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Papal conclave, 1799–1800
|Papal conclave
Coat of arms during the vacancy of the Holy See
|Dates and location
|30 November 1799 – 14 March 1800
San Giorgio Monastery, Venice, Archduchy of Austria
|Key officials
|Ercole Consalvi
|Carlo Bellisomi, Hyacinthe Sigismond Gerdil
|Elected Pope
|Barnaba Niccolò Maria Luigi Chiaramonti
(Name taken: Pius VII)
The Papal conclave of 1799–1800 followed the death of Pope Pius VI on 29 August 1799 and led to the selection as pope of Giorgio Barnaba Luigi Chiaramonti, who took the name Pius VII, on 14 March 1800. This conclave, the last conclave to take place outside Rome, was held in Venice. This period was marked by uncertainty for the Pope and the Roman Catholic Church following the invasion of the Papal States and abduction of Pius VI under the French Directory.
Historical context[edit]
Pope Pius VI[edit]
Pius VI's reign had been marked by tension between his authority and that of the European monarchs and other institutions, both secular and ecclesiastical. This was largely due to his moderate liberal and reforming pretences. At the beginning of his pontificate he promised to continue the work of his predecessor, Pope Clement XIV, in whose 1773 brief Dominus ac Redemptor, the dissolution of the Jesuits was announced. Pro-Jesuit powers remained in support of Pius, thinking him secretly more inclined to the Society than Clement. The Archduchy of Austria proved a threat when its ruler, Emperor Joseph II, made internal reforms which conflicted with some of the power of the Papacy. Further, German archbishops had shown independence at the 1786 Congress of Ems, but were soon brought into line.
At the outbreak of the French Revolution Pius was compelled to see the independent Gallican Church suppressed, the pontifical and ecclesiastical possessions in France confiscated and an effigy of himself burnt by the populace at the Palais Royal. The murder of the republican agent Hugo Basseville in the streets of Rome (January 1793) gave new ground of offence; the papal court was charged with complicity by the French Convention, and Pius threw in his lot with the First Coalition against the French First Republic.
The State of the See[edit]
In 1796 Napoléon Bonaparte invaded the Italian Peninsula, defeated the papal troops and occupied Ancona and Loreto. He did not continue and conquer Rome, as the French Directory ordered, being aware that this would not win favour among the French and Italian populations. Pius sued for peace, which was granted at Tolentino on February 19, 1797. The Treaty of Tolentino transferred Romagna to Bonaparte's newly formed Cispadane Republic (founded in December 1796 out of a merger of Reggio, Modena, Bologna and Ferrara) in a hope that the French would not further pursue the Papal lands. Several reforms were made in the French-controlled regions, where much property of the Church was confiscated.
Several factors led to the complete occupation of Rome by the French. Firstly, the entrance of the Russian army into Northern Italy pushed the French back. Secondly, on December 28, 1797, in a riot created by some Italian and French revolutionists, the French general Mathurin-Léonard Duphot of the French embassy was killed and a new pretext furnished for invasion.
Louis Alexandre Berthier marched to Rome, entered it unopposed on February 13, 1798, and, proclaiming a Roman Republic, demanded of the pope the renunciation of his temporal authority. Upon his refusal he was taken prisoner, and on February 20 was escorted from the Vatican to Siena, and thence to the Certosa near Florence. The French declaration of war against Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany led to Pius' removal, though by this time deathly ill, by way of Parma, Piacenza, Turin and Grenoble to the citadel of Valence, where he died six weeks later, on August 29, 1799.
The Conclave[edit]
With the loss of the Vatican and the pope's other temporal power, the cardinals were left in a remarkable position. They were forced to hold the conclave in Venice, making the conclave the last to be held outside Rome. This followed an ordinance issued by Pius VI in 1798, in which was stated that the conclave, in such a situation, would be held in the city with the greatest number of Cardinals among the population. The night chapel of the Benedictine San Giorgio Monastery in Venice was chosen as the location of the conclave. The city, along with other northern Italian lands, was at the time held by the Archduchy of Austria, whose ruler Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor, agreed to foot the costs of the conclave.
Despite beginning on November 30, 1799, the assembled cardinals could not overcome a stalemate between three candidates until March 1800. Thirty-four Cardinals were present at the start, with the late arrival of Cardinal Franziskus Herzan von Harras who was also the imperial commissioner and used the imperial veto of Francis II twice. Ercole Consalvi was almost unanimously voted as secretary of the conclave; he would prove an influential figure in the election of the new pope. Carlo Bellisomi seemed the sure winner, with wide support from the Cardinals, but his unpopularity among the Austrian Cardinals, who preferred Mattei, subjected him to the veto. The conclave added a third possible candidate in Cardinal Hyacinthe Sigismond Gerdil CRSP but was also vetoed by Austria. As the conclave was in the third month Cardinal Maury, a neutral, suggested Chiaramonti who, with the support of the powerful Conclave secretary, was elected.
Barnaba Luigi Count Chiaramonti was, at the time, the bishop of Imola in the Subalpine Republic. He had stayed in place after the assumption of his diocese by Bonaparte's army in 1797 and famously made a speech in which he stated that good Christians could make good democrats, a speech described as "Jacobin" by Bonaparte himself. Though he could not save ecclesiastical reform and confiscation under the new rule, he did prevent the church being dissolved, unlike that in France.
Due to its temporary siting in Venice, the Papal coronation was hurried. Having no papal treasures on hand the noblewomen of the city manufactured the famous papier-mâché papal tiara. It was adorned with their own jewels. Chiaramonti was declared Pope Pius VII and crowned on March 21 in a cramped monastery church.
A new pope[edit]
By the Battle of Marengo on June 14, 1800, the French regained Northern Italy from the forces of Austria. Following this promotion, Bonaparte decided to recognise the new Pope and restored the Papal States to those borders set out at Tolentino.
The new Pope headed for Rome, which he entered to the pleasure of the population on July 3. Fearing further invasion he decreed the Papal States should remain neutral between Napoleonic Italy in the north and the Kingdom of Naples in the south. At the time the latter was ruled by Ferdinand III of Sicily/Ferdinand IV of Naples, a member of the House of Bourbon.
Ercole Consalvi, the secretary of the conclave, ascended to the College of Cardinals and became the Secretary of the Papal State on 11 August. On July 15 France officially rerecognised Catholicism as its majority (not state) religion in the Concordat of 1801, and the Church was granted a measure of freedom with a Gallician constitution of the clergy. The Concordat further recognised the Papal States and that which it had confiscated and sold during the occupation of the area. In 1803 the reinstatement of the Papal States was made official by the Treaty of Lunéville.
Napoleon pursued secularisation of smaller, independent lands and, through diplomatic pressure, the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire (1806). The relations between the Church and the First French Empire declined following the Pope's refusal to divorce Jérôme Bonaparte and Elizabeth Patterson in 1805. The newly crowned Emperor of the French restarted his expansionist policies and assumed control over Ancona, Naples (following the Battle of Austerlitz, making his brother Joseph Bonaparte its new monarch), Pontecorvo and Benevento. The changes angered the pope, and following his refusal to accept them, Napoleon, in February 1808, demanded he subsidise France's military conflict with the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The pope again refused, leading to further confiscations of territory such as Urbino, Ancona and Macerata. Finally in 1809, on May 17, the Papal states were formally annexed to the First French Empire and Pius VII was taken to the Château de Fontainebleau.
A unique conclave[edit]
The conclave of 1800 had several unique features and occurrences which render it quite estranged from not only many of its predecessor conclaves, but also all those successive gatherings to date. Foremost, it is the last to be held outside Rome, in this case Venice.
As the graph on the side demonstrates, the conclave was conducted with the fewest cardinals present since 1534, a total of 34. Indeed, due to the political situation in which the church found itself at the time it had just 45 cardinals in total, the lowest number since the 31 of 1513.
At 105 days (30 November–14 March) this also happens to be the longest conclave to date since its immediate predecessor, which lasted from October 5, 1774, until February 15, 1775, — a total of 133 days.
The extent to which the successor was debated, and the contentiousness of certain nominations, may be seen in the fact that the Austrian Emperor presented the veto twice — a unique occurrence in the history of the conclave; the Empire then included Venice, and had already denied the use of St. Mark's to the Cardinals for declining to accept the Austrian candidate. Typically, a single veto would have been used by a represented kingdom, to ensure that a particular objectionable candidate would not succeed.
List of participants[edit]
- Gian Francesco Albani, da Urbino, bishop of Ostia and Velletri
- Henry Benedict Stuart, bishop of Frascati
- Leonardo Antonelli, bishop of Palestrina
- Luigi Valenti-Gonzaga, bishop of Albano
- Francesco Carafa di Trajetto
- Francesco Saverio de Zelada
- Guido Calcagnini, bishop of Osimo e Cingoli
- Bernardino Honorati, bishop of Senigallia
- Andrea Gioannetti, archbishop of Bologna
- Hyacinthe Sigismond Gerdil, CRSP
- Carlo Giuseppe Filippo di Martiniana, bishop of Vercelli
- Alessandro Mattei
- Franziskus Herzan von Harras
- Giovanni Andrea Archetti, Archbishop-bishop of Ascoli Piceno
- Giuseppe Maria Doria Pamphili
- Gregorio Barnaba Chiaramonti, OSB, bishop of Imola (Elected Pope Pius VII)
- Carlo Bellisomi, bishop of Cesena
- Francisco Antonio de Lorenzana, archbishop of Toledo, Spain
- Ignazio Busca
- Stefano Borgia
- Giambattista Caprara
- Antonio Dugnani
- Ippolito Vicenti-Mareri
- Jean-Sifrein Maury, Archbishop of Paris, France
- Giambattista Bussi de Pretis, bishop of Jesi
- Francesco Maria Pignatelli
- Aurelio Roverella
- Giulio Maria della Somaglia
- Antonmaria Doria-Pamphili
- Romualdo Braschi-Onesti
- Filippo Carandini
- Ludovico Flangini Giovanelli
- Fabrizio Dionigi Ruffo
- Giovanni Rinuccini
List of absentees[edit]
- Christoph Anton von Migazzi von Waal und Sonnenthurn, archbishop of Vienna, Austria
- Dominique de La Rochefoucauld, archbishop of Rouen, France
- Joannes-Henricus de Franckenberg, archbishop of Mechlin, Belgium
- Louis-René-Eduard de Rohan-Guéménée, archbishop of Strasbourg
- Giuseppe Maria Capece Zurlo Theat., archbishop of Naples
- Vicenzo Ranuzzi, bishop of Ancona e Umana
- Muzio Gallo
- Carlo Livizzani Forni
- José Francisco de Mendonça, patriarch of Lisbon, Portugal
- Antonio de Sentmenat y Castella, patriarch of the Western Indies, Spain
- Louis-Joseph de Laval-Montmorency
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- Mémoires du Cardinal Consalvi (ed. J. Crétineau-Joly) seconde édition (Paris: Plon 1866), 217-288.
- Charles Antoine Ricard (editor), Correspondence diplomatique et mémoires inédits du Cardinal Maury (1792-1817) (Lille 1891) I, 264-379.


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The guys will cover the Animal House "theme" song, and the well known party song "Shout"!
The band shot a video for "Shout" in mid June that will be included on the special anniversary DVD that is scheduled for release August 26th.
MxPx will also be playing the relaunch party for the Animal House DVD. The guys will be playing somewhere around 4 to 6 songs at the red carpet event August 21st.
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Wish You & Your Family A Merry Christmas & A Wonderful New Year!
If possible:
- avoid going to a party with an empty stomach
- prior to the party, drink a glass of water and eat 1 to 2 portions of your favorite fresh fruits or salad (limit to 2 TSP of healthier dressing).
- when eating your favorite unhealthy or junk food, take smaller bites and slow down your speed of eating. In this way, you will be able to 1)taste your food better and 2) it gives your Inner Healthy Voice a chance to ask you to eat less unhealthy food sooner (Mindset: the fewer the pounds that I gain over the holidays – will give me an easier start next year).
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- a portion is approximately the size of your fist.
- 2 portions of fresh fruits could be your choice of an apple and a banana, or any combinations of your favorite fresh fruits (eat them fresh, juice, or blend them if you like).
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It involves prying away Matt Cain from the Giants:
Hamilton, Encarncion and Cueto for Cain.Would you do it?
It involves prying away Matt Cain from the Giants:
Hamilton, Encarncion and Cueto for Cain.Would you do it?
If you think small, you'll go nowhere in life.
Too much. We don't know yet how good Cueto could be. But I'd try the two bats, or ask for Lincecum and a bullpen arm or B prospect.
"Baseball is a very, very complex business. It's more of a people business than most businesses." - Bob Castellini
Agreed, too much. Hamilton and Encarnacion would be as far as I would go. I'd rather do one of those guys with Cueto. If they want all three, forget it.
Go BLUE!!!
Cain has great comps, but that's too steep a price to pay.
Wayne Simpson and Joe Coleman are just two of those guys who blew their arms out.
As a side note, Matt Keough and family can currently be seen on "Real Housewives of the OC "
Code:STRIKEOUTS/9 IP SO/9 IP BB/9 IP BR/9 IP IP GS 1 Tom Gordon 8.68 4.72 12.62 532 64 2 Jose Rijo 8.22 4.36 12.97 564 73 3 Ryan Dempster 7.78 4.79 14.21 428 69 4 Matt Cain 7.66 3.81 11.33 437 70 5 Floyd Youmans 7.64 4.67 11.66 412.1 67 6 Carlos Zambrano 7.55 4.10 12.47 539.2 80 7 Joe Coleman 6.44 3.64 11.78 467 65 8 Clay Kirby 6.42 4.16 12.33 698 105 9 Jaret Wright 6.35 4.30 14.13 416.2 74 10 Gary Gentry 6.14 3.56 11.26 422 64 11 Pete Broberg 5.98 4.37 13.26 420 63 12 Mark Gubicza 5.40 3.88 12.14 547 81 13 Wayne Simpson 5.32 4.40 12.26 423 69 14 Jon Garland 5.09 3.97 13.41 571 94 15 Matt Keough 4.88 4.00 13.69 416.2 66 16 Dan Petry 4.74 3.78 11.97 649.2 97 17 Jim Slaton 4.12 3.67 12.50 468 69 18 Jamey Wright 3.82 4.16 15.57 447.1 75
Flyball pitcher, mediocre control. His home ERA is 3.28 and his road ERA is 4.32. I worry that he's being helped out big time by Pac Bell in terms of HR/FB. Don't get me wrong, I'd love to have him without a doubt. I just think his value is slightly inflated thanks to his home park and wouldn't give that that specific package for him. Make it Wood instead of Cueto and I'd have to think hard about it.
Games are won on run differential -- scoring more than your opponent. Runs are runs, scored or prevented they all count the same. Worry about scoring more and allowing fewer, not which positions contribute to which side of the equation or how "consistent" you are at your current level of performance.
I don't give up much. Hamilton and Wood for Cain, see where it goes from there. I could see throwing in another guy, but not a top 5 prospect of a current starter.
Folks here seem to have an itchy trigger finger when it comes to dealing Hamilton. What gives?
He's a young, talented and could be a cornerstone to rebuilding a great franchise. I don't think he's untouchable, but for Cain? Hammy's a special player, we should get a special player in return. And I mean SPECIAL.
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Keep Hamilton unless a GM is going to give up ALOT for him.
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So would you part with one or two of the following crown jewels (Bruce, Votto, Hamilton, Bailey and Cueto) to bring in a number 3 guy like Haren, Bedard or even Cain?
And given how so many teams need pitching, teams offering pitching can sift back and look at the best offers. And if you're the Reds are you looking to win now or looking at four or five years down the road? If you're looking down the road then you keep the five.
But I don't think they brought Baker here to oversee a rebuilding project. The emphasis is to win now. If that is the case and the Reds need another starter, I can see one or two of these five jewels being dealt to get that starter.
If you think small, you'll go nowhere in life.
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I have this problem - why do we value everyone else's players so highly and undervalue our own. Why should it take TWO of our best prospects to land a player like Cain? He's not worth it. I'm willing to bet right now he won't be a better pitcher than Bailey with the sole exception of 2008 - ad may not be that much better in 08. Bruce has adjusted and quickly to every level thrown at him - I'm as sure of him as I ever have been about a player who hasn't been in the ML yet. Hamilton proved his worth. Votto proved he's a hitter. Bailey didn't blow people away but he DID show he has the talent, he's just young. Cueto, yes he hasn't shown it in the ML yet but he too has adjusted and succeeded at every level thrown at him. These guys are good and possibly special. The last thing I want the Reds to do is panic themselves into a deal where they gut their system for a quick fix. Win the deal, or get even return in the deal - or don't make the deal.
Cain, to me is a #3-trpe (and not even one of my favorites, at that). If I'm stymied everywhere else I offer a package of B talent first (maybe Freel, Watson, Salmon) first, then maybe I go Encarnacion, Maloney, Coffee next. If I'm desperate enough, maybe I even consider one of the big Five, but not with any kickers on my part and not even straight up. I want at least another warm body and probably widen the deal on both ends.
I'd rather see a bigger fish along the lines of Kasmir, Haren, Harden, Bedard, Chamberlain, Hughes, Lester or Bucholz. Even if I fail though, Cain is down my pecking order of guys like Snell, Baker, Slowey, Blanton, Kennedy, etc. and I might even consider a guy like Bonser, Capuano or Ervin Santana over him if they could be had without expending as much talent in return.
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The present invention comprises a motion activated switch comprising a plurality of rollable or slideable means enclosed in a containment space, two contacts formed in a support floor of the containment space whereby the plurality of rollable or slideable means forms a reduced resistance electrical connection between the contacts by rolling or sliding into an appropriate location of the containment space. A plurality of the switches may share the same containment space and one or more of the contacts.
1. A sensing grid and contact connection device comprising:
(a) a logic means for receiving a sensing grid input and outputting a display output to a display, a two or three dimensional support surface within a sealed space, the support surface presenting thereon the sensing grid with first and second contacts electrically connected with the logic means;
(b) the contact connection device having a flexible conductor connected to a first contact and an electrical connector means connected at an other end of the flexible conductor, so that the electrical connector means may move through the sealed space with the force of gravity although restrained by its electrical connection with the first contact; and
(c) the sensing grid input adapted to occur by contact of the electrical connector means with one or more second contacts resulting in closed circuits as to the logic means, whereby the logic means records such circuit completions as counts.
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7. A motion sensing device comprising:
(a) a logic means for receiving a count input resulting from completion of electrical connection between one or more first contacts spaced apart from one or more second contacts on a support surface, the support surface being part of inside walls of a case that defines a connector motion space, such that the contacts are electrically connected with the logic means, which logic means are capable of outputting a display output to a display;
(b) a flexible electrical connector comprising electrical connection at one end with a first contact and adapted to have an other end within the sealed space toward a gravitationally lowest zone of the connector motion space and to contact at least one second contact; and
(b) the logic means is adapted to record a count for each electrical connection between first and second contacts made within the connector motion space.
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This application is a continuation in part of Ser. No. 09/500,169 filed Feb. 8, 2000, which is a continuation in part of Ser. No. 09/456,463 filed Dec. 8, 1999 and issued on Jun. 21, 2002 as U.S. Pat. No. 6,389,633.
The present invention relates to a toothbrush having the capability of reinforcing brushing behavior.
Encouraging young and sometimes older persons to brush their teeth at low cost results in a high value benefit to the individual. The present art for low cost LCD and other displays as well as low cost audio outputs places within economic reach such devices for incorporation into a toothbrush for interactive encouragement and detection of failure to begin or complete brushing.
The present invention comprises a toothbrush supporting brushing behavior reinforcement means. A simple motion sensing means is electrically connected to a brushing logic means, which determines generalized brushing action of a user preferably a child. After the logic requirements of motion sensing are complete, the logic means directs a digital output display means to output to a small LCD screen or speaker a visual and/or audible reward to the user, preferably in the form of an enjoyable game or congratulatory message. The present invention also comprises a method of commercial promotion in which the invention toothbrush is provided in its visual or audible display a promoted character voice or shape for the game or congratulatory message, such that free or below cost giveaway by a fast food or similar enterprise potentially increases its business.
The present invention comprises a toothbrush with a handle sufficient to support and preferably at least partially encase motion sensing means 100, logic means 200 and a digital output display means 300. Motion sensing means 100 are shown in
Bore 102 is preferably aligned with the longitudinal axis of the toothbrush handle, although the objects of the present invention may at least in part be achieved if bore 102 is aligned at an angle or perpendicular to that axis. It is intended that the relationship of the ball within the bore permit the ball to move into and away from contact with two contacts from time to time upon significant motion of the toothbrush. Each contact and breaking of contact of ball 101 with two contacts 103 respectively completes and breaks an electrical circuit electrically connected with logic means 200. Motion sensing according to the invention is determined by the logic means 200 by sensing within a clock period a minimum number of electrical contact completions and breaks, which means are provided with a simple clock and counting means therein. As a simple example of the invention motion sensing method, a user may pick up the toothbrush and apply toothpaste or otherwise manipulate the toothbrush, causing ball 101 to make or break electrical connection with contacts 103, say 10 times in 20 seconds, by that motion. However, logic means 200 will contain programming sufficient to compare the number of makes/breaks over a 20 second interval so that brushing motion detection is not recognized until the number of makes/breaks is greater than 10.
The orientation of ball 101 in bore 102 provides relatively free, undamped movement therein. In an alternate embodiment, damping fluid such as a non-conductive oil may fill bore 102 thereby reducing makes/breaks to the logic means 200 by making simple, non-vigorous brushing motion of the toothbrush.
Logic means 200 comprises circuitry, memory and/or microprocessors with a real time clock for correlating brush strokes and time, and means 200 also goes to sleep and/or directs an output to display means 300 at 30 to 60 seconds after logic means ceases to sense makes or breaks from means 100. At the sensing a first make or break from means 100, logic means 200 wakes up and receives in an undifferentiated manner the make/break information from ball 101 and contacts 103. Logic means 200 simply counts makes and breaks in a predetermined time period and compares that number with a predetermined number of makes/breaks. If the number of actual makes/breaks exceeds the predetermined number, logic means 200 directs output to display means 300 in a manner to indicate to the user that a desired behavior is achieved or not achieved.
The invention assembly is powered by a small battery and designed to meet low power requirements of the components for a relatively long period of time.
Display means 300 are provided with an LCD display with or without audible output to the user. The visual and/or audible output is a critical part of the invention. Optional outputs are shown in the figures.
In one embodiment of the invention, the PART 1 display of
In an alternate embodiment of the present invention, the sleep mode indication on the display and in the reward programming will remain in effect until the count frequency of the make/breaks exceeds a brushing count frequency, such that the display will change only after brushing count frequency for the toothbrush is achieved. With this embodiment, the user only views a sleep mode display, a brushing mode display, and a reward display for a "success" animation, sound or game as a reward for completion of brushing.
The present reward display for at the
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The number of zones of game or reward mode-active contacts in
Contacts 103D in
In another embodiment of the invention, the sleep mode of the logic means may be replaced with an off mode, such that the display is blank and essentially no power is delivered thereto when the number of counts is zero for a preset period of time. In this embodiment, the first count causes the logic means to show a display indicating the brushing should be taking place, i.e., the brushing mode. In the brushing mode, the logic means monitors in some form the motion sensing counts to determine if brushing is taking place in a desired manner. Such monitoring may be in one of several forms, such as (1) the number of first or actual counts within a short time period is compared to a preset number of counts for that time period (for example, 3 counts in 5 seconds), (2) the number of first or actual counts within a full time period for desired brushing activity of the entire mouth is compared to a preset number of counts for that activity (for example, 100 counts in 2 minutes), (3) the number of first or actual counts within a time period for a mouth section (top and bottom teeth, teeth quadrants, and/or tongue) is compared to a preset number of counts for that mount section (for example, 3 counts in 5 seconds), (4) the number of first or actual counts occur within a preset time period of each other, or (5) other actual count measurement methods to determine compliance with desired brushing motion. If such monitoring indicates the desired brushing motion has taken place, the logic means causes a screen display indicating that the user should move to the next mouth section for another portion of the brushing mode or that all the desired brushing is accomplished and a game may begin.
The present invention also comprises a broad application of the above motion sensing means as one or more game switches capable of being enclosed away from direct user contact. The benefits of such an enclosed switch include sealing against atmospheric invasion by heat, cold, dust or liquids, such that the user could operate games in such locations as a bath, shower, beach, rainy environments, high humidity or dust environments or such that users such as young children who would tend to press too hard on buttons or chew on or drop the device in liquids could retain an operationally effective game device even after such immersion or splashing of liquids on the game device. The power source for the game device is optionally sealed in a liquid tight enclosure with the game device or in its own enclosure such as for a replaceable battery.
The motion sensing device shown in FIG. 10 and adapted in
It is known in the art to provide microprocessor and associated circuitry for interactive electronic games upon a circuit board having a relatively small horizontal area. The motion sensing means of
It is intended that ball 101 comprise any substantially round, oval cylindrical or other internal support for material on the surface which is sufficiently electrically conductive for the objects of the invention whereby a circuit is completed between contacts. The disclosures of
A directional detection of the motion of the contact connection device may be sensed by the logic means of the present invention. For example, the contact pairs sequence 1508, 1506, and 1507 may be activated as a contact connection device moves from a rearward to forward position on the grid 1500 of FIG. 17. The sequential activation of those contact pairs delivers information to logic means adapted to identify two dimensional movement of the contact connection device relative to the support surface of support 1501.
Although in
The present invention also comprises a toothbrush with a display displaying one or more icons in response to any of the several inputs from a user of the toothbrush. A logic means may be connected with a user interface such as the above motion sensor, buttons (or other pressure sensitive means), timers (for indication of an elapsed toothbrushing time or other such useful time period), joysticks, toothbrush bristle or handle pressure response sensors, or other such means, such that one or more user interface actions input to the logic means cause the display to display an icon instead of a bit-mapped display. The bit-mapped display requires expensive and complex IC's and display. The above described icon-based response to toothbrushing indication and game play overcomes that limitation. The present invention comprises a device dramatically reduced in cost over a similar toothbrush having a bit-mapped display.
An alternate embodiment of the invention is now described with reference to
A dramatic reduction in resistance has been found in using the invention switch generally shown in FIG. 19. The switch 700 comprises a support 701 which is conveniently preferred to comprise a circuit board thereafter adapted to connect to logic and/or electrical connections to contact surfaces 702 and 703. Aggregation zone contact 702 comprises a preferably thin layer of electrically conductive material supported by support 701 and electrically separated by break 709 from rollable or slideable surface contact 703. Break 709 comprises the electrical circuit break to be completed by slideable and/or rolling motion of the balls 704 and 705 or slideable or rollable means as described above. Break 709 is adapted to lie between angled walls 706 and 707, which form a vertex (as in FIGS. 19-22), although the objects of the invention switch 700 may be accomplished with an open polygonal set of walls or arcuate substantially opposing wall or walls, the wall or walls adapted to permit a plurality of balls 705 to electrically contact each other and contact 702, thereby forming an aggregated and reduced resistance extension of contact 702, and thereafter to electrically contact a plurality of balls 704 which are in electrical contact with contact 703, thereby forming an aggregated reduced resistance circuit completion means between contacts 702 and 703. The plurality of balls 704 and 705 to accomplish the circuit completion of switch 700 causes the interball connections 718 and 719 as in
In general for the embodiment of
A form of the aggregation zone is shown in
In a specific and preferred embodiment of the device of
Incorporated by reference herein is U.S. Pat. No. 4,301,685 for its broad disclosure of a pressure-measuring device which operates in digital representation using bellows, piezoelectric or other such means incorporated into a wrist device for sensing and displaying water depth for a diver. Into such wrist devices are commonly incorporated time and other displays. The requirement for switching between displays or performing calibration, setting or monitoring of certain setpoints and such elements of the device operation generally are made with switch or selection means having an external pressure access, i.e., buttons, dials, stems, and other such means. The present invention using several balls or rounded or rollable means making a plurality of contacts across a circuit break may be incorporated into such a diver's device or other device requiring complete sealing against liquids or dust whereby the switching action may be accomplished with no such external pressure access.
It is an embodiment of the present invention that such depth gauge device as in U.S. Pat. No. 4,301,685 incorporates into the wrist or otherwise compact device a plurality of depth detection gauges with output pressure detection means, means for comparison and determining the difference of the pressures detected by the depth detection gauges, means for comparison of the of the pressures detected for the depth detection gauges with a pre-determined permitted difference(s), and means for displaying an indication that the difference of the pressures detected for the depth detection gauges exceeds the predetermined permitted difference. The operation of the just described means in the listed order results in a warning to a diver that two identical or dissimilar pressure gauges disagree sufficiently such that the diver must immediately have replaced one or both of the gauges or the entire device. Presently, a diver will have no prior warning that the depth detection gauge is failing other than comparison with a calibration standard to which the user does not conveniently have access. The decline in accuracy and/or failure frequency of one depth gauge will almost never equal that of even an identical depth gauge. Therefore, the display to the diver that the gauges disagree with each other is an immediate indication that one of the depth gauges has declined in accuracy or failed as compared to a similarly exposed depth gauge. Examples of such differential causes of depth gauge reduction in accuracy or failure are different leakages or installation mistakes for the pressure transmitting diaphragms, intentional installation of a depth gauge with a relatively short life and one with a relatively long life that reduces the usable life of the device but provides a higher assurance of operational accuracy prior to the displayed warning of failure.
The embodiment of the portion of the device 721 in
Contacts 721 and 723 in the device of
The enclosure for placement of contacts according to the embodiment disclosed for
Now that the invention device is enabled with means for determining its three dimension orientation as to the force of gravity, the value of that enablement is now described for an exemplary assembly incorporating the embodiments related to those of FIG. 22. When logic means record a sequence of electrical connection events for such an assembly being moved through space, that sequence indicates the overall three dimensional motion of the assembly in space. Such recorded sequences are compared at least in part with preferred sequences that define a preferred motion of the assembly in use by a user. If the recorded sequence is substantially different or substantially the same with the preferred sequence, different outputs are created delivering the message of non-compliance or compliance in some manner to the user or other person monitoring use of the assembly. For a toothbrush as the assembly, a match between the recorded sequence and a preferred sequence may occur, for instance, where a preferred sequence is intended to detect brushing of the side of the upper or lower left molars next to the inside of the cheek. A recorded sequence will match the preferred sequence in this instance where motion is detected by the invention assembly sensing electrical connection events for back and forth motion (brushing along a substantially horizontal line) as well as electrical connection events indicating that user is directing the bristles laterally toward the user's left side. If the recorded sequence is different from the preferred sequence for a particular part of the brushing regimen, the user or other person can receive an indication of that success or failure as described above for the other forms of motion sensing toothbrushes or other devices.
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John Kerry's stepson Chris Heinz talks to students at the University of Southern Maine, recruiting them to vote, Justin Ellis of the Portland Press Herald reports. LINK
Tom Bell of the Portland Press Herald reports on Maine schools failing to meet the requirements of No Child Left Behind. LINK
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Brandy Beef Steaks
2 Dec 2010
|Beef tenderloin steaks
|16 Ounce (Four 4 Ounce Piece, About 1 Inch Thick)
|Garlic cloves
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|To Taste
|Vegetable oil
|1 Teaspoon
|Beef broth
|1⁄4 Cup (4 tbs)
|Brandy/Beef broth
|2 Tablespoon
|Chopped parsley
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1. Preheat large microwave browning dish by manufacturer for steak. Coat both sides beef steaks with garlic; sprinkle with pepper. Brush browning dish with oil. Place beef in hot browning dish, pressing beef against dish with spatula.
2. Microwave uncovered on high 4 to 6 minutes, turning beef over after 2 minutes, until beef is brown and medium doneness. Remove beef; keep warm.
3. Pour broth and brandy onto browning dish. Microwave uncovered 2 to 3 minutes or until hot; stir in parsley. Pour sauce over beef. Sprinkle with salt if desired.
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A hammer is a tool that strikes an object. The most common uses for hammers are to drive nails, fit parts, forge metal, and break apart objects. Hammers vary in shape, size, and structure, depending on their uses.
Hammers are basic tools in many trades. A hammer is composed of a head (most often made of steel) and a handle (also called a helve or haft). Most hammers are hand tools, but there are also many powered versions—power hammers (also called steam hammers or trip hammers, depending on design)—for heavier uses.
Some hammers have other names, such as mallet and gavel. The term "hammer" also applies to some other devices that deliver blows, such as the hammer of a firearm or the hammer of a piano.
- 1 History
- 2 Designs and variations
- 3 Tools used in conjunction with hammers
- 4 Physics of hammering
- 5 War hammers
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The use of simple hammers dates to about 2,600,000 BC[1][2] when various shaped stones were used to strike wood, bone, or other stones to break them apart and shape them. Stones attached to sticks with strips of leather or animal sinew were being used as hammers with handles by about 30,000 BC during the middle of the Paleolithic Stone Age.[citation needed]
The hammer's archeological record shows that it may be the oldest tool for which definite evidence exists of its early existence.[1][2]
Designs and variations[edit]
A large hammer-like tool is a maul (commander, beetle), a wood or rubber headed hammer is a mallet, and a hammer-like tool with a cutting blade is usually called a hatchet. The essential part of a hammer is the head, a compact solid mass that is able to deliver the blow to the intended target without itself deforming. The opposite side may have a ball shape, as in the ball-peen hammer and the cow hammer (sometimes used for livestock slaughter, but now disparaged for animal cruelty). Some upholstery hammers have a magnetized face, to pick up tacks. In the hatchet, the hammer head is secondary to the cutting edge of the tool. The impact between steel hammer heads and the objects being hit can create sparks, which may ignite flammable or explosive gases. These are a hazard in some industries such as underground coal mining (methane gas), or in other hazardous environments such as petroleum refineries and chemical plants. In these environments, a variety of non-sparking metal tools are used, primarily aluminium or beryllium copper hammers.[3] In recent years, the handles have been made of durable plastic or rubber, though wood is still widely used.
Hand-powered hammers[edit]
- Ball-peen hammer,[4] or mechanic's hammer
- Boiler scaling hammer[4]
- Brass hammer, also known as non-sparking hammer or spark-proof hammer and used mainly in flammable areas like oil fields
- Brickhammer[4] or stonemason's hammer
- Carpenter's hammer (used for nailing), such as the framing hammer and the claw hammer, and pinhammers (ball-peen and cross-peen types) [4]
- Cross-peen hammer,[4] having one round face and one wedge-peen face.
- Drilling hammer – a short handled sledgehammer originally used for drilling in rock with a chisel. The name usually refers to a hammer with a 2–4 lb head and a 10-inch handle, also called a "single-jack" hammer because it was used by one person drilling, holding the chisel in one hand and the hammer in the other.[5] In modern usage, the term is mostly interchangeable with "engineer's hammer," although it can indicate a version with a slightly shorter handle.
- Engineer's hammer, a short-handled hammer, originally an essential components of a railroad engineer's toolkit for working on steam locomotives.[6] Typical weight is 2–4 lbs (0.9–1.8 kg) with a 12–14 inch (30–35 cm) handle. Originally these were often cross-peen hammers, with one round face and one wedge-peen face, but in modern usage the term primarily refers to hammers with two round faces.
- Gavel, used by judges and presiding authorities to draw attention
- Geologist's hammer or rock pick
- Joiner's hammer, or Warrington hammer[4]
- Knife-edged hammer, its properties developed to aid a hammerer in the act of slicing whilst bludgeoning
- Lathe hammer (also known as a lath hammer, lathing hammer, or lathing hatchet), a tool used for cutting and nailing wood lath, which has a small hatchet blade on one side (with a small, lateral nick for pulling nails) and a hammer head on the other[7]
- Lump hammer, or club hammer
- Mallets, including the rubber hammer and dead blow hammer
- Railway track keying hammer[4]
- Rock climbing hammer
- Sledge hammer
- Soft-faced hammer
- Splitting maul
- Stonemason's hammer
- Tinner's hammer
- Upholstery hammer
- Welder's chipping hammer[4]
Mechanically-powered hammers[edit]
Mechanically-powered hammers often look quite different from the hand tools, but nevertheless most of them work on the same principle. They include:
- Hammer drill, that combines a jackhammer-like mechanism with a drill
- High Frequency Impact Treatment hammer — for aftertreatment of weld transitions
- Jackhammer
- Steam hammer
- Trip hammer
In professional framing carpentry, the manual hammer has almost been completely replaced by the nail gun. In professional upholstery, its chief competitor is the staple gun.
Tools used in conjunction with hammers[edit]
- Anvil
- Chisel
- Star drill
- Punch
- Woodsplitting maul – can be hit with a sledgehammer for splitting wood.
- Woodsplitting wedge – hit with a sledgehammer for splitting wood.
Physics of hammering[edit]
Hammer as a force amplifier[edit]
A hammer is basically a force amplifier that works by converting mechanical work into kinetic energy and back.
In the swing that precedes each blow, the hammer head stores a certain amount of kinetic energy—equal to the length D of the swing times the force f produced by the muscles of the arm and by gravity. When the hammer strikes, the head is stopped by an opposite force coming from the target, equal and opposite to the force applied by the head to the target. If the target is a hard and heavy object, or if it is resting on some sort of anvil, the head can travel only a very short distance d before stopping. Since the stopping force F times that distance must be equal to the head's kinetic energy, it follows that F is much greater than the original driving force f—roughly, by a factor D/d. In this way, great strength is not needed to produce a force strong enough to bend steel, or crack the hardest stone.
Effect of the head's mass[edit]
The amount of energy delivered to the target by the hammer-blow is equivalent to one half the mass of the head times the square of the head's speed at the time of impact (). While the energy delivered to the target increases linearly with mass, it increases quadratically with the speed (see the effect of the handle, below). High tech titanium heads are lighter and allow for longer handles, thus increasing velocity and delivering more energy with less arm fatigue than that of a steel head hammer of the same weight.[8] As hammers must be used in many circumstances, where the position of the person using them cannot be taken for granted, trade-offs are made for the sake of practicality. In areas where one has plenty of room, a long handle with a heavy head (like a sledge hammer) can deliver the maximum amount of energy to the target. It is not practical to use such a large hammer for all tasks, however, and thus the overall design has been modified repeatedly to achieve the optimum utility in a wide variety of situations.
Effect of the handle[edit]
The handle of the hammer helps in several ways. It keeps the user's hands away from the point of impact. It provides a broad area that is better-suited for gripping by the hand. Most importantly, it allows the user to maximize the speed of the head on each blow. The primary constraint on additional handle length is the lack of space to swing the hammer. This is why sledge hammers, largely used in open spaces, can have handles that are much longer than a standard carpenter's hammer. The second most important constraint is more subtle. Even without considering the effects of fatigue, the longer the handle, the harder it is to guide the head of the hammer to its target at full speed. Most designs are a compromise between practicality and energy efficiency. Too long a handle: the hammer is inefficient because it delivers force to the wrong place, off-target. Too short a handle: the hammer is inefficient because it doesn't deliver enough force, requiring more blows to complete a given task. Recently,[when?] modifications have also been made with respect to the effect of the hammer on the user. A titanium head has about 3% recoil and can result in greater efficiency and less fatigue when compared to a steel head with up to 30% recoil.[9] Handles made of shock-absorbing materials or varying angles attempt to make it easier for the user to continue to wield this age-old device, even as nail guns and other powered drivers encroach on its traditional field of use.
Effect of gravity[edit]
Gravity exerts a force on the hammer head. If hammering downwards, gravity increases the acceleration during the hammer stroke and increases the energy delivered with each blow. If hammering upwards, gravity reduces the acceleration during the hammer stroke and therefore reduces the energy delivered with each blow. Some hammering methods, such as pile drivers,[specify] rely entirely on gravity for acceleration on the down stroke.
War hammers[edit]
A war hammer is a late medieval weapon of war intended for close combat action.
Symbolic hammers[edit]
The hammer, being one of the most used tools by Homo sapiens, has been used very much in symbols and arms. In the Middle Ages it was used often in blacksmith guild logos, as well as in many family symbols. The hammer and pick is used as a symbol of mining. A well known symbol with a hammer in it is the Hammer and Sickle, which was the symbol of the former Soviet Union and is very interlinked with Communism/Socialism. The hammer in this symbol represents the industrial working class (and the sickle the agricultural working class). The hammer is used in some coat of arms in (former) socialist countries like East Germany. Similarly, the Hammer and Sword symbolizes Strasserism, a strand of National Socialism orientated toward the working class.
The gavel, a small wooden mallet, is used to symbolize a mandate to preside over a meeting or judicial proceeding, and a graphic image of one is used as a symbol of legislative or judicial decision-making authority.
In Norse Mythology, Thor, the god of thunder and lightning, wields a hammer named Mjölnir. Many artifacts of decorative hammers have been found, leading modern practitioners of this religion to often wear reproductions as a sign of their faith.
Judah Maccabee, "The Hammer".
In American folkore, the hammer of John Henry represents the strength and endurance of a man.
The hammer in the song If I Had a Hammer represents a relentless message of justice broadcast across the land. The song became a symbol of the American Civil Rights movement.
Straight pane sledgehammer
Wooden mallet
Ancient Greek bronze sacrificial hammer, 7th century BC, from Dodona
16th century claw hammer from Dürer's "Melencolia I" (1514)
See also[edit]
- ^ a b Semaw, S; Rogers, M. J.; Quade, J; Renne, P. R.; Butler, R. F.; Dominguez-Rodrigo, M; Stout, D; Hart, W. S.; Pickering, T; Simpson, S. W. (2003). "2.6-Million-year-old stone tools and associated bones from OGS-6 and OGS-7, Gona, Afar, Ethiopia" (PDF). Journal of Human Evolution 45 (2): 169–77. doi:10.1016/S0047-2484(03)00093-9. PMID 14529651.
- ^ a b Semaw, S.; Renne, P.; Harris, J. W. K.; Feibel, C. S.; Bernor, R. L.; Fesseha, N.; Mowbray, K. (1997). "2.5-million-year-old stone tools from Gona, Ethiopia". Nature 385 (6614): 333–6. Bibcode:1997Natur.385..333S. doi:10.1038/385333a0. PMID 9002516.
- ^ "Non Sparking hammers". Retrieved 2013-04-18.
- ^ a b c d e f g h British Standard BS 876:1995 Specification for Hand Hammers
- ^ "Tools for Pounding and Hammering". Retrieved 2014-08-03.
- ^ Fish Ensie, E. (Feb 1909). "Handling Locomotive Supplies, Part III.--Standardization". American Engineer and Railway Journal: 55. Retrieved 2013-08-03.
- ^ Farlex. Lathing hammer. The Free Dictionary.
- ^ Cage, Chuck (2011-06-15). "DeWalt's Titanium Hammer Killer?". Toolmonger. Retrieved 2013-04-18.
- ^ "Hammers & Nail Pullers". Retrieved 2013-04-18.
External links[edit]
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Hammers.
|Look up hammer in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
- Hammer types images and descriptions.
- The Hammer Museum
- "Choosing a Hammer." Popular Science, June 1960, pp. 164–167.


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