The equipment (10) for storage and delivery of fluid under pressure comprises fluid containers (12,14) of the type with a cylindrical housing, a closed under side and an upper side provided with an outlet mouth. The mouth at the outset is closed by a membrane. A coupling block (16) is provided with a number of inlet ports (18,20) corresponding to the quantity of fluid containers, an outlet port (2...

Provided herein are methods and compositions relating to the attachment of water soluble polymers to proteins. Provided are novel methods for N-terminally modifying proteins or analogs thereof, and resultant compositions, including novel N-terminally chemically modified G-CSF compositions and related methods of preparation. Also provided is chemically modified consensus interferon.

The invention relates to absorbent articles, such as diapers and like articles and is concerned with methods for preventing undesirable odors and/or preventing the growth of undesirable microorganisms when the articles are in use, and also provides an absorbent article which can be worn for long periods of time without generating undesirable odors, incurring the risk of infection or having a negat...

An optical head device comprises a light source, condensing optics for condensing a light beam emitted from the light source on an optical recording medium, a photodetector for detecting the light of the light beam reflected from the recording medium, and a beam splitter having a diffraction grating arranged in the optical path of the light beam entering the recording medium from the light source ...

An actuation assembly for double-glazing units with a frame with two glazed panes (13) that form a hermetic air space (14) accommodating shutters (15) movable to be gathered or rolled-up, which comprises rotary motion (24) speed varying (23) elements, with a first rotor (16), with a magnet ring (20) external to the unit (11) and a second rotor (17), with a magnet ring (39) arranged inside the unit...

A roll-up blind with high mechanical strength, having thermal and acoustic insulation features, comprising a plurality of slats that can be mutually hinged, each slat being constituted by an outer profiled element made of aluminum and by an inner profiled element made of plastics which is coupled to the outer profiled element; the roll-up blind further comprises, on the inner face of the outer pro...

A method of pyrolytically forming a silicon oxide coating on a hot glass substrate as it travels past a coating chamber includes contacting the substrate with silane-containing coating precursor material in the presence of oxygen. The silane-containing coating precursor material is in the vapor phase and it and gaseous oxygen are intimately mixed before they enter the coating chamber to contact th...

A tool (10) such as a lawnmower, particularly for gardening vehicles, of the type that comprises a protective housing (11), suitable to provide a supporting chassis for front wheels (12) and cutting blades (13a, 13b, 13c) arranged substantially within dimensions of the chassis, the housing being provided, in an upper region and at the front of the central region, with two mutually adjacent blades ...

Apparatus (10) for adjusting the height of a tool (11) particularly for gardening vehicles, comprising front wheels (16) whose height can be adjusted on corresponding supports (15) that are rigidly coupled, at the front, to a housing (13) suitable to form the chassis of the tool, the apparatus comprising: a rear linkage (19), which is articulated in a lower region with respect to the protective ...

Temperature control of solid state detectors carried on the rotating gantry of computed tomography equipment is impractical for very detailed images. The temperatures of all of the detectors in the array can be equalized, however, by closely coupling them to a thermally massive object and isolating this combination from the environment. Significant thermal gradients are thereby removed from the ar...

The bag consists of two walls (12, 14) made from sheets of a multi-layer, synthetic material, welded together along part of the perimeter. One of the walls has two or three rectilinear, longitudinal rough stripes (16a, 16b, 16c) on its inner surface, obtained by hot-printing and extending substantially along the full length of the bag. The stripes are obtained by pressing a welding bar, coated wit...

A bactericidal descaler particularly for the treatment of water used for drinking, comprising a coil which is supplied electrically with a square-wave AC voltage or with a half-wave rectified voltage.

A feed conveyor (14) is operable in a first direction to deposit a stream of articles (16) across a width of a downstream conveyor (18) operating along a second direction, the second direction being at an angle to the first direction. The feed conveyor (14) is an extendable conveyor (30) that is accurately controlled for circulating speed, extension speed and retraction speed, to deposit articles ...

Device for rectal lavages consisting of a flexible container ( 1 ) containing the washing liquid, a flexible tube ( 2 ) and a nozzle ( 3 ) equipped with an elongated egg-shaped body ( 6 ) from which an upper elongated portion ( 7 ) and a concave surface ( 8 ) depart, the upper portion ( 7 ) being equipped with at least one opening ( 9 ), and a concave surface ( 8 ) with two tongues ( 4 ) of slight...

A medical system that may include a filter/flow restrictor which limits the pressure drop within an aspiration system. The restrictor may include a flow restrictor that is coupled to a filter housing. The flow restrictor restricts the pressure drop within the aspiration system. The housing may contain a filter which prevents occlusion of the flow restrictor. When used in an opthtalmic procedure th...

Process to increase the rate of oxidation of dissolved sulphur dioxide in seawater, where the sulphur dioxide rich seawater is produced in an absorber unit where sulphur dioxide is scrubbed from flue gas with seawater, thereby performing the oxidation with molecular oxidation in the presence of iron or soluble iron salts added to the seawater.

Knockdown chair (10) comprising a plurality of components (11) able to be associated with each other, including at least a seat part (12), front (15) and rear (14) support means, or legs, and at least a tie bar element (16), with the function of giving structural rigidity, able to be attached diagonally below the seat part (12) to connect the latter with the rear support means (14).

The present invention is directed to an electrospun pharmaceutical composition comprising a pharmaceutically acceptable actibe agent, and a pharmaceutically acceptable polymeric carrier for use in therapy.

Methods and apparatus are described for optimising the allocations of resources, e.g. time slots on the Agprs interface in a cellular mobile telecommunications network for packet data. The Agprs interface is provided between a packet control unit (PCU) and a ba se station controller (BSC). The PCU determines which cells of the network are least an d most loaded and sends a request to the BSC to r...

A multipurpose folding tool (16), for use by picnickers and travellers, including a corkscrew (40), a crown cap remover (78), and a can opener (80), as well as a small fork (36) and a small butter knife (32). Both the corkscrew (40) and a brace (42) for use together with it fit close to the handles (20,22) of the tool when the tool is in a compact, folded configuration. A spring (100) in one handl...