Abstract: A cutting implement employing a pair of rollers placed vertically one above the other, the rollers having sharpened edges that slightly overlap and touch each other at a selected position, forming a cutting point where they touch. When the rollers are rotated, the sharpened edges form a continuous cutting edge for cutting material such as most paper and plastics. The rollers are provided with a degree of toe-in in the direction of rotation to insure that they remain in contact with each other during the cutting process. The rollers are rotatably mounted to a stiff carrier to provide dimensionally predictable location of the rollers with respect to each other, and to insure the smooth flow of material through the rollers as the material is being cut.

Abstract: An iron holder, preferably in kit form, in which a pair of straps, bendable at their ends, is provided. A plate for holding the iron, which includes means for mounting the plate to the straps, is also included. A spring or spring-like element is mounted on the unit for engaging the iron and retaining it in place on the holder.

Abstract: A nozzle for use in connection with welding guns to scavenge welding fumes in which a flexible metal hose is provided having an opening along one wall adapted to accept a welding gun. In one embodiment, a collar is attached to the end of the hose which collar carries a plurality of electrically non-conducting screws used to properly position, locate and hold the welding gun within the flexible hose. In another embodiment, a sleeve is provided which is removably mounted to the end of the hose, the sleeve covering the welding tip during use and removable to permit welding tips to be changed without removing the gun from the flexible sleeve.

Abstract: Apparatus for cutting pipe and other objects in which a power saw is pressure fed to and through the pipe or object. The saw is mounted on a shaft and the entire saw and shaft assembly rotated by a power mechanism, such as a clock or coil spring, to feed the saw to and through the pipe.

Abstract: An electrical housing and switch box are provided, in which the housing is provided with a first opening through which wires are brought to the interior thereof, and a second opening adapted to receive the switch box. A plurality of contacts are mounted in the housing adjacent the second opening. The switch box is provided with a plurality of connectors adapted to slide into and engage with the contacts to provide an operative assembly.

Abstract: A replaceable hacksaw blade, a reciprocating shaft connected to the hacksaw motor, and a novel clamp for securing the blade to the shaft, the blade and shaft having cooperating abutments for better securing the blade against rotational forces and vibration.

Abstract: A hand-held nibbling tool for sheet metal or other thin material is provided with a reciprocating punch which on its upward stroke moves the metal to be chipped against a readily replaceable cutting die positioned in a die holder attached to the lower end of the tool. The tool is provided with a conventional reciprocating mechanism driven in a known manner by a conventional air or electric motor. The reciprocating punch is connected to the reciprocating mechanism by a piston rod supported for a substantial part of its length in a sleeve within the die holder. The said die holder, moreover, is provided with one or more passages extending upwardly from the die and outwardly of the die holder so as to permit the chips thrown upwardly by the action of the punch against the die to be removed from the nibbling area. The die itself has an internal opening cooperating with the aforesaid passages.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a so-called pressure accumulation type atomizing pump provided with no gravity-actuated check valve and having an upper hollow piston and a lower pistion adapted to be simultaneously moved downward along the inner surface of a valve cylinder, upon a depression of an atomizing push button, the upper and lower piston being adapted to pressurize the liquid accommodated by a housing chamber defined within the valve cylinder between the pistons. The increased pressure of the liquid acts to depress the lower piston to open a check valve leading to a nozzle, so that the pressurized liquid is atomized finely from the nozzle. The lower piston is so arranged as to effectively cooperate with the upper piston in sucking the liquid up during the sucking stroke of the pump and to additionally increase the sucking capacity of the pump.

Abstract: An improved process for forming a dye image in an image receiving layer of a film unit containing a light-sensitive element and an image receiving element by incorporation therein of a compound represented by the formula ##STR1## WHEREIN R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 individually represent lower alkyl, and n is 3.

Abstract: An ester compound of the formula: ##EQU1## wherein R.sup.1 is hydrogen or hydroxy, R.sup.2 is alkyl of one to five carbon atoms, alkenyl of two to three carbon atoms, cycloalkyl of three to five carbon atoms or methylcycloalkyl of four to six carbon atoms and Y is alkylene of one to four carbon atoms, is disclosed. Several methods for preparing the compound[I] are also disclosed. The compound[I] is useful as a non-nutritive sweetening agent.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for reducing degradation in the spinning of fiber-forming polyesters by adding to the polyester granules before spinning compounds of the general formula ##SPC1##In which hydrogen atoms may be replaced by alkyl or aryl radicals. These compounds react with the carboxyl end groups of the polyester, whereby in addition to the lesser degradation, a reduction of the number of free carboxyl end groups in the fiber is also obtained.

Abstract: A silver photosensitive material comprising a development inhibitor-releasing compound of the formula ##EQU1## wherein Z is an atomic group necessary to form a 5 to 7 membered saturated or unsaturated carbon ring with the carbon atoms to which it is attached, said ring being unsubstituted or substituted by at least one of halogen and a member of the class consisting of alkyl, aryl, alkoxy, acyloxy, aryloxy, SY and a group forming a condensed carbon ring with said saturated or unsaturated carbon ring; Y is arylmercapto, heterocyclic, thioglycollic acid, cystein or glutathione. A method for the development of silver halide photosensitive material by the use of the foregoing compound is also disclosed.

Abstract: A polyethylene composition of high wear resistance and a method of preparing it which comprises a polyethylene prepared according to a low pressure polymerization process and which has a molecular weight above about 1,000,000, containing an organic peroxide cross-linking agent homogeneously dispersed in the polymer, which has been pre-compressed at a high pressure, plasticized at elevated temperature and pressure and cooled.

Abstract: A process is disclosed whereby an improved platinum metal-containing catalyst is prepared. Standard platinum metal catalysts are treated with sulfur compounds which liberate sulfurous acid in acid media. The sulfur compounds contain 15 to 150 atom % of sulfur based on the platinum metal present. The treatment is conducted in the presence of hydroxylammonium salts in acid media and in the absence of reducing agents which are capable of reducing sulfurous acid to sulfide.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for sterile handling of fluids is provided, in particular blood, in which a manifold assembly having a plurality of ports or openings is connected to a fluid to be handled in sterile condition and to a sterilizing solution. The sterilizing solution is introduced into the manifold assembly preferably after the fluid unit is connected thereto so that all connections to the manifold are sterilized. The fluid is then permitted to flow into the manifold which is utilized to move it to one or more processing locations under sterile conditions.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of vermiculite particles having enhanced properties which comprises exfoliating crude vermiculite without substantially changing its structural strength, pulverizing the exfoliated particles and subjecting them to a heat treatment so as to cause at least partial calcination.

Abstract: A process for separating aromatic polymers from solutions containing them which comprises spraying the polymer solution, under pressure, onto the surface of a moving precipitation medium of the general formula ROH in which R is hydrogen or a lower alkyl group.

Abstract: Supported silver halide photosensitive materials comprising an antistatic additive which comprises a glycidol poly-addition product of a phenol-aldehyde condensate.

Abstract: An apparatus for detecting leaks in a joint between a tube sheet and a tube end fitted into an opening in the sheet comprising a barrel having a near end adjacent one side of said sheet; sealing means between said near end and said face, said sealing means surrounding said joint, a draw rod axially mounted in said barrel for reciprocal motion toward and away from said sheet, one end of said rod adapted to project into said tube, means for reciprocating said rod, a radially expandable plug adjacent said one end, the end of said rod being spaced from plug, resilient means between the end of said rod and said plug, means for expanding said plug radially when said rod is moved in a first direction away from said sheet, a chamber in said barrel adjacent said near end, means for introducing vacuum or pressure into said chamber, a gauge in communication with said chamber whereby the pressure in said chamber can be measured, means for isolating said chamber from the source of said vacuum or pressure.

Abstract: A compound of the formula: ##SPC1##Wherein Ring A' is dibenzyloxyphenyl and Y is carbonyl or hydroxymethylene, is subjected to catalytic hydrogenation. A compound of the formula: ##SPC2##Wherein Ring A is dihydroxyphenyl, is produced. The product is useful as a cardiotonic agent. It is also characterized by the high potency ratio of adrenergic .beta..sub.1 -receptor stimulating activity to adrenergic .beta..sub.2 -receptor stimulating activity.