Abstract: The rewinding machine for the formation of logs (L) of web material (N) wound on a core (A), includes a first winder roller (15) around which the web material (N) is fed, and a second winder roller (17) forming, with the first winder roller, a nip (19) through which the core (A) and the web material (N) pass. A web material-severing device (43) cooperates with the first roller (15). Located upstream of the nip (19), with respect to the direction of movement of the web material (N), is a surface (33) defining, with the roller (15), a channel (39) into which the core (A) is inserted. A conveyor (47; 57; 67) introduces a core into the channel (39). The material-severing device (43) cooperates with the roller (15) along the channel (39) between the region of insertion of a new core and the nip (19).

Abstract: A sinter of noble metal produced by forming in a required shape or attaching to a given object a plastic art grade clayish composition or adhesion composition comprising a noble metal powder containing at least one member selected from the group consisting of pure noble metal powders and noble metal alloy powders, 0.022-3.0 wt. % of a water-soluble cellulose type resin, 0.02-3.0 wt. % of starch, or 0-0.5 wt. % of a reticular macromolecular substance formed by condensation of a component unit having phenyl propane as a backbone as an organic type binder, and water, drying to hardness the shaped composition or adhering composition, and sintering the hardened shaped composition or adhering composition at a temperature in the range of from the melting point of the noble metal and 70° C. lower than the melting point. A method for the production of the sinter of noble metal. A sinter of noble metal and an attached sinter of noble metal.

Abstract: A plant for the biological treatment of solid organic waste, where the organic mass is fed into a treatment tank with a horizontal bottom, while screw propellers, suspended from a sliding bridge parallel to tank base, operate immersed in the matter and whose axis is inclined according to a convenient angle, preferably between 5° and 50°, compared to its vertical, moving the organic matter from the bottom upwards and from the inflowing side of the treatment tank to the outflowing one, continuously immersed in a direction which is at right angles compared to the direction of movement of the organic mass and remaining continuously active, that is without any idle return of the screw propellers across the treatment tank after each process cycle.

Abstract: A photosensitive image-forming element is provided comprising on a support at least one photosensitive layer containing silver halide crystals which are internally doped with a transition metal complex forming centers which are able to interact with photocharges, wherein said transition metal complex is represented by the general formula (1): [ML6−nFn]m−  (1) as disclosed in the claims and in the description. A method for the preparation of a silver halide containing image-forming element, wherein the silver halide comprises said transition metal complex, has also been described.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing semiconductor silicon epitaxial wafer and semiconductor device by which a gettering ability can be given to an epitaxial wafer in which the formation of BMD is not able to be expected in both low- and high-temperature device manufacturing processes, with the manufacturing processes being lower and higher than 1,050° C. in temperature, and has a specific resistance of ≧10 m&OHgr;·cm. When this method is used, such BMD that is sufficient to obtain gettering can be formed in both the low- and high-temperature processes, with the manufacturing processes being lower and higher than 1,050° C. in temperature, even in the epitaxial wafer having a specific resistance of ≧10 m&OHgr;·cm by performing low-temperature heat treatment at 650˜900° C.

Abstract: A photosensitive silver halide emulsion has been disclosed, containing tabular silver halide grains present in a numerical amount of at least 50%, said tabular grains having an average aspect ratio of at least 1.2, an average equivalent circular grain diameter of at least 0.1 &mgr;m and an average grain thickness of less than 0.3 &mgr;m, characterized in that said grains further include an organic hole trapping dopant.

Abstract: In a delayed coking process, furnace tube fouling is minimized by including a measured amount of full boiling range heavy gas oil as an additive in the furnace feed, preferably by forced recycle from a heavy gas oil stream. An additive is preferably supplied directly to individual furnace tubes by multiple circumferential injection upstream of each tube receiving the additive.

Abstract: A security card is disclosed which comprises a laminate of a flexible glass layer and a support, characterised in that the glass layer has a thickness of not more than 350 &mgr;m. The thin glass layer has sufficient flexibility to allow substantial bending of the card without causing breakage of the glass. In addition, the glass layer acts as a security feature because delamination in order to falsify information stored in the card is very difficult without breaking the glass. The glass is also an efficient barrier layer protecting the information stored in the card from mechanical damage and from degradation due to permeation of gases such as oxygen or water vapour.

Abstract: The objective of this invention is to provide a manufacturing method wherewith optimally low-COP substrates can be efficiently manufactured for epitaxial wafers in order to obtain high epitaxial surface quality that will not have an adverse effect on device characteristics. A phenomenon was discovered whereby COPs are eliminated by solution annealing or flattening when epitaxial films are formed on wafers wherein the density of grown-in defects (COPs) with a size of 0.130 &mgr;m or larger is 0.03 defects/cm2 or lower, the use of which phenomenon is characteristic of the invention.

Abstract: According to the present invention, there is provided a silver salt diffusion transfer material, comprising on a hydrophilic surface of a support in the order given (i) an image receiving layer containing physical development nuclei, (ii) a photosensitive layer containing a silver halide emulsion being in water permeable relationship with said image receiving layer and (iii) a top layer containing gelatin, said silver halide emulsion being spectrally sensitized with a dye with a sensitizing maximum between 380 and 430 nm, characterized in that said top layer comprises a compound I and/or a compound II

Abstract: A insulating body supports contact pins which are insulated against each other and extend from the outside through the insulating body to the inside. At the inner side which in use is enclosed in a housing of the appliance and thus is not accessible from the outside, at least one electrical fuse is located which is connected in an electrically conducting manner to the corresponding contact pin and the corresponding inner connecting member. An exchanging of the fuse wire insert is possible only from the inner side when the housing of the appliance has been opened, thus only by a skilled person. This allows a simple and low cost solution.

Abstract: A negative working non-ablative lithographic printing plate precursor is provided which includes a metal support such as an anodized aluminum plate and provided thereon a layer or a stack of layers, wherein at least one layer includes a near infrared light absorbing compound which is the main component of the layer(s). As the amount of other reactive compounds besides the near infrared light absorbing compound is less than 20% by weight, excellent-storage stability is obtained. In a highly preferred embodiment the layer or stack of layers is substantially free from the other reactive compounds. The material is very suitable for computer-to-plate and computer-to-press applications as it can be used as a printing master directly after exposure or may be processed by rinsing with plain water.

Abstract: According to the present invention there is provided a method for making lithographic printing plates including the following steps a) preparing a heat mode imaging element consisting of a lithographic base with a hydrophilic surface and a top layer which top layer is sensitive to IR-radiation, comprises a polymer, soluble in an aqueous alkaline solution and is unpenetrable for an alkaline developer containing SiO2 as silicates; b) exposing imagewise said heat mode imaging element to IR-radiation; c) developing said imagewise exposed heat mode imaging element with said alkaline developer so that the exposed areas of the top layer are dissolved and the unexposed areas of the top layer remain undissolved characterized in that said top layer includes an IR-absorbing pigment and 3,4,5-trimethoxybenzoic acid or a benzophenone.

Abstract: According to the present invention there is provided an element comprising a contactless chip card and thereon a layer package comprising a transparent support, covered on the side facing the contactless chip card with a prelayer and on the other side with a protective layer, characterised in that between the transparent support and the prelayer there is an interlayer contiguous to the prelayer comprising a polyurethane and a cross-linking compound.

Abstract: A process is disclosed for the preparation of semi-soft or soft magnetic layers. The process involves chemical reduction in aqueous medium of one or more types of metal ions including nickel ions, washing the resulting dispersion of metal particles, and coating this dispersion onto a support. The resulting magnetic layers can be used in an anti-theft system.

Abstract: According to the present invention there is provided a method for making a lithographic printing plate comprising the steps of a) exposing imagewise to IR-radiation a heat mode imaging element having on a lithographic base with a hydrophilic surface a first layer including a polymer, soluble in an aqueous alkaline solution and a top layer on the same side of the lithographic base as the first layer which top layer is unpenetrable by an alkaline developer and contains a compound capable of converting light into heat, wherein said first layer and said top layer may be one and the same layer; and b) developing said imagewise exposed heat mode imaging element with said alkaline developer whereby the exposed areas of the first and the top layer, which may be the same, are dissolved and the unexposed areas of the first layer remain undissolved characterized in that said alkaline developer has a pH of at least 12 and a surface tension of at least 30 mN/m.

Abstract: A method is provided for preparing a negative working lithographic printing plate precursor by applying a dry powder, containing a light absorbing compound in an amount not less than 50% by weight, on a metal support such as an anodized aluminum plate. The light absorbing compound is preferably carbon, soot or an infrared dye. In one embodiment of the invention, the dry powder may be rubbed in on the surface of the metal support. In another embodiment a layer of soot is applied on the metal support by contacting the surface of the support with a flame. In still another embodiment, a metal support is contacted with a transfer material consisting of a support and a dry layer of a light absorbing compound such as carbon. By applying heat or light, the dry powder is converted into a hydrophobic substance at the printing areas of the plate.

Abstract: Filter structures are described consisting of a plurality of individual surface acoustic wave (SAW) resonators formed of inter-digitated metallic combs on a common piezoelectric substrate. Areas of metallisation (1, 2, 3, 4) between the combs provide means to connect the filter in a circuit, e.g. in a mobile telephone unit to act as a filter with a passband in the 800 to 2200 MHz range. The individual SAW resonators differ from one another and are interconnected in ladder and/or balanced bridge arrangements.

Abstract: An apparatus to process, in particular, curved surfaces using one or more grinding or polishing tools which includes a housing (2) having a drive system (3, 20, 19, 12) powering at least one tool seat (1) particularly for a grinding or polishing tool (W) into rotation about a longitudinal axis (4). For the purpose of multi-sided pivoting displacement of the axis of rotation (4) within a predetermined angular range (&agr;), the tool seat (1) rests pivotably in a holder (5) of the housing (2), the holder (5) including a shell (7) having an outer contour in the shape of a spherical segment and being pivotably received in an inner contour of a seat (8) also in the shape of a spherical segment. The drive system (3, 20, 19, 12) includes a pivoting ball-joint (6) coupling it to the tool seat (1) in order to drive the seat into rotation in every pivoted position.

Abstract: A substantially cup-shaped throwing and hitting sports toy is provided having a flared open end portion, a body portion, and a closed end portion. The structure of the toy provides for various flight patterns while being suitable for use in limited areas of space.