Abstract: A T-shaped scraper assembly is operatively connected to a drive unit via a cable assembly and is adapted to be pulled along the floor in one direction thus scraping manure or debris from the floor, and in the opposite direction to return the scraper assembly to the starting position. When moving in the non-scraping direction, means are provided to elevate the scraper blades slightly above the floor level. The scraper blades are floatably mounted vertically thus allowing them to follow the floor contours within limits and the width is adjustable within limits also. The drive unit includes a resilient or nonmetal main, grooved cable pulley and a resilient or nonmetal idler pulley situated at an angle so that the cable engaging around these pulleys runs relatively freely aligned in the cable grooves. The angling of the idler pulley relative to the main drive pulley reduces side friction between the cable and the grooves and between the cable portions where same cross one another.

Abstract: A composition for coating a metal-working tool to increase tool life, comprising graphite, molybdenum disulphide or other solid lubricant in an aqueous binder solution comprising a phosphate of aluminium, magnesium, zinc, calcium or other metal and preferably a chromate or dichromate as well.

Abstract: A valve incorporates a float chamber containing a float, and an air chamber above the float chamber containing a valve element movable vertically between a port in the bottom of the air chamber communicating with the top of the float chamber and an air vent in the top of the air chamber the float and the valve element being connected by a push rod passing through the port. The push rod has a cross section presenting several lobes. A plain tubular guide forms at least part of a passage between the float chamber and the air chamber terminating at the top end in the port. The push rod passes through the tubular guide, the lobes being a sliding fit therein. The valve element may rest in a cup-shaped cage within the air chamber. The upper end of the push rod may be slotted to permit it to straddle the bars of the cage and enter the cage so as to engage the valve element.

Abstract: An anaerobic adhesive comprising as a bond forming system a polymerizable aromatic-based acrylate monomer and a compatible liquid butadiene acrylonitrile copolymer, together with a latent initiator for the polymerization, said aromatic based acrylate monomer having the general formula ##STR1## where: Ar is a divalent aromatic residue;R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 represent hydrogen, alkyl, aryl, or hydroxyalkyl groups, or halogen; andR.sub.3 and R.sub.4 represent ##STR2## where m is an integer of from 1 to 20 and R.sub.5, R.sub.6, and R.sub.7 represent hydrogen, alkyl, or alkoxy groups, or halogen, the same or different.

Abstract: A draw bar unit for connecting a recovery vehicle to a vehicle having a pressure fluid operated steering system of the stored energy kind in cases of failure of the normal pressurizing means of the system, incorporates auxiliary pressurizing means connectible into the pressure fluid circuit of the disabled vehicle and operable in response to relative movement between the vehicles to pressurize the pressure fluid circuit.

Abstract: A quick release locking device to hold a tiller arm of a sailing boat is disclosed. The device allows a helmsman to engage or disengage the locking mechanism almost instantaneously with one hand, and also allows the tiller arm to be locked in any position. The device comprises two rope attachment anchors, one at each side of the boat, positioned an equi-distance from the rudder axis, rope locking device located on the underside of the tiller arm which includes two opposing cam detents to positively grip the rope, flexible rope tautly strung between the two attachment anchors passing through the rope locking device, quick release control lever located on the tiller arm and a connection between the control lever and the rope locking device such that depression of the control lever releases the rope from the locking device allowing the tiller arm to rotate as desired, and release of the control lever grips the rope in the locking device preventing the tiller arm from rotating.

Abstract: The specification describes a fluid energy transfer device, comprising: a body means having at least one fluid chamber and fluid inlet and outlet passages for delivering fluid to and from the chamber; means for continuously accelerating the body means; whereby acceleration of the body means causing fluid flow inwardly and outwardly of the chamber and a change in fluid flow rate being effective to change the acceleration of the body means.

Abstract: New antibiotic, SF-2052 substance is produced by cultivating a microorganism, Dactylosporangium matsuzakiense SF-2052 now deposited under FERM-P 4670 or ATCC No. 31570 in a liquid culture medium under aerobic conditions, and this antibiotic may be isolated from the culture broth by conventional method and is useful as antibacterial agent.

Abstract: Bacteria, particularly coliform bacteria, present in a liquid, are rapidly detected. A sample of the liquid to be tested is admixed with an enzyme-inducing agent which induces the production of an enzyme in the bacteria, the enzyme being capable of reacting with a fluorescent conjugate ingested by the bacteria to release its fluorescent portion. Conditions are controlled such that a sufficient number of molecules of enzyme are produced per bacterium present in the liquid sample to effect release of the fluorescent portion. A fluorescent conjugate, capable of being ingested by the bacteria, is admixed with the liquid sample for reaction with the enzyme to release the fluorescent portion of the fluorescent conjugate. The liquid sample is then formed into microdroplets in a liquid carrier such that the fluorescent material is retained in the microdroplets.

Abstract: An arrangement is provided in a respirator for measuring the amount of gas passed to a patient through a supply line. The arrangement includes a self-oscillating fluidistor for dividing the gas flow into part volumes of a given magnitude and for generating an electrical pulse for each part volume passing therethrough. The fluidistor includes two outputs and a control channel having a temperature-dependent resistor located therein and an amplifier and pulse-forming circuit connected to the resistor so as to generate electrical pulses whose number is related to the number of part volumes flowing through the control channel of the fluidistor. A binary counter is connected to the amplifier and pulse-forming circuit for counting the number of pulses over a predetermined time interval while a digital-to-analog (D/A) converter, having first and second inputs, generates an analog signal corresponding to the number of pulses produced per time interval.

Abstract: An intermittent top firing tunnel kiln equipped with a burner having a ceramic air nozzle, in which an air nozzle assembly is mounted to a wind box adjacent to the burner tile through a burner support tile, said assembly being constructed by a metallic air supply pipe supported by a metal fixture at the ceiling portion of the kiln and being connected at the tip of said pipe to the ceramic air nozzle, and in which an oil nozzle is disengagably provided at the center in said air nozzle assembly, whereby the secondary air for combustion is supplied to said wind box through the walls of the kiln.

Abstract: Foam plastics sheet material, such as a wallcovering, has a pronounced decorative relief finish and comprises a substrate web with a foam coating some at least of which is blistered. The blistering is achieved by having two foamable coatings on the web, the lower of which is sacrificed to produce the blistering in the upper. In one method the lower coating is foamed, the upper coating is then applied in its pre-foamed state, and then heated so that the lower coating is sacrificed and the upper coating is foamed and blistered. In another method both coatings are applied in their unfoamed state with the lower coating having a lower foaming temperature than that of the upper coating. Both coatings are then heated together. The lower coating foams and is then sacrificed. The upper coating foams and blisters.

Abstract: A method is provided for improving the uniformity of the surface weight of a mineral wool mat. The mat is produced from a mineral melt which is converted into fibers, these fibers being introduced into a gas-formed stream providing a transport medium for these fibers. The transport medium and the mineral fibers carried thereby are transported to a moveable collector band on one side of which the mineral wool is deposited so as to form the mineral wool mat, the transport medium being caused to pass through the collector band by means of a fan or the like. The method comprises measuring at least one variable which is characteristic of the transport medium and which varies in relationship to the amount of mineral wool deposited.

Abstract: The invention provides a breathable gas regulator of the demand type for use with a low supply pressure (10 p.s.i or less) gas source.The regulator requires no greater demand effort on the part of a user than is required with present-day regulators of the same type which operate with much higher pressure (70 p.s.i. and above) gas sources, and it requires ducts, diaphragms and valves of no greater size than are required by present-day regulators. This is achieved by inclusion of a servo valve that is actuated by a fluidic amplifier arrangement responsive to the user's breathing pressure.In an embodiment of the invention particularly suited for use by an aviator, the regulator includes a pneumatically operated mixing valve arrangement for automatically varying, according to altitude, the proportions of, say, oxygen and air supplied to the demand valve of the regulator, and the mixing valve arrangement includes a fluidic gas concentration sensor.

Abstract: A vehicle parking ticket is provided comprising month, day and hour indicia on the face of the card, along with three-layered laminated sections adjacent to the indicia. Use of the cards entails the irreversible destruction of the upper two layers of laminate causing exposure of a readily indentifiable lower layer, thereby preventing counterfeiting and reuse of the ticket.

Abstract: A friction false twist device is of the type comprising three parallel shafts located at the corners of an equilateral triangle, and carrying rotationally symmetric friction elements. At least one of the shafts can be shifted in relation to the other shaft or shafts so as to open the device for threading. An additional shaft is arranged in relation to the three shafts carrying the friction elements so that, if connected by a line, the centers of the four shafts preferably would lie at the corners of a generally kite-shaped quadrilateral. Each of the four shafts carrys a whorl, the four whorls being drivingly interconnected by an endless belt of relatively minimum elasticity. At least one other shaft is coupled with said shiftable shaft for conjoint movement such that changes in the circumferential length of the quadrilateral caused by movement of the shiftably mounted shaft are substantially compensated by conjoint movement of the coupled shaft.

Abstract: A device for keeping an outer surface of an optical element clean, said element being located in surroundings where deposits can be quickly formed on said element. The device has a protective device or screen with an opening placed in front of the surface to be protected. This opening has inner walls extending out from said surface of the optical element. The screen has a slot, which extends peripherally around the edge of the opening facing the surface to be protected, and gas is forced to stream through the slot. At least a part of the inner surface of the opening has an inwardly projecting part having a surface remote from the optical element which is parallel to or inclined outwardly from a symmetrical plane through the element.

Abstract: A curtain runner T-shaped in a front view for use with a tubular curtain rod. The curtain runner is mountable on or removable from a groove at the bottom of the tubular rod by turning a leg of the runner in the groove through about 90 degrees.

Abstract: An apparatus for the remote biological decontamination of a space with formaldehyde and subsequent generation of a formaldehyde neutralizing agent so as to permit immediate access to the space is disclosed. The apparatus is completely self-contained and includes a control mechanism for automatically sequencing the various steps in the biological decontamination of the space.

Abstract: A device for coupling semi-rigid plastic tubes of a known type in which two ring members are provided, one within the other. The outer ring member is secured in a bore in a part to which the tube is connected. The outer ring member has a plurality of teeth which engage a tube inserted into the ring members. The inner ring member is movable axially to disengage the teeth for uncoupling the tube and part. The device is improved in one aspect by providing two distinct sealing means, each movable with the inner ring member. A first sealing means comprises a projection on the inner surface of the inner ring member which projection penetrates the wall of a tube to be connected. A second sealing means comprises a sealing member, such as an O-ring, mounted on the inner ring member. In another aspect, the teeth are shaped such that they are easily disengageable, without permanent distortion, so that the device is re-usable.