Abstract: A compact, relatively small unit for treatment of wastewater for discharge into maritime waters is disclosed. The wastewater is received in a surge or retention tank and is delivered by gravity flow or pumped to a macerator for comminution of the solids content of the wastewater. Prior to entering the macerator, salt water on a controlled flow basis is added to the wastewater in sufficient amounts to insure a high enough salt content for use as the electrolyte in an electrocatalytic cell. From the macerator the wastewater to be treated is directed into a vertically oriented, elongated, electrocatalytic cell having a plurality of parallel, closely spaced electrodes therein positioned parallel to the flow of wastewater therethrough. The wastewater is directed through the electrocatalytic unit. The end electrodes of the spaced electrode plates are connected to a source of direct current sufficient to generate chlorine, oxygen and other treating chemicals in situ.

Abstract: A continuous method and apparatus are disclosed for forming and electrostatically orienting a mat of discrete particles of lignocellulosic material on an electrically nonconductive transfer surface and then transferring the directionally oriented mat onto a grounded, moving, electrically conductive mat receiving surface under the continuing influence of an electrostatic field without loss of orientation of the particles of lignocellulosic material making up the mat.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for extracting residual vegetable oil contained in spent bleaching clays used in refining and processing of such oil and for processing the extracted clay for reuse. The spent bleaching clay containing the residual vegetable oil is mixed with water, an organic binder and a plastic clay to form a composition of putty-like consistency which can be formed into particulate solids of suitable size for solvent extraction of the oil. The vegetable oil in the particulate solids is then extracted by solvent extraction with a suitable solvent. The remaining particulate solids with the oil removed may be retorted to produce an activated carbon/clay product useful to lighten the color of the oil being processed, as a filter aid, for water treatment purposes or for other uses where activated carbon is generally used.

Abstract: An automated machine is disclosed which accepts a whole log, cuts it into predetermined lengths, splits each length in half and conveys the split log to a stacking location. A single person can operate the machine.

Abstract: A standard glass cutter is provided with an attachment mounted on the back of the head so that the cutter can be held such as to be operated by pushing in the direction away from the operator.

Abstract: An elongated metal workpiece such as a slab or billet is moved longitudinally beneath a grinding head by a reciprocating carriage mounted on an elongated track. The carriage receives a billet from a charging table, reciprocates the billet beneath the grinding head for a plurality of grinding passes, and then delivers the finished billet to a discharge table. The grinder head includes a rotating grinding wheel mounted at the end of a first arm which is pivotally secured to one end of a pivotally mounted second arm. The vertical position of the grinding wheel, and hence the downward force exerted by the grinding wheel on the billet, is principally determined by the angular position and torque, respectively, of the first arm while the horizontal position of the grinding wheel transverse to the longitudinal axis of the billet is principally determined by the angular position of the second arm.

Abstract: A set of travelling line guiding members are moved relative to stationary line guiding members with the two sets of line guiding members containing separate individual wraps or partial loops of line. By moving the guiding members relatively toward and away from one another the line can be quickly released when letting out line or retrieved for retracting a line. Wrap retaining devices are provided for releasably holding the wraps of line when in the retracted position after the movable line guiding members are moved from the retracted position toward the fixed line guiding members.

Abstract: A microprocessor for executing computer programs which are stored in cipher to prevent software piracy. Such a crypto-microprocessor deciphers the enciphered program piecemeal as it executes it, so that a large enciphered program can be securely executed without disclosing the deciphered program or associated data to persons who have access to the wiring of the computer in which the crypto-microprocessor is a component. Such a device may process valuable proprietary programs and data files which are distributed in cipher on videodiscs, semiconductor memory, or other media without risk of software piracy. Various methods of encryption may be used including methods which result in the cipher of a byte being a complicated function of the byte's address in memory. Each crypto-microprocessor chip may use a unique cipher key or tables for deciphering the program, so that a program that can be executed in one chip cannot be run in any other microprocessor.

Abstract: A unique, single lever hand control is operatively associated with means for energizing the clutch mechanism which control the various parts of the transmission as well as control the reversibility and stroke of a pump which drives the input motor. The hand control assures a proper correlation between braking and powering of the drum.

Abstract: A rotary actuator apparatus provides compound rotation at its output in two planes perpendicular to one another. This compound rotation is utilized in positioning a workpiece or in positioning a rock drill on the boom of a vehicle. A rotary rack and pinion actuator has an output pinion shaft rotatably mounted in an external housing and a piston driven rack in a cylinder at right angles to the output shaft housing. This cylinder is welded to the output shaft housing so that the cylinder can transmit rotational torque to the output shaft housing.

Abstract: A method and device for preparing the skin of a patient to ensure good electrical contact between a medical electrode and the patient's skin. The electrode or the tips of the preparation device includes an abrasive pad impregnated with an electrolyte for providing good electrical contact with the patient's skin. When an electrode is used, the pad is centrally mounted and is rotated in a housing having an adhesive annular rim which is secured to the skin. The pad is rotatably driven by the preparation device which continuously measures the impedance between the pad of the electrode and a reference electrode, which is also secured to the skin. A motor in the preparation device rotates the pad to abrade the skin responsive to actuation of a switch. Rotation of the pad terminates within a predetermined period or when the impedance between the pad and reference electrode falls to a predetermined value, whichever occurs first.

Abstract: A fused electric plug has its housing made up by a pair of body shells and a slide door which can each be injection molded of a rigid thermoplastic material and yet will all snap-fit together and remain locked in position with a pair of conductor prongs held between the shells. Access to a pair of fuses in readily obtained after sliding the door to an open position whereat the door is held in operative position on the plug body.

Abstract: Urea-formaldehyde polymers having reduced formaldehyde emissions are produced by incorporating in the prepolymer an aromatic substance incapable of reacting with urea formaldehyde in alkaline media but capable of reacting with urea formaldehyde in acid media in an amount sufficient to reduce or eliminate the free formaldehyde emissions therefrom. Also disclosed is a cellular urea-formaldehyde foam which is resistant to acid-induced hydrolysis, the foam prepared by incorporating a polyalkyl polynuclear metal sulfonate foaming agent in the acid catalyst solution for the urea-formaldehyde prepolymer.

Abstract: An extractor for removing an ammunition case from a sizer die in which the case is stuck after the gripping rim surrounding the head of the case has been broken. The extractor includes a body portion having a rim which is engaged by the end of a reloading ram. A screw projecting from the opposite end of the body portion is received by a threaded bore formed in the primer pocket of the case. The body portion is preferably hexagonally shaped so that it can be rotated ith a wrench to thread a screw into the primer pocket bore. Movement of the reloading ram away from the sizer die thus draws the case from the sizer die.

Abstract: Laser radiation is coupled to an optical instrument having a relatively narrow working edge from which the radiation is emitted in a relatively narrow zone of intense radiation leakage. The working edge is placed in contact with vascularized tissues, and the laser radiation emanating from the working edge in combination with the contact between the working edge and the tissues forms an incision, and the laser radiation photocoagulates tissue adjacent the incision. The contact between the working edge and the tissues accurately positions the laser radiation with respect to the tissue, places pressure on vessels to aid hemostasis, mechanically stresses the incision line and provides the surgeon with tactile feedback. Radiation propagates from a laser to the optical instrument through a low-loss flexible fiberoptic waveguide by means of multimode optical waveguide propagation.

Abstract: A rear entry collator which includes one or more sheet receiver bins in which sheets may be assembled in a non-inverted surface orientation with respect to the surface orientation thereof when accepted at infeed. Return sheet feed to a copier may be provided to effect duplex copying separately or in combination with sheet assembly in the receiver bins.

Abstract: A heat storing fireplace including a fire-box surrounded by a heat storage medium which is either an enclosure containing a material having a high specific heat such as sand or gravel or a large number of heat conducting bags containing a high specific heat material. Exhaust gases are conveyed from the fire-box to an exhaust outlet by several conduits extending through the heat storage medium in a circuitous path in order to transfer heat from the exhaust gases to the heat storage medium. Heat is further distributed through the storage material by a heat conducting lattice fastened to the conduits and extending through the storage medium in a circuitous path. Combustion air enters the bottom of the fire box through a combustion air inlet jacket surrounding the exhaust outlet in order to simultaneously pre-warm the combustion air while thermally insulating the exhaust outlet from its support structure. A draft is created through the fire-box by an exhaust fan mounted in the exhaust outlet.

Abstract: A stop mechanism for facilitating the cutting of an elongated workpiece into a large number of equally sized pieces with a radial arm saw. An elongated rail extends perpendicularly beneath the arm to serve as a guide for the workpiece as it is fed into the saw from the infeed side to the outfeed side of the table. An elongated infeed guide which is parallel to the rail spaces the workpiece from the rail as it is fed into the saw. A stop mechanism includes a housing which is secured to the outfeed side of the table and a plunger which moves toward the rail in an extended position and away from the rail to a retracted position. As the workpiece is guided toward the outfeed side of the table, the end of the workpiece contacts the extended plunger thereby terminating further infeed. The workpiece is then cut with the saw, and the plunger is momentarily retracted to allow additional infeed of the workpiece. The end of the workpiece for the next cut then abuts the extended plunger.

Abstract: A nasal composition is disclosed for relieving nasal distress of a cold which does not employ a vasoconstrictor compound. The nasal composition, administered preferably in atomized form into the nasal passages, consist of a buffered, isotonic, aqueous solution containing from 0.25 to 0.8 by weight of an antihistamine compound in combination with one or more isomers of vitamin E, such as, the maleate or succinate esters of alpha, beta, gamma, delta or epsilon tocopherols.

Abstract: A lapidary machine is provided with a grinding wheel and a removable hinged adjustable fixture arranged to swing toward and away from a grinding surface on the wheel and having an adjustable slide carrying a guide bar and a swing arm on which is journaled an arbor having a chuck for a dop, a template, and a turning knob. The template is swung against a guide surface on the guide bar and turned to establish the grinding pattern of the grinding wheel on a cabochon blank or the like mounted on the dop.