A large loop or ring of spring steel, which is rectangular in cross section, has two separable ends, one of which is releasably securable in a recess in the other by means of a removable shackle or wire snap. A plurality of key blocks are removably mounted on the ring for sliding movement thereabout coaxially of the ring. In one embodiment the ring is solid and projects slidably through a corresponding rectangular recess which extends centrally through each key block; and in a second embodiment ...

A copying machine managing apparatus identifies information recorded on a plurality of using section magnetic cards and on an administrative department magnetic card. The plurality of using section magnetic cards are respectively assigned to using sections and bearing thereon respective using section codes. When one of the using section magnetic card is inserted in a slit of the copying machine managing apparatus, the using section code is identified and a copying machine associated therewith is...

An automotive energy managing transmission comprising a differential for splitting the power to mechanical and hydrostatic branches. The transmission is adapted to operate in several modes: hydrostatic in the city, hydromechanical and mechanical on the highway, regenerative braking and engine starting. The transmission includes an energy storage means and allows the engine to operate intermittently during city driving.

Drug-delivery device for releasing a drug at a continuous and controlled rate for a prolonged period of time is comprised of a shaped body of polymeric material containing a pharmaceutically acceptable drug and permeable to passage of the drug by diffusion. The polymeric material is an ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer having a vinyl acetate content of about 4 to 80% by weight and a melt index of about 0.1 to 1000 grams per 10 minutes.

A data storage hierarchy includes a media library characterized by a travelling elevator which moves in front of an open-faced wall of storage cells or compartments and ingress-egress slots to a plurality of data recording devices. Optical disks are selectively moved by the travelling elevator between the storage cells and the data recording devices. The carrier can carry a plurality of the optical disks at a given time. Each time the travelling elevator accesses a storage cell or a recording de...

A fishing vessel device having open faced pulleys attached to a pivotal plate member of a traveling assembly. The traveling assembly is winched along a slide rail attached perpendicular to a pivotal cross tee support. Another open faced pulley is attached to the cross tee support such that this pulley is in a coplanar relationship with the traveling pulleys. The cross tee support is pivotally attached to a stanchion and the stanchion is mounted adjacent to the vessel gunnel. The buoy attached en...

A goods layout planning method for making a layout for a quantity of goods arranged on gondolas in a store by using a terminal device including a display and a processor. Rules regarding goods layouts are stored in a knowledge base. The effort to make layout plans for goods can be simplified and the efficiency thereof improved by using sales data for each of the goods, attributes of goods, attributes of gondolas, and the rules with respect to the goods layouts.

A plurality of reagents for use in an automatic chemical analyzer are managed by initially setting into a random access memory amounts of reagents initially set in the analyzer and by changing the amounts of reagents every time the reagents are used. When an electrical power supply is switched off, the amounts of reagents stored in the random access memory are transferred into a non-volatile memory, and when the electric power supply is switched on again, the amounts of reagents stored in the no...

An elongated bumper beam extending laterally across the end of a vehicle is supported outwardly of the vehicle body by a pair of yieldable energy managing units straddling the vehicle center line and secured to the side rails of the frame. The system incorporates special restraining connectors to provide bumper beam pivot points outboard of the energy absorbing units. On corner impacts the bumper beam turns with respect to the pivot point remote from the impacted corner to simultaneously stroke ...

A copying machine group managing system comprises a plurality of copying machines, a plurality of terminal devices each provided for one of the copying machines and a central managing unit for managing the terminal devices. Each of the terminal devices receives first input signals each indicative of one of a plurality of users divisions of the copying machines and a second input signal indicative of a utilization value of associated one of the copying machines, whereby a second input signal is s...