The device uses a magnetic field produced by a system placed along the direction of the track to be followed. The device comprises two magnetic sensors (2, 3) mounted on the vehicle which receive and detect the field. The system producing the field is a waveguide (1) which, for the determination of any sideways deflection with respect to the direction of the track, is connected to a radio transmit...

Toughened Thermosetting Structural Materials The incorporation of 2 to 35 ?m particles of a differentially soluble engineering thermoplastic into heat curable epoxy resin systems significantly increases the toughness of such systems without loss of other desirable properties. These toughened epoxy resin systems are useful in preparing carbon fiber reinforced composites having compression strength ...

There is disclosed apparatus for the mechanical removal of whole-tissue meat from the region of the vertebrae of an animal carcass. The apparatus comprises a support means for supporting the or part of the carcass. A cutting means is provided for making a longitudinal cut in the meat along the line of the vertical dorsal protrusions of the vertebrae. There is also provided substantially rigid clea...

A vacuum bag method for in-situ molding of surgical implants. The method comprises creating an implant precursor material composed of an aggregation of polymer beads coated with a hydrophilic monomer dispersion. A flexible bag (101) containing the implant precursor (102) is molded in-situ to a desired specific shape, and the implant precursor is then rigidified by applying a vacuum to the interior...

The invention is N-acyl and dihydro-N-acyl analogs of the family of antibacterial and antitumor agents known collectively as the E33288 complex.

ANTIVIRAL COMPOUNDS Compounds of formula I or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof: I in which formula R1 represents an aliphatlc hydrocarbyl group; Ar represents a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic nucleus; X represents -SO2- or -CO- and R2 and R3 which may be identical or different represent moieties of formula (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), (g), (h) or (i): (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f) (g) ...

An in-line rotary inserter device comprises an envelope feed station (30) and insert feeding modules (20,22,24,26). an inserting station (32), a sealing and stacking assembly (38,40,42), and various diverters (33,36,56). The envelope feed station (30) withdraws envelopes from a hopper-held envelope stack (66,94) and conveys them to the inserting station (32). Each insert feeding module comprises a...

IMPROVEMENTS IN OR RELATING TO LOADING AND UNLOADING APPARATUS A flexible element loading and unloading station in which a number of closed travelling loops are utilised over the top of a platform in such a way that one part of the loop in maximum tension carries the applied load while the other part travelling in the opposite direction is out of contact with the load.

The device serves for mechanically applying to the surface of a work piece a flexible multi-layer body member which is adherent on it one side and is composed of a supporting layer, an adhesive layer and a draw-off protection foil covering said adhesive layer. Said device comprises the following partial devices: (a) a supporting table for supporting said multi-layer body member; (b) separating dev...

A special sealed heel bladder defining a space divided into a rear heel chamber positioned in the main heel strike area and a front heel chamber. The rear heel chamber comprises about 60 percent of the total volume. The front heel chamber comprises about 40 percent of the total volume. These chambers are divided by a diagonal interior wall at an angle of 35 degrees to a transverse line or plane an...

24 MICRO- AND NANO-POROUS METALLIC STRUCTURES Micro- and nano-porous metal structures including an alloy of one or more noble metals and substantially uniform and interconnected porosity in pore sizes ranging from three nanometers to 10 micrometers produced by a process including the following steps: mixing at least two metals having different electrochemical activity, according to predetermined p...

An electromagnetic switching apparatus comprises an electromagnet 14 having an armature 17 coupled to a driving piece 20, a manual control button 12, and a bolt (35) (Fig 5) accessible from outside the case 10 of the apparatus, (by a tool in (Fig. 6)) associated with button 12, the bolt being movable between a position in which it allows free movement of the button from a position of forced (manua...

A shipping method for facilitating the efficient distribution of goods transmits from a shipping location computer a container packing record identifying an individual container and the items contained therein to a programmable computer located at the shipping destination of the container such that as a container is received at the shipping destination a bar code on the container can be entered in...

The machine for packing confectionery is supplied with a first continuous strip (2) of plastics film which is unwound from a roll (1). The strip (2) is fed to a heating and forming station (8) where pockets (6) are formed in a continuous line in the strip. The pockets are filled with confectionary and then covered and sealed with a second plastics strip (12). This second strip (12) carries printed...

An optical conductor (16) carrying laser power and an integrity checking optical conductor (26) are contained in a tube (30) so that the leakage of laser energy from the laser power conductor causes failure of the integrity checking conductor. A detector device senses failure of the integrity checking conductor, thus detecting the failure of the laser power conductor. The detector device transmits...

A gas turbine engine control system which receives an engine condition and generates a parameter signal representative of the condition. The control system also receives a temperature signal representative of the engine temperature downstream of the engine combustor. A comparator is used to compare the parameter signal with the temperature signal and a nonrecoverable stall output signal is produce...

Elongated tubular components are assembled with closures at an assembling station between a first conveyor which delivers properly oriented tubular components and a second conveyor which delivers properly oriented closures. One or more plungers are employed to transfer closures from discrete sockets of the second conveyor onto the adjacent ends of aligned components on the first conveyor. The sock...

A high efficiency amplifier circuit includes first and second modulator circuits. The output waveform from the first modulator is modulated by the input electrical signal to be amplified. The output waveform from the second modulator is simultaneously modulated with an inverted representation of the input electrical signal. Outputs from the two modulator circuits are coupled to a push-pull output ...

An installation is for coating a yarn assembly or a textile web, a warp in particular, with a liquid treatment agent. It incorporates a tub (26) for accommodating the treatment agent and a revolving coating roll (18) whose outer jacket partially extends into the tub in the operating position. The tensioned yarn assembly can be guided on the coating roll and is coated by the coating agent adherin...

2.1 The invention is based on the object of organising a method for achieving a multilayered lining of an underground pipeline to be renovated in such a way that the multilayered structure can be built up in two method stages, extending the choice of materials of the individual fillers and of the resin systems. This object is achieved by first of all a multilayered lining tube being introduced in ...