Abstract: A multiple position easel mat or frame for photographs and the like includes a frame portion having one or more openings and a pocket which receives photographs, pictorial or printed material having configurations generally corresponding to the size and shape of the openings in the frame and a support portion which includes a pair of flaps having interengaging tabs and slots. The flaps of the support portion are configured to support the frame in either a vertical or a horizontal orientation to accommodate the orientation of the photographs, pictorial or printed material.

Abstract: A display device for mounting to the front edge of a store shelf provides a sealed environment for display of an object. Preferably, the object is in a constructed craft item which may be assembled from a kit which is offered for sale and is located on the store shelf adjacent the display device. The displayed object serves as a promotional vehicle for the kit. The display device includes a bracket for mounting the display device to the shelf and a product display case mounted to the bracket. The product display case includes a shelf construction upon which the constructed object can be displayed and a protective dome surrounding the shelf construction. The shelf construction may have a friction fit with the protective dome and can include a forward wall adapted to support the object to be displayed.

Abstract: An extruded plastic label strip for shelf front mounting. The strip is formed of relatively rigid but flexible plastic material and has a clear front panel joined at a bottom edge to the bottom edge of a back panel structure to form a continuous, upwardly opening label pocket. An overlay panel is joined integrally with an upper edge of the front panel and extends downward over the front thereof to form a downwardly opening continuous channel for receiving thin temporary information slips to flag special items. A narrow margin of soft plastic material is co-extruded to a rearwardly facing surface of the overlay panel in a region thereof forming a gripping throat. Primary pricing and information labels are inserted in the upwardly opening label pocket, while special slips, calling attention to special sales, new product items, etc., can be temporarily slipped under the overlay panel in a highly visible display orientation.

Abstract: The calendar of the normally folded type is displayed in an unfolded position on a backboard upon which is pivoted a frame. The frame has upper and lower openings defined by stiles and crosspieces. The back of the frame has a recess sized to receive the calendar in its unfolded position. The openings in the frame permit viewing of the upper and lower calendar sheets when positioned therein. When the frame is closed against the backboard, the calendar is held in position with access to both the upper and lower calendar sheets. The frame is easily opened for adjusting of the calendar sheets.

Abstract: A sign is provided having a rear plate (2) having at least two printed messages (5,6) and a front plate (3) arranged movably in front of the rear plate (2). The front plate (3) is arranged such that in its starting position it covers all the messages (5,6) on the rear plate (2), and that, by movement, it may be caused to expose at least one of the messages (5,6).

Abstract: A mounting system for mounting a sign, such as a sheet or a panel to a shelf system having a pair of support posts and a shelf extending transverse to the support posts, includes a display portion having first and second generally parallel, spaced apart runners connected to one another by a pair of spaced apart connecting members defining a sign receiving region. The display portion includes at least one of a shelf mounting bracket receiving region, a wall surface mounting bracket receiving region and a wall top mounting bracket receiving region. The shelf mounting bracket receiving region includes a pivoting element for pivotally mounting the display portion to a shelf mounting bracket for pivoting the display portion between a first position and a second position. The display portion is maintained in the first position by releasable engagement of the display portion with the shelf mounting bracket.

Abstract: A cavity is formed in the floor of a building for receiving the floor type advertising apparatus. A lower holding layer of magnetic material having an opening formed therethrough is located and secured in the lower portion of the cavity. An upper holding layer of magnetic material having an opening formed therethrough is attached to the lower side of a transparent layer and both the transparent layer and the upper holding layer are located in the cavity to allow the magnetic lines of force from the holding layers to removably secure the transparent layer and the upper holding layer to the lower holding layer in the cavity. A support layer is secured to the floor of the cavity within the opening of the lower holding layer for supporting an advertising layer.

Abstract: A collapsible border assembly (1) for a picture, clip-frame, mirror, glass pane or other object (2), comprises a plurality of corner pieces (3), adapted for detachable engagement with corners of the object (2), and a number of elastic elements (4,5) interconnecting adjacent ones of the corner pieces (3). In use, the elastic elements (4,5) extend under tension between the corner pieces (3), around the periphery of the object (2), to thereby provide a border for the object (2) of frame-like appearance. Such border assemblies (1) may be stacked one above the other to provide a stepped frame appearance.

Abstract: An organizing and scheduling device allows convenient organization of the multitude of notes, reminders and appointment cards which accumulate, e.g. in a home, correlating each reminder with the corresponding date on a calendar. The device includes a calendar, a color coded scale displayed upon a front surface of the device, and a set of flexible, multi-pocketed sheets behind the calendar. The coded scale includes a plurality of boxes of different colors, each box adjacent a week on the calendar. Each pocketed sheet has a tab disposed on lower edge, each tab being of a color corresponding to one of the colored boxes and horizontally offset from adjacent tabs to avoid complete overlap. The calendar and pocketed sheets are releasably bound together, and may be mounted upon a surface, e.g. of a refrigerator.

Abstract: A new and improved wood frame construction in which the artwork may be end-loaded into a frame in which three of the four sides are permanently interconnected with the fourth side being removable to accommodate the loading of the artwork into the frame. In particular the new and improved frame construction has a very narrow front profile making the frame quite attractive and comparatively unique in its appearance.

Abstract: An alpha-olefin oligomer synthetic lubricant having an improved viscosity-volatility relationship is prepared from an alpha-olefin such as 1-decene.

Abstract: A process for the conversion of aromatic hydrocarbons, e.g., reacting an alkylating agent, preferably an olefin, with an aromatic hydrocarbon. The process uses a novel catalyst prepared by subjecting alumina to an anhydrous tetravalent titanium flouride complex of an organic compound selected from the group of organic compounds containing at least one methoxy group per molecule or organic compounds having at least one electron donor atom and double bond per molecule, and heat treating the resulting impregnated alumina in an inert atmosphere.

Abstract: The present process is particularly adapted to those situations where a refiner lacks sufficient isobutane to completely alkylate an olefin feedstock. A field butane stream is admixed with an olefin stream, and the mixture is fractionated to provide an isobutane-olefin concentrate and a normal butane concentrate. The former is increased in pressure and reacted in contact with a hydrofluoric acid alkylation catalyst. The latter is introduced into the reaction zone wherein it is vaporized via indirect contact with the warm reaction mixture contained therein. Vaporous normal butane is recycled into the fractionation facility whereby the exothermic heat of the alkylation reaction is utilized to fractionate the first mentioned field butanes-olefin mixture. Alkylation reactions can thus be conducted at subambient temperatures resulting in improved alkylate product quality.

Abstract: Isomerizable light paraffinic hydrocarbon feeds are isomerized in an improved process using a particular super-chlorided reforming catalyst under isomerizing conditions. A chloride source in the feed stabilizes the catalyst. This process provides for a material octane improvement of the feed without excessive loss thereof to normally gaseous hydrocarbons.

Abstract: Alkylation of aromatic hydrocarbons, especially toluene methylation, is carried out in the presence of a catalyst comprising an aluminosilicate zeolite of the ZSM-5 type in which some or all of the protons of the zeolite have been replaced by monovalent cations. Preferably, the replacement cations are sodium ions, the catalyst preferably containing more than 2% by weight of sodium.

Abstract: Isomerization process for petroleum light hydrocarbons with a boiling point within the range of from about 100.degree. F. (38.degree. C.) to about 210.degree. F. (99.degree. C.) wherein said process comprises contacting said hydrocarbons with a catalyst consisting essentially of an ultrastable, large pore crystalline zeolite aluminosilicate material containing less than 1 (wt)% alkali metal and characterized by well-defined hydroxyl infra-red bands and a maximum unit cubic cell dimension of 24.55 A and a metal component selected from the metals, oxides or sulfides of the Group VIII elements of the Periodic Table, under suitable isomerization conditions.

Abstract: This invention relates to a process for the production of alkylbenzenes, which comprises reacting benzene with at least one aromatic hydrocarbon substituted by alkyl groups and containing 9 or more carbon atoms, in the presence of an acid leached hydrogen form mordenite catalyst having a silica (SiO.sub.2)/alumina (Al.sub.2 O.sub.3) molar ratio of 15 to 21 and a sodium content of 0.05 weight % or less as Na.sub.2 O.

Abstract: Isomerization of xylenes in admixture with ethylbenzene by contact with a zeolite catalyst such as ZSM-5 is improved by use of zeolite which has been steamed at high temperature to reduce activity, the reaction being at a temperature above about 700.degree. F. At these conditions, conversion of ethylbenzene follows a different reaction path which permits high conversion of ethylbenzene to benzene without loss of xylenes of disproportionation.

Abstract: Olefins are oxidized to carbonyl compounds, for example, 2-hexene to a mixture of 2-hexanone and 3-hexanone, with a palladium/copper/boric acid catalyst and a suitable surfactant or phase transfer agent. The reaction takes place in a diluent system comprising at least two liquid phases, wherein at least one liquid phase is an aqueous phase, and in the presence of free oxygen. The catalyst system can be used to oxidize internal olefins, as well as terminal olefins, at reasonable rates. The catalyst system can also be used for the selective oxidation of linear olefins in a mixed stream containing linear and branched olefins.

Abstract: Hydrocarbons are converted by contacting them at hydrocarbon conversion conditions with a novel attenuated superactive multimetallic catalytic composite comprising a combination of a catalytically effective amount of a pyrolyzed rhenium carbonyl component with a porous carrier material containing a uniform dispersion of a catalytically effective amount of a platinum group component, which is maintained in the elemental metallic state during the incorporation of the rhenium carbonyl component, and of a bismuth component. In a highly preferred embodiment, this novel catalytic composite also contains a catalytically effective amount of a halogen component. The platinum group component, pyrolyzed rhenium carbonyl component, bismuth component and optional halogen component are preferably present in the multimetallic catalytic composite in amounts, calculated on an elemental basis, corresponding to about 0.01 to about 2 wt. % platinum group metal, about 0.01 to about 5 wt. % rhenium, about 0.