Abstract: An improved method of fractionation of a gaseous mixture by adsorption, in which the efficiency of extraction and the content of the desired constituent in the gaseous fraction extracted are increased, the method utilizing two or more adsorption lines, each including at least one adsorber comprising an adsorbent mass which preferentially adsorbs at least one constituent of the gaseous mixture, the first adsorption line comprising:A constant-pressure extraction stage, during which the gaseous mixture is introduced into the inlet of said line, circulates from the inlet to the outlet of at least one adsorber in said line in the adsorption direction, at a high pressure in said adsorber, so as to obtain at the outlet of said line a gaseous fraction impoverished in at least one constituent of said gaseous mixture;A regeneration stage comprising a period of falling pressure, during which the outlet of the adsorption line is closed and there is extracted at the inlet of said line a gaseous fraction enriched in at lea

Abstract: The azimido benzamide of this invention and its pharmaceutically acceptable salts have an unusually and unexpectedly high therapeutic index and low toxicity in the treatment of emesis in mammals. Pharmacological testing demonstrated the superior efficacy of the compound of this invention over known, similar compounds.

Abstract: The invention relates to an improved method of automatic or semi-automatic welding with gas, or brazing, effected by using a coil of fillet wire brought to the welding point by continuously passing through the center of a gas flame, (oxy-acetylene, oxygen-propane for example) which melts the wire and heats the work part, said improvement comprising the application of an electrical voltage between a member mounted on the forward-movement path of the fillet wire and the work part under treatment, so as to cause the passage therein of a heating current.The electrical voltage is preferably applied either between the welding torch nozzle or the forward-movement rollers and the part treated.

Abstract: This invention relates to freeze-drying of particles of material, for example biological, pharmaceutical and food products.Ordinarily the apparatus used for this purpose has comprised at least one rotary sublimation enclosure each fitted with at least one agitating vane which normally operates about a horizontal axis, but this produces certain disadvantages. According to the present invention, in addition to this vane which is adapted to form a catchment trough when passing through a lower zone of the enclosure and a chute emptying into an axial discharge zone when it ascends, there is provided a cylindrical set of longitudinal vanes which continue on from this agitating vane. Means are also provided for transferring particles from the cylindrical set of vanes to the agitating vane which forms the catchment trough and discharge chute.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of making one-piece wheels for large locarrying vehicles. Starting from a blank in the form of a cylindrical disc, the minor flange of the rim and the wheel disc are formed by hot stamping, while the major flange of the rim is obtained by press-forming from a tube section. The two parts are assembled by welding. The production cycle terminates in a few finishing operations by machining. These wheels, which may be made in particular of lightweight aluminum-based alloys, are particularly suitable for large load-carrying vehicles fitted with tubeless tires.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of and an installation for the heat treatment of steels, such as heating before hardening, annealing, carburization and carbo-nitridation, carried out in a furnace in the presence of a protection or carbon-enrichment atmosphere which flows continuously through the furnace, the atmosphere being obtained by the mixture, before its introduction into the furnace, of a carrier gas including nitrogen and possibly hydrogen, and an active gas constituted by a hydrocarbon, the mixture containing at least 0.2% by volume of hydrocarbon.The active gas may be constituted by ethylene, ethane or acetylene and the treatment is carried out at a temperature between 700.degree. and 1050.degree. C.The installation includes a device for analyzing the atmosphere at the furnace outlet, this analyzer actuating a regulating valve for the inlet flow of active gas through a servo-mechanism, in dependence on the proportion of carbon in the treated steel.

Abstract: Cellulosic materials having a high capacity for absorption of water or aqus solutions, a large volume:weight ratio and a high resilience are produced by an acid-catalyzed cross-linking reaction in a reaction medium of low water content from a cellulosic or lignocellulosic material in the form of individual, substantially dehydrated, non-swollen and inter-fibre-bonds free fibres.

Abstract: The benzamides of this invention and their pharmaceutically acceptable salts are particularly effective in the treatment of emesis and ulcers in mammals. Their low level of toxicity is compatible with use in human therapy, without undesirable side effects.

Abstract: A device for measuring dust content in a gas stream comprising a light soe, a photosensitive receiver, and means to direct an essentially dust free stream against the main gas stream to form a dust curtain into which the beam penetrates and reflects to the receiver.

Abstract: A method of and an installation for utilizing a thermal cycle by means of which a less volatile fluid can be compressed by the expansion of a more volatile fluid, is characterized in that, in the course of said cycle a less volatile fluid available in a fractionated separation zone working under a low pressure is put into liquid-vapour equilibrium in counter-flow in said separation zone at said low pressure, with one or more light fractions at most as volatile as said more volatile fluid, so as to obtain, under said low pressure, the more volatile fluid and one or more heavy fractions at least as volatile as said less volatile fluid, and in that, after compression of said heavy fraction from said low pressure to a high pressure, the more volatile fluid available in a fractionated mixture zone working under said high pressure is put into liquid-vapour equilibrium in counter-flow in said mixture zone under said high pressure with one or more heavy fractions so as to obtain said less volatile fluid at said high

Abstract: The behavior in the cold of crude oil or petroleum distillates may be improved by incorporation of polymeric substances such as a hydrogenated polybutadiene or a hydrogenated copolymer of butadiene with at least one conjugated aliphatic diolefin of 5-8 carbon atoms. The additive is active at concentrations of from 10 to 1,000 grams per m.sup.3 of oil.

Abstract: For treating a steel sheet for subsequent enamelling of the sheet with one coat of enamel: After rolling the sheet, there is deposited thereon a coat of nickel and/or cobalt, a salt of said metals or mixtures of said salts. After drying, the sheet is annealed in a decarburizing atmosphere so as to substantially totally decarburize it and, during the cooling of the annealing cycle, the coated sheet is subjected to the action of an oxidizing atmosphere containing 2 to 7% of water vapor and having an H.sub.2 /H.sub. 2 O ratio which is less than 6.

Abstract: A Josephson junction comprises a cylindrical substrate having a flat end face disposed in a plane perpendicular to the axis of the cylinder. At least two bodies of superconducting material such as niobium, tantalum or vanadium are carried by the substrate and have boundary surfaces disposed in that plane. Insulating material and semiconductor material spaces apart the superconductors; and electrical supply means extend lengthwise of the cylinder to bring electric current to that plane. In one embodiment, the superconductors are disposed on opposite sides of the plane; while in another embodiment, they are all disposed on the same side of the plane.

Abstract: A gray cast iron is inoculated with 0.3 to 2% inoculating alloy, said inoculating alloy containing from 20 to 70% rare earths.

Abstract: Pain in mammals is effectively relieved by the administration of dialkylaminoalkyl ethers of 2-alkoxy-3,5-dihalobenzenes. The compounds are relatively non-toxic in dosages required to alleviate such condition.

Abstract: Hypotension in mammals is effective relieved by the administration of dialkylaminoalkyl ethers of 2-alkoxy-3,5-dihalobenzenes. The compounds are relatively non-toxic in dosages required to alleviate such conditions.

Abstract: Excessive histamine in mammals is effectively relieved by the administration of dialkylaminoalkyl ethers of 2-alkoxy-3,5-dihalobenzenes. The compounds are relatively non-toxic in dosages required to alleviate such condition.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for generating low temperatures, of the type which employs two regenerators whose hot ends are connected via changeover valves alternately to the input and output of a compressor and cooler assembly and whose cold ends are connected by a constricted passage which form a cold source. In accordance with the invention, the changeover valves are controlled by means which are subject to a reference pressure.

Abstract: A combustible mixture for torches and burners is formed essentially of at least 15% of a member of the group consisting of methylacetylene and/or propadiene diluted with up to 85% of a diluent which itself is formed of a mixture of at least one C.sub.3 hydrocarbon and at least one C.sub.4 hydrocarbon, and in addition wherein the C.sub.3 diluent comprises at least about 45% of all the C.sub.3 hydrocarbons including the C.sub.3 acetylenes, such that the endothermic heat of formation of the mixture for a molar volume is at least 10 KCal and that the proportion between the C.sub.3 and C.sub.4 hydrocarbons in the diluent is between 70/30 and 95/5.

Abstract: An improved process for the purification of effluent is disclosed in which oxygenated effluent is introduced into a treatment zone in which a part of the total amount of biologically activated sludge used in the process is fixed on immersed bacterial beds or discs which are mobile and a further part of said sludge is in suspension in effluent undergoing treatment.