer ring.

Abstract: A floor sweeper is provided. The sweeper includes a frame having a corner portion. A hub member is mounted at the corner portion for rotation about an upright axis which is inclined to the horizontal. The hub has a circumferential side face and an underside with faces toward a surface to be swept. An annulus of bristles projects from the sideface of the hub member. The bristles have free end portions projecting downwardly beyond the underside so that increments of the annulus consecutively contact the surface to be swept because of the inclination of the axis. An annulus of radially extending teeth are connected to the underside of the hub member from which they extend downwardly to thereby engage the surface to be swept so as to rotate the hub member.

Abstract: A cylindrical brush is mounted in a housing of a carpet-sweeping device for rotation about an axis extending transversely of the direction of movement of the device over the surface to be cleaned. Two dirt-collecting receptacles are located respectively at a front region of the housing and at a rear region of the housing as considered along this direction. Each dirt-collecting receptacle has an opening bounded on all sides by a plurality of walls and each receptacle is mounted for pivoting movement on the housing between a filling position in which the respective opening is located in a path in which dirt from the surface being swept travels into the receptacle, and a discharging position in which the opening is located out of the path so as to permit discharging of any deposited dirt from the receptacle.

Abstract: A housing has an open front side, and one or more arms are provided, each having two ends and a length sufficient to permit a plurality of adjacent ties to be hung from the respective arm. Pivot pins mount these arms at one end within the housing so that the arms can be pivoted outwardly of the housing to an access position and can be pivoted into the housing to a storage position in which the opposite ends of the respective arms are supported on a portion of the housing.