Abstract: A package including an outer box and inner tray. The inner tray slidable into and out of the outer box. The outer box including a first tab, a second tab, and a lip. The first and second tabs movable toward an interior of the outer box when force is applied. The inner tray including a first flap and a second flap, the first and second flaps movable toward an interior of the inner tray when force is applied. When the inner tray is slid into the outer box and the first and second tabs are in a first position, the first and second flaps are engaged with the lip and the inner tray is locked to the outer box. When the first and second tabs are in a second position the first and second flaps are disengaged with the lip and the inner tray is slideable out of the outer box.

Abstract: A packaging includes an outer box, an inner tray, and a lock mechanism. The lock mechanism includes a first lever and a second lever to lock the inner tray to the outer box and unlocks the inner tray from the outer box.

Abstract: A system and method decreases the transmission of structure-borne noise by cooling fans to electronic components and structurally integrated enclosures for the electronic components. The system has a machined isolation plate that fits onto a rear plate on the structurally integrated enclosure. The cooling fans are fitted onto the opposite side of the isolation plate. Fitted between the isolation plate and the rear plate, and/or the isolation plate and the cooling fans are soft elastomeric isolators. These isolators dampen and prevent the transmission of structure-borne noise from the cooling fans to the electronic components and the structurally integrated enclosure. This dampening is advantageous on platforms in which stealth is desired, such as on submarines.

Abstract: A method is presented for spray-drying whole microorganisms of Fusarium lateritium, Methylophilus methylotrophus, and Pseudomonas putida under conditions that the activity of cyanide hydratase, amidase and D-2-haloalkanoic acid halidohydrolase respectively are retained.

Abstract: A solar steam generator has a hollow steam rotor mounted for rotation in a closed compartment located within a larger housing. The rotor is made of heat conductive material and is supplied with water or other working fluid through an inlet at its central hub. A plurality of steam jet outlets are located around the periphery of the rotor; and they are oriented to cause the rotor to spin as the water or working fluid inside is heated to a boiling temperature. To cause the fluid in the rotor to boil, Fresnel lenses, located in an open end of the housing, focus heat from the sun onto the rotor and the chamber in which it is located. Steam and fluid which exit from the nozzles is recovered in the sealed chamber and is returned through a condenser-reservoir, from which it is supplied back to the water inlet of the rotor.

Abstract: Peroxide, particularly supplied as hydrogen peroxide, is an effective nucleic acid degrading agent and can be used in the recovery of intracellularly produced materials from cell (particularly bacterial) lysates. The degradation or removal of nucleic acids from cell lysates is important because they form solutions of high viscosity which interfere with subsequent processing. Peroxide degradation is particularly useful in the recovery of polyhydroxyalkanoate polymers such as polyhydroxybutyrate/valerate from lysates of bacterial cells in which they are produced.

Abstract: Melt processed articles of improved color and odor can be produced from hydroxyalkanoic acid polymers if they are melt processed in the presence of a temperature stable sulphite salt, and compositions for use in such processes are disclosed.

Abstract: A tool assembly in which the tool retainers are provided with spring loaded plungers which snap into place in detents provided in the tools and are then locked in the detents by set screws engaging the shanks of the plungers. This prevents inadvertent displacement of the tools, particularly punches, from their retainers, especially displacement due to jarring or vibration during manufacturing of the tool assembly. The retainers are attached to their respective shoes by bolts having tool engageable sockets in both their leading ends and their heads. This facilitates manufacture of the tool assemblies while permitting replacement of the tool retainers without removing the shoes from the press in which they are mounted. Additionally, a stripper plate may be mounted by means of bolts having tool engageable sockets in either end to permit the plate to be removed from the press without removing the shoe to which the stripper plate is attached.