An aqueous agent for treating wood and wooden materials, optionally containing customary additives, such as water-soluble wood protecting agents effective as insecticides and/or fungicides, comprises an organic binder drying by oxidation, said organic binder consisting essentially of the reaction product of an acid and a 1,3-butadiene substrate polymer modified to carry amino groups, wherein (1) t...

Novel 7-(substituted indanyl or naphthyl)-3-methyl-octa-2,4,6-triene derivatives useful as anti-tumor agents are disclosed.

A device for unwinding yarn comprises a bobbin (10) having a tubular bobbin body (11) and flanges (12, 12') projecting radially at the two ends and each with a middle bore (13) coaxial with the bobbin body (11). A fastening element (20) is fastened to the flange (12) of the bobbin, and a rotary body (30) is mounted on the fastening element (20) rotatably in relation to the bobbin (10). The rotary ...

PURPOSE:To suppress early reduction of capacity of a Ca-battery and improve the life performance by filling the paste mixed with carbon fiber into the substrate for a lead accumulator comprising Ca-alloy and attaching a paper made of carbon fiber onto the surface of an electrode plate. CONSTITUTION:A paper 2 made of carbon fiber is attached onto the surface of a Ca-anode plate 1, and separated fro...

PURPOSE:To report it to a driver whether fuel charge is normal or not, by displaying the fuel charge on a display element on a basis of the output of a detection signal, which is obtained when a vehicle speed, an intake negative pressure, and an engine rotation number satisfy set conditions, in a vehicle provided with a manual speed change gear. CONSTITUTION:A speed detector 1 outputs a high level...

A port cap for attachment to an inlet or an outlet port of a device, especially a medical device such as a cardiotomy reservoir, venous reservoir, blood oxygenator or blood dialyzer. The port cap comprises a hollow body member having a wall at its first end, a second end which is open, and a hollow interior. The closed end of the body member carries a hollow projection having a first end which is ...

A port assembly for delivering fluid through a shell of a rotary kiln is disclosed with structures for screening and excluding particulate matter from the port during operation of the kiln. The port assembly comprises a cylindrical nozzle defining a nozzle orifice to deliver fluid to the interior of a kiln. A base member secured to one side of the nozzle is provided with a platform extending partl...

A port assembly for delivering fluid through a shell of a rotary kiln is disclosed with structures for screening and excluding particulate matter from the port during operation of the kiln. The port assembly comprises a cylindrical nozzle defining a nozzle orifice to deliver fluid to the interior of a kiln. A base member secured to one side of the nozzle is provided with a platform extending partl...

A component system for surgical cement, based on at least one acrylic monomer and at least one acrylic polymer comprising a powder and a liquid. The powder comprises: (a) from 50 to 70 weight percent of at least one acrylic polymer having a particle size of between 20 and 150 microns; and (b) a polymerization initiator. The liquid comprises: (a) from 30 to 50 weight percent of a mixture comprising...

A razor handle comprising a grip portion, a neck portion, a connector at a free end of the neck portion for connecting a shaving unit to the handle, and a pusher member molded integrally with the handle and movable in response to pressure applied thereon by an operator to cause a free end of the pusher member to bear against a shaving unit disposed on the connector to dislodge the shaving unit fro...

1. A one-piece femoral portion of a hip joint endoprosthesis comprising a head (11), a shank (10) having in the frontal plane respectively concavely or convexly curved sides, said shank constantly tapering downwardly in the frontal plane and adapted to be anchored in the femur with bone cement, and a neck portion (12) arranged between the shank (10) and the head (11), characterized in that the med...

A stow roller train arrangement which includes a plurality of rotatably mounted conveyor rollers extending transversely to the direction of conveyed articles with intermediate rollers being interposed between the conveyor rollers and the drive mechanism which intermediate rollers transmit a drive force to the conveyor rollers. A control device provided with a sensor extends in the path of movement...

The conveyor comprises two concentric tracks 1, 2, namely an ascending and a descending track, consisting of straight track sections connected by curved track sections. The curved sections 4, 7 and straight sections 3, 6 of both concentric tracks 1, 2 at one side of the conveyor are provided in horizontal planes and the adjacent straight sections 5, 8 at the other side of the conveyor, at least ov...

A lightweight armored vehicle and method of making the same is shown. The interior or a standard automobile to be equipped with lightweight armor is first stripped of its interior furnishings. Mechanisms to raise or lower the windows are removed. Doors and window frames are rebuilt to rigidly mount a bulletproof transparent window therein. Vertical walls of the automobile are bulletproofed by addi...

A cylindrical implant magazine (100) having open-ended implant-containing chambers (103) with slots (104) communicating with the surface of the magazine so that the open-sided chambers can expand slightly during ejection of the implants.

PURPOSE:To suppress a loss of a connecting point to the minimum, and to obtain a stable transmission quality, by leading DC miscellaneous light into an input photodetector, measuring a code error rate of an optical repeater, and melt-stick-connecting an input use optical fiber and a transmission line optical fiber at a position where the error rate becomes best. CONSTITUTION:An optical repeater 1 ...

PURPOSE:To easily obtain an optical branching circuit which scacely generates a connecting loss, by embedding and butting a fiber into a guide groove having a branching circuit pattern, and after that, pouring transparent resin having a prescribed refractive index, into the groove of the branch coupling part, and hardening it. CONSTITUTION:Along a desired branching circuit pattern 1, a guide groov...