A battery separator for use in flooded cell type lead acid batteries comprising a backweb of a porous, acid resistant, embossable material with a plurality of major ribs and submini-ribs extending from at least one planar surface of the backweb. The ribs are located across the width of the backweb and extend in a direction substantially parallel to the longitudinal edges of the backweb. Each major...

A bag maker bends an elongate flexible bag-making film (f) into a tubular form and transversely seals it by a transverse sealer (110) while filling it with articles to produce packaged bags. The transverse sealer (110) has two seal jaws (1) at both sides of the film being pulled downwards. The seal jaws (1) are each caused to move in a generally D-shaped trajectory with a vertically straight porti...

An event detection device comprising a sensing means for generating an output signal in response to the detection of an event, the device comprising a fault monitoring system which comprises: comparator means for comparing the output signal with a threshold signal and for activating a timed sequence processor when the output signal exceeds the threshold signal on a first occasion, the time sequenc...

PCT No. PCT/IB96/00771 Sec. 371 Date Oct. 9, 1998 Sec. 102(e) Date Oct. 9, 1998 PCT Filed Aug. 2, 1996 PCT Pub. No. WO97/15399 PCT Pub. Date May 1, 1997This invention proposes an improved portable and disposable centrifugal apparatus having a centrifugal processing chamber (13) of variable dimensions that can process a variable quantity of biological fluid, even down to very small quantities, by d...

A device for manipulating stacks formed of sheets for a rotary printing press by which the sheets are processable in a processing direction in a so-called nonstop operation, the device including an auxiliary stack support having a cantilevered end and being disposed in an operating position thereof so as to catch the sheets from below, and a carrier carrying the auxiliary stack support so that it ...

A box profile is positioned in a ceramic mold in order to form an L-shaped molding space, which is filled with hard metal particles. Soldering tin is added and after hardening a rigid layer adheres to the profile. The resulting shape can be taken from the mold and is cut in order to form an L-shaped edge protection. The protection element can be adjusted to the shape of the individual edge and to ...

A setting unit (1) sets up deceleration value of transit vehicle with respect to front vehicle, so that the set up value is compared with preset target value and adjusted to reach target value. A control unit (S4) regulates the decelerating unit (8) based on deceleration rate.; Eine Fahrzeugsteuerungseinheit steuert ein Fahrzeug mit einer Vorrichtung zum Steuern der Verzögerung, z. B. mit einem ko...

The arrangement includes a distance detector (1), a vehicle speed detector (2), a vehicle distance control (5), and a vehicle speed servo-control which distributes a calculated vehicle power on a vehicle drive system and a vehicle brake system. A function generator produces and outputs a predetermined function to the vehicle brake system to continue a control of the brake force exclusively through...

A cantilever centrifuge has a support (104), a conveyor (100) cantilevered from the support, a substantially cylindrical solid bowl (102) also cantilevered from the support and extending about the hub (108), and a solid first conical bowl section (110) cantilevered from an end of the solid bowl opposite the support. The first conical bowl section tapers inwardly towards an axis of the conveyor a...

This invention is an apparatus, and a method for implacableness of a medical anchor in a borehole in biological tissue. The apparatus (20) includes a handle (12), a hollow shaft (14), a collar (16), a sliding collar (18) with a threaded portion (20), and a gripping member (22).

An improved centrifuge having a clutch mechanism (120) with a shifting coupling (122) which provides a positive lock for synchronous blade (170) an d bowl (185) rotation during processing. The scraper blades (310, 320, 330, 34 0) have recesses (314, 324, 334, 344) for inserts (315, 316, 325, 326, 335, 336 , 345, 346) permitting a variable cutting edge geometry and the mixing and matching of cuttin...

Batteries for boats and vehicles require a CRA (cranking) battery 23 and an AUX (auxiliaries) battery 22 to ensure a start. The preferred version has an AUX battery made of parallel plates and a CRA battery made of parallel plates lying in a monobloc case in face to face positions. Each battery has a pair of CRA terminals 20, 30 for the electric starter and a pair of AUX terminals 19, 31 for the A...

A catheter (10) adapted to increase the patency of a body conduit includes an elongate tube (25) having an axis extending between a proximal end, and a distal end, and a balloon (45) disposed at the distal end of the tube having properties for being expanded to a high profile state, and for being contracted to a low profile state. A sleeve (47) disposed over the balloon has a pair of ends disposed...

A polyester film has the following shrinkage properties (i) a degree of shrinkage at 70 DEG C of less than 15 %, (ii) a degree of shrinkage at 100 DEG C of greater than 30 %, (iii) a ratio of shrinkage at 100 DEG C in one direction to the other perpendicular direction in the range from 4:1 to 1:1. The polyester film is particularly suitable for wrapping hot food products.; Film de polyester aya...

This invention relates to a puncture-resisting tire composition comprising a thermoplastic elastomer, styrene-based block copolymer, as an active ingredient, unlike the conventional solvent-based rubber or emulsifier-based rubber containing some volatile substances. The viscous elasticity layer, so formed in such a manner to coat the puncture-resisting tire composition in a tire by a hot melting p...

Process for making polyisocyanate based xerogels by trimerisation of an organic polyisocyanate in an organic solvent in the presence of a (co)polymer containing an isocyanate-reactive group, gellation and drying of the obtained sol-gel.

A simple instrument for measuring the transmittance of a film impregnated with a pyridylazo-2-naphthol or dimethylphenylazo-2-naphthol dye having a continuous absorption spectrum having a plurality of absorption peaks in the wavelength range of from 350 to 800 nm, which comprises a light-emitting diode having a peak of relative emission intensity in the vicinity of a wavelength of 450 nm; a means ...