An improvement in a locking system of the type having a series of reference combinations arranged serially upon a tape. A combination entered into said system is compared with the reference combination, and if both combinations are complementary, a lock in the system is released. The improvement comprises a positive intermittent drive mechanism for advancing the tape to a new reference combination position.

Integral with a high speed, computer control banking machine is a depository system to provide a fully automatic teller station. At the customer interface there is an entry gate controlled to an open position by a solenoid actuated in accordance with computer generated signals. A deposit envelope inserted through the entry gate is detected by a light sensor as it moves along a belt transport extending to a printing station. Positioned along the belt transport is a second sensor, which in combina...

A liquid meniscus developing system for continuously and rapidly developing latently imaged migration imaging members, substantially free of background material is disclosed.

A hydropathic treatment system features, in combination, a compartment adapted for the storage of equipment used in hydropathic treatment and massage treatment, a compartment for a salt treatment, a compartment for a water and/or steam treatment, and a top means adapted to cover the aforementioned compartments and thereby provide a surface on which a patient may lie. The system coordinates a range of facilities for the treatment of a broad range of disorders known to be responsive to various for...

7. A system for communicating electromagnetic signals through the atmosphere between at least two underwater objects capable of transmitting and receiving electromagnetic signals comprising a transmitter and receiver for said signals carried by each of said objects, first conductive means carried by each said object and disposed within the water for radiating said transmitted signals into the water and producing conductive currents and corresponding fields in the water surrounding said object an...

A device for adsorptively removing dissolved organic materials from liquid includes a vertically arranged housing which contains a bed of adsorption media and which has an influent inlet in its base. Two sets of collection launders horizontally extend across the housing, one above the other, and are alternatively used to collect filtrate from the adsorption bed. In the system, two such adsorption devices are connected in series with the connections controlled by valves so that filtrate is discha...

A closure system including a door mounted to open and close an entrance, a first object detector including a transmitter of radiant energy and a detector thereof, and a second object detector including a ribbon switch mounted on the edge of the door which leads upon closure thereof. A source of electrical potential energizes a translating device via the ribbon switch, until the ribbon is actuated, which deenergizes the translating device. The first object detector controls the operation of the d...

An audiovisual record having a spiral information track and an image-disc rotationally secured thereon. An audiovisual record comprising a support plate, an image-disc rotationally secured thereon and a sound-disc rotationally secured thereon. An audiovisual apparatus accepting for reproduction the above-referred audiovisual records.

A pair of pumps each has an outlet connectable with a different user. A regulating unit regulates the outputs of the pumps at their outlets and includes a housing having two spaced pressure chambers each communicating with one of the outlets, a communicating bore which connects the chambers, a hollow regulating sleeve which is slidably accommodated in the bore and connected with the pumps so that as it slides it will regulate the operation of the same, and a piston located in the sleeve. One axi...

The apparatus comprises a hollow casting tube sealed near its lower end by a plate so that the pile driving hammer can be applied direct to the plate to force the tube into the ground. Cement-sand grout is passed to the space beneath the plate via a pipe passing externally of the casting tube whilst the tube is simultaneously lifted out of the ground.