Abstract: The present invention relates to an adjustable spanner (2) having a first fixed jaw (4) and a second moveable jaw (8). The second jaw (8) can be locked in fixed relation to the first jaw (4) by a locking means (16). This locking means (16) is moveable between a first position in which the second jaw (8) is fixed in relation to the first jaw (4) and a second position in which the second jaw (8) is permitted to move with respect to the first jaw (4).

Abstract: A beam shoe for attaching a (first) beam end-on to a load-bearing construction, especially to a second beam disposed in the same plane as the beam to be attached and running at right angles thereto, the beam shoe comprising an originally flat, one-piece, strip-like sheet-metal portion or blank, which is shaped to an upwardly open channel-shaped retaining member having a web-like rectangular bottom for bracing the beam to be attached on the beam shoe as well as two web-like, parallel retaining legs, the retaining member embracing, in assembled condition, an end portion of the beam to be attached at the underside and side faces thereof, the legs, which are bent over upwardly from the bottom at right angles and disposed along two opposite borders of the bottom, being provided with through holes for rod-like fasteners such as nails in particular in order to join the beam shoe to the beam to be attached, the inside spacing of the legs therefore being (at least) as large as (and if necessary somewhat larger than) t

Abstract: The invention concerns a composition for cotton textile care in particular, comprising an anionic polysaccharide (in particular anionic polygalactomannan) having a mole weight higher than 250000. The composition can be a solid or liquid detergent formulation, a liquid rinsing and/or softening formulation, a drying additive contacted with wet textile in a dry textile, an aqueous ironing formulation, a prespotting washing additive deposited on the textile before a washing operation.

Abstract: The invention concerns the use, in a composition for textile care in aqueous or wet medium, of a non-ionic polysaccharide whereof the native skeleton is formed of a main chain comprising similar or different anhydrohexose units, and branches including at least an anhydropentose and/or anhydrohexose unit. The anhydrohexose and/or anhydropentose units of the native skeleton being modified by at least a non-ionic group. The composition is designed for washing and/or rinsing and/or softening, prespotting textile articles, drying wet clothes in a dryer or for facilitating ironing.

Abstract: The invention concerns the use, in a composition for treating textile fibre articles in aqueous or moist medium, of an amphoteric polysaccharide, whereof the native skeleton is a polysaccharide consisting of a main chain comprising anhydrohexose units and branches comprising at least a neutral or anionic anhydropentose and/or anhydrohexose unit, the anhydrohexose and/or anhydropentose units being substituted of modified by groups bearing at least a (potentially) anionic load and/or at least a (potentially) cationic load, the degree of substitution or modification by the set of said groups bearing (potentially) anionic loads ranging between 0.01 and less than 3, with a ratio of the number of (potentially) anionic charges over the number of (potentially) cationic loads ranging between 99.5/0.

Abstract: The invention concerns the use, in a composition for treating linen in aqueous or wet medium of nanoparticles in at least a polymer (P) or at least a nanolatex of at least a polymer (P) non-soluble in conditions of usc in aqueous or wet modium of said composition, as anti-crease and/or ironing-assist agent. Said composition can be a formulation of solid or liquid detergent, a liquid rinsing and/or a softening formulation, a drying additive contacted with the wet linen in a dryer, an aqueous ironing formulation, a prespotter deposited on the dry linen prior to a washing operation.

Abstract: Preformulated additive for a composition for treating textile fiber articles in aqueous or wet medium, comprising: a particulate solid organic polymer (P) dispersed in and/or encapsulated by a matrix (M) and a surfactant (S) at the matrix (M)/polymer (P) interface, said matrix (M) being soluble or dispersible in said medium and the polymer (P) insoluble and capable of dispersing in said medium in the form of nanoparticles. Use of the preformulated additive as care agent, in particular as crease-resistance agent, in detergent formulations, rinsing/softening formulations, tumble dryer additives and washing additives for textile fiber articles.

Abstract: Composition for fabric care, in particular for cotton-based fabrics, comprising nanoparticles or a nanolatex of a polymer which is insoluble under the direct and/or indirect working conditions of the said composition in an aqueous or wet medium.

Abstract: An electrical cable includes a second strand, and a third strand braided together. The first and second strands are electrically conductive and electrically insulated from each other, and the third strand is electrically non-conductive. The geometry imparted to the conductive strands by the braided configuration results in the cable exhibiting improved noise rejection, lower inductance per unit length, reduced signal attenuation and reduced resistance compared with cables having twisted or parallel pairs of conductive strands. The cable is particularly suited to audio, video and computer applications. Cables that have larger numbers of strands braided together, and multilayer cables are also described.

Abstract: A door or window assembly comprising a rigid first frame (1) defining an opening, and a second frame (9) adapted to be fitted into and close off the opening in the first frame (1), the first frame (1) being at least partly or wholly hollow and having a surface part with an opening (4) leading into a channel section (2) partly defined by side walls (6) of the said first frame (1), the second frame (9) including retaining means (12) of which a part can enter said channel section (2) through said opening (4) and thereafter securely engage the first frame (1) to prevent the second frame (9) from being withdrawn from the first frame (1).

Abstract: A window assembly comprises a rigid first frame (1) defining an opening; and a glazed second frame (9) adapted to be fitted into and close off the opening in the first frame (1), the second frame (9) being of a plastics material and having a resilient part (27) integral therewith which permits the second frame (9) to be moved in one direction into the opening and thereafter coacts with the first frame (1) to prevent the second frame (9) from being withdrawn from the first frame (1) in the direction which is opposite to the first direction.