Abstract: A device (1) for carrying out continuous electrolytic precipitation processes has a cathodic live cylinder (3) whose top surface is electroconductive over its whole useful width. An anode A is arranged concentrically to and spaced apart from the cathodic live cylinder (3). An electrolyte flows through the space (6) separating the live cylinder (3) from the anode A. Shielding strips (9, 9′) associated to the live cylinder (3) are located between the cathodic surface of the live cylinder (3) and the anode A and electrically shield the marginal regions of the live cylinder (3), thus protecting them from electrolytic coating. The useful region N of the live cylinder (3) for carrying out the electrolytic precipitation processes is located between the shielding strips (9, 9′).

Abstract: The present invention relates to an unthrottled internal combustion engine of segregating, spark ignited, form, i.e. in which the bulk of the fuel does not begin to mix with the bulk of the air until near the end of the compression stroke, shortly before spark ignition. The invention utilizes a second cylinder in communication with the main cylinder, fuel being delivered to vaporize within the second cylinder. Attached to the second cylinder is a cavity containing the spark ignition device, into which cavity is delivered a controlled quantity of fuel which mixes with air entering into the cavity during the compression stroke of the engine to provide a spark plug with substantially stoichiometric fuel/air mixture at the moment of ignition, irrespective of the output of the engine.

Abstract: An exhaust gas purification system for denoxing exhaust gases has a converter containing a substance thermolytically separable into NH3, a feed line connecting the converter with an exhaust gas line for supplying NH3 into the exhaust gas flow therein, a dosing device in the feed line for dosing the NH3 to be introduced into the exhaust gas flow, a heatable cold-start store connected to the feed line between the converter and dosing device for providing the substance during starting of a combustion unit connected to the exhaust gas line, an air feeding device having two air conduits provided with valves wherein one conduit is connected to the feed line between the cold-start store and dosing device and the other conduit is connected to a mixing chamber located in the feed line after the dosing device, and a reservoir container for storing the substance connected to a filling pipe terminating in the converter.

Abstract: A nail instrument includes an elongated handle, a first implement and a second implement. The elongated handle has opposite end portions. Each of the first and second implements have a connecting portion and a working portion. The connecting portion of the first implement is removably mounted to one of the opposite end portions of the elongated handle. The working portion of the first implement is in the form of a conical structure substantially comprised of emery material for providing a filing action. The connecting portion of the second implement is removably mounted to the other of the opposite end portions of the elongated handle. The working portion of the second implement is in the form of a sleeve merging into a flattened blade for providing a prying action and a scraping action.

Abstract: An enhanced flocculation and energy dissipation feedwell assembly includes an influent feedwell and a plurality of feed outlet structures. The influent feedwell is disposed about an influent riser pipe of a clarifier from which a liquid enters the influent feedwell. The influent feedwell has a bottom wall and a continuous side wall. The bottom wall has a plurality of holes therethrough. The feed outlet structures are supported below the influent feedwell such that adjacent ones are directed to achieving opposing jets of liquid flow to enhance flocculation and distribution and dissipate energy and thereby minimize formation of currents. Each feed outlet structure includes a first tubular portion and a plurality of second tubular portions.

Abstract: A coin-operated item vending and game apparatus includes a coin-operated item vending machine and a game module. The vending machine includes a support base, coin deposit, vendable items dispenser, globe and elongated central support member. The game module includes a housing, target and flexible resilient lever. The housing is disposed within the globe. The target is disposed within the housing. The lever is disposed below the target and extends through the housing and globe such that an outer end of the lever is disposed exteriorly of the globe. A depression defined on the lever receives a coin. The outer end of the lever is manually depressed downwardly by the user causing bending of the lever from an initial condition and creating an upward force because of the resiliency of the lever. Release of the lever by the user allows the lever to spring back to its initial condition and toss the coin upwardly such that the coin will either make or miss the target depending on the skill of the user.

Abstract: A portable electric railroad rail drill apparatus includes an elongated main shaft, a support frame, an electric drill, a clamp, a handle and a support leg. The support frame is reciprocally mounted to the main shaft for movement therealong between first and second ends of the main shaft. The electric drill is fixedly mounted to the support frame and reciprocally movable therewith along the main shaft. The clamp is mounted at a location adjacent to the first end of the main shaft for mounting the main shaft to a railroad track rail such that the electric drill is disposed adjacent to the rail and movable along the main shaft toward and away from the rail and is operable for drilling a hole through the rail concurrently with movement toward the rail.

Abstract: A racket for a ball to be hit and guided at the ground includes a frame of an oval shape and surrounding a central opening through the frame. The frame has opposite arcuate-shaped top and bottom portions being oppositely curved away from another and opposite arcuate-shaped lateral end portions extending between the top and bottom portions and being oppositely curved away from one another so as to provide the frame with the oval shape. The racket also includes a striking face mounted to the frame and extending across the central opening thereof and an elongated shaft joined with the frame at one of the arcuate-shaped lateral end portions thereof and extending from the frame in a generally tangential relationship to the frame. The striking face has a pair of opposite sides.

Abstract: A polygonal illumination reflector includes a support base and a configuration of discrete reflector elements supported by the support base. The reflector elements have respective pairs of opposite side edges and respective interior reflective surfaces. The reflector elements adjoin one another in providing the configuration. The support base has a plurality of adjacent side portions and a plurality of retaining pockets defined between and interconnecting the adjacent side portions to one another. The adjacent side portions of the support base correspond in number to the reflector elements. The retaining pockets are arranged in pairs wherein the retaining pockets of each pair are open in a facing relationship toward one another so as to receive therein and set in engagement therewith the opposite side edges of the reflector elements in a first sequence in the configuration.

Abstract: A medication for treatment of disease caused by virus, and particularly retrovirus, and a method of production of the medication are based on use of the active agents, polycyclic diones (hypericin, pseudohypericin and/or salts thereof), of the plant Hypericum (St. John's Wort) with other components occurring in the plant wherein the concentration of polycyclic diones is between 0.05% and 50% whereby a therapeutic antiretroviral effect is attained while undesirable side effects are largely avoided.

Abstract: A multiple hair setting roller heating and facial steaming apparatus includes a housing, an enclosure, a heating module, a heating element, at least one outlet and a hood. The housing defines a receptacle for receiving and holding a quantity of a desired liquid and defines a platform. The enclosure has an open bottom and defines an interior chamber. The enclosure is mounted to and extends downwardly from the platform of the housing and into the receptacle of the housing below the surface of the quantity of liquid in the receptacle such that air is captured in the interior chamber of the enclosure. The heating module is mounted to the platform of the housing and extends downwardly therefrom within the interior chamber of the enclosure. The heating module has a passage and an inlet extending below the open bottom of the enclosure so as to provide direct flow communication of liquid from the receptacle of the housing to the passage of the heating module bypassing the interior chamber of the enclosure.

Abstract: A light reflective hat includes a crown contoured for covering a part of a user's head when the hat is worn and having a rear side with an interior edge of a substantially inverted U-shaped configuration defining a gap allowing the crown to be expanded and contracted, a rear light reflective strip attached to and extending along the interior edge of the rear side of the crown in a substantially inverted U-shaped configuration about the gap, a visor attached at a rear peripheral edge to a lower edge of and along a front side of the crown such that the visor extends outwardly from the front side of the crown, and a front reflective strip attached to and extending along the front peripheral edge of the visor.

Abstract: A bib assembly includes a first body comprised of a substantially flexible sheet-like material in a substantially unfolded condition, a twist tie member connected to an upper edge portion of the first body for removably securing the first body to a neck of a user such that the first body covers a front portion of the user, a second body including a folded flexible sheet of material separate from the first body and adapted to be unfolded for use in wiping debris from hands and around the mouth of the user, and a cuff along a lower edge of the first body for removably receiving and securing the second body to the first body. The second body further includes a rupturable package containing the folded sheet of material of the second body in an interior chamber of the package.

Abstract: A hockey puck includes three separate generally pie-shaped inner core segments, a pair of protuberances on each of a pair of opposite sides of each inner core segment, and an outer enclosure generally cylindrical in configuration and defining three pie-shaped compartments that respectively surround and separately contain the inner core segments in spaced relations from one another. The outer enclosure has pairs of apertures in each of a pair of opposite faces thereof such that the pairs of protuberances on opposite sides of the inner core segments protrude through the pairs of apertures in opposite directions and substantially the same distance outwardly from the opposite faces of the outer enclosure so as to define glider elements protruding from the opposite faces of the outer enclosure for slidably engaging a hockey playing surface and supporting the outer enclosure and inner core segments in a spaced relationship above the hockey playing surface.

Abstract: A lighting device convertible between reading light and pen light configurations uses only a single off/on light actuating switch in either configuration. The lighting device includes a main body, pivoting arm, hinge, light generating element, batteries and switch member and button. The main body has opposite front and rear ends and defines a recess at the front end. The pivoting arm has opposite front and rear ends. The hinge pivotally mounts the rear end of the pivoting arm to the rear end of the main body to allow pivotal movement of the pivoting arm between an erect position angularly spaced from the main body, the reading light configuration, and a lowered position adjacent to the main body, the pen light configuration.

Abstract: A portable tennis scorekeeper device includes a portable body attachable to an article of apparel or insertable within a pocket of an article of apparel worn by a tennis player and a scoreboard applied to a side of the portable body. The scoreboard includes a middle region and a pair of opposite side regions. The middle region includes a first portion having a plurality of numbers and letters associated with points scored in a game of a tennis match, a pair of tracks extending along opposite sides of the first portion, second and third portions each disposed on a side of one of the tracks opposite from the first portion and having a plurality of numbers associated with points scored in a tiebreaker of the tennis match, and a pair of markers each mounted to and for undergoing movement along one of the tracks and alignable with the numbers and letters of the first, second and third portions.

Abstract: An independent suspension system for a vehicle includes a pair of wheel-supporting axle beams extending in oblique relationships to longitudinally-extending opposite sides of the vehicle chassis which permit independent vertical pivotal movements of the axle beams that allow extended ranges of vertical travel of the vehicle wheels supported on one ends of the axle beams, a pair of radius arms pivotally connected at opposite ends to the chassis sides and to the one ends of the axle beams adjacent to their connections to the wheels so as to control fore and aft movement of the axle beams during their vertical pivotal movements and to maintain the wheels close to true vertical alignment with a vertical reference over their extended range of vertical travel, a pair of torque links pivotally interconnected at opposite ends to the chassis sides and other ends of the axle beams to counteract rotational forces introduced to the axle beams by the acceleration and braking of the vehicle, and a pair of air bags disposed

Abstract: What is disclosed herein is a seating and kneeling appliance which is adaptable to and is useful for providing comfort and support to a person who is cleaning a bathtub or assisting another person in the bathtub. The device is fabricated from essentially from plastic and is foldable. In use, the device rests on the outside wall of the bathtub and on the floor to provide support for an individual that is using the device.