Qbounce communications system comprises a software program (no details given) that can be downloaded by service and product providers and potential clients whereby the clients can communicate anonymously with the providers via a computer or mobile telephone in a multimedia format, e.g. through images, video, film or voice, to determine if the service or product provided is what is wanted by the cl...

Contaminants, such as volatile organic compounds, are removed from an environmental medium, such as contaminated soil, rock, groundwater, waste water and the like, by treatment with a combination of a persulfate, such as a sodium persulfate, and hydrogen peroxide.; Los contaminantes, tales como compuestos organicos volatiles, se remueven de un medio ambiental, tal como suelo contaminado, roca, agu...

This invention discloses systems and methods for conversion of manure to novel fertilizer and/or soil builder products useful as input for organic farming operations. The equipment systems comprise a gas turbine generator unit (preferred heat source), a dryer vessel and a processing unit, wherein the connection between the gas turbine and the dryer vessel directs substantially all the gas turbine ...

A frame of a mower supports wheel assemblies, a propulsion unit, and a mowing deck. Each wheel assembly is associated with a corresponding wheel, a corresponding electrical steering motor, and a corresponding electrical drive motor. A controller controls a direction of orientation of the corresponding wheel via the corresponding electrical steering motor. Further, the controller controls the appli...

A method for operating a mower comprises defining a reference axis of rotation at a desired point along a path segment of the mower. A controller orients wheels of the mower generally tangentially to a circular region about the reference axis. A drive motor applies rotational mechanical energy to one or more of the wheels to rotate the mower by a desired angular amount about the reference axis.

A flashlight and attached lanyard strap includes a flashlight end having a generally cylindrical wall which has a notch therein. A folded lanyard strap held by a securing pin extends through a bridge opening into a notch chamber and extends outwardly away from the flashlight end through the notch. The arrangement allows the flashlight to be placed on a horizontal surface to shine light into the ai...

There is provided a vulcanizing mold for a tire in which the capacity of venting air through between the molding pieces of the sector mold is significantly enhanced. A tread ring for vulcanizing and shaping a tread of the tire comprises plural sector molds which are separately formed in the circumferential direction so as to be brought into surface contact with each other. Each of the sector molds...

A valve assembly and diameter reduction structure for trocar employing a movable diameter reduction structure. The diameter reduction structure is positioned in proximity to a first seal and includes a plurality of stand off members movable between a first position, a second position, and a third position. The diameter reduction structure in the first position reduces the likelihood of the first s...

A self-supporting tyre ( 1 ) has reinforcing structures at the beads ( 4 ) defining rest surfaces ( 4 a) for a corresponding rim ( 1 a) which have a profile converging towards the tyre rotation axis away from the equatorial plane (X-X) of the tyre itself. The carcass plies ( 3 a, 3 b) are each made by sequential deposition of strip-like sections circumferentially distributed on a toroidal support ...

A method of inspecting a moving web. The method includes imaging a sequential portion of the continuously moving web to provide digital information. The digital information is then processed with an initial algorithm to identify any regions on the web containing anomalies. Image information corresponding to any identified region within the digital information is then selected. The selected image i...

"PROCESSO PARA PRODUçãO DE UMA COMPACTAçãO EM ALTAS DENSIDADE E VELOCIDADE". Um processo para produção de um corpo de um material particulado ou sólido compreende o enchimento de um molde de pré-compactação com o material, com vibração opcional do molde, pré-compactação do material e compressão dele por pelo menos um golpe com alta energia cinética, para provocar coalescência ou alta densidade do ...

"MéTODO E APARELHO PARA A PRODUçãO DE COMPONENTES DE MúLTIPLOS NìVEIS POR COMPRESSãO DE CHOQUE DO MATERIAL EM Pó". A invenção se refere a um método e a um aparelho para a produção de componentes de múltiplos níveis com densidade alvo em conformidade a partir de material em pó. O material em pó é colocado dentro de uma matriz de molde, que inclui uma multiplicidade de perfurações superior e inferio...

"CARTãO DE ACESSO PROVIDO DE ELEMENTO PROMOCIONAL COM LIBERAçãO REMOTA E RESPECTIVO MéTODO OPERACIONAL". Trata a presente invenção de um cartão de acesso (1) provido de elemento promocional (2) com liberação remota através de central (C1), mais precisamente trata de um cartão do tipo indutivo ou outro meio de leitura, o qual passa a prever um elemento promocional em forma de código alfanumérico (3...

A automotive braking system for use on a vehicle for emergency stopping and parking comprising a mechanical brake caliper which exerts frictional stopping force on a brake rotor, the caliper being designed so as to provide a means of transferring mechanical force to the caliper pistons by means of a lever which transfers mechanical force to the piston through one or more apertures in the piston cy...

A bitumen/steam pre-mixer and atomizing nozzle combine to produce a jet of minute liquid droplets (bitumen) in carrier gas (steam). The jet is injected into a draft tube mixer positioned in a fluid bed of hot coke particles suspended in steam and contained within a fluid coking reactor. The movement of the jet through the draft tube passageway induces a stream of coke particles in steam to be draw...

A method for producing a polyolefin stretched sheet which comprises extruding a polyolefin having a weight average molecular weight of 100,000 to 500,000 into a primary sheet, rolling the primary sheet at a rolling magnification of 5 or more, and stretching the rolled sheet into a polyolefin sheet which is totally stretched at a stretching magnification of 15 or more. The method can be employed fo...

This invention relates generally to films made from crystalline polypropylene polymers. Specifically, this invention relates to films comprising crystalline polypropylene polymer compositions containing both propylene homopolymers and propylene copolymers. The compositions are prepared using metallocene catalyst systems comprising at least two metallocenes in a polymerization process that involves...

An olefinic thermoplastic elastomer composition which includes an acrylic-modified polytetrafluoroethylene. When foamed, such compositions produce a very soft foam with improved processing properties and physical characteristics. A process of foaming and foamed articles are also disclosed.

Provided are an aromatic vinyl polymer resin composition capable of being molded into resin foam sheets having good surface smoothness and glossiness well balanced with the mechanical strength thereof even when the expansion ratio in molding is increased, and resin foam sheets and containers of the composition. The resin composition comprises (A) from 80 to 98% by mass of an aromatic vinyl polymer...