Abstract: The invention concerns a liner comprising six faces, one of which corresponds to the container door. At least one fabric strip is stitched only over part of the face corresponding to the door and only over part on the inside of two adjacent vertical faces. On the other hand, the intermediate section of the strip are stitch-free and form reserves leaving free the vertical ridges constituting the joint between said adjacent faces and said face corresponding to the door.

Abstract: A system for anchoring of a tanker near an offshore production unit (1) which is anchored by means of a number of anchor lines (2, 14) and associated anchors, and from which a tanker (3) in use of the system is supplied with oil or gas. The system comprises a first and a second pair of bottom-anchored buoys (13 resp. 15) located before or behind the production unit (1), as seen in the prevailing weather direction (W), and at a chosen distance from the production unit (1). The buoys (13) of the first pair are located closer to the production unit (1) than the buoys (15) of the second pair, and the buoys (13 resp. 15) of each pair has a chosen mutual distance transversely to said weather direction (W), so that a tanker (3) may be moored in the region between the buoys (13, 15) with the fore-and-aft direction essentially coinciding with said weather direction (W).

Abstract: The invention concerns a electroluminescent device with a multilayer structure comprising: i) a first electrode including a layer, consisting of a transparent or translucent conductive material selected among metal oxides and metal nitrides, said layer being deposited on a transparent support, consisting of a glass, silicon, alumina plate, or a polymer sheet; ii) a second electrode; iii) a layer, arranged between the two electrodes, comprising a semiconductor and electroluminescent solid organic substance, said layer being optionally bordered with one or several intermediate layers, consisting of electrocatalysts; and iv) a layer with monomolecular structure, arranged between the layer consisting of the conductive material and the layer consisting of the electroluminescent substance. Said device is furher characterised in that said layer consists of a dipolar organic compound whereof the structure has an electronic system &pgr;, a functional group, vicinal or not of the electronic system &pgr;.

Abstract: A mounting bracket for a utility meter transceiver unit, consists of a main bracket piece having a first end and a second end, with a through opening at the first end sized to receive therethrough a utility pipe that is in communication with a utility meter, and with a receiving channel at the second end; an upright bracket piece having a third and fourth end, sized at the third end to be received within the receiving channel, and sized at the fourth end to be received within a mounting channel within a utility meter transceiver unit; and a device to adjust the relative positions of the fourth end of the upright bracket piece and the receiving channel.

Abstract: The invention concerns a device wherein the bars (13) are arranged in bulk in the container (5). The mobile frame (17) of the grasping mechanism (14) moves forward such that the jaw (24) can seize a bar by its middle part and remove it in position (13a) while the trolleys (37) move away from the rail (36) so that the rollers slide on the rods (43), gradually lift the whole bar and bring it to rest on the receptacle (16). The shaft (49) is then driven in rotation so that the racks (47) and the support plate segments (46), which form the receptacle (16), move upwards and the bar (13) drops in the supply channel (8) where it is hooked to the bar clamp of the bar-pusher which drives it axially into the turning center control members.

Abstract: The invention concerns a sensor including a magnetic circuit coupled with a primary conductor, a secondary winding coupled with the magnetic circuit, a damping resistor, a magnetic field detector arranged in an air gap of the magnetic circuit and a powering device supplying the secondary winding with a current tending to compensate the magnetic field in the air gap. A measuring resistor is connected in series to the secondary winding and an auxiliary resistor of same value as the damping resistor is connected to the secondary winding and the measuring resistor common connection point. A difference amplifier set is arranged for measuring the voltage at the secondary winding terminals and applying, to the auxiliary resistor, a voltage equal and in opposite direction to the one occurring at the secondary winding terminals.

Abstract: A method of producing a hydrogel product comprises impregnating a coherent fibrous structure with an aqueous solution of a hydrogel precursor material said fibers incorporating cations which are capable of cross-linking said precursor material to form a fiber reinforced hydrogel as the hydrogel product.

Abstract: A device for photorefractive cornea surgery, in particular LASIK and PRK, of the eye for the correction of sight defects of a higher order provides for the following devices: an aberroscope (12, 14, 16, 22, 24, 28) for measuring the wave-front aberration of the entire optical system of the eye to be corrected in relation to a specific eye position, means (48) for deriving a photoablation profile from the measured wave-front aberration in such a way that a photoablation in accordance with the photoablation profile minimises the wave-front aberration, and a laser radiation source (30) and means (32, 38, 40, 48) for controlling the laser radiation in relation to the specific eye position in accordance with the photoablation profile.

Abstract: A cleaning tool (1) for cleaning casing within a wellbore is comprised of an upper (3) and lower (4) sleeve which are mounted via ball bearings (5) on a work string (2). The ball bearings enable the upper (3) and lower (4) sleeves to have no or negligible rotational movement notwithstanding rotation of the work string (2). The upper (3) and lower (4) sleeve limit the axial movement of the cleaning tool (1) along the work string (2). The cleaning tool (1) is further comprised of at least one lantern (6) which supports the plurality of cleaning member (7) which may be brushes or scraping blades.

Abstract: An ophthalmic solution with viscosity enhancing and detergent properties for contact lenses, comprising one or more physiologically acceptably viscosity enhancing agents in aqueous solution having a non-Newtonian rheological behaviour, and one or more physiologically acceptable non-ionic surfactants. The non-ionic surfactant may be selected among esters of fatty acids, sorbitan polyoxyethylates (i.e. polysorbates, such as “Tween”), or block copolymers polyoxyethylene-polyoxypropylene (i.e. poloxamers, such as “Pluronic”). The viscosity enhancing agent may be selected among hyaluronic acid or its salts with alkali or alkaline-earth metals, ethers or esters of cellulose, chitosans, gellans, alginates or carboxyvinyl polymers of the kind Carbopolol® (or carbomer).

Abstract: An adjustable eyeglass frame includes a lens frame assembly adapted to hold a pair of lenses, and a nosepiece assembly including a pad mount attached to the lens frame assembly. The nose piece assembly has a pair of legs connected to the pad mount, a pair of nose pads carried by the legs and pivotably movable toward and away from each other, and a bias mechanism for biasing the nose pads toward each other so that the nose pads are safely held in any selected vertical positions.

Abstract: This invention relates to an apparatus and method for joining fabric, particularly for joining separate pieces of layered fabric, by means of waterproof seam in a single operation. The seam bonding apparatus comprises a hot-melt adhesive supply (20), a transducer (24) which supplies ultrasonic energy and a sonotrode (23) which directs the ultrasonic energy to an application point on the seam to be bonded. Adhesive, preferably molten nylon, is fed through a passage (25) in the sonotrode (23) via an exit aperture (28) at the end of the sonotrode to the application point. Local heat is applied to the other side of the seam at the application point, and the seam is then subjected to local cooling to form a permanent waterproof seam.

Abstract: A stepping motor comprises a stator (3) with at least two magnetic circuits and a rotor (2) that is rotatably mounted on the stator through a single ball bearing having four contact points. The rotor comprises a mutipolar magnet (5) essentially in the form of a disc having a central opening (6). One rotor portion (7) is fixed at one radially external portion of the magnet (5), while one radially internal portion of the magnet is arranged within the air gap of said magnetic circuits.

Abstract: The invention concerns a method for preparing aloin which consists in extracting from a substance containing aloe, in particular the yellow sap of aloe or a derived product, in the presence of an aliphatic diol or triol with low molecular weight, for instance glycerol or a glycol, followed by a purification by crystallization in an alcohol. The invention is useful for industrial preparation of aloin.

Abstract: A reinforced elastomeric membrane installed over a new, or existing, non-reinforced waterproof elastomeric membrane of a roof covering and the method of installing the reinforced elastomeric membrane in a continuous and watertight condition that will offer more continuous puncture resistance than current art. The overlapped edge portions of the two membranes (i.e. the new or existing EPDM membrane and the new reinforced EPDM membrane) are sealed together by an intervening adhesive layer. Using reinforced EPDM as walkways to, around, and between serviceable roof top curb units, roof hatches, and roof access points, on new or existing non-reinforced EPDM roofs, provides a greater degree of continuous protection than current art.