Abstract: A papermaker's fabric for use on a pulp thickening device and the like, having a body with edge portions on which are located guides with transition points between the body, and edge portions being reinforced with a coating that extends from the edge portions over the transition points onto the body.

Abstract: A flexible fluid containment vessel fabricated out of fabric for transporting and containing a large volume of fluid, particularly fresh water, having tapered front and/or rear portions formed out of the intermediate tubular structure, including a method of making the same.

Abstract: The invention provides for a substantially non-aqueous, flame extinguishing composition for extinguishing a fire at the sight of a potential flame having a flurocarbon in admixture with a gelled powder additive having salts of weak acids which decompose at the temperature of the sight to reduce or eliminate HF released by the composition when used to extinguish flames.

Abstract: A method of removing a deck from an offshore structure is provided. An apparatus for carrying out the method is also described.

Abstract: A method for operation of an ion beam therapy system that comprises a grid scanner device, arranged in a beam guidance system (6, 8), having vertical deflection means (13) and horizontal deflection means (14) for the vertical and horizontal deflection of a treatment beam (11) perpendicular to its beam direction, with the result that the treatment beam (11) is deflected by the grid scanner device to an isocentre (10) of the irradiation site and scans a specific area surrounding the isocentre (10) using a specific radiation dose. Both the depth dose distribution and the transverse dose distribution of the grid scanner device (13, 14) at various positions in the region of the isocentre (10) are measured and evaluated, it being concluded that the radiation dose distribution is adequately homogeneous if the degree of variation in the radiation dose values measured at the individual positions does not exceed a specific tolerance limit value.

Abstract: Procedure for retrieving an insertion of an underwater buoy (12, 50) in a well (11) at the bottom of a dynamically positioned vessel (10), at which a pulling line (16, 34) for interconnection with the buoy (12, 50) is lowered through the well (11) and hoisted to the deck (13) of the vessel (10), and the buoy (12, 50) is interconnected with the pulling line (16, 34) and hoisted into the well (11) by use of a winching device (15, 65) on the vessel, comprising the steps of attaching the pulling line (16, 34) to the connection unit (19, 32) on the deck (13) of the vessel (10), to lower the connection unit (19, 32) with the pulling line (16, 34) towards the buoy (12, 50) by use of a hoisting device (18, 30, 39) on the vessel (10) under possible guidance by use of the dynamic positioning system of the vessel, to place the connection unit (19, 32) on a cooperating device (20, 51, 52) on the top of the buoy (12, 50), whereby a terminal end on the pulling line (16, 34) is connected to the cooperating device (20, 51, 5

Abstract: A fabric for providing reinforcement and the like which is made from a two dimensional flat fabric which included woven and unwoven portions that allow the fabric to be folded to create a three dimensional structure without the need for cutting and darting.

Abstract: A leader which is used to pull a seamable papermaker's fabric onto a paper machine comprising a ravel area for securing pull ropes or cables thereto.

Abstract: A pharmaceutical composition comprising therapeutically effective quantities of calcium channel blockers in combination with quinolines. In preferred embodiments, the invention further comprises quercetin. The components combine and interact in a manner to effectively treat viral infections.

Abstract: The invention relates to an ion beam system for irradiating tumor tissues at various irradiation angles in relation to a horizontally arranged patient couch and to a method of carrying out ion irradiations, wherein the patient couch has an apparatus for rotation about a vertical axis and the ion beam system has at least one of the following irradiation systems: a first irradiation system having an asymmetrical scanning system of fixed location, which has a central ion beam deflection region for deflection angles of up to ±15° with respect to the horizontal direction and makes possible scanning of a tumor volume in the central ion beam deflection region, and which has an additional lifting device for the patient couch; a second irradiation system, which has an ion beam deflection apparatus for a deflection angle greater than the first irradiation system and a symmetrical scanning unit for scanning the tumor volume, which scanning unit is arranged downstream of the ion beam deflection apparatus and i

Abstract: An industrial process fabrics having embossed surfaces to facilitate water removal from the product such as paper and paper products being carried thereon by creating voids through embossing to assist in fluid management.

Abstract: A collapsible support such as a post includes two sections interconnected via first and second threaded joint units. The first joint unit includes a first male screw member engageable with a female screw of one of the sections, a first engaging end face formed at one end of the first male screw member, and a stem projecting outward axially from the first engaging end face. The second joint unit includes a second male screw member for engaging a female screw of the other section, which is sleeved rotatably around the stem and has a second engaging end face confronting the first engaging end face. A clamp member mounted on the stem clamps together the first and second male screw members. The first and second male screw members are interlockable via the first and second engaging end faces. A resilient member mounted on the stem permits the first and second male screw members to disengage from each other for adjustment of the angular positions of the two sections.

Abstract: A papermaker's fabric is manufactured by spirally winding a laminated structure in a plurality of turns. The laminated structure has a bottom layer and a top layer, both of which are strips having a common width. The bottom layer and the top layer are laminated to one another in a transversely offset manner, so that an unlaminated portion of the bottom layer is along one lateral edge of the laminated structure and an unlaminated portion of the top layer is along the other lateral edge. When the laminated structure is spirally wound, the unlaminated portion of the top layer in one turn overlies the unlaminated portion of the bottom layer in an adjacent turn. These are joined to one another to form the papermaker's fabric from the spirally wound structure.

Abstract: The present invention refers to a method for attaching substrate molecules to gel matrices, characterized in that a substrate is covalently bound to a monomeric or oligomeric constitutional unit of a gel and the resultant product is polymerized. The present invention further refers to gels obtainable by this process.

Abstract: An on-machine-seamable papermaker's fabric, which may be produced by modified endless weaving, includes machine-direction (MD) and cross-machine-direction (CD) yarns. When so produced, the MD yarns weave continuously back and forth between the two widthwise edges of the fabric, each time forming a seaming loop at one of the two widthwise edges. Interwoven with at least one of the two sides, top and bottom, of the seaming loops at one or both widthwise edges are at least two additional CD yarns. The additional CD yarns interweave with the top and/or bottom of the seaming loops in a leno weave, which keeps the seaming loops in a common position vertically relative to the plane of the papermakers fabric, locks the seaming loops into a desired position and orientation with their planes perpendicular to that of the papermaker's fabric.

Abstract: A flexible fluid containment vessel or vessels for transporting and containing a large volume of fluid, particularly fresh water which is fabricated out of a fabric made out of a plurality of separately formed layers which are bound together.

Abstract: An on-machine-seamable papermaker's fabric includes a base fabric having seaming loops at its widthwise edges for joining the papermaker's fabric into endless form on a paper machine. The seam formed when the seaming loops are interdigitated and joined to one another with a pintle is covered with a strip of flow-resistant material, or, where the base fabric is a laminated structure having a top layer and a bottom layer, strips of flow-resistant material are placed between the top and bottom layers adjacent to the seam. The flow-resistant material provides the seam region with permeabilities to air and water substantially identical to those of the rest of the papermaker's fabric. At least one layer of staple fiber batt is entangled through the base fabric and flow-resistant material.

Abstract: A screen filter device or strainer for separating liquid from solids having a disposable filter media which is easily detached and affixed to a filter support to provide for ease of replacement.

Abstract: A pharyngometer or similar wavetube-based apparatus which includes a wavetube which is detachable from the electronic platform. As the wavetube includes no electronic components, the wavetube can be sterilized thermally or chemically between patients without damaging the electronics of the electronic platform. The wavetube is attached to the electronic platform by a tab in the electronic platform which fits into a lateral groove within the wavetube. Similarly, a threaded member in the electronic platform engages a threaded aperture in the wavetube.

Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus and a method for irradiating tumor tissue (3) of a patient (10) by means of an ion beam (2). For that purpose, the apparatus has a deflecting device (1) for the ion beam (2) for slice-wise and area-wise scanning of the tumor tissue (3) and an ion beam energy control device for slice-wise and depth-wise scanning of the ion beam (2). An electromechanically driven ion-braking device (11, 12) is provided as a depth-wise scanning adaptation apparatus (5) for adapting the range of the ion beam (2) and has faster depth-wise adaptation than the energy control device of an accelerator. The movement of a patient is monitored by means of a movement detection device (7) for detecting a temporal and positional change in the location of the tumor tissue (3) in a treatment space (8).