Abstract: A portable, low-pressure propane gas torch including an internal spark igniter is characterized by the absence of the heretofore conventional venturi. Particular ratios of the inside diameters of the orifice member outlet and the burner tube provide an optimum mixture of flammable gas and aspirated air.

Abstract: Described is an insert for a water purifier comprising substantially cylindrical side walls (9) with a filter top (16) and a filter bottom (10) at the end thereof, and with an annular sealing means (12, 22) secured to the upper end of the side walls (9).

Abstract: The present invention provides a flexible, coated abrasive product having a fabric or cloth substrate. The fabric has a warp direction and a fill direction and is preferably woven. The finished coated abrasive product is manually tearable in the warp direction in a straight line. The product is characterized by having a tear strength across the warp direction that is at least twice the tear strength across the fill direction. Tearing of the present products takes place along, or contiguous to, a single yarn in the warp direction. The coated abrasive product of the invention is particularly useful in the form of belts, elongated sheets or rolls.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a distributor for distributing a liquid in an exchange column. The distributor comprises at least one predistributor means positioned to receive a liquid feed and a plurality of distributor means having substantially straight longitudinal side walls and open top portions. The interior and exterior of the longitudinal side walls of the predistributor means are covered with a wettable, open-pore material. In operation the liquid feed flows from the predistributor means into the interior of the distributor means, through the open-pore material, exiting this open-pore material on the exterior of the distributor means. In this manner an improved, even distribution of the liquid feed within the exchange column is obtained.

Abstract: The present invention provides a device for weighing rail guided vehicles. The device has at least one moveable truck support element and in the preferred embodiment has both a stationary platform and a moveable truck support assembly. The vehicle to be weighed may be placed on the device by either pulling or pushing. The vehicle to be weighed may approach the weighing device in either direction. Each end of the vehicle is weighed on separate weighing elements and the weight on each element is summed, preferably electronically to yield the overall vehicle weight. Typically one end of the vehicle is weighed on a stationary platform and one end is weighed on a moveable assembly.

Abstract: Described is a water purifier comprising a collecting container (1) with pouring spout (2) and handle (3), a funnel and a cover (5) which can close the funnel, wherein provided at the bottom of the funnel is an opening for receiving a filter cartridge containing a purifying agent.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of self-reducing compacts as a feed material for a submerged electric arc furnace. The compacts are comprised of finely-divided carbon-reducible oxide materials, such as, the oxides of silicon, iron, manganese, chromium or nickel, or mixtures thereof, and a carbonaceous source material. The compacts may also contain a slag-forming additive. The particle size of the components is less than about 0.2 mm. The particles are mixed in appropriate weight ratios to yield the desired product, for example, silicon, iron, or iron alloy. Water is incorporated into the mixture by alternately stirring and pressing to produce densified agglomerates. Sufficient water is added that the subsequent compaction step squeezes out at least about 1% of the incorporated water. The agglomerates are compacted, suitably by means of a double rolls, which exert a maximum momentary pressure of from about 300 to about 4000 kg per linear cm of roll width, to form a compacted product.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method and apparatus for measuring the temperature in an ultra small area by determining the electrical resistance, or changes in electrical resistance in an electrical circuit. The system utilizes a temperature sensory element comprised of a microcapillary tube containing an ionic liquid and an electrical circuit capable of measuring the electrical resistance, or the changes in the electrical resistance, of the liquid. The temperature sensory element is of a size useful to measure the temperature in ultra small areas. The temperature sensory element ranges up to about 2.0 microns in outside diameter, and more preferably has an outside diameter between about 0.1 and about 1.0 micron, and most preferably between about 0.5 and about 1.5 micron. Minute changes in the electrical resistance of the liquid within the temperature sensory element reflect minute temperature changes in the immediate area of the temperature sensory element.

Abstract: Described is a process for the contact-less removal of material from the surface of an article of brittle material, in particular glass, by means of a laser beam. So that material can be removed, with sharp edges, without splintering, and also in order to permit non-sharp surfaces, the invention provides that the laser beam (1) is passed through at least one at least partially absorbent matrix (7) and split into a plurality of individual beams (1'). By that means, the energy available in the laser beam is split up, in the beam cross-section, and the individual beams can be adapted to a desired removal effect. The apparatus for carrying out the process is characterized in that the matrix (7) has straight and/or curved fields (8, 9) with preferably a high absorption capability in respect of laser beams.

Abstract: A vehicle weighing device is described which is comprised of an elongated monolithic concrete slab containing a plurality of lateral supports. Each of the lateral supports is comprised of a pair of substantially vertically arranged end plates having their lower portions positioned contiguous to a plurality of crossbars which supply tension between the plates. Preferably the crossbars are connected to the plates. A zone of compressed concrete is positioned between the upper portions of the end plates. In a preferred embodiment of the invention the lateral supports may be considered to be a composite having a crossbar lower portion and a compressed concrete upper portion.

Abstract: A sectional cloth backed abrasive belt comprising a series of abrasive coated cloth backed sections joined together so that the joints between sections are at an angle of from about 45.degree., to about 85.degree. to the running direction of the belt. The cloth backing has at least a portion of the fill filaments of the cloth backing at an angle of from 45.degree. to 85.degree. to the warp filaments of the cloth backing and the sections are joined such that at least 30% of the fill filaments are disposed in the running direction of the belt. The invention further comprises the process for making such an abrasive belt by joining appropriate parallelogram shaped sections. The section of abrasive belt of the invention has increased strength in the running direction of the belt and decreased stretch in the running direction of the belt.

Abstract: Abrasive products and methods of producing such products are described. The resin systems utilized are particularly suited to use in the manufacture of coated adhesive products. The coated abrasive products have a plurality of resin layers. The products have at least one layer comprised of an electron curable resin and at least one layer comprised of a heat curable resin. The products may include both electron and heat curable resins combined in a single layer.

Abstract: Photoconductive organic polymers useful in the preparation of photodetectors and photoconductive devices comprise a transrich polyphenylacetylene. The photoconductive properties may be further enhanced by the addition of an electron-acceptor dopant, and sensitized to selected spectral regions by the addition of a selected dye.

Abstract: An electrolytic cell is described which has a spacing means positioned between the anode and cathode faces. The present spacing means comprises a plurality of longitudinally elongated, electrically non-conductive spacers fabricated of a chemically resistant material being inert to the conditions existing within an operating electrolytic cell. The present spacers are positioned on the face portion of a foraminous anode. The spacers are secured on the anode face by extention of a portion of the spacer through an opening in the anode and are secured at the back portion of the anode.

Abstract: The invention provides resin compositions which are particularly suitable for utilization in electron cured coated abrasives. The resin systems of the instant invention have been devised to be particularly suitable for the backing fill of a cloth which is to form the base of a coated abrasive. The formation of a treated base cloth for coated abrasive formation by electron beam curing resins creates a product which in addition to being suitable for immediate formation into a coated abrasive by application of grain is further a product which may be stored for later use or sold to other parties that have need for a waterproof stretch-resistant cloth or that make coated abrasives without doing cloth finishing. The invention also encompasses the formation of electron curing resin systems which are particularly desirable for the make coat and size coat utilized in forming coated abrasives.

Abstract: A coated abrasive product which comprises a fabric backing, a layer of abrasive grain and at least one layer of resin between the backing and abrasive grain. Hollow microspheres are present and at least partly and usually entirely embedded in the resin layer. In general, such hollow microspheres comprise hollow spherical bodies which may be of glass or plastic materials such as a phenolic resin, which have a diameter of from about 5 to about 500 microns and an average diameter of from about 25 to about 150 microns. Such hollow microspheres generally have a shell thickness which averages from about 5 to about 20 percent of the diameter of the microsphere. Such microspheres are usually incorporated into the resin layer in an amount of from about 5 to about 20 percent by weight of the resin layer.

Abstract: The present application relates to a golf club having a hollowed head portion connected to a hollow shaft portion forming a sealed, internal chamber within the club. A flowable weight is positioned within the chamber. A two way valve allows the flowable weight to pass therethrough and into the hollowed head portion by centrifugal force as the club is swung, and allows the flowable weight to return from the hollowed head portion by passing through the valve by gravity as the club is inverted.

Abstract: A method and device for everting flexible tubular members, such as food casings and the like, is disclosed wherein a tubular member is axially displaced by a frictional engagement means, which means is deposed in a distal end portion of the member, and which frictionally engages the interior surface of said member and displaces said member to a point where the member is folded back over itself (everted) and then displaces said everted member, from the point of everting over the exterior surface of the noneverted tubular member.

Abstract: Described is an apparatus for releasably clamping a cable or line (6), comprising a housing (1), a clamping lever (3) which is mounted rotatably thereon (at 7) and two clamping surfaces (2, 8) of which the first is arranged on the housing (1) and the second is arranged on the clamping lever (3) and between which the cable or line (6) passes. The cable is also passed around at least one direction-changing means (8-10), the clamping lever (3) being designed for a lever ratio b/a such that at most the coefficient of friction .mu. is attained at the frictional location.

Abstract: A method for constructing a multistory building comprising: constructing finished modules having a concrete base and vertical sidewalls; placing a first series of such modules at a single horizontal level such that at least one sidewall of each such module is spaced by a distance of from about 2 to about 12 inches from and is parallel to the sidewall of another such module; pouring and hardening concrete to fill at least a portion of the space between such sidewalls from the base to the top of such sidewalls to form supporting concrete walls; placing another additional series of such modules on the tops of the supporting concrete walls in the spaced relationship previously described and filling the spaces to form additional supporting concrete walls; and repeating the procedure previously described until the desired number of levels of modules is obtained.