Abstract: A depositing apparatus includes a profile-following mechanism having a translational displacement mechanism portion and a rotation mechanism portion adapted to allow a head to be swung in the directions of both X and the Y axes so that the head follows a profile of the surface of workpiece smoothly around a first contact point, thereof with the workpiece, serving as a fulcrum point.

Abstract: Disclosed are a fixed-bed, cross-flow catalytic reactor wherein reaction heat can be exchanged against a heat exchange medium circulating indirectly through the catalyst bed, and a catalytic process comprising operation of the cross-flow reactor. The reactor comprises a catalyst bed having internally embedded banks of heat exchange tubes. An inlet distributor distributes reactants along the axial length of the bed. The distributed fluid passes through the bed in a cross-flow path wherein a catalytic reaction occurs. The reaction effluent is then collected from the bed by an outlet product collector. A heat exchange medium circulated through the internal heat exchange tubes adds or removes reaction heat as required for enhanced conversion in the reactor. Multiple heat exchange tubes can be used, and inlet and discharge manifolds are provided for distributing the circulating heat exchange medium.

Abstract: A radially expandable and contractible rim used to secure an annular elastomeric sealing ring to a tire bead during retreading of a tire.

Abstract: A microtitration system comprises a plurality of well and a frame-like holder with apertures for receiving the wells. Each well has a bottom wall and a side wall extending upwardly therefrom so as to define an upper open end, and a depression or groove is formed in an outer surface of the well side wall at a position spaced from the bottom wall. Each aperture of the holder is at least partly defined by a resilient aperture defining means, which is adapted to enter into locking engagement with the depression or groove of a well received in the aperture. The dimensions and the shape of each aperture are such that when a well is inserted into the aperture, the aperture defining means is engaging with the outer surface of the well side wall and is pressed radially outwardly in relation to a central axis of the well till the aperture defining means may snap into locking engagement with the depression or groove formed in the side wall of the well.

Abstract: A plurality of nozzles and treating liquid supplying tubes are supported by rigid support arms forming part of temperature control piping for contacting the tubes to maintain treating liquids in the tubes to a constant temperature. The support arms are pivotable about a pivot axis located sideways from a substrate, such that the nozzles are movable between a dispensing position and a standby position displaced from above the substrate. A drive arm engages and swings a selected one of the support arms to move the nozzle attached to the selected support arm, between the dispensing position and standby position. With this construction, a nozzle selected from the plurality of nozzles is reliably moved in a predetermined posture to a predetermined position, while allowing sufficient temperature control of treating liquids by the temperature controlling piping, and avoiding inadvertent dripping of the treating liquids due to deformations of the treating liquid supplying tubes.

Abstract: An instrument is applied to the measurement of chemical species and concentration through the use of a chemically-sensitive coating on the eddy current coil or in the vicinity of the eddy current coil which produces a change in impedance of the probe through induced eddy currents in the coating. An eddy current or resonance circuit chemical detector is a non-contact sensor for measuring chemical species identity and concentration. The chemical detector is resilient and does not require reference electrodes. The chemical sensor is selective as a result of data available on the change in vector impedance of the probe, the change in resonant frequency of the tuned circuit, and the availability of data to construct a vector response from multiple probes having differing chemistries. The probe is used in extreme temperatures.

Abstract: A novel integral cardiotomy/venous blood reservoir, blood oxygenator and heat exchanging device, method of making a blood oxygenating and heat exchanging device and an extracorporeal circulatory support circuit. The reservoir includes a novel blood defoaming and filtering chamber closely receiving filtering and defoaming media. The blood oxygenating and heat exchanging device includes thermal formed housing portions, and a heat exchanging barrier, blood oxygenating medium and/or filtering medium, which are sealed by potting compound at one time. The oxygenating medium comprises a hollow fiber type medium, with its ends left open to be sealingly mounted in a gas path by a novel mounting bracket.

Abstract: Apparatus and process for high speed air dispersion (HSAD) and oxidation of elemental phosphorus in aqueous medium. The HSAD apparatus is an element used in a process designed for treating the highly toxic and hazardous phosphorus sludge wastes with oxygen-containing gas microbubbles at high shear rates in which the elemental phosphorus is quantitatively converted to soluble oxyphosphorus compounds which can be recovered after neutralization as fertilizer by products or disposed of as inert nonhazardous landfill material.

Abstract: A plated steel sheet for producing housings or tubes or the like includes a foundation material forming a middle layer having first and second sides. A coating of an austenitic special steel is disposed on the first side. A coating of a ferritic special steel is disposed on the second side. In a housing for a catalytic converter being made of the plated steel sheet, the second side having the coating of ferritic special steel forms an inner surface of the housing.

Abstract: A photo-ablation technique is used to create apertures (4) in a layer (2) of electrically insulating material and allow electrically conducting material (3) exposed through the apertures to create a microelectrode. The microelectrode can be used for assay methods and in an assay unit.

Abstract: An assay for the qualitative and quantitative determination of a bioactive polysaccharide, such as acemannan, in a product, such as an aloe vera-containing product. The method uses a complexing agent to react with the bioactive polysaccharide present, if any, in the product to give a color change. The detected color change is compared with standard color changes generated by reacting the complexing agent with different known amounts of the bioactive polysaccharide, wherein differences between the color changes compared are dependent upon the presence or amount of the bioactive polysaccharide in the product. The assay can be confirmed by detecting a second color change of a different aliquot of the product with a different complexing agent.

Abstract: A graded temperature methanol reactor includes an inclined container containing a liquid heat transfer medium, such as water, having a varying temperature along the container. Conduits, extending through the container and in contact with heat transfer medium, conduct a feed gas having hydrogen and carbon monoxide and permit heat transfer between the feed gas and the heat transfer medium. A copper catalyst is disposed within each conduit to cause the hydrogen and carbon monoxide to react to form methanol, which condenses as the temperature decreases along the container from the upper end to the lower end. Preferably, the conduits are configured as a rotor and can be rotated relative to the container. By using this methanol reactor, methanol can be produced from a feed gas having hydrogen and carbon monoxide in a 2:1 molecular ratio, regardless of the source of this feed gas.

Abstract: In drainage systems in buildings and excavations there is waste and ground water with a high dissolved material content. These mainly inorganic substances often cause the build-up of hard deposits in the water conveying parts of the drainage systems, e.g. waste water pipes. These deposits reduce the drainage cross section of the drainage systems thus preventing the water from flowing freely and thus causing back-ups which can result in considerable damage. The current processes of removing these deposits are electro-mechanical cleaning and high-pressure rinsing or abrading with water. These processes are laborious, expensive and cause interruptions in operation. It is the aim of the invention to prevent the formation of such deposits. To this end, a conditioning agent in aqueous form is added via a metering installation at one or more points in the drainage system.

Abstract: A fluidized bed reactor and method of operating same in which a bed of particulate material including fuel is formed in a furnace section. A stripper-cooler is located adjacent the furnace section for receiving particulate material from the furnace section. The particulate material is selectively passed to the stripper-cooler and cooled before being discharged from the stripper-cooler.

Abstract: Formwork with form panels 1 and connecting means, namely clamps 7 and/or bolts 11 includes closed, hollow marginal sections 2 having an abutment web 5 projecting at right angles to a lining skin 4 and extending along the outermost edge of the form panel 1 and serving to be laid tightly against a corresponding abutment web 5 or flat marginal strip 13 of a neighboring form panel. Holding webs 6 of the marginal sections 2 may have depressions 8 for application of clamp points. Oblong perforations or keyholes 10 for inserting connecting bolts 11 are provided side by side, in spaced relationship, longitudinally of the abutment web. The connecting bolts have projections 12 that jut out radially from an end of the bolt and engage behind the edges of the perforations in a locking position. The spacing and size of the perforations 10 corresponds with similar perforations 10 in marginal sections 2 or flat marginal strips 13 of adjacent form panels 1.

Abstract: The invention is an apparatus for cleaning accumulations of dust and waste matter from filter media in industrial installations. The dust and waste matter is removed from the filter media with nozzles that move across the filter media in reciprocatory paths. The apparatus of this invention moves the nozzles in a continuous motion during normal operation without having to successivley stop and reverse at the end each path as in the prior art filter cleaning devices.

Abstract: A circulating fluidized bed reactor includes a lower zone having a fluidization grid, primary and secondary air injection inlets, and fuel feed inlets, an upper zone, internal bubbling beds at the top of the lower zone collecting solid matter from recirculation internal to the reactor and delivering a fraction thereof to external bubbling bed heat exchangers close coupled with the walls of the reactor level with the internal beds. The external heat exchangers reject the solid matter into the lower zone after exchanging heat with an external fluid. The reactor is simple in structure and benefits from the advantages of bubbling external beds while maintaining conventional design in the lower zone.

Abstract: An apparatus for granulation and coating, wherein a rotary disk 2 provided at a bottom portion of a granulating vessel 1 is rotated for particles to centrifugally tumble on the rotary disk 2, while a powder material and a binder liquid are supplied into the granulating vessel 1. A position of a surface of a particle layer M in the granulating vessel 1 is detected by a sensor 18, to automatically adjust a position of a binder liquid supply port of a spray nozzle 13 in accordance with the detection signal informing of a change in the surface of the particle layer M.

Abstract: In the preparation of vinyl chloride by thermal cracking of 1,2-dichloroethane, three distillation stages are used to distill off first hydrogen chloride, then vinyl chloride and finally entrained hydrogen chloride with vinyl chloride. If, in the last stage, entrained water is not drawn off via the bottom, it is recirculated with the top product to the first stage and causes corrosion. Removal of the water at the top of the third distillation stage, advantageously by drying, prevents the corrosion.

Abstract: A catalytic combustion apparatus has a cylindrical housing defining a fluid passage, and a plurality of combustion catalyst bodies arranged face to face along the fluid passage in the cylindrical housing. The catalyst bodies are loosely fired in the cylindrical housing. Each catalyst body defines numerous bores extending along the fluid passage. The cylindrical housing includes holders extending inwardly of the housing for contacting end surfaces of the catalyst bodies to prevent movement thereof along the fluid passage.