Abstract: A description follows of mixtures of copper (II) hydroxide with at least one other cupric salt having the formula (A) and their use for the control of phytopathogenic fungi.

Abstract: The invention relates to an emergency cutting device (1) for vehicle safety belts, characterised in that it comprises locking means (6,7), acting on a safety belt (3) so as to put the same under tension; means (8) for cutting said safety belt (3); and operation means (12, 13), operatively connected with said locking means (6, 7) and with said cutting means (8); said operation means (9, 10) activating in succession said locking means (6, 7) and said cutting means (8), so as to cut said safety belt (3), and then deactivating said locking means (6, 7) thus freeing said safety belt (3) and then the user of the same.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a rodenticidal composition in the form of fresh paste for enticing mice and rats wherein the flour used is mainly of a vegetable origin and the fatty matter incorporated essentially consists of palm oil.

Abstract: A pressure button, of the type comprising a male portion and a female portion, to be applied on flaps to be connected, the female portion comprising a fixing element for fixing an active female element, the latter including a plurality of resilient tabs which are mutually arranged with a ring arrangement about a housing recess for housing a projecting part of the male portion. The active female element of the button comprises an annular body to which a clamp element including a plurality of points projecting outside of the active female element is affixed. In particular, the assembling means for assembling the female portion are so arranged as to operate at a separated and moved away position from the resilient tabs, thereby the assembling of the female portion, for applying the latter on a respective material flap, can be performed without modifying the mutual shape and/or arrangement of the resilient tabs, thereby preserving the rated clamping pressure of the button.

Abstract: A package for storing and/or shipping discs has at least one section with a first panel, a second panel and at least one intermediate panel, the intermediate panel being positioned between the first panel and the second panel, where the first and second panels each include at least one opening for receiving a disc and the intermediate panel is solid in at least the area between the first and second panels below the openings where the discs are inserted. The package includes a fastener between the second panel and the intermediate panel positioned above the disc receiving opening on the second panel and a fastener between the first panel and the intermediate panel at a terminal edge of the first panel above the disc receiving opening on the first panel.

Abstract: A textile finished with a biocidally active component is provided. The textile is characterized in that the biocidally active component is contained in the textile and comprises 2-n-octyl-4-isothiazolin-3-one and also, optionally, one or more other biocides and the biocidally active component is enclosed in microparticles composed of an aminoplast resin. The enclosure of the biocidally active component in the microparticles causes the biocidally active component to stay on the textile during the drying and curing involved in the finishing process. In addition, in practical use, the biocidally active component is only released slowly and is not washed off by exposure of the textile to rain or water. This stops a large part of the biocidally active component escaping during the finishing of the textile or being washed off the tenting, awnings, filters, tarpaulins, shower curtains and the like after just a few (rain) showers.

Abstract: Packaging equipment for continuously making packages of stacks of tiles on a working conveyor that feeds the stacks of tiles to be packaged. The equipment has a first element for feeding a plastic film on top of the working conveyor that projects laterally below the stacks of tiles and also has a second element for feeding two laminar elements parallel to each other on top of the plastic film which laterally project below the stacks of tiles. Guiding rods are provided for vertically lifting and upper winding of the projecting portions of the plastic film that is around the stacks of tiles as they advance on the conveyor. Longitudinal welding device and another welding device are provided for welding the plastic film around the stacks of tiles.

Abstract: A low lethality firearm, comprising a launcher (12) for bullets, also comprises a device for regulating the speed of the bullet (13), adapted for varying the speed of the bullet in the mouth of a barrel, comprising gas bleeding means (17, 19) from the inside of a barrel (16) of the launcher (12), wherein these gas bleeding means (17, 19) can be divided.

Abstract: Method for the packaging of articles with a plastic film which is based on the use of a packaging machine equipped with transverse welding devices arranged along a longitudinal direction where the method involves the steps of (a) positioning the articles on a conveyor belt with pushers activated by a motor; (b) distancing the articles from one another to provide a constant space or pitch; (c) feeding the plastic film, in the direction of the conveyor belt; (d) longitudinally welding the film in the direction articles on the conveyor belt; (e) activating the motor group situated downstream with respect to the welding device to weld and separate the film in the space between articles; and (f) activating the motor group of the welding device situated upstream with respect to another welding device to weld and separate the film in the space between the articles.

Abstract: A helmet for artificial respiration without the aid of tracheal tubes comprises a container body (12), having at least a transparent portion (14) and in which a patient's head can be housed, and a collar for air-tight application to the patient's neck, which consists of at least a rigid ring (15, 15?), equipped with a series of gas administration connection and accessory-holder fittings (17), said rigid ring (15, 15?) being the only part of the helmet (10) connected to the outside when operating, wherein an opening (31) is present on the container body (12) for rapid access to the patient, which is substantially hermetically closed by rapid coupling elements (32).

Abstract: A process is described for the preparation of magnesium borohydride having a high purity and crystallinity, which comprises the reaction of an orgenometallic compound of magnesium of the type MgX2, wherein X is an organic binder selected from alkyl, amide, alkoxide, cyclopentadienyl, aryl, with a derivative of a boron hydride, in a hydrocarbon solvent.

Abstract: A device, for separating the paper from the cores of rolls or logs of paper or similar products, which is based on a combination of a mandrel that receives trimmings from a roll or log where the mandrel has an outer diameter that is less than the inner diameter of a core of at least one log. The mandrel is provided with at least one axial recess that is directed along several contiguous generatrices of the mandrel. Above the axial recess is arranged a circular rotating blade which cuts both said trimmings the core.

Abstract: New controlled-release formulations containing tryptophan and/or its metabolites are described, as well as the process to obtain them in tablet forms suitable for oral administration in the treatment of pathologies or conditions related to serotonin deficiency in the Nervous System. The formulations are comprised in double-layer tablets, one layer containing 5-hyrohytryptophan released rapidly (phase “fast), the other layer containing tryptophan or 5-hydroxytryptophan, progressively released (“retarded”). The finished product is characterized by optimal differential release profile under physiological conditions. In all cases the release kinetics obtained is accurately time- and concentration-controlled, therefore avoiding fortuitous release of the active ingredients, and in clinical setting is free of undesirable side effects.

Abstract: A device for measuring forces and moments acting on a body comprises a measuring structure (12) made up of one or more elements and provided with a plurality of connection elements or bindings (17, 18, 37) for connecting the elements of the structure (12) and/or a body (11) the stress of which one wishes to measure, such a structure (12) being statically determined or else statically non determined, such a structure (12) also being equipped with means for measuring (14), in one or more locations, the six stress magnitudes from which the force vector and moment vector acting on the body (11) can be worked out mathematically.

Abstract: The invention concerns an acoustic device with electro-acoustic transducers and with a cavity resonator that provide extreme tri-dimensional to concentrate/diffuse infrasonic, sonic and ultrasonic waves. It also concerns many structural designs in which some models of cavity resonators and all their transducers are appropriately arranged on the basis of the different uses; so doing it is possible to achieve numerous interacting operational set-ups (basic configuration systems) that can be used in the medical sector, in industry or in the home, in entertainment and leisure. Differently to previously known techniques the acoustic device according to this patent is also a highly sophisticated cybernetic apparatus for the reproduction of various tri-dimensional sound fields that are identical to the original ones, or for generating completely new ones. This acoustic device can be compared to a Helmholtz resonator that transmits sound-waves/harmonic frequencies rather than receiving them.

Abstract: A card intermediate, as for identification, which includes a business from having one or more selectively-pattern-treated laminae diecut into it and adhesively secured to a film.

Abstract: An optical glass comprising SiO2, B2O3 and La2O3 and one or more oxides selected from the group consisting of ZrO2, Nb2O5 and Ta2O5, having a refractive index of 1.83 or over and an Abbe number of 35 or over and being free of F.