Abstract: According to the present invention, hydrazine or a hydrazine compound is added to an acidic solution containing silver and palladium as ions to thereby reduce-separate silver-palladium alloy fine powders having an average particle diameter of 0.01-1.0 micron. The powders may be heat-treated at 100.degree.-500.degree. C. in an inert atmosphere or vacuum to thereby obtain silver-palladium alloy fine powders that have an average particle diameter of 0.01-1.0 micron and are usable in the manufacture of ceramic capacitors.

Abstract: A process is disclosed for the beneficiation of coal by means of selective agglomeration, wherein an agglomerating blend is used, which is constituted by:one or more main agglomerating agent(s), selected from the light hydrocarbons having a boiling temperature not higher than 70.degree. C.,one or more non-ionic additive(s), selected from oil-soluble ethoxylated compounds;one or more heavy co-agglomerating agent(s) selected from oils deriving from the distillation of coal-tar, having a boiling temperature comprised within the range of from 200.degree. to 400.degree. C. or the residual products from oil processing or blends thereof.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a material handling system including a loading conveyor, a material processing conveyor, a cutting instrument, and a water table operably associated with the material processing conveyor. The material processing conveyor includes an endless belt having first and second sprocket chains and a plurality of support members extending therebetween. The ends of the support members are connected to the corresponding sprocket chains via U-shaped connectors. The water table is maintained in the storage position while the processing conveyor is operating. Once movement of the processing conveyor has ceased, the water table is raised to an operating position so that the by-products of the cutting operation will be collected therein. The U-shaped connectors receive the side walls of the water table E. The U-shaped connectors obviate the need for elaborate end wall systems which are extremely expensive and time consuming to operate.

Abstract: Finely divided, clean coal or other carbonaceous material is provided by forming a slurry of coarse coal in aqueous alkali solution and heating the slurry under pressure to above the critical conditions of steam. The supercritical fluid penetrates and is trapped in the porosity of the coal as it swells in a thermoplastic condition at elevated temperature. By a sudden, explosive release of pressure the coal is fractured into finely divided particles with release of sulfur-containing gases and minerals. The finely divided coal is recovered from the minerals for use as a clean coal product.

Abstract: A method for improving oxidation resistance life of a metallic coating deposited on a metallic alloy including boron treats the alloy to reduce the boron prior to depositing the coating. The article provided by using a diffusion coating method has a diffusion zone between the coating and the alloy substrate characterized by the substantial absence of boride needles traversing the diffusion zone from the coating into the alloy.

Abstract: There is provided a device for controlling the vertical operating gap between the lower end of a cutting head, such as a frame cutting torch, and a generally flat workpiece positioned below the cutting head as the head and workpiece are moved relative to each other for cutting the workpiece along a preselected cutting path wherein the device includes a plurality of elongated feelers dangling vertically downwardly from the cutting head toward the workpiece with each of the feelers having an upper end and a lower terminal end, means for supporting the feelers at the upper end at positions spaced angularly around the cutting head with the terminal, lower ends at the same vertical height with respect to the lower end of the cutting head, means for allowing free upward movement of the lower ends upon engagement of the lower ends with the workpiece, such as allowed by downwardly hanging chains or loosely held rigid rods, feedback means for driving the motor in a first direction moving the head upwardly from the wor

Abstract: A process is disclosed for producing plasma type spray powders. The process involves forming, an admixture of a base metal, chromium, aluminum, and yttrium or master alloy powders containing these elements, and dry milling the admixture by high shearing to produce a homogeneous mixture. A slurry of this mixture and an aqueous solution of a binder is then spray dried to produce agglomerates, the major portion of which has a particle size of from about 20 to about 53 microns. This major portion is then separated from the remainder of the agglomerates and sintered in a reducing atmosphere to remove the binder and form a sintered powder. The sintered powder is then passed through a high temperature plasma reactor to melt the powder and produce a homogeneous plasma spray powder.

Abstract: A process for producing spherically shaped maraging steel powder particles containing a readily oxidizable metal comprises forming an aqueous solution containing the metal values of iron, cobalt, nickel and molybdenum, in a predetermined ratio, forming a reducible solid material from the solution reducing the solid material to form metallic poweder particles. These particles are agglomerated with a predetermined amount of a second group consisting of at least one readily oxidizable metal selected from the group consisting of aluminum, titanium and vanadium. The agglomerates are entrained in a carrier gas and fed into a high temperature zone and droplets are formed. The droplets are cooled to form essentially spherical shaped particles of a maraging steel alloy containing at least one readily oxidizable metal.

Abstract: A compress gas container is made from Austenite steel alloy and is later strengthened or stabilized by cryo-deformation. The Austenite steel alloy is a metastable CrNi steel with a combined titanium and niobium content no greater than 0.02% by weight and a carbon content no greater than 0.045% by weight. With the nickel content up to 9.5% by weight, the carbon content is between 0.03% to 0.045%; and with the nickel content between 9.5% and 10%, the carbon content is below 0.03%.

Abstract: Copper-dendritic composite alloys are prepared for mechanical reduction to increase tensile strength by dispersing molten droplets of the composite alloy into an inert gas; solidifying the droplets in the form of minute spheres or platelets; and compacting a mass of the spheres or platelets into an integrated body. The spheres preferably have diameters of from 50 to 2000 .mu.m, and the platelets thicknesses of 100 to 2000 .mu.m. The resulting spheres or platelets will contain ultra-fine dendrites which produce higher strengths on mechanical reduction of the bodies formed therefrom, or comparable strengths at lower reduction values. The method is applicable to alloys of copper with vanadium, niobium, tantalum, chromium, molybdenum, tungsten, iron and cobalt.

Abstract: The invention relates to a catalyst in the form of a plate for nitrogen oxide reduction in exhaust gases manufactured by molding granular Cr.sub.2 O.sub.3 or a mixture of granular Fe.sub.2 O.sub.3 with Cr.sub.2 O.sub.3 with phosphoric acid or sulphuric acid as binder, characterized by the fact that a combination is molded of separately prepared mixtures of Cr.sub.2 O.sub.3 or (Fe.sub.2 O.sub.3 +Cr.sub.2 O.sub.3) with phosphoric acid as binder, and of Cr.sub.2 O.sub.3 or (Fe.sub.2 O.sub.3 +Cr.sub.2 O.sub.3) with sulphuric acid as binder.

Abstract: A magnetic core comprised of an amorphous metal alloy having a composition represented by the formula:(Co.sub.1-a-b-c Fe.sub.a Mn.sub.b Mo.sub.c).sub.100-x-y Si.sub.x B.sub.y (in atomic %)wherein a, b, c, x and y are numbers which respectively satisfy relations 0.ltoreq.a.ltoreq.0.05, 0.03.ltoreq.b.ltoreq.0.08, 0.01.ltoreq.c.ltoreq.0.04, 0.04.ltoreq.b+c.ltoreq.0.10, 14.ltoreq.x.ltoreq.16 and 7.5.ltoreq.y.ltoreq.9.5, and the core is treated by a process including a step to keep the core at least one time at a temperature between 0.95.times.Tc and 150.degree. C. for a time of one hour to ten hours in a magnetic field, the direction of which is generally coincidental with the direction of the magnetic path in the core.

Abstract: A method for synthesizing ultrafine powder materials, for example, ceramic and metal powders, comprises admitting gaseous reactants from which the powder material is to be formed into a vacuum reaction chamber maintained at a pressure less than atmospheric and at a temperature less than about 400.degree. K. (127.degree.C.). The gaseous reactants are directed through a glow discharge provided in the vacuum reaction chamber to form the ultrafine powder material.

Abstract: A hand-held thermal cutting torch of the plasma arc or oxyfuel type commonly used for cutting metal workpieces such as steel plates, employs a new concept of motorized driving to provide more uniform cutting rates and improved quality of cut. A driving element coaxially surrounding the cutting torch nozzle includes an annular surface for engagement with a template guide surface, the driving element being rotatably mounted and driven from an electric motor that is carried in the handle of the cutting torch.

Abstract: A process for autogenic flame cutting with oxygen includes bringing the oxygen while in the liquid state to a high pressure and feeding the oxygen to the cutting location via a liquid jet cutting nozzle.

Abstract: A process is disclosed for producing tungsten heavy alloy sheet. The process comprises crystallizing from solution the compounds of the component metals of the alloy, and drying the compounds, introducing the compounds into a container so that the compounds are loosely and uniformly packed in the container, the container being made of molybdenum coated with a ceramic, and having the same shape as the sheet which is to be made. The compounds are then reduced to their respective metals and the resulting metal powder is sintered to a density equal to or greater than about 90% of the theoretical density of the alloy to form the sheet.

Abstract: A process is disclosed for producing a sheet of tungsten heavy alloy which comprises forming a solution of chemical compounds containing the metal values of the alloy in the correct proportion as in the alloy, forming from the solution a precipitate of the compounds containing the metal values, removing the precipitate from the resulting liquor an forming a planar cake of the precipitate, drying the cake, and reducing the compounds in the cake to their respective metals wherein each of the resulting reduced particles is an admixture of the alloy components and sintering the cake to a density equal to or greater than about 90% of the theoretical density of the alloy to form the sheet.

Abstract: Apparatus for scarfing defects in a metal workpiece having an oxygen discharge nozzle terminating in a nozzle discharge orifice adapted to discharge a sheet-like stream of cutting oxygen of uniform intensity across the surface of a metal workpiece and means for admixing a gas with the oxygen to be discharged through the discharge orifice wherein at least one edge of the sheet-like stream of oxygen is of reduced privity insufficient to scarf a workpiece, while the remainder of the sheet-like stream is sufficient to scarf defects from a workpiece surface.

Abstract: System and method for producing metal or alloy powder are described comprising an electromagnetic levitating coil having an outlet for supporting a molten source of the metal or alloy and controllably discharging a molten stream thereof, an electromagnetic confining coil disposed at the outlet of the levitating coil and surrounding the molten stream for controlling the diameter of the molten stream, and either an atomization die and associated pressurized fluid source for disintergrating the confined molten stream into molten droplets for subsequent cooling to powder, or a controllable electromagnetic coil surrounding the confined molten stream for generating a downwardly and radially outwardly directed electromagnetic force interacting with the molten stream to form the droplets.

Abstract: An orbital pipe machine guiding system to guide the machine around the circumference of a pipe has a link chain having first and second ends and a length equal to at least the circumference of the pipe and has means to attach the link chain to itself around and against the pipe in a circle perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the pipe. At least one wheel is operatively connected to the machine, such that when the wheel is positioned for revolving engagement with the link chain, the machine will be guided in the circle defined by the link chain. In one embodiment, the wheel has a continuous slot formed therein extending radially inward from the periphery thereof, and the inside surfaces of the slot slidingly engage the link chain. Any one link chain may be used for several pipe sizes and the fastening arrangement of the link chain is such that surplus chain overlaps a portion of the chain lying against the pipe. The slot in the wheel extends far enough to accommodate such overlap.