In a device for gassing liquids or suspensions, a first guide means is located at a short distance, opposite the orifice of a jet pipe. This guide means is supported via a gas inlet on a second guide means. The first guide means provided can be a cone and the second guide means can be a truncated cone which merges into a disc-shaped annular zone.

For the acceleration of the setting and of the hardening of a hydraulic binding agent such as cement, limestone, hydraulic limestone and gypsum as well as mortar and concrete prepared thereof, are added to the mixture, which contains said binding agent, from 0.5 to 10 percent by weight, referred to the weight of this binding agent, of an alkali-free setting- and hardening-accelerator, whereby this...

The invention relates to the treatment and prevention of cancerous conditions by the administration of a composition including the compound of the formula: (1) or of an aqueous, alcoholic or aqueous alcoholic or other extracts of plants of the Hypoxidaceae family and particularly the plants of the genus Hypoxis and the genus Spiloxene.

A memory unit for a aircraft flight data recorder system uses an electronically erasable solid state memory for storing the flight data and a memory controller circuit are housed in a penetration resistant, thermally insulated enclosure. Power dissipation within the insulated enclosure is minimized by an external switching circuit that applies operating potential to the solid state memory only whe...

A kit including a dioxetane and an enzyme reactive therewith is useful in an assay method in which a member of a specific binding pair is detected by means of an optically detectable reaction, the improvement wherein the optically detectable reaction includes the reaction, with the enzyme, the dioxetane having the formula where T is a cycloalkyl or polycycloalkyl group bonded to the 4-...

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is diagnosed and distinguished from other conditions presenting a similar clinical appearance by assessing the 2 min -5 min A oligonucleotide levels in the patient's circulating peripheral leucocytes and comparing the result obtained to that of healthy individuals. Double-stranded RNAs, notably mismatched dsRNAs, when administered in appropriate amounts, increase the 2 min...

Antiparasitic compounds of formula (I): The broken line at the 22-23 position representing an optional double bond and either R<1> is H or OH and the double bond is absent or the double bond is present and R<1> is absent; R<2> is optionally substituted phenyl, or a group of formula (II): wherein X is 0, S or -CH2-, abc and d are 0-2 and a+b+c+d is H or Me R<4> is H, OH o...

A method of lining installed pipework (10) which includes the steps of taking a length of liner pipe (7) made from a memory retaining plastics material of external diameter greater than the internal diameter of the pipework (10) to be lined, drawing the liner pipe (7) through a swaging die (3) which is attached directly or indirectly to the pipe (10) to be lined using pulling means under tension a...

PURPOSE:To remove Hg in a liq. or gas with high efficiency by bringing the liq. or gas contg. Hg into contact with an adsorbent consisting of the sulfides of metals such as Mo and W. CONSTITUTION:When Hg contained in hydrocarbon such as NGL recovered from natural gas is removed, an adsorbent consisting of the sulfides of metals such as Mo, W and V, especially Co and Mo or Ni and Mo is used. The li...

PURPOSE:To reduce the generation of a curl after printing and at the time of heating, and to use a full color printer, thermal transfer of which is conducted compactly including a sublimation transfer system, by controlling the ratio of tension applied to a resin film for forming a surface-side resin coated layer to tension applied to a resin film for shaping a rear-side resin coated layer at a sp...

PCT No. PCT/FR82/00055 Sec. 371 Date Nov. 18, 1982 Sec. 102(e) Date Nov. 18, 1982 PCT Filed Mar. 19, 1982 PCT Pub. No. WO82/03170 PCT Pub. Date Sep. 30, 1982.Sanitary articles to absorb body liquids. They comprise an external liquid-impermeable sheet (2) enveloping the absorbing pad (1) not only across all of its surface (1b) opposite the human body and over all its thickness, but also it is appli...

PURPOSE:To enhance the reliability in the injection of ink by preventing the stagnation of an ink droplet on the surface of a nozzle plate by forming grooves between the ink nozzles provided to the surface of the nozzle plate in a lattice state. CONSTITUTION:In an ink jet recording head, grooves 9 are formed on the surface of a nozzle plate 6 between ink nozzles 7. The interval A between the ink n...

PURPOSE: To form a thin and uniform microporous layer and to eliminate the performance degraded points of a microfilter membrane by imparting a sharp transition part between a porous support and the microporous layer by securely bonding the microporous layer to the geometric outside surface of the porous support. CONSTITUTION: The microporous film is produced by coating the porous ceramic support ...

PURPOSE:To remove the effect of a bubble on discharge of ink by a construction wherein guide walls guiding a liquid flow are provided in a liquid chamber so that it corresponds to the positions of openings of communication holes, while a space accommodating the bubble is provided in the upper part of the liquid chamber. CONSTITUTION:Communication holes 10a and 10b forming a liquid flow and guide w...

METHOD OF RENEWAL OF THE TREAD ON A WORN PNEUMATIC OF SOLID RUBBER TYRE The invention is concerned with a method of renewal of the tread of a worn pneumatic or solid rubber tyre. A layer of bonding rubber is applied to the prepared body of the tyre and a prefabricated rubber tread ring is applied. Gaseous inclusions between the applied layers are avoided or led away and the resulting blank is he...

PURPOSE:To obtain an ink jet head excellent in response and emission stability by setting the peripheral length of the cross-section of a nozzle from the ink inlet opening part thereof to the ink outlet opening part thereof to specific times or more that of a nozzle having the same cross-sectional area and a circular cross-section. CONSTITUTION:A piezoelectric converter 18 is mounted to a nozzle p...

PURPOSE: To obtain a printhead by a novel automatically aligning process by forming a first insulating barrier layer on an orifice plate, placing a heater resistor thereon, covering it with a second insulating barrier layer, extending it on the resistor, and further forming an ink reservoir demarcation layer thereon. CONSTITUTION: A photoresist pattern 12 is formed on an upper surface 14 of a subs...

A method whereby units of red blood cells, derived from units of blood which may contain viruses such as HTLV-III, the causative agent of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), may be treated with a solution which contains approximately 0.13 percent sodium chlorite and 1.26 percent lactic acid diluted with a solution of approximately 0.9 percent sodium chloride (normal saline). This chemical ...

PCT No. PCT/AU87/00413 Sec. 371 Date Jul. 24, 1989 Sec. 102(e) Date Jul. 24, 1989 PCT Filed Dec. 4, 1987 PCT Pub. No. WO88/04142 PCT Pub. Date Jun. 16, 1988.A reconstituted meat product comprising a plurality of meat pieces agglomerated together, wherein the meat pieces are of an elongate shape and are arranged in a substantially helical array through the meat product. The helical arrangement of t...