A conformable orthopaedic casting tape made with a combination of an elastic fiber and a non-elastic fiber is disclosed. The casting tape is capable of stretching 40% to 200% in the length direction and has a power of between 40 and 175 grams per inch width at 30% elongation. The elastic fiber is a blend of a cured or partially cured polyolefin rubber and a polyolefin resin.

A method for making a tantala/silica interference filter on a vitreous substrate, which filter retains integrity at temperatures in excess of 600.degree.C, includes the steps of depositing by low pressure chemical vapor deposition a first coating of tantala/silica on the substrate, heat treating the first coating, and depositing by low pressure chemical vapor deposition a second coating of tantala...

A roving frame in which short trains of hangers are introduced transversely into two flyers of rows for replacement of full bobbins by empty core sleeves.

The refrigeration device has a double-skinned housing (10) with a heat insulation material (15) between the inner and outer skins (16, 17) and an evaporator adjacent the rear wall of the refrigeration space. A water drainage channel extends beneath the evaporator for receiving the water resulting from the defrost cycle, leading to a drainage connection (20) passing through the heat insulation mate...

Wound dressings for application to a patient's skin are disclosed, including a dressing layer, a bio-compatible adhesive layer on one side thereof, a support layer on the other side of the dressing layer, the support layer extending around to the other side, and a separate protective layer on the adhesive side of the dressing layer, whereby the extended portion of the support layer is interposed b...

A support cylinder for guiding freshly processed substrate material between printing units or at the delivery end of a printing press is provided with a low coefficient of friction, semi-conductive base covering for supporting and guiding the freshly processed substrate material without smearing the ink or causing indentations on the surface of the substrate. Radially projecting surface po...

A conveyor apparatus has a plurality of pivotable loadbearing elements which are disposed one behind the other and travel along an endless track that has at least one unloading station where the load-bearing elements are unloaded by a pivoting action. Two switching elements disposed at the unloading station are switchable individually between an inactive state and an active state for pivoting the ...

The method comprises the steps of operating the measuring axis and the pull axis in a forward direction while pulling the film over the forming shoulder to form the tube and maintaining the tube in tension downstream of the forming shoulder to retain tension in the film as it passes over the forming shoulder in the forward direction. It then involves operating the measuring axis in a reverse direc...

SUMMARY Device for the packing under vacuum of products contained in flexible bags in plastic material, where means are provided suitable to create, around the opening of the bag, an airtight chamber connected to air suction devices, being provided welding devices suitable to weld the bag walls along a line beyond said camera, in order to seal the bag after creating the vacuum inside it through sa...

The closed gas cylinder unit (10) is fixed with its one end in a base part (44) and with its other end in the robot arm (50). With a floor-located robot the cylinder unit fixture points (46, 52) are located on opposite sides of the arm pivoting centre (48). With a robot suspended from a ceiling, the cylinder unit fixture points are on the same side of the arm pivoting centre. A protective tube (40...

An airlock of integral one piece construction for the trough of a refining furnace, the airlock having opposed vertical walls with portions that fit snugly within the trough opposed vertical walls and downwardly angled extensions which, with a top wall that connects the side wall extensions, define a snout whose open part projects into the molten metal in the furnace chamber to dynamically seal th...

A power supply controller for a magnetic disk apparatus has doubled identical power supply control units for turning on/off a power supply in accordance with a power ON command and a power OFF command from a host device. Each of the power supply control units includes an abnormality detection unit. The abnormality detection unit monitors an abnormal state of a mating one of the power supply contro...