Abstract: A tactical mirror system includes a convex mirror that may be rapidly deployed and adhesively affixed to a room entry door to provide a room entry team member with a view of the room interior from a concealed cover position outside the room adjacent to the doorway is disclosed. A rip-cord is affixed to allow the user to peel away a protective layer thereby exposing an adhesive coated surface thereby allowing for rapid affixation of the mirror. A pair of diametrically opposed notches and a resilient transversely disposed band that function to allow the mirror device to be removably mounted to a baton to allow a room entry team member to manually extend and position the mirror. A plurality of mirrors may be provided and configured for compact nested storage thereby providing the user with a plurality of deployable mirror devices.

Abstract: A system and method of fabricating tank car outer jackets are provided that include supporting a plurality of coils of sheet metal on a plurality of coil supports such that the central longitudinal axes of the plurality of coils are generally parallel to a central longitudinal axis of a mandrel adjacent the plurality of coils. A plurality of sheets of sheet metal are unwound from the plurality of coils by rotating each of the plurality of coils generally about the respective central longitudinal axes of each of the plurality of coils. As the plurality of sheets of sheet metal are wound onto the mandrel, adjacent sheets of the plurality of sheets of sheet metal are welded together using a plurality of automated welding torches proximate the mandrel. The plurality of automated welding torches may be coupled for communication with a programmable logic controller.

Abstract: A production managing method for production of motion picture photo film is provided. At first, film web is slitted to produce continuous photo film having a predetermined width. Production managing information is written to an RFID (radio frequency identification) tag, and includes a roll number and slitting number, which are related to the film web and the continuous photo film. The continuous photo film is cut to produce motion picture photo film. The production managing information is stored in association with the motion picture photo film. The motion picture photo film is checked. If the motion picture photo film has a defect, the production managing information may be referred to for detecting a portion of the film web or the continuous photo film from which the defect derives. Other motion picture photo films with a defect will be traced.

Abstract: Process and apparatus for winding a running material web, in particular a paper or cardboard web, in which the running material web is wound consecutively on several winding cores, in particular reel spools. At least one cut is made preferably running parallel to the web edge of the running material web and in the web travel direction of the running material web. After the started at least one cut has run through the nip formed by the winding roll and the new winding core, the at least one formed transfer strip which is incorporated in the running material web is detached from the outer circumferential area of the winding roll by at least one directed high-energy air jet that is generated briefly by at least one separator device and simultaneously cuts through. Subsequently, the at least one now detached transfer strip is transferred onto, and preferably applied to, the outer circumferential area of the new winding core by at least one first blower device, in particular a blower shoe.

Abstract: A reel configuration for winding thinly rolled finished strip after passing through a cooling section situated at the end of an installation for the continuous rolling of hot strip cross sections from thin slabs which are cast with near-final dimensions, on one of two expandable reel mandrels arranged such that they float in a horizontal and parallel manner with respect to one another. The mandrels are mounted such that they are rotatably driven independently of one another in a supporting structure which can rotate about a common horizontal center axis and to which the finished strip coming from the finishing train can be fed by means of a driver-shear combination. High speed emergency shears are arranged upstream of the driver-shear combination and have assigned to them a collecting space underneath the plane of the roller table for receiving the residual material from the finishing train.