The hair clip has two elongate members 11 and 12 movable between open and closed configurations. At least one of the members mounts a plurality of notches 17, 18 and the other member mounts a plate 23, 38, 39. When the members are in closed position the plurality of notches are adjacent and substantially overlap the plate, and the hair is trapped in between. Preferably the notched surface is separ...

A method of hair treatment comprising the steps of: selecting a foraminous bag 11 whose contents comprise or include fibrous or leaf like material 14 containing a colorant and/or other material suitable for treatment of hair; causing the contents to be moistened; and applying the bag to the hair 21 and causing it to pass along a path over the hair so as result in the transfer of the colourant and ...

A method/apparatus of controlling a robot cleaner which comprises a gyro sensor 31 and an upper camera 42. The method comprises steps of determining if a compensation reference value has been exceeded; calculating a compensation value for an output of the gyro sensor based partly on the camera's feedback, when said determination is positive; controlling said robot based on the said compensation va...

A fishing rod holder that has a plate 1 with a hinged arm 2 attached to the plate, were the hinged arm 2 has holes 8 to support the butt of a fishing rod, thereby allowing the user to change the fly or spinner on the fishing rod. The hinged arm 2 may be held in the stored position, when the arm 2 is parallel to the plate 1, by a bar/safety catch 7 that is pivotally attached to the plate 1 of the f...

There is provided a method of producing a metal powder, alloy powder or composite powder having a mean particle diameter D50 of less than or equal to 25 mum, as determined using a particle size measuring apparatus (e.g., a MICROTRAC X 100 particle size measuring apparatus) in accordance with ASTM C 1070-01. The method includes, first providing a starting powder having a mean particle diameter D50 ...

The invention relates to a method for producing a structured film which is based on polymeric materials such as plasticizer-containing partially acetalized polyvinyl alcohols and has a non-stochastic surface roughness Rz of 35 to 120 µm on one or both sides. According to the inventive method, the structured film is produced by means of melt fracture extrusion followed by embossing of the obtained ...

Identifying a test product having a test region includes impinging on the test region a set of test signals at known test wavelengths. An image of the test region is generated from the reflected signals. The image is comprised of a set of reflectance values that are compared against reference reflectance values at the test signal wavelengths to determine the test product type.

The invention relates to ion-conductive thermoplastic compositions consisting of a partially acetalated polyvinyl alcohol, at least one support electrolyte and at least one softener, the partially acetalated polyvinyl alcohol containing two different acetal units. The invention also relates to electrochromic laminated glass systems produced using the ion-conductive compositions and to a method for...

The telescopic mounting rail for a drawer (5) comprises a swiveling cam (6) which is mounted on the central rail (2). This cooperates with the drawer rail (3) as the drawer (5) is withdrawn.; Eine teleskopierbare Auszugsschiene für ein ausziehbares, an einem Möbelkorpus angeordnetes Möbelteil (5), mit mindestens drei relativ zueinander, vorzugsweise mittels Wälzkörpern axial verschiebbaren Schiene...

A height-adjusting device is disclosed. The height-adjusting device includes a height-fixing device (50) constructed such that the inner support (20) is inserted into the outer support (10) and moves vertically, and the bolts (17) are fastened with the nuts (70) through the inner and outer supports (20, 10) so that the height of the inner support (20) is fixed to the desired position within the ou...

A method for adhering an element to rubber such as applying a metal foil to tires includes applying a metallic foil (30) to one of the sidewalls (14) before the tire (10) is completely cured. The metallic foil (30) may be applied directly to the sidewall (14) of a green tire (34), and then cured simultaneously with the tire. The metallic foil may further have a carrier (32). The carrier (32) may b...

Aqueous preparation (I), with soft-feel characteristics, comprises aqueous polyurethane (PU) polyurea material dispersion (A), hydroxyfunctional group (B), aqueous or water-dilutable bonding agent, polyisocyanate (C), which is optionally hydrophilically modified and foam stabilizer (D). Independent claims are also included for: (1) a soft-feel foam containing (I); (2) the preparation of the soft-f...

A polyurethane foam is obtained by mixing a polyol component and an isocyanate component under stirring to effect foaming, wherein water is used as a blowing agent in the polyol component, hydrous thermoplastic synthetic resin particles are added to at least one component of the polyol component and the isocyanate component, and thermoplastic synthetic resin porous particles having communicating p...

The thermal insulation unit for a pump housing (1) comprises an outer insulation shell (2) consisting of a plastic material or a sheet metal, in particular, aluminum, and a space (6) filled completely with a plastic foam between the shell and the pump housing. An independent claim is also included for a method for providing a pump housing with the proposed thermal insulation unit.

The invention relates to an apparatus and method for checking the luminescent security feature. The invention is characterized in that the measured response signal has overlapping spectral bands and the response signal can be read according to a simplified mode, whereby the measured response signal is measured as a broadband response signal and/or a complex mode, whereby the measured response sig...

The present invention is directed to a transfer device for fluid communication between a first site and a second site comprising a housing, a fluid channel and typically a sleeve assembly. The housing has a first end being connectable to the first site, a second end being connectable to the second site and a longitudinal portion extending between the first and second ends and defining a longitudin...

Tire building drum and tire building method, capable of assembling tire component members with high accuracy. A tire building drum is used, which includes at least one core body, which is disposed at an axial inside of a pair of bead lock means, and which comprises a plurality of sheets of rigid support members disposed in a toroidal shape and adapted to be displaced and thereby expanded or contra...

A segmented annular mold (2) for forming a tread belt (4) having a reinforcing belt structure (5), the belt structure having a radial thickness (t) is disclosed. The mold (2) has a plurality of radially movable and outwardly expandable inner segments (12A, 12B) for forming the inner surface (3) of the tread belt (4) and a plurality of radially movable and contracting outer segments (14A, 14B) for ...

There is provided a biaxially oriented polyester film comprising a polyester which contains repeating units containing 1,4-cyclohexanedicarboxylic acid and 1,4-cyclohexanedimethanol as main components, and exhibits a melting point of not less than 200 DEG C, wherein the biaxially oriented polyester film has a heat shrinkage percentage of not more than 5% as measured at 130 DEG C in each of longitu...

A polyester film for recording medium, having one major surface thereof provided with a coating layer containing fine particles of 5 to 60 nm diameter and an organic compound, wherein the number of fine surface projections existing on the surface of the coating layer is in the range of 3 million to 100 million/mm<2>, and the number of surface defects of 120 nm or greater height attributed to forei...