Abstract: There is disclosed an assembly for slit radiography with image equalization, comprising a two-dimensional dosimeter for detecting the amount of X-rays transmitted through a body. During a scan different parts of the dosimeter detect the transmitted X-rays. Thereto a system of essentially parallel electrodes is present. The parallel electrodes extend in the direction of scanning and are connected to a control device for forming control signals for the adsorption device.

Abstract: An endoscopic probe suitable for use as a TEE-probe, comprising a flexible tube having at one end a probe head which is provided with a phased array ultrasonic transducer with a number of elongated transducer elements which can be individually electrically controlled by cables connected to the individual elements and extending through a flexible tube in which the transducer is mounted in a cylindrical transducer housing, which is in a cavity in the probe head and is rotatable about a longitudinal axis extending at right angles to the longitudinal axis of the probe head, by means of a drive means interacting with the transducer housing while the elongated transducer elements are connected by flexible conductors to the cables extending through the flexible tube and in which a convex acoustic lens is mounted on the transducer and the peripheral edge of the lens interacts in a sealing manner with the edge of the cavity in the probe head and can rotate together with the transducer relative to the probe head.

Abstract: There is disclosed an improved corrosion inhibitor system including an oxazoline for an intermediate heat transfer medium for an indirect cooling heat transfer assembly and introduced in an amount of from 100 to 15,000 ppm to one part of the medium.

Abstract: A soft sword comprising a core rod which comprises a short flexible center core comprising a grip and a guard constructed in one body and a soft core mounted coaxially around said flexible center core, a bag covered on said core rod by engaging at both ends of the core rod, and a grip tape wrapped onto said grip over said bag. Further, the soft sword comprises a core rod which comprises a long flexible center core comprising a grip and a guard constructed in one body and a soft core mounted coaxially around said flexible center core, a bag covered on said core rod by engaging at both ends of the core rod, and a grip tape wrapped onto said grip over said bag.

Abstract: There is described an electrochemical cell comprised of at least one flexible side wall attached to another side wall forming an electrolyte chamber and wherein one side wall is formed or provided with an air cathode mounted in spaced apart relationship to a metallic anode by a dielectric member and wherein battery assemblies may be produced by mounting a plurality of such electrochemical cells to each by support members with desired series or parallel electrical circuitry as required for intended duty.

Abstract: These and other objects of the present invention are achieved in a heat recovery system to recover the heat potential and including a plurality of heat exchanger assemblies from exhaust or waste gas at a temperature of from 500 to 2500.degree. F. wherein the heat exchanger assemblies include induced draft fans for controlling the flow of exhaust or waste gas therethrough as a heating medium for diverse fluids passing in indirect heat transfer relationship at descending temperature levels.

Abstract: There is described an absorber assembly for alkali electrolyte solutions comprised of an absorber member including an alkali neutralizing compound disposed within a chamber of a porous material.

Abstract: A method for effecting sterilization in a plasma of low molecular weight aliphatic alcohol, preferably methanol at pressure levels of from 10 mTorr to 10 Torr at RF energy levels to establish and maintain a plasma for a time sufficient to achieve substantial total microbicidal effectiveness.

Abstract: A slit radiography device scans a body under examination with a fan shaped X-ray beam. A number of absorption elements placed next to each other can be moved into the X-ray beam to a greater or lesser extent in order to influence the X-ray radiation incident on the body per sector of the X-ray beam.As seen in the longitudinal direction of the slit the absorption elements are designed such that a certain distance is present between them. As seen in the direction of the X-ray radiation the thickness of the material of the absorption elements is always the same, i.e. there are no gaps between the absorption elements that the X-ray radiation can shine through.

Abstract: There is disclosed an automatic X-ray film processor assembly comprised of a drive assembly for the film transport unit including intermittently operated film lifters for passing film more rapidly through processing units thereby ensuring more uniform processing times as well as permitting facile changes in processing times. Additionally, there is provided a film chip withdrawal assembly at a point intermediate the film processing as well as a channel for readmitting any such intermediate processed film chip into the processor for completion of film processing.

Abstract: There is disclosed a light transmitting display assembly provided with a source of electromagnetic radiation in the visible spectrum and comprised of a display board containing information and formed with channels into which ends of optical fibers of an optical fiber bundle are selectively positioned and after positioning the surface of the display board is coated with microbeads wherein the source of electromagnetic radiation is directed into the other ends of the optical fibers of the optical fiber bundle to provide a light transmitting display assembly capable of wide angle viewing.

Abstract: An extraction apparatus for removal of a bullet or musket ball from the barrel of a muzzle-loading gun, comprisng an articulating lever assembly in which a bracing member and a removal member are secured in articulating fashion, the bracing member being cooperative with the muzzle of the muzzle-loading gun to permit the passage therethrough of the ramrod, the removal member operably attached to the bracing member by means of an articulating assembly, the removal member having split rings positioned within a chamber alignable with the bracing member and ramrod, the split rings engaging the ramrod and removing the ramrod from the muzzle through the articulating action of the lever assembly.

Abstract: There is disclosed an improved deferred actuated battery assembly including a plurality of electrochemical cells comprised of a hybrid cathode member and an anode member formed of a material selected from the group consisting of aluminum, magnesium, aluminum alloys, magnesium alloys and mixtures thereof attached to an inert intermediate dielectric layer or member and configured for gross electrolyte contact therebetween disposed between an anode plate and a cathode plate.

Abstract: A knife utensil for separating shell members of a mollusk comprised of a bar member having a blade portion mounted to retaining members forming a handle and formed with an arcuate upper honed edge and a concave-shaped lower honed edge defining a point at a free end disposed between a centerline of a bar member and a point at which the upper surface meets the retaining members.

Abstract: In an equalization radiography device an X-ray fan beam (3,4) is used to scan a body (7) under examination. The X-ray fan beam comprises a number of adjacent sectors. A modulator device (5) comprising a number of controllable beam sector modulators is present for controlling per sector the quantity of X-ray radiation transmitted. A detector (11) placed behind the body generates per sector a measurement signal representing a desired position of the beam sector modulator for that sector. During operation the instantaneous position of each beam sector modulator is continuously detected (20,21). Signals representing those positions are generated and compared with the respective measurement signals. Control signals are derived from the comparisons to control the positions of the respective beam sector modulators.

Abstract: A radiation profile line originates from illuminating a scene by a fan beam of radiation and imaging the thus illuminated scene on a surface of an array of photosensitive elements. A read-out circuit has inputs connected to associated detection elements in the uppermost row. The read-out circuit comprises level detector circuitry to have the output signals of the columns take up either a "1" state or a "0" state. The outputs of the level detector curcuitry, each one of which corresponds to one of the inputs, are connected to a circuit that delivers a digital code representative of the position of the element in the uppermost row which has received the largest amount of light.

Abstract: There is disclosed an invention for effecting sterilization in a plasma of low molecular weight aliphatic alcohol, preferably methanol at pressure levels of from 10 mTorr to 10 Torr at RF energy levels to establish and maintain a plasma for a time sufficient to achieve substantial total microbicidal effectiveness.

Abstract: There is disclosed a collagen preparation formed from a collagen selected from the group consisting of Type I collagen, Type III collagen and mixtures thereof into a particulate collagen of a particle size of from about 1 to 50 .mu.m, preferably 5 to 25 .mu.m into a delivery system, such as an aerosol, and thus in sprayable form as a wound dressing alone, or with releasing drugs or other active agents. The particulate collagen comprises up to about 20% by weight of the resulting delivery system.

Abstract: In the decoration of an article having a conical surface by means of a decoration applied from an embossing foil, the embossing foil strip is unwound from a supply roll and passed around a deflection roller to feed it in the proper orientation to an embossing station in which a decoration is transferred from the embossing foil on to the surface of the article. The deflection roller and the embossing foil supply roll perform a linear movement parallel to the axis of the deflection roller and at the same time a pivotal movement about a pivot axis which is normal to that roller axis. The deflection roller is continuously linearly displaced by a distance corresponding to the deviation between the linear configuration of the embossing foil strip and the arcuate configuration defined by the development of the conical surface of the article to be decorated.