Abstract: Viscous active ingredients are introduced into the case of a galvanic cell by extrusion from a nozzle fed with the ingredients by a pumping device. The pumping device includes an elastic, substantially straight piece of hose, and a pressure roll which can be moved along the hose between two established limits, both in the general direction of the outlet nozzle to compress the hose, and in the opposite direction to assume a retracted position along the hose. The piece of hose is compressed at a point immediately adjacent to the hose segment defined between the established limits of the pressure roll so that the material to be metered does not come into contact with parts in relative motion to each other.

Abstract: A method of making a biologically inactive polypeptide active is disclosed. Activity is imparted to the polypeptide through treatment with an exogenous peptide sequence. The nature of the exogenous peptide sequence is disclosed.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for pouring molten metals, such as steel.a nozzle (2), known as the inner nozzle, of refractory material;a round fixed plate (3) provided with an axial hole coinciding with the hole in the nozzle (2), and made of refractory material;a round movable plate (4) provided with a central hole having an axis (23), and made of refractory material;a nozzle (5), known as the collector nozzle, fastened to the movable plate (4), of refractory material and intended to stabilize the deflected stream.The movable plate (4) can undergo displacement (17) along a straight or any other line, in such a manner as to close the hole in the fixed plate (3) to a greater or lesser extent.The movable plate (4) is also pivotable about its axis (23).The symmetrical shape of the various refractory members relative to their apertures, through which the metal passes at high temperature, imparts to the whole arrangement optimum characteristics of expansion and resistance to thermal shocks.

Abstract: Process for removing sulphur-containing compounds from a residual gas with recovery of said compounds in the form of sulphur, wherein the residual gas is subjected to a treatment comprising a hydrogenation and a hydrolysis phase to provide the sulphur-containing compounds in the unique form of H.sub.2 S, a cooling step with water condensation, a catalytic oxidation of H.sub.2 S in CLAUS stoechiometry and a catalytic CLAUS reaction phase with deposition of sulphur on the CLAUS catalyst and periodic regeneration of the sulphur-laden catalyst and cooling of the regenerated catalyst. The gas used for the regeneration and for the cooling is tapped from the gas effluent supplied to the catalytic oxidation and the gas issued from the regeneration is reintroduced at least in part into said gas effluent after separation of the sulphur containing therein. Application to the purification of residual gases issued from CLAUS sulphur units.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a skin cover capable of making desired curved portions on the skin cover without deforming or damaging the skin cover and without creating wrinkles on the skin cover. The method includes the steps of placing one of the surface skin and the wadding along a manufacturing surface having a shape corresponding to the curved sections such that the one of the surface skin and the wadding is kept in a desired curved shape; and attaching another one of the surface skin and the wadding to the one placed along the manufacturing surface to obtain the skin cover in the desired curved shape.

Abstract: The invention provides graft, prothesis, orthopaedic structures, implants and like body replacement parts which are constituted of synthetic collagen fibers, an embodiment of which is a tendon or a ligament prosthesis, graft or implants. These body parts have a combination of very useful properties, particularly high tensile strength combined with biocompatability.

Abstract: An electrochemical secondary element with a non-aqueous electrolyte, whose charge/discharge mechanism is predicated upon the reversible intercalation of active Li+ ions in electrode materials having an open skeletal structure. The positive electrode is essentially a lithium-manganese spinel of the type Li.sub.q M.sub.x Mn.sub.y O.sub.z which, in addition to satisfying the expressions 0<x<0.6 and 1.4<y<2.0, can also contain up to 30% of other metals such as Co, in addition to Mn. The negative electrode is based on a carbon product obtained by pyrolysis from organic compounds, and serves as the recipient substance for the Li+ ions. By limiting the Li concentration in the spinel lattice to a range in which the numerical values of the variable q lie between 0 and 1.3, a lithium-poor manganese spinel is obtained.

Abstract: This choke device is characterized in that a starting pump 49 for supplying the fuel in a fuel tank 25 by suction to a starting nozzle port 41, is driven by a fuel motor 53. Starting of the engine is executed by the use of a starting motor or a recoil starter, by supplying the fuel in the fuel tank 25 to the starting nozzle port 41 through sucking of the fuel with the starting fuel pump 49 which is turned by the fuel motor 53, thereby facilitating the ignition by augmenting the concentration of the mixed gas.

Abstract: Non-virulent aro-Salmonella typhimurium bacterium is disclosed into which has been cloned a heterologous nucleotide sequence encoding for the expression of Streptococcal M protein antigen from S. pyogenes seratype 5, which is effective to elicit opsonic antibodies against Streptococcal infections. The bacterium is useful for vaccination against Streptococcus pyogenes bacteria.

Abstract: In a lithium secondary cell of the intercalation type, with a positive electrode which includes a lithiated transition metal oxide Li.sub.x M.sub.y O.sub.2, wherein 0.5.ltoreq.x/y.ltoreq.1.0 and M is a metal from Groups VIIb and VIIIb (preferably Co, Ni, Mn), and with a negative electrode formed of a carbon product with disordered crystalline structure produced from organic materials by delayed coking, both electrodes are uncharged in the initial assembly state, but the negative electrode is doped with lithium through prelithiation in an amount which is irreversibly consumed in the formation of ion conductive surface layers. This permits a loss-free deintercalation of any subsequently introduced lithium so that the cell exhibits, from its inception, a largely stable capacity during cyclic charge/discharge operation.

Abstract: To change a rotational direction of a working apparatus such as a nut runner, rotational positions of a crankshaft at the highest voltages of primary currents in normal and reverse rotating operations are symmetrically arranged in relation to a rotational position corresponding the top dead center of a piston, and the rotational positions of the highest voltages are set before the rotational position corresponding the top dead center of the piston. In rotating the engine either in the normal or the reverse direction, the voltage of a primary current of an electromotive coil 97 reaches the highest value at a predetermined rotational position before the top dead center of the piston 7. An ignition unit 177 detects that a predetermined voltage close to the highest voltage is attained or that a predetermined voltage drop from the highest voltage has occurred, to short-circuit the primary current and generate a high-voltage current in a secondary circuit.

Abstract: In an engine used for a portable working apparatus such as a brush cutter, there are arranged a drive gear rotated by a starter motor, and a driven gear engaging with the drive gear and connected to a crankshaft through a nonreturn clutch. The driven gear is fixed to the crankshaft until the starter motor starts the engine and released from the crankshaft after the start of the engine and after a rotational speed of the crankshaft exceeds that of the starter motor.

Abstract: Positive ribbon electrodes for primary and secondary cells are produced in a dry process wherein two strips of active material in powder form, preferably comprised of MnO.sub.2, FeS.sub.2, CuO, .alpha.-Cu.sub.2 V.sub.2 O.sub.7, and Li.sub.x MnO.sub.y, are simultaneously rolled and then fed into the gap of a roller mechanism, on opposite sides of an interposed metal net or mesh, to roll coat both sides of the lattice-like carrier strip. After excess mass is stripped off, the finished electrode ribbon has a thickness of less than 0.45 mm and a porosity of more than 24% which, because of its large active surface, is advantageously used in wound batteries incorporating Li or H.sub.2 electrodes.

Abstract: Disclosed is a fuel supply system for an internal combustion engine having a fuel tank, a combustion chamber defined in an engine cylinder, and an air intake passage communicating with the combustion chamber. The fuel supply system comprises a main fuel passage communicating the fuel tank and the air intake passage, first supply mechanism provided on the main fuel passage for supplying main fuel from the fuel tank to the air intake passage responsive to the cranking of the engine a starting fuel passage defined separate from the main fuel passage and communicating with the air intake passage and the main fuel passage, and second supply mechanism provided on the starting fuel passage for supplying a predetermined amount of starting fuel into the air intake passage, in addition to the supply of main fuel, responsive to the temperature of the engine cylinder upon starting of the engine.

Abstract: Device permitting localization of the emergence point of ventricular tachycardias in cardiological medicine, characterized, in comparison with traditional cardiac mapping, by: a precision of the same order, its speed of use, its low cost and the further possibility of localizing the macro-re-entry pathway (around aneurysms, for example).In distinction to traditional mapping, this device dispenses with the construction of a map of isochrones (14).The principle of the device according to the invention is based on localization of the propagation of the myocardial cell depolarization, or of the muscle contraction of the heart (15) which results directly therefrom. This localization is carried out in stages (17) over the length of its pathway (13) from an arbitrary point (16) on the heart chosen by the operator, retracing this pathway as far as its source (12'), which is referred to as the emergence point.

Abstract: Compositions and methods for increasing the contractility of the mammalian heart as shown by a positive inotropic effect are disclosed, employing protoberberine alkaloids such as berberine, discretine, xylopinine, berrberubine, tetrahydropalmatine, and stepharotine in combination with cardiac glycosides such as ouabain, digoxin, digitoxin, deslanoside and digitalis.

Abstract: A skin covered foamed plastic seat capable of preventing the leakage of the liquid foam resin from the holes to be made on it. The skin covered foamed plastic seat includes a trim cover attached to the skin cover at locations of holes, to cover side faces of the bossings of the molding surface when the skin cover is placed over the molding surface.