Abstract: An infustion pump fluid source cartridge having a pump interface portion and a fluid source portion. The top edge of the cartridge is bevelled in the fluid source portion to permit bending of the fluid source portion to securely position the pump interface portion against the pump without distorting the pump interface portion. A pump tube mount is provided for insertion into such cartridge. The pump tube mount includes a uniquely shaped front wall and a rear wall which extends downward in order to butt up against a ledge. Tabs extend from the rear wall in order to snap into an opening beneath the ledge. A compressible tube is mounted in the tube mount by providing a cylindrical fitting having an indentation. The tube may be held in the indentation by a collar surrounding the tube in alignment with the indentation.

Abstract: A connector assembly (1,45;2) comprising a plug-in connector (1,45) and a socket connector (2). The plug-in connector (1,45) is provided with a lever-type locking element (5;15;25;40) having two free ends. At one free end an outwardly projecting pawl-type latching element (8;18;28;41) is disposed, while the other free end is designed as a gripping end (5';15';25';40'). The socket connector (2) is provided with a slot-type opening or recess (9), so that when the plug-in connector (1,45) is pushed into and mates with the socket connector (2), the latching element (8;18;28;41) engages the slot-type opening or recess (9), from the inside (2') of the socket connector (2), thereby latching the connectors (1,45;2).

Abstract: An improved ceramic dielectric composition for preparing multilayer ceramic structures for electronic devices and a method of enhancing the sinterability of such compositions at low firing temperatures by improving the distribution of zinc borate based sintering flux uniformly throughout the composition.

Abstract: This invention relates to certain heterocyclic sulfonylurea herbicidal compounds, agriculturally suitable compositions thereof and a method of their use.

Abstract: A housing for interconnecting an opto-electronic device with a ferrule includes a base, a cover cooperable with the base to define a chamber, and a mounting member is characterized by a pivot arrangement disposed on the mounting member and cooperating with at least one of the base or the cover for accommodating pivotal motion of the mounting member to permit the axis of the mounting member to translate in two orthogonal directions in a plane perpendicular to the axis of the chamber and also to permit the top of the mounting member to displace in the perpendicular plane to align the axis of the mounting member collinearly with the axis of the ferrule. The housing also includes an elastomeric board mount disposed in a sealing relationship between the base and the cover when the same are conjoined and arranged to seal legs on a substrate that extend through the elastomeric board mount.

Abstract: A system for mounting and supporting harvesting units on a forward end of a cotton harvester frame to allow them to be slidably moved relative to each other and laterally along an elongated tool bar structure. The tool bar structure is pivotally connected to the cotton harvester frame by a lift assembly. The harvesting units hang in a cantilevered fashion from and are independently connected at their rearward edges to the tool bar structure by a slide support structure which facilitates visibility of the harvesting units from a cab region of the harvester. The slide support structure maintains a non-rotatable and non-point contact relationship with laterally elongated generally flat support surfaces defined between opposite ends of the tool bar structure whereby substantial surface area contact is provided between each side support structure and the support surfaces on the tool bar structure.

Abstract: A connector apparatus to be connected to an IC pack comprises housing means for receiving and holding the IC pack inserted thereto, connector means for connecting electrically to the inserted IC pack, ejecting means for ejecting the inserted IC pack from the connector means having at least two ejecting arms having a U-shaped cross section, two opposing sections of the ejecting arm sandwiching the housing means, and the other section perpendicular to the opposing sections being arranged to contact with the front end of the IC pack, and means for activating the ejecting means so as to eject the IC pack from the connector means by pulling out with the ejecting arms kept in contact with the front end of the IC pack.

Abstract: Process comprising heating a dioxole at 100.degree.-400.degree. C. for a sufficient time to convert the dioxole to an epoxide, for example, bis-2,2-trifluoromethyl-4,5-difluoro-1,3-dioxole to 2,3-epoxy-3-trifluoromethyl-4-trifluorobutyryl fluoride.

Abstract: Fouled spinneret assembly parts are cleaned by impacting the fouled part with high-pressure jets of water. The water-jet cleaning treatment is especially effective for cleaning fouled spinnerets used in dry-spinning of spandex filaments.

Abstract: A package for an opto-electronic component and associated pigtail is characterized by a notch formed in the sidewall of an open topped lower housing portion which interrupts the edge of the housing such that the component can be laid into the housing with the pigtail extending through the notch.

Abstract: A cleaning composition is disclosed which is suitable for cleaning flux residue from a printed circuit board and comprises dibasic ester solvent and a hydrocarbon solvent.

Abstract: Nylon staple fiber (and precursor continuous filaments in the form of a tow) of high load-bearing capacity is prepared by an improved process of first drawing the tow between multiple feed and draw rolls, followed by both heating and cooling the draw filaments to anneal them under a controlled tension.

Abstract: A process for making oriented, shaped articles of para-aramid/thermally-consolidatable polymer blends by orienting spinnable dopes containing 10 to 25% by weight fiber-forming polymers being at least about 55% and less than about 80% para-aramid and at least about 20% and less than about 45% thermally consolidatable polymer in a common solvent and removing the solvent.

Abstract: Process for purifying TiO.sub.2 ore consisting essentially of subjecting the ore to two or more leaching treatments, said leaching treatments alternating between use of an aqueous solution of a mineral acid and an aqueous solution of an alkali metal compound selected from the group consisting essentially of alkali metal carbonates, hydroxides or mixtures thereof.

Abstract: AB and ABA block copolymers of acrylics and acrylic amines are useful as oil additives to diminish sediment and color formation. The copolymers are preferably formed by group transfer polymerization.

Abstract: Incorporation into polyacetal molding compositions of 0.05-3 weight percent of certain non-meltable polymers containing formaldehyde reactive hydroxyl groups, formaldehyde reactive nitrogen groups, or formaldehyde reactive hydroxyl and formaldehyde reactive nitrogen groups, wherein the polymer has an average particle size, both prior to melt processing with the polyacetal and after melt processing with the polyacetal, of less than 10 microns, results in improved thermal stability of such compositions.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a gas discharge display device comprising a pair of panel substrates arranged to oppose each other at a predetermined gap, at least one of said pair of panel substrates having on a surface thereof a plurality of electrodes which form discharge light-emitting display sections and an insulating barrier for defining the discharge light-emitting display section, the pair of panel substrates being encapsulated by an encapsulating member, characterized in that the method of forming the insulating barrier comprises the sequential steps of:(1) forming a slip, which contains, as major component, finely divided electrically insulating solids which form a major constituent of the insulating barrier, and an organic binder, into a green sheet;(2) processing the green sheet by forming holes in the green sheet in an array corresponding to discharge areas such that the green sheet remaining between the holes defines the insulating barrier;(3) laminating the processed green sheet to a predetermined p

Abstract: The method described coats the interior of a tube-like support with the binding partner of the analyte. Analyte and anti-analyte-label conjugate are added. When the tube-like support is rotated end-over-end, the thin layer of analyte and conjugate readily react with the binding partners to form an immobilized label complex. When rotation stops, the reaction quenches to provide precise timing. The label complex is released and measured.

Abstract: A process for simultaneously drying and heat treating wet spun fibers of greater than 20 percent water based on weight of dry fiber material supplied continuously in multiple wraps around a pair of rolls in a heated zone, at a tension of 0.2 to 6 grams per denier at the beginning of the zone, with gas jets extending around each of the rolls for about 45 to 180 to direct turbulent gas at a temperature of 200 to 660 C against the fibers under tension in the zone until the residual moisture in the fibers is from 0.5 to 10 percent water based on weight of dry fiber material.

Abstract: Improved polymer blend composition having improved processibility and comprising:(a) a major portion of a difficultly melt-processible polymer, and(b) a minor portion of:(1) at least an effective amount, to improve processibility, of a fluorocarbon copolymer which at the melt-processing temperature of (a) is either in a melted form if crystalline, or is above its glass transition temperature if amorphous, and(2) at least an effective amount, to improve processibility, of at least one tetrafluoroethylene homopolymer or copolymer of tetrafluoroethylene and at least one monomer copolymerizable therewith, wherein the mole ratio of fluorine to hydrogen is at least 1:1, and which is solid at the melt processing temperature of (a),said composition further characterized in that it contains an abrasive inorganic filler that retards the processibility of (a) in the presence of (b)(1) and (b)(2), the improvement consisting of minimizing the retarding effect of the inorganic filler by employing (b)(1) having an apparent