Treatment for alcohol dependence or intoxication that involves administering a pharmaceutical composition containing an extract of the kudzu plant, Pueraria lobata.

A fiber optic enclosure for enclosing optical fiber connections includes a housing, a bulkhead, and a cover assembly. The housing has a base and a first sidewall oppositely disposed from a second sidewall. The base and the first and second sidewalls, which extend outwardly from the base, define an interior region with an open-front portion and an open-side portion. The bulkhead is disposed in the interior region of the housing. The cover assembly has a first cover plate that has a first end port...

A vertical shaft impact crusher having a rotor mounted for rotation about a vertical axis on a vertical shaft supported by a central bearing, and an impeller mounted on that shaft so that rock fed into the crusher is caught by the spinning impeller and thrown against an adjacent breaker means, and is broken; wherein the crusher is provided with a guard ring means and a dust shell means mounted telescopically and concentrically to each other with the vertical shaft to restrict the entrance of roc...

The present invention provides an improved standby locking mechanism (20) that is adapted to be used with a ball screw actuator. The actuator has a rotatable screw shaft (21) and has a primary nut (22) mounted on a movable member (23) and threadedly engaging the screw shaft. The standby locking mechanism (20) is also mounted on the member (23) and is operatively arranged to prevent further axial or rotative movement of the screw shaft in the event of a failure of the primary nut. The standby loc...

An apparatus for cleaning an enrober head and a method for using the apparatus, in which the apparatus has a cleaning medium supply vessel having an outlet and an open top, an enrober head mount registered with the open top of the vessel, and a pump, arranged to pump cleaning medium from the vessel to an applicator for application to enrober head elements requiring cleaning. The mount is adapted to attach an enrober head to the vessel, such that, when an enrober head is removed from an enrober a...

A process for the decomposition and removal of one or more fluorine containing compounds from a first gaseous mixture comprising the one or more fluorine containing compounds and water vapour, which process comprises the stages of: (i) contacting the first gaseous mixture with a catalyst comprising an aluminium based material to produce a second gaseous mixture comprising hydrogen fluoride and carbon oxides; and (ii) removing the hydrogen fluoride from the second gaseous mixture to produce a thi...

A connector (24) is disclosed for electrically interconnecting a component (14) to circuitry within a cabinet (10), where the component is arranged to slide in and out of a bay (12) in the cabinet (10). The connector (24) is attached to the component (14) and includes an insulated housing (40) having a plurality of electrical contacts (60) arranged therein. The contacts (60) are adapted for mating along a first mating axis (23) of the connector with respective ones of other electrical contacts (...

An apparatus and method for indicating sources of high error conditions, including out-of-range and interference conditions, to a user of a digital voice communication system. When the vocoder (206) of a communication unit (200, 450) silences due to high error conditions, a source of the high error conditions (e.g., out-of-range or interference) is determined based on the signal strength, and a source indicator (218, 220) is generated to inform the user of the source of the high error conditions...

The electrical connector (24) of the present invention includes a coupling (26, 26') for attaching the connector (24) to an equipment cabinet (10) that will permit a certain amount of movement of the connector along the mating axis (64) after mating with a mating connector (32). The coupling (26, 26') includes U-shaped channels (68) attached to the cabinet that receive rollers (88) attached to the connector. The rollers have a V-shaped groove (98) that receives a circular portion (112) of a spri...

A hydraulic control apparatus having a master cylinder, a slave cylinder, and a conduit connecting the master cylinder to the slave cylinder is constituted as separate modular units interconnected by a quick connect coupling including a female coupler member and a male coupler member. In addition to providing part of the quick connect coupling between the modular units the female coupler member is provided with a bleed system to facilitate removal and addition of hydraulic fluid to the system as...