Abstract: A refrigerant recovery system and apparatus to connect with a refrigeration machine to selectively receive liquid and vapor refrigerant therefrom and to clean, purify and dry that refrigerant for present reuse; said apparatus includes a recovery line with an inlet connected with a related refrigeration machine, a particulate matter filter and de-acidifier devise with an inlet connected with an outlet end of the recovery line, a liquid-vapor refrigerant flow control devise operating to selectively conduct and cause liquid refrigerant flowing through it and expand to a gaseous state and to selectively and freely conduct and cause vaporous refrigerant to flow through it, said refrigerant flow control devise has an inlet connected with an outlet of the filter and de-acidifier devise and an outlet connected with an inlet of a refrigerant conducting vapor line, an oil separator devise with a refrigerant inlet connected with an outlet end of the vapor line, a refrigerant dryer devise with an inlet connected with an

Abstract: A testing device to close a circuit between first or second sections of a pair of lines within a connector block in which the first and second sections of each line are normally connected by pairs of connector parts with which the sections of the lines are connected, a socket opening at each connector part and pairs of electrically connected contact prongs removably engaged in the socket openings, the testing device includes a manually engageable case carrying two prongs have free ends projecting therefrom and a bridge line within the case and connecting the prongs, the two prongs of the device are selectively removeably engageable in the socket openings related to the connector parts with which the first section the two parts are connected and in the socket openings related to the connector parts with which the second sections of the lines are connected.

Abstract: An emergency stop warning system for an automobile with a hydraulically operated brake system and that includes an electric power supply, a warning sound emitting electrically operated horn connected with the power supply, a normally open fluid pressure actuated switch electrically connected between the power supply and the horn and hydraulically connected with the brake system; that the hydraulically actuated switch is set to close and cause the horn to sound when fluid pressure in the braking system is increased to cause the automobile to decelerate and stop at a faster than normal rate.

Abstract: A machine tool including an elongate bed with front and rear ends and a longitudinal axis, a spindle with a work piece-engaging chuck at the rear end of the bed, a first motor driving the spindle, a carriage at the front end of the bed, a first drive means with a second motor to position and move the carriage longitudinally of the longitudinal axis, an elongate cross-slide carried by the carriage and carrying a tool holder, a second drive means with a third motor to position and move the cross-slide on a lateral axis, an encoder connected with and reading the rotative position of the spindle, an electric-powered computerized primary controller connected with the encoder and with the first, second and third motors and controlling the operation thereof in response to machining programs stored therein; a rotary cutting tool head including an elongate rotary cutting tool holder driven by a fourth motor is mounted on the cross-slide remote from the cutting tool holder; a second electric-powered computerized contro

Abstract: A glycol chiller comprising an elongate vertical sheet metal tank with front and rear walls, laterally spaced vertical end walls, vertically spaced top and bottom walls and a horizontal intermediate wall spaced between the top and bottom walls and defining a lower glycol chiller chamber and an upper glycol reservoir within the tank filler opening in the top wall, a flow through port in the intermediate wall conducting glycol from the reservoir into the chamber, a plurality of spaced apart partitions in the chiller chamber defining an elongate zig zag glycol flow passage with upstream and downstream ends within the chamber, glycol inlet and outlet fittings communicating with opposite ends of the flow passage and projecting from the tank to connect with glycol return and delivery lines extending from a related heat exchanging device; a motor driven pump downstream from the inlet fitting and operating to continuously recirculate glycol through the flow passage and the selected heat exchange device; an electric p

Abstract: An improved trunk-line structure comprising a plurality of elongate beer lines and glycol lines made of flexible plastic tubing in parallel juxtaposition; an elongate sheath of high tensile strength, tear resistant, flexible plastic material is tightly engaged about and extending longitudinally of the assembly of beer and glycol lines and holds the lines in set position relative to each other; an elongate tube of soft, flexible, resilient, thermal insulating foam plastic material is engaged about and extending longitudinally of the sheath; and, a skin of inhervious, soft, flexible and resilient plastic material is positioned about and extending longitudinally of the tube, the plastic materials of which the parts of the trunk-line structure are made have low indexes of heat conductivity.

Abstract: An implantable artificial endocrine pancreas comprising a reactive body of soft, plastic, biocompatible, porous hydratable material supporting a multiplicity of endocrine pancreatic islets in isolated spaced relationship from each other; and, a microporous barrier membrane enveloping and supporting the body, in spaced relationship from the pancreatic islets therein and through which molecules having a molecular weight greater than 60,000 Daltons cannot move.

Abstract: A counter top beer dispensing tower structure including a thermo insulating jacket structure with a top wall, a flat counter top engaging bottom wall, rear and side walls, a flat vertically and laterally extending front wall and a body insulating material at the inner surfaces of the walls, a metal cold plate within the body of insulating material, a plurality of laterally spaced dispensing valve mounting parts carried by and projecting forwardly from the plate and accessible at the front wall, a plurality of elongate tubular beer conducting coils in the plate, each beer conducting coil has a downstream end portion connected with a related valve mounting part and a vertical upstream end portion depending from the plate and bottom wall to extend through a primary opening in a related counter and to connect with the downstream end on of related beer conducting line, and elongate tubular glycol coil unit within the plate and having vertical upstream and downstream end portions depending from the plate and the ja

Abstract: A lantern including a battery power supply, a pair of fluorescent tubes, a normally open manually operable multi-position switch, a motion detector device with a normally open switch and an electric-powered horn. The switch operates to selectively connect the power supply with one or both of the tubes or with the motion detector. By operation of the multi-position switch, the motion detector selectively operates to connect the power supply with the pair of tubes, with the pair of tubes and the horn or with the horn when the switch thereof is closed in response to detected motion. The lantern further includes a light reflector selectively moveable from a stored position to an operating position where it reflects and concentrates light emitted by the tubes in a limited field of view adjacent a side of the lantern within which motion is to be detected by the motion detector.

Abstract: A heat exchanger comprising an elongate tank with top, bottom, side, front and rear walls. A plurality of longitudinally spaced partitions are positioned within the tank and define an elongate serpentine or zig-zag liquid conducting flow passage with upstream and downstream ends. An elongate serpentine or zig-zag formed fluid coolant conducting coil is positioned centrally within and extends longitudinally of the flow passage. The coil has an upstream end portion exiting the tank at the downstream end of the flow passage and a downstream end portion exiting the tank at the upstream end of the flow passage. Liquid inlet and outlet fittings connected with a valve-controlled fluid supply and dispensing means conduct liquid into and out of the flow passage.

Abstract: A beverage dispensing machine including a cabinet having a utility section in which parts of a refrigeration machine and liquid-handling parts are housed and a thermally insulated section defining a compartment in which beverage concentrate supplies are removably positioned and that houses fluid-conducting parts of the machine including a liquid concentrate pump, water control valve, water and liquid concentrate metering and mixing devices and a pressurized heat exchange water tank through which an evaporator coil of the refrigeration machine extends and through which water to be dispensed is circulated and chilled; chilled water in the tank is circulated through a cooling coil in the compartment to chill the contents thereof.

Abstract: A beer-dispensing apparatus including a source of cooled pressurized gas-ladened beer, an elongate beer delivery line extending from the source of beer to a remote beer-dispensing station, a normally closed beer-dispensing valve at the beer-dispensing station, a liquid glycol chilling and recirculating unit, a heat exchanger beer delivery structure including an elongate beer-conducting balance line smaller in inside diameter than the beer delivery line and connected with and extending between the beer delivery line and the valve, an elongate glycol-conducting tube extending longitudinally of and in heat transfer relationship with the balance tube and connected with the glycol chilling and recirculating unit to cause chilled glycol to continuously circulate through it; a thermally insulated heat-storing aluminum body about the balance and glycol tubes; glycol flowing through the glycol tube progressively lowers the temperature of beer flowing downstream through the balance tube to the valve.

Abstract: A waterbed frame structure including a rectilinear flotation mattress supporting platform, elongate anchor plates with top surfaces secured to the side portions of the platform, elongate, soft, resilient mattress retaining wall sections extending longitudinally of the anchor plates and having bottom surfaces overlying and opposing the top surfaces of the anchor plates, couplings pivotally connecting the wall sections to the anchor plates for upward and inward pivotal movement to allow for lateral inward movement of linen between the anchor plates and wall sections; and, linen-engaging ridges and linen-receiving grooves at the top surfaces of the anchor plates, the bottom surfaces of the wall sections normally yieldingly conform with the ridges and grooves; linen engaged between the anchor plates and wall sections is urged and held in conforming engagement between the conformed ridges and grooves of the anchor plate and the bottom surfaces of the wall sections.