Abstract: A fire extinguishing arrangement for integration into a domestic clothes dryer, washing machine, refrigerator, freezer, fridge-freezer or dishwasher. The fire extinguishing arrangement has a fire extinguisher that is sized and shaped to be set in the free internal space around the inner workings of a domestic clothes dryer, washing machine, refrigerator, freezer, fridge-freezer or dishwasher. The fire extinguishing arrangement further has a trigger mechanism that is operable to trigger the fire extinguisher to release an extinguishant, a heat detector capable of operating the trigger mechanism when pre-set temperature is reached. The heat detector is further placeableat a remote location to the fire extinguisher. The fire extinguishing arrangement also can also break an electrical circuit (e.g. to cut the power source to the appliance) when the heat detector detects a pre-set temperature.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for material handling coupled to a vehicle to move material and an object. The material handling apparatus comprises a blade movably attached to the vehicle and configured to move the material and move relative to the vehicle. A pair of forks is coupled to the blade and configured to move from one position wherein the forks form a portion of the blade to a second position wherein the forks can selectively manipulate the object. The material handling apparatus can include actuators to move the blade and the forks. The apparatus can also be configured wherein the actuators are controlled from inside the vehicle.

Abstract: A printer with reduced required space for printbar substrates in a printhead is disclosed. A first printbar has of a plurality of first die modules, for applying a first color, spaced apart so as to have gaps between each die module and located on a top surface of a first substrate. A second printbar has of a plurality of second die modules, for applying a second color, different for the first color, spaced apart so as to have gaps between each die module and located on a bottom surface of the first substrate. A third printbar for applying the first color and a fourth printbar for applying the second color, both have die modules, spaced apart on a top surface and a bottom surface of a second substrate, that correspond with the gaps on the top surface and the bottom surface of the first substrate, respectively.

Abstract: The poison resistant sensor comprises a sensing electrode (4) having a first and second side; a reference electrode (7) having a first and second side; an electrolyte (1) disposed between and in intimate contact with the first side of the sensing electrode and the first side of the reference electrode; a first side of a protective layer (3) disposed adjacent to the second side of the sensing electrode; and a protective coating (17), comprising alpha alumina and gamma alumina, disposed in physical contact with the second side of the protective layer.

Abstract: A compound of formula (I) or (II), wherein: M is Pb or Sn or Bi, n is 1 to 20, each R1 is independently —SiR3 or R or —CCSiR3 or —CCR or H, each R2 is independently —CCSiR3 or —CCR or H, each X is independently H or C1 to C20 hydrocarbyl optionally including a carboxylic acid or ester group, each Y is independently H or C1 to C20 hydrocarbyl, each R is independently H or C1 to C20 hydrocarbyl, Z is C1 to C20 alkylene or arylene.

Abstract: A laboratory reactor apparatus includes a suction tube, at least a portion of which has a constricted inside diameter. The lower portion of the suction tube is sealed to a sintered frit filter medium. The suction tube mounts in a reactor block into a reactor vial for receiving chemical components. An inlet channel with a first seal is formed through the block and conveys chemical component materials to the vial, and a suction channel with a second seal, coaxial with the suction tube, is used to remove resultant chemical compound materials therefrom. A pressurized gas channel containing inert gas is formed through the block to intersect the suction channel and the inlet channel.

Abstract: Peptide N-alkylamides, and other C-terminal N-substituted amides, can be synthesized using solid-phase synthesis on a benzene-containing resin which is suitably methylated. Reactive amino groups are attached directly or indirectly to the methyl groups, for example, such as by reacting commercially available chloromethylated polystyrene resins with an alkylamine to create a resin-amine. The C-terminal amino acid of the desired peptide is linked to the resin-amine via an amide linkage, and the peptide is thereafter built in normal fashion. Treatment of the completed peptide intermediate with HF is effective to both effect deprotection and cleave the peptide from the resin in the form of the N-substituted amide. Examples include peptide N-ethylamides, N-fluoroethylamide, N-anilides and other substituted N-benzylamides.

Abstract: GnRH peptide analogs which regulate the secretion of gonadotropins by the pituitary gland and either promote or inhibit the release of steroids by the gonads. Administration of an effective amount of a GnRH antagonist prevents ovulation of female mammalian eggs and/or the release of gonadotropins. Administration of GnRH agonists can be used to regulate fertility in male and female mammals.These and other peptide hormones exhibit improved binding efficiency and biological potency as a result having a residue in a critical, generally central location in the chain which residue contains a mixed alkyl ketone side-chain terminating in an aromatic group. Methods for efficiently synthesizing these peptides from readily available compounds are disclosed.

Abstract: Peptide N-alkylamides, and other C-terminal N-substituted amides, can be synthesized using solid-phase synthesis on a benzene-containing resin which is suitably methylated. Reactive amino groups are attached directly or indirectly to the methyl groups, for example, such as by reacting commercially available chloromethylated polystyrene resins with an alkylamine to create a resin-amine. The C-terminal amino acid of the desired peptide is linked to the resin-amine via an amide linkage, and the peptide is thereafter built in normal fashion. Treatment of the completed peptide intermediate with HF is effective to both effect deprotection and cleave the peptide from the resin in the form of the N-substituted amide. Examples include peptide N-ethylamides, N-fluoroethylamide, N-anilides and other substituted N-benzylamides.

Abstract: There is disclosed an aqueous composition for removing or reducing the intensity of dyes in dye transfers and the intensity of dyes used by photo retouchers on transparencies and color prints. The composition comprises, per 100 parts by weight of water, from about 1 to about 10 parts by weight of a thiourea and from about 5 to about 20 parts by weight of an ammonium nitrate compound. Application of this composition to dye transfers and/or to dyes used by photo retouchers on transparencies and color prints proportionally removes magenta, cyan and yellow dyes therefrom.