A centrifuge apparatus which comprises a container (10) including a cylindrical member (11) with a lower rim and a piston member with a tubular piston rod (12). A supporting turntable (1) with a first gripping means (27) releasably grips the lower rim when the container (10) is placed thereon, said supporting turntable (1) being connected with a first activating means (5) for rotating the turntabl...

PCT No. PCT/GB92/01719 Sec. 371 Date Jun. 10, 1994 Sec. 102(e) Date Jun. 10, 1994 PCT Filed Sep. 18, 1992 PCT Pub. No. WO93/06045 PCT Pub. Date Apr. 1, 1993A method of reducing the concentration of at least one organic compound present in an aqueous feedstock, wherein said feedstock is supplied to one side of a substantially water-insoluble selectively permeable polymeric sheet or tubular membrane...

A studless pneumatic tire having excellent running performance of the tire on icy road surfaces. The tire has a plurality of block-shaped island portions (4) formed on a cylindrical tread (1) extending between a pair of sidewalls. The island portions (4) have laterally extending sipes (5) and are separated by a plurality of main grooves (2) extending in the circumferential direction as well as by ...

The interacting counter-knife(3) is pivot-mounted on a lever arm(6) and is retained in the working position(6a) by a shear pin(8). The interacting counter-knife is divided into several sections which are individually pivot-mounted and retained in the working position by shear pins. The lever arm may be constructed as a bell-crank lever. A stop is provided to arrest the lever arm in the released po...

The web feed method has a leed strip of the material web (4) passed around the the upper part of a carrier drum (2), with at least one pressure element (9) acting on the feed strip, before moving the winding reel (25) perpendicularly from a spaced position into contact with the carrier drum, with subsequent separation of the material web to allow it to be wound onto the winding reel. An Independe...

Es wird eine Maschine zur Herstellung und/oder Bearbeitung einer Materialbahn, insbesondere Papier- oder Kartonbahn, mit einer Überführungsvorrichtung zum Überführen eines Einfädelstreifens oder einer Materialbahn von einem Übernahmebereich in einen Übergabebereich entlang eines Bahnlaufweges, die mindestens eine einen Aufnahmekopf, insbesondere Saugkopf, für den Einfädelstreifen/die Materialbahn ...

The invention discloses an impact shears having a rotor with individual chopping blades disposed on the rotor in a predetermined arrangement and with blade(s) or blade system that is generally stationary vis-à-vis the rotation of the rotor. The blade is held in a blade holder on the stator side of the rotor. The blade holder is movable on the stator about an axis parallel to the rotational axis of...

The installation shall find application in the construction of single-storeyed residential buildings. It improves the energy efficiency of the building as a result of the fact that the heat-exchanger coil is longer, and the heat-exchanger itself is fitted both inside the building and outside it, and the heated air can be used for heating the premises and the under the roof space in which a water a...

Devices and method for performing percutaneous myocardial revascularization (PMR). A catheter in accordance with the invention includes an elongate shaft having a proximal end and a distal end. The elongate shaft defines a lumen, and a conductor is disposed inside the lumen. An electrode portion is formed by the bent portion of the conductor which extends from the distal end of the elongate shaft....

A method and a device for access control, whereby a control unit (13) is operatively connected with a memory (14) for storage of authorized identification numbers for current service or access in a register. The control unit (13) is operatively connected with a telephone unit (12) for reception of an identification number of a calling party by means of a telephone connection made by wireless telep...

PCT No. PCT/EP95/02759 Sec. 371 Date Apr. 3, 1997 Sec. 102(e) Date Apr. 3, 1997 PCT Filed Jul. 14, 1995 PCT Pub. No. WO96/06923 PCT Pub. Date Mar. 7, 1996A process is for the continuous production of beer having a diacetyl content below 0.1 mg/l from a cooked, unfermented, fermentable wort with an oxygen content of 0.5 to 3.0 mg O2 per liter.

Prodn. of opt. cellular polyurethanes is by reaction of polyisocyanates with (i) mixts. of (a) fatty acid/basic polyol salts and (b) non-functional fatty acid esters and/or hydrocarbons; and opt. also (ii) cpds. of mol. wt. 62-399 contg. ≥ 2 NCO-reactive H atoms; (iii) cpds. as per (ii) but of mol. wt. 400-10,000; and (iv) known blowing agents, catalysts etc.

Apparatus for selecting predetermined ones of packets of signal components, from a signal stream (12) of packets includes a control device (19), responsive to user selection (20) and a transmitted program guide, for determining packet identifier codes, SCID's, for respective program signal components. The respective component SCID's are stored in programmable registers (13). SCID's, from respectiv...

A reset circuit that incorporates a battery monitor and watchdog timer in an integrated circuit is disclosed. A battery monitor having an output indicative of a charge state of a battery and a watchdog timer having an output indicative of an operational state of software being executed by the integrated circuit are connected to reset logic having a reset signal output, wherein the reset logic gene...

An operation unit has operation circuits (aL, aH), temporary registers (xL, yL, xH, yH) arranged just before the operation circuits, registers (R1, R2, R3, R4) arranged if required, and data buses (d1L, d2L, d1H, d2H) for transferring data among the operation circuits, temporary registers, and registers. Data to be processed are divided, are transferred to the operation circuits through the data b...

A method for correcting an instrumental error due to wavelength error of a spectroscope of an optical analyzer for measuring an optical density reflected from or transmitted through a dry analysis element. One standard color plate having a standard optical density ODST is measured by an optical analyzer to be corrected to obtain an measured value ODM. A measured optical density ODS of the element ...

Appts. to identify hazardous debris and foreign matter is fibre material, esp. cotton and manmade fibres has an analogue/digital converter (63) at the evaulation unit (14) for the signals from the camera (12) which monitors the material. The pref. camera (12) is a plane camera with a strobe light. ADVANTAGE - The system gives an improved monitoring action and determines the degree of soiling by un...

A program branching control circuit includes a program counter (1) for addressing a program store (14) and can be written to with first addresses generated from commands (7) or loaded with second addresses from a stack (memory) (10), or with third addresses from a store (6) in which certain program addresses are filed. A watch-dog counting circuit (4) monitors the output value of the program coun...