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A variable height support with a platform and a base supporting the platform and reconfigurable to selectively change a height of a support surface on the platform relative to a subjacent surface. A control assembly is operable to selectively: a) maintain the support surface at a selected height; and b) release the platform to allow the base to be reconfigured to change the height of the support surface. The control assembly has a ratchet subassembly that, with the control assembly in a first state, allows the base to be reconfigured by exerting a continuous upward force upon the platform that causes the platform to elevate and be blocked within a range at a plurality of different vertical locations against downward movement. The control assembly further has an actuator that is repositionable to change the control assembly into a second state wherein the platform can be lowered over the range.

A variable height support with a platform and a base supporting the platform and reconfigurable to selectively change a height of a support surface on the platform relative to a subjacent surface. A control assembly is operable to selectively: a) maintain the support surface at a selected height; and b) release the platform to allow the base to be reconfigured to change the height of the support surface. The control assembly has a ratchet subassembly that, with the control assembly in a first state, allows the base to be reconfigured by exerting a continuous upward force upon the platform that causes the platform to elevate and be blocked within a range at a plurality of different vertical locations against downward movement. The control assembly further has an actuator that is repositionable to change the control assembly into a second state wherein the platform can be lowered over the range.

A roll-up type industrial door including a flexible sheet or woven fabric forming a curtain for closing a door way having an upper end, a lower end and two opposite side edges. The sheet has a main area and elongate side edge sections that are thicker than the main area. A shoulder is formed where each side edge section meets the main area. A curtain winding mechanism is connected to the upper end of the curtain and is used to raise the curtain. A pair of spaced apart guide channels are also provided and the side edge sections are movable therein. Each guide has one or two elastic members which act as locking blades. The locking blades of each guide form an elongate slot that receives a side edge section of the curtain.

Embodiments of the present invention include a monitoring device and method for measuring, recording and transmitting a pre-determined set of electrocardiogram measurements. The device provides for an unassisted six or twelve channel measurements of heart and vascular functions using a visual graphical output. Results of the measurements are charted and can be reviewed and analyzed by an authorized health care provider.

A precision hoe opener assembly is provided with improved accuracy of seeding as well as improved control over the opener and packer wheel assemblies. The opener assembly includes a hydraulically-driven parallel linkage assembly, a lost motion linkage, a hoe opener, and a packer wheel. The design provides improved seeding accuracy, by adjusting assembly components to and compensating for changes in terrain elevation.

The invention relates to a method for fast and efficient improvement greening of coastal saline soil. The method comprises a step 1) of digging a planting trough, a step 2) of laying a horizontal salt drainage system; a step 3) of laying a vertical salt drainage ventilation system; a step 4) of performing soil structure improvement; a step 5) of performing irrigation leaching and a step 6) of performing soil fertility improvement and nursery stock transplanting maintenance. According to the method, the leaching efficiency and a desalting effect of the coastal saline soil are improved. By adoption of the method, horizontal and vertical motion of irrigation leaching water in soil can be improved, irrigation leaching water salt leaching efficiency and drainage and desalting efficiency of the horizontal and vertical salt drainage systems are improved, and the saline soil improvement time is shortened.

A precision hoe opener assembly is provided with improved accuracy of seeding as well as improved control over the opener and packer wheel assemblies. The opener assembly includes a hydraulically-driven parallel linkage assembly, a lost motion linkage, a hoe opener, and a packer wheel. The design provides improved seeding accuracy, by adjusting assembly components to and compensating for changes in terrain elevation.

A tourbillon is provided that includes a platform rotatable about a platform axis. In one implementation, the platform carries an escapement including an escape-wheel and pallets, wherein the escape-wheel is rotatable about an escape-wheel staff, the pallets are rotatable about a pallet-staff, and the escape-wheel staff and the pallet-staff are disposed so as to be essentially parallel to the platform axis. The platform also carries a balance-wheel rotatable about a balance-staff, wherein the balance-staff is arranged at an angle of inclination ∝ with respect to the platform axis.

This invention is related to a retractable hitch-ball mechanism adapted for coupling to a frame of a vehicle, such as a pickup truck. The mechanism includes a support structure that is secured to the frame by a mounting-frame assembly, a housing having a tubular sleeve, a hitch ball member slidably disposed within the tubular sleeve, a drive plate, and a linkage coupled to the drive plate at one end and having a user-engageable portion at an opposed end. Upon a user exerting force on the opposed end, the hitch ball member is selectively movable between an extended use position, wherein a portion of the hitch ball member extends upwardly from the tubular sleeve, and a retracted storage position, wherein the ball portion is substantially hidden. Selective adjustment is facilitated by an inclined edge on the drive plate that slidably engages at least a portion of the hitch ball member.

A stabbing basket, for a rig and for supporting a worker while stabbing joints of tubular members together during running operations, comprises a frame member for mounting the stabbing basket to the rig, a platform to support the worker, a carriage to slidably mount the platform to the frame member, vertical power means for moving the carriage vertically with respect to the frame member, an articulating boom, interconnecting the platform with the carriage, said articulating boom comprising a first segment and a second segment, and at least one pivoting actuator positioned between the first segment and the second segment.

The invention relates to a construction time elevator arrangement comprising a hoistway; a protection deck mounted within the hoistway for protecting the portion of the hoistway below it from falling objects; the protection deck comprising a roof member extending diagonally across the hoistway and covering the hoistway such that it blocks objects and / or water from falling into the hoistway below it; and a cross member extending in horizontal direction across the hoistway below the roof member. The cross member is pivotally connected with the roof member, the protection deck being collapsible into a transport state by pivoting the cross member and the roof member towards each other. The invention relates to a method implementing the construction time elevator arrangement.

The present disclosure is directed to a system for electric energy storage. The system includes at least one energy cell. The energy cell has a plurality of weights, a carriage, a trolley, a belt and a main drive. The system is configured to move vertically the weights and to store the weights on either an upper portion or a lower portion of the energy cell. The system is charged or discharged by moving the weights from the lower portion to the upper portion or from the upper portion to the lower portion. The present disclosure also provides for a method for electric energy storage.

A fish luring device for bouncing on the floor of a body of water to attract fish. The device has a weighted body structured to allow easy vertical movement in the water, thereby increasing the speed at which the weighted body contacts the floor of the body of water. A coupling member is disposed on the weighted body for detachably coupling the weighted body to a fishing line and for coupling a leader line and fishing hook to the weighted body. A noise generating mechanism may be disposed in or on the weighted body for generating disturbances in the water and attracting fish.

A tourbillon is provided that includes a platform rotatable about a platform axis. In one implementation, the platform carries an escapement including an escape-wheel and pallets, wherein the escape-wheel is rotatable about an escape-wheel staff, the pallets are rotatable about a pallet-staff, and the escape-wheel staff and the pallet-staff are disposed so as to be essentially parallel to the platform axis. The platform also carries a balance-wheel rotatable about a balance-staff, wherein the balance-staff is arranged at an angle of inclination ∝ with respect to the platform axis.

The invention discloses a rotating disc device, a semispherical photographing system capable of adjusting the center of sphere and the height and a semispherical photographing method thereof. The rotating disc device comprises a rotating disc, a first horizontal motion mechanism, a second horizontal motion mechanism and a rotating mechanism which are arranged from the top to the bottom in turn. The first horizontal motion mechanism, the second horizontal motion mechanism and the rotating mechanism are connected with a control device. The motion direction of the first horizontal motion mechanism and the second horizontal motion mechanism is crossed at the angle of 90 degrees. The semispherical photographing system comprises a photographing device, the rotating disc device, a rocker arm device and the control device which is connected with the photographing device, the rocker arm device and the rotating disc device. The photographing device is arranged on the rocker arm device, and the lens faces the center line perpendicular to the center of circle of the rotating disc device. The alignment central position of the photographed object to the photographing device and the initial height of the arc motion trajectory can be automatically adjusted so that the photographing device is enabled to perform relative motion around the photographed object on the semispherical surface, and automatic photographing and automatic image processing can be realized.

The invention discloses a filter membrane clamping device with self-locking and damping functions. The filter membrane clamping device comprises a fixed seat and an air inlet seat, a suction nozzle isconnected at the lower end of the fixed seat, a lower sealing ring is arranged on the upper surface of the fixed seat, a buffer groove is formed in the upper surface of the fixed seat, the inner bottom surface of the buffer groove is connected with a limit seat through a fourth compression spring, an upper sealing ring is arranged on the lower surface of the air inlet seat, a filter membrane is mounted between the upper sealing ring and the lower sealing ring, and mounting blocks, bearings and adjusting blocks are connected on the left side and the right side of the fixed seat and sequentially distributed on the left side and the right side of the fixed seat from bottom to top. The filter membrane clamping device has self-locking and damping functions, the speed of the upper sealing ringcan approach to zero when the upper sealing contacts with the filter membrane, so that vibration can be furthest reduced when the clamping device replaces the filter membrane, and air quality and pollution sources of pollution gas are accurately evaluated.

A roll-up type industrial door including a flexible sheet or woven fabric forming a curtain for closing a door way having an upper end, a lower end and two opposite side edges. The sheet has a main area and elongate side edge sections that are thicker than the main area. A shoulder is formed where each side edge section meets the main area. A curtain winding mechanism is connected to the upper end of the curtain and is used to raise the curtain. A pair of spaced apart guide channels are also provided and the side edge sections are movable therein. Each guide has one or two elastic members which act as locking blades. The locking blades of each guide form an elongate slot that receives a side edge section of the curtain.

An improved tin tag dispensing and nailing tool includes an operating member that is adapted for connection with a roofer's nailing gun, which operating member is guided by a pair of spaced vertical guide rods for vertical sliding displacement relative to the tool housing between an upper retracted position and a lower nailing position. The operating member is formed from a synthetic plastic material and contains vertical through bores that respectively receive the guide rods. Tubular oil-impregnated bushings are mounted in the through bores concentrically about the guide rods. A linkage arrangement connects the operating member with a shuttle plate that is displaced between a loading position adjacent the tin tag supply station and a discharging position adjacent the tin tag nailing station. An integral punched-out tongue portion extends upwardly at an acute angle from the shuttle plate for engagement with the lowermost tin tag of a stack.

An apparatus is provided for removing airborne moisture from a designated area. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a bucket, a liquid absorption medium (such as ground corn cobs) placed in the bottom of the bucket to form a media bed, a tray placed over the absorption media bed, and a moisture absorption medium (such as calcium chloride) placed in the bucket over the tray. A method is also provided for absorbing moisture from a humid environment using the apparatus. When the apparatus is exposed to humid conditions, the CaCl2 will absorb moisture and become hardened. As the CaCl2 media hardens, it will expand. However, its lateral expansion is restricted by a side wall of the tray. Over further time, the CaCl2 will begin to dissolve into a brine. The brine will gravitationally seep through the through-openings in the tray and be captured by the corn cob medium.

An apparatus for damping vibration in a vehicle structure via a mass of a spare wheel includes a bar. The bar has a first end elastically coupled to the vehicle structure, wherein the first end is arranged for vertical movement relative to the vehicle structure. The bar also has a second end pivotably coupled to the vehicle structure, wherein the second end is arranged to facilitate the vertical movement of the first end. The bar additionally includes an arrangement for mounting a spare wheel, wherein damping of vibration in the vehicle structure is provided when the spare wheel is mounted on the bar.

The invention relates to a magnetic field intensity controllable electrochemical immune sensor, which consists of an electrode device and an operating device. Generation and vanish of the magnetic field of an electrode in the electrode device are adjusted through the operating device; and when the magnetic field is generated, the electrochemical immune sensor is used for quantitative detection oftarget biological molecules. The electrochemical immune sensor can be reused, has simple structure, is convenient for preparation, and can effectively and quantitatively detect the biological molecules. The electrochemical immune sensor has long service life, the using times of the electrochemical immune sensor greatly exceeds 10 times, and the detection result is accurate; and the electrochemical immune sensor has the advantages of simple structure, low cost and the like.