Abstract: A paste for coating electrodes for fabricating plates of lead acid batteries containing water, tetrabasic lead sulfate, and an effective amount of a carbonate material such as ammonium carbonate has been found useful in the curing of battery plates or electrodes made with tetrabasic lead sulfate, allowing the curing of such plates or electrodes to be performed without the use of gaseous carbon dioxide.

Abstract: An aerial refuel floodlight capable of being mounted on the leading edge of a vertical stabilizer in a receiver aircraft utilized for in flight refueling. The aerial refuel floodlight is of a projectile-shape having a lamp mounted therein. Surrounding the lamp is a cone-shaped reflecting element terminating in a hemispherically-shaped reflecting element which directs light emanating from said lamp through an off-axis lens mounted adjacent thereto. A scoop-shaped reflector situated adjacent the lens and in the upper part of the fixture directs the magnified light onto the fuselage of the receiver aircraft adjacent to and including the refuel receptacle.

Abstract: First, second and third dichroic filters are positioned at corresponding ones of first, second and third light sources for deriving red, green and blue beams, respectively, from the light sources. A beam guide member has first, second and third branched bundles and a main bundle composed of the first, second and third branched bundles. Each branched bundle has an end surface at which a corresponding one of the beams derived from the dichroic filters is provided. The main bundle has an end surface for emitting the beams. A light quantity control circuit controls the quantities of light of the light sources.

Abstract: In chemical light devices comprising a chemi-luminescent mixture with a first fluorescer contained in a transparent or translucent container, a second fluorescer is incorporated in the walls of the container to shift at least part of the emissions from the device from the shorter wavelength emission of the first fluorescer to a longer wavelength emission of the second fluorescer. The second fluorescer has an absorption spectrum substantially overlapping the emission spectrum of the first fluorescer. The shift is usually about 20 to 100 nanometers and may be as much as 200 nanometers.

Abstract: A non-petroleum based metal corrosion inhibiting composition comprising:______________________________________ Ingredients % by Weight ______________________________________ Water 75-90 Linseed Oil Fatty Acid 2-8 C.sub.6 - C.sub.12 Dibasic Acid 1-10 Amine Blend, comprising a 1:2 to 2:1 ratio of a cyclic amine from the group consisting of cyclohexyl amine, morpholine and C.sub.2 - C.sub.4 alkanol amine. 3-8 Water-soluble alkali metal base .

Abstract: An adhesive composition enhanced in initial adhesion strength which comprises (A) an .alpha.-cyanoacrylate ester, (B) at least one chosen from aliphatic polyols and their derivatives and polyethers and their derivatives and (C) at least one chosen from aromatic polyols and their derivatives and carboxylic acids and their derivatives.

Abstract: A series of electric lamps spaced along the interior of a flexible vinyl tube, such lamps being connected in electric parallel with each other by a pair of insulated conductors that exit from the tube through an opening adjacent one end of the tube. A thermoplastic sealant having a vinyl content is applied by a special procedure into each of the ends of the tube to seal closed such ends of the tube as well as the point of egress of the conductors. The tube is disposed in a channel-like mounting bracket having a restricted entrance through which the tube is viewable. A special procedure is provided for connecting uninsulated leads of the lamps to insulated parallel conductors such that no additional insulation is required.

Abstract: The invention relates to anticlumping products and to an anticlumping treatment. The anticlumping products for salts, simple or complex fertilizers, comprise, as active substance an effective amount of at least one non-hydrosoluble salt of an alkylamine, a cycloalkylamine or an aromatic amine, having from 2 to 22 carbon atoms, with an alkylnaphtalene-sulfonic acid whose alkylaryl radical includes from 11 to 32 carbon atoms.

Abstract: Process for inhibiting the corrosion of equipment made of titanium or of alloys containing titanium by a solution containing a peroxy compound. To effect the inhibition, a solution containing calcium, strontium or barium ions is used.

Abstract: The corrosion of iron and steel surfaces by an aqueous alkanolamine conditioning solution used to remove CO.sub.2 from a gas stream is effectively inhibited by a combination of a vanadium containing ion and a soluble cobalt salt. This system allows the use of higher amine concentrations which in turn allows a higher carbon dioxide loading with low corrosion thereby improving the energy efficiency of the gas sweetening process.

Abstract: Vulcanization accelerators based on(a) melamine derivatives, optionally in combination with(b) conventional vulcanization accelerators taken from the group of thiazole accelerators, and optionally(c) other conventional accelerators, a rubber composition containing said accelerator and a process for vulcanizing rubber.

Abstract: A positive electrode for a secondary electrochemical cell wherein an electrically conductive current collector is in electrical contact with a particulate mixture of gray cast iron and an alkali metal sulfide and an electrolyte including alkali metal halides or alkaline earth metal halides. Also present may be a transition metal sulfide and graphite flakes from the conversion of gray cast iron to iron sulfide. Also disclosed is a method of distributing carbon flakes in a cell wherein there is formed an electrochemical cell of a positive electrode structure of the type described and a suitable electrolyte and a second electrode containing a material capable of alloying with alkali metal ions. The cell is connected to a source of electrical potential to electrochemically convert gray cast iron to an iron sulfide and uniformly to distribute carbon flakes formerly in the gray cast iron throughout the positive electrode while forming an alkali metal alloy in the negative electrode.

Abstract: A roller skate attachment operable to be fitted onto a roller skate having a shoe upper, a sole, a running gear attached to the sole and a toe stop releasably connected to a forward portion of the running gear. The attachment comprises a plurality of light emitting diodes releasably connected to the toe stop. A battery is operably mounted on the roller skate and an electrical circuit selectively interconnects the battery and the light emitting diodes to selectively light the diodes.

Abstract: A recessed lighting system for a vechicle such as an airplane employs an exit lens mounted in the external skin of the airplane that has minimum cross-sectional area. The lighting system can include a light source such as a conventional lamp, a light converging lens to reduce the cross-sectional area of the lamp beam, a focusing lens to adjust the exit beam dispersal, and a mirror to divert the converged light beam through the exit lens.

Abstract: Water-soluble sulfonated rubrenes are used as fluorescer components in water-soluble chemiluminescent mixtures and particularly in combination with a water-soluble amide of oxalic acid which reacts with hydrogen peroxide to produce chemiluminescence.

Abstract: Illuminated vehicular seat belt having an illuminated clip structure attachable to a seat belt near or proximate to the buckle having the purpose to facilitate easy location at night or in unlighted parking garages the end or ends of a seat belt; including a fiber optic cord or pipe extending from a light source to a display portion of said buckle for receiving light from said fiber optic pipe.

Abstract: A luminaire includes a light source mounted within a housing having an opening through which light from the source is distributed. The opening also provides access to the interior of the housing for maintenance of the light source and is closed by a cover which is at least partially translucent and which is hinged to the housing at one end and provided with a pair of spring loaded pins projecting from the sides thereof at the other end to hold the cover in closed position or to be retracted by means of clips to open the cover. The protection of the light source afforded by the housing is improved by an elongated rigid member adapted to extend between the clips of the pins to prevent the pins from being retracted. The clips include coaxial channels and the rigid member includes a reduced portion at one end and a retractable finger at the other end, both of which are dimensioned to be received in such channels.

Abstract: Antioxidant compositions containing (a) a sterically hindered phenol, (b) 4,4'-bis(.alpha.,.alpha.-dimethylbenzyl) diphenyl amine and (c) a phenothiazine compound stabilize polyols against oxidative degradation and prevent urethane foams prepared therefrom from scorching.

Abstract: Light bulbs of a multi chamber vehicle lamp are inserted into a lamp carrier made of sheet metal. Conductor strips are stamped out of the sheet metal for current conduction. The lamp carrier forms a common mass connection for all light bulbs. The contacting to the respective center pole of the light bulbs is effected directly by the free end portion of the conductor strip which is stamped out from a region of the lamp carrier remote from the light bulb socket. By a deformation of the conductor strip, the end portion is placed on the center axis of the opening accommodating the light bulb, and engages the center pole of the light bulb under pretension.

Abstract: A boat light includes a shield recessed within the hull of a vessel. A conventional sealed beam head-lamp unit seats in an exteriorly spherically shaped lamp unit retaining member formed of a resiliently flexible soft material such as rubber. The retaining member and shield have mating spherically shaped surfaces so that the retaining member can be angularly adjusted, within a pre-determined, limited range, to any of various selected positions within the shield, thus to correspondingly adjust and hence correctly aim, the head-lamp unit. The retaining member is quickly and firmly secured, in each position to which it is adjusted, through the provision of a soft rubber mounting ring, which fits over the inner end of the shield, and is spherically shaped interiorly thereof, to form a ball-and-socket mounting cooperating with the shield and the retaining member.