An improvement in an ink jet printing system which uses a catcher or gutter to intercept drops of ink deflected from the ink jet printing stream. The ink drop catcher serves to remove the drops of ink which have collected on the face of the catcher by means of capillary paths extending from the face of the catcher to a porous block. The porous block may be connected to a vacuum souce for removing ...

Various embodiments of a casing adapted to receive an electronic device and in particular power discrete devices are disclosed. The casings include metal or metal alloy base components with the electronic device adhered to its surface. A metal or metal alloy leadframe is bonded to and electrically insulated from the base component. The electronic device is connected to the leadframe. A metal or me...

PURPOSE:To obtain an electrode wire having a good electric discharge characteristic at an increased working speed in a method for passing a core material of a copper alloy, steel, etc. through a molten bath of zinc, Cd, etc. and their alloy and obtaining a coated composite wire by cooling the wire while preventing its oxidation in the outlet of the bath. CONSTITUTION:A core material 2 is passed in...

A positively charged electrostatographic toner composition comprising (1) a styrene butadiene coplymer plasticizer blend, containing from about 92 percent by weight to about 97 percent by weight of styrene butadiene copolymer, and from about 3 percent by weight to about 8 percent by weight of plasticizer, the styrene butadiene copolymer having a weight average molecular weight of from about 45,000...

PURPOSE:To check patterns in a short time by picking up an image of an area of a pattern to be checked corresponding to pattern data stored in a video memory every time a sample is fed intermittently and collating the pattern data with data read out of the video memory. CONSTITUTION:An image of the pattern to be checked on a photomask M mounted on the XY stage of a pattern checking device is picke...

A fluidized bed reactor is provided with heat exchange coils for controllng the temperature of the fluidized bed. The heat exchange coils are vertically oriented and elements thereof pass through the constriction plate of the reactor. Multiple function Tuyere elements are provided which admit air into the reaction chamber from the windbox, provide for passage of elements of the heat exchange coils...

The method consists in realizing densified layers of fibers, in forming a stack with said layers of fibers provided with holes and so arranged that the fibers of the layers extend within the stack in at least two directions designated as first and second directions which define the plane of the layers and that the holes form passages within the stack in a third direction, in implanting in said pas...

A ferrous sulphate hydrate product for use as chromate reducing agent for dry cement is made from a technical or commercial grade ferrous sulphate heptahydrate by one or more treatments selected from moderate drying, powder dilution, physical absorption, and chemical absorption. In particular, the technical grade ferrous sulphate heptahydrate is mixed with fly ash or gypsum and subjected to a mode...

A ferrous sulphate hydrate product for use as chromate reducing agent for dry cement is made from a technical or commercial grade ferrous sulphate heptahydrate by one or more treatments selected from moderate drying, powder dilution, physical absorption, and chemical absorption. In particular, the technical grade ferrous sulphate heptahydrate is mixed with fly ash or gypsum and subjected to a mode...

Alkenes of the formula (I): in which R is C2-6 alkyl, n is 1, 2 or 3 and X, independent of other substituents X, is a specified substituent preferably chloro or fluoro, are prepared by reacting a compound of formula (III): with methylenetriphenylphosphorane or by dehydrating an alcohol of formula (V): especially by heating the alcohol (V) in the presence of an alumina catalyst...

The present invention provides an apparatus for the production of plastics pipes with transverse grooves, in which half shells provided with a mould recess are arranged on a machine bed and driven in a cycle so that respective pairs thereof complete a mould on a moulding path, an injection head of an extruder being located at the start of the moulding path, and furthermore the half shells being ea...

The invention relates to a joint prosthesis having an articular member fitted on an implant element housed in the bone cavity so as to slide without turning perpendicularly to the resection surface. The implant element is not provided with any abutting edge to limit its insertion into the bone cavity and the articular member is permanently supported with no twisting moment by the resection surface...

A pill dispenser mechanism is provided in which a multilayered compartment is releasably attachable to a receptacle for pills in such a way that pills may be selectively advanced into one compartment, then by selective advancement of one of the compartment layers transfer the pill from the first compartment into a discharge compartment to permit sequential recovery of pills therefrom. In order to ...

A device in the form of a syringe having a barrel with a cylindrical neck portion in the end thereof and a plunger axially displaceable therein, a hollow needle and a hub securing the hollow needle to the open end of the barrel with a chamber in between dimensioned to have a cross section greater than the cross section of the bore and a sealing disc within the neck of the barrel mounted for displa...

An improved vacuum attachment assembly for suction apparatus is provided. The invention includes a vacuum line coupling system that is incompatible with the inlet port such that inadvertent attachment of the vacuum line to the inlet port is impossible. The vacuum connection system further includes a permanently attached tee and vacuum leader line for parallel connection of the vacuum source to the...

A peptide having the structural formula (I): (I) wherein Glx is Glu or Gln, and the following physical properties: (1) Ultraviolet Absorption Spectrum: Max 280 nm., (2) Ehrlich reaction, Sakaguchi reaction and Pauly's reaction: positive, (3) Basic, (4) Soluble in water, methanol and acetic acid, slightly soluble in ethyl acetate, butyl acetate, ethyl ether, hexane, petroleum ether, be...

A process for the prevention of the propagation of errors in a security processor having processing circuits which carry out arithmetic and logic operations on given operands, and detection devices for detecting single definite breakdowns occurring in these processing circuits in which single ambiguous breakdowns resulting in the weakening of a signal are detected by the detection of the single de...

A tubular web has a bottom which is tightly sealed to enable pressurizing of the bag, the bottom including a first band of thermosetting glue imprinted across the length of the web at the interior of the tube. A second band and a third band of thermosetting glue are imprinted on the tube at the exterior thereof in registry with the ends of the first band and jointly extend across a rear panel. The...

A deskewing buffer system includes a plurality of storage registers each of which include a plurality of storage devices. Pairs of the storage devices provide storage for a single information channel. The devices of each channel further includes circuits for detecting when no information has been stored by an input pair of storage devices of a channel within a bit interval which signals a dropped ...