Abstract: A plurality of mounts releasably adhered to a single sheet of a backing material, each mount being a mount for mounting paper to glass, and comprising a body having a first surface carrying an adhesive coating capable of adhering the mount to a sheet of paper to form a mountable arrangement, and a second surface capable of securing such a mountable arrangement directly to glass without adhesive.

Abstract: A process for the application of a pigmented or metallic layer from a foil to a substrate comprising: (i) applying an adhesive to the substrate; (ii) curing the adhesive; (iii) heating the substrate bearing the cured adhesive to render the adhesive tacky; and (iv) transferring the pigmented or metallic layer from the foil to the adhesive-bearing areas of the substrate.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of laminated materials and, in particular, to laminates (1) for stamping foils and security threads (1). In one aspect there is provided a laminate (1) for a stamping foil comprising a carrier layer, a translucent or transparent coloured first lacquer layer (5), a translucent or transparent second lacquer layer (10) disposed between the carrier layer and the first lacquer layer and a light-reflecting layer (20) adjacent to the first lacquer layer, wherein the first lacquer layer is incomplete in a region substantially in register with an incomplete region in the light-reflecting layer such that the carrier layer is partially covered by the first lacquer layer and the light-reflecting layer (20).

Abstract: A structure and method for mounting a processor assembly on a mother board and a structure and method for cooling the processor assembly are described. The processor assembly includes a processor circuit board assembly which is located adjacent to a heat sink for removing heat from the circuit board assembly. The heat sink and circuit board assembly are maintained in an upright position with respect to the mother board by a fame mounted on the mother board and/or the computer system chassis. A cover mounted to the top of the frame holds a connector on the processor circuit board assembly in mating contact with a connector on the mother board. The cover also serves to complete an enclosure around the heat sink and processor circuit board assembly. Fans mounted to the frame move air from an intake end of the processor assembly, across cooling fins on the heat sink, to an outlet end of the processor assembly such that a ducted cooling system is provided for the processor assembly.

Abstract: A propolis food product that contains propolis active ingredients with improved bio-absorbability and is readily ingested. The propolis food products containing propolis extracts are gelled by gelatinizers. The gelantinizers are materials such as shiitake extracts, curdlan, agarics extracts and further including sulfated saccharides, .beta.-glucans, carrageenan, locust bean gum, xanthan gum, or agar. The propolis food products are prepared by water or alcohol extraction. Furthermore, the steps involve preparing a gelantinizer solution by adding a gelatinizer to water and adding propolis extracts thereto so that the amount of the propolis extracts in the food product is from 2 to 25 w/w %, a gel composition is then formed by admixing the solution in order to uniformly disperse the propolis extracts.

Abstract: A constant-voltage clamping forward conversion switching power supply is disclosed, which can prevent each of a magnetic saturation phenomenon in a main transformer, an excessive high voltage of a main switching transistor, and a shift effect of an input voltage, and can increase the duty cycle and improve an operating efficiency.

Abstract: Compositions of natural, especially plant, constituents in the form of spheroids in particular of the medicinal type and formulations necessary to their preparation by a technical extrusion and spheronization system. Compositions characterized by the direct use of large quantities of solutions of natural, especially plant, origin such as liquid extracts adsorbed by natural or synthetic polymer-type substances. These various components are selected so that their combination permits the obtainment of a mass of a plasticity compatible with the technical extrusion and spheronization system. According to the process, liquid extract is prepared, this extract is incorporated in a substance of a polymeric type, the correctly moistened mass is extruded by micro-extrusion techniques and the extrudates are spheronized and then dried and calibrated.

Abstract: A bag pack or stack dispenser system incorporating its shipping container (C) to dispense the bags using a frictional, template system (17A & 17B) to present the bag (8) in an open disposition when it is dispensed in a longitudinal direction (25). A unique thermoplastic bag is used, as part of a convenient and reliable system maintaining the alignment of the bags and previewing for greater ease in dispensing the bags on an individual basis. The template system incorporates a frictional contact surface for encouraging a bag, when being dispensed, to come out in an open disposition. The template may be made of a polystyrene bock, cardboard, etc., either independent of or emanating item container itself. The container has a removable, perforated, dispenser door (16), configured to provide convenient access to the bags (8), while encouraging communication of the bag being dispensed with the template for opening the bag during the dispensing operation. An alternative embodiment (FIG.

Abstract: A lumber end sealing machine involves a pass-through design utilizing a single exhaust system and the use of traveling and rotating sealer paint spray guns. An exhaust chamber is centered over the conveyor with spray guns located at both the conveyor entrance and exit openings of the exhaust chamber. The spray guns are formed to both transversely and rotatingly pass through an end face of the package of lumber which is stopped at the center of the exhaust system. The spray guns are supported on a vertical rod suspended from a carriage with transverse movement through the use of a pneumatic rodless piston and rotational movement of the spray guns by rotation of the vertical rod by means of a cam follower mechanism engaged with a curved profile bar.

Abstract: A test for the detection of bacteria of the genuses Salmonella and Serratia and distinguishing them from the genuses Proteus and Providencia carried out in the presence of a diazonium salt and a synthetic enzymatic substrate in the form of an ester having an aliphatic chain of 7 to 10 carbon atoms. Two reactions may be effected in the same reactive medium. The test may be associated with other tests such as the .beta.-glucosidase, .beta.-galactosidase and .beta.-glucuronidase research tests making it possible to apply it simultaneously to the detection of bacteria belonging to other genuses: Kliebsiella, Enterobacter, Escherichia.

Abstract: A support and method for the determination of enzyme activity in a biological extract is provided wherein the support comprises a fibrous material impregnated with a substrate and a water-soluble pH stabilizer comprising a first reagent suitable for a pH of enzyme activity over 7 or a second reagent suitable for a pH of enzyme activity of 7 or less; the viscose fibers are sufficiently loose in texture so as to be accessible both to products in solution and to tissuey and cellular mash or whole cells and sufficiently fine to permit adsorption and uniform distribution of reagents over the area thereof.

Abstract: Rapid identification of different species of Streptococcus is accomplished by: culturing the bacteria for several hours under unusual conditions which induces the bacteria to create characteristic enzymes by which the bacteria can be identified, and in a medium containing no more than about 1 g of glucose per liter of culture medium to produce a dense culture; distributing the culture onto several supports containing different substrates which are capable of reacting with enzymes so produced by different species of Streptococcus under the unusual conditions; and incubating the culture to produce a distinctly colored or colorable reaction product.