Abstract: This disclosure relates to a bracket for elevating and lowering an outboard motor relative to the transom of an associated boat including two pair of relatively telescopic tubular elements each connected to a pair of mounting members adapted to be secured to a boat transom and an outboard motor, respectively, an outermost one of the pair of the tubular elements having an elongated slot in each and a guiding element disposed in each slot and connected between an associated one of the innermost elements and one of the outboard motor mounting members for guiding the relative telescopic motion between the two pair of elements.

Abstract: Wet pellets of carbon black are dried to produce dry pellets by means of a two-step process. In the first step a bed of wet pellets is fluidized by means of a heated gas and the pellets are thus partially dried. In the second step the partially dried pellets from the first step are subjected to additional drying while in a nonfluidized state, e.g. pellets from the fluidized bed are heated and subjected to a mild, mechanically produced tumbling action during the second step.