A tray supporting individual thermally insulated casseroles of food portions for serving complete meals such as entree food to be cooked and frozen and chilled side dish food. The entree and individual side dish food portions are each placed in separate casseroles in chilled or frozen condition. Each casserole thermally encloses the separate food portions and the thermal insulation of the casserole and the initial low temperature levels of the chilled or frozen food retains the food in the casse...

Substituted 4-hydroxy-3-(1H-tetrazol-5-yl)-quinoline compounds are prepared by reacting substituted 3-cyano-4-hydroxyquinolines with sodium azide to provide useful anti-allergic compounds.

Certain substituted 6,7-dihydro-1-oxo-1H,5H-benzo[ij]-quinolizine-2-carboxylic acids and hydrazides, esters, amides and salts thereof, intermediates therefor, and a process for their preparation are described; the compounds are active as anti-microbial agents.

Granular sorbent material comprising a granular high surface area support impregnated with a water soluble, essentially non-volatile primary or secondary amine with equivalent weight less than about 400 and bearing either zero or two carbonyl substituents attached directly to the amino nitrogen atom is disclosed. The resulting material can be used as the filtration media in respirators, powered air purifiers, room air purifiers, ventilation filters, exhaust filters, process gas filters and the l...

A sealing composition prepared by reacting water-soluble polyurethane prepolymer with water containing latex to provide a gelled viscous mass which will cure to a cross-linked latex-reinforced gel capable of preventing or inhibiting leakage in various structures, when applied at the site of the leakage in the viscous state. The sealing composition of the invention also preferably contains up to 60% by weight of fillers of the total weight of the composition to provide a high compressive strength...

Gasketing material is produced by combining a tubular casing of braided or woven from continuous inorganic filaments, such as alumina-boria-silica fibers, with a core composition comprising a major proportions of intumescent material, suitably unexpanded vermiculite. Heating the gasket in situ results in expansion to give a resilient gasket stable to temperatures of about 1000.degree. to 1200.degree. C.

High performance thermoplastic pressure sensitive adhesives are prepared by the copolymerization of N-(meth)-acryloylamino acids and acid derivatives with long-chained alkyl acrylates. The copolymers can be formulated into tapes that possess an excellent threefold balance of the necessary tape properties of tack, adhesion and cohesion.

The present invention relates to the recovery of heat and/or condensable liquid from a gaseous environment utilizing an open cycle heat pump system. The open cycle heat pump system is employed to alter the temperature of a gas by compression, expansion, heat exchange, and combinations thereof, to condense selected vapors carried in the gaseous environment for removal from the gas. The open cycle heat pump system can also be used to extract the heat from a gas for use as desired.

An improved video tape cartridge having a housing formed in two sections that are pinned together at two hinged knuckle joints by means of removable hinge pins. Each knuckle joint is defined by knuckle members formed on each housing section. Each hinge pin is shaped with a long bent end portion that is directed through one of the knuckle members to be journaled in an aperture in the other of the knuckle members, and an opposite end portion that is held in place by a rib near such other knuckle m...

A tape cartridge is formed with a rotatable tape transport roller having a cylindrical exterior surface and a central bore into which protrudes a node from each inner sidewall of the cartridge to serve as trunnion axes for supporting the roller therein. In a preferred embodiment, the trunnion axes have an inward slant away from the central bore of the roller so that axial movement of the roller will produce a canting thereof to compensate for misalignment between the cartridge and components of ...