Patents Issued in November 29, 2007
  • Publication number: 20070272068
    Abstract: The sound box includes two truncated portions (1 and 4) for enabling the body to take up a better position in order to avoid certain pathologies induced by playing the instrument as it currently exists.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2005
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventor: Christian Boute
  • Publication number: 20070272069
    Abstract: The present invention disclosed herein is a vibration preventer for a stringed instrument. According to the present invention, it is possible to prevent a voiced sound from unnecessary vibrations caused by transferring vibrations of plural strings of the stringed instrument. Accordingly, a quality of sound for the stringed instrument is converted to a clear sound, thereby obtaining a clear sound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2006
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventor: IL-YOUNG LEE
  • Publication number: 20070272070
    Abstract: A hand adaptive microphone—transducer gloves in FIG. (3B) and FIG. (4B) comprises a gloved member adapted to be worn on a person hand. FIG. (3B) has an STD½? Piezo Film Tab pickup with a ¼ “audio adapter in this illusion. FIG. (4B) has an STI1? Piezo Film Tab pickup with a ?? audio adapter in this illustration. A hand adaptive microphone—transducer single finger sheaths that comprises of a K&K Hot Spot contact pickup with a ?? audio jack, this is a (single sensing element) as illustrated in FIG. (1A) FIG. (2A) comprises of two single finger sheaths that has a K&K Twin Spot contact pickups with a ?? audio jack, this is a (dual sensing elements). FIG. (1) is the illustration of the Hot Spot pickup (single sensing element. FIG. (2) is the illustration of the Twin Spot contact pickups with (dual sensing elements). FIG. (3) is the illustration of the STD½? Piezo Film Tab pickup with a ¼? audio jack. FIG. (4) is the illustration of the STD1?Piezo Film Tab pickup with a ?? audio jack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2006
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventor: Clennon McGinnis
  • Publication number: 20070272071
    Abstract: The invention relates to a flute consisting of i) a hollow resonator tube, which is open at both ends and which is provided with finger holes and keys, and ii) a hollow blow tube provided with a mouthpiece, which is open at both ends, wherein said blow tube can be coupled to the resonator tube with its open end located furthest away from the mouthpiece and wherein the open end located closest to the mouthpiece can be closed by means of a closing element that can be mounted to the blow tube. According to the invention the flute is characterized in that the flute is provided with at least one circular recess. As a result, the dynamic qualities of the flute according to the invention are improved, since the volume of the instrument is increased and the instrument is more flexible to play, especially in the high and low registers, whilst also the homogeneity of the sound is significantly improved in the high and low registers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2004
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventor: Michel Parmenon
  • Publication number: 20070272072
    Abstract: Wind Chimes are provided, the notes of which are tuned to play a person's given name, according to the Ogham notation. The “tune” of the person's name is played on, e.g., anodized aluminum tubes, which are tuned to specific notes, based on the ancient system. The name being “played” is written on one side of the frame in English, and on the other side using the Ogham characters that translate as both the English letters, and the musical notes. The shape of the chime's frame is patterned after a Harp. The instrument can be used traditionally, as a wind chime, or it can be fitted with a base, allowing it to be used indoors as a décor item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2007
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventors: Ann Garth Bauer, David Beckett
  • Publication number: 20070272073
    Abstract: This system serves as one musical instrument by interconnecting a plurality of musical apparatuses EMa through EMf via an expandable communication connecting portion such as USB networks CB and UH. The respective musical apparatuses EMa through EMf have their own apparatus information. For the host musical apparatus EMa, a plurality of path rule information sets which are associated with a plurality of possible statuses where apparatuses are interconnected on a USB network and each of which specifies a path along which music data is transferred among the musical apparatuses are provided. Once the musical apparatuses EMb through EMf are connected to the USB network, the host musical apparatus EMa creates an actual connection pattern Pa1 representative of an actual apparatus connection status in accordance with the apparatus information of the apparatuses EMa through EMf.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2007
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Applicant: Yamaha Corporation
    Inventor: Harumichi Hotta
  • Publication number: 20070272074
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a multi-purpose land mine clearing vehicle. The land mine clearing vehicle has a bombproof and ironclad operator seat. An unexploded shell or a land mine, which can be detected by a metal detector, is collected without exploding the unexploded shell or the land mine after the location of the unexploded shell or the land mine is indicated. In the case of a plastic land mine, such as an IVI19 antitank land mine or an M14 antipersonnel land mine, which cannot be detected by the metal detector, the ground where the land mine or the unexploded shell is laid is dug, and the soil is removed by a vibratory scraping bucket to collect the land mine or the unexploded shell without exploding the unexploded shell or the land mine. The M14 plastic antipersonnel land mine, which has a little effect on the environment even if exploded, may be detonated and thus removed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2004
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventor: Ki-ho Kim
  • Publication number: 20070272075
    Abstract: The invention relates to a swash drive for a high-pressure cleaning appliance, having a swash body which can be driven in rotation about an axis of rotation, and having a swash plate which is inclined in relation to the axis of rotation and on the face of which there can engage pistons of a piston-pump which are movable back and forth parallel to the axis of rotation, the swash body butting against a supporting plate via a supporting bearing and a swash-plate bearing being disposed between the swash body and the swash plate. In order to develop the swash drive such that it is possible to increase the inclination of the swash plate without any risk of damaging the supporting bearing, it is proposed according to the invention that the supporting bearing be configured as an angular-contact ball bearing, the swash body supporting the bearing balls of the supporting bearing on the outside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2007
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Applicant: Alfred Kaercher GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Robert Nathan
  • Publication number: 20070272076
    Abstract: A swash plate type compressor is disclosed, wherein a shoe, having a first surface slidably disposed on a swash plate and a second surface received in a pocket formed in a piston, is formed from a copper alloy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2006
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventors: Feng Bin, Pete Ganster, Michael Theodore
  • Publication number: 20070272077
    Abstract: A linear actuator assembly having a cylinder body and an actuator rod slideably disposed in the cylinder body. The actuator rod has a forward end portion exterior of the cylinder body. An end plug is connected the cylinder body and closes an end portion of the cylinder body. A first retaining member is coupled to the actuator rod and is connectable to a first mounting portion to allow the actuator rod to pivot. A second retaining member removably engages the end plug and the rear end portion of the cylinder body. The second retaining member is connectable to the second mounting portion to allow the cylinder body to pivot about the second retaining member relative to the second mounting portion. The second retaining member retains the end plug within the rear end portion of the cylinder. The end plug can be removed from the cylinder body upon disengagement of the second retaining member from the end plug.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2006
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Applicant: Genie Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Gerard T. Perkins
  • Publication number: 20070272078
    Abstract: A top ring has gas seal and oil control functions realizing approximately the same amount of oil consumption and blow-by gas as realized by three rings. A piston assembly includes a piston body having a top land portion and a ring groove on its periphery, and a piston ring having a U-shaped cross section including upper and lower leg portions and a base portion connecting the leg portions, and attached to the top land portion. Axial length from boundary of the base portion of the piston ring and the upper leg portion to a lower surface of the lower leg portion is larger than that from an upper surface of the top land portion to lower surface of the ring groove fitting the lower leg portion. Alternatively, axial grooves are on a thrust side of the top land portion, or a V-shaped annular groove is in a second land portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2005
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA RIKEN
    Inventors: Takeshi Yamada, Hideki Yoshida, Naoki Iijima
  • Publication number: 20070272079
    Abstract: A process for removing carbon dioxide or nitrogen from gas, especially natural gas. The process uses three membrane separation stages without compression between the second and third stages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2006
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Applicants: Membrane Technology and Research, Inc., ABB Lummus Global, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael G. Malsam, Kaaeid A. Lokhandwala
  • Publication number: 20070272080
    Abstract: A fuel vapor storage canister comprising an elongate housing, an activated carbon bed, and a volume compensator of resilient, air-permeable foam. The foam volume compensator maintains the canister volume and the position of the activated carbon component, which enables proper adsorption of vapors in the fuel vapor storage canister.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2006
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventors: Christopher D. Allen, James T. Dumas, Donald L. Gepper
  • Publication number: 20070272081
    Abstract: An air filter monitoring system for indicating when to clean or replace a flexible air filter includes an air filter having a peripheral frame and an interior filtering region, a fixed support structure for receiving the air filter and maintaining the perimeter of the filter frame in a generally fixed position while allowing the interior filtering region to flex in response to air flow through the filter, and a filter change indicator having a predetermined bias force. The filter change indicator is arranged to contact the interior filtering region of the filter, wherein when the predetermined bias force is reached, the filter change indicator is activated to notify a user to clean or replace the filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2006
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventor: Ronald C. Johansson
  • Publication number: 20070272082
    Abstract: A system for periodically or continuously monitoring the condition of a filter includes a filter having a peripheral frame and a flexible interior filtering region, a fixed support structure for receiving the filter and maintaining the perimeter of the filter frame in a generally fixed position while allowing the interior filtering region to flex in response to flow through the filter, and a force measuring device mounted on the downstream side of the filter adjacent the interior filtering region in a fixed position relative to the supporting structure, whereby as the interior filtering region flexes in response to flow through the filter, the interior filtering region exerts a force on the force measuring device that increases with the degree of clogging of the filter. A method of monitoring the condition of a filter is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2006
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventor: Ronald C. Johansson
  • Publication number: 20070272083
    Abstract: A system for determining a level of saturation of a VOC filter in a filtering apparatus, including a weight sensor for sensing a weight of at least a portion of the filtering apparatus including the VOC filter and for producing a corresponding weight signal, a weight calculator for determining an actual weight of the VOC filter based on the weight signal and for producing corresponding actual weight data, a saturation interpreter for determining the level of saturation of the VOC filter based on a comparison between the actual weight data and benchmark weight data, and an interface for providing an indication of the level of saturation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2007
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventors: Ross HOGE, Louis Dupuis
  • Publication number: 20070272084
    Abstract: Device for preparation of a drink from a food substance contained in a capsule (6) comprising a fluid supply unit (5) comprising fluid supply means (50); a capsule holder (4) configured to receive a capsule (6). The capsule holder is removable from the fluid supply unit and can comprise a fluid injector (70) for inserting fluid into the capsule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2007
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventors: Zenon MANDRALIS, Alfred YOAKIM, Jean-Paul DENISART, Jean-Luc DENISART, Hans PLEISCH
  • Publication number: 20070272085
    Abstract: The present invention provides a beverage maker having an in-line heating assembly for heating water to make hot beverages such as coffee and tea. The heating assembly defines a flow path that runs past a plurality of heaters for heating water to a desired temperature. In this manner, the beverage maker heats water as it travels, alleviating the need for a water tank or vessel, resulting in increased savings in weight and size, as well as reducing brew time. Additionally, an optical sensor assembly is provided to detect when a serving container of the beverage maker has a prescribed capacity of liquid within it. The sensor assembly includes at least one light source aligned to shine into the container and at least one detector aligned to detect light reflected off the liquid surface within the container. A drainage assembly is also provided that can drain liquid through either a connector port into an airplane's wastewater system or through a drainage port into a drainage sump.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2007
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Applicant: C&D ZODIAC, INC.
    Inventors: Paul Ghassemlou, Victor Eisa, Amrik Sidhu
  • Publication number: 20070272086
    Abstract: The coffee pot, according to the invention, comprises a chimney conduit (18) laterally offset in the upper vessel (12) relative to the axis (X-X) of the coffee pot (10). In the coffee a tortuous path is thus formed, starting from an orifice (15.1), in which the boiling water under pressure enters and arrives, through an axial tube (15), in the chamber (14) of a funnel filter (13), where it impregnates and flows through the coffee powder and a disk-shaped filter (17), forming in an infusion chamber (17.1) the coffee infusion, which then rises under pressure through said offset chimney conduit (18), until its outlet (18.1), from which it spills into the upper vessel (12).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2005
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Applicant: IMPERIA S.P.A.
    Inventor: Enrico Ancona
  • Publication number: 20070272087
    Abstract: An automatic basting apparatus is provided. The apparatus has a base that defines a cavity. A basting fluid dispensing member is present and defines a passageway in communication with the cavity. The basting fluid dispensing member is rigid. The basting fluid dispensing member is configured for dispensing basting fluid out of an outlet of the passageway at an end of the basting fluid dispensing member. The outlet is oriented to have a component in both the horizontal direction and vertical direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2007
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventor: David Carlisle Hull
  • Publication number: 20070272088
    Abstract: A food supportive device (20) for use in microwave heating or cooking of food (10) including a plurality of food contact areas (21) elevated from and substantially integral to a foundation (28) that enables the support of food directly placed on the contact areas, wherein spaces are formed between the elevated food contact areas (21) and the foundation (28) enable the venting or escape of moisture from the food to prevent the food from going soggy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2004
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventor: Julio Gomez
  • Publication number: 20070272089
    Abstract: Device for manufacturing lollipops, including a rotatably driven drum provided with lollipop moulds at its circumference, a supply for supplying a strand of lollipop material to the lollipop moulds and a discharge for lollipops formed in the lollipop moulds, wherein the drum is disposed on a hollow shaft and wherein the lollipop moulds are disposed at the circumference of a casing, which defines an annular space with the hollow shaft, wherein the hollow shaft is provided with a first passage and a second passage, each forming a fluid connection between the cavity in the hollow shaft and the annular space, wherein the hollow shaft is provided with a fluid supply and a fluid discharge, which fluid supply is in fluid connection with a pressure source for cooling air, wherein the lollipop moulds comprise lower moulds that are fixed to the casing and the casing with the lollipop moulds forms a detachable part of the device and can be slid on the hollow shaft when being placed or removed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2004
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventor: Seferinus Asma
  • Publication number: 20070272090
    Abstract: Less hazardous methods for generating energy for heating water, medical supplies or comestible products using improved flameless chemical heaters/flameless ration heaters by novel chemical or electrochemical means, each capable of suppressing the generation of hydrogen gas. Remote unit self heating meals may be heated by forming a reaction mixture comprising magnesium or a magnesium-containing alloy, a hydrogen scavenger and water, and reacting the reaction mixture to generate sufficient energy for heating the water, or other comestible product while simultaneously suppressing the generation of hydrogen. Alternatively, a battery may be employed using Mg and MnO2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2007
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventor: Tilak Bommaraju
  • Publication number: 20070272091
    Abstract: A manual juice extruder is used as a tool for extruding fruit juice and includes a juice-extruding tray. The central position of the juice-extruding tray has a raised portion that protrudes upwardly. The periphery of the raised portion has a plurality of protruding ribs. The center of the raised portion has an opening. The periphery of the opening has at least one skid-proof piercing portion that protrudes upwardly. Via this arrangement, when the user extrudes the juice manually, the fruit body can be fixed on the raised portion, which facilitates the extrusion of the juice.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2007
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventor: Lai-Cheng Hsien
  • Publication number: 20070272092
    Abstract: A modular cold storage system and method are provided. The system includes a plurality of cold storage containers and rotatable platforms for receiving the cold storage containers. The modular cold storage system and method are especially adapted for use in a refrigeration environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2006
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventor: Richard Ehrenreich
  • Publication number: 20070272093
    Abstract: A bidirectional lens pressing system for use in pressing a lens into a port housing is disclosed. The lens pressing system includes a frame that supports a top motor stage, a bottom motor stage, and an indexing stage. The indexing stage is interposed between the top and bottom motor stages and includes a hole that retains a port housing or other component. The top pressing tool is selectively movable in a first direction by the top motor stage and includes a first engagement surface for engaging the lens. Correspondingly, the bottom pressing tool is selectively movable in a an opposing second direction by the bottom motor stage and includes a second engagement surface for engaging the port housing. The first and second engagement surfaces of the top and bottom pressing tools cooperate to press the lens into the port housing while imposing no net force on the indexing stage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2007
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Applicant: Finisar Corporation
    Inventors: John Moller, Ting Shi, Zhiqiang Zheng, Pavel Ploscariu, John Moller
  • Publication number: 20070272094
    Abstract: An improved can compacting mechanism includes a can collection bin comprising a body having an integrally-formed and cylindrically-shaped sidewall. Downwardly from the cylindrical sidewall is a floor. The sidewall and floor are integrally formed into a single structure. Upwardly from the sidewall is a body neck and opening. The body neck is, in cross-section, a generally rectangular-shaped structure and the body opening is a generally rectangular-shaped aperture through which compacted cans are intended to pass as they drop by gravity from the can compacting mechanism of prior invention. The sidewall is a carrier for indicia applied to the sidewall or to a label or wrap that encircles the sidewall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2006
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventor: Gregory D. Geise
  • Publication number: 20070272095
    Abstract: A plastic bottle compacting device is disclosed that provides for reducing the size of an empty plastic bottle by folding the empty bottle around itself. The plastic bottle compacting device can be mounted on a wall, cabinet table or desk to hold the device in position while it is being used. After the bottle is folded, a band, tape or strap is wrapped around the compacted bottle to maintain the compacted shape of the bottle. The apparatus includes holding pins to hold the empty bottle in a vertical or horizontal relationship and a rotating arm that folds the empty bottle upon itself. In another embodiment an empty bottle is placed in the holding pins and manually wrapped into a cylinder around the holding pins. After the bottle is crushed it is withdrawn from the holder wrapped and stored in a recycling container for reclaiming.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2006
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventor: George E. Mainwaring
  • Publication number: 20070272096
    Abstract: A machine is provided for the production of sweets that are molded into a certain form and furnished with an imprint. The machine includes a mold with an exchangeable embossed stamp on which a negative of the imprint is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2007
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventor: Rene Reijnen
  • Publication number: 20070272097
    Abstract: An embossed sheet of substrate material has a plurality of card portions defined thereon, each card portion having indicia embossed thereon. A first group of the plurality of card portions has first embossed indicia, and a second group of the plurality of card portions has second embossed indicia. The first and second embossed indicia provide the same information, but the second embossed indicia have a text characteristic that is different from the text characteristic of the first embossed indicia. The first embossed indicia and the second embossed indicia are embossed in the same location on each respective card portion. The card portions are arranged into rows and columns on the substrate material, and the first group of card portions and the second group of card portions form either alternating rows or alternating columns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2006
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventors: Suresh C. Priya, Anthony R. Dass
  • Publication number: 20070272098
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method printing indicia that includes dynamically controlling viscosity within a sealed cup assembly that is used in pad printing radiation curable inks on game balls. The present invention further relates to a method of removing radiation ink from an uncured inked golf ball surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2007
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventor: Mitchell Lutz
  • Publication number: 20070272099
    Abstract: A self-inking hand stamp (1) comprising a stamp housing (2) in which a stamp character(5)—carrying stamp unit (6) is arranged with a turning mechanism (7), which stamp unit is movable, by means of an actuating bow displaceably mounted on the stamp housing (2), from an inking position, in which the stamp characters abut on an ink pad (13) arranged within the stamp, into an imprint position. Within the actuating bow (3), a receiving compartment (17) for storing at least one further ink pad (18) is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2005
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventor: Hartwig Pointl
  • Publication number: 20070272100
    Abstract: An ink residue lifting and transfer mechanism is provided on a printing mechanism of a screen printing machine to pneumatically horizontally drive an ink reclaiming blade, so that the ink reclaiming blade is in complete contact with a scraper of the printing mechanism to hold ink residue after one printing in a space contained between the closely contacted scraper and the ink reclaiming blade, preventing the ink residue from dripping off from the scraper to the screen plate to smudge the printed object in the course of ink reclaiming. And, the ink residue is lifted and transferred by the closely contacted scraper and ink reclaiming blade to an initial position for reuse in the next printing without being wasted. Therefore, an improved accuracy of printing can be achieved at reduced cost.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2006
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventor: Tung Chin Chen
  • Publication number: 20070272101
    Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for the coating or flocking of articles, especially of textile material, mats, ceramic, plastic, paper, wood, metal or the like, with a container (12) for receiving a flock or coating material, and with a setting device (16) which is arranged on the container (12) and which has a stencil frame (23) having at least one printing motif (27), the setting device (16) receiving at least one adjusting element (32) which acts in the X- and Y-direction and engages on the stencil frame (23), and the setting device (16) comprising arranged fixing elements (34) which are provided outside the stencil frame (23) at least for arranging an aligning device (38) for the stencil frame (23), in order to align the coating or printing motif (27) of the stencil frame (23) in the X- and Y-direction with respect to the fixing elements (34) by means of the aligning device (38).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2007
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventor: Markus Walz
  • Publication number: 20070272102
    Abstract: A two-bar linkage fast elevating apparatus for screen printing machine includes a two-bar linkage system and an eccentric shaft driving system connected to a rear side of a transverse slide base of the screen printing machine. A reduction motor is connected to a lower end of the eccentric shaft driving system to cyclically lift and lower the eccentric shaft driving system. When the eccentric shaft driving system is lifted to elevate the transverse slide base, the two-bar linkage system synchronously moves the transverse slide base backward, so that a heightened and deepened space giving good vision is provided between a printing bed and a lifted screen of the screen printing machine for an operator to safely, conveniently, and accurately check the printing quality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2006
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventor: Tung Chin Chen
  • Publication number: 20070272103
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for aligning at least two flexographic printing plates on at least one printing cylinder, which provides acquiring an image of a part of a first plate, memorising the acquired image, framing a part of a second plate, at the same time displaying the memorised image and the image relating to the part of the second framed plate in real time; and aligning the image framed in real time with the memorised image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2004
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Applicant: SYS TEC S.R.L.
    Inventor: Franco Caliari
  • Publication number: 20070272104
    Abstract: A coating device for a printing press, comprises an anilox or other metering cylinder for ink or other coating material. A softer idler roller runs in contact with the metering cylinder and with a plate cylinder to transfer the ink or other coating material from the metering cylinder to the plate cylinder. The idler roller is sufficiently soft to accommodate normal unevennesses in the metering cylinder and the plate cylinder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2007
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Applicant: Aradiant
    Inventor: Joseph Burgio
  • Publication number: 20070272105
    Abstract: Transportation of a lithographic plate uses an indexer to load plates into pods for delivery to a press cylinder via a pod elevator or a pod cart. The plates are imprinted with a bar code, imaged, punched, bent, sheared, corner notched, and registered to a press cylinder. The plates are loaded into the indexer, which moves the loaded plates into a position in alignment with designated pod compartments, and loads the plates into each of the designated pod compartments by indexed movement of an elevator within the indexer. The pod elevator or the pod cart moves the pods proximate to a press cylinder where the plates are unloaded from the pod and loaded onto a press cylinder. A computing device, such as a PLC, directs the process. A vision system senses information from the indexer, pod, pod elevator, and the plate for feedback to a PLC, which initiates operations of foregoing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2007
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventors: Dennis Burgess, William Campbell
  • Publication number: 20070272106
    Abstract: A method for controlling operating processes or measuring processes in connection with a printed image applied to a printing material, includes acquiring image information from the printed image on the printing material with a camera device. The data acquired by the camera is compared in a computer with digital image data of the printed image. Operating processes or measuring processes are triggered by the computer on the basis of the identified printed image on the printing material. The printing material is displayed on a desk, the camera device detects objects or persons covering the printing material and specific operating, processes or measuring processes are triggered on the basis thereof. An apparatus for carrying out the method is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2007
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventors: Dieter Hauck, Till Maier, Mario Rottloff
  • Publication number: 20070272107
    Abstract: A timing element for an initiator is made from a reactive polymeric material such as, e.g., a glycidyl azide polymer. The reactive polymeric material may include pulverulent oxidizer additives, such as ammonium, perchlorate and/or ferric oxide. The oxidizer additives are used to increase the rate of reaction and the output spark of the polymer material. The timing element serves to delay the travel of an initiation signal between an input, such as a signal transmission input line, and an explosive output charge, for a predetermined period of time, usually about 5 to about 10,000 milliseconds, e.g., about 9 to about 9600 milliseconds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2004
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventors: Joseph Twarog, John Campbell, Tyson Plitt, Kim Ho
  • Publication number: 20070272108
    Abstract: A drill hole (350) extends into rock to be blasted. A blasting accessory (310) includes a container portion (312) for holding a predetermined volume of stemming material, and a spacer (330) for spacing the stemming material a predetermined distance from a surface, e.g. a blind bottom of the drill hole. The container portion has a top (320) surrounded by a dilatable, inverted skirt forming a seal (342), and forms a support for a blasting substance like an explosive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2004
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventors: Nils Heinke, Roger Skaggs, Stephen Collinsworth
  • Publication number: 20070272109
    Abstract: In blasting rock, a drill hole (12) is charged with spaced, composite layers (20), (30, 40) at different levels between an open mouth (14) and a blind bottom (16). Each composite layer is supported on a plug (22, 32, 42). Flowable plunger material (24, 34, 44), e.g. drill cuttings, is supported on the respective plug followed by blast material (26, 36, 46), topped by a further layer of plunger material (28, 38, 48). The plunger material (48) at the top, is in the form of tamping. The composite layers are spaced respectively from one another and optionally, from the bottom (16). Initiators (27, 37, 47) can be actuated by means of a controller to initiate the blasting material to displace the layers of plunger material at speed to collide, e.g. with the bottom and with one another to concentrate enemy at the collision sites.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2004
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventors: Nils Heinke, Roger Skaggs, Stephen Collinsworth
  • Publication number: 20070272110
    Abstract: A method of blasting plural layers of material (38, 40, 42, 44) in a blastfield (16) that reduces the amount of mechanical excavation required to expose a lower layer of material. The method includes using rows of equally spaced blastholes (18, 20, 22, 24) that pass through all of the layers and additional intermediate rows of blastholes (26, 28) that pass down only through top layer (40). Each blasthole is capped with stemming material and includes one or more decks of explosives material (46) and detonators (48), with air decks or inert stemming (45) separating adjacent explosives decks (46). The detonators in layer (40) are detonated first in order from row (18) rearwards to throw a substantial amount of the blast material from layer (40) forwardly of free face (12) onto floor (34).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2004
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventors: Geoffrey Brent, Tapan Goswami
  • Publication number: 20070272111
    Abstract: A low energy cartridge comprising: an outer casing 4; a rear telecospically slidable portion 1 disposed, in use, to be telescopically extendable with respect to the outer casing 4 in a direction towards the breech-block of a firearm; a front telescopically slidable portion 6 disposed, in use, to be telescopically extendable with respect to the outer casing 4 in a direction towards the barrel X of a firearm; means 2, 3 for causing each telescopically slidable portion 1, 6 to telescopically extend in reaction to firing of a firearm containing the cartridge; an open end 13 of the front portion 6 configured to receive a projectile 7 and means for propelling a projectile 7 from the open end 13.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2004
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Applicant: UTM IP LIMITED
    Inventor: Michael Saxby
  • Publication number: 20070272112
    Abstract: A reactive material that includes at least one hinder and at least one fuel, at least one oxidizer, or combinations thereof; at least one metal and at least one fuel; or at least two fuels. The reactive material is used in a reactive material shot shell in which at least a portion of a slug, shot, or combinations thereof are formed from the reactive material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2007
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Applicant: ALLIANT TECHSYSTEMS INC.
    Inventors: Daniel Nielson, Richard Truitt, Rochelle Poore, Benjamin Ashcroft
  • Publication number: 20070272113
    Abstract: A sabot and shotshell combination includes a bullet, a shotshell hull, propellant, a shotshell primer, wadding, and a sabot comprising a molded member having a base portion and a plurality of petal portions each extending from a proximal base root to a distal tip, the base and petals defining a volume for accommodating a bullet. A reinforcement is at least partially embedded in the base, the reinforcement being more rigid than the molded member and having a plurality of apertures with the base portion extending through at least one of the apertures to retain the reinforcement within the molded member upon firing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2006
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventors: Stephen Meyer, Robert Gardner, Gerald Eberhart
  • Publication number: 20070272114
    Abstract: This present invention concerns a mould for the aluminothermic welding of railway rails. The compressible lining (58) used to seal the moulding die in relation to leakages of the weld metal in the liquid state is limited to the parts of the contact surfaces (52) of the parts (19) of the mould on the rails to be welded, corresponding to the bottom, the sides and the top of the foot, to the sides of the web and below the head. The rigid refractory material of the parts (19) is exposed in the parts (67, 71) of the contact surfaces corresponding to the sides and the top of the head, and suitable to be removed selectively from the latter. This makes it easy to adapt the mould to rails with different degrees of wear.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2007
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventor: Frederic Delcroix
  • Publication number: 20070272115
    Abstract: One of the biggest problems of efficiency in trains is the time wasted for boarding and letting off passengers at the stations. Since trains carry a very heavy mass, typically it can take a few minutes for the train to decelerate and come to a full stop and a few minutes to wait till all the passengers who want to get off or board the train finish boarding or exiting, and then again a few minutes to finish accelerating, and thus each stop at a station can typically slow down a train by 5-15 minutes. This is especially noticeable in fast trains, such as for example trains that go at 150 Mph or more, so that the same trip with the same type of train can take for example 3.5 hours when no or almost no stops are made on the way and 7.5 hours if the train stops at every station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2006
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventors: Yaron Mayer, Haim Gadassi
  • Publication number: 20070272116
    Abstract: A method of using one or more electric locomotive and energy storage car combinations to assist a train consist up an uphill climb, the one or more electric locomotive and energy storage car combinations each having one or more diesel electric locomotives and one or more separate energy storage cars, including adding the one or more electric locomotive and energy storage car combinations to the train consist prior to an uphill climb; using the one or more electric locomotive and energy storage car combinations to assist the train consist up the uphill climb; and removing the one or more electric locomotive and energy storage car combinations from the train consist after the uphill climb. The one or more electric locomotive and energy storage car combinations are added to a train consist traveling downhill to assist with the downhill slowing through dynamic braking regeneration that is used to recharge the energy storage of the one or more separate energy storage cars.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2006
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventors: Thomas Lee Bartley, Paul Everett Kaufman
  • Publication number: 20070272117
    Abstract: The invention submitted concerns anticorrosive pigments of aluminum orthophosphate, their application as anticorrosive pigments in coating agents, as well as a method for their manufacturing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2006
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventors: Thomas Staffel, Wahl Friedrich, Angelika Metz