A paper or paperboard web slitting apparatus of the type utilizing a thin high speed rotary slitting blade (24) extending through the web and into a slotted anvil or web supporting surface (34, 72) on the opposite side of the web is adapted to provide effective plunge slitting while maintaining a desirable narrow blade-receiving slot in the supporting surface. The web supporting surface (34, 72) m...

A color meter including: a plurality of light sources (30, 32, 34) which generate a plurality of preselected, respective, bandwidths of light; a control unit (26) operative for activating said light sources (30, 32, 34) in accordance with a preselected sequence; an optical medium (18) associated with said light sources (30, 32, 34) which carries light generated by said light sources (30, 32, 34) a...

Reactive metal granules, especially of magnesium and/or magnesium alloys are produced directly from molten metal. The metal is fed under pressure to a granulation nozzle which forces the metal to aquire a circular motion of increasing velocity before it reaches the outlet of the nozzle and disintegrates successively into small fragments and droplets. These fragments and droplets are formed in an i...

L'impianto comprende una pluralità di tamburi di confezione (2) movimentati lungo un predeterminato percorso di confezionamento.Ogni tamburo incontra, secondo una prestabilita sequenza, stazioni di lavoro primarie (10, 11, 12, 13) adibite ciascuna all'applicazione di un rispettivo componente principale (4, 5, 6, 7), comune ad una pluralità di tipi di carcassa compresi in una determinata gamma di p...

Un dispositivo dì sostegno per un addetto al coniando di un carrello elevatore con uomo a bordo in piedi comprendente un dispositivo con due superfici di sostegno imbottite e posizionate l'una rispetto all'altra approssimativamente ad angolo retto. Una prima superficie di sostegno orientata orizzontalmente è fatta in modo da supportare le creste ischiatiche e l'altra seconda superficie di sostegno...

Magnetisable microspheres consisting of a polysilsesquioxane lattice and distributed uniformly inside the lattice of magnetisable fillers chemically bonded to polysilsesquioxane units. They are prepared by dispersion in a solvent of an aqueous suspension of magnetisable fillers not coated with dispersing agent, dissolving an alkoxysilane or an alkoxysiloxane in the organic phase, polycondensa...

Magnetisable composite microspheres made up of a core consisting of magnetisable fillers distributed uniformly in a lattice of a polysilsesquioxane (SiVi) containing ethylenic unsaturations and a skin made of a crosslinked organosilicon polymer derived from the hydrosilylation of an organohydropolysiloxane (SiH) with the ethylenically unsaturated groups of the polysilsesquioxane SiVi. They ar...

An apparatus (10) for currency discriminating comprising first and second stationary scanheads (18a, 18b), disposed on opposite sides of a bill transport path, for scanning respective first and second opposing surfaces of a bill (17) traveling along the bill transport path and for producing respective output signals. The bill (17) travels along the transport path in the direction of a predetermine...

The invention relates to an improved process for improving the adhesion between a sintered material substrate and a diamond layer deposited thereon by removal of the sintered material-bonding phase from the substrate surface before the diamond coating. For this purpose, the process according to the invention uses a device such as is usually employed in a different design for the CVD application of...

Procedimento per la fabbricazione di poliuretano espanso formato da miscele di isocianato e poliolio che reagiscono con il poliuretano con un dispositivo di miscelazione, che presenta una vite senza fine di miscelazione conica, spostabile nella direzione assiale, rispetto all'apertura di uscita, fra una posizione di pulizia avanzata. Nel detto procedimento l'isocianato e il poliolio nella posizion...

The invention relates to a device to isolate foreign bodies in a tubular organ of a creature, for example in the ureter. Stone fragments can collect at a site in such an organ, for example fragments produced by crushing renal calculi with a lithotripter. In order to prevent such accumulations the invention provides an elongate element (10) provided with baffles (11).

In a drive unit for electric vehicles, each wheel (3) of the vehicle is driven by its own electric motor (1), by means of a drive shaft (2). Each electric motor (1) is hollow and houses, within a central axial cavity (4) in the rotor (1b), a joint (G) for transmitting the drive to the drive shaft (2) of the wheel (3).

A needle alloy wherein the nickel content is between 6.3% and 9.5%, the chromium content is between 11.5% and 12.5% and the molybdenum content is between 3% and 4%. In addition, tantalum and titanium should be present at a combined level of no more than 2.1%. Favorable results from this alloy cause needles to have a greater than 400,000 psi ultimate tensile strength.

Combinatorial libraries are disclosed which are represented by Formula I:(T'-L)q-+E,crc S+EE -C(O)-L'-II'Iwherein: +E,crc S+EE is a solid support; T'-L- is an identifier residue; and -L'-II' is a ligand/linker residue. Compounds which contain aryl sulfonamides, N-acyl derivatives, and N-substituted pyrrolidines and piperidines of the formula:Y-A-CO-R1are inhibitors of serine proteases and carboni...

Clathrates (I) of N-ethoxycarbonyl-3- morpholino-sydnonimine (II) or its salts with cyclodextrin derivs. (III) are new. N.B., cpds. (III) include unsubstd. beta- and gamma-cyclodextrins. (II) is an anti-angina and anti-ischaemic agent (molsidomin) useful for prevention and treatment of angina pectoris. It also has antiarrhythmic, fibrinolytic, platelet aggregation inhibitory and hypotensive activi...

Massa porosa monolitica esente da amianto per il riempimento di bombole di acetilene, a base di silicato di calcio ottenuto da calce e farina di quarzo cristallino, caratterizzato dal fatto che il legante è costituito da fibra sintetica inorganica a base di carbonio e/o vermiculite, eventualmente addizionato di uno o più agenti disperdenti e addensanti.; Monolithic porous mass free from asbestos, ...

Cell lines have been produced that secrete human monoclonal antibodies capable of binding to molecules of different bacterial species. These antibodies have been found to be protective against lethal challenges of various bacterial genera. Pharmaceutical compositions containing these antibodies, which can be in combination with other monoclonal antibodies, blood plasma fractions and antimicrobial ...

Mineral wool shaped bodies and other mineral wool products are generally used for the heat and sound insulation of buildings, industrial plants, remote heat carriers, etc.. In a method by means of which novel uses and applications for mineral wool can be developed, mineral fibres which are mixed with binders in amounts of approximately 1 to 10 wt % relative to the total weight are reduced to lengt...

A water treatment device including an arrangement having mechanisms for mechanically totaling the volume of water filtered and for indicating when the replaceable filter cartridge has reached the end of its useful life. End-of-life indication is provided by a valve mechanism for stopping flow after a predetermined volume has been filtered. The arrangement includes a novel mechanism for resetting t...

PCT No. PCT/GB95/00505 Sec. 371 Date Sep. 11, 1996 Sec. 102(e) Date Sep. 11, 1996 PCT Filed Mar. 9, 1995 PCT Pub. No. WO95/24423 PCT Pub. Date Sep. 14, 1995The present invention relates to novel peptides isolated from the blowfly Calliphora vomitoria. The invention also relates to nucleic acid molecules encoding these peptides, vectors and host cells comprising these nucleic acid molecules, and ch...