Abstract: A disc tossing table game is provided. The table game includes baskets configured to receive a projectile, a tiered basket stand configured to receive the baskets thereon, and a disc configured to be thrown at the baskets. The baskets include an upright support pole disposed in a catch member, a top member for suspending deflecting tethers thereon, and a support member for stabilizing the support pole in the catch member. The support pole includes a first end affixed to the top member and a second end affixed to a base of the catch member. The tethers include a first end affixed to the top member and a second end affixed to a ring member suspended around the support pole. The support member engages a wall of the catch member via a friction fit. The catch member includes an interior volume configured to receive the projectile.

Abstract: A hair management process includes washing the hair and scalp, towel drying the hair and leaving the hair damp, applying an oil composition to the scalp, applying hair moisturizer to the hair and scalp, covering the hair with a cap, removing the cap and applying hair moisturizer to the hair, applying hair mousse on top of the moisturizer and styling the hair.

Abstract: A carrier for a disk drive includes a back member configured to abut a face of the disk drive; a pair of side members coupled to the back member, configured to abut opposing sides of the disk drive; and a pair of flexible tangs, each tang coupled to one of the side members and configured to removably mount the carrier in a base. The back member is, or the side members are, or the back member and side members are, configured with a set of attachment mechanisms in locations that correspond to locations, in the disk drive, of screw holes used for mounting so that the disk drive is removably mountable in the carrier using the attachment mechanisms and an assembly of the carrier with the disk drive is removably mountable in the base.

Abstract: A process for the production of an aromatic carboxylic acid comprising contacting in the presence of a catalyst, within a continuous flow reactor, one or more precursors of the aromatic carboxylic acid with an oxidant, such contact being effected with said precursor(s) and the oxidant in an aqueous solvent comprising water under supercritical conditions or near supercritical conditions close to the supercritical point such that said one or more precursors, oxidant and aqueous solvent constitute a substantially single homogeneous phase in the reaction zone, wherein the contact of at least part of said precursor with said oxidant is contemporaneous with contact of said catalyst with at least part of said oxidant.

Abstract: In one embodiment, an electrochemical cell stack comprises at least two electrochemical cells, wherein each electrochemical cell comprises a hollow elongated electrolyte, having disposed upon it an anode and a cathode, and further wherein with the exception of the outermost cell, each electrochemical cell is placed within another electrochemical cell in a manner such that at least one of the surfaces of the respective electrochemical cells are approximately parallel to one another.

Abstract: A process for the production of an aromatic carboxylic acid comprising contacting in the presence of a catalyst, within a continuous flow reactor, one or more precursors of the aromatic carboxylic acid with an oxidant, such contact being effected with said precursor(s) and the oxidant in an aqueous solvent comprising water under supercritical conditions or near supercritical conditions close to the supercritical point such that said one or more precursors, oxidant and aqueous solvent constitute a substantially single homogeneous phase in the reaction zone, wherein the contact of at least part of said precursor with said oxidant is contemporaneous with contact of said catalyst with at least part of said oxidant.

Abstract: A process for the production of an aromatic carboxylic acid comprising contacting in the presence of a catalyst, within a continuous flow reactor, one or more precursors of the aromatic carboxylic acid with an oxidant, such contact being effected with said precursor(s) and the oxidant in an aqueous solvent comprising water under supercritical conditions or near supercritical conditions close to the supercritical point such that said one or more precursors, oxidant and aqueous solvent constitute a substantially single homogeneous phase in the reaction zone, wherein the contact of at least part of said precursor with said oxidant is contemporaneous with contact of said catalyst with at least part of said oxidant.

Abstract: A process for the production of an aromatic carboxylic acid comprising contacting in the presence of a catalyst, within a continuous flow reactor, one or more precursors of the aromatic carboxylic acid with an oxidant, such contact being effected with said precursor(s) and the oxidant in an aqueous solvent comprising water under supercritical conditions or near supercritical conditions close to the supercritical point such that said one or more precursors, oxidant and aqueous solvent constitute a substantially single homogeneous phase in the reaction zone, wherein the contact of at least part of said precursor with said oxidant is contemporaneous with contact of said catalyst with at least part of said oxidant.

Abstract: A process for producing solid particles by drying a spray of liquid droplets. The droplets are formed by projecting a liquid formulation as a plurality of jets J (FIG. 6) in such a way that each jet breaks up into droplets of narrow size distribution. Prior to the onset of coalescence the droplets are contacted with a gas flow (G) which is arranged to reduce coalescence by disrupting slip streaming of the droplets and/or accelerating the droplets.

Abstract: Precipitation of fine azide core particles with in-situ coating with suspended tiny oxide particles, followed by concentration of the dilute suspension of these bodies to form a slurry with residual dissolved azide in the liquor, and finally converting the slurry in to solid aggregates of the pyrotechnic bodies by e.g. prilling whereby liquid phase evaporation releases dissolved azide causing the pyrotechnic bodies to be adhered together in to larger aggregates.

Abstract: A process for the production of explosives grade ammonium nitrate prill (EGAN) comprises the steps of(A). producing seed ammonium nitrate prill as substantially monosized prills; and then(B). fattening using melt/solution of ammonium or mixed nitrates, with drying and thermal treatments, the seed prill in an inclined rotating jacketed pan granulator or a cascade of such pans to produce a final fattened EGAN prill product preferably having at most about 4 mm diameter.

Abstract: Explosive grade ammonium nitrate (EGAN) prills are made by a process comprising the steps of:a. continuously spraying a 95 to 98% by weight solution/melt of ammonium nitrate (or a mixture of ammonium nitrate and minor proportions of one or more other EGAN--acceptable nitrates) in/with water under spray-head conditions causing the emergent jets to break into cascades of substantially mono-sized droplets;b. allowing the formed droplets to fall within a vertical duct;c. continuously feeding a stream of cooling gas upwards through the duct to effect cooling and solidification of the falling droplets and some removal of moisture so as to form substantially mono-sized EGAN prills of up to about 4 mm diameter, andd.

Abstract: A method for producing an emulsion explosive comprises introducing a liquid organic fuel phase and an immiscible liquid oxidizer phase into apparatus having a mixer chamber, flow constrictor means for introducing the liquid oxidizer phase as an emergent turbulent jet into the chamber to cause its fragmentation into droplets in situ within the chamber, means for introducing the fuel phase into the chamber so that the fuel phase introduced thereby contacts and becomes distributed around the droplets of oxidizer phase as they form to produce emulsion and further providing shear mixing means within the mixing chamber to effect enhancement of the mixing of the chamber contents and thereby to continuously incorporate the fuel phase to produce a more refined emulsion suitable for use as the basis for an explosive system, particularly emulsions of high velocity.

Abstract: Apparatus for producing a multi-phase emulsion explosive from a liquid organic fuel medium and an immiscible liquid oxidizer comprises a mixing chamber, flow constrictor means for introducing the liquid oxidizer as an emergent turbulent jet to said chamber and causing formation of droplets of said oxidizer in situ within the chamber, means for introducing the fuel medium to said chamber so that the fuel introduced thereby contacts and stabilizes the droplets of oxidizer solution as they are formed to maintain same as discrete droplets of oxidizer liquid and thereby provide an emulsion suitable for use as the basis for an explosive system.

Abstract: A process (and apparatus therefor) for carrying out thermally-initiated chemical reactions or physical changes by heating a particulate substrate in a fluidized bed having hotter zone(s) and cooler zone(s) between which the fluidized particles circulate, the dwell time in the hotter zone(s) being sufficiently short so as to prevent the particles undergoing an undesirable thermal transformation before the particles move into the cooler zone(s). The fluidized bed is applicable, for example, to a process for the polymerization of a low molecular weight poly(ethylene terephthalate).

Abstract: A method and apparatus for the reduction rolling of metal rod out of billets, ingots, continuously cast bar and like starting elements, in and by which the stock to be reduced is sent through a sequential series of roll-stands each having a pair of reduction rolls and an entry guide to direct the stock into the nip of the rolls. Some, most or all of the rolls are cylindrical, parallel and devoid of grooves; the stock is shaped by rolling so that upon arrival at and upon departure from each pair of grooveless rolls it has a cross-sectional profile having a major axis which is from one and one half to two and one half times longer than a minor axis at right angles to the major axis. The stock so shaped is presented to the grooveless rolls so that its minor axis is substantially parallel to the work surfaces of the rolls.