The present invention involves methods of improving LCR and PCR amplification schemes by modifying at least one probe/primer end so that the probability of the probe/primer contributing to spurious signal development is greatly reduced. Only after specific hybridization of the modified probe/primer with true target, are the modified ends "corrected" in a target dependent fashion to allow participa...

A method of treating a potable water supply component, for example a pipe, pipe coupling or tap body, made of a leaded copper-based alloy such as a brass or gun metal, in order to inhibit the leach out of lead from the alloy by potable water during service, comprises treating at least internal surfaces of the component with an aqueous solution of an acid that forms a substantially water insoluble ...

A method and reactor system are described for decomposing organic compounds. A gaseous mixture of organic compounds and water, equal to or in excess of stoichiometry, is passed into a first reaction zone having a temperature range between about 200 DEG C. and 1400 DEG C. The first reaction zone has a labyrinthine path which presents organically adsorbent surfaces to the gaseous mixture to provid...

This invention relates to a light-weight wall structure for a building. In more detail the wall structure comprises a skeletal frame a plurality of first and second sub-panels herein referred to as gussets and base boards respectively means for asse bling adjacent sub-panels in overlapping relationship on at least one major face of the skeletal frame to form a support for a facing material applied...

A combustion controller controls the supply of combustion gas to the combustion barrel of a rotary combustor used for incinerating solid waste material. The rotary combustor includes a combustion barrel having a gas-porous side wall and windboxes underneath the combustion barrel to supply the combustion gas to support incineration of the waste material into combustion products which include exhaus...

Multiple shaped-beam or scanned beams reflector or lens antenna configured so as to have the radiating elements outside the focal plane (imaging) with improved characteristics in terms of gain and coverage area. Said antenna (Fig. 1) essentially consists of a reflector or a lens (1), a certain number of radiators (3) positioned outside the focal plane, a Beam Forming Network (BFN). It classifies i...

The invention concerns a device for the checking of pamphlets or books made available to the public in order to check their integrity, discovering any removal of portions or pages thereof. The invention, in a currently preferred embodiment, illustrated in figure 1, is characterised in that a load cell 1, rigidly connected to a plate 2, generates an electric signal A proportional to the weight appl...

A novel thixo-casting alloy has a differential thermal analysis thermograph exhibiting a peak value (E1) of a first endothermic section, resulting from eutectic melting, which is greater than a peak value (E2) of a second endothermic section, resulting from melting of a fraction of melting pt. above the eutectic pt.. Other similar thixo-casting alloys are also claimed. Also claimed are (i) a proce...

Wood vacuum drying unit which eliminates both gaseous emissions to the atmosphere and polluting liquid effluents, in which the vapours of the substances extracted from the wood are wholly condensed and collected in a temporary storage container to which all the condensates are caused to flow.

This invention is for implementation in the field of trimming cutters for packs of sheets of timber for veneers, and regards a device which also makes it possible on a two-blade machine to cut the other two sides of packs of veneer. It consists in having envisaged inserting, in the direction of the width of the bench 7, one or more parallel sets of ranks of pegs 10 mounted on devices 11 capable, d...

PCT No. PCT/EP95/01788 Sec. 371 Date Oct. 30, 1996 Sec. 102(e) Date Oct. 30, 1996 PCT Filed May 11, 1995 PCT Pub. No. WO95/31433 PCT Pub. Date Nov. 23, 1995Derivatives of gamma-amino-alpha,beta-unsaturated sulfonic acids, a process for the preparation of the same and their utilization in the synthesis of pseudopeptides characterized by the presence of at least a sulfonamide type bond conjugated to...

A device for automatically doffing the hollow lap rollers comprises, for each hollow lap roller, a driving movable means (5, 5A, 5B, 5C, 5D) for supporting and ejecting the hollow lap roller (4) already loaded with the roving (1); a doffing element (7) with a closed loop path, provided with doffing hook elements (71); a locating element (9) for locating the empty hollow lap rollers and supplied by...

The equipment is designed to make it possible to cultivate plants, for example comprising grass sward for sports activities, under optimum conditions of growth and maintenance, also making rapid and simple maintenance available; the equipment comprises at least one layer of earth subdivided into separate blocks 1 which can be placed adjacent to each other within a containment vessel in such a way ...

The invention regards a baling machine binding device, characterised by the fact that, for each turn, it comprises: a reel of a first wire which come from a pulley at a first side face of the bale at the height of the tail of the same in binding position and means for cutting the wire after wrapping round said pulley: a wire passing needle moving transversally in such a way as to brush the tail of...

This invention concerns a disposable syringe with reuse prevention device. The syringe in question cannot be used again after its first use. A mono-directional stop element comprises two filiform clips 6 in "V" form which are inserted into a tube 11 with the tip of the "V" turned towards one end of the tube. Each clip is contained between two teeth 5b of a respective saw- toothed zone, arranged on...