Abstract: This disclosure relates to an annular filling member, used in a gas/liquid contact apparatus such as a gas/liquid contact tower, and comprises one or more annular ribs having arranged thereon inwardly projecting, sharp-edge configured, alternately terminating drain plates which extend over a third to four fifths of the axial dimension of the member with the remainder of the axial dimension comprising a drain web.

Abstract: A radiopharmaceutical chemical compound comprising a radioactive isotope, other than an isotope of iodine, in chemical combination with at least one amine group. The compound has a lipophilicity sufficiently high at a pH of 7.6 to permit passage of the compound from the blood of a mammal into a target organ or tissue and sufficiently low at a pH of 6.6 to prevent rapid return of the compound from the target organ or tissue to the blood. The compound has a percent protein binding of less than ninety percent.A method for selectively depositing a radiopharmaceutical compound in at least one target tissue or organ of a mammal, which tissue or organ has a significantly different intracellular pH than the blood of the mammal, by introducing the compound of the invention into the bloodstream of the mammal.

Abstract: Sausage casings formed from regenerated cellulose are coated on their internal surfaces with a thin layer of a vinyl acetate polymer which is effective in causing the casing to adhere to a sausage emulsion and follow the shrinkage of the sausage during curing.

Abstract: Novel phenyl hydantoin compounds are disclosed of the structure: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are independently hydrogen, amino, nitro, halogen, hydroxy, substituted and unsubstituted lower alkyl, cycloalkyl, phenyl and lower alkenyl; and R.sub.3 is substituted and unsubstituted lower alkyl, lower alkenyl and cycloalkyl; as well as pesticidal methods employing said novel compounds; and pesticidal compositions containing said novel compounds.

Abstract: This relates to a die assembly for extruding tubular casing films wherein there are counter-rotating die members. One of the die members is mounted for shifting relative to its base under the influence of hydrodynamic pressures of the flowing extrudate so as to be self-centering relative to the other die member. This provides for a high shear cylindrical area leading into the die orifice which is of uniform thickness and which will provide for uniform fiber orientation due to the zero runout of the rotating dies.

Abstract: The invention relates to the formation of basic smoke flavorant and colorant from natural liquid smoke and food casings and food products utilizing the basic smoke. In accordance with the invention, the known acidic liquid smokes which are formed by contacting burning wood smoke with water are neutralized with an alkaline material to form a precipitate and the addition of alkaline material is continued until at least a portion of the precipitate returns to solution. The alkaline smoke solutions are suitable for impregnating regenerated cellulose sausage casings such that during cooking the meat is colored. The invention solutions form a casing that is storage stable after impregnation.

Abstract: N-phenyl carbamoyl glycinate compounds of the formula ##STR1## wherein R is lower alkyl, are disclosed as having anti-convulsant activity; and, methods are disclosed for producing anti-convulsant activity by administering pharmaceutical compositions containing at least one of said compounds.

Abstract: The invention relates to the formation of basic smoke flavorant and colorant from natural liquid smoke and food casings and food products utilizing the basic smoke. In accordance with the invention, the known acidic liquid smokes which are formed by contacting burning wood smoke with water are neutralized with an alkaline material to form a precipitate and the addition of alkaline material is continued until at least a portion of the precipitate returns to solution. The alkaline smoke solutions are suitable for impregnating regenerated cellulose sausage casings such that during cooking the meat is colored. The invention solutions form a casing that is storage stable after impregnation.

Abstract: A method for removing residual cresidine from impure p-cresidine sulfonic acid which impure p-cresidine sulfonic acid contains from above about two parts per billion to about 1500 parts per million of cresidine. The method comprises contacting an aqueous solution of the impure p-cresidine sulfonic acid with sufficient liquid hydrocarbon of from five to eighteen carbon atoms for a sufficient time to extract the cresidine from the p-cresidine sulfonic acid to a concentration of less than two parts per billion of cresidine in the p-cresidine sulfonic acid.

Abstract: This relates to the filling and forming of food product units such as sausage links, wherein a flowable fill is introduced into a shirred casing through a conventional filling head and wherein a controlled underfilling of the preselected circular cross section casing is automatically maintained by modifying the cross section of the casing from circular to oval. In this manner the required underfilling of the casing is automatically effected so that the necessary space for the product fill is automatically supplied to permit the necessary crimping and twisting of the casing to define links of uniform size and weight or other changes in volume due to processing. This abstract forms no part of the specification of this application and is not to be construed as limiting the claims of the application.

Abstract: This relates to the formation of sausage casings formed of a fibrous tube by penetrating the tube or web with viscose. A specific coating and extrusion die is provided together with a statement of the discovery that where there is laminar flow the penetration of the viscose is not controlled by the orifice size per se, but by the relative application of the viscose with respect to a column of viscose passing through the same orifice at the same rate.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for accurately and variably positioning carrier indexing pins in indexing pegs for indexed registering devices useful in positioning an image, mask or transparency in a step and repeat type printing process.

Abstract: A method of removing hydrogen fluoride from gaseous mixtures of hydrogen fluoride and hydrogen chloride, which contain up to about 5 percent by weight of hydrogen fluoride, is described. The method comprises initially contacting the gaseous mixture with a particulate, substantially anhydrous, bed of alkaline earth metal chloride material, for example, calcium chloride, to produce an effluent gas mixture having a substantially reduced hydrogen fluoride content. The effluent gas is then contacted with a secondary treatment bed of particulate, substantially anhydrous, alkaline earth metal chloride material, for example, calcium chloride, to produce a product gas containing less than 20 ppm of hydrogen fluoride. The temperature of the secondary treatment bed is maintained in the range from about -20.degree. to about +20.degree. C., and, more preferably, in the range from about 0.degree. to about 5.degree. C.

Abstract: A process is disclosed for recovering HF and HCl in substantially purified form from a gaseous mixture containing HF, HCl and halogenated organic vapors. The process comprises:A. feeding the gaseous mixture to the lower part of a rectification column to provide an upward flow of gases therein, the column having a temperature in the upper part of from about -40.degree. C. to about -85.degree. C., and having a temperature in its lower part in the range of from about -30.degree. C. to about 19.degree. C., the column also having a countercurrent flow of a liquid and a gas,B. withdrawing liquid HF from the bottom of the rectification column,C. withdrawing a gas from the top of the rectification column, and feeding the thus withdrawn gas to a condenser,D. condensing at least a portion of the withdrawn gas of step C to a liquid,E. feeding a portion of the condensed liquid of step D to the upper part of the rectification column, andF. recovering HCl gas from the condenser.

Abstract: The present invention provides a novel organic compound, (3-trifluoromethylphenyl)-alpha-hydroxyacetic acid, and a process for the preparation thereof comprising the steps of:a. converting (3-trifluoromethyl)-benzotrichloride to the corresponding benzoyl chloride,b. cyanation of the benzoyl chloride to produce the corresponding benzoyl cyanide,c. hydrolyzing the benzoyl cyanide to produce the corresponding keto-acid, andd. hydrogenating the keto-acid to produce (3-trifluoromethylphenyl)-alpha-hydroxyacetic acid.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel organic compound, phenyl beta-chloro-alpha-hydroxy-beta-(3-trifluoromethylphenyl)ethyl ketone. This compound may be produced by:(a) condensing 3-trifluoromethylbenzaldehyde with acetophenone under basic conditions to form a substituted chalcone,(b) epoxidation of the substituted chalcone to produce the corresponding epoxide, and(c) converting the epoxide to a chlorohydrin, phenyl beta-chloro-alpha-hydroxy-beta-(3-trifluoromethylphenyl)ethyl ketone.

Abstract: The compound p-phenoxybenzotrichloride, useful as an intermediate in the preparation of various pesticides and monomers for the production of polyketone polymers, is prepared by the light-catalyzed reaction of p-phenoxytoluene with chlorine.

Abstract: The present invention provides a novel process for the production of methyl or ethyl ester of (3-trifluoromethylphenyl)-acetic acid. The process comprises the steps of:(a) converting (3-trifluoromethyl)-benzotrichloride to the corresponding benzoyl chloride,(b) cyanation of the benzoyl chloride to produce the corresponding benzoyl cyanide,(c) hydrolyzing the benzoyl cyanide to produce the corresponding keto-acid,(d) hydrogenating the keto-acid to produce (3-trifluoromethylphenyl)-alpha-hydroxyacetic acid,(e) hydrogenating (3-trifluoromethylphenyl)-alpha-hydroxyacetic acid in the presence of glacial acetic acid to produce the corresponding substituted acetic acid, and(f) esterifying the substituted acetic acid using an alcohol selected from the group consisting of methyl and ethyl to obtain the corresponding methyl or ethyl ester of (3-trifluoromethylphenyl)-acetic acid.