Abstract: A lysimeter for collecting soil water which is truly representative of the soil water contained in the soil at selected locations. The lysimeter contains a chamber and a filter section which is a rigid, porous fluoroplastic and through which moisture from the soil surrounding the lysimeter may pass into the chamber. The invention includes the rigid porous thermoplastic resin, a process for making the resin and a process for using the lysimeter to recover soil moisture in the lysimeter chamber.

Abstract: A seating and guard rail structure for bleachers having seating sections which may be compacted together to occupy a minimum space during storage and having guard rail units which may be compacted along with the seating sections. Mechanisms are included for turning the guard rail units when the seating sections are compacted to facilitate their storage and for turning the guard rail units back again to their normal upright position when the seating sections are expanded in preparation for use; also locking mechanisms are provided for locking the guard rail units in their upright positions when the seating sections are fully expanded for use, and means are provided for unlocking the guard rail units when the seating sections are compacted.

Abstract: This invention relates to the synthesis of steroids which are useful for their biological activity or which may be converted to steroids which have such activity. These syntheses include the steroid compounds and processes for their preparation.An object of the invention is to provide syntheses which are applicable to materials which are readily available in good supply for converting such materials to steroids which are useful and desirable in the manufacture of pharmaceutical products.More particularly, I have sought to discover processes and intermediate compounds useful in the synthesis of 24, 25-dihydroxycholesterol from hyodeoxycholic acid or lithocholic acid which are constituents of, and readily available from, animal bile.

Abstract: This invention relates to the synthesis of steroids which are useful for their biological activity or which may be converted to steroids which have such activity. More particularly, the invention pertains to the synthesis of 24,25-dihydroxycholesterol. It includes intermediate sterols of this synthesis and processes for their preparation.

Abstract: A portable cage for compressing food articles during processing of the articles as by heating, smoking or the like. The cage includes means for moving a pair of trays toward each other to apply pressure on food articles between the trays and means for limiting the pressure so applied to a predetermined amount. The device is further capable of applying different predetermined pressures to articles on different trays, the amounts of such predetermined pressures being determined so as to offset the differences of the weights of the articles on the trays to thereby make the total pressures on the food articles on each tray more uniform. The mechanism is easily operable to open and close the cage for loading and unloading of the articles but is capable of developing substantial pressures when the trays are pressed against the food articles. Another feature of the improved cage is the provision of trays having spaced screens with mechanisms between the screens for bringing pressure on the food articles.

Abstract: A portable cage for compressing food articles during processing of the articles as by heating, smoking or the like. The cage includes means for moving a pair of trays toward each other to apply pressure on food articles between the trays and means for limiting the pressure so applied to a predetermined amount. The device is further capable of applying different predetermined pressures to articles on different trays, the amounts of such predetermined pressures being determined so as to offset the differences of the weights of the articles on the trays to thereby make the total pressures on the food articles on each tray more uniform. The mechanism is easily operable to open and close the cage for loading and unloading of the articles but is capable of developing substantial pressures when the trays are pressed against the food articles. Another feature of the improved cage is the provision of trays having spaced screens with mechanisms between the screens for bringing pressure on the food articles.

Abstract: An antiperspirant composition which contains an aluminum salt, a smectite mineral and polyethyleneglycol, said composition being sprayable and in liquid form without flocculation, and the process of preparing such composition in which the aluminum salt is added to a mixture of the smectite and polyethyleneglycol.

Abstract: A new peptide which has calcitonin-like biological activity which has a shorter amino acid chain and which is chemically more stable than natural calcitonins. Also resin peptides are disclosed which may be converted to peptides having biological activity and processes for producing said resin peptides and said peptides having biological activity.

Abstract: Resin peptides useful in the preparation of peptides having biological activity, and particularly such resin peptides containing Pro--Asp--CH.sub.2 -- or Pro--Asn--CH.sub.2 -- at one end of an amino acid chain, being the resin and Pro, Asp and Asn being the residues of the amino acids proline, aspartic acid and asparagine; and processes for the preparation of such resin peptides.

Abstract: A process for packaging units of food in which the food units are placed on a bottom film and slits made in the film. The film with the food units thereon is passed into an open chamber, the chamber closed, and a vacuum drawn on it followed by back-filling with a substantially oxygen-free gas. The film with the food units thereon and a top film over the units is then subjected to vacuum and the top and the bottom films sealed. Alternately the package may be back-filled with oxygen-free gas prior to being sealed about the food unit. The disclosure includes also the steps of partially sealing food units between top and bottom films in a first chamber, back-filling with a substantially oxygen-free gas, then vacuumizing in a second chamber, and fully sealing the packages in a second chamber, or alternately back-filling with the oxygen-free gas before fully sealing.

Abstract: A system for opening garage doors in which a radio receiver in the garage, upon receipt of a signal, operates to open the garage door and in which a casing containing a radio transmitter is adapted for insertion into the socket of a cigarette lighter in the driver's compartment of a motor car. Switch means are provided for connecting this transmitter with a source of electrical power to actuate the transmitter and emit a radio signal at a frequency to which the receiver is receptive when the casing is inserted into the socket. The invention also contemplates a radio transmitting device in which a casing containing a radio transmitter is insertable into a socket of any type at any location together with means for energizing the transmitter to emit a signal when the casing has been inserted in the socket, for whatever purpose the signal may be utilized.

Abstract: A method of making a resin panel in which a carrier film receives thereon a layer of thermosetting resin and glass fibers are placed on the resin layer. This composite is inverted and passed between a roller and a section of a moving belt, the belt being of a material impermeable to the resin. The resin layer with glass fibers therein is passed through a heating zone to cure the resin while on the belt. After the resin is cured it may be separated from the belt by bending the belt away from the resin.The machine carries out the above method employing a belt of stainless steel or the like which extends over a pair of rolls to provide a conveyor for the formed resin layer. The machine has a pair of rolls for forming the resin-glass composite. One of these rolls serves to invert the layers and serves also to press the layers against the belt. Heaters are provided to heat the formed resin to cure it while on the belt.

Abstract: A device for handling articles such as meat logs which includes a main conveyor and means for moving the articles transversely and consecutively above and across the main conveyor to a predetermined position, and having automatic means operable when each article reaches the desired position over the main conveyor, for opening the device to allow the article to fall down on the main conveyor.

Abstract: A method of making a resin panel in which a carrier film receives thereon a layer of thermosetting resin and glass fibers are placed on the resin layer. This composite is inverted and passed between a roller and a section of a moving belt, the belt being of a material impermeable to the resin. The resin layer with glass fibers therein is passed through a heating zone to cure the resin while on the belt. After the resin is cured it may be separated from the belt by bending the belt away from the resin.The machine carries out the above method employing a belt of stainless steel or the like which extends over a pair of rolls to provide a conveyor for the formed resin layer. The machine has a pair of rolls for forming the resin-glass composite. One of these rolls serves to invert the layers and serves also to press the layers against the belt. Heaters are provided to heat the formed resin to cure it while on the belt.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of cured meat porducts, which have the characteristic color of high quality cured meats and which are able to retain this color during an extended period during which distribution and marketing of the meats may take place which process includes the step of incorporating calcium sorbate and sodium nitrate. The inventionalso refers to the meat products so produced and whichcontain calcium sorbate for facilatating the developmentand maintenance of the characteristic color associatedwith good quality cured meats.

Abstract: An automatic conveyor system for transporting articles from one place to another gently and without injury to any of them. A roller type conveyor is employed providing a track on top of the rollers with a braking arrangement which is normally in effect but which is intermittently and automatically relieved so that the articles move during relatively short periods and do not have a chance to build up momentum. Means are provided for relieving the braking action against the rollers and such means is automatically regulated by the putting on of articles at the beginning end of the conveyor and the taking off of articles at the terminal end of the conveyor.

Abstract: A fastening device including a bolt, screw or nut and a socket wrench therefor, each of the bolt, screw or nut and also the socket having polygonal surfaces one of which is greater in size and one of which is lesser in size, the greater such surface of the socket matching the greater surface of the bolt, screw or nut and the lesser such surface of the socket matching the lesser surface of the bolt, screw or nut.One feature is the provision of an auxiliary member which fits into the socket of the standard socket wrench, the auxiliary member providing the lesser polygonal surface for such socket.Another feature is the use of a round body or head having such greater or lesser polygonal surfaces.

Abstract: Resin peptides useful in preparing peptides having biological activity, and particularly such resin peptides containing ALA-GLU-CH.sub.2 - R at one end of an amino acid chain, R being the resin and ALA and GLU being the residues of the amino acids alanine and glutamic acid; and processes for the preparation of such resin peptides. Resin peptides including ACTH.sup.1-28 are disclosed which have adrenocorticotropic activity along with processes for their preparation.