Abstract: Reclosable bags, plastic film for making the bags, and a method and apparatus for making the bags are disclosed. The bag has a reclosable fastener (26) connected to a single wall of the bag, and the film (55) has a reclosable fastener (26) connected to one side thereof which does not require attachment to any other portion of the film (55) when making a bag. The fastener (26) has a tamper-proof member attached thereto to indicate if the bag has been previously opened. The film (55) can be wound into a roll (54) suitable for use on conventional bag making machines including form, fill, and seal machines or a chain of coilable reclosable bags can be produced therefrom since the fasteners (26) are connected to the web preferably transversely to the bags longitudinal formation axis.

Abstract: A clamp device for clamping of at least one tube or the like to a support, comprising a base member (1) having at least one recess (4, 5) for receiving the tube (6) or the like, possibly a top plate (14) at the side of the base member facing away from the support (7), and at least one locking screw (8 resp. 9) carried through mutually aligned holes (15, 10, 11 resp. 16, 12, 13) in the top plate and the base member. The locking screw has a head (17 resp. 18) at one end and a nut (21 resp. 22) at the other end, for keeping the components of the clamp device together as an assembled unit without any loose parts, the head (17 resp. 18) of the screw being arranged to be carried through an elongated hole (19 resp. 20) in the support and locked thereto by tightening of the nut.

Abstract: A pair of suspenders comprises two comparatively long straps of a given width. Each of the comparatively long straps has a front portion terminating at a front end and a back portion terminating at a back end. The back portions cross each other. Moreover, a comparatively short strap having two opposite ends is affixed at each of the opposite ends to the back portion of each of the comparatively long straps so as to define a loop, which has an overall length that is at least several times greater than the given width of the comparatively long straps. One of the straps defining each of the loops passes through the other loop, whereby the loops enable the pair of suspenders, over a range of shoulder-to-shoulder spacings, to conform automatically to the shoulder-to-shoulder spacing of a wearer. The comparatively long straps are substantially inelastic.

Abstract: A portable heating and cooling unit intended to be used within a room or area of a building includes a cabinet supported on a plurality of wheels and a refrigeration circuit at least partially carried within said cabinet. The refrigeration circuit includes a first coil, a compressor, a second coil and a refrigerant reversing valve. In a cooling mode of operation, the first coil acts as an evaporator coil and room air is circulated by a first fan across the evaporator coil and delivered into the room. A second fan circulates room air through the second coil acting as a condenser coil and discharges the thus warmed air away from the room area to be cooled. In a heating mode of operation, the refrigerant reversing valve is activated to change the flow direction of the refrigerant through the circuit such that the first coil now acts as a condenser and the second coil now acts as the evaporator.

Abstract: A lift and rotate assembly for use in a workpiece processing station. The lift and rotate assembly includes a body having a slim profile and pins located on opposite sides for mounting the assembly onto a tool frame. The lift and rotating assembly further includes a rotating mechanism coupling a processing head to the body, and for rotating the process head with respect to the body. The rotating mechanism includes a motor, wherein the motor is located within the processing head and the shaft of the motor is coupled to and rotationally fixed with respect to the body. The lift and rotate assembly further includes a lift mechanism for lifting the process head with respect to the body. A cable assembly within the lift and rotate assembly provides at least one of signals, gases and fluids to the process head.

Abstract: A hearing aid housing which is formed of a substantially rigid plastic material carries a deformable compliant region. The region, which could be in the form of an annular seal, or which could extend in part axially along the housing improves user comfort and hearing aid performance by providing an improved seal with the user's ear canal. The housing can be formed with a substantially constant wall thickness which includes the regions wherein the compliant material is located.

Abstract: An aspirated-type detector includes a housing with an internal ambient condition sensing region and a sensor carried therein. The housing is perforated with ambient atmosphere inflow ports. A fan or similar device lowers the pressure in the internal region thereby producing a positive inflow of adjacent, external ambient atmosphere into the sensing region. Alternatively, the fan can be operated to inject exterior ambient atmosphere into the sensing chamber under positive pressure. The fan can also be modularized. The detector can incorporate control circuitry for supervisory or signal processing purposes.

Abstract: A multi-processor system makes it possible to enhance information transmitted between processors. Any one of the processors can inject information into a data transmission between other processors. The injected information can identify or indicate the location of one processor with respect to another processor. Alternately, it can define which processor or processors should respond or specify an action to be taken. Where one processor is transmitting to another processor, a third processor, upon detecting the transmission, can insert additional information into the transmission sequence at an appropriate location. A fourth processor, also monitoring the communications sequence could insert additional information into the same sequence as well.

Abstract: The present invention provides, in its principal aspect, compounds of the general formula: ##STR1## when A is --NHCO--, --N(CH.sub.3)--CO--, --NHCH.sub.2 --, --N(CH.sub.3)--CH.sub.2 --, --CH.dbd.CH--, --COCH.sub.2 --, CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 --, --CH(OH)CH.sub.2 -- or --C.tbd.C--;X can be H, CH.sub.3, NH.sub.2, NH(CH.sub.3),N(CH.sub.3).sub.2, OH, OCH.sub.3, SH,R.sub.2 is hydrogen or a methyl or ethyl group;R.sub.3 is hydrogen or a methyl or ethyl group;n is 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6;R.sub.1 is selected from the group consisting of (a) alkyl; (b) C.sub.3 to C.sub.8 cycloalkyl; (c) phenyl or substituted phenyl; (d) heteroocyclic; and (f) decahydronaphthalene or octahydroindane; andWhen R.sub.1 and X taken together denote a 5, 6 or 6, 6 saturated bicyclic ring structure, X can be NH, O, S, SO.sub.2,When X is constrained in a 5, 6 or 6, 6, saturated bicyclic ring structure, then for example, when X.dbd.NH, R.sub.1 and X taken together mean an octahydroindole ring structure directly attached to A.

Abstract: A self-monitoring power supply can be incorporated into electrical devices which are part of a multi-device communication system. The power supply is energized by electrical energy received from a medium on an intermittent basis. The self-monitoring circuitry assures that the device has sufficient energy for carrying out its functions. Noise rejection and noise immunity can be enhanced in such devices by circuitry which upon detection of a transmission start signal or a clock pulse locks out data signals for a predetermined period of time and upon detection of a data signal locks out transmission start or clock pulses for a predetermined period of time.

Abstract: A building structure, as for a conservatory roof, in which hollow building panels of a plastic material are connected side-by-side by upper and lower coupling members, between adjacent building panels. The coupling members receive aluminum reinforcing beams having longitudinal slots, in which the lower coupling members are held together. Each building panel has an integral cap, which covers the upper coupling members of two adjacent building panels for holding the adjacent building panels together while such a reinforcing beam is slid therebetween.

Abstract: A suspended shelf system for suspending one or more shelf members beneath an associated supporting structure includes a pair of shelf support brackets, and first and second pairs of vertically oriented upright elements which are each suspended from a respective end of one of the upper support brackets. Each support bracket includes at least one pair of upwardly extending teeth which are respectively positionable in openings defined by the upright elements. The shelf mounting system further includes at least one pair of shelf support brackets which respectively extend between the first and second pairs of upright elements in spaced apart, parallel relationship. Each of the shelf support brackets includes at least one pair of downwardly extending teeth, which are configured for cooperative engagement with the opening defined by the upright elements.

Abstract: A glazed roof has a ridge and at least one free ridge end, a ventilation path being provided through a ridge end component.

Abstract: A spring connection for a vibratory conveyor having a trough member including a side wall, includes two fasteners which are welded to the side wall. The connection includes a spring connection plate with corresponding fastener holes to receive the fasteners. Nuts are threaded onto the fasteners and torqued down to clamp the connection plate onto the side wall of the trough member. The spring connection plate carries a spring bracket with a mounting hole for connection to one or more springs.

Abstract: The present invention provides an isolated nucleic acid which contains a nucleotide sequence which encodes at least one of five LIYV proteins: the coat protein, the heat shock protein-70, RNA polymerase, the protein encoded by the gene positioned at ORF 3 of LIYV RNA1, and the protein encoded by the gene positioned at ORF 6 of LIYV RNA2 where at least a portion of the nucleotide sequence for at least one of these proteins, either in the sense or the antisense orientation, is operably linked to genetic regulatory sequences necessary for gene expression to form plant transformation vectors. These vectors are then used to prepare transgenic seeds and plants.

Abstract: A device mountable on a material container for dispensing fluid or pasty material therefrom is disclosed. The device comprises a first pump (10) for selectively dispensing the material from the container through an outlet (31), said first pump being mountable on the container by means of an attachment member (11), and a manual actuation member (30) movable between an inoperative position and an actuated position. The device further comprises a second pump (20) for dispensing compressed air at the same time as the material is dispensed. The second pump comprises two elements (21, 22), i.e. a plunger (21) and a pump cylinder (22) slidably housing the plunger (21), and is designed to feed a flow of compressed air to the outlet (31) in order to spray the material. One of said two elements (21, 22) of said second pump (20) is secured to said attachment member (11) of the first pump (10), whereas the other of said two elements (21, 22) is secured to the actuation member (30).

Abstract: A process for the co-deposition of fluorinated carbon and diamond material with electroless metal in which the electroless plating bath is formulated to contain an aqueous dispersion of the fluorinated carbon, the finely divided diamond material and an electroless metal salt in aqueous suspension. the plating bath can be used to plate workpieces wherein the fluorinated carbon and diamond material are co-deposited in a plated electroless metal matrix. It has been found that the use of a finely divided diamond material having an average diameter less than 10 nm provides not only improved bath stability but also facilitates the codeposition of the diamond material and fluorinated carbon with the electroless metal.

Abstract: The invention is related to a novel biologically pure Bacillus thuringiensis (B.t.) strains active against lepidopteran and coleopteran pests which produces a bipyramidal crystal consisting essentially of at least two delta-endotoxins having a molecular weight of about 130,000 daltons and a rhomboidal crystal consisting essentially of two delta-endotoxins, each having a molecular weight of about 33,000 daltons, as well as spores, crystals, delta-endotoxins and/or mutants thereof. The invention also relates to insecticidal compositions obtainable therefrom. The invention further relates to methods of using the insecticidal compositions to control an insect pest(s) from the order Lepidoptera and/or Coleoptera. The invention also relates to isolated DNA sequences encoding the delta-endotoxins.

Abstract: An apparatus for wastewater treatment, includes a calorie reducer first vessel having an inlet and an outlet, the outlet adapted to control the retention time of wastewater within the first vessel. A first recycle pump is connected to the first vessel to recycle wastewater from a bottom of the first vessel to a top of the first vessel through a recycle conduit, at a high velocity. The recycle conduit provides an air gap for drawing air into the first vessel. Bacteria within the calorie reducer vessel consume biodegradable food with a minimum number of bacteria while in the log growth phase. A second bio-reducer vessel is connected to the calorie reducer vessel. The bio-reducer holds a media supported above a bottom reservoir. A bio-reducer recycle pump recycles wastewater within the reservoir to be sprayed onto a top of the bio-reducer, to wash over the media. Further bio-reducers can be arranged downstream of the first bio-reducer.