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– As of this past week, Brock Lesnar vs. Daniel Bryan for the WWE World Heavyweight Title is not penciled in for SummerSlam, even though it seems like a natural match to make for the biggest show of the summer.
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Analyst comments don't hold any value to most investors any more. UA is fair positioned at this point, it's definitely not cheap by the numbers; but has huge growth potential due to its brand and upcoming products. The Lulu trend also opens the path to the upside.The problem that many shorts don't recognize is that investors are not selling their shares and seem to be in for the long haul. There is a huge short position with the price staying constant, which is bullish. Longs don't want to take the risk of being left behind like many in the recent months. This is not to say that UA and every other stock will go down on a market sell-off.So overall, a neutral rating is about right at this point. Some believe it will go up and others it may go down, and the rest will wait for further news.
Additionally, there is high institutional ownership so it is easy to push it higher with only moderate buying.
Good analysis. Todays action seems to justify it. UA is selling off on very low volume.
Back in the summer, anyone could tell the forties were coming soon. Then with a good review on the basketball shoes, I could see the mid fifties very possible. We are a little above from momentum. So there could be a little pulled back now. For next year, assuming there is no stock market crisis, I forecast UA to trade up to 75-80. Even with a crisis it could pull back into the mid to upper forties once again, and possibly to the upper 30's with a major crisis. I will be buying more in that case, but will hold & watch it climb otherwise.


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Legal Description: LOT 40X128 LAIRD AVE County: WOOD, WV APN: 54-05-82-00630000 Census Tract / Block: 7.01 / 1 Alternate APN: Township-Range-Sect: Subdivision: Legal Book/Page: Map Reference: / Legal Lot: Tract #: Legal Block: School District: 5401620 Market Area: Munic/Township: PARKERSBURG CORP Neighbor Code: 0070 THAT CERTAIN LOT, TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND LYING AND BEING SITUATE IN THE CITY OF PARKERSBURG, WOOD COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA, AND MORE PARTICULARLY BOUNDED AND DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT A POINT IN THE EAST SIDE OF LAIRD AVENUE N 23 DEGREES 15' E 214.25 FEET FROM THE NORTHERLY LINE OF 7TH STREET; THENCE WITH LAIRD AVENUE N 23 DEGREES 15' E 40.00 FEET TO A POINT; THENCE S 66 DEGREES 45' E 128.00 FEET TO A POINT; THENCE S 23 DEGREES 15' W 40.00 FEET TO A POINT; THENCE N 66 DEGREES 45' W 128.00 FEET TO THE PLACE OF BEGINNING.
Buyer understands property has a short term (3 month) deed restriction prohibiting the property from being sold/encumbered for more than 120% of total purchase price.
Buyer acknowledges that seller will re-key the exterior doors to the property prior to closing and funding at the buyer's expense to be paid at closing.
Regardless of local custom, the buyer understands and agrees that the seller will pay for the owner's title policy and lender's title policy (if any) and that the buyer will pay all other closing/transfer costs including survey, escrow, all closing fees, and all realty transfer taxes.
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Property is being offered by: Williams & Williams•7140 S. Lewis Ave Ste 200, Tulsa, OK 74136•800.801.8003
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MTV: "The Dark is Rising" – children's movie, or adult oriented fantasy?
Gregory Smith: Is it possible to be a little bit in between?
MTV: Yeah, sure.
Smith: From what I have heard about the "Harry Potter" movies, they are a little bit more mature than when they started out – but I still don't think I would categorize them as mature, adult films. I think this is a similar tone.
MTV: Is that tonal ambiguity what made the movie a classic for you in the sense that you knew you had to do it?
Smith: Well, it's a story about the Light vs. the Dark, sort of compounded in this 13-year-old boy. Speaking for myself, you wonder if you were the Chosen One, like Will, if you were really put to the test could you handle it? I think that every 13-year-old runs that scenario a couple of times in their head. But I had never really heard of [the story] until I found out about the film – but when I told my brother that I was going to do this he was more excited about this than anything that I have ever done. He bought a ticket and came out to Romania because he wanted to see the set and everything. I should call him and ask him why and then call you back.
MTV: We'll conference him in. But it's interesting you mention your brother, because that's essentially your character in this movie – Max, the brother.
Smith: Yeah, that was something I had to draw from. When I first read the script I felt like if I got the job all the bullying I did over the years I could suddenly justify as research.
MTV: Tell me, then, how does Max – how does he fit into this epic battle of Light versus Dark?
Smith: Max comes home from college and he is acting a little strange and you're not really sure what is going on with him but you know that something is a little wrong. It turns out he has been kicked out of college. He is ashamed and doesn't want to tell his parents and is trying to hide it. The Darkness senses that insecurity and weakness and they sort of use that to their advantage.
MTV: So he becomes a tool of the Darkness, against Will in his quest to find the Signs?
Smith: Yes, I am trying to get the Signs before he does. I am trying to stop him from his quest and get the Signs for the Darkness. I have a foray into the Dark Side. But my character is redeemed before the end.
MTV: That's kind of cool for an actor isn't it?
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MTV: Tell me about that big fight.
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(NUAN). It seems like Yahoo! will be able to use this if it can work more closely with Apple on Siri. The report said that Yahoo! also wants to work more closely with Apple on search in Safari. That's hard to figure out at first blush though, as Yahoo! -- incorrectly now in hindsight -- chose to outsource search to Bing in 2009. Yahoo! controls the front-end of search in the Bing partnership, but what good would that do Apple? Perhaps the discussions are more around promoting the Yahoo! content that Siri would be getting access to anyway on Apple's Safari browser.I've always though Apple has lagged Google, Facebook and Twitter when it comes to deploying web services. Think Apple Maps but it also goes back to the days of MobileMe. Web Services are just not what Apple lives and breathes every day. I said last year that Apple should really buy Yahoo! and Twitter and make them the core of their new Web Services group. I believe web services will be an increasingly important battleground in phones going forward. Google is already strong in Maps, Earth, and now into Plus and other areas. Facebook will try and push its own services in its Android-based phone. Even Samsung will be out to demonstrate it is better in Web Services than Apple, in order to differentiate its brand from other phones out there. What's going to be Apple's response? The company can stay agnostic and let the other phone makers differentiate, it can build it or it can buy. For those who think Apple should stay agnostic, I'd say that's like saying Apple shouldn't make a camera but just let third parties build their own photo apps to leverage the Apple hardware in the camera. There are some services that Apple should just provide. Photos is one thing. Flickr (the new mobile version) would be a great addition to iOS. Weather and stocks is another "must have" and Yahoo! does a great job there -- although it could do more.Yesterday's report by Nicholas Carlson in Business Insider that part of Yahoo!'s $30 million deal for Summly included rights to Summly's IP from SRI International is also interesting here. SRI was the birthplace of Siri and Nuance
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The dyeing or other chemical treatment of a coiled textile substrate is known in the prior art as is shown, for example, in the patent to Crump, U.S. Pat. No. 3,491,561, issued Jan. 27, 1970. The patent to Crump discloses the coiling of a yarn, and dyeing the coiled substrate in lateral stripes across the substrate. This patent does not disclose the use of foam, and does not disclose level dyeing of the yarn.
There has been considerable work done on the treatment of textile substrates with foamed dye or other chemical. Foams are desirable in applying chemical solutions to textile substrates because of their inherent potential for both uniformity of application and low wet pick up, but it has been difficult to cause the uniform delivery of foam to the entire substrate involved.
Efforts at causing penetration of foam into a textile substrate have included the placing of a foam on a substrate and applying a vacuum to the opposite side of the substrate to draw the foam through the textile substrate. Conversely, a foam has been applied to one side of a substrate, and the fluid pressure of the foam has been used to urge the foam through the textile substrate. Other efforts at causing a foam to penetrate a substrate have included the use of pinch rolls, doctor blades, and air jets.
In general, foams can readily be made to penetrate substrates having a columnar structure, such as cut pile carpeting, wherein the fibers or yarns are oriented in the direction of the desired movement of the foam. It is very difficult to make foams penetrate a substrate wherein the fibers or yarns are oriented transversely to the direction of the desired movement of the foam, and this has not previously been satisfactorily accomplished.
There has been some prior effort to cause penetration of dye or other chemical solutions into a textile substrate by impacting the textile substrates. A liquid has been applied directly to the surface of the substrate, and impacted to cause penetration of the liquid into the substrate. Also, the liquid has been absorbed within a carrier belt, such as felt or the like, the carrier belt placed against the substrate, and the two impacted to cause liquid from the carrier belt to penetrate the substrate. While these techniques will cause penetration of the liquid into a substrate--both a columnar and a transversely laid up substrate--it is difficult to achieve the uniformly thin layer of liqud for low wet pick up when the liquid is applied directly; and, the carrier belts are subjet to rapid deterioration under impacting. Impaction has been carried out in prior art apparatus by reciprocatory impaction, and by continuous impaction by means of high speed rollers.
This invention relates generally to the treating of textile substrates, and is more particularly concerned with a method and apparatus for applying a foamed solution to a substrate and causing penetration by impaction.
The present invention comprises a method and apparatus for dyeing or otherwise treating a textile substrate. Though the textile substrate may take almost any form, the present invention has particular utility in the treating of substrates that include transversely laid yarns or fibers. In one embodiment of the invention, the substrate comprises a single yarn laid with transverse portions, such as a coiled yarn or the like. In accordance with the present method, the treating chemical is foamed and applied to at least one side of the substrate, and the substrate with the foam applied thereto is impacted to cause the foam to penetrate the entire thickness of the substrate. The application of the foam in accordance with the present invention may be by any known means in order to provide uniform application of foam throughout the substrate, and the foam may be applied to one or both sides of the substrate. The impaction may take the form of a reciprocatory striking motion, as by a hammer or the like, or the impaction may take the form of a continuous motion, as by high speed rollers. The substrate itself may be placed on a belt or other carrier and remain on the belt for the complete processing; or, the substrate can be laced, roped, or otherwise held together for processing without a separate carrier.
These and other features and advantages of the present invention will become apparent from consideration of the following specification when taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings in which:
FIG. 1 is a rather schematic elevational view showing application of foam to a substrate and showing apparatus for reciprocatory impaction;
FIG. 2 is a view similar to FIG. 1 showing continuous impaction by a pair of rollers;
FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view showing a different means for application of foam, and showing apparatus for causing reciprocatory impaction;
FIG. 4 is a view similar to FIGS. 1 and 2 showing a modified anvil arrangement;
Fig.5 is a cross-sectional view showing application of foam to both sides of the substrate with a vertically moving substrate;
FIG. 6 is a cross-sectional view showing another modified form of anvil arrangement;
FIG. 7 is a cross-sectional view showing a modified form of impactor;
FIG. 8 is a cross-sectional view showing a pair of impactors as may be used in the present invention;
FIG. 9 is a view similar to FIG. 6 but showing continuous impaction by a pair of rollers;
FIG. 10 is a top plan view illustrating a substrate laced together for use without a carrier belt, and further showing roping and continuous impaction; and,
FIG. 11 is a cross-sectional view taken substantially along the line 11--11 in FIG. 10.
Referring now more particularly to the drawings, and to those embodiments of the invention here presented by way of illustration, FIG. 1 shows a substrate 15 carried by a belt or the like 16. The belt 16 with the substrate 15 carried thereon moves from left to right as shown in the drawings, as indicated by the arrow 18.
Below the belt 16, there is a stationary member, or anvil, designated at 19; and, above the anvil 19 and aligned therewith, there is an impactor 20. Though no specific means is here illustrated, it will be understood that the impactor 20 is arranged for reciprocatory motion towards and away from the anvil 19 for impacting the substrate 15 after the foam has been applied.
There is a means for supplying a quantity of foam 22 for deposition on the upper surface of the substrate 15. The foam 22 is doctored by a doctor blade 24 to a substantially uniform thickness, so the doctor blade 24 acts as a means for providing a uniform application of foam to the substrate 15. The uniform thickness of foam 22 will be carried beneath the impactor 20. The impactor 20 will be moving continually to strike the upper surface of the substrate 15, causing the foam 22 to penetrate the substrate 15 and be dispersed uniformly therethrough. This process will be discussed in more detail hereinafter.
Looking now at FIG. 2 of the drawings, there is a substrate designated at 26 carried by a belt means 28, the belt 28 with the substrate 26 moving in the direction indicated by the arrow 29. The means 30 dispenses foam 31 onto the upper surface of the substrate 26, and the foam 31 is doctored to a uniform thickness by means of a doctor blade 34. In this embodiment of the invention, it will be seen that there are two rolls 35 and 36, and the substrate 26 with the foam 31 passes through the nip of these two rolls. The rolls 35 and 36 are of such size, and rotated at such speed, that the result is a continuous impaction of the foam 31 and the substrate 26 which causes the foam to penetrate and be distributed throughout the thickness of the substrate 26.
Turning to FIG. 3 of the drawings, there is a belt 38 carrying the substrate 39. In this embodiment of the invention the belt 38 is necessarily perforated to allow the foam 40 to pass through the belt 38. It will be seen that there is a box 41 containing the foam 40, and an opening 42 in the top of the box 41 allows the foam 40 to pass from the box 41, through the belt 32 and to the lower side of the substrate 39.
Those skilled in the art will understand that the foam 40 may be generated remotely and piped to a container such as the box 41, or the foam 40 may be generated within the box 41. In either case, the box 41 becomes the foam dispensing means, and the foam rises from the box 41, through the belt 38 and to the lower surface of the substrate. Those skilled in the art will also understand that metering of the foam 40 will be achieved by generally conventional means. It is well known to meter the amount of liquid and the amount of air to yield a predetermined quantity of foam, and such methods and apparatus are known in the art.
At one edge of the box 41 there is a permanently mounted anvil 44; and, above the anvil 44 there is a reciprocating impactor 45. As here shown, the impactor 45 rides on guide rods 46, and is moved by means of a pitman 48 connecting the impactor 45 to an eccentric 49. An apron 50 may be placed between the impactor 45 and the substrate 39 to keep the impactor 45 clean, and to prevent the buildup of dye or other treating substance on the impactor 45.
It will therefore be seen that foam is appropriately metered and is dispensed from the box 41, and the foam passes through the opening 42 to the lower surface of the substrate 39. As the belt 38 with the substrate 39 moves in the direction indicated by the arrow 51, the impactor 45 will impact the substrate and cause the foam to penetrate the substrate to be dispersed throughout the thickness of the substrate.
FIG. 4 of the drawings shows an arrangement similar to that shown in FIG. 1, the foam being dispensed at 52, immediately before an impactor 54. To protect the belt 55 which carries the substrate 58, the belt 56 is removed from the impacting area by passing the belt downwardly, around a roller 59. The substrate 58, then, passes from the belt 56, over a roller 60, then from the roller 60 back to the belt 56. The roller 60 becomes the anvil against which the impactor 54 acts.
FIG. 5 shows an arrangement wherein the substrate 61 is moving vertically, and there is a belt on each side of the substrate, the belts being indicated at 62 and 64. In this arrangement it will be seen that foam 65 is applied to both sides of the substrate 61, it being understood that the belts 62 and 64 are perforated to allow the foam 65 to engage the substrate 61. The lower edges 66 and 68 of the foam plenum may act as doctor blades to doctor the foam to a uniform application, or conventional metering as discussed in connection with the embodiment of FIG. 3 may be used. Immediately after application of the foam 61, the substrate is impacted by means of an impactor 69 acting against an anvil 70.
Yet another arrangement is shown in FIG. 6 wherein th substrate 71 passes around a roll 72. Foam is applied from the plenum 74, the lower edge 75 of the plenum 74 acting as a doctor blade to doctor the foam to a uniform application. Immediately beyond the doctor blade 75 there is an impactor 76 which acts against the roll 72 so the roll 72 is an anvil. In this embodiment of the invention it will be seen that, after the substrate 71 has been impacted, the substrate is placed onto a belt 78 which can carry the substrate 71 for further processing.
It will be understood that some substrates may not have a uniform upper surface. Since it is important to impact the substrate somewhat uniformly in order to obtain uniform penetration of the foam, the impactor may be divided into a plurality of pieces to allow the impactor to accommodate surface variations in the substrate. FIG. 7 shows a substrate 79 having an anvil 80 thereunder. Above the anvil 80, there is an impactor generally designated at 81, the impactor comprising a plurality of separate members 82, three such separate members 82 being here shown. It will be seen that each of the members 82 has a spring 84 thereabove. The result is that the impactor 81 is reciprocated towards and away from the anvil 80, and the springs 84 will hold the members 82 in their downward position until a member 82 contacts the substrate 79 with a force equal to the strength of its spring 84. After the force of the spring 84 is overcome, it will be understood that the member 82 will move rearwardly relative to the impactor 81. The result is that each of the members 82 will impact the substrate 79 with the same force, and no one member 82 will prevent proper impaction of a different portion of the substrate.
As will be discussed below, it may become necessary to have two or more separate impactors engaging the same substrate to obtain the desired production speed. FIG. 8 shows such an arrangement wherein there is a substrate 85 having two anvils 86 and 88 below the substrate 85. Above the anvils 86 and 88 are two separate impactors 89 and 90. It is contemplated that these impactors 89 and 90 will operate alternately to provide sufficient impaction on the substrate 85 to allow the substrate 85 to move at a reasonable production speed.
FIG. 9 of the drawings shows an arrangement similar to that shown in FIG. 6 of the drawings, but using the continuous impaction rather than the reciprocatory impaction. In the continuous impaction, the impacting rollers will generally be of relatively small diameter in an effort to get the desired impaction. In FIG. 9, it will be seen that the substrate 91 passes around the roller 92, which is one of the pair of rollers 92 and 94 that performs the impaction on the substrate 91. Since the roller 92 will be of relatively small diameter, some means may be required to force the substrate 91 to pass around the roller 92. In the apparatus shown in FIG. 9, this is accomplished by means of a belt-like arrangement 95 which engages one side of the substrate 91 to hold the substrate against the roller 92. The belt-like arrangement 95 may of course comprise a plurality of strings or the like to maintain a sufficiently open substrate for application of the treating foam.
As was discussed in conjunction with FIG. 6 of the drawings, the arrangement shown in FIG. 9 includes the foam plenum 96 for applying foam to the substrate 91 immediately before impaction. A conveyor 98 is provided to receive the substrate and carry it to the next processing.
Finally, attention is directed to FIGS. 10 and 11 of the drawings. It will be remembered that the foregoing discussion supposes that the substrate will be carried on a belt or the like, and must generally be held to be carried through processing of the substrate. Those skilled in the art will realize that the use of a belt or the like will sometimes be inconvenient or undesirable, and the present invention contemplates the processing of the substrate without a belt.
In FIG. 10 there is shown a substrate 99 formed of a single yarn, laid in coiled fashion. Such a substrate obviously has no integrity without some additional support, such as the belts discussed above. However, in FIG. 10 the coiled substrate 99 is laced or otherwise packaged as with the stitching 100. With the coiled substrate stitched throughout its length, it will be understood that the substrate 99 can be handled as required without the use of belts or other carrier means.
The laced substrate 99 may be maintained as shown, and carried through apparatus such as that shown in FIGS. 1-9, without belts or the like. The lacing or stitching 100 will provide the necessary integrity to the substrate. If desired, the substrate may be roped as is indicated in the right-hand portion of FIG. 10. Here it will be seen that, with the substrate 99 appropriately packaged, the substrate can be gathered, as by the condensing walls 101, to be made into a rope designated at 102. There is a plenum 104 for applying foam 105 to the rope; then, the rope is continuously impacted by the rollers 106 and 108.
To assure that the rope 102 remains within the confines of the rollers 106 and 108, the bottom roller 108 includes side flanges 109 and 110; and, the top roller 106 fits between the flanges to provide a discrete opening through which the rope 102 can pass. It is therefore assured that the entire rope will be impacted as desired to cause uniform penetration of the foam 105.
Whether the substrate is laced, or roped, or otherwise packaged, the packaging will be such that a yarn making up the substrate can be removed from the substrate without entanglement.
Returning now to the schematic presentation in FIG. 1 of the drawings, it will be realized that the substrate 15 is shown rather generally. While substrates of various types have been chemically treated in various ways, those skilled in the art have been unsuccessful in utilizing foam to treat a substrate including transversely laid yarn as in the present invention.
When a foam enters a textile substrate, the liquor that forms the walls of either individual bubbles or small groups of bubbles within the foam, wets the surrounding fibers. As the bubbles move into the substrate, they tend to carry their wall liquor with them, but leave some of their wall liquor on the fibers as they move along in contact with the fibers. As penetration continues, the bubbles become denuded of wall liquor to become dry bubbles, hence subject to rupture.
In a columnar substrate wherein the fibers are aligned in the direction of foam penetration, the bubbles tend to sweep a high proportion of their wall liquor along with them as they pass into the substrate. As a result, the liquor is carried a long way into the substrate before the bubbles become dry and collapse.
In a transversely laid substrate, the bubble wall liquor tends to run along the fibers, transversely to the direction of desired penetration. Thus, as the bubbles are propelled forward, they cannot carry much of their wall liquor with them from fiber to fiber, so the bubbles rapidly become denuded of wall liquor, become dry and are subject to rupture. Because of this process, foams passing into transversely laid substrates tend to condense within the outer layers of the substrate.
Any means intended to promote foam penetration that does not take into account the need to prevent decoupling of the foam bubbles from their wall liquor is likely to be detrimental to penetration. In using a pressure drop to cause foam to penetrate a columnar substrate, too great a pressure drop can propel bubbles forward faster than the bubbles can carry wetting liquor with them; and, air jets applied to foam on a substrate may have a similar effect, causing successive condensation to take place on the outer layers of the substrate. In normal padding using pinch rolls, the wetting out of a substrate is induced by squeezing the substrate fibers together, thereby forming capillaries. These capillaries tend to draw off the bubble wall liquor in a foam, leaving the bubbles behind. Since the pinch roll squeezing does not produce capillaries uniformly throughout a substrate, this process (used in the low wet pick up circumstances of foam dyeing) does not produce uniform results.
While impaction has previously been used to cause liquids to penetrate textiles, the treatment has not been sufficiently uniform. When textile substrates have been dyed using impaction to cause penetration, the dyeing has not exhibited the desired levelness.
Though it would be expected that impacting a foam would cause the foam to break down, it has been found that much of the foam survives and penetrates the substrate as foam. It is thought that, under the shock condition of impaction, the foam bubbles and their wall liquor are propelled forward into the substrate and have no opportunity to decouple and become dry, hence subject to rupture. Whether or not this theory of the action is precisely correct, it has been found that foam penetration of a substrate by impacting produces more nearly level application than unfoamed liquid penetration. Also, the foaming of the liquid helps to hold the solution in place after application. It will further be recognized that the use of a foamed solution improves the uniformity of application of chemical to the substrate, so this feature improves the levelness of application.
As is stated above, the foam penetrates the substrate as a result of the impaction. There may, however, be some migration of the dye or other chemical from the precise line of impaction. To alleviate this problem, the impact face of the impactor is made concave as shown in, for example, FIG. 3 of the drawings. The sharp side edges of the face confine the foamed chemical to the immediate area of impact.
It will further be recognized that, since each line across the substrate must be impacted, and impacted uniformly, there may be some difficulty in obtaining sufficient production speeds with the necessary uniformity. The arrangement shown in FIG. 8 is designed to overcome these problems by providing two impactors operating in tamdem. Each impactor 89 and 91 will strike the substrate 85 alternately. The impactor 89 will strike one space extending across the substrate 85, and the impactor 90 will subsequently strike one-half of that same space. The result is that each portion of the substrate is impacted twice, and each strike of the second impactor 90 covers half of two contiguous spaces struck by the impactor 89.
With the foregoing in mind, attention is directed to FIG. 2 of the drawings. It should be obvious that continuous impaction has the advantages of no reciprocatory motion, and uniformity in treatment of the substrate.
The impaction rolls 35 and 36 shown in FIG. 2 are different from the above discussed rolls for forcing foam into a fabric or the like, and are different from the conventional padding rolls used in dyeing and well known to those skilled in the art. In both these prior art rolls, the object has been to exert sufficient pressure on the goods to accomplish the goal. In the prior art foam application, the rolls have been used in an attempt to push the foam into the goods by simple mechanical pressure. In prior art padding, wetting out the substrate takes place largely through a combination of the entrapment of the liquor within the larger voids within the substrate, and the forming of capillaries between many of the fibers as the substrate passes through the nip of the padding rolls. The capillaries draw liquor into the substrate mainly from the liquor trapped within the voids. Wetting out does not take place uniformly except in the presence of excessive amounts of liquor; as a result, the typical wet pick ups are in excess of 300%.
The present invention does not utilize the compression induced formation of capillaries to wet out the substrate, but uses instead the rate of rise of pressure as the substrate begins to pass through the roll nip, to effect impaction. For this reason, it will be understood that the final intensity of pressure attained at the center of the nip is not as critical as the rate of increase of pressure from the start to the center of the nip.
Those skilled in the art will understand that when a substrate, such as the substrate 26, is passing between rolls such as the rolls 35 and 36, the rate of increase in pressure exerted by the rolls is inversely proportional to the radius of the rolls, and the increase in pressure is an exponential function. As a result, if the rolls 35 and 36 are small, the increase in pressure will be so rapid that the result is impaction rather than simple padding. It will therefore be understood that the foam is caused to penetrate the substrate during the rapid increase in pressure immediately before reaching the center of the nip between the rolls.
Thus, the present invention provides a method of dyeing or otherwise chemically treating yarn or other textile substrate wherein the substrate includes transversely laid yarns or fibers. The method includes the application of a foamed treatment liquid, such as dye, the foam preferably being a short-lived foam with little or no "doping" so the liquid before foaming has a very low viscosity, the viscosity approaching the viscosity of water. The foam is applied to the substrate, and the foam is impacted to cause the foam to penetrate the substrate and be dispersed therethrough. The impacting may take the form of a hammering as with a reciprocally moving impactor, and the impactor may be moved in any manner desired. Of course, ultra high frequency sound is highly desirable as a driving means because of the rapid impaction and the short motion used, though other mechanical arrangements are applicable also.
Alternatively, the impaction may be by means of rolls. When the substrate is fed past a roller such that the increase in pressure is very rapid, the effect is to impact the substrate and achieve the same results as the reciprocatory motion. While a pair of rolls has been illustrated, it will also be understood that a single roll opposing a flat moving surface may be used. Obviously, the size of the roller and the speed of the substrate must be selected to achieve the impaction since the use of a flat surface will change the rate of increase in pressure.
After the substrate has been impacted to cause the foam to be dispersed throughout the substrate, the yarn can be finished by known means, keeping in mind that the wet pick-up is quite low using the method of the present invention. Though the percentage will vary considerably depending on the fiber, the type of foam and other variables, the wet pick-up may be in the range of 20% to 50%.
It will of course be understood by those skilled in the art that the specific embodiments of the invention here presented are by way of illustration only, and are meant to be in no way restrictive; therefore, numerous changes and modifications may be made, and the full use of equivalents resorted to, without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention as defined in the appended claims.
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Ruth Joanne Lyon Fletcher, 80, formerly of Greencastle, died Friday at the Manor Care Summer Trace in Carmel.
Born in South Bend, she was the daughter of Adolph R. and Ruth L. (Smith) Hayes.
She was a 1943 graduate of South Shore High School in Chicago and a 1947 graduate of DePauw University with a degree in Economics. She also earned a master's degree in education from DePauw in 1966.
She married Keith H. Lyon in 1948. He preceded her in death. She later married Robert I. Fletcher, who also preceded her in death.
She was a third-grade teacher at Ridpath Elementary School, Greencastle, from 1966-1983 and was a member of St. Andrews Episcopal Church, Greencastle, Alpha Omega Pi Sorority, Tri Kappa Sorority, Daughter's of the American Revolution, Teacups in Greencastle, Windy Hill Country Club, and the Indiana State Teacher's Association.
Survivors include a son, Robert H. Lyon and wife Donna, Chicago; daughters Anna (Lyon) Baker and husband Dr. Martin Baker, Zionsville, and Patricia (Lyon) Kennedy, Phoenix; and nine grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents, husbands Keith H. Lyon and Robert I. Fletcher, and a sister.
Services will take place at 11 a.m. Monday at the Bittles and Hurt Funeral Home, Greencastle. Burial will be in Forest Hill Cemetery.
Visitation is from 4-8 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home.
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Hi everyone,It was almost a half-century ago, at age 15 or so, that I encountered one of the more important influences in my life: a crazy group of poets/musicians who called themselves The Fugs.They had a huge impact on me in that, though raised in…Continue
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Hmmmm... there are medical "missionaries" who are entirely secular; Doctors Without Borders is one such organization.
Has your friend found out which type of "missionaries" she would have to write about? Maybe she could drop a line or two into the article about DWB....???
I wish more "notables" would speak out like Ricky. Don't know if it does any good, but it "makes my day"!
At a friend's retirement party last night, someone asked me where I went to church. All I could admit to was that I didn't go. I'm almost ashamed I didn't "fess up" and say I was an atheist. It wasn't the time or place or person I wanted to "come out" to. Dang.
Loving it and saving it Mindy!
The shopping penguin was fun. I wonder how long a King penguin can stand hot weather, but haven't been able to find-out yet.
Penguin, Windows Waltz, wonderful!
Get better soon, Carl!
Carl, I just now read your post telling of your health problems. I am so sorry your kidneys aren't functioning normally and cellulitis enters the scene. This can't be good news. How are you feeling? Have you been able to keep your spirits up? Do you expect to have information about your prognosis? Cellulitis is sometimes a condition that develops with diabetes. Do you have symptoms of that disease?
Please do keep us up to date on how you are doing, as you are able.
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STH TT 947: Advanced Systematic Theology II: The Human Condition
Study of the theological dimensions of human life, examining the Christian notions of sin and salvation, and some variants and alternatives to these and other religious traditions. Develops a contemporary Christology.
STH TT 948: Advanced Systematic Theology III: Sanctification and Religious Life
Study of both personal and communal dimensions of the religious life. Examines the church and the religious practices of ritual, symbol making, and paths of spiritual perfection. Develops a systematic doctrine of the Holy Spirit and the church.
STH TT 949: Hermeneutics for Teaching and Preaching
The purpose of this course is to hone skills at the doctoral level in various tasks of hermeneutics (fancy word for interpretation) necessary for preaching and religious education. Religious life has both ultimate predicaments and ultimate ecstatic fulfillments. These can be sorted roughly into five basic problematics that take various forms in nearly all religions, although this course will focus on Christianity with some informal treatments of other religions. These problematics are (1) living under obligation, with issues of righteousness, discernment of justice and morality, guilt, and forgiveness, (2) the quest for personal wholeness, with issues of suffering, brokenness, dignity, and sanctification, (3) the engagement of others, with issues of ingroup/outgroup distinctions, loving enemies, loving in different ways, and loving nature, (4) the attainment of a value-identity in ultimate perspective, with issues of the meaning of life and coping with finitude and ambiguity, and (5) gratitude for sheer existence, with issues of radical contingency, affirmation of life and death, and union with and distance from God. Each of these problematics singly and in combination with others has been called "salvation," but the complexity of religion requires that they be thought together and each one interpreted to the others. The four domains of hermeneutics (scripture, experience, tradition, and reason) will be explored through the grid of these five religious problematics.
STH TT 954: Scientific Approaches to Religion
This seminar examines interpretations of religious beliefs, behaviors, and experiences deriving from the biological, evolutionary, psychological, cognitive, neurological, and medical sciences.
STH TT 956: Atheisms and Theologies
The general aim of this course is learn about varieties of atheism-older "classic atheism," so-called "new atheism" of recent years, and theologically inspired forms of atheism-and to understand the various theological responses to atheism. Questions of particular importance are: (1) How strong are traditional and new atheistic arguments? (2) Where does or should theology stand in relation to the arguments of atheism? (3) What are the origins of modern atheism? (4) Should postmodern mystical theologies and iconoclastic anti-anthropomorphic theologies that reject a determinate divine being be considered atheistic? If so how does this sort of atheism relate to other types? The class is intended for advanced masters students and doctoral candidates interested in con-temporary theology and its conceptual roots in older theological debates. Meets with STH TT 816.
STH TT 961: Varieties of Religious Naturalism
The aim of this course is learn about varieties of religious naturalism and how they have been, and can be, incorporated into philosophical and theological reflection. The seminar will read a variety of works in contemporary religious naturalism, from twentieth-century classics to current contributions, and from theoretical analyses of the meaning of naturalism to surveys attempting to map out the territory of plausible viewpoints. We will also track the close relationship between religious naturalism and both ecologically-rooted forms of spirituality and nature-centered forms of mysticism.
STH TT 966: Fem/Womani Theo
STH TT 974: Religious Experience
This seminar is a multidisciplinary study of religious experience, drawing on philosophy, theology, literature, psychology, sociology, the cognitive sciences, and the neurosciences. An advanced research seminar, this course presumes significant background knowledge in theology and philosophy and is designed for doctoral students. Advanced master's students can participate with the permission of the instructor.
STH TT 998: Theology and Trauma
This course aims to bring the recent studies in the interdisciplinary study of trauma to bear on the field of theology. What unique challenges does the phenomenon of trauma pose to contemporary theology? The first part of the course explores recent studies in trauma, focusing on three areas of research: 1) neurobiology of trauma, 2) clinical/therapeutic studies, and 3) literary approaches to trauma. The second part of the course examines theological engagements with issues of radical suffering. The third part brings together the insights from the first two and focuses on the question of what it means to witness theologically to individual, societal, and global trauma. We will look at issues and contexts such as the criminal justice system, war, poverty, and racism. In this final part, students will be working towards constructive theological engagements with issues of trauma through interaction with a variety of mediums: art, literature, spiritual practices, and film. The course is not a counseling course. It aims to provide rich theological reflection around issues of suffering, violence, and trauma, both individual and global.
STH TY 704: Introduction to Spiritual Care and Counseling
This course introduces a method of spiritual care as practical theology. Students will learn to assess the experiences of loss, violence, and addiction reflected in spiritual care conversations. They will use theological, psychological, and cultural studies to reflect upon these issues of loss or violence, and develop theologically based strategies of care and justice.
STH TY 803: The Psychology of Religion
Examining methodological questions and issues in the psychological interpretation of religious matters by considering what is meant by 'religion' and what is involved in interpreting 'religion' psychologically.
STH TY 806: Theories of Human Development
The goal of this course is to achieve an understanding of the human developmental process and how that process integrates the growth of faith and the life of the community. We will use a series of theoretical readings, broader lectures by the professor, and selected autobiographies to apply theory. As our experiences provide excellent laboratory data, there will be various opportunities to examine our own life processes as a way of seeing theory in action. Course Objectives: By the end of the class, students should: - know the primary developmental theories, including psychodynamic, cognitive, behavioral, social learning, faith development and be able to identity of variety of lesser used theories - be able to critique developmental theories using the insights of feminist theory, studies in racism and sexual identity, and the reality of globalization - be able to apply theory to case material - discuss the relationship of human development and community context
STH TY 811: Object Relations and the Study of Religion
Achieving familiarity with and fluency in a series of psychoanalytic theories of personality/character, development, relationships, motivation, health, and pathology, as a context in which to practice psychoanalytic interpretations of religious matters.
STH TY 814: Womanist Psychologies of Religion
This seminar course will "engage womanist theology and ethics, womanist pastoral and practical theology for their embedded psychologies of religion. We will examine psychological aspects of Black women's religious experience in the U.S. Of particular interest will be the place, relationship and significance of black religious experience as a particular(ized) cultural psychological construction and experience. Additionally, we will take up for consideration the theological basis for articulating a womanist psychology of religion, and the argument that womanist epistemology, theological anthropology as well as practical and pastoral theologies are embedded in psychological dynamics and require an explicit articulation of a (psychoanalytic) psychology of religion.
STH TY 821: Psychoanalysis of/and Spirituality
Examines the growing engagement between psychoanalysis and spirituality. Historically this has been contested ground with psychoanalytic theorists having little regard for religion and spirituality beyond the realm of a psychological interpretation. Over the last two decades, this has shifted and a number of works have been either written about psychoanalysis as spirituality; psychoanalyst's spiritual practices, and/or psychoanalysis of spirituality. The emphasis of these conversations has resulted in conferences dedicated to the topic as well as psychoanalysts specializing in spirituality. The impact on studies in spirituality has produced a more conscious interest in the relevance of psychodynamic perspectives of spirituality and spiritual direction. This course takes these shifts up while resisting the temptation to collapse the distinctions.
STH TY 826: Psychodynamics of Marriage and Family
This is an introductory course that includes a comprehensive overview of the field of family systems and family therapy. This course will serve as an introduction to the theory and techniques of couples and family therapy. An attempt will be made to integrate theory and practice through assignments, class activities, and personal and professional self-reflection. Students will have the opportunity to reflect upon how they might actually use course content professionally in their respective disciplines.
STH TY 828: Womanist Approaches to Religion
This course will provide students an opportunity to think about how womanist scholars approach the study of religion and black women's religious experience. We will take up for examination the questions: "what do womanist scholars mean by womanist approaches to religion?" And, "what constitutes religion and religious experience?" The course is interdisciplinary and interfaith in its consideration of religion. Students will be introduced to the methods, aims, approaches, sources and disciplinary locations of womanist scholarship on religion. Particular attention will be given to the widening scope of womanist research on religion interms of methodology and religions. The class will engage our concerns through lecture, discussion and site observations.
STH TY 842: Pastoral Psychology of Healing
Every person, in her or his personal relationships and professional activities, is guided by a complex, often tacit, theory of healing, comprised of judgments about illness/suffering (what's wrong?); health/well-being (what's possible? what's ideal?); the trajectory from one to the other (how do we get there?); and factors that enhance as well as inhibit movement along that trajectory (what should we do?). Examining and comparing a range of theories of healing--in psychology, medicine, Christian traditions, world religions, and non-Western cultures--equips us critically to reflect upon, amend, if not reconstruct our respective theories of healing..
STH TY 854: Pastoral Theology and Psychology
Practical theologians, pastoral theologians, and pastoral psychologists focus on different subject matters, use different methods, and address different audiences. Nonetheless, they share a common purpose: to diagnose, accurately and in-depth, concrete problems of the human condition (e.g., suffering, evil) and, correspondingly, to construct effective ways of addressing those problems (i.e., forms of intervention, strategies of care). This is a reading course that examines contributions of theologians, practical theologians, pastoral theologians, and pastoral psychologists, and provides a context in which students may investigate research problems that are especially relevant to their respective communities and traditions, as well as their particular vocational objectives (e.g., parish ministry, chaplaincy, pastoral care, seminary teaching).
STH TY 855: Pastoral Care, Community Justice and Feminist Ethics
Two questions that undergird this course is 1)"what is the relationship between pastoral care and justice in and for the broader community?" and 2) "what do diverse feminist ethical and theological perspectives contribute this prior question?" These questions will guide us throughout the semester as we 1) read diverse perspectives on pastoral care and community justice; 2) visit ministry sites that seek to respond to various forms of structural, i.e. economic, healthcare; gendered, ethnicity/racial, sexuality, prison, etc. forms of injustices that impact specific communities; 3) articulate pastoral theologies of care that explicit integrate ethical commitments to justice and responsible pastoral action; 4) explore the difference that difference makes in the texts (human narratives as well as those written); 5) interrogate the exercise of power in unjust social, religious and structural practices and in justice oriented practices of care.