An adapter for use in a fixed angle centrifuge rotor has, in use, a radially inboard and a radially inboard portion. An opening is formed in the radially inboard portion of the adapter. The opening is sized so that substantially no part of the inboard portion of the adapter is exposed during centrifugation to a load that exceeds the ability of the material of the adapter to support itself. The mat...

A bag maker bends an elongate flexible bag-making film (f) into a tubular form and transversely seals it by a transverse sealer (110) while filling it with articles to produce packaged bags. The transverse sealer (110) has two seal jaws (1) at both sides of the film being pulled downwards. The seal jaws (1) are each caused to move in a generally D-shaped trajectory with a vertically straight porti...

An underwear system comprises a reusable under-pant part (1) and an exchangeable absorber lining (7). The pants consist of a 3-layer laminate (3), which contains a membrane film (5) as an intermediate layer between two textile structures.

The air stream is led through a regenerator pair. Water separation is accomplished before condensing out impurities. Water is removed by adsorption. Air led through the regenerators undergoes heat exchange exclusively with an impure nitrogen stream from low temperature fractionation. An Independent claim is included for corresponding plant in which the regenerators have a water-adsorbing bed at th...

A portable fitness training equipment has a horizontal support (1) which is braced in a door frame (6) and from which are hung various elastic straps etc. for the fitness exercises. Thrust brackets at the ends of the brace locate on the door frame and the brace is expanded by rotating the body and/or by hydraulic/pneumatic means. The various elastic straps are secured to elastic sleeves which are ...

The control magnet has at least one drive coil (6,7) on a coil carrier (22) inserted axially into a cylindrical housing sleeve (4) and an armature (13) in the center of the carrier that performs the control movement. The electrical connections of the drive coil are contacted through an aperture (24) in the housing sleeve. A spring element (20) held in the coil carrier protrudes radially beyond the...

The rechargeable battery is formed with a number of connected cells (2) that each have a housing within which there are a number of alternating positive and negative metal grating plates (13,14) of lead or lead alloy. Between these are separator plates. Interconnections are provided by a formed strip (18) and this connects with external terminals (15,16) in the cover (19).

The interlay paper placing device can be used e.g. for separating slices of sausage or cheese. The interlay paper is fed into a channel. In the time between cutting the first and second slices, it comes out of the channel into the space between the slices. There is a stabilizing device (7) for the paper (1), which may be in the channel (5) or at its end. It profiles the paper in the feed cros...

A delivery for a rotary printing press with a circulating conveyor system in which the sheets fixed in gripper closures are released while being deposited on to a sheet pile has a blown air device arranged above the sheet pile for assisting the sheet deposition. At least a part of the blown air unit (6) is variable in its position so that the distance between blown air unit (6) and the upper edge ...

A system and method of separation of therapeutic components from blood. The system includes a dual member centrifuge and a disposable single use fluid transfer set. The set includes an elongated flexible separation chamber having an input port, a separated component output port and a residual fluid output port. The input port and the separated component output ports are located at opposite ends of...

The invention relates to a sheet guide in the delivery means of a sheet-fed printing machine, having a gripper system whose grippers seize the sheet at its leading edge and transport it to a delivery stack. In order to stabilise the sheet on the transporting path, provision is made for guide means by which the sheet, on the transporting path, is formed to give a cross-sectional profile which stabi...

A method and apparatus for conveying and applying a strip component (11) such as a tire tread is disclosed. The method includes the steps of placing the strip component on a belt conveyor (16), determining a guideline (52) of the strip component (11) at an exit end (20) of the belt conveyor (16), and laterally adjusting the exit end (20) of the belt conveyor (16) to align the guideline (52) of the...

A cutting tool insert includes a cutting tip mounted into a first recess of a molded hard refractory compound insert having a second recess of preselected size and shape for locating the insert to a cutting tool. A preferred cutting tip is a diamond and a preferred hard refractory compound is a tungsten carbide with a cobalt binder.

PCT No. PCT/EP96/04326 Sec. 371 Date Jun. 8, 1998 Sec. 102(e) Date Jun. 8, 1998 PCT Filed Oct. 4, 1996 PCT Pub. No. WO97/13726 PCT Pub. Date Apr. 17, 1997The invention relates to a process for the biological treatment of waste water, in which a mixture of activated sludge and waste water is treated with gas in an activation stage and the activated sludge is separated off from the treated waste wat...

A cleaning device (10) for removing residual material from a mold (12) having a molding surface (13) includes a robot (14) including an arm (16) movable in a plurality of degrees of freedom, the arm having a free end. A laser (18) is connected with the robot (14) and has an output end mounted to the arm (16) proximal to the free end so as to be positionable by the robot. An optical delivery system...

A method and apparatus for determining the length of a train utilizing received signal such as a reference signal from a global positioning system or the like is disclosed. A first receiver (104) receives a signal, such as a reference signal from a global positioning system (208) or the like, from which a first position on a train may be determined. Similarly, a second receiver (110) receives a si...

The invention concerns a fast prototyping method by solid phase sintering, using a laser, of a powder or a mixture of powders, in particular ceramic. The invention is characterised in that it comprises steps which consist in obtaining a succession of superposed digitised sections (10) of an object (12) to be produced, from a three-dimensional representation of said object; then in spreading in the...

According to the present invention, a biaxially oriented polyester film is provided which comprises at least one film layer composed predominantly of polypropylene terephthalate and has a heat shrinkage of 0.8% or below after standing at 80 DEG C for 30 minutes. This film is excellent in wear resistance and hence useful particularly for magnetic recording media.

The invention relates to a rubber tire composed of carbon black reinforced rubber carcass and having a rubber tread which is quantitatively reinforced with silica and which, in turn, has a thin, integral, rubber outer cap on its outer surface which contains a quantitative amount of carbon black. In one aspect, said outer cap, sometimes referred to herein as an outer top cap, extends across the out...

A process for producing rigid polyurethane foam by using 1,1-dichloro-1-fluoroethane (HCFC-141b) as the blowing agent while substantially preventing the generation of decomposition products of HCFC-141b. The process comprises foaming a mixture of a polyol with an organic polyisocyanate in the presence of HCFC-141b and a stabilizer thereof by using an organometallic catalyst or/and an imidazole cat...