A system to effect the exchange of containers by a floating crane between vessels changing draft respective the loading change of each. A means facilitates the spotting of the crane hoisting apparatus which includes an automatic locking arrangement engaging a container to the hoisting apparatus.

The disclosure is of means for connecting two bodies in abutting surface-to-surface relation by means of interfitting hooks and recesses, upon relative movement of the surfaces with respect to each other.

Precipitation of solids from a liquid is effected in a confined contact zone by passing the liquid downwardly through a rising stream of hot gas. A number of light weight spheres are confined within and freely movable throughout the zone. The upper and lower limits of the zone are defined by partitions each composed of a horizontal foraminous divider and an imperforate wall. The imperforate wall extends upwardly and outwardly from the divider and terminates at a wall defining the side limit of t...

A nonclock-synchronous interface between a microprocessor and a coprocessor. A request line (404) from the coprocessor and an acknowledgment line (402) from the microprocessor provide for operand transfer from the coprocessor to the microprocessor. A busy line (410) and an error line (408) from the coprocessor allow the microprocessor to monitor the condition of the coprocessor. Data (406) are transferred through a data channel in the microprocessor using the full memory management and protectio...

An arrangement for securing together a pair of panels (10,12) comprising a locking tab (14) projecting from an end edge (16) of one of the panels (10) and a locking slit (28) provided adjacent an end edge (12a), of the other of the panels (12), the locking tab and the locking slit being interengaged by relative sliding movement therebetween. The locking tab includes an anchoring tab (20) hinged to one side edge of a main portion (18) of the locking tab and the locking tab sized for insertion int...

A method of the exchange of heat between solids where the heated solids are passed through heat conducting tubes defining a first flow path or zone in the heat exchanger and the solids to be heated are passed through the interstitial space around the tubes, or through secondary tubes, in the heat exchanger, defining a second flow path or zone. The solids are physically separated by the walls of the tubes which act as a heat conducting barrier and the solids are flowed, under moving-bed condition...

An apparatus for transferring a sheet-like article such as a wafer between a first horizontal passage defining a first plane and a second horizontal passage defining a second plane at a different level from said first plane comprising a carriage vertically movable between said first and second planes for transferring said sheet-like article between said first and second horizontal passages.

An input sentence described by a first natural language is sectioned into individual words. Parts of speech corresponding to the individual words are retrieved from a lexical word storage, whereby the input sentence is described by a corresponding string of the parts-of-speech as retrieved. A translation pattern table is previously prepared which defines correspondence between patterns of strings of parts-of-speech for the first natural language and those for a second natural language by which c...

An intercirculation tunnel between successive railroad cars or highway vehicles for ensuring protection against bad weather and atmospheric agents as well as noise and heat insulation as a unitized structure with oval constant cross section. The structure has a self-supporting wall that is elastically deformable throughout without mechanical devices, and that is composed of a multilayer composite of compact elastomers including an outer layer and an inner layer which can also contain reinforceme...

A brush to handle connector for a push broom is provided for adjustably attaching the handle to the brush head in such a manner as to allow user of the push broom to twist the brush head in various directions and retain it thereby allowing the user to fit the brush head into narrow spaces by changing the angle between the brush head and the handle.