To provide a low-profile socket for a single-ended high-pressure discharge lamp, a ceramic body is formed with a recess and includes two connection terminal elements (8, 9) secured thereto. A separating wall (7) subdivides the recess in the socket body into two chambers (4, 5; 6), one each of the contact terminal elements being located in a respective chamber (8:4-5; 9:6). The socket body (2) is f...

TITLE TERRAIN POSITIONED TRACKING MEANS AND GUIDANCE SENSOR THEREFOR INVENTOR Zvi LIVNEH In a particular species of the preferred embodiment, the invention contemplates a land traveller such as a farm tractor pulling a passive load such as a plough, disc or the like, and means for directing control of the path of travel of the same over a field, and also for regulating or controlling the depth of ...

Automated Guided Vehicle System An Automated Guided Vehicle System (AGVS) in which vehicles follow a guidepath defined by wires carrying electrical signals with selected routing between stations along the path. The vehicle has on-board a plurality of sensors operative independently or dependently of the wire for obtaining a plurality of guidance signals. The guidepath has digitally coded patterns ...

An automatic reset arrangement for a manual release mechanism in a spring-applied, air-released brake comprising a sleeve member having axially projecting fingers that slide axially within the bore of the spring piston push rod. The ends of the projecting fingers are formed with outturned lugs having a conically-shaped surface adapted to engage a correspondingly-shaped shoulder in the bore of the ...

An amphoteric water-in-oil self-inverting polymer emulsion is prepared which contains a copolymer of (1) a nonionic vinyl monomer and (2) an amphoteric vinyl monomer or a terpolymer of (1) a nonionic vinyl monomer, (2) an anionic vinyl monomer and (3) a cationic vinyl monomer in the aqueous phase, a hydrocarbon oil for the oil phase, a water-in-oil emulsifying agent and an inverting surfactant. An...

Pneumatic cellular aromatic polyamide articles characterized by (a) being articles prepared substantially from aromatic polyamide. (b) said articles having numerous bubbles at the void ratio in the range of 10 to 95%, (c) said bubbles being substantially enclosed in said articles, and (d) said articles having an average thickness in the range of 0.2 to 10 mm on the cross section made by cutting th...

Moisture curable, foamable compositions that do not slump appreciably in the uncured state when applied on a vertical surface, consist essentially of an RTV elastomeric composition, from 10 to 50 weight percent of a liquified blowing agent and at least 12 weight percent finely divided filler. The RTV elastomeric composition comprises the product obtained by mixing at least two moisture curable pol...

A one component polyurethane precursor suitable as an in-mold coating composition composed of a prepolymer of an organic polyisocyanate with a polyol of a polyether polyol of 2 and 3 hydroxyl groups or a polyester polyol of 2 and 3 hydroxyl groups to give a free NCO content of about 3 to about 15% with a salt complex of a diamine, such as NaCl complex of MDA. The amount of filler and plasticizer, ...

A visbroken propylene-ethylene random copolymer and process for the manufacture thereof having the following characteristics: (a) a melting point of 115 DEG C. to 140 DEG C.; (b) an ethylene content, determined by the C13-NMR method, of 6 to 20 mol %; (c) a block index, calculated according to the C13-NMR method, of 1.1 or less; (d) an MFI, determined at 230 DEG C. under a load of 2.16 kg, of 0...

A protective coating composition containing a polycaprolactone polyol and an aminoplast derivative is applied to a thermoplastic substrate to produce a thermoformable article having abrasion resistance, solvent resistance and weatherability.

Method for the production of concrete mass and the mass produced. The mass is used for production of air-entrained concrete with high climate resistance, especially high resistance against frost cracking. The method includes mixing of binder, ballast and an air pore forming substance and liquid for activation of the binder. Cereal storage protein as gluten or a dispersion of the same is used as th...

A flexible film suitable for use in adhesive medical dressings which film comprises a blend of polymers characterised in that the blend comprises a continuous matrix of 1,2 polybutadiene and an incompatible polymer which forms a discrete particulate phase within the continuous matrix and the film contains voids is described.

Microcapsules with liquid fills containing Lewis acid catalysts, catalyst concentrates comprising slurries of the microcapsules in liquid media, and a method for preparing the microcapsules and concentrates. The catalyst concentrates of the present invention are storage stable both alone and when incorporated in a one-part epoxy formulation.

PURPOSE:To lengthen the length of a resistor, and to reduce an area required by forming irregularities on the surface of an SiO2 film on an Si substrate and superposing the poly Si resistor on the irregularities. CONSTITUTION:A thick SiO2 film 15 on an Si substrate 3 is removed selectively through etching, thickness of two kinds is formed alternately, poly Si 4 and another SiO2 film 15' are superp...

An improved hand-held flat conductor applying apparatus for applying to the receiving surface of a glass pane such as the rear window in a motor vehicle, a plurality of equidistant essentially straight lengths of pre-glued flat conductor for defining the heating lines of a rear window resistive defroster. The apparatus uses a confining guide edge of predetermined configuration for setting a datum ...

An improvement in hypochlorite bleach compositions which comprise selected hypochlorite stable surfactants and organic antifoamants.

A method of electroluminescent panel manufacture in which a doped zinc chalcogenide phospher film-for example manganese doped zinc sulphide, is deposited upon an electrode bearing substrate in the presence of a hydrogen enriched atmosphere-for example a 90%:10% argon:hydrogen atmosphere. This is followed by rapid anneal treatment, the substrate being raised quickly to a temperature of 450 DEG C.,...

A magnetic theft detection system marker is adapted to generate magnetic fields at frequencies that (1) are harmonically related to an incident magnetic field applied within an interrogation zone and (2) have selected tones that provide the marker with signal identity. The marker is an elongated, ductile strip of amorphous ferromagnetic material having a value of magnetostriction near zero that re...

A computer system employing horizontal architecture and having multiple resources of which the use must be scheduled in an optimum manner. Scheduling is reduced to a mechanical task by the use of an interconnect circuit having multi-word storage capability at each of a plurality of cross-points providing data flow paths between the computer resources. At each cross-point of the interconnect circui...

Phosphate derivatives represented by the formula wherein R represents a group containing at least one reactive double bond and A represents a group which may optionally contain reactive double bonds are disclosed. The phosphate derivatives of the present invention have at least two reactive double bonds, and polymers prepared from these phosphate derivatives in the presence or absence of other pol...