An exercise device having a footrest including a plurality of angled surfaces for placement of the user's feet and a pair of rotatable arms extending from the sides of the footrest. A handle is positioned over the arms and is resistively connected to the exercise device by an elastic cord releasably attached to the handles and extending through the arms and the footrest.; Un dispositivo para hacer...

A carbonated semi-solid or solid food having a viscosity of between 2000 and 200,000 centipoise at between 1.5 degree C and 25 degree C, and a carbonation level of about 0.5 and 4.0 volumes of carbon dioxide per volume of food. The carbon dioxide is added to the food under pressure with low shear agitation.; La presente invencion se refiere a un proceso para La presente invencion se refiere a un a...

The invention relates to means for distributing and dispersing highly pressurized air-saturated water and is preferably intended for use in a flotation tank (1) of a water purification plant, and is therewith placed adjacent the inlet openings (2) through which water to be treated in the flotation tank (1) passes. The distribution and dispersion means includes a pre-disperser (27, 28) which is arr...

A siloxane-oxyalkylene copolymer surfactant having the generalized average formula MDxD0yM wherein M represents (CH3)3SiO1/2 or R(CH3)2SiO1/2; D represents (CH3)2SiO2/2; D' represents (CH3)RsiO2/2; and x + y is between 48 and 220, and the ratio x/y is from 5 to 15 inclusive. In the above formulae for M and D', is a polyether containing substituent derived from a CnH2n -initiated polyether and is s...

A pipe joining construction which maintains airtightness for a long period of time, easily ensures the required dimensional accuracy, and surface finish accuracy, and can decrease cost. The pipe joining construction is characterized by a seal member S mounted at the outer periphery of a male end form (2) on a connector (1) or a pipe M and a collar (5) covering the outer periphery of the tip end of...

An adaptor cable (20) and methods are provided for use with electrosurgical bipolar instruments (12), and standard commercially available electrosurgical generators (10) that reduce arcing. The adaptor cable (10) limits the peak to peak voltage developed between the electrodes of the electrosurgical instrument (12) by providing a minimum load impedance between the output terminals (14) of the elec...

Articles made from propylene, 'alpha'-olefin copolymer, where the 'alpha'-olefin has 5 or more carbon atoms, made with a metallocene catalyst system, provide substantially higher cold flow resistance than propylene copolymers made from 'alpha'-olefins having 4 or fewer carbon atoms. Other properties such as ultimate tensile strength and impact strength are substantially higher as well. Such polyme...

Rubber-toughened curable compositions have an epoxy resin containing oligomeric epoxy species and a reaction product of solid rubber and the epoxy resin. The resin has two epoxy monomeric components, one having an epoxy functionality of greater than three and the other having an epoxy functionality of greater than one but not more than three. The resin is cured preferably using a combination of tw...

A vibrator motor for electric hair clippers, massagers and the like includes a fixed magnetically permeable piece and a moving magnetically permeable piece. The fixed and moving pieces form a plurality of flux gap zones between selected corresponding surfaces of the fixed and moving pieces. Each of the flux gap zones has an air gap formed between the selected corresponding surfaces of the fixed pi...

In a method for producing a suspension of a nonionic cellulose ether that has no turbidity point, the water forming part of the suspension is mixed with a dry mixture containing a cellulose ether, which is cross-linked with glyoxal, and an electrolyte salt. This electrolyte salt consists of a salt or a mixture of salts which, in water and at the concentration employed, results in a pH value below ...

A process for preparing a deproteinized natural rubber latex, while lowering the allergen content of a natural rubber latex as the raw material to such an extent as will be safe for the human body without sacrificing the yield and moldability. The step of washing off non-rubber components is provided after each of the steps of proteolysis, precure, and molding by using an aqueous alkali solution, ...

The density of rigid foamed articles made by the thermal decomposition of a blowing agent in a vinyl chloride polymer is reduced by the use of an organotin mercaptoalkylcarboxylate, alone, or in combination with an organotin halide or carboxylate which activate the blowing agent. Sulfides made from said organotin mercaptoalylcarboxylate are also superior activators of the blowing agent.; La densid...

The polypropylene resin composition of the invention comprises a polypropylene resin and a rubber component in specific proportions. The rubber component comprises an ethylene random copolymer (B1) and a propylene/1-butene random copolymer (B2). The copolymer (B1) is obtained by random copolymerizing ethylene and an alpha -olefin of 3 to 20 carbon atoms, and has a specific density, a specific MFR...

To form multi-layer paint films which have a good finished appearance on objects which are to be painted, using an aqueous base coat composition. An aqueous base coat composition which contains aqueous polyurethane resin and rheology control agent, the electrical conductivity measured in an aqueous solution of 3 percent by weight concentration of which is 700 - 900 'mu'S/cm, is painted and then th...

A batteryless, portable frequency divider, such as used in presence detection systems for article surveillance or as used for article-location determination, includes a series LC resonant circuit connected directed across a parallel LC resonant circuit. One circuit is resonant at a first frequency and the other circuit and the other circuit is resonant at a second frequency that is a plural-intege...

A window (10,20) is provided which includes an array (11,21) of fine, closely spaced wires (22 through which electric current is passed to heat the window. Such windows are useful as vehicle windows, e.g. windscreens, because the heating disperses ice or condensation on the surface of the window, thereby improving visibility. According to the invention, at least some of the wires extend along dive...

A lubricant to be used in a hot workplace such as lamination in a transversal roll of a steel pipe without seams is provided. Effectively reduces the co-efficient friction between the work tools and the material under the hot work extending the duration of the tools. The lubricant contains (A) approximately 10 to approximately 60& in weight of alkaline silicate; (B) approximately 1 to approximatel...

An external compact fixer for the treatment of small bone fractures and in children comprising a pair of clamps (2, 3) for bone bolts (V), connected through ball articulations (5, 6) corresponding to a central body (4) that comprises at least a male member (7) and a female member (8) which are telescopically joined. A member (7) is made from a material which is highly transparent to X-rays, the ot...

The invention presents an additive composition for Diesel carburetant or gasoline for auto-traction that comprises dimethyl carbonate, ethylic aldehyde, ethyl nitrate mixed together. The composition adds an effective amount of 4 to 5 percent in volume to the carburetant to improve its combustion in endothermic Diesel cycle motors.; La invencion presenta una composicion aditiva para carburante de D...

An electrical receptacle of the type having movable shutter members positioned to prevent insertion of objects other than electric plugs through the plug blade-receiving openings into contact with line terminals. Two identical shutter members, each having a camming portion and a blocking portion, are mutually assembles for relative, linear movement in either of two, opposite directions from a cent...