Abstract: A sizing device or gauge is provided for measuring whether an article such as a package for delivery has dimensions that lie within predetermined values of length, width and volume. The sizing device is formed by a receptacle that has a flat rectangular base wall which defines predetermined maximum values of length and width for the item, and a pair of adjacent upstanding side walls portions of which decrease in height away from adjoining ends of the walls, the height decrease being in inverse relation to the square of a respective one of the maximum height and width values. The device is useful for example in determining whether items meet the specifications of a delivery service segregating items into different categories.

Abstract: The mass of stockpiled materials is determined from detailed measurements of the elevation of the pile surface at many points and the measurement of the gravitational field along several profile lines across the surface of the stockpiled material. The elevation measurements allow the calculation of the pile volume. Measured gravity values are adjusted using standard gravity corrections in such a manner as to imply all gravity data are collected along the same reference datum. Variations in the corrected gravity values are assumed to be caused solely by the pile material. The gravity measurements are interpreted using analytical and statistical methods to determine the volume-average bulk density value of the pile material. The pile volume is multiplied by the volume-average bulk density to obtain the weight of the stockpiled material.

Abstract: A dimensional weighing apparatus is disclosed which has a weighing scale for determining the actual weight of a carton, and a conveyor means along which cartons are moved after being weighed to pass the cartons through a measuring station at which the length, width and height of the cartons are measured. A first measuring means measures both the height and length as the cartons move through the measuring station by means of a member that rides up the leading vertical face of the cartons to measure the height and then across the top surface thereof to measure the length. A second measuring means measures the width of the cartons as they move through the measuring station by means of carton contact members mounted along the side surfaces of the carton and move in and out of contact with the carton.

Abstract: A method and device for measuring the dimensions of a three-dimensional object (8) wherein the object is placed in a measuring corner which defines an x, y, z three-dimensional coordinate system, and wherein in connection with each coordinate at least one graded scale means (9) is provided. Optically machine-legible codes are provided along the respective graded scale means or a combined code for two axes together is provided in at least one of the coordinate planes. The projection of the objects on each coordinate (x,y,z) is registered by means of an opto/electrical reader ( 1,2) and the signals from the reader are fed into a computer (4) which, on the basis of the received signals for each coordinate, calculates and prints out, or displays, the characteristic data of the object. It can be used, for example, for freight charge calculations relating an object.

Abstract: A field portable site survey system includes a portable computer interfaced directly with a rangefinder of the type which needs no reflector, e.g. a rangefinder which receives a signal from a feature of a survey site by backscattering of an incident beam such as a laser beam. A computer program causes the computer to prompt an operator to use the range finder to take measurements appropriate for calculation of the volume of a survey site according to its shape or of its component shapes. The computer calculates the volume in realtime. If the density has been entered into the computer weight will also be calculated.

Abstract: The air flow discharged from a room air conditioner is controlled by a mechanism which determines the shape of the room and the location of the air conditioner relative to the room to control the direction of the air flow and the angular size of the air flow in accordance with the room shape and air conditioner position.

Abstract: A hand-held measuring device for measure the dimensional weight of the boxes in a shipment of freight includes a gun shaped housing having a tracing wheel located at a front end of the elongated portion of the housing. A handle is located at the back end of the elongated housing and extends downward therefrom. A trigger switch is also located at the back end of the elongated housing. In operation, the user of the devices holds the measuring device so as to place the wheel in contact with one corner of a freight box. The user then runs the wheel to an opposite corner to measure one dimension of the box. Afterwards the user presses the trigger to input that dimension into the device. After the length, height, and width of the box has been entered into the device, they are multiplied together to determine the volume of the box.

Abstract: A cooling/warming control system of an air-conditioner comprises a transmitting portion and a receiving portion for radiating ultra-sonic waves from the air-conditioner to a room wall surface and receiving the ultra-sonic pulses reflected therefrom using a number of ultra-sonic wave sensors. A microcomputer calculates the time interval from the moment the radiation of the ultra-sonic pulses are transmitted until the reflecting wave pulses are received, measures the room area or volume and compares the measurement with the previous set area or volume, determines the magnitude of the cooling/warming load and then controls the load operating system connected thereto in order to operate loads in multiple stages according to the room temperature.

Abstract: A method and system for determining the dimensional volume of a package by moving the package on a conveyor belt system over a horizontally disposed strip containing machine-readable indicia indicating units of incremental length along said strip starting from a zero point and by a vertically disposed strip containing machine-readable indicia indicating units of incremental length along said strip starting from a zero point, with a horizontally disposed reader above the horizontally disposed strip to read the uncovered indicia on the horizontally disposed strip and a vertically disposed reader able to read the uncovered indicia on the vertically disposed strip with a computer to determine the lowest uncovered incremental length measurement of the indicia on tile horizontally disposed strip, such measurement being tile width of tile package and the lowest uncovered incremental length measurement of tile indicia on tile vertically disposed strip, such measurement being tile height of tile package, and a device

Abstract: A system to be installed within a room for detecting indoor condition data such as the interior area of the room and the number and position of occupants therein comprises an LED array for emitting a spotlight to form a multiplicity of light spots one by one successively as dispersed on the interior surface of the room at approximately equal spacings. The spotlight is projected from the array on the interior surface and concentrated on a one-dimensional PSD upon reflection. The indoor condition data is calculated by using triangulation for the optical system and output currents of the PSD as input signals.

Abstract: The device for metering a powdered, granular or liquid product, comprises a metering chamber (1) which has a variable volume.The metering chamber (1) comprises a wall (2) which is movable within said chamber. The latter is connected to a lever (4) pivotally mounted on an axis (5). The end of the lever opposite the movable wall (2) is associated with first means (9) allowing the lever to be pivoted about its axis and with second means (10) allowing the ratio of the arms of the lever (4) on either side of its pivotal axis (5) to be varied.For use especially in an apparatus for preparing coffee and for regulating the number of cups and the strength of the coffee.

Abstract: A self leveling adapted to be moved along a substantially vertical wall comprises a base assembly adapted to be moved up and down along the substantially vertical wall, a roller assembly pivotally connected to the base assembly to be in continuous contact with the vertical wall, and weight means pivotally connected to the roller assembly. The leveling device is further provided with a horizontal member connected to the weight means perpendicular to an imaginary vertical line extending through the weight means.

Abstract: A syringe loader and method that fill a syringe with a correct dosage of two or more ingredients without referring to or seeing the syringe graduation markings, comprising a bottle holder cradle, a syringe carriage slidably connected to the bottle holder cradle, alignment apparatus for aligning the syringe with each of the bottles and inserting the syringe needle into each bottle, and a dosage gage and a dosage stop indicator for loading the correct dosage from each bottle into the syringe.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for the accurate volumetric subdivision of conveyed bar-shaped material such as bar steel or billets, using measurements of the bar's cross-sectional area.

Abstract: A pasta gauge for mechanically selecting specific quantities of elongated dried pasta, such as spaghetti, the gauge comprising a container to be filled with said pasta, said container having an endpiece capable of being adjusted so as to form in one end of the gauge an aperture of a predetermined area or of one of a plurality of predetermined areas, said aperture representing a specific quantity of said pasta, which quantity is selected from a larger bundle of dried pasta members within the gauge by tilting said gauge so that said specific quantity of pasta members slides through the aperture while the remaining pasta noodles are supported by the area surrounding the aperture and remain within the gauge, said specific quantity of pasta members thus being separated from the remainder of the bundle.

Abstract: A package sizer comprising a first pair of walls defining a first pair of generally opposed, substantially parallel, planar surfaces. A second pair of walls connected to the first pair defines a second pair of generally opposed, substantially parallel, planar surfaces, the second pair of surfaces being contiguous and perpendicular to the first pair, whereby the four surfaces define a rectangular enclosure. At least one of the walls of each such pair is slidable toward and away from the other wall of that pair to vary the dimensions of the rectangular enclosure.

Abstract: A device for measuring growth of tumors includes concentric rings on a carrier, the radial spacing of the rings from one another progressively increasing in a radially outward direction.

Abstract: A measuring device having a base member and two upright support members secured to the base member and marked with graduations whereby a quantity of uncooked noodles such as spaghetti placed on the base between the support members can be measured by comparison with said markings.

Abstract: A method and system for using caliper-type dimensional sensing devices of the present invention that utilize sensors to interpret linear dimensional values of objects being measured and electric circuit control switches to transmit such values to an interfacing standard electronic printing calculator of known design for mensuration or other data processing and label printout of such values at the calculator. The electrical control circuits of each dimensional sensing device are wired in parallel with the keyboard of the printing calculator thus allowing the sensing device to function as a remote keyboard of the calculator, or alternately, of a programmable electronic calculator or computer with associated printout and/or other data processing or output devices.