Abstract: A laminated roofing material includes an aluminum foil top sheet laminated to a polyethylene film by an ionomer resin. After the sheets are bonded together they are cooled to set the resin and a bitumen coating is applied to the exposed polyethylene sheet and covered with a release paper.

Abstract: A method and kit are described for detecting the presence of cancers and pre-neoplastic cells that produce an oncofetal phosphoprotein having a molecular weight of approximately 60,000 and having the capacity to increase the release of ribonucleic acid from cell nuclei. The method involves detecting the presence of auto-antibodies to this oncofetal phosphoprotein in a subject suspected of suffering from a cancer or pre-neoplastic cells which produce this cancer marker protein. The kit includes purified oncofetal phosphoprotein.

Abstract: A fork lift truck includes a generally U-shaped frame having a pair of hydraulic driven wheels on the front end and a caster on the back end. A mast projects upwardly from the frame and is designed to move between the forward end of the vehicle and a retracted position behind the front wheels. A carriage is mounted on the forward end of the mast and reciprocates upwardly and downwardly on the mast in response to chains connected to a hydraulically driven piston which is mounted on the mast.

Abstract: A sea-going vessel has mounted on its deck a clam processing plant which includes in sequence a steamer, a clam crusher, a seawater washer, a brine separator, an eviscerator and a chill tank. Special valves are constructed to feed and discharge clams from the steamer which prevents the hot high pressure steam in the steamer from being discharged when the valves are open to the steamer interior. The chill tank includes a special construction to minimize the effects of pitch and roll of the deck while the ship is at sea.

Abstract: A meter is mounted inside a housing where the meter is designed for low pressure gas flow measurement and the housing is designed to withstand high pressure differentials. The meter itself includes a plurality of divided chambers and one chamber includes moving elements to measure the flow of gas between the inlet and the outlet. The moving elements inside the gas transmission chamber are supported in place in bearings mounted in dividing walls. Chambers on each side of the dividing walls which define the gas transmission chamber include oil slingers which dip into puddles of oil in the bottom of the chambers and fling a fan of oil upward to lubricate the bearings and other moving parts.

Abstract: An improved spray nozzle for use with air atomizable liquids wherein the spray pattern created by the atomizing nozzle may be adjusted from a circular pattern to a flat pattern or alternatively to an open oval. The open end faces in preselected directions. The adjustments are capable of occurring during the continuous operation of the nozzle.

Abstract: The invention comprises an adhesive composition and accompanying coated substrate, such as prepasted wallpaper. The composition is formed from a low viscosity, wall in oil emulsion which comprises a mixture of at least two emulsions of substantially linear, water soluble, high molecular weight cationic and anionic polymers; the anionic polymers comprising monomers selected from anionic monomers and mixtures of anionic monomers with non-ionic monomers and the cationic polymers comprising monomers selected from cationic monomers and mixtures of cationic monomers with non-ionic monomers.The adhesive composition and the coated substrates exhibit excellent qualities, particularly an improved resistance to excess water absorption during usage.

Abstract: A boom attachment which carries a work unit pivotally at its outer end and which is pivotally connected at its inner end to an upstanding support carried by a base is attached to the rear end of a tractor by a three-point hitch and is operated from a power take-off on the rear of the tractor. The boom is adjustable in a transverse plane at the rear of the tractor so that the work unit can be disposed at either side of the tractor without removing or replacing parts in making this adjustment. This adjustment is accomplished with a cylinder and piston unit which is connect at the side of the boom by outwardly extending pivots.

Abstract: An improved spray nozzle for use with air atomizable liquids wherein the spray pattern created by the atomizing nozzle may be adjusted from a circular pattern to a flat pattern or alternatively to an open oval, the open end facing in preselected directions, the adjustments being capable of occuring during the continuous operation of the nozzle. A pattern adjusting plate may be movably aligned with the pattern adjusting nozzles thereby creating the appropriate combination of pattern adjusting nozzles to create the desired pattern.

Abstract: Synthetic chicken litter of foamed polymer is coated with a tough polymeric coating which cannot be pecked off by chickens. The litter is distributed on the floor of a chicken pen to prevent direct contact between the floor and the chicken. The depth of the litter on the floor will be from about one to about twelve centimeters.

Abstract: A sea-going vessel has mounted on its deck a clam processing plant which includes in sequence a steamer, a clam crusher, a seawater washer, a brine separator, an eviscerator and a chill tank. Special valves are constructed to feed and discharge clams from the steamer which prevents the hot high pressure steam in the steamer from being discharged when the valves are open to the steamer interior. The chill tank includes a special construction to minimize the effects of pitch and roll of the deck while the ship is at sea.

Abstract: Compost, e.g. hardwood bark, is rendered suppressive to plant pathogens, such as Rhizoctonia solani, Pythium ultimum and Fusarium, and/or diseases caused thereby by adding to the compost, desirably after peak heating has been achieved but before substantial recolonization of the compost by mesophilic microorganisms has occurred, one or more microorganisms antagonistic to the plant pathogen. Container media also is rendered suppressive to plant pathogens and/or diseases caused thereby by amending the media with the just-described prepared suppressive compost or, alternatively, by amending separately with the compost and with Trichoderma fungus and antagonistic bacterium separately or mixed together. Desirably, the inoculated antagonistic microorganisms comprise Trichoderma hamatum species A.T.C.C. No. 20765 or 20764, together with Xanthomonas maltophilia bacterium species A.T.C.C. No. 53199 or a Flavobacterium balustinum isolate 299, A.T.C.C. No. 53198 species, A.T.C.C. No. 53198.

Abstract: A cup type liquid dispensing machine in which the liquid-supplying system is a closed airtight circuit in the form of bag-in-box packages. The packages are connected to a dispensing pump which supplies the liquid to a dispensed and supported cup. Waste liquids from the machine are collected by various lines which are coupled to a flexible bag. A movable member engages the bag and activates a control switch to stop the machine as the bag becomes full.

Abstract: A sea-going vessel has mounted on its deck a clam processing plant which includes in sequence a steamer, a clam crusher, a seawater washer, a brine separator, an eviscerator and a chill tank. Special valves are constructed to feed and discharge clams from the steamer which prevents the hot high pressure steam in the steamer from being discharged when the valves are open to the steamer interior. The chill tank includes a special construction to minimize the effects of pitch and roll of the deck while the ship is at sea.

Abstract: A lined container is formed by providing a tubular structure having vertically extending sides, a top edge and a bottom edge. Horizontal slits are formed in the side walls with the slits being near the top edge. A flexible bag liner is inserted in the container and the open end is pulled around the outside top surface of the tubular container and the edges are stuffed through the slits which frictionally hold the liner in operative position.

Abstract: A boom attachment which carries a work unit pivotally at its outer end and which is pivotally connected at its inner end to an upstanding support carried by a base is attached to the rear end of a tractor by a three-point hitch and is operated from a power take-off on the rear of the tractor. The boom is adjustable in a transverse plane at the rear of the tractor so that the work unit can be disposed at either side of the tractor without removing or replacing parts in making this adjustment. This adjustment is accomplished with a cylinder and piston unit which is connected at the side of the boom by outwardly extending pivots.

Abstract: A sea-going vessel has mounted on its deck a clam processing plant which includes in sequence a steamer, a clam crusher, a seawater washer, a brine separator, an eviscerator and a chill tank. Special valves are constructed to feed and discharge clams from the steamer which prevents the hot high pressure steam in the steamer from being discharged when the valves are open to the steamer interior. The chill tank includes a special construction to minimize the effects of pitch and roll of the deck while the ship is at sea.

Abstract: Salts containing cations of the formula: ##STR1## (in which M is Co, Fe, Cr or Mn, X, Y, R.sub.1,The Government has rights in this invention pursuant to Contract Number CHE-75-14837 awarded by the National Science Foundation.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of fabricating a fiberglass-resin impregnated composite article which has a non porous surface formed by melting and curing a suitable polymeric film thereon. The process further involves coating an adhesive layer having a release sheet thereon over the non-porous melted polymer surface for bonding onto a substrate, and the invention further relates to the particular formed article and a process of forming an air-conditioning frame.

Abstract: A system for supplying liquid in large bottles from a point where they are filled to a dispenser having a reservoir for receiving the liquid. The bottles each have a neck which carries a cap unit for closing the spout thereof. Each cap unit has an outlet valve that is normally closed. The reservoir has means for supporting another normally closed inlet valve in a neck-receiving socket. When the neck is slipped into the socket the outlet valve of the cap unit is opened and substantially simultaneously the inlet valve for the reservoir is opened thus allowing flow of water form the bottle into the reservoir. When the bottle is removed from the reservoir as the cap unit is withdrawn from the neck-receiving socket, the outlet valve in the bottle neck cap unit is positively closed and the inlet valve of the reservoir automatically closes.