Abstract: A thick coat of polyester powder is imparted onto a heated spectacle frame, some of the powder is removed from the frame hinges and replaced with a thin coat, the coated product is baked to fuse the powder and subsequently immersed in a heated aqueous dispersion of a disperse type dye, and the dyed product is subsequently reheated to a temperature sufficient to cause dye diffusion into the fused coating.

Abstract: A method for the determination of 5-aminosalicylic acid, which comprises measuring the color developed in an alkaline medium by an oxidative condensation product formed by the condensation of an o-alkylphenol represented by the general formula ##STR1## (wherein R.sub.1 represents an ethyl, isopropyl or sec-butyl group) with 5-aminosalicylic acid of the formula ##STR2## in the presence of a peroxide.

Abstract: A method of detecting the timing of fuel injection in a diesel engine for the regulation of the timing of fuel injection by a fuel injection timing regulator is disclosed. Rotation angle indicating lugs are provided on the crankshaft of the engine connected to the input shaft of the fuel injection timing regulator and on the output shaft of the fuel injection timing regulator to measure the time difference between pulses corresponding to the lugs on the input and output shafts making relative rotation, and a reference rotation angle indicating lug is provided adjacent to each of the lugs provided on one of the input and output shafts to measure the reference timing difference between pulses corresponding to the lugs on the shaft under rotation. The phase angle of the output shaft relative to the input shaft can be accurately calculated on the basis of the former and latter time differences.

Abstract: In a process for producing a polymer of monoallylamine comprising polymerizing monoallylamine, the polymerization is carried out using as a monomer inorganic acid salts (e.g., hydrochloride, sulfate, etc.) of monoallylamine in the presence of an azo type radical initiator.By the process, polymers of monoallylamine having a high degree of polymerization can be obtained in high yield.

Abstract: A plastic lens of a stepped segment having an excellent surface hardness can be obtained at high molding efficiency from cast polymerization of a diethylene glycol bisallyl carbonate and specified acrylate(s) system further added with a specified diacrylate(s) and/or dimethacrylate(s).

Abstract: A sequential polyamino acid resin having a remarkably high molecular weight and special amino acid sequence as repeating unit in the resin can be produced by conducting polycondensation of a dipeptide active ester acid salt in an aprotic polar solvent in the presence of a tertiary amine and phosphorus pentoxide.

Abstract: A device for attenuating pressure pulses through fluids, in particular for continuous paper web producing machines, which comprises a tubular element having an inner body formed from a resilient material and an outer body formed from a rigid material, between which bodies an annular compensating chamber is provided which contains a pressurized fluid whose pressure can be varied automatically according to variations occurring in the pressure level of the fluid being conveyed, which result in said inner body of a resilient material undergoing deformation.A multilayered structure may be provided for the inner resilient body. The insertion of the attenuating device is accomplished in line with the feed conduit of the aqueous suspension to the intake tank.

Abstract: A novel substrate for measuring thrombin which has chromophoric and fluorescent properties on thrombin or a thrombin-like enzymes and is represented by a compound of the following general formula or a salt thereof: ##STR1## wherein R represents ##STR2##

Abstract: A rice polishing machine comprises a rotatable shaft, a polishing roll mounted on the shaft for rotation therewith, and a perforated cylindrical polishing assembly disposed in substantially concentric relation to the shaft. The cylindrical polishing assembly has its inner circumferential surface which cooperates with an outer circumferential surface of the polishing roll to define therebetween a polishing chamber. Partition wall members engage with an outer circumferential surface of the cylindrical polishing assembly at a location below an axis of the shaft for dividing the outer circumferential surface into an arcuate bottom surface section and the remaining arcuate surface section and for defining an upper space to which the bottom surface section is exposed and a lower space to which the remaining surface section is exposed.

Abstract: A sorter for grains, pulses and the like having a perforated sorting plate mounted on a frame and both longitudinally and laterally inclined with respect to the horizontal plane and adapted to be vibrated in the longitudinal direction while being intermittently lifted toward the upper side. The perforated sorting plate overlies an air chamber into which pressurized air is introduced by a blower through an air duct. The perforated sorting plate is provided with a corrugated upper surface to define a multiplicity of ribs oriented in the direction perpendicular to the direction of vibration of the sorting plate and in parallel rows at a pitch not less than the size of the material to be sorted. A set of discharge openings for receiving the sorted material is provided at the lower end of the perforated sorting plate where the ribs terminate.

Abstract: To hold a railway rail down on a support member, a device is employed having a first part driven into a vertical hole in the support member, a second part having a sideways projection, part of which lies vertically below a part of the support member, to one side of the bottom of the hole, and third, fourth and fifth parts forming an arch above the support member. A fulcrum portion of the first part co-operates with the wall of the hole during the driving operation to form a pivot about which said device rocks to cause the above-mentioned part of the projection to come under the above-mentioned part of the support member. From the lower extremity of the fifth part, i.e. the side of the arch which is further from the first part of the device, there extend sixth and seventh parts of the device, the sixth part sideways and the seventh part downwardly.

Abstract: Adducts of tetrasubstituted pyrophosphato titanates and/or amines, having the formulaX.sub.c Ti[OP(O)(OR.sup.1)OP(O)(OR.sup.2)OR.sup.3)].sub.4-c(NR.sup.4 R.sup.5 R.sup.6)d[P(OR.sup.7)(OR.sup.8)(OR.sup.9)]e,are useful in improving the physical and chemical properties of many filled resins.

Abstract: A ceramic body having a metallized layer which comprises a ceramic substrate and a metallized layer fired on the substrate to be integrated or further comprises a conductive layer consisting of a noble metal or noble metal alloy to be joined onto the metallized layer, the composition of the metallized layer being one or more of a silicide of transition metals belonging to Groups V and VI of periodic table; one or more of a boride of lanthanum and a boride of transition metals belonging to Groups IV, V and VI of periodic table; or a high melting point metal or alloy unmelted at a firing temperature of the ceramic substrate and containing, based on 100 parts by weight of the metal or alloy, 0.5-25 parts by weight of niobium, 0.5-10 parts by weight of yttrium, 0.5-10 parts by weight of tantalum, 0.5-25 parts by weight of mixture of niobium and yttrium, 0.5-25 parts by weight of mixture of yttrium and tantalum, 0.5-25 parts by weight of mixture of niobium and tantalum, 0.

Abstract: An expanded metal grid has beads which comprise grooves, the widest part of each said groove being wider than its mouth, and these narrow-mouth grooves are engaged by the heads of panel supports which support panels (for example, louvres).

Abstract: A process of pre-foaming blowing agent-containing plastic materials, in which the plastic material particles which have been pre-foamed by the addition of heat are transferred without an intermediate resting stage from a sealed pre-foaming chamber into a drying and stabilizing chamber, with a vacuum being maintained during the drying and stabilizing operation.An apparatus for the performance of the process includes a pre-foaming chamber, beneath which there is provided a chamber in which the pre-foamed plastic material is dried and stabilized. The charging opening of the drying and stabilizing chamber is directly under the discharge opening of the pre-foaming chamber and is hermetically sealable by means of a slide valve.

Abstract: Reaction mixture of germanium dioxide and hypophosphorous acid or its salts in hydrochloric acid is extracted with organic solvent. This resultant is then reacted with acrylic acid or its derivatives, and further hydrolyzed to provide bis-carboxy ethyl germanium sesquioxide or its propionic acid derivatives.

Abstract: The process for producing a prepreg of a glass fiber cloth according to the present invention is characterized by heat-treating the inner portions of the selvages of the glass fiber cloth to remove the residual stress of glass fibers in the glass fiber cloth, coating the heat-treated portions of the glass fiber cloth with a solution of a saturated polyester type resin of 150.degree. to 180.degree. C. softening point insoluble in a thermosetting resin varnish to be later used for impregnation so that the amount coated becomes 4 to 10% by weight as resin based on the weight of the portions of glass fiber cloth coated, drying the resulging glass fiber cloth, removing the selvage portions of the glass fiber cloth by cutting, impregnating the selvages-removed glass fiber cloth with the above mentioned thermosetting resin varnish, and drying the impregnated glass fiber cloth.

Abstract: A laminate useful in roofing and wall cladding applications is of two or more layers and comprises a decorative element 12, an optional strength giving element 16, a vapor barrier element 14 and an anti-wrinkle element 18. The latter is preferably a corrugated PVC sheet.