A shaving system includes a platform member with a support surface that has a plurality of apertures therein and guard structure integral therewith and disposed forwardly of the support surface, a cap member with a plurality of post elements for disposition in the apertures in the support structure, a primary blade member having a planar body and a cutting edge, a secondary blade member having a p...

The present invention relates to a composition containing in physical admixture an iron oxide pigment powder having an average particle size of less than 50 microns and 0.5 to 5% by weight, based on the weight of the pigment, of a water dispersible or water soluble lignin-containing compound, such composition containing less than 2 parts of pozzolan per 1 part of pigment. The present invention als...

PURPOSE: To obtain the cement structure excellent in the waterproof property and giving a durable algicidal performance by adding a specific amount of an algicide to a cement. CONSTITUTION: 100 pts.wt. of a cement is compounded with 0.01-5 pts.wt. of an algicide [e.g. 3-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)1,1-dimethylurea]. Or 100 pts.wt. of the cement is compounded with 0.01-10 pts.wt. of a silane compound of fo...

PURPOSE: To obtain a boron nitride-contg. film-coated substrate excellent in wear resistance, slidability and releasability by forming 2 boron nitride-contg. layers respectively having a different ratio in the number of atoms of boron to nitrogen on a substrate in a different thickness. CONSTITUTION: A boron nitride-contg. film to coat a substrate is formed with >=2 boron nitride layers respective...

In the manufacture of plastic pipes having smooth walls on the inside but circumferential ribs on the outside from extrudable, in particular thermoplastic material, such as PVC, a good filling of the cavities provided for forming the ribs in the travelling hollow mould is achieved by these ribs being filled with the melt first of all away from the parting plane of the travelling hollow mould and f...

Metodo e dispositivo per realizzare tagliandi aggiuntivi ripiegati da inserire in pacchetti di sigarette, i tagliandi (8) venendo ottenuti alimentando un materiale in nastro (1) su cui viene determinata, lungo la sua direzione longitudinale (F), una linea di piegatura preferenziale (3) sostanzialmente mediana definente due porzioni longitudinale (4, 5) sostanzialmente uguali, gommando almeno una (...

A tibial component for a replacement knee prosthesis comprising a tibial tray (1) for connection to a suitably prepared tibia, said tray carrying fixed lateral and medial condylar bearing components (3, 4), only said medial component (3) having a shock absorber located beneath it.

Use of finely divided aqueous cationic dispersions of synthetic resins obtainable by emulsion polymerization from suitable monomers and which contain cationic dispersion polymers, as impregnants and primers for consolidating and priming of porous absorbent substrates, preferably inorganic substrates such as, for example, masonry, concrete, plaster surfaces, gypsum surfaces, bricks or wood, by trea...

A pivoting safety razor assembly for holding a blade device has a handle and a flexible member which interconnects the handle with the blade device. The blade device defines a cutting edge and the flexible member bends in response to shaving forces to move the handle in a rotational motion about the cutting edge.

PCT No. PCT/SE95/00667 Sec. 371 Date Nov. 8, 1996 Sec. 102(e) Date Nov. 8, 1996 PCT Filed Jun. 7, 1995 PCT Pub. No. WO96/09505 PCT Pub. Date Mar. 28, 1996A method for artificial making of snow by a snow making machine (1) comprising a series of nozzles (8) arranged to provide a tubular flow (2) of bulk water drops which are moved along by an inner flow (3) of feeder air, and a series of atomizing ...

An impulse radio communications system using one or more subcarriers to communicate information from an impulse radio transmitter to an impulse radio receiver. The impulse radio communication system is an ultrawide-band time domain system. The use of subcarriers provides impulse radio transmissions added channelization, smoothing and fidelity. Subcarriers of different frequencies or waveforms can ...

A system for delivering a controlled stream of purified liquid cryogen from an outlet. The system includes a cryogen delivery flow path that is made up of a delivery conduit connecting a source of liquid cryogen to the outlet. A cryogen purifier positioned in a section of the conduit, is capable of purifying (sterilizing) liquid cryogen flowing therethrough, and a section of the delivery conduit d...

A collagen preparation for the controlled release of active substances is characterized in that it has mixtures of acid-insoluble collagens with different molecular weight distributions.

A series of devices for in vivo imaging of cellular architecture in a variety of tissues. A 200 MHz transducer is mounted on the tip of a cardiac catheter, gastroscope, colonoscope, bronchoscope, laparoscope or similar device, where it is moved mechanically to produce B-mode images of cells in the tissue. The ultrasound beam is focused in a subsurface region of tissue, and ultrasound which is back...

A hand-held dual liquid medication injector have dual, bi-directional dosage metering mechanisms for permitting a variable dosage amount for each cartridge of liquid medication. The medications are mixed within a manifold having a valved mixing chamber and are injected via a single cannula. The mixing chamber is valved such that backflow of mixed or unmixed medications into the cartridges is preve...

A fastener including an elongated body having one or more ridges passing across its exterior surface intersecting root portions between them. Each ridge has a crest portion with edges bounded by distal and proximal slope portions extending inwardly from the crest edges to the root portions. A coating is disposed on the crest portion and at least part of the distal slope portion but not on at least...

A sidewall applicator for heat fusion of a fitting to a plastic pipe has first and second spaced apart paralleled main shafts each having a lower end that is supported by rounding shells to the exterior of the plastic pipe so that the main shafts are supported in a plane that includes the pipe tubular axis. A housing is slidably supported by and positioned between the main shafts. A hydraulic disp...

Methods of use of compounds and compositions comprising fragments and synthetic analogs of human thrombospondin are provided for promoting or inhibiting thrombospondin-like activity.

A probe fixture for an automatic circuit board tester has a high density array of probe pads. The array of probe pads are sized and spaced apart to ensure contact with all of the test points on the device under test (DUT). The width of the pads is made smaller than the known minimum separation of the test points, and the separation of the pads is made smaller than the known width of the test point...

In a method of inspecting an active matrix substrate of the invention, the active matrix substrate includes a pixel portion having a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix, a plurality of scanning lines and data lines for driving the pixel portion, and a drive circuit having one and more video lines, one end of each of the plurality of data lines being connected to one of the video lines. The me...