The present invention provides novel 13,14-dihydro-inter-3,7-inter-m-phenylene-4,5,6-trinor-3-oxa-19-oxo-PGF.su b.1 compounds, which are useful for a variety of pharmacological purposes, e.g., antiasthmatic indications.

Small containers are filled and formed from a large preformed and presterilized container, which incorporates communicating compartments. The volume of contents of each compartment are equalized by pressure application and then the compartments are sealed off and severed to form individual containers.

According to this process, after separating the cap and the body of the capsule, a bead of viscous adhesive is deposited inside this cap and at a certain distance from the edge thereof, and there is introduced into the body of the capsule the dose of product to be packed, then the body thus filled is fitted into the cap thus prepared. In a preferred embodiment of the process, before fitting the body of the capsule into the cap thereof and during this fitting together, the atmosphere bathing the ...

A business forms mailer construction comprising an upper panel, at least one intermediate panel, and a lower panel; the upper panel is adhesively secured to the at least one intermediate panel, and the at least one intermediate panel is adhesively secured to the lower panel by glue lines, one of which extends along one side of the intermediate and lower panels. Also provided are a pair of slitter guide marks applied to one of the upper and lower panels, on either side of the glue line, so that b...

Radioactive waste is loaded from a cell 10 into a drum 16 by sealing the drum about a port 12 in the cell, attaching the drum lid to the port door by clamp jaws 30 engaging a boss 76, withdrawing the port door and drum lid 69 into the cell in back-to-back fashion, loading the drum and replacing the lid. The lid has an annular lip 72, and the lid is deformable from a first state in which the lip engages the underside of the drum rim 65 and the lid engages the outer surface of the rim, and a secon...

A pair of wipe down rollers are carried on a respective pair of rotatable arms to which arms force can be applied through separate air actuated cylinders so as to provide that the wipe down roller which engages in wipe down contact with the trailing vertical edge of a carton being sealed with tape applies a higher magnitude of positive wipe down pressure to such trailing vertical edge, than is applied by the wipe down roller which engages the carton leading vertical edge.

A method of mechanically packing a slaughtered bird, including poultry, comprising opening an inlet of an envelope resting on a support, pushing a bird resting with stretched legs on a support into the envelope by exercising a force on the body of the bird, then pressing the legs upwardly to locate the legs in a folded position on both sides of the body and thereafter sealing the envelope.

A case packer for placement of loads through the bottom of a carton so as to accommodate loads of a type which cannot be dropped or placed into a carton from above or from the side. The apparatus includes a support plate mechanism mounted for elevational movement and supplied with individual case loads by a case conveyor. The cases themselves are delivered sequentially to a case packing station by a case conveyor. The plate mechanism is movable upwardly to locate the load within the downwardly o...

A method and apparatus for filling petri dishes include the features of situating a stack of empty petri dishes at a dish-drop station where the stack rests with the lowermost petri dish of the stack on a stationary support. A moving structure engages this lowermost petri dish and moves it beyond the stationary support to a filling station, and during this movement of this lowermost petri dish to the filling station a lower dish member of the petri dish drops down from an upper lid member thereo...

A sealer for inflated balloons, consisting of a casing having a vertical transverse channel open at its upper end. A toothed wheel is mounted on one side of the channel and a resilient strip on the other side. The strip has an operative portion extending in the channel in curved abutting relation to the wheel. The latter and the strip cooperatively define a V-shape notch. Pressure adhesive tape extends from a spool around the toothed wheel. A cutting member is pivoted below the wheel and the str...