Abstract: A method of manufacturing a food product wherein a cereal-based pre-mix including a first sensory component, which includes flavoring and/or coloring compounds, is fed into a hopper and fed from the hopper into an extruder, at a controlled rate. A liquid component including a second sensory component, which may also include flavoring and/or coloring compounds, is injected into the mix at a location intermediate the length of the extruder, the mix is then extruded to from the food product.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a secondary cell. The secondary cell comprises a positive electrode, a negative electrode which is made of a carbon material, and non-aqueous electrolytic solution, wherein the secondary cell is characterized in that the carbon material as the material of the negative electrode is produced by carbonizing natural high polymers.

Abstract: A method of modifying the surface of a solid polymer substrate comprising the steps of a) generating radicals on the substrate surface by subjecting it to a gas plasma or by subjecting it to UV light, and b) treating the surface with a vapor of a monomer or a monomer mixture comprising cyano acrylate and/or isocyanate, where step b) starts before step a), simultaneously with step a), under step a), or follows immediately after step a), and a polymer substrate modified accordingly; a method of binding an organic binder material to a surface of a solid polymer substrate comprising the steps of modifying the surface of the substrate by said method, and bringing the organic material in contact with the surface of the substrate, and a polymer bonded to an organic material by the last mentioned method.

Abstract: The pharmaceutical composition of the invention, which comprises a benzimidazole compound of the formula ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is hydrogen, alkyl, halogen, cyano, carboxy, carboalkoxy, carboalkoxyalkyl, carbamoyl, carbamoylalkyl, hydroxy, alkoxy, hydroxyalkyl, trifluoromethyl, acyl, carbamoyloxy, nitro, acyloxy, aryl, aryloxy, alkylthio or alkylsulfinyl, R.sup.2 is hydrogen, alkyl, acyl, carboalkoxy, carbamoyl, alkylcarbamoyl, dialkylcarbamoyl, alkylcarbonylmethyl, alkoxycarbonylmethyl or alkylsulfonyl, R.sup.3 and R.sup.5 are the same or different and each is hydrogen, alkyl, alkoxy or alkoxyalkoxy, R.sup.4 is hydrogen, alkyl, alkoxy which may optionally be fluorinated, or alkoxyalkoxy, and m is an integer of 0 through 4, and a basic inorganic salt stabilizing agent, is physically stable. Magnesium and calcium basic inorganic salt stabilizing agents are particularly useful.

Abstract: A pallet including a load-receiving support with supporting joists, the pallet being provided with removable lateral supports. The pallet is characterized in that the load-receiving surface is provided with indentations of a configuration that substantially corresponds to the shape of the removable lateral supports. Such a pallet can be used in the stacking and distribution of Christmas trees and decorative greenery.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a screen cylinder for screening fiber suspensions of the wood processing industry. The screen cylinder comprises a rotationally symmetric screen surface located on the side of the pulp to be screened, and support rings supporting the screen surface on the opposite side; the screen surface mainly comprising grooves and screen apertures in connection with the grooves, the grooves being comprised of a side surface on the upstream side, a bottom surface, and a side surface on the downstream side, characterized in that the bottom surface of the groove rises towards the side surface of the upstream side.

Abstract: A ring-shaped air distribution disc (11) for an air distribution device for providing rinsing air to an air cleaner provided with filter bags is provided. The ring-shaped air distribution disc (11) has a width that slightly exceeds the diameter (d) of at least one aperture (2) for rinsing air. In use the ring-shaped air distribution disc (11) is suspended in a free floating manner in the air distribution device, and is pressed against sealing means (5) of a number of rinsing air tubes (4) by springs (15) supported by a supporting plate (8) positioned underneath the ring-shaped air distribution disc (11).

Abstract: A circulator having integrally formed conductors (20, 21, and 22) which may be folded to form overlaying conductors of a circulator. The circulator includes a lens (44) for shaping a biasing magnetic field distribution to compensate for non-uniformity of magnetic field strength caused by irregularities of a magnetic circuit or the shape of a magnet (45) or ferrite (40, 41). The characteristics of ferrite discs (40, 41) are preferably correlated with the characteristics of a permanent magnet (45) so that variations of permeability of the ferrite (40, 41) are minimized over a specified temperature range.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for the analysis and correction of colour casts in a digitally represented image. According to a preferred embodiment, the crominance contents of the image may be transformed by use of a Hough-transformation or the like transformation, wherein the line structures in the carthesic system of co-ordinates for the crominance content is transformed to a representation in a Hough-diagram in the form of a polar system of co-ordinates, since such line structure is hereby transformed into a point structure. The Hough-diagram is examined with a view to finding a cell in the diagram which has the highest value and the cell found is saved. subsequently cells are neutralized in the Hough-diagram within a predetermined angular distance, and the Hough-diagram is re-examined with a view to finding that diagram cell which, following neutralization, has the highest value.

Abstract: An alternating current plasma display panel with a surface discharge. The panel comprises in each pixel three parallel electrodes, one of the three parallel electrodes being an address electrode, and drive electrodes being perpendicular to them, the three parallel electrodes, the three parallel electrodes, and the drive electrode being separated by dielectric barrier ribs, geometric parameters of electrodes, discharge gaps and gas filling being determined from conditions needed for execution of a surface discharge by sustaining voltage pulses in a pixel between two extreme parallel electrodes with the address electrode arranged between them. When the discharge gap length is increased in the luminescence area, power does not increase but brightness is improved. The ratio of brightness of new/standard and the ratio of power new/standard becomes 1.1-2.3 times better.

Abstract: A plurality of carriers (1) and spaced apart along an endless conveyor in an article grading apparatus. The articles are supported between a roller (2) and a back plate (7). The rollers (2) can be raised and rotated, at which time, superfluous articles supported between the rollers (2) of consecutive carriers will be ejected so that with the lowering of the roller (2), only one or a selected number of the articles remain in a particular carrier (1).

Abstract: The invention concerns a process for preparing coating powder compositions in which one or a plurality of base resins and one or a plurality of hardeners, each of which is in solid form, is dissolved with a low-molecular compound above its critical pressure and critical temperature. This low-molecular compound is inert with respect to the base resins and hardeners and is in gaseous form under normal operating conditions with respect to pressure and temperature. The pressure of the resultant solution is then reduced, for example, by spraying. The resultant coating powder composition can be sprayed directly onto a substrate to be coated. Coating powders can also be recycled according to the process of the invention.