Abstract: The disclosure is of apparatus and method for deburring the inner surface a metal tube by inserting a tubular structure into the metal tube and flowing an abrasive medium along a path over the area to be deburred and out of the metal tube.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a plurality of manufactured cigarettes adapted to be arranged in a packaged configuration thereof. Each of the cigarettes include a rod of smokable material contained in a circumscribing paper wrapper (i.e., a "smokable rod"). Each of the smokable rods have a plurality of substantially flat sides and have at least one crease longitudinally extending substantially along the total length thereof. Preferably, each of the smokable rods includes a pair of creases longitudinally extending substantially along the length thereof to define one of the flat sides. The present invention also relates to a method of manufacturing cigarettes adapted to be arranged in a packaged configuration. The method includes providing a plurality of cigarettes including a smokable rod having a substantially circular or oval cross-section, and applying a compressive pressure to the smokable rods to provide a plurality of flat sides and at least one crease in the smokable rod.

Abstract: A closure for the end of a male quick disconnect fluid coupling has an innal plug that displaces the plug normally provided in the male quick disconnect coupling, and the closure also has an outer plug wall with balls that can be radially cammed inwardly by a rotatable sleeve on the closure.

Abstract: A method for training technicians to diagnose certain induced electronic faults using an internal combustion on a test stand engine capable of having faults inserted into electronic circuits. The faults are inserted into the engine by the instructor using switches concealed from the trainee. While the engine is operating the trainee, using diagnostic equipment, the trainee attempts to locate the electrical fault using a combination of observing symptoms and signal tracing.

Abstract: A packaging film comprising a core layer of polypropylene and a surface layer comprising a propylene ethylene random copolymer wherein at least one of said core or said surface layers contains a minor amount of a high melt index butylene homopolymer.

Abstract: Polyester filaments of 0.5-2 denier per filament from ethylene terephthalate polymers modified both by polyethylene oxide and by tetraethyl silicate to give polymers of commercial spinning viscosities, and textile fibers and fabrics having greatly improved dye rates, good color stability to standard lightfastness and wash cycles and good pilling, when compared to unmodified polyester and polyester/cotton blend fabrics.

Abstract: This invention relates to free-radical curable, styrene-containing resin compositions having reduced styrene emissions. More particularly, the invention relates to free-radical curable, styrene-containing resin compositions having reduced styrene emissions comprising: (a) a polymerizable alpha, beta-ethylenically unsaturated carboxylate resin, which is dissolved in styrene; (b) a paraffin wax; and (c) a fluorocarbon surfactant.

Abstract: A poly(1-butene) resin composition having and exhibiting excellent mechanical strength, rigidity, creep resistance and chloride water resistance is disclosed. The poly(1-butene) resin composition is particularly suitable as a material for joints pV in hot water pipes.The poly(l -butene) resin composition comprises of from about 60 to 95 weight parts of a poly(l-butene) resins (A), from about 5 to 40 weight parts of glass fiber (B) and a modified propylenic resin (C) present in an amount of from about 0.1 to 10 weight parts based on the combined weight parts of (A) and (B).

Abstract: A composition comprising a non-miscible blend of, as a major component, a linear alternating polymer of carbon monoxide and at least one ethylenically unsaturated hydrocarbon and lesser amounts of a maleated, partially hydrogenated block copolymer, said block copolymer having at least one at least predominantly polymerized vinyl aromatic compound block and at least one at least predominantly aliphatic polymerized conjugated alkadiene block, and ceramic fiber reinforcement.

Abstract: Improved curing catalysts are disclosed for use in a coating composition containing a film-forming organosilane polymer. The catalysts can cure hydrolytically stable compositions, which do not prematurely gell by moisture. The coating composition can be used as a one package clearcoat over a conventional pigmented basecoat, or as a basecoat, monocoat or primer when a suitable amount of pigment is incorporated therein. The coating composition provides improved properties, including increased chemical etch resistance.

Abstract: To determine the speed of propagation of a signal in a medium, signals with known harmonic components are transmitted from one or more sources within the region. One or more detectors within the region measure wave amplitude over time at so as to detect the signals transmitted at the sources and so as to identify the source from which each detected signal was transmitted. Beta bar coefficients are calculated so as to maximize the correlation of the calculated matched field processing power and the measured matched field processing power for each source-detector combination. Beta coefficients for all cells through which a path from a source to a detector passes are calculated by representing all positions in the region by cell number i and position coordinate z, the region being partitioned into M discrete, indexed cells C.sub.

Abstract: The improve silver halide photographic material contains a specified hydrazide compound and a specified polyoxyethylene based compound and is capable of providing high-contrast image with high sensitivity in a rapid and consistent way.

Abstract: A new variety of miniature rose plant having red flowers produced on a good pot forcing plant also suitable for growing outdoors in gardens.

Abstract: A new variety of hybrid tea rose plant having apricot pink flowers suitable for growing under glass.

Abstract: The new and distinct cultivar relates to a Japanese pear tree that has a strong resistance to black spot disease and substantially has the same excellent qualities of "Nijisseiki" as a Japanese pear cultivar. This pear tree bears a yellowish green fruit, is moderately sweet and acidic, and has a good taste that is suitable for desserts.

Abstract: A new variety of Nandina domestica having significant and improved characteristics not known to exist in either the variety "Harbour Dwarf" of which this new plant is a genetic mutant or the general species Nandina domestica. These characteristics include a symmetrical, densely mounding and compact form.

Abstract: Apparatus for loading and unloading objects including a first carriage; apparatus for moving the first carriage back and forth in a straight line in a first plane between a first position and second position; a second carriage; and apparatus for moving the second carriage back and forth between the first position and the second position such that, when the first carriage is in the first position, the second carriage is in the second position and, as the first carriage moves to the second position, the second carriage moves out of the first plane, then back into the first plane and into the first position.

Abstract: A feeder unit for animals, particularly pigs, provides feed in either wet or dry condition and comprises a trough and a shelf positioned above the trough with a water supply duct beneath the shelf for directing water through valves actuated by the pig into the trough. A hopper positioned above the shelf directs material continuously onto the shelf to be retained on the shelf by the repose angle. The pig can thus either eat directly from the shelf the feed in dry condition or can brush the feed into the trough for mixing with water and eating in wet condition.

Abstract: A slice selection gradient magnetic field used in a pulse sequence for generating a spin echo signal is applied in such a fashion that its polarity at the time of a 90.degree. pulse becomes opposite to the one at the time of 180.degree. pulse, in order to expand a dynamic range of blood flow speed measurement. When the blood flow speed contains a component in a slice vertical direction, the gradient magnetic field in the slice vertical direction is adjusted so that the phase changes of two sets of flow encoded pulses contained in the slice vertical direction are opposite to each other.The flow speed in the direction of the readout gradient magnetic field, which is a lateral direction of the slice plane, is purely measured by canceling influences of the flow in the slice vertical direction.

Abstract: A self-contained cellular emergency roadside call box is disclosed without the use of external telephone lines. The call box is solar powered with battery storage and comprises a controller coupled to a cellular transceiver. The controller is also coupled to a solar array and battery which is recharged through the controller. The call box communicates through a radio-telephone link established by the cellular transceiver to a cellular telecommunication system. The cellular telecommunication system includes a call site controller and mobile telephone switching terminal. Each call box comprises a plurality of status subcircuits for monitoring conditions such as battery condition and transmitter status. The call box communication and the status are processed by a micro processor which generates appropriate commands required by the cellular transceiver. Information can be transmitted bidirectionally between each of the call boxes and the communication applications processor.

Abstract: .[.A vent cap has.]. .Iadd.A low diffusion disk drive breather vent for communicating air between the interior and the exterior of a sealed disk drive housing through a vent passageway, .Iaddend.a long, narrow air communication passage .[.covering the vent outlet of a sealed disk drive. The passage reduces.]. .Iadd.provided to reduce .Iaddend.diffusion of water vapor .[.into the disk drive.]. .Iadd.through the passage.Iaddend..

Abstract: An arithmetic teaching device consisting of a rod having hand movable spaced collars slidable thereon and having sequentially spaced numbers therealong corresponding to the collars whereby the numbers indicate visually the arithmetic calculation of preceeding manipulated numbers.

Abstract: A frequency modulated radio frequency broadcast network in which re-transmitting stations employ a synchronous frequency modulated booster system. Included in the frequency modulated booster system is a synchronous frequency .[.modualted.]. .Iadd.modulated .Iaddend.exciter for converting a frequency modulated intermediate frequency into a frequency modulated broadcast signal. The synchronous frequency modulated .[.exicter.]. .Iadd.exciter .Iaddend.includes phase locked loop circuits for synchronizing the re-transmitted frequency modulated broadcast signal with the frequency modulated intermediate frequency signal by detecting reference signals in the composite baseband of the intermediate frequency signal and in the composite signal frequency modulated broadcast signal.

Abstract: In a continuous process for the manufacture of aromatic polyesters by polycondensation of mono- or multi-nuclear substituted or unsubstituted diphenols, with halides of aromatic dicarboxylic acids according to the two-phase interface polycondensation process, the first step is to produce continuously a fine pre-emulsion with an organic solvent and from the aqueous phase, consisting of a solution obtained from the diphenols, of an alkaline hydroxide in order to form the diphenates and possibly of a phase transfer catalyst in water or in a mixture of water and of an organic solubilizer. This pre-emulsion is fed in quantities to a dispersion unit jointly with the organo-liquid phase forming the acid chloride solution.

Abstract: A cushion or pad comprises a first layer of a first synthetic cellular material having a first average cell volume and a second layer of a second synthetic cellular material having a second average cell volume at least ten times greater than the first average cell volume. The first layer is attached to the second layer so that the first layer and the second layer at least partially overlap one another to form a multilayer structure. The layer with the larger average cell volume is a polymeric sheet with at least a substantially planar array of fluid-filled pockets or chambers. The layer with the smaller average cell volume is a foam material with either open cells or closed cells. Further layers of fluid-filled chambers or foam material may be attached to the first two layers.

Abstract: A device to protect the wearer's nose from sunlight, to be attached to glasses or goggles. The device is constructed from a single piece of flexible, creasable sheet material, and has a nose shield and a strap extending from the top of the nose shield. The strap is looped over the bridge of the eyewear and threaded through an aperture at the top of the nose shield. There are locking projections along the edges of the strap that help to secure the strap in the aperture.