Abstract: Apparatus and method is illustrated for servicing a loom reed at the loom with the warp yarns remaining in the reed. The apparatus includes a cleaning tank for ultrasonically cleaning the loom for reed as well as a tank for ultrasonically rinsing the loom reed. An elongated receptical for air cleaning and drying the loom reed is also illustrated.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided for rolling tape onto a seam between two sheets of flexible material, such as a roofing membrane. The apparatus solves the problem of wave formation in front of the applicator roll by providing a support roll that carries most of the load of the apparatus. There is also provided a means for driving the roll at a peripheral speed faster than the spped at which the apparatus is moving over the material being taped. In addition, means are provided on the apparatus for separating a liner from the tape and for winding up the liner on a storage reel.

Abstract: A holder for pants and like garments for mounting on a vertical surface. This holder (10) is unitary in construction, and is formed with a back panel (12) having apertures (18) for receiving fastening means therethrough for mounting purposes. Attached proximate the top edge of the back panel is an open body member (20) that is substantially co-extensive with the back panel. This body member is generally C-shaped in cross-section, and is typically formed from a top panel (22), a front panel (24), and a lower lip member (26) which extends back toward the back panel. This lip terminates a selected distance from the back panel to form a garment-receiving slot (28). The entrances to the slot are enhanced by providing rounded corners (30) at both ends of the lip. By this construction, a garment can be slid into the slot from either end and be supported in an upright manner in the holder. The body has sufficient space within whereby even pants with a belt unremoved can be stored.

Abstract: An improved ski binding for use with a cross country ski and a boot having a forwardly projecting sole portion. The binding including a toe plate to be secured to the ski boot with a bail means and an elastic strap connected to the bail means. The elastic strap is adapted to fit around the heel of the boot and when so positioned causes the bail means to clamp the ski boot to the toe plate. A pair of open faced sockets are mounted to the ski. A toe piece is secured to the toe plate and has a pair of release buttons each received by a corresponding one of the open faced sockets. Further each of the release buttons has a spring means for resiliently urging each release button into a corresponding socket whereby the toe piece and thus the ski boot is releasably held by the sockets to the ski.

Abstract: The holder for releasably storing flexible cord (10) and the like in a manner for dispensing in a tangle free condition. This holder has an elongated body member fabricated from a pair of substantially identical body portions (16, 18) pivotally connected at their junction (20). A releasable clasp (26) at this junction maintains the body portions in an aligned orientation during cord storage, or pivoted with respect to each other for completely dispensing the stored cord. A transverse passageway (24) positioned at this pivot point releasably grasps of the cord therein. Projecting substantially perpendicular from the body portions at opposite ends are a pair of handles (34, 36), and disposed from these handles toward the central juncture are a pair of posts (42, 44), one on each body portion, lying in the same plane as the handles and inclined away from each other. These posts provide for the storage of the cord in figure-8 loops.

Abstract: A device is disclosed which is to be incorporated into a drill string used for drilling in subterranean formations. The device includes a first member concentrically mounted with drill pipes disposed above the device and a second member concentrically mounted with drill collars or drill pipes disposed below the device. An intermediate member connects the first and second members and a retainer member maintains the device in its first operative position wherein the entire device is concentric with the longitudinal axis of the drill string. In the first operative position of the device rotation can be transmitted from the first member to the second member and the device acts as an ordinary member of the drill string. The first, second and intermediate members are configured to be capable of occupying a second operative position relative to one another wherein the first member is off-center relative to the second member and wherein the first member does not rotate the second member.

Abstract: A computerized executive work station takes the form of an executive-type desk into whose surface a computer display screen and keyboard have been recessed. The screen is disposed at an acute angle to the desk surface and is so positioned with respect to the keyboard that both the keyboard and the screen are concurrently within the field of vision of the near portion of bifocal eyeglasses worn by a person seated at the desk, and at approximately the same distance from that person's eyes. The screen and keyboard are offset from the center of the desk's knee opening so as to preserve a maximum of desk top space within the reach of the person's writing hand. Infrequently used controls, disk drive slots, and the like are mounted on vertical surfaces of the desk so as not to occupy any desk top space; and the screen may optionally be arranged to swing entirely below the desk top so that the screen and keyboard may be covered over for utilization of the entire desk top as a writing surface.

Abstract: A composition for use in removing chlorine from hair and a method for using the subject composition to remove chlorine from hair are provided. The subject composition preferably comprises ammonium lauryl sulfate, cocamide diethanolamine, sodium bicarbonate, cocobetaine and water.

Abstract: A ball-point writing instrument in which dislodging of the rotating ball as a result of accidental droppage on a hard surface is prevented by employing an ink reservoir construction designed to prevent propagation of a travelling pressure step in the column of ink above the rotating ball.

Abstract: A tire building drum is described as having, a plurality of radially movable bead lock segments at each end of the drum for holding the tire bead rings during the turn-up operation, a pair of turn-up bladders, and a pair of carriers which work in conjunction with the bead lock segments and turn-up bladders to tension the ply endings of the unvulcanized carcass ply or plies as the ply endings are turned up and reversely wrapped around the tire bead rings to anchor the rings to the unvulcanized tire carcass for further processing.

Abstract: A tire building drum is described as having a unique mechanism for controlling the radial movement of the bead lock segments which are designed to hold the tire bead rings firmly, in position, during the tune-up operation. The mechanism includes an annular support member which is disposed concentrically around the longitudinal center axis of the drum adjacent opposing ends of the drum, and which has a number of raceways that are radially oriented in relation to said center axis. The raceways are equally, angularly spaced about said axis and are designed to slidably receive a bead lock segment on which a cam roller is freely mounted for rotation. The mechanism also includes an annular scroll member which is disposed concentrically around said axis in side-by-side parallel relation with each of the support members.

Abstract: A motor for driving a rotary drilling bit within a well through which mud is circulated during a drilling operation, with the motor being driven by a secondary fluid which is isolated from the circulating mud but derives energy therefrom to power the motor. A pressure drop in the circulating mud across a choke in the drill string is utilized to cause motion of the secondary fluid through the motor. An instrument which is within the well and develops data to be transmitted to the surface of the earth controls actuation of the motor between different operating conditions in correspondence with data signals produced by the instrument, and the resulting variations in torque in the drill string and/or the variations in circulating fluid pressure are sensed at the surface of the earth to control and produce a readout representative of the down hole data.

Abstract: A floating transfer and production platform for use in a marine environment includes a plurality of petroleum storage and mooring tanks movably positioned around a central transfer and well platform. A central stationary oil drilling shaft enclosed within a rotatable outer assembly for oil production is combined with multiple manifolds for the transferring of petroleum products between tankers, the storage tanks, and the shore. The well platform provides for a production well, the products of which can be transferred to tanker, storage tanks, or shore.

Abstract: A method is provided for the isolation and presumptive diagnosis of Bacillus cereus which method is useful in the assay of antibiotic preparations, food products such as milk, drug products and cosmetics. A medium for use in such method is also provided which medium includes tellurite, glycine and polymyxin, and inhibits most organisms which grow and resemble Bacillus cereus on this medium. If an organism grows on the medium and has characteristic colonies, a presumptive diagnosis of Bacillus cereus can be assumed until further tests are made.

Abstract: An instrument including a gyroscopic rotor mounted to precess about a predetermined axis in response to pivotal movement of the rotor about a sensing axis, with the rate of precession being measured and being utilized to determine the amount of said pivotal movement above the sensing axis. Two or more such rotors precessing about different axes can respond to different components of the earth's rotational movement, or to other component movements or torques. Differences in the rates of precession of the two rotors indicate the relative strengths of the corresponding components of the earth's movement, and afford a basis for deriving an indication of azimuth.

Abstract: A filter system wherein there is a first chamber containing fluid at a predetermined level, a shroud positioned in the first chamber immersed in the fluid, said shroud defining a downwardly-open second chamber, a quantity of discrete, buoyant bodies supported in the shroud by flotation, said discrete, buoyant bodies defining a filter media, a conduit connected to the top of the shroud for delivering fluid to the shroud at a pressure to displace the discrete, buoyant bodies downwardly therein as the fluid is forced downwardly into the shroud and into the lower part of the first chamber below the shroud, a second chamber surrounding the first chamber, a conduit connecting the top of the shroud with the second chamber, a conductor connected to the bottom of the second chamber providing an outlet from the bottom and valves in the several conduits operable on the one hand to admit fluid into the shroud and to permit fluid to be withdrawn from the third chamber while blocking flow of fluid from the first chamber to

Abstract: A device for imaging penetrating radiation which includes a multiplicity of contiguously disposed fiberoptic tubes each of which is made of a very small diameter with an inner core material composed of scintillating material for converting radiation to light and a cladding glass about the inner core to serve as a reflector and a third and outer layer which is light absorbing to absorb light that is being emitted at too great an angle to the optical fiber axis to be guided to an exit end of the device. Also, one end of each of the fibers has a thin layer of a corrision resistent metal or metal alloy to cause light reflected back toward this end to be directed in an opposite direction to the output end of the fiber and by this reflection cause the output to be considerably increased over that which would be lost if no reflecting means were placed at the end of each of the fibers.

Abstract: A method for making thin film field effect transistors that utilize a semnductor material that is altered by acid etching and providing steps for producing the transistors such that the semiconductor material is protected from the acid solutions and therefore preventing the semiconductor material from being altered in the process of making the transistors.