Abstract: An improved cooling and ventilating system for removing metabolic heat, waste gases and water vapor generated by a wearer of an hermetically sealed spacesuit. The cooling system is characterized by a body suit having a first circuit for simultaneously establishing a cooling flow of water through the thorax and head sections of the body suit including circulation patches mounted in the thorax section and head section of the body suit, a second circuit for discharging a flow of gas throughout the spacesuit and a disconnect unit for coupling the circuits with a life support system externally related to the spacesuit.

Abstract: An angle detector for determining a transducer's angular disposition to a capacitive pickup element. The transducer comprises a pendulum mounted inductive element moving past the capacitive pickup element. The capacitive pickup element divides the inductive element into two parts L.sub.1 and L.sub.2 which form the arms of one side of an a-c bridge. Two networks R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 having a plurality of binary weighted resistors and an equal number of digitally controlled switches for removing resistors from the networks form the arms of the other side of the a-c bridge. A binary counter, controlled by a phase detector, balances the bridge by adjusting the resistance of R.sub.1 and R.sub.2. The binary output of the counter is representative of the angle.

Abstract: A separable entry closure assembly for joining axially separable tubular segments of a pressure suit along an angulated zone of separation having a first portion projected transversely beneath the axilla zone of the suit and a second portion projected behind the shoulder zone thereof and characterized by a first endless member of a rigid configuration affixed to one segment of the suit, a second endless member of a rigid configuration affixed to the other segment and mated in hermetically sealed relation with the first endless member, and a releasable "C" section clamp releasably securing the first endless member to the second endless member.

Abstract: Plastic surfaces can be improved physically and optically by treating them with a plasma of boron trifluoride. The trifluoride can be the sole reactant or be part of a mixture also containing an organic monomeric substance such as perfluorobutene-2 or an organosilane. The boron trifluoride-containing coating can also serve as an intermediate coating between the plasticl surface and a plasma deposited organic polymer.

Abstract: An intumescent-ablator coating composition which comprises an intumescent agent such as the ammonium salt of 1,4-nitroaniline-2-sulfonic acid or 4,4-dinitrosulfanilide, a polymeric binder system and about 5 to 30% by weight, based on the total weight of the intumescent agent and the binder, of an endothermic filler having a decomposition temperature about or within the exothermic region of the intumescent agent.

Abstract: A walking boot assembly particularly suited for use with a positively pressurized spacesuit, including a bootie adapted to be secured to the foot of a wearer, an hermetically sealed boot for receiving the bootie having a walking sole, an inner sole and an upper portion adapted to be attached to an ankle joint of a spacesuit, a protuberance projected from the bootie and received within a recess formed in the inner sole of the boot for positioning the bootie relative to the boot, and releasable latching means for latching the protuberance in a received relationship with the recess.

Abstract: A honeycomb-laminate composite structure comprisingA. a cellular core of a polyquinoxaline foam in a honeycomb structure, andB. a layer of a non-combustible fibrous material impregnated with a polyimide resin laminated on the cellular core,A process for producing the honeycomb-laminate composite structure and articles containing the honeycomb-laminate composite structure.

Abstract: Certain fluorinated dimethyl ethers have been found to possess the stability, the compatibility and sufficient freedom from deleterious physiological effects to be used as aerosol propellants in cosmetic, hygenic, pharmaceutical and other personal products. These compounds, bis(difluoromethyl) ether and perfluorodimethyl ether, are also free of the chlorine atoms believed responsible for some destruction of ozone in the upper atmosphere.

Abstract: The invention relates to the gasketting of cap blanks, to be closed onto bottles or other containers.The gaskets lie across the more or less flat top of the cap blank and the invention is concerned with the peripheral part of the gasket, i.e. that part which occupies the corner of the cap between the flat top and the skirt.One kind of closing operation in which a gasketted cap blank is closed onto a bottle neck involves so-called "reform", i.e. a lateral pinching action at the top of the skirt. To aid closing the bottle cap symmetrically on the bottle, the peripheral part of the gasket includes a relatively flat step portion.

Abstract: The following halocyclopropyl halomethyl ethers have been synthesized and found to possess utility as general inhalation anesthetics:1-chloro-2-chlorofluoromethoxy-1,2,3,3-tetrafluorocyclopropane, 1-chloro-2-difluoromethoxy-1,2,3,3-tetrafluorocyclopropane, 1-bromo-2-chlorofluoromethoxy-1,2,3,3-tetrafluorocyclopropane and 1-bromo-2-difluoromethoxy-1,2,3,3-tetrafluorocyclopropane.

Abstract: The following chlorocyclopropanes have been found to possess utility as general inhalation anesthetics: 1,1-dichloro-2-methyl-2,3,3-trifluorocyclopropane, 1,2-dichloro-1-fluoro-2-methylcyclopropane, 1,1,2-trichloro-2,3,3-trifluorocyclopropane, 1,1-dichloro-2-trifluoromethyl-2,3,3-trifluorocyclopropane, 1,2-dichloro-1,2,3,3-tetrafluorocyclopropane, 1,1,2,2-tetrachloro-3,3-difluorocyclopropane and 1,1-dichloro-2,3,3-trifluorocyclopropane.THE PRIOR ARTIn the continuing search for general inhalation anesthetics, there has been recently discovered a few halocyclopropanes and methylhalocyclopropanes and some methyl halocycloproyl ethers. These compounds are disclosed in U.S. Pat. Nos. 3,865,950, 3,839,589 and 3,769,429 as well as in pending applications Ser. No. 499,761 (filed Aug. 22, 1974) for the methylcyclopropanes, and Ser. No. 451,677 (filed Mar. 15, 1974) for the methyl ethers.

Abstract: A method for decreasing fouling of metalliferous surfaces of apparatus wherein water is evaporated from an aqueous system containing components which deposit onto the surfaces as hydrophilic foulants. The method comprises adding to the aqueous system a chelant-surfactant having a hydrophobic moiety and a chelating moiety through which the chelant-surfactant chelates with the metalliferous surfaces and provides a hydrophobic barrier to deposition of hydrophilic foulants.

Abstract: Process of lining aerosol can valve mounting cups with a gasketing composition comprising a carbon dioxide blocked polyamine dispersed in a liquid polyurethane prepolymer consisting of a free isocyanate group-containing reaction product of a polyisocyanate compound with a polyhydroxy material. The lined cups are heated for a few minutes to gel the gasket and full cure subsequently takes place without further intervention by means of ambient atmospheric moisture. The process is rapid, economical in equipment and produces gaskets which permit a significant extension of swaging specifications.

Abstract: A plastics introducing unit for a closure lining machine in which pellets are severed from a continuous rod and carried along part of a closed path to a transfer station where the pellets are deposited accurately centrally of the closures to be subsequently moulded into liners for the closures.

Abstract: The following halogenated cyclobutyl ethers have been found to possess utility as general anesthetics: 1-chloro-2-methoxy-1,2,3,3,4,4-hexafluorocyclobutane, 1-chloro-2-methoxy-1,4,4-trifluorocyclobutane and 1-bromo-2-methoxy-1,2,3,3,4,4-hexafluorocyclobutane.

Abstract: Certain new halogenated cyclobutanes have been synthesized and found to possess utility as inhalation anesthetics. They are: 1,4-dichloro-1,2,2-trifluorocyclobutane, 1-chloro-1,2,2,4-tetrafluorocyclobutane, 1,4-dichloro-1,2,2,4-tetrafluorocyclobutane, 1-chloro-1,2,2,3,3-pentafluorocyclobutane, 1,2,2-trifluorocyclobutane, 1-chloro-2,3,3-trifluorocyclobutane, 1-chloro-2,4 4-trifluorocyclobutane, 1-bromo-1,2,2-trifluorocyclobutane, 1-bromo-2-methyl-1,4,4-trifluorocyclobutane and 1-bromo-2-chloro-1,4,4-trifluorocyclobutane.

Abstract: New vinylidene chloride copolymer latexes have been prepared with a hydroxyalkyl ester comonomer and acrylamido-2-methylpropane sulfonic acid. These products can be used to coat unprimed polyolefin film and yield laminates having dynamic peel strengths as high as 2400 g/in, that is equivalent to or greater than the peel strength of laminated uncoated polyethylene film itself.

Abstract: The following halocyclopropyl halomethyl ethers have been synthesized and found to possess utility as general inhalation anesthetics:1-chloro-2-chlorofluoromethoxy-1,2,3,3-tetrafluorocyclopropane, 1-chloro-2-difluoromethoxy-1,2,3,3-tetrafluorocyclopropane, 1-bromo-2-chlorofluoromethoxy-1,2,3,3-tetrafluorocyclopropane and 1-bromo-2-difluoromethoxy-1, 2,3,3-tetrafluorocyclopropane.

Abstract: The compound 1-chloro-2,2-dimethyl-1,4,4-trifluorocyclobutane has been found to possess useful properties as a general inhalation anesthetic.

Abstract: The following newly synthesized bromofluoromethylcyclopropanes have been found to possess utility as general inhalation anesthetics: 1-bromo-1,2-difluoro-2-methylcyclopropane and 1-bromo-1-fluoro-2-methylcyclopropane.