Abstract: Disclosed are a method, a system and/or a device for contactless encoding and printing of a triple interface smart card through a near-field network. In one embodiment, a triple interface encoding device includes a production controller communicatively coupled to an object encoding array, an object conveyor transport, and an object encoding server. The production controller may detect a sequence of target objects and associates it with one of a plurality of user accounts. The object encoding server configures the object encoding array to contactlessly encode the target object. Further, the object encoding server configures target object feeder to automatically deploy a number of target objects equal to a number of contactless encoders of the object encoding array onto the conveyor belt of the object conveyor transport spaced at corresponding repeat positions as the number of contactless encoders. Furthermore, object encoding server configures the conveyor belt to position the target objects.

Abstract: Disclosed are a method, a system and/or a device for contactless encoding and printing of a triple interface smart card through a near-field network. In one embodiment, a triple interface encoding device includes a production controller communicatively coupled to an object encoding array, an object conveyor transport, and an object encoding server. The production controller may detect a sequence of target objects and associates it with one of a plurality of user accounts. The object encoding server configures the object encoding array to contactlessly encode the target object. Further, the object encoding server configures target object feeder to automatically deploy a number of target objects equal to a number of contactless encoders of the object encoding array onto the conveyor belt of the object conveyor transport spaced at corresponding repeat positions as the number of contactless encoders. Furthermore, object encoding server configures the conveyor belt to position the target objects.

Abstract: In one embodiment, chip-cards are fed from conveyor canisters individually into an array of N heterogeneous encoding assemblies of a heterogeneous chip-card production apparatus. Each chip-card is associated with a user account based on a database. Smart chips and magnetic stripes of the chip-cards are encoded asynchronously, electrically and magnetically by the N assemblies with N independent timing protocols for the N assemblies. Encoded chip-cards are deposited asynchronously in parallel by the N assemblies onto a conveyor belt and transported asynchronously and serially to a chip-card printer. The chip-card printer synchronizes each encoded chip-card with associated user account and prints on a surface of the encoded chip-card based on the associated user account.

Abstract: A method of single pass inkjet method of applying an adhesive to a substrate to bond a foil material to the substrate is disclosed. The inkjet printer includes a printer head to pattern an adhesive material directly onto a printable substrate and a foil material. An ultraviolet curing lamp is included to cure the adhesive material using a dry lamination process and/or a wet lamination process. A nip roller is included to affix the foil material with the adhesive material onto to the printable substrate. A rollback mechanism is assembled to lift away excess foil material from the printable substrate and the excess foil material is adjacent to fully cured areas of the adhesive material having the affixed thereupon the foil material.

Abstract: A method of single pass inkjet method of applying an adhesive to a substrate to bond a foil material to the substrate is disclosed. The inkjet printer includes a printer head to pattern an adhesive material directly onto a printable substrate and a foil material. An ultraviolet curing lamp is included to cure the adhesive material using a dry lamination process and/or a wet lamination process. A nip roller is included to affix the foil material with the adhesive material onto to the printable substrate. A rollback mechanism is assembled to lift away excess foil material from the printable substrate and the excess foil material is adjacent to fully cured areas of the adhesive material having the affixed thereupon the foil material.

Abstract: A desoldering wick dispenser In an embodiment of combined package and tube, the package has a funnel shaped housing containing a coil of desoldering wick. An end portion of the desoldering wick extends through and beyond the outer end of a tube extending from the center of the housing. The coil of desoldering wick is a spiral having a conical shape approximately complementary to the end of the housing. Alternatively, the coil may be a helically wound spool of wick in a somewhat more elongated tubular housing. The end of the wick extending through the tube is drawn from the center of the coil. The tube may be metal or plastic and may be a continuous or split tube, or formed from a helically coiled wire. The wick is manipulated by the tube when used.

Abstract: A desoldering wick dispenser includes a conventional wick package in the form of a bowl with a central hub and a flat cover mounted on the hub and having a gap between the edge of the cover and the outer edge of the bowl. A desoldering wick is coiled in the bowl around the hub and an end portion passes through the gap is drawn through a tube so that an end of the wick extends beyond the end of the tube. The wick is manipulated by the tube when used. In an embodiment of combined package and tube, the package has a funnel shaped housing containing a coil of desoldering wick. An end portion of the desoldering wick extends through a tube extending from the center of the housing. The coil of desoldering wick is a spiral having a conical shape approximately complementary to the end of the housing. Alternatively, the coil may be a helically wound spool of wick in a somewhat more elongated tubular housing. The end of the wick extending through the tube is drawn from the center of the coil.

Abstract: A desoldering wick dispenser In an embodiment of combined package and tube, the package has a funnel shaped housing containing a coil of desoldering wick. An end portion of the desoldering wick extends through and beyond the outer end of a tube extending from the center of the housing. The coil of desoldering wick is a spiral having a conical shape approximately complementary to the end of the housing. Alternatively, the coil may be a helically wound spool of wick in a somewhat more elongated tubular housing. The end of the wick extending through the tube is drawn from the center of the coil. The tube may be metal or plastic and may be a continuous or split tube, or formed from a helically coiled wire. The wick is manipulated by the tube when used.

Abstract: Safety shears which include two arms connected by a pin, each arm including a cutting blade and a handle, wherein at least one of the handles includes a weakened portion such that in operation that handle will break before either cutting blade.

Abstract: A reusable ligation apparatus includes a suture tying or knot tying instrument and a suture cartridge containing a preformed ligature. The cartridge is releasably attached to the instrument so that after a first ligature is made, the apparatus enables one-handed ligation, and can be quickly reloaded with a second cartridge for making another ligature without delay. The cartridge contains a preformed ligature and the instrument includes an activation system which automatically pulls one end of the preformed ligature through loops formed in the other end to thereby form a completed ligature knot.

Abstract: A desoldering wick is made from an elongated strip of woven wire mesh slit from a sheet of woven fabric. The wire mesh is folded longitudinally for forming a ribbon having a width less than the width of the strip and having multiple thicknesses of wire mesh with a plurality of spaces between adjacent layers of mesh. The surface of the wire mesh is wettable by molten solder and may be coated with a solder flux for enhancing wetting. A variety of embodiments have folded woven fabric to make three or more thicknesses of wire mesh and are folded so that both slit edges of the strip are inside of the ribbon. Large area desoldering wicks are in the form a pad with a flat face and at least one edge folded approximately normal to the flat face. A ribbon desoldering wick is mounted in an insulating tube for faciltating holding the wick.

Abstract: A dropper bottle employs a conventional flexible bottle and cover with a conical tip having a hole in the end. An adapter is captured between the mouth of the bottle and cover and includes a generally conical extension. The extension seals inside the ferrule of a needle which is jammed inside the tip, with the needle protruding through the hole. The adapter seals between the mouth of the bottle and the ferrule of the needle and includes a passage for fluid between the bottle and the needle.

Abstract: A displacement control assembly includes a rotatable lead screw longitudinally extending within a tubular column supporting the assembly. A nut is threaded to the screw for relative axial displacement of the screw and nut, for example, to adjust the height of a chair seat or similar fixture. A resilient brake structure is carried by either the nut or the screw for resiliently biased, alternative locking and unlocking of the nut and screw in order to selectively prevent relative rotation and relative axial displacement of the screw and nut. The releasable lock allows the screw and nut to co-rotate without relative axial displacement so that the chair seat can be swiveled without altering the desired height. The assembly can be designed with the parameters correlated so that the seat is lowered at uniform speed independent of the weight of the seat occupant.

Abstract: A camera accessory to receive a cartridge of photosensitive material and direct the said photosensitive material into a camera. A light-tight enclosure having a door therein permits the cartridge to be introduced into the interior of the accessory. The cartridge is provided with a hollow core upon which the photosensitive material is wound. A light-tight bag of plastic material overlies the photosensitive material. After the cartridge is placed within the enclosure and the door closed, an elongated plunger operable from without the enclosure and extending through the door urges the bag into the hollow core thereby uncovering the photosensitive materials for subsequent feeding into a camera.