An energy management system for a group of electrical loads such as in an industrial plant. The electrical power usage by the group of loads is elastically maintained between an upper set point and a lower low limit point, which is a percentage of the set point, at all times. The electrical load demand is presented in the form of a demand count to a comparator whose output provides a load display and couples load information to a sequencer. The sequencer cycles those loads which are off through ...

A circuit interrupter characterized by a multipole circuit breaker having line and load terminals and conductor means extending between the terminals for each pair of pole terminals, separate pairs of contacts serially connected in the conductor means, receiver means for sensing a control signal from an external source and sending a corresponding power signal to an operator means to effect opening of one of the pair of contacts.

The statistical dispersion of a measured property of processed material is determined by finding the difference between two discimination levels at which respective predetermined fractions of measurement signals exceed the respective levels. A signal proportional to the dispersion is additively combined with a limit signal to produce a set-point signal used to control the set point of the process. The measurement signals are made independent of the speed of the process by integrating the detecti...

A transition region for a missile launch chamber providing a smooth transition from a generally square cross-section chamber in which a missile is stored and launched to a round exit opening of the chamber which connects with an exhaust manifold or plenum. The transition section is provided with a pair of pivoted doors for closing off the bottom of the missile chamber to prevent the flow of recirculation gases from the plenum into the chamber when a missile in another chamber coupled to the same...

There is disclosed a method of setting up, manipulating, and taking down communication connections. The telephone instrument would include a graphics screen, such as a PC, and a series of call appearance boxes would be represented on the screen. Each possible party to a connection would be represented by a picture (icon generated upon request for a particular party) and an associated label (the party's name). The icon representative of a party is moved, by use of a cursor, inside a communication...

A work space management system for dividing a room into separate work areas comprising a wall system having a rigid framework formed of rigid rectangular frames rigidly joined together at the edges thereof to form at least one work area, wire management elements secured to the frames for communication and power wiring and a plurality of modular panels removably hanging on the frames. At least some of the wire management elements are secured to the bottom or baseline of the frames and at least so...

A method of managing body and footnote text during preparation, review, editing, and printing of a document. Preparation can be accomplished in a one pass input keying operation without regard to (1) storage of the body and footnote text, and (2) numbering of reference points in the body text and corresponding footnotes. During preparation there is separate storage of the body and footnote text, separate display frames are provided for each, editing is permitted in the frame being operated on, a...

Pivotable deflector panels are installed in the transition sections between a plurality of rocket storage and launch chambers and a lower plenum or manifold chamber which is provided to dispose of the exhaust gases from missile firings. The deflector panels are in addition to the sets of doors which are provided to close off the missile storage chambers upon the firing of a missile in another chamber in order to prevent recirculation of exhaust gases into the closed off chambers. The deflector p...

A method of determining character width for proportional spacing printing based on information contained in a dot pattern table. For a selected character, the character dot pattern in the table is analyzed to determine leading blanks and the actual character width. To obtain an overall width for printing, a number of trailing blanks equal to the number of leading blanks is added to the number of leading blanks and the actual character width. As such, a character suitable for proportional spacing...

A computer management manufacturing monitoring system for monitors the operation of a manufacturing process. The input section of the system is coupled to a plurality of sensors for monitoring the states of such sensors. A logging program periodically reads the states of various sensors and stores information relating to each such sensor state in a data base. The stored data includes both direct sensor readings and as derived sensor information calculated from readings of the states of certain s...