Abstract: Pharmaceutical compositions containing 2,6-diisopropylphenol (propofol) are described for use as anaesthetics. A method for their preparation is described, as their use in producing anaesthesia including induction and maintenance of general anaesthesia and sedation.

Abstract: A direct cooling type refrigerator having a defrosted water receiving/discharging apparatus. The apparatus has a defrosted water tray disposed below an evaporator for receiving a defrosted water dropping from the evaporator, and a defrosted water discharging device coupled to the defrosted water tray to discharge the defrosted water from the defrosted water tray. The defrosted water tray has a bottom wall having a flat portion and an inclined portion which is inclined upward with respect to the flat portion for guiding the defrosted water toward the flat portion. The defrosted water discharging device has a body having an inner wall forming a water passage communicated with the defrosted water tray, and at least one water discharging hole formed at a predetermined position on a bottom portion of the water passage. A user can easily remove a defrosted water collected in the defrosted water tray without completely drawing out the defrosted water tray from the refrigerator.

Abstract: This invention relates to an improved reservoir for power steering fluid which is particularly suitable for use on large vehicles, such as trucks. The improved reservoir of this invention comprises a well to contain a surplus of power steering fluid. The well has an inlet to permit the introduction of fluid from a power steering mechanism into the well, and an outlet to permit the fluid to flow out of the well to the power steering mechanism. The well also has a filter attached over the inlet. The filter comprises a container having a lower chamber, a side chamber, a filter medium and a relief valve. Fluid received in the lower chamber from the inlet pipe flows to the side chamber and through the filter medium from the outside surface to the inside surface, and then out through a center orifice to the well. Fluid at or above a predetermined pressure flows through the pressure relief valve and out through the center orifice to the well.

Abstract: A method of producing a carbonic diester involves allowing an alcohol to react with carbon monoxide and oxygen in the presence of a supported catalyst wherein the support is an activated carbon obtained from a vegetable or polymeric raw material, a support having an aluminum content of up to 2% by weight, or a support having sulfur content of up to 1% by weight.

Abstract: In a starter, a power supply terminal connected to a solenoid coil of a magnet switch and connectable to a starter external circuit is provided on an end cover. The power supply terminal includes a terminal metal member, a bimetal which interrupts electric conduction between the solenoid coil and the terminal metal member at the time of temperature rise above a predetermined temperature, and a casing contacting a foot part of the terminal metal member and encasing the bimetal therein. The bimetal responds to each of the excessive heating of the terminal metal member and excessive energization current to interrupt the conduction. In case of a single axis-type starter, the power supply terminal is provided on a recess so that the terminal metal member does not extend axially beyond the rear end face of the end cover.

Abstract: The invention relates to a tank with an inner and/or outer cladding or lining, consisting of a tank wall and a double-walled cladding adhering to the latter and consisting of a double pile fabric which is reinforced by a curable impregnated resin and in which an upper and a lower fabric are connected so as to be spaced from one another by means of webs formed by pile threads, and with a closing-off laminate ply, the webs of the cladding forming, between the upper and the lower fabric, web walls extending linearly in one direction and consisting in each case of a multiplicity of pile threads arranged next to one another, and the web walls extending parallel to one another with small web heights of about 2.5 to 3.5 mm and with web wall spacings, greater than these of about 5 to 8 mm and, together with the upper and the lower fabric, delimiting individual cavity ducts.

Abstract: A taping unit for gummed paper includes a support for a reel of gummed paper, a paper feeder, a cutter, a paper deviator, a dampener with moistened bristles placed downstream of the deviator, and an applicator for applying single lengths of gummed paper onto the top or the bottom of a box. The paper deviator includes at least two cooperating guide pads, located one upstream of the other in the direction of the forward movement of the paper. The downstream guide pad defines, in front of the dampener, a resting plane for the paper, in front of which there extend from the upstream guide pad and parallel to the resting plane a large number of vertical wires arranged side by side, that provide guiding of the gummed paper lengths between the resting plane and the bristles of the dampener.

Abstract: A refrigerator having an improved fan which blows air towards a heat exchanger such as an evaporator. The refrigerator has a body having a refrigerating chamber, a freezing chamber, and a chilled air passage which communicates with the refrigerating and freezing chambers. An evaporator for generating a chilled air by heat-exchanging with an air is installed in the body. The evaporator has a spiral-shaped refrigerant pipe which is disposed in a longitudinal direction of the chilled air passage, and a plurality of heat exchange pins disposed around the spiral-shaped refrigerant pipe, for increasing a heat exchange area between the air and the spiral-shaped refrigerant pipe. A fan for blowing the air toward the evaporator and for circulating the chilled air into the refrigerating is installed in the chilled air passage. A motor is fixed to a wall of the body forming the chilled air passage.

Abstract: An oil holding cylinder for an oil coating roller is provided. The cylinder includes at least a cylindrical non-sintered molded body, which is formulated from a mixture of at least ceramic fiber and an organic binder. In addition, the mixture can further include clay, an inorganic binder, or a combination thereof. The molded body preferably has a porosity in a range of about 30% to about 70%. In operation, the oil holding cylinder disclosed herein can stably and uniformly supply oil to the fixing rollers and the like for an extended period of time, while preventing offset.

Abstract: A refrigerator for improving a cooling efficiency. The refrigerator has a cabinet having a refrigerating chamber, a freezing chamber, and an evaporator chamber which is disposed at a rear portion of the freezing chamber, an evaporators which generates a chilled air and has a helical shape forming a conical space portion therein, a blower assembly coaxially disposed at a rear of the evaporator so as to blow an air towards the evaporator, and a heater installed in the conical space portion of the evaporator so as to remove a frost adhering to the evaporator. The refrigerator can effectively make a heat-exchange between the evaporator and the air so that the cooling efficiency is improved. Since the turbulent air flow is introduced into the freezing chamber, the freezing chamber can be uniformly cooled and since the heater is coaxially disposed in the evaporator, the heater can uniformly heat the evaporator, so the defrosting a frost from the evaporator is effectively carried out.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the preparation of a polymer from ethylene, an .alpha.-olefine and optionally a diene, according to which these monomers are polymerized under the influence of a metallocene catalyst, the polymerization taking place in the presence of a catalyst comprising a specific 2-indenyl metallocene, resulting in a bimodal, elastomeric polymer with a molecular weight distribution of more than 3.5, under such reaction conditions that the amount of water in the polymerization medium is smaller than 0.5 ppm.The invention also relates to polymers with a specific branching index.

Abstract: A coating composition prepared by mixing an organic solvent based coating composition with (1) a silicone compound having organofunctional group and hydrolyzable group in one molecule and containing a specified silicon structural unit, or (2) a silicone compound consisting of a partial cohydrolysis.cndot.condensation product of a silane mixture of alkoxysilane compound containing at least one organofunctional group selected from the group consisting of (meth)acryloyl group, vinyl group, haloalkyl group, amino group, epoxy group and mercapto group with tetraalkoxysilane compound.

Abstract: A vehicle closure testing apparatus for opening or closing a vehicle door of any of a variety of vehicles under test includes a supporting structure, a door moving mechanism, and an assembly selectably configured to position the door moving structure. The supporting structure positions the vehicle closure testing apparatus in spaced relationship to the vehicle under test. The door moving mechanism engages and rotates the vehicle door when the door moving mechanism is activated. The assembly enables the door moving mechanism to be movably positioned into a functional position relative to a specific door of the variety of vehicle doors having a specific axis of rotation and enables the door moving mechanism to be re-positioned in a similar functional position relative to a different vehicle door having a different axis of rotation.

Abstract: A process for the recovery of mercury from mercury-containing caustic sludge, generated from a mercury cell, chlor-alkali plant, wherein mercury is removed from the caustic sludge by treatment in a hydraulic mineral separator. The process provides a ready method for removal of mercury from caustic sludge which can allow recovery of the mercury for re-use. Alternatively, the process provides a smaller volume of mercury-contaminated material to be treated and/or land-filled.

Abstract: Disclosed is a process for processing a lithographic printing plate having a physical development nuclei layer between an aluminum support and a silver halide emulsion layer, which comprises processing the lithographic printing plate in the presence of a monocyclic azole compound having no mercapto group or a derivative thereof.

Abstract: At a certain stage in the fabrication of a rigid cigarette packet, which appears essentially as a rectangular cup or body with a coaxial lid, the partly formed packet is transferred from a first feed path onto a second feed path, still having longitudinal flaps that project on either side from a front face of the body and a front face of the lid; the transfer is effected by means of a device that includes in a rotatable platform with at least one gripper head designed to engage at least the two front faces of the single packet in such a way that the body and lid remain stably interconnected, and during the course of the transfer movement to rotate the packet through 90.degree. about an axis which is normal to the front faces.

Abstract: In an air duct selector, a supporting member has a grid shape, and is formed with four penetration holes. Since a film member is affixed to two fitting portions which are arranged on two ends of the supporting member, the film member is fixed on the supporting member. The supporting member and the film member are arranged in a duct to move in a vertical direction. When air flow is blown against the inside surface of the film member through the penetration holes 24a.about.24d, the film member is bent to swell against the film member, and presses against a peripheral portion of a cool air bypass opening portion to entirely cover the cool air bypass opening portion.

Abstract: A security device (10) for security a frame or chassis of a caravan or other wheeled vehicle to the ground comprises an elongate securing arm (12) extending substantially transversely of the chassis between two frame members (4) thereof, and an elongate support member (14) extending downwardly into the ground. The support member (14) and the securing arm (12) are made in one piece and the free end of the support member (14) is engaged in the ground. The engagement of the support member (14) is such that withdrawal thereof from the ground requires rotation of the support member (14). At each of its ends, the securing arm (12) carries engagement members (32,34) to engage with, and be locked to, the frame members (4). Although the security device is simple to manufacture and install, it provides a high degree of security.