Abstract: Method for the treatment of systemic mycosis of mammals comprises administering (S)-2-amino-5-hydroxy-4-oxopentanoicacid in a therapeutically effective amount to said mammals suffering from mycosis, typically candidosis.

Abstract: Disclosed is a data telecommunications system and method in which at least one modem which, capable of operating at a variety of transmission speeds, selects the proper speed at which to operate. An initiating modem capable of operating at a plurality of operating speeds compares the maximum operating speed of a receiving modem, and if a match is found, operation begins at that operating speed. If no match is found, operation begins at a default transmission speed.

Abstract: A data telecommunications system and method is provided for sending a data stream of characters between two pieces of data terminal equipment (which can be either terminals and/or computers) connected over communication lines. A modem is connected between each piece of data terminal equipment and the communication lines, and at least one of the modems is capable of operating in both a special mode which provides optimized data transmission and a normal mode which provides direct non-optimized data transmission. Upon detection of a special mode indicating character, a modem of the data telecommunication system of the present invention will establish a link under the special mode protocol. In one embodiment, when a second special character is detected by the modem, the modem is caused to operate in a normal mode. In an alternate embodiment, the modem will store characters in a special buffer memory until either the special mode-indicating character is detected or until the buffer fills.

Abstract: A process for the sintering of silicon carbide refractory or ceramic articles using plasma arc gases. In the process of the invention, a formed silicon carbide article is heated in a plasma fired furnace to a sintering temperature of between 2000.degree. C.-2500.degree. C. at a heating rate of 300.degree. C./hr-2000.degree. C./hr, and held at the sintering temperature for 0.1-2 hours. The enthalpy of the plasma gas is 2000 BTU/lb-4000 BTU/lb, when nitrogen is used as the plasma gas. The total cycle time for the process of the invention, including cooling and loading, is 1.5-20 hours. Silicon carbide articles, produced in accordance with the invention, have high strength, high density, high corrosion resistance and high dimensional stability.

Abstract: The invention relates to a conveying device comprising a platform conveyor, which is provided with a plurality of rectangular platforms, each being flexible in one direction, and with two pairs of endless chains, the pairs being connected to the corners at the front and rear side, respectively, of the platforms and being led over pairs of aligned guide sprockets, the chains extending substantially parallel to each other and guiding the platforms in a substantially horizontal position from a load point to an unload point through a transport part and bringing them back through a return part, the transport part including a section having a substantial vertical component.

Abstract: A combined intake-exhaust gasket for internal combustion engines comprising a gasket plate which has at least one metallic intermediate layer arranged between two outer metallic layers and in which at least one exhaust-outlet opening and one intake opening adjacent thereto are provided, each of which is limited by a sealing element. In order to seal the intake opening by means of an elastomeric sealing ring but also protect this ring from the high exhaust temperatures and mechanical wear and tear, the sealing element of the intake opening has a sealing ring which is made of elastomeric material and limits this opening as well as a web-like metallic support member which is secured to the sealing ring, projects outwardly therefrom in radial direction and is inserted loosely between the outer layers of the gasket plate.

Abstract: A power delivery system, which includes an input shaft, an output shaft disposed concentrically with the input shaft, a fluid coupling and a power cut-off device interposed between the input and output shafts, and a case containing the fluid coupling, characterized in that the power cut-off device is located on a radially inner side of the fluid coupling, and an oil pump for supplying oil into the fluid coupling case is positioned within the case adjacent the radially inward periphery of the power cut-off device.

Abstract: A control system for a 4-wheel drive transmission including a main transmission and an auxiliary transmission shiftable by operation of a hydraulic clutch for switching the mode of operation either to 2-wheel drive or 4-wheel drive including a manual changeover valve mechanically connected to a shift lever in a passenger's room of a vehicle for operating the hydraulic clutch according to the mode selected by the shift lever.

Abstract: An apparatus for bending sheet material is provided with a die having at least one longitudinally extending groove and a stamp having at least one linear contact zone for contacting the sheet material to be bent. The die and the stamp are movable towards each other. The die comprises at least one reciprocable die part adapted to define the size and the shape of the groove.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for laying a pneumatic tire around a wheel rim by a mounting unit which is moved along the wheel rim.According to the invention at least one pair of mounting units is moved with equal speeds along the wheel rim in opposite directions through angles, which together form an angle of substantially 360.degree..The invention further relates to an apparatus for laying a pneumatic tire around a wheel rim using the method wherein a mounting unit is movable along the wheel rim.According to the invention at least one pair of mounting units is provided, which are movable with equal speeds in opposite directions along the wheel rim and which together cover an angle of substantially 360.degree..

Abstract: In the masking sound source disclosed herein, easily adjustable but matching acoustic energy spectrums are obtained from different channels by providing, for each channel, a plurality of bandpass filters, each of which is provided with a respective gain-controlled amplifier for selectively adjusting the respective signal level. The bandpass characteristics of each filter are matched to the corresponding filter in each other channel and a common control signal is applied to the respective gain-controlled amplifiers. The filtered and level-adjusted signals for each channel are then summed and applied to respective power amplifiers suitable for energizing loudspeakers. Accordingly, the frequency spectrum applied to all loud speakers will be the same even though the signals applied may be incoherently related within the spectrum.

Abstract: A high pressure reaction vessel has a container portion and a removable head portion which houses a flow channel or channels, valve members and valve operators and which seals and covers the container portion. Each channel terminates at a tapered valve seat angled at at least 36.degree. with respect to the horizontal and each of the valve members is provided with a mating tapered surface which is wedged more tightly within the valve seat as pressure within the vessel increases. A port and a chute are provided for introducing a particulate solid feed through at least one of the channels into the interior of the vessel. In one embodiment a dip tube depends from a second valve seat (in communication with a second channel) and extends to a point adjacent the bottom of the container portion.

Abstract: Cylinder head for gasket comprising a gasket plate having at least two combustion chamber apertures separated from one another by a web of a gasket plate, also comprising sheet metal combustion chamber edge trims approximately C-shaped in cross section and having flanges extending approximately parallel to the plane of the gasket plate and overlapping the edge regions of the combustion chamber apertures, the flanges of the combustion chamber edge trims overlapping one another in the region of the web, at least on one side of the gasket plate, in order to increase the sealing surface pressure in the web region and so one flange forms a sheet metal shim.

Abstract: An electrically conducting material including a cyanic group-containing substrate material and adsorbed sulfides of copper and an auxiliary metal selected from silver, gold and elements of the platinum group. The cyanic group-containing substrate may be in the form of powder or a shaped body such as a fiber, film, plate, rod or like. Suitable substrates include synthetic polymers such as polyacrylonitrile and polyamides having cyanic groups; naturally occurring polymeric substances such as cotton having introduced thereinto cyanic groups; and low molecular weight compounds such as phthalonitrile. The electrically conducting material may be prepared by treating the cyanic group-containing substrate with (a) a source of monovalent copper ions, (b) a source of ions containing the auxiliary metal and (c) a sulfur-containing compound to form sulfides of copper and the auxiliary metal adsorbed by the cyanic group-containing material.

Abstract: A method for the selective methylation of the hydroxy group at the 6-position of erythromycin A derivatives which comprises reacting a compound represented by the formula R-X (wherein R is a 2-alkenyl group, a benzyl group or a substituted benzyl group, and X is a halogen atom), reacting the resulting quaternary salt compound with a methylating agent, and then eliminating R groups of the resulting compound to give 6-O-methylerythromycin A 9-oxime, is disclosed.

Abstract: An improved liquid fuel combustion apparatus of the type including a cylindrical combustion chamber, an ignition plug, an ignition plug mounting sleeve and a heat exchanger is disclosed. The cylindrical combustion chamber and the heat exchanger constituting essential components of the apparatus are separable. The ignition plug mounting sleeve is firmly mounted within coaxially aligned nipples on the heat exchanger and on the combustion chamber so that its inner wall lined with a layer of wick is exposed to the interior of the cylindrical combustion chamber. Typically, the ignition plug mounting sleeve is secured to the mounting seat by securing a flange on the outer surface of the mounting sleeve to mounting seat associated with the nipple of the heat exchanger by means of bolts with a packing interposed therebetween.

Abstract: A writing training device is disclosed, which comprises a base board with a surface having flexibility to such an extent as to be able to absorb the writing pressure to a certain extent and provided with letters, numerals, drawings, pictures or the like represented by grooves capable of receiving the tip of a pencil or like writing tool.

Abstract: A machine saw comprises a machine frame, a slotted flat plate rotatable about a vertical axis and serving to receive a workpiece to be sawn, a motor-driven circular saw blade which is rotatable about a horizontal axis of rotation and is adapted to be passed upwards through the slot in the rotatable plate from beneath during sawing, a clamping bridge which is fixed in relation to the frame and spans the rotatable plate and a clamping device mounted by the bridge for clamping a workpiece on the rotatable plate. Part of the clamping device is formed by a clamping jaw movable vertically upwards and downwards and adapted to be set down onto the workpiece, this clamping jaw being rotatable about the axis of rotation of the rotatable plate and displaceable at right angles to this axis of rotation in a sliding guide means.

Abstract: In the reticle positioning system disclosed herein, a unitary structure is machined to form both a frame for holding a reticle and a compound linkage permitting lateral and rotational movement of the frame within its own plane under the control of three servo motors generating controllable displacements.

Abstract: The invention relates to a water separator for a gas analyzer with a water separation chamber formed in a housing, a supply and a discharge for the gas to be analyzed being connected with said chamber and a collection reservoir for the separated water being positioned below said water separation chamber. The water separation chamber consists of a conical and annular space having a diameter that decreases towards the collection reservoir and wherein the supply and the discharge debouch in that part of the annular space having substantially the greatest diameter. This results in a very effective separation of the water and the gas. A water lock can be provided between the annular space and the collection reservoir, said water lock limiting the dead space. The water separator can further be improved by cooling at least one wall of the annular space.