Abstract: A mobile automated pipe or shaft non-destructive inspection system with rotational inspection sensor assembly for 360 degree imaging or sensing and generation of three dimensional models or sensing imaging or depictions of the pipe or shaft, preservative removal/application system, mobile platform mounting, and control system as well as related methods.

Abstract: A telecommunications cable jacket insertion system operates to insert a telecommunication cable into a jacket after the jacket has been separately extruded. The system includes a jacket having structures for easily inserting a cable therein over a long distance in a field location. The system can further include a tool for facilitating the insertion of the cable into the jacket. Further, a cabling system includes a cable assembly that is disaggregated into a robust outer jacketing portion and a manageable fiber optic cable portion. For regions of a cable installation where a robust cable construction is desired, the manageable fiber optic cable portion is sheathed or otherwise contained within the robust outer jacketing portion. For regions of a cable installation where a robust cable construction is not needed, the manageable fiber optic cable portion extends beyond or outside of the robust outer jacketing portion.

Abstract: A material roll includes a core made from expanded metal, and a first sheet of material wound a plurality of times over the core.

Abstract: The present invention is a system for spooling flexible cord, having a spooler body with a central attachment cavity, an arbor connected to said spooler body, a plurality of projections emanating outward from a surface of said arbor, whereby said system is constructed and arranged to rotate and spool said cord.

Abstract: A method for producing a carbon fiber, the method comprising: (i) subjecting a continuous carbon fiber precursor having a polymeric matrix in which strength-enhancing particles are incorporated to a stabilization process during which the carbon fiber precursor is heated to within a temperature range ranging from the glass transition temperature to no less than 20° C. below the glass transition temperature of the polymeric matrix, wherein the maximum temperature employed in the stabilization process is below 400° C., for a processing time within said temperature range of at least 1 hour in the presence of oxygen and in the presence of a magnetic field of at least 1 Tesla, while said carbon fiber precursor is held under an applied axial tension; and (ii) subjecting the stabilized carbon fiber precursor, following step (i), to a carbonization process. The stabilized carbon fiber precursor, resulting carbon fiber, and articles made thereof are also described.

Abstract: Weather resistive barriers and methods of making such are provided. A weather resistive barrier provides a space permitting drainage of liquid water or condensation and for air movement. Applications include where the weather resistive barrier is coupled to a sheathing material and further covered with an exterior building covering, thereby providing space between the sheathing material and the exterior building covering. In this way, the amount of moisture exposure experienced by a structure can be controlled and the structure protected. The extent of water drainage and airflow can be tailored according to particular applications.

Abstract: A reel for transporting continuous rod with a clamping system to hold the rod against excess, unsafe movement of the rod during the loading and unloading of the rod onto the reel. The clamping system has a rod end clamp and a guide that can move with the rod or move the rod into a preferred position.

Abstract: A winding core for a coil winding device having a column shape with corners each having a rounded cross-section is used for forming a coil by winding a wire around the winding core into the coil of a polygonal shape. The winding core includes a helical continuous surface extending spirally around an axis of the winding core.

Abstract: A pivoting retainer that may be used by itself or in a plurality of applications may include a tab and a housing, the tab including a shaft configured to be received in a channel within the housing. A coupling device may be at an end of the shaft such as an expanding mushroom-type connection or a locking nut with a compression spring. The retainer may include a plurality of male detents and a second plurality of female detents to index the tab in a plurality of angular configurations about the housing. In one embodiment, the tab may include a plurality of flexing fins to provide a springing action to hold the male detents within respective female detents. Exemplary uses for pivoting retainer may include at the end of one or more arms of a cord-wrapping apparatus and at the end of one or more shelves or hooks for holding objects.

Abstract: The invention concerns a cutting wire (1) for plant-cutting equipment, such as an edger or a brush cutter, the wire (1) being profiled and adapted to be coiled on itself so as to form a reel (B) comprising at least two turns S), characterised in that the wire (1) comprises reciprocal holding arrangements (10, 20) so that each turn (S) cooperates with at least one adjacent turn (S) so as to hold it mechanically, so that the reel (B) is self-supporting.

Abstract: A yarn dye tube includes end portions having male and female elements for aligned stacking of multiple tubes. The female end portion includes a cylindrical ring having non-perforating recesses defining reduced wall portions having a thickness of at least one-half of a wall thickness of ring. Each recess also includes arcuate ends for reducing stress concentrations. The diameter of the inner surface of the female element is greater than that of the inner surface of the ring defining an annular distance therebetween. A radially extending shoulder at the terminal end of the ring contacts the male element of an adjacent tube in a stack of aligned tubes. A fillet at the terminal end of the first end portion ring extends over a substantial portion of the annular distance for reducing stress concentrations.

Abstract: On its cylindrical wall the bobbin has adjacent longitudinal rows of holes (5) of substantially rectangular shape with the short sides (5A) orientated circumferentially and the long sides (5B) curving towards the inside of the hole, the holes in one row being offset with respect to those in adjacent longitudinal rows in such a way as to create undulating longitudinal linear structures (9) between the longitudinal rows of adjacent holes (5); the curved longitudinal edges of each hole can lie alongside each other in the intermediate zone following uniform radial compressive stressing of the transverse cross-section of the bobbin, while longitudinal shortening of the bobbin is made easier.

Abstract: The support has an inside surface (1A) that is basically cylindrical for approximately three fourths of the axial length from the smaller-diameter end (1B), an annular step (1C) and a remaining cylindrical internal section (1E) of increased diameter for interlocking purposes; the outside surface is basically frustoconical for a section (1G) of approximately three fourths of the axial length from the larger-diameter end (1H), and its remaining cylindrical section (1F) corresponds in diameter to the remaining cylindrical internal section (1E); and for approximately the half of the larger dimensions of the wall of the support there are perforations (3) that extend transversely in the form of slots, while enlarged perforations (5) are formed in the other approximate half of the height.