Abstract: The invention provides compositions which have a slimming and anti-cellulitis action when applied to the body, topically with massage or using trans-cutaneous electrophoresis. The compositions contain, in combination, a thioether and a xanthine derivative.

Abstract: A hay machine for working crop lying on the ground, such as a side-delivery rake, a tedder or a combined hay-making machine has a tined carrier for redepositing worked crop on the ground and comprises rows of tines which, in operation, are rotated in a forward direction while being turned oppositely over at least part of their path near the ground. The tines, which are located near the ground, extend horizontally and in a forward direction with respect to the direction of machine movement. The carrier preferably mounts three rows of elongated tines that are each shaped as a lazy S and pointed at each end. A sun wheel and planet gear system drives the carrier as a whole while turning the tines to pick up crop, raise and deposit same to the rear of the carrier. The orientation of the tines can be adjusted by displacing the sun wheel relative to the frame and fixing same in position.

Abstract: A soil working machine, such as a cultivator, has a frame beam to which a working element is connected by a support. The support is resilient or resiliently mounted and can deflect when the working element meets an obstruction, or heavy ground resistance, but the working element maintains its orientation in the soil. A control rod coextends with the support and four pivot points enable the element to be displaced without loosing its orientation. The working element is pivotally connected to the support by a pivot pin and the control arm also can be pivoted to that element. In a variant, the control arm is eliminated and a V-shaped share is hinged to pivot up and down between stops.

Abstract: A soil cultivating implement has a row of pivotable soil working members linked to a transverse beam of the frame and individual eccentrics are connected to the members to raise and lower soil engaging portions thereof. The portions are pivoted so that the rear parts thereof move through greater amplitudes than front parts of the portions. The frame can be supported by ground wheels which in transport position elevate the soil working members above the ground and this can be accomplished with hydraulic assemblies. The front of the frame can have a resilient coupling to a prime mover to reduce shocks induced by the eccentric drives. Dispensing mechanisms can be positioned to the rear of the soil working members to dispense and/or seed the worked ground.

Abstract: A supporting grid system for installation under a stage ceiling which includes a plurality of struts suspended from the stage ceiling. Each strut has a centrally vertically disposed I-beam portion and a pair of spaced-apart upper arms extending upwardly and outwardly from the upper aspect of the central portion and a further pair of spaced-apart lower arms extending downwardly and outwardly from the central portion. Both pairs of arms define cruciform-shaped grooves, such grooves being identical but opposed. The strut is integral and formed from extruded aluminum. It is normally secured in place by hanger rods connected to the ceiling of the stage through support members having a horizontal flange and a support part of cruciform-shaped cross-section to mate with and be received slideably within the cruciform-shaped groove defined at the top of the strut.

Abstract: A soil working machine pivotably mounts at least one rotor having serrated working elements. The rotor is pivotally connected at each end to a frame beam by a pin which can be inserted into either one of two holes located one above the other. The hole chosen governs the resistance to upward pivoting of the rotor. The machine can be hitched to a tractor either with the frame beam substantially transverse of the intended direction of operative travel, or with the frame beam inclined to this direction. Each rotor has end plates that mount forward blades and the outer plate supports a gear transmission to the rear of the respective blade.

Abstract: Apparatus for analyzing components in a mixture by the steps of introducing the mixture into the ion source of a mass spectrometer, ionizing some of the individual molecules representative of the mixture, using the mass spectrometer to select a beam of ions of a single ion mass which may be characteristic of a target compound in the mixture, passing the resultant single-mass beam of ions through a gas-filled collision chamber, and then, using a second mass spectrometer, determining the mass spectrum of the collision fragment ions to confirm the identity of the target compound, and by measuring the intensity of all or part of the mass spectrum, determine its concentration or amount in the original sample mixture. The same apparatus is suitable for fundamental measurements of the collision processes, which in addition to fragmentation include ion molecule reactions, charge changing collisions, and others, in addition to analytical applications.

Abstract: A torque converter has a housing for an input shaft and output shaft drivenly connected to one another with friction elements rotatably mounted on arms on pivotable holders. The holders are interconnected by the members so that rotation of the input shaft rotates its holder and, via the tie members, the output holder. The friction elements are thus flung outwardly into contact with annular control members within the housing on which they roll. The friction elements also abut and roll on one another, so that at least a major proportion of axial forces on the friction element in operation are held in equilibrium by the elements themselves. Rotation of the friction elements is transferred to the output shaft by planetary gearing on a common axis for the input and output shafts and on the rotation axes of the elements. The transmission ratio is varied by moving a control member towards and away from a second control member which changes the circumference of the path over which the elements roll.

Abstract: A tractor provided with three sets of twin pneumatic tires mounted on wheels on each side of the tractor, a track being received around three, in one embodiment and two in the other embodiment, pneumatic tires. In each embodiment only the rearmost set of wheels is powered. The track is a belt composed of a flexible material which in the first embodiment has a plurality of traction members secured thereto by bolts extending through the belt which are secured on the inner side by a strip opposite the traction members, such strip having a V-shaped portion which is received between the twin tires to retain the track in place. Each traction member includes a part flush to the belt through which the bolts are received, a further part extending from the first part outwardly and normally to the belt and a ground-engaging part extending from the second part in a direction parallel to the belt.

Abstract: An agricultural tractor with a hitching or lifting device which carries a farm implement. A control mechanism is provided on the tractor for adjusting automatically the height of the hitching device to enable the implement to follow irregularities in the underlying ground. The control mechanism includes a sensing member which, in one embodiment (FIG. 1), comprises two wheels which may pivot together about a common axis, such pivoting causing adjustment of the hitching device. In another embodiment, independently pivotable wheels or a further ground engaging member such as a skid may be located ahead of or behind the ground engaging wheels of a tractor which, by connection to the control mechanisms cause the hitching device to adjust to the height of the underlying ground.

Abstract: A soil working machine has at least one, preferably two rotors, one of which is at a higher working level than the other to achieve a relatively large working depth. The rotors are driven through a drive gear transmission located about midway along the length of the rotors. An adjustable coupling of the machine can be used to establish either one of two positions which are offset about an axis which extends transverse to the normal direction of travel. The transmission includes change speed gears in a first gear box for connection to a tractor p.t.o. and an output of the transmission is geared to a gear wheel housed in a flat gear box, the gear wheel being in driving engagement with pinions on the rotor shafts. The entire frame can be rotated to a limited extent relative to the transmission gear box owing to a flange connection between the two gear boxes and a setting device for their relative positions to one another.

Abstract: An oil well service rig having three reels, two of the reels actuated by a hydraulic pump through a gear box which provides for selective engagement or disengagement and a two speed gear ratio change for either reel, the hydraulic pump being driven by a gasoline engine. An independent hydraulically operated brake system is utilized on the reels wherein one side of each reel is provided with a greater diameter than the other side, the larger side having a brake caliper pad assembly in engagement therewith. A smaller reel, also controlled by the hydraulic motor, controls the inclination and disposition of a mast having a double sheave assembly at its top receiving cables from each main reel for raising and lowering tools into the oil well shaft.

Abstract: A soil working machine has spaced apart groups of soil working tines mounted along the length of an elongated carrier that is driven to rotate through the soil in the normal direction of travel and about a horizontal transverse axis. A hood partially surrounds the groups and is positioned adjacent the front segment of the paths of the tines as they move worked soil upwardly. Portions of the hood, preferably adjacent the groups, are flexible i.e. canvas, rubber or resilient steel strips, and vibrate to shed worked soil. Intervening hood portions are rigid. Side plates adjoin the side edges of the hood and the plates can have apertures covered by flexible portions located at those areas exposed to sticky soil and these flexible portions can be arcuate in configuration.

Abstract: An agricultural implement for carding, combing and/or teasing crop lying on the ground by receiving same from the ground by comb-like structures and then engaging and conveying the crop through the implement by a rotating drum with tines extending therefrom or rotating discs which have substantially vertical axes, the crop being restrained as it is engaged to impart somewhat of a combing action. In embodiments having a rotary drum with tines which rotates about a horizontal axis, further rotating tines in the path of the conveyed crop tend to comb and disentangle the crop further. The latter such tines may be close to or actually within the cylinder of rotation traced by tines extending from the drum although direct contact between the two sets of rotating tines is avoided.

Abstract: A soil working machine has elongated carriers that extend transverse to the direction of travel, one behind the other. Eccentric mechanisms are attached to each carrier to move tools depending from the carriers, back and forth in directions parallel to the direction of travel. The eccentrics have upper supports connected with resilient controls and lower supports of unequal lengths so that the tools work different paths. A front levelling member is connected to the frame via a parallelogram linkage and the rear carrier has a row of tines. A supporting roller is connected to the frame by arms each of which has two portions. The portions can be pivoted or slid towards and away from one another so that the roller is also moved towards and away from the carriers. Also, the arms with roller are vertically adjustable and fixable in position.

Abstract: A cultivating machine has a hollow frame portion supporting a row of rotating members each of which includes a lower plate-like tine that is S-shaped in cross section. The tines are connected to upper shafts that extend upwardly and forwardly at inclined angles. Each tine has two elongated soil cultivating elements with front ends that engage the soil. The members are mounted in a transverse row and can be spaced apart from one another so that the distance between two neighboring members is greater than one third of the diameter of the working path of each member so that furrows are formed. The upper shaft ends mount pinions that can be in mesh with one another or an intermediate pinion within the frame portion so that neighboring shafts can be driven in the same or opposite directions. One of the shafts is extended up through the frame portion to a gear box housing a driven pinion engaged by a driving pinion on an input shaft. The input shaft is connectable to the p.t.o. of a tractor.

Abstract: A soil working machine has an elongated frame portion that supports a row of soil working tools that extends transverse to the direction of travel. The machine is partly supported by rear wheels that are located adjacent the lateral sides of the machine and arms connect the wheels to an upper part of the machine. A delivery mechanism, including an elongated hopper is mounted on the implement and delivery tubes extend from the hopper to the ground, between the wheels and the soil working tools. The hopper is positioned above the frame portion and a rotatable member in the hopper is drivenly connected to the wheels.

Abstract: A rotary harrow has a plurality of soil working members mounted in a row and each of the members is rotatably mounted on an upwardly extending shaft. Each soil working member includes a downwardly extending support on the lower end of a corresponding shaft and a soil working tool is mounted on the support. Each tool includes at least one pair of tines having respective coils that encircle the support and the entire tool can be made from a single length of spring steel rod. A transverse bolt with clamps couples the support with a connecting portion of the tool between the coils.

Abstract: A mowing machine has an elongated beam that supports side-by-side rotors with pivoted cutters positioned to cut overlapping paths in front of the beam. The rotor units include an upper rotatably hub with pivoted blades and lower bodies which house corresponding driving shafts. The units are releaseably fastened to the beam and in one embodiment, spaced apart supporting elements are fastened to the front side of the beam and a unit is fitted and bolted between elements. In another embodiment, the body of each unit is hollow so that the beam can be passed through units and the latter abutted to one another and secured in place with a single bolt. The driving shaft of each unit is interconnected to adjacent driving shafts by sleeve connectors that form an elongated drive shaft that is parallel and in front of the beam.

Abstract: A novel miniature rose variety characterized by its double blossoms of sixty to seventy symmetrically arranged petals which remain relatively tight at maturity and are of satiny medium intense red color, the petals having a white creamy white base.