The present invention is directed to a visible information management system which includes a notebook having disposed therein a plurality of pivotal passive pressure clips. Each of the pressure clips are adapted to hold therein an index card having information printed thereon. Each of the pressure clips may also be labeled in order that the cards held therein may be identified. The index cards are held in the pressure clips by virtue of an overlapping flap which forms a clip for holding under p...

In order to be able to arrange a series of files, which are in a reference relationship, on an arbitrary path, depending on the structure of the file system, a path specifying a particular file, which is in the reference relationship, is specified by a position relative to an object program file in a file system including a program, which is in course of execution, depending on the program, which is in course of execution.

A conventional shock absorber is modified by adding a valve cage to the rod nd and providing an additional cylinder outside the shock absorber to form an annular reservoir outside the shock absorber. Temperature sensitive valves open when oil heats to a potentially destructive level, unloading the shock absorber. When the oil cools to a safe operating temperature, the temperature sensitive valves re-close and the shock absorber is again operative.

A desk or like unit with full duct internal wire management includes rectangular horizontal top and vertical wood support panels therefor, and longitudinally aligned elongate enclosure brackets cooperating with the wood panels to form an elongate horizontal wiring duct or ducts extending the length or width of the desk, or both, for hidden storage of wires or the like. The top panel has an elongate access opening therein extending co-extensively with the wiring duct to facilitate handling and fe...

Input signals from sensor (S) in a redundancy management system are provided redundantly in parallel so that a primary control signal may be selected. Median value signals for groups of three sensors are detected in median value selectors (30, 32, 34, 36, 40) of selection filters (F). The detected median value signals are then also compared in a subtractor/comparator (38) to determine whether any of them exceed the others by an amount greater than the signal level for a failed sensor. If so, the...

Two regimes of vertical shaft furnace operation can be employed to slag encapsulate hazardous chemical wastes. One of these is similar to a method applicable to radioactive wastes, involving the pouring of hot molten slag from a Coal Reactor over the hazardous matter contained in a suitable designed crucible. The other method is especially appropriate for the treatment of chemical wastes that have become mixed with a great deal of soil or other diluent as must be handled as in the case of the Lo...

A management system for a copying machine includes a detection circuit for determining whether the information representing a department of the user recorded on a magnetic card is properly read and for providing an operation signal to the copying machine to make it operable. A memory unit having a plurality of storage locations counts a pulse signal generated by the copying machine everytime a copy is produced and stores the date indicative of the total number of produced copies at a storage loc...

An emergency airway tube for use in resuscitation of non-breathing patients by inserting the tube through the mouth until it randomly lodges either in the trachea or the esophagus. Only one insertion is needed. The tube is designed to ventilate the lungs regardless of which passageway it is lodged in. The tube has three tubes--the outer tube, an inner tube, which runs along and within the bore of the outer tube, and an air passageway for inflating an inflatable cuff located at the distal end of ...

A method for the management of intraocular pressure and for lessening the incidence of side effects associated therewith is disclosed. The method comprises administering continuously controlled low dosage amounts of acetazolamide to produce both a lessening of the side effects and lowering of the intraocular pressure.

Method and apparatus for minimizing the peak load usage in electrical systems having multiple electrical power loads when each load is provided electrical power from an electrical source and including first switch means disposed in the power supply to each individual load, operator means to selectively open and close the first switch means, control means to selectively control the operator means, real time clock means to supply real time to the control means where the control means is adapted to...