Procedure for producing a fibre board or filament path, especially for use in insulation materials, which entails that fibre board or filament path preferably compressed to the desired thickness is passed through a warm roller with a continuous, possibly pattern-printing band, and is there warmed to a temperature that surpasses the softening temperature of the fibres, and under further transport i...

An apparatus and method are provided for separating components of a fluid or particles. A separation vessel (28) having a barrier dam (62) is provided to initially separate intermediate density component of a fluid, and a fluid chamber (30) is provided to further separate these intermediate density components by forming an elutriative field or saturated fluidized particle bed. The separation vesse...

La présente invention concerne un dispositif d'affichage à cristaux liquides comprenant un matériau cristal liquide pris en sandwich entre deux plaques de confinement (1, 2), caractérisé par le fait que l'une au moins des plaques (2) est munie d'un traitement qui définit un ancrage azimutal sans mémoire orientationnelle, dégénéré ou presque dégénéré.; The present invention relates to a liquid crys...

A cutting tool assembly wherein a cutting head is releasably retained by a tool holder by means of interacting coupling members, with one of the coupling members being inserted into a cavity of the other coupling member, with radially extending abutment wings of said one coupling member passing respectively between successive support wings of the other coupling member, rotation of the one coupling...

An improved battery paste composition and a lead-acid electrochemical cell (22) which incorporates the composition. The cell (22) includes a positive current collector (30) and a negative current collector (40) which are each coated with a paste (54, 60) containing one or more lead-containing compositions and a paste vehicle to form a positive plate (55) and a negative plate (61). An absorbent ele...

A mechanically raked screen system is used for preliminary waste water treatment. A screen (2) is formed of a multiplicity of mutually parallel screen bars (14). The screen bars (14) are oriented substantially transversely relative to a flow direction of a flowing liquid and forming screen spaces of a given width therebetween. A rake assembly rakes the screenings from the screen (2). The rake asse...

An apparatus and method are provided for separating components of a fluid or particles. A separation vessel (28) having a barrier dam (62) is provided to initially separate intermediate density component of a fluid, and a fluid chamber (30) is provided to further separate these intermediate density components b y forming an elutriative field or saturated fluidized particle bed. The separation vess...

A mobile repeater for relaying radio signals between mobile stations and base station of a digital cellular radio network as the repeater moves from cell to cell. The mobile repeater includes a downlink branch for receiving from the base station and retransmitting to the mobile stations, an uplink branch for receiving from the mobile stations and retransmitting to the base stations, and an intelli...

A biaxially oriented polyethylene naphthalate copolymer film, characterized by: (1) being substantially made from a polyethylene naphthalate copolymer which comprises ethylene naphthalate units in an amount of 92 to 99.5 mole % based on the total amount of the repeating units and contains at least one comonomer component selected from the group consisting of the following components (a) to (d) in ...

A combination umbrella and gazebo (10) that can be used as an umbrella (14) or a gazebo (12). The combination (10) includes a frame (48), a canopy (16), and a side (20). The canopy (16) is affixed to the frame (48) and has an open position and a closed position. The side (20) is affixed to the canopy (16) and has an extended position in which the combination (10) functions as the gazebo (12) and a...

The method involves dividing basic elements of equipment (1 to 8) into three groups (E1, E2, E3) each having a group calculator (C1) (C2) or group calculators (C3, C4). The groups have sources of energy (S1, S2) and the group calculators are connected to a central calculator (CAL) and also have some interconnections between themselves. On the occurrence of a fault or faults the group calculators (...

A dispensed bead (10) of material is disposed between a sensor pair (14) for monitoring the bead. The sensor pair (14) transmits a beam of light towards the bead of material. A signal is generated which corresponded to the amount of light received. By utilizing this signal, gaps or other discontinuities can be found. This signal can also be used to determine the height of the bead and generate a p...

A polyester resin comprising units of a dicarboxylic acid component composed mainly of an aromatic dicarboxylic acid or its ester forming derivative and a diol component composed mainly of ethylene glycol and an ethylene oxide adduct of a bisphenol compound or its derivative. The resin may advantageously be used as a molding material for various moldings such as extrusion molding, blow molding, va...

A nozzle assembly design (18,20,22) and a method for making the nozzle assembly, as well as a method for controlling a continuous skull nozzle process employing the nozzle assembly are provided wherein the cooling heat transfer coefficient at the nozzle is increased to maintain a steady-state solidified layer of a noncontaminating liner material, the cooling heat transfer coefficient being increas...

The apparatus for vulcanising tyres includes an interlocking device 3 making it possible to introduce a tyre into a mould 1 and to transfer to the mould the thermal energy necessary for vulcanisation by means of inductors 42. It includes an ancillary chamber 5 housing several moulds 1 simultaneously and making it possible to keep each mould 1 insulated from the environment in order to limit heat l...

A polyurethane foam containing a particulate organic polymer having a glass transition temperature of less than 0 DEG C. and a process for preparing such foam is described. A preferred type of particulate organic polymer is a styrene/butadiene polymer. The presence of such particles within a flexible polyurethane foam significantly enhances both the comfort aspect and SAG factor performance of th...

A security system having a two way wireless keypad which operates in a particular manner for improved operation. The keypad processes information to effectively reduce communications between the control panel and the keypad. The keypad selectively activates and deactivates a transmitter and receiver arrangement for power conservation reasons. The system provides confirmation of communications betw...

The circuitry monitoring electronic equipment contains a device for generating an error or reset signal for the equipment if a selected deviation from a defined frequency is exceeded. A frequency generator (31) produces a cyclic error or reset signal when such an excess frequency deviation state exists. The frequency generator is in the form of a start-stop oscillator. USE/ADVANTAGE - Microcompute...

A method and apparatus are provided for correcting ambient temperature effect in biosensors. An ambient temperature value is measured. A sample is applied to the biosensors, then a current generated in the test sample is measured. An observed analyte concentration value is calculated from the current through a standard response curve. The observed analyte concentration is then modified utilizing t...

A biaxially oriented polyethylene naphthalate copolymer film, characterized by: (1) being substantially made from a polyethylene naphthalate copolymer which comprises ethylene naphthalate units in an amount of 92 to 99.5 mole % based on the total amount of the repeating units and contains at least one comonomer component selected from the group consisting of the following components (a) to (d) in ...