Abstract: A portable device and a process for detection of persons and things by the Condensation Nuclei" technique. The disclosure sets out a new continuous flow device and process that collects an air sample, subjects it to supersaturation conditions when flowing for growing or condensation on air sample nuclei, and detects and counts the condensated or grown particles with a photo means and a conventional counter. An air sample is pumped through a heated tube humidifier where the sample becomes supersaturated for condensation. It is then carried by detector means for counting.

Abstract: A loose metal end for forming a seamed can end closure and which includes an annular marginal seaming panel having a radiused outer rim concluding in a curled end underlying the seaming panel and provided with a peripherally interspaced array of radially extending flutes shaped to crest directionally towards the seaming panel. When double-seamed onto a can body, the fluted curled end is folded into a fluted hook end with the flutes cresting radially outward and away from the can body. As thus disposed, the flutes provide preselectively located sites which function to direct such "pinwrinkles" or "pinlips", as may result from buckling compressive forces generated in the hook end during the seaming or crimping operations, to project radially outward and away from the can body.

Abstract: An improved liner element for a closure cap which is adapted to be disposed within the closure cap and bonded to the interior end surface thereof. The liner element is characterized by having a laminated structure comprising a backing layer or cushion layer of surface-sorbent material, such as fabric, a relatively thin sheet of paper or comparable surface-sorbent cellulosic or paper-like membrane or substrate, having an inner face which is surface-bonded to the interior end surface of the closure and having an outer face which is surface-bonded to a barrier layer of pliant polymeric material. The barrier layer of polymeric material is selected to possess the properties of being essentially impermeable to water vapor and gaseous transmission so as to be suitable for closure caps utilized in conjunction with containers for packaging comestible products and carbonated or non-carbonated, alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages.

Abstract: A child-resistant, safety closure for a container having a dispensing end including a threaded neck portion onto which the closure is adapted to be threadably assembled. The closure is of the type having an annular sidewall section having a flexible distal end portion provided with at least one interlocking member adapted to interlockingly engage at least one complementary interlocking member on the dispensing end of the container in such manner that interlocking engagement is achieved when the closure is in a fully closed position on the container neck portion. Removal of the closure requires manual compression of the sidewall at locations straddling the interlocking members coupled with concurrent retrogressive turning movement of the closure. An additive safety feature embodies providing a secondary interlocking engagement when the closure is partially removed.

Abstract: A child-resistant, safety closure for a container having a dispensing end including a threaded neck portion onto which the closure is adapted to be threadably assembled. The closure includes an interiorly threaded sidewall having a flexible and resiliently distensible distal end portion provided with at least one interlocking member on its interior surface adapted to automatically interlockingly engage at least one complementary interlocking member on the dispensing end of the container when the closure is in either a fully closed or in at least one additional, partially removed position on the container neck portion.

Abstract: A ventilator hatch assembly for vehicles, watercraft and the like, which is characterized by having a hatch member, which is interconnected to a mounting frame restable within a ventilation hatch opening for pivotal movements between alternative open ventilating and closed, latched, non-ventilating positions. The hatch cover and mounting frame are interconnected by separable hinge means and separable flip-action or snap-action latch means which operably cooperate to accommodate rapid opening and closing movements of the hatch cover and also to facilitate complete and rapid removal of the hatch cover from the hatch opening to permit the latter to serve as an emergency exit from the vehicle or craft.

Abstract: A container component with a wall section having means imparting a predefined and selectively weakened fracturable zone therein for conveniently opening the wall section in response to manually exerted force. The selectively weakened fracturable zone is provided by means of a pair of laterally interspaced channels defined in oppositely facing major sides of the wall section and which cooperate to define a fracturable partition, or bridge-wall, therebetween which extends between the oppositely facing major sides of the wall section. The channels further cooperate to impart a predefined lateral path of weakness extending therebetween through the partition. In response to manually applied force, the partition is adapted to fracture along the predefined lateral path of weakness and separate into a pair of overlapping ledges; one of which residually remains in accompaniment with each one of the resultant, residual free edges of the separated portions of the fractured wall section.

Abstract: A child-resistant, safety closure for a container having a dispensing end including a threaded neck portion. The closure features an inner sidewall threadably attachable on the container neck portion and an outer sidewall having a flexible and resiliently distensible distal end portion with at least one interlocking member adapted to automatically interlockingly engage the dispensing end of the container when the closure is in either a fully closed or in at least one additional, partially removed position on the container neck portion. Removal of the closure requires manual compression of the outer sidewall at locations straddling the interlocking members, coupled with concurrent retrogressive movement of the closure. Ordinarily, such manual manipulation must be repeated at each interlocking position of the closure. Moreover, as a further safety factor, the interlocking members are inaccessibly and unobservably secluded within the interior confines of the closure when it is interlocked on the container.

Abstract: An automatically operable article transfer apparatus for successively picking up and transporting articles, such as the funnel components of cathode-ray tube assemblies, from a loading station to an article unloading station, and which during the course of transport of such articles is operable to effect a precise transpositional reorientation of each of the articles including pivoting or tilting the article, rotating the article and raising or lowering the article during such transport in such manner that all of such transpositional and reorientational movements are adjustably and cooperatively coordinateable to present the article in an adjustably preselectable and precisely predictable reoriented position at the work unloading station and which is further characterized by being designed to permit such orientational adjustability to be carried out to selectively vary the positional and orientational characteristics of the transfer apparatus at the work unloading station without disturbing the positional or

Abstract: The present invention concerns sodium silicate and sodium aluminosilicate glass compositions which contain specified proportions of tantalum oxide and glass electrodes made thereform, which are particularly sensitive to sodium ions in aqueous solutions containing sodium ions and other monovalent cations. These glasses represent an improvement over sodium aluminosilicate glass electrodes of the type disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 2,829,090.

Abstract: A sealing glass and a sealing glass paste for sealing the face plate and funnel portion of a color television tube wherein PbO-containing sealing glass frit contains from an effective amount of a powder, such as Pb.sub.3 O.sub.4 powder, which powder prevents the reduction of PbO to Pb metal during the sealing process, which reduction would otherwise result in a dielectric breakdown in the seal. A sealing glass paste consisting essentially of a PbO-B.sub.2 O.sub.3 -ZnO sealing glass frit and containing an effective amount of said powder, based upon the weight of the frit, together with hydroxypropyl cellulose binder for the frit and a solvent for the binder. A method for sealing the face plate of a color television tube to its funnel portion with a PbO-containing solder glass wherein the reduction of PbO to metallic lead during the sealing step is obviated by the addition of a sufficient amount of Pb.sub.3 O.sub.4 or BaO.sub.2 powder in the solder glass and paste made therewith, which Pb.sub.3 O.sub.4 or BaO.

Abstract: The present invention concerns sodium silicate and sodium aluminosilicate glass compositions which contain specified proportions of tantalum oxide and glass electrodes made therefrom, which are particularly sensitive to sodium ions in aqueous solutions containing sodium ions and other monovalent cations. These glasses represent an improvement over sodium aluminosilicate glass electrodes of the type disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 2,829,090.

Abstract: A printing paste vehicle for use in dispensing solids on a substrate comprises at least one polar oxygenated solvent, a binding agent and an organic thixotrope in specified proportions. A solids dispensing paste composition comprises the vehicle, a glass binder and gold in specified proportions. A portion of the paste is deposited in the bottom of a cavity of a microelectronic package, and gradually heated to a temperature sufficient to allow the paste to flow and the gold and glass binder to settle to the bottom of the cavity. The vehicle is volatilized, and the component is subsequently fired to bond the gold to the bottom of the cavity.

Abstract: Disclosed are pH responsive glass compositions which contain specified proportions of LiO.sub.2, SiO.sub.2, La.sub.2 O.sub.3, and Ta.sub.2 O.sub.5. In some embodiments, the glasses also contain a small proportion of Cs.sub.2 O. The glasses have very low electrical resistivity, are stable against devitrification, and are readily melted and formed into shapes which are suitable for glass electrodes.