Abstract: Multiple ply labels include removable single ply portions for use in facilitating package shipment operations. Two-ply and a three-ply embodiments are disclosed with release material being applied to portions of a second or bottom ply which are overlain by tab portions of a first or top ply having adhesive applied to the underside of the tab portions and around the periphery of the top and bottom plies to adhere the plies to one another to assemble the labels. The tab portions are preferably formed by die cuts; however, lines of weakness created for example by creasing or lines of perforations can be used to make the tab portions readily separable from the top ply. Card portions are also formed by lines of perforations or other lines of weakness in the top ply with the card portions being formed clear of any adhesive coating such that they are free of adhesive for filing, mailing or other applications related to the package shipment operations.

Abstract: A thermostat that includes a subbase having a back surface designed to be mounted conformal with a surface and an inner surface that has a portion of selected electrical components mounted thereon, including a first electrical communication device. The subbase has first mechanical connectors formed integral therewith. A cover that has a front surface designed to carry selected components for communication with an operator and an inner surface that has a portion of selected electrical component supported thereby, including a second electrical communication device. The inner surface has second mechanical connectors formed integral therewith. During installation, the cover is brought into registry with the subbase to form a thermostat housing that has a reduced profile and that substantially encloses the electrical components of the thermostat.

Abstract: A web or sheet product is provided which is coated on at least a portion of its surface with a bond-enabling material for adhering toner particles, on the surface of the sheet. The sheet product can be used as a mailer or confidential form which is sealed using toner particles as the adhesive. The bond-enabling material may be a polymer which is coated on the sheet as a liquid and then cured to form a film on the surface of the sheet. The bond-enabling material is resistant to melting or degrading when exposed to temperatures used for fusing toner particles, and additionally may act as a tie coat to enhance the adhesion of toner particles to the surface of the sheet. The bond-enabling material may be coated on the peripheral edges of the sheet, and toner particles are printed over the bond-enabling material on the peripheral edges of the sheet. The sheet is folded and sealed by the application of heat and pressure to the edges of the sheet.

Abstract: A check valve with a housing having a valve seat, a valve closing member cooperating with the valve seat and an upstream dirt trapping filter, particularly for sanitary water fittings, wherein the dirt trapping filter and housing are of a unitary construction.

Abstract: A novel combination of a rail car supported on a within the center bowl of its truck bolster comprises a unitary wear liner closely fitted within the center bowl so as to require no exterior protection from grit and debris carried in the environment outside that of the center plate assembly held in the bowl. The unitary wear liner is required to be formed from specified reaction injection molded (RIM) polymers which when molded, are found to be free of microscopic voids >20 .mu.m and therefore, fully dense. This property of being fully dense unexpectedly allows the liner to have specified physical properties which permit a railroad car truck equipped with the liners to operate with exceptional reliability, safety and for a long period of time.

Abstract: In a vehicle train comprising a motor vehicle and a trailer, a process for monitoring a motor vehicle trailer brake for overload comprises producing an energy call-up signal during a braking action, supplying energy to the motor vehicle brake in the motor vehicle, the amount of energy being supplied to the motor vehicle being determined, at least in part, by the value of the energy call-up signal, producing a trailer energy signal, the value of the trailer energy signal being determined, at least in part, by the value of the energy call-up signal, and supplying trailer energy to a trailer brake in the trailer, the amount of trailer energy supplied to the trailer brake being determined, at least in part, by the value of the trailer energy signal. The process further comprises monitoring the coupling force appearing at a coupling between the motor vehicle and the trailer, and adjusting the coupling force based on the trailer energy signal.

Abstract: A method of forming an elongated trim strip product includes extruding a first strip of thermoplastic material from a die having an outlet with an area at least substantially as great as the desired cross-sectional area of the strip product in planes perpendicular to the direction of extrusion. Immediately subsequent to the step of extruding and while the extruded strip is still in a plastic state, it is passed longitudinally between cooperating forming rolls to shape the cross section of the extruded strip to the desired shape and cross section of the strip product. Further, while passing between the rolls a logo or lettering is formed on the strip. While the extruded strip is passing between the cooperating forming rolls, a backing strip of foil or thin metal is directed between the rolls in alignment with the extruded strip to bond the backing strip to the extruded strip.

Abstract: The present invention relates to improvements of fluid bed catalysts. More particularly, the present invention relates to improvements of fluid bed oxidation catalysts useful in the preparation of maleic anhydride from C.sub.4 hydrocarbons, including n-butane. The present invention includes a process of contacting a fluid bed catalyst with a reactivating agent in a catalyst standpipe. The present invention also provides a catalyst containing the mixed oxides of vanadium and phosphorus, treated using the above process. The present invention further provides a process for producing maleic anhydride, utilizing the catalyst prepared using the above process. The present invention additionally provides for a reactor standpipe, utilized for regenerating catalyst according to the above process.

Abstract: A pipe and tube cleaning system, particularly useful for cleaning scale from pipes and tubes used in oil and gas production operations and containing naturally occurring radioactive materials in the scale, includes an elongated closable tub for supporting a section of pipe or tube for combined hydraulic jet blast and mechanical cutting and cleaning action by a lance insertable within the pipe to remove scale from the interior of the pipe. A slurry of particulate material removed from the pipe and the cleaning liquid (water) is collected in the tub and discharged to a particle size reduction and filtering system which reduces the particle size of the material to form a slurry of very fine particles which may be disposed of through an injection well. Some of the slurry may be returned to the system for use as cleaning liquid. Pipe is loaded into and removed from the tub by a pipe handling mechanism including retractable supports with ramp surfaces which position the pipe for movement into and out of the tub.

Abstract: A surgical drape having first and second fenestration portions. A flap member affixed to the drape. The flap member having a portion unattached to the drape and provided with a fenestration of the same size and shape as the first fenestration portion of the drape. The unattached flap portion is shiftable between an unfolded covering position and folded uncovering position. In the unfolded covering position the unattached flap portion overlies the first and second drape fenestration portions with the second fenestration portion being covered thereby and with the flap member fenestration overlying and being co-extensive with the drape first fenestration portion. When the unattached flap member portion is in its folded, uncovering position, both of the first and second drape fenestration portions are exposed.

Abstract: Maleic acid, maleic anhydride or other hydrogenatable precursor are catalytically hydrogenated to 1,4-butanediol and tetrahydrofuran. It has been discovered that high yields of 1,4-butanediol are achieved when the hydrogenation catalyst comprises palladium, silver and rhenium on a carbon support and is prepared by the steps of(i) impregnating a carbon support with a source of palladium, silver and rhenium, wherein the source of palladium, silver and rhenium is at least one solution,(ii) after each impregnation step, drying the impregnated carbon support to remove solvent,(iii) heating the impregnated carbon support at a temperature of about 120.degree. C. to about 350.degree. C. under reducing conditions.The palladium in the catalyst is present in the form of crystallites having a particle size of less than 10 nm.

Abstract: The invention relates to an inflation syringe assembly, which includes a housing having a barrel portion defining an interior space; a pressure gauge mounted to the barrel portion; a plunger disposed in the barrel portion; and structure for advancing the plunger in the barrel portion, wherein the barrel portion is rotatable relative to the housing so that the barrel portion with the pressure gauge is rotatable to a desired position relative to the housing.

Abstract: Molten steel is continuously teemed into a casting passage to establish a bath of molten steel in the passage. The molten steel is partially solidified in the casting passage to form a strand having a plurality of bulges which are uniformly distributed circumferentially of the strand. The strand is continuously withdrawn from the casting passage and the bulges are deformed during strand withdrawal so as to reduce bulge size. The amount of deformation is regulated by varying the bath level as a function of one or more casting parameters.

Abstract: A drum mixer asphalt plant is provided with a rotatable cylinder 10 in which virgin aggregate, recycle material and liquid asphalt are mixed to produce an asphaltic composition and the hot gas stream for heating and drying the materials flow in countercurrent relation. In a first zone within the cylinder 10, aggregates are heated and dried by heat radiation and a hot gas stream generated at a burner head 46 of a combustion assembly 40. In a second zone within the drum cylinder 10 isolated from the burner flame and hot gas stream by the combustion assembly 40, liquid asphalt is sprayed from an injection tube 76 to mix with aggregate materials. A recycle feed assembly 60 delivers recycle asphalt material to the second zone also for mixing with the aggregate and liquid asphalt.

Abstract: A two-stage regulator includes first and second regulator units in series. The regulator units are mounted upon a unitary base which forms the lower portion of each regulator and includes the inlets and outlets for each regulator unit as well as a passageway between the units. Each of the regulator units is of the diaphragm and main spring type. The first regulator unit, which operates upon the input high-pressure flow, includes a valve assembly proximate the diaphragm. The second regulator unit, which decreases the pressure of the intermediate pressure flow to the final low-pressure outlet flow includes a stem mounted to the diaphragm which terminates at a valve assembly displaced from the diaphragm body. In a preferred embodiment, the surface area of the low-pressure regulator unit is approximately 25% greater than the surface area of the high-pressure unit.

Abstract: A process for the manufacture of a Pd/Au/alkali metal catalyst, preferably a fluid bed catalyst used in the production of vinyl acetate comprising impregnating a microspheroidal support with a hydroxy-free metal salt solution of Pd and Au substantially free of barium and halide, reducing said salts to deposit Pd and Au on said support surface and impregnating said support with a halide-free metal salt of an alkali metal (preferably potassium).

Abstract: A process for the reduction in the amount of waste material generated during the manufacture of acrylonitrile comprising introducing an additional amount of oxygen containing gas, preferably air, in the substantial absence of any oxygenate compounds, into the upper portion of the fluid bed reactor to react with at least some of the unreacted ammonia to reduce the amount of unreacted ammonia present in the reactor effluent.