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Apple Inc.

Chicago Rawhide Mfg. Co.

Donald K Ross

Michael Kane Pilliod

Andrew Everett Davidson

Matthew Theobald

Dennis L Otto

Adam Thomas Stagnaro

Gordon T Drygalski

Donald L Luttermoser

Wallace A Wright, Jr

Andrew Davidson

Apparatus, systems and methods for alignment of a glass member for high temperature processing are disclosed. The high temperature processing can, for example, pertain to a slumping process to mold glass into a predetermined shape (e.g., a three-dimensional shape). In one embodiment, a glass slumping system can have a mold and an alignment system that support a glass member to be slumped relative to the mold. The alignment system may have a plurality of alignment members being configured to move away from the glass member as the temperature increases during the slumping process to allow the glass member to bend around the mold without interference.

Glass alignment for high temperature processes

Apparatus, systems and methods for forming complex edges on a glass member through the use of a glass slumping process are disclosed. According to one aspect of the invention, a method of forming a complex edge in a glass forming process includes grinding an edge of a glass member and polishing the edge of the glass member. Grinding the edge of the glass member causes the edge of the glass member to have a first level of complexity. The method also includes performing a slumping process on the glass member. Performing the slumping process causes the edge of the glass member to have a second level of complexity that is more complex than the first level of complexity.

Pre-processing techniques to produce complex edges using a glass slumping process

A gas wrench and storage therefor including a wrench portion having a first end portion and a second end portion. The first end portion has an angularly disposed slotted opening formed therein. The angularly disposed slotted opening is dimensioned for engaging a turn off valve of a gas meter. The second end portion has an aperture therethrough. A housing is positioned adjacent to the gas meter. The housing has a hook secured therein for positioning through the aperture of the second end portion of the wrench portion to support the wrench portion within the housing.

Gas wrench and storage therefor

This invention relates to a target board for electrically sensing the penetration of darts and similar missiles that do not penetrate entirely through the target. More specifically, the invention relates to the construction of a target board that is adapted to be a sensing device to trigger an electrical scoring device not of this invention wherein an electrical trigger circuit is closed upon the impact of a pointed missile partially penetrating the target board. A unique feature of this invention is that it allows the use of regulation-grade metal-pointed throwing darts of the type preferred by serious dart players, with no modifications made to the dart to accommodate the triggering of the target board circuit.

Electrically scoring dart board

A seal having an exterior seal casing which includes a mounting surface and a seal lip body bonded to a portion of the casing, with the seal lip body comprising annular surfaces defining the air and oil side portions of a primary lip which meet along a generally cylindrical locus of measurable axial extent to provide a primary seal band with a plurality of spaced apart hydrodynamic pumping elements located on this seal band. An auxiliary lip is defined by a pair of frusto-conical surfaces meeting along a generally circular locus to provide an auxiliary or excluder lip portion. Said primary and secondary lips are spaced apart by an annular region of generally V-shaped cross-section, and the primary lip dimension or the pumping elements serve to maintain the primary lip seal band spaced just apart from an associated shaft, at least in the regions of the elements. Said auxiliary lip is of reduced diameter in relation to said seal band dimension in the relaxed condition of the seal.

Reverse lip positive venting seal

An oil or like fluid seal having a rigid exterior casing, a primary lip and an auxillary lip, with the primary or axially inner lip having a primary seal band surface which is generally cylindrical in its relaxed condition and which includes at least one hydrodynamic pumping element on its shaft contact surface, with the auxillary lip, in its relaxed condition, being of greater inside diameter than the primary lip, with the primary and secondary lips being spaced apart so as to define an intermediate annular groove of generally V-shaped cross-sections between them, with the pumping element acting to space portions of the primary lip apart from the associated shaft so as to provide initial venting of gas and vapors from the sealed cavity into the intermediate region and beneath the auxillary lip as cavity pressure increases so as avoid excessive pressure build up in the sealed region or sudden or erratic venting of such pressure.

A solar energy collector having lower and top plates in spaced-apart parallel relationship and being laterally joined to develop a chamber, fluid inlet means provided at the normally upper end of said chamber, fluid outlet means provided at the normally lower end of said chamber, said lower plate having high heat absorptivity, said upper plate having heat transmissivity for short wave energy, a multiplicity of insulators provided within said chamber developing a multiplicity of tortuous flow paths from one end of said collector to the other, and means interengaging the upper and lower plates and the intervening insulators along lines of demarcation coextensive with said collector for developing discrete flow channels.

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Eastlake, OH, United States of America

Donald K Ross