Abstract: A workstation and method for the installation of a pulling head assembly onto one or more conductors of a cabling system are provided. The workstation incorporates one or more of: a conductor clamp that holds the conductors of the cabling system in place during the installation of the pulling head assembly; a cutting guide having indicia marks that indicate the lengths to which to cut the conductors in order to achieve a staggered pattern of pulling eyes attached to the conductors in the pulling head assembly; a stripping tool that is used to remove a portion of the insulation from the terminal end of each conductor so that the end of the conductor may be inserted into the pulling eye; and a crimping tool that is used to crimp the pulling eyes onto the terminal ends of each of the conductors.

Abstract: A new class of fundamental devices and methods for their manufacture and use. The bulk magnetic field replicators of the present invention require no precision machining or alignment to accurately reproduce magnetic fields of any complexity, nor extreme positional stability to maintain superconductivity. Such bulk devices may be formed of either low or high critical temperature superconductive materials, but are particularly adapted to formation from high critical temperature materials.

Abstract: An apron forming apparatus and method for bending and joining the ends of a pair of apron half segments includes a series of four apron support surfaces lying in a common plane. A clamping arrangement is mounted on each of the apron support surfaces for selectively clamping an apron half segment. A bending arrangement is secured to each of the apron support surfaces for selectively bending an apron half segment. Each of the apron half segments is disposed between a clamping arrangement and a bending arrangement on a pair of apron support surfaces such that the apron half segments lie substantially parallel to each other. Each of the bending arrangements is movable into engagement with an apron half segment to bend the apron half segment such that the ends of one bent apron half segment are placed in overlapping relationship with the ends of the other bent apron half segment.

Abstract: A die set 20 for crimping an electrical connection of a contact terminal member to an electrical conductor comprises two hermaphroditic members 22, 22'. The die members 22, 22' are positioned in opposing relationship along a crimping axis and are reciprocally movable relative to each other along the axis. Each die member 22 has a base section 24 including an anvil 40 extending from the base section 24 and defining an essentially hemispheric concave crimping surface 42 having a selected desired radius. In operation, the anvils 40, 40' are opposed so that upon completion of the crimping portion of a stroke, a symmetrical essentially cylindrical recess 60 is defined having an axis orthogonal to the crimping axis. Each die member 22 further includes a bifurcated plate section 46 including edge surfaces 50 defining a slot 52 having an axis parallel to the cylindrical recess axis.

Abstract: An electrically programmable read only memory or EPROM is formed by an MNOS process compatible with N-channel silicon gate manufacturing methods. Row address lines and gates are second level polysilicon, and output and ground lines are defined by elongated N+ regions formed beneath thin field oxide. Each storage cell is an MNOS transistor having an enhancement mode MOS transistor in series with it. The gates of the MNOS transistors are program address lines for programming and are formed by first level polycrystalline silicon. Each MNOS transistor in the array is programmed to be a logic "1" or "0" by proper voltages applied to row, output and program address lines to store charge at the oxide-nitride interface and thus change the threshold voltage for selected transistors. Then readout is provided using the MOS series transistors for access. A very dense array results.

Abstract: Apparatus for fastening to adjacent substantially co-axially disposed reinforcing rod ends a sleeve of uniform external cross-section throughout its length and having internal cross-sectional dimensions to enable it to receive and embrace both rod ends, comprising at least two fluid pressure operated jack units each having a cylinder, a piston and a piston rod; latching means for releasably securing the jack cylinders together in parallel spaced relationship to one another around one of the reinforcing rods in a zone not occupied by the sleeve; at least two die segments, which collectively provide an axial bore at least part of which is dimensionally smaller in cross-section than the external cross-sectional dimension of the sleeve, loosely mounted on the free ends of the piston rods so as to be capable of limited rotational movement relative thereto in a longitudinal direction; die segment retaining means at the extremities of the piston rods; ring-shaped locking members for temporarily securing the die segm