A cemented carbide drill/endmill blank and method of manufacture thereof wherein the drill/endmill includes a core and a surrounding tube with improved technological properties. The difference in Co-content between the core and tube is 1-10 wt-% units and the cubic carbide content is 8-20 wt-% in the tube and 0.5-2 wt-% in the core.

A battery assembly comprising a separator, spaced metal/metal oxide electrodes and a liquid electrolyte, the improvement comprising a rigid, porous, ceramic separator that is wettable by the liquid electrolyte, that has a porosity of 40-90 volume %, an average pore size in the range of 0.1-25 microns, a thickness of 1-12 mm, and a weight loss of not more than about 5% when exposed to H2SO4 having ...

A dispenser for dispensing sterile solution which includes a valve means to control the dispensing of the sterile solution from a container. The valve means comprises a solution outlet means, and an air inlet opening having associated therewith a filter membrane to filter the air passing into the container. When dispensing solution force is applied to the container in order to achieve this, and th...

A composition for scavenging oxygen is disclosed. The composition comprises an ethylenically unsaturated hydrocarbon polymer which has 0.01-1.0 equivalents of carbon-carbon double bonds per 100 g of polymer and a transition metal catalyst and can be incorporated into various types of layers. The composition has an elongation-at-break of at least 20% and retains at least 50% of its original tensile...

- Non-dusting moulding powder with a bulk density of NOTLESS 450 g/l, which is not free-running, consists of a suspension polymer (I) with tetrafluoroethylene (TFE) units and 0.01-1 wt.% perfluoro(alkyl vinyl) ether units with a 1-4 carbon (C) alkyl group. It is obtained by milling the primary particles to an average diameter d50 of 10-50 mu m and reagglomeration in water to an average agglomera...

L'invention concerne un dispositif de mesure débit Q d'un fluide dans une veine de fluide, dans un puits, comportant une première section à venturi (18, 34) et des premiers moyens (22) sensibles à la différence de pression DELTAP1 , au niveau de la première section à venturi, entre deux points (26, 28) distants l'un de l'autre dans le sens de l'écoulement. Il comporte une seconde section à ven...

A nail drying apparatus by which any commercially available nail polish of any color can be dried after being applied to a person's finger or toe nails. The apparatus consists of a photo-reactive coating and a device that generates ultraviolet radiation. The photo-reactive coating is applied over the wet nail polish and then irradiated with safe dosages of ultraviolet radiation causing the nail po...

An electrical outlet (1) in which contact assemblies and an earth contact and earth strap (10) arrangement engage with the rear of a front plate (2). The front plate (2) includes fixing screw apertures (6, 7) arranged to allow the free end of the earth strap (10) to be located to form a contact seat in one of the fixing screw apertures (6, 7). The earth strap (10) may have a hooked end (9) and the...

PCT No. PCT/FR95/01428 Sec. 371 Date Nov. 12, 1996 Sec. 102(e) Date Nov. 12, 1996 PCT Filed Oct. 27, 1995 PCT Pub. No. WO96/14646 PCT Pub. Date May 17, 1996The disclosure is a device for mechanical assembly of a flexible cable in a cylindrical orifice, including a cable grip member slotted axially and carrying at least two helical threads on the outside and protuberances on the inside. The cylindr...

PCT No. PCT/FR95/01427 Sec. 371 Date Nov. 12, 1996 Sec. 102(e) Date Nov. 12, 1996 PCT Filed Oct. 27, 1995 PCT Pub. No. WO96/14645 PCT Pub. Date May 17, 1996The disclosure is a stepped rectification high-voltage transformer including a secondary step-up winding in which at least two output diodes connected to two different stages of this secondary winding are located in a same axial level and perpe...

La méthode semi-automatique d'extraction d'un contour dans une image numérique est basée sur un processus itératif de déformation (30) d'un contour actif pour obtenir un tracé courant et de prolongation (40) du tracé courant par un segment de droite. Un contour initial est entré (10) dans l'image pour servir de germe au processus itératif. Une analyse (20) de l'image numérique localement en un ...

PCT No. PCT/NZ93/00010 Sec. 371 Date Aug. 19, 1994 Sec. 102(e) Date Aug. 19, 1994 PCT Filed Feb. 26, 1993 PCT Pub. No. WO93/17030 PCT Pub. Date Sep. 2, 1993A compound useful for forming immunoconjugates used in the detection of organophosphate pesticides is provided. The compound has the formula wherein X is selected from the group consisting of R-O-, R-S- and R-NH-, where R is an opti...

An acoustical tile composition based on a gypsum/cellulosic fiber composition which can replace all or a portion of the mineral wool normally present in acoustical ceiling tiles. The gypsum/cellulosic fiber composition is combined with a lightweight aggregate material and a binder to form a composition which is used in a water-felting process to manufacture acoustical ceiling tiles and panels. The...

The invention discloses methods for 1) preventing and/or mitigating microbiologically influenced corrosion (MIC) and 2) controlling and/or reducing the growth of at least one anaerobic, facultative anaerobic, or microaerophilic microorganism, which includes the step of adding or applying a composition containing a borate salt to an area susceptible to MIC and/or growth of anaerobic, facultative an...