PCT No. PCT/DE95/00571 Sec. 371 Date Dec. 27, 1995 Sec. 102(e) Date Dec. 27, 1995 PCT Filed Apr. 28, 1995 PCT Pub. No. WO95/30587 PCT Pub. Date Nov. 16, 1995A load transporting pallet made of paper, cardboard and/or cellulose fiber waste is disclosed. In order to improve the carrying capacity of such pallets, a supplementary reinforcement layer made of recyclable material is arranged between both ...

A pozzolanic mixture for stabilizing landfill leachate which includes fly ash with an excess of lime, kiln dust, and optionally bottom ash, which is combined with the landfill leachate with a makeup quantity of water to produce a stable cementitious pozzolanic mixture that hardens to a mortarlike material. The hardened material exhibits favorable handling characteristics, and resists leaching of i...

PCT No. PCT/GB94/01074 Sec. 371 Date Jun. 24, 1994 Sec. 102(e) Date Jun. 24, 1994 PCT Filed May 19, 1994 PCT Pub. No. WO94/28032 PCT Pub. Date Dec. 8, 1994The invention relates to continuous gas fluidized bed polymerization of olefins, especially ethylene, propylene, or mixtures of these with other alpha olefins, wherein the monomer-containing recycle gas employed to fluidize the bed is cooled to ...

A sizing device having a series of sets of sizing dies each composed of first and second die elements for use in extruding articles. Each die element is made of a plate having two opposite faces bounded by a peripheral edge. The edge further defines a notch through the plate. The notch in each die element has an open end extending inwardly to a closed end. The first and second die elements can be ...

A power conserving integrated circuit is disclosed. The integrated circuit is coupled to its external power supply only in response to an external event. An initial power connection is made in response to the external event. An element on the integrated circuit detects the initial power connection. After detecting the initial power connection, a switch internal to the integrated circuit is closed ...

A bridge connected to an FDDI network preprocesses messages each comprising source address (SA), destination address (DA) and data, using a data base of SA's maintained in a content addressable memory (CAM). A finite state machine working with the other elements of the FDDI bridge acts as an intelligent controller, to select which messages are to be passed to a buffer memory for further processing...

A computer system includes a cache and a data storing system. The data storing system uses a write-once read-many (WORM) disk for storing computer data. The disk stores data in addressable so-called continuation chains. The cache stores pages of data in sets; each set being derived from but one of the continuation chains as having addressing affinity. Page replacement of the cache is in two steps....

PCT No. PCT/SE96/01668 Sec. 371 Date Sep. 21, 1998 Sec. 102(e) Date Sep. 21, 1998 PCT Filed Dec. 18, 1996 PCT Pub. No. WO97/24068 PCT Pub. Date Jul. 10, 1997A measuring instrument for the measurement of an existing pain or a feeling of nausea of a patient. The measuring instrument induces pain in an arbitrary body part of said patient, by supplying an electrical current. The measuring instrument p...

The apparatus and method of screening and diagnosing trauma or disease in body tissues involves the use of DC bio-potential sensing electrodes (26) having DC offset potentials wihtin an acceptable range and electrical characteristics which enhance the accuracy of the bio-potential measurement. The apparatus (10) checks the electrodes (26) connected thereto prior to a measurement cycle and will not...

A method is shown for the separation of catalyst-free working solution from working solution, containing noble-metal black, especially palladium black as catalyst, of the hydrogenation cycle of the so-called anthraquinone method for the production of hydrogen peroxide by filtration of the catalyst-containing working solution using filter candles. The filter candles are formed of an open-pore suppo...

An ultrasonic probe for flow rate measurement by the Doppler effect includes at least one wide-beam ultrasound transducer fixed on a support block and at least one narrow-beam ultrasound transducer fixed on a support block and whose beam position is known in relation to the wide beam, and a control and processing unit which processes and measures the characteristics of the signal from the narrow-b...

A drive system with a rotary stop for driving a rotatable load is provided having a motor, a rotary stop and a spring stop assembly for coupling the motor to the rotary stop. The spring stop assembly has a motor-driven gear coupled to a hub by a torsional spring. A position encoder may be attached to the motor. In addition, a drive shaft may be coupled to the motor and the multiturn rotary stop th...

A computer diskette retainer is provided for accommodating and storing at least one computer diskette and being attachable to an upper edge of a file folder to be adjacent the upper edge as the folder is disposed in a file drawer. The retainer includes a pocket portion having a rear wall, a front wall, a pair of side walls and a bottom wall, the side walls and the bottom wall securing the front wa...

A breast prosthesis to be worn in a top part of a bathing suit includes a cup-shaped prosthetic body made of soft plastic material and having a rear side which faces a wearer's body and defines a cavity. At least one stiffening rib projects radially from the rear side in a straight line and uninterrupted into the cavity between the upper rim surface and the lower rim of the prosthetic body.

An implant for replacing vertebrae has a central load bearing member with a first end and a second end. A first support element is positioned at the first end and a second support element is positioned at the second end. At least one of the first and second support elements has a contact surface, wherein an angle of the contact surface relative to the central load bearing member and the adjacent v...

A one-piece hybrid tibial tray component of a knee replacement prothesis includes a laterally extending plate having a proximal surface, a distal surface which includes a peripheral surface for receiving bone cement and a central surface which promotes bone ingrowth and a central stem extending from the distal surface and which is perpendicular thereto. The distal surface is adapted to fit against...

A tibial knee prosthesis having a plastic or polyethylene prosthesis body comprising an articulating surface and medullary stem. An intermediate metal plate locks on to the medullary stem and fits between the articulating surface and a resected proximal surface of the tibia. A distal surface of the plate may be provided with a porous coating adjacent the proximal resected surface of the tibia, to ...

A joint implant is presented having an elongated cylindrical member with an annular spacer which accommodates the diameter of the cylindrical member by fitting loosely over the cylindrical member. The ends of the elongated cylindrical member are designed for insertion into the intramedullary canals of adjacent bones while the annular spacer is designed to cushion the joint and maintain proper spac...

An acetabular cup assembly having a non-metallic inner cup to be positioned within a metal shell with a dome shaped interior surface. The non-metallic inner cup is formed with a plurality of interconnecting grooves and ribs. The ribs are configured to contact the interior surface of the metal shell while the grooves have inner surface areas spaced from the interior surface of the metal shell. The ...

A prosthesis having a proximal portion of a stem formed as a wedge having opposed tapers such that prostheses can be thrust into a medullary canal and achieve fixation without unduly stressing the cortical bone remaining in the femur. Ribs secure the prosthesis against medial-lateral motion. Simultaneously, a degree of flexibility is provided in an anterior-posterior direction. A slotted distal po...