A sheet diverter in the path of a stream of cut sheets to be diverted in predetermined sequence in different directions in which a pair of rotary diverters having cam surfaces thereon divert and guide the sheets in the predetermined sequence relative to a pair of guiding surfaces.

METHOD OF PERITONEAL DIALYSIS INVOLVING ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIATION OF DIALYSIS APPARATUS The incidence of peritonitis is reduced in continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis by irradiating the peritoneum access tube connection with ultraviolet (UV) radiation so as to have an antimicrobial effect on the fluid flow path defined thereby prior to draining and infusion of dialysis fluid therethrough. The ...

A light weight lead-acid battery having a positive terminal and a negative terminal and including one or more cells or grid stacks having a plurality of vertically stacked conductive monoplates with positive active material and negative active material deposited on alternating plates in the cell or grid stack. Electrolyte layers positioned between each monoplate are included to provide a battery c...

An absorbent article structure is provided comprising a permeable, internal layer (10), an intermediate absorbent layer (20) and a liquid-impervious, outer layer (30). Outer layer (30) comprises an inherently-porous paper length (32) impregnated with a selective adhesive forming a liquid-impervious and air-permeable coat (34), which only adheres to itself. A disposable diaper (50) can be manufactu...

A method of forming battery plates or electrodes from tetrabasic lead sulfate includes the step of adding a lead peroxide such as lead dioxide in powdered form to the tetrabasic lead sulfate for making the paste to be applied to the plate or electrode supporting grids. The addition of this lead peroxide allows forming the plates or electrodes in an electrolyte of high specific gravity, and in redu...

An electrosurgical unit for producing a modulated oscillating signal for coagulation procedures and an unmodulated oscillating signal for cutting procedures. The unit includes a four arm bridge rectifier interconnected directly to the line voltage. A first pair of opposing diagonal terminals on the rectifier is connected directly to the line voltage. A cutting signal is obtained from the other pai...

A ski has a safety binding which includes a support for a ski boot. The support carries retainers for the toe and heel of the boot and is pivotable about an axis extending transversely of the ski so that the ski boot may be swung away from the ski during skiing. A brake for the ski is mounted on the support and is arranged to be kept in an inoperative or non-braking position by the pressure of the...

A high speed multiplier unit for multiplying both fixed point and floating point operands is disclosed and claimed. This multiplier unit is a system level functional unit which allows floating point and fixed point operations to be performed directly. In addition to multiplication, the multiplier unit performs exponent calculation, post-normalization, and error detection. The multiplier unit also ...

PURPOSE:To avoid inhibition of a watchdog timer due to malfunction of a microprocessor by inhibiting the watchdog timer when a microprocessor is reset. CONSTITUTION:A watchdog timer 3 delivers a timer output (3) when no access signal (2) is delivered. An FF4 is reset simultaneously with a microprocessor 1 by an MP reset signal (1). Thus an AND gate 5 is inhibited and then the output (3) is also in...

A device is provided for sensing the condition of a pneumatic tire preferably of the type used on an automobile wherein the tire is mounted on a tire rim and the tire is subject to normal vibrations. The device comprises a housing, a band for mounting the housing to the tire rim, a sensor for monitoring the condition within the tire, circuitry operatively connected to the sensor for generating rad...

A drive belt manufacture wherein tensile cords (16) are provided with a Lang twist having a ply twist constant of approximately 2.9 to 3.9 and a cable twist constant of approximately one-fifth to one-half of the ply twist constant. In a preferred embodiment, the tensile cords are formed of aromatic polyamide fibers and are provided with an adhesive coating from a solution of resorcinol, formalin, ...

A method of providing cured latex-based compositions is disclosed which permits in situ curing of latexes disposed in plastic container closures or other heat sensitive receptacles without adverse effect on the closure or receptacle. The method comprises heating a fluid latex composition to gel the latex and effect removal of at least a portion of the water initially contained therein and subjecti...

A process for producing a cellulose ester support is described which comprises producing said support from an organic solvent solution of a cellulose ester containing 30 ppm or less alkaline earth metal.

A composition suitable for open-cell polyolefin foam which comprises 100 parts by weight of olefin resin, 1 to 20 parts by weight of blowing agent, 0.3 to 10 parts by weight of organic peroxide crosslinking agent, 0.1 to 10 parts by weight of trifunctional monomer, and 1 to 5 parts by weight of silicone oil or a derivative thereof.

Water-soluble polymers are rapidly dissolved in water by dispersing finely divided particles of the polymer into a liquid carrier in which the polymer is insoluble to form a suspension. The suspension is then added to water in order to release the polymer into the water as discrete particles that rapidly dissolve. The polymer particles are preferably prepared by cryogenic grinding, or another non-...

A rubber composition having an improved crack growth resistance is disclosed, which contains 1-40 wt % of granular bodies having an average particle diameter of 5-500 mu m, which contain 2-40 wt % of micro short fibers having an average diameter of not more than 1 mu m, an average length of 1-30 mu m and an aspect ratio of not less than 8 and orientated in uniaxial or biaxial direction, and is ...

Disclosed are wet filament winding resins that are intimate admixtures consisting essentially of polybutadiene polymers whose functionality resides solely in unsaturation, an unsaturated monomer component, a peroxide free-radical initiator and optionally a block copolymer impact modifier. The resins have long pot lives and cure into low density resin matrices in composite structures. The resin mat...

An apparatus for the remote transmission of information from a borehole (1) to the surface of the earth is disposed in a drilling pipe string (4) of a drilling device. The drilling device further comprises a rotary drill bit (3) and a pump (5) which pumps the flushing liquid (6) downwards in the flow passage (11) of the drilling pipe string, through the rotary drill bit (3) and upwards in an annul...