Abstract: The disclosure concerns a child carrier having a seat platform and a belt assembly adjustment strap each coupled to a belt assembly. The belt assembly adjustment strap is configured to tighten first and second opposing sides of the belt assembly about the waist of the wearer thereby forming a bowed front portion of the belt assembly and a securing the seat platform in a horizontal orientation for supporting the body of the child. The instant child carrier is configured to maintain the body of the carried child in an ergonomically correct position. In addition, the child carrier includes multiple adjustable components for configuring the carrier to a preference of the wearer.

Abstract: The disclosure concerns a child carrier having a seat platform and a belt assembly adjustment strap each coupled to a belt assembly. The belt assembly adjustment strap is configured to tighten first and second opposing sides of the belt assembly about the waist of the wearer thereby forming a bowed front portion of the belt assembly and a securing the seat platform in a horizontal orientation for supporting the body of the child. The instant child carrier is configured to maintain the body of the carried child in an ergonomically correct position. In addition, the child carrier includes multiple adjustable components for configuring the carrier to a preference of the wearer.

Abstract: The disclosure concerns a child carrier having a seat platform and a belt assembly adjustment strap each coupled to a belt assembly. The belt assembly adjustment strap is configured to tighten first and second opposing sides of the belt assembly about the waist of the wearer thereby forming a bowed front portion of the belt assembly and a securing the seat platform in a horizontal orientation for supporting the body of the child. The instant child carrier is configured to maintain the body of the carried child in an ergonomically correct position. In addition, the child carrier includes multiple adjustable components for configuring the carrier to a preference of the wearer.

Abstract: An electrically operable rotary actuator assembly is disclosed for opening and closing a rotary gate valve. The assembly comprises an operating shaft for operating the valve, an electrically operable actuator for imparting a rotational drive to the shaft to cause the shaft to rotate from a first rotational orientation to a second rotational orientation and biasing means for imparting a rotational bias to the shaft to cause the shaft to rotate from the second rotational orientation to the first rotational orientation. The assembly further comprises a clamp arrangement for clamping the shaft in the second rotational orientation.

Abstract: A tape package comprises a coreless body formed from a plurality of spirally wound layers of tape that define the package body with an outer diameter and a traverse length. The spirally wound layers of tape extend axially along the traverse length of the package body and include a number of spiral windings of tape in each layer. The package body permits lengths of tape to unwind from along its interior and to pay-off laterally through an egress area or opening in a sidewall of the package body with little residual twist. In one configuration, the package body has the same given number of spiral windings of tape along each side of the egress area or opening. Any twisting occurring along a length of tape unwinding from along the package body interior in a first direction on one side of the egress area or opening is accommodated or substantially reduced by any twisting occurring along the length of tape unwinding in a reverse direction on the other or opposite side of the egress area or opening.

Abstract: Making a spear gun shaft includes selecting a solid steel drill rod of desired length; wrapping the rod with thermo-setting polymer impregnated carbon fiber sheet; covering rod with compression wrapper; curing the resin coated rod in an oven; removing the covering; machining the cured resin to the desired diameter with ends exposing drill rod; affixing a spear tip-carrying member to an end of the rod; affixing a trigger-engaging member to opposite end of the rod; affixing collars over the joints formed between rod and members to reinforce the shaft at the respective joints; mounting a sliding collar onto rod; and affixing the collars with metal adhesive to waterproof and seal the respective joints covered by the collars.

Abstract: A system and method of transforming information between UCS and EBCDIC-friendly representations comprises a two-stage transformation process using a first stage which transforms a UCS string to and from an intermediate form string, referred to as an I8-string. A second stage transforms the I8-string to and from a string in an EBCDIC-friendly representation. The two stages employ transformations which result in control characters and other selected characters being represented as single octets in the I8 and EBCDIC-friendly strings and the transformations are symmetric in both stages. The second stage can produce EBCDIC-friendly strings in one or more selected EBCDIC encodings.