In a tissue papermaking process to wind on to a drum, the tissue paper feed ribbon has to be taken up in a start-up process or following a web break. The feed ribbon is presented to the drum by a feed roller with an adhesive coating. - The tissue paper web is picked up suddenly by the feed roller. The feed roller is initially in a static position and then progresses to very slow speed before accel...

The machine has a gripper carriage (1) fixed with limited springing to a transport chain. The carriage moves between processing stations (2) and has a stop wheel on a leading side in a running direction. A positioning device (4) has a stop that is pivoted into a movement path of the carriage and fixed to a driven pivoting shaft. A servomotor drives the stop and is connected directly to the shaft.

A method of imparting high strength, high ductility, and high fracture toughness to a refractory metal alloy workpiece includes: (i) subjecting the workpiece to at least one pass that reduces the initial cross-sectional area of said workpiece, (ii) annealing the workpiece subsequent to the at least one pass, and (iii) subjecting the workpiece to a final working step comprising at least one pass co...

A disposable underwear is formed by laying a front body (10) and a back body (12) one on top of the other, providing a bonded portion on at least one of the left (26L) and right side (26R) edges, and providing leg openings and a waist opening. The disposable underwear includes a tightening member (14) in the vicinity of the waist opening. The front and back bodies further comprise a non-bonded por...

The invention relates to a belt transport system, in which a vacuum or magnetic field is timed by means of a control unit. Said system consists of at least one vacuum belt or transport belt, which is driven directly or indirectly around the outer circumference of the gripper-drum disc wheels. This system permits the front edge of a panel to be placed permanently on the gripper marks during transpo...

This invention provides a method and apparatus for applying tape tabs (12) to a traveling web (10), for example, for placement of fastening tabs on a running web of disposable diapers. The invention provides a cutting roll (32) positioned to cut segments from a continuous infeeding web (16) of tape material against a rotating anvil (14). The anvil (14), which is traveling at a speed equal to or ve...

The machine has a pair of side rails (40) carrying a transport frame (41) for a coil spindle (4), and there are bearing blocks (43) at intervals along the rails. There are U-shaped frames (5) with clamps which grip stub axles (9) on the ends of the spindles. There are guides for the metal strip leaving the reels.

The safety system has a train magnet (1) excited via a generator circuit and a track magnet (4) excited via the train magnet upon passage of the train, with an evaluation circuit (5) for detecting the resulting feedback effect on the train magnet, by detecting a frequency spectrum variation. The generator circuit has a generator (3.0) and the train magnet has a core (2) wound with a coil in which ...

An umbrella has a shaft anchorable in or on the ground or in the air by an anchor and defining an axis and a canopy movable between an unfolded open position in which it is wavy and a folded position inclined to the axis, made of a preferably nonstretching membrane or fabric, formed of a whole number of polygonal sections with outer corners defining alternating high points and low points, traverse...

A rucksack/bag ( 1 ) for carrying during transport, in which the rucksack/bag ( 1 ) comprises at least one detachable plane work surface ( 3 ), preferably a harder panel, in which the underside of the plane work surface ( 3 ) is joined to a soft, deformable unit ( 3 ) filled with soft, rounded beads.

The present invention concerns a method for molding ceramic, glass and/or metal powders comprising the steps of (a) forming a slurry mixture comprising said powder, a dispersant for said powder, two components of a two-component system and an organic solvent; (b) transferring said slurry mixture into a mold; (c) heating said mold containing said slurry at a temperature between 25 DEG C and 100...

The reinforcement making machine, designed to lay and filament (4) or cable in a series of arches across a core (1), consists of a frame with a reciprocating mechanism for at least one mobile arm (131) carrying an applicator for a sliding filament. The reciprocating mechanism is mounted on the frame by means of a support plate (130) that slides on a rail (132) to provide a motion parallel to a pla...

An object of the present invention is to provide a heat-shrinkable polyester film having a good light blocking property even when the label is not auxiliary processed by printing. The present invention provides a heat-shrinkable polyester film mainly made of a polyester resin, wherein the film has a total luminous transmittance of not more than 40 %, a haze of not less than 90 %, a sample film...

DNA sequences coding for human polypeptides with protease activity and capable of inducing apoptosis, related to the interleukin-1beta converting enzyme are disclosed.

The mould (1) for a tire (10) with its tread (11) having a rolling surface (12) and lateral surfaces (13) with radial (14) and axial (15) cavities has crown segments (2) that are movable radially to make the radial cavities, and shoulder segments (3) that also move radially between open and closed positions, independently of the crown segments, to make the lateral cavities. The mould (1) for a tir...

Disclosed is a method of efficiently aerating yeast prior to pitching. In the method, yeast are aerated in an aqueous sugar solution containing zinc.

The tire tread mold consists of a peripheral ring of thin plates (1), measuring between 0.1 and 5 mm thick, that are positioned radially to determine the tread pattern by the shape of their inner edges. A number of adjacent mold plates are made with partial cut-outs (102) that co-operate to form venting channels. The cut-outs in adjacent plates align with one another to create circumferential cha...

This invention provides an embossed decorative composite laminate interlayer for use in reducing UV and IR energy transmittance through a glass laminate. One interlayer of the present invention comprises an embossed decorative composite disposed between a first and second adhesive layer, such as PVB. The embossed decorative composite of the present invention comprises a first polymeric support fil...