The present invention provides a resilient, fluid-pervious, laminate, plastic web suitable for use as a topsheet on absorbent articles, especially catamenial articles. The web includes a first layer of polymeric material, a second layer of polymeric material and an intermediate layer of fibrous material. The fibrous material of the intermediate layer extends below the second surface of the web, pr...

A process for the production of iron from ferrous raw materials in a converter containing an initial iron smelt into which at least fuels, oxygenous gases and ferrous raw materials are introduced during the production phase, the reaction gases being afterburned with oxidizing gases in the gas space of the converter above the smelt and the resulting heat transferred to the iron bath, and a partial ...

A process and device for opening a bivalve shellfish comprises: (i) making a hole (3) the upper shell (1) or cover of the shellfish, adjacent to the adducter muscle (7) which keeps the two shells (1 and 2) together; (ii) sealing the hole with a bung (4) until it is required to open the shell; and (iii) inserting a cutting device (5) through the bung to cut the adductor muscle so that the two halve...

This invention relates to an electrode plate of a lead acid battery. The electrode plate comprises of a grid of non-conductive, thermally non-expansive material having a matrix of grid openings, a frame of lead alloy having a matrix of tubes that are insertable in the grid openings of the thermally non-expansive material, and an active material that is inserted into the tubes of the lead alloy fra...

Chew toys (10) for domestic carnivorous animals having rawhide (11) and jerky sheets or members (12). The jerky sheets (12) are wrapped in a rawhide sheet (11) by either rolling or folding. This provides an outer layer (18) of rawhide containing jerky therein. A seam (19) is created in rawhide outer layer (18) by the rolling or folding of the rawhide sheet (11). The jerky (12) preferably extends t...

A method of manufacturing a drill bit or other drilling-related structure used for drilling into subterranean formations is herein disclosed where a blank is formed by placing a ferrous metal powder such as steel into a mold, sintering the ferrous metal powder to form a preformed blank, packing an abrasion- and erosion-resistant material such as tungsten carbide powder around the preformed blank, ...

A cutting insert that has a flank face and a rake face and a cutting edge at the juncture thereof. The substrate presents a bulk region that contains a metallic binder, as well as one or more of Group IVB, Group VB, and Group VIB metal carbides and/or carbonitrides. The substrate further includes a flank surface region near the flank face of the substrate that has a solid solution metal carbide an...

Disclosed are poly(ethylene-co-diethylene terephthalate) polyesters useful for making thin films. The polyesters have a diethylene glycol repeat unit component of about 10-30 mol %. These polymers can be converted into thin films and are useful as protective barrier films, especially in packaging applications. These copolyesters can be used to make biaxially oriented films for metal lamination.

Monolayer and multilayer non-oriented polyester films comprising of at least one layer of an amorphous heat-sealing polyester wherein the heat-sealing polyester consisting essentially of terephthalic acid, ethylene glycol, and about 7-15 mol % cyclohexanedimethanol. The heat-sealing polyester has a heat of fusion greater than 0.5 cal/g and is sufficiently crystallizable to allow the drying of mixt...

The recovering of a polyester polymer from a mixed polymer recycle stream (I), while maintaining the polyester polymer in polymer form, comprises: contacting (I) comprising 50 wt.% or more polyester polymer, lesser portions of other polymers, including polyolefins(s), and impurities, with a chemical wash solvent that dissolves portions(s) of the impurities and substantially rejects dissoln. of the...

A conformable magnetic article (300) for underlayment beneath a traffic-bearing surface which sends a magnetic signal to a sensor travelling over the traffic-bearing structure. The magnetic article comprises at least one conformable magnetic layer (2) comprising a binder and a sufficient amount of magnetic particles dispersed within the binder to provide a magnetic signal through the traffic-beari...

A conformable magnetic article (300) for underlayment beneath a traffic-bearing surface which sends a magnetic signal to a sensor travelling over the traffic-bearing structure. The magnetic article comprises at least one conformable magnetic layer (2) comprising a binder and a sufficient amount of magnetic particles dispersed within the binder to provide a magnetic signal through the traffic-beari...

Method (10), in a system for aiding the guidance of a vehicle, for identifying marking stripes of road lanes comprising the phases of subjecting a road image to a convolution operation (14) with a mask matrix so as to identify discontinuities present in the image, comparing the result with a threshold value (16) and determining (18) a representation of the marking stripes, in which the mask matrix...

Pointing device for a personal computer (EL) comprising an optoelectronic transmitter (TX), provided to be associated with the screen (MON) of the personal computer (EL), and an optoelectronic receiver (RX), provided to be made integral with the head of a user for the personal computer (EL), for example by assembling it on a pair of eyeglasses (OC), in order to allow moving a cursor on the screen ...

Method of preparation of polyurethane foam by reaction of polyol composition with isocyanate composition in presence of expansion agent is claimed. Method involves initial reaction between said compositions in which <= 1wt.% carbon dioxide gas is incorporated into one of them. Also claimed is foam made by method and moulded article e.g. steering wheel made from it.;

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A multipurpose clip formed from plastic material, having two flanges extending from a central fold, a first flange being substantially longer than th e other, and extending in a first plane, a second flange shorter than the first fl ange and extending angularly toward the plane of the first flange, and butting the flange at a created pressure point proximate a bend near the end of the second flang...

Inflatable item, for example a beach bed, shaped like a flexible, thin-walled plane from synthetic material, e.g. from PVC. It is made up of a central part (21) with along its contours at least one inflated part separated by means of one or more heat seals (23, 25); whereby the inflated parts (23, 25) form a boxed-in area. The inflated part (23, 25) is fitted along at least one contour part of the...

By blending a first polyolefin, or an interpolymer thereof, which is of low melt index and is multi-modal in molecular weight distribution, with a homogeneous polyolefin which is compatible in melt mergibility with the first polyolefin, and co-extruding or extruding through a flat slot die the blend, with or without a second polyolefin, or an interpolymer thereof, a laminate or a monolayer is obta...

A method for improving the expandability of styrenic polymer particles is disclosed. The method comprises copolymerizing a styrenic monomer with an amount of an acrylate monomer effective to improve the expandability of the particles without adversely affecting their heat sensitivity. Polymer foams of low density can be prepared with reduced amounts of blowing agents.