In a method of producing molten pig iron or steel pre-products from particulate ferrous material, as well as of producing reduction gas in a melt-down gasifier by adding coal and by blowing in oxygen-containing gas by means of nozzle pipes penetrating the wall of the melt-down gasifier, a fixed bed formed of coke particles, through which the oxygen-containing gas flows and a superposed fluidized b...

A sprayable and foamable insulating composition comprising: (A) at least one low molecular weight polymer selected from the group consisting of ethylene/alphaolefin copolymer, ethylene/alphaolefin/nonconjugated polyene terpolymer, polyacrylate, polymethacrylate, polyisoprene, polyacrylonitrile, polymethacrylonitrile and polybutadiene; (B) an effective amount of curative; and (C) an effective amoun...

The invention relates to multilayer, polycarbonate-based plastic articles having a polymethacrylate layer applied thereto which has durable adhesion and contains UV absorbers, the polymethacrylate plastic layer comprising methacrylate copolymers which form mixtures which are compatible with polycarbonates, in particular the polycarbonate of bisphenol A. The methacrylate copolymers are methyl metha...

A method of controlling fungal or bacterial growth in a synthetic metalworkig fluid comprising the addition to said fluid of (a1) 5-chloro-2-methyl-4-isothiazolin-3-one and (a2) 2-methyl-4-isothiazolin-3-one and (b) an ionene polymer wherein the ratio by weight of the sum of components (a1) and (a2) to component (b) is form 1:99 to 99:1 and wherein the amounts of the components are synergisti...

The invention relates to a process for producing a three-dimensional stiffening element from a powder selected from the group consisting of a meltable plastic powder and a powder mixture comprising the meltable plastic powder comprising applying the powder to an auxiliary carrier in a template screen printing process with the aid of a template and subsequently transferring the thus obtained stiffe...

The invention relates to a braking device, constituted by a housing in which is housed a brake disc fixed in rotation with respect to the housing, a shaft mounted to rotate, a rotary brake disc, fast with the shaft, a first jack, constituting a pressurized fluid braking control member, and a second jack distinct and independent of the first jack, which defines, inside the housing, a brake-release ...

Case 7055(2) MIXING APPARATUS AND METHOD Apparatus and method for effecting mass or heat transfer between the bulk of a fluid and a surface boundary layer of the fluid at a transfer surface in which the fluid is passed in pulsatile flow through a conduit having a transfer surface comprising at least a part of the surface of an array of cylinders positioned transverse to the direction of fluid flow...

A building power management controller comprises a plurality of modules connected by a two-wire network. Each module comprises a data transceiver device, controlled by a microprocessor to both transmit data to the other modules and to a central unit via the two-wire network, and to receive information via this two-wire network. The modules are supplied with power by the two-wire network. When two ...

A process and system for making semiconductor alloys and members with high reaction gas conversion efficiencies and at high deposition rates utilizes microwave energy to form a deposition plasma. The microwave energy forms depositing species and molecular ions of a semiconductor elememt and the potential of the plasma is controlled to alter the ion bombardment of the depositing species. The proces...

Antibacterial compounds have the formula wherein R<1> is hydrogen, a pharmaceutically acceptable cation, or alkyl; A is CH, CF, CCl or N; Y is alkyl, haloalkyl, cyclopropyl, vinyl, methoxy, N-methylamino, p-fluorophenyl, p-hydroxyphenyl or p-aminophenyl; or A is carbon and is taken together with Y and the carbon and nitrogen to which A and Y are attached to form a five to seven membered rin...

A vehicle or container with a roller shutter (34) for closing the access opening to its load-carrying space is described. The roller shutter (34) comprises a plurality of elongate laths (2) joined together along their long edges, each lath (2) comprising an elongate hollow section (4) formed from a fibre reinforced plastics material and two members (6) for closing the ends of the section. The lath...

PCT No. PCT/AU86/00261 Sec. 371 Date Mar. 24, 1989 Sec. 102(e) Date Mar. 24, 1989 PCT Filed Sep. 4, 1986 PCT Pub. No. WO88/01682 PCT Pub. Date Mar. 10, 1988.A reciprocatory machine having a cylinder defining with at least one piston a working chamber. Each piston is reciprocable in the cylinder by a respective crankshaft. The machine has intake and exhaust ports disposed at opposite ends of the wo...

VEHICLES AND VEHICLE LIFTS The invention provides a vehicle lift mounted beneath a floor of a vehicle and having support structure and lift structure movable relative to the support structure in a direction inclined to the horizontal between withdrawn and extended positions, the lift structure including a platform movable up and down in the extended position.