PURPOSE: To remove a mechanical stress of a sitting person and prevent perspiration at an anal and spinal area by forming a top layer from an elastic material and forming a bottom layer from a rigid material, forming an aperture in a direction from a rear flange to a front flange, as well as arranging a number of open holes in the bottom layer. CONSTITUTION: A bottom layer 14 has a structure made ...

An apparatus is disclosed for controlling the movement of flat bottomed articles in a plurality of different directions relative to a supporting platform. The article is supported on a plurality of clusters of helical, freely rotatable rollers mounted on a plurality of shafts. Selected ones of the shafts, or groups of shafts, each lying in one of a plurality of zones, are selectively driven in a c...

An electrical connector or terminal block (1) is adapted for mounting on a printed circuit board or the like (2) at a position at least partially concealing a luminous diode (3), the connector containing a light-conductive member (4) that extends from the luminous diode to an exposed surface (5) of the connector, thereby to present a visible indication of the state of operation of the diode.

A refractory heat-insulating graphite sheet material characterized in that the material comprises a graphite sheet.

A portable system for analyzing a fluid sample includes a small, portable, low-pressure and low-power chromatographic analyzer and a chemical parameter spectrometry monitor including an array of sensors for detecting, identifying and measuring the concentrations of a variety of components in the eluent from the chromatographic analyzer. The monitor includes one or more operating condition controll...

A refractory article and a process for making the same are provided. The article is derived from dissociated zircon and zirconia (99:1 to 80:20, weight basis). These components are formed into a slip, which can be conventionally processed to provide a sintered article. The resulting article can be subsequently heat treated to react any resulting glass phase with the zirconia present; further, the ...

A reluctance electric machine which comprises a stator with electric windings, a rotor including ferromagnetic material members, inserted into the stator and separted therefrom by an air gap, and members of non-ferromagnetic material inserted in the rotor in such a way that the cross section of the ferromagnetic material members of the rotor, at least near the air gap, is decreased by the insertio...

A polyorganosiloxane composition containing a tin catalyst and crosslinkable as a thin layer, comprising: A.- a polydiorganosiloxane with silanol ends, B.- a polydiorganohydrosiloxane, C.- a latent tin catalyst of formula: The composition may be solvent-free, in solution in an organic solvent or in aqueous emulsion. It is crosslinked by heating to a temperature at least equal to ...

PURPOSE:To provide the title composition having excellent adhesiveness to plastics by mixing two specified organopolysiloxanes with a platinum catalyst, a carbonyl complex of a Group VIA element and an alkoxy silane or siloxane oligomer in a specified ratio. CONSTITUTION:An organopolysiloxane (A) having a plurality of Si-bonded alkenyl groups, an organopolysiloxane (B) having a plurality of Si-bon...

A light fixture includes a base on which rests a translucent housing having a pair of end pieces for securing the housing to the base. A pair of mirror image brackets, received by the base, are provided to secure the light fixture to a supporting surface. The brackets are positioned on the surface in a spaced-apart relationship for mating with a backplane of the light fixture. The backplane along ...

This invention relates to dipeptidase of lactic acid bacteria in isolated form, characterized by a molecular weight of 55 kD +/- 5 kD; an isoelectric point of 4.4 +/- 0.4; a substrate range including the dipeptides leu-leu, leu-met, leu-val, leu-gly, val-leu, phe-leu and ala-ala, but not the dipeptides his-leu, gamma -glu-leu, gly-leu, alpha -glu-ala and peptides of 3 or more amino acid residues;...

PURPOSE: To provide an underwear, comfortable to wear and useful for patients, etc., suffering from incontinence by providing an opening for the waist part in a body part, forming openings for leg parts of the body part and the crotch part and arranging a means capable of preventing a discharged humor from leaking and having the waterproofness, air permeability and stretchability in the crotch par...

An apparatus for sealing a web of film including a heater member for melting a portion of the film to create side and chevron seals. A back-up bar is located diametric the heater member. The heater member includes two elongated heater bars and two wing heater bars.

A prosthesis, adapted for fixation within the medullary cavity of a human bone, having an orthopedic device to which a nonresorbable, flexible membrane is attached in a liquid and air-tight manner. A flexible woven sheath encompasses the membrane and the prosthesis is provided with means for introducing liquid cement under pressure internally of the membrane to force the membrane and sheath outwar...

A method and apparatus for applying hot melt adhesive to the parting surfaces of sections of a foam pattern employed in the lost foam metal casting process includes an adhesive applicator operable to dispense a layer of adhesive in a desired pattern onto a transfer surface. The parting surface of a section of a foam pattern is then brought into engagement with the transfer surface so that at least...

PURPOSE:To transmit traffic information with an identification signal inserted before and after during the transmission of a radio broadcast and to detect the identification signal to output following traffic information by switching the receiving of the radio broadcast in the receiving side. CONSTITUTION:Traffic information interposed between leading identification signal f1 and f2 and trailing i...

PURPOSE:To increase the reliability of detecting operation, by presetting a discrimination signal reception time, receiving the discriminating signal only within this time to store it in a memory reading out the memory in other time and transmitting it to a calculation center. CONSTITUTION:A time collecting the discriminating signal discriminating television commercial broadcast is stored in a set...

PURPOSE: To accurately regulate the temp. of a dense sheet regardless of the thickness or thermal conduction coefficient of the sheet by adjusting the stagnation time of the dense sheet in heated laminating rolls. CONSTITUTION: A laminating gap 3 is formed between heated laminating rolls 1, 2 and a foamed polystyrol web 4 runs into this laminating rolls. Dense (not foamed) polystyrol webs 5, 6 are...

A shear head in which an extruded vulcanizable composition meets preheated reinforcing strands has a compartment adjacent a mouth of the head which is evacuated to reduce the danger of gases affecting adhesion of the strands to the composition.

Pane or foil with controllable transparency and light transmission comprises a layer configuration between two transparent carriers such as glass panes, foils or the like; transparent electrodes are disposed on the carriers; a tansparent electrolyte and an active polymer layer are disposed between the electrodes; the active polymer layer has light absorption in the visible spectrum range character...