Abstract: A shear having a main frame with a horizontal shaft and a shear frame pivotally attached to the shaft for adjustment relative to the main frame. The shear frame includes a pair of spaced members and a king pin is rotatably supported on the spaced members. A master shearing arm is nonrotatably mounted on the king pin and a subordinate shearing arm is rotatably mounted on the king pin and a cutting knife is carried on each shearing arm. The master shearing arm and the subordinate shearing arm are connected by a hydraulic cylinder and a piston rod to move the shearing arms between an open position and a closed position to cut workpieces passing between the cutting knives.

Abstract: A stable aqueous polymeric composition is comprised of an aqueous anionic polyurethane dispersion and a compatible polymeric dispersion or emulsion. The compatible dispersions or emulsions may have a substantially neutral pH or be anionic or cationic. The polymeric compositions are useful in impregnating porous substrates to form composite sheet materials which can be further processed to form simulated leather and the like.

Abstract: Solid and liquid, especially high-boiling, impurities are removed from a gas stream containing solvent vapors in such a manner that the gas stream is washed with the condensate of one or more solvent vapors contained in the gas stream, preferably with the fraction which has the greatest affinity for the impurities to be removed. After a distillatory separation of the impurities, as befits the goals of the process, the solvent or solvent mixture used for the washing process is returned again into the process, preferably after it has been removed from the gas stream by condensation and/or adsorption. The gas stream can be returned into a vaporization chamber where it is again charged with solvent vapors.

Abstract: A surface active agent is comprised of lignin sulfonic acids, and optionally, an alkylaryl sulfonic free acid with at least 10 carbon atoms and a polypeptide having a molecular weight of about 2,500 to about 15,000. In addition, a disperse dye composition is provided which includes solid particles of a dye or pigment which have a particle size of less than 2 microns with the surface active agent disposed at the surface of the particles.

Abstract: An adapter for a torquing tool includes an elongated body having a bore at at least one end to accommodate a working member such as a drill bit or fastener driver and a coupling means for detachably attaching the body to the tool so that at least a portion of the adapter is not housed within the tool. The improvement comprises a quick release means internal of the portion of the body member that is not housed within the tool to detachably retain the working member within the bore and to the elongated body and means associated with said bore and said working member for transmitting torque from the tool to the working member. The preferred quick release means is a spring loaded shuttle positioned in an opening radially through the body member and in communication with the bore. The preferred torque transmitting means is a pair of corresponding, opposed surfaces disposed on the bore and working member, respectively.

Abstract: A method of hot rolling strip on a hot strip mill includes coiling on a coiler at least a portion of the transfer bar by initiating coiling at the tail end of the transfer bar after it exits the roughing train and, thereafter, decoiling or paying off the partially formed coil into the finishing stand. The coiler is movable between a first position adjacent the roughing train and a second position adjacent the finishing train. Coil payoff apparatus may be positioned adjacent to an upstream end of the finishing train for receiving the coil from the coiler and paying it off into the finishing train.

Abstract: A method of fining and clarifying alcoholic beverages is disclosed. The method includes admixing particulate native collagen with an alcoholic beverage subsequent to fermentation. The admixture is aged for a sufficient time to allow the collagen to complex haze causing material in the beverage, and the collagen complexed with the haze causing material is separated by filtration or the like to produce a clear alcoholic beverage.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a process and apparatus for safely distilling relatively small batches of organic compounds such as paint solvents by directly and safely heating the compounds in a vessel having a relatively thick bottom with electrical heating units cast in it and a relatively thick side wall integrally attached to the bottom. The side wall may be integrally attached to the bottom by a weld that penetrates the joint between the side wall and bottom preferably by 100% in order to provide a complete heat transfer from the bottom to the side wall. The vessel is so designed so as to provide a relatively uniform temperature throughout the inner periphery of the vessel thereby avoiding hot spots and insuring that the hottest spot of the inner periphery of the vessel does not exceed the auto ignition temperature of the compound being processed.

Abstract: A reservoir containing a material to be ionized has in its bottom a capillary extending outwardly in symmetrical with the optical axis of an ion source, and has a needle extending coaxially through said capillary in said reservoir so that the apex end of the needle projects slightly beyond the exterior surface of the reservoir. Intensive electric field at the apex end of the needle is formed by an extracting electrode disposed in facing the needle. An electric current is supplied through conductive wires or filaments supporting the reservoir for heating the reservoir. As a result, the liquid material to be ionized in the reservoir seeps smoothly through the capillary of the reservoir toward the apex end of the needle for field evaporation and ionization.

Abstract: A centrifugal pump for circulating fluids at high pressure comprises an impeller having an axis of rotation, a casing defining a pumping chamber, a nonmagnetic canister sealed at one end and extending away from the pumping chamber surrounding an extension of the impeller axis, and an impeller shaft journaled in the nonmagnetic canister. The shaft has mounted thereto circumferentially magnetized rare earth cobalt magnets. A drive magnet assembly comprising a sleeve is journaled about the nonmagnetic canister with circumferentially magnetized rare earth cobalt magnets mounted therein. Rotation of the sleeve results in synchronous rotation of the impeller and impeller shaft.

Abstract: A method of underwinding strip on a drum along the passline of a hot reversing mill comprises positioning the drum in a receiving mode, passing the strip through the mill at a given thread speed, detecting the presence of the strip at a given position in relation to the drum, activating the drum in an underwinding direction at a given time delay representative of a distance in which the strip is through the drum slot and internal of the drum, and speed matching the drum and the strip in an initial surface winding mode and a subsequent center driven tension mode.

Abstract: A new geranium cultivar is distinguished by its brilliant color, short and compact plant, more basil branching, close internodes, small leaves and short flower stems with the flowers positioned immediately atop the foliage. The new cultivar further provides early flowering and is more floriferous as compared with commonly grown zonal geraniums.

Abstract: A new geranium cultivar is distinguished by its soft, pinkish-salmon color, short and compact plant, more basil branching, close internodes, smaller and lighter colored leaves with the flowers positioned closer to the foliage. In addition, early flowering is a distinguishing characteristic.

Abstract: A new geranium cultivar is distinguished by its brilliant color, short and compact plant, more basil branching, close internodes, small leaves and short flower stems with the flowers positioned immediately atop the foliage. The new cultivar is further distinguished by its uniformity and symmetry as compared with commonly grown zonal geraniums.

Abstract: A new geranium cultivar is distinguished by its uniform, salmon color tonality at a distance, more basil branching, more and earlier flowers and big flower heads as compared with commonly grown zonal geraniums.

Abstract: A new variety of Streptocarpus plant is characterized by its small, narrow and flattened leaves. The plant has bouquet-type flowers standing above the leaf line. The flowers have a flattened appearance due to the flat bottom petals and reflexed top petals.

Abstract: A new variety of Streptocarpus plant is characterized by its small, narrow and flattened leaves. The plant has bouquet-type small flowers standing above the leaf line. The flowers have a flattened appearance resulting from flat bottom petals and reflexed top petals.

Abstract: A new variety of Streptocarpus plant is characterized by its small, narrow and flattened leaves. The plant has bouquet-type flowers standing above the leaf line. The flowers have a flattened appearance resulting from flat bottom petals and reflexed top petals.

Abstract: A new variety of Streptocarpus plant is characterized by its small, narrow and flattened leaves. The plant has bouquet-type flowers standing above the leaf line. The flowers have a flattened appearance resulting from flat bottom petals and reflexed top petals.