A grinding pump for pumping liquid containing solid and semi-solid matter having an improved efficiency and which requires a lower operating rpm while exhibiting an increased flow rate. The pump includes: a housing having a chamber; a shaft rotatably disposed within the housing, a comminutor on the shaft within the housing and having a helical blade, and an impeller having a vane; and a shredding liner secured to the housing structure in the chamber, so as to cooperate with the comminutor and im...

A break-away mirror is provided with an extensible resilient tension member (26) coupled to the pivoted assembly (11) of the mirror (10) and also coupled to a head (21) on the outer end of a tilt control lever (19), the tension member extending into the pivoted assembly from the head, and being arranged to guide the head (21) back into its track (22) after it has been displaced therefrom by break-away or other forces.

In this invention a motor vehicle rear vision mirror mounting bracket has a hinge member which stands out away from an outer face of the bracket, and a rear vision mirror assembly has lugs with notches which engage the hinge member and allow the mirror assembly to hinge without contact being made between the mirror case of the assembly and the mounting bracket, thereby avoiding scuffing of the mirror case.

Process to prepare two or more base oil grades, which base oil grades have different kinematic viscositys at 100.degree. C. from a waxy paraffinic Fischer-Tropsch product having a content of non-cyclic iso-paraffins of more than 70 wt % by: (a) obtaining from the waxy paraffinic Fischer-Tropsch product a distillate fraction having a viscosity corresponding to one of the desired base oil products; (b) performing a catalytic dewaxing step using the distillate fraction obtained in step (a) as feed;...

A process to prepare a lubricating base oil and a gas oil by(a) hydrocracking/hydroisomerizing a Fischer-Tropsch product, wherein weight ratio of compounds having at least 60 or more carbon atoms and compounds having at least 30 carbon atoms in the Fischer-Tropsch product is at least 0.2, and, wherein at least 30 wt % of compounds in the Fischer-Tropsch product have at least 30 carbon atoms; (b) separating the product of step (a) into one or more gas oil fractions, a base oil precursor fraction ...

A flat trapezoidal container provides a generally frustoconical single cavity for snugly sheathing a flower pot. The container is specifically dimensioned sheath a flower pot so as either (a) to leave therebeneath, a surplus of film in an transition zone which is concealable under the flower pot, or (b) form a hexagonal gusset in the bottom. The container is made from two flat panels of heat-sealable film, each shaped in the general form of a trapezium; or from a single web folded double. The lo...

Tilt control device for an exterior "break-away" mirror assembly (10) of a motor vehicle comprises at least two lines (18) extending from the mirror back (13) of the mirror assembly over rigid curved guide line surfaces (20, 21, 22, 25, 26, 27) which guide the lines between the mirror back (13) and the control lever (24, 64), the lines being secured at the control lever ends in a manner to provide maximum line movement in response to control lever movement within an available space at the inner ...

Process for obtaining uranium trioxide from a uranyl nitrate solution, the trioxide obtained having to have a specific surface between 12 and 15 m.sup.2 /g, consisting of producing in a zone of the reaction chamber called the contact zone, a thermomechanical contact between the uranyl nitrate solution, atomized into fine droplets according to a given axis in the contact zone, and a gaseous fluid introduced into the contact zone, the gaseous fluid being at a sufficiently high temperature and havi...

A fluid transfer apparatus for transferring gasoline, for example, to a bottom loading tank truck wherein a standpipe, rotatable about its vertical axis, is journalled at its upper end on an overhead support so that a rotary gland swivel at its bottom need be designed to support only the weight of the apparatus without having to resist bending moments. An articulated conduit assembly and counterbalance are mounted on the standpipe and rotate therewith throughout complete rotations about the vert...

A process to prepare two or more lubricating base oil grades and a gas oil by (a) hydrocracking/hydroisomerizing a Fischer-Tropsch product, wherein weight ratio of compounds having at least 60 or more carbon atoms and compounds having at least 30 carbon atoms in the Fischer-Tropsch product is at least 0.2 and wherein at least 30 wt % of compounds in the Fischer-Tropsch product have at least 30 carbon atoms; (b) separating the product of step (a) into one or more gas oil fractions and a base oil ...