.ANG. The screen comprises a set of spaced parallel grating bars set at an inclination of about 35 degrees. The grating bars retain solids carried by the water flowing between the bars. These solids are automatically pushed down the bars and away into a collecting trough transverse to the bars by water streams flowing within longitudinal grooves formed from the top of the bars. The cross-sec...

The present invention pertains to novel devices and methods for hose management and storage. A hose storage device of the subject invention can be removably or permanently attached to a vehicle or to the frame unit of a portable power unit, such as those used with hydraulic rescue tools for the extrication of persons trapped in automobiles, trailers, buildings, etc. One or more of the devices of t...

A multilayer headbox for a papermaking machine which comprises a slice chamber having an upstream inlet and a downstream outlet. A tube bank comprising a plurality of straight tubes is located upstream of the slice chamber. In the slice chamber, at least one machine-wide separator vane is subdividing the slice chamber for the production of multilayered fibrous webs. The separator vane may be a tap...

A multilayer headbox for a papermaking machine which comprises a slice chamber having an upstream inlet and a downstream outlet. A tube bank comprising a plurality of straight tubes is located upstream of the slice chamber. In the slice chamber, at least one machine-wide separator vane is subdividing the slice chamber for the production of multilayered fibrous webs. The separator vane may be a tap...

A coating and method for implantable open lattice metallic stent prostheses are disclosed. The coating includes a relatively thin layer of biostable elastomeric material containing an amount of biologically active material particularly heparin, dispersed in the coating in combination with a non-thrombogenic surface. In one embodiment, the surface is provided with sites of high electronegativity sp...

PCT No. PCT/FI97/00375 Sec. 371 Date Feb. 12, 1998 Sec. 102(e) Date Feb. 12, 1998 PCT Filed Jun. 12, 1997 PCT Pub. No. WO97/47233 PCT Pub. Date Dec. 18, 1997The invention relates to a procedure for determining the relative concentration or composition of different kinds of haemoglobin, such as oxyhaemoglobin, deoxyhaemoglobin and dyshaemoglobins, and/or dye components contained in blood in a non-i...

An electrical connector for electrically connecting circuit boards together comprises a plug connector (10) having plug contacts (13) secured in an insulating housing (11a) at spaced intervals therealong and a receptacle connector (20) having receptacle contacts secured in an insulating housing (21) for electrical engagement with respective plug contacts (13) when the connectors are mated. The rec...

A battery pack coupler for a camcorder including a plurality of guide holes formed on a battery-attaching plate and guide ribs formed on the battery-attaching plate, all operating lever in which hooking pieces are provided on the inner surface of the battery-attaching plate and one end of which is projected outside a housing, and an elastically biasing device for elastically biasing the operating ...

The present invention relates to a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery. The graphitized vapor-grown carbon fibers used as an anode in the present invention have a specific surface area of at most 5 m2/g and an average aspect ratio of 2-30. The non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery comprises an anode comprising a cathode comprising a lithium-containing complex oxide; an anode comprising t...

An indwelling urinary catheter having a palpitatable multiaxial dome-type valve and an inflatable anchoring balloon. The valve has a peripheral trough to maximi ze drainage. The catheter body and balloon are integrally molded from silicone to produce a uniform and symmetrical balloon shape. The balloon shape may be selectively altered by varying bonding patterns or wall thicknesses. Valve openi ng...

The contacts of the intermediate coupling piece are coupled to one another so that a signal which is received by a contact in the piece can be taken from any of the other contacts of the intermediate coupling piece. The female contacts (31-34) are brought together to form a first group and the male contacts (11 - 14) are brought together to form a second group of contacts. The female contacts are ...

The system includes an allocating unit which allocates the traffic of subscriber equipments having a shorter length of cable to tones starting from a higher frequency band. Interference in a lower frequency band are reduced and a better signal to noise ratio is achieved on tones above a system noise level to subscriber equipments with relatively longer lengths of cable. Preferably, the usable freq...