A recessed electrical outlet is provided mounted in a wall and includes an outlet box that has an outer mounting surface for receiving an electric receptacle aligned with the surface in combination with a recessed cover plate to protect an electric plug which will not protrude past the wall. The outlet box can be secured to side of a wall stud by a fastener driven from open side of the outlet box ...

A fluid container comprising a flexible bag (1) containing a diluent and having a closing film at its upper end, a capsule (2) connected to the flexible bag, a drug container (3) held in the capsule and a communicating means (16) communicating the flexible bag with the drug container. The communicating means has a double-edged hollow needle (7) having a hub in the midway thereof, and a controlling...

Cross-linked (meth)-acrylates having a particle size in the range from 0.01 to 10 mu m which have a degree of swelling of 100 to 2,000% by weight and a degree of cross-linking of 50 to 100% by weight, relative to the polymer, are fillers for applications in the dental field.

A dental material having X-ray contrastability comprises as polymerizable monomer a methacrylate having at least one bromine-substituted aromatic residue. The dental material of the invention is also excellent in strength, aesthetic appearance, workability, marginal blocking and the like.

A port assembly for a container is provided. The port assembly includes an elongated tube extending from an end of a base, the tube defining a tubular bore for receiving a member for accessing the container. The tubular bore includes a membrane for separating the tubular bore into a first portion and second portion, the first portion being closer to the container than the second portion. A reseali...

A low cost, high quality converter for generating an amplitude modulated signal in response to a sequence of digital words representing a modulation signal, such as a video image. The converter receives the sequence of digital words at an input rate. The input sequence of digital words is combined with a sequence of factors at a sample rate to generate a second sequence of digital words at the sam...

A current sensing device particularly for rotor ground fault detection in a highly inductive field is able to sense and identify the location of low order fault current when the load current in conductors is on the order of at least 1,000 amperes. Laminated strips of magnetic material are flexible to be located ideally about the conductors to maximize the sensitivity signal and minimize the effect...

A lightweight, strong, pallet construction is provided by providing a pair of flat sheets of cardboard and a plurality of elongated runners of cardboard which can be deformed by the forks of a fork lift truck. The runners have notches formed in one edge thereof which enable the runners to be locked together in a matrix which is sandwiched between the flat sheets of cardboard. The upper and lower e...

A scaphoid implant surgically insertable adjacent the trapezium, the trapezoid, the lunate, the capitate and the radius bones includes a rigid, metal body. The body defines a capitate articulating surface, a radius articulating surface and a lunate articulating surface. A stem extends from an inferior surface of the body. The stem defines a trapezium engaging ledge. The ledge when implanted engage...

A laminated roofing material includes an aluminum foil top sheet laminated to a polyethylene film by an ionomer resin. After the sheets are bonded together they are cooled to set the resin and a bitumen coating is applied to the exposed polyethylene sheet and covered with a release paper.

A combined oxidation orbital ditch (11) and intraclarifier (30) has the intraclarifier (30) in the form of an elongated clarifier vessel positioned on the top of a section of the centre partition (20) between the ditch sidewalls (12,14) so that the overall clarifier vessel extends laterally into both of a pair of flow channels (21) formed between the ditch sidewalls (12,14) and the centre partitio...

The disclosure describes a form of packaging for an electronic device and a method of achieving it in order to overcome the problem of damage because of cycles in environmental temperature. A thin, flexible foil functioning as a carrier of electrically conductive material selected from the group including Invar, copper-Invar-copper and Kovar is coated with a preselected polyimide, on which is form...

A software analysis system for acquiring, storing, and analyzing certain predetermined characteristics of a computer program includes a method and apparatus for acquiring certain lines of high-level language instruction code without the need for statistical sampling. Each line of instruction code generates at least one address in assembly language which is encoded with a tag and stored in a first-...

Debug routine accessing system using special keys in the form of floppy disks for unlocking debug routines embedded in the operating software of a reproduction machine, each debug routine having a key number, with the floppy disks having various key numbers for different ones of the debug routines so that on insertion of a selected disk in the machine floppy disk port, the key number is read from ...

PURPOSE:To shorten an operation time and to enhance operability by selecting a combination pattern containing less frequency participating weighing parts prior to other patterns. CONSTITUTION:Required data are set by the ten key and function key of an input operation part 5 and an operation key is operated. The weighing values of all of scales 2 are checked and the weighing data of weighting parts...

A mixture for producing a noise-damping compound is formed from a plastic dispersion, cement and an inert additive, where the dispersed plastic has a temperature T lambda max

Composites of paper and bioriented plastic film, preferably polyester, are made by passing into and through the nip of a pair of nip rolls (13, 14) a web of paperboard (4) and a web of plastic film, with a layer of molten polymer impregnating and bonding agent (3) extruded into the nip between the webs on the entry side of the nip. The product as collected from the nip rolls (13, 14) is a composit...

In a composite light alloy member in which a reinforcing portion is bonded or joined to a member body is formed of a reinforcing material and a light alloy matrix filled in said reinforcing material, the reinforcing material is a heat resistant continuous-pore type element having a porosity of 90% or less and an average diameter of pores of 100 mu m or less. The reinforcing material may be a meta...

The present invention relates to an implantable knee joint prosthesis which is designed to replace the engaging surfaces of the femur and tibia of a dysfunctional human knee joint. In its most general form, the invention comprises an implantable knee joint prosthesis having a tibial stem portion, a tibial tray portion, an interchangeable modular articulating surface member which is removably attac...

Laminated billets are made by extruding a plurality of sheets, cooling and stacking said sheets to form a stack, laminating a portion of said stack using radio frequency radiation, cutting out at least the laminated portion from the stack and returning the resulting individual webs to their respective sheet extrusion process.