Abstract: A hand-operated cutting apparatus including a main frame at least including a front wall, a base wall and two side walls, in which an opening is formed in the front wall, and a rack formed on an upper surface of the base wall along the length of the main frame, a bracket disposed between the side walls of the main frame and movable along the length of the main frame, a cutter provided in the front of the main frame and including a cutting blade located within the opening, and a squeezer attached to the front surface of the bracket facing to the cutter. The bracket includes a base, a handle pivotally provided on the base and a pusher arm pivotally provided on the handle, in which a lower end of the pusher arm is located between two teeth of the rack, and the pivot axis of the pusher arm on the handle departs from the pivot axis of the handle on the base towards the rear of the main frame.

Abstract: A document processing machine comprising is provided including a table for routing documents in a longitudinal direction, a longitudinal document guide wall disposed on one side of the table, and a device for cutting off a portion of a document, the device being arranged downstream of the wall, the wall being movable laterally relative to the cutter device into a plurality of lateral or cutting positions in order to obtain a plurality of cutting widths according to the position of the wall, wherein the machine includes at least one drive member mobile between a rest position and a driving position, the change from the rest position to the driving position being effected by laterally moving the wall from a cutting position to a non-cutting position in which a document routed on the table does not enter the cutter device, said at least one drive member being adapted, in its driving position, to drive a document in the downstream direction when the cutter device is in the non-cutting position.

Abstract: In a bench cutter in which a turn table 2 is fitted to be held by a base 1 horizontally pivotably, a fence 3 for supporting a member to be worked 35 is fixed onto the base 1, a rear side of the turn table 2 is provided with a holder 5 inclinably erected at the base 1, a sliding member is connected to an upper portion of the holder 5, a circular saw portion 12 is held in parallel and slidably in a front and rear direction relative to an upper face of the base 1 and pivotably in an up and down direction relative to the upper face of the base 1, a saw blade 14 and a handle 26 are provided at the circular saw portion 12, and the member to be worked 35 is cut by inclining, pivoting in an up and down direction and sliding in a front and rear direction the circular saw portion 12, a roller 18 is provided at a lower portion of a rear side of the turn table 2 in parallel with a direction of sliding the circular saw portion 12 by being moved up from an installing face of the base 1.

Abstract: A method includes removing material from a die and thereby changing a location of a cutting edge of the die in a punch entry direction and changing a cutting edge cross-section of the die; and assigning a punch and/or a workpiece thickness to the die based, at least in part, on the change in the cutting edge cross-section of the die.

Abstract: A biasing assembly for a punching device that includes a punch support member adapted to support a punch and including a head portion and a main portion extending from the head portion. The main portion has a recessed surface. A retaining member is coupled to the punch support member with the punch support member being slidable with respect to the retaining member. A coupling member is disposed between the main portion of the punch support member and the retaining member. A portion of the coupling member engages the recessed surface. A biasing member is supported between the head portion of the punch support member and the retaining member. The punch support member is movable between at least first and second positions with respect to the coupling member.

Abstract: A cutter assembly is disclosed for use in cutting sheet building materials having a non-planar profile. The cutter assembly comprises a base portion, and a support plate mounted upon the base portion at an end thereof, for supporting the building materials during cutting thereof. The support plate and the base portion each have a predetermined profile shape that interfits with and matches the shape of the building materials. A cutting bar is pivotably connected to the base portion, and possesses a cutting blade attached thereto. The cutting bar is curved, and comprises first and second cutting protrusions which interfit with the predetermined profile shape of the support plate, for severing the building materials cleanly when the cutting bar is pulled downwardly.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for the manufacture of a single silk mono-filament. The single silk mono filament has a tensile strength of above 40 Newtons. The single silk mono-filament has applications as a musical string or a medical device.

Abstract: Electronic systems, methods and apparatus for teaching and examining music and other subjects require that tasks be performed by a user. One method includes presenting a user with one or more musical tasks and providing a menu with one or more selectable icons. Selection of one of the icons activates functionality to enable the user to form an element of musical notation. The method includes comparing one or more characteristics of the element of musical notation with one or more predetermined thresholds in response to a user request and generating a mark, score or grade based on the result of the comparison.

Abstract: Rehearsal mixes are provided for transport by disclosed methods, services, and computer programs. Transported rehearsal mixes include one or more music tracks that are at an adjusted (e.g., higher or lower) sound level compared to sound levels of other music tracks to emphasize or de-emphasize a part that a musician is required to learn, for example. Disclosed embodiments may include, communicate with, or be integrated with automated planning systems for automatically providing rehearsal mixes to musicians in response to the musicians indicating their planned participation in a performance or rehearsal. Backing tracks may be automatically provided to a music director if there is an unfilled need for a live musician at a planned performance.

Abstract: An ammunition primer installation device is attachable to an ammunition reloading press and uses a sliding and rotating finger trigger attached to a primer transporting slide to receive a primer from a supply trough and transport the primer to position above a primer cup on an ammunition reloading press and a trigger actuated plunger to push the primer from the device into the primer cup while maintaining the proper primer orientation.

Abstract: A mobile projectile launcher is disclosed having a tiltable launching platform for supporting a plurality of canisters in each of which projectiles to be launched are stored and fired, a support plate pivotally connected to a horizontal cargo bed, and at least one linear actuator by which the support plate is swingable from a closed position substantially perpendicular to the cargo bed to an open position substantially parallel to the cargo bed. The support plate is made of a material that is resistant to the projectile plume following launching and is sufficiently sturdy to support a technician during the loading of projectiles when set in an open position, yet is adapted to protect and hide the loaded canisters when set in a closed position.

Abstract: A protective device for use in containing high energy debris and pressure is provided which employs a plurality of energy absorption elements disposed on an outer surface of an inner sheet, where the outer surface faces away from the body being protected and toward the high energy event, such as an explosion. Each energy absorption element extends generally away from the body to permit the high energy event to first impact upon the energy absorption elements, rather than the body. Energy absorbing elements are configured with a base and a cap and are formed of laminate composite materials. As such, energy absorption elements are configured to contain or reduce high energy debris material and pressure impacting the energy absorption element through delamination and possibly penetration of the composite material.

Abstract: Automatic firearm with firing mode selector (6) to change the firing mode from automatic firing mode to semi-automatic firing mode, wherein the firearm (1) is equipped with a firing mechanism (11) with selection control (37) which enables the firearm (1) to function in closed bolt firing mode or open bolt firing mode, and in automatic firing mode as well as semi-automatic firing mode.

Abstract: A black rifle configuration automatic or semi-automatic firearm having an indirect gas operating system. The firearm has a black rifle configuration receiver assembly having a bolt assembly enclosed within. The bolt assembly having a striking surface and a barrel assembly having a bore, the barrel assembly being coupled to the receiver assembly. A gas block is fitted to the barrel assembly, the gas block having a front folding sight. A rod assembly has a striking rod. Gas discharged from a fired cartridge displaces the piston and causes the striking rod displace the bolt assembly.

Abstract: A method for controlling a boom assembly includes providing a boom assembly having an end effortor. The boom assembly includes an actuator in fluid communication with a flow control valve. A desired coordinate of the end effector of the boom assembly is converted from Cartesian space to actuator space. A deflection error of the end effector based on a measured displacement of the actuator is calculated. A resultant desired coordinate of the end effector is calculated based on the desired coordinate and the deflection error. A control signal for the flow control valve is generated based on the resultant desired coordinate and the measured displacement of the actuator. The control signal is shaped to reduce vibration of the boom assembly. The shaped control signal is transmitted to the flow control valve.

Abstract: A brake actuator system of a vehicle comprising a diaphragm design with a hole and sealing element in the center. The design allows for the sealing element to seal and slide on the outer diameter of the center pushrod for the exposed length. This eliminates the need for a fixed joint to permanently attach the diaphragm to the center pushrod, and allows for the pushrod to be attached to the spring piston or a separate fixed plate and reduces stress of the diaphragm at its interface.

Abstract: An article with an abradable dry powder coating thereon comprises an abradably coated article with a substrate surface and having at least one coating of a liquid primer on the substrate surface and then coating with at least one abradable dry powder coating on the surface of the liquid primer. The sequence of layers may also be reversed, or additional layers may be useful. The abradable dry powder coating is formed of a dry powder coating composition including a thermoset resin having a cure temperature combined with at least one filler material, wherein the filler is formed of a material which does not melt substantially at or below the cure temperature of the resin, whereby an abradable coating results employing a filler to make the coating.

Abstract: An engine cylinder liner is provided. The engine cylinder liner includes a first liner end, a second liner end, and an inner surface extending between the first liner end and the second liner end. The engine cylinder liner also includes a first outer surface between the first liner end and a first outer surface end portion, and a second outer surface between the second liner end and a second outer surface end portion. The second outer surface end portion is closer to the first liner end, than the first outer surface end portion is to the first liner end. The engine cylinder liner further includes an inclined shoulder surface portion between the first and second outer surface end portions.

Abstract: A cylinder includes a cylinder body defining a cylinder bore. End caps close opposite ends of the cylinder body. A piston/rod assembly of the cylinder includes a piston portion and a rod portion. The piston portion is located in the cylinder bore and the rod portion extends outwardly of the cylinder body through at least one of the end caps and terminates at an end having a first interlocking member. The cylinder also includes an attachment member having opposite first and second ends. The first end of the attachment member has a second interlocking member for cooperating with the first interlocking member for attaching the attachment member to the end of the rod portion. The second end of the attachment member includes a mating feature for connecting the attachment member and thus, the rod portion to another part.

Abstract: A fluid pressure cylinder assembly has a sensor to provide a signal indicating the amount of extension of a piston rod from the cylinder. The sensor includes a sleeve that is fixed relative to a base of the cylinder and passes into a longitudinal bore in the piston rod, and the piston rod carries a sensor core that is in the bore and is secured to the piston rod at an end opposite from a piston on the rod. The core slides on the interior of the sensor sleeve. A connection is provided to the sensor sleeve such that as the core moves relative to the sensor sleeve a signal indicating the amount of movement and the relative position of the cylinder base and the piston rod is provided.

Abstract: The concentrator separates one gas (i.e. oxygen) from a gas mixture (i.e. air) through the process of vacuum swing adsorption (VSA). An adsorber material is located within an adsorber bed. The adsorber bed has an inlet and an outlet. A valve is located downstream of the outlet. A pump, such as a blower, is provided upstream of the adsorber bed to drive a mixed gas into the adsorber bed. The adsorber material selectively adsorbs an undesirable gas (i.e. nitrogen) leaving a desirable gas (i.e. oxygen) from the mixture to pass through the outlet and through the valve. The pump is reversible. When the adsorber material becomes saturated, the pump is reversed and a vacuum is drawn on the adsorber bed. The valve is closed while the pump is operating in this reverse direction. After the adsorber material has desorbed the undesirable gas, the pump again reverses and the cycle is repeated.

Abstract: A process for removing CO2 from the air, comprising the steps of (a) passing the air in contact with a first ion exchange resin to absorb CO2 from the air; (b) passing a CO2 sorbent in contact with the first ion exchange resin to transport CO2 to the sorbent; passing the sorbent from step (b) in contact with a weak base anion exchange resin to absorb CO2 from the sorbent; separating the CO2 from the ion exchange resin by heating the ion exchange resin from step (c) whereby to drive off the CO2 from the resin. Alternatively, the ion exchange resin may be washed with water prior to heating.

Abstract: An improved filtration apparatus, filtering method and filtering material for capturing mercury and other pollutants in pollutant-laden fluid streams such as flue gases generated by process gas streams are disclosed. The improved filtration system may include two pollutant remediation layers, an upstream layer capable of filtering particulates and a downstream layer capable of adsorbing and/or catalyzing pollutants such as mercury, dioxin, furans, and NOx. The improved filtration system may be in the form of a particulate filter bag. The particulate filter bag may be configured for use in a reverse air filtration system with the upstream layer facing an internal volume of the bag. The upstream layer may include an ePTFE layer laminated to the upstream side of the upstream layer.

Abstract: A portable room air purifier includes a hollow cylindrical air filter disposed within a housing and having an inner surface circumscribing a cylindrical air treatment space and an outer surface. A sorbant material is disposed on the inner surface of the air filter and a germicidal lamp is disposed within the cylindrical air treatment space to emit germicidal light within the space and incident upon the sorbant material on the inner surface of the air filter. A fan is disposed in the housing to draw air from the cylindrical air treatment space through the air filter such that the air enters the filter through the inner surface and exits the filter through the outer surface. The portable room air purifier preferably includes an electrical circuit configured to power the fan and the germicidal lamp when the housing is in an assembled condition, and to deactivate both the fan and the lamp when the housing is disassembled.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a vent gas adsorption system and a method of recovering volatile organic compounds (VOCs), more particularly to a vent gas adsorption system devised to effectively adsorb VOCs included in the vent gas and reduce VOC content of the vent gas, and a method of recovering VOCs.

Abstract: An allergen trap is provided. The allergen trap includes a woven or nonwoven substrate having at least one strata. The trap is impregnated with or otherwise treated with a tacky adhesive by which allergens may be trapped. An example of an allergen is a dust mite. The tacky adhesive, in turn, may be treated with a miticide or activated carbon.

Abstract: The invention is a system and method for conditioning fluids utilizing a magnetic fluid processor or device that includes an elongated housing comprising a core enclosed by a magnetic component in combination with an electrical return path. The process utilizes said device to affect and electron configuration within fluids by generating a magnetic field, thereby separating, for example, metals and organic or inorganic materials from fluids, in order to achieve desired fluid composition and properties.

Abstract: Provided are an air purifier and an air conditioner including the same. The air purifier includes a ground electrode part, a discharge electrode, at least a pair of magnetic force generators, and a voltage generator. The ground electrode part has at least a pair of flat plates. The discharge electrode is located between the flat plates and separated from the flat plates. The at least a pair of magnetic force generators is provided to the flat plates, respectively, to generate a magnetic field and allow attractive force to be applied between the flat plates. The voltage generator applies a voltage between the ground electrode part and the discharge electrode.

Abstract: The present invention relates generally to zeolites having a silica/alumina ratio of less than or equal to 10 (Si/Al?10) that are exchanged with Ag+ and thermally treated in such a way to favor adsorption over alternative catalytic and chemically reactive functionalities. The adsorbents of the present invention and the method of producing such adsorbents maximize the working adsorption capacity through ?-complexation. Applications for such adsorbents include any process in which contaminants from gas streams can form ?-complexes with the Ag in the zeolite, particularly the removal of CO, ethylene, propylene and the like from air and CO/H2 from air in prepurifier adsorbers in the production of ultra high purity (UHP) N2.

Abstract: A multi-channel circulation oxygen generator, comprising a body shell, a top cover set and a base set; the body shell is provided with at least two big tank-,s for loading molecular sieve substances at its internal, having a set of gas passage, a set of gas intake passage, a gas storage tank and a set of gas outtake passage at its surrounding, and providing with a plurality of orderly arranged heat dissipation ribs shaped at its outer surface; the top cover set caps the top side of the body shell, and its bottom side corresponding to the big tank is provided with filtration and one way barricading parts, connecting to the inside of the big tank; the base set joins the bottom of the body shell, having switching solenoid valves to control the big tanks for alternating between the intake and outtake of air.

Abstract: An improved process for deacidizing a gaseous mixture using phase enhanced gas-liquid absorption is described. The process utilizes a multiphasic absorbent that absorbs an acid gas at increased rate and leads to reduced overall energy costs for the deacidizing operation.

Abstract: The method for adjusting the quantity of coffee comprises the steps of: dispensing a predetermined quantity of coffee powder into an infusion chamber (36); by means of an electric actuator (19), closing said infusion chamber compressing the coffee powder in the infusion chamber. The method also provides for detection of at least one parameter of the electric actuator during at least a part of the step to close the infusion chamber and compress the-coffee powder; and setting of the quantity of coffee powder dispensed in a subsequent dispensing cycle as a function of said parameter.

Abstract: A food baster having an elongated tubular body, a squeezable suction device, and an open-ended tip, is set forth herein. The elongated tubular body is comprised of a plurality of body segments which separate to allow a user to access cavity.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for producing compressed bales from compressible pressed product pieces, each compressed bale produced having a cuboid form with edge lengths A, B and C. The device includes a press housing having at least one press chamber and a press shield that can be moved in the press chamber in the press direction and back by means of a mechanical drive. The press chamber has a cross-sectional surface of A×C/n. In the press chamber, n partial compressed bales can be produced in n first press steps, with a flat cuboid form with the edge lengths A, B and C/n. A storage space is arranged downstream from the press chamber, n partial compressed bales being transferable into the storage space. The partial compressed bales can be joined in the storage space to form the cuboid compressed bales with the edge lengths A, B and C.

Abstract: Recyclable plastic film is efficiently collected for recycling at stores or other locations by compacting the plastic film as layers in plastic/cardboard bales. The plastic/cardboard bales can be formed using existing cardboard balers that stores typically already have for baling recyclable cardboard. In one embodiment, the plastic/cardboard bales are preferably formed with a bottom layer of cardboard, a middle layer of the recyclable plastic film, and a top layer of cardboard. The layered structure can be modified to omit one of the cardboard layers or to add additional plastic film and cardboard layers.

Abstract: In a pneumatic compressor for the compression of waste, for example waste paper comprising a cylinder (1) with a piston (2), which via a piston rod (4) activates a compression plate (3), which is slidably mounted in a compression chamber (5) which has a top door (6) through which waste paper is thrown into the compressor, and a bottom door (7) through which a finished bale can be taken out, which compression takes place in a series of compression cycles, which each time is charged with a new portion of waste, until the waste can offer a counter pressure corresponding to the pressure which the piston (2) can exert at a pressure of 8 bars. In 80-90% of the compression cycles necessary for the compression of a bale, the piston (2) reaches its bottom position in the cylinder, and each time the pressure reaches a pressure of 8 bars in the cylinder (1).

Abstract: The invention relates to a press having a loading device, wherein the press is configured particularly for pressing the pressing product forming residual or recyclable materials, such as used paper, cardboard, plastic bottles, foils and the like, and has a press housing including a pressing chamber, having a loading opening for feeding the pressing product and a pressing shield displaceable in the pressing chamber, wherein the loading device includes at least one rotatably driveable rotor roller equipped with conveying prongs. By means of a rotation of the roller pressing product can be conveyed from the outside of the press housing through the loading opening into the pressing chamber. The press has the rotor roller is disposed directly in front of or in the loading opening of the press. The loading device has a feeding space connected upstream of the rotor roller.

Abstract: A golf ball marking stencil includes two caps, resiliently biased toward one another, configured as spherical segments defining a cavity therebetween to securely retain a golf ball. Stencil slots for marking putt alignment path, putter face squareness and swing path lines are defined in the caps. Actuator tabs project from the caps and may be pinched together in opposition to a bias spring to force the caps open to expose the cavity. The spring force of the bias spring prevents movement of a retained golf ball relative to the caps. The cavity periphery is contoured to permit a marker pen to be engaged therein when the cavity does not contain a golf ball.

Abstract: An ink cup assembly for a printing machine is disclosed as including an outer cup body with a recess, and an inner cup body with a cavity for containing an ink, the inner cup body being made of polyethylene, and a main body portion of the inner cup body is received within the recess of the outer cup body for releasably engaging the inner cup body with the outer cup body.

Abstract: A printing system comprises a moving rail, a cliché plate and a substrate positioned on the moving rail, a printing roller that transcribes a pattern material on the substrate by passing through the cliché plate. The printing system further comprises a cleaning unit that cleans the cliché plate.

Abstract: A printing press for printing on both sides of sheets is developed with low expenditure on costs and material, makes it possible to print on both sides of sheets in one pass and which has a small overall size. The printing press for printing on both sides of sheets, has at least one printing unit, in which in each case at least one form cylinder and at least one sheet-guiding impression cylinder are provided. A feeder feeds sheets individually one after another to the printing unit. A delivery guides the sheets away from the printing unit, and grippers convey the sheets individually one after another along a path which runs back and forth, the paths crossing one another.

Abstract: The present application describes a template with feature profiles that have multiple sidewall angles. The multiple sidewall angles facilitate control over critical dimensions and reduce issues related to template release.

Abstract: A sabot includes a base and a plurality of elongated petals extending therefrom. Each petal includes an elongated sidewall portion having an arched interior surface and an arched exterior surface each extending between a first end and an opposing second end. A floor portion inwardly projects from the interior surface of the sidewall portion at the second end thereof so as to form an inside angle between the interior surface of the sidewall portion and an interior surface of the floor portion, each floor portion being pivotally connected to the base so that the plurality of petals can selectively move between a collapsed position wherein the sidewall portions combine to formal a substantially cylindrical sidewall that bounds a chamber and an expanded position wherein the sidewall portions radially outwardly project from the base.

Abstract: An auto rack rail road freight car is provided for carrying low density, relatively high value, relatively fragile lading. The car has trucks that have multiple dampers in a four corner arrangement in the sideframes. The dampers may include damper wedges having primary and secondary wedge angles. The spring groups in the side frames are relatively soft, giving a low vertical bounce natural frequency. In an articulated embodiment, differentially placed ballast is mounted in a biased arrangement to load the coupler end trucks to encourage a dynamic response similar to the dynamic response of the internal trucks.

Abstract: Precursor compositions useful for atomic layer deposition (ALD) and chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of strontium ruthenium oxide (SrRuO3) thin films, e.g., in the manufacture of microelectronic devices, as well as processes of making and using such precursors, and precursor supply systems containing such precursor compositions in packaged form. Cyclopentadienyl compounds of varied type are described, including cyclopentadienyl as well as non cyclopentadienyl ligands coordinated to ruthenium, strontium or barium central atoms. The precursors of the invention are useful for forming contacts for microelectronic memory device structures, and in a specific aspect for selectively coating copper metallization without deposition on associated dielectric, under deposition conditions in a forming gas ambient.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a method for the generation of a transparent conductive oxide coating (TCO layer), in particular a transparent conductive oxide coating as a transparent contact for solar cells, flat panel displays and the like. The TCO layer is generated by depositing zinc oxide and additionally aluminium, indium, gallium, boron, nitrogen, phosphorous, chlorine, fluorine or antimony or a combination thereof, with the process atmosphere containing hydrogen. These TCO layers can be realized in a particularly simple and cost-effective way compared to ITO. The properties of the inventive TCO layers are nearly as good as those for ITO, regarding high transmittance and low resistance.

Abstract: Disclosed is an aqueous solution of a chromium salt, in which the oxalic acid content is 8% by weight or less relative to chromium. In the aqueous solution of the chromium salt, the total organic carbon content is 4% by weight or less relative to chromium. The chromium salt is preferably a chromium chloride, a chromium phosphate, or a chromium nitrate. The chromium chloride preferably contains a basic chromium chloride represented by the composition formula Cr(OH)xCly (wherein 0<x?2, 1?y<3, and x+y=3). The chromium phosphate is preferably one represented by the composition formula Cr(H3-3/nPO4)n (wherein n is a number satisfying 2?n?3). The chromium nitrate is preferably a basic chromium nitrate represented by the composition formula Cr(OH)x(NO3)y (wherein 0<x?2, 1?y<3, and x+y=3).

Abstract: The invention relates to coated pearlescent pigments, whereby the coating covers the pearlescent pigments and comprises uncured, however, chemically cross-linkable and/or oligomeric and/or polymeric binding agents that can be cross-linked by heat, IR radiation, UV radiation and/or electron rays. The invention also relates to a method for producing the coated pearlescent pigments and to the use thereof. The invention additionally relates to a coating composition and to a coated article.

Abstract: The invention consists of a method for manufacturing an aqueous suspension or dispersion of calcium carbonate and kaolin, via steps of manufacturing, potentially in the presence of a dispersing agent or grinding agent, an aqueous suspension or dispersion of calcium carbonate with a solids content less than 70% of its weight, and of adding kaolin in dry powder form so as to achieve a ratio, by dry weight (precipitated calcium carbonate:kaolin) between (90:10) and (10:90). The other objects of the invention reside in the aqueous suspensions or dispersions thereby obtained, and their use in manufacturing paper coatings, which make it possible to obtain improved optical properties in the end product.

Abstract: The invention is related to a premixed putty calcium phosphate composition comprising at least two calcium phosphate minerals, at least one reaction retarding agent, at least one binding agent, at least one sodium phosphate, and at least one nonaqueous extender, wherein one of said at least two calcium phosphate minerals contains a stabilizing agent.