An umbrella which opens into a noteworthy enlarged expanse due to outer fabric-supporting struts being urged through sliding movement along inner fabric-supporting struts, so that the two fabrics cooperate to provide the enlarged expanse to the umbrella.

A tread-brake unit comprises, as a unitary structure, a brake shoe (300) for engaging a vehicle wheel tread, a brake actuator (100) having an output member (19) via which the brake shoe (300) can, firstly, be moved into engagement with the wheel tread and, thereafter, a braking force generated by the actuator (100) can be transmitted to the brake shoe (300), and a slack adjuster (200) by which cle...

METHOD FOR REMOVING HYDROCARBON PRODUCTS FROM WATER SURFACES. Method for removing hydrocarbon products from water surfaces which consists in putting said hydrocarbon products in contact with a polypropylene previously treated using a procedure which includes: (a) mixing a polypropylene with at least one silicon compound having a sterically hindered amine group in the molecule; (b) melting the abov...

ROCK BIT GREASE COMPOSITION A rock bit for drilling subterranean formations is lubricated with a grease composition made from a highviscosity synthetic lubricant basestock and a combination of lubricant additives. The grease composition preferably has in the range of from 1 to 20 percent by weight polyisobutylene, in the range of from 50 to 90 percent by weight ethylene-alphaolefin, up to approxim...

A machine for cutting grass and the like of the type comprising a frame (1a) to which are made integral an operating engine (2), a driving seat (3), means (4) for steering the machine and a front grass-cutting plate (60), characterized in that such grass-cutting plate (60) comprises at least one or more pairs of cutting blades (61) made to rotate via means (2a, 63, 66, 67, 61a) of transmission of ...

A connecting piece (10) is fitted on an end lever (9) of the support part and is pivotably located on the wagon box on both sides around spaced link axes (4A,9A). The connector is arranged as a controllable drive (11) to actively change the distance between the two link axes. The support part (8) is constructed as a torsion rod spring with two crank levers (9) on each end which are attached to the...

Breading for foodstuffs for oven-cooking Breadcrumbs for food products intended for oven cooking consist of ground cereals, a source of reducing sugars and more than 7% by weight of fats, preferably 8 to 12% by weight. They are obtained by extrusion cooking of a mixture of starting ingredients, grinding and finally drying of the ground product.

A novel process is disclosed utilizing a subtraction hybridization technique for producing DNA hybridization probes of high specific activity or cDNA subtraction libraries, useful in connection with the cloning of differentially expressed genes. A preparation of single stranded cDNA derived from transcript mRNA of a target cell source is subjected to subtraction hybridization using excess single s...

A machine for cutting grass and the like of the type comprising a frame (1a) to which are made integral an operating engine (2), a driving seat (3), means (4) for steering the machine and a front grass-cutting plate (60), characterized in that such grass-cutting plate (60) comprises at least one or more pairs of cutting blades (61) made to rotate via means (2a, 63, 66, 67, 61a) of transmission of ...

The enamelling booth comprises a sprayer 10 having a pack of discs 11 rotating about a central axis A, perpendicular to the discs, able to spray and distribute substances in the fluid or semifluid state on underlying objects 2 moving through the booth; the booth has a covering wall 22 with constant cross section and longitudinal profile extending in a general plane perpendicular to said axis of ro...

Foreign particles are removed from the plate cylinder of an offset press by interconnecting two ink form rollers friction driven by the plate roller and/or a vibrating roller to rotate in unison at different surface velocities. The connection between the form rollers maintains a fixed ratio between the surface velocities of the rollers which is other than 1:1 and causes the surface of at least one...

Device for reducing volume particularly in the recovery of metal cans, comprising a suspended accessory comprising an outer body and a niche within which can be inserted a can which is to be crushed, pressing against extractable supporting means, and in which guided in the said niche there is provided a unit which moves perpendicularly, equipped with an interchangeable punch, the said unit being c...

Washing system for food products, appropriately arranged on a movable support device 14 extending vertically at one or more sides, comprising a chamber 11, inside which said support device 14 is temporarily carried, or made to move, manually or mechanically, said chamber 11 presenting on its inside at least one device for dispensing pressurised water on each side of said support device 14, said de...

Washing system for food products, suitably arranged on a support device 14, comprising a plurality of rods 37 aligned and arranged in one or more rows, each one of said rods 37 supporting a plurality of suspended food products 15 being washed, said support device 14 being either movable or fixed and co-operating temporarily with a chamber 11, inside which it is temporarily carried, or made to pass...

Espresso machine 1 for the making of infusions of herbs and ground or milled products such as herbal tea and extracts in general, having as primary characteristics the utilisation of the ground product under the forced pressure of hot water inside the container cup 2, for as long as desired and without clogging of the filter 4, the first means of dispensing the infusion.

High flexibility bentonite panel for waterproofing soil, hydraulic works, buildings and the like comprising a granular bentonite layer glued between two permeable synthetic fabrics by means of an adhesive comprising a copolymer of lower alcohols acrylic esters. Evenly distributed impressions are formed on a side of the panel by heat pressing to increase compactness and grip on the ground. The bent...

A packaging machine, especially one for packing cigarettes or the like, comprises a feeder/gatherer (3, 103) of cigarettes in ordered groups from a magazine of loose cigarettes (2), a first forming unit (5, 6) which forms a foil wrapping, a second forming unit (13, 14, 15) which forms a hard- or soft-type packet wrapping around said groups of cigarettes (12) wrapped in the foil wrapping, means for...

A mechanism for transmitting the selection command for a reed beating position in a terry loom, the terry loom including a connecting rod, one end of which is hinged to the common articulated joint of two pivoted arms by which the support body for the toothed sector mounted on the axis of rotation of the loom sley is hinged to the lower end of the sley, the other end being hinged to the end of the...

In an improved process for producing elastomeric ethylene-propylene copolymers with a propylene content comprised within the range of from 22 to 38 % by weight and a content of residual chlorine, coming from the co-catalyst, lower than 300 parts per million parts, the polymerization is carried out in suspension in the monomers in the liquid state, with vanadium triacetylacetonate and alkyl-Al comp...