Abstract:
A pipe holder comprises a handle and a slant piece. The slant piece includes a handle attachment point, a mouth, and a support point. A centerline runs through the mouth and support point. The handle attachment point resides between the mouth and support point, and is configured to point the handle approximately orthogonal to the slant piece centerline. The mouth is sized and shaped to urge a pipe to reside in the mouth substantially orthogonal to the handle and at an angle other than 90 degrees from a plane of the slant piece. When an inserted end of the pipe is inserted through the mouth, a three point stance is formed by the support point, an opposite end of the pipe, and a support end of the handle. The inserted end of the pipe is thereby supported above the ground. The pipe holder is stabilized by stepping on the handle.
Abstract:
An improved system for fabricating convolutely wound tubes includes a supply roll support for supporting a large supply of paperboard, an adhesive applicator for receiving paperboard from the supply roll and applying a coating of adhesive to one side thereof, a cutting station for cutting the paperboard across its length to form sheets of paperboard, and a winding station including a mandrel about which cut sheets of adhesive bearing paperboard are wound into a tubular configuration. As the paperboard is drawn from the supply roll, one of its edges passes sequentially through three corrugating nip rolls, which alternately deform the material of the edge to render it more pliable and flexible. This flexible edge, then, becomes the trailing edge of paperboard sheets that are wound into tubes such that the edge can be easily conformed to the contour of and adhered to the outer surface of the finished tube.
Abstract:
The invention disclosed is a high-speed suspended monorail transport system, characterized by an elevated rail system with a circular rail flange profile, aerodynamic passenger or cargo cars, a computer control system, and electric hub motors. The system utilizes a unique bogie-like wheel assembly that allows the wheels to roll along different areas of the circular rail flange, accommodating bends and curves at varying speeds without the need for conventional suspension systems. The invention also includes an associated computer process for controlling system functions. The transport system offers significant improvements in privacy, comfort, speed, and cost-effectiveness compared to existing solutions. An alternate embodiment and several optional features for enhanced functionality are also disclosed.
Abstract:
A tubular holder with a circular base, a central column, spokes attached to the central columns and ground spikes attached to spokes or bottom of the circular base. In some variations the spokes have orifices for engaging a cup with a cup spike.
Abstract:
The present invention embodies a drill pipe in which various damaged sections of the pipe are repaired in order to maintain or improve the wear and buckle resistance of the drill pipe. The sections are strengthened using various hardening methods such as heat treatment processes and/or expansion techniques. A sleeve can also be applied to the strengthened portions. Surface enhancers, such as hardbanding, can be applied to the strengthened portions or the sleeve in order to provide abrasion resistance or to reduce friction.
Abstract:
This invention provides a support for supporting a reflector for a high temperature gas cooled nuclear reactor. The support includes a plurality of straps which extend around the reflector. Each strap includes interconnected segments. The segments are formed of metal and the segments are formed of fibre reinforced ceramic so that the coefficient of thermal expansion of the strap corresponds to that of the reflector. The invention also provides a high temperature gas cooled nuclear reactor and a method of supporting a reflector of a high temperature gas cooled nuclear reactor.
Abstract:
A system and method for converting an inbound Internet protocol (IP) connection to a X.25 protocol connection such that unmodified legacy X.25 applications can process IP communications.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a device that protects inboard/outboard motors (up to 250 horsepower) from damage and simultaneously provides an underwater hydrofoil that both helps prevent inboard/outboard motor damage and is specifically designed to improve the efficiency of an outboard motor and the speed and ride of a boat. In one embodiment, an underwater hydrofoil, skeg enclosure, skeg protector and lower-unit protector are combined into a single unit that protects the skeg, the propeller and the lower unit of an inboard/outboard motor while simultaneously improving the efficiency of an inboard/outboard motor and the speed and riding qualities of a boat using that inboard/outboard motor.
Abstract:
Multiple-active database systems include at least two database systems that both store a common portion of a relational database. Each database system includes one or more data-storage facilities configured to store data forming the common portion of the relational database in one or more tables and one or more processing modules configured to manage access to the data in the data-storage facilities. One or more management components are configured to distribute database queries directed at the common portion of the relational database among the database systems and to synchronize the data across the database systems when changes are made to the data stored in at least one of the database systems.
Abstract:
A non-circular can end for a container having walls which form an opening includes a corner-mounted pull tab opener secured to a severable panel portion by an integral rivet. The corner-mounted opener facilitates easy opening of the can end. A pair of generally parallel bead recesses on either side of the integral rivet stiffen the severable panel portion in order to facilitate bending of the panel aft of the rivet to easily open the can end. The severable panel optionally further includes a mustache-shaped scoreline to reduce the amount of force required to lift the opener. Tooling and a conversion press for converting shells into the non-circular can ends are also disclosed.