Abstract: A dual riser assembly for use with an offshore multi-activity drilling assembly to conduct drilling operations from a deck above the surface of a body of water into the bed of the body of water utilizing two risers, a first and a second, which extend from a location above the surface of a body of water to a common location adjacent to the bed of the body of water. Each riser terminates, at a distal end, into a dual riser assembly, allowing for selective open internal communication between each of the two risers and a single wellhole.

Abstract: A dynamically positioned, concentric riser, drilling system comprising a dynamically positioned drilling unit operable to float at least partially above the surface of a body of water, a first, outer, low-pressure, marine riser extending from the drilling unit into the body of water, a tensioning system to support the first marine riser, a second, inner, high-pressure, marine riser concentrically extending within the first, outer, low-pressure, marine riser, a surface blowout preventor, a lower marine riser package, a subsea blowout preventor, and a connector at the base of the lower marine riser package to release the risers from the wellhead in the event of a loss of station of the drilling unit.

Abstract: A multi-activity driliship, or the like, method and apparatus having a single derrick and multiple tubular activity stations within the derrick wherein primary drilling activity may be conducted from the derrick and simultaneously auxiliary drilling activity may be conducted from the same derrick to reduce the length of the primary drilling activity critical path.

Abstract: A multi-activity drillship, or the like, method and apparatus having a single derrick and multiple tubular activity stations within the derrick wherein primary drilling activity may be conducted from the derrick and simultaneously auxiliary drilling activity may be conducted from the same derrick to reduce the length of the primary drilling activity critical path.

Abstract: A multi-activity drillship, or the like, method and apparatus having a single derrick and multiple tubular activity stations within the derrick wherein primary drilling activity may be conducted from the derrick and simultaneously auxiliary drilling activity may be conducted from the same derrick to reduce the length of the primary drilling activity critical path.

Abstract: A multi-activity drillship, or the like, method and apparatus having a single derrick and multiple tubular activity stations within the derrick wherein primary drilling activity may be conducted from the derrick and simultaneously auxiliary drilling activity may be conducted from the same derrick to reduce the length of the primary drilling activity critical path.

Abstract: A silicone composite vascular graft especially well suited as an arteriovenous (A-V) graft fistula for dialysis application. The graft has the ability to seal around needle puncture holes without externally applied pressure, excellent anti-kink, anti-crush and strength properties, and a smooth non-porous inner surface which reduces thrombus deposition and enhances the graft wall compliance or elasticity.

Abstract: A silicone/DACRON polyester composite vascular graft especially well suited as an arteriovenous (A-V) graft fistula for dialysis application. The graft has the ability to seal around needle puncture holes without externally applied pressure, excellent anti-kink, anti-crush and strength properties, and a smooth non-porous inner surface which reduces thrombus deposition and enhances the graft wall compliance or elasticity.

Abstract: A pair of metal lead frames are stacked together with a plurality of solder coated semiconductor chips sandwiched between respective pairs of overlapped portions of the lead frames and the lead frame stack is then disposed within a fixture comprising spaced apart clamping means for clamping together the overlapped portions of the lead frames. Only the clamping means contact the frame stack and in thermally and electrically insulated relation therewith for minimizing heat loss from and electrical shorting of the lead frame stack to the fixture. Electrodes are tightly clamped against exposed ends of the lead stack for passing electrical current through the stack for causing electrical resistance heating of the stack and the soldering of the chips to the lead frames.

Abstract: A cardiac lead for transmitting electric current to the heart and/or sensing and monitoring electrical activity of the heart has an elongated electrical conductor connected to a head. An electrode mounted on the head comprises a helical wire adapted to be turned into heart tissue. The helical wire is coated with platinum black particles which decrease electrical losses at the electrode-tissue interface. A plug impregnated with a drug located within the head is in contact with the helical wire and platinum black particles thereon. The drug migrates from the plug to the active outer end section of the electrode.

Abstract: A bi-polar cardiac lead for transmitting electric current to the heart and/or sensing and monitoring electrical activity of the heart has elongated electrical conductors connected to a head. The lead has a first electrode mounted on the head having a helical wire connected to one conductor adapted to be turned into heart tissue. The helical wire is coated with platinum black particles which decrease electrical losses at the electrode-tissue interface. A second annular electrode having an irregular outer surface configuration is mounted on the head around the first electrode. A plug impregnated with a drug is located within a recess in the head adjacent the electrodes. The drug migrates from the plug to the stimulation site.

Abstract: A cardiac lead has an electrode and fixation assembly including a plurality of fixation members movable to extended positions into heart tissue to retain the electrode in intimate engagement with heart tissue. An elongated stylet is used to move the fixation members to their extended positions into the heart tissue and retract the fixation members into the fixation assembly to allow the lead to be removed from the heart and body of a person.

Abstract: A technique for providing in-place cleaning of a sealing structure for a rotating shaft in a materials processing apparatus wherein, during a cleaning operation, cleaning liquid is supplied in the form of a plurality of jets thereof from a source thereof to a rotating member having a sealing element, such as an O-ring, positioned about the rotating shaft. The cleaning fluid produced a scrubbing action on critical surfaces of the sealing structure to clean them. A plurality of jets of a drying fluid, such as pressurized air, is then supplied from a source thereof to the critical surfaces to remove excess cleaning liquid and to thoroughly dry such surfaces. The cleaning and drying operation can be activated to take place automatically and in-place using a pre-programmed processor without having to disassemble the sealing structure.

Abstract: A cardiac lead for transmitting electric current to the heart and/or sensing and monitoring electrical activity of the heart has an elongated electrical conductor connected to a head. An electrode mounted on the head comprises a helical wire adapted to be turned into heart tissue. A second electrode having an irregular or non-flat surface surrounds the helical wire. The non-flat surface may be a wire mesh, a segmented plate and an annular plate supporting one or more coiled wires.

Abstract: A sound activated lamp arrangement includes a module having a threaded lamp bulb socket at one end and a bulb base at the other end for reception in a lamp socket of a conventional table lamp. A lamp bulb is received in the module socket, and a microphone is provided on the module. Circuitry within the module connects the module socket with the module base to thereby illuminate the lamp bulb in response to the reception of an acoustic signal from a smoke alarm device, burglar alarm, or other type of alarm device by the microphone. A photocell is provided on the module and is connected to the circuitry to sense ambient illumination. The circuitry is adapted such that the bulb is only illuminated when the photocell senses darkness. A push button switch is provided on the module for conventional operation of the lamp. A collar is received on the socket shell of the lamp to prevent operation of the lamp switch thereon.

Abstract: A flux bath and its use in treating ferrous articles prior to their being dipped in a molten aluminum-zinc alloy is disclosed. The flux may be molten bath or used as an aqueous solution which contains from 200 to 750 g/l dissolved solids. The dissolved solids are 91 to 98.5 wt. % zinc chloride, 1.5 to 9 wt. % ammonium chloride and, based on zinc chloride and ammonium chloride, from 0.6 to 3 wt. % fluoride ions.

Abstract: Nonionic surfactants, for automatic dishwasher detergents, are provided having specific alkoxylates bonded to block oxypropylene and oxyethylene/oxypropylene mixtures. These surfactants provide enhanced low-foaming and wetting, and compatibility with active chlorine compounds.

Abstract: Nonionic surfactants, for automatic dishwasher detergents, provide enhanced low-foaming and wetting, and compatibility with active chlorine compounds. The surfactants are specific block oxypropylene/oxyethylene adducts of alkylphenols.

Abstract: Apparatus for controlling the tension of a web during transport, such as a label-carrying web in a heat transfer labelling machine. The web travels from a supply reel, around a dancer roll and metering roll, through various other web handling devices to another dancer roll, and is collected at a rewind reel. Each dancer roll is linked to a clutch for the corresponding supply or takeup reel, so that each clutch exerts a braking torque determined by the web tension at its dancer roll. Each dancer roll is further linked to an air cylinder to provide a user-determined tension level. The carrier web includes pin holes which are engaged by a pin wheel rotatably mounted to the metering roll, so that the pin wheel swivels when subjected to web tension differentials. Swivelling of the pin wheel opens and closes a valve within the metering roll, thereby providing a variable vent for high pressure air supplied to the supply air cylinder.

Abstract: Objects to be labelled with, for example, heat transfer labels, are initially stabilized by being positioned on freely movable platforms and conveyed to a station where the platforms are stabilized and the objects labelled.