Abstract: A computer system and a method implementing a remote access array are provided. A first drawer includes a first processor chip. A first main memory region is operatively connected to the first processor chip. A first non-addressable memory region is operatively connected to the first processor chip and includes the first remote access array. The first remote access array is configured to track data portions that are stored in the first main memory region and for which copies were created and sent to an external node. The first remote access array is backed up in the first main memory region. The first remote access array includes one or more entries and is configured to update all of the entries in response to a multi-drawer working partition being reduced to fit within the first drawer.

Abstract: A papermaker's fabric includes a base fabric structure including machine direction yarns and primary cross machine direction yarns interlacing to form a papermaking surface, wherein the machine direction yarns and primary cross machine direction yarns are interlaced in a pattern having a harness repeat of greater than two. The fabric also includes first and second companion cross machine direction yarns positioned between each pair of adjacent primary cross machine direction yarns. Each first companion cross machine direction yarn has an interlacing pattern relative to the machine direction yarns that is identical to a first of the pair of adjacent primary cross machine direction yarns, and each second companion cross machine direction yarn has an interlacing pattern relative to the machine direction yarns that is identical to a second of the pair of adjacent primary cross machine direction yarns.

Abstract: Auto-joinable triple layer papermaker's forming fabrics which exhibit relatively low caliper values, good mechanical stability, and relatively high permeability. In one embodiment of the present invention, triple layer papermaker's forming fabrics having both top and bottom sets of machine direction and cross machine direction yarns are provided in which each yarn in the set of bottom machine directions yarns alternatively pairs with the two yarns in the set of bottom machine direction yarns that are woven immediately adjacent to it.

Abstract: A multilayer papermaker's fabric includes: a first set of machine direction yarns; a top set of cross machine direction yarns interwoven with the first set of machine direction yarns; and a bottom set of cross machine direction yarns interwoven with the first set of machine direction yarns.

Abstract: A forming fabric has machine direction yarns and cross machine direction yarns interwoven in a repeating pattern of multiple repeating units. The repeating units of the pattern comprise: paper side cross-machine direction yarns forming the paper side of the fabric; machine side cross-machine direction yarns forming the machine side of the fabric; and machine direction yarns interwoven with both the paper side cross machine direction yarns and the machine side cross machine direction yarns. The machine direction yarns comprise first and second sets of machine direction yarns arranged in an alternating pattern. Each of the machine direction yarns of the first and second sets passes above four paper side cross machine direction yarns to form paper side knuckles separated from one another by at least two paper side cross machine direction yarns.

Abstract: A process for forming paper using a papermaker's forming fabric comprising a fabric layer including cross machine direction fabric yarns and machine direction fabric yarns interwoven to form a papermaking surface with alternating single knuckles thereon. First additional cross machine direction yarns are positioned between adjacent cross machine direction fabric yarns on the papermaking surface of the fabric layer. Second additional cross machine direction yarns are positioned between the cross machine direction fabric yarns on the papermaking surface of the fabric layer. Each of the first and second additional cross machine direction yarns serve as fiber supporting yarns and as locator yarns for another of the first and second additional cross machine direction yarns. Each of the first and second additional cross machine direction yarns are interwoven with the fabric layer. Paper stock is deposited on the fabric to form a wet paper web, and moisture is removed from the wet paper web to form paper.

Abstract: A process for forming paper using a papermaker's forming fabric comprising a fabric layer including cross machine direction fabric yarns and machine direction fabric yarns interwoven to form a papermaking surface with alternating single knuckles thereon. First additional cross machine direction yarns are positioned between adjacent cross machine direction fabric yarns on the papermaking surface of the fabric layer. Second additional cross machine direction yarns are positioned between the cross machine direction fabric yarns on the papermaking surface of the fabric layer. Each of the first and second additional cross machine direction yarns serve as fiber supporting yarns and as locator yarns for another of the first and second additional cross machine direction yarns. Each of the first and second additional cross machine direction yarns are interwoven with the fabric layer. Paper stock is deposited on the fabric to form a wet paper web, and moisture is removed from the wet paper web to form paper.

Abstract: A papermaker's fabric includes a base fabric structure that includes MD yarns and primary CMD yarns interlaced to form a papermaking surface. The papermaker's fabric further includes first and second auxiliary CMD yarns positioned between each pair of adjacent primary CMD yarns. Each first auxiliary CMD yarn has an interlacing pattern relative to the MD yarns that is identical to a first of the pair of adjacent primary CMD yarns, and each second auxiliary CMD yarn has an interlacing pattern relative to the MD yarns that is identical to a second of the pair of adjacent primary CMD yarns. The first auxiliary CMD yarn is positioned between the second primary and auxiliary CMD yarns.

Abstract: A process for forming paper using a papermaker's forming fabric comprising a fabric layer including cross machine direction fabric yarns and machine direction fabric yarns interwoven to form a papermaking surface with alternating single knuckles thereon. First additional cross machine direction yarns are positioned between adjacent cross machine direction fabric yarns on the papermaking surface of the fabric layer. Second additional cross machine direction yarns are positioned between the cross machine direction fabric yarns on the papermaking surface of the fabric layer. Each of the first and second additional cross machine direction yarns serve as fiber supporting yarns and as locator yarns for another of the first and second additional cross machine direction yarns. Each of the first and second additional cross machine direction yarns are interwoven with the fabric layer. Paper stock is deposited on the fabric to form a wet paper web, and moisture is removed from the wet paper web to form paper.

Abstract: A process for forming paper using papermaker's forming fabric comprising a fabric layer including cross machine direction fabric yarns and machine direction fabric yarns interwoven to form a papermaking surface with alternating single knuckles thereon. First additional cross machine direction yarns are positioned between adjacent cross machine direction fabric yarns on the papermaking surface of the fabric layer. Second additional cross machine direction yarns are positioned between the cross machine direction fabric yarns on the papermaking surface of the fabric layer. Each of the first and second additional cross machine direction yarns serve as fiber supporting yarns and as locator yarns for another of the first and second additional cross machine direction yarns. Each of the first and second additional cross machine direction yarns are interwoven with the fabric layer to float over odd numbers of adjacent fabric layer machine direction yarns.

Abstract: The forming fabric has a top machine side and an opposing bottom paper side and comprises machine direction (MD) yarns and cross machine direction (CMD) yarns interwoven in a repeating pattern of multiple repeating units. The repeating unit of the pattern comprises: paper side CMD yarns forming the paper side of the fabric; half as many machine side CMD yarns forming the machine side of the fabric; and MD yarns interwoven with both the paper side CMD yarns and the machine side CMD yarns. Within the repeating unit, each of the MD yarns passes beneath at least two paper side CMD yarns to form first and second paper side knuckles. Each of the MD yarns also passes above two machine side CMD yarns to form first and second machine side knuckles, which are separated from one another by at least two machine side CMD yarns.

Abstract: This pump clamp adapter allow an individual who has a can or a pail that has a spout with a annular rim around the opening to be used with a safety pump. The adapter is created out of two semi-circular disk. Around the outer edge of the semi-circular disk on its bottom is a ridge. When the two semi-circular disks are placed together to form a cylindrical disk the ridge forms an annular recess underneath the disk. This annular recess fit over the annular rim adapter on the can. On the bottom of the ridge are three wedge shaped feet. These wedge shaped feet are designed to scratch through the paint on the top of the can and make contact with the metal below said paint. A semi-circular's cut out is formed in the center of the straight side of the semi-circular's disk. When the two semi-circular's disks are placed together, the semi-circular's cut out will form a bore in the center of the cylindrical disk of sufficient size so that a pump can be placed through the bore.

Abstract: The present invention is an integrated, diode laser-pumped, solid state lr which can be fabricated entirely with semiconductor fabrication techniques. The laser includes a substrate, a semiconductor light source grown over the substrate to provide pump light and a solid state laser grown over the substrate. The semiconductor light source produces pump light at a wavelength useful for pumping the solid state laser. The solid state laser includes a pump mirror transparent to the pump light, an output mirror, and a doped semiconductor layer deposited between the pump and output mirrors, the semiconductor, dielectric or polymer layer being doped with active metal ions. The pump light from the semiconductor light source is closely coupled to the solid state laser and passes through the pump mirror to pump the active metal ions.

Abstract: The number of surface defects in semiconductor materials having a volatile species, particulary group-III nitride-based semiconductor devices, are reduced by first implanting species atoms into the semiconductor sample to fill some of the surface layer species vacancies created by growth and device fabrication processes, and then rapid thermal annealing the sample to repair broken bonds and crystalline defects and to move implanted species atoms from interstitial to substitutional sites. An optional third step deposits a dummy layer on the sample surface prior to implantation, making possible an implantation profile that places a higher density of species atoms in the surface layer than is attainable without the dummy layer and to inhibit species atoms from leaving the sample during high-temperature processing steps that follow.

Abstract: A papermaker's forming fabric comprising a fabric layer including cross machine direction fabric yarns and machine direction fabric yarns interwoven to form a papermaking surface with alternating single knuckles thereon. First additional cross machine direction yarns are positioned between adjacent cross machine direction fabric yarns on the papermaking surface of the fabric layer. Second additional cross machine direction yarns are positioned between the cross machine direction fabric yarns on the papermaking surface of the fabric layer. Each of the first and second additional cross machine direction yarns serve as paper stock fiber supporting yarns and as locator yarns for another of the first and second additional cross machine direction yarns. Each of the first and second additional cross machine direction yarns are interwoven with the fabric layer to float over odd numbers of adjacent fabric layer machine direction yarns.

Abstract: A papermaker's forming fabric comprising a fabric layer including cross machine direction fabric yarns and machine direction fabric yarns interwoven to form a papermaking surface with alternating single knuckles thereon and to define top, bottom, left, and right saddles between adjacent ones of the cross machine direction fabric yarns. According to one embodiment of the invention, first and second additional cross machine direction yarns are interwoven with the base fabric between adjacent cross machine direction fabric yarns and positioned oppositely in top and bottom saddles. According to another embodiment, single additional cross machine direction fabric yarns are interwoven with the base fabric between adjacent ones of the cross machine direction fabric yarns. The single additional cross machine direction yarns are positioned successively and repeatedly in right, top, left, and then top saddle positions.

Abstract: A papermaker's forming fabric comprising a fabric layer including cross machine direction fabric yarns and machine direction fabric yarns interwoven to form a papermaking surface with alternating single knuckles thereon. First additional cross machine direction yarns are positioned between adjacent cross machine direction fabric yarns on the papermaking surface of the fabric layer. Second additional cross machine direction yarns are positioned between the cross machine direction fabric yarns on the papermaking surface of the fabric layer. Each of the first and second additional cross machine direction yarns serve as fiber supporting yarns and as locator yarns for another of the first and second additional cross machine direction yarns. Each of the first and second additional cross machine direction yarns are interwoven with the fabric layer.

Abstract: This invention is a small hand piston type pump design to pump small quanity of flammable liquids safely from a drum. The pump has a grounding clip, and a bonding clip attached and a metal bung adapter to ensure that static build up during the pumping process is adequately grounded from not only the pump but the vessel into which the liquid is being pumped and the drum. The pump also contains a flame arrestor in the spout and a check ball and a strainer in the pickup tube to ensure that a fire within the pump will not extend into the drum and a strainer in the pickup tube to further arrest any flames. The pump is made out of carbon steel, glass and teflon so that the parts have good chemical resitance and are long lasting. The pump has a sealing device design for longjevity. This sealing device has a packing gland whose edges are beveled. It fits into a conically channel between the packing head and packing nut and when the packing nut is tighten the packing gland is forced towards the shaft.

Abstract: The resistance to wear-induced failures during forming operations of non-ferrous die tooling materials, such as epoxy-based and zinc-based materials, is improved by treating the surface of the die tooling. In one approach, the surface of an organic-containing or metallic substrate is coated with a silicon-modified organic materials and then implanted with ions of an inert gas to transform the organic material to a silicon carbide-rich layer. In the other, nitrogen ions are implanted into the surface of a zinc-based alloy.

Abstract: A papermakers' fabric, especially a forming fabric, with very high fiber support and open area on its top surface to enhance the papermaking characteristics. The papermaking surface consists of a woven fabric layer with single float machine direction yarn knuckles; i.e., no machine direction yarn passes over two or more adjacent top surface cross machine direction yarns. To complete the papermaking surface, into this base structure is woven two additional, generally smaller diameter, cross machine direction yarns for every cross machine direction yarn in the base weave papermaking surface. These two additional cross machine direction yarn pairs are woven in reverse weave patterns to one another such that natural interposing forces cause the two yarns to align one over the other centrally between two adjacent cross machine direction yarns of the fabric layer.