Abstract: The system includes a first computer for communicating with automatic guided vehicles on a guided vehicle loop and storing information related to vehicle position. A second computer determines vehicle destinations. The first computer and the second computer maintain separate databases. Information in the data of the first computer relating to vehicle position is copied into the database of the second computer to assist in making vehicle destination determinations and the vehicle destination information stored in the database of the second computer is copied into the first computer. The invention also includes a unique fast and slow polling routine to insure that data transfer to the vehicles requiring it most is achieved in any polling cycle.

Abstract: High solids containing thermoset resins are made by admixing the adduct of an alkylene oxide and a hydroxyalkyl (meth)acrylate with one or more polymerizable vinyl monomers. A more preferred method is to blend a co-reactive flexibilizing homopolymer or copolymer of the adduct with a rigid vinyl polymer or copolymer to form a thermosettable mixture of polymers. The adduct or polymer-containing adduct is present in amount of from about 5 to about 95% by weight of the monomer or polymer mixture.

Abstract: A drum support apparatus including outboard and inboard hubs having outer surfaces adapted for interface fitting with the inside surface of a drum. The hubs while being supported on a shaft that is cantilevered from a frame, provide support for the drum in the form of a plurality of spaced equidistant lobes located on their outer surfaces. The lobes reduce the load required to properly seat the drum against the hubs and thereby decreases the possibility of drum run-out by reducing the contact area when the interface fit of the drum/hub combination occurs. The shaft is supported at its outboard end by a removable support bracket.