A power-driven conveyor belt utilizes a single drum coupled to an electric motor for transporting articles from a loading station to a receiving station, frictional contact of the belt against the drum, such as is required for driving the belt, being provided by a stationary first resilient member disposed upstream of the drum and a second stationary resilient member disposed downstream of the drum and in transverse relationship with the periphery thereof, the two resilient members cooperating t...

An electric motor for rotatably driving a drum is stationarily disposed within the drum and provided with a pair of bearing surfaces eccentrically and oppositely disposed relative to the center of the motor shaft to which the bearing surfaces are coupled, each eccentric bearing surface supporting an externally toothed wheel having a predetermined number of peripheral teeth engageable with an output ring secured to the inner cylindrical surface of the drum, the output ring having a predetermined ...

An auto trunk organizer comprising a cabinet member, a storage member, and mechanism for detachably securing the storage member to the cabinet member. The cabinet member has an outer housing enclosing an interior cavity, a plurality of draw members having draw latching mechanisms, and at least one pivoting door member having a latching mechanism. The storage member is portable and includes multiple, separate compartments suitable for storing documents. The storage member preferably includes an a...

A tension compensation assembly for a mechanical control cable. The tension compensation device has a housing with opposing ends. First and second sections of the control cable pass through but are attached at each end of the housing such that the sheaths of each section are coupled to the housing and reciprocable cable coaxially disposed in each control cable section extend into the housing. The cables are attached to opposing ends of a reciprocably disposed capsule or spring caps generally enc...

A self-contained mechanism comprising a plurality of translatably mounted operation control slides is attachable to one of the side frames of a calculating machine in juxtaposition with the key stems of a plurality of operation control keys disposed in the keyboard of such machine. Upon depression of any one of these operation control keys, a cycle initiating slide is activated, and at least one control slide corresponding to the depressed key is simultaneously translated from a central inactive...

A universal power supplying module for controlling the application of power to a plurality of loads is disclosed. The universal power module receives a Pulse-Width Modulated (PWM) data signal which includes a plurality of PWM pulses. Each of the PWM pulses is associated with a respective one of the loads and has a width which is indicative of whether or not power is to be applied to its associated load. The universal power module stores binary information in accordance with the pulse width of th...

A shelf unit includes a U-shaped frame having a pair of spaced legs connected by a bight. The frame comprises first and second L-shaped members, having cooperable coupling structures provided at the ends thereof for rigidly and releasably interconnecting the members together. The cooperating coupling structures prevent movement of the L-shaped members relative to each other, except angular movement between a use position in which the legs of the frame are substantially parallel and an assembly p...

A void volume indicator, a packaging system, and a method of consumer product selection are disclosed. The void volume indicator can have either a primary wetness indicator, a secondary wetness indicator, or both that corresponds to a portion of a package having either a primary capacity indicator, a secondary capacity indicator, or both. After using the void volume indicator, feedback from the indicator can be used to select an absorbent article having an appropriate absorbent capacity for the ...

A method for interfacing two remote electronic units uses four lines and a handshaking routine including the steps of: causing the first unit to simultaneously transmit a strobe signal on one of the four lines and a signal representing one bit of the information to be communicated on a second of the four lines, sending the two signals continuously until acknowledged by the second unit; causing the second unit, when it receives these signals, simultaneously to transmit a strobe signal on a third ...

An absorbent article having a narrow crotch portion and elasticized shield shields is disclosed. The absorbent article has a fit factor defined as the minimum crotch width divided by the effective height of the side shields. In one embodiment, the absorbent article includes and an absorbent structure having a central portion defined by a width about 65 millimeters or less, and a length about 50 millimeters or greater, and the absorbent article having a fit factor less than about 7.0.