What is claimed is:
1. A central powder supply plant, comprising a housing; and operating and control devices, integrated in the housing, for at least one of powder supply and electrostatic.
2. The central powder supply plant of claim 1, wherein the operating and control devices are arranged in the housing individually or in groups.
3. The central powder supply plant of claim 1, wherein the operating and control devices are combined into units.
4. The central powder supply plant of claim 3, wherein the operating and control devices have a modular construction.
5. The central powder supply plant of claim 3, wherein the units are designed as plug-in devices.
6. The central powder supply plant of claim 3, wherein the units are arranged in one of on the housing and in the housing in a manner selected from the group consisting of horizontally, vertically and laterally.
7. The central powder supply plant of claim 1, wherein the operating and control devices have elements which are interconnected in the housing by a tubeless connections, for transport of at least one of air and powder.
8. The central powder supply plant of claim 7, wherein the tubeless connections are formed by connecting devices that interact in at least one of a formfitting engagement and force-transmitting engagement.
9. The central powder supply plant of claim 8, wherein each of the connecting devices includes a conical seat connection with seal.
10. The central powder supply plant of claim 7, and further comprising injectors for ejecting powder, each of the injectors interacting with a corresponding one of the operating and control devices, whereby the injectors and the operating and control devices are placed into one-to-one correspondence, wherein each of the injectors is connected by a one of said tubeless connections on at least one of air side and powder intake side.
11. The central powder supply plant of claim 10, and further comprising a holding-down device which presses the injectors individually or in groups for establishing the tubeless connections.
12. The central powder supply plant of claim 11, and further comprising collective lines for supplying the injectors with supply air andor proportioning air, wherein the holding-down device is configured for connection to the collective lines.
13. The central powder supply plant of claim 10, and further comprising a support, wherein the injectors are arranged in groups and releaseably connected to the support.
14. The central powder supply plant of claim 13, wherein the support and the injectors are configured for engagement with an integrated or separate cleaning device by releasing the connecting devices on the air-side and the powder intake side.
15. The central powder supply plant of claim 10, wherein the injectors are configured for cleaning action in opposite directions.
16. The central powder supply plant of claim 15, wherein the cleaning device is a high-pressure cleaning device.
17. A central powder supply plant, comprising an intake device in the form of a plate, a screen basket surrounding the intake device; and cleaning means transported through openings of the intake device, and collected in the screen basket (23).
18. The central powder supply plant of claim 17, wherein the cleaning means includes a ball-shaped cleaning element.
19. The central powder supply plant of claim 17, wherein the cleaning means is transported by air.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A system to electronically create and publish instructive content for subsequent presentation utilizing an electronic viewing apparatus, comprising:
a programmed application set, further comprising:
a content creation interface; and
a timeline creation portion;
wherein the programmed application set is configured to execute on a first microprocessor assembly including:
a first microprocessor;
a first memory operationally connected to the first microprocessor;
a first network interface operationally connected to the first microprocessor; and
a first persistent storage portion operationally connected to the first microprocessor;
wherein upon execution, the programmed application set is operationally connected to the first persistent storage portion;
wherein upon execution of the programmed application set, the content creation interface is operationally connected to the first microprocessor;
wherein the programmed application set is author accessible through the content creation interface;
wherein a respective timeline may be created for each instruction;
wherein an author may associate multimedia elements with instructions through interactions with the content creation interface;
wherein the author may assign chronological relationships between the instruction-associated multimedia elements as measured against the respective timeline;
wherein instructional content may be generated by the organization of the instructions and the instruction-associated multimedia elements; and
wherein the instructive content may be published.
2. The system of claim 1 wherein the published instructive content contains the encrypted instructive content.
3. The system of claim 1 wherein the published instructive content is first decrypted through the use of a public key before viewing.
4. The system of claim 1 wherein a portion of the programmed application set includes permits the author to embed multimedia element placeholders, multimedia elements, and descriptive information into the instructive content.
5. The system of claim 1 wherein the published instructive content contains a unique identifier.
6. The system of claim 1 wherein the timeline creation portion of the programmed application set may utilize criteria for creating respective timelines for each respective instruction, said criteria selected from the set including; narrative, multimedia element placeholders, multimedia elements, and combinations thereof in creating respective timelines for each instruction.
7. The system of claim 1 wherein a portion of the programmed application set permits the author to form steps of instructions.
8. The system of claim 1 wherein a portion of the programmed application set permits the author to associate instructions with an interactive panel.
9. The system of claim 1 wherein a portion of the programmed application set permits the author to augment subsets of steps with additional instructive content.
10. The system of claim 1 wherein a portion of the programmed application set permits the author to arrange instructive content through the organizing of instructions, steps, and other instructive content.
11. A method for electronically organizing and providing instructive content created by an author for presentation to a user in an interactive, context-sensitive and user-directed manner comprising:
a. receiving instructions with narrative content from an author;
b. automatically creating a narrative-based timeline for organizing multimedia elements;
c. receiving at least one multimedia element;
d. assigning the at least one multimedia element to a position on the timeline;
e. receiving finalized instructive content from the author for publishing;
f. providing published instructive content to a delivery device, wherein the delivery device includes;
a microprocessor,
a memory operationally connected to the microprocessor, and
a viewing interface operationally connected to the microprocessor; and
g. reorganizing the display of multimedia elements of the published instructive content to define a revised timeline.
12. The method of claim 11 wherein actuating the viewing interface permits a user to review the instructive content.
13. The method of claim 11 wherein actuating the viewing interface permits a user to guide with the instructive content.
14. The method of claim 11 wherein actuating the viewing interface permits a user to interact with the instructive content.
15. The method of claim 11 wherein actuating the viewing interface permits a user to provide feedback.
16. The method of claim 11 wherein multiple authors can serve as the source for the instructive content.
17. The method according to claim 11, further comprising the steps of:
h. after (f) and before (g), automatically revising the timeline based upon user selected narrative.
18. The method of claim 11 wherein the viewing interface includes features which facilitate presentation of published instructive content to users having visual, hearing, or other sensory or learning impairments.
19. The method of claim 11 wherein the published instructive content includes;
a unique identifier; and
encryption such that a provided public key can decrypt the instructive content; and
sourcing from a single entity.
20. The method of claim 11 wherein the author may embed multimedia placeholders, multimedia, and descriptive information into instructions.
21. The method of claim 11 wherein the narrative-based timeline is based upon narrative of instructions, multimedia placeholders, multimedia, and descriptive information.
22. The method of claim 11 wherein the published instructive content may include interactive panels.
23. The method of claim 11 wherein the received instructions may be further organized into steps.
24. The method of claim 11 wherein the received instructions may be further organized into chapters.
25. The method of claim 11 wherein subsets of the steps may be augmented with additional instructive content.