An apparatus for reducing materials comprising knives (3) which are mounted helically about two horizontal and parallel shafts (2). The knives (3) which have two U-shaped blades (8) cooperate with fixed knives (6) which are arranged in the area between the two shafts (2). When the materials to be reduced are introduced from the upperside of the apparatus (1) a reduction of the materials is perform...

A thermal insulating unit (1) comprises an elongate support member (3) having a linear density of from about 5 to 150 mg/m and having attached thereto a generally dispersed array of discrete fine fibers (2) having diameters of from about 1.0 to 25.0 micrometers, wherein the average mass per axial unit length of fibers in the array is less than the mass per axial unit length of the support member. ...

A time clock and/or computer system has a central management office with readout communication to factory work stations. Work instructions to the work stations are displayed for the foreman who prints or punches a working order. The order together with worker ID are fed to a time clock at the station before and after the job. Signals to a terminal at the station indicate delays to the foreman and ...

The invention relates to an insulating material consisting of a mixture of pearlite and/or vermiculite granules, mica and an ash-containing material. An amount of 0.5 - 5.0 kgs of mica and 1.5 - 6.5 kgs of ash-containing material is admixed to an amount of 95 - 100 l of pearlite and/or vermiculite granules. The mixture is bound with 1 - 8 kgs of a binding agent. The invention furthermore relates t...

A thermal insulating unit (1) comprises an elongate support member (3) having a linear density of from about 5 to 150 mg/m and having attached thereto a generally dispersed array of discrete fine fibers (2) having diameters of from about 1.0 to 25.0 micrometers, wherein the average mass per axial unit length of fibers in the array is less than the mass per axial unit length of the support member. ...

This application is directed to a thermal insulating unit comprising an elongate support member having a linear density of from about 5 to 150 mg/m and having attached thereto a generally dispersed array of discrete fine fibers having diameters of from about 1.0 to 25.0 micrometers, wherein the average mass per axial unit length of fibers in the array is less than the mass per axial unit length of...

Dust-free investment materials for producing precision castings consisting of water-soluble phosphates, magnesium oxide and silicon dioxide are obtained when the investment material is divided into two components a and b, where component a contains all the magnesium oxide, where appropriate a part of the silicon dioxide and, if silicon dioxide is present, 0.4 to 6% by weight of a hydrophilic organ...

Simulcasting from a television transmitter facility of both NTSC video signals, via a UHF/VHF portion of the broadcast spectrum, and digital HDTV signals, over a prescribed UHF portion of the broadcast spectrum, by converting the NTSC video signals into digital format at the television studio and multiplexing the digitally formatted NTSC signals and digital HDTV signals into a combined NTSC/HDTV d...

PCT No. PCT/SE95/01089 Sec. 371 Date Apr. 11, 1997 Sec. 102(e) Date Apr. 11, 1997 PCT Filed Sep. 25, 1995 PCT Pub. No. WO96/11852 PCT Pub. Date Apr. 25, 1996A pallet having a plurality of parallel base beams, and a deck joined to the plurality of parallel base beams. The deck includes a web or sheet of material, which is folded to form a deck surface with a plurality of parallel panels adjoining e...

An electronic failure detector includes an electronic processor having processor inputs and processor outputs, a memory connected to one of the inputs, a logic circuit having logic circuit inputs and logic circuit outputs, the logic circuit inputs and logic circuit outputs being connected to others of the processor inputs, and instructions, stored within the non-volatile memory, for causing the pr...

Trialkanolamine polyethers, obtainable by condensing tri-alkanolamine(s) in the presence of (hypo)phosphorus acid, are useful as demulsifiers in 0/W emulsion. The trialkanolamines are of formula (I), where R1-R3 = 1,2-(2-4C)alkylene. -

Compounds of formula (I) wherein Y<1> is a hydrogen atom or an acyl or acyloxyalkyl group; Z is a hydrogen atom or an azido group; and X is a purine or pyrimidine base or an ester, amide or acyloxyalkyl, derivative thereof. The compounds have antiviral activity.

Qualitative and quantitive electrochemiluminescent assays for analytes of interest present in multicomponent liquids. These methods comprise contacting a sample with a reagent labeled with an electrochemiluminescent chemical moiety and capable of combining with the analyte of interest, exposing the resulting sample to electrochemical energy and detecting electromagnetic radiation emitted by the el...

The invention relates to a process for purifying crude products containing esters of a non-reducing sugar like sucrose, and one or more fatty acids such as palmitic acid, stearic acid etc. by subjecting said crude esterification products to an extraction treatment with supercritical carbon dioxide. After carrying out this extraction treatment a residue comprising the fatty acid esters of non-reduc...

A system is provided for inserting selected commercials from a remote source via satellite into precued cable network commercial breaks at targeted regional groupings of local cable headend operators without storage of the commercials at each headend. By sequencing the avails used for insertion among the groupings of headends, by creating plural levels of simultaneity, and by using compression/dec...

PCT No. PCT/EP90/01973 Sec. 371 Date Jul. 15, 1991 Sec. 102(e) Date Jul. 15, 1991 PCT Filed Nov. 19, 1990 PCT Pub. No. WO91/08594 PCT Pub. Date Jun. 13, 1991.In an apparatus for evaluating and controlling the driving state of a traveling wave motor composed of a stator equipped with an elastic vibrating body and an excitation system composed of a plurality of segments and generating ultrasound vib...

An energy absorbing apparatus is provided to dissipate the energy of the impact force of a vehicle. A plurality of energy absorbing sheets are arranged in a stacked relation to resist the impact force and to thereby dissipate the energy of the force. Each sheet has a honeycomb structure of hexagonal cells that are filled with a deformable material such as polyurethane foam and that are defined by ...

Stabilized polyvinyl chloride Use of an inorganic or organic zinc compound and a terminal epoxide compound gives a high level of stabilization of PVC.

PCT No. PCT/SE94/00188 Sec. 371 Date Aug. 29, 1995 Sec. 102(e) Date Aug. 29, 1995 PCT Filed Mar. 4, 1994 PCT Pub. No. WO94/20056 PCT Pub. Date Sep. 15, 1994The present invention relates to an absorbent article (1), such as a diaper, a pants-type diaper, an incontinence guard, a sanitary napkin or like article, comprising an absorbent body (2) of generally elongated shape and having two mutually op...

Antigenic and/or immunoregulatory material derived from Mycobacterium vaccae is useful in the treatment of the auto immunologically mediated consequences of Chaga's disease or the prophylaxis or treatment of vascular diseases or complications which may be immunologically mediated such as those associated with tuberculosis or diabetes.