This invention provides a composition and a kit to prepare the composition, and articles made from the composition, which composition comprises polyethylene terephthalate, a nucleating agent having a defined Nucleation Index and optionally a polyolefin and a heat stabilizer. A particularly effective nucleating agent is polytetrafluoroethylene.

The recovering of a polyester polymer from a mixed polymer recycle stream (I), while maintaining the polyester polymer in polymer form, comprises: contacting (I) comprising 50 wt.% or more polyester polymer, lesser portions of other polymers, including polyolefins(s), and impurities, with a chemical wash solvent that dissolves portions(s) of the impurities and substantially rejects dissoln. of the...

A slide member made of a sintered aluminum alloy includes a matrix (1) of an aluminum alloy and an aluminum nitride film (2) dispersed along the powder boundary of this matrix. When a state in which the aluminum nitride film (2) encompasses completely and continuously the old powder boundary is defined as a dispersion ratio of 100 %, the aluminum nitride film (2) is dispersed discontinuously at a ...

A test kit for determining qualitatively or quantitatively the presence of one or more analytes in a fluid sample, comprising an assay device (600) together with a reading device which engages with the assay device (600) and wherein precisely located engagement of the assay device with the reading device is essential for accurate reading of the assay result, wherein precisely located engagement of...

A method of producing at least two single wire tyre bead cores comprising drawing off at least two bead wires from separate coils (20) of wires, passing the wires through wire processing means (23) to coat the drawn-off wires with rubber material, passing the rubber-coated wires through first festooner apparatus (24) and subsequently winding the rubber-coated wires on a former (36) to create at le...

The test strip evaluation device has a reflectometric measuring head (3) with a transmitter and a receiver, positioned above a test strip supported by a bearing surface (4). A spacer (2), with a number of openings (11), defines the position of the measuring head relative to the surface of the measuring field (21a,21b) carried by the test strip. Pref. the measuring head is applied to the surface of...

PURPOSE: A method for constructing market and managing advertisement and movable investment are provided to create a substantial large profit by securing a market effectively and concluding a self-controlling contract, thereby managing publicity activities by securing a movable investment. CONSTITUTION: A plurality of advertisers is secured. An advertising company collects a subscriber '1', a subs...

PURPOSE: A marketing method and system by supplying a virtual item and an incentive is provided to enable a client to design a planned life by combining merits of a real life and a cyber life, and supplying a service in accordance with a life style of the client and various advantages. CONSTITUTION: If an item server receives a consulting request from a user(S1101), commodity purchase information,...

The invention is directed to a drive mechanism for driving a working unit, movable in a rotary oscillating manner, of domestic appliances, particularly dry shavers. The drive mechanism of the invention includes a permanent magnet motor which has a stator with an exciter winding and a rotor with at least one permanent magnet positioned in the stator field and rotatably mounted on a shaft, a reset d...

A method for opening prefabricated pouches for the subsequent filling thereof with each pouch having a circumferential seal and an opening zone comprising holding a pouch on a support and introducing the support with the pouch into a vacuum chamber which has a first opening facing the opening zone of the pouch connected to the environment and a second opening remote from the opening zone, suctioni...

Heavy metals including lead, copper, zinc, and cadmium, are effectively extracted from sludge mixtures by treatment of the mixture with carboxyl derivatives of fructans, having a degree of substitution of 0.2-3.0.

Gearbox control system has first device (1) collecting data relating to movement of vehicle, and second detector (2) collecting data relating to operation of engine. Third detector (3) collects data relating to status of gearbox control (4), and further device collects data relating to driving of vehicle by driver. Clutch mechanism is linked to clutch pedal, allowing driver to vary level of clutch...

A transaction method, a service center, and a device for carrying out the transaction method. In the transaction method object picture data relating to a transaction object, for example a product or a service, are made visible to a user, for instance by projecting image signals corresponding to the object picture data directly on the retina of the user. Eye features of the user are determined whil...

Polymer compositions containing a mixture of an elastomer and a fluoropolymer can be made by diffusing fluorinated olefins and free radical initiators in preferably swollen elastomers and polymerizing the fluorinated olefins. The resulting compositions have useful properties, such as reduced sliding friction, which makes them useful for seals in contact with moving surfaces, and for other uses.

The invention relates to a method for manufacturing an article by injection moulding a starch product, whereafter the water resistance of the article obtained is improved by treating it with an aqueous solution of ammonium sulphate and/or magnesium sulphate or with a mixture of water and a water-miscible organic solvent.

A system designed for the calculation of control parameters for a computer based inventory management system according to the present invention comprises a computer program based on mathematical probabilities using statistical distribution functions. In the context of the invention a computer based inventory management system comprises an inventory management program system such as TRITON3 as supp...

The invention relates to a continuous method for producing a cross-linked unsaturated fatty acid-based or fatty acid ester-based bonding agent, an elastic bonding agent produced according to said method and the use of said elastic bonding agent.

Payment transaction method and payment transaction system in which payment transactions between customers with portable mobile devices, for example mobile radio telephones, and a plurality of payment terminals are carried out at a service point, the payment terminal responsible for a payment transaction informing a respective customer about the total transaction amount and the transaction identifi...

The present invention relates to personal cleansing wipe articles which have superior softness, feel and cleansing properties. The wipes of the present invention comprise a substrate and an aqueous liquid cleansing composition which is coated onto or impregnated into said substrate to the extent of from about 100 % to about 400 % by weight of the substrate. The substrate is a single-layer, nonwove...

A film combination comprising a) an oriented polymeric substrate which either i) comprises an intimate blend of polypropylene with maleic acid anhydride modified polypropylen or ii) is otherwise susceptible of transmitting oxygen and water vapor and has a primer coating on at least one surface; b) a layer of cross-linked polyvinyl alcohol on i) the intimate blend or ii) the primer coating; c) a la...