Abstract: The technical area of the present invention relates to an anti-tank weapon comprising a finned projectile of the arrow type and a launching shoe.The projectile of the invention comprises a shoe 2 the rear portion of which has fins 10 provided with pins 11 which rest against the compression cone 7 of the tube of the weapon. These fins make it possible to obtain practically constant compressive pressure and assure a proper guidance of the projectile during the barrel phase.Application to the field of armaments.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an insecticide composition for use in the form of a shampoo, which comprises a wetting agent and 1 to 25% by volume of at least one organic acid having 2 to 8 carbon atoms such that the pH of the composition is less than 4.5.

Abstract: A compound having gastric acid secretion reducing activity and having the formula ##STR1## wherein each V and W, independently, is H, --CH.sub.2 COOR.sup.4 where R.sup.4 is H or lower alkyl, --CH.sub.2 CN, or ##STR2## or V and W together represent .dbd.CHCOOR.sup.4 or .dbd.CHCN; A is ##STR3## R.sup.1 is H or CH.sub.3 ; L is CH.sub.2 S; Q is O or CH.sub.2 S; n is 0 or 1; 2 m 4; each R.sup.2 and R.sup.3, independently, is hydrogen, lower alkyl, lower cycloalkyl, or lower aralkyl; or R.sup.2 and R.sup.3, together with the nitrogen atom to which they are attached, form a 4, 5, or 6 membered heterocyclic ring containing 0, 1, or 2 oxygen atoms and 1, 2, or 3 nitrogen atoms and being unsubstituted or lower alkyl substituted; and Ar is a single ring aromatic group selected from aryl, substituted aryl, fused aryl, or heteroaryl; or the pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.

Abstract: Method and installation for depositing materials on an ocean bed in accordance with a given line in which the autonomous vehicle is displaced on the ocean bed by accurately following said line, whereby the vehicle is provided with a hopper, a ship is moved on the surface of the ocean roughly in accordance with said line, the materials are discharged from this ship towards the hopper and are guided by means of a pipe suspended beneath the ship and whose lower end is not integral with the hopper, wherein the propulsion means of the pipe disposed at the lower end thereof are operated so that the lower end of the pipe is forced to remain above the hopper.

Abstract: A submarine vehicle for collecting and raising materials resting on the sea bed at great depths, of the type comprising a load-bearing structure, collecting elements for the materials, storage silos for storing the materials collected and/or the ballast material, transfer means between said collecting elements and said silos, and main propellers for advancing the vehicle on the sea bed, said vehicle being characterized in that said load-bearing structure is made of a buoyancy material, said structure being in the form of a ring having a longitudinal plane of symmetry and defining the stem, stern and sides of said vehicle, and defining between them a free central space, the outer surface of said structure forming the hull of said vehicle, said storage silos being arranged in the free central space and fixed to said load-bearing structure, said collecting elements being arranged in front of and below said stem, said main propellers also being fixed to the lower surface of said load-bearing structure.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a new kinetic-energy projectile. The projectile of the invention comprises a piercing head consisting of:a head penetrating meansa main penetrating meansand a spacing means located between the head penetrating means and the main penetrating means.The projectile of the invention is used to pierce light, heavy and strongly sloping armor.

Abstract: Method and installation for depositing materials on an ocean bed in accordance with a given line in which the autonomous vehicle is displaced on the ocean bed by accurately following said line whereby the vehicle is provided with a hopper, a ship is moved on the surface of the ocean roughly in accordance with said line, the materials are discharged from this ship towards the hopper and are guided by means of a pipe suspended beneath the ship and whose lower end is not integral with the hopper, wherein the propulsion means of the pipe disposed at the lower end thereof are operated so that the lower end of the pipe is forced to remain above the hopper.

Abstract: A flooring unit for hog barns and the like is disclosed. The unit is a one-piece structural foam moulding having a tread surface formed with longitudinal rows of slots for permitting animal droppings and the like to pass through the unit. The unit is reinforced at its underside by a plurality of longitudinal and transverse reinforcing webs.

Abstract: The invention relates to a polishing material of the type containing powdered cerium oxide suspended in water.According to the invention, this polishing material also contains, in combination, a substance for use as a thickener and a substance for reducing the surface tension.The polishing material is particularly useful for polishing ophthalmic lenses made from organic materials.

Abstract: Method and machine for manufacturing grids from lead-based metal for use in storage batteries of the type wherein a casting is first performed of grid blanks the periphery of which is irregular and the size greater than that of the grid to be obtained, these blanks being thereafter cut out in an automatic press. In view to increase the rate of output of the press and to improve the quality of the grids, the press is supplied sequentially from a continuous grid-blank feeding conveyor and at least one final lateral centering of the grid blank is performed in the press by the combined action of two pusher members tapping on each side of the grid blank in a transverse direction passing substantially from the center of mass of the grid blank.