FIELD: commerce. ^ SUBSTANCE: method involves selling goods by way of selling system comprising stores, distributing center and selling terminal chain; transmitting signals from buyer communication means to store communication means, said signals containing information on goods ordered by buyers, and transmitting signals from buyer communication means to store and/or distributing center, said sign...

FIELD: oil and gas industry, particularly for well overhaul and maintenance. ^ SUBSTANCE: packer comprises body connected to conductor-and-support cable in which electric drive, reducing gear, screw pair, central rod, rubber gland, seat and movable bush are arranged. The central rod is connected with screw and pusher, the rubber gland is located between fixed and sliding flanges. The seat is forme...

FIELD: geophysical investigations, particularly oil and gas well drilling. ^ SUBSTANCE: method involves lowering flowmeter in well; injecting liquid and lifting the flowmeter along with continuous liquid injection. The flowmeter is suspended by elongated flexible pipes to reach horizontal bore face and then circulation is provided through hole annuity and elongated flexible pipes along with simult...

FIELD: survey of boreholes or wells, particularly equipment to control spatial cased or uncased well position during well building. ^ SUBSTANCE: method involves measuring gravity acceleration projections onto measuring axes of borehole instrument, projections of Earth angular velocity onto corresponding sensitive axes of borehole instrument; measuring borehole instrument standoff angle during cont...

FIELD: wind power engineering. ^ SUBSTANCE: proposed windmill electric generating station contains windwheel with rim installed on tower and secured on horizontal axle, carriage with electric generator whose drive shaft is provided with roller in contact with external surface of windwheel rim. Carriage is hinge-coupled with fixed base for displacement relative to rim of windwheel. ^ EFFECT: increa...

FIELD: production of lead batteries. ^ SUBSTANCE: proposed device for sealing cell-to-cell connections of lead batteries has transfer molds joined with baseplate 7 and provided with closing mechanism; it also has plasticizing and injection mechanism with injection bushing 7, transfer molds made in the form of two platforms 1 and 2 for reciprocating whose butt-end surfaces are made in the form of c...

FIELD: mining, particularly oil and gas well testing. ^ SUBSTANCE: method involves lowering sample taking device suspended to wire or logging cable to take two or more deep fluid, gas or fluid and gas mixture samples in air-tight manner simultaneously, wherein the sample taking device comprises at least two sample taking chambers; communicating well space with sample taking chamber interiors by cl...

FIELD: oil production, particularly to determine oil well output. ^ SUBSTANCE: method involves periodically supplying gas-and-liquid mixture in measuring bullet tank; separating gas-and-liquid mixture to obtain gas; keeping time at which gas-and-liquid mixture reaches measuring levels of above bullet tank; measuring hydrostatic pressure of gas-and-liquid mixture at above bullet tank levels and det...

FIELD: means for transmitting measuring-signals from the well to the surface, for instance for logging while drilling. ^ SUBSTANCE: device comprises downhole telemetering system with downhole instrument installed in drilling string or in casing pipe, as well as land-based receiving-and-transforming assembly. Connected to downhole instrument are power source and transmission coil. Transmission coil...

FIELD: the invention may be used directly at wells or collecting sites of primary processing of gas-condensate or oil output. ^ SUBSTANCE: the invention has a built-in a pipeline a tube section with a measuring channel and measuring devices of speed, a cross-section of liquid fraction, of pressure, temperature and a cross-section of water component connected with corresponding inputs of a computin...

A stage-geared gearbox for motor vehicles, includes an unsynchronized basic gearbox, at least one synchronized auxiliary gear and at least one control unit for controlling engagement and disengagement of the gears of the gearbox and also neutral position. In the gearbox, the control unit is arranged so as, when input signals indicating that neutral position is selected are received, to put the syn...

FIELD: physics; computer engineering. ^ SUBSTANCE: invention relates to architecture for transactions through the internet. There is control of price and route for making payments with through processing of payments. In the proposed method payments are addressed without need for knowing bank account details of the receiver, which makes easier making payments and their clearing. The process of maki...

A filling machine and a method for filling foodstuffs, particularly beverages, in composite packages open on top and for sealing the packages, using a package transport device, a sterilization unit, a drying unit, a filling unit, and a sealing unit, are shown and described. In order to have more time available-at the same output-for the individual processes (sterilization, filling, and sealing pro...

Bubble columns fractionate with vapor-liquid mass transfer efficiencies approaching that of distillation towers when vapor velocities in excess of 50% of jet flood are used. If the vapor velocities are pushed above about 70% of jet flood then the distillation performance of a given column packing becomes similar for both liquid continuous operation (bubble column mode) and vapor continuous operati...

A method for converting light hydrocarbons (e.g. methane or natural gas) to synthesis gas employs a silicon carbide-supported catalyst that catalyzes a net partial oxidation reaction. Certain preferred catalysts include a catalytically active metal disposed on a silicon carbide support.

There is provided a molded article which has high shock absorbing capability and load capacity. A resin molded article having a spring structure comprises a three-dimensional structure with voids, which is formed by entwining and gathering adjacent ones of random loops or curls of solid and/or hollow continuous filaments and/or short filaments made from a mixture of a polyolefin resin and VAC, EVA...

The pad has a cushion (14) positioned against a side (18) of a plate (14), and movable between an X-ray tube (40) and an image receiver (42). The plate provides rigidity to the cushion for compressing organ (10) e.g. breast, of a patient. The plate is extended in a horizontal plane perpendicular to a thoracic cage of the patient, and spreads tissue of the patients organ presented to X-rays. An In...

A communications device is provided for routing a locomotive over a track layout in a train yard. The locomotive is operable over a plurality of alternative track routes to reach a respective destination from a plurality of possible destinations in said track layout. The track layout includes a plurality of switches configured to alter a route for a locomotive running along the track layout. The c...

A process for removing contaminants from PET components by mixing ethanediol with the PET feedstock at a temperature about the boiling point of ethanediol and for a time sufficient to convert the polyethylene terephthate components to polyethylene terephthate polymers which are soluble in the ethanediol and form bis(hydroxyethyl) terephthalate and produce a product mixture thereof containing insol...