Abstract: A device for wiping and/or drying a brush for applying a liquid from a container to a portion of the body, such as mascara for eyelashes, and a container including the same. The device includes a sleeve insertable into the neck of the container and having a first open end, a second end provided with articulated flaps, and a wall between the first and second end and provided with lugs radially deformable towards an axis of the sleeve upon insertion of the sleeve into the neck of the container. The lugs constitute a stop for the flaps during the withdrawal of the brush through these flaps while the flaps are, upon insertion of the brush into the container through the sleeve, freely pivoting to permit this insertion.

Abstract: A fluid coupling (1) with a sealed casing (2) including two mutually communicating chambers (21, 23) and traversed by a driven shaft (10) connected to a user, one of said chambers (21) containing a pair of rotors (15, 17) provided with radial blades (16, 18), a driving first rotor (17) being operationally connected to a driving shaft and the driven second rotor (15) being associated with the driven shaft (10), the other chamber (23) acting as a delay chamber, the casing (2) containing a fluid arranged to transfer motion from the driving rotor (17) to the driven rotor (15). Within the sealed casing (2) there is provided at least one further chamber or reservoir (22) connected to said two chambers (21, 23) such as to feed the fluid contained in it to the delay chamber (23) with a delay subsequent to the starting of the motor, said fluid being transferred with a further delay to the working chamber (21) containing the rotors (15, 17).

Abstract: The invention relates to a twin-wire web former for a paper machine wherein a covering wire and a carrying wire form a twin-wire forming zone between them. A method for dewatering a web is also disclosed. In the invention, water is drained out of a web running through the twin-wire zone through both of the wires. After the twin-wire zone, the web is separated from the covering wire and is transferred on the carrying wire to a pick-up point. In hybrid formers, after an initial single-wire forming zone preceding the twin-wire zone, and in gap formers, after a curved forming zone placed directly after a forming gap, there is a forming shoe provided with a ribbed deck and arranged inside one of the wire loops. This forming shoe is followed by dewatering and web forming units which include forming ribs and are placed inside both of the wire loops. At least one of the dewatering and web forming units is loaded by means of a pressure-hose arrangement.

Abstract: A method for causing adherence of a web to a drying wire so as to prevent the effects of centrifugal forces and of other air-flow phenomena, which effects attempt to separate the web from the drying wire in dryer groups having a single-wire draw and arranged in a multi-cylinder dryer of a paper machine. The dryer groups include heated drying cylinders, a drying wire for pressing the web against outer cylinder faces of the drying cylinders, and guide cylinders or rolls on which the web runs on the outside face of the drying wire. The guide cylinders have perforations which pass through the cylinder mantle and open into an inside space in the interior of the guide cylinders which is subjected to a vacuum. The vacuum in the guide cylinders is transferred to the outside face through the perforations. The guide cylinders have shafts on which the guide cylinders are mounted revolving.

Abstract: A concrete coloring material and a process for coloring concrete by means of such a concrete coloring material capable of permitting concrete to exhibit natural color or aesthetic properties while preventing concrete from being substantially discolored. Polyethylene oxide is used as a water-soluble adhesive or gIue. The oxide is mixed with a composition such as dye, pigment, a mixture thereof or the like, to thereby permit the composition to penetrate into the concrete.

Abstract: The invention relates to a closed press section in a paper machine and comprises a compact combination of press rolls. Several of the rolls define press nips with each other, between which nips the web has a closed draw supported by the face of a fabric. The press section has a center roll in connection with which a press nip or press nips are provided. A closed loop of a transfer band is passed around the center roll. The web is transferred on an outer face of the transfer band after the last press nip in the compact combination of rolls as a closed and constantly supported draw onto a drying wire in a drying section following after the press section. The transfer band loop is made of a transfer band fabric that substantially does not receive water and does not rewet the web.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for fixing an electrode arrangement to be used in the cathodic protection of concrete structures. In the method, an anode (20) is mounted in a framework (11) and the framework with its anodes is mounted on the concrete structure at a production plant or in the mounting step before the concreting step. The invention also relates to a fixing element (10) of the electrode arrangement to be used in the cathodic protection of concrete structures, which fixing element is comprised of an anode (20) and a framework (11), which framework (11) is provided with means (15) for fixing the element (10) to the concrete structure.

Abstract: A method and device for reeling a paper or board web in a drum reel-up or equivalent, in which, when a paper or board reel formed on a reel spool situated in a reeling position becomes complete, a new reel spool is brought by transfer members into a stand-by position and accelerated up to the web speed. The reel spool with the complete reel is transferred into an exchange position apart from the reel drum and the new, initially accelerated reel spool is transferred into the reeling position. When the reel spool with its reel is transferred into the exchange position apart from the reel drum, the belt guide roll is transferred into nip-defining relationship with the complete reel that is being formed onto the reel spool and is displaced along with the reel spool into the exchange position so that the web runs during the entire exchange on support of the belt and through a nip between the guide roll and the reel spool.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for ventilating pocket spaces in a multi-cylinder dryer of a paper machine, in particular a high-speed paper machine whose running speed is higher than about 800 meters per minute, in the area of a so-called twin-wire draw. In the twin-wire draw, the drying cylinders in the drying group are arranged in two rows placed one above the other, in which rows the successive cylinders are placed in the upper row and in the lower row as interlocked. In each cylinder group, there are two drying wires, an upper wire and a lower wire for pressing the paper web against heated faces of the drying cylinder while being guided by guide rolls placed in gaps between the cylinders. The paper web runs as free draws between the rows of cylinders.

Abstract: A method for the manufacture of a laxative composition in dosage unit form which comprises the steps of melting a normally solid stool softener; dispersing and/or dissolving a stimulant laxative compound in the molten stool softener and mixing to obtain a uniform mixture; filling the molten dispersion into hard gelatin capsule shells; and allowing the capsules to cool and the melt or dispersion to solidify.

Abstract: This anti-shoplifting box has the characteristic of a particularly compact locking device openable by magnetic action combined with manual mechanical action, said device including, on an object-containing drawer, a tongue which is internal and transversely holed for engagement by a cylindrical end stem, having a spherical head with a circumferential undercut, of a ferromagnetic body which is also cylindrical but of greater diameter such as to provide an annular stop ledge for the action of a compressed spring contained within an axial hole therein and reacting against an edge of the box.

Abstract: A press section of a paper machine, in particular for printing paper qualities whose grammage is in the range of about 40 g/m.sup.2 to about 80 g/m.sup.2 is disclosed. The press section comprises a pick-up roll having a suction zone on which a paper web is detached at a pick-up point from a forming wire and is passed on the pick-up felt into a first press nip in the press section. In the first press nip, the pick-up felt acts as a press fabric. The press section further includes an extended nip placed after the first press nip. Into this extended nip, the web is passed as a closed draw on support of a fabric face or roll face. The first nip in the press section is a roll nip with relatively low load and acts as a front nip. In the area of the first press nip, almost or approximately one half of the total amount of the water contained in the web entering into the front nip is removed from the web.

Abstract: An electrode system and method, including a measurement electrode, a reference electrode and a counterelectrode, for measuring hydrogen peroxide concentration in a solution. For the measurement electrode, an electrode made from titanium, zirconium, tantalum or niobium is used.

Abstract: A water purification plant and method for purifying liquid by flotation clarification, in which pollution particles, or impurities dissolved in the liquid and brought into a particle form by flocculation chemicals, are separated from the liquid and led onto a surface of the fluid to form a bed of slurry. The slurry bed is led away into a sewer system and the purified liquid is led through an intermediate bottom of a clarification basin into a lower space of the clarification basin or directly away for additional purification or consumption. The intermediate bottom of the clarification basin is provided with elements affecting the flow such that the flow resistance occurring through the intermediate bottom is at its largest at the final end of the clarification basin and the flow resistance decreases towards the initial end of the clarification basin, whereby the entire area of the clarification basin has substantially the same, and uniform, flow volume.

Abstract: An anti-theft package, in particular to prevent the theft of cigarette packs, having a frame and a lid, both having a rectangular cross-section. The frame has rectangular openings on its upper and lower sides, and a hole that passes through the medium portion next to the entrance edge. The lid has a rectangular section which fits inside the frame and an electronic label with a cone-shaped dome. The lid is locked by a peg introduced in the hole of the frame. In an alternative embodiment, the lid is locked by mechanical devices, such as padlocks, safety-locks, etc.

Abstract: A sustained release pharmaceutical formulation includes a sustained release excipient including a gelling agent, an inert pharmaceutical diluent, an optional cationic cross-linking agent, and a medicament having moderate to poor solubility is disclosed. In certain embodiments, the sustained release excipient is granulated with a solution or suspension of a hydrophobic polymer in an amount effective to slow the hydration of the gelling agent when the formulation is exposed to an environmental fluid. In another embodiment, the tablet is coated with a hydrophobic polymer.