Abstract: Exemplary stacked component tapered bearing simulator device, the principles of which can be applied more broadly in such instrumentation as dynamometers and viscometers, can have a stator block with a sample receiving bore; a rotor complementary to the stator block bore extending axially into the bore to define a thin measuring gap, the rotor having a drive shaft extending axially upward from it; a motor, which can rotate in response to torque from a test sample present in the thin gap and which drives the shaft and rotor along a rotation axis; a part for sensing the torque, fixable to the motor, and connectable to a platform that is vertically adjustable by an elevator mechanism, which generally, externally bounds the axis of rotation of the motor, drive shaft, and rotor.

Abstract: An accessory for attachment to a golf shoe provides for smoothing out depressions in golf course sand traps. The accessory comprises a small rake mounted transverse to the shoe and rearward of the heel. The mounting may include a pivot allowing adjustment of the rake from a lowered position in raking contact with the ground to a raised position clear of the ground. A manually adjustable lock for the pivot permits securing the rake selectively in lowered or raised position. The mounting is held to the shoe by one or more prongs drive-fitted into the heel or by a spur assembly encircling the heel and strapped to the shoe.

Abstract: Dilute aqueous sodium hypochlorite solution is stabilized against decomposition during storage by incorporating in it a small proportion of the calcium chelate of disodium ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid. The solution preferably contains by weight at least 95 percent water, from 0.25 to 1 percent sodium hypochlorite, and from 0.005 to 0.25 percent of the calcium chelate. It may be stored for a period of many months and remains effective as a disinfectant for medical environmental surfaces. The solution may also be formulated to contain a synthetic detergent, such as sodium lauryl sulfate, 0.1 to 3 percent, and an alkaline builder, such as sodium metasilicate, to maintain a pH value above 11. Sodium hydroxide may be added to produce a pH above 12.

Abstract: Perchloroethylene, phosgene, and silicon tetrachloride are coproduced by passing vaporous carbon tetrachloride into contact with porous silica at a temperature of 800.degree. to 950.degree. C. The silica is disposed as a bed of granules have a surface area of from 0.1 to 30 m.sup.2 /g. It should be at least 90 percent pure and free of elemental carbon. Molecular oxygen and water vapor are excluded. The carbon tetrachloride is supplied in a proportion more than two mols per mol of silica consumed.

Abstract: A rotational viscometer or tapered bearing simulator for testing motor oils and other fluids has a stator, a matching rotor fitting into it, and a drive shaft extending axially from the rotor. The shaft is direct-driven by a multispeed synchronous AC motor mounted on a low-friction turntable free to rotate over a limited arc. Torque experienced by the turntable is measured by a strain gage. The turntable rests on a platform which is vertically adjustable by and cantilevered from a fine screw-equipped elevator bracket. For temperature control, the stator is embedded in thermally insulating material and surrounded by an electric heating coil and a passageway through which air may flow. The stator and rotor have closely matched parallel surfaces produced by fine grinding. The rotor may have flats modified with a small fillet to entrap any minute particles in the test fluid. A pre-load assembly including weights applies measured torque to the turntable to calibarate and help stabilize the instrument.

Abstract: A tacky thermoplastic elastomeric linear triblock polymer corresponding to the formula A-B-A is made from a monovinyl aromatic hydrocarbon and myrcene. A is a polymer block of a monovinyl aromatic hydrocarbon, e.g. styrene, having an average molecular weight between 2,000 and 100,000 and a glass transition temperature above 25.degree. C. B is a polymeric block of myrcene (7-methyl-3-methylene-1,6-octadiene, C.sub.10 H.sub.16) having an average molecular weight between 10,000 and 1,000,000 and a glass transition temperature below -40.degree. C. B constitutes from 40 to 80 percent of the total. The products are made by sequential polymerization with an organolithium initiator.

Abstract: A resinous linear polyester, poly(oxy-1,4-phenylene-3-oxotrimethylene), is made by the self-condensation of 3-(parahydroxyphenyl)propionic acid. The process is carried out interfacially or in an inert solvent by mixing 3-(parahydroxyphenyl)propionic acid with at least an equimolar proportion of thionyl chloride and maintaining the mixture at a reaction temperature for a time sufficient to allow substantially complete autocondensation. A base may be added in proportion at least about equivalent to the thionyl chloride. The autocondensate when purified is a white solid linear polyester not melting up to 360.degree. C. and may exhibit an intrinsic viscosity of at least 75 ml/g. It may be molded or pressed into a film.Co-condensed polyesters of 3-(parahydroxyphenyl)propionic acid with up to an equimolar proportion of parahydroxyphenylacetic acid may similarly be prepared.

Abstract: A solid crystalline organic polymer is made into a filament, rod, or film by ultra-drawing it at a temperature within 70.degree. C. of but below its melting point at the operating pressure while subjecting the polymer during and immediately after drawing to a hydrostatic pressure of at least about 500 atmospheres applied by a fluid medium inert to the polymer. High-density polyethylene and isotactic propylene are preferred polymers. A draw ratio of at least 20:1, and as high as 60:1, may be used. Pressure may be up to 2500 atmospheres or more. The rate of drawing for polyethylene is above 500 percent per minute. The ultra-drawn products are transparent, essentially free of internal voids, and exhibit very high tensile moduli of elasticity, up to 65 to 70 Giga-Pascals in the case of polyethylene.

Abstract: A recreational mountain slide is basically a double-rail track down which a wheeled cart rolls. The rails are channels of substantially rectangular cross-section laid such that each provides a top, a bottom, and an inside vertical face, each such face being substantially flat, continuous, and unobstructed throughout the length of the track. The rails are mounted on supports which are adjustable and readily removable, being attached to the rails solely along their outer vertical faces. The front wheels of the cart are steerable by the rider. Each wheel is of constant diameter throughout its width and is wider than the rail on which it runs. The wheels are restrained from sliding laterally or jumping vertically off the track by members mounted on the cart in position to bear on the inside vertical face or the bottom face, respectively, of the adjacent rail. The cart also has brakes which can bear upwardly on the bottom face of the rail.