Abstract: A method and an apparatus is described for preparing a crunchy food topping of random sized pieces or granules of cooked dough in which the dough is mixed, subdivided to random sized pieces or granules, baked, allowed to cool, sized and packed. The granules can then be applied to a food product, e.g., a dessert such as pie, cake, pudding, etc., by hand. The random sized pieces or granules are prepared within a dough-containing trough or hopper having a rotating cutting or comminuting device, e.g., wires near its bottom end. These wires are supported upon spokes which are mounted rigidly upon a rotating drive axle near the bottom of the hopper. The hopper has an outlet at the bottom through which the granules exit to a conveyor used for transporting them to a baking oven.

Abstract: Chopped food such as ground beef or ground pork or sauce is cooked and maintained at an elevated temperature. An agitator is provided to stir up and dispense solid food pieces uniformly in the liquid phase. A pump connected to the agitator expells the uniform dispersion at a constant rate to a vibrating tray feeder. The feeder advances the food product as a fluid sheet which is allowed to fall from the edge of the feeder as a uniform continuously descending curtain onto the food base. Material that falls beyond the edges of the food base is recycled.

Abstract: Means are provided in a photographic film pack for urging the superposed sheet elements of a diffusion transfer film unit together during the withdrawal of said film unit from its container. Said means are useful for eliminating white specks in the resultant positive transfer print.

Abstract: A process is disclosed for baking products within a package while insuring sterility therein and preventing damage to the product during the cooling step.

Abstract: A dough package is described that comprises a fiber can containing dough in which the can wall is composed of a body layer of kraft paper having a helically disposed butt joint defined by its mating side edges to which is releasably bonded a relatively thin lightweight label. The label is releasably bonded to the underlying kraft paper by means of a peelable adhesive layer which functions in one of two ways. In the first, the adhesive functions as a releasable layer interposed between the body layer and the unexposed surface of the label. This layer is released from the label and remains in place when the label is peeled back. In the second method the peelable adhesive layer ruptures or splits as the label is lifted although a small fraction e.g. 10% of the surface kraft fibers may be pulled out when the label is removed. The term "peelable adhesive" herein refers both to adhesives that split and those that separate from the label when the label is lifted.

Abstract: A continuous process is described for forming simulated nut-like food products by providing a mixing vessel or a plurality of vessels which include mixing zone portions distributed along the flow path of the material being prepared with one or more fluid inlets between the portions of the mixer. An edible hydratable film former and a fat in liquid form are introduced and mixed continuously in one portion of the mixer. Water is introduced continuously through the inlet at a point intermediate the ends of the mixer and the mixture thus formed is continuously agitated to produce an aqueous dispersion in which the film forming substance is hydrated by the added water to form a stable dispersion which is then molded or otherwise formed and dried to a moisture content of 10% or less.

Abstract: The present invention relates to photography and, more particularly, to a novel spectrally (optically) sensitized radiation recording photographic element which comprises a cyanine dye of the formula: ##STR1## wherein L represents a methine group; m represents a positive integer of from 1 to 3, inclusive; Z and Z.sub.1 each represents the nonmetallic atoms necessary to complete a cyanine dye heterocyclic ring system containing a 5 or 6 membered heterocyclic nucleus; R and R.sub.1 each represents a divalent acyclic or cyclic group; X.sup.+ represents a quaternary ammonium, sulfonium or phosphonium group; Y.sup.- represents a --SO.sub.3.sup.- or --COO.sup.- group; and W.sup.- represents an anion.

Abstract: Coating a solution comprising a hydrophilic colloid and ammonia over a receiving layer comprising polyvinylpyridine in an image-receiving element of a photographic film unit significantly reduces haze and facilitates the separation of the image-receiving element from the remainder of the film unit subsequent to diffusion transfer processing.

Abstract: Colloidally stable dispersions of a spectral sensitizing dye are formed directly in water without the use of an organic solvent. The process of the invention involves mixing the dye particles with water to form a slurry and then homogenizing or milling the slurry at an elevated temperature in the presence of a surfactant to form finely divided particles uniformly dispersed in the water.

Abstract: Novel compounds are disclosed which release a photographic reagent in the presence of alkali and are therefore useful in photographic products and processes. The compounds may be defined as quinone- or naphthoquinonemethide precursors containing a mercapto-azole or azine photographic reagent moiety.

Abstract: Illumination from a photoflash lamp is limited to radiation useful for photographic exposure by providing the photoflash lamp with an infrared absorbing filter possessing photographically desirable transmission properties in the visible region of the spectrum.

Abstract: Novel bis type heterocyclic quaternary salts are provided which are useful in the preparation of various linked cyanine dyes and related compounds.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION1. Field of the InventionThis invention relates to chemistry and, more particularly, to novel double or "bis-type" quaternary salts of heterocyclic bases and processes useful in the synthesis of various linked cyanine dyes and related compounds.2. Description of the Prior ArtMost of the reactions leading to cyanine dyes and those compounds related to them are of the condensation type wherein two active dye intermediates react under suitable conditions with the elimination of some simple molecule, such as mineral acid, mercaptan, alcohol, water, aniline or acetanilide.

Abstract: Spectral sensitivity is imparted to a photosensitive material by novel linked sensitizing dye compounds having an alkylene-amide linking moiety.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method for processing wheat in an aqueous medium to separate the endosperm from the husk wherein the starch granules of the endosperm are maintained in an intact, ungelatinized form and the gluten protein of the endosperm is maintained in a dispersible and substantially undenatured state. The aqueous medium is innoculated with a harmless micro-organism which selectively grows in each of the processing steps and thereby excludes the growth of pathogenic organisms in the system. The endosperm obtained from this process can be used as a baking ingredient after concentration or drying or it can be separated into its starch and gluten components.

Abstract: A galvanic cell, particularly a primary battery cell, having as the sole electrolyte a quaternary ammonium salt, particularly tetraalkyl ammonium chloride.

Abstract: The characteristics of the surface of an article may be modified, e.g., in respect to adhesion, wettability or other physical characteristics, by exposing the surface to an electrical discharge in a mixture of certain gases. The practice of this invention is particularly useful in improving the gelatin adherence characteristics of a photographic film base support.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to novel photographic products for use in color diffusion transfer systems wherein at least one of the layers of the film unit contains an amount of a glucoside humectant effective to stabilize the silver halide emulsion(s) thereof against fog during storage.

Abstract: Novel compounds are disclosed which release a silver halide solvent in the presence of alkali, which compounds may be defined as quinone-or naphthoquinone-methide precursors containing the silver halide solvent moiety. These novel compounds are useful in photographic products and processes.

Abstract: Improved green-sensitivity is imparted to a photosensitive silver halide emulsion by a benzimidazolothiacarbocyanine dye of the formula: ##SPC1##Wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are lower alkyl; R.sup.3 is sulfoalkyl or carboxyalkyl each having an alkylene chain of from 1 to 4 carbon atoms inclusive; R.sup.4 is hydrogen, halogen, lower alkyl, lower carbalkoxy, lower alkoxy or acetamido; R.sup.5 is halogen, cyano or carbalkoxy; R.sup.6 is hydrogen or halogen; Y is an anion customary in the cyanine dye art; and n is 0 or 1.