Abstract: An apparatus for compressing cigarettes comprises a compression pocket having opposite open ends which comprises a pair of L-shaped compression members which are disposed in an opposite manner. Each member includes short and long segments which extend in an axial direction of a continuously rotatable drum, one of the members being movable in a tangential direction of the outer circumference of the drum, the other member being movable in a direction at an desired angle relative to said tangential direction. The apparatus also includes a device for moving the pair of L-shaped compression members in opposite directions using a rack and pinion combination system.

Abstract: A method of forming a row of filter-tip cigarettes at a high speed with a simple device.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for embossing characters on a plate such as a motor vehicle registration plate are provided according to which the blank plate and dies are located between the movable and stationary members of a press, the movable member being contained in a cylinder wherein pressurized fluid can cause it in the nature of a piston to move towards the stationary member in order to effect the embossing operation on the plate.

Abstract: A mud flap member with a main flap body and an adapter protrusion extending from the upper end of the main flap body is fixed to a motor vehicle body by a portion of its adapter protrusion in such a way that between the motor vehicle body and the adapter protrusion gaps are formed which are too large to substantially retain water therein by capillary action. These gaps are created by providing projections on the surface of that portion of the adapter protrusion in contact with the motor vehicle body or interposing a spacer having such projections between the mud flap and the motor vehicle body.

Abstract: A floatable on water, translucent laminated plastic sheet material having a plastic embossed film with a plurality of embossments dispersed thereon except at the longitudinal edges thereof. The embossments are spaced apart and separated by land areas and a plastic backing film is laminated to the embossed film at the said longitudinal edges and at the land areas. Thus air containing buoyant cells are formed by the embossments of the embossed film and the backing film. The improvement comprise a fibrous material laminated to the sheet material at least at the longitudinal edges thereof, whereby the edges are reinforced by the fibrous material and the edges may be attached to correspondingly reinforced edges of another of the sheet material without substantially weakening the attached sheets of material at the attachments thereof.

Abstract: In a process for manufacturing and packaging soft cheese with a bloomed or washed rind, the cheese is packaged in a wrapper comprising a moisture-absorbing inside layer on the side in contact with the cheese and a moisture-proof outside layer. The cheese is then placed in a hermetically sealed box which is then pasteurized.

Abstract: A transmitter, for electrical appliance control by transmitting digital control signals on a power main, comprises two releasably connected parts, a first part comprising m actuators to initiate the generation of m control signals, and the second part containing a generator for the control signals, and a selector for selecting m out of n control signals. The selector is hidden by the first part when the parts are joined together and may be adjusted to select different groups of m control signals from the n possible signals. All n control signals can be produced, in groups of up to m signals for each condition of the selector. A monitor is also provided to monitor the main in order to achieve transmitter queueing dependent upon the selector settings at the transmitters.

Abstract: 16-Fluoro-16,17-didehydro prostanoids, processes for their preparation, compositions containing them and methods of using them are disclosed. The compounds and compositions have pharmaceutical utility including, for example, luteolytic activity.

Abstract: This invention provides a penam derivative represented by the formula ##STR1## wherein R is hydrogen or methyl and R.sub.1 is (hexahydro-1H-azepin-1-yl)methyleneamino, 2-phenylacetamido, 2-phenoxyacetamido, 2-amino-2-phenylacetamido, 2-amino-2-(p-hydroxyphenyl)acetamido or 2-(4-ethyl-2,3-dioxo-1-piperazine)carboxamido-2-phenylacetamido, and a salt thereof, and processes for preparing them.

Abstract: The invention relates to compounds having the general formula (I) ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is carboxy, esterified carboxy or an amide of formula ##STR2## in which R.sub.9 is hydrogen or C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 alkyl, A is C.sub.2 -C.sub.6 alkylene and R.sub.a and R.sub.b are hydrogen or C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 alkyl or R.sub.a and R.sub.b taken together with the nitrogen atom to which they are linked form a saturated, optionally substituted, heteromonocyclic ring;R.sub.2 is hydrogen or C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 alkyl;each of R.sub.3 to R.sub.8 is independently hydrogen, halogen, C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 -alkyl, C.sub.3 -C.sub.4 alkenyloxy or C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 alkoxy; and the pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, which are useful as immunomodulating and anti-viral agents.

Abstract: An elongated moulding made from rubber, plastic, etc. is cross-sectionally provided with a leg (12) for arrangement between a mud flap (5) and the fender fold (3) of a motor vehicle, and which mud flap (5) has a main flap body (6) and an adapting protrusion (7) connected to the top thereof. A widened material portion (11) is connected to the leg (12). The leg (12), which is to be arranged between the mud flap (5) and the fender fold (3), has notches (13) extending from the free longitudinal edges (17) to the transition area with the widened material portion (11), and these notches extend at right angles to the free longitudinal edge (17). In the fitted state, the widened material portion (11) engages on the vehicle body area adjacent to the fender fold (3).

Abstract: A method, system and apparatus is disclosed for rapidly cooling and simultaneously maintaining a high moisture content in freshly slaughtered meat products and the like placed in a chamber through which preconditioned air is circulated. This is achieved by limiting the air temperature rise by utilizing air flow rates past the product at a level such as to cause the air to increase in temperature from entry into the chamber to exit from the chamber by no more than approximately two degrees F. and by providing a cooling apparatus which reduces the temperature of the air while removing free water from it yet is capable of maintaining the relative humidity of the air at no less than ninety percent.

Abstract: An optical continuous measuring apparatus for a reaction-liquid comprises: a microplate provided with a plurality of microcups arranged on a straight line at intervals of a certain distance; a rotary disc provided over the microplate so as to be rotatable, which disc is provided with suction nozzles in its outer periphery, which nozzles are sequentially inserted into the microcups upon rotation of the disc, and also provided with transparent measuring cells communicating therewith inward in radial direction of the disc; suction means for sucking the reaction-liquid received in the microcups from the microcups into the measuring cells through the suction nozzles when the suction nozzles of the rotary disc are inserted into the microcups; an optical measuring means for measuring the reaction-liquid received in the measuring cells; a supplying means for supplying a rinsing liquid to the measuring cells; and a discharging means for discharging the reaction-liquid and the rinsing liquid from the measuring cells.

Abstract: An anti-cancer composition for delivering 5-fluorouracil to cancer tissues in a warm-blooded animal, wherein the cancer is a cancer sensitive to 5-fluorouracil, comprising 1-n-hexylcarbamoyl-5-fluorouracil and uracil (or salt there-of), wherein the composition contains less than 0.1 mole of the 5-fluorouracil per mole of the uracil.

Abstract: For indicating whether a vehicle can pass through a bridge, a radio transmitter is positioned adjacent the bridge to generate radio signals which are encoded with information as to the height of the bridge as presented to vehicles. A vehicle is provided with a radio receiver capable of receiving and decoding the signals from the transmitter, and comparing the height information so derived with pre-encoded information as to the height of the vehicle. A warning signal is produced in the event that the comparison indicates a danger that the vehicle cannot safely pass under the bridge. The technique is also applicable to railway crossings where a transmitter is positioned at the crossing to generate ratio signals indicative of approach of a train so that the receiver on the vehicle may provide a warning of such approach of a train on decoding the radio signals.

Abstract: This invention relates to a medical sealant comprising polyorganosiloxane gel for sealing a junction part between living skin and a medical instrument penetrating through the skin, said polyorganosiloxane gel having a partially cross-linked three dimentional structure expressed by the basis general formula ofR.sub.n SiO.sub.(4-n)/2(wherein R represents hydrogen or monovalent hydrocarbonyl group and n represents an integer of 1 to 3), characterized in that said gel self-supports its figure at room temperature and has a hardness expressed by a loading weight of 1 g to 250 g by which a disc of a diameter of 10 mm sinks to 1.0 mm on the gel.

Abstract: A method of pulsed arc welding and an apparatus for carrying out the method, employ welding current pulses having an amplitude greater than the value of a background current. The arc voltage is sensed to provide a signal for controlling the frequency of the welding current pulses to counteract variations in electrode wire feed speed or spacing of the electrode from the workpiece.

Abstract: Chlorine is injected in a gaseous liquid or solution form into a hot (greater than 100.degree. C.) gas stream for the purpose of oxidizing objectionable components in the gas stream, such as, but not restricted to, SO.sub.2 and NO.sub.x, when the oxidized form of the gases is more readily removed from the gas stream. After sufficient reaction time, the gas stream mixture passes through water scubbers for the further removal of the components from the gas stream. Acidic and basic compounds of the gas stream and halogens, including excess chlorine, are also removed in the scrubbers. The pollutants remain as the corresponding oxidized acids or salts in the process effluent solution.

Abstract: A rock bolt assembly incorporating a friction reducing washer of plastics material between the nut and the plate washer to give an increased tension in the bolt for a given torque.

Abstract: A valve assembly is provided for use with a hydraulic mine roof support, the assembly having uni-directional control means 49 interconnecting first and second pressure sectors of the valve assembly, and further control means 20 embodied in the first pressure sector which further control means is arranged for activation by fluid pressure in the first pressure sector to allow pressure fluid to flow from the second pressure sector to the first pressure sector until the fluid in the first pressure sector is equal to or exceeds the fluid pressure in the second pressure sector.