An absorbent article of pants type comprises a front waist-opening marginal stretchable region (23a) and a front waist stretchable region (24a) having upper, intermediate and lower stretchable subregions (28a,28b,28c). Their elongation stresses stand in a relationship of the front waist-opening marginal stretchable region (23a) > the lower stretchable subregion (28c) > the upper stretchable subreg...

A method of providing a tin oxide coating on a moving flat or float glass substrate (16) by chemical vapour deposition by pre-mixing gaseous streams of tin tetrachloride and water at a temperature of between 100 DEG C and 240 DEG C and directing the unitary pre-mixed stream against the glass in substantially laminar flow, the tin tetrachloride and the water only reacting in the region of the surfa...

A light-weight, portable X-ray tomography system having an annular frame (28) supporting therein a concentric apertured drum (34) rotatable in its plane about a rotational axis (35), and a plurality of components for performing a tomographic scan all mounted on the drum with respect to both sides of the mean plane of the drum so as to be dynamically balanced for rotation with the drum about the ro...

A patient trauma table is described which is adapted for use with medical imaging systems so that the patient can be easily positioned in the imaging system without the necessity of transferring the patient to a special table, making the table extremely useful for supporting a patient during emergency or surgical intervention. The patient trauma table has an elongated top patient-supporting panel ...

An improved X-ray tomography system having an X-ray source (34), X-ray detector assembly (36) and support means including a frame (22) supporting a rotatable drum (24) on which at least the source (34) is mounted for rotation in a scanning plane (42) about an axis (44) of rotation. The rotatable drum (24) is supported for centerless rotation on a cradle formed by resilient rollers (60, 62) with th...

An improved, portable X-ray tomography system is disclosed wherein lateral movement of the various tomography components relative to a stationary patient during a scanning procedure is precisely controlled by mechanical displacement means which, in turn, is coupled to electro-mechanical means for simultaneously measuring and monitoring the amount of the displacement.

In the centre of the wheel chair, at equal distance from its front and rear ends, is a vertical column, raisable and lowerable by means of hydraulic or corresp. force, and fitted in the chair running gear with its upper end. In its highest position the column supports the wheel chair above the ground. A transmission arrangement, with earlier known technique, causes the wheel chair to turn around t...

A chain link for a product capturing chain, includes a pair of opposed retaining lips 26, 102, 104 for retaining a resilient gripping member, 50, 60. The retaining lips are formed integrally with a flat plate means 14, 62 which may have hinge means 20 to connect it to a similar link or may have saddle means 64 attached to its lower face for attaching it to a chain link. The resilient gripping mean...

Dispositif de distribution et de conditionnement d'un produit, comprenant un récipient pour stocker ledit produit sous pression, une valve à tige de commande et un applicateur poreux en matière frittée ou similaire, cet applicateur présentant une surface externe d'application destinée à venir au contact de la peau de l'utilisateur pour distribuer du produit. Ledit applicateur (9) comporte un perça...

A device for coiling and uncoiling elongated goods (K), such as wire, cable or the like, onto a drum (13) comprises a support (12) with driving means (25) for a spreader arm (10). The spreader arm (10) is rotatably mounted on the support (12) and supports a gripping arm (14) for coiling and uncoiling the elongated goods (K) onto the stationary drum (13). The gripping arm (14) is formed as a curved...

An injection medium, as a dry mix for producing an injection suspension for sealing and/or permeability redn. of earth, rock and/or constructions against fluid (esp. water and/or gas), contains a mineral binder (esp. an ultra-fine binder), a stabiliser, a plasticiser and opt. other conventional additives such as a setting accelerator, an injection aid and a water retention agent, the stabiliser be...

In the pressure swing adsorption of nitrogen from gas mixtures with less polar gas components at temperatures of between 20 DEG and 50 DEG C., wherein the gas mixture is passed through an adsorber which is filled with packings of zeolite pellets and has an inlet zone and an outlet zone, the improvement which comprises providing at least two packings in the adsorber, a packing of Li-zeolite X in ...

A disposable panty shield comprising a thin, highly absorbent pad having a body-contacting surface, an absorbent layer, a liquid barrier, an adhesive layer, and a release layer to pretect the positioning means prior to use wherein the panty shield has been desified by fusing all pad layers together in a manner such that the interstitial space between the individual fibers in the densified areas is...

This invention relates to a process for the production of lower aliphatic esters by reacting a lower olefin with a saturated lower aliphatic mono-carboxylic acid in the vapour phase in the presence of a heteropolyacid catalyst characterised in that an amount of water in the range from 1-10 mole % based on the total of the olefin, aliphatic mono-carboxylic acid and water is added to the reaction mi...

Bleaching compositions are provided that comprise two nitrile groups where each nitrile is bonded to a quaternary nitrogen through a methylene unit. The quaternary nitrogens are part of a saturated ring. This saturated ring contains from two to eight atoms in addition to the quaternary nitrogen. A source of active oxygen will react with the nitriles for bleaching applications.

A flashing arrangement for mounting of a roof element in a roof having a thin sheet-formed roofing comprises flashing elements for connection with the main frame members and is made from a sheet material. The flashing elements intended for connection with the side members of the main frame are of a substantially L-shaped cross section with an upright flange portion for bearing against the side mem...

A socket 1 is fixed to one end of a filament 2 and a head 3 is fixed to the other end of the filament, the socket including a through hole 4 and an annular flange 5. The head which is insertable into the through hole includes a projection 7 formed in the circumferential direction relative to the axis and a recess 8 formed along the axis of the head. The recess enables the diameter of the head to b...

An insulating mat (1) consists of at least two layers (2,3) which form a fleece (4) of natural fibres. The fleece layers are connected, via an intermediate layer (6) made of a mesh (7) contg. adhesive. The mesh is e.g. a polypropylene mesh which contains a thermally activatable adhesive.

In a known drive arrangement in which the switching-off process is initiated after actuation, for example, of an electromagnet by a pin secured to an "off"-trigger shaft as a result of rotation of the latter, thereby enabling a roller of the switching lever to run past the "off"-trigger shaft, the switching-off process occurs when the switching lever has rotated back and the articulated lever syst...

The invention concerns a device for tensioning the cut-in spring in actuator units for circuit breakers, in particular vacuum circuit breaker, the cut-in spring (7) being designed as a tensioning spring which is in contact with a cam (2) mounted on the cut-in shaft (5) and which can be tensioned both by an electric motor (20) and by a hand-turned shaft (21) through a spur-gear train, the last spur...