Abstract: Improved rust-preventive compounds are provided which are strongly effective with both iron and copper metals. The compound of the invention comprise benzothiazole-substituted carboxylic acids, and their salts. Suitable salts may include alkali metal, alkaline earth metal, ammonium and substituted ammonium salts.

Abstract: A make-up brush comprises a tapered hollow body made of a porous material restorable in shape when deformed, having a surface for oozing a make-up liquid, a make-up liquid guiding core covered by the hollow body and tightly inserted through a head seat fixed to one end of a liquid cylinder, a head cylinder through which the tapered hollow body extends, the head cylinder being secured to one end of a shaft cylinder to fix the tapered hollow body thereat, and a viscous substance filled in the liquid cylinder after the make-up liquid is filled in the liquid cylinder on a side of the head seat, thereby causing the make-up liquid to smoothly flow out of the make-up brush.

Abstract: Apparatus for synchronizing a first video signal corresponding to a first image and a second video signal corresponding to a second image, each of the first and second video signals including vertical and horizontal synchronizing signals, including a video camera which produces the first and second video signals and which generates vertical synchronizing signals for the first and second video signals in response to a negative-going edge of a pulse signal supplied thereto; a storage device which stores the first video signal produced by the video camera; a synchronizing signal generator which supplies vertical and horizontal synchronizing signals synchronized with the corresponding signals of the first video signal when the video camera is viewing the second image; and a monostable multivibrator connected between the vertical synchronizing signal terminals of the synchronizing signal generator and the video camera, and operative during viewing of the second image to produce and supply said negative-going edge

Abstract: In a gas burning installation a pilot burner is provided with means to control the amount of atmospheric air introduced into the fuel gas in the burner tube, the means comprising a restriction in the tube upstream of where air enters and a variable choke downstream of where air enters, which choke affects the resistance to the flow of gas along the tube.

Abstract: The invention provides a lifting device for lifting a group of containers held together by a holding device. The lifting device is of cut and creased sheet material and has a tongue which is passed through an aperture or each of or several apertures in the holding device, and flaps of the tongues folded back onto the tongues spring out to rest against the containers and engage under the holding device so that lifting of the lifting device effects lifting of the containers by the flaps engaging under the holding device.

Abstract: The apparatus comprises an air delivery chamber and an air extraction chamber which together define a cooling zone, said delivery chamber and said extraction chamber each having a fan and said air delivery chamber having a perforated face plate through which air is delivered into said cooling zone, said delivery chamber and said extraction chamber being connected together by ducting, and a plurality of mutually co-operable dampers in said ducting for selectively controlling the amount of humidified air passing from said extraction chamber to said delivery chamber and exhaust and for selectively controlling the amount of air from atmosphere being delivered to said delivery chamber.

Abstract: A novel reclining adjuster for a car seat is disclosed which is provided between the seat back and the side wall of the car body. A lock pin in engagement with a striker is positioned at the lower part of the seat back. The striker can be rotated by operating a knob to a certain extent so that the locked state of the seat back may be released.

Abstract: The present invention provides that an overhead suspension system is provided with at least two suspension rails which are parallel, and at least one trolley which runs on the rails, the trolley having respective rollers which respectively engage the rails for the firm mounting of the trolley on the rails.In a particular example, there is provided a novel form of roller head which comprises three rollers with their axes parallel, and the roller head is carried by a suspension bracket.

Abstract: A light powered rotating detection mirror includes a detection mirror formed of two back-to-back convex mirrors; a motor having a rotatable shaft from which the detection mirror is supported by a first interconnecting chain; a housing and a second interconnecting chain for supporting the motor from a ceiling; a sleeve positioned in surrounding relation to a fluorescent bulb; a solar cell positioned between the sleeve and the fluorescent bulb for converting light energy to electrical energy; and electrical wires connecting the solar cell to the motor for actuating the motor to rotate the detection mirror.

Abstract: A movable mosaic formed by intersecting defined circular members each of which is rotatable about its center point and each of which comprises a plurality of discrete pieces formed by intersecting arcs of said circular members, said intersecting arcs having a radial dimension equal to the radial dimension of said circular members, each said plurality of discrete pieces including a first group of pieces whose arcuate surfaces are all convex and a second group of pieces whose arcuate surfaces are all concave.Some of the pieces of each plurality of pieces will be common to at least two of said circles, said pieces being interchangeable between the circles by moving the pieces about the theoretical center points of said circles.

Abstract: A method is and its resulting product are disclosed relating to the surface treatment of copper stock such as copper foil to improve its bondability to nonmetallic substrates. The method comprises immersing the copper in a bath having a composition consisting essentially of an aqueous solution of copper sulfate and sulfuric acid. While immersed in the bath, the copper is subjected to a plurality of pulsing treatment cycles, with each treatment cycle comprising a first application of peak current of a magnitude and duration sufficient to form a first layer coating on the surface of the copper but insufficient to cause the formation of a nodular coating exhibiting treatment transfer; and a second application of base current of a magnitude less than that of the peak current and sufficient to interrupt the formation of the first nodular layer but insufficient to serve to anchor the same to the foil surface.

Abstract: A method and agents are disclosed for raising the tolerance of animal tissue to antibiotic compounds that induce oxidant stress. The method comprises administering one or more nontoxic redox compounds to the locus of administration of the antibiotic in an amount sufficient to diminish the production of the potentially toxic oxidants. The redox compounds may be administered by various parenteral techniques. The agents comprise redox compounds and include redox dyes such as those of the thiazine group. Of this group methylene blue is preferred. A method for treating cancer in animals is also disclosed.

Abstract: A decorative composite article which may be longitudinally slit to form a yarn product is disclosed which has a combined a phosphorescent and retroreflective decorative appearance. The composite article includes a phosphorescent film component prepared from a thermoplastic resin base having a phosphorescent colorant disposed on the outer directed surface. The phosphorescent film component is laminated to a retroreflective film component comprising a thermoplastic resin base containing a quantity of reflective glass beads or lenses bonded thereto. The retroreflective film component bears a layer of an adhesive composition on its free surface, which is oriented during lamination to enter adhesive engagement with the uncoated surface of the phosphorescent film component.The composite article prepared in accordance with the present invention offers improved flexural strength in combination with a unique decorative appearance that combines the benefits of phosphorescent activity with direct reflective capability.

Abstract: A device for randomly selecting numbers, having particular utility with respect to state run lottery games, comprises a substantially square base including an upper surface having a first group with 40 recessed sections, a second group with 36 recessed sections, and third through sixth groups each with 10 recessed sections; four supports at the four corners on the underside of the base for imparting energy to the balls when the device is dropped onto a surface and for supporting the base; 16 balls, 6 of which are engageable within any of the recessed sections of the first group, six of which are engageable within any of the recessed sections of the second group, and the remaining four of which are engageable within any of the recessed sections of the third through sixth groups, respectively; at least one divider integrally formed with the upper surface of the base for preventing each ball associated with one of the groups from associating with the recessed sections of any other one of the groups; a transparen

Abstract: A ramp for a motor vehicle comprising means defining a ramp surface up which the motor vehicle wheel runs to a well into which the wheel drops and when therein is restrained from moving sideways, the ramp being collapsible to flattened condition for storage and transportation. The ramp is in three sections or frames, an upper frame, lower members to which the upper frame is pivotally connected, and a strut frame which acts as an inclined a strut keeping the upper frame at the correct angle. The frames and members can be disengaged to enable the ramp to be collapsed.

Abstract: A vacuum frame includes a base section having a recessed area within which are positioned a plurality of simultaneous instant start lights; a glass frame pivotally connected at the upper end of the base section by hinges so as to be pivotally movable between a closed position and a desired opened position; a blanket frame pivotally connected by hinges to the glass frame so as to be pivotally movable with respect to the base section and the glass frame between a closed position and a desired opened position; first and second piston-cylinder assemblies pivotally connected at opposite sides of the vacuum frame between the blanket frame and the base section for maintaining the blanket frame in a desired opened position; third and fourth piston-cylinder assemblies pivotally connected at opposite sides of the vacuum frame between the glass frame and the base section for maintaining the glass frame in a desired opened position independent of the pivoted position of the blanket frame; a first locking assembly for loc

Abstract: An improved retort process in which oil is recovered from crushed oil shale moved by gravity through a passageway of an elongated housing with an inlet for the crushed oil shale at the top end and an outlet for the spent crushed oil shale at the bottom end of the housing, with the rate of movement of the crushed oil shale through the passageway in the housing being controlled. Heat is transferred in sequence to or from the ground oil shale as it moves from the inlet to the outlet by means of heat exchangers which are spaced to define a drying zone, a preheating zone, a cracking and distillation zone. Waste heat recovered from the waste heat recovery zone is passed to the preheating zone. Sufficient heat is delivered to the cracking and distillation zone to raise the temperature of the crushed oil shale moving through the cracking and distillation zone to the critical temperature for separating hydrocarbons in vapor form therefrom by means of an auxiliary heating assembly.

Abstract: A glossy black reflective metal coating with improved durability is prepared as a film of an intrinsically blackened chromium-containing metal. A laminate may be prepared with the metal coating bonded to at least one transferable resin film. A particular laminate includes at least one top coat and at least one base coat, with the metal coating located in sandwich relationship therebetween.