Abstract: The invention is a bearing unit and bearing system for supporting a large rotatable element, such as a mooring turret. The bearing unit includes a hydrostatic suspension system which enables the bearing unit to accommodate fabrication tolerances and also enables the bearing unit to conform to relative movements between the ship and the turret, thereby providing a compliant bearing system. The system includes multiple bearing units of the invention which serve as thrust and/or radial bearings for supporting the turret. By manifolding a plurality of bearing units together in a fluidly-isolated group, the pressure applied to the bearing units in that group is self-equalizing so that all the bearing units act in unison to equally support the load, while also allowing some degree of self-alignment and tilting of the load. As a result, the bearing system emulates a self-aligning bearing system and is able to compensate for axial and angular misalignment.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of an organic pigment dispersion is disclosed and consists of dispersing a dried soft-textured organic pigment in a dispersion vehicle, wherein the dispersion vehicle contains an ink varnish and alkyd and the dispersion is carried out in a tank equipped with a sweep and a high speed dispersion blade.

Abstract: The invention is a bearing unit and bearing system for supporting a large rotatable element, such as a mooring turret. The bearing unit includes a hydrostatic suspension system which enables the bearing unit to accommodate fabrication tolerances and also enables the bearing unit to conform to relative movements between the ship and the turret, thereby providing a compliant bearing system. The system includes multiple bearing units of the invention which serve as thrust and/or radial bearings for supporting the turret. By manifolding a plurality of bearing units together in a fluidly-isolated group, the pressure applied to the bearing units in that group is self-equalizing so that all the bearing units act in unison to equally support the load, while also allowing some degree of self-alignment and tilting of the load. As a result, the bearing system emulates a self-aligning bearing system and is able to compensate for axial and angular misalignment.

Abstract: An improved toothbrush is disclosed. The toothbrush contains bristles which are individually embedded in a toothbrush head and mutually spaced apart from one another by a distance from 0.5 times to 10 times the diameter of the bristles. The bristles may include first type bristles having a diameter of from about 0.25 mm to about 0.60 mm; second type bristles having a diameter of from about 0.08 mm to about 0.35 mm and a free length of from about 7 mm to about 16 mm; third type bristles having a diameter of from about 0.15 mm to about 0.40 mm and a free length of from about 5 mm to about 14 mm; fourth type bristles having a diameter of from about 0.15 mm to about 1.0 mm and a free length of from about 9 mm to about 15 mm; and a dense tuft of bristles at the end of the toothbrush head distal from the handle.

Abstract: A mooring system employs a vessel mounted turret in combination with a submerged chain table that also acts as a clump weight. The chain table is submerged fairly close to the sea surface at approximately the keel depth of the vessel, or a few meters below that depth. Three or more chains connect the vessel mounted turret and chain table to one another, preferably though corresponding U-joints. Several mooring lines are attached at first ends to the bottom of the chain table, and are secured at second ends to anchors or piles in the seabed. The weight of the chain table is chosen so that it helps reduce the stresses imparted by the vessel to the mooring lines, thereby reducing the maximum load requirement, and thus cost, of the mooring lines.

Abstract: Method which includes passing a gas stream containing carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulfide, sulfur dioxide, mercaptans and other acid gases through an aqueous alkanolamine solution to remove the carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulfide, sulfur dioxide, mercaptans, etc., from the gaseous stream. Heat-stable alkanolamine salts form in the aqueous alkanolamine solution due to the acid contaminants (other than hydrogen sulfide or carbon dioxide) removed from the gas stream. A base is added to the aqueous alkanolamine solution to convert all or part of the heat-stable alkanolamine salts into alkanolamine and simple salts. The base-treated aqueous alkanolamine solution is electrodialyzed in an electrodialysis cell containing ion exchange membranes. The purified aqueous alkanolamine solution can be used again to remove carbon dioxide, etc., from the gas stream.

Abstract: Gelled detergent compositions comprise a polyhydroxy fatty acid amine surfactant and an alkyl alkoxylated sulfate surfactant. Gels form spontaneously without the need for extraneous gelling agents. Thus, a mixture of coconutalkyl N-methyl glucamide and an AEmS surfactant gels in water to provide a composition which is useful for cleaning hard surfaces, especially tableware. Grease-cutting gels which contain magnesium and/or calcium ions are also provided.

Abstract: Absorption solvents for removing mercaptans from gas streams are disclosed. The absorption solvents comprise an alkylether of a polyalkylene glycol, e.g., methoxytriglycol, and a secondary monoalkanolamine, e.g., N-methylethanolamine, as well as optionally other amines, e.g., methyldiethanolamine and diethanolamine. The absorption solvents do not require the presence of iodine for removal of mercaptans. Absorption processes utilizing the solvents are also disclosed.

Abstract: A lip seal for use between two relatively-rotating surfaces, and in which the contact pressure increases with distance from the sealing lip for preventing the leakage of fluid therebetween irrespective of the direction of relative rotation. The seal has projections on the "air" side of the sealing lip (that is to say, the side remote from the fluid to be sealed) which so engage one of the relatively-rotating surfaces as to have a contact area of which two opposite sides extend away from the sealing lip portion and diverge away from each other.