1. A kit provided to a customer for organizing a plurality of images obtained from a customer provided image retaining device, said kit comprising:
an image retaining device for capturing of images, said image retaining device having an unique ID which has been forwarded to a database of a network photoservice provider where images obtained later from said image retaining device can be stored;
a registration card for use in accessing said photoservice provider by said customer for registering said unique ID of said image retaining device by said customer prior to receipt of said image retaining device by said photoservice provider; and
a computer software program such that when loaded on a computer accessible by said customer will allow the customer to accomplish certain operations at the network photoservice provider with respect to images obtained from said image retaining device.
2. A kit according to claim 1 wherein said computer software program is provided on a CD.
3. A kit according to claim 1 wherein said kit is associated with a particular good or service to be provided to said customer.
4. A kit according to claim 3 wherein said computer program allows the customer to select, modify andor change said goods andor services that are to be provided.
5. A kit according to claim 1 wherein said image retaining device comprises a roll of photographic film.
6. A kit according to claim 1 wherein said computer program allows said customer to register additional image retaining devices.
7. A kit according to claim 1 wherein a plurality of said image retaining devices are provided in a single package.
8. A kit according to claim 1 wherein said registration card is provided with a security label for covering said unique ID written thereon such that said unique ID can not be viewed.
9. A kit according to claim 1 wherein said image retaining devices comprises a roll of photographic film.
10. A kit according to claim 9 wherein said unique ID is provided on said roll of photographic film.
11. A kit according to claim 1 wherein said image retaining device comprises a roll of photographic film.
12. A kit according to claim 11 wherein said unique ID is provided on said roll of photographic film.
13. A kit according to claim 12 wherein a plurality of said rolls of photographic film are provided film cartridges, said plurality of film cartridges are provided in a single package.
14. A kit according to claim 13 wherein said package is provided with a plurality of stickers, said stickers having said unique ID written thereon, said sticker capable of being placed on said film cartridge to create a film cartridge having said unique ID.
15. A kit according to claim 14 wherein said unique ID on said sticker is in a machine readable form that can be read by a scanner.
16. A kit provided to a customer for organizing a plurality of images obtained from a customer provided image retaining device, said kit comprising:
a registration card for use in accessing a network photoservice provider for registering a unique ID of an image retaining device provided by said customer, said image retaining device is used to capture images thereon, said registration of said unique ID occurring prior to said network photoservice receiving said image retaining device; and
a computer accessible by said customer software program such that when loaded on a computer will allow the customer to accomplish certain operations at the network photoservice provider with respect to images obtained from said image retaining device.
17. A kit according to claim 16 wherein said kit is associated with a particular good or service to be provided to said customer.
18. A kit according to claim 17 wherein said computer software is downloaded from said photoservice provider.
19. A kit according to claim 17 wherein said computer program allows the customer to select, modify andor change said goods andor services that are to be provided.
20. A kit according to claim 16 wherein said image retaining device comprises a roll of photographic film.
21. A kit according to claim 16 wherein said computer program allows said customer to register additional image retaining devices.
22. A kit according to claim 16 wherein a plurality of said image retaining devices are provided in a single package.
23. A kit provided to a customer for organizing a plurality of images obtained from a customer provided image retaining device, said kit comprising:
an image storage device provided by said customer for storing of images, said image storage device having a unique ID which has been forwarded to a database of a network photoservice provider by said customer wherein said unique ID is used by said network photoservice provider to register a certain good andor service to said customer that is to be associated with images obtained from said image storage device prior to receipt of said image retaining device by said photoservice provider; and
a computer software program such that when loaded on a computer accessible by said customer will allow the consumer to accomplish certain operations at the photoservice provider with respect to said images obtained from said image retaining device.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
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21. A bushing installation comprising:
a work member including a first side, a second side, and a tubular surface defining an opening extending between the first side and the second side;
a first bushing comprising a first flange on the first side of the work member and a first tubular body within the opening, the first tubular body including a first end, a second end opposing the first end, and a first outer surface between the first and the second ends, the first outer surface facing the tubular surface of the work member and defining a first outer circumference, the first flange connected to and extending outwardly from the first end; and
a second bushing comprising a second flange on the second side of the work member and a second tubular body within the opening, the second tubular body including a first end, an opposing second end adjacent to the second end of the first tubular body, and a second outer surface between the first and the second ends of the second tubular body, the second outer surface facing the tubular surface of the work member and defining a second outer circumference that is substantially equal to the first outer circumference, the second flange connected to and extending outwardly from the first end of the second tubular body,
wherein the first and the second bushings have been radially expanded to provide substantially equal radial expansion of the opening throughout at least most of a longitudinal length of the opening such that fatigue life enhancing compressive stresses are provided along most of the tubular surface of the work member.
22. The installation of claim 21, wherein the first tubular body has a first transverse profile and the second tubular body has a second transverse profile that is approximately geometrically congruent to the first transverse profile.
23. The installation of claim 21, wherein a combined longitudinal length of the first tubular body and the second tubular body is substantially equal to the longitudinal length of the opening.
24. The installation of claim 21, wherein the first tubular body comprises a single continuous first cylindrical portion extending between the first and the second ends of the first tubular body, the second tubular body comprises a single continuous second cylindrical portion extending between the first and the second ends of the second tubular body.
25. The installation of claim 24, wherein the second end of the first tubular body is spaced apart from the second end of the second tubular body with respect to a longitudinal axis of the opening by a distance that is less than a thickness of a wall of the first cylindrical portion.
26. The installation of claim 25, wherein a relatively narrow gap is defined by the second ends of the first and the second tubular bodies and is positioned substantially midway between the first and the second sides of the work member.
27. The installation of claim 21, wherein the second end of the first tubular body abuts the second end of the second tubular body, the second ends of the first and the second tubular bodies are located within the opening.
28. The installation of claim 21, wherein the first and the second flanges contact the work member.
29. The installation of claim 21, wherein the first tubular body includes a first inner surface that defines a first inner circumference, the second tubular body includes a second inner surface that defines a second inner circumference that is substantially equal to the first inner circumference, a passageway extends through the first and the second bushings and is surrounded by the first and the second inner surfaces.
30. The installation of claim 21, further comprising:
an outer member between the tubular surface and the first tubular body and between the tubular surface and the second tubular body, the tubular member circumferentially surrounding both the first tubular body and the second tubular body.
31. The installation of claim 30, further comprising:
a first interference fit between the tubular surface of the work member and the outer member, a second interference fit between the outer member and the first tubular body, and a third interference fit between the outer member and the second tubular body.
32. The installation of claim 30, wherein the outer member has been radially displaced along substantially all of a longitudinal length of the outer member because of sufficient radial displacement of both the first tubular body and the second tubular body.
33. The installation of claim 21, further comprising:
a sleeve lining the tubular surface and extending between the first flange and the second flange, the first and the second tubular bodies extending through a passageway of the sleeve towards one another.
34. A bushing kit comprising:
a first bushing comprising a first radial flange and a first body, the first body including a first end and a second end opposing the first end, the first and the second ends connected by a first inner surface and a first outer surface, the first inner surface surrounding a first opening extending through the first bushing; and
a second bushing comprising a second radial flange and a second body, the second body including a first end and a second end, the first and the second ends of the second body connected by a second inner surface and a second outer surface, the second inner surface surrounding a second opening extending through the second bushing;
wherein the first and the second bushings are adapted such that sufficient radial expansion of the first body and the second body caused by a mandrel moving through the first and the second openings results in a first interference fit between the first outer surface and a tubular surface of a work member surrounding the first body, a second interference fit between the second outer surface and the tubular surface, and in fatigue life enhancing compressive stresses provided along at least nearly all of the tubular surface.
35. The bushing kit of claim 34, further comprising:
an expandable outer member comprising a member inner surface and a member outer surface, the member inner surface dimensioned to closely surround the first and the second outer surfaces, a longitudinal length of the expandable outer member is approximately equal to a combined longitudinal length of the first and the second bodies.
36. The bushing kit of claim 35, wherein the first and the second bushings are dimensioned such that sufficient radial displacement of the first inner surface of the first body and sufficient radial displacement of the second inner surface of the second body result in substantially uniform radial displacement of the expandable outer member taken with respect to a longitudinal axis of the expandable member.
37. A method of installing a pair of bushings in an opening extending between a first side and a second side of a work member, the method comprising:
inserting a first tubular body of a first bushing into the opening of the work member such that a first flange connected to the first tubular body is at least proximate to the first side of the work member;
inserting a second tubular body of a second bushing into the opening of the work member such that a second flange connected to the second tubular body is at least proximate to the second side of the work member, the first and the second tubular bodies extending through the opening towards each other;
expanding the first tubular body of the first bushing using a mandrel to cause an outer surface of the first tubular body to expanded a first section of the opening through which the first tubular body extends; and
after expanding at least a substantial portion of the first tubular body, expanding the second tubular body of the second bushing by moving the mandrel away from the first tubular body through the second tubular body so as to cause an outer surface of the second tubular body to expanded a second section of the opening through which the second tubular body extends.
38. The method of claim 37, further comprising:
inducing fatigue life enhancing compressive stresses along at least substantially all of a tubular surface of the work member defining the opening by the expansion of both the first tubular body and the second tubular body.
39. The method of claim 37, wherein inserting the second tubular body comprises forming a relatively narrow gap between a flangeless end of the first tubular body and a flangeless end of the second tubular body.
40. The method of claim 39, wherein a width of the gap measured along a longitudinal axis of the opening is less than a radial wall thickness of at least one of the first tubular body and the second tubular body.
41. The method of claim 37, wherein inserting the second tubular body comprises positioning a non-flanged end of the second tubular body at least proximate to the second tubular body with respect to a longitudinal axis of the opening.
42. The method of claim 37, wherein the first bushing and the second bushing together define a passageway having a substantially uniform circumference throughout almost all of a longitudinal length of the passageway.
43. The method of claim 37, further comprising:
forming a first interference fit between the first tubular body and the work member by expanding the first tubular body; and
forming a second interference fit between the second tubular body and the work member by expanding the second tubular body.
44. The method of claim 37, further comprising:
positioning a tubular member between a first portion of the work member and the first tubular body and a second portion of the work member and the second tubular body such that expanding the first and the second tubular bodies causes corresponding expansion of the tubular member, the first and the second portions define the opening.
45. The method of claim 44, wherein inserting the first tubular body includes positioning the first tubular body along a passageway of the tubular member.
46. The method of claim 44, further comprising:
forming interference fits between the tubular member and both the first and the second portions of the work member.
47. The method of claim 44, further comprising:
forming a first interference fit between the first tubular body and the tubular member by expanding the first tubular body; and
forming a second interference fit between the second tubular body and the tubular member by expanding the second tubular body.