Abstract: Apparatus for stowing and deploying stores from air and marine craft (FIG. 2) in which the stores 28 are stowed on a modular stowage structure, such as pallets 32, with releasable locking devices 10 securing the pallets to the craft. Further releasable locking devices 29 and restraining means 30 are arranged to secure the stores to cradles 14 on respective associated pallets. The pallets and cradles are adapted to permit, upon release of the respective further releasable locking devices 29, movement by the effect of gravity of the stores to effect deployment of the stores. The stowage structure may be mounted on a ramp on the deck of the craft or the pitch of the vessel may be adjusted to effect deployment. The structure may be releasably slung beneath a sub-surface craft and provided with a fiberglass casing to make it floatable.

Abstract: A lysimeter comprises a longitudinally extending circumferentially perforated duct having a vacuum application connection at one end thereof. A fluid permeable fabric is superposed over the duct perforations. A longitudinally extending circumferentially perforated shell extends about the duct and therewith defines a bounded volume therebetween. A granular filler substantially fills the bounded volume and the filler is sized so not to be drawn through the fluid permeable fabric so that a vacuum applied to the duct is transmitted through the shell.A ground protection system for a heap leaching site incorporating the lysimeter of the present invention is also disclosed as well as a method of assembling the lysimeter.

Abstract: A sample packet for creams and the like comprises a sheet having a coating for preventing absorption of a cream and further including a score line for defining first and second panels. A continuous line of adhesive is applied to one of the panels. The second panel is folded into overlying relation with the first panel and is secured thereto by the adhesive, the panels cooperate with the adhesive for defining a reservoir. The second panel includes a frangible pull tab overlying the reservoir, the frangible pull tab adapted for being severed from the second panel for thereby causing the reservoir to be opened.

Abstract: In order to render harmless the aerosol laden smoke stream which results from the operation of medical lasers in or on mammalian bodies, the stream is moved in a closed circuit maintained at negative pressure. The circuit includes a container of sterilizing fluid to retain and destroy the larger aerosol particles and downstream of that container a chamber having an oxygen enriched atmosphere which is heated to a temperature sufficient to incinerate the remaining aerosol particles which are too small to filter. The thus purified stream is then cooled and released to ambient.

Abstract: A thin plastic elongate mask is disclosed for use in continuously electroplating an elongate substrate. Apparatus is disclosed wherein the mask is mated with the substrate, is passed through an electroplating zone, supported by support belts, such that only those areas of elongate substrate covered by plating cavities in the mask are plated. The mask may be located on the substrate by means of corresponding location features positioned on the elongate substrate and the mask. A method of continuously electroplating an elongate substrate using a thin plastic elongate mask is further disclosed.

Abstract: A sucker rod guide bearing attachable at each end to a sucker rod coupling for interconnecting sucker rod sections and centering the sucker rods with respect to a well casing, the bearing includes a cylindrical body with a threaded stud at each end for connection to corresponding sucker rod couplings. A vaned cylindrical wheel is slidably mountable over the body and has a length slightly less than that of the body so as to remain free wheeling. The bearing end surfaces formed between each of the studs in the cylindrical surface of the body for pressing torque transfer engagement with a sucker rod coupling end surface.

Abstract: The device comprises first and second planet wheels having a common axis, first and second pairs of first satellite gear wheels meshing respectively with the first and second planet wheels, the two gear wheels of each of the said pairs being rotatable on a differential housing coaxial with the planet wheels and having axes lying respectively in first and second planes orthogonal to one another and passing through the first-mentioned said common axis; the device further includes two pairs of second satellite gear wheels also rotatable on the differential housing and having axes lying in the same plane orthogonal to the first and second first-defined planes, each of the second satellite gear wheels meshing simultaneously with one of the said first satellite gear wheels belonging to the first pair and with one of the said first satellite gear wheels belonging to the second pair in such a way that drive can be transmitted from one of the said first satellite gear wheels of one of the said pairs simultaneously to

Abstract: A method of making a low fat food item having the taste and flavor of a fried food product is disclosed. The food item is first wetted and then coated with a breading mixture. After spraying the food item with a mist of water until the breading composition appears sticky, the product is ready for cooking. The food item is then placed in a cooking tray and hot gas jets are directed against to coated surface of the food item at a temperature of 375.degree.-475.degree. F. for a time of 11-25 minutes. After cooking the food item is sprayed with a mist of water to turn the item uniformly brown. Food which has been cooked by this method can then be vacuum packed and retains its flavor for an extended period of time.

Abstract: A Christmas tree light storage device consisting of one or more discs each with a plurality of radially oriented slots around the outside circumference thereof which disc or discs are concentrically mounted on a central cylinder wherein light sockets are mounted sequentially over the slots with the cable to and from the sockets passing through the slots and being wrapped around the central cylinder.

Abstract: A shield for the injection needle of an hypodermic syringe, comprises a movable shield sleeve having a channel extending therethrough from the top to the bottom and having upper and lower portions for normally positioning the sharpened end of the injection needle in the upper portion. The sleeve includes a plunger having an opening alignable with the channel. The plunger is movable between a normal blocking position in which the plunger opening is misaligned with respect to the channel, and an aligned position in which the plunger opening is aligned with respect to the channel, to permit the needle to move through the plunger opening, thereby permitting the needle to be exposed a substantial distance below the bottom of the sleeve for purposes of injection. Automatic means associated with the syringe and the sleeve permit the needle to be automatically retracted into the sleeve upper portion, after the needle has been exposed a substantial distance below the bottom of the sleeve for injection.

Abstract: A process for heat-treating refuse comprising the steps of decomposing in a combustion furnace a quantity of refuse into slag, emitted gas and fly dust. The fly dust is separated into a fine dust fraction and a coarse dust fraction. The coarse dust fraction is fed back to the combustion chamber, and the fine dust fraction is treated for removal of desired constituents.

Abstract: A crop blower apparatus includes a blower for providing a stream of forced air. There is a mechanism for powering the blower and a discharge duct connected to the blower for providing a directed curtain of air and a frame for mounting the blower forwardly of the knife of a harvester. There may be a plurality of blowers having discharge ducts which are juxtaposed so as to discharge a substantially continuous curtain of air. The blowers may have coaxial drive shafts which are interconnected.

Abstract: The method of controlling operation of a plurality of fixtures comprises the steps of establishing a maximum liquid flow rate and determining which of the fixtures required operation. A determination is then made of the liquid flow rate of the fixture requiring operation and a calculation is made of whether operation of the fixture requiring operation will cause the maximum flow rate to be exceeded. The fixture requiring operation is caused to operate if the maximum flow rate will not be exceeded and is prevented from operating if the maximum flow rate will be exceeded.

Abstract: An apparatus for field loading a plurality of containers onto a transport vehicle, comprises a platform disposed on a transport vehicle; a palletizer operably associated with the platform for progressively stacking a plurality of containers into a preselected stacked configuration from one end to the other end of the platform; and a conveyor for transporting each of the containers from the field onto the palletizer. The palletizer includes a false floor for forming thereon at least a row of the containers. The palletizer includes an elevator operably associated with the false floor for vertically transporting to the false floor each of the containers from the discharge end of the conveyor. The palletizer includes a transfer head for transferring each of the containers from the elevator to the false floor for forming at least a row of containers. The false floor is vertically and horizontally movable for positioning the false floor above at least a tier of previously stacked containers on the platform.

Abstract: A chair comprises a ground supported frame having an upper planar surface. A recess portion is formed in the frame interrupting the upper surface. An L-shaped bracket has a first portion extending parallel to the surface and positioned within the recessed portion and a second portion extending upwardly therefrom generally transverse thereto. The first portion is secured within the recessed portion.

Abstract: A mobile marine drilling assembly has a horizontally disposed pontoon which floats on or is submerged below the surface of a marine environment. A first vertically disposed column is secured to the pontoon and extends upwardly therefrom. A work platform has an opening through which the column extends, and the platform overlies the pontoon and is vertically movable relative thereto along the column. A jack system is operably connected with the work platform and with the column for jacking the work platform along the column between a first position wherein the pontoon floats on the surface of the marine environment and a second position wherein the pontoon is disposed a substantial distance below the surface of the marine environment. An anchor is secured to the floor of the marine environment.

Abstract: The present invention discloses an improved apparatus, for trimming lawns and the like, comprising a housing having a rear ground engaging means, a cutting means extending beyond the front and substantially the left and right sides of the housing for permitting trimming of vegetation growing close to an obstruction, a skirt for preventing debris from being propelled rearwardly by the cutting means, and a removable front ground engaging means.

Abstract: The method of repairing a tooth involves positioning a selected medium contiguous a location of the tooth to be repaired, placing a heat-shrinkable overlay around the tooth for covering the selected medium, heating the overlay to a temperature sufficient to cause shrinkage thereof and thereby operating on the medium. The overlay is subsequently removed to expose a repaired tooth requiring little or no additional post-cure finishing.

Abstract: There is disclosed a rectangular or box-shaped carton suitable for packaging semi-solid material, such as ice cream, having front and end lips which are inturned, respectively, from the top edges of the front and end walls of said main body and which underlie the cover and extend all the way across said front edge and at least most of the way back along said end edges, and various refinements thereof.