Abstract: An apparatus for replacing a data carrier on a card is provided. A tape has a length, lengthwise edges, a width, a leading edge, a trailing edge, a front face and a rear face. A replacement data carrier is permanently mounted to the front face at a predetermined position with respect to the lengthwise edges. An adhesive material is located on the front face which adhesive is adapted to bond with a surface of the card. A system and method for mounting a data carrier to a card are also provided. A means is provided for supplying a tape. The data carrier is permanently mounted to the front face at a predetermined position on the tape. A means is provided for positioning a card in a selected relationship to the tape such that the data carrier is aligned with the rear face of the card. A means is provided for fixing the tape permanently to the rear face of the card. A means is provided for delivering the card from the fixing means to a cardholder.

Abstract: A process for further purification of nitrogen gas, thereby producing ultra-high purity nitrogen which is substantially free of hydrogen, oxygen and carbon monoxide, wherein the nitrogen gas is contacted with a metal-containing adsorbent at a temperature of 150 K. or less.

Abstract: A cryogenic rectification system wherein a product boiler is incorporated into the primary heat exchanger without encountering boiling to dryness problems wherein liquid from the cryogenic rectification plant is processed in a phase separator upstream of the product boiler, and fluid from the product boiler is passed into the phase separator prior to recovery.

Abstract: A vehicle seat belt installation has a structural belt guide mounted on the seat back headrest which guides movement of the seat belt during operation between a clamping member and a clamping surface. A normally deflated inflatable bag includes a body that is mounted on a base having an inextensible fixed length with one end fixed to the structural belt guide. The other end of the bag base mounts an end belt guide loop which embraces the belt. A middle belt guide loop is secured to the bag outer surface embracing the belt to assure that occupant movement causes the belt to move along a travel route over the outer surface of the bag a distance that is substantially equal to said fixed length when the bag is deflated. When sudden vehicle deceleration is sensed, an inflator mounted in the headrest simultaneously moves the clamping member to clamp the belt to the clamping surface against movement and inflates the bag.

Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for providing computers, particularly the Unisys A series computers, with the capability to function with disk drives of more than one sector format, especially if a predetermined sector format is inefficient and/or cost prohibitive. Interfacing is provided for processing I/O requests between a predetermined logical sector format (e.g., 180 byte sectors) and a variable physical sector format (e.g., 512 or 720 byte sectors). Read operations compare read request addresses to physical sector boundaries and discard unwanted data. Write operations, using at least one sector buffer, perform a read/modify/write cycle, such that the necessary physical sector data not associated with the write request is read into the sector buffer, modified and written back to the disk along with the write data inserted at the appropriate location. This system and method can effectively increase the usable capacity of selected disk drives by 15-20%.

Abstract: A security improved credit, debit, pass, or cash card is a colorless and transparent semirigid plastic card member with non reflective faces, with no permanent imprinting on the card member to visually identify an issuer, an owner or a card number, but with temporary identification that can be removed by the owner of the card and can be visually read only when backed by an opaque sheet. The card has a bending line across a face of the card member that is a slit through the card with a hinge of flexible plastic film attached over the slit. The card has an opening cut through the card member to allow a person's finger nail to engage the opening to pull the card from a wallet or to attach the card on a shirt button.

Abstract: Grease compositions, wherein the grease is thickened with a metal hydroxy-containing soap grease thickener are provided. Other essential ingredients of the compositions include borated hydroxyhydrocarbyl esters and phosphorus and/or sulfur compounds.

Abstract: The invention is an improved grease composition comprising a major proportion of a grease, a hydroxy-containing soap thickener and a minor amount of a compound prepared by reacting a boron compound with an organic compound containing oxygen, sulfur and/or nitrogen or mixtures thereof.

Abstract: A method is provided for improving the yield of the heterologous proteins sCD4 and derivatives of sCD4, produced by recombinant Streptomyces lividans by the addition of casamino acids to the nutrient medium in which the bacteria are cultured. Also provided by this invention is a method for improving the half-life of heterologous proteins in a cell free culture supernatant by the addition of casamino acids to the supernatant. Complex media are also provided.

Abstract: The invention is a grease composition comprising a major proportion of a grease, a hydroxy-containing soap thickener and a minor amount of a compound prepared by reacting a boron compound with an organic compound containing oxygen, sulfur and/or nitrogen. Non-zinc phosphorodithioate sulfur and/or phosphorous compounds are also incorporated into the composition.

Abstract: Improved grease compositions, wherein the grease is thickened with a hydroxy-carboxylate soap grease thickener, preferably a lithium 12-hydroxy stearate, and a means for increasing the dropping point which is a borated n-hydrocarbyl propylenediamine and optionally compounds containing phosphorus and/or sulfur moieties are disclosed.

Abstract: The range from which transponder replies can be received at a virtual secondary surveillance radar of the type described in U.S. Pat. No. 4,115,771 is extended by replacing the omnidirectional antenna previously utilized to receive replies from transponders within the range of the SSR with a stationary array of a plurality of directive antennas arranged in a circle and having radiation patterns pointing in different directions from the center of and covering a respective sector of the circle, and sequentially switching on the antenna of the array covering the sector in which the rotating beam of the associated SSR is then pointing.

Abstract: Grease compositions, wherein the grease is thickened with a metal hydroxy-containing soap grease thickener are provided. Other essential ingredients of the compositions include borated hydrocarbylamines.

Abstract: The invention is a grease composition comprising a major proportion of a grease, a hydroxy-containing soap thickener and a minor amount of a compound prepared by reacting a boron compound with an alkoxylated amide containing a hydrocarbyl group of 1 to 60 carbon atoms and hydrocarbylene groups of 2 to 6 carbon atoms. Sulfur and/or phosphorous compounds are also incorporated into the composition.

Abstract: A mechanism for queuing a set of happened events in order of their occurrence and allowing for multiple occurrences to result in multiple processing iterations which mechanism maintains a multi-event table which is really a table of multi-event designations to be allocated to different processes upon request where the requesting processes assign a particular function with each multi-event entry and each of its own related event designations.

Abstract: Mixed alkoxylated alcohol-hydroquinone or alkoxylated alcohol-resorcinol borates are effective multifunctional antioxidants for lubricants.

Abstract: The invention is a grease composition comprising a major proportion of a grease, a hydroxy-containing soap thickener and a minor amount of a compound prepared by reacting a boron compound with an organic compound containing oxygen, sulfur and/or nitrogen. Sulfur and/or phosphorous compounds are also incorporated into the composition.

Abstract: Grease compositions, wherein the grease is thickened with a metal hydroxy-containing soap grease thickener are provided. Another essential ingredient of the composition is a borated hydrocarbyl diol. The compositions may also contain phosphorus and sulfur moieties.

Abstract: Disclosed is a grease composition comprising a major proportion of a grease, a hydroxy-containing soap thickener and a minor amount of a boronated oxazoline compound. The hydroxy-containing soap thickener and boronated oxazoline compound are each added in amounts sufficient to increase the dropping point of the grease an appreciable amount. Generally this can be an increase of at least 15.degree. F. and could be as great as 200.degree. F. to 250.degree. F. or more. Sulfur and phosphorus compounds can also be incorporated into the composition.

Abstract: A task control mechanism for maintaining a queue of ready or available processes linked together according to an assigned priority for a plurality of central processors where the processors may be assigned to the highest priority task when that processor is not busy executing some higher priority task. The task control mechanism also includes a mechanism for computing task priorities as new tasks are inserted into the queue or removed. The mechanism also maintains an event table which is really a table of event designations to be allocated to different processes upon request where the requesting processes assign a particular function or "meaning" to the event designation. The mechanism of the present invention maintains the state of such allocated events in the event table and signals the related (or "waiting") processes that an event has happened so that the particular system central processors assigned to execute those particular processes may then proceed with their execution.