Abstract: A process for fabricating a building module is disclosed and claimed. The building module includes a load bearing frame, preferably utilizing metal components welded together. The frame is produced in subsections, namely two portal frame subsections, a floor frame subsection, a roof frame subsection, and optionally cantilever section frame subsections. The various frame subsections are assembled with the use of jigs which monitor correctness of the appropriate components, after which the subsections are transferred to a final frame assembly site, where they are located on jigs which properly position same with respect to other subsections, after which the subsections are secured to each other to form a unified module frame. The frame is then lifted and casters or the like are removably secured to a lower portion of same, whereby the completed frame may be moved, preferably on a trackway, past a plurality of finishing stations where predetermined further assembly steps are performed at each such station.

Abstract: A prefabricated monolithic reinforced concrete floor system is disclosed and claimed. Open web trusses are provided along a longitudinal dimension of a floor frame with rectangular tubular beams secured therebetween. Reinforcing elements are secured along upper surfaces of the open web trusses and the tubular beams where a floor is utilized and a reinforcing mesh material is draped thereover. Reinforcing clips may be received about the peripheral reinforcing elements to further reinforce edges of the floor. The concrete slab is produced in situ about the frame and totally encapsulates the reinforcing elements present while a lower surface of the slab is coterminous with an upper surface of the open web trusses and the tubular beams.

Abstract: A transportable building module including a load-bearing support frame which includes a pair of spaced apart portal frames, a floor frame and a roof frame. The floor frame includes two elongated open web trusses having tubular floor purlins secured in spaced relationship therebetween. Reinforcing floor elements are secured to the upper surfaces of the open web trusses and the floor purlins. Reinforcing mesh is draped across the area of the frame to receive a reinforced concrete slab floor with the mesh being received around the upstanding reinforcing elements. Clip elements may be received around peripheral reinforcing elements, if needed for peripheral reinforcement, and a concrete slab is produced in situ about the floor frame, encapsulating the reinforcing elements, which concrete floor will undergo transit of the building module without damage.

Abstract: An interior wall for a transportable building module which includes a frame, a floor associated with the frame, a roof associated with the frame, and at least one exterior wall associated with the frame. The interior wall includes lower horizontal support members rigidly secured to the floor and upper horizontal support members flexibly associated with the frame. A plurality of spaced apart vertical support members are secured therebetween. Wall panels preferably gypsum panels are secured to the vertical support members, and preferably are provided with reinforcement across an outer surface of same and joints therebetween. Exemplary of preferred reinforcing mediums are fiberglass fabric adhesively secured across the panels and joints, or a flexible polymeric film produced in situ across the panels and the joints.

Abstract: A cutting edge is provided of the type which are rotated about an axis perpendicular to the endless cigarette roll to be cut, at a tangential speed equal to the travelling speed of the tobacco roll, and which are constantly maintained parallel to each other.They each comprise a fork in which is engaged a roller rotated at the same speed as it about an axis parallel to its own axis, the plane formed by the axes of rotation about themselves of the roller and of the cutting guide remaining constantly parallel to the fixed plane containing the axes about which they rotate respectively.

Abstract: A blowing apparatus for simultaneously delivering gaseous and solid materials to a hot metal melt during refining is presented. The blowing apparatus or blowing lance provides a novel structure of an inner block, an outer block housing, and tubing wherein incompatible materials (i.e., oxygen and carbon) may be safely and simultaneously delivered by use of a protective structure which also functions as a cooling device. The blowing lance further includes a variety of nozzles for blowing materials both above and below the surface of the metal pool.

Abstract: The invention relates to a composition device for texts in Arabic letters which comprises a keyboard having several keys each corresponding to only one basic letter in all of its shapes, and an electronic device having a memory retaining the codes corresponding to all the shapes of each of the basic letters. A working memory retains the characteristics of the keys depressed immediately before and after the considered key, and a logic determines according to the characteristics memorized in the working memory, the code corresponding to the appropriate shape of the basic letter.

Abstract: It comprises a grid incorporating inclined bars (13) for bending the needles (5) so that they pass above a lateral lug (8c) of the corresponding small needle (8) provided to be flat. Each small needle comprises a fine tail (8b) guided by a perforated panel (12) on which it rests in the free state by being loaded by the needle (5) which passes through a perforation (11a) in a plate (11). The paper (9) is raised in the direction of the small needles with a view to selection.

Abstract: Electric safety lock, more specially designed for motor vehicle doors, in which each vehicle door as well as the motor bonnet, the petrol tank cap and the luggage boot of the vehicle are each equipped with a set consisting of a case in which an electric micro-motor is mounted.

Abstract: An electrical heating element comprises a resistance wire embedded in a refractory material contained in a tubular casing.The casing has the shape of a closed ring which has a U-shaped cross-section. The cross-section is closed by a cover, the opposite sides of the cover being covered by the curved arms of the "U" of the casing.This heating element can be used in the construction of hot plates for domestic appliances such as cookers or cooking surfaces.

Abstract: An ignition and fuel supply system for gas-fueled heat radiators of the type comprising an upstream fuel feed (6), a safety valve (20) in the vicinity of the radiator, a pilot device (27) mounted on the radiator to allow reignition and a feed conduit (4) for the gas; the system includes a bypass (15) equipped with gas-expanding devices (14) providing a pressure less than the pressures in the heating areas, whereby the pilot flame device (27) may be fed from the same conduit (4) used for the heating areas; a selection valve (24) is arranged in the radiator injection conduit in order to be closed at the pressure of the pilot flame; an ignition branch line (16) is arranged as a shunt of the upstream feed means (6) in order to supply gas at a pressure exceeding the pressures of the heating modes at the time an electrical igniter (19) is actuated to assure electrical ignition of the radiator.

Abstract: A servovalve device assembly is provided with an electronic matching circuit positioned upstream of the servovalve. The matching circuit supplies electric control signals whose purpose is to modify the hydraulic flowrate response curve of the servovalve as a function of the electrical control signal, so as to make it substantially identical to an ideal desired response curve.

Abstract: Logic apparatus for presenting results or commanding actions on the basis of furnished informtion. The apparatus includes three distinctive memories which are interrogated cyclically and in synchronism. The first distinctive memory contains instructions, while the second memory contains masking grid signals. The third memory contains pairs of input and output addresses. A logic comparator determines if a prerequisite condition is satisfied and distinctive channels or buses are used for intercommunication. A first bus applies inputs to the comparator, a register or an output unit; a second bus applies grid signals to the comparator, a register, or an output; and a third bus sends addresses to input and output units.

Abstract: The spraying device for liquids comprises a piston pump which has a suction orifice intended to be immersed in the liquid and a piston rod slidably mounted opposite the suction orifice. This piston rod encloses an outward orifice for the liquid. The external case of the device comprises a delivery tube for mounting on the piston rod which carries laterally a nozzle for spraying the liquid, a trigger projecting outside the case for controlling depression of the rod of the piston pump and means for removably securing the case to the neck of the container. The case and the trigger are moulded as a single piece on a plastic material. The case has an opening which extends from the front face in which emerges the spraying nozzle to a rear face. The trigger is connected to the rear face of the case by means of a flexible tongue made from a plastic material which allows the trigger to be brought back from a moulding position where it is situated outside the case to a service position inside the case.

Abstract: New sulfonylurea compounds of the formula: ##STR1## in which n is 1 or 2,R is thienyl, furyl, pyridyl or phenyl optionally mono or disubstituted,R.sub.1 and R.sub.2, the same or different, each are hydrogen, halogen, (C.sub.1 to C.sub.5)-alkyl, (C.sub.1 to C.sub.5)-alkoxy, or trifluoromethyl, or together represent --CH.sub.2 --O--CH.sub.2 --,R.sub.3 is hydrogen, or hydroxy, andR.sub.4 is (C.sub.1 to C.sub.5)-alkyl, (C.sub.3 to C.sub.8)-cycloalkyl or azacycloalkyl of the formula: ##STR2## in which p is zero or an integer from 1 to 5, or azabicycloalkyl of the formula: ##STR3## in which m is 1, 2, or 3. These new compounds and physiologically tolerable salts thereof may be used as medicines especially in the treatment of diabetes.

Abstract: A component system for surgical cement, based on at least one acrylic monomer and at least one acrylic polymer comprising a powder and a liquid. The powder comprises: (a) from 50 to 70 weight percent of at least one acrylic polymer having a particle size of between 20 and 150 microns; and (b) a polymerization initiator. The liquid comprises: (a) from 30 to 50 weight percent of a mixture comprising at least 65 weight percent of at least one acrylic monomer and up to 35 weight percent of at least one acrylic polymer; (b) at least one polymerization activator; and (c) from 0.05 to 1 weight percent, relative to the total amount of acrylic monomer, of at least one chain stopper chosen from the group consisting of diunsaturated monocyclic terpenes and monounsaturated bicyclic terpenes. Application to the manufacture of surgical cements.

Abstract: A refrigerator door of joint parts, an outer shell, an inner door lining and heat insulation. A top frame part and a bottom frame part have a bushing at their ends for a pivot pin or a hinge, the bushing being insertable in a sleeve on a side part of the frame. Thus, the refrigerator door is fabricated at a lower cost than previous similar constructions.

Abstract: A rack-changing apparatus for a continuous casting installation, especially for changing the curved guide, support and cooling racks of a continuous casting installation having a plurality of casting lines, has a carriage which is shiftable transversely to the casting lines on rails mounting below the casting floor and preferably extending beyond the installation to a location at which the racks can be deposited and picked up. An arm on the carriage is swingable in a vertical plane about a horizontal axis and is extensible and retractable while carrying on its end a clamping mechanism swingable in a vertical plane about a horizontal axis at the arm end for engagement with the racks.