A padding element for the dorsal side of a diver's bottle-supporting backpack. The padding element comprises a padded cushion capable of being fitted against the back part of the backpack and having at its lower edge a padded cushion part hinged to it and capable of being either folded upwards, in order to increase the total thickness, and hence the padding action of the cushion over the diver's s...

A system is described for monitoring a subsea formation, which is under development. Instruments located in a completed but unconnected well are employed for providing information by a provisional monitoring unit being lowered downhole and connected to the well. Changes in the reservoir as a result of operations in other adjacent wells are intercepted by the instruments in the well and transmitted...

The invention relates to a printable one-component swelling paste made of an aqueous mixture of a water-soluble polymer containing carboxyl groups, and at least one multifunctional alcohol as crosslinker and optionally further additives such as thickeners, the carboxyl groups of the polymer being neutralized to 40-65 mole-%. The invention also relates to the use of the swelling paste for producing...

The preferred embodiments described herein relate to a multi-purpose hand-held device. Some of the preferred embodiments describe a multipurpose hand-held implement comprising first and second members connected together to move between a first position, in which they form together an elongated body, and a second position. In one preferred embodiment, a multi-purpose hand-held device is described c...

Disclosed is a method for preparing cooked and mixed portions of a ready-to-eat noodle dish, which are cooked in a container (6) that is placed in a microwave oven (M) after adding water (A) and optionally adding one or several mixing ingredients (T, T1) at a quantity allowing all the water (A) to be absorbed by the dry noodles (P) during cooking.

The invention is a method in a wireless communications network whereby errors due to incorrect transmission of scrambler seed values can be very greatly reduced. This is achieved by using a known pseudo-random seed generating algorithm at both at least one transmitting device 1 that has an associated transmitting address and at least one receiving device 2 that has at least one associated receivin...

A sol-gel process for the production of titanium oxide layers which comprises the following stages:(i) preparation of a soluble, titanium-containing powder by:(a) reaction of a titanium alcoholate of the general formula Ti(OR)4, in which the radicals R are identical or different and represent straight-chain, branched or cyclic alkyl or alkenyl radicals having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, which optionally...

A test-strip analysis system consisting of an evaluation device having a test-strip holder (3) and suitable test strips. The test-strip holder (3) is used for positioning the test strip (4) in a defined position with respect to a measuring unit (11). It has a test-strip support (20) and a guide for the test strip. Exact positioning with simple manipulation and with low constructional complexity is...

A process for the removal of ammonia from wastewater comprises the step of passing the wastewater through a moving bed biofilm reactor under limited oxygen conditions and in the presence of ammonium ion-oxidising organisms.

A belt conveyor comprises a drum, which is rotatably mounted on a vertical center shaft (4'), and an endless conveyor belt, which along part of its length follows a helical path through several turns around the drum and in contact with the outside of the drum. The drum has a plurality of vertical strips (10), which are distributed around the outside of the drum, engage the conveyor belt through th...

A unit container for a treatment fluid comprises a sealed enclosure of which one wall section thereof is formed with at least one opening. The enclosure is pressuriseable to discharge its contents through the opening or openings, which is or are of sufficient diameter to enable the generation of a jet and/or discrete droplets of treatment fluid discharged therefrom. The one wall section is typical...

An apparatus for regulating the flow of articles from an infeed stream at an infeed end of a packaging machine which apparatus comprises a plurality of article feed lanes for supplying a row of articles converging at a predetermined position, each feed lane having a regulator to control article flow, one of said regulators providing a reference position by which the relative positions of the artic...

Small crystals are made by mixing a solution of a desired substance with an anti-solvent in a fluidic vortex mixer in which the residence time is less than 1 s, for example 10 ms. The liquid within the fluidic vortex mixer ( 12 ) is subjected to high intensity ultrasound from a transducer ( 20, 22 ) in or on the wall of the mixer, or coupled to a pipe supplying liquid to the mixer. The solution ve...

Novel, partially fluorinated acrylic copolymers of formula: wherein W is -CH3 or -H, W<1> is -CH3 or -H, m is an integer between 10 and 2000, n is an integer between 1 and 100, q is an integer between 0 (zero) and 17, t is 0 (zero) or 1, r is 0 (zero) or 1, p is 0 (zero) or 1, s is 0 (zero) or 1, T is an organic spacer constituted by an aliphatic hydrocarbon chain with from 1 to 6 carbon at...

The system uses principal radial tubes 4 which connect an inner, central arc 3 to an outer arc 2. A plurality of branches 5 emerge from these tubes 4 and then assume a radial geometry, forming secondary radial tubes which extend as far as the said outer arc 2. The system rests freely on the bottom of the tank.

The present invention concerns a parking lock for combination with a service brake actuator for a vehicle, preferably a heavy road vehicle. The service brake actuator comprises a fluid actuated piston having a piston rod. The parking lock surrounds the piston rod of the service brake. The parking comprises a pneumatically or hydraulically actuated locking The parking lock has a locking mechanism a...

An electric vehicle is controlled to conform its operation to that of a conventional internal-combustion-engine powered vehicle. In some embodiments, the charging of the batteries by the auxiliary source of electricity and from dynamic braking is ramped in magnitude when the batteries lie in a state of charge between partial charge and full charge, with the magnitude of the charging being related ...

In a method and apparatus for the continuous production of rubber mixtures, rubber is introduced into a short-screw extruder for subsequent plasticization. The thus plasticized rubber is then fed through intervention of a gear pump to a twin-screw extruder at a predetermined temperature and predetermined volume flow:

The method and the device are configured for the catalytic removal of a pollutant contained in an exhaust gas of a combustion system using a reagent. A temporal mean, or time average, is formed for the concentration of the pollutant in the exhaust gas. The catalytic converter is laid out for complete conversion if the reagent is introduced stoichiometrically. Here, the reagent is introduced in sub...

A ship based system for compressed natural gas transport that utilizes a ship having a plurality of gas cylinders. The invention is characterized by the plurality of gas cylinders configured into a plurality of compressed gas storage cells. Each compressed gas storage cell consists of between 3 and 30 gas cylinders connected by a cell manifold to a single control valve. A high pressure manifold is...