A solid waste material comminuting system having a electric motor for providing rotary motion, a pair of cutter stacks with cutter elements of one stack interleaved with cutter elements of the other, and gear means to transmit the rotary motion of the electric motor to counter-rotate cutter elements of one stack with cutter elements of the other. Each of the cutter stacks comprise a central shaft ...

A shift control system is provided for an automatic transmission in which a secondary shifting unit capable of being shifted to a high speed stage or a low speed stage and a primary shifting unit capable of setting one of plural speed stages including a reverse speed stage are connected in series and the secondary shifting unit can be set to the high speed stage upon setting the reverse speed stag...

Closed cylindrical cell height, leaves foam de-watering head space. Tangential pipe connection (2) layers raw feed over the suspension, whilst axial downcomer (4, 5) removes foam. Internal components (7) are provided for subsequent, automatic self-cleaning and disinfection by fluid. This is facilitated by internal form, which assures complete draining of fluids during production and cleaning. An ...

Die Erfindung betrifft ein Verfahren zum Betreiben einer Arbeitsstelle (10) einer Kreuzspulen herstellenden Textilmaschine. DOLLAR A Der Arbeitsstellenrechner (32) ist dabei mit einem Fadenzugkraftsensor (54) zum Überwachen der Fadenzugkraft eines von einer Ablaufspule (12) zu einer Auflaufspule (14) laufenden Fadens (22), einem Fadenspanner (36) zum Regulieren der Fadenzugkraft dieses Fadens verb...

Das Verfahren dient der Entfernung von Störstoffen aus einer wässrigen Faserstoffsuspension (S), z. B. einer Altpapiersuspension. Insbesondere können Farbstoffpartikel und andere feine Störstoffe durch Flotation aus der Faserstoffsuspension entfernt werden. Dabei wird eine Blasensäule verwendet, in der die Zugabe der Faserstoffsuspension (S) in den Schaum (2) erfolgt. Besondere Strömungsmaßnahmen ...

A method for welding galvanised sheet metal components (1, 2) arranged without a joint gap comprises using a solid continuous laser with quality switching without any additional measures.

Methods and compositions are provided for preventing and/or treating Helicobacter (e.g., H. pylori) infection. The compositions of the invention, which are used in the methods of the invention (which include mucosal administration of the compositions), include compositions containing multimeric complexes of recombinant, enzymatically inactive Helicobacter urease in a pharmaceutically acceptable ca...

Disclosed herein is a process for depolymerizing and purifying contaminated post-consumer polyester. In the process, depolymerization is effected by way of glycolysis in an agitated reactor vessel. The process includes the steps of contacting a contaminated polyester with an amount of a glycol to provide a molar ratio of greater than about 1 to about 5 total glycol units to total dicarboxylic acid...

The invention concerns an operating method for producing a useful form (7) from an existing element (5) such as a plot of land, building site or the like, using an equipment (4) mounted on a machine (2), for example a worksite machine, said machine (2) co-operating with a satellite global positioning system of the type with dual frequency, differential phase, kinematic and real time such as GPS. S...

This invention relates to devices and methods for detecting and monitoring the concentration, level or amount of a target molecule in solution. More particularly, the invention is directed to sensors that evaluate changes in conductivity produced by the reaction of a target molecule with a sensor composition. The invention is particularly well suited for determining the concentration of carbohydra...

Method for monitoring a computer system boot sequence. A watchdog timer, which may be associated with the BIOS, is initiated 52, and is cleared when a predetermined point in the boot sequence or operating system function occurs 60, 68. If the timer remains uncleared after a predetermined time period, it is determined that a failure exists 54, 74. The system may then invoke a service mode operating...

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 ...

A method of fabricating articles, such as prototype parts and prototype tooling for injection molding, is disclosed. The method begins with the fabrication of the article in a "green" state by the selective laser sintering, or another additive thermal process, applied to a composite powder, preferably a powder of metal particles coated with a thermoplastic polymer. Both the green article and also ...

A fire alarm system includes a control unit which communicates with a plurality of spaced apart smoke detectors by a bi-directional communications link. The smoke detectors are separate from one another, and spaced apart, and are associated together in different, overlapping groups. Each group of detectors is physically arranged with the members of the group adjacent to one another in a relatively...

A method and apparatus (10) for determining the remission of a chemistry (106) which reacts with a medically significant component of a body fluid. The remission of the chemistry (106) changes as it reacts. The method and apparatus (10) include irradiating the chemistry (106) with a radiation source (182), detecting remissions of radiation from the chemistry (106) with a radiation detector (300), ...

A method of producing coated powder material is provided. In the method, molten metal or metal alloy is caused to fall in a stream (3) and is then atomized into a spray. A liquid or solid material of different composition is introduced and caused to contact the stream or spray so that a coating is formed over all or part of the surface of the atomized droplets. The coating may be the introduced ma...

Das Verfahren dient der Entfernung von Feststoffen aus einer wässrigen Papierfasersuspension (S) mit Hilfe der Flotation. Erfindungsgemäß wird der sich dabei bildende Flotationsschaum (2) in einer Entwässerungsstrecke (3) seitlich von der Papierfasersuspension (S) weggeführt, und dabei ein Teil der darin enthaltenen Flüssigkeit (F) gesammelt und entfernt.; To separate solids from a watery suspensi...

The unit comprises a flame-sterilizable double cannula consisting of metal outer (2) and inner (3) cannulas serving respectively for transport of the liquid and for exchanging the liquid against air. The cannulas (2, 3) have inclined and sharp piercing ends (4, 5). The inner cannula extends beyond the ends (4, 6) of the outer cannula. The end (6) of the outer cannular leads into a collector chambe...