Author: claimsbot

1. An apparatus comprising:
a coke drum for coking hydrocarbon substances, the coke drum having a bottom flange;
a funnel removably attached to said bottom flange;
a valve connected to said funnel, said valve being actuatable between an open position and a closed position;
a steam supply providing a source of steam at a higher pressure than a pressure applied to said valve from contents of said coke drum located upstream of said valve, said steam supply supplying the steam at the higher pressure to said valve such that if said valve leaks, said steam supply causes said valve to fail safe; and
a discharge conduit disposed downstream of said valve for removing coke from said coke drum when said valve is in the open position.
2. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said discharge conduit comprises a mitered bend.
3. An apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said mitered section is overlaid.
4. An apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising another valve, which is disposed beneath said valve, such that if said valve leaks, said other valve contains the contents of said coke drum.
5. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said discharge conduit is a pipe.
6. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said discharge conduit is a chute with an open top.
7. An apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:
a side conduit for feeding or draining said coke drum,
said apparatus being adapted such that when said valve is closed, the hydrocarbon substance can be fed from said side conduit.
8. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said discharge conduit is coupled to said valve which is coupled to said coke drum, such that no gap is formed between the bottom of said coke drum and a proximal end of said discharge conduit.
9. An apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said valve is a ball valve.
10. An apparatus according to claim 7, wherein said side conduit is connected to said funnel.
11. A closed system for discharging coke from a coke drum, said system comprising:
a coke drum having a bottom flange;
a funnel removably attached to said bottom flange;
a ball valve connected to said funnel, said valve being actuatable between an open position and a closed position;
a discharge conduit disposed beneath the ball valve; and
a steam supply providing a source of steam at a higher pressure than a pressure applied to said ball valve from contents of said coke drum located upstream of said ball valve, said steam supply supplying the steam at the higher pressure to said ball valve such that if said ball valve leaks, said steam supply causes said ball valve to fail safe,
wherein coke exiting the coke drum is enclosed until exiting said discharge conduit.
12. A discharge system for a coke drum, said system comprising:
a coke drum having a bottom flange;
a funnel removably attached to said bottom flange;
a side conduit for feeding petroleum to said coke drum;
guiding means for guiding coke from a bottom of said coke drum;
sealing means, disposed downstream of said funnel and upstream of said guiding means, for sealing coke in said coke drum; and
steam supplying means providing a source of steam at a higher pressure than a pressure applied to said sealing means from contents of said coke drum located upstream of said sealing means, said steam supplying means supplying the steam at the higher pressure to said sealing means such that if said sealing means leaks, said steam supplying means causes said sealing means to fail safe.
13. A discharge system according to claim 12, wherein said guiding means includes a pipe.
14. A discharge system according to claim 12, wherein said guiding means includes a pipe and a mitered bend.
15. A discharge system according to claim 12, wherein said sealing means comprises a ball valve.
16. A discharge system according to claim 12, wherein said side conduit is connected to said funnel.
17. An apparatus comprising:
a coke drum for coking hydrocarbon substances, the coke drum having a bottom flange;
a side conduit connected to a lower portion of said coke drum for feeding and draining said coke drum;
a funnel removably attached to said bottom flange;
a valve connected to said funnel, said valve being actuatable between an open position and a closed position;
a steam supply providing a source of steam at a higher pressure than a pressure applied to said valve from contents of said coke drum located upstream of said valve, said steam supply supplying the steam at the higher pressure to said valve such that if said valve leaks, said steam supply causes said valve to fail safe; and
a discharge conduit disposed downstream of said valve for removing coke from said coke drum when said valve is in the open position,
wherein said coke drum is filled with the hydrocarbon substances via said side conduit before coking.
18. The apparatus according to claim 17, wherein the hydrocarbon substances are coked in said coke drum by: (i) filling, via said side conduit, the coke drum with the hydrocarbon substances while said valve is closed, (ii) quenching the hydrocarbon substances using a quenching medium, supplied via said side conduit, and (iii) draining the quenching medium from said coke drum via said side conduit, and wherein said valve is subsequently opened and the formed coke is cut for removal from said coke drum via said discharge conduit.
19. An apparatus according to claim 17, further comprising a steam supply conduit connected to said valve, wherein said steam supply conduit supplies steam to said valve at a higher pressure than that upstream of said valve, such that, if said valve leaks, the steam supply will cause said valve to fail safe.
20. An apparatus according to claim 17, wherein said discharge conduit is coupled to said valve which is coupled to said coke drum, such that no gap is formed between the bottom of said coke drum and a proximal end of said discharge conduit.
21. An apparatus according to claim 17, wherein said valve is a ball valve.
22. An apparatus according to claim 17, wherein said side conduit is connected to said funnel.

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 cover for an optical device comprising:
a cap; and
a means for releasably and securely holding a display such that the display can be selectively removed from the means for releasably and securely holding a display;
wherein the means for releasably and securely holding a display is permanently attached to the cap.
2. The cover for an optical device of claim 1, wherein the means for releasably and securely holding a display is integrally formed with the cap.
3. The cover for an optical device of claim 1, wherein the cap has an interior portion and the means for releasably and securely holding a display is permanently attached to the interior portion of the cap.
4. The cover for an optical device of claim 1, wherein the means for releasably and securely holding a display is at least two resilient tabs.
5. The cover for an optical device of claim 1, wherein the means for releasably and securely holding a display is at least one resilient post.
6. The cover for an optical device of claim 1, wherein the means for releasably and securely holding a display is at least one magnet.
7. The cover for an optical device of claim 1, wherein the means for releasably and securely holding a display is an annular ridge formed in the cap.
8. The cover for an optical device of claim 1, wherein the display has at least one indent formed therein such that the display may be selectively removed from the means for releasably and securely holding a display by the at least one indent.
9. A cover for an optical device comprising:
a body capable of attaching the cover to the optical device;
a cap connected to the body such that the cap can be opened or closed, the cap having an interior portion;
a display with a perimeter; and
at least one resilient retention member attached to the interior portion of the cap for retaining the display, the at least one resilient retention member capable of temporarily deforming to receive and release the display;
wherein the display has at least one indent formed in the perimeter such that the display may be released from the at least one resilient retention member at least through the use of the at least one indent.
10. The cover for an optical device of claim 9, wherein the display has at least two sides and data of personal equipment is visible by at least one side of the at least two sides.
11. The cover for an optical device of claim 9, wherein the at least one resilient retention member is a tab.
12. The cover for an optical device of claim 9, wherein the at least one resilient retention member is a post.
13. The cover for an optical device of claim 9, wherein the at least one resilient retention member is an annular ring.
14. The cover for an optical device of claim 9, wherein the display is formed by coupling a top layer to a bottom layer and wherein the top layer is a different color than the bottom layer.
15. The cover for an optical device of claim 9, wherein the display is formed by coupling a top layer and a bottom layer to a middle layer and wherein the top layer and bottom layer are a different color than the middle layer.
16. A sighting device with a cover having a display for shooting firearms comprising:
a first substrate having a first color;
a second substrate having a second color different than the first color and fixed to the first substrate to form the display; and
wherein the first substrate is engraved such that the second substrate is exposed through the engraved first substrate and conveys shooting information; and
wherein the display is shaped such that the display may be firmly retained by the cover and has a perimeter formed such that the perimeter may be used to remove the display from the cover.
17. The display of claim 16, further comprising a third substrate with a third color different than the second color, wherein the second substrate has a first side and a second side and the first substrate is fixed to the first side of the second substrate and the third substrate is fixed to the second side of the second substrate and wherein the third substrate is engraved such that the second substrate is exposed through the engraved third substrate.
18. The display of claim 17, wherein the display is round in shape and the perimeter has indentations formed therein.
19. The display of claim 18, wherein the first and second substrate are of a material such that the shape and the first and second colors remain substantially the same when exposed to moisture, ultraviolet light and temperatures in the range of \u221220\xb0 F. to 120\xb0 F.

1. A method for installing and using a device driver across a network, comprising computer executed method steps of:
providing a network device that can be connected to anywhere in the network;
providing at least one domain controller and at least one user computer connected to the network;
upon detecting a user login to the at least one user computer, searching the network for at least one newly added network device that is added to any point in the network;
creating a table of discovered devices comprising discovered devices from searching the network for the at least one newly added network device;
comparing the table of discovered devices with a table of currently existing devices to produce a table of to-be-installed devices, wherein the table of to-be-installed devices optionally comprises to-be-updated devices;
installing device drivers for the at least one newly added network device onto only the at least one user computer;
enabling use of the at least one newly added network device from the at least one user computer so that access from the at least one user computer goes directly to the at least one newly added network device;
comparing the table of discovered devices with the table of currently existing devices to produce a table of to-be-deleted devices comprising devices in the table of currently existing devices that are not in the table of discovered devices; and
for each device in the table of to-be-deleted devices, deleting the device if a delete grace period is set by a user and the delete grace period is exceeded or if the delete grace period and login attempts are exceeded while the device has been unavailable or undetected, optionally displaying and prompting a seamless popup dialog integrated into an operating system of the at least one user computer, the dialog being optionally invisible to the user, and optionally deleting the corresponding device driver of the device if the device corresponds to an only device entry.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein the installing of the device drivers comprises providing optionally-silent and seamless pop-up GUI.
3. The method of claim 1, wherein the detecting of the user login or the installing of the device drivers comprises running of script files, comprising computer executed method steps of:
parsing parameters in a command line including a username and optionally a password;
running a check with the username and password as parameters to determine privilege sufficiency to install a required device driver, wherein confirmation is made to determine that privilege of the username and password, passed as the parameters is sufficient to install the required device driver;
discovering all relevant devices in the network and IP address range;
obtaining a list of installed device entries and assigned ports using WMI interface from Windows scripting host;
comparing using the script files and the at least one user computer the table of discovered devices and the table of currently existing devices; and
running the script files to install and upgrade all the discovered devices and to delete each device in the table of to-be-deleted devices, with optionally confirming for the delete grace period, in the seamless popup dialog which is invisible to the user.
4. The method of claim 1, further comprising: searching the network for unavailable devices when detecting the user login; and deleting device drivers for the searched unavailable devices.
5. The method of claim 1, wherein the searching of the at least one newly added network device comprises using TCPIP or SNMP.
6. The method of claim 1, further comprising automatically upgrading the device drivers for the at least one newly added network device if necessary.
7. The method of claim 1, further comprising maintaining the tables of currently existing devices, to-be-installed devices, and to-be-deleted devices.
8. The method of claim 1, further comprising applying pre-defined device settings.
9. The method of claim 1, further comprising obtaining information of the at least one newly added network device and applying the information to the device drivers for the at least one newly added network device.
10. The method of claim 1, wherein the device drivers are printer drivers.
11. A computer program product stored on a computer relating to an operation of the image forming and printing apparatus for installing and using a device driver across a network, comprising machine-readable code for causing a machine to perform the computer executed method steps of:
providing a network device that can be connected to anywhere in the network;
providing at least one domain controller and at least one user computer connected to the network;
upon detecting a user login to the at least one user computer, searching the network for at least one newly added network device that is added to any point in the network;
creating a table of discovered devices comprising discovered devices from searching the network for the at least one newly added network device;
comparing the table of discovered devices with a table of currently existing devices to produce a table of to-be-installed devices, wherein the table of to-be-installed devices optionally comprises to-be-updated devices;
installing device drivers for the at least one newly added network device onto only the at least one user computer;
enabling use of the at least one newly added network device from the at least one user computer so that access from the at least one user computer goes directly to the at least one newly added network device;
comparing the table of discovered devices with the table of currently existing devices to produce a table of to-be-deleted devices comprising devices in the table of currently existing devices that are not in the table of discovered devices; and
for each device in the table of to-be-deleted devices, deleting the device if a delete grace period is set by a user and the delete grace period is exceeded or if the delete grace period and login attempts are exceeded while the device has been unavailable or undetected, optionally displaying and prompting a seamless popup dialog integrated into an operating system of the at least one user computer, the dialog being optionally invisible to the user, and optionally deleting the corresponding device driver of the device if the device corresponds to an only device entry.
12. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the installing of the device drivers comprises providing optionally-silent and seamless pop-up GUI, and wherein the detecting of the user login or the installing of the device drivers comprises running of script files, comprising computer executed method steps of:
parsing parameters in a command line including a username and optionally a password;
running a check with the username and password as parameters to determine privilege sufficiency to install a required device driver, wherein confirmation is made to determine that privilege of the username and password, passed as the parameters is sufficient to install the required device driver;
discovering all relevant devices in the network and IP address range;
obtaining a list of installed device entries and assigned ports using WMI interface from Windows scripting host;
comparing using the script files and the at least one user computer the table of discovered devices and the table of currently existing devices; and
running the script files to install and upgrade all the discovered devices and to delete each device in the table of to-be-deleted devices, with optionally confirming for the delete grace period, in the seamless popup dialog which is invisible to the user.
13. The computer program product of claim 11, further comprising machine-readable code for causing the machine to search the network for unavailable devices when detecting the user login; and deleting device drivers for the searched unavailable devices, wherein the deleting of the device drivers is performed only when a deletion grace period is exceeded.
14. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the searching of the at least one newly added network device comprises using TCPIP or SNMP, and further comprising machine-readable code for causing the machine to automatically upgrade the device drivers for the at least one newly added network device if necessary and to maintain the tables of currently existing devices, to-be-installed devices, and to-be-deleted devices.
15. The computer program product of claim 11, further comprising machine-readable code for causing the machine to apply pre-defined device settings and to obtain information of the at least one newly added network device and applying the information to the device drivers for the at least one newly added network device.
16. A computing system having a processor relating to an operation of the image forming and printing apparatus, comprising a program programmed for installing and using a device driver across a network, comprising computer executed method steps of:
providing a network device that can be connected to anywhere in the network;
providing at least one domain controller and at least one user computer connected to the network;
upon detecting a user login to the at least one user computer, searching the network for at least one newly added network device that is added to any point in the network;
creating a table of discovered devices comprising discovered devices from searching the network for the at least one newly added network device;
comparing the table of discovered devices with a table of currently existing devices to produce a table of to-be-installed devices, wherein the table of to-be-installed devices optionally comprises to-be-updated devices;
installing device drivers for the at least one newly added network device onto only the at least one user computer;
enabling use of the at least one newly added network device from the at least one user computer so that access from the at least one user computer goes directly to the at least one newly added network device;
comparing the table of discovered devices with the table of currently existing devices to produce a table of to-be-deleted devices comprising devices in the table of currently existing devices that are not in the table of discovered devices; and
for each device in the table of to-be-deleted devices, deleting the device if a delete grace period is set by a user and the delete grace period is exceeded or if the delete grace period and login attempts are exceeded while the device has been unavailable or undetected, optionally displaying and prompting a seamless popup dialog integrated into an operating system of the at least one user computer, the dialog being optionally invisible to the user, and optionally deleting the corresponding device driver of the device if the device corresponds to an only device entry.
17. The computing system of claim 16, wherein the installing of the device drivers comprises providing optionally-silent and seamless pop-up GUI, and wherein the detecting of the user login or the installing of the device drivers comprises running of script files, comprising computer executed method steps of:
parsing parameters in a command line including a username and optionally a password;
running a check with the username and password as parameters to determine privilege sufficiency to install a required device driver, wherein confirmation is made to determine that privilege of the username and password, passed as the parameters is sufficient to install the required device driver;
discovering all relevant devices in the network and IP address range;
obtaining a list of installed device entries and assigned ports using WMI interface from Windows scripting host;
comparing using the script files and the at least one user computer the table of discovered devices and the table of currently existing devices; and
running the script files to install and upgrade all the discovered devices and to delete each device in the table of to-be-deleted devices, with optionally confirming for the delete grace period, in the seamless popup dialog which is invisible to the user.
18. The computing system of claim 16, further comprising code for causing the machine to search the network for unavailable devices when detecting the user login; and deleting device drivers for the searched unavailable devices, wherein the deleting of the device drivers is performed only when a deletion grace period is exceeded.
19. The computing system of claim 16, wherein the searching of the at least one newly added network device comprises using TCPIP or SNMP, and further comprising machine-readable code for causing the machine to automatically upgrade the device drivers for the at least one newly added network device if necessary and to maintain the tables of currently existing devices, to-be-installed devices, and to-be-deleted devices.
20. The computing system of claim 16, further comprising a print engine and code for applying pre-defined device settings and to obtain information of the at least one newly added network device and applying the information to the device drivers for the at least one newly added network 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.

1. A calculating circuit for dividing a fixed-point input signal consisting of a sequence of n-bit-wide digital data values by an adjustable dividing factor 2k for generating a divided fixed-point output signal, comprising:
(a) a signal input for applying the data value sequence of the fixed-point input signal;
(b) a first addition circuit which adds the digital data value present at the signal input to a data value temporarily stored in a register to form a first aggregate data value;
(c) a shift circuit which shifts the first aggregate data value present by k data bits to the right so that higher-order data bits of the first aggregate data value are delivered at an output of the shift circuit;
(d) a logic circuit which logically ANDs the k lower-order data bits of the first aggregate data value with a logical data value in the case of a logically low output control signal of a control logic and logically ORs these bits with an inverted logical data value in the case of a logically high output control signal of the control logic and delivers them to the register for temporarily storing the logically combined data value;
(e) a second addition circuit which adds the data value delivered by the shift circuit to one to form a second aggregate data value in the case of a logically high output control signal of the control logic;
(f) a signal output for delivering a sequence of the second aggregate data value as the divided fixed-point output signal;
(g) the control logic generating an output control signal which is logically high when the first aggregate data value is a negative number which cannot be divided by the dividing factor 2k without remainder.
2. The calculating circuit as claimed in claim 1, wherein the logical data value is equal to the dividing factor 2k reduced by one.
3. The calculating circuit as claimed in claim 1, wherein the logic circuit contains an inverter for inverting the logical data value.
4. The calculating circuit as claimed in claim 1, wherein the logic circuit has an AND gate for logically ANDing the logical data value with the k lower-order data bits of the first aggregate data value.
5. The calculating circuit as claimed in claim 1, wherein the logic circuit has an OR gate for logically ORing the inverted logical data value with the k lower-order data bits of the first aggregate data value.
6. The calculating circuit as claimed in claim 1, wherein the second addition circuit has an adder for adding the data value delivered by the shift circuit to one to form the second aggregate data value, and has a multiplexer which switches the data value delivered by the shift circuit when a logically low output control signal is output by the control logic and the second aggregate data value generated by a second adder when a logically high output control signal is output by the control logic to the signal output of the calculating circuit.
7. The calculating circuit as claimed in claim 1, wherein the dividing factor is a power value with the base two and an exponentiation factor k.
8. The calculating circuit as claimed in claim 1, wherein the exponentiation factor k corresponds to the number of data bits which are shifted to the right by the shift circuit.
9. The calculating circuit as claimed in claim 1, wherein the control logic has a sign detection circuit for detecting the sign of the first aggregate data value.
10. The calculating circuit as claimed in claim 9, wherein the control logic has a first logical AND gate for logically ANDing the first aggregate data value with the logical data value.
11. The calculating circuit as claimed in claim 9, wherein the sign detection circuit and a logical OR gate are connected to a second logical AND gate for generating the output control signal of the control logic.
12. The calculating circuit as claimed in claim 1, wherein the logic circuit has an AND gate for logically ANDing the logical data value with the k lower-order data bits of the first aggragate data value and further wherein the logic circuit has an OR gate for logically ORing the inverted logical data value with the k lower-order data bits of the first aggragate data value.
13. The calculating circuit as claimed in claim 12, wherein the logic circuit has a multiplexer comprising:
(a) a first input, which is connected to the output of the AND gate,
(b) a second input, which is connected to the output of the OR gate,
(c) an output, which is connected to the register, and comprising a control input, which is driven by the control logic.