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[Katherine H. Svatek, David A. Wilson, Freddie Griffin, Jr.] MI Midland A process for making Fe-EDTA chelate comprising adding iron oxide at a ratio of ＜1 mole iron/mole EDTA to a mixture of NH.sub.4 OH and EDTA wherein NH.sub.3 /EDTA mole ratio is from 1.05 to 1.5, heating until reaction is complete, cooling to about 60.degree. C. and adding sufficient NH.sub.3 to dissolve and maintain Fe-EDTA chelate in solution, cooling to room temperature and oxidizing Fe.sup.++ to Fe.sup.+++. The process provides (1) a minimum of foaming and sludge formation during the reaction, (2) rapid dissolution of iron oxide and (3) a chelate product substantially completely in the ferric state.

[Michael F. Holick, Sally A. Holick] MA Boston A water soluble vitamin compound of the formula selected from the group consisting of: wherein R.sup.1 is a straight or branched chain glycosidic residue containing 1-20 glycosidic units per residue, and R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 are hydrogen or R.sup.1, with the proviso that at least one of R.sup.2 or R.sup.3 is R.sup.1.

[John S. Cullen, Samuel A. Incorvia, James A. Vogt] NY Buffalo A self-retaining adsorbent container including a cylindrical cup-shaped casing of porous material, adsorbent in the casing, a porous end wall secured to the edge of the cup-shaped casing at its open end by a rim which is more rigid than the material of the cup-shaped casing, and diametrically spaced concave indentations in the casing and the cover for receiving spaced pipes in a refrigerant receiver.

[Atsushi Naito, Fumio Nakagawa, Takao Okazaki, Akira Terahara, Seigo Iwado, Mitsuo Yamazaki] JPX Tokyo A new compound, named "Griseolic acid", and its salts and can be prepared by the cultivation of Streptomyces griseoaurantiacus SANK 63479 (FERM-P 5223). Griseolic acid and its salts inhibit the activity of the enzyme cyclic adenosine monophosphate phosphodiesterase and, as a result of this, have variety of physiological activities and uses.

[Akihiko Takata, Yoshihiko Hasegawa] JPX Tokyo In a fastener-attaching apparatus equipped with a feeder for selectively delivering two different component pieces of fasteners from two separate feed hoppers to an attaching point, the improvement in the feeder which comprises a pair of tracks having a pair of vertically parallel fastener-guiding T-grooves which extend from the delivery openings of the two feed hoppers and terminate in vertically juxtaposed fastener discharge outlets, a shifting mechanism for selectively closing and opening the T-grooves of the tracks, a guide having a guide groove provided at right angles to the T-grooves and extending to the fastener-attaching point, with the fastener discharge outlets open in the guide groove, a fastener limiter slide located opposite to the discharge outlets and urged by a spring slidably and partly into the guide groove, the limiter slide having separate fastener-piece-receiving recesses corresponding, respectively, to the upper and lower discharge outlets, and a pusher bar slidable in the guide groove and which, when driven through the guide, causes the limiter slide to retract and pushes each fastener piece to the attaching point.

[Leslie M. Borsuk, Patrick G. Corrales] NY New York A fiber optic contact retention assembly in which a fiber optic contact has an annular groove formed in its body providing front and rear shoulders. An O-ring is positioned in the groove adjacent to the rear shoulder. The contact is radially slidably mounted into a slot in a supporting yoke. One shoulder of the contact engages the front of the yoke and the O-ring is compressed between the rear of the yoke and the rear shoulder of the contact so that the contact is firmly retained in a vertical position relative to the front face of the yoke for facilitating insertion of the contact into a guide member.