Abstract:
MEANS ARE PROVIDED TO INDICATED BY COLOR CHANGE OR LACK OF COLOR CHANGE OCCURRING WITHIN A PREDETERMINE TIME INTERVAL WHETHER A STERILLIZING ENVIRONMENT HAS BEEN ATTAINED IN A SEALED CONTAINER FILLED WITH OZONE MIST. A NEW PACKAGE IS PROVIDED COMPRISING A TRANSPARENT, SEALED CONTAINER HAVING THEREIN AN OZONE MIST STERILIZING ENVIRONMENT, AND ARTICLES TO THE MADE AND KEPT STERILE BY SAID ENVIRONMENT, AND AN INDICATOR ADAPTED TO VISUALLY SIGNAL WHETHER SUCH ENVIRONMENT HAS IN FACT BEEN ATTAINED.
Abstract:
The amounts of two or more gases in a test sample of a mixture of gases from an internal combustion engine exhaust are measured simultaneously by splitting a source of radiant energy into two beams, employing one beam as a control beam, and employing the other beam as a test beam and passing it through the sample, and thereafter directing both beams from opposite sides of the plane of a rotating chopper, which has a mirror surface on both sides, alternately to two band-pass filters having transmission corresponding respectively to the absorption bands of the gases being measured, and directing the radiation passing said filters respectively to detector means.
Abstract:
An ozone generator module of the electric discharge field type is provided having at least one cell comprising an assembly of three concentric tubular members, the inner and outer tubular members being electrodes separated by a tubular dielectric member spaced from one of the electrodes a distance sufficient to define a high density electric discharge zone between them, the cell or cells being disposed within a liquid container. Surprisingly good results are obtained by employing a combination of three method steps; - limiting variation in the cross sectional dimension of the field to within a very small range of tolerance; controlling the temperature of the electrodes; and limiting the density of the field by regulating the voltage across the field and the frequency employed.
Abstract:
An ozone generator module of the electirc discharge field type is provided having at least one cell comprising an assembly of three concentric tubular members, the inner and outer tubular members being electrodes separated by a tubular dielectric member spaced from one of the electrodes a distance sufficient to define a high density electric discharge zone between them, the cell or cells being disposed within a liquid container. Substantially optimum conditions for the production of ozone are provided by making the cross sectional dimension of the field uniform throughout to within a very small range of tolerance and by controlling the temperature of the electrodes by cooling them with liquid coolants one of which is a dielectric liquid, and limiting the density of the field by regulating the voltage across the field and the frequency employed.
Abstract:
Ozone carrying mist is employed to sterilize the interior of an enclosure including surfaces and objects therein. Closing movement of a movable wall portion of the enclosure actuates timing means and provides substantially simultaneous flows of predetermined amounts of ozone and water which are mixed to form a mist and injected into the enclosure. Electrical circuitry controlled by the timing means then actuates means for exhausting ozone from the enclosure and drying the wetted surfaces therein.
Abstract:
AN ARTICLE TO BE STERILLIZED IS PLACED IN A CONTAINER FROM WHICH AIR IS WITHDRAWN AND REPLACED WITH A STERILIZING MEDIUM, PREFERABLY OZONE MIST, TO WHICH ALL SURFACES OF THE ARTICLE ARE EXPOSED, AND THE CONTAINER IS SEALED LEAVING THE ARTICLE IN THE STERILIZING MEDIUM. THE EXHAUSTING AND REFILLING AND SEALING ARE PERFORMED AUTOMATICALLY, IN TIMED RELATION, AND THE EXHAUSTING AND REFILLING STEPS MAY BE REPEATED ONE OR MORE TIMES BEFORE THE SEALING STEP.
Abstract:
A downdraft carburetor of the air valve type having a mixing passage provided at its upstream end with two pivoted plates or air valves forming a variable venturi, and provided with two pivoted throttle plates adjacent its downstream end. A fuel spray bar in the mixing passage between the venturi plates and the throttle plates discharges fuel into the mixing passage and is supplied with fuel by a pivoted pickup arm movable in a fuel chamber over a calibrated metering ramp which cooperates with the free end of the pickup arm to form a variable fuel metering clearance therebetween. The fuel chamber may be pressurized, or the level therein may be controlled by a float. The venturi plates are biased closed by springs, one of which is a bimetallic spring coming into operation only when the engine is cold to provide a choke.