Abstract: A bevel gear drive includes an input shaft which includes an input bevel gear and has an input interface at one shaft end thereof. The input shaft is arranged vertically in operation and supported by a bearing at a side of the input bevel gear facing away from the input interface. An output shaft includes an output bevel gear in direct meshing engagement with the input bevel gear, with the output shaft being overhung-mounted and having an output interface at one shaft end thereof which faces away from the output bevel gear. Both, the input shaft and the output shaft are mounted in a drive housing.

Abstract: A high quality ink jet recording medium is formed of a dimensionally stable absorbent paper or paperboard base sheet and a coating that is primarily a reaction product of polyvinyl alcohol and boric acid. The reaction product has molecule bonds that are principally polyvinyl alcohol-boric acid-polyvinyl alcohol bonds which, when applied to the substrate, form a three-dimensional sieve or screen-like coating facilitating penetration to the absorbent base-sheet of ink carrier vehicle and holding out on the sieve or screen the ink pigments and colorants. The coating facilitates manufacture of a high quality-recording medium of exceptionally low cost, ideally suited for high-speed multicolor ink jet printing in continuous web form. Methods of making the coating and the medium are disclosed.