PURPOSE:To reduce space volume above an electrode plate and a separator so as to make the volume of a battery compact by providing a strap in a recess formed at the top of a cover. CONSTITUTION:Electrode plate 10 and separators 14 are stored in plural cell vessels of a battery jar 1, respectively, and form 2V-unit cells. Moreover, these 2V-unit cells are connected in series by straps 13 and are li...

PURPOSE:To constitute the inside of a battery out of the volume part alone of a group of electrode plates so as to miniaturize the battery by forming a strap out of a partition wall above the cover. CONSTITUTION:The cover 2 of a battery jar 1 has a partition wall 4 projected upward, and has a electrode plate lug through hole 5 at the cover wall surrounded by partition walls 4. By injecting fused l...

PURPOSE: To restrain strength between a contact roller and a bobbin from changing by releasing the brake, which is applied when the position of the contact roller is deviated from a target value in excess of a specific maximum value, until it falls below the specific value and rotating the bobbin revolver at a specific speed. CONSTITUTION: When the winding diameter of a bobbin having a yarn 3 cros...

PURPOSE: To keep quality of twisting in constant for a long time by making it a composition of fitting a ceramic inserting body including a specifiable characteristic of the surface into an adaptive cutout included in a splicing head. CONSTITUTION: A splicing passage 6 is formed of a ceramic inserting body 7 including a specifiable characteristic of the surface and it is composed so that the ceram...

A pad cover of a size capable of containing two pads in parallel, wherein a partitioning wall is provided in said cover to traverse the center thereof, short side walls of cover are formed to which the ends of said partitioning wall are fastened, and openings are formed starting from both sides of said short side walls running through the ends of the two sides. Owing to the presence of the partiti...

Device (1) for connecting an enteral nutrition tube (7) to a nutrient composition container and having a neck (8A-8D), of the type comprising a transverse closure wall (4) and a skirt (3) forming with said wall a plug adapted to be fixed to said neck (8A-8B), characterized in that it is independent of the tube (7), in that the transverse closure wall comprises a reduced thickness area (5) adapted ...

This invention relates to a process for the production of elastic, open-cell flexible slabstock polyurethane foams comprising reacting at an isocyanate index less than about 80 one or more polyisocyanates selected from the group tolylene diisocyanates, hexamethylene diisocyanate, and isophorone diisocyanate, with compounds containing at least two isocyanate-reactive hydrogen atoms and having a mol...

An infrared absorption spectra recording, high pressure sample holder comprises a gasket for high compression between two diamond anvils, and an infrared light beam transmitting material partially filling a light passage through the gasket at a position between the two anvils to leave an infrared light beam transmitting, sample cavity adjacent one anvil. The surface of the filling is shaped, e.g. ...

A method for continuously and automatically monitoring the electrical operability and control reliability in a liquid crystal display unit and comprising, inter alia, determining the discharge or charge time of a capacitor comprised of a segment and the backplate or return electrode of the display unit when a voltage waveform fed to the segment has been disconnected, said time being determined by ...

The ski binding comprises a toe unit (5) and a heel unit (7) which is connected thereto as a unitary assembly. The assembly is guided slidably lengthwise of the ski in a mounting (3) attached to the ski. By means of a latching arrangement, the assembly is latchable in several slide positions. The mounting has at least one insertion aperture for the point of a ski pole (17). One of the units (7) ca...

TITLE FLAME RETARDANT POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE If antimony oxide is added to a blend of polyethylene terephthalate/alkali metal organic carboxylate in the form of a concentrate in a polyamide, the destabilizing effect of the antimony oxide on the blend is minimized. This greatly improves the thermal stability of the polyethylene terephthalate blend during compounding and subsequent melt processi...

A method of removing heavy metals from aqueous solution, a composition of matter used in effecting said removal, and apparatus used in effecting said removal. One or more of the polypeptides, poly ( gamma -glutamylcysteinyl)glycines, is immobilized on an inert material in particulate form. Upon contact with an aqueous solution containing heavy metals, the polypeptides sequester the metals, removin...

Pyrophoric powder can be coated on boron or carbon fibers or sintered with combustible particles. Carbon can be kept from contaminating diffusion-treated workpieces, by conducting diffusion treatment in retorts containing little or no carbon. Porosity can be created by subjecting workpiece to diffusion conditions in contact with depleting material such as powdered nickel or high-nickel aluminides ...

A novel anhydrous nonflammable tire sealer and inflator composition comprising a hydrochlorofluorocarbon (HCFC) propellant, a solvent, and a rubber resin soluble in the solvent. The composition is packaged in aerosol cans and is used to seal and inflate punctured pneumatic tires. The composition utilizes a solvent-based adhesive resin with a hydrochlorofluorocarbon propellant in order to provide a...

A slurry having an aqueous liquid and dispersed solids may be vacuum filled into an acetylene storage container and indurated to yield a lime-silica matrix with a porosity between about 88 percent to 92 percent. The matrix includes a mixture of aromatic polyamide fibers and oxidized polyacrylonitrile fibers. At least some of these fibers are fibrillated and the fibers are in an amount of about 3.8...

A stable latex composition possessing a viscosity of less than about 50 cp. comprised of an ethylacrylate/methylacrylic acid/acrylic acid polymer and co-surfactant system comprising a nonylphenol polyethylene oxide ether sulfate and a propoxylated, ethoxylated propylene glycol nonionic surfactant block polymr useful for increasing the viscosity of water that is injected into subterranean petroleum...

A composition is provided which is suitable for extrusion blowing to form an elastomeric film. The film produced from this composition has a very low modulus, high elongation and excellent elastic recovery. The composition comprises: two hydrogenated block compolymers each comprising at least two blocks containing predominantly polymerized alkene arene monomer units and at least one block containi...

A polymeric solution comprising: water; about 0.005 to about 0.5 moles of an inorganic acid, an inorganic case or an inorganic salt per 100 ml of such water; and about 0.1 to about 5.0 grams of a polymeric complex per 100 grams of said water, said polymeric complex produced by the interaction of a first water soluble copolymer formed from a water soluble nonionic monomer and an anionic comonomer b...

A method for reconstituting superabsorbent polymer fines which comprises the following steps: wetting the superabsorbent polymer fines with an aqueous solution sufficient to form an amorphous gel of the fines, grinding the gel, and drying the ground gel product; wherein the improvement is characterized by the addition of an aqueous solution containing a persulfate salt.