A lubrication block, with or without a cavity, or a lubrication bag, for lubricating an ID surface of a tyre and an OD surface of a plurality of pads of rotary trunnion supported equipment, such as a kiln, cooler, dryer, reactor, granulator and ball mill operating at temperatures from 100.degree.F to 500.degree.F or higher. The tyre has inner and outer faces, and the inner face of the tyre is slip...

The present invention provides a method for detecting addressing errors in an electrical unit. The electrical unit may, e.g., include a central processing unit and modules that respond to the central processing unit via a communication system by means of addresses specific to the modules. Addressing errors caused by faulty modules can be detected. For at least a portion of the accesses made by the...

Light valve suspensions and light valve films are provided with a UV absorber.

A light valve suspension contains a trialkyl trimellitate and/or trimesate and is used as such as the light modulating element of a light valve or droplets thereof are distributed in a light valve film used as the light modulating element of a light valve.

A pressure regulator suitable for an aerosol dispenser package having a compressed non-liquified gas propellant comprising a chamber (22) forming a successive pair of first and second compartments (23,24) with the first compartment (23) having an inlet opening (26,27) and the second compartment (24) partly defining a restricted passageway (47) leading to an outlet opening (25), a diaphragm (41) cl...

Methods for inactivating contaminating amplicons in isothermal nucleic acid amplification reactions such as SDA, Q.beta. and 3SR. dU is incorporated into the amplicons produced by amplification in the place of thymine (T). If these amplicons contaminate a subsequent amplification reaction, they may be inactivated as templates (i.e., rendered unamplifiable) by treatment with UDG. As isothermal ampl...

A composition comprises (a) particulate, precalcined low silica content zirconia, especially one stabilized with yttria, in concentration ranging from about 10 wt% to about 99.9 wt%, with (b) a particulate catalyst, suitably a nickel-on-alumina catalyst, in concentration ranging from about 90 wt% to about 0.1 wt%. The composition provides a catalytic contact mass suitable for use in fluidized bed ...

A process for the preparation of immunogens or diagnostic reagents that mimic an antigen or a pathogenic organism specific to a disease, essentially characterized by the following operations: identification of at least one antibody that reacts with the antigen or pathogenic organism specific to the disease; construction of phage libraries which display on the surface of the capsid oligopeptides, e...

A static meter 1 for electrical power, when in use, transferred along a live electricity line 3, the contactor 1 having a modulator unit 4, 30, 44, obtaining its power from the voltage and current in the electricity line 3 to generate a modulated signal 7, 42, 67 correlated with the electrical power and a computer unit 10 in which the modulated signal 7, 42, 67 is integrated over an interval of ti...

The present invention realises a design of a waterproof and dielectric expansion joint with large excursion, particularly suitable for railway bridges. It is essentially comprised of: - a "bridge" element, designed to support the load at the structural opening, simply supported at the ends; - a hooking body, connected to one end of the structure, formed by the assembly of two elements of complemen...

Column-type mechanical filtering element especially suitable for filtering of industrial waters, single, multiple or modular, basically comprised of an outer containment body of cylindrical shape, terminating in a base with a tub-type housing, open at the bottom; a metallic filtering bottom with open cells, housed in the tub; a cylinder of sturdy netting with rather close mesh, having a diameter l...

A liquid integrator apparatus for insertion into a liquid flow line, for blending together leading and lagging incremental liquid flow volumes, the apparatus including a housing attachable to the liquid flow line, a cylindrical insert in the housing, the insert having a helical groove about its outer surface. The helical groove is substantially deeper than it is wide, and has a hydraulic radius of...

Equipment and/or parts of equipment contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) are cleaned by a liquid solvent washing treatment and by condensation of solvent vapours on the surfaces of the parts within a hermetically sealed chamber maintained at a certain level of negative pressure and at a relatively high temperature, the parts to be cleaned being sprayed at certain time intervals with l...

When making flooring of wood by means of panels which may or may not fit together provision is made for each panel to be manufactured from a plurality of adjacent strips provided with different wood grains or even different species of wood in order to provide a chromatic play of reflections which is pleasing to the eye.

In a typist's chair which is fitted with a vertical bar 5 provision is made through a screw 3 controlled by handle 4 for fixing a back adjusting support with a fixed part 1 on which the moving part 6 which is provided with curved guides 16 can be adjusted in rotation to permit angular movement of approximately 20 degree with respect to the ideal axis 7 on the basis of the position of the user's ba...

PCT No. PCT/EP93/03699 Sec. 371 Date Nov. 1, 1995 Sec. 102(e) Date Nov. 1, 1995 PCT Filed Dec. 27, 1993 PCT Pub. No. WO94/26509 PCT Pub. Date Nov. 24, 1994A method and apparatus for replacing the dies (10, 13) in thermoforming equipment provided with a base (2), a supporting structure (12) supported by the base (2), a supporting head (9) for a counter-die (10) carried by the supporting structure, ...

PCT No. PCT/IT94/00058 Sec. 371 Date Feb. 13, 1995 Sec. 102(e) Date Feb. 13, 1995 PCT Filed May 10, 1994 PCT Pub. No. WO94/26567 PCT Pub. Date Nov. 24, 1994An antitheft system installed on a motor vehicle has an electronic control unit connected to a localization information detector and to a telephone apparatus, so that the control unit can produce a voice message and then transmit it directly to...

The lowerable clothes-hanger supporting device for wardrobes comprises a plate (1) fixable to a wardrobe side panel (F), and a disk-like element (10) provided with an arm (2) having an end connected to a rail (3) for supporting clothes hangers. The disk-like element (10) is mounted on the plate (1) so that it can oscillate in a plane between two positions in which the rail (3) is respectively rais...

The invention concerns a modular header for plumbing systems, comprising a rectilinear tubular body 11 and a plurality of branches 12 communicating with the inside of the body and threaded so as to be connected to as many water distribution pipes 13 going to the various users. The branches 12 are distributed in two rows placed on opposite sides of the tubular body 11 and all facing the same direct...