The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing an absorbent article in the form of a pants-type diaper or a sanitary panty, starting from a flat blank which includes an elongated absorbent body (5) enclosed between two casing sheets (2, 9) which at opposing front and rear end parts of the absorbent body have side parts which extend laterally beyond the body on opposite sides thereof, w...

PURPOSE:To forecast the service life of a lead storage battery by providing an electrode made of a lead alloy connected to a cathode plate to the end anode plate of an electrode plate group through a separator, and making a part of the electrode into a terminal for measuring so as to measure the resistance value with a cathode terminal. CONSTITUTION:An electrode 1 is formed with a Pb-Ca alloy same...

PCT No. PCT/DE89/00494 Sec. 371 Date Apr. 25, 1991 Sec. 102(e) Date Apr. 25, 1991 PCT Filed Jul. 28, 1989 PCT Pub. No. WO90/01617 PCT Pub. Date Feb. 22, 1990.An improved adjusting device for an electromagnetically-actuated, spring-loaded positioning system in displacement engines, such as for lifting gas exchange valves in internal combustion engines. The adjusting device comprises a spring system...

PURPOSE:To make a device light and compact by arranging a sub-transmission composed of three gears between a differential case and a center differential. CONSTITUTION:A sub-transmission composed of three bevel gears 1-3 is provided in a differential case 4, and inner respective bevel gears 1-3, is provided with a center differential composed of a bevel gear 1a connected to an output shaft 9, a bev...

A control system for a vehicle such as an automobile comprises a device for storing data for determining a driver's age, a group of various sensors for sensing driver's operations and a controlling system which estimates a driver's characteristic from information supplied from the sensors, and which modifies a response characteristic of any one or more of steering system, brake system and accelera...

An improved hard facing for teeth and other surfaces of milled tooth rock bits comprises steel in the range of from 18 to 32 percent by weight, and filler in the range of from 68 to 82 percent by weight. The filler is cemented tungsten carbide and cast tungsten carbide free, and includes greater than 95 percent by weight single crystal monotungsten carbide particles. The single crystal monotungste...

PCT No. PCT/CH96/00255 Sec. 371 Date Feb. 27, 1997 Sec. 102(e) Date Feb. 27, 1997 PCT Filed Jul. 11, 1996 PCT Pub. No. WO97/03780 PCT Pub. Date Feb. 6, 1997In a web-fed rotary press for processing web-shaped materials, the latter run between two working rollers (3, 4) that are arranged in side bearing housings (8, 9). The working rollers (3, 4) that are connected via the bearing housings (8, 9) to...

Proposed is a process for separating enantiomers from a racemic mixture by countercurrent extraction using at least two substances, one of them a liquid in which the racemic mixture to be separated is present, the other containing a chiral adjuvant which is combined with or part of a gel forming substance in the form of discrete particles in a liquid separated from the countercurrently flowing liq...

A decanter centrifuge comprises a bowl (12) rotatable about a longitudinal axis, the bowl being provided with a cake discharge opening (18) at one end and a liquid phase discharge opening (20). The bowl has a cylindrical portion (28) and a beach portion (42) disposed between the cylindrical portion and the cake discharge opening. A beach area is provided on an inner surface of the bowl at the beac...

The invention is characterized in that the street and street number of a waypoint, or of a point nearest to the waypoint, is located and input by an input means whereby the desired street name and street number are entered and stored as the waypoint name. In case the street name of the waypoint, or of a point nearest to the waypoint, cannot be found, the name of facility nearest to the waypoint, o...

The invention relates to a method and apparatus for processing at least two synthetic yarns 2 and 3 running side by side at a distance in a textile machine 1, the yarns being guided through at least two successive processing stations, the processing surfaces of which are at right angles to one another. At the same time, between the processing stations 8 and 9, the yarns 2 and 3, positively maintai...

Multi-purpose exercise apparatus for exercising the muscles and training, having a vertical post (1) and an upper framework (3, 4) extending rearwards from the latter, a horizontal shaft (6) rotatably mounted therein, whose front end part is designed as a plug-in shaft (61) accessible from the front of the post, a cam wheel (7) arranged on the shaft (6) in a manner proof against rotation, a carria...

Upper and lower shell members of aluminum-plated steel panels have respective flanges overlapping each other and welded to each other by a laser beam, forming a fuel tank. One of the flanges has a stepped region spaced from the other of the flanges, defining a gap between the stepped region and the other flange. The laser beam is applied to the flanges closely to the gap for discharging unwanted c...

The method involves joining, by means of a laser weld seam, of two steel sheets (1, 2) of which at least one is provided with a coating with a low melting point. Before welding, the sheets in the joint region are oriented to one another at an acute angle ( alpha ) and that the weld seam is shaped as a fillet weld. Also claimed is a sheet-metal component made up of least two deep-drawn sheets joine...

A nonwoven fiber and fabric are provided wherein the fabric has comparable strength characteristics to conventional fabrics yet is softer. The fibers are are a blend of a high crystallinity polypropylene polymer and a random block copolymer of polypropylene and polyethylene. The fabric of this invention may be laminated to other spunbond layers, meltblown nonwoven fabrics or films. The nonwoven fa...

PURPOSE:To enable a tire whose vulcanizing time is short to move forward to an unloading position by taking out a bladder by outrunning a tire whose vulcanizing time is long, by a method wherein loading of the tire, insertion of the bladder, clamping, breaking and heating of a mold, taking out of the bladder and unloading of the tire whose vulcanization is completed are performed at each position ...

PURPOSE:To obtain an EL element capable of especially prolonging of luminescent life containing a polymer matrix-constituting polymer as a copolymer of an electron-donative monomer and an electron-attractive monomer. CONSTITUTION:The aimed EL element is composed of a copolymer obtained by polymerization of (A) <=50% electron-donative monomer expressed by formula I, etc., (Y is expressed by formula...

To this end, there is provided a linishing tool for reconditioning a camshaft integral bearing surface of a cylinder head including an elongate body (1) having an outer surface (2), at least a portion of the outer surface of the body being a linishing surface (3), and at least one handle (5) provided at an end of the body, the body having at least one cylindrical section (8) with a lateral cross s...