Abstract: Patterned electrical circuitry in laminar form with foraminous substrate having been sized with conductive and non-conductive compositions in any desired side-by-side patterned configuration. The resulting lamina is substantially homogeneous electrically through any part of its thickness despite the interposition of fragmentary portions of the foraminous substrate, which may be made up of paper, polymeric film, or textile material.

Abstract: Ball launching and catching toy and game including launching a fuzzy ball from a slingshot type of launcher, and catching the fuzzy ball with a mitt having a retentive surface. The preferred launcher includes a pair of stretchable elastic members flanking a pocket member having a topside adapted to carry a fuzzy ball to be launched and an underside with an attached loop, and including as launching steps gripping the pair of stretchable elastic members and engaging the loop of the pocket member with the fuzzy ball lying thereon, and stretching the elastic members upward and outward from the pocket member, then disengaging the loop and thereby enabling the stretched members to contract, thus launching the ball from the pocket member. The mitt may be separate or attached to a launcher.

Abstract: Liquid filtration by means of a flow-through filter unit. An open-top housing is adapted to contain a removable filter cartridge having a center bore. Closing the housing with its cover effectively centers the cartridge and also seals both ends of the cartridge to keep unfiltered liquid from bypassing it. A concave baffle below the cartridge reorients the inflow of unfiltered liquid and defines a compartment from which the liquid flows to and enters both ends of the cartridge, flows therein and is filtered, flows radially to the center bore, and axially therefrom to an outlet for filtered liquid.

Abstract: Post-milking udder care to assure udder disinfection, including coloring the udder with an iodine-free inorganic composition as an indicator of such treatment, including especially applying to the udder of a milking animal an aqueous solution of an alkali metal hypochlorite containing an alkali metal permanganate in such concentration as to be visible for at least a substantial period of time thereafter, if not up until the time of the next milking. Preferred compositions include several percent of sodium hypochlorite, with enough potassium permangananate to be visible for such a period of time on an udder to which it is applied.

Abstract: Resilient stoppers are temporarily compressed and are inserted into tubular conduits and then released to expand therein to stop fluid leakage therefrom. Tapered stoppers larger across than tubes to be plugged are inserted by a tapered hollow tool having a large end to receive a stopper and a smaller end inserted within a tubular conduit to be plugged. Application of pressure to the base of the stopper to force it through the tapered tool also compresses it to a temporarily lesser size. Upon leaving the tool end inside the tube, the stopper expands into non-slipping contact with the surrounding wall. Continued pressure, rather than sliding the stopper in the tube, backs the tool end away and out therefrom, leaving the stopper plugging the tube.

Abstract: Patterned electrically conductive structures, such as circuit elements, in single or multiple laminar form, and their manufacture. The basic laminar structure is made by sizing a removable substrate to substantially equal depth with an electrically conductive material over a given area configured as a circuit element and with an electrically non-conductive material elsewhere, bonding the respective sizing materials in place and together, and separating the substrate to leave a lamina of electrically conductive and non-conductive materials side-by-side. Face-to-face juxtaposition of such substrate-less laminae provides built-up or laminated products.

Abstract: Horizontal foraminous piping is placed in non-cohesive subsoil by means of an upright engaged disengageably at its bottom end to the top end of an open-ended hollow upright stanchion. Fluid jetted into the top end of the placement pipe and out of the bottom end of the stanchion to fluidize subjacent subsoil enables the pipe to be pressed downward until the stanchion reaches a desired depth. With an end of the cable attached thereto, winding up of the cable draws the foraminous piping to the stanchion, while fluid jetted from the horizontal foraminous piping downward onto and into subjacent subsoil to fluidize it enables the piping to move down into and laterally within the subsoil, for attachment to the stanchion. The placement pipe is disengaged and removed--but may be reattached to facilitate subsequent removal of the stanchion and the piping, usually with fluidizing flow from the piping into adjacent subsoil.

Abstract: Monitoring fluidized flow of underwater non-cohesive subsoil. Fluid is jetted, as from a horizontal array of foraminous piping, into subjacent subsoil to fluidize it and preferably to transport it in an overhead lateral direction. Sensors at sites throughout the array monitor flows intercepted by vanes on stems upstanding from the array and transmit resulting data to a control system adapted to render the jetting intermittent, sequential, and of given durations.

Abstract: Fluorescent lamp assemblies with screw-in bases and solid-state ballasts, useful indoors or outdoors, such as in reflector spotlight or floodlight or table lighting. A two-piece non-conductive housing is retained simply by a pair of screws or the like, and laterally surrounds a fluorescent lamp assembly and its ballast, and also has a ratcheting screw-in Edison base on one end and a lens covering the light-emitting opposite end. Families of such lamp assemblies with different wattages and/or different beam-spreads are suitable for such usage, and for use in canister-like ceiling or wall fixtures.

Abstract: Fence wall construction materials, method, and resulting wall. Flanged fence posts spaced apart at intervals corresponding to the end-to-end length of wall panels have their vertical edges slotted to accommodate the post flanges. Preferably the posts are I-beams or back-to-back C-members, and the panels are preformed lightweight material, such as foamed polystyrene, doubly slotted on their vertical edges to sandwich the post flanges within the slots.

Abstract: Treatment of room air so as to reduce its content of gaseous and particulate liquid and/or solid contaminants and then to return the air to the ambient atmosphere, with the aid of green plants in suitable apparatus. An open-top housing is divided into upper and lower portions by a foraminous plate adapted to support a potting soil layer. The housing has in its upper portion a water-retaining support for the root ball of a plant and has in its lower portion an air-pump to draw room air in via a bottom opening, to pass it upward through the potting soil and past the plant roots, through an overlying layer of charcoal or the like, out the open top and past the plant leaves, and finally back into the room.

Abstract: Phosphoric acid wastewater treatment to substantially eliminate discharge of contaminants to the environment. Acid pond water from conventional wet-phosphoric acid manufacturing is replaced by gypsum pond water having a pH closely matching that of the surroundings. Essentially all fluorides are insolubilized and substantially all phosphoric acid is recovered, minimizing loss to the environment.

Abstract: Resilient stopper rings are inserted into a tubular conduit and are compressed endwise so as to expand outwardly against the conduit wall to block or stop flow or leakage of fluid from the conduit. In operation, axial spacing of stopper leading and trailing cylindrical end parts threaded together and sandwiching the rings is adjusted by a wrench to compress the rings to plug the conduit or alternatively to release the rings for removal of the stopper from the conduit.

Abstract: Mineral aluminosilicates enhanced as ion-exchange media for separating diverse ionic materials are provided by dry heating. A hydrated mineral alumino-silicate is irreversibly dehydrated in part, to improve the ratio of its affinity for preferred ions, relative to non-preferred ions, even though doing so reduces its affinity for both types of ions. Such dehydration is accomplished by heating the aluminosilicate until a temperature is reached at which its affinity for non-preferred cations is reduced enough that the ratio of its affinity for preferred ions to its affinity for non-preferred ions is greatly increased. Such aluminosilicates may be zeolites, such as clinoptilolite, or layered clays, such as vermiculite or smectite. 850.degree. C. is an example of such temperature.

Abstract: Beach stabilization with multiple flow control of water to and from foraminous pipes and adjacent subsoil. Offshore underwater subsoil is fluidized by injection of water via underlying foraminous piping, thereby increasing the concentration of subsoil suspended in the overlying water during its onrush onto the shore. Under normal conditions beach subsoil is dewatered by withdrawing water therefrom via adjacent foraminous piping, and under stormy conditions subsoil further onshore is dewatered via foraminous piping adjacent thereto, inducing deposition of the suspended subsoil onto the adjacent land. Water collected by such dewatering can be used in such fluidization.

Abstract: Sealing leaks in pressurized membranes, such as waterbeds without depressurizing. Such a membrane is gripped manually at the leak locus and vicinity, thereby folding and compressing the membrane to segregate and to seal the leak locus temporarily--and also enabling it to be dried. Next a patch is adhered over the leak locus, after which the membrane is released to return to its original shape. Apparatus for performing the steps subsequent to such manual gripping of the membrane include a base member and a first clamp member, pivoted together, between which the folded membrane is compressed; also a second clamp member, which--with the base member--compresses a patch onto the membrane, sealing off the leak locus permanently. The respective pivoted members are disengageably engageable, configured so as to maintain each such compression until completion of the desired steps, whereupon manual flexing disengages them from one another.

Abstract: Methods and means for treating psoriasis, as well as Crohn's disease and other HLA-related disorders, to abate their symptoms, with a pharmaceutical diazepine having a component triazolo ring. HLA-related disorders amenable to such treatment include (i) persistent eruptive, granular, or ulcerative conditions of the skin, mouth, or gastrointestinal tract; and (ii) dibilitating inflammatory conditions of the circulatory, muscular, and nervous systems. This treatment alleviates abnormality or unbalance of patients' immune systems, such as an overabundance of natural killer cells and/or an abnormality of helper T-cell/suppressor T-cell ratio, and alleviates the self-cannibilism of the Koebner phenomenon, when present. Triazolobenzodiazepines, such as alprazolam or triazolam, and triazolothienodiazepines, such as etizolam, are examples of preferred treating compositions.

Abstract: Electrical transient surge protection of electrical equipment downstream from a power source plus safeguarding of apparatus for providing such surge protection against failure at high currents or high temperature. Distributed-resistance fuse links facilitate operation of non-linear over-voltage means, such as varistors, in clipping transient voltage surges and shunting resulting currents to ground so as to protect watt-hour meters and downstream loads from electrical surges, and to safeguard such varistors from failure. Such apparatus may be located in such diverse places as a power line weatherhead, a watt-hour meter base, an adapter between a meter base and its normal mounting socket, or a utility panel having such a socket, or in a circuit-breaker panel downstream of the meter and upstream of metered loads.

Abstract: Electrical transient surge protection of electrical equipment downstream from a power source plus safeguarding of apparatus for providing such surge protection against failure at high currents or high temperature. Non-linear over-voltage means, such as varistors, function to clip transient voltage surges and to shunt resulting currents to ground so as to protect watt-hour meters and downstram loads from electrical surges. Adjacent arc-extinguishing components aid in safeguarding varistors or similar over-voltage means from potentially catastrophic destruction in the event of extreme over-heating from unusually frequent or prolonged surges. Such apparatus may be located in such diverse places as a power line weatherhead, a watt-hour meter base, an adapter between a meter base and its normal mounting socket, or a utility panel having such a socket, or in a circuit-breaker panel or even an electrical outlet receptacle downstream of the meter and upstream of metered electrical loads.

Abstract: Surge-protective varistors connected to shunt transient surges in electrical power lines to ground before damage to watt-hour meters or downstream loads. Conductive laminar members provide compact parallel circuit interconnection of varistors to increase the current-carrying capacity of protective apparatus containing them.