There is described a method for cutting continuously supplied material such as, for example, a strip, a round bar or other metal and non-metal products, intended in particular for production with high feeding speeds of the material. Cutting is performed by means of the blades arranged along the generatrices of two counter-rotating drums (6, 7), that cut the material acting on opposite sides thereo...

Device and process for containing and controlling the balloon while unwinding the feeding spools in automatic spoolers, in which a balloon containing crossbar is kept close to the upper part of the spooling tube but not in contact with the same: in this manner, the yarn of the balloon is at every turn forced by the bar to re-approach its tube and be contained by the same. The yarn is then passed t...

A method and apparatus for selecting an entry stored in a data processing system, and specifically a destination in a vehicle navigation system. The system includes a display, scrolling means having first and second controls, and selecting means. Using the scrolling means, the user of the system scrolls through a plurality of stored destinations on the display. Each destination is made up of a plu...

An automatically driven motor vehicle automatically follows a front motor vehicle while controlling an intervehicular distance up to the front motor vehicle. A speed of the following motor vehicle, and a speed of the front motor vehicle are recognized. The difference between the speed of the following motor vehicle and the speed of the front motor vehicle is compared with a predetermined value, an...

PCT No. PCT/FR95/00338 Sec. 371 Date Sep. 24, 1996 Sec. 102(e) Date Sep. 24, 1996 PCT Filed Mar. 20, 1995 PCT Pub. No. WO95/25567 PCT Pub. Date Sep. 28, 1995A toe piece for a ski safety binding includes a jaw having two lateral arms. The lateral arms pivot about a pin. The return and holding forces during the elastic travel are proportional to the triggering threshold. The useful elastic travel is...

A combination beach towel, tote bag and beach umbrella system including a towel member, an umbrella member and an umbrella support. The towel member has a towel perimeter edge defining a towel shape, a drawstring sleeve provided adjacent to the towel perimeter, and a draw string having a first and second drawstring end positioned through the drawstring sleeve with the first and second drawstring e...

A retail method over a wide area network. The wide area network includes a point of sale computer station, a network service provider server operated by a network service provider, a customer computer station used by a customer and connected to the wide area network through the network service provider server, and a transaction server having access to identification information of the network serv...

In an aspect of the present invention, a synchronizer ring, made of Fe-based sintered alloy, having an internal circumferential surface 101, is provided, the internal circumferential surface 101 being adapted to detachably engage in synchronized sliding with a rotating counterpart member thereof. At least the internal circumferential surface 101 is applied with aqueous vapor treatment to form iron...

The present invention relates to a universal system for monitoring and controlling a plurality of individual food establishment monitoring and controlling system for a plurality of remotely located, separate food establishments. Each individual food establishment system includes a main computer with appropriate peripherals and an interface unit. The interface unit is connected to the main computer...

A check detector is provided for the neck and finished portions of a bottle which comprises a rotating means which is capable of rotating an inspection bottle; a plurality of emitters and a plurality of receivers arranged on an approximately hemispherical fixture arranged around the neck and finished portions of an inspected bottle as a center; means for obtaining NxM data per single scan against ...

The present invention relates to a method of making a WC-Co-based cemented carbide with a fine WC-grain size. The cemented carbide is produced from well deagglomerated or easy to deagglomerate WC powder with round morphology, a Co powder also well deagglomerated or easy to deagglomerate and with a grain size equal to or smaller than the WC grain size and grain growth inhibitors. According to the i...

A controlled traction cartridge for use in connection with a differential. The catridge generally comprises a shaft, a gear mounted on the shaft and rotatable with respect thereto, and an interior bearing surfaces associated with the shaft. The gear is maintained in frictional engagement with the interior bearing surface for inhibiting the rotation of the gear.

Apparatus and method for endoscopically harvesting an elongate structure such as a blood vessel or nerve from a patient's body. A harvesting head defines a channel for receiving a blood vessel or the like and an outer surface for dissecting and retracting connective tissue surrounding a vessel received in the channel. The head may have a substantially ovate shape and may depend from an extended ha...

An optimum route searching device 5 conducts a search in a predetermined area on road network data on a lower hierarchical level to obtain minimum arrival costs to individual nodes in the search area and then selects a node located on an upper hierarchical level existing in from the search area. Then the optimum route searching device 5 obtains a remaining cost to a node common with the upper hier...

In an apparatus for the deposition of polycrystalline diamond on large, flat substrates (3) by the plasma method, with a vacuum chamber (4); with locks for the inward and outward transfer of the substrates; with a device installed in the chamber (4) for conveying the substrates (3) through at least one, preferably through two treatment stations; with hot-filament sources (5, 5', . . . ) forming a ...

A method of processing a digital radiographic image includes the following the steps. (1) A digital radiographic image having a radiation region and a collimation region defined by collimation blades at least partially bounding the radiation region is provided. (2) Pixels of the digital radiographic image are detected and classified as collimation boundary transition pixels. (3) Candidate collimat...

A system and method for displaying MPEG-2 packets as a hierarchy of tables within a window of a graphical display. This hierarchial display is updated continuously as new packets are received, thus providing a real time display. When a packet is received, and the location of that packet has not been identified, the packet is placed at the top of the hierarchy. Once a subsequent packet is received ...

A semi-hard magnetic element comprised of an amorphous soft iron-metalloid material containing at least 50 atomic percent iron and at least a part of the bulk of which has been crystallized to give the overall element semi-hard magnetic properties.

The invention relates to a method for denitrifying waste waters in a clarification plant, comprising at least one preliminary clarification tank (2) with an inlet (1), at least one biological clarification stage (6) and at least one final clarification tank (8). The inventive method is characterized in that the nitrified waste water (9) contained in the final clarification tank (8) is recycled wit...

A casket handle and removable lug (escutcheon plate) combination frees the lug from a fixed connection to the casket wall in common with the connections of the handle. The lug instead is mounted separately upon the casket, employing spring-urged detents engageable with the lug to hold the lug in assembled relation with the handle and the casket.