Abstract: A pack for smoking articles having a cut-away section in the front which reveals a backing member. The backing member may be hingedly connected to the front panel of the pack by Z-folds to ensure identical color and location registration in the cut-away.

Abstract: An alarm arrangement for swimming pools includes an electronic transmitter unit (16) and an electronic receiver unit (18). The transmitter unit (16) has a housing (20) containing electronic circuitry. Water activated electrical contacts (24, 26) are provided outside the housing (20) for causing energization of the electronic circuitry when coming into contact with water for emitting an ultrasonic operative signal when a person wearing the transmitter unit (16) enters into water in a pool. The receiver unit (18) has a housing (36) containing electronic circuitry, water activated electrical contact (54, 56) outside its housing (36) for causing energization of the electronic circuitry when coming into contact with water, for detecting any preselected operative signal from the transmitter unit (16) when the transmitter unit (16) comes into contact with water in a pool so as to emit a suitable alarm signal.

Abstract: A mounting tool for a hydromechanical chuck or mandrel of the type which is clamp connected using a pressure medium in order to clamp connecting a shaft or a shaft tool or a working piece, and in which said shaft or working piece is dismantled from the chuck, and which chuck using a pressure medium in the opposite direction, and which chuck is formed with two separate pressure chambers, a first chamber acting as a clamp connection chamber, and a second chamber acting as a dismantling chamber, which chambers are formed with inlets/outlets provided on opposite sides of the chuck and opening at the periphery thereof.

Abstract: A discharge plasma processing device comprising a chamber with an evacuation system, a magnetic field generation system and an electric field application system with which the feature of operation is first to form a magnetic neutral line in the vacuum chamber and second to produce a plasma along the magnetic neutral line by controlling the shape of the line, its position related to an object to be processed and the plasma parameters is presented as useful device for many kinds of plasma processing like as sputtering, etching and plasma enhanced CVD as freely programmed, for instance extremely in uniform on the surface of the object.

Abstract: The gyroscopic sensor has a bell-shaped resonator which is fixed along its axis on a substrate. It has a circular edge lying in a plane perpendicular to the axis and at a distance from the point where the resonator is fixed. The substrate carries detection and excitation electrodes that co-operate with the resonator. The detection electrodes are sensitive to an axial component of resonator vibration and the energization electrodes cause vibration at resonance by exerting axial forces.

Abstract: Torch for scuba diving comprising a body housing the batteries, a lamp and its electric circuitry, and a handle extending from said body. A box housing a display is mounted on the torch handle, which display is connected to a microcomputer coupled to the electric system of the torch and displaying both the torch duration in minutes and the indication of the lighting intensity selected by the user. A push-button turns on and regulates the lighting power of the torch. The box is pivoted on the end of the torch handle, and can be turned over from an operating position to a rest position in which the display is protected from possible shocks. The support pins of the box are preferably coupled to a general switch, so that by turning the box the torch is turned off.

Abstract: Protective breathing equipment comprises a breathing mask provided with a regulator for connection to a source of pressurized breathing gas and a harness having at least one extensible strap whose ends are connected to the mask and which includes an element that is temporarily inflatable by the pressurized gas to lengthen the strap until it is large enough to enable the user to engage the harness on the head, and exhaustible to allow the strap to press to press the mask against the face. The extensible strap is connected to the face-piece by at least one mechanical member of length that is adjustable by the user while wearing the equipment.

Abstract: A container is formed from a plurality of panels that are folded to form two opposing sidewall panels and a bottom panel. An integral spacer is formed from flaps foldably joined to sidewall panels. The integral spacer provides a reduced inside length dimension relative to its corresponding outside length dimension.

Abstract: A switch device for a gas burner includes a body engaged with a housing. The body defines an axial hole for rotatably receiving a driven shaft which has a first end secured in a rotation knob and a second end engaged with a barrel which can be rotated by the driven shaft. The barrel is screwed in the housing which is connected to a primary flame nozzle. When the rotation knob is pressed, the valve rod mounted in the barrel is forced by driven shaft to move linearly so as to open the valve hole directed toward the auxiliary flame. When the rotation knob is rotated, the passage directed toward the primary flame nozzle is opened.

Abstract: The present invention provides an inductively coupled RF plasma source that can improve the nonuniformity in substrate treatment by canceling out the radial electric fields generated between a plasma and an antenna coil. The inductively coupled RF plasma source comprises a plurality of one-turn antenna coils, each having one end connected to a RF supply along a circumferential side wall of a plasma generating chamber and the other end connected to a grounding potential, arranged at intervals in the longitudinal axial direction of the plasma generating chamber. One end of each one-turn antenna coil displaced at equal angles from each other in a circumferential direction.

Abstract: A prefabricated stairway module (10, 11) comprises a first step and a second step, each step (14) having a tread member (13) and a riser member (15). The stairway module further has fixing means (31) for fixing the module to a sloping surface on which it is laid. The steps in a module may be connected to each other by a rigid or flexible bridging member (19), and the tread member (13) may be curved. Different designs and configurations of the prefabricated modules may be combined into a stairway assembly, the modules which can be chosen according to the gradient of the underlying surface on which the stairway is to be constructed.

Abstract: The invention discloses a pumping device by non-vaporizable getter to create a very high vacuum in a chamber defined by a metal wall capable of releasing gas at its surface, characterized in that it comprises a thin layer of non-vaporizable getter coated on at least almost the whole metal wall surface defining the chamber.

Abstract: This invention is provided a method for making a backing layer for an ultrasonic matrix array transducer useful in diagnostic imaging, non-destructive material testing and treatment of human organs. The method includes placing the grid in a mold, filling the mold with an acoustically absorbent material such that the absorbent material fills the spaces between the contacts, curing the material in the mold so as to form a block formed by the cured absorbent material and the grid, and releasing the block from the mold.

Abstract: When casting e.g. aluminium alloy in a mould (2), that may be one of a string of moulds extending at right angles to the plane of the drawing, the pressure used for filling the mould (2) against gravity by a pressurizing device (4) is controlled according to a predetermined pressure/time programme having previously been read into a control unit (22), e.g. a digital computer, at least one of a number of sensors sensing pressure (8), levels (9,10) and full level (11) being used to supply inputs to the control unit (22). Sensors are chosen according to need for each particular casting programme.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for verification of the identity of a patient undergoing treatment administered by a medical treatment practitioner in a treatment room. An identifying element such as patient chart or patient photograph is provided for the patient which includes a patient identifier, e.g., a barcode, capable of being read by a reader device located within the treatment room. In use, the patient identifier is read by the reader device in the treatment room and a characteristic audio signal, previously assigned to the patient and known to the patient, is generated in response to the reading of the identifying element when there is a match between the patient identifier and a stored identifier for the patient. Treatment of the patient is at least temporarily withheld if any audio signal generated in response to reading of the patient identifier by the reader device is not the characteristic audio signal assigned to the patient. A special patient chart with a removable identifier can be used.

Abstract: Process for producing spherical catalyst particles containing a zeolite as active element, according to which a sol containing zeolite crystals and at least one gel-forming compound is sprayed from below directly into a reaction zone containing a reaction gas such that the sol breaks up into individual sol beads immediately before or upon entry into the reaction zone, the sol beads flow through the reaction zone on a curved trajectory, in so doing are pre-consolidated and the sol beads are collected on a collecting means.

Abstract: A microbial membrane reactor for use in flow systems comprises a first element to receive the microorganisms and a second element to receive the flow channels. The two elements have planar interior surfaces which are pressed together separated by a membrane impervious to the microorganisms. The flow channels arranged in or on the surface of the second element serve to transport the liquid along the membrane so that the liquid can interact with the microorganisms arranged on the other side of the membrane. The geometry of the flow pathway and thus the geometry of the flow channels can be easily altered, in respect of the length, width and height of the channel, and adapted to practical requirements.

Abstract: An air valve of a balancing jacket can be opened not only by a conventional driving cable located within the corrugated pipe of the balancing jacket, but also independently from the conventional driving cable by an auxiliary driving member integral or operationally connected with the valve element of an air valve and controlled by the diver directly with his hands and/or by a separate control member.

Abstract: A cabinet for a washing machine including a vibration-proof plate attached to the front panel to reduce vibrations. A recess is provided to the vibration-proof plate's lower part, and a recess is formed on the front panel's lower part corresponding to the recess of the plate. A plurality of screw holes are each provided to upper and lower ends of the respective vibration-proof plate and front panel, and the vibration-proof plate is screw attached to the front panel. The vibration-proof plate has a plurality of hooks that are provided on both sides of its inner surface, and the front panel has a plurality of mating hook holes that are provided on both sides thereof so that the vibration-proof plate is more firmly attached to the front panel. The overall vibration-proof plate is convex to the outside, and at least one vibration-absorbing member is attached to the inner surface of the vibration-proof plate, thus contacting the front panel.