Slicing machine has a protective knife or blade edge guard for that portion of the periphery of the circular knife which is not coverable by the conventional gauge plate during sharpening of the knife edge or cleaning of the face and rearside of the knife. The blade edge guard is fastened to a bearing block for the shaft which supports and drives the knife, by means of spaced spokes extending from...

The thick rectangular baseplate (A) has a non-slip coating on its underside and a cutout (D) in the middle of one end. At the other end two uprights (M,M') support a pair of cantilevered parallel plexiglass plates (B,C) vertically adjustable on graduated scales (R,R').The lower plate (B) carries two slides (S) underneath for an X-ray film cassette to be inserted for radiography of the patient's sk...

The invention is a system and method for managing a resource shared by a plurality of autonomous vehicles. Each vehicle includes a navigator for causing the vehicle to travel a specified route to the resource and for generating a queue position request upon approach to the resource. A queue or fleet manager establishes a queue to control access to the resource. The queue manager generates a queue ...

A sanitary mattress treatment device, particularly for spring mattresses including a empty inner space defined by top (12) and bottom (14) surfaces and by a peripheral side strip (16), wherein the springs are arranged within said empty space, as well as venting means provided in the side strips. Said device includes means (24) for injecting a pressurised powdered or gaseous treatment agent contain...

L'invention concerne un ensemble de deux éléments de retenue des deux chaussures d'un skieur sur deux skis. Chaque élément de retenue présente une mâchoire de retenue (7, 8), un ressort de rappel (12) de la mâchoire, une liaison de transmission de mouvement (7a, 8a ) entre la mâchoire de retenue et le ressort, un mécanisme d'ajustement (25, 24) agissant sur la liaison de transmission pour modif...

Production of recombinant antibody fragments Fab expressed in E. Coli, wherein the Fd portion is biotinylated in vivo following the fusion of the coding region of the antibody with that of a biotine receptor. The invention also concerns the utilisation of the bifunctional character of said biotinylated antibody fragments for the production of immunoassays and for developing antigen immunopurificat...

Aq. dispersions of natural resins selected from shellac, sandarac gum, elemi gums, dammar gum and copal resins are new. Also claimed is a cosmetic compsn. contg. a dispersion as above, and processes for preparing such dispersions.

Implementation in three phases of a mechanical cleaning and magnetic protection device for preventing corrosion to hydraulic systems: - A curative phase cleans the interior of the lines with a high pressure nozzle having retroactive jets. - A preventive phase preserves from corrosion, by: . the creation of a loop and the installation of a circuit pump if the system has no such pump, . the in...

Anchoring cartridge for a hardening multi-component material (I), with a mixt. of a radically-cured resin (II) and fillers (A) in the inner cartridge and a hardener component (B) in the annular space between inner and outer cartridge, the system being activated by driving an anchor bar into the borehole contg. the cartridge. The annular space has an inner dia. equal to at least the wall thickness ...

A pallet made of plastic consists of a top or middle part fitted with a network of stiffening ribs (14,15) and pads (4,5,6,7,8) made with an assembly of vertical walls and hollow length members (9,10,11) made by extrusion that are joined by welding or gluing to the bottom of a series of aligned pads, parallel to the long side of the pallet. The stiffening ribs are joined together and to the vertic...

A heat insulating material, in the form of an anisotropic porous body, contains (by wt.) 70-90% alumina-based fibres and 10-30% aluminosilicate binder, the fibres consisting of 72-97% Al2O3 and 3-28% SiO2 and having an average dia. of up to 2 microns, an aspect ratio (1/d) of 30-130 (pref. 40-90), a strength of at least 600 MPa and a class temp. of 1650 degrees C. The material has a density of 0.1...

Absorbent prods. comprises a layer of mineral fibres in which the mineral fibres are interlaced by needling or sewing, encased in an envelope providing, on at least one face of the prod., a high permeability to liq..

A friction lining containing fibres, binders, fillers, abradants and lubricants.

The addressing circuit includes an adder circuit (40) for adjusting the current address by an increment, and to produce the first temporary value of the next address. A further circuit (45, 56, 61, 49) gives, as the value for the next address, a base address (Ladd) plus an increment, when the first temporary value of the next address exceeds a limit address (Hadd). The circuit for calculating the ...

The cage (I), which is osteo-permeable and osteo-conducting, is trapezoid in shape and designed to fit between the fractured head of the humerus and an intermediate insert (II) fitted into the metaphysis canal. The upper surface of the cage has spikes (1) which engage with the head of the humerus, while its under surface has a projection (2) to engage with the metal intermediate insert (II). The w...

Fond (10) de cotyle pour cotyles cimentés.
Selon l'invention, ledit fond de cotyle est constitué par une grille (11) métallique semi-rigide de forme sensiblement hémisphérique, destinée à être placée librement entre ledit cotyle et l'acetabulum (20) d'un patient, et portant au moins un bossage (13a, 13b, 13c) prévu pour coopérer avec un trou correspondant (21b) aménagé dans ledit acetabulum...

The insert (I) fits into the upper section of the medullary canal of the humerus and act as a base, either for a prosthesis or for an osteosynthesis element for the upper end of the humerus. The insert is basically trapezoidal in shape and has a rectangular cross-section with sharp edges (1) and vertical ribs (2,3) to give improved anchoring against inner walls of humeral canal. The upper face of ...

Elle comprend une queue humérale (1) qui est pourvue dans sa partie métaphysaire (11) d'un logement cylindrique (16) à fond sphérique (16a) dans lequel est introduite une sphère (2, 2', 4) prévue pour recevoir une calotte sphérique (3, 3') tandis que des moyens de serrage (19) permettent leur immobilisation dans une position angulaire déterminée par rapport à l'axe de la queue humérale (1).

The stabiliser consists of an insert designed to fit between two vertebrae (L1,L2) to maintain the spacing between them and receive spongy grafts, permitting their intersomatic fusion. The insert has holes (1g,1h) for fixings (2,3) which engage with the adjacent vertebrae and are angled at 90 deg to one another. The inset is three-dimensional and hollow, generally rectangular and shaped to confor...

The stabiliser comprises two components (1) located on either side of the spinal apophysis and designed to maintain the spacing between two adjacent vertebrae (L<1>, L<2>). They are made hollow so they can receive spongy grafts which permit inter-somatic fusion.Each of the components is parallelepiped in shape, with a hollow three-dimensional cage structure and apertures (1a, 1b, 1d, 1e) in its wa...