Abstract: A four-way pallet is of rectangular shape and is unitarily formed inwardly f each of its longitudinal edges with a row of three edge bosses projecting and tapering from one of the faces of the pallet. These bosses constitute feet for the pallet and define a pair of parallel ways across the plate at the one face and perpendicular to the longitudinal edges of the pallet. The plate is further formed between and parallel to the edge rows with a row of two middle bosses projecting and tapering from the one pallet face and each formed with apertures in line with the ways. Thus tines of a lift fork can pass under the pallet standing on the bosses between the edge bosses and through the apertures of the middle bosses. Such an arrangement of staggered bosses on the pallet provides continuous support therefor when rolling on a roller-type conveyor in a direction parallel to the longitudinal edges. The pallet is of uniform thickness throughout and the feet have flat faces and sides formed as isosceles trapezoids.

Abstract: A process for the manufacture of a gas mixture containing acetylene, ethylene, methane and hydrogen by cracking a liquid hydrocarbon by means of a plurality of arcs burning under the surface of the liquid hydrocarbon and limited, in their electrical effect, by current-limiting elements, wherein the total energy acting on the system is distributed by an arrangement of the electrical components, which is responsible for the stability of the arcs, over a plurality of localized burning points, the current-limiting components being matched to the voltage so that the output of each individual arc on average does not exceed 1.2 kW.