Abstract: This invention relates to a device for the delivery of a fluid to be frozen in equipment for the formation of ice cubes, which includes a rod spraying the fluid on an evaporator and drive means for rotating the rod which are activated by the same fluid to be frozen.

Abstract: Cells are cultivated in a chamber having a high nutrient humidity. Gas drives liquid nutrient through devices which produce a fine mist within the chamber. Screens or convoluted mesh supports the cells, and provides for drainage of cell products and media away from the cells for processing. The chamber is sealable to provide for axenic conditions.

Abstract: An adaptor for a hook-lift vehicle provided with a hydraulically-operated lifting mechanism on its chassis to load and unload freight containers having conventional corner fittings, the adaptor comprising an adaptor frame for attachment to the lifting mechanism and including releasable securing members for co-operation with the end corner fittings of a container to secure the frame to the container, and a pair of pivotal, laterally-spaced support surfaces for location one to each side of the rear end of the chassis whereby, subsequent to securing the adaptor frame to the front of a container on the ground and on actuating the lifting mechanism, the front of the container is drawn upwardly onto the chassis until the outer lower side regions of the container engage the support surfaces, continued actuation of the lifting mechanism drawing the container over the pivoting surfaces and onto the chassis.

Abstract: A latch for a hook setting mechanism for fishing rods is provided by a latching ball which is held in engagement with a latching indentation of a keeper rod by a rotatable cam, the cam being rotatable by a trigger arm which is moved in response to a tug exerted on a fishing line of the fishing rod.

Abstract: An intake port device comprises an intake port (9) formed by a straight part (13) and a helical part (15), and a valve (17) disposed adjacent to the inlet of the intake port. In order that intake air flow having a large swirl ratio can be supplied to an engine without being encountered with a large resistance even in a light-loaded condition of the engine, the valve (17) is held in its closed position without causing any sharp decrease in the coefficient of intake air flow when closed. In a modification of the intake port device, the valve (17) holds open the lower half of the intake port 9 in its closed position, so that intake air flow having a large swirl ratio can be supplied without being encounted with a large resistance even when the load of the engine is light. In another modification of the intake port device, the free end of the valve (17) is bent and deformed in the downstream direction of intake air so that the flow of intake air may not be encountered with a large resistance.

Abstract: A structural member and a method of construction employing same, wherein the structural member comprises two boards held in spaced apart relationship by a pluarlity of spacers fixed at intervals between said boards and each board has a tongue along one edge and a complementary groove along the other, and wherein said structural members can be readily joined edge to edge to construct walls and partitions.

Abstract: Continuous thermal treatment for the strengthening of metallic workpieces is carried out by placing a batch of at least two workpieces on a basket hinged on a continuously advancing conveyor chain; introducing said workpieces in said basket through a first instantaneously opening and closing gate into a uniformly heated first thermal treating step wherein the continuously advancing workpieces are heated at a temperature of about 560.degree. C.; introducing the heated workpieces in said basket through a second instantaneously opening and closing gate into a second thermal treatment step placed immediately after the end of the first step and in communication therewith, by lifting a vat containing a cooling fluid to immerse said workpieces in said basket into the cooling fluid of said vat to rapidly cooling said workpieces to a temperature of about 100.degree. C. and thereafter lowering said vat.

Abstract: A carrying case includes telescoping walls that can be attached one to the other in alternative positions of adjustment to permit expansion or reduction of the interior volume of the case.

Abstract: A meter panel device for a vehicle having a light-transmissive base plate having a dial face and marking, and a light emitting unit, which comprises translucent colored layers differing in color from each other provided respectively on the front side and backside of the dial face, and translucent colored layers differing in color from each other provided respectively on the front side and backside of the marking, thus enabling changes in colors of the dial face and the marking between the daytime in which the vehicle interior is relatively lighter than the backside of the meter device and the night in which the light emitting unit disposed at the rear side of the meter device is lit and the vehicle interior is relatively darker than the backside of the meter device.

Abstract: A scanning device for reading bar codes symbols comprising at least two moveable, preferably rotatably driven, reflective surfaces, such as mirrors, which direct a light source, preferably from a laser, in a scanning pattern towards the object to be scanned. At least one of said reflective surfaces having an associated lens means to modify the light beam associated with its reflective surface, and means adapted to move each of said reflective surfaces and the associated lens into a path adapted to intersect with said beam of light. Means are provided to direct the beam of light outside the scanning device as a sweep beam onto the bar code symbol to be read and optical means and sensing means are provided to collect the light reflected from the bar code symbol and generate data therefrom.

Abstract: The transdermal penetration of N-(2-hydroxyethyl) nicotinamide nitrate useful for the treatment of angina pectoris is improved by the use of a mixed solvent comprising an alcohol of 2 to 7 carbon atoms and an aliphatic ester having a molecular weight of at least 180 in the formulation of the external preparations.

Abstract: 2-Alkylsulfinyl-4(3H)-quinazolinone derivatives of formula (I) are provided. ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is a C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 alkyl group, an aryl group, a substituted aryl group or an aralkyl group, R.sub.2 is a phenyl group, a substituted phenyl group or a 5- or 6-membered heterocyclic group containing one or more N, O or S as a hetero atom or atoms, said heterocyclic group optionally being substituted or fused with a benzene ring, n is 1 or 2 and X is hydrogen, a C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 alkyl group or a halogen atom, and pharmaceutically acceptable acid addition salts thereof. They are useful as antiulcer agents.

Abstract: An article transfer mechanism to transfer glass articles between a receiving position and a delivering position, in straight line, between one or various sections of a process of manufacture of glass articles. The mechanism includes a frame. Guide shafts attached to said frame. A sliding support attached at said guide bars. A first planetary transmission coupled between said drive means and the sliding support, which through of a rotational movement of the transmission, the sliding support is moved in a straight line, with a backward-forward movement over said guide bars. A second planetary transmission coupled to said first planetary transmission, through the sliding support to generate a far larger stroke of the transfer mechanism.

Abstract: A water trough for emergent chicks and maturing chickens includes a float operated actuator for a drinking nozzle which can be manually activated to provide water in a drinking trough for emergent chicks, and which can be manually disabled on maturing of the chickens to force the maturing chickens to drink from the drinking nozzle.