Abstract: A process is described for preparing guanidine by separating guanidine from a process stream obtained in a urea synthesis process, wherein ammonia and carbon dioxide are reacted at a high temperature and a high pressure. The process stream includes a urea synthesis effluent from a urea synthesis zone, a solution obtained by separating unreacted materials from the effluent, a concentrate of the solution or a mother liquor derived from a urea crystallization zone.

Abstract: The invention relates to a floating structure, e.g. an offshore platform adapted for use in exploitation of submerged oil fields and the like purposes at offshore areas. The structure has a platform from which extended downwardly are columns carried by footings having buoyancy large enough to keep the platform afloat. Tension wires are extended through the footings for connection to the sea bottom in a diverging manner. Sinkers are provided at intermediate portions of respective tension wires so that the portions of the laters between the sea bottom and the points at which the sinkers are provided may exhibit sags. The sagged portions of the tension wires are expected to present a buffering effect to diminish the extraordinary large tension in the tension wires attributable to the movement of the platform. The up and downward movement of the platform is prevented by a riser pipe extended from the center of the platform.

Abstract: A urea synthesis process for converting ammonia and carbon dioxide to urea is improved by providing an easy means of maintaining the urea synthesis zone in the process at a constant temperature. In the process the starting CO.sub.2 and up to and including 100 percent of the starting NH.sub.3 are reacted in a heat-recovery zone maintained at a urea synthesis pressure. Some of the heat of reaction is removed. The molar ratio of NH.sub.3 to CO.sub.2 which is fed into the heat-recovery zone is less than 4. The reaction mixture and the rest of the starting NH.sub.3 are fed into a urea synthesis zone maintained at urea synthesis pressure to produce urea. The improvement involves adjusting the amount of starting ammonia which is fed into the urea synthesis zone in response to any change in the temperature in the urea synthesis zone so that the urea synthesis zone is maintained at a substantially fixed temperature.

Abstract: A process for producing phenols which comprises oxidizing an aromatic hydrocarbon ring-substituted by an isopropyl group in one step in the liquid phase using molecular oxygen or a gas containing molecular oxygen in the presence or absence of a solvent, wherein the oxidation is carried out in the presence of an aromatic mercaptan having an acid dissociation constant (pKa) of less than 7.8.

Abstract: An ice-breaking apparatus for use in ships and barges operating on icy waters, including nozzles for jetting high pressure fluid, is disclosed. By impinging force or cavitation caused by the high pressure fluid jetted from the nozzles, grooves or cracks are formed on an ice floe, and then, the ice floe is broken from these grooves or cracks by the hull. This ice-breaking apparatus facilitates breakage of ice floes or the like, and when this ice-breaking apparatus is attached, ships or barges for operation on icy waters can be built without increasing dimensions or propulsion powers particularly for navigation on icy waters. The ice-breaking apparatus includes echo distance measuring apparatus for automatically controlling and maintaining the nozzles at optimum positions from the ice-surface.

Abstract: An impeller type pump has a pump body consisting of a front casing and a back casing. Each of the casings comprises a ceramic main portion and a protection member covering the main portion. The protection members of both the main portions are interconnected with each other at their confronting marginal portions through a continuous packing. Those confronting marginal portions of both the main portions which are adjacent to a pump chamber defined by inner surfaces of both the main portions are provided each with a plurality of concentrical rims loosely interdigitated to form a labyrinthine narrow passage restricting the flow of waste water therebetween, resulting in reduction of wear of the packing.

Abstract: A dynamoelectric machine core, method of forming the same, and apparatus for forming the same. The core includes a stacked laminated yoke assembly having an annular array of radially inwardly opening recesses, a stacked laminated tooth assembly having an annular array of annularly spaced teeth defining therebetween winding slots, a dynamoelectric winding in the slots, and cooperating interlock means on the teeth and yoke core assemblies for locking the tooth core assembly to the yoke core assembly. The laminations are blanked out from a metal sheet and interlocked in stacked association with each other by suitable interlock structure formed therein. The teeth are blanked out from the yoke lamination and are subsequently secured to the yoke laminations of the yoke core assembly after the tooth core assembly of the teeth is provided with the dynamoelectric winding.

Abstract: There are disclosed new solid catalyst-forming components for use in preparing catalysts for the stereoregular polymerization of alpha-olefins containing at least 3 carbon atoms, mixtures of alpha-olefins with one another and/or with ethylene, said components being obtained by reacting(a) at least one hydrocarbon-soluble halogenated Ti compound;(b) a product comprising a Mg dihalide obtained by decomposition of an adduct of at least a Mg dihalide and an electron-donor compound present in the adduct in an amount of at least 0.5 mole per mole of Mg dihalide, the decomposition product being characterized in that, in its X-rays powder spectrum, instead of the diffraction line of maximum intensity which appears in the X-rays powder spectrum of the normal Mg dihalide, a halo appears whose intensity maximum is shifted with respect to said line, and(c) an electron-donor compound which does not contain active hydrogen atoms.

Abstract: A curable composition comprising an aromatic dibasic acid having an ethylenically unsaturated group, such as 4-methacryloxyethyltrimellitate, or an acid anhydride thereof, other ethylenically unsaturated monomer and a catalyst is disclosed. This composition is applied between articles to be bonded together and is polymerized and cured to form an adhesive layer excellent in the water resistance and durability. This composition is especially valuable as a dental adhesive or as an undercoating agent for a paint or adhesive.

Abstract: An impeller type pump has a pump body defining a pump chamber therein, and an impeller disposed in the pump chamber having a center shaft. A hollow cylindrical connector is mounted in the center shaft having internal screw threads engageable with external screw threads on the end of a drive shaft for rotating the impeller. The connector is provided with thermal expansion-absorbing slits arranged in equally spaced relation along the circumference of the connector which extend lengthwise of the connector with an unslit portion left on that end of the connector which is close to the other end of the drive shaft.

Abstract: A process for producing a 4-methyl-1-pentene copolymer composition by sequential polymerization, which comprises[I] a step of polymerizing 4-methyl-1-pentene in the presence or absence of a minor amount of a C.sub.6 -C.sub.18 linear 1-olefin in a hydrocarbon liquid medium in the presence of a catalyst comprising a transition metal compound and an organometallic compound of a metal of Groups I to III of the periodic table to form reaction product containing a 4-methyl-1-pentene polymer or copolymer (A) having a 4-methyl-1-pentene content of at least about 90% by weight; and[II] a step of further copolymerizing 4-methyl-1-pentene, 1-hexane and a C.sub.7 -C.sub.10 linear 1-olefin in the presence of the reaction product containing the polymer or copolymer (A) to form a rubbery copolymer (B) having a 4-methyl-1-pentene content of about 30 to about 70% by weight, a 1-hexene content of about 10 to about 60 and a C.sub.7 -C.sub.

Abstract: A film-forming and thermocurable vinyl alcohol-substituted acrylamide copolymer consisting essentially of(1) 0 to 20 mole% of a unit of the formula ##STR1## wherein R represents a group selected from the class consisting of alkyl groups with 1 to 7 carbon atoms and aryl groups with 6 to 7 carbon atoms, and n is 0 or 1,(2) 30 to 70 mole% of a unit of the formula ##STR2## wherein n is as defined above, (3) 0 TO 20 MOLE% OF A UNIT OF THE FORMULA ##STR3## wherein R' represents a hydrogen atom or a lower alkyl group, and R is as defined above, and(4) 30 to 70 mole% of a unit of the formula ##STR4## wherein R' is as defined above, R" represents a group selected from the class consisting of alkyl groups with 1 to 18 carbon atoms, cycloalkyl groups with 5 to 6 carbon atoms, hydroxyalkyl groups with 2 to 4 carbon atoms and aryl groups with 6 to 7 carbon atoms, and R"' represents a group selected from the class consisting of a hydrogen atom and the group R",the amount of each unit being based on the total amount in mol

Abstract: A process for polymerizing or copolymerizing .alpha.-olefins in the presence of a catalyst composed of (A) a mechanically pulverized solid titanium-containing catalyst component and (B) an organometallic compound of a metal of Groups I to III of the periodic table, wherein said titanium-containing component is a solid halogen-containing titanium catalyst component obtained by reacting a mechanically copulverized solid product in the absence of mechanical pulverization with a titanium compound which is liquid under the reaction conditions, said mechanically copulverized product being derived from (1) a magnesium compound, (2) an organic acid ester, and (3) an active hydrogen-containing compound selected from the group of alcohols and phenols; and a catalyst composition used therefor.

Abstract: A process for forming a coating with a metallic finish, which comprises(1) a first step of coating an article with [A] a water-thinnable paint comprising (a) a cross-linkable (meth)acrylate ester copolymer or a mixture of the (meth)acrylate ester copolymers containing at least 0.1 equivalent, per 1,000 g of resin solids, of a carboxyl or carboxyl ion group and a group capable of undergoing a ring-opening reaction with the carboxyl or carboxy ion group upon heating, both of said groups being contained in the same or different copolymers, and having a number average molecular weight of at least 3,000 and (b) metallic scales, and baking the coating paint to form a coating containing the metallic scales and(2) a second step of coating [B] a powder paint comprising a (meth)acrylate ester copolymer having a glycidyl or .beta.

Abstract: A catalyst composition for the vapor phase reduction of nitrogen oxides with ammonia, which consists essentially of a non-noble transition metal compound supported on a shaped carrier comprising a titanium oxide and a clay mineral having an average particle size of 0.1 to 100 microns. The shaped carrier preferably contains an additional component which is an inorganic fibrous material, silica hydrogel, silica sol, or a mixture of at least two of these. An exhaust gas containing nitrogen oxides is treated, with a high percent NO removal, by contacting it with the catalyst composition in the presence of ammonia gas at 200 to 600.degree. C.

Abstract: A plastic tubular irrigating structure is provided for agricultural and other irrigation systems. The structure comprises (A) a flexible outer layer of a thermoplastic synthetic resin tube having at least one continuous fin-like heat-sealed portion along its length and watering orifices, and (B) a flexible inner layer, as a filter, of a water-permeable, water-insoluble sheet, preferably a nonwoven fibrous sheet, fixed partly to the inside of the outer layer (A), the inner layer (B) being permeable to a larger amount of water than the outer layer (A). In the absence of water supply, the structure is a flattened tube, but upon supply of water therethrough, it assumes an expanded tubular shape.

Abstract: A process for forming a coating having a metallic finish, which comprises (I) coating an undercoat paint (A) by electrodeposition on an article to be coated, (II) coating a water-thinnable intermediate coat paint (B) containing metallic scales on the coated surface of the undercoat before the undercoat is baked, (III) baking the undercoat and the intermediate coat, (IV) coating a powdery top coat paint (C) on the baked surface of the intermediate coat, and then (V) baking the top coat, said intermediate coat paint (B) containing a solid resin component at least 60% by weight of the entire resin solids which consists of a (meth)acrylate ester copolymer containing at least 0.1 equivalent, per 1,000 g of the solids content of the copolymer, of carboxyl or carboxyl ion groups and having a number average molecular weight of at least 3,000, and said top coat paint (C) containing a (meth)acrylate ester copolymer containing a glycidyl or .beta.-methlglycidyl group and a polycarboxylic acid.

Abstract: A process for purifying crude p-aminophenol which contains 4,4'-diaminodiphenyl ether and other impurities, which process comprising adding an alkali metal compound to the crude p-aminophenol in an aqueous medium in an atmosphere of an inert gas and, if necessary, in the presence of a reducing agent to give an aqueous solution of an alkali metal salt of p-aminophenol, and contacting the aqueous solution with an inert organic solvent immiscible with water to permit 4,4'-diaminodiphenyl ether and other impurities to be separated by extraction in the solvent.

Abstract: An apparatus is described for automatically polishing cathode mother plates stripped of electrolytically deposited metal in an electrolytic metal recovery system, comprising a lift means to lift the mother plates from a conveyor carrying vertically disposed mother plates having been stripped of deposited metal, and two polishing means, each disposed adjacent to the lift means for polishing respective surfaces of the mother plates, whereby the mother plates are polished in a short period comparable to that required for conventional stripping operations, the polishing apparatus being incorporated in the stripping system.

Abstract: A process for forming a polyolefin coating layer onto a surface of a metal which comprises coating an uncured epoxy resin layer onto the surface of a metal and melt-bonding a polyolefin modified with an unsaturated carboxylic acid or an anhydride thereof onto the uncured epoxy resin layer coated onto said metal surface. The coating layer has a high bonding strength and excellent water resistance, especially resistance against brine.