A portable shade device having a dome shaped supporting structure of elongate, tubular members. An umbrella having UV blocking properties is clamped to the supporting structure with a clamping device that allows the umbrella to be positioned so as to provide shade to occupants of the device at all times of the day. A side wall member may also be attached to protect against reflected rays from wate...

Insecticides, and particularly termiticides, may be dissolved in monomers polymerized to form foamable polymers, such as polystyrene. The resulting monomer and insecticide may then be polymerized in a conventional manner and either impregnated with a blowing agent or expanded using an extrusion process to produce polymeric foam having insecticidal properties. The polymer may also contain a flame r...

Processes for the batch production of rubber-based compositions capable of being shaped and shaped articles made thereof. They include a step of high intensity mixing cured rubber particles with other selected compounds into a closed mixing chamber provided on a high intensity mixer including a central shaft having mixing blades. Through high speed rotation of the shaft, blade tip speed above abou...

This invention relates to compounds of the formula (see above formula) and to pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. The compounds of formula 1 are potent antibacterial agents that may be used to treat various bacterial infections and disorders related to such infections. The invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions containing the compounds of formula 1 and to methods of treating ...

Filter apparatus (2) comprises end plates (13),(14) between which are arranged a plurality of parallel filter membrane plates (15). Feed ports (21), return ports (23), filtrate ports (22) and backflush ports (24), and seals (41),(41),(43),(44) between adjacent plates define a turbulent feed flow path across one side of the membrane to set up vibrations in the membranes to reduce clogging.

Terminals are connected via cables in a star-shaped fashion with respect to a HUB in a LAN. Each of the cables includes therein signal lines and power feed lines. The HUB includes therein a power feed section. The power feed section and the power feed lines of each cable are connected to measure a value of current which flows in the power feed lines. If it is judged based on the measured current v...

The method for servicing queues holding messages, such as ATM data packets, for subsequent processing or transmission to a resource such as a communications link having a finite processing capability comprises the steps of servicing each queue by forwarding the messages thereof to the resource at time intervals corresponding to a guaranteed service rate of the queue, provided the queue is non-empt...

The present invention relates to the combination of a ski boot (1) and a ball-of-the-foot binding (9), wherein the essentially inflexible sole (5) of said ski boot constitutes an angle (6) of at least 30 DEG at the ball of the foot and an attachment point (2) for a connecting shaft (3) is situated below the ball of the foot. The binding (9) includes adjustable elastic means (7) which via supporti...

A packing case for packaging a kit of prefabricated components for erecting a rectangular shed to be mounted on a support base. The case comprises a box like structure having rectangular platforms as top and bottom members, each of the platforms having an area equal to at least one half of the area required for a support base for the shed. The platforms are adapted to be combined together after di...

A method for the cleaning of heat exchange tubes and a collecting device for the collection of deposits from heat exchange tubes, include releasing deposits and collecting the deposits with a collecting vessel. The collecting vessel has an inlet orifice that completely encloses the underside of a tube plate in which exit-side tube ends are disposed. The collecting vessel has an inflatable hose for...

The present invention concerns a battery monitoring system for monitoring a plurality of batteries serially connected to form a string. The battery monitoring system includes a number of probes connected to at least a portion of the string, a daisy chain bus having a select channel for serially interconnecting the probes, the bus having other, parallel channels for data communication and power, an...

The sign has internal lights and a board (1d) showing an advertising message in front of the lights. A transparent board covers the board resting against a flat foundation. The sign is completely or partly surrounded by a frame bearing against the foundation. The frame has a triangular cross section and the sections form a right angle and are adjusted to bear against the foundation facing the sign...

The sign has internal lights and a board (1d) showing an advertising message in front of the lights. A transparent board covers the board resting against a flat foundation. The sign is completely or partly surrounded by a frame bearing against the foundation. The frame has a triangular cross section and the sections form a right angle and are adjusted to bear against the foundation facing the sign...

An automatic frequency control circuit includes a phase difference detection circuit, average value calculation circuit, weighting circuit, and phase correction circuit. The phase difference detection circuit obtains the phase difference between pattern signals per period on the basis of a quadrature-demodulated pattern signal component and a pattern signal component one period before the quadratu...

An on-line shopping system includes a user terminal, a WWW server capable of communicating with the user terminal via the Internet and a public telephone network, and a settlement dial-up server (or facsimile apparatus or printer) capable of communicating with the user terminal via only the public telephone network. The WWW server downloads a dial-up access program to the user terminal, and the us...