Abstract: The invention concerns temperature stabilized resonant microwave cavities not requiring hermetic sealing and easy to be frequency adjusted, which essentially consist of a hollow body, a tuning screw, a plug and auxiliary lateral devices for coupling to the diode as well as of a termination, and are characterized in that the hollow body is filled with amorphous quartz. This hollow body consists preferably of an internal thin cartridge or vest made of precious alloy (Invar or Super Invar) forced into the hollow room of a thick support made of less precious material (aluminum).

Abstract: Tetraazaundecane and certain derivatives thereof serve as a chemical sensitizer for negative silver halide emulsions.

Abstract: Ketoester of the formula ##STR1## .alpha.-carboxylate-.omega.-acyl fluoride of the formula ##STR2## vinyl ether of the formula ##STR3## divinyl ether of the formula ##STR4## allyl ether of the formula ##STR5## and film-forming copolymers, useful as molding resins, of the vinyl ether and/or the divinyl ether or the allyl ether and a fluorinated vinyl monomer, for example, tetrafluoroethylene, wherein, in the above formulas, n is 0 to 6, p is 0 to 7, X is CO.sub.2 M, CO.sub.2 R, CO.sub.2 H, CONH.sub.2, COF, COCl or CN, M is alkali metal, ammonium or quaternary ammonium and R is C.sub.1-8 alkyl, selected copolymers, after hydrolysis, being water-wettable and dyeable, exhibiting ion-exchange properties and being useful in curable fluoroelastomer compositions and, in film form, as the membrane in a chloroalkali electrolysis cell.

Abstract: This invention relates to a novel process for preparing the calcium salt of .alpha.-hydroxy-.gamma.-methylmercaptobutyric acid (MHBA) by contacting solid calcium oxide or calcium hydroxide with liquid MHBA.

Abstract: At a subscriber station AU communicating with a central office of a data network, a logic unit UM includes a processing subunit UE which, under the control of a microprogrammed subunit UC comprising a microinstruction memory MM and a sequencer SQ, digitally demodulates an incoming carrier and synthesizes an outgoing carrier modulated in the DPSK (differential-phase-shift keying) mode. The modulation is effected by multiplying stored bits of an outgoing signal, read out from a data memory MD, with bits representing digitized sine and cosine samples of the carrier wave obtained from a calculator AL within subunit UE, followed by conversion to analog form and filtering; demodulation is carried out in a similar manner, after conversion of analog samples of the incoming carrier to digital form, by multiplying the resulting bits with those of the calculated sine and cosine samples.

Abstract: Process for modifying tacky surfaces, e.g., tacky layer on a photograph or other photochemically produced record, which comprises applying an admixture of particulate material and carrier particles and removing the excess particulate material and carrier particles. The ratio of average particle diameter of the carrier particles to average particle diameter of the particulate material is greater than 2 and the weight ratio of particulate material to carrier particles is less than 1. The degree of surface modification, e.g., light reflectivity, etc., can be controlled by the process.

Abstract: A number of data processors have access, via respective interfaces, to a common ring memory made up of cascaded shift-register sections. Each interface comprises a pair of shift registers or a pair of read/write memories one of which, at a given instant, is operatively connected to the ring memory while the other coacts with the processor, their roles being interchanged from time to time by a switchover signal from a logic network in response to an instruction from the associated processor. The logic networks of all interfaces receive clock pulses from a common time base and, optionally, may be able to inhibit temporarily the emission of such pulses pending completion of an exchange of information with the ring memory.

Abstract: A case for tape cassettes comprising a holder for the cassette being in the form of a U-shaped container with enclosed ends which conforms to the configuration of the open side of a cassette and receives the cassette there between, and a flexible strap extending from one side of the U-shaped container and having two cams adapted to tightly fit into the spindle of the reels whereby the U-shaped container is held in place and the reels are prevented from rotating.

Abstract: Novel arylsulfonylureidoquinazolines are useful as herbicides and plant growth regulants.

Abstract: Diesters of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R is CH.sub.3 or C.sub.2 H.sub.5 and n is 0 to 10; vinyl ether monomers derived therefrom; copolymers of the vinyl ether monomers with one or more selected perfluorinated monoolefins; articles of manufacture made from the copolymers; process for making the diesters; process for using copolymer membranes in a chlor-alkali cell.

Abstract: An oxazoline diester capable of rapid air-drying is formed by esterifying the reaction product of a carboxylic acid having non-terminal, alpha, beta unsaturation and tris(hydroxymethyl) aminoethane with a second carboxylic acid. The oxazoline diester can be used as a reactive diluent in an air-drying coating composition or can be homo- or co-polymerized with other ethylenically-unsaturated monomers to form a useful resin for other coating systems.

Abstract: A vacuum cleaning machine using a floor-mounted vacuum hood forming a travelling vacuum chamber with an optimum combination of suction nozzle intake means, jet stream manifold means and a mechanical soil agitator means in the form of a carpet rake, where the rake is interposed between the suction nozzle intake means and a plurality of jet streams. The jet streams are generally directed toward the tips of the teeth of the carpet rake and from there toward the intake opening of the suction nozzle means to increase the effectiveness of the suction nozzle means. A second modification of the invention shows the carpet rake replaced by a power-driven brush, and the jet stream means is a combined carpet rake and source of a plurality of jet streams directed toward the working area of the brush. An optimum design is where the compressed air that divides into a plurality of jet streams is made to pulsate so as to create a hammering action on the soil.

Abstract: A communications management system includes a central processor (10) which is connected via an order wire subsystem (12) to various remote terminals (14, 16, 18). The central processor (10) maintains tables (42, 44) which relate remote terminals (14, 16, 18) to communication operating frequencies and assign jammers to selected operating frequencies. Further tables are maintained to list adversary frequencies (40), remote terminal locations (46) and remote terminal channel monitor assignments (48). Processor (10) develops the communications assignment table based on a preselected set of operating channels minus the channels being jammed or used by adversary parties. The channel assignments are changed on a recurring basis to reduce the probability of intercept and jamming. An operator console (24) is provided for displaying the data in the tables and for entering commands to update the tables.

Abstract: The invention relates to the depositing of aluminum alloys useful as material for the manufacture of sleeve bearings. Aluminum and lead in the proper ratio are melted in a furnace, transferred to a holding furnace wherein the temperature of the melt is maintained within the molten range, and the melt is directed to an atomizing or nebulizing chamber. According to the invention, the molten material flowing into the atomization chamber is subjected to an atomizing gas flow having a specified angle of incidence to atomize the molten flow of alloy into small particles which are directly deposited on a continuous pure aluminum strip which moves under the atomization chamber at a preset rate, the aluminum strip with the alloy layer is submitted to a rolling operation and thereafter the strip is rolled together with a steel strip, to provide a cladding of the alloy-aluminum onto the steel of the backing and supporting strip.

Abstract: A method of purifying by separation of mercaptoacyl amino acid from mercaptoacyl amino acid dimer comprising,providing a first solution of impure mercaptoacyl amino acid in a fluid container means,contacting said first solution with a metal whereby said mercaptoacyl amino acid precipitates yielding a second solution and a purified mercaptoacyl amino acid precipitate,separating said purified mercaptoacyl amino acid precipitate from said second solution.

Abstract: Composition useful as hydrocarbon fuel additives of the formula ##STR1## wherein R is a C.sub.9-23 hydrocarbyl group, R' is selected from H and ##STR2## and wherein at least one R' is H, R" is ##STR3## group where X is a divalent hydrocarbyl group of 2 to 34 carbon atoms, n is an integer of 2 or 3 or a combination of 2 and 3, a is an integer of 0-3, b is an integer of 1-2, c is an integer of 0-3 and a+b+c is 2-8.

Abstract: Three sample and hold circuits (26, 30 and 34) sample a received pulse amplitude modulated signal at twice the data bit frequency or timing of the received signal. The clock to the sample and hold circuits is timed so that three consecutive samples, two mid-bit samples and a transition sample are held in the circuits (26, 30 and 34) once every two sample periods. The mid-bit samples are added together by an adder (32) and divided by two in a divider (38) to provide an average. The transition sample is subtracted from this average in a subtractor (36) to produce an error signal. The error signal is normalized in a multiplier (44) using the reciprocal of the difference in magnitude between the two mid-bit samples to produce a normalized signal. A clock signal is generated by a voltage controlled oscillator (52) in response to the normalized signal at twice the bit frequency or bit timing and in synchronism therewith.

Abstract: Hydroxymethylbenzenesulfonamide derivatives have utility as agricultural chemicals and in particular as herbicides.

Abstract: Carbinolamine esters of 1,2,4-triazoles are provided having the structure ##STR1## wherein R, R.sup.1, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 are as defined herein. These compounds are useful as antiinflammatory agents.

Abstract: Tows of highly entangled, continuous, eccentric bicomponent acrylic filaments in which the filaments have a density of about 1.0-1.17, an equilibrium crimp reversibility (ECR) of at least about 20% and a filament entanglement value greater than about 12 and less than about 60 are provided by drying previously undried tows of continuous acrylic filaments having an eccentric bicomponent structure in which a large difference exists between the hot water swellability of the components of the filaments, as indicated by their ECR, to a maximum moisture content of about 3% by weight of the filaments at a temperature below the hot-wet glass transition temperature of the fiber polymers.