Abstract: Apparatus (1') for measurement of both the grip strength of a person's hand and pinch strength of two digits of the hand comprises two parallel grip handles (2', 3') extending at right angles from a third member (4'). Handle (3') is rigidly fixed to third member (4') and has two pairs of strain gauges mounted thereon to measure the force applied to the handles irrespective of where that force is applied. Handle (2') is adjustable with respect to handle (3') to alter the distance between the two handles, and the ends of the handles terminate in flat portions (6', 7') to be used for measurement of pinch strength.

Abstract: An improved bipolar membrane, a precursor for said membrane and a process for preparing bipolar membranes and precursors are described. In the process a precursor is formed by laminating at least two polymeric layers at least one of which is non-ionic. After the formation of the precursor, the non-ionic layer or layers are chemically treated to form a stable bipolar membrane having high permselectivity and low potential drop. The novel bipolar membrane contains an interfacial layer having anionic and cationic domains.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a flameproofing process which comprises treating a woven or knitted fabric comprising a cellulosic fiber with a boron hydride compound and/or a metal borohydride compound, followed by treating it with an amidophosphazene compound. According to the invention, a flameproofed product excellent in whiteness degree is obtained and, when the starting fabric is a lightly dyed fabric, a flameproofed product excellent in color tone is obtained.

Abstract: An improved polycrystalline silicon resistor having limited lateral diffusion, integrated circuits containing such resistors, and a method of their preparation is disclosed. The polysilicon resistor is formed by first doping the polysilicon layer with a p or n type impurity and thereafter neutralizing the treated layer with impurities of the other type so as to form a device wherein the concentration gradient between the resistor region of the aforesaid layer and its environment is low. The low concentration gradient reduces lateral diffusion during manufacture, thereby permitting manufacture of integrated circuits of higher circuit density and resistors with smaller dimensions, lower temperature coefficients and higher reliability.

Abstract: A textile treatment composition comprises a water insoluble quaternary ammonium salt and a non-ionic surfactant containing at least one long-chain alkyl or fatty acid substituent and a hydrophilic group. The quaternary ammonium compound preferably has three large alkyl substituents of at least carbon atoms each and the surfactant may be selected from phosphine oxides, sulphoxides, or tertiary amine oxides, especially the latter. The compositions may be diluted with water and applied to textile materials especially wool, to give antistatic properties thereto. Compositions of the invention have lower soiling propensity than hitherto available compositions and they may therefore be applied to finished carpets, either in the piece or in situ applications.

Abstract: A game is disclosed which consists of plurality of cards each bearing indicia thereon representing at least one word and a plurality of rewards. The cards are randomly selected and used to construct complete sentences whose meaning and grammar must be subjectively acceptable by the players. Awards are granted for the acceptable sentences.

Abstract: A novel isonitrile group-containing polymer free of the problem of bad odor inherent in isonitrile compounds is obtained by making use of carbylamine reaction which is now abandoned as means for the synthesis of low-molecular isonitrile compounds.

Abstract: A catalyst and a process to convert commercial cyclohexanol feed to cyclohexanone at a relatively low temperature at stable conversion levels for long periods of operation. This process and catalyst allow operation in the presence of water and high boiling side products. The process features high conversion efficiency and low by-product formation, by use of an improved CuO-ZnO catalyst promoted with an alkali-metal compound such as sodium carbonate. The catalyst is stable in the presence of water and heavy end products in the feedstock (up to 13%). The presence of water rejuvenates the catalyst, increases the conversion and decreases the phenol content in the product mixture.

Abstract: Apparatus for removing entrained liquid from a gas stream comprises a cylindrical casing (67) designed to be mounted so that its axis is substantially vertical. An inlet port (62) and a gas outlet port (63) are provided adjacent to the upper end of the casing and drain means (80) are provided at the lower end of the casing whereby separated liquid may be drained therefrom. A gas outlet tube (75) coaxial with the inner surface of the casing, extends downwardly from the upper end thereof, the outlet tube communicating at its upper end with the gas outlet port (63). A plurality of baffles (72) are arranged in an annulus around the outer surface of the outlet tube (75), the baffles being located downstream of the inlet port (62) and shaped to impart a spinning movement to the incoming gas stream. An impingement plate (77) is located downstream of the baffles and has an upper surface extending transversely across the path of the air stream leaving the baffles.

Abstract: An improved stabilizer for use in stabilizing both drill collars and other sections on a drill string is disclosed. The stabilizer has at least three circumferentially spaced helical blades which have a tapered portion at each end and a cylindrical portion therebetween, each blade overlapping the adjacent blade within each tapered portion as well as within the cylindrical portion.

Abstract: An intraocular lens which may be inserted into the eye through a smaller incision in the cornea than another lens with an optic of the same diameter and is adapted to seat adjacent the periphery of the iris. The optic is deformable so that the optic may be in contracted condition while the lens is being inserted through the incision.

Abstract: A bending machine for forming bends in a sheet material. The bending machine has a pair of spaced relatively fixed forming tools for movement with respect to an unclamped portion of the sheet material to effect corresponding bends in the sheet material.

Abstract: Polymeric materials are repolymerized by intensely admixing the polymer with an additive having the formula: ##STR1## wherein M is titanium or zirconium, R, R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are each a monovalent alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, aralkyl, aryl or alkaryl group having up to 20 carbon atoms or a halogen or ether substituted derivative thereof, and, in addition, R.sup.2 may also be an oxy derivative or an ether substituted oxy derivative of said groups; A, B, and C are each a monovalent aroxy, thioaroxy, diester phosphate, diester pyrophosphate, oxyalkylamino, sulfonyl or carboxyl containing up to 30 carbon atoms; and a+b+c=3. The repolymerized polymers have improved physical properties and higher heat distortion temperatures, experience less thermal degradation and show greater solvolysis resistance than the polymers prior to the repolymerization.

Abstract: A total artifical heart prosthesis having a body defining a right ventricle chamber and a left ventricle chamber each provided with an inlet valve and outlet valve, as well as with a flexible membrane dividing each ventricle chamber into a blood-receiving compartment or ventricle proper, and a cardiac function control compartment, in which artificial heart said membranes are urged by a ferromagnetic fluid. Arranged to cooperate with the membranes are electric windings which create magnetic fields producing a sought displacement of the membrane-urging ferromagnetic fluid, i.e. of the membranes themselves. A means is provided for driving the membranes as desired and for powering the electric windings in order to generate the magnetic field.

Abstract: When trifluoroethyl methacrylate, hexafluoroisopropyl methacrylate, pentafluoro-n-propyl methacrylate and/or pentafluoro-n-butyl methacrylate which are fluorine-containing monomers, are added to a conventional monomer mixture for producing a soft contact lens, the resulting soft contact lens has the same optical properties and elasticity as conventional soft contact lenses have, and is very superior to the conventional ones in resistance to deposit and in shape stability.

Abstract: A clothes hoist comprising a bearing block secured to the outer surface of the fixed lower standard of a clothes hoist but having an annular projection which extends through an aperture in the wall of the lower standard and into an aperture in the side wall of a tubular inner member to thereby support the tubular inner member, the tubular inner member itself supporting a nut which threadably engages a non-circular threaded stem which, upon rotation of the nut, raises or lowers the upper standard. Rotation is effected by rotating a handle on the end of a driving pinion skirt journalled in the bearing block, and having a driving pinion on its inner end which meshes with a driven pinion on the nut. A body surrounds the lower standard and overlies an outwardly projecting portion of the bearing block.

Abstract: A novel chromogenic and fluorescent substrate for measuring the concentration of kallikrein in urine. The novel substrate according to the present invention has very excellent substrate specificity to kallikreins and good solubility in water or biological test solutions.The present substrate is therefore useful for measuring the concentration of kallikrein in urine for the diagnosis of hypertension and other diseases caused by the lowering of the concentration of kallikrein.

Abstract: A stuffed animal having an inner body covered by a loosely connected enlarged outer skin permitting adjustment of the folds therein for changing the appearance and/or expression of the stuffed animal by external manipulation.

Abstract: A posterior chamber lens implant for use after extra-capsular surgery, i.e. surgery in which the rear membrane of the lens or posterior capsule is left intact. The lens implant comprises an optic having a front surface and a rear surface and the implant is secured within the posterior chamber of the eye. In one form of the invention, a pair of position-fixation means are adapted to support the optic in the posterior capsule of the eye with the planar rear face of the optic inclined with respect to the posterior capsule, with the superior rear edge of the optic in contact with the posterior capsule and the inferior rear edge spaced from the posterior capsule. While in a second form of the invention, the position-fixation means are such that they press the superior peripheral rear edge of the optic against the posterior capsule for deforming the latter in a manner to space the posterior capsule away from the mid-portion of the rear face of the optic.

Abstract: A posterior chamber intraocular lens having, according to one preferred form, at least one projection extending rearwardly from a location radially outwardly of a peripheral rear edge portion of the optic for spacing, from the mid-portion of the rear surface of the optic, the adjacent region of the posterior capsule containing the tension line. If desired, after implantation of the lens, the posterior capsule may be safely perforated with a laser beam transversely to a line of tension formed by the projection, causing the posterior capsule to tear and form an opening to eliminate any cloudiness of the posterior capsule from behind the optic. According to another preferred form, the lens has a pair of rearward projections, each located radially outwardly of opposite peripheral portions of the optica and cooperating to produce a similar tension and spacing effect.