The disclosure relates to an article, suitable to be worn unobtrusively and with comfort by a woman in the last stages of pregnancy, which is positioned to receive and retain the amniotic fluids when released. The article may conveniently be in a form similar to a sanitary napkin belt, or may be constructed into a hospital garment, for example. Although the fluid receptacle is capable of containin...

PURPOSE:To make a planetary gearing mechanism enlargeable without entailing any drop in setting strength, by forming a setting hole in a case body as well as thinning the case thickness so as to cause part of a setting bolt to be exposed in the case inside. CONSTITUTION:A setting hole is formed in the body of a case 4, while thickness of the case 4 is made up in a way of being thinned to the exten...

PURPOSE:To prevent life decrease which generates as plates become high by assembling a lead-acid battery with plates in which only upper part is discharged and charging them after electrolyte is poured so that electrolyte concentration in the upper part of an electrode group is higher than that in the lower part of it. CONSTITUTION:Electrolyte is held in a plate 3 and a fine glass fiber mat 2. Aft...

PURPOSE:To uniform concentration distribution of electrolyte and improve charging performance of a positive plate by using an electrolyte holding body comprising glass fiber in an antimony-free lead-acid battery. CONSTITUTION:Electrolyte is impregnated in an electrolyte holding body comprising glass fiber in order to immobilize electrolyte. The electrolyte holding body is placed between positive a...

PURPOSE:To provide a sealed lead-acid battery having good high rate performance and decreased internal short by alternately arranging an electrolyte holding body also serving as a separator and a separator thinner than the electrolyte holding body between a cathode plate and an anode plate. CONSTITUTION:A fine glass fiber mat or resin foam which is acid resistant and has a porosity of 90% or more ...

The specification describes a method and apparatus for processing bivalve shellfish, particularly scallops. The two shells are first parted by a small amount and a cutting tool is inserted to detach the shellfish from one of the shells. The two shells are then separated. The shell having the shellfish attached is rotated about an axis passing through the center of the edible portion and the offal ...

A yarn dispenser (1) comprises a bobbin (4) for supporting a coreless winding (10) of yarn, and rotatably supported on a base (2) by an upright spigot (3) which enters a central bore (5) in the bobbin. The bobbin (4) consists of cylindrical peg (6) with a rounded upper end (9) for insertion of the winding (10), and a flat disc (7) at the lower end, which forms a lower rim for supporting the windin...

A four-wheel vehicle drive system comprising a power unit having an output shaft in a lateral direction of the vehicle; a transmission gear unit having input and output shafts parallel with an extension of the axis of rotation of the output shaft of the power unit; a power transfer gear rotatable about an axis parallel with the transmission input and output shafts and driven by the transmission ou...

The invention relates to a cutting machine, especially a domestic cutting machine which is driven by an electric motor and has a casing which has a feed side and a removal side for material to be cut and is preferably upright and a revolving blade which is rotatably arranged on the feed side of the casing with a blade cover arranged upstream of it and a table which supports the material to be cut ...

A transferable enamel sheet and the process for producing it is disclosed, which consists of a carrier film, a release layer applied thereon, a paint or enamel layer and an adhesive layer whereby a neutralization layer of wax-type consistency, preferably carnauba wax is applied to the release layer which is of the dimethyl-siloxane type (silicone). It is possible to preform two types of transferab...

A process for producing bilayer vesicles from a colloidal solution comprising mixed micelles of a bilayer-forming substance and a detergent, comprises removing the detergent from the micelle-containing colloidal solution by means of flow-through dialysis whereby the colloidal solution is dialyzed against a dialysis liquid in a chamber whose walls are at least partially formed by a semi-permeable m...

Disclosed is an X-ray apparatus having an X-ray source, an X-ray imaging device in confronting relation to the X-ray source, a first support constructed and arranged for performing generally longitudinal movements for supporting the X-ray source, a second support constructed and arranged for performing generally longitudinal movements for supporting the X-ray imaging device, a first movable base f...