Abstract: When cutting the successive weft lengths after they have been inserted into the weaving shed, the tail ends are retained in a clamping device. Thereby shifting the weft lengths in the winding direction of the cloth is difficult. According to the invention this disadvantage is removed in that the clamping device comprises a stationary clamping element and a movable clamping element cooperating therewith and movable in the direction of the beating up movement of the reed.

Abstract: Diphenylsulfide derivatives represented by the general formula ##STR1## wherein, X represents a hydrogen atom, a chlorine atom or a methyl group, and R represents a hydrogen atom or a lower alkyl group. These diphenyl sulfides reduce lipids such as cholesterols and triglycerides in the blood of mammals.

Abstract: A tub assembly is provided wherein a bathtub assembly comprised of a bowl section having an apron extending downwardly therefrom and a pivotally mounted apron brace releasably secured to the bottom of the bowl in a first position to permit nestable stacking of one tub assembly within another for shipping and rigidly securable in a second position to provide lateral support to the apron.

Abstract: A device is provided for efficiently directing nonrotating cooling air into a rotating turbine rotor. The device employs a nozzle to accelerate the cooling air in the direction of rotor rotation. A diffuser-deswirler then directs this air, with curved and expanding flow passages, into corresponding holes in the turbine rotor. With these elements, the device directs the cooling air into the rotating rotor section without significant pressure losses and with a lower resultant cooling air temperature.

Abstract: A baseball protection device for attachment to a baseball glove includes a multi-layered shielding portion for protecting the wrist and lower forearm of one who wears the glove. It also includes a stretchable fabric sewn to outermost side edges of the shielding portion such that the shielding portion and fabric together encircle the wrist and forearm. The shielding portion is formed from two separate but attached sections sewn together along a seam extending lengthwise of the wrist and forearm. Each section has a pad of pliable, shock-absorbent material and a sheet of hard, semi-rigid material superimposed on top of the pad. The pad and sheet are encased in a durable material. The device is provided with a plurality of eyelets at a forward end thereof for detachably fastening the device to a heel portion of the glove using the existing glove lacing.

Abstract: The heating equipment includes an auxiliary heating apparatus having a space heater mounted within an air recirculating furnace system for heating air therein. A thermostat responds to a first predetermined ambient temperature to activate the space heater for heating air within the furnace system. A conduit, connected electrically between the output of the thermostat and the air recirculating blower of the furnace system, sends an electrical signal to the blower to activate it when the thermostat is energized upon the ambient temperature falling below the first predetermined temperature.

Abstract: The present invention provides a decorative ornament that includes a garland, having a center wire and a tinsel strip wound around the center wire. The tinsel strip is divided into a plurality of narrow strands. The invention further includes light string, having an electric wire and a plurality of lights connected together by the electric wire. The light string is wound around the center wire of the garland in a direction opposite to the direction the tinsel strip is wound around the center wire.

Abstract: A series of novel 4-piperidino-6,7-dimethoxyquinazoline compounds, further substituted on the piperidino group, and the pharmaceutically-acceptable salts thereof, possess cardiac stimulating activity in mammals. They are useful in the curative or prophylactic treatment of cardiac conditions, in particular heart failure.

Abstract: 7-Oxabicycloheptane substituted oxo prostaglandin analogs are provided having the structural formula ##STR1## wherein R is hydrogen, lower alkyl, alkali metal or tris(hydroxymethyl)aminomethane, R.sup.1 is hydrogen, lower alkyl, aryl, aralkyl, cycloalkyl or cycloalkylalkyl, A is --CH.dbd.CH-- or --(CH.sub.2).sub.2 --, y is 0 to 4, m is 0 to 8, and n is 1 to 4, p is 1 to 12 and q is 0 to 5, and including all stereoisomers thereof.The compounds are antiinflammatory agents useful, for example, in the treatment of inflammatory diseases and analgesic agents as well as cardiovascular agents useful, for example, in the treatment of thrombolytic disease.

Abstract: This device has a stationary storage durm (2) onto which an intermediate yarn store is wound by a winding-on device (3) and from which the yarn (WY) is withdrawn spiralling around the withdrawal end of the storage drum. The device also has a plurality of yarn stopping devices (10) being arranged at angular intervals around the storage drum, said yarn stopping devices consisting of yarn stopping elements (14) and of actuator means (11) moving said stopping elements into and out of the path of the yarn being withdrawn, and an actuator control device (8) adjustable to desired yarn lengths to be withdrawn, said control device transmitting actuating signals to said plurality of yarn stopping devices.

Abstract: 6H-3,11b-Dihydrocarbalkoxy-5,7-dioxobenzo[6,7]cyclohepta[1,2-c]pyridine compounds represented by the formula: ##STR1## wherein G is lower alkyl or halogen; R is lower alkyl, R' is hydrogen, lower alkyl, and n is from 0 to 2 and a process for their preparation are disclosed. The compounds have the property of inhibiting calcium induced contraction of the smooth muscle.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for producing snow at marginal ambient temperatures while at the same time eliminating compressed air line freeze-up and oil contamination. Compressed air is delivered from a compressor to a cooling tower wherein oil particles and condensate are removed from the stream of compressed air. The oil particles and condensate-free compressed air stream is then delivered to a cryogenic unit wherein the air is contacted in heat exchange relationship with a liquefied gas so as to supercool the air stream which is then delivered to snow-making apparatus.

Abstract: A process is described for preparing 2,3-dihydro-2,2-dimethylbenzofuran-7-ol (I), which is a useful intermediary in the preparation of Carbofuran, a known multi-functional insecticide.The process consists essentially of reacting the pyrocatechol and a methallylhalide in an inert organic solvent in the presence of a solid inorganic base and a suitable catalyst, to obtain o.methallyloxyphenol with high conversion and high selectivity; this product is thermally transposed to o.methallylpyrocatechol, which is finally cyclized to the product (I) by heterogeneous catalysis in the presence of solid acid catalysts.All stages of the process can be carried out in a single reaction medium, without separating intermediate products.

Abstract: A rotary drum 2 is provided with vanes 26 extending longitudinally thereof defining passages 21 therebetween with gas to be fed to the reactor being fed only to those of the passages 21 the outlets from which into the reactor are covered by the solid material 20 being tumbled therein. Within this arrangement it can be ensured that the hot gases being used to treat the solid materials can be passed through the solid material as it is being tumbled in the reactor with the reactor being capable of accepting a large range of different materials with a variation of particle and lump size. The reactor in its preferred exemplary form is used for starved air incineration of waste materials, the gas supply means being used to supply gas in an amount insufficient to complete the reaction in the drum such that combustible gases leave the outlet end for use in the burner 10 used to provide the hot gases to the reactor drum.

Abstract: The ribbon loom comprises a weft thread insertion needle arranged at one side of the warp threads for inserting at least one loop or bight of a weft thread into the weaving or loom shed formed by the warp threads. The weft thread insertion needle has a longitudinal slit throughout almost its entire length. The weft thread insertion needle is also provided with a hook which, exterior to the longitudinal slit, is located at least approximately in the plane of motion of the weft thread insertion needle and is oriented toward the thread guide for the weft threads. The tip or point of the hook is arranged in the proximity of the free end of the weft thread insertion needle and points toward such free end. This results in an especially slender design of weft thread insertion needle and a reliable engagement of the weft thread or threads on the hook solely by means of the thread guide without any supplementary or auxiliary device.

Abstract: A pergola having a top comprising a plurality of wooden strips aligned in parallel relationship with a bottom planar face inclined to the mutually parallel side faces so as to provide a support orientation easily determinable and effective to provide differential shading from the sun by reason of the change in inclination of the sun during the seasons of the year.

Abstract: An insulated concrete wall having a centrally disposed layer of insulation and utilizing a unitary means for simultaneously maintaining form panels in a predetermined spaced relationship, and for maintaining the insulation in a predetermined spaced relationship between the form panels such that a permanent and reinforced mechanical connection is provided between said concrete walls and said interposed insulation.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a hooking device for the semi-automatic connection of the heddle frames of weaving looms with the levers for controlling them. A locking ring is rotatably mounted and has a hexagonal or octogonal profile so that, once correctly oriented by abutment against a ramp, it is closely applied against corresponding bearing surfaces made in the opening of the opposed hook.

Abstract: 7-Oxabicycloheptane substituted prostaglandin alcohols are provided having the structural formula ##STR1## wherein A is --CH.dbd.CH--(CH.sub.2).sub.n -- or (CH.sub.2).sub.q ; B is a single bond or --CH.dbd.CH--; n is 1 to 5; q is 1 to 6; Q is --CH.dbd.CH-- or (CH.sub.2).sub.2 ; and R is lower alkyl, aryl, aralkyl, cycloalkyl, cycloalkylalkyl or lower alkenyl, with the proviso that when B is --CH.dbd.CH--, n is 1 to 3 or q is 1 to 4 and when B is a single bond, n is 1 to 5 or q is 1 to 6, and including all stereoisomers thereof.The compounds are cardiovascular agents useful, for example, in the treatment of thrombolytic disease.

Abstract: An apparatus and method of supplying feedwater to a forced flow boiler or the like as described. A positive displacement pump having a plurality of discrete pumping elements is arranged to pump feedwater from an inlet to the boiler. The pump includes bypass valves which, when open, disable the pumping action of an associated pumping element. Control means responsive to the demand for water in the boiler are arranged to disable a selected number of the pumping elements so that the rate of water supplied by the remaining elements, if operated continuously, would just exceed that required. The control means is further arranged to disable at least one of the remaining pumping elements on a periodic basis so that the ratio of time that the element is enabled to the time for one period multiplied by the water flow rate supplied by said element, if operated continuously, equals the difference between the total demand for water and the rate supplied by the pumping elements enabled on a full-time basis.