Abstract: A poultry container comprises a frame assembly defining an interior space, and at least one loading door having one end pivotally mounted on the frame assembly of the poultry container. The frame assembly has an opening accessing the interior space to enable the loading of poultry into the poultry container. The door is mounted on the frame assembly to situate the door in the access opening. The loading door is operable to pivot between an open position in which a free end of the door is positioned in the interior space and a closed position in which the door substantially blocks the access opening of the poultry container. The poultry container further includes a mechanism for biasing the loading door in the closed position. A mechanism restricts the free end of the loading door from swinging outwardly away from the poultry container.

Abstract: Metal wall framing sections comprising top, bottom and stud members each formed of sheet metal, the stud members having tongues at the upper and lower ends thereof extending through transverse slots in the top and bottom members, all the tongues except one at the top being bent over on the top member, that one tongue being unbent and extending upwardly from the top member for securement thereto of roof structure, e.g. a roof truss.

Abstract: A building structure including a metal wall framing section extending upwardly from a margin of a poured concrete slab having a footing, the framing section comprising sheet metal stud members extending between sheet metal top and bottom tracks, the bottom track being of L-shape in transverse section and constituting a form for the pouring of the margin of the slab and the footing, the stud members having holes adjacent their lower ends receiving a reinforcing bar for the foundation structure; the disclosure including the framing section per se, and a method of erecting a building utilizing the framing section.

Abstract: A truss fabricated of cold rolled sheet metal structural members having chord members, web members, and connectors for joints thereof, of such construction as to enable fabrication of the truss with the chord members lying flat on a fabrication table and further of such construction as to allow a plurality of trusses to be stacked flatwise one on another for storage and delivery.

Abstract: A vend door assembly for a vending machine from which articles are selected from a supply area and then deposited into a common vending area of the vending machine and which provides a customer access opening through which articles can be removed. It includes a delivery compartment mounted for pivotal movement between a receiving position in which articles are received through an opening therein from the article supply area, and an article retrieving position in which the opening therein is pivoted and aligned with the customer access opening in the vending area so that a customer can remove the articles from the delivery compartment.

Abstract: A collapsible stroller including a central frame having a front portion and a rear portion, and rear wheels mounted for rotation on the central frame. Forward and rearward frame members are hingedly connected to the central frame in which at least one front wheel is mounted for rotation on the forward frame member. The stroller is selectively configurable between the use position in which the forward frame member extends forwardly of the central frame and the rearward frame member extends rearwardly of the central frame and the stowed position in which the forward frame member and rearward frame member are superposed with the central frame.

Abstract: A simple yet inexpensive device is presented which is used to divide the water normally supplied to the spill tube and gooseneck reservoir of a commode. Dividing the water supplied to the spill tube and diverting a substantial portion of that water to a holding tank of a commode saves water that is normally unnecessarily fed directly down the drain in the refilling process. The device is a small plastic insert that has a generally rectangular main body. At one end of this main body is a horizontal inlet tube. At the bottom of the main body are a number of lower vertical outlet tubes. In order to evenly disperse the inlet water among the vertical outlet tubes, the upper mouth of the vertical outlet tubes is constricted by narrowing the diameter of the mouth with respect to the inner diameter of the inlet tube. Water is thus distributed evenly among the lower outlet tubes.

Abstract: An improved process for the reversed phase chromatographic decolorization, separation, and purification of water-soluble, nonionic contrast media compounds from solutions containing nonionic compound impurities involves the steps of (a) packing a chromatographic column with a chromatographic packing material; (b) passing through the column a solution containing a water-soluble, nonionic contrast media compound and nonionic compounds as impurities at a loading ratio between approximately 10 to 1 and 1.5 to 1 wt. packing material/total wt. nonionic compounds; and (c) eluting the column to produce an eluate containing substantially pure, water-soluble, nonionic contrast media compound or MRI agent. The process can be economically practiced on a factory scale and efficiently removes non-polar impurities difficult to remove by conventional methods.

Abstract: A process for preparing an indium-thallium alloy which exhibits shape memory transformation at a temperature greater than that temperature at which shape memory transformation would occur for a thermally prepared alloy of the same composition. The process includes providing an article for use as a cathode, providing an electrolyte which comprises indium and thallium ions, and electrodepositing an indium-thallium alloy having between about 21 and about 35 atomic percent thallium onto the article. A process for preparing an article constructed of an electrodeposited indium-thallium alloy which exhibits shape memory effect. An electrodeposited indium-based shape memory alloy.

Abstract: A process for applying an adherent electrically insulative moisture-resistant composite coating to a substrate. A thin, adherent, highly cross-linked, substantially liquid moisture-impervious primer coating is provided on the substrate by glow discharge polymerization of a low molecular weight hydrocarbon monomer in a low pressure chamber containing the substrate, the monomer being selected from among methane, ethane, propane, ethylene, and propylene. A second polymeric coating layer is provided over the primer coating by glow discharge polymerization of a second precursor comprising a hydrocarbon or substituted hydrocarbon. The precursor exhibits a hydrogen yield of not greater than about 0.75 hydrogen atoms per molecule under the glow discharge polymerization conditions under which the second layer is deposited, whereby the second polymeric coating layer is substantially resilient and strongly bonded to the primer coating and the second layer comprises a high concentration of surface and bulk free radicals.

Abstract: Polyetherimide oligomers having crosslinking end cap moieties which provide improved solvent-resistance to cured composites are generally represented by the formula: ##STR1## wherein X=--O-- or --S--; ##STR2## n=1 or 2; ##STR3## E=allyl or methallyl; R=a trivalent C.sub.(6-13) aromatic organic radical;R.sub.1 =any of lower alkyl, lower alkoxy, aryl, or substituted aryl;R'=a divalent C.sub.(6-30) aromatic organic radical;j=0, 1 or 2; andG=--CH.sub.2 --, --O--, --S--, or --SO.sub.2 --Blends generally comprise substantially equimolar amounts of the oligomers and a comparable, compatible, noncrosslinking, etherimide polymer of substantially the same backbone. The crosslinkable oligomers are made by reacting substituted phthalic anhydrides with hydroxyaryl amines and suitable crosslinking end cap reactants, or by self-condensation of phthalimide salts followed by capping the polymers.

Abstract: A kind of automatic rotary weighing and packing machine having a plurality of weighers radially or annularly arranged on a circular rotary table for automatically effecting such processes as filling of product, weighing and judgement at respective positions around the table, which is especially suitable in the case where the product to be packed is sticky granular or powdered bulk material and the packing container is a bag or the like. This machine uses no weigh hopper or bucket in which sticky product is liable to remain to cause weight error, and the packing container is held by a holding mechanism attached to each weigher and directly filled with product, which is then weighed and sealed. A fixed amount feeding device is used for feeding product into the container and its throughput is controlled based upon the result of a subsequent weighment for keeping the weight of product packed in each container always at a predetermined value.

Abstract: The apparatus reduces scatter in radiation imaging and may be used with a detector of ionizing radiation that is partly unscattered and partly Compton scattered. The detector produces an energy signal representing values of energy of the radiation and produces coordinate position information for the radiation. Data storage means for holding numerical values and means for displaying an image based on the numerical values in the data storage means are also used with the inventive apparatus. The scatter reduction apparatus includes circuitry responsive to the energy signal from the detector for producing first and second signals which indicate whether each value of energy represented by the energy signal at a given time is in a first energy range or in a second energy range less than half as wide as the first energy range and having at least some energies in common with the first energy range.

Abstract: A framing system comprising a sash having a top rail member, a bottom rail member, and a pair of stiles interconnecting the rail members at opposite sides of the sash, and a muntin framework inside the sash for supporting and separating a plurality of individual lights, such as windowpanes. The muntin framework comprises at least one exterior muntin bar extending generally vertically between the top and bottom rail members, at least one exterior muntin bar extending generally horizontally between the stiles, a plurality of interior muntin caps, at least one generally vertical connecting bar connecting said vertical muntin bar and a respective muntin cap, and at least one generally horizontal connecting bar connecting said horizontal muntin bar and a respective muntin cap.

Abstract: The alloys of this invention are of low strategic element content, non-magnetic, resistant to chloride-containing solutions as well as a wide range of other chemical agents, air-meltable, castable, of greatly improved fabricability and weldability, and consist by weight percentages of from about 20.5% to about 35.5% by weight Ni, from about 23.5% to about 27.5% by weight Cr, from about 4.0% to about 6.7% by weight Mo, from about 0.7% to about 3.6% by weight Cu, up to about 0.09% by weight C, up to about 1.5% by weight Si, up to about 5% by weight Co, up to about 0.45% by weight N, up to about 1% by weight Ti, up to about 0.8% by weight Cb, and up to about 0.3% by weight Ce, La or Misch metal, up to about 2% by weight Mn, up to about 1.6% by weight Ta, and the balance essentially ironThe combined content by weight of Ni plus Co is at least about 25.5% by weight and exceeds the weight content of Cr by at least 2% but by not more than 8%.

Abstract: A manifold fitting for a compressed air tank having an elongate main body of hexagonal cross-section with first and second ends, the first end being of reduced circular cross-section, the body having an axial passage extending from the first end toward and terminating short of the second end. The first end is externally threaded for attachment of the fitting to a tank for communication with the tank via the passage. The body has a lateral opening extending inwardly from a one of its six faces to said passage and a pressure relief safety valve at the lateral opening in the body. A passage extends across the body and intersects the lateral opening.