A flexible belt formed of hinged segments with two or more segments and preferably separated by spaces. The belt is formed of a suitable plastic, such as an elastomer of the polyurethane type. On one side of each segment there are short integral hollow cylinders and mating cylinders on the other side. When two units are placed together the hollow cylinder portions meet to form a substantially complete cylinder in the same manner as a series of hollow cylinders in a hinge for a door. A pin, such ...

An auger assembled from a plurality of auger segments each of which includes a central longitudinal hollow hub with a longitudinal extension at each end of the hub. A section of helical flighting winds about the hub extending from the extension at one end of the hub to the extension at the other end. The end portions of the helical flighting are beveled to provide an acute edge and a supplementary obtuse edge of the flighting at each end portion. The auger segments have end-for-end symmetry and ...

A mirror comprises a myriad of reflecting surfaces so aligned as to produce a virtual image which may be plain or focused. The surfaces may be irregular in outline to minimize or prevent glint patterns.

A luminaire for use with HID lightbulbs includes a housing having four primary identical compound curve reflector sections oriented with two sections on each side of the lamp to cause major projections of the light emanating from the luminaire diagonally of the longitudinal axis of the lamp in a horizontal plane to create a square or rectangular distribution of light on the surface to be illuminated. Auxiliary reflector sections are placed at the ends of the light bulb and interconnect the main ...

A debugger for debugging, from a central location (e.g., a user terminal 13), jobs or processes running on one or more remote units (11) connected to the user terminal (13) via a communication network (15). The user terminal (13) includes a debugger (21) that receives and interprets debug commands produced by a keyboard and display console (19). The debug commands fall in any one of three categories--debug commands directed to the user terminal (USER TERMINAL CONTROL commands); debug commands di...

A sabot consists of a plurality of segments which define an air pocket for detaching the segments from a fin-stabilized subcaliber penetrator projectile. The air pocket is defined by a rear support region of the sabot. A front support region of the sabot includes a plurality of webs between each adjacent pair of which an air-through-streaming passage is defined. At least the web portion of each segment is made of synthetic material and such web portion has a curved part defining a fracture zone.

A cigarette, having a tobacco rod consisting of at least two segments. The segment toward the filter end of the tobacco rod has a density at least 20% greater than the fire-end segment. The density differential may be combined with a nicotine differential, such that the fire-end segment has a higher nicotine content than does the filter-end segment. This configuration alters the nicotine delivery of the invention, providing a nicotine delivery either uniform during the last half of the cigarette...

A segmented band with profile segments, in which the profile segments have a U-profile form, the legs of which form side walls having projecting arms which are equipped with hooks on their ends. The wall section between the arms is intended to hold connecting links, each link having a longitudinal groove intended to hold together the side wall sections, lying between the arms of two neighboring U-profile segments. Closure means are provided to engage in the hooks of said arms which serve to prev...

This disclosure relates to a segmented retainer for rollers of a roller bearing. The retainer includes a pair of end rings having circumferentially spaced separator bars extending therebetween. The separator bars are fixedly secured to the end rings against displacement and rotation. Each separator bar has a configuration wherein at each side thereof there are two radially spaced bearing surfaces separated by a lubricant pocket. The convex shape of the bearing surfaces, in conjunction with the c...

A candle having a plurality of wax segments disposed in spaced relation along a continuous wick with a candle holder having at least two vertically spaced support platforms for holding the upper segments of the candle in fixed relationship.