Abstract: Fuels, particularly caking fuels, are supplied in a fluidized bed reactor by conveying a fuel through an injection pipe with an end provided with an injection nozzle in a fluidized bed reactor, conveying a fluid through a jacket pipe surrounding the injection pipe and having an end provided with a jacket nozzle, wherein the jacket pipe is interrupted prior to the jacket nozzle, as considered in the flow direction, and at a predetermined location, and bypassing by a heat exchanger at this location at which the jacket pipe is interrupted.

Abstract: A fluid metering device is provided including a chambered rotor for metering correctly proportioned mixtures of air and a vaporized fuel to an internal combustion engine. The rotor includes radially disposed chambers and is enclosed in a housing having an inlet port and an outlet port. Upon rotation of the rotor the chambers are alternately biased into flow communication with the inlet port and the outlet port. The inlet port is in flow communication with a gaseous fuel supply and the outlet is in flow communication with an intake to the internal combustion engine. The speed of the rotation of the rotor is adjustable to vary the amount of gaseous fuel presented to the engine for selectively varying the output of the engine.

Abstract: Process and apparatus for pyrolysis of a heavy hydrocarbon feedstock in which the feedstock is countercurrently contacted with a hot hydrogenating gas stream flowing spirally from the periphery of a substantially circular reactor (1). The hydrocarbon feedstock is injected through an inlet (4) located toward the center of reactor (1). The hot hydrogenating gas is preferably formed by combustion, using a steam-oxygen mixture injected through inlet (2), of carbonaceous by-products from the pyrolysis. Product is removed centrally through outlet (3).

Abstract: Barnacles from marine vessels are removed by spraying the surfaces thereof with a mixture the active ingredients of which are a hydrocarbon liquid oil; a surfactant; alcohol; a metal hypochlorite; and an alkyl, dialkyl benzyl ammonium salt. After the solution has been applied to the surfaces for about 20 minutes, the barnacles are removed by power spraying the surfaces with water.

Abstract: An adjusting mechanism is disclosed for the press head of a glassware forming machine of the rotating table type having a plurality of forming units circumferentially spaced for rotation about the axis of the machine. Adjustment is effected by rotating a parallel adjusting rod, which is engaged to a threaded rod. Rotation varies the pressure of the plunger by changing the position of a pinion on the threaded rod, through spring compression or pinion gear rotation, to which the stop lever on the plunger steam will contact. Each forming unit is capable of producing at least two glassware articles per machine cycle. A remote ram spring adjustment means provides operator control of ram spring pressure for each plunger at an accessable height and location.

Abstract: Organic materials are separated and retrieved by mixing them with a liquid medium which is solid at room temperature and which is at atmosphere pressure. The material and medium are pumped by an electromagnetic pump while creating turbulence and then the velocity of the medium is decreased while heat is applied. Gases generated during the application of heat are collected. The medium is then cooled and returned to the pool at atmospheric pressure.

Abstract: An apparatus for drying, pyrolyzing and possibly also gasifying of lump wood in a cylindrical vessel with a hearth case includes a vessel of a type which differs from prior art vessel units by a top cooling hood with an annular cooling duct and an outer annular air space for preheating suction air and an inner, likewise annular, gas space to discharge to some external destination the gas recovered from the predried wood. The air drawn from the outer annular space is fed to the hearth via an air chamber and nozzles. Condensate precipitated on the inside faces of the hood drops into an annular gutter and is subjected to evaporation in the further course of the process. A method for operating this apparatus is also provided.

Abstract: A flue-stream reactor for gasifying fossil fuels which contain ballast. The reactor comprises two cylindrical, cooled, and insulated reaction chambers which are disposed one after the other in the axial direction. The first reaction chamber is provided with an axial inlet for accommodating a gasification burner. The second reaction chamber is provided with an opening for the addition of gasification material. A cooled, coaxial channel provides communication between the two reaction chambers. The reactor further includes a radial discharge and a device for removing liquid and solid ash and slag.

Abstract: Greater product yield and quality as well as simplified gas recovery can be attained by a huff and puff process for retorting oil shale. The process can be advantageously carried out in in situ retorts under ground as well as in surface retorts above ground. In the process, an active retort of raw oil shale is retorted without prior combustion of oil shale therein with retort off gases, which have been heated in a spent shale retort. In the preferred mode, retort off gases from the active retort and air are alternately injected into the spent retort to cyclically heat the off gases and combust the coked shale. The retort off gases can be deoiled and optionally scrubbed of carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulfide before being heated in the spent retort.

Abstract: A downdraft channel gasifier for the efficient conversion of biomass materials to usable heat energy, which includes at least two generally triangularly shaped air ducts positioned longitudinally across an enclosed housing defining a combustion chamber. The air ducts have sloping sides which downwardly converge towards one another to define at least one open-botton V-shaped channel, the sloping sides primarily supporting the biomass fuel which will be combusted to derive producer gas. The air ducts are hollow and are in fluid communication with a high pressure air source at one end, and with the gasification chamber through air jet openings near their apexes. The high pressure air exits out air jet openings along the top edges of the air ducts, providing primary air for gasification of the biomass in the channels. The producer gas passes down between the channels and horizontally to an exit.

Abstract: A multi-stage generator for generating dry acetylene gas from calcium carbide while leaving a residue of dry lime has a generator housing including a plurality of vertically spaced shelves, each shelf and its associated components providing a stage of the generator. Each shelf has an exit slot and a water spray zone circumferentially spaced therefrom. A deposit zone is formed intermediate the water spray zone and the exit slot. Stirring arms are rotatably mounted to cooperate with each shelf to sweep the calcium carbide mixture received in the deposit zone into the wetting zone and thereafter into the exit slot. The exit slot of each shelf is offset angularly relative to the exit slot of the preceeding shelf so that the calcium carbide mixture is swept about each shelf through a substantial angle prior to exiting to the next shelf.

Abstract: This application relates to parallel blank mold opening mechanism wherein the split blank molds, of which there are a plurality, are carried in holders that are mounted on horizontal hinge pins adjacent the rear thereof. These hinge pins are carried at the upper end of crank arms and move toward and away from each other during the cycle of operation of a pneumatic motor. Each of the mold holders is provided with a parallel link which is connected between the base of the mold mechanism housing and the holder, such that upon opening and closing of the mold the faces of the molds are maintained in a vertical plane. In addition, the position of the axes of the crank shafts and the hinge pins are such that the hinge pins move over top dead center or through the vertical plane defined by the axis of the crank shaft upon opening or closing. In this manner the molds are actually lifted a slight amount during movement from their closed to their open position.

Abstract: A process for the removal of poly(arylene sulfide) deposits on metal surfaces is provided by contacting the deposit with at least one diaryl ether under temperature conditions and for a time sufficient to remove said poly(arylene sulfide) deposits. A process for the cleansing of metal parts having poly(arylene sulfide) deposits is also provided which comprises treatment with a diaryl ether, and thereafter contacting the ether treated part with an alcohol, washing the part with water, drying the part, and thereafter contacting the dried part with concentrated HNO.sub.3 followed by water washing and drying.

Abstract: Solutions useful for stripping coatings from coated substrates and conditioning the substrate for subsequent coating treatment are obtained by mixing in special proportions (1) a solvent composition comprising a chlorinated solvent and a liquid alcohol containing at least three carbon atoms, (2) a wetting composition comprising basic metal ammonium salt of an aromatic sulfonic acid, and a non-ionic surface active material, and (3) a vapor suppressant and said mixture preferably containing a small amount of water. A method for using these solutions for stripping and conditioning coated substrates, and particularly metal substrates, is also disclosed.

Abstract: A process for the removal of corrosion deposits from metal surfaces using a ferromagnetic fluid is disclosed.

Abstract: An acetylene gas generator is comprised of inner and outer nested chambers in which the inner chamber has a plurality of trays inserted therein, with a grid located above each tray. Water is provided to the inner chamber and is dispersed throughout the inner chamber by the grids to the trays containing calcium carbide or like material. Space between the inner and outer chambers is used to provide liquid cooling of the inner chamber.The generator can be used for a variety of purposes including the provision of acetylene for primary or auxiliary power for an internal combustion engine.

Abstract: A method for washing a U-shaped reaction tube having a thick cup portion and a thin non-cup portion is disclosed. At a first washing position, a washing liquid is supplied into the cup portion of reaction tube like a shower and is simultaneously sucked via the non-cup portion of reaction tube. Then, the washing liquid is supplied again into the reaction tube to fill the tube therewith at a second washing position. Finally, at a third washing position, the washing liquid contained in the reaction tube is drained at such a relatively slow rate that the liquid level of the washing liquid descends slowly. Any drop of the washing liquid is not remained on the inner wall of test tube, and thus it is possible to effect a highly accurate analysis without being affected by contamination between sample solutions.

Abstract: A flame arrestor device capable of checking flashback when incorporated in a system utilizing one or more detonatable gases under pressure for controlled energy release purposes, the device being generally installed in series having one or more gas sources upstream while gas conducting means and ignition means are arranged downstream of a membrane barrier mounted and secured to a supporting means which is, in turn, mounted within an arrestor housing with provision for gaps of limited size on the upstream and downstream side of the membrane barrier to permit gas flow. The invention includes built in or separate ignition means downstream of the membrane barrier.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for the production of a flowable reaction mixture of at least two flowable components which mixture forms a foam or solid material, comprising:(a) storage means for said components;(b) supply lines leading from the storage means via metering pumps to a mixing head;(c) said mixing head having a mixing chamber;(d) injection openings connected to said supply lines and opening into said mixing chamber;(e) said mixing chamber having an outlet opening downstream of said injection openings;(f) said outlet opening having an elastic outlet tube whose throughflow cross section may be varied connected thereto; said apparatus further characterized in that:(g) the outlet tube has at least one means associated therewith for deflecting said outlet tube;(h) an ejection piston is associated with said outlet tube, which piston is capable of filling the outlet tube; the contour of the inside wall of said outlet tube corresponding to the external contour of said ejection piston.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for cleaning material at the outer edge of an object by applying a fluid, which can be a solvent, for the material to a flat surface adjacent the edge by contact and moving the solvent onto the edge by centrifugal force. A slot is provided in a planar surface. The slot is filled with solvent for contact with the flat surface of the object. The slot is arcuate and elongated. The fluid is directed along the slot in the direction of rotation by a baffle. The slot has a bottom sloping upward toward the planar surface in the direction of rotation. A notch is provided between an edge of the planar surface and the slot to act as a spillway for excess solvent.