Abstract:
A female incontinence device comprising a support adapted for insertion into and stable retention in the vagina, a flexible diaphragm engaged at its periphery with the support, and remotely operable means carried by the support to elevate the diaphragm relative to the support and thereby upwardly displace both the urethra and bladder neck, while slightly elongating the urethra.
Abstract:
SILICONE ELASTOMERS ARE DESCRIBED WHICH CONTAIN A HYDROLYTIC DEGARDATIN RESISTANT ADDITIVE WHICH IS AN ADDUCT OR FERRIC CHLORIDE AND AN ORGANIC COMPOUND HAVING THREE AROMTAIC NUCLEI ATTACHED TO ONE ATOM. PREFERRED ADDUCTS ARE THOSE OF FERRIC CHLORIDE WITH TRIPHENYLAMINE OR WITH TRIPHENYL CARBINOL AND A CONVENIENT METHOD OF PREPARING THE FERRIC CHLORIDE/TRIPHENYLAMINE ADDUCT IN SOLUTION IS DESCRIBED. THE ADDUCTS OF THE PRESENT INVENTION INTERFERE WITH THE CROSS-LINKING REACTION OF MOST CURING AGENTS BUT A CLASS OF CURING AGENTS, OF WHICH 2,5-DIMETHYL-2,5-DITERTIARYBUTYL PEROXYHEXANE IS THE BEST MEMBER, WHICH ARE NOT INTERFERED WITH ARE DISCLOSED.
Abstract:
A radiometer apparatus suitable for use on a supersonic aircraft for clear-air turbulence detection includes means for operating at four selected wavelengths within an atmospheric absorption band, for example the 15 Mu band of carbon dioxide. At any particular height of the aircraft each of a set of filters used to select the four selected wavelengths has a weighting function which depends on the effective absorption coefficient of the atmosphere at that wavelength and each indicates which part of the atmosphere ahead provides a significant contribution to the radiation measured by the apparatus. At longer wavelengths the atmosphere is opaque and the radiometer apparatus receives radiation from immediately in front of the aircraft. By generating suitable functions from the outputs of radiation passed by two or more of the filters it is possible to detect turbulence of the type looked for.
Abstract:
A multiplex spectrometer has its spectral line information encoded by transmitting the line through rows of apertures presented in sequence. The apertures occur in a pattern derived from a matrix of binary numbers. Decoding is achieved by adding or subtracting the output in a store containing addresses equal to the number of columns in the matrix.
Abstract:
A hybrid analogue-digital analyzer for the online digitization of electrically recorded mass spectra. The device, which does not incorporate a digital computer, accurately selects peak maxima to provide triggering pulses for timing circuitry, and uses directly controlled buffer storage to reduce the effective rate of data acquisition to that of the average speed of the associated output channel. The analyzer is primarily intended to provide records of complete high resolution mass spectra suitable for off-line computer processing. For real time production of reduced and annotated spectra the analyzer may be used as an active interface directly coupled to a computer.
Abstract:
Air issuing at high velocity from an annular nozzle under choked flow conditions is directed at a resonator constituted by a well formed in a cup spaced from the nozzle and coaxial with it. The airflow is thus induced to vibrate and liquid is injected within the annular curtain and in the same direction to impinge on the vibrating air mass by which it is atomized into fine droplets.
Abstract:
A cycloconverter is described in which each supply phase has a separate circuit path to the load, each path having a separate pair of oppositely poled controlled rectifiers. This arrangement prevents circulating currents flowing and thus removes the need for large expensive reactors to limit these currents. Logic circuits for firing the controlled rectifiers both at unitary and at any load power factor are also described.
Abstract:
A method of damping vibrations in the hull of a floating vessel by transferring vibrational energy from the hull to a liquid-gas system within the hull, the vibrational energy being absorbed within the system by compression and expansion of the gas by the liquid and finally dissipated by friction in the liquid-gas system. Assemblies are disclosed for damping vertical, transverse or torsional vibrations in the hull.
Abstract:
Fluid flow control arrangements, particularly for a heat exchanger or a reactor in which first and second fluids are directed alternately to a common element such as a heat exchange surface, by means of flow control devices of the fluid logic type thereby avoiding use of mechanical valves and facilitating operation at high temperatures. Preferably two common elements with the associated flow control devices are provided and operated in opposed phase relationship to one another.
Abstract:
A tension control device for use with a measuring tape, which device comprises a housing containing spring means connected between a fixed part of the housing and tape clamping means carried by the housing but movable relative thereto, the spring means being adapted to exert a substantially constant tension when extended by relative movement of the tape clamping means, the tape clamping means being adapted for releasable securement to a tape at any point along its length, and the housing being formed to provide a handle.