Abstract: An apparatus for vending individual servings of ice cream at the demand and selection of a vendee. The apparatus includes a money activate switch for being closed when a predetermined amount of money is inserted thereinto; a selector switch for being energized when the money activated switch is closed; a container dispenser for dispensing one ice cream container when the selector switch is energized and one of a plurality of specific selection switches of the selector switch is closed; a container rotator for receiving the ice cream container from the container dispenser and for rotating the ice cream container; and an ice cream dispenser for dispensing ice cream into the ice cream container as the container is rotated by the container rotator. A syrup dispenser is preferably provided for selectively dispensing syrup onto the ice cream dispensed into the container.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the hydrocatalytic treatment of hydrocarbon feedstock which is a mixture of alkyl aromatics containing at least one di- or polymethyl benzene and an alkyl benzene selected from ethyl-benzene, methyl ethyl-benzene and propylbenzene by contacting the mixture at 300.degree. to 500.degree. C., a pressure of 0 to 100 bars gauge and in the presence of hydrogen with a gallium containing aluminosilicate catalyst and recovering the desired product. The aluminosilicate has a silica to alumina ratio of between 10:1 and 100:1 on a molar bases. The xylene products are useful raw materials as such or for making the corresponding dicarboxylic acids.

Abstract: Apparatus for preparing cooked potato chips from raw potatoes. The apparatus includes a slicer for cutting thin potato slices from a raw potato, a conveyor for receiving the thin potato slices as they are cut by the slicer and for conveying the thin potato slices along a sinuous path, a reservoir for containing a quantity of cooking oil, and a heater for heating the quantity of cooking oil. The thin potato slices being conveyed along the sinuous path by the conveyor are suffused with the heated cooking oil whereby the thin potato slices are cooked. The thin potato slices may be suffused with the heated cooking oil by being conveyed through the heated cooking oil contained within the reservoir or by passing through a mist of the heated cooking oil.

Abstract: A composition particularly effective as a high temperature lubricant for molds used in glass-forming operations and effective at high temperatures of the order of about 1,000.degree. F, comprising a mixture of graphite and a high melting inorganic oxide or salt, preferably potassium titanate, and an inorganic binder e.g. a slurry of magnesium oxide in a mixture of phosphoric acid and chromic acid. The mold lubricant composition also preferably contains a wetting agent, e.g. butyl Cellosolve (ethylene glycol monobutyl ether).

Abstract: Apparatus for cooking various food items. The apparatus includes an enclosed cooking compartment disposed a spaced distance above a reservoir which contains a quantity of cooking oil. A rack is provided for suspending the items of food at spaced apart distances one from the other within the cooking compartment. The oil is heated and forced through nozzles which are uniformly spaced about the interior of the cooking compartment thus forming a mist from the hot cooking oil which saturates the interior space of the cooking commpartment. Thus, the suspended items of food become suffused with the mist of hot oil which effectively accomplishes the cooking process of the food.