The invention relates to an aqueous preservative agent for grass and other agricultural crops, fish and fish products and meat products, comprising at least one C1-8monocarboxylic acid or at least one of their respective ammonium-, sodium- or potassium salts mixed with at least one of said acids and at least one corrosion inhibitor, comprising C8-22 fatty acid derivatives of trimethylamino acetic ...

An aminoplast-curable film-forming composition is disclosed. The film-forming composition is a crosslinkable composition comprising (1) a material containing a plurality of carbamate and/or urea functional groups and (2) an aminoplast crosslinking agent. The composition provides a coating with improved acid etch resistance, making the coating particularly useful as an automotive clear coat.

The funnel chopper comprises a housing with an intake funnel and at least two counter-running rollers (1,2) with a common intake area (9). Each roller has cutting components which are fixed, axially spaced apart and distributed on the periphery. Opposing cutting components are matched in position and contour. The intake area between the rollers is covered by a counter blade (8). Two further counte...

The cross-section, position and/or direction of an electron bundle generated by an electron generator is detected w.r.t. a target. A device with at least one conductor in the region of the target is provided such that a signal can be diverted under the influence of the electron bundle. The conductor is made of a material with a core charge number less than that of tungsten so that no unwanted rad...

The bistable small magnet has an armature (4) arranged for axial movement in a coil arrangement. A pole piece is fixedly arranged in or on an end of the coil (2). The armature (4) is pushed to and away from the pole piece when corresponding current passes through the coil (2). The armature (4) has an axially polarised permanent magnet (6) which holds the armature in the attracted position without ...

The ball used is placed in a pocket made from string and which has very wide mesh. The string sits round the ball in the shape of a cube on which a loop is formed. Large faces of the ball are left clear by the pocket. The ball with pocket is attached with the loop to an elastic line (6). The line is attached to two movable pillars or to a wall and one movable pilar so that the tension of the elast...

A waste tire pulverizing and separation machine including a machine body, and a roll-in mechanism, a pulverizing barrel, and a separation conveyer accommodated in the machine body. The roll-in mechanism is mounted at an input side at an upper side of the machine body and is comprised of an upper roller assembly and a lower roller assembly. Each roller assembly comprises a plurality of rollers arra...

A process for the preparation of sulfonated polyurethane-urea polymers, which are useful film to film laminating adhesives for flexible packaging in which the urethane-urea polymer component has no amide linkages. The water-based sulfonated polyurethane prepolymers are processed at reduced temperatures and are substantially free of volatile and/or leachable contaminants.

A method for automatically controlling a travelling and cleaning operation of a vacuum cleaner. The method comprises a learning travel step for calculating and storing straight travelling distances of outline paths and path directions together with the total number of the outline paths, a two dimensional coordinates calculating step for determining positions of straight division lines by using dat...

A warning timer adapted for use in an interactive data processing system which generates an alarm when a user receives output at an input/output device when he or she is not likely to be paying attention to the input/output device. The user is assumed to be paying attention for a specified amount of time after he or she last sent a request to a computer or received a response from the computer. Th...

A method of forming a bead assembly for use in a pneumatic tire includes extruding a strip of green elastomeric material onto a split or pair of steel supporting guide ring where the ends of the extruded strip are cut at a bias angle and then spliced together to form an annular elastomeric member. The extruded strip and formed annular member has a pair of tapered longitudinal end members joined by...

Polyol compositions comprising a polyol, an insoluble fluorinated compound and a surfactant composition which is the reaction product of a stoichiometric excess of a polyisocyanate and a polyalkylene glycol monoalkyl ether of formula R-A-OH, wherein R is C1-25 alkyl and A is a polypropylenoxy chain, optionally containing up to 25 % polyethylenoxy units, having a total length of from 4 to 39 units.

A system for delivering radiofrequency energy to ablate tissue comprises a radiofrequency generator and an intravascular catheter. The catheter includes both a radiofrequency ablation electrode and a temperature sensor within its distal end. Delivery of power to the ablation electrode may then be controlled based on electrode temperature using a cascade control system wherein analog temperature co...

The device inspects and tests a vessel opening especially an end surface (19) of a vessel (F). The device includes an illuminating device (1) to illuminate the opening (12). An imaging device (2,3,4) which has at least one camera device (4) forms an optical image of the opening. A control device (5) with a memory (6) controls at least the illumination and/or the optical imaging. The illuminating d...

Foamed gaskets comprising at least one homogeneously branched ethylene polymer and at least one blowing agent are disclosed. The gaskets are particularly useful for sealing food and liquid containers and do not contribute to taste and/or odor of the packaged product, which is especially useful in food-stuff applications.

A clutch control system for the automatic control of a motor vehicle clutch (14) which connects an engine (10) with a gearbox (12) under the control of a driver-operated gear ratio selector member (24). The control system includes an electronic control unit (36) which controls the level of clutch engagement in response to an engine speed error signal (E) derived from a comparison of current engine...

Disclosed are films or sheets comprising a crystalline propylene polymer composition which is comprised of, by weight, (A) from about 30 to 65% of a copolymer of propylene with a C4-8 alpha-olefin containing from 80 to 98% propylene, and (B) 35-70% of a co- or terpolymer of propylene with ethylene and, optionally, a C4-8 alpha-olefin having an ethylene content of 5 to 10% when ethylene is the sole...

A cushioning structure improved in impact resilience, compression endurance and compression recovery and free from the impression of bottoming, comprising a matrix and elastic composite fibers made from thermoplastic elastomer dispersed therein, wherein amoeboid, omnidirectionally flexible thermal fusion points formed at the intersections of the composite fibers with each other and quasi-omnidirec...