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Work in progress on a system to generate complex forms based on simulation of cellular growth. By Andy Lomas.
There you go. Explained by Territory, London.
This is extremly beautiful, I could watch this for hours. 20 Hz is a piece by Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt.
20 Hz observes a geo-magnetic storm occurring in the Earth's upper atmosphere. Working with data collected from the CARISMA radio array and interpreted as audio, we hear tweeting and rumbles caused by incoming solar wind, captured at the frequency of 20 Hertz.
Generated directly by the sound, tangible and sculptural forms emerge suggestive of scientific visualisations. As different frequencies interact both visually and aurally, complex patterns emerge to create interference phenomena that probe the limits of our perception.
While the nuclear power plants in Japan are still releasing radioactivity, the media in Europe has stopped the coverage mostly...
There is a great site, put together by volunteers, to measure and bring together measured radioactivity levels with highest possible transparency. The funds to do that have been raised online. This is good and important: safecast.org.
Surgeon Charles Limb looks at the science of creativity.
CG Cells, by Leandro Salerno from Argentina.
Cells are extraordinary things, the building block of life. And you own close to 100 trillion of these little fellows, aren't you lucky!
There is always something beautiful about scientists analyzing highly emotional events, like this "state of the art" simulation of the events on September 11, 2001.
A video illustrating a typical practical magnification range of a scanning electron microscope designed for biological specimens. The video starts at 25x, about 6 mm across the whole field of view, and zooms in to 12000x, about 12 μm across the whole field of view. The spherical objects are glass beads with a diameter of 10 μm, similar in diameter to a red blood cell.
Very often, people refer to ants system as a role model of society. But here is the proof, they do the very same stupid stuff we do: the infamous ant death spiral:
It's a circular mill, first described in Army Ants by Schneirla (1944). A circle of army ants, each one following the ant in front, becomes locked into a circular mill. They will continue to circle each other until they all die.
Via The Ant Room.
Lovely documentation from 1930, with some good British narrative.
The BFI writes: This classic film from the long-running 'Secrets of Nature' series shows the birth, life and reproduction of sweet peas - as shown via an enthralling combination of close-up and time-lapse photography, occasionally interspersed with stop-motion animation, narrated by a somewhat florid commentary that has dated rather more noticeably than the still-astonishing images.
Visualization of a hypercube in perspective projection rotates first around the XW plane, the YW plane, the ZW plane and then around all the planes at once. By Eva Schindling.
Have you heard of the Brazil Nut Effect? Here you go.
Living two years in Italy I was always fascinated by the beautiful cappuccino designs that the baristas would create in only a second...
Visualization by British astronomer Scott Manley.
Bob Hoover, a pilot legend, flies with his engines off, lands on one wheel and pours tea upside-down. How that works is explained here.
Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Foods by Andy Ellison. Here a scan of an egg plant. Find more edibles here: Inside Insides.
German biologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, professor and artist Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919) is not considered a household name by any means. His varied and extensive work gave rise to the terms ecology and First World War, the rise of Darwinism as a valid theory and the discovery and proposal of the Protista kingdom of organisms within biology. Perhaps his greatest and most enduring work is found in his artistic endeavors, in which he sought to combine his creative vision with his desire for scientific accuracy. More over here: www.thisrecording.com/...
While doing some research about insects I stumbled upon this image. I don't know which insect it is or who took the picture.
Stephen Wolfram, a British Mathematician and Physicist, is the founder of the computable knowledge engine Wolfram Alpha, which we use a lot for geometrical calculation lately. Via Myriam.
Ernst Chladni, born 1756, was a German physicist and musician. He's the first known person doing research on vibrating plates leading to the "Chladni Patterns". Have a look at this video to explain.
If you're interested in this matter you should also have a look at Alexander Lauterwasser's documentary Water Sound Images (German Language).
This is best thing I've seen in a long time! Apparently captured on 16mm by David Rogers, Vanderbilt University, in the late 1950s.
Ex-physicist Tom Beddard created a 3D Mandelbulb Ray Tracer as a Quarz Composer and Pixel Bender plugin that will allow you to generate 3D Mandelbrot fractals. Unlike many other 3D fractals the Mandelbulb continues to reveal finer details the closer you look. The scripts run on the GPU which makes real-time interactive exploration possible.
Shock waves that occur in traffic flow are very similar to the waves produced by dropping stones in water. A shock wave propagates along a line of vehicles in response to changing conditions at the front of the line. Shock waves can be generated by collisions, sudden increases in speed caused by entering free flow conditions, or by a number of other means. Basically, a shock wave exists whenever the traffic conditions change. Read more.
These excerpts of their beautiful scan processor studies have just been published. Brian O'Reilly explains:
The source materials were generated by Woody using a Rutt-Etra Scan Processor in the 1970's and sat on a shelf for years, having been recently digitized. Woody came into my studio one day and asked me if I would be interested in using them to work on a collaboration, and the project began from there...
The works use sources excavated directly from the output of the Scan Processor, as well as further manipulations using Tom Demeyer's ImX software, developed with input from Steina. Extensive editing and layering and additional augmentations were done using Phil Mortons IP. The Sound was generated (mostly) by custom software developed by Chandrasekhar Ramakrishnan and myself called NETHER GENERATOR, which sets up a number of complex real time feedback networks filtered and processed by various means.
Via Motiongrapher.
This is science we need. Via Much more better.
Kai Kostack shows a real-time journey through a female body (age 59). Fascinating. Via Blender Nation.
Eva Schindling is Austrian. What you see here is one of her studies, 300 spheres, attracted to a center in space, rubbing against each other (following relatively fake physical rules) end up rotating in an interesting way. She doesn't know why.
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Young people are set to use their creative skills to join the
#BesideYou movement in Medway. The #BesideYou campaign has been
gathering pace since its launch in September, and now local
youngsters aged 11-18 are being called upon in a bid to further
normalise breastfeeding.
They're being asked to create a piece of content that shows
mothers and mums-to-be that the people of Medway are beside them
and support breastfeeding in public and community spaces. The
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The submissions will be judged by Medway Council's Public Health
Team and campaign partner, Best Beginnings. They will be focussing
on how well youngsters interpret the key message in an artistic
way. The winner will be announced on Tuesday, 7 March.
For films featuring stories of Medway mums and dads and their
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breastfeeding, from how to breastfeed, to details of places in
Medway which have been recommended by local mums as being
breastfeeding friendly visit the #BesideYou website.
Join the conversation on Twitter with
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take a look at the #BesideYou competition
Medway Council's Portfolio Holder in charge of Public Health
Cllr David Brake said: "This is a wonderful opportunity for young
people in Medway to get involved in what is a really important
campaign for the area. We are determined to normalise breastfeeding
in Medway and put new mums and mums-to-be at ease about
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their decision and change the attitudes of those who judge mothers
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Franco visited me with a few bags of flour, without labeling, explaining to me that it was flour from Progetto Virgo, from the University of Bologna. It was intriguing and at a first glance, the flour looked attractive with bran speckles and the smell was nutty and pleasant, so naturally I wanted to see how … Read more
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Baking sourdough bread kneaded by hand is physical and rare. So rare that even TV is coming to witness this! We had yet another chance to welcome the TVB crew at Bread Elements where star hosts Sarah Song and Sheldon Lo had a go at kneading, shaping and baking our signature sourdough baguettes. We had … Read more
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The massive forest I love to wander in back home is host to a lot of pine trees, and scattered among them are the very special Silver Pine, or at least that's how we call them back home. They have such an heavenly fresh pine tree smell (I wonder why!) that it's very easy to … Read more
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THE SPACE – That was the name of the place were The Green Queen Market took place last Saturday and space was pretty much were we ended from 11am to 4pm – in absolute space let me tell you! We should have lasted until 6pm, but we were sold out by 4pm. I am saying … Read more
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Pretending I am going to teach anyone how to make the best French toast (or pain perdu) on Earth would be way beyond my confidence point as I think there are so many people making it very well out there… at most, I might be able to inspire a different take on the classic dish… … Read more
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Decades ago, in my hometown of Verbier, wood fire oven baked sourdough bread was reigning king. Back then, the main activity in our village was farming, not only to make a living but more simply to live. There was one communal oven, called Four Banal in French, and each family had its turn to bake. … Read more
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Hilarious internet videos are a dime-a-dozen. Sketch comedy, kids saying the darnedest things, and people stupidly thinking they can eat Carolina Reaper peppers will never not be funny.
But in the massive pool of people trying to be funny on the internet, there is a special brand of comedy that anyone with a body can appreciate: Physical comedy. When people get hurt just enough to make it funny but not so much that it actually matters, that is internet gold. And within that genre, the obstacle course video is one of my favorites. Just look at these padded instruments of doom go to work:
And while kids not really understanding how to protect themselves is amusing on some level, there's something extra special about watching an adult fail in such extraordinary fashion. And this week, the internet gave us that video in its final form:
I don't know if this is intentional or not. It wouldn't be the first time a hilarious internet video was actually a contrived setup meant to grab our clicks. But even if this is "fake," that guy is still getting battered around by the world's largest sideways egg beaters for our amusement. And for that, I will forever be grateful.


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|Oct 30, 1990
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|Jul 16, 1986
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|Dec 2, 1983
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|Kenneth G. Frye, Donald C. Fitzpatrick, Donald R. Grody
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|Beloit Corporation
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|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
This is a continuation of co-pending application Ser. No. 557,439 filed on Dec. 2, 1983, now abandoned.
1. Field of the Invention
The invention is directed to machinery for slowing down cut sheets of paper as they are fed to a stacking station and removal of reams from the stacking station and , more particularly, relates to a slowdown mechanism avoiding conventional overlap and in which more than one ream is collected in a pile prior to removal of the reams.
2. The Prior Art
In the paper-cutting machinery field, it is common for cut sheets to be overlapped or shingled enroute to a stacking or collection station. A problem in high-speed sheeting is to be able to slowdown the sheet sufficiently enough, so as to not have lead edge damage. To do so one necessitates overlapping the sheets where, again, as one goes up in speed, a limit is reached when the overlap approaches 100% and the maximum overlap speed reaches 250-350 fpm. High speed also causes a problem of air in the stacking pile and jog, making handling of the reams difficult and high quality hard to achieve.
The overlapping or shingling operation is usually performed by high and low-speed tape systems. The speed of the leading sheet is reduced as it is fed to the low-speed tape by some suitable means, such as a stop roll. One example of this stop roll shingling process is illustrated in U.S. Pat. No. 3,554,534, where a snapdown roll is also disposed upstream of the stop roll to defect the tail ends of sheets passing into the low-speed tape down and out of the way of the next oncoming sheet being delivered by the high-speed tape system.
In this invention, the conventional overlap is eliminated. Instead of stopping the sheet with the lead edge, a tail-stopping device, consisting in a first embodiment of a top brush roll which knocks the tail down, allowing the next sheet to cross over and overlap. The brush roll contacts the sheet near the tail, forcing it down against a roll going 250-350 fpm. As the brush leaves the roll, there is nothing to drive the sheet into the stacking pile, so it sits on the roll until the brush comes around again, knocking the tail down of the next sheet. The brush then puts pressure on both sheets. The bottom sheet is then accelerated to a 150-250 fpm speed into the stacking pile, while the top sheet then sits on the unnipped, slow-speed roll waiting for the next nip.
In accordance with a second embodiment, a stationary air blowdown is positioned above a slow-speed rotating vacuum roll which catches the tail of the sheet. In a third embodiment, the tail of the sheet is forced down against the bottom roll by an oscillating spring-loaded nip wheel which is actuated by a signal which determines location of the sheet edge and gap in order to maintain its proper position on a trailing edge of the sheet.
With the second and third embodiments of the invention, the device includes a rubber-covered or high-frictioned bottom vacuum or plain nip roll which is turning at a speed of 250-350 fpm. The fact that this roll is turning not only slows down the sheet when it is nipped against this roll, but also precludes the common problem of sheets hanging up in this area and not getting into the pile.
More than one ream is collected in this stacking, which accomplishes the compaction needed to compress all the air out of the pile. The reams are removed from the bottom of the pile by inserting a ream splitter spear type of device, whereby at a certain ream thickness, the spears (with a belt on them) are inserted into the pile. Attached to the spears is a pusher which will push the finished reams from two free-wheeling, lift-mounted conveyors onto an air table for conveying from the machine. In an alternate embodiment of the invention, the stacker and air table may be disposed at an incline.
FIG. 1 is a schematic side elevational view illustrating the slowdown device and ream removal device of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a schematic side elevational view illustrating an alternative embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 3 is a partial schematic side elevational view illustrating a second embodiment of the slowdown device of the present invention.
FIG. 4 is a partial schematic side elevational view illustrating a third embodiment of the slowdown device of the present invention.
FIG. 5 is a partial schematic side elevational view illustrating a fourth embodiment of the slowdown device of the present invention.
With reference to FIG. 1, there is illustrated a series of sheets, such as paper sheets 10, 12, 14 and 16 which have been cut by a knife into individual sheets upstream of FIG. 1 and are being passed in a seriatim flow. A high-speed tape conveyor system 18 having a tape means 20 supported at one end by a roll 22 and at the other end by a similar roll not shown, serves to convey the cut sheets at high speed. The high-speed tape 20 conveys the sheets at speeds of up to 1500 feet per minute.
Immediately downstream of the turnaround roll 22, there is provided a slowdown device in accordance with the principles of the present invention. In the embodiment shown in FIG. 1, there is provided a tail-stopping device which comprises a top brush roll 24 and a slowly rotating roll 26. Both rolls 24 and 26 are operated by means of an electric motor 28 operating through appropriate gearing means 30.
The slow rotating roll 26 rotates with a surface speed of approximately 250-350 fpm. The brush roll has two radially extending brush members 32, 34 which are diametrically opposed on the roll 24. As sheets are fed by the conveyor system 18, the lead edge of the sheets passes between the two rolls 24, 26 when the brush members 32, 34 are disposed approximately horizontally such that the lead edge can pass between the two rolls. As the sheet continues to pass between the two rolls, one of the brush members comes in contact with a portion of the sheet near the tail end and forces the sheet downwardly against the slowly rotating roll 26. As the brush member, which continues to rotate, leaves the roll 26, there is nothing to drive the sheet into the stacking pile, so it sits there until the brush comes around again, knocking the tail down of the next sheet. As that occurs, the brush member puts pressure on both sheets. In FIG. 1 it is seen that the brush member 32 is knocking down the tail end of sheet 10 while sheet 12 is still engaged with the slowdown roll 26. With the brush member putting pressure on both sheets, the bottom sheet 12 is accelerated to a speed of appproximately 150-250 fpm into the stacking pile as is shown by sheet 14. The top sheet 10 continues to sit on the unnipped-slow-speed roll 26, waiting for the next nip of the brush member. In this manner, delivery into the stacking pile at slow speed is accomplished.
More than one ream of paper sheets is collected in the stacking pile 36, which accomplishes the compaction needed to compress all of the air out of the pile. The reams are removed from the bottom of the pile as seen in FIG. 1 where a ream 38 is being removed. A ream splitter spear 40 having a sharp pointed leading edge 42 for original entry into the stacking pile 36 and having a belt 44 on the spear is inserted into the stacking pile 36. The pointed leading edge separates a top sheet 46 of the ream 38 from a bottom sheet 48 of the stacking pile 36. The belt 44 on the spear 40 is supported at one end by a front roller 50 and at a second end by a rear roller 52. As the spear is inserted into the stacking pile 36 separating the ream 38 from the rest of the pile, the belt 44 moves on the rolls 50, 52 in a clockwise direction as viewed in FIG. 1 such that any portion of the belt 44 coming into contact with the bottom sheet 48 of the stacking pile 36 remains stationary with respect thereto until the spear is completely inserted into the stacking pile.
Depending downwardly from the spear 40 is a pusher plate 54 which engages a side-face 56 of the ream 38 and serves to move it laterally as the spear 40 is inserted into the stacking pile 36. The pusher plate 54 has a height at least slightly higher than the thickness of the ream 38 being separated in order to provide clearance as seen at 58 between the top sheet 46 of the removed ream 38 and the belt 44 which is moving around rollers 50 and 52.
The stacking pile 36 is normally supported by a lift table comprising two free wheeling conveyors 60, 62 which engage a bottom sheet 64 of the bottom ream in the stacking pile 36. The two conveyors 60, 62 comprise a split lift table which allows the reams to be supported while the spear 40 is being inserted and withdrawn. The two conveyors 60, 62 are mounted for independent vertical movement such that the ream and stacking pile 36 are continuously supported as required.
As the spear is inserted into the stacking pile 36 the pusher plate 54 moves the ream 38 which is supported on the free-wheeling conveyors 60, 62 toward an air table 66. When the ream 38 is deposited on the air table 66 as is shown in phantom, most of the weight of the paper is supported by an air cushion from air supplied under pressure through conduits 68 in the air table which are exposed to a top surface 70 of the table through individual air ports 72. Longitudinal conveyor belts 74, 76 which extend above the surface 70 of the air table 66 are used to move the individual reams to the next station in the paper processing system.
As the spear is retracted from the stacking pile 36, the smaller free-wheeling conveyor 60 moves vertically to support the bottom of the stacking pile while the spear continues to be withdrawn. As soon as the spear is withdrawn, the second conveyor 62 moves vertically to also support the stacking pile.
It is desired that the top sheet, represented by sheet 16 in FIG. 1, of the stacking pile remain at the same level relative to the rolls 26, 24 throughout the entire stacking operation. Therefore, the spear 40, as well as the free-wheeling rollers 60, 62 is mounted for vertical movement on a shaft 78. Also, as seen in FIG. 1, a housing 80 for the stacking pile 36 has a portion cut away at 82 corresponding to the entry point of the spear 40 such that the spear is able to engage the stacking pile 36 while the pile is still held within the housing 80 and as the spear moves into the stacking pile 36 it will also move downwardly due to the additional sheets being stacked on the pile such that when it reaches an opposite wall 84 of the housing 80 it will pass beneath a lower edge 86 of that wall.
In FIG. 2 there shown an alternative embodiment of the ream separating arrangement in which the stacking pile 36a, the spear mechanism 40a, the free-wheeling conveyor 60a and 62a and the air table 66a all inclined to the same degree which allows for an enhancement of the stacking and separating procedure. The air table 66a has a side conveyor belt 88 associated therewith driven by motor 90 which moves the separated reams 38a to the next processing station as opposed to the bottom conveyor belt 74 and 76 of the embodiment shown in FIG. 1. In all other respects, the operation of this embodiment is the same as that shown in FIG. 1, this embodiment merely utilizes the force of gravity in assisting in the alignment of the stacking pile 36a and in the removal of the separated reams 38a.
FIG. 2 does show the brush roller 24 in a different rotational position than that shown in FIG. 1 and it is seen that a sheet of paper 92 is being passed between the rollers 24, 26 by means of the high-speed tape mechanism 18. It is also seen that brush member 34 will contact the tail end of sheet 92 causing it to drop down against roll 26 where the pressure of the brush member 34 will cause the sheet 10 lying on the roll 26 to accelerate and move into the stacking pile 36a.
FIG. 3 shows an alternative embodiment of the tail stopping and knockdown device of the present invention where it is seen that individual sheets 110, 112, 114 and 116 are fed into a stacking pile 118 by means of two high-speed tapes 120, 122 which convey the sheets at speed up to 1500 fpm. The lower tape means 120 is supported at one end by roll 124 and at an opposite end by a similar roll not shown and the upper tape means 122 is supported by rolls 126, 128 and by additional rolls not shown. The upper tape 122 extends further rightward in FIG. 3 of the turnaround roll 124 of the bottom tape 120.
Downstream of the turnaround roll 124, there is provided an alternative embodiment of the slowdown device of the present invention. In the embodiment shown in FIG. 3, there is provided a tail-stopping device which comprises slowly rotating vacuum roll 130 and a blow down device indicated generally at 132. The vacuum roll 130 is rotated by means of an electric motor 136. A blower shown schematically at 138 is used to evacuate the vacuum roll 130 and to pressurize the hollow interior of an air nozzle 134.
The vacuum roll 130 has a series of openings 140 therethrough and is generally hollow, the blower 138 being arranged to evacuate the hollow interior thereby causing air to be drawn radially inwardly in the openings 140. Because of the large number openings 140 in the roll 130, the suction pressure at any one given opening 140 is relatively low.
The blow down device 132 comprises a generally cylindrical rotating housing 142, disposed horizontally, which has a longitudinal slot 144 extending along its length which is disposed at the lowest portion of the housing 142. The housing 142 surrounds the nozzle 134 which comprises a generally hollow member having an elongated nozzle element 146 which has a central passageway 148 extending radially outwardly in the nozzle member. The housing 142 is drivingly rotated by the motor 136 about its horizontal axis such that the nozzle passage 148 will align with the slot opening 144 in the housing 142 once during each revolution of the housing 142.
The rotating housing 142 is in turn enclosed within an air box 150 which has a slot 152 therein which can align with the rotating slot 144 of the rotating housing 142. Once during each revolution of the housing 142 the slots 144 and 152 will align and an air blast will exit downwardly between the tape means 122 and against a tail end of a sheet of paper, thereby forcing the sheet against the slowdown roll 130. As the rotating housing 142 rotates, it shuts off the air to slot 152 as the lead edge of the next sheet of paper passes through that position.
A second, horizontally disposed slot 154 is provided in the air box 150 upstream of the first slot 152 which directs air in the direction of the movement and which causes a venturi action between the paper and the air box 150, thereby holding the lead edge of the paper against the top tapes 122. In this manner, the lead edge of the following sheet is lifted over the trailing edge of the preceding sheet which is overlying the stacking pile 118.
FIG. 4 shows an alternative embodiment of the tail stopping and knockdown device of the present invention where it is seen that individual sheets 160, 162 and 164 are fed into a stacking pile 166 by means of a high-speed tape means 168 which conveys the sheets at speeds up to 1500 fpm. Tape means 168 is supported at one end by turnaround roll 170 and at an opposite end by a similar roll not shown.
Immediately downstream of the turnaround roll 170, there is provided a second alternate embodiment of a slowdown device constructed in accordance with the principals of the present invention. In the embodiment shown in FIG. 4, there is provided a tail-stopping device which comprises an oscillating spring-loaded nip wheel 172 which is actuated accurately by a signal which determines the location of the sheet edge and gap in order to maintain its proper position on the trailing edge of the sheet.
The nip wheel 172 is rotatingly carried on the end of an arm 174 which pivots about a fixed point 176. The arm 174 is continuously biased downwardly by spring means 178 and it is selectively urged upwardly by actuating means 180 such as a retracting piston.
A sheet location sensing means 180 is shown in FIG. 4 in the form of an optical sensor having a light emitting or reflecting means 184 which causes light to be directed at the sensor 182 during the gap between succeeding sheets of paper. The sensor 182 is connected to a control means 186 which controls a valve means 188 connected to the piston 180. At appropriate times the piston 180 is caused to be retracted thereby lifting the nip wheel 172 to the position shown in phantom at 190. This allows the sheet to travel past the nip wheel. Just prior to the tail of the sheet passing the nip wheel 172, the control means 186 causes the lifting means 182 release and the bias of the spring 178 causes the nip wheel 172 to move downwardly to press the tail of the sheet against a slowly rotating roll 192. In this manner, the sheet is slowed and is caused to drop into the stacking pile 166.
The slowly rotating roll 192 is rotated by a motor means 194 and it can be of a vacuum roll type with an interior evacuated by a blower means 196 and having a plurality of spaced openings 198 therethrough. An outer surface 200 of the roll 192 is rubber-covered or is of a high-frictioned material which assists the vacuum roll in gripping the sheets.
FIG. 5 shows an alternative embodiment of the tail-stopping device shown in FIG. 1 which includes a plate 202 dispose immediately downstream of the turnaround roll 22 and just upstream of a slowly rotating roll 26a which is shown to be a vacuum roll. In this embodiment each sheet is slowed down and passed to the stacking pile 36 individually and immediately rather than sitting on the unnipped-slow-speed roll 26 of FIG. 1, waiting for the next nip of the brush member 32.
As it appears from the foregoing specification, the invention is susceptible of being embodied with various alterations and modification which may differ particularly from those that have been described in the preceding specification and description. It should be understood that we wish to embody within the scope of the patent warranted hereon all such modifications as reasonably and properly come within the scope of our contribution to the art.
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|International Classification
|Cooperative Classification
|European Classification
|Oct 23, 1989
Owner name: E.C.H. WILL, INCORPORATED, SHEBOYGAN, WI A DE CORP
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|Fee payment
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|Maintenance fee reminder mailed
|Oct 30, 2002
|Lapse for failure to pay maintenance fees
|Dec 24, 2002
|Expired due to failure to pay maintenance fee
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The heartbroken family of a decorated policeman who twice put his own life in danger to save others has today paid an emotional tribute to him.
Martin Hewitson, who died earlier this month from a diabetes-related illness, thought his life was over when, aged just 28, he jumped into the sea in a valiant effort to save his colleagues from drowning as they rushed to the aid of a Scottish tourist who was trying to rescue his dog from the water.
Three police officers and the tourist died that day in 1983, and Mr Hewitson himself prepared himself for death.
It was the second time he had braved Blackpool's dangerous waters.
Just a few years after joining the police force, aged 19, he was called to St Annes where two youngsters had become stranded by the incoming tide.
His wife, Ella, said: "He told me the water had come up behind them, and when he got there he had to piggy-back them both to safety.
"I know it was quite tough by the time he reached the second one and he struggled to get him to the shore, but he managed it and he was given a commendation by the Liverpool Lifeboat Association."
For his later efforts on that tragic day in January 1983, Mr Hewitson was presented with a plaque and a letter from then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. It was an event that stayed with Mr Hewitson for the rest of his life, but one he rarely spoke of.
Ella, 62, said: "He just said it was part of the job.
"It was like he built a wall and he'd keep everything about the job behind it."
Ella, of Victoria Road East, Thornton, said Mr Hewitson loved being a bobby on the beat.
In the early 1990s he was transferred to Scotland Yard to train in counter-terrorism and when he returned later that year he was posted at Fleetwood port and Blackpool Airport.
Just before taking early retirement in 2000, Mr Hewitson transferred to Lancashire Police headquarters in Hutton to work, as he told his family, on crime figures.
In retirement Mr Hewitson bought a rest home, which this year celebrated its 10th year under its new ownership.
Ella, who still runs Briars Rest Home and Briars Home Care Services, said: "He was very caring and very good with older people. Most of the residents adored him – we were like a little family."
Ella's daughter, and Mr Heritson's step-daughter, Vicky added: "That's when we really saw Martin's funny side.
"He was always quite serious when he was with the police, but all of a sudden he was having his picture taken as his head was in a bowl of custard."
Earlier this year Mr Hewitson, who would have been 61 on Monday, was taken to hospital after banging his toe.
Because of his diabetes, surgeons had to amputate, then later had to remove his right leg below the knee.
"He never really recovered from it," Ella said.
"He was at Blackpool Victoria Hospital for a month then transferred to Rossall for six weeks."
Mr Hewitson was due to be discharged on Tuesday, May 6. He was looking forward to returning home, and was even planning a summer break to the south of France to see his nephew, Chris.
Tragically, he died the day before he was due to go home.
Ella added: "There was no warning at all; it was such a shock. I will remember him as a very sensitive and loving person. He was a gentle giant."
Mr Hewitson's life will be celebrated at a service at Carleton Crematorium at 2.30pm on Monday, followed by a wake at Blackpool and Fleetwood Yacht Club off Skippool Road.


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Azerbaijan Investment Company and France's Lafarge have failed to achieve any progress so far on a Baku cement factory project, despite a year has passed after they signed a relevant preliminary protocol on it.
Minister of economic development Heydar Babayev said that Lafarge's conditions a little exceed capacity of the field located in Gobustan region nearby Baku.
"Lafarge has set two basic conditions – location of the factory within the area of Baku (100-150 km of the city) and sufficient raw materials to be enough for manufacture as minimum 100Mt of cement. They want factory construction in Gobustan, but consider that Gobustan field's reserves are less than Lagarge demands and this is the chief problem," Babayev said.
Azerbaijan proposed Lafarge to conduct geological surveys there.
"It demands certain budget from AIC and Lafarge. They expect signal from us on the basis of which they can carry out exploration on the field and single from juridical and technical angles to survey this territory and justify their investment decisions," the minister said.
Lafarge declined finally from use of a field in Tovuz region and location of its future cement enterprise there. In this connection it is going to make choice between the fields in Garadagh district of Baku or adjoining Gobustan district.
Under the primary estimate, factory's capacity can be 1-1.5Mt that makes 40-50% of Azerbaijani cement market in case investments of EUR150-200m are made in the project. Lafarge, Ministry of Economic Development and AIC signed the Memorandum of Understanding for the project on December 28, 2006.
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Thoughts from the Brand New Conference in Chicago
Last week, after several wonderful days of St. Louis Design Week, the Almanac team packed up our laptops, donned our best blazers and fanciest pantsuits, and flew up to Chicago for the 5th annual Brand New Conference.
An outgrowth of UnderConsideration's Brand New—a website focused on reviewing and explaining some of the best (and worst) corporate and brand identity projects from around the world—the conference brings together brand designers, strategists, naming experts, writers, academics and marketers for a 2-day, in-depth series of talks from 20 leading branding experts.
Over 700 people from 20 different countries showed up to learn from the likes of Lance Wyman—designer of the legendary visual identity for the Mexico '68 Olympics, Sol Sanders—VSA Partners' Global Engagement lead for IBM (Sol also lead the design of the Obama '08 campaign identity), and Keira Alexandra of Work-Order—responsible for the rich and clever rebrands of the Sundance channel, VH1 and Comedy Central.
Overall, it was a very inspiring trip and we all left feeling rejuvenated about our craft. Here are a few of my takeaways from the conference:
- Keep pushing. The desire to create amazing, original, meaningful work—stuff that will really move the dial for a client's business or organization—is always at odds with budgets, opposing viewpoints, deadlines, and other factors sometimes beyond control. This work is hard but if you believe in it, it's worth fighting for.
- Seek truth. Simple, clear and clever always win out over complicated, trendy and decorative.
- Clients need to understand and believe. When we create brand systems, we have reasons for choosing a particular typeface, color palette, illustration/photography approach, etc. The framework we develop is nuanced. To help our clients believe in the system, a) they first need to believe in the brand and b) it's our job to explain our thinking so they can understand the design.
- Design has a capital D. We are in the golden age of Design, where those in business, education, health, and other industries understand its value. Designers can provide insight and leadership as we interact, collaborate and engage with these industries.
- Give it back. The idea that we don't own what we create is something we talk about a lot at Almanac…and the speakers reinforced it. A framework that encourages others to participate—invites them in to become co-creators—is much more powerful than one that shuts them out. Create and then give it away.
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Signage from the '68 Olympic Games in Mexico. Identity by Lance Wyman. See the whole identity system here. I swear, this looks as if it was created in 2014.
New York Times video branding by Keira Alexandra of Work-Order. This project is soooo well done. All of Keira's work blew me away.
Santa Monica identity by Mario Eskenazi, Barcelona. Mario's work has a purity and simplicity to it, which I found very refreshing.
Packaging for Askul, which was described as "kind of like the Staples of Japan," by Stockholm Design Lab. This project makes you want to put these commodity products on display in your house.
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Know-how in a Kharkov way. The Ukrainian women gave birth for the European couples. Who managed to bypass the law?
"It were dreadful moments. This agreement, that I, the real mother of the child, refuse him, that I give my consent so that the father of the child to remove it abroad, that I won't apply for the child, and other similar documents from which, of course, I was shocked".
Olga, who lives in Kharkov, read the announcement in the local newspaper that a local company Vita Felice was looking for substitute mothers. The jobless woman approached under required parameters – age till 30 years old, good health, no children.
"A decisive factor was that in 9 months I couldn't earn such amount of money anywhere else".
As a result Olga signed an agreement with La Vita Felice.
An agreement as for provision of services of a surrogate mother provided participation of clinic of the Sana Med, of the doctor Feskov.
Olga: "This clinic was closely connected to the company Vita Felice. As all the girls who provided their services as surrogate mothers, passed there their medical examination".
The relation to surrogate motherhood in the world is different. It is forbidden in Austria, Italy, Germany, Norway, Sweden and France. So childless European couples come to Ukraine.
Two attempts for a German and a Dutch couples failed, the third couple from Spain was more lucky – Olga became pregnant and began to receive 300 euro for food, and also 1000 euros for a successful attempt.
Olga: "During my admission to the maternity hospital and when the paperwork was done, it wasn't even mentioned anywhere that I'm a surrogate mother".
The Spanish parents who spent all their time at the maternity hospital, were introduced to the physicians as grandparents of the child to be born.
Olga: The maternity hospital required my address as it was necessary to indicate it when leaving the hospital, and an employee of the Vita Felice falsely indicated some unfamiliar destination for which I was supposed to leave with the child.
The Prosecutor of Kharkov Evgen Popovich: "By arrangements and, in certain cases, threats the officials of the La Vita Felice forced surrogates to register themselves at the State Registry offices as "biological" mothers".
Olga: "We came to the Registry office, they took out documents which should be signed, we signed them then issued the certificate of birth of the child where I was listed as his natural mother. I was shocked – how it turned out that my name was listed on the birth certificate at all? They told me that it was simply a small formality in order to make it possible possible to leave with the child abroad".
All processes were conducted by the same notary.
The Prosecutor of Kharkov Evgen Popovich: "It is necessary to penalize this notary, as it involves a disciplinary responsibility, as documents were issued where Olga was listed as mother of the child though biologically speaking it isn't so. All these documents, including declarations of refusal from the child and others, were sent to the consulates for the receipt of the passport or the exit permission for a child so that he could travel abroad".
Based on all these materials, proceedings against the clinic Sana Med were initiated, and in the office of doctor Feskov were found medical cards of 63 more substitute mothers.
In the case of illegal export of surrogate children 20 volumes have been already collected. It has been established that five children left abroad with homosexual couples.
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La Vita Felice was closed, and its employees were detained for 24 hours. Criminal case on illegal transportation of children abroad and failure to pay taxes in especially large size for three years was initiated. The responsible persons responsible for these crimes can go to prison for 9 years.


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On the NX1000 you will be only able to shoot corrected images, unless you shoot RAW and use a RAW processing tool that will let you pull out the unprocessed image, like dcraw or a dcraw based converter, or something else that doesn't automatically fix the image for you. Lightroom will automatically correct your images with that camera I believe.
I don't think I have time this week, but could maybe shoot a 16mm image next to an uncorrected 18-55mm to see the difference.
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Tenure ensures due process. It DOES NOT mean public school teachers can't be fired. "A teacher with tenure is entitled to a hearing before he or she may be fired, and evidence of misconduct must be presented before an independent hearing officer."
Below is why I care about tenure, and why you should, too:
"Tenure protects academic freedom. In the absence of tenure, teachers may be fired for any reason. Teachers may be fired if the principal doesn't like them or if they are experienced and become too expensive. Teachers may be fired for being outspoken. There is no evidence that tenure causes low test scores. There is no evidence that children get higher achievement if their teachers have no tenure. The best predictor of low test scores is poverty. Every standardized test -- whether the SAT, the ACT, state tests, national tests, or international tests – shows the effects of family income on test scores...
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Yesterday I was lucky enough to see the very 1st synthetic dye ever produced, kept behind glass at Leeds University. When William Perkins invented this he wasn't following market signals, he wasn't even trying to invent synthetic dyes. He was trying to create a cure for malaria! But it turned out the market was tired of beige natural dyed potato coloured clothing. A textile and chemistry revolution took off and the rest is history.
Funny enough the 1st synthetic dye was actually mauve or as Pantone call it Radiant Orchid.
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