A system and method of processing promotional data from a host computer for display on an electronic price label (EPL) which check the format of the promotional data and reformats it if necessary to a format required of the EPL system. The EPL system includes a plurality of EPLs for displaying prices and promotional data, and a computer coupled to the EPLs which maintains an EPL data file containi...

Polymethacrylimide foams are prepared by a method, comprising: preparing a mixture consisting of (a) a monomer mixture of 40-60 wt.-% methacrylonitrile, 60-40 wt.-% methacrylic acid, and, optionally, up to 20 wt.%, based on the sum of methacrylic acid and methacrylonitrile, of other monofunctional, vinyl-unsaturated monomers, (b) 0.5-8 wt.% of a propellant mixture of formamide or monomethyl formam...

The packing and even the excessive packaging of products for human consumption i s a current practice in the industrialized countries. As this packaging is made primarily of non-biodegradable polymers, they currently cause environmental problems. These e nvironmental problems are found not only in industrialized countries but also in developing c ountries. This situation supported the development ...

L'emballage et même le suremballage des produits de consommation est une pratique courante dans les pays industrialisés. Comme ces emballages sont formés essentiellement de polymères non-biodégradables, ils causent actuellement des problèmes environnementaux. Ces problèmes environnementaux sont retrouvés non seulement dans les pays industrialisés mais aussi dans les pays en voie de développement. ...

L'emballage et même le suremballage des produits de consommation est une pratique courante dans les pays industrialisés. Comme ces emballages sont formé s essentiellement de polymères non-biodégradables, ils causent actuellement des problèmes environnementaux. Ces problèmes environnementaux sont retrouvés non seulement dans les pays industrialisés mais aussi dans les pays en voie de développement....

The present invention relates to an economical and simple method of producing fl exible decorative panels which simulate the appearance of brick, logs, wood planks, sto ne, masonry work, millwork, woodwork or the like. These panels are very light in weight comp ared to similar articles of conventional materials. These panels are ductile and typically may b e mounted on a wall merely by adhering th...

A roller blind drive comprising a roller blind member running along an oblique area to be shaded and a motor-driven and rotatably mounted winding shaft onto and from which the roller blind member may be wound and unwound. The winding shaft is mounted in a sliding manner at each end in respective guide tracks, which in the assembled state extend obliquely downward. The displacement of the winding s...

A ground anchor assembly for a highway guardrail includes first and second spaced ground anchors and a connecting element interconnected between the anchors. An anchor cable included in the guardrail assembly is connected to the ground anchor assembly adjacent the first ground anchor, and the second ground anchor is situated farther from the central portion of the guardrail assembly than the first...

A video game system includes a game machine and a memory medium. The game machine is connected with a controller to be operated by a player and a display device for displaying game images. The memory medium generates player object image data and influencing object image data, as well as generates message data. The message da ta is a message to teach the player how to operate the controller. A play...

A video game system includes a video game machine and a controller connected thereto, wherein the game machine is further connected with a display device. A video-game memory medium, detachably attached to the game machine, generates ima ge data for displaying a player object, a plurality of courses, and objects other than t he player object. A player chooses a course of play by operating the cont...

A block brake actuator including in a housing a service brake arrangement, having an electric motor and mechanism for transforming its rotary movement into an axial movement of a push rod, and a safety brake arrangement, including at least one powerful spring, which acts in a brake application direction, may be tensioned at a service brake application and may be locked to the housing in a tensione...

A block brake actuator including in a housing a service brake arrangement, having an electric motor and mechanism for transforming its rotary movement into an axial movement of a push rod, and a safety brake arrangement, including at least one powerful spring, which acts in a brake application direction, may be tensioned at a service brake application and may be locked to the housing in a tensione...

A formaldehyde-free curable composition useful for binding nonwovens comprises (a) a polyacid comprising at least two carboxylic acid groups, anhydride groups, or salts of the polyacid thereof; (b) an active hydrogen compound containing at least two active hydrogen groups selected from the group consisting of hydroxyl, primary amino, secondary amino, and mixtures thereof; and (c) one or more compo...

A method and apparatus for hydroforming a metallic tube including the steps of: preliminarily expanding the metallic tube over an axial section longer than the length of the expanded portion of a final product as measured in the axial direction of the metallic tube; and compressing the preliminarily expanded portion in the axial direction of the metallic tube so as to form the shape of the expande...

The present invention provides a length of trilayer, extruded, medical tubing (10) comprising an outer layer (16), a core layer (12), and an intermedia te tie layer (14). The outer layer (16) comprises a polymer that is directly bondable, while the core layer (12) comprises a lubricious polymer. The core layer (12) th us defines a lumen (15) that exhibits the desired characteristics, i.e., low fri...

A system and method are disclosed for demultiplexing closely spaced channels carrying optically encoded data. A composite optical signal having data channels corresponding to centre wavelengths .lambda.1, .lambda.2, .lambda.3, .lambda.4, ... .lambda.n are separated into two composite optical signals of first of which comprises data channels corresponding to centre wavelengths .lambda.1, .lambda....

A roller bearing with symmetric barrel shaped rollers comprising an inner race (13), an outer race (14) and rollers (11), each of which rollers have at least one rounded end, and being of the bearing type where rollers and race tracks have longitudinal section profiles with substantially the same radius of curvature, whereby the rollers during normal operating conditions are axially moveable betwe...