Abstract: Apparatus and process for the recovery of particulate material lost during the passage of a surface treatment blast head having a magnetic particle seal over the surface under treatment. Wipers adapted to substantially contain the leakage material are spaced in close proximity around the outside perimeter of the magnetic seal. One or more slotted vacuum tubes are positioned between the magnetic seals and the wipers; each vacuum tube being interconnected by hoses or pipes to a recovery chamber which, in turn, is operatively interconnected with the blast head through a material transfer valve. The recovery chamber is further provided with a vacuum flapper valve adapted to selectively inhibit the flow of vacuum air through the chamber and slotted vacuum tube. During a first step the vacuum valve is open and the material transfer valve is closed.

Abstract: A printing machine including a conveyor equipped with spaced-apart carriers for moving articles to a printing station and then to a discharge station, and an intermittently operating drive for the conveyor whereby the carriers are stopped at the printing station. An ultraviolet reactive ink is used during printing with an ultraviolet curing station. The curing station comprises rotatable pick-up means for a printed article whereby the article is adapted to be rotated during exposure at the curing station. An article drive is provided for rotating the pick-up means about its axis, and the article drive has an axis of rotation which is offset relative to the axis of the pick-up means so that an eccentric drive is imparted to the pick-up means. The article drive is connected to the intermittently operated drive whereby the driving action imparted to said pick-up means is simultaneously influenced by said intermittently operated drive and by said eccentric drive.

Abstract: A medical and surgical laser probe which is provided with a contact member made of a laser transmitting material in front of a forward end of a laser guide so as to enable the probe to be used in contact with the tissue. The contact member has a specified configuration which causes no substantial convergency so as to be specially adapted coagulation treatment. With the contact member of the present invention, the coagulation treatment can be carried out effectively.

Abstract: A reel loader apparatus comprising a mechanism for loading reels onto a supporting bed and for unloading the reels, the mechanism including pivotally mounted arms having engaging openings at their outer ends for receiving reels to thereby achieve lifting of the reels during loading and unloading operations. The reels carry laterally extending spindles for use in lifting the reels, and a loading and unloading structure includes bars extending between the spindles of the pair of reels. One bar is located on each side of the pair of reels, and the bars are connected to the respective spindles so that the bars hold the reels in assembly. A rod or the like is carried by each bar so that the arms are adapted to lift the assembly for loading and unloading of the reels.

Abstract: A rotary mold having a removable rotary mold segment of truncated sectorial shape having top, bottom, side, and end wall surfaces wherein the top arcuate surface is adapted for molding, and the generally planar bottom surface is connected to the top surface by two end walls in radial alignment with the axis of rotation defining the arcuate top surface wherein the bottom surface joining said end walls is in perpendicular alignment with one of said end walls.

Abstract: Crystals containing a molten liquid at the bottom of a purifying tower are cooled, so that three effects i.e., washing, sweating and recrystallization are improved while maintaining a heat balance within a tower to thereby obtain highly pure crystals.

Abstract: A method of producing a light transmitting article of synthetic resin by polymerizing incompletely a monomer Ma which forms a network polymer Pa having a refractive index Na, thereby forming a self-supporting body material, and subsequently diffusing a monomer Mb, which forms a polymer Pb having a refractive index Nb different from the refractive index Na, into said body material and simultaneously polymerizing said monomer Mb, wherein said method comprises steps of drawing out continuously a body material from a molding means in which said body material has been formed and is ready for the diffusion of the monomer Mb, and passing said body material through a diffusion means and a heating means one after the other, diffusing the monomer Mb into said body material by the aid of said diffusion means and then heating said body material by the aid of said heating means so that the distribution of said monomer Mb is fixed in said body material.

Abstract: A process for producing a color display means of the type used for detecting the depletion of a cleaning and disinfecting ingredient in a solution such as the water present in a toilet tank and bowl. The display means comprises a solid composition which includes a color indicator in a matrix, and this composition is located in the solution along with the cleaning and disinfecting ingredient. The cleaning and disinfecting ingredient has a bleaching tendency relative to the color indicator so that a display of color is minimal or non-existent for as long as significant amounts of the ingredient are present. The color indicator will, however, provide a substantial display of color after depletion of the ingredient whereby depletion of the ingredient can be detected. The porosity of the solid composition is maintained within limits to provide a means for controlling the rate of release of the color indicator into the solution.

Abstract: A process for making into useful products the uranium and rare earths contained in impure uranium tetrafluoride resulting from the recovery of uranium from phosphoric acid, comprising dissolving it in a hot condition in a nitric medium in the presence of an aluminum compound, treating the resulting solution with a solvent for extracting uranyl nitrate, which contains a phosphoric ester, and separating from the aqueous phase from which the uranium is removed, the solvent which is charged with uranyl nitrate to be made into a useful product, which provides that, in order to achieve easy separation of the aqueous phase from which the uranium has been removed, from the uranyl nitrate extraction solvent:(a) The operation of dissolution of UF.sub.

Abstract: A process for the production of uranium trioxide having a large specific surface by the thermal denitration of hydrated uranyl nitrate corresponding to the formula UO.sub.2 (NO.sub.3).sub.2 .multidot.xH.sub.2 O, in which 2.ltoreq.x.ltoreq.6, characterized in that, in a first stage, the said nitrate is treated in the form of a liquid at room temperature in the range from 160.degree. C. to 260.degree. C. until a solid phase containing at least 55% by weight of uranium is obtained and, in a second stage, the said solid phase is progressively heated to a temperature of at most 600.degree. C. at a heating rate of at most 1000.degree. C. per hour, and is kept at this temperature of at most 600.degree. C. until a second solid phase of UO.sub.3 having a large specific surface is obtained. The UO.sub.3 product produced has a specific surface of at least 10 m..sup.2 g.sup.-1.

Abstract: A machine wherein flat blanks are fed from a stack thereof to be folded and glued into envelopes. The machine is provided with an optical sensing device which is operable to sense when the stack of blanks diminishes to a predetermined height whereupon the machine will be turned off automatically so as to prevent a plurality of blanks from being simultaneously fed into the machine from the diminished stack to jam the machine. The machine operator can then add blanks to the stack and restart the machine. The sensing device can be turned off by the operator in order to run all of the blanks in the stack through the machine at the end of a blank run or at the end of a working day.

Abstract: A polymerization reactor in which the surfaces therein, which are exposed to the polymerization medium, are provided with a coating of a resin extracted from pine wood whereby polymer deposits on such surfaces are substantially reduced and/or easily removed, and method for treatment of same.

Abstract: The present invention relates to insertion compounds with improved performances for electrochemical applications. They are characterized in that they are obtained from a graphite with a specific surface area of at least 100 m.sup.2 /g, and a granulometry at most equal to 4 .mu.m. The graphite oxide or the graphite-NiCl.sub.2 first stage obtained from such a graphite is used as constituting agent of the cathode of a lithium battery and it gives to same excellent characteristics. The graphite oxide performances may further be improved by preparing it by double oxidation of a graphite having any specific surface area and the granulometry is of the order of the .mu.m, as shown by FIG. 2 which represents the intensiostatic discharge curves of the lithium batteries the cathode of which contains the graphite oxide.

Abstract: A process for the production of aluminum trihydroxide having controlled median diameter of 2 to 100 microns, with a unimodal distribution and minimum deviation, by decomposing a hot supersaturated sodium aluminate solution in the presence of seed aluminum trihydroxide, separating the resultant solid and liquid phases and recovering the solid phase constituted by precipitated aluminum trihydroxide. The process comprises grinding aluminum trihydroxide until the aluminum trihydroxide has a specific BET surface area of at least 1 m.sup.2 /g, introducing the ground aluminum trihydroxide into a hot fraction of the supersaturated sodium aluminate solution to precipitate trihydroxide seed and then decomposing the remaining fraction of the supersaturated sodium alimuniate solution in the presence of the seed. This decomposition leads to the precipitation of aluminum trihydroxide having the required median diameter.

Abstract: The invention relates to the textile industry and, more particularly, to weaving machines.The device comprises: a support (1) to be fixed on the weaving machine; a first lever (2) oscillating on the said support and provided with at least one tongue (3) which has at its end an eye (27) for guiding an additional warp thread; a second lever (6) also oscillating on the support (1) and provided with two bars (7) which are mounted in sliding fashion against each other in a direction parallel with the fell and which each have at least one eye for guiding a crossing thread; means (15, 16, 34, 35) for actuating pivoting of the two oscillating levers (2, 6); and means (49, 55, 65) for actuating sliding of the bars (7) for guiding the crossing threads, arranged so that each crossing thread passes alternately on either side of the corresponding additional warp thread.The invention is applicable to shuttleless weaving machines.

Abstract: A mold construction and method for use in producing articles having a predetermined crystalline orientation including single crystals. The technique employs a seed holder or cradle that is inserted into a bottom aperture of a ceramic mold to permit the precise orientation of one or more seeds relative to the article cavity and to provide improved solidification process control. The technique also facilitates pattern assembly and pattern removal operations during fabrication of the ceramic mold.

Abstract: A changeable wall structure includes a frame which removably holds a plurality of inner decorative panels having displays on one or both sides. A combination of a shelf, a shelf extension, and a support are selectively secured to the frame by mounting brackets. These brackets include upper, lower and intermediate support brackets which permit the support of panels in upper and lower positions, in intermediate positions, and in rearward positions and forward positions. Decorative panels are employed, and the forward or outer panels can partially or totally conceal one or more of the inner panels from view. Each decorative panel is preferably changeable and reversible.

Abstract: A firing weapon is associated with a laser radiation source mounted in proximity to the weapon and also with a detector which is sensitive to the laser radiation. The orientation of the radiation is adjusted independently of the aiming of the weapon in order to carry out continuous detection of the target as a result of detection of radiation by the detector after reflection from the target. The orientation and the time of transit of radiation between source and target are utilized in order to obtain target data relating to position in elevation and in azimuth as well as distance of the target. The data are processed in order to orient a real shot or in order to compare the data quantitatively with the position of a simulated projectile which follows a fictitious trajectory.

Abstract: Difficulties are encountered in mining in making shot-firing boreholes from a narrow cross-heading into the lateral walls at right angles to the length of the cross-heading. The invention provides for this purpose a drilling unit with a flexible drilling shaft (5) formed by a steel spiral, which is brought up in the direction (7) of the cross-heading and is deviated within the unit substantially at right angles into the direction (10) of the borehole. The deviating station (3) provided for this purpose comprises, in a preferred embodiment, a turntable (11) fitted with pairs of rollers (12), which absorbs the substantial feed forces and reduces the wear on the flexible drilling shaft (5). The circulation fluid necessary for the drilling is conveyed through a pressure hose extending within the flexible shaft (5), which is connected pressure-tightly to the ends of the flexible shaft by means of special screw fittings.

Abstract: A linear pulse motor includes: a primary body including first magnetic circuit forming members provided with coils; a secondary body including a second magnetic circuit forming member, one of the primary body and the secondary body being movable relative to the other in one direction; the first magnetic circuit forming members including plural pole surfaces in each of which first plural teeth are formed at constant pitch, the groups of the first plural teeth of the plural pole surfaces being shifted from one another in a predetermined order by the pitch length x the reciprocal of the number of the pole surfaces (P/n, where P and n represent the pitch length of the first plural teeth and the number of the pole surfaces, respectively); the second magnetic circuit forming member including second plural teeth of the same pitch as the first plural teeth of the plural pole surfaces; and guide members for guiding the one of the primary body and the secondary body movably in the one direction, arranged between the pr