The present invention relates to a lead acid storage battery and provides a lead acid storage battery having a high durability against complicated vibrations such as perpendicular and horizontal vibrations and the combination of these vibrations applied by vehicles or machines on which the battery is installed and having a long shelf life. A polyolefin resin having good fluidity is heat molten and...

An improved of processing a tire on a uniformity machine comprising the steps of sensing the radial force variations in a tire and generating a composite waveform corresponding to the sensed force variations, converting the composite waveform into a special function waveform selected from the class of waveforms which includes filtered partial square waves, partial sine waves and full sine waves, s...

A system for collecting and processing donated blood comprises a first porous medium interposed between a blood collection bag and a satellite bag and a second porous medium interposed between the blood collection bag and another satellite bag. The porous media are leucocyte depletion media. The system may also include one or more of the following: a red cell barrier medium, a separation medium, a...

The invention concerns a slice-cutting machine (1), in particular a machine for cutting food, with a housing (2) and, mounted in the housing, an electrically driven circular cutter blade (5). In order to improve the ease of servicing of the machine, the invention proposes that the cutter blade (5) is driven directly, i.e. with no reduction gearing, by a motor (11) mounted on the shaft (12) carryin...

A process for removing dissolved organic compounds from an aqueous solution wherein said solution is contacted with a water insoluble, liquid oligomeric or polymeric poly(amphiphilic) compound having an affinity for said organic compound.

Discharge passages for concentrated and separated liquids are separately formed in shafts of a rotary bowl 1 and screw conveyor 1. In an inlet passage of the radial discharge passage leading from the inside of the rotary bowl 1 to said discharge passage in the shaft, an annular space is divided into sectors by a plurality of deceleration vanes 23, 24 which are mounted on the screw conveyor 2 and e...

Pollution separator and purifier apparatus (10) for at least one fluid mixture comprises: an inlet member (14) for admitting the fluid mixture to be treated into a stationary cylindrical body (12); a rotor mounted in the cylindrical body (12) and having a stack of at least two plates (18) with openings, cooperating with means that generate a pressure drop in the top portion of the apparatus and ge...

PCT No. PCT/EP95/02509 Sec. 371 Date Feb. 20, 1997 Sec. 102(e) Date Feb. 20, 1997 PCT Filed Jun. 28, 1995 PCT Pub. No. WO96/05952 PCT Pub. Date Feb. 29, 1996A food slicing machine including a housing and a disc-shaped knife which is mounted for rotation on the housing. An adjusting device moves a stop plate relative to the cutting plane of the knife to set the slice thickness. A food carriage reci...

In a yarning machine including a drum (7) having transverse grooves (8) to move a yarn thread (5) transversely therealong so as to supply the yarn thread to a wind-up package (9) by rotating the wind-up package (9), a wheel (11) has a V-shaped groove (12) around its centre and a flange (15a,15b) whose inner wall is continuous from an inner wall of the groove (12) by way of stepped portion (14a, 14...

A clarifier (10) with first stage flotation and second stage filtration divides at least the lower portion of a flotation tank (12) into independent cells (54). A branched conduit (78) collects clarified water. Valves (76) control the flow of clarified water to either a clarified water ring conduit (62) or to a first filtrate/bachwash ring conduit (64) connected to a storage tank (68). High cell w...

The present invention comprises a process for the asymmetric synthesis of florfenicol, thiamphenicol or chloramphenicol, from a derivative of trans-cinnamic acid, comprising the steps: (a) converting the acid to an acid chloride using a chlorinating agent, and reducing the acid chloride to a trans allylic alcohol with a reducing agent; (b) asymmetrically epoxidizing the allylic alcohol of step (a)...

A hair styling tool is provided for wrapping hair around and into a hair tail. The hair styling tool includes a U-shaped hook and an arm each attached to and extending outwardly from a handle.

A combination umbrella and gazebo that can be used as an umbrella or a gazebo. The combination includes a frame, a canopy, and a side. The canopy is affixed to the frame and has an open position and a closed position. The side is affixed to the canopy and has an extended position in which the combination functions as the gazebo and a retracted position in which the combination functions as the umb...

A box for keeping earplugs, including a container part, a lid attached to the container part for closing the container, and elements for attachment and suspension of the box to clothes, a nail or the like. The lid is self-closing by provision of a springing action, and the lid is provided with a protrusion for snap-in locking cooperation with a corresponding indent inside the container part. The a...

A flexible container for medical fluid including a flexible housing with an adapter secured to the housing for connecting an outlet to a complementary inlet of another container sealed by a stopper having an outlet connected to an inlet and disposed to serve as a conduit for fluid flow, with a movable member sealing the inlet and having a flexible body for controlling flow by the extent to which t...

A fuel tank mount for forklift trucks is adapted to hold a fuel tank over the top of a counterweight in a manner that the tank may be easily lifted up and lowered down. The fuel tank mount includes a swing arm replaceably carrying the fuel tank and mounted to the counterweight for swinging movement about a tilted pivot axis between a home position wherein the fuel tank is held over and laterally a...

A surgical instrument having a resistively-heated heating component responsive to a power source for generating thermal excitation effective for cutting tissue and carrying out hemostasis. The surgical instrument includes a support assembly having two leg extensions connected in heat transfer relationship with the heating component. Two thermal transition regions are provided within the heating co...

The invention relates to a method for the recycling of trim components of vehicles. The method comprises the steps of shredding manufacturing scrap and post-consumer scrap from vehicle headliners into small particles to produce fluff. This fluff is then combined with water and a binder reagent composed of either polyisocyanates, or polyisocyanates combined with various polyols. The solution of flu...

This invention relates to a method for preparing a flexible polyurethane slabstock foam by reacting a polyol, an organic diisocyanate, and water in the presence of at least one urethane catalyst, a siloxane-oxyalkylene copolymer surfactant and, optionally another blowing agent, where the surfactant has the average formula MDxD'yM where M is (CH3)3SiO1/2 or R(CH3)2SiO1/2, D is (CH3)2SiO2/2, D' is (...

In a motor vehicle which includes a reservoir for holding fluid, a device for determining whether the fluid level within the reservoir exceeds a desired level, the reservoir having an aperture and a standpipe sealingly engaged with the reservoir at the aperture. The standpipe defines a passage for the flow of excess fluid from the reservoir and a proper fluid level in the reservoir. A plug selecti...