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Charles E Jenkins

Raymond A Stanford

A free standing fishing alarm is provided in which the head or tail member(s) may be threadably attached to the body member, creating a water tight environment for the circuitry and associated components, or removed from the body member to allow service and maintenance of the device. The body member internally houses the circuitry, including batteries, and the lighting and audible signaling means. The body member externally houses a clamp means, a toggle switch, a fastening means, and two opposable ends with threads for receiving the head and tail members so as to provide a unified device. A user can simply attach the device to a fishing rod or a stake, cast the fishing line, place the line within the clamp means, flip the toggle switch &ldquo;on&rdquo; and wait for the &ldquo;big one&rdquo; to strike.

Free standing fishing alarm

A first compressor (10) supplies air under pressure to a first stage pressure swing adsorption system (D) which separates oxygen and argon from atmospheric air. A second stage pressure swing adsorption system (E) separates the oxygen from the argon. Each time the compressor (10) is shut off, pressure in molecular sieve beds (22a, 22b) and (90a, 90b) tend to equalize causing mixing of retained primary product gas a feed stock gas. When the compressor (10) is restarted, the intermixed gas is supplied with the primary product gas for the first few cycles. During the first few cycles, a diverter valve (130) diverts the primary product gas to a vent (132) such that the reduced purity primary product gas is not supplied downstream. Thereafter, primary product gas is drawn into a suction tank (110) which is maintained at a reduced pressure by a second compressor (112). A second compressor (112) is a piston type compressor that compresses gas by reciprocating movement of the piston (150) and a cylinder (152) draws primary product gas in on a suction stroke and compresses it on a compression stroke. During the suction stroke, gas tends to be drawn between the piston and the cylinder from a crankcase (158). Primary product gas is fed by a line (162) into the crankcase to maintain the crankcase charged with the primary product gas. In this manner, any primary product gas which leaks between the piston and the cylinder is primary product gas and does not dilute the primary product gas which is compressed and supplied downstream by the compressor.

System for eliminating air leakage and high purity oxygen of a PSA

A first separation stage (A) separates nitrogen, carbon dioxide, and water vapor from atmospheric air. A mixture of oxygen and argon is passed from the first separation stage as the feed stock to a second separation stage (B). The second separation stage includes a pair of molecular sieve beds (90a, 90b) which adsorb oxygen and pass argon. The feed stock is passed to one of the beds such that the oxygen is adsorbed and the argon flows through to an argon discharge port (96). When the first bed is reaching saturation, a secondary product valve (108) closes the argon discharge port, a flush valve (82) supplies high purity oxygen to the bed, and a product conservation valve (104) causes the oxygen and argon gas in the interstitial voids of the saturated bed to be channeled to the other bed. The other bed is at reduced pressure by virtue of having just had its adsorbed oxygen desorbed. After the primary product flushing gas has flushed all of the argon from the interstitial voids of the saturated bed into the other bed, the saturated bed is connected with a low pressure collection tank (110) and a compressor (112) which desorbs the adsorbed oxygen and pumps it into a high purity oxygen receiver tank (116). As the saturated bed is being desorbed, the feed stock is supplied to the other bed. The process is repeated cyclically.

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New Albany, IN, United States of America

Charles E Jenkins