The invention relates to a remote-controlled compression tube for an X-ray apparatus. The compression tube can be pivoted between the X-ray tube (5) and the patient-supporting plate (2) on a support arm (8, 41) from a waiting position into a working position in which it rests against the object being examined (39), and back again. In compression tubes the force acting on the operating lever should...

An apparatus and method for assembling battery cell elements having a plurality of electrode plates of alternating polarity separated by a continuous interleaved insulating sheet. The apparatus includes a separator sheet supply station; a creaser for forming transverse creases in a length of separator sheet at longitudinally spaced fold points; a first plate loader for positioning a first set of e...

Ethylene glycol is prepared by a process in which ethylene oxide is extracted from an aqueous solution with near-critical or super-critical carbon dioxide. Thereafter an ethylene oxide-carbon dioxide-water mixture is contacted with a catalyst to form ethylene carbonate, which is then hydrolyzed to ethylene glycol in the presence of the same catalyst. The ethylene glycol is separated as product and...

An improved fungicidal and fungistatic composition has been achieved, which does not stain plants, has neither phytotoxic effect nor toxicity to animals at concentrations required for controlling fungi development, and is biodegradable in soil. The composition is a mixture of copper salt or hydroxide with an aliphatic amine or polyamine having at least 8 carbon atoms and 1 to 4 secondary or/and te...

The self-supervising device for program-controlled sequencing control circuits, particularly microprocessors, with an output connection for signalling command call-up phases checks the time interval between a particular number (preferably 2) of successive signalling pulses (SYNCH) via a timing circuit (10, 20) and supplies a RESET pulse for triggering a restart of the program as soon as the predet...

An improved annular shaped tire liner which is adapted to fit inside of, around and in contact with a casing of a pneumatic tire and in compression by the casing and a method for preparing the tire liner is described. The liner has a thickness which provides substantial protection against penetration of the tire to the inside of the casing. The tire liner is characterized by having a section which...

PURPOSE:To make a stable and robust coil despite some thermal agitation even if ordinary copper base extra-fine multi-core twisted composite superconductive wires are wound to a cuperconductive coil impregnated with resin of poor heat radiation by adding sufficient considerations to said wires.

PURPOSE:To miniaturize the insulation member that constitutes a support column and make it possible to standardize it in an air-core reactor with magnetic shield that consists of upper and lower yoke sections on the outer circumference and right and left leg sections by stacking a plurality of insulation discs consisting of many non-magnetic bodies in the inside and making those discs play the rol...

Water is purified on a charcoal bed, which is continuously circulated by means of an air-lift pump.

Apparatus for conveying chocolate bars with equal close spacing between adjacent rows of bars comprises a demoulding belt (10) which cyclically is at a standstill or driven at a predetermined speed; a delivery belt (19), whose speed is constant and is a function of the length of two bars of the distance to be maintained between these bars and of the delivery capacity; the distance to be establishe...

A fluid impervious expandable enclosed bag containing separately compartmented first and second gas generating components which, upon admixture in successive amounts, generate gas causing the bag to expand gradually from a collapsed condition to an ultimately fully expanded condition. The internal compartmentation in the bag also contains a solvent medium and a time release capsule of one of the c...

The transcription of DNA sequences in living cells is subjected to external regulation by incorporation of promoter/regulator DNA sequences responsive to metals and/or steroids. More particularly, regulation of the transcription of selected exogenous DNA sequences incorporated into eukaryotic host cells is facilitated by operative association (e.g., fusion) of the selected sequence to a promoter/r...

Plasmids and bacterial strains useful for the production of enterotoxoids and antigens, particularly the plasmids and bacterial strains pEFK-600, -700, -800 and pEBK620: E. coli K12 5K/pEFK-600, -700 + pRK248cIts, -800 + pRK248cIts and E. coli K12 5K/pEBK-620: E. coli K12 5K/pEFK-600 + K88(AB), -700 + pRK248cIts + K88(AB), -800 + pRK248cIts + K88(AB) and E. coli K12 5K/pEBK-620 + K88(AB,AC, AD). T...

A process and apparatus for killing organisms in situ within a host by means of successive short-duration high-current-density pulses of electricity of alternately opposite polarity. These pulses are passed through the host and concomitantly the organisms for a period of a few seconds. The cellular structure of the host is not destroyed, nor is the temperature thereof appreciably elevated. The cur...

An improved injection site (18) for a medical fluid container (10) is provided, along with a procedure facilitating the automated assembly of the injection site (18). An oversized, compressible situs (22) is retained in compressive relation to a generally tubular port (20) in a manner which makes inadvertent removal of the situs (22) virtually impossible.