Abstract: Tank for a motorized compressor, more particularly for an installation for he isotopic separation by gaseous diffusion, which has a generally cylindrical shape and a vertical axis containing a motorized compressor with an axial intake for a low pressure gas flow, a lateral intake for a medium pressure flow to be mixed in the motorized compressor with the low pressure flow and a diffuser for forcing back the high pressure flow at the outlet from said motorized compressor, whereby said tank has a first lateral opening for the entry of the medium pressure flow and a second lateral opening for the discharge of the high pressure flow, wherein for ensuring separation of the medium pressure flow before entering the motorized compressor and the high pressure flow at the outlet from said motorized compressor, it comprises a truncated cone-shaped skirt whose large base is inclined relative to the tank axis, said skirt being fixed to the tank along a continuous line passing on the one hand below the first opening for th

Abstract: Off-shore oil field production equipment with a production platform anchored on the ground of the drilling site, comprising a column pivotally connected through a universal cardan joint coupling to a base anchored to the sea bed in connection with a remote-located floating gas flare for burning gas extracted from the oil, wherein said gas flare is carried by a floating structure coming up into the wind while being connected to a swivel head of the column by means of a pivoted holder.

Abstract: A new and improved method and apparatus for the measurement and control of the bulk properties of slurries is provided. The bulk properties are measured in the slurry while it is flowing downwards at a rate greater than the settling velocity of the discontinuous phase of the slurry.

Abstract: A flat, elongate workpiece such as a knitting-machine needle, stamped from sheet metal with a transverse lug whose narrow faces require precise machining, is clamped in a workpiece holder with its lug centered on an axis about which the workpiece holder and an associated tool mounting are relatively rotatable. The tool mounting includes two symmetrically positioned supports, carrying respective power-driven shaping tools such as grinding wheels or millers, which are limitedly movable in a plane including the axis and are interconnected by a tension spring drawing them toward each other. An interposed cam disk, engaged by rollers mounted on these supports, determines the extent to which the two shaping tools can approach the axis in machining respective lug faces during a relative rotation of up to 180.degree..

Abstract: An aerodynamic and hydromechanical hydroplaning disc with a solid unitary body comprised of aggregated material. The disc is heavier than the water it displaces and non-floating. A series of longitudinally oriented (i.e., meridionally oriented, or north-south) discontinuities are provided only on the extreme latitudinal periphery of the rim adjacent to the top and bottom surfaces of the disc. Said discontinuities: exert a greater interfering effect on the airflow and waterflow around the circumference than over the top and under the bottom surfaces; create a turbulent, separated and unseparated, peripheral boundary layer in air and water; reduce air resistance and water resistance; increase range, frequency of skips, and dynamic stability. Also, there is provided a granular texture on the bottom and circumferential surfaces of the disc which results in a more sure grip and improved hydroplaning stability (i.e., the ability of the disc to maintain a horizontal orientation while hydroplaning).

Abstract: An apparatus to simultaneously punch a series of louver holes in a tubular workpiece. The apparatus having a series of punches angularly spaced around the workpiece, which punches are caused to reciprocate by the engagement thereof by a series of inclined surfaces of a rotatable member located around the workpiece. The apparatus further includes gripping means to hold the workpiece during punching operations and to move the workpiece in between successive punching operations.

Abstract: Compounds of the formula ##STR1## wherein R is phenyl cyclohexyl or lower alkyl containing 1-6 carbon atoms; R" is hydrogen or methyl; R'" is alkenyl or alkynyl having 3-5 carbon atoms; R' is hydrogen, tetrahydrofuran-2-yl tetrahydropyran-2-yl or trialkylsilyl wherein the alkyl contains 1-4 carbon atoms. Compounds of the present invention are useful in synthesizing prostaglandin like molecules which are active anti-secretory agents.

Abstract: A writing head overlying a recording medium, in the form of a sheet with edges respectively extending in mutually orthogonal directions X and Y, carries a linear array of equispaced electrodes extending in the X direction over a fraction of the width of the sheet. The writing head is displaceable in the Y direction along a supporting bar which in turn may be moved in the X direction. A control unit commands the selective energization of these electrodes to record a dot pattern as the writing head moves in the Y direction to sweep a column of dot positions, the column being wide enough to accommodate several alphanumerical characters and/or graphic symbols read out on a line-by-line basis from a plurality of memory sections. With at least one additional linear electrode array on the writing head, generally transverse to the X direction, heavy lines or curves may be traced on the recording medium.

Abstract: The procedure according to the invention, for joining together stainless el or superalloy parts, consists of placing an interface material, chosen from a group containing tin, indium, antimony, gallium and germanium or consisting of a combination of these elements, between the contacting surfaces of the parts, and then subjecting the entire assembly to heat treatment in a controlled atmosphere at a temperature greater than 900.degree. C. but in every case less than the solidus point of the parts to be joined together. If the parts are not of the same nature, the lower solidus point will be the limiting temperature. The treatment lasts as long as necessary to permit the interface material to migrate and compounds or solutions to form, ensuring the diffusion brazing of the parts to be joined. The parts are held together under a moderate pressure during at least part of the treatment, so as to maintain their positions relative to each other and to promote the diffusion without causing deformation.

Abstract: An air-navigational beacon, designed to simulate an imaginary circular ben with a multiplicity of pairs of diametrically opposite dipoles excited in cyclic succession, comprises an array of stationary dipole pairs disposed along lines parallel to a given direction. The spacing of the dipoles of each pair varies from one pair to another according to a sinusoidal law in their order of energization. The two dipoles of a pair are energized in relative quadrature and with a signal amplitude proportional to their spacing.

Abstract: A sound insulation chamber delimits a gaseous flow channel and including onant cavities housed within a double wall. The cavity vents are ducts which open into the channel flush with the inner wall and project into the interior of the cavities.

Abstract: The invention relates to copolymers of 5-hydroxycytidylic acid and at least one other polynucleotide selected from cytidylic acid and monomers derived therefrom by bromination. The polymers of the invention are prepared by the bromination of polycytidylic acid and subsequent hydrolysis of the product. The copolymers of the invention demonstrate antiviral properties in vivo.

Abstract: A process for stripping and sorting out the leaves of a plant such as a tobacco plant, comprising the steps of introducing the plant in a stripping element, displacing the assembly formed by the plant and its stripping element in relation to the feed station, performing the progressive stripping of the plant from its leaves as the plant is being moved with the stripping element on the trajectory of the latter, and regrouping the leaves of each foliar level in the corresponding areas of the stripping trajectory.

Abstract: The following specification describes a magnetic assembly for use in controlling the main contacts of a circuit breaker. The magnetic assembly includes a yoke, an armature for attraction to the yoke to move an operating lever and a pivotable adjustment arm. The lever operates the trip crossbar, which opens the main contacts and is in turn pivotably carried by the adjustment arm. One end of the operating lever is held against longitudinal movement relative the trip crossbar, when the adjustment arm is pivoted to calibrate the circuit breaker. The lever therefore pivots on the adjustment arm to move the armature towards or from the yoke to control the armature air gap without altering the lever travel distance to the crossbar. The armature is also mounted on the lever for relatively linear movement in relationship to the yoke.

Abstract: The present invention encompasses compounds of the formula: ##STR1## wherein n is 0 or 1; Y represents ethylene or vinylene; R represents hydrogen or lower alkyl having 1-7 carbon atoms; R', R", R'" each individually represent hydrogen or methyl; Ar represents phenyl, halosubstituted phenyl, alkyl substituted phenyl wherein the alkyl contains 1-4 carbon atoms, alkoxy substituted phenyl wherein the alkoxy contains 1-4 carbon atoms, trifluoromethylphenyl, or biphenyl; and the wavy line indicates R or S stereochemistry.

Abstract: N-oxy-ajmaline of the formula ##STR1## useful for treating myocardium infarct and ventricular and supraventricular tachycardia.

Abstract: Emitters and rotary hydraulic displacement pumps are associated with one or a number of propeller-type transducers and connected to receivers each having a rotary hydraulic displacement motor coupled to an alternator. The emitters are connected to the receivers by means of a hydraulic circuit for an auxiliary fluid which is admitted into at least one shunt-connected energy dissipator and the flow of which is regulated as a function of the random energy variations of the natural fluid. The energy-conversion system is primarily applicable to hydroelectric power plants of the stream or river type, to wind-driven power plants and to ship propulsion.

Abstract: The invention relates to a mushroom-type valve cooled by cooling fluid circulation for an internal combustion engine wherein the terminal face of the end portion of the stem is aligned flush with the corresponding face of the valve head and forms the central portion thereof, and the assembling of the head is carried out by brazing on the stem along the whole of their interface.

Abstract: An adsorbate is removed from an adsorbent by contacting the adsorbent with a near critical liquid which is a solvent for the adsorbate. The near critical liquid containing the dissolved adsorbate is then subjected to at least partial vaporization to form a vapor in which the adsorbate is substantially less soluble thereby making it possible to remove the adsorbate from the near critical liquid. The vapor is then condensed to restore it to the near critical liquid state wherein it is a solvent for the adsorbate so that it may be reused. The process is particularly suitable for adsorbent regeneration in the treating of waste-waters.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a mold adapted to be used for casting bodies of ber-reinforced composites. A model of the body to be cast is prepared and coated with a one piece dense shell of refractory metallic oxide deposited by plasma or flame spraying and the model is then separated from the shell by conventional physical or chemical treatment.