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US 62173503 A description the present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the preferred embodiment as illustrated in the accompanying drawings while numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of the present invention it should be clear to those skilled in the art that not all of the details are required for the invention to work and that other variations may be possible which also are within the scope of the present invention also some well known procedures or equipment have been omitted from this description in order to not unnecessarily obscure the present invention in accordance with the preferred embodiment of the present invention as broadly shown in fig1 dining system ds processing center prc 1 issues an identification card ds card 2 to student 3 who visits dining establishment de 4 and receives food services 5 while presenting ds card 2 dining establishment de 4 communicates 6 with prc 1 in order to post the dining transaction and cause the student 39 s account to be debited and the de 39 s account to be credited money 8 is added to the student 39 s account by parent or student 9 when needed and periodically prc 1 issues payment to de 4 for the services rendered to the students in further detail as shown in fig2 the dining system ds in the preferred embodiment comprises processing center prc 201 which is connected through firewall 207 to public web server pws 202 and the internet 208 public web server pws 202 is used by students and parents to access their accounts via the web for example this machine may be a moderately powered intel based system running freebsd apache and or php processing center prc 201 which will.

is performed to see if the system can operate in local capacity 207 if local capability is available then a local session is started for later download to the server or data center 208 if local capability is not available then the login process can be optionally retried 209 201 if login is successful and a session is started 204 the web server pushes a welcome page 210 which is optionally personalized the patient then initiates a first test sequence or therapy 211 the web server the pushes the first test or therapy sequence 212 to the patient interface the test or therapy results and optionally times are reported back to the data center 213 a check is performed to see if there are any additional tests or therapies to be performed 214 if no additional tests or therapies are to be performed then a session end is requested 215 and the session is ended 216 if additional tests or therapies are required 214 then the next test or therapy sequence is initiated 218 the web server then pushes the next test or therapy sequence 219 and the results are subsequently logged optionally with times and reported to the data center if login is not successful 203 then an optional test is performed to see of more retries are available 205 if more retries are available then a login retry may be attempted 206 if more retries are not available or if the patient wishes to operate in local mode only a test is performed to see if local capability is available 207 if local capability is not available then.

joining the channels in each array creating a plurality of layered wall segments separated by ridges if desired the innermost and or outermost layers may be thicker than any intermediate layers present providing increased toughness and strength the channels are coated with silicone oil or other low friction substance such that the layered segments are slip layered segments which readily slide relative to one another as described above this ridged balloon is a strong soft medical balloon in which ridges and slip layered segments provide differential stiffness about the circumference of the balloon for improved foldability additionally the ridges anchor the layers to one another providing easier joining of the balloon to the catheter while coextrusion is generally the preferred method for forming the ridged balloons it is also possible to extrude tubes having the channels already formed therein using a known type of extrusion die however the thickness of the channels within the blank is extremely small typically about 0 025 0 5 mm within a tubular balloon blank having a total wall thickness between about 0 07 and 1 0 mm and outside diameter between about 0 25 and 5 0 mm therefore extrusion with the desired preformed channels can be more difficult than coextrusion and coextrusion is generally preferred the foldability and surface characteristics of any of the balloons described herein and particularly of the ridged balloons may be improved by.

after an adjustable period and this entails the lowering of the measured voltage us 1 by a step u03b4u if the control circuit 24 records a change in us 2 from 1 to 0 for this resetting the test matching factor f 3 t is incremented again at the instant t 5 this oscillating motion of the test matching factor f 3 t is now periodically repeated further up to the instants t 6 etc the described oscillating motion takes place however only when no visible picture is traced the matching factor f 3 a for the display mode always remains unchanged in this case because the signal us 2 alternates between the values of 0 and 1 this has the advantage that after an optimum setting has been reached the television picture does not jitter on the picture screen because the correction current does not change in the display mode the correction of the matching factor f 3 a for the display mode is found from experience to occur relatively infrequently because the entire circuit principally serves to correct long term fluctuations which are caused by temperature effects in particular after the receiver is switched on however experience has shown that such a rare change in the matching factor f 3 a or the correction.

pcc that is produced using chemical methods such as the carbonic acid gas method and carbonate solution method is preferred in particular the type of pcc produced on site in the papermaking plant and added to the paper material as slurry is more preferable because it contains no dispersant and whose zeta potential is 0 mv or above as for the papermaking machine used to produce the newsprint paper for offset printing as proposed by the present invention a gap former papermaking machine hybrid former papermaking machine or on top former papermaking machine each of which has a dewatering mechanism on both sides is desirable however the choice is not limited to these machines as for the pulp material of the newsprint paper for offset printing as proposed by the present invention there are no limitations and any pulps commonly used as paper material such as ground pulp gp thermomechanical pulp tmp chemi thermomechanical pulp ctmp deinked pulp dip and softwood kraft pulp nkp can be used the smoothness friction coefficient and other properties of the obtained newsprint paper for offset printing are deemed sufficient as long as they are equivalent to those of a regular newspaper used for offset printing the clear coat used in the present invention can be selected from starch oxidized starch esterized starch etherized starch cationic starch enzyme modified starch aldehyde starch hydroxyethyl etherized starch and other modified starches carboxymethyl cellulose hydroxyethyl.

main memory u201c ram u201d 10 e also interfaces to computer bus 10 h to provide cpu 10 a with access to memory storage when executing stored computer executable process steps from storage media 10 g cpu 10 a stores and executes the process steps out of ram 10 e read only memory u201c rom u201d 10 d is provided to store invariant instruction sequences such as start up instruction sequences or basic input output operating system bios sequences network interface 10 b allows computing system 10 to connect for example using tcp ip link 50 a fig1 a with other systems via a network it is noteworthy that the foregoing systems are merely to illustrate the adaptive aspects of the resent invention the architecture and block diagrams may have fewer or more components to execute the process steps described below before describing the adaptive aspects of the present invention the undesirable propagation of x 39 s is described with respect to fig1 c after simulation is started logic values are propagated throughout the asic design flip flop 102 samples input data 101 at the transition of the input clock 104 and at the assertion of the input write enable 103 if the output 105 of the flip flop.

employed include those well known in the art for example urethane protecting substituents such as benzyloxycarbonyl 34 cbz 34 tert butyloxycarbonyl 34 boc 34 and the like boc is preferred for protecting the alpha amino group in the amino acids undergoing reaction at the carboxyl end of said amino acid the boc protecting group is easily removed using tfa as mentioned above or other acids such as hcl 3m in dioxane the epsilon amino group of lys can be protected by the cbz group or preferably by 2 cl cbz group the oh of tyr is protected preferably using the 2 6 cl 2 bzl group although the bzl group may be used where the tyr residue is toward the n terminal side of the desired sequence the oh group of thr and ser can be protected by the bzl group arg is protected with the nitro group glu and asp are protected as their benzyl esters his is protected as its dnp derivative cys is protected as the acm derivative these groups are relatively stable to the action of tfa used to remove the boc group at each step after the peptide sequence is formed these protecting groups except for acm and dnp can be removed by the action of hf or by hydrogenation the dnp group is removed preferably by the action of thiophenol 10 in dmf as a final resin program although this reaction may be run in solution with the.

elongated shaft 31 and disposed at a tensed state when the flagpole is at a down position so that same is caused to pivot upwardly until the spring member 33 reaches a relaxed state advantageously the spring member 33 automatically raises the caution flag quickly and without the assistance of a spotter enabling just two people the driver and the skier to recreate the maintaining and pivoting mechanism 30 further includes a latch member 50 including a first elongated arm 51 having a first end portion 52 fixedly connected to the bracket 11 and further having a second end portion 53 extending outwardly therefrom the maintaining and pivoting mechanism 30 further includes a second elongated arm 54 with a length less than a length of the first arm 51 and having a first end portion 55 pivotally connected to the second end portion of the first arm 53 and further having a second end portion 56 the latch member 50 further includes a telescopic section 60 including a mechanism 61 for hydraulically moving same between up and down positions a support member 62 has a first end portion 63 connected to section 60 and a second end portion 64 having a substantially.

supports and brackets is steel the foot of the optional ladder 18 can be secured to the ground or floor with safety spikes 19 generally the rail post 11 can be designed for a 2 u00d7 4 inch rail common 2 u00d7 4 wood or other rail the preferred distance for the vertical supports from the building is around 8 inches the preferred span or distance between the vertical supports is around 12 feet although many other spans are possible the preferred outward reach of the walkboard support brackets is around 26 inches the walkboard support bracket should form a triangle and be welded everywhere with certified welds fig2 shows a side view of an embodiment of one vertical support 1 a sliding sleeve 5 can move snugly but smoothly up and down an optional top piece 2 allows the vertical to be coupled to the top of a wall or into an roof eve a horizontal bar 9 is supported by an angle support 4 to form a bracket a horizontal walkboard 13 can be supported by the bar 9 an optional ladder lock piece or hold bracket 16 can be inserted into and through optional holes in the walkboard 13 at the end of the horizontal bar 9 a vertical stub 10 can be used to attach a handrail bar 11 a handrail 14 can be held on the handrail bar 11 by use of a two receiving plates 12 and a pin 20 which is inserted through holes in the receiving plates.

of interest in the present invention for the te 01 mode equ3 where b is the inside radius of waveguide 100 u03c9 is the angular frequency 2 u03c0f u03bc 0 is the permeability of free space 4 u03c0 u00d7 10 7 henry meter h m u03c3 is the conductivity of the material used to construct waveguide 100 and x k c k 0 k c being the cutoff number of waveguide 100 that is equal to p 39 01 b p 39 01 being a constant 3 83171 for the te 01 mode u03b2 j is the complex portion of the propagation constant and is computed in the following manner for each j th region a radial cross section of waveguide 100 includes a dielectric region and an air region note that there is no air region associated with plug region 31 by way of example one such radial cross section has been taken along line 5 5 and is shown in fig5 where a is the radius of tuning region 35 b is the radius of waveguide 100 and the air region lies between tuning region 35 and waveguide 100 u03b2 is solved for by computing the electric and magnetic fields in each.

can comprise a valve 106 as shown in fig1 or can comprise a connector configured for connection to a valve 106 the valve 106 can have at least two and preferably at least three operative positions fig1 depicts a 4 way valve 106 when the valve 106 is in the first position 108 no bodily fluid components can flow out of the proximal end 120 of the separation tube 100 in the first position 108 the proximal end 120 is effectively closed or sealed preferably in position 108 the valve 106 maintains the proximal end 120 sealed during centrifugation when the valve is in a second position 110 bodily fluid components can flow from or be drawn out of the separation tube 100 for example the bodily fluid components can be drawn from the separation tube via a syringe 122 or 114 or via any other suction type device the syringe 122 or 114 can be removably coupled via its male luer 126 to the separation tube 100 via a female luer 128 that is configured to removably couple to a male luer connection of the syringe 122 or 114 so that bodily fluids can be safely and easily withdrawn from the proximal end 120 in one presently preferred aspect the valve can include a plurality of separate passages.

application executed user device 120 may simulate mesh network 105 and calculate among other things mean estimates of average times for path or path group unavailabilities and estimates of unavailability of paths or path groups as described further below the estimates may be output e g as a file displayed etc to a user the user may use this information for assessing service availability etc as such factors pertain to mesh network 105 according to exemplary embodiments mesh network 105 may be formulated in terms of nodes links circuits and paths a unidirectional circuit traverses one or more unidirectional links a unidirectional path traverses one or more unidirectional circuits mesh network 105 may include l unidirectional point to point links the bandwidth of a link x is denoted by b link x bits second a link can be in an operational state or a failed state a failed link has no available bandwidth the instantaneous available bandwidth of a link x at a time t is denoted by b link x t with initial condition b link x 0 b link x a bidirectional link can be modeled using a pair of unidirectional links a circuit is defined to be a unidirectional connection between two nodes 110 over a set of interconnected links 115 the total number of circuits in mesh network 105 is denoted by c the total bandwidth in a circuit i is denoted by b circuit i bits second the circuit i consumes the bandwidth b circuit i in each link of circuit i the circuit routing matrix.

detection unit 206 is a spectrometer the controller can detect a decrease in the intensity of known wavelengths complementary to red orange wavelengths either as an absolute measurement of intensity or relative to spectral bands where absorption effects do not take place controller 208 provides control signals to the conveyor 200 and or the flame unit 204 in response to the output of optical detection unit 206 if the color shift has not occurred within a predetermined amount of time controller 208 can adjust the relative position between the flame and the assembly 202 by slowing the conveyor 200 further controller 208 may increase the intensity of the flame from flame unit 204 once the color change is detected by controller 208 controller 208 can increase the speed of conveyor 200 to adjust relative position between the flame and the assembly 202 and or reduce the intensity of the flame from flame unit 204 this maintains the temperature at the joint the color change indicates that the assembly 202 has reached the appropriate temperature to melt the filler material reducing the heat prevents overheating of the joint and damaging the workpieces while still maintaining the joint at a temperature sufficient to melt the filler material in this manner the controller 208 prevents damage to the aluminum assembly 202 fig4 depicts an automated brazing system in exemplary embodiments an assembly 250 to.

to be urged outwardly by spring action in order to maintain them against the opposite sides 30 thereby holding the spring clip in place the throat 122 is aligned above slot 116 in the insulating block 115 and the throat has a size to closely accommodate the upper portion of the thermostat housing 98 when the thermostat housing is pressed into the throat 122 the legs 120 on opposite sides of the throat grip firmly against the opposite sides of the thermostat housing to hold the thermostat in place initial installation of the thermostat 26 is achieved by first connecting the thermostat tubes 84 and 110 to the respective hoses 84 and 108 the thermostat housing can then be inserted upwardly through slot 116 with one end 98a facing diagonally upwardly the compliance of the foam rubber allows it to be compressed as the thermostat is pushed up into the slot once the thermostat housing has been passed through slot 116 it is rotated into its normal upright position shown in the drawings the corner of the thermostat housing engages the end plate 34 as it is rotated and the end 98b of the thermostat housing then remains in contact with plate 34 as.

is connected to the housing 24 and has a recoil starter handle 27 spacers such as 28 and 29 space the recoil starter 26 from the housing 24 so as to provide air passages 31 so that air can enter through the housing 24 to the fan 23 as best shown in fig1 and 2 an annular member 25 with an outer rim 55 engages the outer surface of the housing 24 a circular ring type folded paper filter 32 is formed with a gap 38 and fits over the recoil starter housing 26 against annular member 25 rubber seals 37 and 36 are formed on one side of the filter 32 and seals 33 and 30 are formed on the other side of the filter 32 the filter 32 is placed over the recoil housing 26 against annular member 25 on the fan housing 24 with the pull handle 27 of the recoil starter extending through the gap 38 of the filter an annular foam filter 41 with opposite edges 42 and 43 has an inner diameter so that it can fit over the filter 32 and is formed with a hole 44 through which the pull handle 27 can be fitted a disc shaped plate 46 with a rim 40 fits over the filters.

solid or liquid formulations for enteral preferably oral or for parenteral administration thus the formulations may be in the form of capsules tablets coated tablets suppositories emulsions or solutions these formulations may comprise conventional pharmaceutical carriers e g solids such as starch lactose mannit polyvinyl pyrrolidene or liquids such as sterile water pharmaceutically acceptable alcohols or fatty oils and may further comprise pharmaceutical adjuvants e g binders or lubricants for tabletting stabilizing flavoring or emulsifying agents according to the present invention the new compounds of formula i may be obtained by removing the protective groups x from compounds of formula ii by conventional methods the groups x may be chosen from any protective groups which are suitable for protecting phenolic hydroxy groups e g by forming phenol ethers or esters and which can be split off by hydrolysis preferably acidic hydrolysis or by hydrogenolysis thus in compounds of formula ii x may represent lower alkyl preferably methyl or a benzyl group or both substituents x together form a lower alkylene group preferably a methylene group the protective groups can be removed by conventional acidolytic methods for phenol ether splitting e g by treating the compounds of formula ii with lewis acids or with concentrated hydrohalogenic acids protective groups x which may be split off by conventional hydrogenolysis comprise the benzyl group or substituted benzyl groups the use of protective groups which can be eliminated by hydrogenolysis is advisable if the substituents r 1 and or r 2 include radicals which are sensitive.

is an old sgsn after a ue using an isr mechanism changes from the 3gpp network mobile to a non 3gpp network the us initiates an attachment procedure through the 3gpp network then a resource release process is performed the method includes the following steps in step h 1 the ue performs a service process in the 3gpp communication network and initiates an attach session negotiation procedure in step h 2 after the attach negotiate is completed a non 3gpp gw or a non 3gpp access ne of the non 3gpp communication network sends a handover complete message to the old mme of the first 3gpp communication network or the old sgsn of the second 3gpp communication network of the 3gpp communication networks the process that the non 3gpp gw or the non 3gpp access ne sends the handover complete message to the old mme of the first 3gpp communication network is the same as the process that the non 3gpp gw or the non 3gpp access ne sends the handover complete message to the old sgsn of the second 3gpp communication network in this embodiment the process that the non 3gpp gw non 3gpp access ne sends the handover complete message to the old mme of the first 3gpp communication network is set as an example for description in step h 3 after receiving the handover complete message the 3gpp communication network performs a session negotiation on the resource release process with a serving gw by sending a delete bearer request message or a delete pdp context request message including first indication information or third indication information so as to release the resources the first.

1 to about 20 0 by weight of a dialkyl hydrogen phosphite or a monoalkyl hydrogen phosphite to increase the phosphorous content of the resulting reaction product to improve anti friction characteristics wherein the alkyl moiety of dialkyl hydrogen phosphite or monoalkyl hydrogen phosphite is independently selected from a saturated straight or branched chain alkyl group having from two to 20 carbon atoms this example illustrates the synthesis of an inventive ep additive using a mixture of rapeseed oil hear and linseed oil both unsaturated triglyceride oils as the base oil and phosphorous pentasulfide as the ps reactant approximately 500 g of a mixture of hear and linseed oil in a ratio of 60 hear oil to 40 linseed oil by weight into a reactor that was heated to 150 u00b0 c phosphorous pentasulfide 17 9 g was slowly fed into the reactor over four hours of time this was the equivalent of a 1 by weight on a phosphorous basis of p 2 s 5 it was important not to raise the temperature much above 150 u00b0 c as this will cause the formation of poly sulfide chains causing the product to increase viscosity and degrade thermal stability of the product phosphorous pentasulfide was fed continuously as the solids were observed to dissolve after the reactants are added the temperature of the reaction mixture was raised to 200 u00b0 c over a minimum time of 30 minutes and the reaction continued for 2 hours the product was cooled under nitrogen gas at about 100 u00b0 c after which air exposure was allowed and the product was evaluated and analyzed the products were subject to ir scans to determine the presence of new bond formations fig1 scan d is a control ir scan of.

23 29 the comparative example 23 exceeded the range specified by the present invention in the quantity of c the comparative example 24 was excessive in the quantity of si the comparative example 25 was excessive in the quantity of cr the comparative example 26 was short in the quantity of cu the comparative example 27 was short in the quantity of ni the comparative example 28 was short in the value of cu ni 8 the depth of corrosion pit is greater than 100 u03bcm and 7 the corrosion fatigue strength was insufficient the high strength spring steel of the present invention has an excellent drawing workability as a rolled material and an excellent manufacturability so that no crack occurs in quenching further it has a high strength of hrc52 or higher u03c4 max 1176 mpa or more as strength of quenched tempered material and excellent fatigue strength and corrosion fatigue strength further it has required characteristics suitable for the high strength spring next a coil spring obtained by performing warm shot peening on a spring steel in the range specified by the invention described above in which an excellent fatigue strength corrosion fatigue strength and permanent setting resistance are achieved will be shown as an example although a cold forming.

through the enclosure 26 the interior walls of the enclosure 26 are preferably coated with a non stick surface treatment or are otherwise formed of a material that inhibits adhesion of the over spray from the spray guns 28 the wire arc spray process is believed to be preferred for use with the invention for example plasma spray processes use nitrogen as the plasma gas but argon is required to start the actual arc necessitating a controlled argon purge to start the plasma gun then switching to nitrogen also the wire arc spray process can immediately start spraying the braze alloy whereas plasma spray processes require a minute or two to warm up before spraying can commence finally the desired coverage for the tube 12 can be difficult to achieve with plasma spray powders necessitating the use of relatively large particles in order to enable accurate metering and control of the powder feed rate finally fig1 and 2 represent the apparatus 10 as preferably including a quenching station 34 and sizing station 36 downstream from the thermal spray enclosure 26 where the tube 12 is cooled and then undergoes a final sizing operation as known in the art the cooling step is preferably carried out in a manner that cools the braze alloy coating on the tube 12 before the surface of the coating oxidizes for this purpose the quenching station 34 may be located immediately adjacent the enclosure 26 or the tube 12 can be continuously enclosed and enveloped by an inert gas up to and through the quenching station 34 fig3 and 4 depict a second embodiment of the invention that differs from the embodiment of fig1 and 2 primarily by the order.

the intermediate ribs 172 may be coupled or crossed to each other so that the resultant arrangement of the intermediate ribs 172 may have a honeycomb or diagram shape in order to further support the partitioning rib 171 of the inside wall reinforcing ribs 170 a supplemental concave wall reinforcing rib 177 is provided outside of the inside wall reinforcing ribs 170 the supplemental concave wall reinforcing rib 177 comprises an auxiliary partitioning rib 174 and a plurality of auxiliary intermediate ribs 175 the auxiliary partitioning rib 174 is provided in a continuous manner along the partitioning rib 171 while being spaced from the partitioning rib 171 the auxiliary intermediate ribs 175 intersect the partitioning rib 171 and partitioning rib 174 at predetermined intervals and form a plurality of cells or compartments 176 between the partitioning rib 171 and partitioning rib 174 this construction attains further rigidity of the inner surface 161 of the space 9 in another embodiment supplemental concave wall reinforcing ribs may be provided outside of the inside wall reinforcing rib 70 of the main frame 1 a if the main frame 1 a has sufficient spare space as shown in fig1 and 12 outside wall reinforcing ribs 180 are formed in a matrix shape over nearly the entire inside of the front panel wall 252 the outside wall reinforcing rib 180 projects.

conduction sleeve plenum 137 and through the structural sub frame 128 129 such as through sub frame conduction transfer plenum 144 to the various electrical components of the expandable structure of the present invention power may be delivered from the upper and lower integral insulated conduction sleeves 134 135 to the structural sub frame conduction transfer plenum 144 by an insulated caster carriage dongle 146 which may be internally affixed to the lower nested structural sub frame 129 as shown in fig7 c the insulated caster carriage dongle 146 may be adapted to travel within a track of conduction sleeve 135 in one aspect the insulated caster carriage dongle 146 may include one or more rollers adapted for assisting in the translation of the dongle with respect to the conduction sleeve 135 and for maintaining electrical contact with the conduction sleeve 135 as lower nested structural sub frame 129 in conjunction with the fixed worm gear screw actuator 131 and reversible low geared helical motor and modified worm gear sleeve 132 is forced along the lower sub frame rail guide 109 the affixed insulated caster carriage dongle 146 maintains a constant closed circuit power connection by rolling along the inside of the electrified integral insulated conduction sleeve 135 this method of power transfer not only allows electrification of both sides of the two part shell structural frame and.

12 which includes a front adapter assembly 15 and a rear adapter assembly 17 coupled together by spaced apart upper and lower adapter rods 19u and 19l which extend between the front and rear adapter assemblies the frame 12 also includes a breach block stop 21 that is coupled to the rear adapter assembly 17 and extends rearward from the rear adapter assembly referring to fig1 and 2 the frame 12 supports a barrel 23 that is mounted to the breach block stop 21 so that the barrel extends from the breach block stop through the rear adapter assembly 17 and through the front adapter assembly 15 to a location forward of the front adapter assembly a telescopic sight 25 is mounted along the length of the barrel 23 the barrel 23 and the telescopic sight 25 are located extending between the adapter support rods 19u 19l referring to fig8 a tank cannon 13 with which the device 11 may be used is shown the cannon 13 has a breach ring opening 27 through which cannon ammunition or the device 11 may be loaded into the cannon 13 the breach ring opening 27 extends through breach ring 29 the cannon ammunition or the device 11 is loaded into the cannon chamber 31 a breach block 33 is located rearward of the chamber 31 the breach block.

collar 20 is entering the wood is encountered while the impulse from the nail driving tool is high accordingly the greatest resistance to penetration is overcome while the impulse from the tool is high and as such penetration of the nail is greater when the collar 20 is positioned close to the nail tip 34 rather than farther back on the nail shank 16 near to the nail head h an evaluation of the effect of the collar 20 position on the shank 16 was conducted using a nail 14 that was 3 inches long and 0 131 nominal diameter with a collar length l 20m of 0 5 inches and a thickness t 20 of about 0 020 inches and a collation material of maleic anhydride modified polypropylene admer u00ae and a pneumatic driving force of 90 psi it was found that a nail 14 having a collar 20 positioned 2 25 inches from the tip 34 was driven had a penetration of 2 45 inches a nail 14 having a collar 20 positioned 1 5 inches from the tip 34 was driven 2 75 inches a nail 14 having a collar 20 positioned 0 5 inches from the tip 34 was driven 2 975 inches and a bare nail 14 was driven 2 925 inches it will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that the use of a forward positioned collar 20 or more generally a forwardly positioned collation element or support is not limited to use with a collated nail strip 10 rather such an arrangement can be used with other strip formed fasteners and other strip formed consumables fig5 a and 5b illustrate an embodiment 210 in which the ribs 226 are formed at an angle u03b3 and u03b3 u2032 relative to.

additional projections may be provided if a plurality of projections are provided the projections may be symmetrical with respect to the central axis of the assembly 10 or alternatively may be non symmetrical in order to provide rotational alignment of the sections 12 14 as described above as a further option the projection or projections could extend from the support section and into respective recesses of the milling section moreover projections could extend from both the support section and the milling section into recesses of the other the projection 28 may also have shapes other than that shown in the drawings for example the projections may be in the form of fibers a machined surface a mesh surface a roughened surface or an irregular surface such as for example may be presented by upstanding shards of hardened restorative material as an additional option the projections may include pores or recesses for bond enhancement furthermore the projection s could have a longitudinal axis that extends perpendicular to the central axis of the assembly such as one or more projections in the shape of cross bars that extend across all or a portion of the diameter of the bonding surface 20 the method of making the milling section 14 may also vary from that shown in fig5 and 6 for example the channel 50 could be eliminated if desired and one or more recesses could be provided in the front face of the plunger portion 42 in order to provide space for the restorative material to form one or more projections the restorative material may.

40 for proper component insertion because of light from light source 21 passing through translucent panel 23 which is also adjustable to ensure maximum angle and the least reflection then onto mirror 30 and reflected onto the bottom portion of circuit board 40 as can be readily seen operation or rotation of shaft 14 will cause pinion gear 13 to revolve and raise or lower rack 15 which is fastened to the lower portion of mirror 30 the entire purpose of the inspection fixture of the present invention can be better understood by reference to fig4 and 6 wherein component 41 is shown mounted on printed circuit board shown in part 44 each of the leads from the component 41 such as 42 pass through an opening in the printed circuit board such as 43 referring now to fig5 which is a sectional view taken along lines 5 5 of fig4 the same component 41 is shown with a lead such as 42 extending through an opening in printed circuit board 44 however also shown is a component lead 45 which has not been properly inserted through the opening and has become bent under and in place against the upper side of circuit board 44 resulting in improper connection as may be readily seen in fig6 it shows the underside of circuit board 44 a portion thereof component lead 42 which is properly seated extends through opening 43 and can be readily seen on the other hand circuit lead 45 which has been bent under does not project through opening 46 as could be expected if it were properly seated while but a single embodiment of the present invention has.

the media it is typically preferred that the light changeable material layer be applied at a thickness that is thin enough to allow transmission of light to adequately read the underlying data upon initial sampling while being dense enough to provide adequate change such as light emission upon oversampling with the same reader for many applications a film thickness of from 50 to 160 nm is found useful for most cds the film thickness is in the range of from about 70 nm to about 130 nm while for most dvd the film thickness is preferably in the range of from about 50 nm to about 160 nm as would be understood by one of ordinary skill in the art the persistence of the activated state of the light changeable material such as a light sensitive material i e the length of time the material is in the activated state versus initial state and the delay in the conversion of the initial state to the activated state i e the length of time it takes the material to enter the activated state from the initial state are important to permit the proper read of the underlying data and for causing a change in the data read upon re sampling given a pit size of 8 u03bcm and a typical rotational speed of 1 2 m sec in a cd rom the preferred delay in a cd is a minimum of about 6 85 u00d7 10 u2212 7 seconds given a pit size of 0 4 u03bcm and a rotational speed of about 3 5 m sec in a dvd the preferred delay in a dvd is a minimum of about 1.

the printed circuit board 502 also illustrated are the electrical connections 308 and 310 coupled to the decoder circuitry 504 for connection to the control wire path of the decoder based irrigation control system as well as electrical connections 506 and 508 extending from the decoder circuitry 504 into the coil housing 306 to electrically couple the decoder circuitry 504 to the wire coil of the coil housing 306 it is noted that the decoder circuitry 504 as well as the coil housing 306 including the coil formed within are well known in the art for example in one embodiment the decoder circuitry 504 is found within commercial decoder modules available from the rain bird corp glendora calif for example a single channel single coil decoder part number fd 101 likewise in one embodiment the coil housing 306 is commercially available from the rain bird corp glendora calif as rotor coil part number 212165 in accordance with one embodiment a commercially available coil housing such as coil housing 306 is electrically coupled to commercially available decoder circuitry such as decoder circuitry 504 via electrical connections 506 and 508 such decoder circuitry includes electrical input connections such as electrical connections 308 and 310 to be coupled to the control wire path of a decoder based irrigation control system the decoder circuitry 504 and coil housing 306 are then inserted into a volume see volume 706 of fig7 formed within a housing such as the decoder housing 304 such that the electrical connections 308 and 310 extend through at least one opening formed in the decoder housing 304 generally a portion of the coil housing 306 extends into.

other end a 2 of the alternating current module the negative half cycle rectifying branch includes a third rectifying tube d 3 a fourth rectifying tube d 4 and a fifth rectifying tube d 5 not shown in the drawing wherein a negative terminal of the third rectifying tube d 3 is connected with the one end a 1 of the alternating current module and a positive terminal of the third rectifying tube d 3 is connected with the output terminal of the external led module a positive terminal of the fifth rectifying tube d 5 is connected with the other end a 2 of the alternating current module and a negative terminal of the fifth rectifying tube d 5 is connected with a positive terminal of the fourth rectifying tube d 4 a negative terminal of the fourth rectifying tube d 4 is connected with the input terminal of the external led module the positive half cycle feeding branch includes a first capacitor c 1 and a fourth capacitor c 4 not shown in the drawing wherein one end of the first capacitor c 1 is connected with the positive terminal of the fourth rectifying tube d 4 and the other end of the first capacitor c 1 is connected with the one end a 1 of the alternating current module and one end of the fourth capacitor c 4 is connected with the other end a 2 of the alternating current module and the.

disposed in a randomly intertwined relationship in a typical embodiment wood fibers 20 of the excelsior or wood wool variety are preferably used and collectively define therebetween a plurality of relatively small interstitial regions through which ground vegetation 22 for example grass may upwardly grow from the sloping earth portion 12 protectively covered by erosion control blankets 14 each mat 18 has a substantially flat bottom surface 24 positionable directly against the sloping earth portion 12 fig2 illustrates a flow diagram of a packing and handling for an erosion control blanket fig3 is a front elevation view of a shipping container containing a bundle of rolled erosion control blankets 14 according to fig2 referring now to fig2 and 3 a block diagram illustrates by way of example only the various steps of one embodiment of a packing process 300 which may be followed while preparing erosion control blankets 14 for shipment in accordance with the present invention fig3 illustrates a shipping container 300 is provided having an interior height 304 and an interior width 302 allowing bundles 306 to be inserted therein in a typical embodiment shipping container 300 may be any type of vessel suitable for shipping over land air or water but is preferably an enclosed van style trailer interior height 304 and interior width 302 are generally an integer multiple of a number u201c x u201d and u201c y u201d respectively referring specifically now to fig2 the packing process 200 comprises the following steps assembling erosion control blanket 14 for purposes of packing the shipment in step 202 providing a shipping container 300 in step 204 rolling each of the erosion control blanket 14 into a generally cylindrical shape in step 206 grouping the rolled erosion control blanket 14.

is operatively connected to the image sensor to print the captured images on print media a media transport and cutting device is operatively arranged with respect to the internal printer controllers are mounted in the telescope and are configured to control the operation of the image sensor and the printer application_number US 50307806 A description in fig1 to 10 of the accompanying drawings reference numeral 500 generally designates a print engine in accordance with the invention the print engine 500 includes a print engine assembly 502 on which a print roll cartridge 504 is removably mountable the print cartridge 504 is described in greater detail in our co pending applications entitled u201c a print cartridge u201d and u201c an ink cartridge u201d filed as international patent application numbers pct au00 00741 and pct au00 00742 respectively the contents of which are specifically incorporated herein by cross reference the print engine assembly 502 comprises a first sub assembly 506 and a second printhead sub assembly 508 the sub assembly 506 includes a chassis 510 the chassis 510 comprises a first molding 512 in which ink supply channels 514 are molded the ink supply channels 514 supply inks from the print cartridge 504 to a printhead 516 fig5 to 7 of the printhead sub assembly 508 in the preferred.

be enhanced the invention also allows targeted delivery of active agents to specifics sites of action the composition of the invention comprises a polypeptide and an active agent covalently attached to the polypeptide preferably the polypeptide is i an oligopeptide ii a homopolymer of one of the twenty naturally occurring amino acids iii a heteropolymer of two or more naturally occurring amino acids iv a homopolymer of a synthetic amino acid v a heteropolymer of two or more synthetic amino acids or vi a heteropolymer of one or more naturally occurring amino acids and one or more synthetic amino acids proteins oligopeptides and polypeptides are polymers of amino acids that have primary secondary and tertiary structures the secondary structure of the protein is the local conformation of the polypeptide chain and consists of helices pleated sheets and turns the protein 39 s amino acid sequence and the structural constraints on the conformations of the chain determine the spatial arrangement of the molecule the folding of the secondary structure and the spatial arrangement of the side chains constitute the tertiary structure proteins fold because of the dynamics associated between neighboring atoms on the protein and solvent molecules the thermodynamics of protein folding and unfolding are defined by the free energy of a particular condition.

the view from above in fig2 these two stages 07 are arranged in a straight line with the roll changers 01 and the printing tower 02 in the extension of this straight line it is possible to arrange a further printing tower 02 u2032 and further roll changers 01 u2032 which are represented in dashed lines in fig1 and 2 for its supply webs 04 u2032 06 u2032 imprinted in this further printing tower 02 u2032 are also conducted to turning and mixing stages which constitute a stack with the stages 07 a longitudinal cutting device 08 such as for example in the form of two traction rollers which rotate in contact with each other between which respective webs 04 06 are passed and on one of which there is situated a rotating blade is located between the printing tower 02 and the turning and mixing stage 07 if required the longitudinal cutting device 08 can be moved away from the webs 04 06 so that it lets the webs 04 06 to pass through the longitudinal cutting device 08 uncut each turning and mixing stage 07 contains three turning or deflection bars 09 11 which are arranged at an angle of 45.

label 10 is exposed to excessive heat in this example the color of the opaque printing 20 would be white the visibility of the hidden opaque printing 20 in fig1 is for illustration only where again the opaque printing 20 would be substantially invisible in actual practice against the background of the label 10 the hidden printing 20 could be added to the label 10 by inkjet printing for example when the label 10 is exposed to excessive heat the background color of the label 10 turns dark as shown in fig2 exposing the opaque printing 20 and rendering it visible e g to reveal a message the illustrated label 10 in fig1 and 2 could be used for example for safe guarding medication in pill bottles from excessive thermal exposure the safe guard would be an integral part of the label on the bottle in this embodiment the opaque printing 20 is a warning message preferably pre printed on a white direct thermal label 10 using opaque white ink the white on white printing is initially invisible when the label 10 is exposed to excessive temperature the entire label images or turns dark the initially invisible white printing 20 becomes visible this is shown in fig1 and 2 the activation temperature when the label 10 turns dark can be selected based on requirements for safe guarding particular medication.

adversely increasing the pressure load whilst limiting the maximum reaction load in the following the effect of the deceleration device 2 on the door will be illustrated it can be seen from the following graph of fig3 that reacting a force normal to door plane at the door centre of area by means of the deceleration device 2 throughout the doors rotation under decompression load will reduce the end energy in particular reacting a load of 50 dan at the door centre of area will reduce the end energy by 8 2684 j to 2473 j reacting a load of 100 dan at the door centre of area will reduce the end energy by 16 2684 j to 2263 j reacting a load of 150 dan at the door centre of area will reduce the end energy by 24 2684 j to 2054 j reacting a load of 200 dan at the door centre of area will reduce the end energy by 32 2684 j to 1840 j reacting a load of 250 dan at the door centre of area will reduce the end energy by 40 2684 j to 1630 j assuming a series of reaction loads as described in the foregoing paragraph the effect of door opening time is shown in fig4 as will become apparent from fig4 reacting a load of 50 dan at the door centre of area increases the time taken to reach the minimum venting are 80 u00b0 by 3 0 067 ms to 0 069 ms reacting a load of 100 dan at the door centre of area increases the time taken to reach the minimum venting area 80 u00b0 by 4 5 0 067 ms to 0 070 ms reacting a load of 150.

pronounced difference between graphene grown on the cu foil 170 and cu foil 180 indicates that the quartz tube 140 changes the local environment inside the tube the presence of the quartz tube 140 reduces the carbon supply and creates a quasi static reactant gas distribution which results in large flower shaped graphene grains the reactant gas distribution in the quartz tube 140 is the ratio of ch 4 to h 2 in the atmosphere of the quartz tube and is smaller than the ratio of ch 4 to h 2 that is flown through the cvd chamber the carbon supply is reduced for the cu foil 170 because unlike the cu foil 180 which receives a steady flow of ch 4 gas as it enters open end 120 of quartz tube 110 and exits through the open end 130 the close end of the quartz tube 140 does not allow cu foil 170 to receive a replenished flow of ch 4 as readily as that received by cu foil 180 fig2 a and 2 b are sem images at different magnifications of as grown graphene flowers 210 and 220 grown on cu foil 180 without the quartz tube 140 by using a reduced methane flow rate of 0 5 sccm ch 4 and 25 sccm h 2 at a total pressure of 150 mtorr other growth parameters are the same as the recipe using vapor trapping quartz tube 140 however the shape of flowers was not as uniform as the ones obtained using quartz tube 140 the vapor trapping approach described herein has little variation from run to run additionally the open end 150 of the quartz tube 140 may permit probing of gas species.

a sectional side view of first alternative embodiment it can be seen that insulation 4 is placed adjacent to both first and second face of compressed straw panel as with the preferred embodiment said insulation is a non woven material made of fiberglass rock wool or mineral wool with a density in the range of 0 7 4 0 lbs ft 3 11 2 64 2 kg m 3 in the first alternative embodiment as illustrated insulation 4 completely fills the space between first and second face of compressed straw panel 1 and first and second gypsum board sheets 3 the only exception being the small space above and below z channel 2 that is created due to the non right angle of said z channel as previously mentioned it is recommended that said insulation 4 be attached to said compressed straw panel by adhesive or other suitable means referring to fig4 a an isometric cutaway view of a second alternative embodiment is shown the second alternative embodiment also comprises a substantially sandwich configuration with each component aligned in substantially planar relative configuration compressed straw panel 1 is attached on first face directly to a gypsum board sheet 3 by attachment means 10 said first gypsum board sheet comprises first outer face of wall construction in this embodiment attachment means 10 may be a penetrating fastener such as a nail or screw a strong adhesive such as an epoxy resin or any combination thereof compressed straw panel 1 is attached on second face to a plurality of z channels 2 as illustrated each z channel is.

surface and the ball 20 comes back onto the sealing surface 21a a relatively high over pressure of for example 80 bars generates a sufficient force for overriding the safety element 28 shearing of the pin the force compresses the spring 27 the conjugate piece 24 reversing the direction of movement is pushed downwards as shown in fig2 b the blades 23 forming the sealing surface 21a move apart and permit the ball 20 to pass which engages in its new housing 33 fig2 zb inside the conjugate piece 24 stopping of the injection balances the pressures in the production tubing 6 overriding the force acting on the selective valve 18 whereby the spring 27 then resumes its initial position and ball 20 is imprisoned in housing 33 fig2 c after reversal of the flow of the fluid injection of the fluid through the annular space 9 the ball 20 comes into abutment on its new internal sealing surface 21b fig2 d stopping the passage of the fluid the rise of the pressure in pump 5 establishes a rising force which causes the pump 5 to be unlocked and to be raised in the production tubing 6 fig4 shows the detail of.

spiral spring 28 that is secured at the upper end of the body 14 by a spring cap 30 fixed to the body 14 a retainer lock nut 32 is threaded onto the outer extension of the wedge retainer 24 for a purpose to be described a cable 34 is positioned within the body 14 of clamp 10 the cable 304 may be moved upwardly in the direction shown by the arrow a in fig3 if cable 4 is attempted to be moved downwardly against the direction of arrow a the wedges 26 within the wedge retainer 24 are wedged against the cable as the wedge retainer 24 moves downwardly and the wedges 26 enter the lower conical portion 22 of vertical bore 20 it will be seen that the position of the cable 34 relative to the clamp body 14 may be adjusted by moving the cable 34 upwardly in the direction of arrow a once the cable 34 is positioned in the desired location the retainer lock nut 32 is threaded upwardly against the body 14 of clamp 10 to prevent movement of the wedge retainer 24 relative to the body 14 and thereby lock the cable 34 in place referring to fig4 and 5 there is show in a second embodiment of a clamp adapted to fix a cable to an overhead beam the clamp shown generally at 40 has a generally u201c c u201d shaped body 44 with a threaded fastener 46 threaded through one leg of the body 44 a lock nut 48 is positioned on the threaded fastener 46 to lock it in place once the threaded fastener 46 clamps the body 44 of clamp 10.

spring 129 and then ultimately allow the pin to fall into notch 150 to latch arm 145 in its fig3 position the side walls 146 of arm 145 are joined together by a transverse wall 149 of arm 145 and two transverse elements 249 and 349 all stamped integrally from the same sheet material of which side walls 146 are formed and extending therebetween elements 249 and 349 may serve as indicators having words printed thereon which are visible through a transparent sealed window 192 fig1 to indicate to an operator whether valve 95 is open or closed arm 145 may be yieldingly urged in a clockwise direction from its fig3 position to its fig3 a position by spring means typically taking the form of a coil spring 152 disposed about shaft 134 and having a first end 153 bearing against one of the bracket arms 137 projecting downwardly from plate 101 and a second end 154 fig4 bearing downwardly against the upper wall 149 of arm 145 a pin 155 is attached to arm 145 in fixed relative position as by reception within aligned notches 255 in side walls 146 and retention in those notches by a portion 249 of top wall 149 pin 155 extends along an axis 156 which is parallel to axis 135 and to the various pivot pins 119 121 124 and 125 of the inertia actuated control mechanism 103 arm 145 is adapted to be manually actuated from its fig3 a released position to its fig3 latched position by manual rotation of shaft 134 which.

2 are provided with apertures for permitting the passage therethrough of wires or cables in practice the blocks forming the panel will be preassembled on a convenient horizontal surface and in practicing the invention suspension cables 6 will be passed through the aligned passages 4 in the blocks from top to bottom of the panel in a preferred arrangement pairs of suspension cables 6 are formed by a single high tensile stainless steel cable looped in two so that the free ends of the cables project from the bottom of the panel to support the bottom of the panel when the latter is lifted and to transfer the weight of the blocks 2 to the suspension cables 6 a bottom support bar 8 is utilized this bar is of inverted channel section and has a number of slots equal in number and spacing to the suspension cables cut into its one side wall and part of the width of its top wall the slots 10 in the top wall allow lateral engagement of the bar with the cables whilst the broader slots 12 in the side wall admit ferrules 14 secured to the ends of the cables 6 the top surfaces 16 of the ferrules form abutments which engage with the lateral.

fig1 and 5 the thread guide 17 is formed at the lowest part thereof with a laterally extending projection 32 which is provided at the rear side thereof with a face 31 inclined toward the operator to guide the thread to be inserted into the needle eye the thread is guided to a horizontal groove 33 extending all through the thread guide 17 across a hole 32a through which the threading blade 24 passes and between the guide projection 23 and the base of the lateral projection 32 as particularly shown in fig4 and 5 the needle bar 2 is provided with a stopping pin 30 at its lower part for checking the down movement of the thread guide 17 and positioning the same with respect to the needle eye 4 fig1 the slider 8 is held to the base plate 6 by the holding plate 11 of the spring material and the springs 14 22 press the aforementioned projections 15 and 19 against the plate 6 respectively the threading device is also supported on the base plate 6 with the projection 19 getting over a checking projection 34 provided on the base plate 6 as shown in fig1 therefore the threading device will not be slipped down by vibration of the sewing machine in operation the instant device is of the above mentioned structure which is.

of trays 24 a similar pair of rollers 110 are also provided rollers 108 and 110 serve to limit lateral movement of trays 24 when moving while positioned in the horizontal and vertical positions no appreciable load exists on rollers 108 and 110 rollers 108 rotate only when in contact with casing 12 or tray restraints 111 secured to the casing rollers 110 rotate when in contact with casing 12 or shield 80 shield 80 is a continuous u shaped member extending between upper sprockets 60 61 64 and 65 and lower sprockets 62 63 66 and 67 and serving to separate horizontally positioned moving trays 24 from chains 56 and 57 and vertically positioned moving trays 24 shield 80 thus forms a continuous smooth surface around horizontally positioned trays to ensure freedom from obstruction to movement of cargo reference is made to fig1 16 top and bottom fork assemblies 33 and 35 are installed at first level 18 and first platform level 14 respectively for loading and unloading of cargo assemblies 33 and 35 must be manually set to correct positions before a cargo transfer operation can be initiated for strike down operation hereinafter to be more fully described top fork assembly 33 must be horizontally positioned fig1 and bottom fork assembly 35 30 u00b0 up from horizontal fig1 for strike up operation hereinafter to be more fully described bottom fork assembly 35 must be horizontally positioned and top fork assembly 33 30 u00b0 up from horizontal top fork assembly 33 best shown in fig1 and 12 is provided with a plurality of u shaped members 110 secured in parallel pairs as by welding to rod member 112 rod member 112 is positioned through members 110 and is secured at each end to one of a pair of.

the desired length 34 1 34 and a bushing 52 the bushing 52 guides the rod 53 and engages the front part 24 at annular surface 47 one component of the preselected input force is applied to the rod 53 upon the evacuation of the booster housing at the same time the other component of the force is exerted on the bushing 52 and transmitted to the front part 24 through contact with the annular surface 47 sliding the front part 24 in the sense of venting of the power chamber 23 the pre determined force component exerted on the rod 53 is transmitted directly to the transmission ratio disc 6 as mentioned above the measurement of the output force also takes place simultaneously the position of the rod relative the front part 24 is adjusted until the output force is within the pre determined range the relative movement of the rod 53 over the bushing 52 from a starting point at the annular surface 47 in achieving the pre determined output force is measured as by a dial gauge 54 this thus provides a measure of the distance between the annular surface 47 and the front part 24 and the abutment.

situated within its heterocyclic ring structure this bifunctionality allows not only good solvent solubility characteristics but it also provides the secondary amine structure common to gel inhibitors specifically 1 186 g of 1 acetylpiperazine was added to a 10 ml ptfe screw cap vial and heated to 100 u00b0 c for 20 min 308 mg of polyaniline was quickly added to this solvent with vigorous stirring for a few minutes the solution became homogeneous free from gel particles in a short time a thermally annealed film and an ip film were prepared in the usual fashion both films were flexible and of high quality and had high conductivities after doping in 1 n hcl this example shows that such bifunctional compounds can be used advantageously to dissolve eb at concentrations gt 20 w w however these solutions had short gelation times which were more advantageously used by the addition of small amounts of other gel inhibitors table 2 shows the results of 14 different experiments using different gel inhibitcir compounds prepared with nmp solutions containing eb in the range of 19 to 21 w w and variable amounts of gi to eb ranging from 0 7 to 2 5 2 5 to 5 0 in the case of 2 methylaziridine table 2 also lists the subsequent doping effects on the conductivities s s cm and mechanical integrity of these thermally annealed films the films indicated 34 very brittle 34 could not be measured.

target activation pressures can be determined and the locking mechanism designed to be activated by the predicted pressure at a predetermined depth or location designing the system around the casing expansion that will occur at a desired depth or location provides flexibility and reliability as casing 16 expands wrap band springs 30 are tensioned between casing 16 and outer ratchet band 24 causing rotation of outer ratchet band 24 about casing 16 rotation of outer ratchet band 24 in turn causes rotation of interlocking inner ratchet band 26 see fig6 a and detail ad when this increased pressure is released one or more compression torsion springs 28 urge outer ratchet band 24 toward the original pre pressurization position see fig6 b and detail ac wrap bands 30 can include any number of partial or full windings about casing 16 to achieve a desired circumferential tension and corresponding movement of a free end of wrap band 30 in response to a given pressurization and circumferential expansion of casing 16 the latch or locking portion of ratchet mechanism 14 comprises numerous components that work together as illustrated in fig3 a and 4b a ratchet spring lock 31 engages inner ratchet 26 to ensure unidirectional rotation and prevent inner ratchet 26 from rotating backwards with the outer ratchet band 24 when the pressure is released ratchet spring lock 31 is protected from debris by ratchet spring lock cover 33 thus selective cyclical pressurization of casing 16 causes outer ratchet band 24 to rotate back and forth which in cooperation with spring lock 31 produces a ratcheting reaction between outer ratchet band 24 and inner ratchet band 26 with.

margins are golden while leaf centers are green in summer leaves turned to slight yellow green with blackish green spots in autumn the leaf margins were orange yellow while leaf centers were yellow green petioles long 3 5 cm and are densely covered with thick hairs stipules are ovate or oblong and caduceus flowers are female polythalamic fruits are spherical mature fruits are orange red with nodules thereon florescence is from april to may while fruiting from august to september u2018 jinhudie u2019 is a distinctive variety of broussonetia plant which is able to grow in north center south southwest and northwest of china mainly in the yellow river area the yangtze river area and the pearl river basin area the plant grows better in the south of china u2018 jinhudie u2019 is a strong phototropism tree species whose adaptability is particularly strong the plant has strong resistance to dry cold and dry and damp hot climates and is able to grow in acidic soil neutral soil and limestone mountain area due to resistance to drought and barren the plant grows well at both waterside and wetlands roots of the plant are shallow and lateral which are widely distributed and rapidly grow u2018 jinhudie u2019 has strong abilities in budding and tillering with strong resistance to pruning and pollution reproducing methods of u2018 jinhudie u2019 are mainly graft and cottage for grafting whip cleft and budding with xylem are mainly used while tillering and laying reproducing are also acceptable for grafting new born broussonetia plant is used as a rootstock in spring cleft or budding with xylem should be adapted for reproducing in summer large square budding is used for reproducing for cottage young summer branches are mainly used wherein half xylem young.

ridge region 101 that typically does not contact the external surface and that typically spans the circumference of plate 100 circularly shaped disk 107 may be peeled off by a user thus exposing adhesive area 105 when adhesive area 105 contacts the external surface picnic plate 100 is secured to the external surface in accordance with the adhesive characteristics of an associated adhesive for example the tack level of the adhesive used in adhesive area 105 may be categorized as being super high high medium or low the greater the tack level the more secure plate 100 will be to the external surface and thus the greater robustness to external forces such as wind gusts however with a greater tack level the user may need to exert more effort to remove the utensil from the external surface thus the tack level may be chosen in accordance with expected environmental conditions and usage in the embodiment circularly shaped disk 107 has a cut out 109 located at an approximate center of disk 107 in the embodiment as shown in fig1 the adhesive of adhesive area 105 is applied in a u201c ring u201d also circularly shaped disk 107 has a tab 111 that is not affixed to adhesive.

212 is adapted to receive the post 208 the receiver 212 is typically attached to the blade of a snowplow not shown in fig2 a and 2b the receiver 212 can also be attached to another part of the snowplow in one embodiment the receiver 212 can be removably attached to the snowplow allowing the receiver 212 to be moved on the snowplow in order to adjust the position of the target 200 the receiver may be integrally built into the snowplow or attached to the snowplow by welding on bolting on clamping on or other means in one embodiment the target 200 is permanently attached to the snowplow but can fold down or collapse out of the way when not in use as shown in fig2 a and 2b the receiver 212 includes a slot 220 adapted to receive a pin 216 in the post 208 as the post 208 is inserted into the receiver 212 the pin 216 mates with the slot 220 when the pin 216 is mated to the slot 220 the target 200 is securely mounted on the snowplow in one embodiment the post and receiver cross sections are not round so that when they mate correct target orientation is facilitated without the use of a pin and slot fig3 a shows a snowplow being installed on a vehicle using the snowplow attachment system fig3 b is a plan view of the illustration of fig3 a initially a snowplow 312 is attached to the vehicle 308 by conventional means such as by manually moving the snowplow 312 and aligning the attachment points of the snowplow 312 to the attachment points of the vehicle 308 and then connecting the snowplow 312 to the.

drawings fig1 shows a planar waveguide 10 comprising an inner dielectric member 11 and two outer dielectric layers 12 and 13 which are in contact with the major surfaces of member 11 in order to provide wave guidance primarily within the inner dielectric member 11 or core region of this waveguide the refractive index of the outer layers is less than that of member 11 notwithstanding the fact that the width w of the core is many times greater than its thickness t such a waveguide is capable of propagating optical wave energy polarized along directions parallel to both transverse dimensions of the core region in the absence of any extraneous coupling mechanism a beat length l can be defined within which energy is completely exchanged between the two orthogonally polarized waves i e the energy reappears in the same polarization after completely being transferred to the other polarization for a single mode fiber this length l is given as where u03b4 u03b2 is the difference in the propagation constants of the two orthogonally polarized waves it is apparent that by increasing u03b4 u03b2 the beat length can be reduced since mechanical perturbations having spatial periods that are comparable to the beat length cause unwanted coupling from one polarization to another the beat period is advantageously made smaller than the perturbation periods typically introduced by the fabrication process or.

0 to 20 u00b0 c and particularly preferably about 10 u00b0 c when crystal precipitation is completed before and or after the filtrate is heat treated the concentrating operation may be performed and the conditions of the concentrating operation are not specifically limited as long as heat deterioration of methionine does not occur and various conditions can be basically employed in view of energy efficiency and corrosion of concentrating facility the temperature of the concentrating operation is preferably from about 50 to 160 u00b0 c and more preferably from about 50 to 140 u00b0 c the concentrating operation and the heat treating operation can also be carried out at the same time and in that case the concentrating operation is performed under the conditions of the heat treating operation it is not preferable in view of energy efficiency and others to perform the concentrating operation under comparatively severe conditions of the heat treating operation it becomes possible to remove impurities and coloring components which are present in the circulating system out of the system while effectively recovering methionine and potassium bicarbonate in the filtrate by treating the partially purged filtrate as described above in the present invention as the material of an.

to the output polarization of the lp2 mode by considering these rules solutions for transmissive modes may be obtained the first five solutions are listed in table i the choice of u03b3 in table 1 makes u03c6 1 state is dark state the dark and bright states can be interchanged when u03b1 or u03b3 is changed by 90 u00b0 in this first preferred embodiment the twist state of the btn can be in any of the choices listed in table i the rubbing condition on the liquid crystal cell should favor the u03c6 1 twist fig5 and 6 show the transmittance spectra of the bright and dark states of this btn it can be seen that the no 1 and the no 2 displays can present excellent contrast and brightness it can also be seen that they are quite non dispersive over the visible range as a matter of fact the no 1 mode solid line has a similar dispersion as ordinary waveguiding mauguin modes it is a true black and white display the second preferred embodiment of the present invention is shown in fig7 this is a single polarizer reflective display arrangement a reflector 9 is place on the bottom glass substrate 6 the ito layer 5 may or may not be necessary the comb electrode 3 is placed on top of an insulating layer 4 which is deposited on top of this reflector 9 as shown in fig7 the reflector 9 can be insulating in the present embodiment fig8 shows another preferred.

kemet tin 2 0 02 35b 2 9 0 09 80c 1 cast iron 2 0 05 75c 2 9 0 15 85______________________________________ as can be seen from table 3 all samples had driving force gf values after 10 hours had elapsed which exceeded a target value thus demonstrating practical utility however samples b 2 c 1 and c 2 which had center line average heights ra in the range of 0 05 u03bcm u2266 ra u2266 0 2 u03bcm had a small reduction in driving force gf after 10 hours had elapsed thus samples b 2 c 1 and c 2 are markedly preferable performance evaluations starting thrust gf and no load speed mm sec after 20 minutes had elapsed were performed with relative motion members having varying center line average heights as shown in table 4 more specifically relative motion members were prepared with longitudinal direction polishing streaks such as fig3 d and combined with elastic members 2 which were formed in a manner completely similar to those of examples one through three the experimental conditions and the results are shown in table 4 table 4______________________________________experimental conditions experimental resultscenter line average height starting thrust no load speedra gf mm sec ______________________________________0 04 71 700 05 150 1000 20 155 1050 40 158 1070 60 160 1120 80 161 1121 00 165 1131 10 89 82______________________________________ note denotes conditions outside the range of the preferred embodiment of.

of leads in the bus this notation is used throughout the disclosure an input read address bus a out extending from the window manager 500 to display memory 504 however is only 9 bits wide whereas 18 address bits are required to address 256k 64 bit words therefore two operations are required to specify the required 18 address bits a signal on lead ras row address signal signals the first operation and a signal on lead cas column address signal signals the second operation a 64 bit word from display memory 504 illustratively comprises data for four 16 bit contiguous cells on the display screen the entire word is inputted into a latch 510 and the data for the individual cells metered out at appropriate times under control of a multiplexer select circuit 512 circuit 512 is in turn controlled by signals on an address enable lead aen and two address select leads a0 and a1 which identify the particular 16 bit word to be selected from the 64 bit word the cell data from latch 510 is routed into a stipple circuit 514 on bus data0 this circuit is controlled by stipple signals on bus 516 and by a horizontal border detection signal h bord on lead 518 from the window manager 500 to add desired selective background textures onto the screen to individual.

or beyond the tip of the nose and then applying the other end portion to the bridge of the nose application_number US 81240497 A description nose structure is shown in fig1 14 and 15 reference numeral 10 generally indicates a nose nose 10 includes a tip 12 and a bridge 14 it is preferred that one end portion of the present nose foreshortener described below is placed on or beyond the tip 10 of the nose and the other end portion of the nose foreshortener is placed above the tip such as on the bridge 14 of the nose or if desired one end portion may be placed on skin tissue immediately on the alar cartilage 22 and the other end portion may be placed on skin tissue immediately on the lateral nasal cartilage 24 or immediately on the nasal septum cartilage 26 the bridge 14 of the nose 10 may generally be defined for the purposes of the present invention as running the length of the lateral nasal cartilage 24 the nose 10 further includes fibro fatty tissue 28 the nose foreshortener at least shortens or compresses the alar cartilage 12 the nose foreshortener may further compress the lateral nasal cartilage 24 the nasal septum cartilage 26 and the fibro fatty tissue 28 when one or more of such cartilage is compressed the nasal passages dilate more specifically one or more of the left wall 30 right wall 32 floor 34 or roof.

skin contact and provide improved low temperature flexibility and improved strength to weight ratio over conventional polyvinyl chloride films for medical uses embodiments of the flexible monolayer elastomer film include styrene ethylene propylene styrene block copolymers seps polyolefin mixtures seps polyolefin ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer mixtures and eva polyolefin mixtures application_number US 47069104 A description the present invention enables the production of disposable medical devices with improved inertness towards medical products stored therein improved flexibility improved gas permeability and improved low temperature storage properties the present invention provides soft plasticized polyvinyl chloride like texture without the use of leachable plasticizers and surfactants the present invention further provides a gas permeable disposable medical device which main remains flexible when stored in liquid nitrogen these benefits are provided by a flexible monolayer elastomer film comprising a styrene ethylene propylene styrene block copolymer seps that is essentially free of leachable materials these benefits are also provided by a flexible monolayer elastomer film that is essentially free of leachable materials comprising an ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer eva and a metallocene catalyzed ethylene octene copolymer the flexible monolayer elastomer film of the instant invention has a soft flexible dry feel similar to that of conventional plasticized pvc medical films the flexible monolayer elastomer film of the instant invention.

across the exposed core section 11 as described above two metal sleeves 3 5 are crimped on the surrounding insulation layer 4 adjacent to the exposed core section 11 a bridging structure 17 is directly connected to both metal sleeves 3 5 and bridging across the exposed core section 11 the bridging structure 11 is configured to provide an even transmission of strain between the two sleeves 3 5 and at the same time provides sufficient spacing for a reliable forming of the moisture barrier as described in the above 0044 fig8 illustrates how the bridging structure 17 also conforms to outside shape constraints of the wick dam 39 s housing 1 such that well known design features of the wick dam may be easily formed into the outside shape of the molded housing 1 referring to fig9 11 a first embodiment of the strain relief bridge is described in that context fig9 illustrates three dimensionally a monolithically fabricated strain relief bridge the sleeves 3 and 5 are depicted in approximately crimped on configuration where claws 18 protrude towards the center of the sleeves 3 5 the bridging structure 17 includes preferably a number of separate beams circumferentially bridging between the two sleeves 3 5 the beams are positioned in a substantially circumferentially continuous fashion along the sleeves 39 3 5 circumference such that strain and or force received from one of the sleeves 3 5 is evenly transmitted onto the other of the two sleeves 3 5 thereby it is assured that a force applied to the test cord 13 does not result in inadvertent bending of moisture barrier as that would be the case with.

also fig3 4 and 6 of a piston 3 according to the invention has an annular shape and in particular a standpipe like inflow 4 and in particular a standpipe like outflow 5 the inflow 4 and the outflow 5 in this case are formed unitarily with the lower covering 1 in particular bent out or formed from the covering 1 or at least partially formed by a bent up metal sheet section 10 according to fig1 the entire lower covering 1 is formed unitarily whereas the covering 1 according to fig2 consists of two semi annular sections 6 7 on the face ends of which a half of the inflow 4 and of the outflow 5 is bent out so that upon a joining of the two sections 6 7 two adjacent sections 6 7 each form an inflow 4 and an outflow 5 at the face end between them see also fig5 in this regard here the covering 1 is preferentially embodied as punched shaped sheet metal part wherein the inflow 4 and or the outflow 5 is are bent out of the covering 1 the bending out or the forming of the metal sheet section 10 forming the inflow 4 and or the outflow 5 in this case.

extend completely form one upright portion 28 2 of the integrally formed stainless steel 34 u 34 shaped handle 28 to the other a stainless steel joint member 36 includes a disc shaped base portion 36 1 with a loop portion 36 2 integrally formed to one side thereof and a threaded shaft 36 3 integrally formed to an opposing side thereof the threaded shaft 36 3 passes upwardly through the centrally disposed lift aperture 28 3 of the integrally formed stainless steel 34 u 34 shaped handle 28 and is secured to the base portion 28 1 of the integrally formed stainless steel 34 u 34 shaped handle 28 by an upwardly tapering washer 40 and a nut 42 a stainless steel closed chain link 44 passes freely through the loop portion 36 2 of the stainless steel joint member 36 and is pivotable thereto a stainless steel 34 s 34 shaped hook 46 has a hook upper closed loop 46 1 and a hook lower open loop 46 2 the hook upper closed loop 46 1 of the stainless steel 34 s 34 shaped hook 46 passes freely through the stainless steel closed chain link 44 and closes upon itself while being pivotable to the stainless steel closed chain link 44 the stainless steel joint member 36 the stainless steel closed steel chain link 44 and the stainless steel 34 s 34 shaped hook 46 together form a swivel joint as best seen in fig4 each hand grip is generally rectangular in shape with an upper.

during the etching of the silicon layer 8 this elimination is carried out by dry anisotropic etching with etching stopping by the silicon substrate this etching is carried out selectively with respect to the silicon using e g trifluoromethane or tetrafluoromethane this elimination of the oxide above the source and drain regions leads to a slight erosion of the spacers 24 and the field oxide a few nm which is not prejudicial to the subsequent operation of the transistors and to their subsequent production stages following an appropriate cleaning of the exposed silicon surfaces i e the source drain and gate regions of the transistor epitaxy is carried out of a conductive layer 28 in selective manner on the source and drain regions and on the gates 8a with respect to the field oxide 4 the spacers 24 and the lateral insulation 26 of the gates 8a the thickness of layer 28a is approximately 100 nm it is in particular constituted by silicon with a high defect density i e quasi amorphous or having micro crystallines so as to aid the formation of fine junctions during the subsequent implantation accompanied by a good control of the depth of the junctions the epitaxy of the silicon is obtained as a result of thermal decomposition of the sih 4 advantageously it is possible to partly or totally silicide the silicon layer 28 as shown in fig1 g a partial siliciding makes it possible to obtain a surface layer 29 which makes it possible to reduce.

constructed of a material having a closely matched electrical resistivity to that of the metal to be cast the block may be provided with a deeply hollowed out central section so that during startup the end of the down spout supplying molten metal may be positioned a substantial distance below the plane of the top surface of the bottom block application_number US 16419280 A description referring now to fig1 there is shown by way of example the electromagnetic casting apparatus of this invention the electromagnetic casting mold 10 is comprised of an inductor 11 which is water cooled a cooling manifold 12 for appying cooling water to the peripheral surface 13 of the metal being cast c and a non magnetic screen 14 molten metal is continuously introduced into the mold 10 during a casting run using a trough 15 and a down spout 16 with the initial surge of molten metal contacting bottom block 22 in its raised position fig1 and thereafter using conventional molten metal head control the inductor 11 is excited by an alternating current from a power source 17 and control system 18 such a control system is described in our copending application ser no 905 889 filed may 15 1978 and assigned to the assignee herein which application is hereby incorporated by reference the alternating current in the inductor 11 produces a magnetic field which interacts with the molten metal head 19 to produce eddy currents therein these eddy currents in turn interact with the magnetic field and produce forces which apply a magnetic pressure to the molten metal head 19 to contain it so that it solidifies in a desired ingot cross section an air gap d exists during.

the pressurized air will not escape from the connection between coupler 130 and tube 111 each of tubes 111 has a predetermined length such that couplers 130 are spaced apart at longitudinal positions which accommodate the locations of the chambers 341 342 343 344 in sleeve 310 in a preferred embodiment shown in fig2 conduit 110 is divided at second end 115b into four separate longitudinally spaced ends which are secured to four couplers 130 corresponding to each of the four tubes 111 in operation couplers 130 are releasably attached to corresponding sleeve fittings 223 in chambers 341 342 343 344 to define pneumatic passageways for interconnecting controller 10 and sleeve 310 each coupler 130 includes printed indicia 133 on the body 135 of the coupler which corresponds to like printed indicia on sleeve fittings 223 in chambers 341 342 343 344 thus when couplers 130 are properly connected to corresponding sleeve fittings 223 in chambers 341 342 343 344 a continuous pneumatic passageway is formed for interconnecting controller 10 and sleeve 310 to accomplish the objectives of the compression system in one embodiment printed indicia 133 and the like indicia on sleeve fittings 223 are predetermined colors such that couplers 130 and sleeve fittings 223 in chambers 341 342 343 344 are color coded an alternative embodiment may have the entire coupler and sleeve fitting 223 color coded a grip portion 140 shown also in fig5 and 6 is positioned adjacent first end 115a of the conduit 110 for aligning fittings 120 with outlet ports 17 of controller 10 grip portion 140 includes a housing 141 formed by top body section 143a and bottom body section 143b body sections 143a and 143b are preferably molded of a suitable plastic but may be formed by any means.

in fig4 an additional fixation of the jacket tube 6 by means of a pin or bolt 20 is moreover indicated for a simple connection between adjacent jacket tube elements 6 u2032 and 6 u2033 which are indicated in fig6 and 7 a sleeve shaped element 21 is each provided with projections or elevations 22 protruding towards the interior of the jacket tube 6 being indicated which engage in respective depressions or recesses 23 of the jacket tube to ensure the safe connection of adjacent jacket tube elements 6 u2032 and 6 u2033 said projections or elevations 22 may be preformed such that the sleeve element 21 has to exhibit an appropriate elasticity when joining adjacent jacket tube elements 6 u2032 and 6 u2033 or they may be formed in the region of predetermined breaking points using a simple tool after the arrangement of the sleeve like element 21 in the region of the jacket tube elements 6 u2032 an 6 u2033 to be connected a plurality of passage openings 24 are indicated in the envelope tube 4 in a spaced apart relationship relative to the drill bit already in the schematic illustrations of fig1 and 2 wherein the material haulage from the region of the drill bit 2 is elucidated by way of fig8 to 12 in addition to the passage openings 24 provided at a distance from the drill bit 2 wherein accordingly offset or depressed regions 25 extending in the longitudinal direction are.

resistors 68 and 69 whose terminal 70 is connected with the base of the transistor 52 and via a capacitor 71 with ground a filter condensor 72 lies between ground and the switch 66 the transistor 52 and its accessory components are made in a suitable manner from epoxy resin this being indicated by the dot dash vertical lines 73 in fig3 when the switch 66 is closed by activating the knob 14 the generator which consists of the crystal 26 and the transistor 52 together with the other elements that form part of the circuit begins to oscillate at a frequency dependent on the dimensions of the crystal 26 but preferably between 60 and 100 khz and more particularly between 100 and 800 khz the crystal 26 modifies its mechanical dimensions in rhythm with the electrical oscillations and these mechanical vibrations are transferred at a magnified amplitude to the tube 12 the point 18 placed over the tube 12 fig1 creates vibrations in a variety of directions as is indicated by the arrows in the foreground of fig5 the vibrations 75 are caused by variations in thickness while the vibrations 76 are the consequence of longitudinal vibrations that move diagonally across the crystal 26 in the form of embodiment shown a y cut crystal is used fig6 shows a quartz crystal 74 against a system of coordinates where 77 and 78 are two possibilities for y cuts in the form of embodiment shown the point 18 thus produces vibrations that are preferably transversal but longitudinal vibrations may also be created with other forms of embodiment or by some other placement of the crystal transversal vibrations are of course preferable for the removal of tartar from teeth for instance for the reasons mentioned in the introduction where.

with a feature of the invention once the drop off activation code is received the machine controller 50 determines at stage 302 whether the machine is configured to accept such a code for example a machine may be programmed via a configuration file or setting to enable or disable activation of the drop off mode if it is determined at stage 302 that the machine is not configured so as to enable activation of the drop off code then the process 300 exits after stage 302 otherwise the process moves forward to stage 303 wherein the machine switches to a drop off mode pursuant to entering the drop off mode the controller causes an appropriate message to be displayed via the user display panel in stage 304 for example the display may be changed to read u201c busy u201d or other appropriate message to alert potential users that the machine is not available for use at the moment in addition at stage 305 the controller disables certain control inputs of the machine for example in an embodiment of the invention the controller 50 may disable or cause to be ignored any coin deposit card insertion start button depression and or other control inputs usable to use the machine in modes other than the drop off mode however the keypad preferably remains enabled so that a user code may be entered as will be discussed below in addition the.

roll press 12 for dewatering the pressate from the press 12 is returned via line 13 from which it is used to dilute the brownstock this treatment acidifies the brownstock and reduces the amount of acid required to bring the ph of the pulp into the desired ph range the pulp consistency after passage from the twin roll press is adjusted to about 20 to 25 at the outlet of the twin roll press the acidified pulp is mixed with peracetic acid from line 14 0 5 w w on o d pulp basis and low pressure steam from line 15 the pulp temperature at this point is adjusted to 50 u00b0 55 u00b0 c respectively the pulp is then fed through a mixer feeder 16 essentially a screw feeder to a down flow retention tube 18 at the end of the down flow retention tube the pulp is pumped by a high consistency pump 20 such as a clove rotor pump to a high shear mixer 22 at the outlet of the high consistency pump 20 before the entrance to the high shear mixer 22 a compressed oxygen ozone mixture of about 12 w w ozone on oxygen is metered onto the pulp from feed 24 using a perforated gas sparget not shown and the pulp is mixed with magnesium sulfate and additional peracetic acid which are fed from reservoirs 26 and 28 respectively the ozone charge on pulp is maintained at about 0 5 w w on o d pulp basis in the high shear mixer 22 the pulp is mixed with the reactants and then fed into a plug flow tubular reactor 30 the pulp retention time.

bracket 5 extends via an elongate body 6 to a fan mounting head 7 the mounting head 7 is a substantially u201c c u201d shaped bracket having outer arm portions 8 and 9 enclosing a supporting web portion 10 there between again mounting head 7 is substantially of known type engaged with the mounting head 7 are three mounting posts 11 which are illustrated in more detail in fig6 one mounting post 11 is located at the distal end of each arm 8 and 9 and the third mounting post 11 is located in the centre portion of the mounting head 7 proximate the elongate body 6 it is advantageous to turn now to the mounting post 11 illustrated in fig6 the post 11 comprise a head portion 12 and body portion 13 connected via a narrow neck portion 14 for reasons that will become apparent later the body portion 13 has a longitudinal length a substantially equal to but no greater than the thickness of fan blades 2 at the distal end of the body portion 13 there is a threaded portion 15 that facilitates engagement of the post 11 with the head 7 of the mounting arm 1 preferably treaded portion 15 is of a standard thread configuration so as to be compatible with known mounting arms 1 a screwdriver slot 16 is provided to allow the posts 11 to be secured to head 7 an additional recessed portion 18 is provided on body 13 adjacent threaded portion 15 when threadably engaged the post 11 secures when surface 17 bears against the periphery of a threaded bore in head.

may be adjustable in tension end parts 24 and 26 are thus each self supporting structures and each maintains its membrane in a stressed condition at all times it is noted that bracing structure is required to provide rigidity and tension to the end parts 24 and 26 and variations on the support structure are therefore permissible so long as those criteria are maintained thus the bracing structure may vary for different environments 0039 fig7 and 8 illustrate details of pivot assemblies 28 30 pivot post 60 comprises pipe 62 which passes through the structure 39 s concrete pad 64 and is embedded in concrete pile 66 pipe 62 may be filled with concrete 68 brackets 74 and 76 are fixed to structure member 36 each bracket includes a cylindrical sleeve 78 in assemblies structure 10 the sleeves 78 are slid over post 60 to form the pivot each horizontal structural beam 40 is provided with wheel assemblies 48 and 50 the wheel assemblies support the weight of the end parts so that the pivot assemblies do not carry the weight of the end parts additional wheel assemblies may be used if required connecting and or sealing means not shown are preferably provided between beams 39 and 41 in the closed position and between beams 37 and 43 and beam 45 main part 32 of structure 10 when the end parts are in the closed position in order to actually activate opening or closing of the assemblies 24 and 26 around pivot assemblies 28 and 30 tow bar attachments are provided.

the short pastern bone 3 the long pastern bone 4 and the distal sesamoid or navicular bone 5 in addition to the deep digital flexor tendon 6 which stretches from the pedal bone 2 under the navicular bone 5 and upward to the upper rear portion of the horse 39 s leg also depicted is a tendon adhesion 7 a frequently alleged cause of podotrochlosis fig2 is a parasagittal view of hoof 1 from the dorsalis perspective showing the structural relationship of the foot bones 0031 fig3 is a schematic lateral view of a cross section taken along line 3 3 of fig1 again showing the relationship of the pedal bone 2 the short pastern bone 3 and the navicular bone 5 as well as the deep digital flexor tendon 6 as depicted in fig3 when weight is placed on the hoof 1 it creates pressure on tendon 6 which results in pressure p on both the navicular bone 5 and the short pastern bone 3 in addition movement of the deep digital flexor tendon 6 creates tension stress u21c4 t on the navicular bone 5 0032 fig4 depicts a typical sonar emitting shockwave emitting device 8 being aligned with hoof 1 wherein the u shaped underside is filled with sonar transmission enhancing agent 9 in order to ensure that the shockwaves will be focused on.

plates 42 and 44 are sized such that when the clamping plates 42 and 44 are affixed to the movable door panel 12 the clamping plates have a combined interior width 46 see fig5 slightly in excess of that of the roller 26 to allow for free movement of the roller 26 within the inboard and outboard clamping plates 42 and 44 the combined interior width 46 comprises the thickness 40 of the movable door panel 12 and a relieved interior width 48 of each of the inboard and outboard roller clamping plates 42 and 44 see fig5 each of the roller clamping plates 42 and 44 also includes a blind bore 50 which is sized to receive the axle 38 of the roller 26 with reference to fig4 and 6 the roller clamping plates 42 and 44 are attached to the movable door 12 by means of fasteners 52 for each roller assembly 18 two fasteners 52 are used with one fastener 52 being positioned on each side of the roller 26 as illustrated in fig4 each fastener 52 passes through a through bore 54 in the inboard roller clamping plate 42 and is affixed to a blind bore 56 in the outboard roller clamping plate 44 each fastener 52 may be affixed.

the gas generation step includes the generation of o 2 oh and h 2 gases at roughly the same time the co 2 generator produces co 2 gas which is preferably collected in the storage embedded to the generator itself said o 2 oh and h 2 gases pass through the filter and are mixed with co 2 in the catalytic reactor one of ordinary skill in the art would know that various embodiments call for the gases to be produced at differing times and in differing locations noting that the more critical aspect of this part of the method is the appropriate levels of and for the reaction temperature pressure filtering and mixing the catalytic reactor is preferably maintained at a temperature above 15 u00b0 c and below 500 u00b0 c the gases which will have a pressure preferably equal to or higher than 1 bar and lower than 10 bar are mixed and flow over and in contact with the surface of the catalyst said catalyst is composed of copper nickel iron platinum ruthenium manganese molybdenum and cobalt or mixtures between them and these elements are deposited in fractions and various quantities upon different substrates one of ordinary skill in the art would know that the specific composition and nature of the catalyst may have more beneficial or more negative impact on the physical properties of the resulting fuel gas and other aspects of the process e g the heat and or electricity generated care should be given to use the catalyst that results in outputs that are the closest to those desired by the practitioner in the catalytic reactor the reactions for the formation of ch 4 co.

pressure adjusting mechanism 7 and a control section 8 the compressed air source 6 is for example a compressor the control section 8 is provided for controlling the compressed air distributing device and the compressed air source 6 the pressure adjusting mechanism 7 is connected to an air supplying pipe which connects the compressed air source 6 to the header 1 of the compressed air distributing device the output ports 21 b of the switching valves 2 are connected to the air inlet port of the body 5 of the massage apparatus the exhaust ports 23 b of the switching valves 2 are connected to an exhaust pipe which communicates with the outside of the body of the massage apparatus the solenoid sections 3 and compressed air source 6 are electrically connected to the control section 8 it will be described how the compressed air distributing device according to the invention operates in the pneumatic apparatus shown in fig4 as shown in fig4 air hoses 12 are connected at one end to the body 5 by an adapter 13 the adapter 13 connects the outlet ports 21 b of the switching valves 2 to the airtight chambers 11 provided in two massage bodies 10 respectively the air houses 12 are connected at the other.

in which x is cl br f or i preferably br and y is o c 1 c 6 alkyl preferably iso propyloxy preferably the reaction is carried out by reacting a 2 halo 2 propenal 3 alkyl ether such as 2 bromo 3 1 methylethoxy 2 propenal with a n 1 iminoalkyl aminoalkylaryl compound such as n 1 iminopentyl 4 aminomethyl benzoic acid or n 1 iminopentyl 4 aminomethyl naphthoic acid in the presence of base such as an inorganic base for example sodium or potassium carbonate or sodium or potassium hydroxide preferably potassium carbonate in solvent such as water organic solvent mixture for example water and tetrahydrofuran water and acetonitrile or water and chloroform containing 1 4 7 10 13 16 hexaoxacyclooctadecane 18 crown 6 preferably water and tetrahydrofuran suitably the reaction is carried out at a temperature of between about 10 u00b0 c and about 80 u00b0 c preferably between about 25 u00b0 c and about 65 u00b0 c alternately the reaction is carried out in the presence of an organic base and in an organic solvent for example a 2 halo 2 propenal 3 alkyl ether such as 2 bromo 3 1 methylethoxy 2 propenal is reacted with a n 1 iminoalkyl aminoalkylaryl compound such as ethyl n 1 iminopentyl 4 aminomethyl benzoate or ethyl n 1 iminopentyl.

used in the practice of the method taught herein is a large rotatable drum in the figs the bundle in the process of being wound is indicated by the numeral 20 while the drum is indicated by the numeral 22 the drum has longitudinal vanes 24 the size of the drum is such that the tangential distance between the tips of adjacent vanes 23 is equal to or slightly greater than the desired length of the filament bundle the drum is rotated around its own axis and a supply of hollow filament yarns from one or more supply packages are wound helically around the radial spokes 24 a traversing mechanism 26 is provided so that alternating layers of windings traverse in opposite directions and create a winding pattern with a multiplicity of yarn crossovers filaments are wound onto the rotating drum as shown in fig2 a and 2b there can be multiple supply packages 28 of hollow fils in order to shorten the time necessary to wind on the required number of turns the winding pattern must also provide a level wind traverse so that a pattern of left and right hand helices with multiple crossovers is created as shown in fig2 b when the required number of turns have been applied they are roped together by sliding axially along the drum as shown in fig3 and 4 this step can be made easier if there is a provision for retracting the blades 24 to reduce their diameter slightly or if they are tapered toward one end with a slightly smaller diameter at one end of the drum than.

ring brush combination 21 to the heating elements 20 or 32 of the annular compartments 12 of the rotating horizontally mounted rotary device 10 the annular compartments 12 the steel wool packings 19 contained therein and accordingly the liquid 17 to be vaporized are heated this liquid is heated particularly easily as it is more or less regularly distributed in the steel wool packings during rotation of the rotary device when the liquid 17 reaches its vaporization temperature the chamber of the annular compartments 12 which does not contain liquid 17 and also the chamber of the double walled hollow cylinder 11 which is in communication with the first chamber are filled with vapor by reason of the above mentioned evacuation the vapor then condenses on the still cold walls of the double walled hollow cylinder 11 while emitting a corresponding amount of heat the condensate which is formed flows into the annular compartments 12 and the cycle begins once again the outer wall of the double walled hollow cylinder 11 and accordingly the work surface 27 of the rotary device 10 is only heated by the condensing vapors the rotary device according to the invention is especially suitable for use in the manufacture of ready made articles of clothing for bonding textile webs and pieces for example for over garments and also for printing textile webs and pieces more particularly meshed goods containing synthetic fibers by the transfer process wherein a support material for example a paper web coated with dyestuffs sublimable at temperatures of ca 180 u00b0 220 u00b0 c is brought into contact with the web to be printed in the.

that when in place it extends around the front of the leg and just to either side of the patella as shown most clearly in fig1 as can be seen in fig6 the center portion 20 is preferably comprised of a latex rubber tube 22 which is encircled by the same material which forms the remaining parts of the strap member 12 again in the preferred embodiment of the invention the latex rubber tube 22 is approximately 6 inches long has an inner diameter of approximately 3 16 inch and an outer diameter of approximately 3 8 inch so that the overall outer diameter of the center portion 20 is approximately 5 8 inch since the center portion 20 incorporates the latex tube 22 therein the center portion 20 of the strap member 12 is substantially more rigid than the end portions 14 and 16 but is still somewhat flexible the knee strap 10 of the present invention is preferably constructed in the following manner first a piece of beta pile ii material also known as tricot on 1 4 inch foam is provided which has a length of approximately 171 2 inches a height of 2 inches and a thickness of approximately 1 4 inch the material is laid horizontally and flat on a flat surface and the same is then folded in half along the entire length thereof the edges are then sewn together along the center 6 inches of the.

labels wherein each postage indicia label has a pre assigned serial number a serial number may be printed on the label stock at the time the postage indicia is printed the at print time serial number would be printed as a record of the printing depending on the configuration of a plurality of label arrangement set 12 the serial number would typically be printed on the label stock that is not part of the postage indicia label or other label in the label arrangement set 12 either above below or to the side of the postage indicia label 14 in some cases depending on the configuration of the plurality of label arrangement set 12 the serial number may be printed according to an orientation that differs from the orientation of the postage indicia label 14 for example in fig3 a spaces 113 1 113 2 and 113 3 would be adapted for printing a serial number record in landscape orientation as compared to the postage indicia labels 14 1 14 2 and 14 3 which would be adapted for printing postage indicia in a portrait orientation it will be understood by someone with ordinary skill in the art that placement of space reservation for serial number record printing can be varied without departing from the spirit of the invention returning with reference to fig1 postage indicia label section 31 below line 19 19 and to the right of line 21 21 is adapted to be printed with a two dimensional postage indicia barcode in an exemplary postage indicia label embodiment an exemplary two dimensional postage indicia barcode comprises information about.

the extension member 105 into bone while contemporaneously actuating the working end 110 into an actuated or curved configuration see fig6 the handle 115 can be fabricated of a polymer metal or any other material suitable to withstand hammering or impact forces used to drive the assembly into bone e g via use of a hammer or similar device on the handle 115 the inner and outer sleeves are fabricated of a suitable metal alloy such as stainless steel or niti the wall thicknesses of the inner and outer sleeves can range from about 0 005 u2033 to 0 010 u2033 with the outer diameter the outer sleeve ranging from about 2 5 mm to 5 0 mm referring to fig1 and 4 the handle 115 comprises both a first grip portion 140 and a second actuator portion indicated at 142 the grip portion 140 is coupled to the first sleeve 120 as will be described below the actuator portion 142 is operatively coupled to the second sleeve 122 as will be described below the actuator portion 142 is rotatable relative to the grip portion 140 and one or more plastic flex tabs 145 of the grip portion 140 are configured to engage notches 146 in the rotatable actuator portion 142 to provide tactile indication and temporary locking of the handle portions 140 and 142 in a certain degree of rotation the flex tabs 145 thus engage and disengage with the notches 146 to permit ratcheting rotation and locking of the handle portions and the respective sleeve coupled thereto.

within this membrane other preferred compounds may be those in which y represents a group where u201c polymer u201d designates a natural or synthetic biocompatible polymer having a molecular weight of 10 3 10 6 like heparin hyaluronic acid dextran carboxymethylcellulose chondroitin sulfate dermatan sulfate polyethyleneglycol peptides or proteins such polymeric compounds of the invention are unable to penetrate the cell membrane and enter the cells and will thus enable inhibition only at the outer cell membrane or extracellular surroundings as shown in the following examples the novel synthetic compounds of the invention are capable of inhibiting degradation as well as biosynthesis of sphingolipids as such these compounds may be used in the treatment of lipidoses particularly genetic lipid storage diseases in which sphingolipids accumulate in organs of afflicted patients such as gaucher disease tay sachs disease niemann pick disease krabbe disease metachromatic leukodystrophy fabry disease and farber disease pharmaceutical compositions for the treatment of lipid storage diseases are also within scope of the present invention use of the compounds of the invention has also resulted in killing of a variety of cells including drug sensitive and drug resistant cells alone or in combination with other anti cancer drugs the invention thus also relates to pharmaceutical compositions for the treatment of cancerous diseases comprising as active ingredients the compounds of the invention optionally in combination with at least one other anti cancer drug still further the compounds of the invention may be used in the treatment of parasitic diseases such as malaria and leishmania pharmaceutical compositions for the treatment of such parasitic diseases are also within scope of the present invention the compounds of the invention.

transformation u201d transforms the input samples into the variables to be quantized this block corresponds generally to the portion of fig2 enclosed by the dashed lines the block labeled u201c process entropy coding u201d assembles an encoded bitstream after entropy coding the quantized variables similarly for the decoder in fig7 b the block labeled u201c process entropy decoding u201d parses encoded bitstream and entropy decodes the entropy coded quantized variables the block labeled u201c process reconstruction u201d reconstructs the output samples from the decoded and dequantized variables and corresponds generally to the portion of fig3 enclosed by the dashed line the encoder shown in fig7 a receives input symbols s of n bits and transforms them into a sequence of variables x having n k bits where k is a function of the u201c process transformation u201d block and is typically greater than zero the encoder is also provided with a qp value and the bit depth n of the input symbols s each variable x is quantized by a quantizing step size qs n appropriate for a sample bit depth of n qs n is determined by a mapping from qp to qs 8 followed by the normalization given by equation 7 the resulting quantized variables are entropy coded and combined with n qp and other parameters to produce an encoded bitstream in practice qp needs to be sent in the bitstream only when it changes sending n is useful for indicating that drift reduction is required if m lt n or that emulation of lower precision arithmetic in.

same reference numerals as before and will not be specially described in the embodiment of fig8 one sees that the segment 14 9 has dovetail like guides 48 at its outer side with these guides engaging into complementary dovetail like openings 50 in the saw tooth strips 41 and thus securing the saw tooth strips in form locked manner to the segment this embodiment has the special advantage that individual saw tooth strips on individual segments are interchangeable in the embodiment of fig9 the saw tooth strips themselves form the segments for this purpose they are made somewhat deeper than previously in the radial dimension and provided with throughgoing holes 52 the matching drum structure is constructed as a bird cage with the individual cage bars extending through the holes 52 the exchanging of the saw tooth strips is possible here by pulling the bars out regionally and removing the corresponding saw tooth strips as an alternative to the this the base structure can have the form of a drum with a plurality of radially outwardly projecting flanges with grooves into which the saw tooth strips are inserted being provided between the ring like flanges these flanges also have bores corresponding to the bores 52 so that the bars can pass both through the saw tooth strips and also through the flanges a mounting of this kind is particularly suitable for a cylinder roller.

calculations relating to equation 2 have been organised so as to use only integral arithmetic numerator n of equation 3 clearly gives an integral result whereas quotient n u03b4l has been obtained by means of a rounding off operation according to the following algorithm equ7 where round indications the rounding off operation trunc the truncating operation and div the integral division it will be noted that the pascal round function has not been used since it forms part of the library for floating point arithmetic the number of pulses to be sent to the contraction motor thus calculated is 34 saturated 34 to the maximum number of pulses that can actually be sent to that motor mechanical constraint the function in pascal language of width height may for example be as follows ______________________________________ width gt height conversion function converts function i byte width word word var num deltal deltah integer conv1 word begin with actart zonea i do begin conv1 maxstepr deltal ctl2 ctl1 deltah cth2 cth1 if deltal lt gt 0 then begin num deltah width cth1 deltal ctl1 deltah conv1 2 num deltal div 2 deltal if conv1 lt 0 then conv1 1 if conv1 gt maxstepr then conv1 maxstepr converts conv1 end else begin error 16 50 editor error on entering widths converts conv1 set convert to a valid value end endend in whichi current areawidth programmed widthctl1 width 1 calibration coefficient l sub 1 ctl2 width 2 calibration coefficient.

is heated and the fibers are drawn at a specific drawing pressure and rate so that the bundle is elongated and the diameter of the fibers is reduced to achieve a predetermined diameter in a particular embodiment each of the individual fibers of the bundle 370 is approximately 6 microns in diameter the preferred diameter of individual fiber rods in the bundle 370 is in the range from approximately 4 microns to about 10 microns additionally the fibers in the bundle 370 can be made from any suitable material including glass or plastic the diameter of the fiber optic bundle 370 is in the range from about 200 microns to 600 microns preferably from about 300 microns to 500 microns for descriptive purposes in this application the term u201c rods u201d is used to define optic fibers of the type referred to herein for example flexible optic fibers further referring now to fig5 a cross section of an embodiment of the nozzle 30 illustrated in fig4 is shown a plurality of illumination transmitting fiber optic rods or fibers 380 is axially disposed in the nozzle 30 there are typically about 6 000 fiber optic rods in the fiber optic bundle in a particular embodiment the rods 380 are positioned within the second lumen 330 and extend from the second opening 350 of the nozzle 30 to the light source 57 shown in fig1 2 in one embodiment of the invention the nominal diameter of the bundle 370 is 375 microns in another embodiment the rods 380 having diameters ranging from 0 003 to 0 008 inch are bundled in a plurality of bundles 370 having diameters ranging from 0 020.

of a control slide having oblique control edges at least two control edges are provided in a window like recess of the control slide of which the lower edge in each case and possibly the upper one as well extend obliquely the upper control edge provided in the recess determines the supply onset in cooperation with the first control bore and the lower control edge of the recess determines the end of supply in cooperation with the second control bore application_number US 73061785 A description the exemplary embodiment shown here is a fuel injection pump of the type shown in fig1 which is externally driven by an engine camshaft and inserted into the engine block naturally the invention can also be realized in other suitable fuel injection pumps such as in line pumps in the exemplary embodiment a cylinder bushing 11 is inserted into a pump housing 10 which is flanged to a crankshaft housing not shown and a pump piston 12 is guided in an axially displaceable and rotatable manner in the cylinder bushing 11 in an aperture 13 of the cylinder bushing 11 a control slide 14 is disposed on the pump piston 12 such that it is axially displaceable and rotatable with its upper end face 15 the pump piston 12 defines a pump work chamber 16 which is closed by a cover plate 17 in which a pressure line 18 leading to a pressure valve not shown and pressure lines communicating with the engine cylinders extends the pump piston 12 is driven in a known manner via a tappet 20 guided in the pump housing 10.

as caffeine the preferred solubilizing agent is polyvinylpyrrolidone macrogol polyvinyl alcohol benzoic acid sorbic acid and alginic acid and polyvinylpyrrolidone is especially preferable these solubilizing agents can be used alone or as a combination of any two or more the molecular weight of the polyvinylpyrrolidone used herein is preferably 200000 or less and more preferably 40000 or less the preferred polyvinylpyrrolidones includes but is not limited to polyvinylpyrrolidone pvp purchased from basf kollidon 25 pvp k 25 polyvinylpyrrolidone pvp purchased from basf kollidon 17pf pvp k 17pf the ratio of rebamipide versus polyvinylpyrrolidone is preferably 20 1 to 1 20 more preferably 4 1 to 1 6 and even more preferably 1 1 to 1 2 when a solubilizing agent is added the concentration of the solubilizing agent is generally in a range of about 0 01 to about 15 w v preferably about 0 1 to about 10 w v more preferably about 0 5 to about 6 w v and even more preferably about 1 to about 5 w v or about 2 to about 4 w v the zinc compounds used herein are for example zinc chloride and zinc sulfate and zinc chloride is preferred these zinc compounds can be used alone or as a combination of any two or more the amount of zinc in the zinc compound in the present pharmaceutical composition is about 0 0000005 to about 0 000025 times preferably about 0 0000005 to about 0 00001 times more preferably 0 0000005 to about 0 000005 times and even.

45 u00b0 with regard to its position in fig4 to better illustrate its operation as can be seen radial flexure members 20 and 22 are biased towards screw 10 by springs 24 so that the flanks of the internal threads thereon make good contact with the flanks of the external thread on screw 10 because flexure members 20 and 22 have a free floating end and a certain degree of flexibility good contact is always maintained despite inconsistencies in the external thread on screw 10 this serves to eliminate binding and resulting erratic torque response due to such inconsistencies while three oppositely directed flexural members have been illustrated in the figures it is clear that there can be more or less the minimum number of course is two since there must be one extending in each longitudinal direction the length in both the longitudinal and radial directions are determined by factors while relate to the ultimate application it is usually preferred however to design these oppositely directed longitudinal flexure members to minimize rotational moments anti backlash nut 12 can be fabricated from a wide variety of materials including many metals and polymeric compositions a preferred material is a polymeric composition which has low friction and is self lubricating the flexure members can be molded into the nut or the nut can be molded as a solid tubular member in which case flexures can be provided by milling slots in an appropriate configuration into the tubular body similarly the nut can be molded with internal threads using traditional molding procedures or the nut can be molded without internal threads which are then subsequently provided by chasing or tapping the cylinrical bore those skilled in the art will recognize or be able to ascertain using.

sleeves 47 and 48 in their raised and sealed position with a wafer 18 inside the resulting chamber ready for processing the cylindrical metal sleeves 46 49 are lowered to allow the transfer of wafers 18 between adjacent processing stations 31 34 by the wafer transfer carousel 30 the cylindrical metal sleeves 46 49 are raised and sealed to allow the wafers 18 to be exposed through a corresponding port 51 54 to a particular removable process module tops 39 42 each of the four processing station positions 31 34 can be independently populated with wafer heating and cooldown etching ashing amp cleaning chemical vapor deposition cvd physical vapor deposition pvd and other types of hot and cold semiconductor process modules in paired top and bottom parts any of the four processing station positions 31 34 may receive conventional semiconductor process reactors for photoresist removal cleaning plasma etching sputtering vapor deposition and or the deposition on uniform silicon nitride films on large sized wafers for example a wafer 18 is placed in a deposition zone and a process gas comprising a silicon containing gas and a nitrogen containing gas is introduced into the deposition zone through an inlet gas conduit the wafer 18 is heated to a temperature t d that is sufficiently high to cause the process gas to deposit silicon nitride on the wafer 18 with the resultant formation of process gas byproducts the process gas byproducts are exhausted through an exhaust gas conduit as further example any of the four processing station positions 31 34 may receive a conventional semiconductor process reactor for physical vapor deposition pvd or sputtering such stations may be used to deposit a metallic layer on the surface of the silicon wafer 18 pvd is frequently used to deposit metallic layers.

into grooves 373 in bushing 357 the length of sprocket core 301 is selected so that it extends just past the end of reel core 296 when sprocket 9 is journaled on the reel core as seen in fig4 flat washer 375 on bushing 357 is pressed against the end of sprocket core 301 by wave washer 377 such as a belleville spring which is mounted on bushing 357 between flat washer 375 and its adjacent circlip 371 wave washer 377 thus applies a controlled force to clutch plate 341 to provide sufficient slippage between the reel and sprocket during a braking operation to dampen oscillations that would otherwise be caused by clutch spring 317 while permitting a return of the reel and sprocket to their original rotational orientation fig4 and 15 illustrate the field lighting housing 292 and its placement inside the peripheral rim 21 of reel 7 housing 292 comprises three adjacent chambers 379 each having a reflective back wall 381 and four reflective sidewalls 383 for directing light from the chamber out through a rectangular opening 385 defined by the four side walls lamps 387 are mounted in sockets 389 on the back wall of each chamber and are coupled to a source of electrical power through field lighting circuit 391 as seen in the schematic view of fig1 each reel assembly 3 is provided with a respective field lighting housing 292 mounted inside reel 7 by a supporting arm 393 which is attached to floor plate 246 and extends upwardly in the space between two adjacent reels the openings 385 of housing 292 are positioned in close proximity to.

available from performance pipe plano tex maskill robbins of houston tex or forrester supply of green bay wis as shown best in fig8 and 9 the bearings 102 are generally upwardly concave providing one or more struts or cleats 106 extending away from the bearing 102 to prevent the bearings 102 from slipping off the foundation 108 while the weight of the pipeline 20 is gradually transferred from the wheel assembly 22 to the ditch 18 as shown in fig3 after passage of the wheel 36 a suitable foundation 108 is placed on the bottom of the ditch 18 to receive the bearings 102 in many instances the foundation 108 may simply be bags 110 of sand or other particulate material in some situations the foundations 108 may need to be sturdier or more elaborate depending on the slope of the ditch 18 and the available material in the bottom of the ditch after construction of the foundation 108 the bearing 102 is slid into place in any suitable manner as by first laying the bearing 102 on top of the pipeline 20 as shown in fig3 and then sliding it downwardly under the pipeline 20 when the wheeled assembly 22 moves away from the last installed foundation 108 an important feature of this invention is lubricating the bearings 102 with a liquid lubricant thereby promoting sliding movement between the bearings 102 and the pipeline 20 and minimizing tipping or movement of the bearings 102 relative to the ditch 18 to this end a suitable lubricant such as dyna blue available from american polywater corporation.

remaining frame along which the bearing housings of the calender rolls formally rode application_number US 2712101 A description referring more particularly to fig1 4 wherein like numbers refer to similar parts a calender 20 is shown in fig1 and 2 the calender 20 has two spaced apart frames 24 to which weldments 38 are bolted a top roll 28 is mounted on the weldment 38 for rotation a bottom roll 26 is mounted for vertical motion on hydraulic pistons 72 and is slidably mounted to the weldment 38 a plurality of intermediate rolls 34 are placed one above another so that when the top roll 28 bottom roll 26 and intermediate rolls 34 are brought together they form calender nips 29 therebetween the calender 20 may be constructed as a rebuild where the rolls 26 28 34 of an existing calender and portions of the frame 24 of an existing calender are used in the construction of a new calender 20 because of the considerable cost of the calender rolls generally and particularly of the bottom roll 26 and the top roll 28 which will normally be variable crown rolls reuse of the calender rolls will save considerable cost reuse of the part of the frame 24 saves the cost and time of constructing a new frame and foundation in a supercalender where.

layer having a center and a periphery forming a cutting edge is integrally formed on the substrate application_number US 8248705 A description the shape of the carbide support in fig1 and 2 is unique in that it contains 2 distinctive faces of support for the abrasive material each face being disposed at an angle relative to the horizontal so as to optimized minimize radial stress and axial stress to that end a cutter 10 is formed from a lower support 12 and an upper abrasive layer 14 see fig2 support 12 has a central inner face 16 that extends outwardly and downwardly from an apex or center 18 surrounding face 18 is an outer annular face 20 that extends outwardly and downwardly from the outer periphery of face 16 a slight ledge 22 surmounts the outer periphery of annular face 20 superimposed on inner face 16 can be sawtooth annuli and troughs such as are proposed in u s pat no 6 315 652 in order to optimize minimize radial stress outer annular face 20 should slope downwardly from the horizontal at an angle of between about 20 u00b0 and about 75 u00b0 with about 45 u00b0 being preferred in order to optimize minimize axial stress inner face 16 should slope downwardly from the horizontal at an angle of between about 5 u2032 and about 15.

seal 7 against the traveling web an elastomeric seal 7 made of for example sponge rubber having a hardness of jis japanese industrial standards 20 25 is in turn held against the wiper on either end of the web to create a small dam to prevent movement of the coating material off either edge of the web on either side of the coater backing roll this prevents loss of coating material as well as undesirable seepage of the coating material around the edges of the web against the roll the elastomeric seal 7 is held in a clip like case member 9 by a plurality of rod like needles 10 protruding from the case thus the seal 7 is mechanically attached to the case 9 in a preferred embodiment case 9 is made of a magnetic material such as magnetized iron or ceramic and has one or more surfaces such as flat back surface 11 on one wall which conforms with the flat surface of blade 4 which is made of a magnetically conductive material such as steel so that the elastomeric end seal member 7 is securely held in position with one end surface 12 assuming the contour shape of the backing roll 1 over the outer surface of wiper 6 in the preferred embodiment there is also a bottom surface 15 on another wall to support the seal thus case 9 has two open sides the magnetic case in which it is mounted is magnetically secured to the blade 4 so that the interface therebetween is sealed.

diesel collectors is presented on table 1 and in fig1 yield is a measurement of how much of the fines were removed as concentrate ash is a measure of how much unwanted material was present in the concentrate when the coal was burned dosage is an indication of how much of the composition was added only a small fraction of the composition was the commercially available collector this is indicated by the active collector component dosage sample i contained 10 commercially available refined paraffinic oil 6 fatty acid 15 surfactant 2 butoxy ethanol 5 commercially available alcohol blend a waste stream derived from the production of 2 ethyl hexanol 5 63 2 water and 0 8 potassium hydroxide solid sample ii contained 10 commercially available diesel 7 fatty acid 12 surfactant 2 butoxy ethanol 5 commercially available alcohol blend a waste stream derived from the production of 2 ethyl hexanol 5 615 water and 2 5 potassium hydroxide 45 solution in water sample iii contained 15 commercially available diesel 7 fatty acid 15 surfactant 2 butoxy ethanol 5 commercially available alcohol blend a waste stream derived from the production of 2 ethyl hexanol 5 55 5 water and 2 5 potassium hydroxide 45 solution in water samples i ii and iii are examples which representative the general principle of converting any collector bearing composition into the form of a microemulsion and using that microemulsion as the collecting agent the data demonstrates that a much smaller amount of active collector composition as low as 5 50 or more or even less is required to get the same or better effects than.

operate at data rates where interconnections may behave as transmission lines a driver power supply 22 with a filter capacitor 32 may supply power to the high speed drivers 24 a termination power supply 26 with a filter capacitor 34 may supply power to the termination devices 28 the present invention recognizes that the transient load response of the power system 20 may be dramatically improved by connecting a decoupling capacitor c 1 30 between the v tt power supply 26 and the v ddq power supply 22 in addition the size of the filter capacitors 32 and 34 between ground and the power supplies 22 and 26 may be greatly reduced or eliminated the capacitance of the decoupling capacitor 30 may be equal to or much greater than the capacitance of the filter capacitor 34 intuitively this would seem to aggravate the power supply output voltage glitch problem however including the decoupling capacitor 30 actually may drastically reduce any need for using very high speed dc dc converters and the size of the filter capacitors 32 and 34 in fact including the decoupling capacitor 30 may simultaneously solve the power regulation problems seen by both the v ddq and v tt power supplies 22 and 26 the decoupling capacitor 30 may be any type of high frequency capacitance device such as ceramic capacitors silicon based capacitors and the like fig3 shows waveforms associated with the operation of an aspect of the power system 20 a first waveform 50 shows the current flowing into the drivers 24 a second waveform 52 shows the output voltage of the vddq power.

on the order of about 1 to 8 ounces per square yard with the range of 2 to 5 ounces per square yard being most preferred provided the best combination of softness drapeability absorbency and durability using a forming apparatus as illustrated in fig1 a nonwoven fabric was made in accordance with the present invention by providing a fibrous batt comprising 100 weight percent cotton fiber the fibrous batt had a basis weight of 3 3 ounces per square yard plus or minus 7 the fibrous web was 100 carded and cross lapped with a draft ratio of 2 5 to 1 the fabric comprised 100 weight percent cotton as available from barnhardt manufacturing company under code number rmc 2811 the fibrous batt was entangled by a series of entangling manifold stations such as diagrammatically illustrated in fig1 and in greater detail in fig2 fig2 illustrates disposition of fibrous batt p on a foraminous forming surface in the form of belt 02 with the batt acted upon by a pre entangling manifold 01 operating at 40 bar to form a wetted and lightly entangled fibrous web p u2032 pre entangling of the fibrous web is subsequently effected by movement of the web p u2032 sequentially over a drum 10 having a foraminous forming surface with entangling manifold 12 operating at 40 bar effecting entanglement of the web the web then passes through a series of entangling stations comprising drums having foraminous.

members are fastened together the second terminus 16 extending from the interface side 22 of the second connector 12 is inserted into the bore 24 in the first connector from the interface side 20 of the first connector and penetrates the alignment sleeve 36 through the open end 63 of the alignment sleeve 37 as shown in fig2 the alignment sleeve ensures that the two contact probes 26 40 from the two termini are properly aligned so as to properly align the fiber optic wires 25 39 within the probes the two contact probes contact each other at their distal tips 60 62 causing the contact probe 40 of the second terminus to move distally and thereby compress the belleville washers 18 between the sleeve 46 and the stop washer 50 which engages the second terminus expanding sleeve 48 consequently the compressed belleville washers 18 exert a force against the sleeve 46 forcing the second terminus probe 40 to maintain contact with the first terminus probe 26 simultaneously the sleeve 34 of the first terminus engages the expanding sleeve 36 of the first terminus as a result a desired distal biasing force is created by the spring action of the belleville washers when the connector is mated to a corresponding connector and a terminus abuts a corresponding terminus of the mating connector as the stop washer 50 and the sleeve 34 engage their corresponding expanding sleeves 48 and 36 they cause the expanding sleeves to expand and wedge in their corresponding bores 38 and 24 fixing the position of the termini relative to their corresponding connectors by.

tip elements 52 becomes narrower in a tapered fashion in the direction of the leading end 34 in order to even more clearly understand the construction and functioning of barrel lock sleeve 18 its operation will now be described in detail once the glass window has been removed from door aperture 16 sleeve 18 is snap mounted within the door aperture by inserting the tip portion 36 into the door aperture the relatively small diameter tip portion 36 easily fits into and passes through door aperture 16 as the sleeve is pushed axially through the aperture the maximum outside diameter portion 44 of locking ball retaining portion 38 contacts the door aperture continued axial pressure on the sleeve causes the locking ball retaining portion to momentarily resiliently reduce in diameter because of the reduction in width of slots 50 until the locking ball retaining portion 38 passes entirely through door aperture 16 then both the tip portion and the locking ball retaining portion are positioned on the inside of the meter box front door 12 in this position neck portion 40 seats snugly within the door aperture 16 and the shoulder portion 42 abuts against the outside surface of the door 12 forming a stop by which barrel lock sleeve 18 is prevented from further axial movement towards the meter box interior after the locking ball retaining portion has cleared the door aperture its maximum outside diameter portion 44 snaps back and regains its original uncompressed diameter which is larger than the door aperture diameter thus the barrel lock sleeve is snugly snap mounted within the door aperture in order to lock the sleeve within the door aperture a conventional barrel lock 20 is inserted.

disposed in cover 120 includes inner cover 562 compliant members such as compression springs u2014 not shown and printhead 510 inner cover 562 and compliant members can retain printhead 510 providing limited radial movement of printhead 510 along printhead 510 39 s axis the portion of print assembly 500 is shown in further detail in fig5 bearing 550 retains platen 520 and facilitates axial rotation of platen 520 along a longitudinal axis thereof a cam 530 is disposed at each end of platen 520 an adjustment set screw 560 is disposed in base 110 leaf spring 540 is disposed at a first end 541 on the bearing 550 and at a second end 542 in slot 545 when positioned in slot 545 leaf spring 540 contacts a set screw 560 rotation of set screw 560 engages leaf spring 540 which in turn rotates cam 530 as cam 530 rotates printhead 510 is translated in a longitudinal direction e g along axis a a in this manner the position of printhead 510 may be adjusted to achieve optimal printing set screw 560 includes a tool engaging feature 561 such as a slot phillips head pozidrive head hex head torx head and the like to facilitate the adjustment thereof with a screwdriver or other suitable tool in some embodiments set screw 560 may be knurled to enable adjustment using only the fingers leaf spring 540 is biased inward e g toward platen 520 to retain platen 520 in association with bearing 550 during use leaf spring 540 may be deflected in a transverse direction away from platen 540 e g orthogonal to axis a a to allow leaf spring 540 to move out of its anchor position in base 110 once bearing 550 is rotated a predetermined amount for example about.

information company personnel respectively each section of the website is available through secure socket layer ssl so as to be secure with no possibility of data loss all data are kept private behind a firewall and encrypted through the stream as entered the subscriber enters specific vital information on the system 39 s website the subscriber receives a confirmation that the information is in the system the system resolves the emergency response districts for the subscriber 39 s location in another embodiment interactive voice response ivr is used for inputting outgoing and incoming data in this embodiment subscriber information is inputted as a voice command instead of keyboard stroke commands individual first responders become registered users of the system by entering their contact information each first responder has several methods of communication with the information company server although in the preferred embodiment of the present invention the communication is sent by an internet connected computer a personal data assistant cell phones with text messaging and or cell phones with web capability any form of communication suitable to quickly deliver this information can be used this information is username and password protected so that only the individual responder can modify his her own information periodically tests are conducted by the system to confirm the communication link between the system and the psap districts in the.

the fluid level in the upstream portion by transferring the fluid from the chamber to a predetermined remote location application_number US 90895010 A description in this specification the term u201c sewage u201d or u201c sewer line u201d refers to any subterranean fluid path in a conductor regardless of the type of fluid for instance the principles of the invention are equally usable with waste sewage or storm sewage or both fig1 is a top view of a diversion chamber 100 formed in the ground to access a sewer line 200 which in the case of fig1 is a tubular member the chamber is a relatively large diameter typically 20 feet and is either constructed over an existing large diameter sewer pipe 48 inches in diameter for example or constructed at the time the sewer is originally installed the chamber 100 is made of reinforced structural concrete usually by driving piles in the ground and then using the inwardly facing surface of each pile to form the wall 110 of the chamber the interior walls are lined with a non corrosive material 120 like pvc to prevent corrosion the location of the chamber is typically adjacent to and just upstream of a pump station wet well or influent junction box that might need to be taken off line at any time the most likely candidate for a diversion chamber is a lift station at a sewage treatment facility where current methods of diversion cause the most disruption in another instance a chamber might be built upstream of a problem area of sewer pipe due to breakage or collapse or even to bypass a section of sewer while unrelated road or other.