A process for forming a shear thickening hydrocarbon liquid having a viscosity of at least about 10 cps. which includes the steps of: (a) forming a first solution of an organic hydrocarbon liquid and a neutralized sulfonated polymer having a sulfonated content of from about 4 to about 200 milliequivalents per 100 gms. of said polymer; (b) forming a second solution of an organic hydrocarbon liquid ...

La presente invención se refiere a una composición espumable que comprende: una composición de fusión en caliente, que está constituída de; por lo menos un polímero termoplástico y una pequeña cantidad de cuando menos unsa sal de un polímero de estireno sulfonado; y un agente impelente soplado.; Hot melt compositions are disclosed from which foamed products having a fine and uniform void structure...

PURPOSE:To enable starting of a combined cycle power generating plant while hardly using deaerated steam by separating a condenser by a bulkhead into a vacuum breaking chamber in which exhaust steam enters, and an isolator chamber for maintaining a lot of hotwell molding few dissolved oxygen. CONSTITUTION:Exhaust gas in a gas turbine 1 is supplied to an exhaust heat recovery boiler 2 so as to driv...

A process for the manufacture of an electrode for lead-acid storage battery wherein a current-conducting backing is subjected to electrochemical treatment, to produce an active material. Said active material is formed from the outer layer of the current-conducting backing. The active material is subjected to compression by applying a pressure to the surface thereof.

A rotary die cutter for severing collar blanks for a hinge lid pack from a web of material comprises rollers (10) which are provided with knife edges (17) to sever blanks from a thin cardboard web. The knife roller (10) is pressed against a counter roller (11) by adjustable spring means (30), the pressure being exerted on the counter roller (11) in the region of annular rims (18). The annular rims...

A method of preparing ribbed ticks comprising a textile top sheet (60) and a textile bottom sheet (61) and partition-wall strips (1), said strips being welded along their opposite side edges to the top sheet and bottom sheet, respectively, by heating the entire surface of the joined webs of textile material after placing of lengths of folded partition-wall strips (1) in a given pattern, said strip...

The furnace (70) includes a heating element (72) which is restrained from growth during operation of the furnace (70) by retaining spacers (84) which provide a yoke (88) around the individual coils (102) of the heating element (72) and which spacers (84) are interlocked with each other. A high alumina fiber insulation (180) is applied to insulate the heating element (72). This high alumina fiber i...

A bead lock apparatus incorporating in a tire building apparatus and a method of locking a bead ring (4) by using the bead lock apparatus for transferring a bead ring from a bead setter (5) engaging the inner circumferential surface of the bead ring to the tire building apparatus at a predetermined position thereon. The bead lock apparatus includes a plurality of first bead lock segments (6) posit...

The invention relates to a delivery mechanism for a printing press, by means of which sheets are placed optionally on a stack (1) or on catch arms (2) of a catch device which catch arms can be temporarily displaced from a basic position into a catch position above the stack. For displacement of the catch arms and for temporary folding down of stops (3), provided for the respective front edges of t...

The invention concerns a toilet seat with a protective overlay, in which at least the seating surface of the toilet seat is covered by the protective overlay, the protective overlays being stored in a compartment above the level of the toilet bowl. Operation of the toilet is fully automatic, the seat being covered automatically with the protective overlay and swung down automatically from the rais...

A string-up system and apparatus, using a novel dual-slotted traverse guide (12), with preferential string up of a first yarn in the one slot (29), associated with transfer means (46) to move a yarn, if desired, out of the first slot (29), so this yarn is strung up in the second slot (30).

Apparatus for deheading and cleansing shrimp in a continuous-flow product transport system for more efficient storage or peeling. The apparatus transports food product having weakly attached appendages, such as crustaceans and especially shrimp, along conduits in a fluid medium at a flow rate as controlled by a food pump. Upstream conduit defines a flow channel having a certain cross-sectional are...

PURPOSE:To delete the occurrence of the trouble so that the output from an arithmetic and logic unit is outputted without fail by turning on a fail inhibiting switch. CONSTITUTION:When the fail inhibiting switches 11 of the first and second operators 1 and 2 are off and the input of an adder input terminal X1 goes to be abnormal, the output of the operator 1 and next, the output of the operator 2 ...

PURPOSE:To improve visibility by setting the angle of torsion of a compensating liquid crystal layer 360 degrees or more. CONSTITUTION:A polarizing plate 1 is formed by attaching a polarizing film 1b on the inner side of a transparent substrate 1a, and a polarizing plate 4 is formed by attaching a polarizing film 4b to a transparent substrate 4a. Light transmitting axes 1.1, 4.1 of the polarizing ...

An arrangement of guide elements for electrical cables, especially photovoltaic elements, in the façade region of buildings is proposed in order to guide electrical cables in the façade region of buildings such that they are largely protected against damage, the electrical cables being guided between any desired façade parts, especially panels and the guide elements, by the shortest route, led by ...

Skiving equipment which is labour saving and which also permits the skiving work to be carried out to a predetermined extent includes a rotating member 6 for rotating a buffed tyre about an axis while supporting the tyre; a camera 41 for photographing a belt portion of the tyre; a camera controller 44 for analyzing skiving conditions, including a skiving position, from a photographed image obtaine...

PCT No. PCT/EP91/00137 Sec. 371 Date Aug. 17, 1992 Sec. 102(e) Date Aug. 17, 1992 PCT Filed Jan. 24, 1991 PCT Pub. No. WO91/12640 PCT Pub. Date Aug. 22, 1991.A laser having an adjustment device for varying the output power of the laser. The adjustment device has an adjustment element which is switched in by the operator but cuts out automatically. Using a beam splitter, part of the laser beam is d...

A solution of a polyurethane elastomer to be used for producing films and coated layers, which comprises a polyurethane elastomer having at least a glassy region within the temperature range of practical use of such film or coated layer, dissolved in a volatile solvent, as well as applications of such solution.

Ein Gerät zum Zerlegen und Zerwirken von Schlachtgut ist zur Erzielung absolut glatter, splitterfreier und knochenmehlfreier Trennflächen als kreis- oder bogenförmiges Messer mit einer Vielzahl von Schneiden (3) mit dazwischenliegenden Schneidlücken (2) ausgebildet, wobei die Schneiden (3) an ihrem in Schneidrichtung weisenden Ende einen konkaven Bereich (4), der sich zwischen zwei etwa gleich hoh...

Myocardial revascularization is performed by an apparatus and method which forms channels in the myocardium from inside the ventricular cavity without penetrating the full thickness of the ventricular wall. A catheter has a fiber optic connected at its handling end to a laser, and terminates at the insertable end of the catheter. A servomotor controls the advancing of the fiber to stop positions r...