Abstract: A novel snack food item container for stacking and transporting same is disclosed. The snack food items are uniformly sized and shaped, and have one or more openings thereon. The container has a tubular member, having one opening, and a snack food item holder having a base member and a pole member. The pole member is inserted to the opening of the snack food items, and the snack food items are stacked and aligned along the pole member. Then, the snack food items on the snack food item holder are inserted into the tubular member from the opening to enclose the items. The base member of the snack food item holder and the opening of the tubular member engage to enclose and seal the snack food items therein.

Abstract: The invention relates to an acquisition path for acquiring a voltage pulse, and to a system and a method making use of said path, the path comprises:a path input for a pulse signal;a module for determining the polarity and for limiting acquisition of the input signal;a control module for controlling acquisition and for storing the polarized peak value of the input signal;a detect-and-hold module for detecting the polarized peak value of the signal being acquired, and for holding it; andselection means for selecting the rating of the signal being acquired;according to the invention the selection module for selecting the rating of the signal being acquired comprises a plurality of measurement ranges all of which are connected at their upstream ends to the path input, and all of which are connected at their downstream ends to automatic selection means for automatically selecting the optimum measurement range for the signal being acquired.

Abstract: Installation for producing steel by melting scrap comprising an electric furnace (2') supplied with individual batches of scrap sequentially charged into the furnace after preheating in a preheating chamber (4) forming a batch container open at both ends and having a releasable bottom. The preheating chamber is mounted on a transporting device for movement between a first, preheating position, in which it is connected to a hot gas circulating circuit, and a second position in which it empties the batch of preheated scrap into the furnace. The lower portion of the side wall of the preheating chamber (4) forms a skirt (43) with a wide downwardly directed opening, and the chamber (4) is combined, in the preheating position, with a movable device (54) for sealably engaging the lower end (42) of the skirt (43) with a matching stationary base plate (3), whereby the skirt is sealed in the preheating position.

Abstract: Pleasure boat with a sail or motor comprising a hull and a deck separated by an interface, remarkable insofar along the outlying perimeter of the interface on the hull and/or on the deck, it has one or more shaped indentations which, when the hull and the deck are brought together and assembled, are capable of defining a frame to receive elements forming a subframe and arranged so as to form portholes.

Abstract: A device for hoisting the sail of a sailing boat has a track mounted on a support extending transversely across the deck of a boat. A sliding mechanism engages with the track and is slidable to and fro the length of the track. A clew of the sail is fixed to the slide allowing the sail to be orientated without a need for a boom. The height of the track is adjustable for adjusting the belly and twist of the sail.

Abstract: A mast for a sailboat includes at least two mast components having a lower end attached to the boat on opposite sides of a longitudinal median plane of the boat. Upper ends of the mast components are connected to each other. Each of the mast components has an aerodynamically profiled cross-section and is angularly movable around its longitudinal axis as a function of wind direction in order to obtain the best aerodynamic or aerologic output of a sail set and rigging assembly. The mast components are coupled to a system which provides independent angular slewing of the mast components with respect to one another and the wind. The system includes a coupling bar which is hingedly attached via connecting rods to the mast components. The coupling bar is mounted on the deck of the boat and is capable of guided translational movement when fitted with control means.

Abstract: The invention relates to a novel thermoplastic monoorganopolysiloxane resin comprising units of the formula RSiO.sub.1.5 and R.sub.1 R.sub.2 R.sub.3 SiO.sub.0.5 wherein R,R.sub.1,R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 are hydrogen, or organic groups which may be the same or different, at least 85% of the R groups in the RSiO.sub.1.5 being organic groups, and at least two of the groups R.sub.1, R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 in each R.sub.1 R.sub.2 R.sub.3 SiO.sub.0.5 unit being organic groups, and in which the ratio RSiO.sub.1.5 units to R.sub.1 R.sub.2 R.sub.3 SiO.sub.0.5 units is from 1:0.005 to 1:0.03 on a molar basis. Such resins are useful as electrical insulation material and as hold out agents for heat recoverable materials.

Abstract: The invention relates to a novel process for the production of a thermoplastic, high softening point polysiloxane resin which comprises reacting a solvent-soluble partially condensed organosiloxane with a silane capping agent. The resins so produced are useful as electrical insulator material and also as hold out agents for heat recoverable articles.

Abstract: A cationic resin which is thermally settable or thermally hardenable, for use in improving the moisture resistance of cellulosic fibrous materials such as paper, is produced by reacting at least one dicarboxylic acid with a mixture of at least one polyamine and at least one dialkanolamine to produce a polyamide-polyester copolymer soluble in water and subsequently condensed with epichlorohydrin.

Abstract: A process for preparing liquid treating agents, stable under storage, especially for improving the wrinkle-free characteristics of cellulosic textiles treated with the liquid in which urea is condensed with formaldehyde in an aqueous solution in the presence of glyoxylic acid. This condensation is carried out in a first step using an acid pH between 2 and 5 with a molar ratio of urea/formaldehyde/glyoxylic acid of 1 : 2 to 10 : 0.03 to 0.6 and at a temperature between 20.degree. and 100.degree. C. In a second stage the reaction is carried out at a slightly acidic pH between 6 and 7 at a temperature between 20.degree. and 60.degree. C with addition of a fresh quantity of urea and eventually a fresh quantity of formaldehyde in an aqueous solution so as to obtain an overall molar ratio of urea/formaldehyde/glyoxylic acid of 1 : 1.5 to 3.5 : 0.03 to 0.6.

Abstract: A latex composition sensitive to heat, particularly for use as a binder for nonwoven fabrics, comprises 0.05 to 5 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of a latex (as the dry solids) of a urethane-oxyalkylene copolymer having the formula ##STR1## IN WHICH R represents an aliphatic group and/or an aromatic group which can contain a biuret group, a urethane group or isocyanate groups, R' is hydrogen or a lower alkyl radical having 1 to 8 carbon atoms (straight or branch chain), an aryl radical or an alkylaryl radical, x is 0 or 1, y is always greater than 2 and x+y is also always greater than 2; n has a value ranging between 2 and 4 inclusive while p has a value at least equal to 5.