Abstract: An improved tensioner mechanism for a tiedown assembly, the mechanism including a handle latch which automatically locks the handle to the body of the mechanism once the handle is moved to the closed/engaged position. The handle latch provides enhanced resistance to environmental conditions, and improved positive locking capability.

Abstract: A cargo lashing fitting for affixing to the deck of a transportation vehicle. The fitting includes a housing which is formed from material having welding compatibility with the deck of the transportation vehicle, and is sized to fit within an opening in the deck of such vehicle. The fitting further includes a securing plate removably positioned within the housing and configured to transmit load forces to the housing in a closed loop without such load forces being transmitted into the hardware removably retaining the securing plate within the housing.

Abstract: A cargo lashing fitting for affixing to the deck of a transportation vehicle. The fitting includes a housing which is formed from material having welding compatibility with the deck of the transportation vehicle, and is sized to fit within an opening in the deck of such vehicle. The fitting further includes a securing plate removably positioned within the housing and configured to transmit load forces to the housing in a closed loop without such load forces being transmitted into the hardware removably retaining the securing plate within the housing.

Abstract: A multicolored LED vehicle interior light is described. In various implementations, a switch is used to select one of a plurality of LED lights, in which one light is of a color, such as red, which is suitable for preserving night vision.

Abstract: A multicolored LED vehicle interior light is described. In various implementations, a switch is used to select one of a plurality of LED lights, in which one light is of a color, such as red, which is suitable for preserving night vision.

Abstract: A display case for a replacement window, comprising a case assembly and frame member. The case assembly has a front panel and a rear panel hingedly connected to each other near their top edges, and having an inwardly directed flange connected to their side edges. The frame member secures a replacement window therein and is slidably inserted within the case assembly. The frame member comprises two side sections, a top section and a bottom section. Each side section has at least one longitudinally-extending channel on its external surface for sliding engagement with a flange on the case assembly. The case assembly has means for preventing opening of the hinged connection beyond a predetermined maximum point. There is a plank attached to said bottom section of the frame and extending along its length. The plank has outwardly beveled longitudinal edges so as to create a groove between the bottom section of the frame and the bottom of each beveled edge.

Abstract: The hip prosthesis according to the invention is a further development of the prosthesis formed with conventional head provided with spherical surface, neck and stem, where a guide profile is formed along the outer straight side of the stem, containing components parallel with the side. The guide profile fits the inner surface of the medullary cavity nail, which allows the simultaneous use of the hip prosthesis and the medullary cavity nail, and nailing of the already prosthetized, then fractured femur.

Abstract: Apparatus for solvent extraction of a mother liquor with a solvent that is immiscible with and has a different specific gravity than the mother liquor, is disclosed. Means are provided for introducing into an extraction chamber, the solvent, the mother liquor and a carrier gas. Such means simultaneously serve to atomize the solvent and the mother liquor and disperse same in the carrier gas whereby upon introduction a cloud phase is produced in the chamber.The introducing and simultaneously atomizing is carried out through one and the same spray nozzle. Condensation means are arranged in the extraction chamber and function to terminate the cloud phase and produce a condensed extracted mother liquor phase and a condensed solvent phase containing the substance to be extracted. Means are provided for separating the condensed extracted mother liquor phase from the condensed solvent phase on the basis of the different specific gravities of same.

Abstract: The invention concerns a process for solubilizing alumina in minerals, rocks or industrial waste products, in which the starting material in finely divided form is mixed with lime in an amount 1 to 3 moles or more of lime (CaO or Ca(OH).sub.2) for each mole of alumina and optionally 1 mole for each mole of any silica present in the starting material, and at the same time or thereafter with water, the resulting mix is maintained under hydrothermal conditions until the alumina has become solubilized by reaction with the lime, and the product is if necessary comminuted to bring it to a form suitable for leaching out of the solubilized alumina.

Abstract: Transport processes such as emulsification, mass transfer, dissolution, washing or chemical reaction are carried out by admixing two substantially immiscible fluid phases with a rotary agitator having thereon filamentary elements that occupy 0.1% to 20% of the space to be swept thereby, whose thickness is 10-5000 .mu.m and whose thickness-to-length ratio is 1:5 to 1:5000, there being several thousand such elements on the rotor, that rotates at several thousand rpm, the elements having peripheral speed of at least 30 m/s.-- The operation is improved by also including in the fluid medium solid particles of a size 1-1000 .mu.m.

Abstract: Various chloroformates are produced from aliphatic, substituted aliphatic, cycloaliphatic, aromatic and arylaliphatic alcohols having up to 20 carbon atoms and of phosgene in a continuous, concurrent flow process, with the alcohol starting material being atomized into the reactor, whereby the reaction takes place largely in the fog phase. The vapor pressure of the phosgene can be utilized for the creation of the fog phase and the termination of the atomized state can be used for efficiently separating the chloroformate end product from the hydrogen chloride by product. The process can be carried out in a reactor comprising a reaction zone, a charged zone and a zone for the recovery of the end product.

Abstract: Process for the solvent extraction of liquids mutually immiscible with each other and having different specific gravity, in which both the mother liquor and the solvent(s) are dispersed in a gas or vapour, thereafter the disperse state of the system is terminated by condensation, and the immiscible phases are separated from each other.