Abstract: A cartridge for the inked ribbon of a calculating or other office machine, of the type comprising a platen, a plurality of printing styli disposed in front of the platen at a short distance therefrom, a motive shaft, two fixed stops for transverse positioning of the cartridge with respect to the platen and a longitudinal positioning block. The cartridge comprises a container of substantially parallelepipedal form having a larger side provided with a recess defining two lateral arms. An inked ribbon closed in a loop is disposed inside the container and extends therein between an inking roller and a ribbon tensioning element. The ribbon has a substantially rectilinear portion which emerges from the said lateral arms and spans the recess, parallel to the larger side.

Abstract: A cartridge for housing a supply of ribbon for typewriters or like machines. The cartridge includes an arm extending therefrom to guide the ribbon from the cartridge to the typewriter print point and to reverse the direction of the ribbon for guiding the ribbon back to the cartridge which is supported on a machine rigid frame on one side of the print point. The arm is provided in several embodiments of the invention, with a tab-like extension near its end to be engaged by the typewriter lift mechanism whereby it may be driven by the lift mechanism to carry the ribbon from a point adjacent the print point to the print point as a ribbon vibrator.

Abstract: A cord lock including a body containing a passage within which there is received a locking slide adapted to wedge a pair of cords against opposite side walls of the passage, with the slide having a main locking portion with a pair of toothed faces engageable with the cords respectively, and resiliently flexible feeler arms projecting from the slide and engageable with the cords in both the locked and released positions of the slide to attain a self locking action automatically actuating the slide to its locking position upon predetermined movement of the cords, and retaining the slide in locked position until purposely released therefrom. The side walls of the passage and the body desirably have converging portions laterally opposite and coacting with the main locking portion of the slide, and non-converging portions laterally opposite and coacting with the resilient feeler arms.

Abstract: The invention relates to a safety device in road rollers, which have a guide rod with a guide handle so that they can be guided by an operator walking in front of or behind the road roller, and which are driven by an engine through drive transmission means arranged to be disabled, said safety device comprising a sensor element, which extends substantially along the length of the guide handle and responds to the operator grasping the guide handle, and further comprising servo means controlled by the sensor element and adapted to disable the drive transmission means upon releasing of the guide handle.

Abstract: A pneumatically controlled tamper includes a cylinder which has a lateral supply opening for compressed air and which is integral with a foot. A piston with a symmetrical structure possesses two internal channels provided with check valves. The first channel terminates at one end on the lateral surface of the piston, above its median plane, and at the other end at the bottom of the piston in a lower chamber connected to the atmosphere by an escape opening. The second channel terminates at one end on the lateral surface of the piston, below its median plane, and at the other end at the top of the piston, in an upper chamber connected to the atmosphere through another escape opening. When the piston is on the bottom of the cylinder, the supply opening supplies the first channel, this arrangement making it possible to initiate a reciprocating movement which is maintained without any distribution system. The invention is used preferentially for soil compacting.

Abstract: A self-propelled drilling tender has mounted therewith a drilling rig and a jack-up platform adapted to be mounted on the drilling tender or ship for transportation from one drilling site to another site. Thereafter drilling operations occur with the drilling on the ship thus enabling the ship to operate as a drilling ship or the platform legs can be lowered to jack the platform off the ship to thereby enable the platform to operate independently as a drilling platform. Further, if desired, the rig can be disassembled or lifted from the drilling platform and moved to land operations adjacent or in the vicinity of the drilling platform and ship to thereby enable land drilling operations to occur.

Abstract: Surging of a centrifugal compressor is avoided by ensuring that in operation ##EQU1## WHERE K and k are parameters whose values depend on the characteristics of the compressor, g is the acceleration due to gravity, h.sub.p is the polytropic head produced by the compressor, Vc is the velocity of sound in said inlet gas, and Mn (the Mach Number) is the ratio of the flow velocity V of the gas at the inlet to the compressor to the velocity of sound Vc therein. This is normally effected by arranging that ##EQU2## where .DELTA..sub.p is the differential pressure across a throttling member disposed in an inlet duct of the compressor, P.sub.1 is the compressor inlet pressure, and P.sub.2 is the compressor outlet pressure.

Abstract: A fluid flow accelerator structure which is substantially the shape of an interior section of a hollow toroid of general arbitrary cross-section in both vertical and horizontal planes, meaning that in both a vertical and horizontal plane a cross-section may be non-circular, and circumventing an axis central to said toroid, providing fluid flow channel means about the exterior periphery of said structure, and wherein fluid impact impellers are mounted within said fluid flow accelerator channel means in regions of optimum flow velocity for optimum energy recovery, and said fluid flow accelerator is further provided with partial shroud shell means on parts of its periphery and therewith completely circumventing projected actuator discs of said impact impellers, about an axis substantially perpendicular to said actuator discs, in complement with said peripheral channel means.

Abstract: The invention relates to an energy conversion system for converting kinetic energy possessed by the wind into mechanical energy, using a particular compact design for vertical axis rotors in combination with a specially adapted tower structure.

Abstract: A centrifugal compressor for a small-sized gas turbine utilized in an automobile. In a general gas turbine having a centrifugal compressor, a primary air flow along the front surface of a rotor disc is joined by a secondary air flow from a space between the rear surface of the rotor disc and a partition wall in an engine casing. The present invention provides improved positional relationships between the forward end of the outer periphery of a rotor disc and the rear wall of a diffuser, the outer periphery of the rotor disc and the tip of a rotor blade and the shape of the rear surface of the outer periphery of the rotor disc and the shape of the wall of a partition wall in an engine casing being opposed thereto, and a combination of those relationships to prevent the secondary air flow from changing the direction of the primary air flow.

Abstract: Turbine buckets are designed for use in an environment of ultra-high temperatures by incorporating therein water cooling channels using preformed tubes which are located beneath an outer protective layer. This layer is preferably composed of an inner skin which provides high thermal conductivity and an outer skin which provides protection from hot corrosion.

Abstract: A hub assembly for an articulated rotor system mounted on a rotor shaft comprises three plates centrally secured to the rotor shaft. The plates include generally radially disposed and axially spaced apart upper and lower plates and a cone shaped pan plate. The upper plate and pan plate have outer marginal portions transversely connected in adjacent relation and central portions connected to the rotor shaft in axially spaced apart relation. The upper plate and pan plate cooperate with the rotor shaft to form a truss for supporting blade retention assemblies equally spaced about the rotor shaft axis and mounted intermediate the upper and lower plates. One of the plates has a scalloped central aperture which cooperates with the scalloped mounting flange on the rotor shaft to facilitate angular orientation for bolt alignment during hub assembly installation.

Abstract: A liquid cryogen pump in which liquid is maintained on both sides of the pump piston during operation. In the preferred embodiment, vapor, when present in the pump chamber, is passed from in front to behind the piston by providing a predetermined clearance between the piston and the cylinder in which it is reciprocated. The clearance is preferably large enough to pass enough liquid cryogen to maintain the desired head of liquid behind the piston. In the embodiment set forth, the pump is arranged so that it can be immersed in the liquid cryogen to be pumped with its pumping chamber and valves at or close to the bottom of the liquid cryogen supply. Heat transfer between the warm, upper end of the pump and its cold end is effectively restricted, and, preferably, the warm end is connected to the cold end of the pump by thin-walled tubular members formed of low thermal conductive materials to minimize heat transfer by conduction.

Abstract: A fluid pressure device of the type including a housing in which a gerotor gear set is supported. The gear set includes an externally toothed star gear rotating within an internally toothed ring gear. The housing and ring gear each define complementary but eccentrically oriented races between which balls are contained so as to establish orbital movement of the ring gear. The housing and ring gear define passages communicating through the eccentric drive to supply and exhaust fluid to and from chambers defined between the star and ring gears.

Abstract: A seal for rotary pumps, engines, and the like, comprises roller means with variable effective length held in a variable-length supportive body or holder; extension cams maintain longitudinal tolerance of the roller means despite mechanical wear, machining imperfections and thermal expansion and contraction; wedge means maintain longitudinal tolerance of the holder. The seal is effective both at apex and corner areas of the rotary apparatus.

Abstract: An apparatus is connected directly on-line with an extruder to inject fluid into or to remove fluid from a fresh extrusion on a continuous basis as the latter is extruded. In one case the fluid injected is a catalyst that causes curing of a mixing of particulate matter and resin binder. In the method one part of a two part binder mechanism is mixed with a particulate material, and the mixture is extruded on a continuous basis. The second part of the binder then is injected into the fresh extrusion on a continuous basis downstream of the extruder output to cure the extrusion. The extruder die also may include fluid injecting paths, on the one hand, for injecting lubricant or, on the other hand, for injecting of the second binder part, e.g. catalyst, into the relatively less dense material near the upstream end of the die.

Abstract: A process and jig for field bending relatively large diameter plastic pipe, the jig being to guide the pipe at the point of tangency adjacent the bend after the pipe is heated and bent to form a smooth curvature to the desired radius and degree of bend as determined by the jig. The jig includes a two-piece spreader tube and a right and left hand guide, each adjustable in width, angle and spacing. The guides are U-shape and extend beneath the spreader tube so that the pipe may be placed on a flat horizontal surface. Each guide is provided with a protractor, one of which includes an offset scale so that offsets or curves with generally parallel tangents may be formed. The spreader tube includes a scale to ascertain the chord in terms of the radius for given degrees of bend.

Abstract: An equalizing plate for use in a vulcanizing press or the like comprises a base plate, a top plate and a low-melting point metal alloy hermetically sealed therebetween. The two plates are flexibly joined at their periphery and at least one of the plates has a membrane-like transition in the outer periphery thereof having at least one single U-shaped profile whose axis of symmetry is perpendicular to the surface of the equalizing plate.

Abstract: An improved premix gas burner design suitable for use in a metal melting furnace which has long service life, a low degree of maintenance, is easily cleared in case of burner blockage, allows inspection of the combustion chamber or furnace interior and still maintains the desired turndown capabilities of premix gas burners. These results are achieved by providing usual and/or physical access to the interior of the burner through a novel access tunnel and by providing a dual composition refractory combustion chamber.

Abstract: Gas burners, of the type employing atmospheric injection of combustion air and having a throat defining an inlet or mixing area and a plurality of burner ports defining an outlet area, particularly gas inspirators of the type having a plurality of peripheral orifices, so as to introduce pressurized gas into contact with atmospheric are. The inspirator is characterized both by the economic method of its construction, as well as its capability of adjustment to inspirate different types of fuels. In one embodiment, the inspirator conduit is axially adjustable with respect to the burner mixing throat, so as to regulate the injection of gas and mixing of gas with air prior to combustion. The inspirator in its multi-fuel mode has a plurality of series of axially spaced orifices, additional series being opened upon axial extension of the inspirator into the mixing throat.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a fabric softener-containing article comprising a fabric softener impregnated into an open-celled reticulated urethane foam; said impregnated foam being compressed to form a sheet or wafer. The fabric softener also acts as a solid binder which maintains the reticulated urethane foam in compressed form. The compressed sheet-like compositions are especially advantageous in that they are only 1/5 to 1/15 the size of comparable materials containing equivalent loadings of fabric softener. During the laundry wash cycle the water-dispersible fabric softener is released allowing the foam to slowly rebound to substantially its original uncompressed shape.

Abstract: A slurry of coal and a liquid which includes a leaching agent is directed through a chamber. The coal particles are comminuted and cavitation is induced in said slurry while the slurry is in the chamber by contact in the slurry with a resonant vibration transmitting member. Thereafter, the liquid is separated from the comminuted particles.

Abstract: A thixotropic gel fuel composition capable of being used in standard type oil burners comprising about 5 to about 75 volume percent of a solid carboniferous combustible material suspended in a liquid fuel and about 1 to about 10 weight percent of a substantially completely combustible gelling agent, the composition having a yield stress of about 20 to about 300 dynes per square centimeter. The composition may also contain ash modifiers.

Abstract: A process for producing formcoke composed of char and selected binders comprising process steps in which non-oxidative thermal carbonization is employed.

Abstract: A coke oven system is provided having a coke oven preferably with pipeline charging for converting coal into coke. Carryover fines are collected from the coke oven and preferably a preheater therefor, and then agitated by agitator means and the collected carryover fines thereby agglomerated. Preferably, the carryover fines are first mixed with water to form an aqueous mixture, and then agglomerated. The agglomerated carryover fines are then preferably separated from the aqueous mixture by separated means. The agglomerated carryover fines are preferably conditioned in dryer means and recirculated to the coke oven preferably through a preheater.

Abstract: Disclosed is an ultrathin permselective polyetherimide membrane having an average thickness of less than about 10 microns and formed of a polymeric composition comprising a polyetherimide prepared by reacting metaphenylenediamine and certain aromatic bis(ether anhydride)s. A gas separation process employing the membrane is also disclosed.

Abstract: This invention relates to an improvement in a process for purifying nitrogen trifluoride atmospheres generally contaminated with nitrous oxide, water, and dinitrogen difluoride. The improvement for extending adsorber life resides in reducing the dinitrogen difluoride content in the atmosphere to less than 0.03% by volume prior to passing the atmosphere through the adsorber.

Abstract: A filtering separator for cleaning dust and smoke-particle-laden gases comprising a separator, a duct connected to the gas inlet of the separator and containing dust collector bodies around which the dirty gas flows, means for detaching particles which collect on and between said bodies, said detaching means affording at least intermittent application of vibration force, and means for feeding at least some of said particles to said separator along with the dirty gas.

Abstract: An apparatus for the separation of particles from a gas of the type which has filter elements disposed around a drum located in the center of a housing with a shutter mechanism. The improvement of the present invention also relates to an apparatus which allows separation and emptying of filter elements by the shutter mechanism and particle separation without venting of particles to the atmosphere. The apparatus is particularly useful for instance, for asphalt mixing plants, stone quarry or foundry dust separation and collection.

Abstract: A filter cartridge for filtering fluids comprising: a cylindrical porous support tube which is permeable to the fluid to be filtered; at least one layer of boro-silicate glass filter paper being wrapped around the cylindrical support; a porous sleeve including a wall having a longitudinal slit therein to allow wrapping of the sleeve around the filter paper; and a zipper affixed to the wall which closes the slit and maintains the position of the glass filter paper without damage to the paper. Also disclosed is a method for manufacturing a filter cartridge having as a principle filtering element a boro-silicate glass paper which is very fragile and can be seriously degraded by crushing. The method comprises wrapping at least one layer of boro-silicate glass paper around a cylindrical porous support; wrapping a cylindrical porous sleeve including a wall having a longitudinal slit therein around the filter paper to secure and protect the filter paper; and closing the slit by closing a zipper attached to the wall.

Abstract: Disclosed are 1-(1-chloropropyl)-2,4,6-triisopropylbenzene and the method of controlling weeds, particularly crabgrass, by preemergent application of the compound to the soil.

Abstract: This invention relates to the use of chelated lithium hydridoaluminates or hydridoborates in hydride reductions of inorganic substrates. Novel or improved reductions are obtained at increased rates or selectivities in hydrocarbon media to recover metals.

Abstract: A method for controlled delivery of corrosion inhibitors to a silver containing solution in a silver recovery device which utilizes a metallic fill for electron exchange. The method involves forming a structure of polyurethane foam within which a corrosion inhibitor is incorporated and placing the structure in the silver recovery device.

Abstract: A formed part of sintered iron, and method and sintering tile for making same, according to which the formed part to be sintered for purposes of providing the same with an austenitic wear resistant surface is reacted during the sintering process with a substance from which at least at the sintering temperature austenite forming elements are diffused into the surface of the formed part.

Abstract: A sintered hard-material alloy for use in tool parts and parts subject to wear having a coefficient of heat expansion approximately equal to that of tool steel. The hard material alloy consists essentially of 15 to 80% by weight of hard material, preferably titanium carbide, and 20 to 80% by weight of steel with:0.25 to 0.9% carbon;5 to 35% chromium;2 to 5.0% molybdenum;0 to 3.0% manganese;0 to 1.0% silicon;0 to 3.0% copper;0 to 1% vanadium0 to 6.0% cobalt;0 to 0.5% niobium;0 to 0.01% boron;0 to 1.8% nickel;0.5 to 1.8% aluminum; andRemainder iron.A tool part having a tool body member made of tool steel and an insert made of the above mentioned hard material alloy.

Abstract: Electrostatographic developer compositions for use in developing electrostatic latent images wherein the triboelectric charging potential of functional polymers employed in the carrier materials are controlled through chemical alteration by acylation of hydroxyl and amino functions. The controlled variation of the triboelectric behavior of functional polymers by acylation provides a means of attaining optimum triboelectric responses in development systems.

Abstract: Suitable masking compounds for masking the undesired color side densities of image dyes produced from color couplers are those of the following formula ##STR1## in which R.sup.1 represents hydrogen or one or more substituents such as halogen, alkyl, aryl, a heterocyclic group alkoxy, hydroxyl, amino, acylamino, sulfo, sulfonyl, carboxyl or carbamyl or condensed carbocyclic or heterocyclic ring.R.sup.2 represents alkyl, aryl, a heterocyclic group carboxyl or esters or amide derived from carboxylX represents a dye group optionally containing a solubilizing group.On development with black-and-white or color-forming developers the dye group is released imagewise and is removed by aqueous processing baths leaving back a positive color or masking image.

Abstract: Photographic elements, diffusion transfer assemblages and processes are described which employ a novel nondiffusible compound having a novel releasable azo dye. The dyes are azophenols, or precursors of azophenols, and have electron withdrawing groups in each of the positions ortho to the phenolic hydroxy group.

Abstract: Copper physical development using certain heterocyclic ligand copper(I) complexes which are resistant to aerial oxidation is disclosed. The copper(I) complexes can be represented by the formulaL(CuX).sub.mwherein L is a monodentate or bidentate heterocyclic ligand, X is an anion and m is the integer 1 or 2. The described physical development compositions can operate in either the disproportionation mode, in which case the composition further comprises, in addition to the copper(I) complex, a ligand for copper(II); or in the reduction mode, in which case the composition further comprises a reducing agent and preferably a base. Generally, nuclei of metals from group VIII and IB of the periodic table are catalytic for the deposition of copper from these compositions. The nuclei can be imagewise formed by exposing an electromagnetic radiation sensitive compound. Physical development formulations, processes and elements are disclosed.

Abstract: A heat-developable photosensitive material which comprises a support having thereon at least one layer containing (a) an organic silver salt, (b) a catalytic amount of a photosensitive silver halide or a compound which forms a photosensitive silver halide, (c) a reducing agent, and (d) at least one sensitizer selected from the group consisting of compounds represented by the formulae (I) and (II): ##STR1## wherein R represents an unsubstituted or substituted alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms or an aryl group; and Q represents a group of atoms necessary to complete a rhodanine nucleus, a thiohydantoin nucleus or a 2-thio-2,4-oxazolidine-dione nucleus and wherein said compound represented by the formulae (I) and (II) include at least one carboxyl group as a substituent, and (e) a binder.

Abstract: A photoreactive composition containing an effective amount of a polymer which includes as a recurring structure: ##STR1## wherein Ar is a bivalent aromatic radical, and M is selected from the class consisting of hydrogen, alkali metal, ammonium, and substituted ammonium. These compositions are useful in a wide variety of photochemical and photomechanical processes and are particularly suited for use as photopolymers, photoinitiators and photosensitizers in light sensitive coatings of presensitized lithographic plates.

Abstract: A pigment of high anti-corrosion properties comprises(a) about 30 to 70 mole percent of at least one of MgO, ZnO and CaO, and(b) about 70 to 30 mole percent of Me.sub.2 O.sub.3 wherein Me.sub.2 O.sub.3 has the approximate molar percent compositionFe.sub.2 O.sub.3 : 0-100, preferably 0.5-100, most preferably 1-95, mole %Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 +Mn.sub.2 O.sub.3 : 0-100, preferably 0.5-100, most preferably 1-95, mole %Cr.sub.2 O.sub.3 : 0-20 mole %Is produced by calcining such oxides or compounds yielding such oxides at from about 200.degree. .RTM. to 650.degree. C. with the option of going up to about 950.degree. C. if the Al+Mn+Cr oxides total 10 mole % or more.

Abstract: Cores made of alumina-based ceramics, such as .beta.-alumina materials, are substantially non-reactive with directionally solidified eutectic and superalloy materials, do not cause hot cracking of the same, and are easily leachable from the cast metal.

Abstract: This invention relates to a novel means of manufacture of gypsum board. The improvement herein comprises the use of sodium and/or ammonium salts of ethoxylated, sulfated alcohols as foaming agents, said alcohols being a mixture of primary, linear alcohols having an average chain length of 9 carbon atoms.

Abstract: Dispersions of inorganic and organic pigments containing an alkylene oxide adduct on long-chain aliphatic amines and an anionic surfactant having an aliphatic radical of 3 to 40 carbon atoms can easily be distributed in hydrophilic and hydrophobic media and yield colorations of high tinctorial strength and purity of shade.

Abstract: An improved process for preparing an organic pigment having a high tinctorial strength by heating a crude organic pigment as an aqueous suspension having a consistency suitable for being pumped, to a temperature of from 80.degree. to 300.degree. C. and for a period of from 10 seconds to 20 minutes in a continuously operating flow apparatus which is shaped as a heat exchanger provided with moving internal elements.

Abstract: One or more ketoses such as fructose are separated from a solution of sugar mixture containing the ketoses and one or more aldoses by contacting the solution of sugar mixture with an insoluble high polymer having primary amine moieties to remove the aldoses from the liquid phase by bonding the aldoses to the high polymer.

Abstract: Semi-conductor discs are cleaned, after being subjected to a polishing operation, by immersing the discs in a solution of about 30-100% by weight non-ionic or anionic surfactant and thereafter rinsing the discs with water.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for cleaning surfaces and crevices of teeth wherein at least one tuft of filaments is rotated in a controlled reciprocating manner whereby the tuft is rotated a number of revolutionsin one direction and then rotated the same number of revolutions in the opposite direction. An alternative embodiment comprises a plurality of tufts of filaments, each of which is rotated in a controlled reciprocating fashion about its own central axis. Furthermore, immediately adjacent tufts are contrarotated. Each tuft is rotated about its own central axis, and placed in contact with the teeth whereby the filaments develop a twisting action dynamically and serially progressing from the base of each tuft to the opposite free ends of the filaments. The plurality of tufts are positioned in two parallel rows, each of which has adjacent tufts staggered with respect to each other.

Abstract: An improved dishwashing system includes operating methods and apparatus for water and energy conservation and elimination of spot-reducing chemicals in the rinse water. Return water from the rinse cycle is stored in insulated tanks and rinse water flowing to the dishwasher absorbs heat from the return water to thereby conserve the heat energy of the return water while simultaneously cooling the return water to a selected temperature in preparing a feed solution for membrane separation. A controlled quantity of make-up water is added to the feed solution which is raised to a selected pressure to provide for reverse osmosis purification and deionization. The reverse osmosis effluent is accumulated and, when needed, boosted in pressure to a desired operational dishwasher pressure, and heated to sanitizing level so as to achieve desired bacterial count levels during rinse cycles. Rinsing with the purified and deionized water results in film-free and spot-free dishes after drying.