Abstract: A wet wheel cutter assembly including a cutter wheel (14) rotatably mounted in a housing (11), a worktable (12) mounted on the housing (11) upon which articles to be cut are placed, an upper portion of the cutter wheel (14) projecting above the worktop with the remainder of the cutter wheel (14) being located beneath the worktable (12), an open topped fluid container (60) secured by mounting means to the housing (11) for movement along a path of movement between first and second positions, the container (60) in its first position being located beneath the worktable (12) so that the lower portion of the cutter wheel (14) is located within the container (60), the container (60) in its second position being detachable from the housing (11) and being located at a position whereat the cutter wheel (14) is located outside the container (60).

Abstract: A wall plug for enabling fixings to be attached to a wall, the wall plug comprising an elongate body having an inner insertion end and an outer end, a through bore extending from the outer end toward the inner end, the through bore being adapted to axially receive an elongate drill of a setting tool, and body end portion extending axially in-board from said inner insertion end, the body end portion having at least one axially extending recess communicating with an axial end region of said through bore so as to expose a side portion of the setting tool when received in said through bore.

Abstract: A computing device for processing object identifier data corresponding to an object identifier is disclosed. The computing device includes a processor and memory in electronic communication with the processor. Instructions are stored in the memory. The instructions are executable to implement a method that involves obtaining the object identifier data. The method also involves obtaining supplemental information about the object identifier. The supplemental information identifies a symbology of the object identifier. The method also involves matching the object identifier data with a first pattern associated with a first rule that comprises first instructions and also with a second rule that comprises second instructions. The method also involves using the symbology of the object identifier to determine which of the first rule and the second rule are applied to the object identifier data.

Abstract: A data collection device (10) reads a machine readable data storage medium (38) comprising data encoded in a machine readable format. The data collection device (10) comprising a code reading system (21), a processor (20), and a communication module (26). The code reading system detects the data encoded in the machine readable data storage medium (38) and generates digital data representative thereof. The processor (20) operates an embedded decoder system (76). The embedded decoder system (76) comprises a decoder module (72) and an interpreter module (84). The decoder module (76) receives the digital data and generates decoded data (134). The interpreter module (84) receives the decoded data (134) and manipulating the decoded data (134) in accordance with the plurality of data manipulation commands defined in a rules file (85) to generate formatted data (136). The communication module (26) transfers the formatted data to a remote system.

Abstract: A method for facilitating automatic completion of an electronic form displayed by an application is disclosed. The method involves receiving identification tag data that represents information contained within a machine-readable identification tag. A plurality of data fields in the identification tag data and a plurality of input fields in the electronic form are identified. Association code is generated which indicates how the plurality of data fields correspond to the plurality of input fields. A computing device for facilitating automatic completion of an electronic form displayed by an application is also disclosed. The computing device includes a processor and memory in electronic communication with the processor. An association code generator is stored in the memory. The association code generator is configured to implement the disclosed method.

Abstract: A method for generating a machine-readable graphical code is provided. The method may involve providing a plurality of field identifiers that may be included in the graphical code. The method may also involve receiving a user selection of a subset of the plurality of field identifiers. The method may also involve receiving field contents associated with each field identifier in the subset of the plurality of field identifiers. The method may also involve creating encodable source data by combining the subset of the plurality of field identifiers and the field contents according to predefined rules.

Abstract: A method for tracking products as they move through a supply chain is disclosed. The method involves using an identification tag reader to scan a machine-readable identification tag that is attached to a first product. The machine-readable identification tag includes an encoded version of a product identifier that uniquely identifies the first product. The identification tag reader decodes the encoded version of the product identifier and obtains the product identifier. A product database is then accessed to determine whether a next action that may be taken with respect to the first product is allowable. The next action is not allowable unless a current value of a state associated with the product identifier in the product database is equal to one of a set of allowed values.

Abstract: Compositions and methods for treating gastrointestinal symptoms and gastrointestinal microbes are provided. In accordance with the method, a dietary metal and a dietary ligand are administered, wherein the dietary metal is zinc, copper, cobalt, manganese or iron and the dietary ligand is ascorbate, aspartate, citrate, histidine, malate, maltol, gluconate, glutamate, glutamine, succinate, tartrate, or a combination thereof.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for associating pre-printed machine-readable graphical codes with electronically-accessible data. An arbitrary sequence of reference identifiers is generated. Machine-readable graphical codes for the reference identifiers are generated. Labels are then printed that include the machine-readable graphical codes to provide pre-printed machine-readable graphical-code labels. In using the labels, the user places one of the pre-printed machine-readable graphical-code labels on an object and scans the label using a graphical code reading device in electronic communication with a computing device. The computing device receives graphical code data and determines a reference identifier of the graphical code data. A database is then accessed for the reference identifier. If the reference identifier did not already have an associated data specifier in the database, then electronically-accessible data is associated with the reference identifier.

Abstract: Compositions and methods for treating gastrointestinal symptoms and gastrointestinal microbes are provided. In accordance with the method, a dietary metal and a dietary ligand are administered, wherein the dietary metal is zinc, copper, cobalt, manganese or iron and the dietary ligand is ascorbate, aspartate, citrate, histidine, malate, maltol, gluconate, glutamate, glutamine, succinate, tartrate, or a combination thereof.

Abstract: Novel dietary complexes for gastrointestinal symptoms and gastrointestinal microbes are provided. They comprise a dietary metal and a dietary ligand wherein the dietary metal is selected from zinc, copper, cobalt, manganese and iron and the dietary ligand is lawsone or tropolone.

Abstract: Liquid detergent compositions comprise 25-60% by weight of solids suspended in a liquid phase comprising at least 20% by weight of a condensation product of ethylene oxide with a mono- or di- or tri- hydroxy alkane having 1 to 4 carbon atoms having an average molecular weight in the range 150 to 600. The solids comprise a builder and optionally a bleach, and the liquid phase preferably comprises a surfactant.

Abstract: Linear aldehydes having 7-21 carbon atoms are separated from mixtures (which may contain alcohols and/or branched aldehydes) by converting them into solid adducts with C.sub.2 to C.sub.12 linear alkane diols. The adducts are then separated and decomposed. The adducts are themselves novel compounds.

Abstract: Linear aldehydes having 7-21 carbon atoms are separated from mixtures (which may contain alcohols and/or branched aldehydes) by converting them into solid adducts with C.sub.2 to C.sub.12 linear alkane diols. The adducts are then separated and decomposed. The adducts are themselves novel compounds.

Abstract: A synthetic resin is produced by polymerizing with a Friedel-Crafts catalyst a C.sub.5 stream containing butadiene which has been preheated to a temperature of at least 160.degree. C. for a period of up to 5 hours.

Abstract: A composition comprising a rubber and a resin in which the resin has been produced by the copolymerization of a C.sub.5 hydrocarbon stream and a butene, said C.sub.5 hydrocarbon stream containing at least 10% by weight, based on the combined amounts of said C.sub.5 hydrocarbon stream and butene, of dicyclopentadiene or a codimer of cyclopentadiene with a diene selected from the group consisting of butadiene, isoprene and piperylene; said C.sub.5 hydrocarbon stream containing not more than 10% by weight of 2-methylbutene-2; and said resin having a molecular weight of 500 to 40,000 and containing 10 to 90% by weight butene.

Abstract: A novel polymer is produced by the ring opening polymerization of a 5-substituted-norbornene-2 in which the 5-substituent is a nitrile group or a nitrile group pendant that position through an alkylene radical, e.g., poly(5-cyanonorbornene-2).