Abstract: A process whereby sweetened condensed milk (SCM) or sweetened condensed skimmed milk (SCSM) is used as a starting material. The SCM or SCSM is pumped to a stainless steel refrigerated holding tank where it is diluted to 50.degree.-65.degree. brix (solids) with water. The product is then pumped into a continuous vacuum dryer, through a deaerator to control foaming and then into a feed pan. A stainless steel feed roll rotates in the feed pan and pick up SCM or SCSM product which then deposits a uniform layer of the SCM or SCSM on a continuous stainless steel belt. The clearance between the feed roll and the stainless steel belt is 0.015 to 0.025 inches. The SCM or SCSM product then goes through three heat zones at which vapor is driven off. Heat zone 1 preconcentrates and degasses the SCM or SCSM. This increases the area and volume of product so that it can withstand rapid evaporation occurring in heat zone 2. Heat zone 2 includes a hot drum at which a major portion of the drying occurs.

Abstract: A vertical gel electrophoresis apparatus featuring a support plate mounted in a buffer solution container, the support plate securing a gel assembly in position and dividing the container into two laterally juxtaposed isolated chambers. The support plate includes two vertical support members which are mounted along opposite vertical sides of the container, and an integral support member mounted along the bottom of the container. A face is cut in each vertical support member to receive opposite vertical edges of a gel assembly. The integral bottom support member includes a face terminating at flanges proximate the vertical support members. The bottom edge of the gel assembly rests on the flanges over the face of the integral bottom support member.

Abstract: The concentration of molecular fluorine in a mixed gas such as an excimer laser gas can be determined easily, quickly and accurately by passing the mixed gas through a column packed with an alkali metal or alkaline earth metal compound which has no halogen atom and reacts with fluorine to form a solid fluoride together with molecular oxygen and/or carbon dioxide and measuring the concentration of oxygen or carbon dioxide in the fluorine-free gas flowed out of the packed column. If the mixed gas initially contains molecular oxygen or carbon dioxide, its concentration is measured separately after fixing fluorine in another column packed with an element which forms a fluoride. This analyzing method can be used in a feedback control system for controlling the concentration of fluorine in an excimer laser gas during operation of the laser to thereby stabilize the laser output power.

Abstract: A uniquely constructed stretcher or sled provided with mounting hardware to support existing medical equipment in a compact and effective manner thereby providing an extremely effective neonatal emergency transport system. The stretcher includes mounting hardware at the central portion thereof for a transport incubator and attached to the incubator is a bracket specifically constructed to mount a heated humidifier. Adjacent the incubator unit toward the right end of the stretcher is a rack system of brackets to consolidate and support several pieces of equipment used in monitoring the neonate and the environment inside the incubator including an infusion pump, oxygen monitor, pulse oximeter and ECG monitor.

Abstract: A shelf divider is designed for use on a shelf having rows of apertures extending along the front and back of the shelf. The divider is made of plastic sheet with a vertical divider panel and a horizontal attachment panel. A tongue at the front end of the attachment panel is inserted in a selected aperture at the front of the shelf. A perforation in the attachment panel aligned with the tongue is positioned to overlie a corresponding aperture at the back of the shelf. To releasably attach the divider to the shelf, a push-in plastic pin is inserted in the perforation and corresponding aperture. The divider is formed with tongues and perforations at both ends to make it reversible.

Abstract: A water vaporizer system for supplying steam to internal combustion engines, comprising a water boiler (7) on the exhaust conduit, which supplies steam to a steam reservoir (2,107) wherein it is mixed with air and supplied to the air intake.

Abstract: During the pickling, etching, chemical shaping etc. of steels, stainless steels, special alloys and special metals and the dissolution of those metals, metalliferous solutions of the acids employed arise in the course of such processes which must either be disposed of by neutralization or be used for the recovery of the acids and metals by expensive processes. According to the invention the production or recovery of nitric acid or a mixture of nitric acid and hydrofluoric acid takes place by spray-roasting the solutions at temperatures of 200.degree. to 500.degree. in a reactor (1) and subsequent absorptions or condensation of the gases generated in column means (7, 8) at temperatures of 0.degree. to 70.degree. C.

Abstract: A transit system is disclosed having a guideway, with the primary of a linear induction motor located at spaced intervals therealong. A train of vehicles is positioned to travel along the guideway and includes the secondary of the linear induction motor. The secondary extends along and between the vehicles in spaced relation with respect to the primary so as to encounter a magnetic field emanating from the primary to cause a thrust to be generated in the secondary. The secondary thereby provides an even distribution of the thrust along the frame, while reducing the loss of power when the train encounters corners and hills.

Abstract: The invention relates to the production of a new ceramic composite material containing molybdenum disilicide in the form of 20-60 .mu.m grains.The method involves preparation of an exothermic mixture containing silicon, molybdenum (VI) oxide, aluminium and molybdenum with the following ratio of the components (wt %):______________________________________ silicon 29-38 molybdenum (VI) oxide 7-42 aluminium 3-16 molybdenum 13-52 ______________________________________its heat treatment in a combustion mode, followed by compaction of the obtained combustion products by way of at least two-stage compression with a degree of deformation from 0.75 to 0.90 at each stage, at a temperature within 1500.degree. to 1900.degree. C.

Abstract: A speaker vibration member is made by melting materials containing no less than 10% of a thermoplastic liquid crystal polymer and 3 to 40% of fiber or flake filler by weight, allowing the mixture to flow, cooling the mixture, and solidifying it.

Abstract: An automatic speed control system for a vehicle includes a throttle control for controlling a throttle valve opening based on a deviation between a target speed and an actual speed of the vehicle so as to accomplish the target speed. A down-shift device for making a down-shift operation in an automatic transmission, a steady judging device for judging a steady condition of the actual speed after the down-shift operation, and an up-shift device for making an up-shift operation in the automatic transmission, when a reduction of the throttle valve opening more than a predetermined value is detected, after the actual speed is judged to be in the steady condition, are provided. A proper speed control can be provided when the vehicle runs uphill, regardless of the length and/or gradient of the uphill path.

Abstract: A image pickup device having a rewritable recording member on which optical patterns are repeatedly recorded as electrostatic images using a writing head with an electric potential applied between the head and recording member. Each image recorded on the recording member is erased prior to recording a subsequent image by application of an alternating voltage or an electric potential of opposite polarity between the writing head and recording member.

Abstract: A method of assigning seismic traces obtained by means of one or more seismic sources (1) and receivers (2) wherein, a plane containing each source (1) and receivers (2) is divided into a regular array of regions (12-18), for example a rectangular array referred to cartesian coordinates (X-Y). The regions cover at least a middle portion of a line (11) joining each source (1) to each receiver (2). Diagonals (19-25) intersect the line (11) at respective intersection points and offspring traces are allocated to these points.

Abstract: An electronic cross connect frame for an exchange or a multiplexor therefor is provided in which an analogue access matrix is provided for providing a limited number of spare cards or different cards to which any of the lines may be switched to provide a "sparing" or alternative services.

Abstract: A cart in the form of a stroller is provided including a forwardly tapering and height diminishing forward portion defining a rearwardly opening cavity and the width and height of the cavity increases rearwardly whereby the forward end portion of a second rear cart may be nested into the rearwardly opening cavity of the forward cart. In addition, the cart is constructed with upstanding opposite side portions between which an occupant's seat is defined and also an upwardly and rearwardly projecting rear wall terminating upwardly in a rearwardly directed horizontal handle, a lower portion of the rear wall defining a front-to-rear extending opening therethrough.

Abstract: Apparatus (2) for liquid flushing of body cavities and/or supplying an active substance to the body cavities includes a piston/cylinder device (3), a device (9,10) for manual actuation of the piston (8) and a nozzle (4) projecting from the piston/cylinder device (3) adapted for insertion of the free end (12) of the nozzle in the body cavity. The nozzle (4) is formed with two separated channels (5,6) each terminating at an outer end in a free end of the nozzle, one of the channels (6) extending in the wall of the cylinder (7) and an inner end terminating at the end of the cylinder immersed in the liquid (b) in a receptacle (1) containing the liquid and connected to the piston/cylinder device, the other channel (5) having an inner end communicating with a space (A) above the liquid in the container (1) and a piston rod (9) having a return spring (11).

Abstract: A method for simultaneous collection of seismic data of shallow and deep targets, in which two seismic streamers are towed at different water depths (1 and 2 in FIG. 2), and only one acoustic source of seismic signals is used. The seismic data recorded by the different streamers are mixed in a subsequent processing step, seismic data being weighted before being mixed by a weight which is made dependent on the recorded two-way travel time for the respective streamers, so that data from one or several streamers located at the least water depth receive a weight which decreases with travel time, whereas data from a corresponding number of streamers of greater depths receive a weight which increases with travel time.

Abstract: An intake manifold for a multi cylinder internal combustion engine has a common upstream passage and individual downstream passages, leading individually to cylinders of the engine, respectively. These individual downstream passages are connected between a downstream end of the common upstream passage and the cylinders. Upstream end portions of the individual downstream passages are symmetrically located around a fuel injector, disposed downstream relative to the common upstream passage, and are joined together. At a center of the symmetrically joined upstream end portions of the individual downstream passages, fuel passages are provided to open independently into the upstream end portions so as to introduce fuel from the fuel injector into the individual downstream passages.