Abstract: An apparatus (10) is used in a vehicle having a vehicle seat (2) for a vehicle occupant and a vehicle floor pan (4) for supporting the vehicle seat (2). The apparatus (10) includes a vehicle seat frame (20), a sensor (99), and a member (60). The vehicle seat frame (20) supports a load of the vehicle occupant in the vehicle seat (2). The vehicle seat frame (20) is movable vertically upon application of a vertical load to the vehicle seat frame (20). The sensor (99) transfers the load of the vehicle occupant in the vehicle seat (2) from the vehicle seat frame (20) to the vehicle floor pan (4). The sensor (99) detects a part of the load of the vehicle occupant and provides an output signal indicative of the amount of the part of the load transferred. The member (60) damps force transferred by the vehicle seat (2) and the vehicle seat frame (20) to the vehicle floor pan (4). The member (60) is interposed between the vehicle floor pan (4) and the sensor (99).

Abstract: An apparatus (10) is used in a vehicle having a seat (2) for a vehicle occupant and a vehicle floor pan (4) for supporting the vehicle seat (2). The apparatus (10) includes a vehicle seat frame (20), a bracket (30), a spring element (240, 340 or 340, 350), a lever (90), and a sensor (992). The spring element (240, 340 or 340, 350) compresses to allow the vehicle seat frame (20) to move vertically when the load of the vehicle occupant acts on the vehicle seat (2). The lever (90) has a first end portion (100) and a second end portion (110) opposite the first end portion (100). The first end portion (100) is movable with the vehicle seat frame (20). The second end portion (110) is movable with the vehicle seat frame (20). The lever (90) has a middle portion (120) interposed between the first end portion (100) and the second end portion (110). The lever (90) bends as the vehicle seat frame (20) moves vertically relative to the bracket (30).

Abstract: An apparatus (10) is used with a vehicle seat (2) and a vehicle floor pan (4) for supporting the vehicle seat. A sensor lever (100) transmits the load of the vehicle occupant from the vehicle seat (2) to the vehicle floor pan (4). The sensor lever (100) has a first end portion (102), a second end portion (112), and a middle portion (122) interposed between the first end portion and the second end portion. The middle portion (122) of the sensor lever (100) is movable with the vehicle seat (2). The sensor lever (100) has a first sensor portion (107) disposed between the middle portion (122) and the first end portion (102). The sensor lever (100) has a second sensor portion (109) disposed between the middle portion (122) and the second end portion (112). The first and second sensor portions (107, 109) bend as the vehicle seat (2) moves vertically relative to the vehicle floor pan (4).

Abstract: The preparation of concentrated solutions of oxime metal extractants, such as aldoximes and ketoximes, or mixtures of aldoxime and ketoxime, and the use thereof in formulating or preparing extraction reagent compositions for use in an extractant organic phase in a process of extracting metals from aqueous solutions containing metal values; and in particular, to concentrates which are solutions of individual ketoxime or aldoxime or mixtures of water-insoluble hydroxy aldoximes and ketoximes, in varying ratios by weight of 1:100 aldoxime to ketoxime, or conversely, 100:1 ketoxime to aldoxime, in water-immiscible hydrocarbon solvents or equilibrium modifiers. The invention also provides for maintaining stability of concentrates determined by accelerating rate calorimetry to define the ranges of oxime concentration and volume whereby the concentrate will be a stable, flowable, pourable and pumpable concentrate which can be safely stored long term.

Abstract: Copper is preferentially extracted from iron in an aqueous feedstock solution containing dissolved copper and iron values by contacting the feedstock solution with a water-immiscible organic solution comprised of a hydrocarbon solvent and a compound of the formula I wherein R5 is a C1-22 linear or branched alkyl group, a C2-22 linear or branched alkenyl group, a C6 aryl group, a C7-22 aralkyl group, a halogen, OH or —OR6 wherein R6 is a C1-22 linear or branched alkyl group, a C2-22 linear or branched alkenyl group, a C6 aryl group, a C7-22 aralkyl group; R1 is hydrogen, or a C1-22 linear or branched alkyl or alkenyl group, a C6 aryl group or a C7-22 aralkyl group; R2-R4 is hydrogen, halogen, a linear or branched C6-12 alkyl group, —OR6 wherein R6 is a C1-22 linear or branched alkyl group, a C2-22 linear or branched alkenyl group, a C6 aryl group, or a C7-22 aralkyl group to form an aqueous phase comprised of iron and an organic phase comprised of the hydrocarbon solvent and a cop

Abstract: The preparation of concentrated solutions of oxime metal extractants, such as aldoximes and ketoximes, or mixtures of aldoxime and ketoxime, and the use thereof in formulating or preparing extraction reagent compositions for use in an extractant organic phase in a process of extracting metals from aqueous solutions containing metal values; and in particular, to concentrates which are solutions of individual ketoxime or aldoxime or mixtures of water-insoluble hydroxy aldoximes and ketoximes, in varying ratios by weight of 1:100 aldoxime to ketoxime, or conversely, 100:1 ketoxime to aldoxime, in water-immiscible hydrocarbon solvents or equilibrium modifiers. The invention also provides for maintaining stability of concentrates determined by accelerating rate calorimetry to define the ranges of oxime concentration and volume whereby the concentrate will be a stable, flowable, pourable and pumpable concentrate which can be safely stored long term.

Abstract: Ketoximes, processes for their preparation, compositions containing them, and a copper extraction process using the compositions.

Abstract: Copper is preferentially extracted from iron in an aqueous feedstock solution containing dissolved copper and iron values by contacting the feedstock solution with a water-immiscible organic solution comprised of a hydrocarbon solvent and a compound of the formula I 1

Abstract: A process for the recovery of nickel from a nickel containing ore in which the ore, particularly a laterite ore, is initially leached with an aqueous acid solution, after which the nickel is precipitated as nickel hydroxide by adding a hydroxide to the aqueous acid leach solution containing the nickel, followed by a re-leaching of the nickel with an aqueous ammoniacal solution and recovery of the nickel by a solvent extraction of the nickel from the aqueous ammoniacal solution with an organic phase of a water insoluble oxime extractant comprising a ketoxime containing less than 10% phenols dissolved in a water-immiscible hydrocarbon solvent and the nickel recovered by electrowinning the nickel from the aqueous acid stripping solution employed to strip the nickel from the organic phase.

Abstract: An improved process for the extraction of a metal from an aqueous ammoniacal solution comprising: (i) contacting the aqueous ammoniacal solution with an extraction reagent comprised of a water insoluble extractant for the metal, to provide an organic phase, now containing metal values, and an aqueous phase from which metal values have been extracted; (ii) contacting the organic phase with an aqueous stripping solution to provide an aqueous strip phase, now containing metal values, and an organic phase from which metal values have been stripped; and (iii) recovering the metal values from the aqueous stripping solution; the improvement wherein (a) the extraction reagent contains an ammonia antagonist having only hydrogen bond acceptor properties; (b) the stripping solution is an aqueous highly acidic solution; and (c) the organic phase is washed with a weakly acidic aqueous solution prior to stripping with the highly acidic aqueous stripping solution.

Abstract: A process for extracting and recovering copper from an aqueous solution containing copper values comprising: (a) contacting the aqueous copper bearing solution with an organic phase comprising a water insoluble and water immiscible solvent solution of an extraction reagent formulation to extract at least a portion of the copper values into the organic phase; (b) separating the resultant copper pregnant organic phase from the copper baren aqueous phase; and (c) recovering the copper values from the copper pregnant organic phase; wherein the extraction reagent formulation comprise an (i) oxime extractant and (ii) an equilibrium modifier in which the modifier is a linear diester or polyester of an unbranched dicarboxylic acid and an unbranched alcohol.

Abstract: Toxic cyanide and anionic metal species are removed from aqueous alkaline solutions by contacting the aqueous alkaline solutions with an extractant compound which is capable of being protonated at a pH of 9 or above. Whereby the anionic metal species is extracted from the aqueous alkaline solution, subsequently stripping the metal values from the extractant and recovering the metal species, preferably by electrowinning. The process is useful in a flotation process in which a recycled aqueous process stream is employed in that the toxic cyanide ion and anionic metal species are removed prior to recycling of the aqueous process stream for flotation.

Abstract: A game for a number of players comprises providing a deck of cards having fifty-one cards. The deck includes three jokers in combination with forty-eight cards organized in four suits, each suit having in six pairs of cards of the same type, wherein five of the types are sequential while the sixth type is not sequential with the other five. Each player places a first wager to participate in the wagering game. Each player is dealt two cards while a hole card is dealt for the table. All cards are dealt face down. Each player is given the chance to double down the first wager with a second wager. A hand is provided for each player with each hand comprising the hole card and the two cards each player was dealt. The first and second wagers are resolved based on said hand, wherein if a player's hand comprises a predetermined arrangement of cards, that player wins a corresponding preselected amount.

Abstract: Toxic cyanide and anionic metal species are removed from aqueous alkaline solutions by contacting the aqueous alkaline solutions with a compound which is capable of being protonated at a pH of 9 or above.