Abstract: A method of treating hair to strengthen and improve its physical properties and a composition useful therein is disclosed. More particularly, the composition contains polyvalent metal salts and the hair, so treated, is substantially hydrophobic and bodied.

Abstract: A hair conditioning composition particularly useful in conjunction with hair waving having a pH value of about 4-9 and containing water having dissolved therein about 0.05-5 weight percent quaternary nitrogen-containing conditioning polymer having a molecular weight of about 10,000-10,000,000, and about 0.5-10 weight percent of a water-soluble disulfide-containing polycarboxylic acid or salt thereof, as well as methods for its use and preparation are disclosed.

Abstract: The system includes a digital integrator having a plurality of digital stages operable to store a numerical value in binary digital form which is indicative of state of charge. A switching circuit is provided for generating a series of voltage pulses on a single output line with each pulse corresponding in length to the binary digital value stored in the integrator to provide a time based resultant indication of the stored binary digital value. A filtering means is included to provide a substantially smooth analog output voltage having an amplitude corresponding to the summation of the pulses.The system preferably includes a delayed high voltage reset feature to set the integrator to a full charge state in response to voltage levels accompanying charging of the battery.

Abstract: Compositions are disclosed for providing non-greasy, cosmetic moisturizing, conditioning and protective barrier effects on skin and hair, and to a rinse-on method for producing these effects. More particularly the compositions comprise oil-in-water emulsions that are adapted to invert to water-in-oil emulsions at the hair or skin surface when they are rubbed into the skin and hair. The compositions a include water, unctrous oleaginous material, water-dispersible, non-toxic polyvalent metal salt having a cation selected from the group consisting of aluminum (III), cerium (III), iron (III), zirconium (IV), aluminum zirconium coordination complexes, and mixtures thereof and sufficient acid or alkali to provide a pH value of about 1.5 to 7.5.

Abstract: An electrical connector of the type which includes a rectangular sleeve folded from a flat blank and a pair of screws penetrating one side of the sleeve to clamp electrical wires against an opposite side of the sleeve is protected against distortion by the provision of a dovetail slot in one side intersecting an edge of that side and the provision of a complementary dovetail on a side of the rectangular connector sleeve which meets the side having the dovetail slot at the edge intersected by the dovetail slot so that the complementary dovetail may be folded into the dovetail slot to resist unfolding. The dovetail slot and complementary dovetail are so oriented that the force of tightening the screws against the electrical wires or other conductors is resisted by the dovetail so that the rectangular sleeve cannot unfold. This allows the screws to develop more clamping force against the electrical conductor making a better, neater and safer connection.

Abstract: A goalkeeper's hockey stick having a blade and a shaft rigidly connected to the blade at the heel end. The shaft has three sections with a first section being straight and extending upwards from the heel end of the blade. A second section forms first and second bends with the first bend causing the shaft to extend upwardly and rearwardly from the first section and the second bend causing the shaft above the second bend to extend substantially parallel to the first section. The third section is straight and extends upwards from said second bend. Preferably the shaft has a slight transverse curve near its upper end which results in a deviation from the plane defined by the blade and the first section of the shaft of about 1 inch.

Abstract: The invention relates to apparatus for determining the state of charge of electric storage batteries.The apparatus makes use of known quiescent battery (16) terminal voltage recovery characteristics after a prior energy transfer to predict the ultimate steady state terminal voltage as a measure of state of charge.

Abstract: A novel apparatus for semi-automatically baiting the hooks of long-line used in commercial deep sea fishing. The apparatus includes a bait holding receptacle, a slotted separator positioned in or in association with the receptacle and extending from substantially end to end thereof, whereby ground-line with leader periodically attached to the ground-line is passed behind the separator such that a gangion portion of the leader extends through the slot in the separator and the hook of the leader secures itself to a piece of bait held in the bait holding receptacle.

Abstract: A cylinder head gasket for internal combustion engines has all-metal composite refractory seal around each of the cylinder openings and elastomeric seals around each of the liquid passages, the latter being symetrically disposed on opposite sides of the central plate. The refractory seals comprise ribbed sheet metal members disposed symetrically and having perimeters extending inwardly at each cylinder opening, and cover members reaching from one side and the other over the perimeters.

Abstract: A cylinder head gasket has outwardly open grooves formed in the compressible refractory body around the fluid passages to be sealed and sealing strips received in the grooves so that webs of the strips lying along the bottoms of the grooves are set back from the faces of the gasket while wings of the strips overhang these faces adjoining the grooves.

Abstract: State of charge is determined for a battery during a quiescent interval with substantially no current flow through the battery by determining the quiescent time interval since the last substantial current flow through the battery, taking a rapid measurement of the battery terminal voltage, and relating the combination of these two measurements to known battery open circuit voltage recovery characteristics.

Abstract: A rotary saw cutoff device for use on an automatic screw machine without the need to sacrifice a working station to accommodate the device, and which is narrower than a standard cutoff tool to reduce the waste loss due to cutoff. The working area of the cutoff device presents a slender profile to permit the device to be movable into and out of the working area of the automatic screw machine without interfering with the other parts of the machine. The saw blade is positioned at the outer edge of a frame in which it is rotatably supported, and it is driven through a gear train by an hydraulic motor. A driven gear is drivingly connected to the saw blade and is supported in bearings, one of which is positioned in a recess formed in one face of the gear.

Abstract: Method of and means for wrapping generally cylindrical products with plastic film in which the film extends from a supply roll over a supporting means and terminates in a free end. The product is placed on the supporting means, the free end of the film is transferred to the product and the product is rotated to draw film from the supply roll and cause it to be wrapped around the product. The wrapped product is removed from the supporting means and the film is severed.

Abstract: The present invention relates to pearlescent shampoos in which the pearlescing agent is myristyl myristate and is present in the shampoo in an amount of about 0.2 to about 2.5 weight percent. Also included in the shampoo are water and an amount of surface active agent effective for cleansing.

Abstract: A neutralizer for permanent waving of hair is disclosed. The neutralizer contains (A) 0.5-16% (w/v) of an oxidizing agent capable of reforming ruptured disulfide bonds in reduced hair and (B) 0.1-5% (w/v) of a cationic dextran derivative or its salt as indispensible components, and has a pH value range of from about 2 to about 10.5.