Abstract: A process for isolating cytoplasmic proteins from aqueous vegetable materials containing chloroplastic and cytoplasmic proteins which comprises adding chitosan to the vegetable material to form a flocculate of the chloroplastic proteins and a supernatant, separating the flocculate and recovering a fraction containing cytoplasmic proteins from the supernatant.

Abstract: A diaphragm valve, for controlling the flow of various fluids, particularly orrosive fluids, includes a valve body with a fluid passage defined therethrough, a flexible diaphragm clamped at its periphery between the body and a cover, and a suitably shaped movable knob, integral with a valve stem and mounted so as to be slidable within the cover, for displacing the diaphragm between a position opening and a position closing the fluid passage. The valve also contains a plurality of radially disposed, movable members arranged in a side-by-side fashion and above an annular portion of the diaphragm, one end of each member being mounted upon the cover, while the other end thereof is mounted upon the valve stem, in such a manner as to form a continuous, movable supporting surface for the diaphragm annulus.

Abstract: Coffee aroma gas is admixed with an absorbent comprising aqueous liquid and liquid edible oil under pressure to produce a foam. This foam may then be contacted with soluble coffee solids to effect their aromatization.

Abstract: A safety clamp slidably mounted on a vertical safety carrier, such as a cable or rod, in proximity to a ladder is attached to a workman's belt by a pivotal actuating arm which shifts a wedge plate into clamping engagement with the safety carrier immediately under free-fall conditions encountered if the workman falls from the ladder. Instantaneous actuation of the wedge plate into clamping engagement with the safety carrier in response to the slightest pivotal movement of the actuating arm towards its closing position is provided by cam action exerted against the wedge plate by the actuating arm and by a cam member on the clamping bracket. Cam follower and guide surfaces on the upper end of the wedge plate cooperate with camming action of the actuating arm against the lower end of the wedge plate to maintain the wedge plate in an upright position of uniform contact with the safety carrier.

Abstract: The present invention encompasses compounds of the formula ##STR1## and pharmaceutically acceptable acid addition salts thereof wherein the Alk is straight or branched chain alkylene containing 2-4 carbon atoms; M is alkylene having 1-4 carbon atoms; Ar and Ar' are phenyl, alkyl substituted phenyl wherein the alkyl contains from 1-4 carbon atoms or halo substituted phenyl; Ar" is phenyl, alkyl substituted phenyl wherein the alkyl contains 1-4 carbon atoms, halo substituted phenyl or pyridyl; X is hydrogen, halogen, trifluoromethyl or alkyl having from 1-4 carbon atoms; R is hydrogen alkyl having from 1-7 carbon atoms or an alkanoyl having from 2-5 carbon atoms. These compounds are potent antidiarrheal agents characterized by little, if any, central nervous system activity.

Abstract: A method of processing through low temperature heat exchanges natural gases and cracked gases consisting in using a cooling cycle including compressing and then cooling a cycle mixture of gases consisting of C1 hydrocarbons, C2 hydrocarbons and C3 hydrocarbons through outer coolers with attendant total liquefaction of the cycle mixture under pressure; subsequently effecting a sub-cooling of the mixture within heat exchanges in counter-current relation to one expanded part thereof and/or cold returns and rejects of products processed in the cycle and finally expanding said sub-cooled mixture in at least one exchanger where various cooling processes of the treated products are carried out at successive temperature levels.

Abstract: A drum brake of the type comprising two brake shoes adapted to be spaced apart by a wheel cylinder. The distance between the ends of the shoes which cooperate with the wheel cylinder is automatically increased to compensate for the wear of the brake linings by an adjusting device which defines the rest position of the ends. The device comprises an extensible member of the screw and nut type, two annular resilient members which grippingly engage corresponding cylindrical portions of the extensible member, and a cam which rotates the resilient members one relative to the other in a first direction upon a brake application and in the opposite direction upon brake release to limit extension of the extensible member to a predetermined value.

Abstract: A flying method using total power, in particular for the take-off and overshoot of an aircraft, is disclosed in which the aerodynamic gradient .gamma.a is governed by reference to a desired gradient .gamma.d which is the total gradient .gamma.t modulated by the difference between the aircraft speed V and a reference speed V.sub.2. An error signal .delta. representative of the difference between the aerodynamic gradient .gamma.a and the desired gradient .gamma.d is displayed. The display of the desired gradient .gamma.d may be by means of the pitching tendency bar of an artificial horizon for example.

Abstract: A current limiting circuit breaker having for each pole, a pair of main contacts separable upon operation of a thermally and electromagnetically operable tripping device and a pair of auxiliary contacts for current limiting in series with the main contacts and in parallel with a transformable resistor having a positive temperature coefficient of resistance. The auxiliary contacts are separable when an electromagnet is energized by a fault current which simultaneously energizes a field magnet to produce a transverse magnetic field across the auxiliary contacts and the arc formed between them when separating. This simultaneous action of electromagnet and field magnet coacting for rapid contact separation and lengthening of the arc upon flow of a fault current serves to increase arc voltage almost instantaneously to that of the source, about which time the fault current is totally shunted into the resistor.

Abstract: A metal wire to be coated with thermoplastic material is advanced at high speed, e.g. of 100 meters per minute, through a codirectionally moving mass of thermoplastic particles after having been heated to a temperature high enough to cause adhesion of these particles to the wire. The mass is mechanically entrained in a treatment chamber by an endless belt or the like at a speed close enough to that of the wire to hold the velocity difference therebetween below a threshold value, such as 30 meters per minute, above which an abrasive effect sets in which tends to detach already adhering particles from the wire. Upon exiting from the treatment chamber, the wire is reheated to fuse these particles into a continuous envelope and is then subjected to an electrostatic flocking operation for studding the envelope with radially projecting cellulosic fibers forming a velvety coating thereon.

Abstract: A ventilator is disclosed having a power unit for driving the ventilator which includes fluidic timing control means, gas input means and gas output means. The gas input means is connected to the timing control means via pressure regulating means. Display means are provided responsive to the pressure of the gas which is provided to the timing control means. The timing control means is connected to the output means and is alternately conductive and non-conductive of gas from the input means to the output means. The ratio of the periods of conductivity to non-conductivity remain fixed even where the frequency of alternation varies to maintain a fixed ratio of the inspiratory to expiratory phase time.

Abstract: An iron wire resistor connected in shunt with the current limiting contacts of a circuit breaker. The current limiting contacts are in series with the main contacts of the breaker, and are separated by extremely high fault currents before the main contacts can respond. Opening of the limiting contacts shunts the high fault current through the resistor. The resistor has a positive temperature coefficient of resistance and heats rapidly to sharply reduce the magnitude of the high fault current.To prevent the connection between the resistor and a low resistance copper conductor from being destroyed by the high fault current an intermediate resistance value terminal of copper clad stainless steel is employed between the resistor and the copper conductor.

Abstract: The method of making a gasket structure for sealing mating parts together in which the body portion of the gasket structure is formed by convolutely wound annular alternate discrete layers of a carrier material and a fluid impermeable polymeric material adhered thereto of substantially uniform thickness from layer to layer, and cured, and characterized by having the body portion of the gasket structure, throughout substantially its entire extent, compacted to a substantially uniform density. The gasket structure may be formed with a bead of relatively low density, as compared to the body portion, on at least one surface thereof to compensate for surface contour variations, and a coating layer may be provided covering the gasket structure, which is cured after application and which is characterized by its impermeability to, and resistance to, the fluids which are to be sealed off, and to minimize the clamping forces required for compaction to completely seal the mating parts.

Abstract: A method of forming a nozzle outlet in the stretchable, flexible wall for a container by providing rigid inner and outer sleeves adapted to mate together in taper-interlocked relationship by stretching a portion of the wall around the inner sleeve and becoming sandwiched between the mated sleeves. The inner sleeve has an outlet passage extending therethrough and has an exterior surface which tapers at a small angle, the outer sleeve having an interior surface tapering at a corresponding angle so the sleeves will engage together in a wedging-locking relationship with the stretched wall portion sandwiched and protected between them.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for fabricating reinforcing bands for strengthening arts to be subjected to high centrifugal stresses. The reinforcing bands are made of coiled wire with a high modulus of elasticity and with a matrix of light metal or light-metal alloy. The coil, hoop or blank so formed is compacted in a direction parallel to its axis under high pressure and heat by an annular metal ram in a mold or die consisting of a bottom member, an inner ring, and an outer ring which are constructed so that the blank or coil does not undergo any radial stresses.

Abstract: Power laser chain. Two amplifying elements are separated by a linear polarizer placed between two polarization transformers such as a quarter wave plate or a Fresnel parallelepiped, this preventing auto-oscillators in the amplifying chain, it being possible to repeat that sequence several times in the chain.

Abstract: This invention relates to imino dicarboxylic acids (IDA) of the general formulae ##STR1## and ##STR2## where IS A MOIETY, PREFERABLY AROMATIC, R is a moiety, preferably aliphatic, and to resins derived from such acids. Such resins, which may vary widely, are illustrated by polyesters, poly(ester-amides), poly (ester-imides), poly(ester-imide-amides), etc. In the preferred embodiment such resins contain tris (hydroxyethyl) isocyanurate. The preferred IDA, which is derived from trimellitic anhydride (TMA) and glycine, has the following idealized formula ##STR3## and IS THE PREDOMINANT DICARBOXYLIC ACID EMPLOYED IN SUCH RESINS.

Abstract: An electrical control unit operable as a rheostat or a potentiometer comprising an electrical circuit portion of a resistive electrically conducting material formed on a support in a spiral configuration, a spindle mounted for rotation about the center of the spiral, an arm non-rotatably engaged on the spindle but slidable relatively to the spindle radially with respect to the axis thereof, an electrical contact carried on the arm to move radially therewith, to make contact with said circuit portion, and a spiral guide means aligned with the circuit portion spiral and co-operable with the arm to guide said arm radially, so that the electrical contact follows the circuit portion spiral to alter the effective electrical resistance thereof in use.

Abstract: 1-(1-naphthoxy)-3-(4-substituted-piperidino)-2-propanols, preparable by reacting 1,2-epoxy-3-(1-naphthoxy)-propane with the appropriate 4-substituted piperidine, are disclosed. The compounds may be alternately prepared from 1-chloro-3-(1-naphthoxy)-2-propanol with the appropriate 4-substituted piperidine. The compounds are useful antiarrhythmic agents.

Abstract: Compounds of the formula ##STR1## AND THE NON-TOXIC PHARMACOLOGICALLY ACCEPTABLE ACID ADDITION SALTS THEREOF; WHEREIN Ar, Ar' and Ar" are each phenyl, halophenyl, or alkylphenyl wherein alkyl contains from 1 to 4 carbon atoms; Ar'" is phenyl, halophenyl, alkylphenyl wherein alkyl contains from 1 to 4 carbon atoms, or pyridyl; R is hydrogen, alkyl having from 1 to 6 carbon atoms, or alkanoyl having from 1 to 6 carbon atoms; and R.sup.1 is hydrogen or alkyl having from 1 to 6 carbon atoms. These compounds are antidiarrheal agents characterized by very weak central nervous system activity.