PCT No. PCT/GB85/00193 Sec. 371 Date Dec. 31, 1985 Sec. 102(e) Date Dec. 31, 1985 PCT Filed May 8, 1985 PCT Pub. No. WO85/05182 PCT Pub. Date Nov. 21, 1985.A technique for assessing electrostatically deposited coatings of powder to be later fused into a surface finish. Powder deposited by the coating process onto a test piece or an unimportant part of an actual article is disturbed by, for example...

An automated, self-contained apparatus for extracting meat from the appendages of crustaceans, such as crabs, the appendages having been severed from the body and cooked. The device includes a plurality of stations which recover and collect the meat in the appendages as well as dispose of the empty shell. The appendages are placed in radially extending recesses of a circular motor driven platter, ...

The application deals primarily with the guidance and positioning of a travelling automatic servicing device (16) relative to a plurality of operating stations (12), e.g. of a spinning machine, which are to be serviced thereby. Aspects of the communication of information between the device and the stations are also dealt with insofar as they are associated with the guidance and positioning feature...

Workpieces are supported on pallets which are advanced by a continuously driven power-and-free conveyor adapted to permit each pallet to dwell in a work station when the pallet is stopped in the work station during continued driving of the conveyor. As each pallet approaches the work station, it is gradually decelerated and cushioned by a swingable stop which, after stopping the pallet, is shifted...

A sealing cap for a bottle or other container comprises a tubular body and a plug disposed within the through-bore of the tubular body. The plug is displaceable within the through-bore from an initial position in which it seals the through-bore, to an intermediate position in which it is a loose fit so that the container may be evacuated through the body, and then to a final position in which it s...

As a grinder is being rotated, an outer circumference thereof and a metal block of raw material are pressed at determined speed or under determined pressure, and the grinder cuts the block on its surface so as to generate short metal fibers of not more than about 15 mu m calculated as diameter and not more than about 400 mu m in length by contacting between each of abrasive grains held in a matr...

A ski attachment device having a safty feature that allows disengagement of the boot from the ski in the case of lateral or front falls of the skier. The device comprises a rear unit adapted to be attached to the ski and including a spring for applying a longitudinal forward thrust to the rear of the boot. A front unit includes a plate having a "V" shaped seat to be engaged by a grooved rotatable ...

A drill is described having a metal bit carrier part on which a sintered metal bit is placed. The bit possesses at least one enclosed helical cooling channel which continues in alignment into a corresponding cooling channel in the bit carrier part. This drill is particularly characterized by very great mechanical and thermal stability, which is not adversely affected in any way by the system of co...

A soft intraocular lens suitable for placement in the anterior or posterior chamber and either in or out of the capsular bag. The lens has a fenestrated haptic defined by an arcuate member including a tissue contact portion, beam portions and support portions which acting together keep the lens in contact with the eye during distortion and tend to cause the lens to vault posteriorly when compresse...

Apparatus for temporarily disabling a translation lookaside buffer or TLB (60) in a computer system upon the occurrence of certain predefined system conditions. Such conditions may be of a first type which have been predetermined to indicate a greater risk that two or more virtual addresses stored in the TLB (60) will simultaneously match the incoming virtual address, and/or of a second type in wh...

Apparatus for temporarily disabling a translation lookaside buffer or TLB (60) in a computer system upon the occurrence of certain predefined system conditions. Such conditions may be of a first type which have been predetermined to indicate a greater risk that two or more virtual addresses stored in the TLB (60) will simultaneously match the incoming virtual address, and/or of a second type in wh...

A steel wire element for the reinforcement of vehicle tyres or other rubber products. The corrosion fatigue resistance is improved by avoiding any residual chlorine on the steel surface of the wire.

Thermal insulators (40,50) are each made of a material based on carbon fibers and subjected to low temperature heat treatment. One insulator (40) is disposed between a thrust means actuator (18) and a first brake stator (28a), and the other insulator (50) is disposed between a last brake stator (28b) and a brake retaining plate (30). The insulator (40) associated with the first stator (28a) is of ...

A process for producing an air-permeable film is described, comprising stretching in at least one direction a film made of a composition comprising 42 to 87 vol % of a polyolefin resin and 58 to 13 vol % of an inorganic filler and further containing an aliphatic alcohol/fatty acid ester of a fatty acid having 10 to 22 carbon atoms and an aliphatic alcohol having 1 to 12 carbon atoms in an amount o...

A process is disclosed for the production of expanded particles of polymeric material wherein unexpanded particles of the material are contacted with a nitrogen-containing inorganic gas under a first pressure condition to impregnate the particles with the gas. The gas impregnated particles are heated to a temperature higher than the softening point of the material, and dispersed into a liquid medi...

The bond strength between a sulphur-vulcanizable rubber and a metal, especially brass, is increased by using as bonding promoter an organic substance containing one or more groups of the formula -S-SO2R where R represents (a) a radical -OM where M is a monovalent metal, the equivalent of a multivalent metal, a monovalent ion derived by the addition of a proton to a nitrogeneous base or the equival...

A process for manufacturing foamed silicone compositions by foaming a cross-linkable composition which comprises: (a) 100 parts by weight of a vinyl-containing polysiloxane containing 0.0002 to 3% by weight of vinyl groups and a viscosity of from 0.1 to 1,000 Pascal-seconds at 25 DEG C., (b) up to 10 parts by weight of a silanol-containing silicon compound with a viscosity from 0.01 to 10 Pascal-...

Aqueous redispersible powders which contain a water-soluble polymer and at least one organic silicon compound, in which at least 50 percent by weight of the organic silicon compound(s) used to prepare these powders are liquid or solid at room temperature at 1,020 hPa (abs.), have a boiling point of at least 150 DEG C. at 1,020 hPa (abs.), and contain an average of not more than 1.8 SiC-bonded org...

The adhesion of paints to cured silicone rubber can be achieved using primer compositions comprising (1) a dialkoxysilane containing a substituted or unsubstituted amino group that is bonded to silicon by means of a divalent hydrocarbon radical, (2) a liquid, hydroxyl terminated polyorganosiloxane, and (3) an organic solvent.