Abstract: A wall structure comprising a first surface defining the commencement of a thickness of a metal or ceramic sheet, and a second surface defining the end of said thickness of said sheet said second surface also defining the commencement of a thickness of a three dimensional network defining a multiplicity of interconnecting free cells and a third surface defining the end of said thickness of said three dimensional network.

Abstract: A getter device having two rings with coextensive axes wherein the rings are in thermal contact one with the other.

Abstract: A construction element consisting of a sheet of material having plane front and back surfaces is joined to a base by an attachment means secured to the back surface of the sheet adjacent to the edge of the sheet. The attachment means comprises a frame having an aperture means opening away from the back surface of the sheet for receiving threaded elements and securing the sheet to the base and includes a homogeneous, permanently resilient substance positioned between the frame and the sheet having sufficient flexibility to allow for the difference in thermal expansion between the frame and the sheet and having sufficient tensile strength to hold the sheet to the frame.

Abstract: A process for producing hot combustible gas free of sulfur, halogens and particulate matter. The process comprises passing oxygen, steam and/or carbon dioxide through a reaction zone containing an alkali or alkaline earth metal oxide, hydroxide, bicarbonate or carbonate and a carbonaceous fuel such as coal. The sulfur and halogen in the carbonaceous fuel are removed resulting in a combustible gas substantially free of sulfur, halogens and particulate matter.

Abstract: A method of producing a substrate having a particulate coating of high surface area to mass ratio, said method comprising in sequence the steps of:I. disposing between a substrate and an intermediate body a mixture comprising:A. hard substrate-embedding particles which are harder than the substrate and are harder than the intermediate body, andB. attachment-resistant particles having at least one property selected from the group consisting of:1. a hardness less than that of the substrate and2. a size such that they pass through a screen of 270 mesh per inch,Ii. compressing the substrate and intermediate body, with particles therebetween whereby the intermediate body pushes the hard substrate-embedding particles into the substrate, andIii. removing the intermediate body from the particles leaving the hard substrate-embedding particles embedded in the substrate and the attachment-resistant particles adhering to the substrate.

Abstract: Manufacture of double or plural pane insulating packages by placing panes together with a spacer, thereby leaving an interspace at the periphery into which cement is injected. Two nozzles are used to inject cement into the interspace, starting from a common starting region and working in opposite directions around the periphery to a common terminal point. Conveyors and control systems are provided to mechanize the process.

Abstract: In gamma balancing several color camera channels, a test signal replaces the normal signal from the pick-up tube and the resulting gamma-corrected signals in the channels are compared. Differences noted in the comparison are used to adjust the gamma correction stages in all but one of the channels.

Abstract: A charged particle collecting body forming part of an electrode comprises a three dimensional network defining a multiplicity of interconnecting free cells.The dimensions of the cells are selected to permit a major portion of charged particles incident thereon to penetrate a number of free cells before impinging on a strut of the three-dimensional network.

Abstract: Contacts of electrically conductive elastomers, integrally fixed to conductors by bonding or molding in place, are situated to contact, with little resistance, mating electrical conductors and elastically deform under the contacting forces to seal the mated conductor surface thereby inhibiting corrosion and maintaining electrical contact.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of modified N,N'-substituted-2,4,5-triketoimidazolidines which comprises reacting a precondensate having terminal isocyanate groups, prepared by reacting (a) a polybasic carboxylic acid, containing from 4 to 70 carbon atoms and from 2 to 6 carboxyl groups, with an excess of (b) one or more isocyanates or isocyanate forming compounds in the presence of a solvent, with (c) at least one oxamidic ester containing the group NH--CO--CO--OR.sup.v wherein R.sup.v represents an aliphatic hydrocarbon group containing up to 18 carbon atoms, a cycloaliphatic hydrocarbon group containing up to 8 carbon atoms or a mononuclear aromatic hydrocarbon group being unsubstituted or substituted by at least one hydrocarbon group and having a total of up to 14 carbon atoms in the presence of a solvent, a product prepared by said process and a shaped article comprising such a product.

Abstract: An apparatus adapted to be used in conjunction with a conventional cotton harvester for gleaning cotton missed by the harvester consists of a pair of independently suspended, parallel, opposed intake manifolds. Each manifold comprises a floor member having frontward and rearward end wall members fixed at opposite ends of the floor member. An outside wall is fixed to an outside edge of the floor member and extends from the frontward end wall to the rearward end wall. An inside wall having a height significantly less than the outside wall is fixed to the floor member parallel to, but some distance from, the running edge of the floor member. A downfall sheet is fixed to a top edge of the outside wall and to the inside wall so as to be spaced from and inclined with respect to the floor member. The inside wall contains a plurality of apertures leading to forwardly- and upwardly-inclined ducts leading to the flue comprising the inside of the manifold. Appropriate conduits, blowers, etc.

Abstract: In order to confine radiation from an optical fiber display device within a specified angle, a light-transmitting cone is provided either at the input or output end of a set of fibers. The cone can be solid or constructed of conical fibers. The input can be filtered or switched.

Abstract: A getter pump comprising two getter elements wherein the first getter element comprises a metallic substrate having a nonevaporable getter metal embedded therein. The second getter element employs a getter metal having a lower hydrogen equilibrium vapor pressure than that of the first getter element.

Abstract: Generation of a switching signal for the chroma keying of color video signals, in which generation the voltage level of the switching signal becomes a maximum for a selected hue. The switching signal corresponds, when an adjustable voltage level is exceeded, to a specific color saturation of the selected hue. This generation is carried out by means of a first and a second color difference signal derived from primary signals of a color signal source, and by means of a sine-shaped and cosine-shaped variable control signal, the variation of which is a function of the angle of the selected hue in a color spectrum. In this generation, the first color difference signal is multiplied by the sine-shaped control signal, and the second color difference signal is multiplied by the cosine-shaped control signal, and the multiplied signals are added to a first signal component.

Abstract: Sulfuric acid compounds are removed from reaction mixtures by a reaction with unsaturated terpene compounds or with polybutadiene at elevated temperatures whereby products of reduction are formed which are volatilizable at the temperature of reaction and by expelling said products of reduction from the reaction mixture. Thus a product being substantially free from a sulfur content is obtained.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of a graft copolymer which comprises reacting (I) a hydrocarbon resin based on cyclopentadiene or methylcyclopentadiene or both at an elevated temperature with (II) an olefinically unsaturated polycarboxylic acid compound and (III) a copolyerisable unsaturated monomer in a manner such that for at least a part of the reaction the unsaturated monomer (III) and the polycarboxylic acid compound (II) are simultaneously present, a graft-polymer based on I. a hydrocarbon resin based on cyclopentadiene or methylcyclopentadiene or on both as essential monomers, II. olefinically unsaturated polycarboxylic acid compounds and III. copolymerisable unsaturated monomers and a printing ink which comprises, as at least part of the binder component, said polymer, a pigment and a solvent.

Abstract: An apparatus for the manufacture of optical-fiber bundles comprises a frame, a plate-like rotor having upper and lower parallel surfaces journaled to rotate in the frame about an axis of rotation parallel to the surfaces, a fiber guide mounted in the frame along a line parallel to the axis of rotation of the rotor, means for rotating the rotor, and means for moving the fiber guide coordinately with the rotor such that optical fibers passing through the fiber guide are wound on the rotor in a parallel fan-like manner.

Abstract: A method for the fabrication of a mixture composed of a highly-viscous liquid phase and a thermoplastic and/or elastomeric material which is delivered to the liquid phase in the form of a comminuted solid phase and thereafter plasticized. Importantly, the plasticizing heat is primarily generated by friction internally of the mass. The apparatus for the performance of the method comprises a work container and a stirrer and/or comminution element arranged therein and driven at a high peripheral speed.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a nuclear fuel element which contains a pre-activated non-evaporable getter material such that the getter material starts to sorb gas at a temperature lower than the temperature at which the fuel element walls start to sorb gas which getter action at least partially takes place at subatmospheric pressure.

Abstract: Refluxation of liquids in microliter quantities of as little as 5 .mu.l are performed in an apparatus consisting of a holder which holds the microvessels such that the lower part thereof is immersed in a heating bath, while the holder is being continuously vibrated. The upper part of the microvessels may be cooled at the same time the lower part is heated. The process is particularly suited for performing two phase micro-reactions.