Abstract: The present invention relates to novel compounds that cross the blood-brain barrier and are effective inhibitors of neurological pathogens such as trypanosomes. The invention further relates to the use of these compounds for treating disorders related to trypanosomes and neurological pathogens.

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel compounds that cross the blood-brain barrier and are effective inhibitors of neurological pathogens such as trypanosomes. The invention further relates to the use of these compounds for treating disorders related to trypanosomes and neurological pathogens.

Abstract: A system for semiconductor wafer marking is provided. The system includes: (a) a first positioning subsystem for positioning a laser marking field relative to a wafer, the positioning along a first direction; (b) an alignment vision subsystem; (c) a laser marker including a laser for marking a location within the marking field with a laser marking beam; (d) a calibration program for calibrating at least one subsystem of the system; and (e) a controller. The marking field is substantially smaller than the wafer, and the laser marker includes a scan lens for optically maintaining a spot formed by the beam on the wafer within an acceptable range about the location within the marking field so as to avoid undesirable mark variations associated with wafer sag or other variations in depth within the field.

Abstract: A system for removing volatile coatings from scrap aluminum, such as expended beverage cans, includes a kiln, a fan for generating an airstream, an afterburner for heating the airstream, and ducting for confining the airstream in a closed loop so that it circulates through the afterburner, the kiln and back to the fan in that order. The ducting includes a bypass duct into which a portion of the airstream is diverted at a diverter value, before being heated by the afterburner. This portion reenters the heated portion of the airstream downstream from the afterburner and serves to modulate the temperature of the airstream entering the kiln. Indeed, the diverter valve responds to a temperature sensor where the airstream enters the kiln and maintains the temperature at that location constant. That temperature is hot enough to volatilize coatings on the aluminum, yet not hot enough to melt the aluminum.

Abstract: Both aluminum scrap covered with a volatile coating and a heated airstream having a low oxygen content pass through a kiln where the airstream causes the coating to volatilize. The temperature of the airstream, where it enters the kiln, is maintained essentially constant, slightly below the melting temperature of the aluminum, and likewise the temperature of the airstream is maintained essentially constant where the airstream leaves the kiln, this being achieved by varying the mass flow of the airstream to compensate for variances in the nature and mass of the aluminum scrap within the kiln. Beyond the kiln the airstream enters an afterburner where it is heated in the presence of sufficient oxygen to effect combustion of the volatile components of the coating. The airstream then passes through a heat exchanger and back to the kiln. The mass flow within the kiln is controlled by diverting some of the airstream from the heat exchanger or by varying the speed of the fan which creates the airstream.

Abstract: Both aluminum scrap covered with a volatile coating and a heated airstream having a low oxygen content pass through a kiln where the airstream causes the coating to volatilize. The temperature of the airstream, where it enters the kiln, is maintained essentially constant, slightly below the melting temperature of the aluminum, and likewise the temperature of the airstream is maintained essentially constant where the airstream leaves the kiln, this being achieved by varying the mass flow of the airstream to compensate for variances in the nature and mass of the aluminum scrap within the kiln. Beyond the kiln the airstream enters an afterburner where it is heated in the presence of sufficient oxygen to effect combustion of the volatile components of the coating. The airstream then passes through a heat exchanger and back to the kiln. The mass flow within the kiln is controlled by diverting some of the airstream upstream from the heat exchanger or by varying the speed of the fan which creates the airstream.

Abstract: A furnace maintains metal in a molten condition as a melt, and part of the melt is exposed in a charging well where lightweight solid scrap is introduced into the furnance. A vortex generator imparts a vortex to the melt within the well, so that lightweight solid scrap is quickly submerged in the well. The vortex generator includes an impeller which rotates within the well and actually creates the vortex. In addition, it has an elevator from which the impeller is suspended as well as a drive motor for turning the impeller, with the motor being on the elevator. An elevator frame serves to guide the elevator and the elevator frame is in turn connected to a trolley which runs along a track that passes over the charging well, but also extends well beyond it.

Abstract: A removable roof for a furnace in which metal is melted has a framework composed of a series of horizontal beams arranged in several layers, with the beams of the lowest layer being parallel to each other and being held in fixed and determined relation with respect to each other by the beams of the next layer. Anchors are attached to the beams of the lowest level, and a cast refractory fills the spaces between and around the anchors so that the refractory forms the downwardly presented face of the roof--the face which is exposed to the interior of the containment vessel. To construct the roof, the framework is fabricated and placed over a horizontal surface, whereupon the anchors are attached and a moldable refractory mix is introduced with the spaces between the anchors. The mix sets up into the refractory.

Abstract: A furnace maintains metal in a molten condition as a melt, and part of the melt is exposed in a charging well where lightweight solid scrap is introduced into the furnance. A vortex generator imparts a vortex to the melt within the well, so that lightweight solid scrap is quickly submerged in the well. The vortex generator includes an impeller which rotates within the well and actually creates the vortex. In addition, it has an elevator from which the impeller is suspended as well as a drive motor for turning the impeller, with the motor being on the elevator. An elevator frame serves to guide the elevator and the elevator frame is in turn connected to a trolley which runs along a track that passes over the charging well, but also extends well beyond it.

Abstract: A furnace for providing a source of molten aluminum or other metal includes a main chamber and a sweat chamber, the floor of which constitutes a sweat hearth on which ingots or sows are placed. A division wall separates the sweat chamber from the main chamber, and this wall contains ports located at the level of sweat hearth for providing communication between the two chambers. Each chamber, moreover, contains its own set of burners and has a discharge stack leading away from it. Each stack in turn has a refractory damper in it. The burners within the main chamber maintain the bath in a molten condition, and when these burners are in operation, the damper in the stack leading from the main chamber is closed, while the damper in the stack leading from the sweat chamber is open. Thus, the hot gases flow through the ports in the division wall and thence through the sweat chamber to the stack leading from that chamber. The hot gases preheat the sows.