A training shoe comprising anchorage means adapted securely to receive one or more elastic cords (5) against which a wearer may exert him or herself. Preferably, the anchorage means comprises a hole extending transversely through the sole (1) of the shoe and through which hole one or more elastic cords (5) are threaded so as to form an elastic loop which may be pulled by the wearer as part of an e...

Via an input device 12, data on the two-dimensional mass distribution of a printed sheet 3 is supplied to a control device 11, which controls the pressure to be distributed by a blowing-air or suction device 9 acting on a sheet being added to stack 4, the pressure distribution correlating with the mass distribution. The mass distribution is determined by the arrangement of ink, varnish dampening m...

The present invention concerns a transfer tail forming apparatus for weft feeders fed to a weaving machine, wherein a tail end (Y1b) of a feeder now in use (Y1) and a leading end (Y2a) of a preliminary feeder (Y2) are connected together using a knotter (11). The tail end (Y1b) and the leading end (Y2a) are automatically positioned and held in a predetermined position by a positioning means, and th...

Mixtures of isomeric decyl alcohols are obtained by oligomerisation of propylene in the presence of deactivated zeolites as catalysts, separation of the C9 olefins from the oligomer mixture, hydroformylation of the C9 olefins to give C10 aldehydes and hydrogenation of the C10 aldehydes. The mixtures afford, esterified with phthalic acid, a mixture of isomeric didecyl phthalates, which are used as ...

A water treatment plant has at least one vertical stack of dissolved air flotation clarifiers (114 and 116). Raw water is directed to a single stage clarifier with a shallow tank (114). Its output is fed to an underlying two stage clarifier (116), preferably having tall, mutually isolated cells; inclined baffles over a filtration medium in each cell; a cell-by-cell backwash capability; and an arra...

Inrichting voor het toevoeren van inslagdraad bij weefmachines, daardoor gekenmerkt dat zij bestaat in de kombinatie van minstens één bobijnsteun (1) waarover een garenbobijn (2) kan worden geschoven; een draadgeleidingskanaal (3) dat zich axiaal doorheen de bobijnsteun (1) uitstrekt en dat aan de top (4) van de bobijnsteun (1) in de omgeving uitgeeft, waarin het draadeinde (5) van een garenbobijn...

Reactive metal granules, especially of magnesium and/or magnesium alloys are produced directly from molten metal. The metal is fed under pressure to a granulation nozzle which forces the metal to aquire a circular motion of increasing velocity before it reaches the outlet of the nozzle and disintegrates successively into small fragments and droplets. These fragments and droplets are formed in an i...

A method of adhering a polyurethane to a structural material, eg a cured rubber, comprises contacting the material with a polyurethane prepolymer with unreacted hydroxyl and an excess of blocked polyisocyanate followed by curing at less than 250 DEG F (about 120 DEG C) curing at a temperature of 300 DEG - 450 DEG F (about 115 - 230 DEG C) for several hours, usually 4 to 24 hours to cause the bloc...

A polyurethane foam containing a particulate organic polymer having a glass transition temperature of less than 0 DEG C. and a process for preparing such foam is described. A preferred type of particulate organic polymer is a styrene/butadiene polymer. The presence of such particles within a flexible polyurethane foam significantly enhances both the comfort aspect and SAG factor performance of th...

The chain consists of a back frame (1) with two parallel lengthwise members (2) forming the seat, pivoted to the back frame close to its lower edge. Two arm rests (4) are parallel to one another and to the seat members, and are pivoted to the back frame, while a U-shaped frame (3) forms a leg rest. A fabric panel is attached to the back, seat and leg rest by elastic connectors. The chair stands on...

A tyre has a reinforcing carcass consisting, at least in the walls, of a series of bands (4) wound circumferentially and placed so that when observing a radial section the bands have a certain overlap. The bands comprise strands laid side by side of a length less than the height of the tyre wall, embedded in an elastomeric material matrix. The overlap of the band l is dependent on: the dia. of t...

This invention relates to a method of sticking an apex (13) annularly in a partially joined state to the outer circumferential surface of a bead ring (12) prior to the assembling of beads in the manufacture of a pneumatic tire and an apparatus therefor. In order to prevent the occurrence of imperfect joining of the apex to the bead ring (12), an apex is supplied from its one end onto the outer cir...

An apparatus (10) for filling pressurized air into a tire includes a table (12) for supporting thereon a tire (36) mounted on a rim (38), an inner cylinder member (14) air-tightly engageable with a flange (38a) of the rim, and an outer cylinder member (16) air-tightly engageable with a side rubber of the tire and forming an air-tight space (32) in cooperation with the inner cylinder member. The en...

This invention relates to a polyester composition containing particles of a cross-linked polymer having an ester bond in the principal chain. These particles have excellent affinity for polyester. Accordingly, in a film molded from polyester containing these particles, the particles hardly come off during a high-speed travelling of the film, and flaws ascribed to the particles also hardly occur on...

Adjustable platform (14) for an industrial truck (pallet truck), the platform (14) being adjustable both in height and in inclination, a slide (30) being guided in a vertically adjustable manner on the frame of the truck (10), at one side of the platform (14), on which slide there engages a first adjusting device (36), which is supported on the frame, and there being mounted on the slide (30) a se...

A laser microsurgical method and apparatus are disclosed for safely treating occluded body lumens with laser energy. The disclosed method involves the use of pulsed laser energy from an argon-ion laser (62) to destroy the tissue of luminal occlusions, such as atheromatous plaque and the like, with substantially no thermal necrosis of the surrounding tissue. A flexible catheter and associated laser...

Magnetisable microspheres consisting of a polysilsesquioxane lattice and distributed uniformly inside the lattice of magnetisable fillers chemically bonded to polysilsesquioxane units. They are prepared by dispersion in a solvent of an aqueous suspension of magnetisable fillers not coated with dispersing agent, dissolving an alkoxysilane or an alkoxysiloxane in the organic phase, polycondensa...

Magnetisable composite microspheres made up of a core consisting of magnetisable fillers distributed uniformly in a lattice of a polysilsesquioxane (SiVi) containing ethylenic unsaturations and a skin made of a crosslinked organosilicon polymer derived from the hydrosilylation of an organohydropolysiloxane (SiH) with the ethylenically unsaturated groups of the polysilsesquioxane SiVi. They ar...

A molded closure for a liquid container comprising a thermoplastic elastomer and a blowing agent. The molded closure is particularly suitable for use as a synthetic wine cork in a wine bottle. The molded closure does not permit passage of oxygen into the container, does not absorb oxygen from the contents of the container, can be removed from the container using a corkscrew without significant exp...

A system for use in a borehole (e.g. a gas or oilwell) for detecting the position of a tool on a wireline 22 comprises at least one sensor 24, such as a coil, magnetoresistive element or Hall effect device, affixed to an external surface of the wellhead and arranged to detect the passage of a marker associated with the tool. The marker may be a magnetic element secured to the tool or may be an int...