Abstract: A heater for heavy construction equipment is provided by three basic components: a hood mounted over the outer end of the normal vehicle radiator for receiving the cooling air blown through the radiator and directing it in the reverse direction towards the operator; a distribution hood having manually controlled and indexible distribution flaps on its discharge and a manually controlled and indexed shutoff valve on its intake for receiving heated air and distributing it to the operator's head, body and feet, selectively, with one of the flaps being transparent so as to permit viewing through it of the instrument panel; and a flexible conduit extending between the hood outlet and the distribution housing inlet, and overlying the vehicle engine.

Abstract: A metallic catalyst of three-layer structure of a carrier metal, an interlayer metal having a heat-insulating property by itself, or an interlayer metal capable of forming an oxide having a heat-insulating property or a catalyst surface area-increasing property, deposited on the entire surface of the carrier metal, and a catalyst metal deposited on the interlayer metal is prepared in a shorter production time at a lower cost through simplified process steps by depositing the interlayer metal and the catalyst metal by plating, if necessary, followed by oxidation, or both oxidation and reduction. The metallic catalyst has an improved catalytic activity, especially at a low temperature, in addition to the high mechanical strength.

Abstract: To remove salts from a solution containing the salts, hot air is injected downwards into the solution in a concentrator, and the solution is concentrated by direct contact with the hot air, thereby enhancing an evaporation efficiency in the concentrator and preventing scale deposition in the concentrator and piping system. The solution is forcedly cooled in a crystallizer by direct contact with cool air, thereby making crystals grow in the solution within a short time. The solution and air are circulated in a closed cycle, thereby preventing a secondary environmental pollution.

Abstract: A heat insulating structure having a heat-resistant tube disposed in a tubular cylindrical body and defining a passage for a high temperature gas, a heat insulating material disposed between the tube and the tubular cylindrical body and adapted to prevent the heat possessed by the gas from being transmitted to the tubular cylindrical body, and a spring adapted to bias the heat insulating material toward the inner surface of the tubular cylindrical body, so as to prevent the formation of a bypass passage for the gas including the gap between the tubular cylindrical body and the heat insulating material. The heat insulating material consists of a plurality of fibrous heat insulating materials mainly consisting of bulky fibrous materials and a plurality of shaped fibrous heat insulating materials. These fibrous heat insulating materials and the shaped fibrous heat insulating materials are arranged alternatingly and independently in the axial direction.

Abstract: A variable resistor of modular design having a hub-flange and at least one housing frame having a central opening. A spring carrier provided with a contact spring is arranged in the central opening of the housing and is rotatable by means of an actuation shaft. A carrier plate, on which the resistor course and the collector course are mounted, is positioned adjacent the spring carrier such that the contact spring provides an electrical connection between the resistance and the collector courses. The housing frame has a pot-shaped front side for receiving a rotor. Means is provided for arresting rotation of the rotor to within predetermined angular limits, and the rotor has a contoured rim for engaging a click-stop device.

Abstract: Adjacent expansible chambers of an engine are provided with an intake runner set employing at least three runner passages conducting the working fluid from a common plenum to the expansible chambers, with at least one of the runners only serving one of the expansible chambers, at least another of the runners serving only the other expansible chamber, and at least still another of the runners commonly serving both of the expansible chambers. Preferably, a flow control is provided for one or more of the runners, preferably the common runner to manually or automatically control the flow of fluid through the common runner. Thereby, the runners for the expansible chambers may be adjusted in effective cross sectional area for tuned efficiency at different speeds. Preferably, such runners extend through the intake manifold and head ports without communication throughout their extent.

Abstract: A high temperature, high pressure raw coal gas containing hydrogen sulfide, ammonia, and tarry matter, is purified by contacting the raw coal gas with solid particles thereby cooling the raw coal gas to a temperature suitable for hydrogen sulfide removal and at the same time depositing the tarry matter onto the solid particles by condensation to recover the tarry matter from the raw coal gas, removing the hydrogen sulfide from the cooled and substantially tar-free coal gas, expanding the raw coal gas to a pressure suitable for ammonia decomposition, heating the expanded raw coal gas to a temperature suitable for ammonia decomposition by heat obtained by combusting the recovered tarry matter on the solid particles, thereby regenerating the solid particles for reuse, and then decomposing ammonia in the raw coal gas, thereby removing ammonia therefrom.

Abstract: A process for the production of microbial protein and lipid from vegetable carbohydrates including starch by culture of a microbe, which comprises a combination of the steps of liquefying starch with a dextrinogenic enzyme in a liquefaction tank, effecting simultaneous saccharification and culture of the microbe in a fermentation tank by aseptically adding a saccharogenic amylase to the culture medium produced in the liquefying step, and separating the cultured microbial cells and lipid from the culture medium.

Abstract: In an air conditioning system including a compressor, a condenser for condensing a refrigerant through heat exchange with outdoor air, an expansion valve, an evaporator for evaporating the refrigerant through heat exchange with air to be conditioned, and piping connecting these parts together to form a closed main circuit for the refrigerant, there is provided a bypass circuit connecting a point in the main circuit between the condenser and expansion valve to a point in the main circuit between the evaporator and compressor.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a stay ring for a water turbine or pump turbine having an upper annular disc, a lower annular disc and a plurality of circumferentially equal-distantly spaced stay vanes extending between the upper and lower annular discs.

Abstract: In a liquid-liquid centrifugal extractor wherein a liquid of greater specific gravity is introduced into an inner peripheral portion inside a rotor, while a liquid of smaller specific gravity is introduced into an outer peripheral portion, and the two liquids are brought into direct contact by exploiting the difference of the specific gravities thereof, to move an extract contained in one of the liquids into the other liquid, pipe means or groove-shaped members having a large number of small holes and serving to distribute the liquids are arranged in the outer peripheral portion and the inner peripheral portion inside the rotor in such a manner that they extend in parallel with a shaft for the rotor and that the holes of the means or members in the outer and inner peripheral portions face each other.

Abstract: Individual shelves are provided on the load transport vehicle, which may be a trailor or self-propelled steerable vehicle, so that the shelves may be dropped down adjacent to the roadway for loading and unloading, and lifted up above the clearance height of the vehicle for storage and transport. Guides and bearings are provided between the shelf and body of the vehicle so that the horizontal portion of the shelves will be parallel to the roadway in their lower loading and unloading position to facilitate such loading and unloading, and they will tilt during their travel between such positions so that in the storage position the generally horizontal portion of the shelf will extend downwardly and inwardly to maintain the load on the vehicle with the help of gravity. The frame of the vehicle is provided with a central vertical and longitudinal rib carrying the guides for supporting shelves on each side. The shelves are L-shaped, and are provided with hydraulic cylinders for individually raising and lowering.

Abstract: In a reactor for cracking heavy hydrocarbon oil through a fluidized bed of particles of natural ores, coke-like materials are deposited on a top of the reactor or pipe inside surfaces of a transfer line from the reactor to a scrubber. To effectively scour out the deposited coke-like materials, particles of natural ores having a mean diameter of a few hundred .mu.m is made to be contained in an effluent gas from the top of reactor, passing through the transfer line at a concentration of 1 to 40 g/m.sup.3. The particles of natural ores have a good effect of scouring out the deposited coke-like materials and can keep the transfer line efficiently clean even with a small amount of the particles of natural ores, decreasing a pressure drop in the transfer line.

Abstract: A method of regenerating zeolite by heating wherein zeolite having adsorbed (NH.sub.3 -N) in foul water has sodium hydroxide added thereto, the sodium hydroxide containing Na.sup.+ equivalent to NH.sub.4.sup.+ adsorbed to the zeolite, water is added until the total quantity of the zeolite is submerged, and the resultant zeolite is heated at 400.degree. C. for 30 minutes, whereby a regeneration rate of 90% is attained.

Abstract: Support for the bottom surface of a foot so as to maintain it in a normal, weight bearing posture is obtained by a rigid plate that extends under the area of the foot, except for the area under the toes and inner arch. The plate is of generally uniform thickness with tapered toe and heel portions. The rigid plate is obtained by molding an impression of the foot while the foot is held at right angles to the leg and in a semi-loaded or semi-pronated position.

Abstract: A fluid pressure servo valve assembly driven by a pilot servo valve assembly and having a valve body formed therein with a cylindrical bore, input ports and output ports opening in the cylindrical bore, a spool valve member fitted in the cylindrical bore for axial reciprocatory movement and including axially spaced lands for connecting and disconnecting the input ports with the output ports as the spool valve member moves in axial reciprocatory movement in the cylindrical bore, a sealed annular space defined by an annular recess formed in the peripheral surface of the cylindrical bore of the valve body and an outer peripheral surface of one of the lands of the spool valve member, a piston member integrally connected to the outer periphery of the one of the lands of the spool valve member and extending radially outwardly therefrom into the annular space to divide the same into two pressure chambers, and passages for communicating the two pressure chambers with the pilot servo valve assembly.

Abstract: Rigid synthetic foam is expanded, molded and cured in an endless mold formed by opposed spaced horizontal belt conveyors with side dams. To obtain a smooth finish on the products, a top cover belt and a bottom cover belt are employed to span the rigid slats of the conveyors, respectively. The top cover belt is stretched tightly and smoothly when the endless conveyors approach each other at the entrance to the pressure mold, by means of a downwardly depending continuous wedge shaped member along each side margin of the cover belt that cooperates with an upwardly opening correspondingly wedge shaped recess in the side dam. To obtain different thickness products, spacer blocks may be employed between the side dam and the lower conveyor.