Abstract: Potassium silicate solutions combined with silanes that contain a hydrophilic functionality can be spray dried effectively to provide free-flowing powdered products.

Abstract: Compressors are utilized in an apparatus for treating a product such as tobacco with a liquid cryogen, such as carbon dioxide for removing vapor from a processing chamber and recompressing the vapor to facilitate its return to the cryogen system. When the compressors do not receive a supply of cool vapor from the processing chamber, the compressor temperature rises and the pressure drops. When the pressure reaches a predetermined minimum setpoint, the compressors are interconnected by means of a remotely controlled valve to a vessel containing cryogen vapor at a pressure greater than the pressure at the compressors. A supply of cool cryogen vapor thus flows to the compressors to reduce the temperature, thereby allowing continuous operation of the compressors during periods in which cryogen vapor flow from the processing chamber is interrupted or delayed.

Abstract: Compositions including, in units/ml, factor VIII correctional activity, about from 2-35; prothrombin, about from 1-10; thrombin, less than about 0.003; factor VII, about from 37-190; factor VIIa, about from 8-80; total factor IX, about from 15-112; factor IX precursor, 0 to about 30; factor X, about from 1-30; and factor Xa, about from 1-10 are used in therapeutically effective amounts to treat blood clotting factor inhibitors.

Abstract: This is an improved method for producing activated prothrombin complex concentrate which comprises controlling the degree of activation by determining the activation state of the starting material and then varying at least one of the activation conditions in accordance with analyses of the progress of activation of the starting material to arrive at a predetermined activation level.

Abstract: An electric control system characterized by a pair of spaced circuit breakers and a mechanical interlock therebetween, each circuit breaker having a pair of stationary and movable contacts and a trip bar for opening the contacts, and the interlock extending between the movable contact means of each movable contact of one circuit breaker and the trip bar of the other circuit breaker.

Abstract: A molded ice scraper one piece body has independently flexible finger portions terminating in aligned scraping edges that are joined by webs a few thousandths of an inch thick. A continuous, but breakable, blade is thereby formed that will clean a streak-free swath on a windshield or similar surface. The slots separating the fingers are curved where they meet the scraper intermediate section, to eliminate stress concentration. The fingers have forward facing ice deflecting surfaces at an obtuse angle to the surface to be cleaned, extending from the scraper edge, and front facing ice chipping surfaces extending vertically upwardly from an intersection with the ice deflecting surfaces that is spaced back from the scraper edge.

Abstract: A straddle carrier for heavy loads of the type which is driven over a load so that the load is generally beneath the carrier and straddled by the wheels of the carrier. The carrier includes a main frame which has a gripping tong mechanism integrally mounted thereon for clamping the load. The entire main frame and tong assembly may be raised and lowered to permit handling the load by means of cylinder/strut arrangements at each of the four wheels. A linkage comprising extensions from the wheel carrying members and a steering cross bar associated with each of the front and rear pairs of wheels is hydraulically activated independently of the main frame to permit steering the vehicle from any elevation. Mounted on the main frame, and like the main frame lowered and raised relative to the wheels, are an operator's cab and a motor and pump housing for driving the straddle carrier and actuating the various hydraulic cylinders of the carrier.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for receiving, positioning and clamping a chicken and severing the breast bone of the clamped chicken before releasing it while moving the chicken in a directed path of travel.

Abstract: A method for decreasing the amount of ether as a by-product in polyesters (for example terephthalic-based) by initially utilizing a deficient amount of a glycol (for example, ethylene glycol) in the early reaction stages and utilizing an excess of the glycol in the final or end stages. The polyesters produced are of better quality, have a high melting point, possess increased thermal stability, and yield improved fiber properties.

Abstract: Noxious nitrogen oxides in a waste gas stream such as the stack gas from a fossil-fuel-fired power generation plant or other industrial plant off-gas stream is catalytically reduced to elemental nitrogen and/or innocuous nitrogen oxides employing ammonia as reductant in the presence of a zeolite catalyst in the hydrogen or sodium form having pore openings of about 3 to 10 A.

Abstract: An endless power transmission belt is provided which comprises a first portion defining the bottom surface of the belt and comprising a plurality of laterally spaced power transmitting ribs and a groove between each adjacent rib, a second portion bonded to the first portion and acting as a tie band therefor and for the third portion which defines the top surface of the belt and also comprises a plurality of laterally spaced power transmitting ribs and a groove between each adjacent rib. The third portion is symmetrical with the first portion and the grooves in each portion provide a relief area between the ribs to allow debris to work through the tie band and become discharged.

Abstract: A transport vehicle particularly useful for industrial uses and adapted to pick up, carry and subsequently dump a load-carrying receptacle comprising a U-shaped wheel-carried outer frame towed by a tractor which supports an inner U-shaped frame for picking up the receptacle. Vertical rear hoist cylinders elevate the inner U-shaped frame and rotate it about retracted dump cylinders to raise the inner U-shaped frame from an initial horizontal ground-level position to a forwardly tilted travel position. The dump cylinders can then tilt the inner frame about a pivot axis at its rear end to empty cargo from the receptacle. Latching and restraining mechanisms are provided to prevent the receptacle from tipping backward and sliding rearwardly with respect to the inner frame when dumping its load. The latching and restraining mechanisms are gravity-controlled and become inoperative when the inner frame resumes its forwardly tilted travel position.

Abstract: An endless power transmission belt made primarily of elastomeric material is provided which comprises a plurality of laterally spaced belt elements and a tie band interconnecting the radially outer surfaces of the belt elements wherein the tie band comprises a plurality of cooperating layers, one of these layers being bonded to the radially outer surfaces of the belt elements and comprising a fiber-loaded elastomeric matrix, and another of the cooperating layers comprising a fabric layer. The groove between adjacent belt elements extends into the fiber-loaded matrix layer of the tie band. Also provided is a method for making this belt.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for removing porphyrins from a fluid sample which are unrelated to the number of bacteria present in the sample and prior to combining the sample with luminol reagent to produce a light reaction. The method involves a pre-incubation of the sample with a dilute concentration of hydrogen peroxide which inactivates the interfering soluble porphyrins. Further, by delaying taking a light measurement for a predetermined time period after combining the hydrogen peroxide-treated water sample with a luminol reagent, the luminescence produced by the reaction of the luminol reagent with ions present in the solution, being short lived, will have died out so that only porphyrins within the bacteria which have been released by rupturing the cells with the sodium hydroxide in the luminol reagent, will be measured. The measurement thus obtained can then be related to the concentration of live and dead bacteria in the fluid sample.

Abstract: An ice scraper comprising a one-piece body defining a handle section, a downwardly curved intermediate section, and a blade region comprising a plurality of downwardly curved, independently flexible, resilient scraping fingers. In use, the scraping fingers bow or flex when scraping force is applied to ice to be removed, induce the formation of fractures in the ice, and thereafter resiliently return to their unflexed position, imparting force to fractured ice tending to throw it away from the surface to be scraped.The separable, independently flexible fingers enable the ice scraper to effectively conform to curved surfaces and avoid the possible incomplete cleaning action of said blade structures.

Abstract: Level indicating devices wherein at least a side portion of a bubble cavity is defined by a reflecting surface having at least a linear cross section lying generally in a plane aligned with or paralleling a light source and a bubble image observer (i.e. person or sensor).

Abstract: A hub odometer having a pendulous recording mechanism with loose ball anti-orbiting means with two damping balls mounted within a radial ball track diametrally of the center of gravity of the pendulous recording mechanism and having a width in the circumferential direction approximately equal to but slightly greater than the total width of the two damping balls.

Abstract: A method for making double angle V-belts is provided which comprises providing an uncured belt body, placing at least a portion of the length of such body in a mold comprising a pair of mating mold sections which, when closed, provide an elongated cavity having a double truncated V cross-section, closing the mold sections, applying uniform resilient pressure to opposite sides of the belt body while confined in the mold, curing the body portion, releasing the pressure, opening the mold and removing the resulting molded and cured belt portion.Also provided is a mold for simultaneously molding and curing a double angle V-belt which comprises a pair of mating mold sections, each section comprising an elongated, generally symmetrical trapezoidal cavity and having means for applying resilient pressure at the apex of the cavity.

Abstract: This relates to dual band waveguide radiating element for an antenna. A pair of adjacent rear wall excited waveguide elements have a slot in the common wall between them. This slot contains an excitation element so that the structure operates as a ridge waveguide. The rear wall excitation is at the higher of the two frequencies, e.g. S band, while the ridge waveguide operates at the lower frequency, e.g. L band.