Abstract: A grid system is provided that is particularly suited for the suspended ceiling system that varies in the vertical plane. An elongated carrier tube is provided the spans substantially the width of the grid system that has a slot therein adapted to receive the strengthening bulb of a main runner. A clip is provided that seats on the carrier tube that has opposed faces for capturing the bulb of the runner, so as to secure the runner to the tube carrier.

Abstract: An assembly (14, 16) for securing two juxtaposed panels (64, 66) to a structure (74), each panel including a joining flange (68, 70) located at, or adjacent to, respective juxtaposed edges thereof. The assembly includes a retaining member (14) having a substantially planar surface (24) supporting at opposite edges thereof respective first flanges (26, 28) and a clamping member (16) having two spaced-apart legs (48, 40) depending from a web (36). Second flanges (46, 48) are each supported on a facing internal surface of a respective one of the legs so as to extend away from the web. Each leg engages a respective exposed surface of an adjacent joining flange, the first and second flanges being oriented in opposite directions so as to interlock when the clamping member is mounted on the retaining member and thereby limit lateral separation of the legs.

Abstract: A system of interlocking decorative panels having a stone decorative element.

Abstract: A foldable cornerlock is used in a frame assembly. The frame assembly includes first and second ends. The walls of the frame member define an interior of the frame member and also define at least one notch. The frame member is bendable at the notch to form a corner of the frame member. The foldable cornerlock is disposed in the notch and extends into the interior of the frame member. The foldable cornerlock comprises first and second body portions each configured to mate with the interior of the frame member. The body portions are movable relative to each other for inserting the foldable cornerlock into the notch of the frame member. The foldable cornerlock also comprises a hinge portion coupling the body portions together. The hinge portion defines an axis extending in a longitudinal direction through the hinge portion.

Abstract: A frame assembly supports an article. The frame assembly comprises a frame member having a plurality of walls extending between a first end and a second end. The walls define an interior of the frame member. The frame assembly also comprises at least one foldable cornerlock. The foldable cornerlock has first and second body portions movable relative to each other. A method of manufacturing the frame assembly comprises the steps of forming at least one notch in the frame member spaced from the ends of the frame member, inserting the foldable cornerlock into the notch, and bending the frame member about the notch of the frame member.

Abstract: A tapered load plate transfers loads across a joint between adjacent concrete floor slabs. The top and bottom surfaces may taper from approximately 4 inches wide to a narrow substantially pointed end over a length of approximately 12 inches. The tapered load plate accommodates differential shrinkage of cast-in-place concrete slabs. The tapered load plate may comprise a main plate and at least one extension. When adjacent slabs move away from each other, the narrow end of the tapered load plate moves out of the void that it created in the slab thus allowing the slabs to move relative to one another in a direction parallel to the joint. Tapered load plates may be assembled into a load-plate basket with the direction of the taper alternating from one tapered load plate to the next to account for off-center saw cuts.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition of at least one cation of an element selected from Group IIA elements, transition metals, Group IIB elements, Group IIIA elements, Si, Ge, Sn, Pb, As, Sb, Bi, Te, and Po and at least one polyester resin, which can be used as a low VOC binder for the manufacture of fibrous insulation.

Abstract: A method, forming panel and system provide for monolithic pouring of concrete columns, beams and elevated decks. The forming panel may be variously sized and dimensioned to serve as a beam forming member or a column forming member, and includes a frame having at least one reinforcing member having a plurality of penetration indicators which are not in registry, at least initially, with any opening in a face plate of the form. The penetration indicators serve as markers and preferably guide templates for drilling openings at preselected locations in the face plate at corresponding to the indicators. The openings so drilled are part of coupler-receiving passages, whereby forms may be variously configured in different dimensions or arrangements. The forms may be configured to provide column form assemblies, beam form assemblies, or receive floor forms in a variety of configurations, and may be readily reconfigured and reused by plugging openings which are in currently undesired locations.

Abstract: A system and method of releasably mounting a device, usually to a ceiling, is disclosed. The system has a ceiling mounted unit (200) and a device mounted unit (250), releasably joined preferably by an magnetic coupling (202) which engages a floating plate (252) allowing for positive coupling even if the units are misaligned. A safety latch (256) with a locking/latching claw (260) and ejection/disengagement prong (266) provide positive locking and a method of separating the units despite strong adhesion forces.

Abstract: 1. A post frame bookshelf style steel reinforced building panel and the construction method thereof to form a building structure.

Abstract: One of the major structural components in a space frame tower is the tower leg. A novel and nonobvious tower leg structure is provided which provides significant advantages and benefits over previously available structures.

Abstract: A one-way valve element for use with containers such as flexible storage bags includes an elastomeric or similar material that can elastically expand to expose and at least substantially resiliently recover to cover an aperture through a sidewall of the container. Hence, air from the interior volume of the container can be evacuated through the valve element by, for example, interfacing an evacuation device with the valve element. The valve element can be provided as a single layer structure or a multiple layered structure that is attached to the sidewall of the container over the aperture. In another aspect, a valve element includes a gel-like material retained in a valve body and that can displace to allow air flow across the valve.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for containing, protecting, isolating, and individually identifying sets of one or more articles in a plurality of compartments such that information related to the sets can be easily and efficiently linked to the set. In an example of the apparatus, the apparatus has a compartment layer, a sealant layer, and indicia which may individually identify compartments. In another example, a method includes taking a compartment layer and sealant layer, loading compartments with sets of one or more articles, closing the compartment layer with the sealant layer, and identifying each compartment for each seed or portion thereof with a positionally-addressable ordered array of indicia on at least one of the layers of the package.

Abstract: Biomedical devices, such as ophthalmic lenses, and methods of making such devices having a surface coating including at least one polyionic layer. A preferred method involves spray coating a polycationic material onto a core lens, rinsing and drying the lens, followed by spray coating a polyanionic material, rinsing and drying. The coating process may be applied a plurality of times to achieve a multi-layer coating on the lens surface. A particularly preferred embodiment is a contact lens comprising a highly oxygen permeable hydrophobic core coated with a 5 to 20 bilayers of hydrophilic polyionic materials.

Abstract: A packaging apparatus including a receptacle, a ram, a film dispensing assembly and first and second elongate members. The receptacle defines a central axis and has a dispensing end with first and second substantially linear and parallel opposed edges that define an axial limit of the dispensing end. The plastic film material forms a film tube about the receptacle. The first and second elongate members are substantially parallel with the first and second edges. In operation, the ram is extended to eject the batch of material through the dispensing end into the film tube. Retracting the ram forms a partial vacuum within the film tube between the batch of material and the ram. The first and second elongate members compressively engage the film tube between the batch of material and the dispensing end and thereby form folded flaps in the film tube. A method of packaging is also disclosed.

Abstract: A packaging machine and a method of manufacturing a package are provided. The method may comprise the following: forming a container (13) in a web of a first web-like material (7) by deep-drawing; forming a lid (14?) in a web of a further web-like material (9?) by deep-drawing; placing the lid (14?) onto the container (13); and subsequently separating the container (13) from the first web-like material (7, 9?), wherein an edge (20, 21, 22) of the container (13) and an edge (20?, 21?, 22?) of the lid (14?) are formed in an angled or bent form.

Abstract: Cigarette packs of the hinge-lid-box type with an outer wrapping of shrinkable film are transported through a shrinkage station (22) in two pack rows (26, 27), in each case comprising individual packs. In the region of said shrinkage station, shrinkage elements, namely heating plates (24, 25; 45, 46), subject the upper side and/or lower side of the packs (10), during a standstill phase of the same, to (contact) heat. The packs (10) are transported such that the lower side and the upper side are simultaneously or consecutively exposed for contact by the heating plates.

Abstract: A method for gas filling a handle portion of a container of a collapsible type. The handle portion being defined by two opposite side walls of the container and communicating, via a duct defined by the side walls, with an opening formed in one of the side walls. The method including the steps of supplying, at a gas filling station, a gas to the handle portion via the opening and the duct, blocking the duct by a squeezing action to retain the gas supplied to the handle portion, transporting the container to a sealing station while maintaining the squeezing action and, at said sealing station, sealing the duct while maintaining the squeezing action, so as to permanently enclose the gas in the handle portion. The disclosure further concerns a container of a collapsible type.

Abstract: A package includes a pour spout and a closure cap. The pour spout is adapted to fit into a neck finish associated with a container.

Abstract: In a process for introducing individual products into containers by means of a picker line comprising at least two pickers individual products are individually picked and transposed to containers. The individual products and the containers are delivered in counterflow on at least one transportation device for the individual products and on at least one transportation device for the containers. The delivery of a next container to be filled into the transposition area of the picker line is controlled by any picker. The picker which is controlling the delivery of the next container to be filled is determined by the number of currently introduced products at the infeed of the picker line.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide a technology capable of reducing the power consumption of a packaging machine without declining the availability factor of the whole of the system in a packaging system. In order to achieve the object, the packaging system includes a processing device performing a predetermined process on supplied processing objects and discharging them, and a packaging machine packaging the processing objects discharged from the processing device. The packaging machine includes a control unit centralized controlling the operation of the whole of the packaging machine. The control unit operates the packaging machine in the power-saving mode when the insufficient supply of the processing objects has occurred in the processing device, or when the insufficient supply of the processing objects is likely to occur in the processing device.

Abstract: An evacuation device may include an airflow redirecting baffle. The baffle may separate out liquids that may be entrained or suspended in air being withdrawn from vacuum storage containers in which food items are placed for vacuum preservation. The evacuation device may also include a nozzle that can interface with a valve element on the storage container. The nozzle aligns airflow in a first flow direction initially within the evacuation device. The baffle is positioned in the evacuation device such that, when airflow encounters the baffle, the airflow or a portion thereof is redirected or diverted in a second flow direction. Redirecting airflow from a first flow direction to a second flow direction causes high inertia liquids entrained in the airflow to impinge upon the baffle and thereby separate from the airflow. An absorbent material can be included to absorb and retain the separated fluids.

Abstract: A vertical bagging machine including a spindle for receiving and supporting a roll of stock material, the spindle defining a spindle axis, wherein the stock material is unwindable as a sheet, a folding plate defining a folding plate plane that is substantially parallel with the spindle axis, the folding plate including a first edge and a second edge, wherein the first and second edges are generally equal in length and connect at a central peak, a spreader chute including a first guide plate and a second guide plate, the second guide plate being generally parallel with and spaced apart from the first guide plate, wherein the first and second guide plates are substantially perpendicular to the folding plate plane, and first and second folding rollers defining a nip therebetween, the first and second folding rollers being generally parallel with the folding plate plane and disposed between the folding plate and the spreader chute, wherein the sheet is moveable over the central peak, through the nip, and over the

Abstract: In the strapping machine according to the invention, in which a strap guiding lance is inserted under the packaged goods through a penetrating opening provided in a pallet in order to create a circumferential strap channel into which a strap can be shot to produce a strapping, a particularly strong, but also lightweight design of the strap guiding lance is proposed, allowing rapid and precise insertion of the lance.

Abstract: A piece of saddlery equipment for facilitating the saddling of a horse by making it safer, quicker, and simpler the fastening of the cinch under the belly of the horse to the rigging of the saddle by the permanent attachment of the connecting straps to the opposing ends of the cinch. The cinch has a buckle on each end and a strap permanently attached to each end of the cinch. The strap permanently attached to the cinch loops through the rigging on the saddle once then runs through the buckle on the cinch and is secured to the cinch by placing the tongue of the buckle through the appropriate hole on the strap to ensure securement of the saddle to the horse.

Abstract: A filter apparatus comprises first and second filters, each having an upstream surface and a downstream surface. At least one bypass channel extends from a position upstream of the upstream surface of the first filter to a position upstream of the upstream surface of the second filter.

Abstract: A device for the precipitation of liquid droplets from a gas stream having the following characteristics is proposed: a pre-precipitation chamber (4) is provided, into which the gas stream to be purified is conducted such that it rebounds on a wall (6) of said pre-precipitation chamber (4) and is conducted vertically upward (arrow 7) by the flow pressure in the wall area. A main precipitator (3), which is disposed vertically above said pre-precipitator (4), is provided, comprising a drainage element, which can have the gas stream to be purified flow through it laterally from the outside to the inside (arrows 13) and centrally releases the purified gas stream vertically upward (arrow 14).

Abstract: Embodiments for a filter and method for fabricating the same are provide herein. In one embodiment, a filter is provided that includes a first end cap, a second end cap, at least a first filtration media element and at least a first brace. The first end cap has an air flow aperture formed therethrough. The first and second end caps define a central axis. The first filtration media element is coupled to the first and second end caps and has an orientation curved around the central axis. The brace separates a first closed edge of the filtration media element from a second closed edge of the filtration media element.

Abstract: There is disclosed a honeycomb filter which can perform an NOx reduction treatment while increasing a strength and collecting a PM with a small pressure drop. The honeycomb filter includes porous partition walls which partition a plurality of cells as through channels for a fluid, and predetermined cells each having one end opened and the other end plugged and the remaining cells each having one end plugged and the other end opened are alternately arranged. In the honeycomb filter, surface layers of the partition walls on the side of the predetermined cells are coated with films containing zeolite as a main component.

Abstract: A filter element includes a filter media pack and an axial seal member configured to axially seal against a filter housing. The axial seal member may be supported by and attached to the filter media pack by a media pack seal member. Alternatively, the axial seal member may be carried by a frame, which is attached to the filter media pack by the media pack seal member.

Abstract: There is disclosed a ceramic honeycomb structure which is not easily damaged and is excellent in durability even in a case where irregular canning conditions such as an overload and an offset load are generated. The ceramic honeycomb structure has a cell tilt angle of 0.5° or more and 35° or less and a substantially elliptic or oblong sectional shape vertical to a central axis direction.

Abstract: An agricultural machine having a crop pick up section, a crop chamber, and a crop repositioning device. The crop chamber has an opening and the crop repositioning device receives crop material from the crop pick up section and assists in the delivery of the crop material to the opening. The crop repositioning device is configured to reposition at least a portion of the crop material dependent upon the detected crop material distribution in the crop pickup section, the detected crop material distribution in the opening and/or the detected crop material distribution in the crop chamber.

Abstract: The invention relates to an air intake structure that can be mounted upstream of a nacelle middle structure for an aircraft engine, and that particularly includes: an outer wall (7) including a lip (9) and that can be mounted relative to said middle structure so as to move between a rear position and a front position; a wall (11) defining a de-icing compartment (13) in said lip (9); at least one de-icing collector (15) extending in said compartment (13); and at least one hot-air supply duct (17) of said collector (15), that can be rigidly connected to said middle structure. The wall (11) is tightly secured inside said lip (9), and said supply duct (17) is connected to said collector (15) by removable sealing means (27, 29, 31, 35).

Abstract: Split flow regenerative power cycle systems are provided. The systems can include a gas turbine configured to generate a split flow exhaust stream having a first exhaust stream and a second exhaust stream, a regenerator operatively coupled to the gas turbine and configured to receive the first exhaust stream, and a heat recovery steam generator operatively coupled to the gas turbine and configured to receive a second exhaust stream. The systems can include generating a gas turbine exhaust stream from a gas turbine, splitting the exhaust stream to a first exhaust stream and a second exhaust stream, directing the first exhaust stream from the gas turbine to a first regenerative power cycle and directing the second exhaust stream from the gas turbine to a second heat recovery power cycle.

Abstract: A combined cycle power plant includes a gas turbomachine, a steam turbomachine operatively coupled to the gas turbomachine, and a heat recovery steam generator operatively coupled to the gas turbomachine and the steam turbomachine. The heat recovery steam generator includes a high pressure reheat section provided with at least one high pressure superheater and at least one reheater. The combined cycle power plant further includes a controller operatively connected to the gas turbomachine, the steam turbomachine and the heat recovery steam generator. The controller is selectively activated to initiate a flow of steam through the heat recovery steam generator following shutdown of the gas turbomachine to lower a temperature of at least one of the high pressure superheater and the at least one reheater and reduce development of condensate quench effects during HRSG purge of a combined cycle power plant shutdown.

Abstract: A pump arrangement and method of regulating pressure of a pump arrangement are provided. The pump arrangement includes an actuation pump, a pressure regulating valve, and a control valve. The actuation pump has an actuation pump outlet providing an actuation pump discharge flow. The actuation pump discharge flow is piped to opposite sides of a regulator valve member that selectively adjusts an amount of fluid that is bled from the actuation pump outlet such that the actuation pump outlet pressure is used to regulate the actuation pump discharge pressure. The actuation pump discharge flow is separated into first and second portions to provide opposing forces on the regulator valve member. The control valve is operably interposed between the actuation pump outlet and the valve member to selectively adjusts the amount of biasing applied by the second portion of the actuation pump discharge flow on the regulator valve member.

Abstract: An ignition assembly for providing increased movement of an igniter within a combustor is provided. The ignition assembly includes a base assembly having a first base plate, a second base plate, and a positioning plate, where the positioning plate contains an igniter and is capable of adjusting in an axial and/or circumferential direction relative to the combustor.

Abstract: Method for improving the performance of a bypass turbojet engine. According to the invention, the area of the annular outlet orifice (6) for the cold stream (9) is tailored to suit a reference value of the expansion ratio of said cold stream (9) which ranges between the extreme values of said expansion ratio corresponding respectively to the start and end of the phase of cruising flight.

Abstract: The method of the invention for monitoring a thrust reverser of a turbojet having an actuator controlled by an electric motor consists in determining a maintenance notice from a weighted combination of provisional notices, each provisional notice relating to a category of parameters associated with at least one phase of an operating cycle of the reverser, the category being selected from a category of parameters representative of a duration of said phase, of an energy seen by the motor during said phase, of a torque seen by the motor at a predefined instant of said phase, and of a duration during which the setpoint speed of rotation and the measured speed of rotation of the motor differ during said phase, each provisional notice being generated by analyzing values obtained during at least one cycle for at least one parameter of said category relative to a degradation threshold.

Abstract: A helical cross flow pulse detonation engine.

Abstract: An engine contains a compressor stage, a plurality of pulse detonation combustors and a plurality of inlet valves, where the inlet valves direct a mass flow into the pulse detonation combustors. A control system controls at least one of a phase shift, firing frequency and a ?open/?cycle ratio of the pulse detonation combustors based on a mass flow and/or a resonance within the engine.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a thermoelectric (TE) device, a gas flow conduit proximate to one side of the thermoelectric device, a plurality of flexible tubes proximate to a second side of the thermoelectric device, and a spring to control contact force between the flexible tubes and the thermoelectric device. The spring comprises a coil spring at least partially circumscribing the gas flow conduit. The thermoelectric device converts a temperature differential between the flexible tubes and the gas flow conduit into electrical energy.

Abstract: The present invention is directed towards methods and systems for treatment of exhaust gas from an engine. In one embodiment, an exhaust gas treatment system for a diesel engine is provided. The system includes a urea selective catalytic reduction (U-SCR) catalyst in fluid communication with a diesel engine to receive an exhaust gas flow therefrom. The system also includes a four-way catalyst in fluid communication with the U-SCR catalyst to receive the exhaust gas flow therefrom, the four-way catalyst comprising a lean nitrogen oxide (NOX) trap (LNT) and diesel particulate filter (DPF).

Abstract: There are provided a reductant supply device and a control method for the reductant supply device, which can prevent heat damage of a reductant injection valve, and also prevent crystallization of urea solution due to excessive cooling of the solution reductant.

Abstract: According to one exemplary embodiment, an apparatus is disclosed for estimating an NOx conversion efficiency of an SCR catalyst. The apparatus includes a catalyst degradation module for determining an SCR catalyst degradation factor and a NOx concentration module for determining an SCR catalyst inlet NOx concentration based on an interpretation of at least one NOx detector signal. Additionally, the apparatus includes an NH3 concentration module for determining an SCR catalyst inlet NH3 concentration, a temperature module for determining an SCR catalyst bed temperature of the at least one SCR catalyst, and a space velocity (SV) module for determining an exhaust gas SV for the SCR catalyst. A NOx conversion efficiency module calculates a NOx conversion efficiency value based at least partially on the SCR catalyst degradation factor, the SCR catalyst inlet NOx concentration, the SCR catalyst inlet NH3 concentration, the exhaust gas SV, and the SCR catalyst bed temperature.

Abstract: It is provided a device for detecting an accumulation amount of particulates. The device has a filter for trapping particulates from a gas containing the particulates, a container 5 for containing the filter, an upstream pipe 3 provided on the upstream side of the container 5 to lead the gas into the container 5, a downstream pipe 4 provided on the downstream side of the container 5 to lead the gas after passed through the filter, a transmitting antenna 10 provided within the downstream pipe 4 to transmit an electromagnetic wave having a frequency of 30 GHz or more but not exceeding 10 THz, and a receiving antenna 11 provided within the upstream pipe 3 to receive the electromagnetic wave. An amount of the particulates trapped in the filter is detected based on an intensity of the electromagnetic wave received by the receiving antenna 11.

Abstract: A device for detecting particulates includes: a filter; a filter container; an upstream pipe; a downstream pipe; an upstream detecting unit; and a downstream detecting unit. The upstream detecting unit has a branch flow route for receiving gas from the upstream pipe, a trapping portion, a transmitting portion for transmitting an electromagnetic wave to the trapping portion, and a receiving portion for receiving an electromagnetic wave from the trapping portion. The downstream detecting unit has a branch flow route for receiving gas from the downstream pipe, a trapping portion, a transmitting portion for transmitting an electromagnetic wave to the trapping portion, and a receiving portion for receiving an electromagnetic wave from the trapping portion. The amount of the particulates trapped in the filter is detected based on a difference between detection values of the mass of the particulates trapped in the upstream and downstream trapping portions.

Abstract: When an estimated value (A value) of an accumulation amount in a filter for trapping particulate matter reaches a prescribed value A1 corresponding to a prescribed accumulation amount Qm of the particulate matter and ash (S12), the forced regeneration of the filter is performed (S20); and when the estimated value (A value) reaches the prescribed value A1 again before the elapsed time since the completion of the forced regeneration of the filter reaches a prescribed time period T1 (S12, S14), it is judged that the amount of the ash accumulated in the filter is equal to or larger than a regulation amount (cleaning is required).

Abstract: This paper suggests a procedure for the operation of an internal combustion engine, which has a particle filter arrayed to its emission system, which, during regeneration, is cleansed of its stored particles. This also describes the procedure's comparison of the engine's amount of a load to the load threshold value. It also has a throttle cut-off, which suppresses the fuel supply entirely when the engine's amount of a load is lower than the load threshold value and the engine's revolutions are higher the revolution threshold value. The set load threshold value above null is further dependant on the particle filter's regeneration signal. These procedures, based in this invention, are to prevent the overheating of the particle filter during its regeneration.

Abstract: The ECU executes a program that includes the steps of: calculating the temperature Texp of the wall surface of the exhaust port and the temperature Tsen of the wall surface of the inner cover covering the zirconia element of the A/F sensor (S110); heating the zirconia element by the heater (S130) when at least one of the condition that the temperature Texp is equal to or higher than the first threshold and the condition that the temperature Tsen is equal to or higher than the second threshold is in effect (S120: YES); and prohibiting the heating of the zirconia element by the heater (S140) when the temperature Texp is lower than the first threshold and the temperature Tsen is lower than the second threshold (S120: NO).