Abstract: A nozzle carrier for a windshield washing apparatus has an outer cylinder (1) and a telescoping inner cylinder (2) in the outer cylinder. The inner cylinder has at an end portion thereof a jet nozzle (3) which can be shoved out of the outer cylinder. A first plunger (4) is sealed about its periphery to the outer cylinder and is movable by pressure of washing liquid away from a second plunger (5). In this manner the inner cylinder is shoved out of the outer cylinder. When both cylinders are at their greatest spacing from one another they determine, together with the outer cylinder, a space which serves to receive a particular quantity of washing liquid. Thereafter, the second plunger is urged, by pressure of the washing liquid, toward the first plunger. This causes, after the opening of a valve in series with the jet nozzle, the washing liquid to flow through a passageway (8) of the first plunger toward the jet nozzle.

Abstract: A device in three separable modules, for the transdermic administration of drugs by electrophoresis or iontophoresis, comprises a first active module provided with at least one system of elecrodes and one drug reservoir, a second power module provided with a power supply and a third electronic module provided with an electronic circuit, control organs and a display screen, in which the power module is situated between the two other modules and comprises, in addition to the power supply formed by one or more batteries, mechanical assembly means and electrical connection or interconnection means with the two other modules means for attaching the device to the body of a patient.

Abstract: In a two-channel magnetic metal detector for a forage harvester, positive and negative adaptive detection thresholds are varied according to long term changes in the noise component induced in detection coils by moving ferrous parts of the crop feed mechanism. The adaptive detection thresholds are set at levels determined by the positive and negative peak averages of the noise components in the channels while the crop feed mechanism is running at normal speed. Start-up transient noise induced in the detection coil as the crop feed mechanism accelerates may exceed the adaptive thresholds as thus set, thereby triggering false indications that a tramp metal object has been detected in the crop feed path. At start-up of the crop feed mechanism, the detection thresholds are raised to prevent false indications. An increase in a channel noise signal is taken as an indication that the crop feed mechanism is accelerating.

Abstract: A toboggan comprises a sheet-like coilable gliding part of glidable material having a cross-bracing along its front region as viewed in the direction of gliding. A pair of support portions for the feet of a seated user of the toboggan is provided spaced from each other in the longitudianl direction of the cross-bracing. The cross-bracing and/or the foot support portions are provided with curved surfaces on the snow side similar to the curved front portion of a ski. The foot support portions are parts separately mountable on the cross-bracing swivable about the longitudinal axis thereof. In its rolled up condition the gliding part can be substantially accommodated in the cross-bracing.

Abstract: The invention provides a continuous steel plate manufacturing facility including continuous casting equipment (12) having a plurality of strands, a plurality of rows of slab conveyers (14) disposed downstream of each of the strands, and a single slab transporting apparatus (16) disposed downstream of the slab conveyers for horizontally transporting slabs from the rows of slab conveyers to a single rolling line disposed downstream of the rows of slab conveyers. A continuous slab casting line defined by the strand and the slab conveyers diagonally intersects, at an intersection point, on the slab transporting apparatus with a slab feeding line (18) which is in communication with the rolling line.

Abstract: An analytical specimen cup system (10) includes a lid (14) comprising outer and inner partitions (42, 40) for defining a test space (44) having a chemical test strip (30) mounted therein. The inner partition defines a raised test-strip shelf (61) on which the chemical test strip is mounted, a sump (64) with a floor (62) positioned substantially below the raised shelf, and an opening-defining member (48) for defining an opening (50) to allow test fluid to be transferred from an analytical specimen cup (12) to the test space. A mouth (60) of the opening is vertically positioned intermediate the raised test-strip shelf and the sump floor. In one embodiment the analytical specimen cup has a membrane (24) covering its mouth (18) and is sterilized separate from the lid. The inner partition includes a specimen-release device (52) for uncovering the opening of the opening-defining member as well as for piercing the membrane.

Abstract: A filter material for removing chlorine from cold water used in preparing a human-consumable beverage having at least one layer of a mat of laid fibers of cellulosic fibers and synthetic textile fibers and mixtures thereof. A synthetic hydrophilic, food-grade latex binder deposited onto the fibers within the mat in an amount sufficient to so bind the fibers together within the mat that during a filtration of cold water through the mat no substantial amount of fibers are displaced therefrom and in an amount insufficient to substantially reduce a gravity flow rate of cold water through the mat to less than about 0.3 liter per minute per 100 square centimeters of the mat. A water-insoluble chlorine adsorbent or absorbent solid powder disposed on the binder such that no more than 65% of the total outside surface area of the powder is substantially contacted by the binder.

Abstract: Method of manufacturing an electrical connection, and connection thus obtained between a strip of a plastic material (1) having a conductive coating on a single face (5) and a second conductor (15) positioned on the non-conductive side (3) of said strip consisting of forming into a loop the lug (7), formed by the end portion of said strip, by thermoforming between two parallel cylinders of which at least one is heated, driven in rotation to come to press the non-conductive face of the lug (7) against a non-conductive portion of the strip.

Abstract: An engine delivers torque to a transmission drive shaft through a flywheel and a damper. The damper includes a drive plate attached to the flywheel which is in turn mounted on the engine crankshaft. The damper has two driven plates which are fixed on the transmission drive shaft. The drive plate and driven plates have openings for retaining springs through which torque is transmitted from the drive plate to the driven plates. The flywheel has a plurality of arcuate segments equally spaced apart around a peripheral edge to form a plurality of windows. One of the driven plates has a plurality of radially extending fingers each extending into one of the windows so that gaps exist between each finger and two adjacent arcuate segments. As torque is transmitted through the damper the springs are compressed and the fingers move in the windows.

Abstract: A bending process including both preliminary and following steps takes place in one apparatus. A plastic pipe (6) is heated to a temperature in which it can be plastically deformed. The heated pipe is thereafter shoved into a pipe-shaped bending channel (27) of a bending tool, with the bending tool comprising two dies (9,10), each respectively defining a groove (14,13) which together form the bending channel. Finally, a cooling agent is allowed to flow through the bent pipe which is still in the bending tool. The thusly cooled pipe is removed from the bending tool after the dies are separated from one another. The apparatus to bend the plastic pipe comprises heating, bending, and cooling stations (1,2,3). The heating station comprises two heating fixtures, and the cooling station comprises a supply line (21,22) with a coupling joint (20) which can be coupled to an end of the pipe.

Abstract: An electromagnetic signal horn of a type including a housing, a membrane whose peripheral edge is attached to the housing and which with the housing defines a chamber, an electromagnetic motor arranged in the chamber, and a magnetic core arranged in the chamber with an attaching pin thereof extending through a central opening of the membrane, with a coupling channel thereof, for coupling the chamber with outside atmosphere, being partially defined by a radial recess at the central opening of the membrane, wherein the central opening is four-sided, or square, for simplifying and economizing its fabrication, with a spacing between opposite sides of the central opening being the same, or only slightly larger than, a diameter of the attaching pin.

Abstract: A substantially rectangularly shaped enclosure hood has, in an area of an upper covering plate differently shaped grooves formed therein. These grooves serve as an aid in orientation during mounting as well as an extraction aid for a finished, assembled device.

Abstract: A training apparatus, method and kit for remotely and substantially instantaneously evaluating the alignment, settings and levels of the aiming devices of a howitzer gun.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a method of manufacture a method of manufacturing a card wherein there is supplied a compressible positioning structure (6), at least one electronic element (8) and a binder (12). The electronic element is positioned in a manner such that it is superposed onto the compressible positioning structure. In a first case, the binder (12) is supplied in liquid form. In another case, such binder is supplied in the form of a solid sheet, which is subsequently at least partially melted by applying energy. With the help of a press, pressure is applied to the various elements as supplied. The electronic element (8) then penetrates the positioning structure (6) and the binder spreads out so as to coat the electronic element (8). Finally there is obtained following solidification a solid card.

Abstract: A holder for retrieving a ball from a hazard includes a U-shaped frame provided with a cage-like structure formed of wire-like containment elements. In one embodiment, a latch allows a ball to enter the holder but does not allow it to leave. In another embodiment, containment elements in first and second planes are spaced from one another a distance less than a diameter of the ball for retaining the ball.

Abstract: Polyetheramidoamine hydrogels consisting of polyetheramidomaine and/or polyamidoamine prepolymers crosslinked by Michael's nuceophilic polyaddition with alpha-omega-diamino monomers or with alpha-omega-diamino monomers or oligomers; said hydrogels having a swelling degree in water higher than 500% and are useful as superabsorbent materials.

Abstract: A flexible strand is provided with pressure applying nodules spaced therealong so that the strand may be looped around various deeper body muscle groups to apply pressure to the muscle groups and relieve muscle pain. An optional bar may be also used, either by itself, or with the flexible strand, to apply pressure to muscles which are close to the surface of the body.

Abstract: A controller permits the implementation of at least one fuzzy logic rule. It has a determination circuit of the overall degree of truth of the premisses of the rule and a determination circuit of the value to be supplied at the output. The determination circuit of the overall degree of truth has a plurality of distance determination circuits each supplying a distance value which is equal to zero when a particular condition of the rule is exactly verified, and which is a square-law function of the difference between the input value and the reference value of this condition. A transformation circuit receiving at the input the sum of the distance values for the different conditions delivers a signal representative of the degree of truth of the premisses of the rule.

Abstract: A cargo container swivel-stacking-pin tool (10) for insertion and removal of swivel stacking pins (11, 60) in cargo containers (13) includes a rigid elongated handle (12), a U-shaped pin-engaging member (14, 76) attached to the elongated handle and two trigger actuators (16, 18 and 90, 92) attached to the pin-engaging member. The pin-engaging member has a base member (26, 80) and first and second fork members (22,24 and 86, 88) attached to the base member which define a slot (28, 78) of a size for receiving a bottom insert section (30, 72) of a swivel stacking pin. The trigger actuators are attached to opposite sides of the base member for manipulating locking-head triggers of the swivel stacking pins for enabling top locking heads of the swivel stacking pins to rotate about rotation axes (55, 94) when the top insert sections thereof are inserted in engagement holes (13a) of the cargo containers.

Abstract: Stilbene derivatives of formula (I) ##STR1## wherein A, R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are as defined in the following, are useful for the protection against UV radiation.