Roving bobbin cleaner to clean a roving bobbin sleeve (1) of any clinging matter, comprises moving a cutter (6) along a unidimensional line overlaid on the tangential lie of the blade, to give a two-dimensional cutting movement. The residue (10), of the roving winding that has been at least partially severed, is removed to the rear in relation to the cutting line. Also claimed is an apparatu...

Bande de roulement (1) pour pneumatique de type "Poids-Lourds" à armature de carcasse radiale surmontée radialement d'une armature de sommet (4), ladite bande de roulement étant pourvue de rainures (2) pouvant être recreusées, caractérisée en ce que les parties de bande de roulement disposées radialement s ous les rainures (2) sont munies d'indicateurs de profondeur (5), chaque indicateur (5) comp...

A hammermill having a rotor assembly and a screen bar assembly is provided to reduce oversized wood chips. The hammermill may also be used to reduce wood and/or bark, the rotor assembly includes flexible hammers which are pivotally attached to allow each flexible hammer to move radially inward or radially outward during rotation of the rotor assembly. Each flexible hammer preferably includes a rec...

In-jet printing and specifically films for use therein are disclosed. The ink-jet printing films include a polyester carrier film with a coating layer on at least one side thereof for receiving the print. Said coating includes a gelatin-type polyamine-polyacid and a water-dispersible copolyester with sulphonyloxy units and/or a water-soluble or alkali-soluble latex.

An elastomeric member for a tire-building machine, such as an inflatable bead turn-up bladder, center sleeve or bead lock sleeve, includes at least one base layer or sleeve of elastomeric material which terminates in a pai r of end members for mounting the sleeve on the tire-building machine. A plurality of reinforcing cords may be embedded within the sleeve to provide internal reinforcement. A st...

Certain mixtures of two superabsorbent powders having very different capillary suctions exhibit a resulting capillary suction which approaches the higher value. The resulting mixtures simultaneously exhibit a high capillary suction and a high intrinsic absorption capacity.

A device is claimed for the lubrication of two parts in contact, on a machine, without any significant heating. The device is made up of a hollow body (1), with an active part (2), pierced with orifices (3), a spring (4) with a piston (5) maintaining at low pressure a viscous product (9) which is lodged in a cartridge (6). This cartridge (6) is maintained in contact against the inner face of the...

La présente invention concerne un mélange de polymères (A) à blocs polyamides et de copolymères (B) comprenant des motifs vinylaromatiques et des motifs anhydride d'acide carboxylique insaturé, la quantité de (B) étant suffisante pour que l'indice de fluidité (ou Melt Flow Index MFi) du mélange de (A) et (B) soit inférieur à l'indice de fluidité de (A) seul.
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A method for making a thin film of solid material, including bombarding one face of a substrate of the solid material with at least one of rare gas ions and hydrogen gas ions so as to create a layer of microcavities seperating the substrate into two regions at a depth neighboring the average ion penetration depth, and heating the layer of microcavities to a temperature sufficient to bring about a ...

An electrical drive for a wheel hub of a motor vehicle, especially a utility vehicle, is provided with an electric motor disposed inside of the wheel. The electric motor has a stator and a rotor, where the rotor is connected to a step-down transmission. Additionally, the drive is provided with a brake. The stator is disposed within the hollow rotor and the step-down drive is disposed within the st...

A method for real-time analysis and measurement of temporal tissue variations and ultrasonic signals which provides quality improvement of tissue images and qualitative and quantitative characterization of the size/shape of the imaged objects is described. A given number of image frames are stored and made available for digital data analysis. For each spatial coordinate, the temporal signal evolut...

The present invention relates to a process for continuous gas phase polymerization of olefin(s) in a reactor containing a fluidized bed, consisting of a cylinder with a vertical side wall and of a desurging or disengagement chamber ( 3) mounted above the said cylinder, characterized in that the fluidized bed occupie s at least all of the cylinder with a vertical side wall of the reactor.

An elastic material (2) has a layer (3) of fibres (4) attached to at least one of its faces to control its direction of stretch. The fibres are produced by a 'Spunlace' (RTM) technique and can be of a natural material of vegetable, animal or mineral origin, such as cotton, silk, linen or wool, or they can be of a synthetic material such as polyester, polyamide, polypropylene, rayon or viscose. The...

The auxiliary ball joint section (1) has a form identical to that of the joint section to be emplaced on the retained part of the existing joint. The auxiliary section has a first face for sliding contact with the femoral section (4) and a second face to contact the resected section (11) of the remaining section. Positioning lugs (3) retain the auxiliary section on the femoral section and pins (10...

This invention relates to adenosine derivatives and analogs which possess adenosine agonist activity and are useful as anti-hypertensive and anti-ischemic agents, to pharmaceutical compositions including such compounds, and to their use in treating hypertension and myocardial ischemia, and to methods and intermediates used in the preparation of such compounds.

The invention relates to a sulfated glycosaminoglycanoid derivative or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, of which the functional N-sulfate, N-acetate, and hydroxy groups, are replaced by alkoxy, aryloxy, aralkoxy, O-sulfate, or OALK(OALK)nOX groups (wherein ALK is an aliphatic hydrocarbon group, n is 0-5, and X is an alkyl or aryl group), provided that at least two functional groups are ...

A thermal transfer printing sheet capable of efficiently transferring images, letters or symbols to both surfaces of an image-receiving material, comprises a substrate 2; an area 12 for first surface transfer printing, comprising a sublimable dye layer composed of sections 13Y, 13M, 13C of different colors and a protective layer 14; and an area 16 for reverse transfer printing, comprising at least...

A golf club head comprising toe and heel portions (32 and 30), a front wall defining a ball-striking face, and top and bottom walls, the bottom wall characterized as having a medial ridge (60), and as forming two shallow recesses (162,164), one recess (164) between the ridge and the heel portion, and the other recess (162) between the ridge and the toe portion, the recesses everywhere spaced rearw...

A golf club head having a body (11) defining a heel (12), toe (13), top wall (14), sole (15) and a front wall defining an upwardly and rearwardly inclined front face (16), the body defining a forwardly extending main recess located rearwardly of the front wall; and the body also defining an undercut recess located directly rearwardly of the front wall and extending outwardly from the main recess t...

A golf club head (10) (e.g. an "iron" club head) has a body (11) defining a heel (12), toe (13), top wall (14), sole (15) and a front wall (17) defining an upwardly and rearwardly inclined front face (16) and rear face. The body has a forwardly extending main recess (21) located rearwardly of the front wall (17) and also an undercut recess (22) located directly rearwardly of the front wall rear fa...