Abstract: The present technology is generally directed to assembling and testing ampoules, and associated systems, devices, and methods. Each ampoule can include a body portion configured to carry a marking material within an interior of the body portion, and a base portion configured to couple to the body portion to seal the interior of the body portion. The ampoules can be assembled and/or tested in an inverted orientation. In the inverted orientation, the ampoule can include a gap between the marking material and the base portion. For example, the ampoule can be positioned within a leak detection system and the ampoule's gap can be aligned with one or more leak detection components configured to analyze the gap for leak-related indicia.

Abstract: Provided herein are VIS-IR powders comprising tin which show significantly higher visual intensity, reduced reaction temperature and particle temperature during and after oxidation reaction in air, and improved resistance to clumping when compared to comparable powders without tin. Methods of preparation of said VIS-IR powders are also disclosed.

Abstract: Provided herein are VIS-IR powders comprising tin which show significantly higher visual intensity, reduced reaction temperature and particle temperature during and after oxidation reaction in air, and improved resistance to clumping when compared to comparable powders without tin. Methods of preparation of said VIS-IR powders are also disclosed.

Abstract: Provided herein are VIS-IR powders comprising tin which show significantly higher visual intensity, reduced reaction temperature and particle temperature during and after oxidation reaction in air, and improved resistance to clumping when compared to comparable powders without tin. Methods of preparation of said VIS-IR powders are also disclosed.

Abstract: Provided herein are VIS-IR powders comprising tin which show significantly higher visual intensity, reduced reaction temperature and particle temperature during and after oxidation reaction in air, and improved resistance to clumping when compared to comparable powders without tin. Methods of preparation of said VIS-IR powders are also disclosed.

Abstract: Provided herein are VIS-IR powders comprising tin which show significantly higher visual intensity, reduced reaction temperature and particle temperature during and after oxidation reaction in air, and improved resistance to clumping when compared to comparable powders without tin. Methods of preparation of said VIS-IR powders are also disclosed.

Abstract: A basketball shooting training device includes a height adjustable stand and a reel member. The height adjustable stand includes a base member and an elongated adjustable post member. The base member is adapted to be placed on a basketball court and remain in a stable position. The post member is attached at a proximal end to the base member and extends vertically therefrom. The reel member includes a housing adapted to be removable connected to a distal end of the post member; a retractable winding mechanism attached within said housing; and an elongated cord member attached to said winding mechanism and adapted to be extended from said housing and releasably attached to a rim of a basketball goal.

Abstract: Provided herein are VIS-IR powders comprising tin which show significantly higher visual intensity, reduced reaction temperature and particle temperature during and after oxidation reaction in air, and improved resistance to clumping when compared to comparable powders without tin. Methods of preparation of said VIS-IR powders are also disclosed.

Abstract: An ice vending apparatus adapted to remove moisture from ice pieces during dispensing, which apparatus includes a ramp having a lower lip and being adapted to transfer a quantity of ice pieces from a holding vessel to a container; and a channel having an upwardly facing opening that is in operative association with the ramp and arranged so that moisture is adapted to flow around the lower lip of the ramp into the channel while excluding the ice pieces so as to separate at least a portion of the moisture from the ice pieces as the ice pieces are transferred to the container. Methods of providing ice pieces, particularly with reduction of associated moisture to a consumer, are also described.

Abstract: A method, apparatus and system for managing communications between a client machine and a mobile computing device. The mobile computing device comprising: a storage configured to maintain a host application; a processor configured to execute the host application; an interface configured to connect to the client machine, the interface further configured to carry a web request from the client machine to the processor, the host application configured to respond to the web request.

Abstract: A snowboard system (100) includes a pack (102) mounted to a snowboard (104) by way of a mounting plate (106). The pack (102) is attached to the mounting plate (106). The mounting plate (106) is then mounted on the snowboard (104) using the binding fasteners. Specifically, the bindings are removed from the snowboard (104), and the mounting plate (106) is then placed on the snowboard (104) so that the openings of the mounting plate are aligned with the fastener receptacles of the snowboard (104). The bindings are then reattached to the snowboard (104) so that the mounting plate (106) is captured therebetween. In this manner, the pack (102) is secured to the snowboard (104) without any additional mounting structure.

Abstract: An improved method of chemical bonding wherein a bonding polymer and its corresponding curing agent are deposited on plastic strips with adhesive backings. When bonding is desired, then these strips are applied to the bondable structural surfaces and the exposed deposits are brought together through agitation, mixing the two components and initiating the bonding action.

Abstract: A community-based centralized postal delivery system which operates under the control of a slaved micro-computer. The slaved micro-computer itself being controlled by a master-computer located at the main post office. The micro-computer also being accessible and partially programmable by the postal delivery agent assigned to the postal zone. Typically, the end postal distribution point is an automated storage vault located in mid-block in a residential area. When universally addressed postage is magazine loaded into the vault by the postal delivery agent and the postal patron's mail compartment is occupied, the patron may interrogate an electronic module situated within his home to see if he has mail or facsimile material. Verification of such material is confirmed by the computerized vault returning a unique code with which the patron may access his mail porthole.

Abstract: A telephonic communications system (FIGS. 1 and 2) designed to use the availability of ordinary subscriber telephone lines to which a telephone instrument (312) is conventionally attached. Whenever it is desirable for a caller (306 or 309) to transmit data from a calling telephone (305, 308 or 316) a special code is input to the called telephone (312 or 301) which, through detection circuitry, activates an intercept system (184A of FIG. 11) within the called telephone, which inhibits audible ringing of the called telephone instrument and connects a second system (FIGS. 10 and 14) incorporated within the same called telephone instrument for auto-tuning, processing, and re-transmitting from the called telephone subsequent received data to a remote addressable portable data unit (302 or 311). The remote data units (302 and 311) communicate with the telephone instrument (301 and 312) via a radio frequency data link, through which it may either receive data from or transmit data to the telephone instrument.

Abstract: A device for electronically generating a plurality of single still pictures which are stored in the device's self-contained programmed digital memory cartridge and which is displayed on a liquid crystal screen. The device is a structure resembling a thin pocket calculator.

Abstract: A method of joining together two concrete bodies each having a concrete reinforcing bar, the method involving compressing a gripping portion of a metal sleeve on the end of the first bar with the metal sleeve also having an unpressed portion which extends beyond the bar, the unpressed portion having an internal diameter larger than the maximum cross-sectional dimension of the second of the bars, and securing an end of the second of the bars within the unpressed portion of the sleeve by means of a self-setting composition.

Abstract: A press adapted for use in confined areas for swaging a sleeve onto reinforcing bars to splice them together. The press comprises a cylinder having a longitudinal axis with a piston therein and reciprocable along said axis, said cylinder having an end and a pair of spaced arms extending from said end in a direction generally parallel to said cylinder, with the distance generally between the outer surfaces of said arms measured in a direction transverse to said longitudinal axis being less than the outer diameter of the cylinder. A bridging member is detachably secured to and bridges the arms. A first die part is secured to the free end of the piston and a second cooperable die part is secured to the bridging member. The die parts cooperate together to swage the sleeve onto the bars by the movement of the first die. piece toward the second die piece in accordance with the movement of the piston along said longitudinal axis.

Abstract: Proof Loading apparatus for the non-destructive testing of rod-like articles, characterized in that it comprises a jack housing (1) incorporating at least one hydraulic ram (2, 3), first and second gripping devices (17) arranged at opposite ends of the jack housing and being axially movable, on operation of the ram, relative to one another, wherein the jack housing (1) and the gripping devices (17) are of generally C-shaped cross-section.