2099114 9212061 PCTABS00014 The device is a pallet as might be used to support cargo during that cargo's transportation or storage. The pallet is constructed of paper. The pallet design involves a central platform or deck (402) constructed of a honeycomb filler bounded on the top and bottom surfaces by corrugated sheets (404, 408). To enhance the torsional and deflective strength of the central pl...

A duplex stainless steel which is economical and balanced to provide a good combination of properties in the as-cast condition and resists thermal transformation to martensite due to the high levels of manganese. This steel is particularly suited for thin-walled castings for automotive underbody components. It is 30% to 60% ferrite and balance austenite and, in weight percent, consists essentially...

Winged sanitary napkins (100) are provided which include a release strip disposed over a portion of the undergarment-facing side of the absorbent element (40) and over an adhesive means (25) attached to a body-facing side of at least one of the flaps (30). These napkins (100) may be produced using a single adhesive applicator subsequent to folding the flaps (30). The release strip of this inventio...

The present invention relates to an electrolyzer for treating an object liquid. A cylindrical anode plate is formed as an outer wall of said electrolyzer and a cylindrical cathode plate is coaxially arranged at a position close to an inner surface of said anode plate. An ion exchange membrane is coaxially arranged between both electrodes to form an isolating chamber for a selective electrophoretic...

The invention relates to a method and a device for handling pulverulent fluidised-bed material enabling the clogging of the porous fluidisation wall (4, 19, 21) by non-fluidisable substances mixed with the pulverulent material to be detected and prevented. It consists in dividing the porous wall into two parts: the first part (19), placed under the feed column (15), is located at a horizontal leve...

A method and apparatus for implementing a thermodynamic cycle, which includes the use of a composite stream, having a higher content of a high-boiling component than a working stream, to provide heat needed to evaporate the working stream. After being superheated, the working stream is expanded in a turbine (102). Thereafter, the expanded stream is separated (131) into a spent stream and a withdra...

A disc brake assembly is described which includes a rotor, a cylinder housing, a brake pad carrier displaceably mounted on the housing, and pistons mounted on the housing for displacing the pad into engagement with the rotor. The disc brake assembly is characterized by a brake pad being tapered in width along its length, the brake pad having an inner surface positioned adjacent to the rotor and be...

The container (10) includes a body (11) and a wall (15) extending upwardly from a body opening (12). The wall surrounds a dispensing spout (16) which extends above the top (18) of the wall. A web (20) joins the wall and the dispensing spout to form a drain channel (21). A drain opening (26) is defined adjacent the channel for draining fluid from the channel into the container body. A cap (30) havi...

A degreasing-cleaning method which employs as a liquid cleaning agent pure water having a resistivity of at least 10 megohm-cm and a temperature of at least 50 DEG C. The pure water is sprayed onto the article to be cleaned at a pressure of at least 8 kg/cm2.

The system to modernize reactors for exothermic heterogeneous synthesis of ammonia, methanol and the like, consisting of a pressure shell (M), of an airspace forming wall (I), of a wall or cartridge delimiting the catalytic beds (C1,C2,C3), and of catalyst-containing baskets, now consists in providing: a) a wall (I) forming an airspace (with the shell) in a single piece substantially on the whol...

2076848 9212242 PCTABS00014 Genetically engineered or transduced hepatocytes which express genetic material of interest introduced or incorporated into them, as well as methods of producing, transplanting and using the genetically engineered hepatocytes. The genetic material of interest can be incorporated through use of a vector, such as a recombinant retrovirus, which contains the genetic materi...

A dry fuel cell (10) stack assembly is comprised of first and second opposed plates (12 and 14). A pair of opposed electrodes (16 and 20) are positioned between the first and second plates (12 and 14). A matrix (18) is positioned between the electrodes (16 and 20). The matrix (18) includes a layer of paper (22) having sufficient porosity so as to enable the fuel cell (10) to be assembled before th...

A solid-state electrochromic device is disclosed comprising tungsten oxide-Prussian blue complementary configuration in combination with a proton-conducting polymer electrolyte. A novel proton-conducting copolymer, especially useful in transparent electrochromic cells, comprising the reaction product of a vinyl sulfate monomer with a comonomer selected to form an alternating copolymer, such as vin...

The present invention relates to a combination of two vertical axis Savonius-type rotors (20,120) mounted on a support structure (210) and a deflector plate (200). The deflector plate serves an an augmentation apparatus which considerably increases the power output of both Savonius-type-rotors and also improves their self-starting ability and smoothness of operation. The support structure is mount...

In this process, all the burners of a pressurised gasification reactor are supplied with fuel via a central, likewise pressurised metering vessel, the fuel supply to the metering vessel being adjusted to the fuel take and being carried out continuously via at least two pressure pot conveyors which are filled and emptied at a mutual offset in time.

The method for producing a zinc oxide varistor is characterized by (a) crushing and drying a mixture of zinc oxide, antimony oxide, cobalt oxide, manganese oxide and bismuth oxide, (b) pressure-molding and sintering it at 1200-1450 deg.C to obtain a sintered material, (c) coating a coating agent on the both sides of the material and heating the coated material at 1000 deg.C, and (d) ...

A portable telephone including a synthesized local oscillator using a voltage controlled oscillator (14) in the receiver section (3) and receiving its operation power from either built-in battery (7) or an external power source. A first external voltage substantially equal to the output voltage of the built-in batteries and a second external voltage higher than the first voltage are received at re...