Described is a method of treating hair, in particular human head hair, for cosmetic purposes, the hair being exposed to light with an intensity and a wavelength chosen so that the protein structure of the hair is altered to produce the desired cosmetic effect.

- The subject of the invention is a machine for the simultaneous winding/laying-down-in-contact (contact winding) of a plurality of filaments (yarns) (F), comprising a portal frame (1) supporting a stage (7) carrying a winding/laying-down-in-contact head, which can move in X, Y, Z, at least one winding/laying-down head (T) mounted so as to move rotationally on the stage (7) about at least one vert...

A powder-metallurgy-produced, essentially titanium-free, nickel-containing maraging steel article such as for use in the manufacture of die casting die components and other hot work tooling components. The article preferably contains an intentional addition of niobium. The article may be produced as a hot-isostatically-compacted, solution annealed, fully dense mass of prealloyed particles, or alte...

Blank for a gun barrel, consisting of a steel bar, which bar, in one or more hot working steps, has been repeatedly wrung about its own longitudinal axis.

A shaving system has blade(s) (106, 108) and a cap (110) all mounted on a housing. The cap is behind the blades and a guard structure (104) is ahead of them. The guard structure a water-leachable shaving aid composite (116) that is delivered ahead of the blades. In different aspects: 1 The structure also has flexible skin-engaging protrusions (114). The aid is delivered to skin behind the protrusi...

To improve the quality, durability, installability and ecological safeness of a waterproofing, flexible foundation lining, the flexible or bendable foamed-material layer of a composite of this is compressed with a flexible or bendable plastic layer relative to the foamed state. The thickness of the foamed-material layer (11) when lining the foundation is therefore less than in the finally expanded...

A biosensing system is described which determines whether a measured current is varying in accordance with a predetermined Cottrell current relationship. The system includes a test cell with at least a pair of electrodes which extend into a reaction zone, which reaction zone includes analyte reactants. An analog signal detector, in combination with a microprocessor, take plurality of current measu...

The heel support device has a non-expansible tension member (27) which can be moved in all directions and is designed in the manner of a belt, being secured by one end to the ski and by the other end, by means of a clamp (40), to a pin (47) on the boot heel. By means of this clamp (40) the tension member can be released at will, and can be pulled off from the pin (47) in the event of the occurrenc...

The prodn of cellular polyurethanes (PU) comprises reacting (a) polyisocyanate(s) and/or modified polyisocyanate(s), (b) high-mol wt cpd(s) with at least two reactive H atoms, and opt (c) low-mol wt chain extenders and/or crosslinkers in the presence of (d) acetal(s) as blowing agent, (e) catalysts and opt (f) additives etc. Also claimed is the same process for the prodn of (i) PU mouldings with a...

The invention concerns well dispersible powders on the basis of carboxylated copolymers containing butadiene made of styrene and/or acrylonitrile, whose films taken from redispersion show good tensile strength. According to the invention, the latices are sprayed with mixtures of spraying aids consisting of 1 to 15 weight % of a salt of the alkylated di-phenyl-ether-di-sulphonic acid, caseinate and...

A subterranean reservoir (118A,118B) is monitored using an array (140) of sensors (210) disposed on an umbilical cable (211) attached to tubing (126) extending into the well (100). The sensor array includes a series of evenly spaced sensors, eg. three-component accelerometers, individually mounted on biasing members (212), such as bowspring centralizer fins, which clamp the sensors to an outer cas...

The workpiece (1) which has an axis of revolution (aa') is fastened into a rotary arbor (11) forming part of a tailstock (10) which can move in terms of translation on the bed of the grinding machine along a longitudinal axis (X) parallel to the axis of revolution (aa'). A support (16) integral with the bed and in the immediate vicinity of which a grinding wheel (18) is located, provides lateral s...

Disclosed is a process for making low density, dimensionally-stable, extruded propylene polymer foam comprised primarily of an expanded propylene polymer material wherein the foam has a blowing agent comprising at least 15 percent by weight of one or more inorganic blowing agents. The foam has a density of from 10 to 150 kilograms per cubic meter, and an average cell wall thickness of less than 35...

An optionally rubber-reinforced, monovinylidene aromatic polymer resin composition comprising: a) an optionally rubber-reinforced matrix polymer; and b) a plasticizing amount of a solid (at room temperature and pressure), low molecular weight, polymer of limonene or alpha-methylstyrene and, optionally, another copolymerizable vinyl aromatic monomer, having a weight average molecular weight of from...

PCT No. PCT/EP95/02259 Sec. 371 Date Dec. 20, 1996 Sec. 102(e) Date Dec. 20, 1996 PCT Filed Jun. 12, 1995 PCT Pub. No. WO95/35345 PCT Pub. Date Dec. 28, 1995Plastisol compositions based on vinyl chloride/vinyl acetate copolymers produced by suspension polymerization have a low viscosity, even with low polymer-to-plasticizer ratios, so that they may be used for plastisol formulations suitable for a...

Biodegradable compositions of L-lactide, D-lactide, meso D,L-lactide, and racemic D,L-lactide which are suitable for pliable films and other packaging applications are prepared by polymerizing L-lactide, D-lactide, D,L-lactide or mixtures thereof using a catalyst at controlled conditions to allow the polymer in the composition to be plasticized by unreacted lactide monomer. Environmentally biodegr...

PCT No. PCT/DE94/01214 Sec. 371 Date Apr. 12, 1995 Sec. 102(e) Date Apr. 12, 1995 PCT Filed Oct. 14, 1994 PCT Pub. No. WO95/11269 PCT Pub. Date Apr. 27, 1995The invention relates to a process for the preparation of low viscous, water soluble polymer dispersions on an aqueous basis with a high concentration of the active substance, containing a polymerizate A) synthesized from the monomeric compone...

Wet-like cleaning wipes and similar articles that are particularly useful in removing perianal soils. These wipes comprise a carrier substrate such as tissue paper web that is treated with a high internal water phase inverse emulsion made with an organopolysiloxane-polyoxyalkylene emulsifier. The organopolysiloxane-polyoxyalkylene emulsifiers provide better water retention than other organic emuls...

Disclosed herein are immunogenic polysaccharide-H. influenzae adhesin protein conjugates, a purified H. influenzae adhesin protein and related proteins and polypeptides, DNA useful for producing the proteins, synthetic polyribosylribotol phosphate (PRP) oligosaccharides and intermediates useful for their synthesis, and methods of making and using these materials. The conjugates comprise a PRP frag...