A lubricant oil composition comprising a minor portion of calcium sulfonate(s), barium sulfonate(s), or mixture thereof being neutral or having the total base number of 100 mg KOG/g or less, and straight chain univalent fatty acid(s) having 8 to 18 carbon atoms and a major portion of a base oil of mineraloil series and/or synthetic oil series, said base oil having a kinematic viscosity of 10 to 50...

Hardware for a casket which may be quickly and easily twisted into fixed engagement with the casket at a predetermined orientation. The hardware may be easily removed from the casket without leaving metal hardware components in or on the casket. Specifically, an anchor member is fixed to the casket and comprises a twist locking connector which mates with a twist locking connector fixed to an item ...

A plastic receiver for embedding in concrete cast against formwork comprises a flange 1 with holes 2 for nailing onto the formwork. Through the flange 2 is a hollow pipe 3, 4 through which water and sewage can flow. The portion of the pipe 3 above the flange preferably has an inner diameter larger than the outer diameter of incoming pipe and fitting and the portion 4 below the flange preferably ha...

Improved form, fill, and seal machine (10) for making aseptic sealed packages incorporating a plurality of sealing mechanisms (210, 220) mounted on a continuously advancing structure (200) in a form, fill, and seal machine. Induction heating is used to longitudinally seal the edges (24, 26) of the web (20) together to form a tube (22) and to transversely seal the tube. A circuit means is used for ...

A network system in which a plurality of node devices are connected for signal transmission through N numbered channels includes at least first node device and a second node device. The first node device includes N numbered buffer means for temporarily storing signals to be transmitted, transmission device which can send the signals from the buffer device respectively through the N numbered channe...

L'inventiion fournit un filtre Fabry-Perot pour lumière guidée, ce filtre comportant deux réseaux de Bragg (R1, R2) se succédant sur un même guide de lumière (G), ces deux réseaux laissant entre eux un intervalle (D), ce filtre étant caractérisé par le fait que ces deux réseaux présentent des longueurs respectives (L1 et L2) différentes L'invention s'applique notamment aux systèmes de télécommunic...

A novel add/drop optical filter providing arbitrary channel arrangements between two input WDM signals and two output WDM signals is presented. The device consists of two WGR's connected by 2x2 optical switches in each WGR branch. The same circuit can also be used as a 2x2 wavelength-space switch for WDM signals. In both cases N<2> channel arrangements between the two outputs are possible when the...

A new type of monolithic optical waveguide filter comprises a chain of optical couplers (14,15,16) of different effective lengths linked by differential delays (17,18) of different lengths. It can be regarded as a series of Mach - Zehnder interferometers. The transfer function of the chain of couplers and delays is the sum of contributions from all possible optical paths, each contribution forming...

The subject of the invention is poly(amino acid) derivatives, which are chelators of paramagnetic metal ions, at least 3 of the donor nitrogen atoms of which carry identical or different substituents of formula CH(R1)-X, in which X represents CO2Ra, CONRbRc or P(Rd)O2H and Ra, Rb and Rc, which are identical or different, represent H or optionally hydroxylated (C1-C8)alkyl; Rd represents OH, (C1-...

The fuel assembly includes an arrangement for quickly fixing the guide thimble into an opening passing through the adaptor plate of a dismountable nozzle of the assembly. This arrangement includes at least two bearing stops inside the opening of the nozzle, a bearing sleeve integral with the end of the guide thimble and a locking ring which includes stops for bearing on bearing surfaces of the sto...

Quantitative determination and evaluation of the flavor stability of fermented alcoholic beverages are performed by measuring the changes of the amounts of spin adduct from the formation behavior of active oxygen with passage of time using an ESR apparatus and either determining the value on the time axis of the inflection point of changes of the amounts of spin adduct (defined as the active oxyge...

By irradiating with high-intensity pulsed laser light of wavelength 9.0 ¢mu!m to 11.0 ¢mu!m the organic film on rollers, and specifically, the film on photosensitive drums, fixing rollers, rubber rollers, and magnetic rollers used in photocopying equipment, printers, facsimile machines and other equipment, said film can be removed from the roller surface without damaging the underlying metal layer...

Before the culvert (1) is frozen over, a pressure-filled hose (2) of rubber material is applied and is then emptied of excess pressure air via valves (6). This causes the hose dia. to be reduced and a hollow space to be created. When the throughflow has started, the water energy content increases the hollow space. The hose can then be filled again with compressed air and the cycle repeated.

To connect a plate (2) with a surface of another plate (4), a fixture component (8) is inserted through both plates. The cylindrical fixture component is anchored against the plates by deformation of its one end. This is produced with the aid of an explosive pressure and the activation of inner heel formations (7) in the fixture component. To achieve the correct pressure internally by the fixture ...

In a first node of an optical network, an OAM (operations, administration and maintenance) controller produces an electrical OAM signal to control an optical cross-connect switch. This OAM signal is converted to an optical OAM signal and optically multiplexed with an optical payload signal associated with an optical path established in the cross-connect switch, producing an optical multiplex signa...