In a process of separating a liquid sample having phase portions of different densities by centrifugal separation, a phase separator container is employed. The phase separator container comprises a housing having concentric inner and outer cylindrical walls defining a longitudinal axis and a top wall and further a piston body constituting a bottom wall of the housing. The piston body defines toget...

A process for preparing a soft flexible polyurethane foam by reacting (a) one or more organic polyisocyanates with (b) one or more polyols having a molecular weight in the range of from 400 to 12,000, in the presence of (c) a catalyst, (d) a blowing agent, and (e) if required, auxiliaries and/or additives, wherein the blowing agent (d) comprises water in admixture with 0.01 to 1 pbw, per 100 pbw p...

A system for playing a selected one of multiple subtitle tracks recorded in a synchronized fashion with a motion picture on an optical disk (23). Individual subtitle tracks in numerous languages may be provided for the same motion picture, with or without multiple soundtracks. The user may select a soundtrack in his/her language if it is available. If not, subtitles can be displayed in a selected ...

This method consists in affixing to the container a microprocessor which comprises a memory, in inputting data into the said memory and in reading the said data contained in the memory, in inputting into the said memory the desired data relating to the container and in reading the said data during the emptying of the rubbish into the skip which collects it or during an individual inspection of the...

A method is provided for producing a soft and silky air-laid fibrous product. After the forming of a product a two-directional stretching is affected thereby establishing a fine mosaic pattern of invisible lines. In said lines the covalent bonds are maintained whereas the hydrogene bonds are neutralized. Hereby a very soft and silky product is obtained having a good hand and feel.

A method is disclosed for the use of a modified latex making it possible to provide a combination of hydrogene bonds and covalent bonds in fibrous products. A softener product is added to the binder solution before its application onto the fibrous product. The softener is a natural latex added to a latex binder contained in a water suspension. It has surprisingly shown that a product manufactured ...

A binary mix which provides a cementitius building material, one part of the mix being a hydraulic cement containing wet fraction capable in time of first setting and then curing while the other component of the binary mix is an aggregate fraction made up primarily of a wood material which has been coated by a substantially insoluble material. The coating is preferably applied by a pre-mixing proc...

Ionomer compositions which have improved optical properties are disclosed. These compositions comprise ionomers which can be represented as the polymerization product of alpha-olefins having from two to eight carbon atoms, esters of alpha, beta-ethylenically-unsaturated carboxylic acids, metal salts of acrylic and methacrylic acid, and optional alpha, beta-ethylenically-unsaturated comonomers whic...

The present invention relates to preprimed metal substrates suitable for use in formed metal applications. The preprimed metal substrate is coated with, as primer layer, (1) a first coating layer applied onto the metal substrate, the first coating layer being based upon a particular hydroxyl groups-containing block copolymer, and (2) at least one flexible subsequent coating layer applied onto the ...

PCT No. PCT/GB94/02357 Sec. 371 Date Apr. 25, 1996 Sec. 102(e) Date Apr. 25, 1996 PCT Filed Oct. 26, 1994 PCT Pub. No. WO95/11761 PCT Pub. Date May 4, 1995A method of coating a pipe comprising the steps of: rotating a pipe to be coated about its longitudinal axis, and applying a coating to the pipe from a dispensing head movable parallel to the axis of rotation of the pipe.

The present invention relates to cooling oils which are free of salt, alcohol, halohydrocarbons and halocarbons and have a low viscosity at low temperatures and which consist of mixtures of hexamethyldisiloxane and/or octamethyltrisiloxane and/or linear decamethyltetrasiloxane and/or octamethylcyclotetrasiloxane and/or decamethylcyclopentasiloxane.

A device for binding a molecular species, comprises: a substrate having oppositely facing first and second surfaces; a multiplicity of discrete channels extending through the substrate from the first surface to the second surface; a first binding reagent immobilised in a first group of the channels; and a second binding reagent immobilised in a second group of the channels.

L'invenzione riguarda un processo a letto fisso per la riduzione simultanea della richiesta di ossigeno biologica e chimica (BOD5/COD), per la nitrificazione e la denitrificazione di acque di rifiuto.; The invention relates to a fixed-bed process for the simultaneous decrease in the biological and chemical oxygen demand (BOD5/COD) for the nitrification and denitrification of wastewater (effluent).

New alloys of cobalt chromium having more ceramic-like properties than have been previously obtained in other alloys of CoCr are provided. Their methods of preparation and articles of manufacture especially for orthopedic applications (for example in knees and hips) are given.

This invention relates to heat-cured foundry binders comprising in admixture (1) a source of soluble silica, and (2) a source of soluble alumina, such that the source of silica, source of alumina, or both contain an alkali metal. The binder components form a saturated solution when they are mixed with an aggregate. The resulting mix is shaped and heated at an elevated temperature to form a cured f...

Compositions comprising a finely divided cellulosic material and an amount of a latex containing magnesium oxychloride and/or magnesium oxysulphate effective to impart water and fire resistance to the cellulosic material are disclosed. Methods to make a water and fire resistant product are also disclosed.

A method for reducing pollution emissions from a glass melting furnace using electrostatic granular bed (EGB) technology. The granules in the EGB filter are themselves formed from an alkaline earth metal material. The granules react with sulfur compounds in the exhaust gas and form a layer of alkaline earth metal sulfates and sulfites in the granules. Simultaneously alkali metal-containing particl...

A powder coating line for coating either coiled strip or pre-sheared and punched blanks is provided. In order to coat strip a catenary portion of the strip is suspended through a powder coating subsystem which includes a powder coating booth and a curing oven. The coated strip is the recoiled onto a rewind reel. In the alternative, the strip may be stopped and sheared at an input region and preshe...

PCT No. PCT/US94/12424 Sec. 371 Date Apr. 26, 1996 Sec. 102(e) Date Apr. 26, 1996 PCT Filed Oct. 28, 1994 PCT Pub. No. WO95/11707 PCT Pub. Date May 4, 1995An improved method or process and device for treating and healing a bone void is disclosed, and in particular a method employing a surfactant for efficiently incorporating a biologically active agent into the interstices (voids or pores) of a po...