Abstract: An improved cold plate structure including a plurality of like horizontally disposed, elongate, sinuously formed liquid-conducting heat transfer tubing units of stainless steel tubing having laterally spaced elongate runner portions and recurvate end portions extending between related ends of adjacent runner portions; said units are arranged in vertical stacked relationship with each other; a plurality of tie bars tightly binding the units in stacked relationship with each other with their adjacent runner and end portions in tight substantially uniform heat-conducting contact with each other and having elongate horizontal upper and lower spacer portions extending transverse the stacked units in pressure bearing engagement therewith; a body of aluminum cast about the units and tie bars and defining a flat horizontal top icing surface that is tangential with upper edges of the upper spacer portions of the tie bars and a lower surface that is tangential with lower edges of the lower spacer portions of the tie ba

Abstract: A multi-fluid flow control device comprising an elongate horizontal body with front and rear ends, a fluid-conducting chamber in the rear end portion of the body, fluid inlet and outlet openings communicating with the chamber, an elongate bore in the body between the chamber and the front end thereof, and, water inlet and outlet ports communicating with the bore; an elongate valve part with front and rear ends and a transverse water transfer passage with laterally opening upstream and downstream ends and slidably engaged in the bore and shiftable longitudinally therein from a rear position where the upstream and downstream ends of the passage register with the inlet and outlet ports to direct water entering the inlet port out through the outlet port and a forward position where said ends of the passage are out of register with said ports and water entering the inlet port is directed rearwardly through the bore in and into the chamber; a central opening in the valve part between the front end thereof and the p

Abstract: A hydrocarbon (hydrogen)/air aerogel catalyzed carbon electrode fuel cell system comprising an acid electrolyte filled; steam hydrocarbon catalytic reformer with a heater and operating to receive and reduce hydrocarbons and water into a reformed gas of hydrogen and carbon dioxide gases; a centrifugal gas-separator device receiving reformed gas from the reformer and operating to separate the hydrogen and carbon dioxide gases of the reformed gas and delivering them separately; a fuel cell comprising a micro porous catalyzed-carbon aerogel anode electrode fed with hydrogen gas delivered by the gas separator, a micro porous catalyzed-carbon aerogel cathode electrode fed with oxygen from ambient air, and, a micro porous cation-filled silica hydrogel electrolyte separator between the anode and cathode electrodes; a hydrocarbon fuel supply delivering hydrocarbon fuel to the reformer; a combustion fuel supply selectively delivering hydrocarbon and hydrogen gas to the heater; and, a water supply receiving water produc

Abstract: In combination; a yet to fully open and bloom flower pistil or bud; and, an elongate strip of thin flexible and resilient sheet material having a surface with a fortune applied thereto; said strip is yieldingly, spirally rolled into an elongate cylindrical form and is positioned within the corolla of the bud in substantial axial alignment with the central longitudinal axis of the bud and within the central assembly of petals to be releasably contained thereby; said petals progressively release and allow the strip to unroll and emerge from within the bud as the bud opens toward full bloom.

Abstract: An electrochemical fuel cell system comprising a fuel supply; an oxidant supply; a refrigerant supply; a fuel cell including a catalytic ceramic perovskite superconductor anode aerogel electrode fed with fuel from said fuel supply, a catalytic ceramic perovskite superconductor aerogel cathode electrode fed with oxidant from said oxidant supply, an electrolyte laded separator between the anode and cathode; and, an external circuit connected with and between the anode and cathode electrodes.

Abstract: An improved apparatus and method for analyzing oil well production fluid that includes a flow pipe through which production fluid normally flows, a test pipe defining an elongate vertical test chamber, valves to selectively intermittently bypass fluid flowing through the flow pipe into the test pipe to fill the chamber with a sample of production fluid. The apparatus includes devices to measure and record the rate of flow of the production fluid flowing through the flow pipe and to measure and record the temperature, pressure, weight and the capacitance of the sample in the chamber for comparative use with earlier recorded base measurements to calculate and record the net volumes of the oil, gas and water fractions in the production fluid.

Abstract: A drain fitting for inflatable structures having thin flexible exterior walls defining fluid-containing interior spaces; the filling includes an elongate drain tube with an outer downstream end and an inner upstream end, a coupling port at the outer end of the tube; a closure part releasably engaged with the coupling part; an elongate fluid-conducting support with an outer downstream end and an inner upstream end, a control flow passage and radial openings; a mounting part between and connecting the inner end of the tube and outer end of the support in fluid-conducting relationship, the fitting is to be related to an inflatable structure with its mounting part affixed to a wall thereof, its tube at the exterior thereof and its support in the interior thereof to maintain adjacent portions of walls of the structure spaced apart.

Abstract: A hydrogen hydride battery including a stack of like cells. Each cell includes novel positive cathode and negative anode electrodes. The negative anode electrodes include micro-porous carbon aerogel structures of randomly disposed interengaged carbon fibers in three-dimensional reticulate form and a hydrogen-absorbing metal alloy structure throughout and conforming generally to and carried by the micro-porous carbon aerogel. The positive cathode electrodes include micro-porous carbon aerogel structures of randomly disposed interengaged carbon fibers in three-dimensional reticulate form that are impregnated with nickelous hydroxide throughout and conforming generally to and carried by the micro-porous carbon aerogel. Central electrolyte separators established of a suitable porous dielectric material, is positioned between positive and negative electrodes.

Abstract: A noncarbonated beverage dispensing machine in combination with pressurized water and syrup supplies; the machine includes a beverage tank from which beverage is dispensed, a mixing head including normally closed electrically operated water and syrup valves connected with the water and syrup supplies and operable to conduct metered volumes of water and syrup into the beverage tank and a liquid level switching device in the beverage tank operating to simultaneously cause the valves to open when the liquid in the tank is at a predetermined low level and to cause the valves to close when the liquid level in the tank is at a predetermined high level. The water supply delivers a constant supply of water at a desired pressure to the water valve.

Abstract: A soft-sided waterbed frame structure comprising a flat horizontal, rectilinear flotation mattress-supporting platform with a top surface and elongate side and end edge portions; elongate anchor plates fixed to said edge portions; elongate wall sections of soft resilient material overlying said edge portions and projecting upwardly therefrom; elongate interengageable male and female coupling parts on the anchor plates and the wall sections and slidably engageable with each other to releasably secure the wall sections to the platform; the platform and wall sections define upwardly opening frame structure to receive and support the bottom and sides of a soft resilient slack-filled water flotation mattress structure.

Abstract: A door frame shield to extend about and longitudinally of the inside surfaces and the front and rear edges of a jamb and door stop and outwardly about the front and rear casings of a related door frame structure. The shield includes elongate front and rear inside sections of extruded plastic to engage about and extend longitudinally of the jamb and door stop; and, elongate retainer parts of extruded plastic to engage about and extend longitudinally of the front and rear casings of a related door frame structure. The front and rear inside sections and the front and rear retainer parts are connected together by longitudinally extending fastener devices that allow for the sections and parts to be moved into tight substantially conforming engagement with and about the jamb, door stop and casings with which the shield is related.