This invention relates to wind-power engineering and solves the problem of increasing the windmill mounted on balloons effectiveness. A housing of each balloon 1 and 2 is outside equipped with radial blades 3 with possibility of rotation of the balloons with respect to own axes in opposite directions, this is achieved by the opposite angles of fixation of the blades at the balloons. The front ball...

The invention relates to a combination for installing anti-slip studs in an air-filled vehicle tire provided with a tread and a number of premade stud recesses. The combination includes anti-slip studs with an inner head provided with a bottom flange and an outer head provided with a top bowl, and therebetween a narrower neck portion. In the anti-slip studs at least the shape of the bottom flange ...

The device comprises a lifting mechanism (1), a sheet-inserting means, means for detecting the front top level of the stack (32) connected to a computer acting on an electric motor (11) of the stack-lifting mechanism (1), and means for raising the stack (4). The detector (32) of the front level of the stack (4) comprises means for measuring the extent of variations in the level of the stack. The c...

"COMPOSIçãO HERBICIDA". A presente invenção refere-e a uma composição herbicida compreendendo, além dos excipientes de formulação inerte habituais, como uma mistura de um herbicida de acetamida e um aditivo lipofílico compreendendo pelo menos um membro selecionado do grupo que consiste em ácidos graxos, C13-C20 álcoois graxos e fluidos de hidrocarboneto.; A herbicidal composition comprising, in ad...

The present invention is a solid-bowl screw centrifuge that includes a centrifugal drum. The drum has a drum casing and a screw with a screw body that is surrounded by a screw blade. The screw blade forms at least one screw spiral with a conveying path for transporting material to be centrifuged. The centrifuge also includes an inlet into the centrifugal drum, at least one solid matter discharge a...

A tread provided with a plurality of cutouts of essentially transverse orientation and characterized in that when new, some of the transverse cutouts form on the running surface hollowed zones of average width Lt greater than or equal to 2 mm and of maximum depth Pt at most equal to 80% of the thickness Pb of tread to become worn, the other transverse cutouts forming on the same running surface in...

The lens (3) is sealed around the contour (6) when cut to shape from a preform. Independent claims are included for: (a) ski goggles with a frame made from plasticized polyvinylchoride with the above lens; and (b) lens production comprising sealing the outer contour by melting during or after window manufacture. Preferred Features: The lens is injection molded as a preform larger than the eventual...

ÄObjectÜ To provide a motive-power transmission device for a vehicle comprising a torque converter, a gearbox, and a clutch for cutting off the transmission of motive power between the input shaft of the gearbox and the turbine of the torque converter. The gearbox is accommodated in the crankcase, and the motive-power transmission device is compact in the axial direction of the crankshaft. ÄSoluti...

This invention relates to an apparatus for, and method of, making electrical measurements on objects, in particular cells, liposomes or similar small objects, in a medium. More particularly the invention relates to an apparatus for, and method of, making electrophysiological measurements on cells, liposomes or similar small objects, in a medium.

A telescopic shank of beach umbrella invention for facilitating height adjustment and storage is provided. In one embodiment, the shank comprises an upper support tube and a lower sliding tube comprising a top fastening mechanism the fastening mechanism including an eccentric, intermediate shaft, an eccentric groove around the shaft, and a stop on the eccentric groove, and an eccentric C-shaped lo...

A table top tent with two base structures (12), each having a plurality of cylindrical receptacles (14) and means for fastening a strap (18) at each distal end whereby the strap can encompass an end of a table (20) is disclosed. The straps (18) have mating lengths of hook and loop material (26) positioned thereon as means for fixedly holding the tightened strap (18) together. The base structures (...

Method and apparatus provided to accurately test flow and flush cooling systems.

A painter's belt-mounted paint and brush holder especially adapted for stability relative to the painter. It includes an open topped bucket with a rim that drains into the bucket cavity, and a stabilizer integral with the wall of the bucket that rises above the bucket with a substantial area that is drawn against the body of the painter.

A chair includes a seat and a seat frame including several legs. Bumpers are coupled to the legs and arranged to separate one chair from an underlying chair in a stack of chairs.

A method for treating a sphincter provides a polymer material having a liquid state. The method also provides a catheter having a distal end, a tissue piercing device carried by the distal end, and an energy delivery device coupled to the tissue piercing device. The tissue piercing device has a lumen. The method introduces the catheter into an esophagus and pierces an exterior sphincter tissue sur...

To provide a tire tube having excellent sealing performance and durability. An inside of a tire includes a peripheral wall having an approximately circular cross-section which is partitioned by a partition wall into an outer peripheral side sealant chamber and an inner peripheral side air chamber. The sealant chamber is filled with a sealant having a thickness in the diameter direction in a range ...

At least first and second dissimilar tire components are placed on a false drum, and are subsequently transferred, en masse, to a building drum, in the following manner. The first tire component is placed on the false drum with the false drum stationary, using a vacuum device to pick up a free end of the first tire component and place it on the false drum. The vacuum in the false drum is turned on...

A method for producing an intermediate product made of a fiber-reinforced composite composed of a reinforcing fiber impregnated with a thermosetting resin or a thermoplastic resin, comprising: (a) the first process where a plurality of sheets made of the fiber-reinforced composite are laminated to each other, heated under a pressure, and cooled under a pressure to provide a flat plate-shaped lamin...

A laminated safety glass windscreen, which can also be used as a reflector in a HUD system, comprises at least first and second panes and a thermoplastic intermediate layer which joins these panes together. The cross-section of the intermediate layer is in the shape of a wedge, decreasing in thickness from top to bottom. The thermoplastic intermediate layer may be composed of two sheets, one of wh...

An ester-forming monomer obtained by depolymerization of polytrimethylene terephthalate and having an acrolein content of no greater than 0.5 wt %. Polymers obtained using the monomer and fibers, films and molded articles comprising the polymers. The ester-forming monomer is obtained by reacting polytrimethylene terephthalate with at least one compound selected from among monoalcohols, 1,3-propane...