A painter's belt-mounted paint and brush holder especially adapted for stability relative to the painter. It includes an open topped bucket with a rim that drains into the bucket cavity, and a stabilizer integral with the wall of the bucket that rises above the bucket with a substantial area that is drawn against the body of the painter.

A carrier (10) of the backpack type is provided for use by motorcyclists to carry their travel requirements and a motor cycle helmet (26) when on or off the motorcycle. The carrier (10) has a bag (11) of flexible textile material with adjustable shoulder straps (12), waist strap (16) and chest strap (13). The bag (11) has a main compartment (22) and a lower compartment (25) adapted to receive the ...

An umbrella stand includes means defining a cavity, a mast receiving means operatively associated with the cavity-defining means, a bladder received within the cavity and comprised of a material which will retain ballast, and ballast contained within the bladder. When an umbrella mast is inserted into the mast receiving means and the umbrella is raised, the ballast weighs down the cavity-defining ...

A process for preparing glass fiber reinforced plastics using high-energy radiation. A sizing composition is applied to the glass fiber, and the curing mechanism of the sizing composition proceeds in a controlled way by the use of two crosslinking mechanisms which can be activated separately from one another. Aqueous UV-curing polyurethane dispersions containing few or no active hydrogen atoms are...

The present invention relates to a wheeled backpack, particularly for use by children and young adults at education facilities, including: a bag portion having an outer periphery including a body contacting side, an opposing non-body contacting side, a bottom surface and two opposing side surfaces, and an inner periphery within which items may be stowed; shoulder straps attached to the bag portion...

The polyester film roll, which is free from wrinkles and slacks generated with the passage of time and is having a good roll appearance, is provided without changing the characteristics of the film. The polyester film roll is a polyester film roll in which a polyester film is rolled on a core, characterized in that the difference R (m) between the maximum value and the minimum value is not more th...

A method of detecting cancer in a patient by detecting alteration of activity of the gene coding for human type protein phosphatase 2C (PP2Calpha and PP2Cbeta) and genetic polymorphisms thereof in a specimen isolated from the patient is disclosed. The invention further provides a method of treating cancer including the steps of first determining the type of cancer and cells expressing the cancer a...

This invention provides an isolated nucleic acid molecule encoding an alternatively spliced human prostate-specific membrane antigen. This invention provides an isolated nucleic acid comprising a promoter sequence normally associated with the transcription of a gene encoding a human prostate-specific membrane antigen. This invention provides an isolated polypeptide having the biological activity o...

The invention relates to polyurethane foams comprising (i) ethylenimine, polyethylenimine, polyvinylamine, polyvinylamine copolymers, carboxymethylated polyethylenimines, phosphonomethylated polyethylenimines, quaternized polyethylenimines and/or dithiocarbamatized polyethylenimines or (ii) alkali metal hydroxides and/or alkaline earth metal hydroxides or a mixture of (i) and (ii).

The present invention provides tough, high modulus, low density thermoset polyurethane compositions which are useful in general as, for example, cast structural materials and in a preferred embodiment can be cured directly onto an aircraft engine fan blade, thereby providing a lighter blade, without concomitant loss in structural integrity or blade performance due to, for example, resistance to fo...

Rigid foams are made by reacting a polyisocyanate with an isocyanate-reactive composition which includes at least one isocyanate-reactive compound, preferably, an amine-initiated polyol and more preferably, an amine-initiated polyether polyol and a second, different polyol in the presence of a blowing agent composition which includes water and a catalyst composition which includes two different bl...

A sealant rubber composition which forms a spongy tacky sealant layer having moderate viscosity properties; and a pneumatic tire having in the tire main body a tacky sealant layer obtained by heating the rubber composition. The rubber composition comprises 0.2 to 20 parts by weight of a peroxide per 100 parts by weight of polymers comprising 95 to 50 parts by weight of a polymer decomposable with ...

Provided are a prepreg for FRP (fiber reinforced plastic) which comprises a matrix resin composition containing a bifunctional isocyanate and/or a trifunctional isocyanate, a polyol and a bifunctional chain extender having two active hydrogen groups at a molar ratio, as a functional group, of isocyanate:polyol:chain extender=5.0 to 1.0:1.0:4.0 to 0, or containing a bifunctional isocyanate and/or a...

The present invention is directed to compositions of matter useful for the diagnosis and treatment of tumor in mammals and to methods of using those compositions of matter for the same.

A vessel occlusion system includes one or more ablation elements that, when activated, is configured for at least partially closing a vessel segment of a patient. The vessel occlusion system further includes a sensor assembly that is configured for generating feedback indicative of a state of closure of the vessel segment, and an automated longitudinal translator configured for longitudinally tran...

Endoscopic bipolar scissor blades are formed in a laminate assembly of an electrically conductive electrode, an electrically insulating material, and a metal shearing surface which is electrically insulated and physically spaced from the electrode by the insulating material which is disposed therebetween. In one embodiment, the electrode is a metal blade, while the insulating material is a ceramic...

In the conventional cleaning robot, by mainly using each supersonic waves sensor having a sensing range as 30 in consideration of an appropriate sensitivity, when four supersonic waves sensors are installed at a cleaner main body, a sensing range as 240 is obtained, and accordingly it is impossible to observe surroundings of the cleaner thoroughly. In order to solve the above-mentioned problem,...

A method of reducing the oxygen content of a powder is provided. A canister is prepared with a getter, filled with the powder to be densified, sealed and evacuated. The canister is subjected to a hydrogen atmosphere at an elevated temperature whereby hydrogen diffuses into the canister through the walls thereof. The hydrogen forms moisture when reacted with the oxygen of the powder and the moistur...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a sulky rice transplanter which automatically carries out soil preparation operation without making an operator forget the soil preparation operation at a headland (the vicinity of a levee of a field) when reaches a butt.

SOLUTION: In the agricultural working machine equipped with an agricultural working device for carrying out fixed agricultural operation w...

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a chlorine producing apparatus capable of easily and certainly eliminating the stagnation state of a mixed gas comprising a hydrogen gas and an oxygen gas in a hermetically sealed container without requiring maintenance work while preventing the intrusion of various bacteria or foreign matter from the outside and capable of keeping a chlorine producing capacity....