A pallet capable, when supporting a load, of being alternately lifted and transported by a forklift having prongs or manually rolled across a floor. The pallet includes interconnected upper and lower planar members which form a pallet assembly featuring recesses for accommodating the prongs of the forklift. The pallet assembly further includes a mechanism for connecting a handle assembly near one ...

A high performance W-Cu composite powder is provided which is composed of individual particles having a tungsten phase and a copper phase wherein the tungsten phase substantially encapsulates the copper phase. The tungstencoated copper composite powder may be pressed and sintered into W-Cu pseudoalloy articles having a homogeneous distribution of W and Cu phases without experiencing copper bleedou...

A mulching mower (1) has a housing (2) with which it is moved, by means of wheels (4), over the plane of a lawn surface. In the housing (2), there are arranged, one above the other, a mowing blade (9) and a mulching blade (13), with the mowing blade (9) being connected directly to the output shaft (7) of the motor (6) and driven by same in the direction of rotation N1, whereas the mulching blade (...

A mulching mower (1) has a housing (2) with which it is moved, by means of wheels (4), over the plane of a lawn surface. In the housing (2), there are arranged, one above the other, a mowing blade (9) and a mulching blade (13), with the mowing blade (9) being connected directly to the output shaft (7) of the motor (6) and driven by same in the direction of rotation N1, whereas the mulching blade (...

Disclosed is a multi-way valve comprising a valve casing having a fluid inlet and a plurality of fluid outlets, first and second chambers defined in the valve casing, a partition disposed between the first and second chambers and having a plurality of fluid paths, a plurality of valve elements each engaging a corresponding fluid path from the first chamber side for opening and closing the fluid pa...

A method for packaging cans or tubes continuously delivered from a production installation to pick-up elements, which are moved in steps, of an intermediate station. A gripper device brings the cans or tubes in groups accord ing to the desired number of pieces in a packaging layer to a delivery station. Each ca n or tube is deposited into a support element, after which the cans or tubes are push e...

A bidirectional lighting system includes a housing having a planar base and a stringer connected to end plates by a chassis. The chassis carries a bracket for light sockets and asymmetric reflectors. The edges of the base, the end plates and the stringer define a pair of windows. One light source and an associated asymmetric reflector provide up light illumination through one of the windows and th...

An audio signal generated from a microphone or a listening coil is amplified taking the operating parameters into consideration. The amplification makes the hearing capacity of a hearing impaired person equal to or at least approximate that of someone with normal hearing. The operating parameter for a starting situation is determined and that for a target situation is determined. The operating par...

A method of continuously forming, filling and sealing of packages with a continu ous web of polyethylene film material is disclosed and comprises the steps of folding the w eb to provide confronting sides joined along a bottom edge and sealing by training the web ont o a vertical seal former having plurality of vertical sealers and progressively forming each verti cal seal as the web is being cont...

An activated carbon body and method of making the body which involves providing an inorganic substrate, a synthetic polymeric carbon precursor, and an adsorption enhancing additive which can be sulfur and/or oil which is non-miscible with and non-reactive with the carbon precursor, contacting the inorganic substrate with the carbon precursor and the adsorption enhancing additive to coat the substr...

The invention relates to a quick coupling system, particularly for coupling tools to agrarian tractors, provided with three coupling points, namely two lower points (8) and one central upper or third coupling point (23), the two lower coupling points (8) being provided at the end of the tractor lifter arms (9), said system comprising a first double telescopic rod (1), coupled at the rear with the ...

The crusher has a pair of counter-rotating pulling-in and crushing rolls (2), bounding a roll gap for the passage of the container (3). Each roll has a grip tooth (5) on its circumferential surface to grip an end piece (3a) of the container fed in from an input (8). The batten (6) with the grip tooth on it may be made in one with the grip tooth, and may be formed from several sectors in the axial ...