Abstract: A kit for modifying a trash receptacle or rubbish container which generally receives a plastic bag for a liner so as to facilitate the removal and release of the plastic liner containing the rubbish from the trash can when the plastic bag is full. The kit includes a determinable number of sleeves defining air passageways and an adhesive element for attaching each sleeve to an inner sidewall of a container or receptacle to alleviate suction between the wall of the receptacle and the plastic bag liner.

Abstract: A drinking mug including a rigid liquid container having a continuous side wall, a closed bottom and an open top. An outer sleeve is disposed around the side wall of the container. The outer sleeve includes a bottom portion that extends beyond the closed bottom of the container and that terminates at a bottom edge. A base member is held in contact with the bottom edge of the outer sleeve and spaced from the closed bottom of the container. A foam layer is disposed between the closed bottom of the container and the base member and extends between the outer sleeve and the side wall of the container.

Abstract: An apparatus and method of stabilizing a cylindrical pressure filled gas tank, such as a pressure filled propane gas tank typically used for common gas cooking grills. More particularly, the invention relates to an apparatus and manner in which stabilize the cylindrical gas filled tank for transpiration, more efficiently and effectively than in the past. The invention includes among its essential elements a backbone member, stabilizing members a strap and handle. The stabilizing device may be used to secure the tank during transportation to and from the gas filling station. The tank is placed in communication with the stabilizing safety carrier frame, secured in place by strapping or temporarily affixing in place. Then the tank along with the safety carrier is placed on the floor, against the wall, or within a vehicle for transpiration to the gas filling station.

Abstract: This invention relates to the preform to produce a plastic container for packaging foodstuffs, and especially to blow mould thin-walled containers which can be hermetically closed with a metal lid by double seaming. The preform (1) includes a body (4) and a convex hemispherical bottom (6). The body (4) has a conical shape that flares towards a cylindrical neck (2) surrounded by a flange (3) that terminates in a thickened rim (5).

Abstract: The present invention overcomes many of the shortcomings inherent in previous containers for packaging potato chips and/or crisps, corn based chips and/or crisps, cookies and the like. The improved implosion-resistant container of the present invention utilizes flowing geometries mechanisms which allow a hermetically sealed container to smoothly change its geometric shape thereby adjusting its internal volume in response to changes in environmental conditions. These volumetric adjustments compensate for changes in environmental conditions thereby avoiding the random buckling and deformation inherent in current packaging techniques which detracts from the commercial presentation of the container. The improved container of the present invention may also include a variety of other stress dissipating mechanisms that counteract the forces causing thermo-plastic container deformation, implosion and loss of seal integrity.

Abstract: The present invention overcomes many of the shortcomings inherent in previous containers for packaging potato chips and/or crisps, corn based chips and/or crisps, cookies and the like. The improved implosion-resistant container of the present invention utilizes flowing geometries mechanisms which allow a hermetically sealed container to smoothly change its geometric shape thereby adjusting its internal volume in response to changes in environmental conditions. These volumetric adjustments compensate for changes in environmental conditions thereby avoiding the random buckling and deformation inherent in current packaging techniques which detracts from the commercial presentation of the container. The improved container of the present invention may also include a variety of other stress dissipating mechanisms that counteract the forces causing thermo-plastic container deformation, implosion and loss of seal integrity.

Abstract: A lid for a container is disclosed. The lid has a paperboard tube that surrounds a plastic resin skirt. The skirt is attached to the perimeter of a central panel, which may also be formed of paperboard. The tube may have a projecting portion that is deformed toward the central panel. The tube provides an outwardly facing surface for the display of high quality graphics. A method of making the lid is also disclosed. The method includes placing the tube within a mold and injecting plastic resin into the mold to form the skirt. The central panel may also be placed in the mold prior to molding. Engagement of the mold with the tube may be used to deform the projecting portion of the tube.

Abstract: A vinyl pull cap having a texturized grip surface is provided comprising a tubular vinyl dip-molded tubular member having a closed end and an open end, with the tubular member having an outer second texturized dip-molded vinyl surface layer covering at least a portion of said tubular member comprising particles of a size and in an amount sufficient to provide a texturized outer vinyl surface.

Abstract: This invention describes the design of a prescription dispenser that will hold medicines in a variety of forms, and will electronically dispense them at the time of day they are to be taken. The machine will have holders to be manually filled with medicines. The electronic interface will accommodate a variety of paraphernalia such as a telephone, a vibrator, and a flashing light. In addition, the electronic interface of the device will enable at least four different time dispenses within a twenty-four hour period of time. The dispenser design will enable an over ride for manual dispensing of medication.

Abstract: A vending machine comprises an user interface arrangement configured for facilitating input of a customer-configured pizza preparation kit order, an order processing arrangement configured for processing the customer-configured pizza preparation kit order and a product dispensing arrangement configured for dispensing a customer-configured pizza preparation kit corresponding to the order. The processing of the customer-configured pizza preparation kit order includes determining next available pizza preparation kit product information, determining selectable ones of a plurality of system-provided pizza choices dependent upon the next available pizza preparation kit product information and facilitating display of the selectable system-provided pizza choices after determining the selectable system-provided pizza choices.

Abstract: A cup lid dispenser is characterized by a cylindrical housing for containing a stack of relatively flexible cup lids in vertical orientation with a lip of the bottommost lid supported at points around its circumference on a plurality of shelves within and around a base of the dispenser at a lower end of the housing. The base has a forward opening that exposes just a front portion of the lip of only the bottommost lid of the stack for being gripped by a user. To dispense the bottommost lid, a user grips the exposed lip and pulls the lid downward to flex it away from the overlying stack and forward to move it off of the shelves and release it from the overlying stack of lids for downward movement into an underlying pocket in the base, with continued forward pulling of the lid then moving it through and out of a forward dispense opening from the base.

Abstract: A liquid material discharge apparatus includes a syringe having a nozzle for discharging a liquid material, and a pressure control section for controlling pressure to be applied inside the syringe by means of a pressure medium and/or a pressure applying time period. The apparatus further includes an imaging device for imaging the shape of a liquid material discharged from the nozzle of the syringe, and an image processing section for calculating the length between a lower end of the liquid material and a reference position of the nozzle on the basis of the imaged shape of the liquid material. The pressure control section controls the pressure to be applied by the pressure medium and/or the pressure applying time period on the basis of the length between the lower end of the liquid material and the reference position that is calculated.

Abstract: A three part container system. The first part is an outer rigid container formed with a mouth defining an opening into the outer container. The second part is an inner container positioned within the outer container, the inner container formed with a mouth defining an opening into the inner container, the mouth of the inner container being positioned in and sealed to or adjacent to the mouth of the outer container, at least a portion of the inner container being collapsible so that the inner container can be filled with a liquid. The third part is a turret fitted directly or indirectly by way of the outer container to the mouth of the inner container.

Abstract: A dual action piston type metering device is installed between the color changer of a coating system and its atomizer, the metering cylinder of which includes two input ports with the color changer output ports connected to the atomizer. The dual action piston type metering device enables the alternating operation of the cylinder ranges (A/B-operation) with only one single metering cylinder.

Abstract: A support for manual grease guns has a base and lever-restoring mechanism. Grease guns conventionally have a pumping head with a barrel and lever joined thereto for cycling through pumping and restoring strokes between restored and depressed extremes. The restored extreme has the lever and barrel flared apart. Conversely, since the pumping stroke closes the flare, the depressed extreme has the lever brought alongside the barrel. The base has ground-engaging feet as well as clamps for clamping the grease gun tightly by the barrel, preferably with the lever projecting away for pedal-style depression in a generally vertical plane by a user stepping on it. The lever-restoring mechanism links the lever to the base, and yields under the user's step while the lever moves through pumping strokes, but restores the lever toward the restored extreme therefor as soon as the user takes his or her step off the lever.

Abstract: In application of a foamed hot melt adhesive, a mixing ratio of foam can be selectably and quickly set, and also application of a foamed hot melt adhesive and that of a solid hot melt adhesive can be selectively performed by a single application device. A first gear pump and a second gear pump are driven by drive mechanisms independent from each other. The pressure of a liquid being sent by the pressure in the second compression process is detected, and this causes the speed of the first gear pump and the second gear pump to be sequence-controlled to automatically control the amount of mixing of gas. A gas suction opening is provided between the first gear pump and the second gear pump, and a mixer is provided between the gas suction opening and the second gear pump. The end of a return circuit is set on the downstream side of the first gear pump to prevent foam from returning to the tank side. A restriction valve is installed in a gun to produce a single bubble.

Abstract: A cosmetic container includes: a container body including a cylindrical portion having a first open end that defines a first opening and a second open end that defines a second opening, and a funnel-shaped portion extending and reduced in cross-section from the cylindrical portion, the cylindrical portion and the funnel-shaped portion cooperatively defining an inner space; a plunger unit received movably in the inner space through the second opening in the cylindrical portion of the container body; and a cap covering the first opening in the cylindrical portion of the container body when operated in a non-use state, and received in the inner space through the second opening in the cylindrical portion of the container body for pushing the plunger unit toward the first open end of the cylindrical portion of the container body when operated in a state of use.

Abstract: An integrated material transfer and dispensing system for storing, transferring and dispensing materials, such as fluids, and liquids, for example, liquid applied sound deadener (LASD). The system includes at least one vessel having a force transfer device. Each vessel may be removably enclosed in cabinet to form an automated station. Each vessel may be configured with a data logger, cleanout port, a sample valve at least one sight window and an access port for introducing a compound such as a biocide. Each vessel may be configured with instruments including sensors for measuring process variables, such as material volume, level, temperature, pressure and flow. The system may further include a metering device system and a robotic material dispenser system without a pump interface. The robotic system may further include a computer control system connected to flow and pressure sensors. The system may directly feed an applicator without an intervening pump.

Abstract: A dispenser for a foamable composition comprising a pressurized container containing the foamable composition and having a valve with an actuator mounted on the container. The actuator comprises a flow conduit mated with the valve stem and which is displaceable upon the application of actuating force to the actuator to bear upon the valve stem to actuate the valve stem with a closure adjacent to the dispensing opening of the conduit. In the absence of actuating force, the conduit is biased closed against the closure. On the application of actuating force to the flow conduit, the flow conduit is displaced to actuate the valve stem and to be displaced out of its closed relationship with the closure. The actuator can reduce post foaming of the composition.

Abstract: A garment hanger and a size tab, the size tab is suitable for a garment hanger having a metallic hook portion and for a plastic garment hanger in order to fast distinguish the sizes of garments on the garment hangers.

Abstract: A bladder assembly (14) for a hydration system (10) includes a flexible disposable bladder (15, 17) for fluid containment. The bladder (15, 17) has an inner layer (372), a lamination layer (374) and an exterior structural layer (376). An output connector (52) is sealed to the bladder (15, 17) and is adaptable to a fluid distribution circuit (22) of the hydration system (10). A valve assembly (66) for a hydration system (10) includes an outer member (70), a housing (72) and fluid line attachments (93). An inner member (80) rotates within the outer member (70). The inner member (80) has fluid flow adjustment portions (92, 94) that are associated with the fluid line attachments (93). A position selector (86) is position adjustable to select incremental positions of each of the fluid flow adjustment portions (93) relative to the outer member (70). The position selector (86) includes a position indicator (100, 102) that indicates the incremental position of the fluid flow adjustment portions (93).

Abstract: A belt buckle incorporating a collapsible cup holder, wherein the cup holder is hidden in the passive configuration, the belt buckle having a cover member that pivots downward to form a base to support a beverage container and a retainer that pivots up to retain the body of the beverage container.

Abstract: A backpack for back-mounting a compressed-air cylinder, fastened to the backpack by a cylinder fastening belt, when a user wears harnesses and a waist belt. The backpack inlcudes a backboard (100) having support hooks (105) to support the compressed-air cylinder (50); a harness support (130) for the harnesses (30) coupled to the backboard (100) so as to rotate upwards and downwards around the center; a waist protector (120) coupled to the backboard (100) in the back of the harness support (130) so as to cover and protect the back of the user's waist; and a rotary unit for rotatably supporting both the harness support (130) and the waist protector (120) on the backboard (100). The waist protector and the harness support move separately from the backboard by the rotary unit, thus allowing the user to work without stressed by the waist belt or the harnesses.

Abstract: A scabbard is provided for a baton. The scabbard includes a baton receiver that receives the baton, a belt clip coupled to the baton receiver and a socket head screw having a socket head and a shaft that attaches the belt clip to the baton receiver. The socket head screw includes the socket head having a relatively large diameter compared to a diameter of the shaft and a socket head recess disposed in the socket head, said socket head recess having a relatively small diameter compared to a diameter of the shaft of the socket head screw, said socket head recess extending through the socket head and extending into the shaft of the socket head screw.

Abstract: A roof mounted carrying system can be installed on the roof of a vehicle to securely transport a variety of cargo. The carrying system provides features that allow heavy and unwieldy cargo to be conveniently placed or removed from the carrying system without damage to the vehicle or injury to the user. The carrying system includes a base and a tray. The base is attached to the roof of a vehicle. The tray can be slid outwards from the base and rotated in downward direction so that cargo can be conveniently loaded onto the tray. After cargo is placed on the tray, the tray is then rotated upwards and slid back into the base, so that the tray is integral with the base.

Abstract: There is shown a packing apparatus including a rack for easy attachment to the seat tube of a bicycle and a bag for stable installation on the rack. The rack includes a telescopic beam and a body defining a space for receiving the telescopic beam. The telescopic beam is connected to the seat tube in a detachable manner. The body supports the bag.

Abstract: A holding device for liquid containers has at least one molding for receiving the liquid container, and a removable part that is releaseably connected to the holding device. The removable part comprises at least one tool (for example a bottle opener) or a slot which is suitable for receiving a card. The liquid container is held by moldings and sections. Fastening means are used to fix the holding device in the central console.

Abstract: There is disclosed a rack for carrying at least one bicycle on a vehicle. The rack includes at least one holding device for holding the bicycle and at least one pair of telescopic beams for supporting the holding device. The telescopic beams are put between a bumper and a portion of the vehicle. The rack is concealed in the vehicle as the telescopic beams are retracted. The rack is exposed from the vehicle as the telescopic beams are stretched.

Abstract: A system for carrying articles at the front torso of a human being is disclosed. A substantially rigid article-carrying frame is connected to the front of a harness or backpack worn by the user. The frame transmits the weight of the front-carried articles to the front of the user's hips. The system accommodates bending movements of the user's torso by providing, for example, a variable-length mechanism, or a bending mechanism, or a folding mechanism, or a sliding connector mechanism, or any other equivalent accommodation mechanism that will allow the system to accommodate bending movements of the torso of the user.

Abstract: A new cling wrap case where even a polyethylene cling wrap film can be easily, assuredly and safely cut off, and concurrently, that is user-friendly, and that enables resource saving generally because this is not disposable but it is repeatably re-usable. This is made form a synthetic resin, and it is equipped with a storage case where a cylindrical cling wrap roll is stored, and a cover, rotatably attached to the storage case, and which can cover over the storage case to be openable, and which concurrently has a cutter member that can cut off a pulled-out cling wrap film; and, the cover is constructed such that when closing the storage case, the pulled-out cling wrap film can be cut off by the cutter member.

Abstract: A vacuum belt conveyor of a web forming machine for transferring a threading tail has at least two turning rolls (16, 17) and an air-permeable belt loop (20), arranged around the turning rolls (16, 17). The vacuum belt conveyor also has vacuum means (22) for creating a vacuum effect on both the section of the belt loop (20) conveying the threading tail (23) and in connection with the first turning roll (16) of the turning rolls (16, 17). Arranged in connection with the first turning roll (16) in the travel direction of the threading tail (23) there is at least one cross-directional dividing structure (24) for creating at least two axial vacuum zones (25).

Abstract: A coil-type magazine for nails has a body and a driving member mounted on the body. The driving member is engaged with a channel of the body and moves along the channel via springs. A spool is connected to the driving member and deviates from a handle of a nail gun. Hence, the coil-type magazine for nails is not limited by a space between the coil-type magazine and handle and it is easy to receive the nails into the coil-type magazine.

Abstract: The nail tray hoist structure for coil nailer includes: several positioning slots spaced through out the side wall of the central column of the coil nailer base; a positioning through hole, placed on the vertical sleeve of the nail tray; a positioning body, placed in the positioning through hole actively; a braking tube, placed on the outside of the vertical sleeve; and an upper elastic component, having a top blocked by the limit component used by the vertical sleeve. The bottom of the elastic component stops the balance block of the braking tube, so that it can push down the braking tube. By so doing, the hoist structure of the nail tray only needs pushing and pulling movements on the braking tube, which gives the users more convenience and ensures the strength of the structure.

Abstract: A coil nailer aligns the releasing direction of a door latch with the door opening and closing direction such that a door latch is released to open the door by one touch of a left hand thumb, a contact arm is easily coupled with and separated from a contactor to prevent the contact arm from separating from the contactor and to easily exchange the contactor, a guide device in a magazine filled with various sized nails is moved to precisely guide the nails, and a measuring device measuring intervals between shingles is attached to the magazine such that the shingles are positioned at predetermined intervals without a separate measuring device. Since the plate supporting nails is lowered or lifted according to lengths of the nails, the nails can be effectively guided, the interval between lower and upper waterproof sheets can be measured when attaching shingles and waterproof sheets.

Abstract: An adjustable depth-of-drive mechanism for a fastener driving tool having a housing structure defining an axis, and a nosepiece extending generally axially from the housing structure, includes a lower work contact element having a sleeve for reciprocatingly receiving the nosepiece, an upper work contact element attached at a first end to the housing structure, a rotatable thumbwheel assembly having a first portion engageable with the lower work contact element, a thumbwheel assembly accessible by a user and a second portion having at least one detent assembly, and a retaining mechanism for retaining the thumbwheel assembly relative to the upper work contact element where the second portion is received by a second end of the upper work contact element, where during thumbwheel rotation relative to the first portion in either direction, the position of the lower work contact element is moved relative to the nosepiece.

Abstract: A component handling device is disclosed. The component handling device includes a body with a component receiving portion that has a front region defining a first opening and a rear region defining a second opening. Also, the component receiving portion includes a component encasing wall extending from the first opening to the second opening. Additionally, a component elevating feature configured to assist with detaching the component from a substrate is coupled to the interior surface of the component encasing wall. In addition, a user gripping feature is coupled to the body of the component handling device. Moreover, a component bounding feature proximate to the second opening is coupled to the body to prevent the component from moving past the second opening. Furthermore, a component retaining feature is coupled to the interior surface of the component encasing wall for retaining the component when the component is placed within the component handling device.

Abstract: A welding head with heat-conducting structure for a gas welding gun comprises: a housing, a welding head and a non-flat net-like heating member. The housing is formed with a recess and a plurality of air holes in communication with the recess. The welding head is installed on the housing and formed with a guiding slope being located correspondingly to the air holes of the housing, and between the guiding slope and the air holes of the housing is formed a space. The non-flat net-like heating member received in the recess of the housing. The heating effect of the heating member is substantially increased by improving the contacting area. The heat produced during gas combustion will be discharged via the air holes and then guided to flow in the direction of the guide slope, and thus it can be prevented from damaging the neighboring electronic components.

Abstract: A method is for the cladding of blade tips of compressor blades of a gas turbine power plant, using a blank, which is made up of a solder foil provided with a metal layer having embedded hard particles and which is adapted to the geometry of the blade tip that is to be clad, which blank is melted onto the blade tip while applying pressure, and in the process obtains, impressed into it, a ribbed or pimpled structure.

Abstract: A novel singlet oxygen quencher is disclosed. The quencher comprises a colloidal liquid of a platinum metal group. A composition comprising, as an active ingredient, the singlet oxygen quencher is also disclosed.

Abstract: A forming method wherein a billet (31, 66, 77, 87, 107, 128, 136, 144, 153, 77B, 77C) comprising a metal-based composite material (27) prepared by mixing an aluminum alloy (22) and a ceramic (15) is subjected to pressure forming to manufacture a formed article, which comprises carrying out the pressure forming by the use of different compression ratios for different portions of the formed article, wherein a compression ratio means the ratio of the height of a billet before the pressure forming to height of the billet after the pressure forming. The above forming method allows the manufacture of a formed article having different volume contents 8 Vf) of the ceramic for different portions thereof.

Abstract: A method of making tailored blanks in accordance with one embodiment comprises the steps of friction welding a first joining surface of a first structural member having a substantially non-rectangular parallelogram profile to a first portion of a joining surface of a substrate; and thereafter concurrently linear friction welding first and second joining surfaces of a second structural member having a substantially non-rectangular parallelogram profile to a second portion of the surface of the substrate and to a second joining surface of the first structural member respectively. The first and second portions of the surface of the substrate are adjacent. Two or more structural members having a substantially non-rectangular parallelogram profile can be linear friction welded in succession to the substrate and to each other, thereby building a structural assembly having a long flange or other long feature of a desired length.

Abstract: A method is provided for forming a microelectronic assembly. A semiconductor substrate having a first thickness is mounted to a support substrate with a low temperature adhesive. The semiconductor substrate is thinned from the first thickness to a second thickness. At least one contact formation is formed on the semiconductor substrate, and high energy electromagnetic radiation is directed onto the at least one contact formation to reflow the at least one contact formation.

Abstract: A method for reducing variations in the bending of rolled metal base plates for semiconductor modules is disclosed. In this method, the base plates are rolled in their longitudinal direction in a specific manner.

Abstract: A method of fabricating a foil brazing member is disclosed and comprises the steps of ejecting molten metal of a brazing metal alloy onto a rotating metal cooling roll from at least an opening of a nozzle, cooling and solidifying the molten metal by the cooling roll and forcibly separating the cooled and solidified molten metal from the cooling roll into a thin band-shaped foil brazing member. The method further comprises the step of forming a plurality of empty portions on the molten metal being cooled and solidified, between the ejection step and the forcible separation step.

Abstract: A clamp apparatus clamps a circular cover in joining together a base having a circular recess and the cover fitted into the recess of the base, at and around an entire annular joint interface between a circumferential wall of the cover and a circumferential wall of the recess of the base. The clamp apparatus has a clamp body and a presser member attached to the clamp body in a manner rotatable about the axis of the recess of the base and about the axis of the cover. The clamp apparatus enables joining of the base and the cover at and around the annular joint interface therebetween without need to provisionally join them at and around the interface.

Abstract: The objective of this invention is to prevent the generation of defects pertaining to placement of solder balls on the terminal placement parts of the electronic part main body. The solder ball 1 has spherical core 2 and coating layer 3 that covers core 2. The coating layer 3 contains a resin. The diameter of core 2 is in the range of 30-500 ?m. The thickness of coating layer 3 is in the range of 5-100 ?m. The coating layer 3 is melted at temperature in a range of 20° C. between 150 to 300° C., and the viscosity of coating layer 3 is in the range of 0.01-50 Pa-s. After solder balls 1 are set on terminal placement parts 13a in the main body of the electronic part, reflow is performed for solder balls 1. As a result, coating layer 3 is melted first, and core 2 descends under its own weight to come into contact with the terminal placement part. Core 2 is then melted, and core 2 and terminal placement part 13a are soldered and joined to each other.

Abstract: A method of casting steel strip by introducing molten plain carbon steel on casting surfaces at least one casting roll with the molten steel having a free nitrogen content below 120 ppm and a free hydrogen content below about 6.9 ppm. The free nitrogen content maybe below about 100 ppm or below about 85 ppm. The free hydrogen content maybe between 1.0 and 6.5 ppm at atmospheric pressure. Novel cast strip of plain carbon steel is produced having a strip thickness less than 5 mm or less than 2 mm by use of the method.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a reinforced sandwich structure (10) comprising stacked in height direction thereof, at least one top layer (2) and at least one bottom layer (3) comprising a fibrous reinforcing material, which top and bottom layer sandwich between them at least one core (1) of a foamed material, the sandwich structure being impregnated with a resin material. The at least one core material comprises at least one insert (9) which extends in height direction of the reinforced sandwich structure (10) over at least part of the height thereof and in at least one of the longitudinal and transversal direction thereof. The at least one top layer (2), the at least one bottom layer (3) and the at least one core material which comprise the at least one insert are connected to each other by means of reinforcing fibers, at least part of which extend in height direction of the sandwich structure.

Abstract: A welding accessory system for a welder that includes a welder having a welder housing and at least one welding accessory support connected to the welder housing to support at least one welding accessory of a welder. The one or more welding accessory supports include a cable holder, an electrode holder, a cooling fluid holder, a cylinder gas holder, a cable connector box, and/or a tool holder.

Abstract: Systems and methods for implementing hybrid, closed-loop control that generates control values for processes defined by a limited number of function evaluations and large amounts of process and measurement noise. The described control system is applied to a stencil printing process for applying solder paste to an electronic medium such as a printed circuit board or semiconductor wafer. The control system is defined by a hybrid approach. A first, coarse algorithm is used to rapidly produce the value of a stencil printer control value resulting in a solder paste deposit having a volume within predetermined acceptable limits. After the coarse algorithm no longer produces solder paste deposits closer to a desired volume, a second, more refined estimator is used to fine tune the process. An additional transitional algorithm may be added between the coarse algorithm and refined estimator.