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USA As Represented by Secretary of the Navy

Science Applications International Corporation

Douglas E Brown

Brian A Brown

William G Matthews

Jakob deVries

Thomas R Cummings

A torso protection apparatus with a shoulder harness, a shoulder and sleeve assembly, a midsection assembly, a plurality of protective pads, and a back including a plurality of pad housings. The plurality of pad housings includes a stretchable opening and is structured to removably accommodate the plurality of protective pads therein.

Torso protection apparatus

A skateboard wheel cover includes a circumferential lip, an inner surface connected to an inner portion of the circumferential lip, and an outer surface connected to an outer portion of the circumferential lip. The outer surface is a material with a durometer different than a durometer of the wheel. The cover further includes at least a first attachment device configured to selectively attach to a skateboard wheel.

Wheel cover

An underwater cable has a flexible, elongated core surrounded by a flexible, elongated jacket. A distributed jacket includes a helically displaced phase shifter to decouple the cable from strumming produced by shedding of von Karman vortex streets from the cable.

Strumming resistant cable

A long, continuous, constant diameter, neutrally buoyant oil filled line array hose without couplings comprising a plastic inner hose having a layer of conducting and/or optical fibers wrapped helically around and bonded to the outer periphery along the neutral axis thereof. A strength member layer is encased within and bonded to an outer plastic sleeve which covers the conducting layer. Sensors are placed within the inner hose cavity through incisions formed at predetermined locations, attached to the conducting layer, and sensor-conductor junctions are sealed with a waterproof coating; the incisions are then chemically sealed. The hose cavity is filled with an insulating oil providing a continuous, oil filled constant diameter, line array hose devoid of coupling members.

Oil filled towed array hose without couplings

The present invention comprises a bean harvesting apparatus mounted on the forward end of a motorized combine. The harvesting apparatus has a housing open along its leading edge for the reception of bean stalks. A power driven cutter bar is provided along the front of the housing which cuts the bean stalks and deposits them into the housing through the opening. A power driven suction apparatus creates a vacuum in the housing which urges the bean stalks upward and into the housing, following cutting. A power driven conveyor belt is disposed longitudinally across the housing. The conveyor belt is sufficiently porous to allow the drawing of a vacuum therethrough. A scraper mechanism scrapes the bean stalks from the conveyor belt, thereby dropping the bean stalks into the bottom of the housing. A power driven auger is disposed near the bottom of the housing which receives the bean stalks dropped from the conveyor belt. The auger feeds the bean stalks into the combine for processing, while an exhaust system vents the air drawn through the housing.

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Peekskill, NY, United States of America

Douglas E Brown