Abstract: An anvil blanket is molded urethane sheet material and formed with a plurality of interlocking fingers at mating opposing blanket ends and includes a depending projection which mates with a channel in the anvil about which the blanket is wrapped. A urethane insert having a hardness greater than the blanket material is molded embedded in the blanket to form a portion of the fingers and a portion of the projection depending from the fingers. A woven fiberglass fabric provides support for the blanket which is molded to the fabric. The insert has a durometer greater than that of the blanket to minimize the formation of surface recess defects at the projection which might otherwise occur due to the increased thickness of material at the projection. The insert may have other properties different than that of the blanket material including rebound, modulus, and cut and tear strength among others for resisting the formation of blanket surface defects. Different embodiments are disclosed.

Abstract: The present invention discloses an improved miter gauge for retaining and adjustably positioning a workpiece. The miter gauge includes a fence frame pivotally mounted to a base member for adjusting the workpiece to be cut at a user selected angle. The fence frame includes a fence surface for positioning the workpiece. The fence surface is opposed by a quick-adjusting stopping unit mountable to the base member for clamping the workpiece therebetween.

Abstract: A roll shaft 26 supporting rolled paper 20, such as toilet paper rotatably thereon, a pair of feed rollers 32, 34 for paying out the free end portion of the rolled paper 20 which has been paid out continuously from the rolled paper 20, and a driving unit for rotating the feed rollers 34 are provided. A pay-out rate control unit for automatically controlling the portion of the rolled paper 20 which has been paid out to a position beyond the two feed rollers 32, 34, in such a manner that the paid-out portion of the rolled paper 20 is further paid out by a length at a time corresponding to that of one unit of use thereof is included.

Abstract: A hand held rotary blade saw with a motor, rotary saw blade, driving connection between the motor and the blade, two pivotable forward blade guards with top and bottom hand manipulable pivot members for exposing either a left or right blade sector for cutting, or an upward or downward blade sector when the blade is vertically oriented by twisting the wrist. The switch is operable by the thumb or the finger, such that left and right handed users have operational parity regardless of blade orientation, which hand is holding the saw, or whether the thumb or finger is operating the switch. Parallel receding blade guard edges form a forward notch enabling forward cutting. The blade is interchangeable and a carrying case, belt holster attachment, and special battery charger are provided. The battery charger charges the battery while the battery is in the saw or when it is removed.

Abstract: A playing support device for positioning and supporting a pluck musical instrument such as a guitar in a way which allows the performer to position the instrument in front of the body in a manner as if the instrument were being played in a sitting down position. The playing support device also assists in relieving pull on the shoulder caused by the support strap due to the weight of the instrument. The playing support device includes a cushion attachable to the instrument by adjustable straps which enable a comfortable placement of the cushion between the rear surface of the body of the instrument and the body of the player in the playing position.

Abstract: A guitar nut for use on an electric guitar with offset tuning pegs comprising a rigid body with a planar base, a plurality of grooves cut into the top surface of the body, each groove being provided with linear portion and a flared distal cut away portion. A plurality of recesses are cut into the rear wall of the nut body with each recess being adjacent to and below each groove. The flared distal portion of each groove is formed by a curved radius cut into the rear face of the rigid body.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a system for playing back, via a plurality of speakers, the melody, harmony, and the harmony's components which comprise a song. Specifically, the present invention allows the user to select a song from a plurality of songs that have been formatted to allow playback of individual melody and/or harmony or the harmony's sub-components. Additionally, the present invention allows the user to select a desired playback mode which includes: melody only, harmony only, melody and harmony, multi-unit playback of melody, harmony and harmony's components.

Abstract: There is provided a musical tone control apparatus that enables a user to easily play a musical instrument without spoiling the user's feeling that he is actually playing a musical instrument. A storage device stores musical piece data containing interval data indicative of intervals of musical tones constituting a musical piece. A motion of an operator is detected. A controller provides control so as to instruct a musical tone output device capable of outputting musical tones to adopt the intervals as one of characteristic amounts relating to musical tones to be output from the musical tone output device, according to the interval data, and instruct the musical tone output device to adopt at least one of the characteristic amounts other than the intervals according to the detected motion of the operator.

Abstract: A portable explosives disrupter for de-arming improvised explosive devices includes a barrel for housing a projectile, a mechanism for firing the projectile from the barrel, a breech which may be adapted to house a variety of firing mechanisms, a light-weight, semi-rigid, three-dimensionally flexible, recoil-absorbing system for orienting the device in relation to a target and minimizing the effects of recoil on the accuracy of the device, and a means for accurately aiming the explosives disrupter at a target. Three different firing mechanisms are provided, the first employing a firing pin and shock tubing, the second employing a metal sphere and shock tubing, and the third employing a firing piston and a source of compressed air.

Abstract: A firing head for a perforating gun includes a detonating block having a first end and a second end, with the second end being structured and arranged so as to be located adjacent to a detonation material. A central passage extends through the detonating block from the first end to the second end. A detonator is located and restrained in the passage so as to be adjacent to the detonating material. At least one venting passage extends from the central passage to an exterior of the detonating block.

Abstract: A recoil mitigation device is provided for a projectile-firing device, such as an explosives disrupter, in which a brake is attached to a barrel of the projectile-firing device and the projectile-firing device/brake combination is positioned coaxially within a tube, the tube secured to a frame or other suitable foundation. The brake includes two or more brake shoes positioned within an annular free space defined by the outer surface of the barrel and the inner surface of the tube and adapted to frictionally contact the inner surface of the tube. An apparatus is attached to the barrel for limiting the lateral movement of the brake shoes and there is an apparatus for urging the brake shoes in an outward radial direction against the inner surface of the tube, whereby when a projectile is fired from the barrel, the brake mitigates the recoil of the projectile-firing device.

Abstract: An intelligent input push rod assembly for applying an input force from a brake pedal to a power booster of a brake system. The input push rod assembly includes a sensor that is capable of generating an electrical output having a magnitude that varies with the amount of force applied to the input push rod by the brake pedal. Preferably, the sensor generates an output voltage signal that is generally proportional to the input force applied to the input push rod. A shunt is provided so that springs associated with the sensor operate in a generally linear force-deflection operating range of the springs. The output signal generated by the sensor is applied to a brake light control system that is supported by the input push rod assembly. The brake light control system uses the signal generated by the sensor to determine whether the vehicle brake lights should be illuminated and also to cause direct illumination of the brake lights during a braking operation.

Abstract: A vacuum brake booster (10) is described, comprising a vacuum chamber (16) and a working chamber (18) separated from each other by a movable wall (14), as well as a control valve (20) which comprises a housing (22) coupled workingly to the movable wall and which is capable of controlling the supply of atmospheric pressure or above-atmospheric pressure to the working chamber (18) in dependence upon the displacement of an input element (26) of the brake booster (10) to achieve a pressure difference at the movable wall (14). The vacuum brake booster (10) has a sensing disk (30), which is disposed in an axially displaceable manner inside the control valve housing (22), as well as a coupling device (66), which introduces forces acting counter to the actuating direction upon the sensing disk (30) in a coupled position into the control valve housing (22) and in an uncoupled position via an actuating piston (28) into the input element (26).

Abstract: A balance of force acting on a pool 21 of a control valve 20 is expressed by (P1−P3)·A=F+f When it is assumed that a pressure difference P1−P2 before and after a throttle 42 is &Dgr;P12 to modify the above expression, an expression &Dgr;P12·A+(P2−P3)·A=f+F is obtained. According to the present invention, the force &Dgr;P12·A corresponding to the pressure difference &Dgr;P12 before and after the second throttle 42 of the first term of the left-hand side is applied to the control valve 20 as a force capable of canceling the flow force f at the first term of the right-hand side.

Abstract: A system and method for controlling an electro-hydraulic valve arrangement to provide make-up fluid to a hydraulic actuator are disclosed. The system includes an electro-hydraulic valve arrangement actuated by a control lever and disposed between a pump having a stand-by pressure and a hydraulic actuator. A pressure, representative of the fluid in the hydraulic actuator, is sensed and compared to the stand-by pressure of the pump. The control of the control lever over the electro-hydraulic valve arrangement is overridden when the difference between the pump stand-by pressure and the pressure of the fluid in the hydraulic actuator is greater than a predetermined pressure limit.

Abstract: Bag house construction wherein groups of bags are substantially isolated from other groups of bags by partitions to provide a substantially separate cell for each group of bags, whereby each cell can be selectively taken off-stream to render the cell passive for a finite period of time to enhance gravitational migration of floaters and other suspended particles toward a hopper, and whereby bag cleaning air at ambient conditions can be sent down into the bags and out thru the fabric filtering media thereof at a substantially even flow without impedance from upwardly flowing, turbulent feed air.

Abstract: A honeycomb structure which includes an inlet end and an outlet end opposing each other and a plurality of cell channels extending along an axis from the inlet end to the outlet end, the cell channels having different hydraulic diameters and being arranged in a checkerboard pattern between large-diameter and small-diameter cell channels, and an extrusion die for making the same.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for replacing a filter. The apparatus includes a receptacle adapted to receive a filter that is capable of filtering a first area. The apparatus further includes at least one supporting member to support at least a portion of the filter and at least a portion of a replacement filter, wherein both the filter and replacement filter are adapted to filter at least a portion of the first area for a selected duration.

Abstract: Filter devices and methods for collection of carbon nanomaterials, including fullerenes, produced in gas phase reactors are provided. The filter devices provide for in situ cleaning of filters to release captured product for collection. Product can be released and removed from the reactor without disrupting continuous synthesis of carbon nanomaterials. The filter devices facilitate increased reactor operation and larger scale production of carbon nanomaterials. The filters are cleaned by application of a motive force and/or a gas flow to the filter. In a specific embodiment filters are cleaned by a reverse flow of gas pulses to the filter provided. The invention also provides reactor systems for gas phase synthesis of carbon nanomaterials that can be operated continuously employing the filter device of this invention. Preferred reactor systems are those which synthesize carbon nanomaterials by combustion.

Abstract: An adsorbent article having a base body or matrix onto which is applied an adsorptive coating. The body or matrix can be a honeycomb matrix or structure having a plurality of cells defining a plurality of passages extending through the body. The adsorptive coating comprises an adsorptive media, such as activated carbon or ion exchange resin, that is bound by a polymeric adhesive or resin. The adsorbent article has a minimal pressure loss therethrough.

Abstract: Trace impurities such as organic compounds and carbon monoxide are reduced to sub-ppb levels in gases such as nitrogen, helium and argon, by gas purifying systems that contain an ultra-low emission (ULE) carbon material. Ultra-low emission (ULE) carbon materials is capable of removing impurities from a gas stream down to parts-per-billion (ppb) and sub-ppb levels without concurrently emitting other impurities such as moisture or carbon dioxide to the purified gas stream. The carbon material is superactivated by heating the carbon to temperatures between 300-800° C. in an ultra-dry, inert gas stream. The ultra-low emission (ULE) carbon material is handled and stored in an environment that minimizes contamination from moisture and other oxygenated species in order to maintain its ppb and sub-ppb impurity removal and low emission properties.

Abstract: A primary object of the invention is to provide an adsorbent capable of efficiently eliminating lower aldehydes at ordinary temperature for a prolonged period of time and excellent in rate of elimination, heat resistance and safety.

Abstract: A vault for storing collectibles has a system for forcibly entering an incoming air, which after it has been filtered exits the vault along with undesirable substances trapped in a vault chamber.

Abstract: Iso-&agr;-acids and reduced iso-&agr;-acids in their free acids states are converted into mobile resins by the addition of concentrated solutions of alkali metal hydroxides. The products may be used in brewing for the bittering of beer and are most effectively used in an apparatus that automatically blends the product with water and injects the resultant, aqueous solution into beer.

Abstract: An arrangement for producing a brewed beverage, in particular coffee, with said arrangement comprising an approximately truncated-cone shaped filter receptacle for holding a cone-shaped filter insert and a water intake device that is arranged above the filter receptacle and is provided with a water distributor having a plurality of flow-through openings on a side facing the filter receptacle with one flow-through opening be located in the center of the projection surface for the water distributor and the filter receptacle. Additional flow-through openings are arranged along a peripheral line, for which the course approximately corresponds to the peripheral outline of a projection surface for the filter receptacle inside space in the lower to mid-level region of the filter receptacle.

Abstract: Device and method for making beverage from flavor-containing materials comprises a body connected to a container for allowing the formation of a dispersion of flavor-containing materials in liquid and the extraction of the flavor-containing materials to produce a beverage, a porous filter connected to the body and having a first surface for contacting the dispersion, filtration openings for allowing the beverage in the dispersion to pass through but blocking the flavor-containing materials and a second surface in communication with a beverage outlet from which the beverage may be poured or drunk, and a cling-on chamber on the body adapted to form a vacuum therein to suck to the interior surface of the container, thereby allowing the container to be tilted to generate a liquid head to drive the beverage out of the container through the filtration openings.

Abstract: A gas cooker includes a pot support that can be fixed on a top panel, preferably a cooktop panel, by a permanent-magnet configuration. The permanent-magnet configuration has magnet parts disposed at connecting locations on a pot support and on the top panel, and the magnet parts are located opposite one another. At least one of the magnet parts is a permanent magnet and another of the magnet parts is either a material magnetically attracted by the permanent magnet or a further permanent magnet having a polarity opposite the permanent magnet and magnetically attracted by the permanent magnet. As such, the configuration magnetically retains the pot support in a predetermined position on the top panel.

Abstract: Disclosed is a separable handle for a cooking vessel in a cooking vessel handle detachable to a vessel having a coupling link according to the present invention including a handle body having a coupling recess at one end wherein the coupling link of the vessel is inserted into the coupling recess, a locking means coupled with the handle body, the locking means locking the coupling link inserted into the coupling recess, and an unlocking means coupled with the handle body, the unlocking means releasing the locking means.

Abstract: A food mixer 10 having a turn table 22 that receives a bowl 23. Projecting into a bowl 23 are beaters 24 that are driven by means of a motor 13. The turn table 22 is driven by means of a motor 25. A common speed control member in the form of a dial 29 operates a pair of potentiometers 31 that control the motors 13 and 25 so that there is a correlation between the speeds thereof.

Abstract: A system and method of ultrasonic processing of pre-baked food product and/or food product rework is provided that includes an ultrasonic horn and a forming member for receiving and forming unprocessed pre-baked food product into a desired shape. The ultrasonic horn is actuated to compress the unprocessed pre-baked food product between the ultrasonic horn and the forming member thereby forming compressed pre-baked food product. The ultrasonic horn ultrasonically energizes the compressed pre-baked food product to form an agglomerated food product. The system also includes an ejection member, such as an ejection piston, for ejecting the formed agglomerated food product away from the forming member. The forming member may be a forming cavity defined by a food product collection chamber. Alternatively, the forming member may include a forming block having a forming chamber.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a barbecue grill assembly 10 including a cooking surface assembly 12 positioned in a cooking chamber 14. The cooking surface assembly 12 includes a first portion or griddle 16 and a second portion or grate 18. The second portion or grate 18 has a plurality of openings 32 and a plurality of ribs 33. A transition wall 40 is positioned between the first portion 16 and the second portion 18. A duct 46 depends from a lower surface 48 of the first portion 16. The duct 46 has an end 47 that is cooperatively positioned with the aperture 30 to form a passageway or channel 50. The passageway 50 is adapted to permit the drainage of grease and other byproducts generated by cooking food on the assembly 12 past a plurality of burner tubes and to a lower portion of the cooking chamber 14.

Abstract: A cooking system having a cooking appliance and a remote computer. The cooking appliance has a programmable control module that controls a heating device. The heating device is in communication with and provides heat to a cooking location. The programmable control module is in communication with the remote computer unit via a wireless communication link. In a preferred embodiment, the remote computer unit is a Palm Pilot and the wireless communication link is an infrared (IR) link. Also, in the preferred embodiment, a temperature acquisition module is in communication with the Palm Pilot via a serial link. A temperature probe is connected to the temperature acquisition module. The temperature probe is in communication with the cooking location and senses the temperature of the cooking location. The sensed temperature is transmitted via the temperature acquisition module to the Palm Pilot. In a preferred embodiment, the Palm Pilot is used to transmit calibration instructions to the programmable control module.

Abstract: A portioned piece spacing apparatus having at least one contoured chute. The contoured chute having at least one angle of declination, a receiving area and an discharge tip. The at least one vibrating chute being coupled to a vibrating mechanism through an at least one resilient member supporting the at least one contoured chute, wherein the vibrating mechanism vibrates the chute such that the portioned piece moves upward and forward relative to the at least one contoured chutes and the portioned pieces are held on the contoured chute and allowed to accumulate in a spaced manner at a discharge end of the contoured chute.

Abstract: An apparatus for draining a fluid from a can of food includes a first and second member that are pivotally attached about a common pivot axis. The first member includes a cylinder having a closed bottom and open top that is disposed proximate the pivot axis. The first member extends away from the pivot axis and includes a first handle that is distally disposed from the pivot axis. The second member includes an arcuate portion the is disposed above the cylinder and a third member that is pivotally attached at one end to the center of the arcuate portion. A grate is attached to the remaining end of the third member. The second member continues to extend from the arcuate portion and includes a second handle at a distal end thereof. When an opened can of food is placed in the cylinder and the first and second handles are urged together, the grate bears upon the food in the can forcing the food to the bottom of the can and displacing the fluid therefrom.

Abstract: A process for compressing metallic powder into a compact in a powder press which has a die-plate, a hydraulically operated upper ram and at least one hydraulically operated lower ram, wherein the lower ram is set to vibrations while the die-plate is being filled with metallic powder.

Abstract: A hydraulic press for compressing metallic powder or the like to form compacts, comprising a die-plate, an upper ram, and at least one lower ram which interact with a die-bore and are operable each by a dual-action hydraulic press cylinder, whereby a limited dead path length is provided for the return stroke in the force path between the press cylinder and the upper ram in which the upper ram is not carried along, and that a separate pressure generator producing a variable pressure is arranged in parallel with the force path via which a compression force is produced on the upper ram during the dead path length.

Abstract: A method is provided for imparting images created with an inkjet printer to substrates. In accordance with the method, an image is imparted to an image receiving layer releasably disposed on a carrier sheet. An article can be provided, which is equipped with an adhesive patch on its surface. The image receiving layer is then brought into contact with the adhesive patch and, the carrier sheet is removed, thereby imparting an image to the substrate.

Abstract: A printing machine for printing an integral design on the leaves of a blind includes a material distributing device, a material delivering device, a printing device, a heat-drying device and a material tidying device combined together. Leaves preset in number are orderly separated and placed in the material distributing device to be pushed to the material delivering device and then each leaf is orderly pushed into the printing device for printing designs. After the leaves are printed with designs, they are heat-dried one by one orderly by the heat-drying device and subsequently carried to the material tidying device to be collected into units and tied up, thus possible to produce by a large number, to lower processing cost and greatly beautify the leaves of a blind.

Abstract: Preparation time of a multi print head screen printing machine is reduced by in putting the printing parameters into an electronic storage device on the silk screen when carrying out test printing, to avoid rekeying the information at the print head.

Abstract: Stencils are provided for more precisely aligning stencil orifices with terminals or “targets” on a substrate. One such stencil is adapted for registration with an electronic substrate, such as a PCB, about a locus. The stencil includes a stencil body and an array of printing orifices passing through the stencil body. The printing orifices may have varying sizes, with the size of each printing orifice being a function of a distance of the printing orifice from the locus. Various methods are also provided, including methods for applying solder on electronic substrates using stencils and methods and systems for designing such stencils.

Abstract: A combination printing method for IMD (In-Mold Decoration) hot press and injection molding application includes the steps of (1) offset printing; (2) color pattern offset printing; (3) primary screen printing; (4) primary baking; (5) secondary screen printing; (6) secondary baking; (7) hot pressing; (8) shape rolling; and (9) injection-molding.

Abstract: A rotary printing machine includes at least one form cylinder, at least one further cylinder, and a gear transmission via which the form cylinder and the further cylinder are drivable together during a printing operation. A device is provided for setting an image on a printing form located on the form cylinder. A switchable speed-change gear mechanism is disposed between the form cylinder and the gear transmission for driving the form cylinder during the printing operation.

Abstract: A rotary printing press includes at least one form cylinder, a transmitting gear via which the form cylinder is drivable together with at least another cylinder during a printing operation, and a device for setting an image on a printing form disposed on the form cylinder. A freewheeling clutch is disposed, during the printing operation, between the form cylinder and the gear for driving the form cylinder. A separate drive is provided for driving the form cylinder during an image setting operation.

Abstract: The web-fed rotary offset printing machine utilizes a blanket belt onto which two or more colors are offset and which prints the two or more colors at once onto a material web. The blanket belt travels about guide rollers which have a lesser mass and/or a lesser diameter than the form cylinders which offset the colors onto the blanket belt. If several impression nips—blanket to web nips—are formed along the travel path of the material web, they are located so close to one another that fan out register errors cannot occur.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing an imaged and reimageable printing plate for multicolored printing using the digital imaging technique.

Abstract: A coating fluid for printing plates which can be suitably used to make printing plates that permit images to be written in response to input digital data and that can be easily regenerated and reused. This coating fluid for printing plates comprises at least a carrier liquid, thermoplastic resin particles and an IR absorber, and the IR absorber has a decomposition starting temperature higher than the melt starting temperature of the thermoplastic resin particles.

Abstract: A device for adjusting a frame of a printing press carrying a conveyor belt relevant to printing modules in the three-dimensional axial directions. At least a first guide is provided on the frame for guiding a plate arranged on the frame in a horizontal direction x lengthwise to the frame by a first guiding component for adjusting the frame in the appropriate direction, whereby two walls perpendicular to the plate are arranged parallel to each other. Second guides are provided in a vertical direction y to the frame, on which two movable guiding components are positioned, and between the two guiding components, a third guiding component is arranged, which can be moved to the third guides on the second guiding components in the direction z to the flat surface of the frame.

Abstract: A method of removing dust or other particles from either a feature pattern stamp with extremely fine features (e.g., less than 100 microns in at least one lateral dimension) or a substrate is disclosed. An adhesive surface is contacted with the stamp or substrate to be cleaned. Dust on the stamp or substrate adheres to the adhesive surface and is lifted away when the adhesive surface is removed from contact with the stamp or substrate. Thus, distortions or defects to the transferred feature pattern due to dust or other particles are either significantly reduced or eliminated, thereby enabling the extremely fine features to be transferred from the stamp to the substrate.

Abstract: A method for transferring an inked feature pattern from a stamp to a substrate is disclosed wherein the stamp and/or substrate is flexed into a cylindrical or approximately cylindrical surface before being contacted with each other. The stamp and substrate are contacted and at least one line of contact is advanced across the surface of the stamp in order to transfer the feature pattern from the stamp to the substrate.

Abstract: A process is provided for detecting the position of a paper web, especially in wet offset printing, wherein a strip free from ink or moistening agent is detected. A device is provided for detecting the position of a cut web, especially in wet offset printing. The device has a sensor for detecting the water content in the paper web.