Abstract: A tool for cutting materials such as animal carcasses and portions of carcasses one after another, the tool including a cutting blade and a guard member, together with means for discharging against the blade and against the guard member hot water at sterilizing temperature for sterilizing the cutting blade and guard between their use in cutting different carcasses. The disclosure also deals with a process in which one carcass is cut using the tool, the tool withdrawn and the blade and guard then treated by discharging sterilizing water thereon before the tool is again used in the cutting of other carcasses.

Abstract: A facial cleanser especially useful for the removal of eye make-up is disclosed. A combination of mineral oil, certain phosphate esters and high molecular weight carboxy vinyl polymers, in the absence of water, forms a minimally irritating clear gel having a higher rinsability than mineral oil gelled by prior art methods.

Abstract: A tool for cutting materials such as animal carcasses and portions of carcasses one after another, the tool including a cutting blade and a guard member, together with means for discharging against the blade and against the guard member hot water at sterilizing temperature for sterilizing the cutting blade and guard between their use in cutting different carcasses. The disclosure also deals with a process in which one carcass is cut using the tool, the tool withdrawn and the blade and guard then treated by discharging sterilizing water thereon before the tool is again used in the cutting of other carcasses.

Abstract: A novel combination of powdered materials such as zirconium and aluminum salts suspended in a solid solution of volatile silicones and long chain alcohols. The silicones and alcohols are brought into solid solution by mixing the components in liquid phase at temperatures not to exceed 150.degree. F. (66.degree. C.). The addition of the powdered material to the silicone oil and alcohol matrix prevents the separation of the components upon cooling.This application is a continuation-in-part of Ser. No. 655,665, filed Feb. 5, 1976, now abandoned.

Abstract: Drafts of preselected weight are sliced into a preselected number of slices by passing the material to be sliced through a curtain of radiation to measure the density of the material, and this measurement is used to calculate the length of each draft, which measurement is stored and subsequently read out to control the operation of a stepping hydroelectric motor which pushes the material through a cutting station at the proper speed.

Abstract: Novel aromatic guanidine compounds having the formula: ##STR1## wherein: R.sub.1 is hydroxyl, methyl or hydroxymethyl and R.sub.2 is hydrogen or methyl, are found to have biological activity. The guanidine compounds and their salts are shown to be active as vasoconstrictor agents and create useful pharmaceutical preparations when deployed with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier for administration to a host, e.g., man, requiring vasoconstrictive therapy.

Abstract: The disclosure teaches an improvement to a type of novel modular display panel which in the prior art required removal of the frames in rearranging. The improved system can be quickly assembled, disassembled, rearranged and newly assembled in different panel order without the necessity of taking the panels out of their frames. Multiple panels are joined together by means of elongate vertical frames and center posts having reciprocally mating splines and keyways which freely move longitudinally such that the center post can be slipped out, the panels rearranged and the center post put back in to position. The stability of the system is secured by providing a temporary removable insert in the keyways carrying an elastomeric material which is expanded to frictionally engage the side walls of the keyways. The elastomeric material can be reversably contracted to release the sidewalls.

Abstract: A novel dye system and improvement to the conventional method of preparing highly colored soap and synthetic detergent bars is disclosed. In the making of soap bars, for example, a solution of water, glycerine and dye is added to soap pellets in the amalgamator along with a slurry of uncolored soap additives to produce a highly colored soap product, thus solving the problem of introducing high concentrations of dyes to soap pellets at the amalgamator, particularly in the presence of a slurry heavy with additives. This makes it feasible for one slurry tank to serve multiple amalgamators producing different highly colored bar products.

Abstract: Resin peptides useful in the preparation of salmon calcitonin are disclosed along with processes for preparing the same. The invention also embraces peptides from which the resin moiety has been cleaved and which are useful in the synthesis of salmon calcitonin together with processes for preparing the cleaved peptides. In general, the processes involve the solid phase synthesis procedures.

Abstract: Novel aromatic guanidine compounds having the formula: ##STR1## wherein: R.sub.1 is hydroxyl, methyl or hydroxymethyl and R.sub.2 is hydrogen or methyl, are found to have biological activity. The guanidine compounds and their salts are shown to be activate as vasoconstrictor agents and create useful pharmaceutical preparations when deployed with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier for administration to a host, e.g., man, requiring vasoconstrictive therapy.

Abstract: A machine for breaking the foretoes of sheep and lambs carried on a moving kill chain. It has a fork presenting seriatim the open end of the tines to receive the forefeet of sheep at the knuckles, a portion of the tines spaced to closely confine and engage the knuckles and a more widely spaced portion of the tines to release the feet as the sheep is advanced by the killing chain. The machine provides means for supporting and rotating the tines of the fork around its longitudinal axis to break the toes while the sheep's feet are engaged. When the toes are broken, the fork rotates back to the original position.

Abstract: Preparations containing 4-biphenylyl butylamines or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof and methods of using the same whereby a host, including man, to whom such preparations are administered, is provided with anti-inflammatory, antipyretic and analgesic relief while avoiding the unwanted side effects of steroid therapy.The preparations of this invention contain compounds having the structure ##STR1## wherein: R.sub.1 is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen and lower alkyls having from one to four carbon atoms; and R.sub.2 is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen and lower alkyls having from one to four carbon atoms. The pharmaceutically acceptable salts are formed on the same basis structure as shown.

Abstract: Resin peptides useful in the preparation of peptides having biological activity, and particularly such resin peptides containing R-CH.sub.2 -Phe-Glu at one end of an amino acid chain, R being the resin and Phe and Glu being the residues of the amino acids phenylalanine and glutamic acid; and processes for the preparation of such resin peptides. Resin peptides are disclosed which contain amino acid chains identical with the amino acid chains of natural peptides having biological activity. Other resin peptides are disclosed which contain amino acid chains in which the amino acid residues differ in kind and sequence from amino acid chains of natural biologically active peptides but from which peptides having biological activity may be derived.

Abstract: A process for preparing sliced dried beef in which beef is ground into chunks which are mixed with a curing ingredient, stuffed into fibrous casings and cured. The casings containing cured meat are subjected to a drying procedure in which the casings are immersed in hot brine for a period of time during which moisture content is reduced. The meat having reduced moisture content is chilled, sliced and packaged.

Abstract: A method for testing cooked beef rounds to determine their tenderness by pressing a pointed probe into that portion of the Semimembranosus muscle of a cooked round which is proximal to the rump roast, and measuring the force required to penetrate the muscle to a predetermined depth.

Abstract: A process for treating raw poultry to pasteurize the surface thereof by dipping the poultry in oil having a temperature from 180.degree.-315.degree. F. for a period of from 10 to 60 seconds to reduce the surface bacteria without materially affecting the natural bloom of the poultry.

Abstract: A method of packing strips of material such as bacon by feeding film over a rotating stepped roll, feeding strips or slices of the material onto the film over the steps of this roll, picking up the slices from the roll in shingled relationship with film interleaved between the slices, and then compacting the shingled strips by passing them from a conveyor driven at one speed to a conveyor driven at a slower speed. A machine is disclosed having mechanical and automatic controls for timing the respective functions in accordance with the operation of the slicer and for synchronizing the elements of the machine.

Abstract: A fabric softener containing the following essential ingredients: I -- an amine oxide wherein one alkyl group attached to the nitrogen atom contains a long carbon chain and the two other alkyl groups attached to the nitrogen atom are each a methyl, ethyl, isopropyl or 2-hydroxyethyl group, II -- a first quaternary ammonium compound wherein one alkyl group attached to the nitrogen atom contains a long carbon chain, and each of the three other alkyl groups attached to the nitrogen atom is methyl or ethyl, III -- a second quaternary ammonium compound wherein one of the alkyl groups attached to the nitrogen atom is methyl, ethyl or 2-hydroxyethyl, two of the other alkyl groups attached to the nitrogen atom are each methyl or ethyl, and the remaining alkyl group attached to the nitrogen atom is polyoxypropylene, and IV -- a third quaternary ammonium compound wherein two alkyl groups attached to the nitrogen atom are each methyl or ethyl, one of the remaining alkyl groups attached to the nitrogen atom is phenylalky

Abstract: A system for marking carcasses in which animal carcasses are supported on and moved along a conveyor rail, and which includes a device for marking the carcasses as they move along the rail, the device including a marking wheel which is rotatable about a substantially vertical axis, and means for resiliently urging the marking wheel toward the carcasses as they pass along the rail.