Abstract: A steering damper particularly for mountain bicycles of the type having a steer-tube including a cylinder having closures at the ends filled with oil of high viscosity. Within the cylinder there are a dam and vanes. The steering damper is integrated with the steer-tube and with the handlebars and steer-stem. The vanes of the steering damper are connected to the frame and are fixed. The housing and dam connected internally to the housing are disposed in, and connected to, the steer-tube so that when the handlebars are rotated, the housing and dam are rotated relative to the vanes. When the handlebars are being displaced from center, pressure is applied to the oil between the dam and a vane and the movement is damped. On the return stroke of the handlebars, the one-way valve in the vane involved is open, the oil between the dam and the vane is discharged, pressure is reduced and the damping is suppressed.

Abstract: A steering damper particularly for a bicycle which is integrated into the bicycle. The damper includes a housing closed at the top by a cap from which sidewalls extend and at the bottom. The housing contains a damping medium. Within the housing thee is a dam connected to the housing and a single vane connected to a shaft which passes through the housing. There is an opening in the shaft which communicates with the vane to circulate the medium during the damping when the bicycle departs from the path in which it is being directed and during the suppression of the damping when the bicycle returns to the path along which it is directed. The effective cross-section of the opening in the shaft is of sufficient magnitude to permit unrestricted flow of the medium. The housing and dam are supported within the steer-tube by the clamp from the steer-stem and are connected to the clamp by a tapered bearing rotatably with the steer-tube as the steer-tube is rotatable by the handlebars.

Abstract: A steering damper particularly for mountain bicycles of the type having a steer-tube including a cylinder having closures at the ends filled with oil of high viscosity. Within the cylinder there are a dam and vanes. The dam is rotatable on a shaft from a center position towards and away from the vanes. The shaft is connected to the handlebars and is rotatable with the handlebars which are connected to control the steering movement of a steerable wheel through the steer-tube. The steering damper is integrated with the steer-tube and with the handlebars and steer-stem. The vanes of the steering damper are connected to the frame and are fixed. The housing and dam connected internally to the housing are disposed in, and connected to, the steer-tube so that when the handlebars are rotated, the housing and dam are rotated relative to the vanes. When the handlebars are being displaced from center, pressure is applied to the oil between the dam and a vane and the movement is damped.

Abstract: A frame for a cabinet for a deodorant particularly for commodes and urinals in public facilities. The frame is composed of separate back plate, top member and bottom member composed of a resilient plastic. The top member and bottom member are snap-locked to the back plate and secured further by projections from the top and bottom members in slots in the back plate. The bottom member is a liquidtight tray capable of processing deodorants in bottles through wicks or can with wicks, absorbent surcotas and wafers. There is a bottle holder snap-locked to the underside of the top member. A battery-blower assembly is snap-locked to the back plate. The battery poles are joined to the wires from the blower-motor by a clip. The tube which drips deodorant into a commode or urinal is secured to the outlet from the tray by ribs and bulkhead fittings are dispensed with.

Abstract: Buffing apparatus including a buffing assembly including a stack of buffing wheels with or without spacers between the rings, compressed under high pressure. Each wheel includes a clinch ring which in turn secures an annulus of fabric extending radially therefrom. Each spacer includes a ring; they may be the remnants of used buffing wheels. The wheels and spacers, if any, are contiguous forming an inner cylindrical surface of the rings. Steel straps extend axially along this inner surface, the straps being secured by metal inert-gas welding to the rings at the ends of the stack. The pressure between the buffing wheels and any spacers of the stacks is so high as to suppress any tendency of the wheels or spacers to slip circumferentially with respect to each other when the stack is under high tangential force in use. The straps serve to be engaged by the keys of a drive shaft to drive the buffing apparatus.

Abstract: A drive for providing an air stream for generating vapor from a wick or ceramic wafers or discs containing vaporizable deordorant. The drive includes a socket assembly in which a socket for a motor of larger dimensions and a socket for a motor of smaller dimensions are mounted back-to-back. The mounting of the assembly in the deodorant apparatus is reversible so that either socket can receive the corresponding motor for driving the air.

Abstract: A steering damper for mountain bicycles including a closed cylinder filled with oil of high viscosity including a dam and vanes rotatable from center towards and away from the dam. The vanes are connected rotatably with the handlebars in reciprocal steering relationship with a steerable wheel. When the steerable wheel encounters an obstruction displacing it from center, the vanes are driven in the oil one towards and one away from the dam respectively decreasing and compressing and increasing and relaxing the corresponding volumes of the oil and damping the movement of the handlebars. The damping against the return of the handlebars and steerable wheel to center is suppressed by one-way valves in the vanes which open when the compressing vane is retracted, recesses in the cylinder providing a non-resistant path for the oil moving through the valve in the retracting vane.

Abstract: Roll apparatus in which the rotation under the tangential force exerted when the apparatus is in use of the rolling rings relative to the arbor is suppressed by the restoring force of the arbor that is elongated and held in the elongated condition exerting an axial pressure on the rolling ring assembly. The arbor is elongated by expansion of a chamber to which the arbor is connected through a thrust ring which forms a boundary of the chamber. In addition to the thrust ring, the boundaries of the chamber are a flanged ring mounted on the arbor, which is fixed, and the arbor. An adjustable spacing collar is connected to the arbor. After the arbor is elongated, the collar is adjusted to engage the flanged ring, thus locking the arbor against contraction.

Abstract: A cartridge including a cylindrical annulus of a porous material adapted to be impregnated with vaporizable deodorizing, disinfecting or humidifying material, having a plurality of openings encircling its central opening, a container having at one end a base having a plurality of openings therein open at the opposite end with this opening bounded by a seat for the annulus, and a battery extending between the base and the open end encircled and partially supported by the boundary of the central opening in the annulus. The cartridge does not have a battery where used for apparatus which already has a power supply.

Abstract: A fryer having a readily mountable or demountable protective cover for preventing the deposit of spray on the mechanisms for controlling the heater. The mechanisms are mounted on a control panel on the front of the cabinet of the fryer. The protective cover is a hood-like integral structure including a channel member covering the front and sides of the control panel and a top for covering the top of the panel. The top has a lip which effectuates the protective function by the cover. The protective cover has slots for engaging slideably the upper edges of the side walls of the cabinet extending from the panel to suspend the protective cover removably from the cabinet.

Abstract: For convenience in storing and handling, a garden hose of substantial length is formed of a plurality of sections which can be readily stored and readily assembled into a hose of substantial length. Each section has a female coupler at one end and a male coupler at the opposite end. Most of the couplers in the chain of hose sections are threadless, quick-connect coupler units with a male coupler that clicks into a female coupler. The sections are so short as not to require winding into a coil and so long that only a small number of sections are required to form the hose of substantial length. There are unfolded shorter tube sections and longer sections folded into a U-shape.

Abstract: A replacable cartridge for air-treating apparatus which includes a blower for generating an air stream. The cartridge includes a battery on which a seat in the form of a cap or sleeve having a flange is mounted and with a porous block to be impregnated with a vaporizable air-treating material seated on the flange. The block has peripheral holes in whose surfaces the vaporizable material is absorbed and from which the vapor is released. The holes are unobstructed by the seat. The battery is connected to energize the blower which produces a stream of air to pass over the surfaces of the holes and produce the vapor.

Abstract: A method of wagering at a racetrack where the racing entities are typically horses or dogs in whose practice cards are made available to persons attending the races for entering, prior to the beginning of the schedule of races, or, for latecomers, the beginning of a predetermined race herein called the nth race, the identification of the racing entities which each person selects to be "in the money." Cards are available for WIN alone, and/or for WIN and PLACE and/or for WIN, PLACE and SHOW. The payout is on a correct selection of all entities, on all entities less one, on all entities less two, etc., up to for all entities less a predetermined number. The payout is a predetermined prize assigned prior to the start of the races and is commensurate with the probability of the correct selection as the case may be. At racetracks where the entities in each race are numbered sequentially, there are also two types of payoffs.

Abstract: The beer dispensed from barrel 29 is cooled by common cooling means 45 in the container before being dispensed and also while flow through the cold plate 61 as it is dispensed. The dispensing of beer which is predominantly foam, "picnic beer," is thus precluded. The cooling is effected through the thermally conducting base 49 of pan 47 which serves as floor for the ice chest 25 and as ceiling for compartment 23 that holds the beer barrel.

Abstract: A beer dispenser for use without electric power facilities. The dispenser includes a thermally insulated cabinet for receiving a beer barrel. The cabinet has an opening in the front provided with an insulated door through which the barrel is inserted. An ice chest is mounted above the cabinet. The partition between the ice chest and the cabinet serves in common as the base of the ice chest and a ceiling for the cabinet and is thermally conducting so that there is heat interchange between the interior of the cabinet and the ice chest. The ice chest contains a cold plate. The coil is connected to the barrel at the input and to a spigot at the level of the ice chest at the output. The dispenser is provided with a hand pump or with a CO.sub.2 tank for applying pressure to the beer in the barrel. The ice in the ice chest cools both the beer flowing through the coil and the beer in the barrel so that the formation of "picnic beer" is avoided.

Abstract: Apparatus including a liquid vaporizer having a first wick of linear shape, a bottle for holding the liquid to be vaporized and a gravity-flow metering device having a second wick. The bottle has a closing cap to which two tubes are connected. One tube discharges the liquid from the bottle and the other extends through the cap to the opposite end of the bottle for counteracting the vacuum which is produced when liquid is discharged. The end of the discharging tube extends outwardly of the cap further than the end of the other tube so that a pool is produced in the dispenser. The level of the pool is limited by the position of the end of the tube for counteracting the vacuum. The second wick is of J-shape; one end is immersed in the pool and the other end is suspended over the first wick so that liquid absorbed at the immersed end drips from the second wick on the first wick and is evaporated and diffused from the first wick.

Abstract: A nitric acid producing plant including an absorber and a closed vessel. Nitric acid having nitrous acid in solution is produced in the absorber by reacting to the oxides of nitrogen derived from the decomposition of ammonia with water. There is also an oxygen cylinder which supplies oxygen under pressure differential to the vessel. The pressure of the stagnant oxygen in the vessel exceeds atmospheric pressure. The plant also includes means for passing the nitric acid solution from the absorber to the vessel under positive differential pressure and means for recycling to the absorber the product of the reaction of the nitric acid solution and the oxygen. The liquid which is recycled to the absorber absorbs NO at a higher rate than NO.sub.2.

Abstract: Radiation in the near infrared over a limited range of wavelengths about 1660 nanometers is projected on a portion of the body, for example, the ear, of the patient. The resulting radiation emitted by the portion, either scattered from the portion or transmitted after absorption and scattered by the portion, is processed to derive an expression of the resulting radiation as a function of the wavelength. The second derivative of this function over a very narrow range of this function between 1640 and 1670 nanometers is expanded and the glucose concentration is determined from the magnitude, or intensity, of the scattered or transmitted radiation at the maximum or minimum point of this derivative apparatus for non-invasive determination of glucose concentration in the patient. Radiation in the near infrared is transmitted through a first fiber-optic radiation conductor to the outer surface of a portion of the patient's body, penetrating into the portion.

Abstract: The coolant is circulated thorugh the core of the reactor by a pump between a higher-pressure plenum and a lower-pressure plenum. The impurities are removed by a cold trap between the higher-pressure plenum and the lower-pressure plenum. The trap is an integrated unit including an inner tube and an outer tube defining between them an annulus which contains packing. The outer surface of the outer tube is cooled to a temperature such that the impurities are precipitated from the coolant. Since the packing is coldest on the outside, the precipitation progresses axially upstream to downstream and radially inwardly. The precipitation in the outer part of the annulus insulates the inner part of the annulus thermally so that the reduction of the temperature of the coolant to saturation level in the inner part is delayed precluding premature blocking of the cold trap. The cooled coolant in the annulus also precools the coolant flowing in through the inner tube.