Abstract: A switch for interrupting electric power to the customer of a utility, the switch including two female contacts for accepting the male plug-in contacts of a watt-hour meter, and two male contacts for insertion into the female contacts which ordinarily receive the male contacts of the meter. A switch is located between one of each female contact and its corresponding male contact, and an operator, such as a solenoid, opens the switch(es) in response to a signal, so as to disconnect the customer's load from the utility source. A latch holds the switch(es) open until another signal causes a second operator, such as a solenoid, to deactivate the latch and permit the switch(es) to reclose. An auxiliary switch in the circuits for energizing the two solenoids deenergizes the first solenoid when the switch(es) are latched open, and deenergizes the second solenoid when the switch(es) become unlatched and move toward their closed condition.

Abstract: This invention relates to improved cosmetic compositions. It has been found that cosmetic compositions can be improved by adding to the formula a non-saponifiable fraction of an animal or vegetable oil. An animal or vegetable oil may also be present in the cosmetic composition, in which case it is preferably present in an amount below the conventional quantity and the non-saponifiable fraction is present in an amount at least equal to the amount of non-saponifiable material which would be extracted from the omitted portion of the animal or vegetable oil.

Abstract: A sealing device including a sealing ring extending around the periphery of a gas turbine stator section and located between the stator section and the free ends of the stator vanes. The sealing ring is formed of individual segments movable radially relative to each other. Each two adjacent sealing ring segments have opposed faces, one face presenting projections and the other having correspondingly shaped recesses for accommodating the projections with clearance. Each opposed face has a groove at least as deep as the projection or recess in that face, and a flat plate is located in the opposed grooves. Springs or gas pressure press the sealing ring segments radially outwardly against the free ends of the vanes. The radius of curvature of the ring segments outer surfaces is smaller than that of the vane ends so that the segments and vane ends contact each other over only a portion of their surfaces.

Abstract: A self-cycling valve including a main valve and an operator valve. The main valve comprises a body having an inlet port, an exhaust port, and two outlet ports, and valve elements for controlling communication between each outlet port and the inlet and exhaust ports. The operator valve has a valve member movable between two extreme positions for controlling operation of the valve elements of the main valve. In one extreme position of the valve member, one outlet port of the main valve communications with the inlet port and the other outlet port communicates with exhaust; in the other extreme position of the valve member, the outlet port connections are reversed. The valve member of the operator valve cycles between its extreme positions in response to fluid pressure levels at the outlet ports of the main valve.

Abstract: A turbine nozzle vane suspension arrangement of the type wherein the nozzle vanes are suspended by their outer shroud segments from the outer turbine casing and are suspended by their vane ring segments from an annular vane carrier. The vane carrier has axially spaced apart and radially-extending wall sections cooperating with root-ends projecting radially from the vane ring segments. The vane ring segments and their root-ends, and the vane carrier and its wall sections define between them an annular channel for receiving cooling air. The forward wall section of the vane carrier is axially resilient and bears resiliently against the forward vane root-end to provide a seal for the annular channel. The resilient forward wall section can be flexed axially rearwardly to permit the vane ring segments to be mounted on the vane carrier.

Abstract: A capsule for use in hot isostatic pressing of a complex-shape workpiece, comprising a ceramic core formed with a cavity having the negative contour of the workpiece, the cavity being open on one side of the core. A metal skin encloses the core, the skin being spaced from the side of the core having the cavity opening and snugly fitting all the remaining sides of the core. The skin has a port through which metal powder can be introduced into the cavity and the space between the skin and core. Where the capsule is used to make a turbomachine rotor having centrifugal blading, the spacing between the skin and core side corresponds to the thickness of the rotor disk. The manufacturing method includes inserting blades of sheet metal into the blade matrices of the cavity, followed by filling the remainder of the cavity with metal powder and then isostatically hot pressing the powder.

Abstract: A codec using charge redistribution techniques between two groups of banks of weighted capacitors, which requires substantially reduced chip area as compared to previous codecs of this type. A switching scheme by which the capacitors are switched between themselves to various leads allows the elimination of the previously required largest capacitor of one bank and its replacement by a capacitor of one eighth its value and size (as well as several very small capacitors) in the other bank. The switching scheme also allows the use of only one reference voltage level, whereas in the past two were required.

Abstract: A finished ceramic airfoil is provided having within it a lining of thermal insulation and a fusible core having the desired contour of the metal core of the turbine blade. A casting mold is provided around the airfoil. The fusible core is melted and removed, leaving a cavity in the airfoil surrounded by the insulation lining. The cavity is filled with molten metal which is allowed to solidify to form the metal core of the turbine blade.

Abstract: First and second spaced apart conveyors, extending toward the knitting instrumentalities of a knitting machine, each carry a plurality of thread clamping means. At least two guide means move from the first conveyor to the second conveyor and draw filling threads from filling thread supplies to positions adjacent to but spaced from the clamping means of both conveyors. The guide means then introduce the filling threads simultaneously into the clamping means of both conveyors. The clamping means of both conveyors then close simultaneously, the filling threads extending from the first conveyor to the rearward guide means are severed, and the forward guide means releases the filling threads. Continued movement of the rearward guide means draws new lengths of filling threads from the thread supplies. Each guide means comprises a carriage and a body, the body being movable toward the conveyors to introduce filling threads into the clamping means of the conveyors.

Abstract: The invention relates to new substituted 2-benzoyl-4-chloroglycinanilide derivatives, to a process for their production and to their use as medicaments.The new derivatives according to the invention correspond to the general formula ##STR1## in which: R may be a linear or branched alkyl group, preferably a lower alkyl group;R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 may be the same or different and are selected from hydrogen, alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, hydroxy alkyl, alkoxy alkyl and aralkyl groups, these various groups optionally being linear or branched, and from 3- to 6-membered cycloalkyl groups optionally substituted on the .alpha.-carbon atom by an alkynyl radical;in addition, the groups R.sub.1 and R.sub.

Abstract: An article of clothing comprising an outer garment and an inner garment having an upper part and a lower part. The upper part of the inner garment is capable of extending from above the bust of a person wearing the article of clothing to below the bust of the person and the lower part, which is preferably elastic, is capable of being placed below the bust. The upper part is attached to the outer garment, and the lower part is attached to the bottom of the upper part.

Abstract: Clothing weatherproofed by being coated with plastics material of low permeability to water vapor is uncomfortable to wear.The present invention provides a breathable polyurethane film for coating on fabrics to make them waterproof. The film comprises a hard segment formed by reaction of a low molecular weight difunctional compound with excess diisocyanate to form a prepolymer and a soft segment provided by polyethylene glycol with which the prepolymer is reacted in a stoichiometric amount. If desired the film can be formed by reacting the polyethylene glycol with excess diisocyanate to form a prepolymer which is then reacted with a stoichiometric amount of a low molecular weight difunctional compound. The mechanical properties of the film can be improved by cross linking with a cross linking agent such as a triisocyanate.

Abstract: A bus frame including a floor frame and a roof frame, the roof frame including a three-dimensional longitudinally continuous framework occupying at least a portion of the total roof frame width. The three-dimensional framework fits along the corners of the bus formed where the roof and side walls of the bus meet. The outer contour of the framework has the form of a triangular prism, one face of the prism coinciding with the bus roof, and another face coinciding with a bus side wall. The prism-shaped framework is defined in part by a series of triangular transverse members, each member being in a plane normal to the longitudinal centerline of the bus. The diagonally-oriented frame members, which face the interior of the bus, carry retaining elements for holding trim panels.

Abstract: An oil separator comprising an elongated horizontally oriented container having an inlet near one end through which an oil-refrigerant vapor mixture can be introduced into the container, the container having outlets near its other end for the separated oil and refrigerant vapor, respectively. A deflector is located within the container in the flow path of the oil-vapor mixture, and there is a demister within the container downstream of the deflector. The bottom of the container constitutes an oil sump, and a partition within the container has an opening in its portion within the sump, the partition carrying the demister at a location above the oil level in the sump. The cross-sectional flow area of the demister is smaller than the surface area of the partition above the oil level. The length of the demister is sufficient to permit oil drops in the oil-vapor mixture to unite with oil clinging to the demister mesh. Two spaced apart demisters may be used.

Abstract: A stepper motor including a pair of annular stator plates each having a plurality of poles surrounding a central opening, the plates being fixed to each other in back-to-back relation, and a pair of annular stator cups each having a plurality of poles surrounding a central opening and a peripheral side wall. The stator cups are arranged over opposite faces of the joined-together stator plates with the poles of each stator cup interleaved with the poles of its respective stator plate. The peripheral edges of the stator plates are separated from each other to define a gap between them, and the free edges of the stator cup side walls are bent into the gap to mechanically join each stator cup to its respective stator plate.