Abstract: An improved implantable prosthetic device for use in the human body which comprises a flexible container having therein a soft gel or fluid filling and an outer plastic covering bonded or otherwise connected to the flexible container. The external surface of the outer plastic covering is rough textured, while the plastic covering itself has numerous pores or interstices. It substantially encases the flexible container. In one embodiment a barrier film is positioned between the flexible container and the outer plastic covering or between the soft gel or liquid filling and the internal of the flexible container. The outer plastic covering is made of Dacron or Teflon.

Abstract: The invention includes a method of, and substances for use in the method of, identifying the source of a urine sample to be collected for biochemical analysis including administering to a person or animal whose urine is to be tested a formulation containing predetermined portions of one or more identifying substances that are vitamins, maintaining an identification of the formulations so that the person or animal to which it was administered and a urine collecting means can be identified, obtaining a urine sample from the person or animal in the urine collecting means, and analyzing the urine sample for the presence of the identifying substances or their metabolites.

Abstract: An ammonium or alkali metal zinc tartrate used in oral compositions such as mouthwashes, gingival and subgingival irrigating solutions, dentifrices, and the like as well as in other preparations for treating oral lesions.

Abstract: An acrylate based bone cement with well balanced low exotherm, low residual monomer, and high strength properties formulated from (1) a liquid component containing at least three different monomeric (meth)acrylates, e.g. a C.sub.1 -C.sub.2 alkyl methacrylate, a straight or branched long chain (meth)acrylate having a molecular weight of at least 168, and a cyclic (meth)acrylate having a molecular weight of at least 168, and (2) a polymer powder component containing (meth)acrylate polymers or copolymers. The final bone cement may also contain conventional additives such as polymerization inhibitors, activators, crosslinkers, X-ray contrast material, polymerization initiators, antibiotics, antiseptics, and the like.

Abstract: An improved implantable prosthetic device for use in the human body which comprises a flexible container having therein a soft gel or fluid filling and an outer plastic covering bonded or otherwise connected to the flexible container. The external surface of the outer plastic covering is rough textured, while the plastic covering itself has numerous pores or interstices. It substantially encases the flexible container. In one embodiment a barrier film is positioned between the flexible container and the outer plastic covering or between the soft gel or liquid filling and the internal of the flexible container. The outer plastic covering is made of Dacron or Teflon.

Abstract: A method of forming a high tensile strength, reinforced, seamless, large cylindrical casing wherein a metal such as nickel is electrodeposited in conjunction with reinforcing materials such as carbon fibers to form a matrix on the outer surface of a rubber layer, the surface of which has been rendered electroconductive, deposited on a mandrel but separated therefrom by a separating material, such as wax, which will permit ready separation of the finished casing product from the mandrel when by heating the latter until the separating material melts or liquefies.

Abstract: The invention features a new series of triazine compounds which are characterized by their ability to generate free radicals upon irradiation in a desired optical region, such that they are useful in the fabrication of lithographic plates having improved exposure speed, development, print-out, and contrast characteristics.

Abstract: A fluid dispenser having a handle portion supporting at least three spaced-apart, flexible prongs or tines that meet at a pyramidal apex to form a fluid-containing cradle. The cradle holds a precise amount of fluid therein by surface tension between the prongs and the fluid. The small cradle pocket formed at the apex of these prongs has a capillary channel disposed ahead of it, which terminates at the tip of the prongs. When the tip of the prongs are contacted to a body surface in question and slightly flexed, fluid will flow from the cradle through the capillary channel to this surface.

Abstract: Beads comprising a polymeric matrix containing a releasable lipophilic compound are made by precipitating the compound from solution within the matrix. Beads may be made by forming a homogeneous blend of the compound in lipophilic polymerizable material and subjecting the blend to bead polymerization while the blend is dispersed as beads in an aqueous medium containing hydrophilic polymerization stabilizer. The lipophilic compound may be a behenyl ester wax inhibitor or other reagent useful downhole or for other purposes and preferably has a relatively high melting point. The polymerizable material preferably dissolves the lipophilic compound and may include acrylic acid, methacrylic acid or other hydrophilic polymerizable material.

Abstract: An improved implantable prosthetic device for use in the human body which comprises a flexible container having therein a soft gel or fluid filling and an outer plastic covering bonded or otherwise connected to the flexible container. The external surface of the outer plastic covering is rough textured, while the plastic covering itself has numerous pores or interstices. It encases the flexible container. In one embodiment a barrier film is positioned between the flexible container and the outer plastic covering or between the soft gel or liquid filling and the internal of the flexible container. The outer plastic covering is made of Dacron or Teflon.

Abstract: A modular panel system consists of a plurality of panels. Each panel carries at least one and preferably two pivotal connection devices. Each pivotal connection device has thereon a hook-like or latch-like member which can fit into a slot to releasably connect one panel to an adjacent panel. A particular design of double axis hinge is also disclosed, which serves as the pivotal connection device.

Abstract: Skin covering materials especially for wounds comprise dextran C insolubilized by reaction with epichlorohydrin in combination with a suitable humectant. The compositions may be in the form of coherent, self-supporting sheets of the insolubilized dextran C impregnated with humectant material, or in the form of pastes applied to the wound as such. The humectant material is preferably glycerin or isopropanolpropylene glycol and an oil. The wound covering material allows sufficient removal of exuded body fluid and seals the wound site against bacterial infection, whilst at the same time maintaining the wound moist to prevent scale formation. Medicaments may additionally be incorporated into the wound covering material, to assist in healing and further to safeguard against bacterial infection.

Abstract: A plastic mold assembly comprising a male and female section for casting soft contact lenses from a polymerizable feed material wherein compensation for polymerization shrinkage is attained and disengagement of the male and female mold sections is facilitated by providing one flexible and one rigid mold section. Good optical properties of the mold surfaces are obtained by forming the mold sections entirely from a thermoplastic material such as polystyrene that will not crystallize when cooled from a melt. In one embodiment a plurality of flexible male sections having convex molding surfaces and a plurality of rigid female sections having concave molding surfaces are supported on frames to attain an increased production rate of finished soft contact lenses.

Abstract: Bentonites can be extended for use in drilling muds by addition of a novel polymer blend comprising a low molecular weight water soluble non-ionic or anionic polymer and a high molecular weight anionic polymer.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the preparation of a reducing gas having a high reduction potential by catalytic conversion in two steps of a sulphur-free gas mixture of hydrocarbons having a high content of hydrocarbons with two or more carbon atoms. In the first step an inlet stream of at least a part of the gas mixture together with added steam is passed through an adiabatic reactor containing a steam reforming catalyst at an inlet temperature of 440.degree.-510.degree. C. and an outlet temperature of 400.degree.-500.degree. C. and at a pressure of 1-30 kg/cm.sup.2 g the amount of steam added being calculated for obtaining in the inlet stream an H/C ratio of at least 4.8 and an O/C ratio of between 0.5 and 1. The outlet stream from the first step is combined with the top-gas from a reduction furnace, and the combined stream is then further converted in the second step by steam reforming into a reducing gas.

Abstract: An ester interchange process, preferably for the formation of vinyl higher esters from methyl acrylate or methacrylate, is conducted in the presence of a novel alcoholate of the formula[M.sup.1 (OR.sup.4).sub.2-a R.sub.a.sup.6 ].sub.x [M.sup.2 (OR.sup.4).sub.n-b R.sub.b.sup.6 ].sub.y IwhereinM.sup.1 is selected from Mg, Ca and BaM.sup.2 is selected from Ti, Zr and Aln is 3 or 4 and is the valency of M.sup.2a is a number from 0 to 1.5b is a number from 0 to 0.75nx+Y=1 and each is a number from 0.005 to 0.995 and is such that the compound is liquid at 30.degree.0 C.R.sup.4 is selected from alkyl having at least 4 carbon atoms, cycloalkyl having at least 4 carbon atoms and aminoalkyl, andeach group R.sup.6 is individually selected from C.sub.1-3 alkoxy and blocking groups that are substantially less reactive in the ester interchange reaction than the groups OR.sup.4.

Abstract: Herbicidally-active compounds of the formula: ##STR1## where: Y represents halo or trifluoromethyl;Z represents hydrogen, halo, trifluoromethyl or nitro;A represents --N.dbd. or ##STR2## where X is as defined above for Z; and R represents --N.sup.- Q.sup.+ or --NH--Q.sup.+ An.sup.- where Q.sup.+ is a quaternized heterocyclic group bonded through a nitrogen atom thereof, and An.sup.- is a suitable anion,methods for their preparation and compositions containing them.

Abstract: A stable, water dispersable, substantially anhydrous disperson of water soluble or water swellable polymer particles in water immiscible liquid is made by reverse phase suspension polymerization and dehydration of the dispersion and is rendered dispersable in water by the addition of an oil soluble surfactant having HLB above 7.

Abstract: An improved method for the recovery of stevioside from Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni plants is provided which does not require the use of dangerous chemicals or special separation equipment such as ion exchange or chromatography. In the process the raw material, preferably in comminuted form is first extracted with water, the resulting aqueous extract is treated with a di- or tricarboxylic acid chelating agent to remove metallic and other impurities as well as to lower the pH to less than about 4. Subsequently a calcium-containing agent is added to precipitate out other impurities. The aqueous extract is essentially neutralized with an acid and is then subject to extraction with a water-immiscible solvent. Purified stevioside crystals are recovered by cooling the water layer obtained from said solvent extraction step.

Abstract: The present invention provides a filter element made wholly of fluorocarbons resin, comprising as essential elements a filter material produced by folding a sandwich-form sheet comprising a filter membrane made of a fluorocarbon resin and net supporters made of a thermoplastic fluorocarbon resin superimposed on the both surfaces thereof into a pleat form and liquid-tightly welding the edge parts of the both sides of the pleated sheet, sealed end parts produced by embedding the both end parts of said filter material except the central openings into a thermoplastic fluorocarbon resin to force the resin into the pleats, whereby the both end parts are each integrally and tightly welded, and fluorocarbon resin caps welded liquid-tightly with said sealed end parts, and production thereof.