The Singer Company

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Schwartz; Leonard

Mead, James B.

Deveau, Emile J.

James B Mead

Leonard Schwartz

Emile J Deveau

Pennie Mead

Gustavo Manuel Damil Marin

Robert Bevan

Julian E Mead

A system and method for operating a bundle-type checkout system incorporating subscription tiers, comprising an offer manager that receives price offer values from consumers, a discount optimization manager that calculates a least acceptable offer value based on offer pattern data associated to each product identifier of the bundle, calculates a total available discount for the bundle based on the least acceptable offer value and retail prices of each product identifier of the bundle, calculates price discount thresholds and compares price discount values to offer values to calculate price discounts and determines acceptability of the price offer values, and weighted discount distribution among subscription tiers to calculate a final price for each product identifier.

System and method for intelligent discount distribution based on subscriber tier

A system and method for operating a bundle-type checkout system incorporating subscription tiers, comprising a subscription manager that assigns subscription tiers to merchants, an offer manager that receives price offers from consumers and analyzes offers to compute bundle offers, a threshold calculator that calculates price discount thresholds and compares price discount values to offer values, and a discount optimization manager that calculates price discounts and determines acceptability of price offers, and a system and method for weighted discount distribution among subscription tiers.

A free standing assembled smokehouse, which can be collapsed from its open or assembled configuration to a closed or disassembled compact configuration is shown. The open or assembled smokehouse is a box-shaped with a firebox chamber in the lower portion that can accommodate a variety of heat sources such as wood, electric heaters or charcoal. The upper portion of the smokehouse is the comestible chamber where food products are supported by removable shelves that are arranged so that smoke and heat can circulate efficiently, thus smoking the food products uniformly. When disassembled and closed, the smokehouse has a compact configuration that contains all the parts in a narrow rectangular box that is easy to store and transport.

Knockdown compactable food smoker and method of use thereof

A compressed feed is used in a microstrip antenna for reducing the spacing between adjacent tap points on the feed line such that sigma angle changes--due to temperature variations--of a radiating beam in a radar system are reduced.

Microstrip antenna compressed feed

A continuous strip of bulk absorbing material is bonded to the looped ends of the arrays of a microstrip antenna for reducing the power that normally would have been reflected back across the arrays.

Microstrip antenna bulk load

An apparatus and a method for achieving simultaneous circular polarization of a four-beam doppler antenna wherein four different grid layers are positioned into a radome. The first grid layer, besides radiating a linear polarized beam, is used to partially reduce contaminants of the linearly polarized beam by means of cross-hatch strips. The second grid layer is used to further purify the linear polarized beam such that an essentially purified linear polarized beam is obtained. The third grid layer, designed according to certain equations, is used to convert the purified linearly polarized beam into a partially circularly polarized beam. And the fourth grid layer is used to make sure that the circularly polarized beam is perfectly matched.

Circularly polarized leaky waveguide doppler antenna

Separate receive and transmit interleaved arrays are distributed throughout a defined area. Each array is interconnected, at opposite ends thereof, to a feed line so that the receive and transmit antennas are each associated with four beams. Feed through connections are employed between receive feed lines and the receive arrays of the antenna thereby permitting the utilization of a microstrip structure.

Microstrip space duplexed antenna

A feed system for a microstrip or stripline antenna includes a serpentine traveling feed located in the plane of interleaved arrays along which a first signal propagates. A chain of crossover structures serves as a second traveling feed, extends in coplanar parallel spaced relation to the first feed, and carries a second propagated signal therealong. First and second ports of each structure connect the serpentine feed to a first group of arrays for coupling the first signal therebetween while third and fourth ports of each structure couple the second signal to a second set of arrays without significant interaction therebetween.

Crossover traveling wave feed for microstrip antenna array

Two separate microstrip antennas are interleaved in the same plane thereby occupying substantially the same area as a single antenna. Each antenna aperture produces two beams and the configuration for each antenna includes a single feed on each planar array which results in lowered overwater bias error. Each planar array antenna can have radiating arrays of different radiator spacing. Using forward firing arrays for one antenna and backward firing arrays for the other antenna, a radiated spacing is chosen for each interleaved antenna which results in temperature compensation in the along track direction.

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Brookside, NJ, United States of America

James B Mead