Abstract: A sealed paper container filled with contents has a trunk of square to rectangular cross section. The trunk has a horizontal breakable portion formed in its three side walls close to their upper ends and removable by tearing by hand. The remaining side wall is provided at the same level as the breakable portion with a portion for forming a joint between the container body and the closure to be formed by removing the breakable portion. The breakable portion and the joint forming portion serve as a boundary to provide a closure forming portion thereabove and a container body forming portion therebelow. The container body forming portion has an engaging member secured to the inner side of its upper end, extending along the three side walls and projecting upward therefrom for engaging the closure to be formed by removing the breakable portion. The upward projection of the engaging member extends along the lower end of the closure forming portion on the inner side thereof.

Abstract: A cutting apparatus for cutting tobacco leaves into small pieces. The cutting apparatus has a feed belt conveyor including a plurality of parallel narrow endless belts. At the tail section of the feed belt conveyor is provided a pulley on which a plurality of lower rotary cutting blades are coaxially mounted. The diameter of the blades is larger than that of the pulley and each lower cutting blade projects from between adjacent narrow endless belts. There are further provided a plurality of upper rotary cutting blades above the lower rotary cutting blades and each upper rotary cutting blade overlaps each corresponding lower rotary cutting blade. The endless belts are led to proceed from the pulley but not to proceed beyond the outfeeding edges of the lower rotary cutting blades and then return to the head section after they pass the overlap section.

Abstract: A process for vitrifying liquid radioactive waste is provided.In this process, a solution of a water-soluble vitrifying-facilitating inorganic compound in liquid radioactive waste is mixed with a solution obtained by hydrolyzing an alkyl silicate and then the solution mixture is left to gel. Thereafter, the resulting gel is irradiated with microwave to calcine the gel, and the calcined gel is further heated to melt and then cooled to obtain a vitrified product.