Abstract: Systems and methods for activating and using dynamic cards are disclosed. In one embodiment, in an information processing apparatus comprising at least one computer processor, a method for activating a dynamic transaction instrument may include: (1) receiving, from an electronic device, an identification of an inactive financial instrument to activate; (2) receiving, from the electronic device, at least one parameter that restricts the use of the inactive financial instrument after it is activated; and (3) activating the inactive financial instrument subject to the at least one parameter by associating, at a backend, an account with the inactive financial instrument.

Abstract: Systems and methods for activating and using dynamic cards are disclosed. In one embodiment, in an information processing apparatus comprising at least one computer processor, a method for activating a dynamic transaction instrument may include: (1) receiving, from an electronic device, an identification of an inactive financial instrument to activate; (2) receiving, from the electronic device, at least one parameter that restricts the use of the inactive financial instrument after it is activated; and (3) activating the inactive financial instrument subject to the at least one parameter by associating, at a backend, an account with the inactive financial instrument.

Abstract: A system and method for delivering content to end users encrypted within a content delivery network (CDN) for content originators is disclosed. CDNs transport content for content originators to end user systems in a largely opaque manner. Caches and origin servers in the CDN are used to store content. Some or all of the content is encrypted within the CDN. When universal resource indicators (URIs) are received from an end user system, the CDN can determine the key used to decrypt the content object within the CDN before delivery. Where there is a cache miss, an origin server can be queried for the content object, which is encrypted in the CDN.

Abstract: A system and method for delivering content to end users encrypted within a content delivery network (CDN) for content originators is disclosed. CDNs transport content for content originators to end user systems in a largely opaque manner. Caches and origin servers in the CDN are used to store content. Some or all of the content is encrypted within the CDN. When universal resource indicators (URIs) are received from an end user system, the CDN can determine the key used to decrypt the content object within the CDN before delivery. Where there is a cache miss, an origin server can be queried for the content object, which is encrypted in the CDN.

Abstract: A system and method for delivering content to end users encrypted within a content delivery network (CDN) for content originators is disclosed. CDNs transport content for content originators to end user systems in a largely opaque manner. Caches and origin servers in the CDN are used to store content. Some or all of the content is encrypted within the CDN. When universal resource indicators (URIs) are received from an end user system, the CDN can determine the key used to decrypt the content object within the CDN before delivery. Where there is a cache miss, an origin server can be queried for the content object, which is encrypted in the CDN.

Abstract: A system and method for delivering content to end users encrypted within a content delivery network (CDN) for content originators is disclosed. CDNs transport content for content originators to end user systems in a largely opaque manner. Caches and origin servers in the CDN are used to store content. Some or all of the content is encrypted within the CDN. When universal resource indicators (URIs) are received from an end user system, the CDN can determine the key used to decrypt the content object within the CDN before delivery. Where there is a cache miss, an origin server can be queried for the content object, which is encrypted in the CDN.

Abstract: A system and method for delivering content to end users encrypted within a content delivery network (CDN) for content originators is disclosed. CDNs transport content for content originators to end user systems in a largely opaque manner. Caches and origin servers in the CDN are used to store content. Some or all of the content is encrypted within the CDN. When universal resource indicators (URIs) are received from an end user system, the CDN can determine the key used to decrypt the content object within the CDN before delivery. Where there is a cache miss, an origin server can be queried for the content object, which is encrypted in the CDN.

Abstract: A system and method for delivering content to end users encrypted within a content delivery network (CDN) for content originators is disclosed. CDNs transport content for content originators to end user systems in a largely opaque manner. Caches and origin servers in the CDN are used to store content. Some or all of the content is encrypted within the CDN. When universal resource indicators (URIs) are received from an end user system, the CDN can determine the key used to decrypt the content object within the CDN before delivery. Where there is a cache miss, an origin server can be queried for the content object, which is encrypted in the CDN.

Abstract: A system and method for delivering content to end users encrypted within a content delivery network (CDN) for content originators is disclosed. CDNs transport content for content originators to end user systems in a largely opaque manner. Caches and origin servers in the CDN are used to store content. Some or all of the content is encrypted within the CDN. When universal resource indicators (URIs) are received from an end user system, the CDN can determine the key used to decrypt the content object within the CDN before delivery. Where there is a cache miss, an origin server can be queried for the content object, which is encrypted in the CDN.

Abstract: A safety system for children at a social function includes a plurality of guest tags having blank spaces for providing the name of a child that is a guest at the social function, the name of a predetermined parent or other trusted adult responsible for the care of the child who may be contacted in the event of an emergency and/or take custody of the child at the time the child leaves the social function, and contact information of the parent or other trusted adult who may be contacted in the event of an emergency. The system allows a host of a social function for children to keep track of the attendees, identify any missing or unaccounted for children, and facilitates rapid notification of a parent or other trusted adult responsible for care of the child guest in the event of an emergency.

Abstract: A turbine system has a turbine that uses an aeromatic hydrocarbon as a working fluid. The turbine discharges the fluid in vapor form against a boundary layer on the inside of a rotor where it condenses as it loses its energy. The outside of the rotor is formed to define chambers which are divided into suction and discharge or pressure cavities by stationary and rotating seals. Apertures connect the boundary layer to the pump chambers and apertures are positioned as discharge ports so that as the rotor rotates, it also pumps the working fluid into a closed loop system in which it is reheated and reintroduced into the turbine through a nozzle. The fluid is heated by a fluid heater that may be positioned in the interior of the rotor.

Abstract: A turbine system has a turbine that uses an aeromatic hydrocarbon as a working fluid. The turbine discharges the fluid in vapor form against a boundary layer on the inside of a rotor where it condenses as it loses its energy. The outside of the rotor is formed to define chambers which are divided into suction and discharge or pressure cavities by stationary and rotating seals. Apertures connect the boundary layer to the pump chambers and apertures are positioned as discharge ports so that as the rotor rotates, it also pumps the working fluid into a closed loop system in which it is reheated and reintroduced into the turbine through a nozzle. The fluid is heated by a fluid heater that may be positioned in the interior of the rotor.

Abstract: A method for operating a rod mill so that a uniform slurry is produced by controlling the ratio of solid friable material to liquid material fed by determining the current drawn on the rod mill motor and using this as the set point to feed the liquid material to the solid friable material forming a slurry of comminuted solids of a uniform nature which allows the rod mill to operate at the set current draw.

Abstract: An improved burner nozzle and process for making a synthetic or fuel gas mixture containing hydrogen and carbon monoxide by the partial oxidation, in a free-flowing hollow reactor, of a slurry of solid carbonaceous fuel in a liquid carrier admixed with a gas containing free oxygen. The nozzle may also be used in other applications where nozzles are required to handle slurries having a high concentration of finely-divided solids that must be uniformly admixed with a gas, as for example, in the aeration or incineration processes of a waste disposal plant. The nozzle and process include enveloping of an annular slurry stream between a central layer and an annular layer of high velocity gas, impinging the annular slurry stream on a downstream nozzle diffuser where a zone of high shear forces produce a uniform atomized admixture of solids, liquids and gases, and then transporting the admixture through an exit orifice at an accelerated velocity to further atomize the admixture.

Abstract: Equipment for investigating crack propagation in thick steel plates of a material with applicability for pressure vessels comprises a test specimen in the form of a hollow cylinder of the material under investigation, a vertical spindle from which the hollow cylinder is suspended and which can be rotated at a speed of the order of thousands of revolutions per minute, damping means for damping against flexural resonance vibrations of the cylinder and spindle, a container for the cylinder and means for supplying hot air to the container via a port, means for applying through a port in the container, a jet of cold fluid on to a surface of the cylinder to apply thermal shock thereto the spindle being hollow to accommodate leads from instrumentation on the cylinder to a slip ring unit from which leads to control and recording equipment extend, the instrumentation serving to monitor crack propagation under the conditions of high speed revolution which induce a hoop stress in the material approaching its yield stren

Abstract: A safety device for use with machines in which the operator must use his hand or hands to position a work piece in the vicinity of a subsequently descending potentially dangerous element. The mechanism includes a downwardly movable probe which if intercepted by the operator's hand will prevent the machine element from operating. Removal of the hand to a safe position enables the probe to fall and the machine operation to proceed. The mechanisms are controlled by air actuated valves which automatically direct compressed air sequentially to the operative elements.

Abstract: An improvement in a document feeder in an inserting machine, the inserting machine having a transport deck and being capable of nesting a plurality of sheet materials between the front and back covers of a booklet, and wherein the document feeder includes a demand feed roller. The improvement comprises a vacuum block located downstream of the demand feed roller and above the inserting machine transport deck, wherein one of the covers of a booklet is separated and raised when a booklet is fed out from the document feeder and passes under the vacuum block, thereby allowing other sheet materials assembled on the transport deck upstream of the document feeder to be nested between the front and back covers of the booklet.

Abstract: A machine for driving a pin into a hole in a work piece. The pins are fed by gravity in a continuous succession from a pin supply to a passage extending through a pin receiving rotor. With a pin in the rotor, the rotor is turned through a selected angle to bring the pin and the passage through the rotor into alignment with a pin driving punch. Upon actuation of the punch, the pin is driven from the rotor into a passage in an adjacent aligned sliding pin guide. Movement of the pin through the pin guide temporarily ceases when the pin encounters a resilient stop. Continued movement of the punch then moves the pin guide and the pin therein until the nose of the pin guide engages the work piece. The punch, continuing to move through the passage in the now stationary pin guide, drives the pin past the resilient stop and into the aligned hole in the work piece. Upon withdrawal of the punch, the pin guide aided by a spring returns to it original position adjacent the rotor.

Abstract: Apparatus for use in playing a hand swat ball game, the apparatus including four upstanding end court supports forming the four corners of a rectangular playing court where the length is twice the width. A pair of upstanding mid court supports divides the playing court into two equal and square playing areas. A backboard is affixed to the tops of the six supports and is generally coextensive therewith. A ricochet bar extends between each pair of end and mid court supports. An end ricochet bar extends between each pair of end court supports. A center ricochet bar extends between the pair of mid court supports. All ricochet bars are equispaced downwardly from the backboard. With at least one player in each playing area, a player in a first play area serves the ball by striking it by hand to drive the ball through a fair play zone into the second play area. The fair play zone is defined by the area surrounded by the center ricochet bar, the backboard and contiguous portions of the mid court supports.

Abstract: A pin chuck press having means for adjusting the rest position of the pin inserting means up or down with respect to a work piece supporting base so that the inserting means will be able to place pins in the cooperating holes in work pieces of different vertical dimensions.