Abstract: A method is provided for broadcasting a data stream in a network including at least two separate transmitters supplied by a head end. The stream is organized into data frames and includes at least one time marker. The method includes the following steps at the head end: obtaining a first time reference from an external source; obtaining a second time reference from the data stream received by the head end; comparing the first and second time references in order to determine a time shift between the first and second time references; and transmitting the time shift or at least one time marker modified on the basis of the time shift in order to compensate for a transport time variation between the head end and the transmitters.

Abstract: A telecommunications cable comprising four twisted pairs of conductors and a separator spline comprised of a principal dividing strip and a first subsidiary dividing strip attached longitudinally along a first side of the principal dividing strip and a second dividing strip attached longitudinally along a second side of the principal dividing strip, the spline separating the four twisted pairs such that they are arranged in a staggered configuration. A method for reducing cross talk between adjacent cables in a telecommunications system, the method comprising the steps of, for each of the cables, providing a plurality of twisted pairs of conductors, winding an elongate filler element around the twisted pairs and covering the twisted pairs and the element with a cable jacket, the element introducing a visible distortion into an outer surface of the jacket.

Abstract: A method is provided for broadcasting a data stream in a network including at least two separate transmitters supplied by a head end. The stream is organised into data frames and includes at least one time marker. The method includes the following steps at the head end: obtaining a first time reference from an external source; obtaining a second time reference from the data stream received by the head end; comparing the first and second time references in order to determine a time shift between the first and second time references; and transmitting the time shift or at least one time marker modified on the basis of the time shift in order to compensate for a transport time variation between the head end and the transmitters.

Abstract: A telecommunications cable comprising four twisted pairs of conductors and a separator spline comprised of a principal dividing strip and a first subsidiary dividing strip attached longitudinally along a first side of the principal dividing strip and a second dividing strip attached longitudinally along a second side of the principal dividing strip, the spline separating the four twisted pairs such that they are arranged in a staggered configuration. A method for reducing cross talk between adjacent cables in a telecommunications system, the method comprising the steps of, for each of the cables, providing a plurality of twisted pairs of conductors, winding an elongate filler element around the twisted pairs and covering the twisted pairs and the element with a cable jacket, the element introducing a visible distortion into an outer surface of the jacket.

Abstract: A telecommunications cable comprising four twisted pairs of conductors and a separator spline comprised of a principal dividing strip and a first subsidiary dividing strip attached longitudinally along a first side of the principal dividing strip and a second dividing strip attached longitudinally along a second side of the principal dividing strip, the spline separating the four twisted pairs such that they are arranged in a staggered configuration. A method for reducing cross talk between adjacent cables in a telecommunications system, the method comprising the steps of, for each of the cables, providing a plurality of twisted pairs of conductors, winding an elongate filler element around the twisted pairs and covering the twisted pairs and the element with a cable jacket, the element introducing a visible distortion into an outer surface of the jacket.

Abstract: A telecommunications cable comprising four twisted pairs of conductors and a separator spline comprised of a principal dividing strip and a first subsidiary dividing strip attached longitudinally along a first side of the principal dividing strip and a second dividing strip attached longitudinally along a second side of the principal dividing strip, the spline separating the four twisted pairs such that they are arranged in a staggered configuration. A telecommunications cable comprising a first set of two twisted pairs of, conductors arranged on opposite sides of and running along an axis and separated by a first distance and a second set of two twisted pairs of conductors on opposite sides of and running along the axis and separated by a second distance less than the first distance. Each of the first set of twisted pairs has a twist lay which is shorter than a twist lay of either of the second set of twisted pairs.

Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for use in mixing fluids within an insulated container. The apparatus allows the stored fluid to be mixed and/or poured without compromising the thermal integrity of the container. This is accomplished by providing an integrated cap that houses a mixing shaft, an optional power supply, and a pouring spout.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of controlling equipment for monitoring the quality of digital television signals comprising a data stream organized into frames. It comprises the following steps: a) selecting a reference time signal (PCR) in the data stream; b) on the basis of the reference time signal (PCR), generating a multibit digital clock signal (MTS) whose phase is servo-controlled from said reference time signal (PCR) and whose count is deduced unambiguously from the count of a time base (STC) generated during initial encoding of the digital television signals; and c) transmitting at least meaningful bits of the digital clock signal (MTS) to the measurement equipment synchronously with an analog video frame synchronizing signal (STV) as decoded from the data stream so as to generate a measurement triggering signal (MSTC).

Abstract: A first mold die and a second mold die are moved together and are shaped to define a mold cavity therebetween. A capacitor pellet is positioned within the mold cavity and a plurality of projections extend inwardly to engage the capacitor pellet and hold it spaced away from the cavity side wall. The method comprises placing the pellet body within the cavity molding and retentively engaging the pellet body with a plurality of projections to provide a space between the pellet body and the cavity side wall. A molding material is used to fill the space to provide a coating on the pellet body.

Abstract: A capacitor includes a pellet molded within a protective material and having a cathode termination surface at one end and an anode wire extending from the other end. The cathode termination surface is centered with respect to the longitudinal axis of the capacitor. The method includes centering the pellet body and a tear drop shaped conductive cathode element within a mold and molding a protective coating around them. After the molding is complete a portion of the tear drop shaped member is removed to create a cathode termination.

Abstract: An installation has a fixed die portion and a moving die portion, ejector rods under the control of an actuator fed with control fluid, and a spray device for spraying a coating substance. A monitoring apparatus comprises a pressure sensor for continuously measuring the pressure of a control fluid, a device for measuring and recording the pressure as a function of time, a device for comparing the recorded measurement with a reference measurement, and a device for modifying the spraying of the coating substance as a function of the comparison.

Abstract: The invention relates to apparatus for determining the purity of a metal alloy, and in particular an aluminum alloy. The apparatus comprises a shell (10) defining a receptacle (14) of generally tapering shape about a vertical axis having a bottom end defining an orifice (18) of small dimensions, a filter (20) completely closing the orifice, means a heater for initially raising the shell to a first predetermined temperature, an orifice putting a predetermined quantity of alloy to be tested into the receptacle, the quantity of alloy being initially at a second predetermined temperature, whereby the alloy flows under gravity through the filter until the filter becomes clogged with the impurities in the alloy, and means a pan for collecting and measuring the volume of alloy that passes through the filter prior to the filter becoming clogged by the impurities contained in the alloy.

Abstract: The freezing point of a food product subjected to freezing temperatures is increased by adding to the food product a juice obtained from berries of sea buckthorn or an aqueous extract obtained from sea buckthorn berry or leaf tissue. The food product containing the added sea buckthorn substance is then cooled to freeze the product.

Abstract: Sea buckthorn berry juice and aqueous extracts obtained from sea buckthorn berry and leaf tissue provide an ice nucleating agent and thereby operate, upon addition of the juice and/or extract to a freezeable food product, to increase the freezing temperature of the food product. A protein and a protein-lipid aggregate having the ice-nucleating activity may be isolated from the juice and/or extract. The extracts may be obtained by extracting the tissue with an aqueous solution containing a saccharide, particularly pectin alone or in combination with another saccharide.

Abstract: Cationic copolymers which are insoluble in water based on acrylamide, and a cationic monomer of general formula (I) ##STR1## in which R and R.sub.1, identical or different, represent a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, X represents an oxygen atom or an NH radical and n represents 2 or 3, containing in molar proportions 5 to 30% of cation units and cross-linked with 0.01% to 0.4% in molar proportions relative to the previous monomers of bisacrylamidoacetic acid and with about 0.01% to 0.1% in molar proportions relative to the monomers of bisacrylamidoacetic acid, self-reversible dispersions containing them and use in coating in the paper industry.

Abstract: Process for coating papers and other articles in which the said papers and other articles are treated at pH 4 to 5 with a cross-linked anionic polymer, insoluble in water, and use for obtaining papers or other similar articles intended to be flexographically printed.

Abstract: Cationic copolymers which are insoluble in water based on acrylamide, and a cationic monomer of general formula (I) ##STR1## in which R and R.sub.1, identical or different, represent a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, X represents an oxygen atom or an NH radical and n represents 2 or 3, containing in molar proportions 5 to 30% of cation units and cross-linked with 0.01% to 0.4% in molar proportions relative to the previous monomers of bisacrylamidoacetic acid and with about 0.01% to 0.1% in molar proportions relative to the monomers of bisacrylamidoacetic acid, self-reversible dispersions containing them and use in coating in the paper industry.

Abstract: Process for coating papers and other articles in which the said papers and other articles are treated at pH 4 to 5 with a cross-linked anionic polymer, insoluble in water, and use for obtaining papers or other similar articles intended to be flexographically printed.

Abstract: A refining process for paper pulp in which colloidal silica sol is mixed with the paper pulp to be refined. The addition of the colloidal silica sol reduces the time necessary to refine the pulp to a predetermined freeness value compared to refining in the absence of the colloidal silica sol.

Abstract: Coating process for papers and cardboards, in which cross-linked polymers insoluble in water, containing in molar proportions in the polymerized state:50 to 99.995% acrylic acid at least 70% of which is in the form of ammonium acrylate,0.005 to 0.5% bisacrylamidoacetic acid which has about the same neutralization ratio as acrylic acid and,the complement to 100% with acrylamide, are used as coating agent, and use in paper coating.