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Adolph Coors Company

Charles E Brossia

Samuel C Wu

Warren R Williams

Roblee L Talbott

Ronald B Peterson

A method for monitoring the health of a physical system that produces waste heat as a function of ambient temperature includes the generation of a standard profile model of the system in good health and a degraded profile model of the system in bad health, each profile being within the same family of curves. The monitored system is then sampled for sample ambient temperature and sample waste heat temperature to generate a system degradation indicator, preferably as a percentage of degradation. Alarms and displays present relevant warnings and information to the user. Waste heat affecting variables in addition to ambient temperature may be included in the standard and degraded profiles, and these variables may be monitored to produce the degradation indicator. The method is preferably microprocessor controlled.

Method for monitoring the health of physical systems producing waste heat

A system for automatic and real time detection of the presence or absence of a substance in an environment by monitoring variations in light energy transmitted through an optical fiber having a specially processed sensitive probe area. The sensitive probe area is positioned on, about or within the environment where a substance is to be detected. Because of differences in optical indices of refraction and energy absorption characteristics of different substances, the presence of different substances at the processed sensitive area will cause different proportional and characteristic attenuation of the light energy passing through the optical fiber. Changes in light energy transmission can be interpreted automatically to provide an indication of the condition of an environment.

Fiber optic probe system

This invention provides method and apparatus for reshaping the bottom wall of an aluminum can body wherein a mold member having a generally cylindrical outer surface having a longitudinal axis and a contoured bottom surface is mounted for rotation in a support structure and an aluminum can body having a generally cylindrical sidewall having a longitudinal axis and an integral bottom wall is secured on the mold member so that an annular portion of the bottom wall contacts at least an annular portion of the contoured bottom surface and the longitudinal axes thereof coincide. As the mold member and the can body are rotated, resilient forces are applied to the bottom wall using a tool member having a spherical surface which is moved in a diametrical linear direction across the bottom wall to reshape the bottom wall into conformation with the contoured bottom surface.

Method and apparatus for doming can bottoms

A system for automatic and real time detection of water and icing on surfaces by monitoring variations in light energy transmitted through an optical fiber having a specially processed sensitive area probe. The sensitive probe area is positioned on, about or within the surface on which icing is to be detected. Because of differences in optical indices of refraction and energy absorption characteristics of air, water and ice, the presence of each of these at the processed sensitive area will cause a proportional and characteristic attenuation of the light energy passing through the optical fiber. Changes in light energy transmission can be interpreted automatically to provide an indication of icing. A reference optical circuit may be used to provide compensation for variations in input energy levels. Light energy of different wave lengths and energy levels may be used to compensate for or avoid interference with measurement by ambient lighting conditions or for the detection of other conditions and materials using the principle of characteristic absorption and resonance.

An apparatus for transporting and stacking, by use of a support device of a lift truck, an array of containers in a predetermined stacked configuration, comprising a pallet member made of one piece of relatively thin plastic sheet material having flap portions permanently formed in an upwardly outwardly extending position, and a divider member made of one piece of relatively thin plastic sheet material having flap portions in a downwardly extending position, the flap portions of the pallet member and of the divider member providing protection for the containers and defining an outwardly diverging slot providing access for insertion of the support device of the lift truck.

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Highlands Ranch, CO, United States of America

Charles E Brossia