Abstract: Improved gas liquid contact sheets and contact bodies are disclosed comprising a plurality of parallel and generally vertical corrugated contact sheets, wherein the corrugations form alternating apices in the sheets, the corrugations being disposed at an angle to the horizontal and wherein the corrugations are substantially parallel and adjacent sheets are oriented such that corrugations of one sheet cross the corrugations of an adjacent sheet at intersections of the apices, the improvement comprising positioner pads positioned in apices of the corrugations of the contact sheets, such that at least about eighty percent of the intersections of adjacent sheets contain abutting pairs of the positioner pads. In addition, contact bodies in which adjacent sheet corrugations intersect proximate the edges of the contact sheets are provided.

Abstract: A heat exchanger comprises an elongated plate folded in corrugated fashion and defining a stack of a number of laminated air passages defined by spacer parallel plane heat transfer faces or plates connected alternately along opposite side edges by narrow partition plates. In alternate air passages, spacer plates are disposed having such a wavy or corrugated configuration as to conduct a first current of air flowing into such alternate passages from one open end thereof to flow out from an open side portion thereof opposite the corresponding partition plate. In the remainder of the air passages are disposed spacer plates having such a wavy or corrugated configuration as to conduct a second current of air flowing into such passages from the open ends thereof, opposite those into which the first air current flows, to flow out from open side portions thereof opposite those out from which the first current flows.

Abstract: Device for a contactor (10) for liquid and gas, e.g. for use in cooling towers and the like, such contactor being built up of mutually spaced membranes (12, 14) forming ducts for the passage of a fluid introduced at the top of the contactor and collected in a trough or channels below the membranes. In order to be able to collect the liquid passing through the contactor immediately beneath the lower surface of the latter, thereby reducing the pumping height without appreciably affecting the flow conditions of the air passing through the contactor, the contactor (10) is provided with surfaces to carry of the liquid which are inclined at an angle relative to the horizontal and are connected to at least one collecting channel or trough (16), these surfaces serving to carry the liquid passing out of the contactor into the collecting channel (FIG. 1).

Abstract: The packing is constructed for an exchange column and is provided with corrugated lamellae which have steep portions disposed between the various corrugations in order to accelerate the descending liquid phase between the corrugations. The steep portions are vertically arranged between adjacent corrugations or between pairs of adjacent corrugations.

Abstract: Metal alloy having high catalytic activity. It comprises a refractory base metal mass containing carbon and at least one metal of the platinum type, the surface of which has been subjected to intergranular acid corrosion which produces microfissures and causes the formation of microcrystals of the platinum metals.Application in exhaust catalytic converters.The present invention relates to refractory metallic alloys exhibiting a high catalytic activity which are particularly useful for reducing exhaust gas pollution from automobiles.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for forming a novel corrugated paperboard web of indefinite length, which web includes a planar facer layer and a corrugated layer the flutes of which extend longitudinally the length of the web. The web is formed by splicing together sections having offset planar facer and corrugated layers of generally equal dimensions, respectively, whereby at one end the facer layer projects beyond the corrugated layer and at the other end the corrugated layer projects beyond the facer layer, the flutes of the corrugated layer extending from one projecting end to the other. Successive sections are spliced together with the projecting facer layer portion of one section overlying the projecting corrugated portion and the facing layer of another section, preferably with the adjacent portions of the corrugated layers of the two sections being in flute-enmeshing engagement.

Abstract: Packing consisting of a plurality of twisted strips stacked parallel to each other in an axially symmetrical arrangement. Twisting produces spirals rotating in the same sense. In addition, the strips are pleated to produce waves perpendicular to the axis of the spiral. When the packing is assembled from the spirals, the individual spirals are staggered in relation to each other to form continuous channels extending in straight lines in four axially symmetric directions. The axially symmetric directions are defined in that their projections in the horizontal plane form an angle of 90.degree. with each other and an angle .alpha. formed between the said axially symmetric directions and the axis of symmetry of the packing depends solely on the ratio of the widths of the spirals to their pitch.

Abstract: A multi-layer member of corrugated board made of active carbon fibers having an equilibrium adsorption amount of benzene of not less than 200 mg/g and a benzene adsorption rate constant of not less than 0.2 min.sup.-1.

Abstract: An article and its method of manufacture is disclosed wherein three sheets of thermoplastic web material are bonded to form a laminated unit with an object captured therein. Energy director element sets are disposed between adjacent sheets in an orientation such that when the layers are brought together with the object therebetween and a compressive force and high frequency vibratory energy are applied to the unit, the pressure and vibratory energy are concentrated at a first portion of the energy director elements so that the thermoplastic material in the region of the concentrated pressure softens. A second portion of the energy director elements is aligned with, but spaced from the object to be captured between the sheets. The spacing corresponds generally with the thickness of the energy director elements so that, as the first portion of the energy director elements melts during sonic bonding, the second portion of the elements approaches the object.

Abstract: Phenolic curing agents, especially suitable for use in powder coatings, are prepared by reacting a dihydric phenol (diphenylol propane), a diepoxide (liquid diglycidyl ether of diphenylol propane), and a dicarboxylic acid (adipic acid) with the phenolic functionality in excess over the difference between the epoxy functionality and the acid functionality.

Abstract: An article and its method of manufacture is disclosed wherein at least three sheets of thermoplastic web material are bonded to form a laminated unit. Energy director element sets are disposed between adjacent sheets in an orientation such that the director elements of one set are angularly oriented with respect to those of the next adjacent set to define points at which the elements of one set cross the elements of the adjacent set. When a compressive force and high frequency vibratory energy are applied to the unit, the pressure and vibratory energy are concentrated at the defined points so that the thermoplastic material in the region of the concentrated pressure is first to soften. Subsequent application of compressive force and vibratory energy softens the thermoplastic material adjacent the defined points. By initially concentrating the pressure and vibratory energy, the bonding time is substantially reduced and an even flow of material is assured.

Abstract: A fluid-filled bladder-type mattress includes a plurality of panels periodically disposed at oblique angles between upper and lower surface members of the bladder mattress for suppressing motion. In one preferred embodiment, a single bladder chamber is filled with a liquid fluid, and panels comprising a plurality of planar membrane members are bonded along angular lines alternately and at oblique angles to the upper and lower surface members of the bladder in a herringbone bonding pattern to provide an open inner structure promoting wave energy dispersion and dissipation. A mattress embodying the invention minimizes horizontal motion and fluid wave propagation.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for forming a novel corrugated paperboard web of indefinite length, which web includes a planar facer layer and a corrugated layer the flutes of which extend longitudinally the length of the web. The web is formed by splicing together sections having offset planar facer and corrugated layers of generally equal dimensions, respectively, whereby at one end the facer layer projects beyond the corrugated layer and at the other end the corrugated layer projects beyond the facer layer, the flutes of the corrugated layer extending from one projecting end to the other. Successive sections are spliced together with the projecting facer layer portion of one section overlying the projecting corrugated portion and the facing layer of another section, preferably with the adjacent portions of the corrugated layers of the two sections being in flute-enmeshing engagement.

Abstract: An expandable honeycomb structure adapted to be suspended between stacks of articles of freight or between a stack of articles of freight and a wall and having spaced strips of relatively stiff material defining certain cell walls to resist sagging of the structure by its own weight and undue "hour glass" distortion due to vertical elongation of certain of the cells. In one embodiment readily foldable strips are interspersed with relatively stiff strips of corrugated paperboard having their corrugations running lengthwise.

Abstract: The single-stage building of 0.degree. belted pneumatic tires completely in flat band form on standard building drums, is disclosed. The feasibility of the process rests on the provision of the substantially inextensible metallic or non-metallic belt cords in the form of longitudinally extensible high "soft stretch" tapes. In a preferred version of the invention, the tape is composed of a plurality of cords each having formed therein a multiplicity of undulations which in any given straight length of the tape are substantially planar, the cords being disposed in side by side relation so that the planes of the undulations of each cord are generally parallel to the planes of the undulations of each adjacent cord, and the cords together with a relatively weak and frangible but only minimally undulated stabilizing yarn for the tape being secured to each other and held in their undulating state by a relative weak, chain stitch knitted, frangible stitching yarn or thread.