INDEPENDENT-DRIVE WHEEL OF A WHEEL-MOUNTED VEHICLE An independent-drive wheel for electric cars, bicycles, and wheelchairs wherein electromagnets 14, 15 of rotor 12 of a commutator motor are positioned along a circumference in the form of a pair of groups which are offset with respect to each other, and wherein distribution commutator 6 of stator 9 electrically connected to electric energy storage...

New divalent metal salts of 2-[N,N-di(carboxymethyl)amino]-3-cyano-4-carboxymethylthiophene-5-carb oxylic acid, which can be used therapeutically especially in the treatment of bone diseases, cutaneous and vascular ageing, hepatic diseases and dental diseases.

This invention relates to a fatigue test bench for engine cylinder heads, particularly for motor vehicles. This bench comprises as main elements: a device for fixing the test cylinder head on an intermediate connecting member, connecting it to the means of establishing hydraulic pressure in the combustion chambers and in the circulating of the heat bearing fluids; a pressure generating device whic...

The present invention provides a technique as well as a system whereby through the use of industrial automation, windshields and the like can be inserted into a vehicle which is on a continuously moving conveyor line without stopping the vehicle. Thus, the vehicle is in motion on the conveyor during the insertion. The windshield can be automatically centered for robot acquisition through a unique ...

The present invention provides antitumor 4'Demethylepipodophyllotoxin glycosides characterized by the fact that the glycoside moiety is altrose.

POLYMER ENCLOSED DOOR A structure (10) for limiting access, such as a storm door, having first and second polymer shells (11 and 12) with at least one thereof having side shell portions (15 or 16) extending at an angle from a major shell portion with these side shell portions adjoining the other shell, there being a first distribution of magnetic particles (32) positioned between a polymer backing...

A continuous, flexible ticket strip for use with a ticket dispenser (10) is disclosed, which ticket strip is provided at regular intervals with pairs of cuts (44a,44b), and which cuts define generally tongue-shaped flaps (45) and flap openings (46). The tickets are joined by shoulders (48,49) and bridges (50), the bridges (50) preventing the flaps (46) protruding from the plane of the ticket strip...

A continuous, flexible ticket strip for use with a ticket dispenser (10) is disclosed, which ticket strip is provided at regular intervals with pairs of cuts (44a,44b), and which cuts define generally tongue-shaped flaps (45) and flap openings (46). The tickets are joined by shoulders (48,49) and bridges (50), the bridges (50) preventing the flaps (46) protruding from the plane of the ticket strip...

An embossed thermoplastic liquid barrier film is disclosed having a visible nonwoven fibrous three-dimensionally embossed pattern in the film on both sides. The films have thicknesses of about 0.5 to about 2 mils and an embossed depth to provide the visible nonwoven fibrous three-dimensionally embossed pattern with the film having a soft hand feel.

A continuous, flexible ticket strip for use with a ticket dispenser (10) is disclosed, which ticket strip is provided at regular intervals with pairs of cuts (44a,44b), and which cuts define generally tongue-shaped flaps (45) and flap openings (46). The tickets are joined by shoulders (48,49) and bridges (50), the bridges (50) preventing the flaps (46) protruding from the plane of the ticket strip...

A disposable bag for collecting grass clippings or the like has ventilation holes in only a portion of its surface. The bag has a narrow mouth mounted to a connector assembly, or, alternatively, directly to a discharge chute of a mower. The disposable bag is supported by a cradle assembly mounted to the handlebars of the mower.

A device for removably securing a lace or the like, molded from a flexible plastic material, having a flat base with a plurality of fasteners integral therewith. Each fastener has an upper wall extending outwardly therefrom which is flexibly secured to the base with the wall terminating in a lip which extends towards the base. A ridge extends from the base opposite the lip and a lace penetrating m...

This is a process for producing a powdery complex oxide useful for producing ferrite contg. both an iron oxide and a zinc oxide. The process comprises (1) spraying an aq. soln. contg. chlorides into a fluidised roasting furnace to cause thermal decompsn., (2) extracting the produced oxide particles and a decompsn. gas through the upper part of the roasting furnace, and (3) collecting the oxide par...

PCT No. PCT/EP87/00302 Sec. 371 Date Feb. 11, 1988 Sec. 102(e) Date Feb. 11, 1988 PCT Filed Jun. 10, 1987 PCT Pub. No. WO87/07475 PCT Pub. Date Dec. 17, 1987.Intensive fish fattening in open waters is increasingly disturbed by deposits of harmful substances. Fish fattening in artificial ponds is uneconomic because of the considerable outlay in terms of the fresh water and area required. These disa...

An extruded buckling-resistant longitudinally insertable drain or venting hose of PVC or a similar thermoplastic material which can be mounted in inaccessible hollows of a conveyance, especially a motor vehicle body, has longitudinally-extending radial ribs coextruded with the PVC body and composed preferably of chlorinated polyethylene. As a result, the hose has improved sound-damping properties ...

PCT No. PCT/EP88/01029 Sec. 371 Date Sep. 12, 1989 Sec. 102(e) Date Sep. 12, 1989 PCT Filed Nov. 12, 1988 PCT Pub. No. WO89/06724 PCT Pub. Date Jul. 27, 1989.A construction set for the erection of support structures comprises supporting rods and at least one connecting joint containing a plurality of mutually parallel chambers. Cylindrical beads are formed on the ends of supporting rods. Those bea...

SILICONE RELEASE COATINGS CONTAINING RHODIUM A process for preparing a release liner for pressure-sensitive adhesives makes use of an organic-solvent solution of a rhodium-curable organopolysiloxane composition. The composition contains a high-viscosity, alkenyl-containing organopolysiloxane gum and an organohydrogenpolysiloxane. The liner is particularly useful for releasing acrylic adhesives whi...

The method uses heating to prepare batches of a mouldable fibre- reinforced thermoplastic material specifically for a moulded article to be produced. The method involves heating a free-flowing intermediate of fibres and binder containing thermoplastic as a strand and cutting off a specific batch from the strand for passing on to further processing. The apparatus has a melting device with a melting...

To transmit information and/or commands from one rail vehicle (1) to the next (3) of the same train assembly, a transmission system is used which is designed such that the data items which are to be transmitted modulate, in coded form, a microwave transmitter (6) of the first rail vehicle (1), and the radiation from the said transmitter is transmitted by a transmitting antenna (8) of the latter in...

In order to simply and economically fix to an internal-thread coupling (12) a pipeline (17) furnished with two slidable external-thread connections (15, 18), the invention contemplates fabricating the two external-thread connections (15, 18) together in the shape of one part only. At a predetermined screw-in torque, one external-thread connection (15) is torn off and as a result one pipeline end (...