Abstract: A flow-through vacuum degassing unit for degassing a mobile phase in liquid chromatography applications includes a relatively flat self-supporting thin membrane disposed in a compact degassing component, whereby the thin membrane is gas-permeable and liquid-impermeable to selectively degas a mobile phase. The self-supporting thin membrane is disposed on a permeable substrate through which a vacuum is drawn by a connected vacuum source. In a particular embodiment, the self-supporting membrane may be directly cast on the permeable substrate through a solvent-free thermal process.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an exhaust gas purifier which can effectively remove soot from exhaust gas of a diesel automobile such as a truck and a bus and the like, and which has a simple structure, and an exhaust gas purifier in which carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, and sulfur oxides and the like can, in addition to hydrocarbons, be effectively removed from exhaust gas.

Abstract: The present invention is a thermal coffee/tea carafe with an internal heat sensor device capable of indicating the temperature of the contents on a monitor on the lid or other exterior location of the vessel.

Abstract: A pressure cooker includes a cooking pot and a lid removably attachable thereto by interlocking radially-extending circumferentially-spaced locking flanges on the cooking pot and lid. The lid and cooking pot further include handles to facilitate application of the lid to the cooking pot, and safety interlocks which vent the interior of the cooking pot to the atmosphere at all times except when the lid is securely locked to the cooking pot, and also prevent opening the lid when the interior of the cooking pot is pressurized. The lid further includes a manual pushbutton to produce a rapid-release of the pressure within the cooking pot when the lid is to be removed.

Abstract: In a dough mixer for preparing dough, the essentially cylindrical chamber with horizontal axis within which kneading elements (4, 4c, 4b) rotate coaxially or parallel to this axis, between two casing surface sections (1a) with the same casing line, two level surface sections (1b, 1c) which are essentially formed by the surface of sliding (2b, 3b) blades (2, 3) with upper charging opening (2a) and lower discharging opening (3a) in closed position, and the aforementioned surfaces (1a, 1b, 1c) turn into two front, coaxial, separated circular surfaces (1e, 1f) via rounded areas (1g) with the largest possible radius, such that, together with the rotating (4a) kneading element (4, 4c, 4d), which likewise has very round forms, they enable the preparing and compressing of dough and rolling into balls of an individual dough portion that is discharged without residue of ingredients or dough.

Abstract: A multi-tier rotary grill for grilling and heating food items such as hot dogs, sausages, metts and similar food items. The rotary grill includes heated rollers that are arranged in vertically spaced apart roller tiers. The rollers in the multiple roller tiers lie in common respective planes that are substantially parallel to each other and may slope upwardly from a front to a back of the rotary grill.

Abstract: A food product and a method for making the same. The food product is comprised of a tortilla (either flour or corn) and a pliable, tabular food filling member. The food filling member may be an omelet, for example. The food filling member is dimensioned to overlay and substantially cover most of the tortilla. The food product is produced by laying the food filling member on top of the tortilla and rolling the two up together so that, in cross section, the food product comprised of alternating layers of tortilla and pliable food filling member.

Abstract: The invention relates to a vending machine for single-piece heated products, for example, snack sausages, comprising a magazine and a delivery path (6, 7, 8). A heating device (7) equipped with a wave resonator (41) is provided in a descending section of the delivery path and is delimited underneath by a switchable blocking element (50). The blocking element is designed as a load-sensitive sensor that detects the presence/delivery of a product.

Abstract: A steam cooking apparatus with a steam generator and several cooking planes in a common cooking chamber in which there are arranged a steam input opening connected to the steam generator and a steam outlet opening whereby a temperature measuring device is associated with the cooking chamber and is connected to a control device.

Abstract: Safety device for food processor in a bowl (2) closed by a cover (3), comprising a chute for introducing products into the working bowl, a pusher (5) slidably mounted in a pusher-guide (4) which is pivotally mounted onto the cover (3), and a set of rods connecting the pusher-guide (4) to the safety rod (2a) of the bowl (2).

Abstract: A strapping machine for positioning a strapping material around an associated load and sealing the strapping material to itself around the load includes a frame, a chute defining a strap path that is mounted to the frame, and a feed assembly mounted to the frame. The feed assembly is configured to operate in a feed mode to feed the strapping material and to operate in a take-up mode to retract the strapping material. A strapping head is configured to seal the strapping material to itself. A controller is operably connected to the feed assembly and controls the operation of the strapping machine. A sensor is disposed to sense the presence and absence of strapping material at the strapping head. The sensor includes first and second movable elements cooperating with one another and movable between a first position in which the sensor senses the presence of strapping material and a second position in which the sensor senses the absence of strapping material.

Abstract: A strapping machine for positioning a strapping material around an associated load and sealing the strapping material to itself around the load includes a frame, a chute mounted to the frame, a feed assembly mounted to the frame a guide mounted to the frame adjacent the feed assembly and a strapping head mounted to the frame independent of the feed assembly and the guide. The feed assembly is configured to feed the strapping material therethrough. The guide receives the strapping material from the feed assembly and provides a path for the strapping material toward the strapping head. The strapping head includes a body and provides a first conveyance path for the strapping material from the guide to the chute. The head includes a second conveyance path to receive a free end of the strapping material to seal the strapping material to itself. The strapping head has an anvil pivotally mounted to the body that forms a part of the second conveyance path.

Abstract: A strapping machine for positioning a strapping material around an associated load and sealing the strapping material to itself around the load includes a frame, a chute mounted to the frame for conveying the strapping material around the load, a feed assembly mounted to the frame for feeding the strapping material, a guide configured to transfer the strapping material from the feed assembly and a strapping head. The head is configured to receive the strapping material from the feed assembly via the guide during a feed mode. The strapping head includes a body and defines a first conveyance path for the strapping material from the guide to the chute, and a second conveyance path to receive a free end of the strapping material to seal the strapping material to itself. The second conveyance path is defined by a plurality of surfaces in the body that define a substantially constant width path through the second conveyance path.

Abstract: A strapping machine for positioning a strapping material around an associated load and sealing the strapping material to itself around the load, includes a modular strapping head and a modular feed assembly. The strapping head and feed assembly are readily installed on and removed from the strapping machine without tools. The Strapping machine includes a frame, a chute mounted to the frame and defining a strap path, the feed assembly mounted to the frame by a first aligning and mounting assembly, the strapping head assembly mounted to the frame by a second aligning and mounting assembly independent of the first mounting assembly, and a guide mounted to the frame adjacent the feed assembly. Both the feed assembly and the strapping head are independently removable from the frame.

Abstract: The invention is a baling machine with an articulated guide track disposed in three operationally distinct sections. One section of the articulated guide track, representing approximately one-half of the track perimeter, is movable between a first position and a second position. In the first position, the large section completes a guide track perimeter. In the second position, the large section pivots away from tying heads of the baling machine to permit ejection of the bale from the machine.

Abstract: An embossing device for embossing a single-ply or multi-ply web of tissue paper includes a first steel roll with embossing protuberances on its peripheral surface and a second roll with a yielding layer on its peripheral surface. The second roll cooperates with the steel roll so as to form an embossing nip therewith. The steel roll and the second roll run in synchronization. The second roll has individual zones on its peripheral surface with a higher overall thickness and/or different material characteristics of the yielding layer compared to that of the remaining peripheral surface. These individual zones are opposed in the embossing nip to embossing protuberances of the steel roll.

Abstract: A code applying device is provided which can efficiently manufacture an information recording paper roll having a code relating to the information recording paper. The code applying device includes a tubular body holding section which holds a tubular body and can rotate around an axis; a code forming section forming a code, which expresses specific information, on an end surface of the tubular body held by the tubular body holding section; and a control section rotating the tubular holding section which is holding the tubular body, and applying the code to the end surface of the tubular body along a peripheral direction.

Abstract: A printing unit has two screen printing cylinders (12, 17) and a printing gap (14) formed by two cylinders (9, 16). At least the second cylinder of the two cylinders that form the printing gap is a transfer cylinder which co-operates with the second screen printing cylinder. A screen printing cylinder for the printing unit has a screen (23), a doctoring device which is situated radially inside said screen and a support element (36) which extends axially on the screen printing cylinder in the area of a limited peripheral section and which is used for sustaining a pressure exerted radially, outwards on the screen by the doctoring device when the limited peripheral section passes in front of said doctoring device.

Abstract: A device and method for application of material onto a medium. The device includes a mesh-like substrate configured to hold the material within a plurality of holes. The device also includes a nozzle configured to expel fluid at a relatively high rate of speed at the material held within the holes to thereby force the material out of the holes. At least by virtue of the fact that the material does not make contact with the nozzle, any number of different types of materials may be utilized, e.g., those materials that may be incompatible with the nozzle. In this respect, for example, a solid material (e.g., powder) may also be printed onto the medium. Additionally, the materials applied onto the medium may be mixed during the application process. Moreover, operation of the device is not limited to media having flat surfaces.

Abstract: A combination used in an offset printer comprises a water pickup roller having an outside surface and mounted so that the roller is able to rotate within an offset printer frame adjacent to a water pan for pickup of water. A tape strip has plural holes spaced along the length of the strip. The strip may be coiled to form a roll of material that can be dispensed as needed. A portion of the roll is removed and adhesively attached to the roller's outer surface at positions on the roller where it is desired to limit the amount of water picked-up by the roller.

Abstract: In addition to a form cylinder (2) and a printing cylinder (1), an intaglio printer has at least one screen-printing cylinder (7) for transferring a screen printing ink to the form cylinder.

Abstract: A process for gravure by means of an erasable and reusable gravure form proceeds from a gravure blank form with a base screen which is designed at least for the maximum amount of ink to be transferred. The depressions of the base screen of the gravure blank form are uniformly filled with a liquefiable substance by means of an applicator device and material is then removed from the depressions in conformity to the intended image by means of thermal energy applied by an image-point transfer device. The printing form is then inked by means of an inking system and, finally, is regenerated after the printing process to produce a gravure blank form, wherein the depressions of the base screen are filled again in a uniform manner.

Abstract: A printing press may be provided with a first rotatable printing roller that prints ink of a first color on a web of material and causes a first pair of registration marks to be periodically printed in the first color on the web, a second rotatable printing roller that prints ink of a second color on the web of material and causes a second pair of registration marks to be periodically printed in the second color on the web, a third rotatable printing roller that prints ink of a third color on the web of material and causes a third pair of registration marks to be periodically printed in the third color on the web, an imaging device positioned to detect the registration marks printed on the web that generates image data representing the registration marks, and a controller operatively coupled to the printing rollers and the imaging device.

Abstract: A device for correcting the lateral position of a printing material web (8) in a rotary press includes a correction roller (10), which is able to swivel over guide surfaces (26, 28) arranged at an angle to the web's direction of travel and roller elements (22, 24) cooperating with these, and including a web guide roller (16) arranged downstream when viewed in the web's direction of travel, over which the printing material web (8) is guided. The device (6) is characterized in that the guide surfaces (26, 28) are arranged with respect to the web's direction of travel such that the correction roller (10) moves on a substantially circular path having a radius that is large in comparison to the length of the correction roller (10) and having a center point, viewed in the web's direction of travel, which is situated in a web section (12) upstream from the correction roller (10).

Abstract: The invention relates to an ink pump (14) for a pump inking unit (1) of a rotary printing press. A two-piece coupling is provided between a pump drive (23) which is situated in a traversing component and a transportable ink discharge unit (3) which is situated on the traversing component. Each piece of the coupling consists of a permanent magnet (28, 33) which is connected to the pump drive or the ink pump respectively. The permanent magnets engage in a non-positive fit. A robust coupling is thus provided.

Abstract: Novel printing surfaces for off-set printing blankets are provided having a resilience of less than about 40% and an average surface roughness of less than about 0.5 microns. Such low-resilience printing surfaces have been found to transfer up to greater than 90% of the ink applied thereto and can be used to transfer ink on a wide variety of substrates.

Abstract: In accordance with the present invention, an imaging apparatus is provided for forming images on an electrically conductive printing plate. The imaging apparatus has a mounting surface having at least three electrically isolated conductors arranged so that when the electrically conductive printing plate is in registration on the mounting surface, the electrically conductive printing plate defines an electrical connection between all of the electrical conductors; and, an electrical circuit adapted to sense an electrical connection between all of the conductors and to thereupon generate an output signal.

Abstract: A method of printing is disclosed which comprises the steps of

Abstract: In patterning method with micro-contact printing comprising the steps of: applying resin on a master having projected patterns, hardening the resin and thereafter removing the hardened resin from the master to make a stamp of the resin; applying molecular ink including hydrophobic molecules dispersed in solvent on the stamp and forming micro-contact printed patterns of hydrophobic molecular layer on a substrate by means of the stamp on which the molecular ink is applied and; dipping the substrate with micro-contact printed patterns in hydrophilic molecule solution dispersed in solvent to give chemical modification to the areas of the surface of substrate around the micro-contact printed patterns, solution including hydrophilic molecules having chain length shorter than the chain length of hydrophobic molecules included in the molecular ink is used as the hydrophilic molecule solution.

Abstract: A method of avoiding register differences during the operation of a printing machine having a plurality of individual printing units includes counteracting, at least by circumferential register corrections, respective register differences in the individual printing units, determining the register differences for different printing speeds and storing them in a memory, and determining the various register differences at different printing speeds by an automatic register measuring and register control device and, in the event of changes in the printing speed, superimposing the previously determined magnitude of the register correction on the adjusted variable of the automatic register measuring and register control device; and a device for performing the method.

Abstract: The technical field of the invention is that of devices for igniting pyrotechnic charges, and more specifically those suitable for small pyrotechnic charges which can be found in microsystems such as microvalves or micropumps.

Abstract: A securing and arming device (10) has an operating body (20). Prior to an arming time, this operating body (20) is secured in a position of rest on a support device (12), namely by means of a securing element (30), which here is in a securing position. If the securing element (30) is moved into a release position, it releases the operating body (20) to make a movement in relation to the support device (12). After the arming time, the trigger body (20) is in an operating position by means of a rotating movement in relation to the support device (12). A delay element (22) is designed to be driven in the course of the rotating movement of the trigger body (20) and to delay the rotating movement of the trigger body (20). The trigger body (20) and the delay element (22) are arranged inside each other so that they constitute an outer wheel shaft-free wheel and an inner wheel shaft-free wheel. The two wheels have parallel geometric wheel axes and delimit a ring-like gap.

Abstract: A method of breaking up a structure for the recovery of steel as scrap. The structure has steel plates forming a compartment secured to framing in the compartment. The method includes at least partially filling the compartment with a substantially incompressible substance and placing explosive in the substance in the compartment. The explosive is sufficient and adapted on detonation thereof to pressurize the compartment to the extent of causing separation of the plates from the framing. The method further includes detonating the explosive.

Abstract: A subject-matter of the present invention is a safety igniter 5 for a pyrotechnic munition component comprising a structure 1 in the form of a jacket and a solid pyrotechnic charge 4 present in the structure 1. This safety igniter 5, which is composed solely of a block of solid pyrotechnic composition based on pentrite, is intended to bring about the combustion without detonation of the pyrotechnic charge 4 when the munition component is subjected to slow cook off.

Abstract: The invention provided a gas generator for an air bag having any of the following members. A deflecting member is provided to suppress discharge of a combustion product generated by a combustion of gas generating means, and is formed as a tube portion to be capable of shielding a gas discharge port formed at least on a circumferential wall of a housing from the inside of the housing. A coolant/filter means supporting member can position a coolant/filter means, prevent a short pass of an operating gas, and functions as a buffer member between the coolant/filter and the housing, and/or prevent a heat from being transferred to a diffuser shell, and comprises an annular portion arranged to face an end surface of the housing and a wall portion contacting with an inner periphery of the coolant/filter means.

Abstract: A track work machine for mobility on a track extending in a longitudinal direction and supported on ballast, includes a machine frame extending in the longitudinal direction and having a front end and a rear end. An excavating device is mounted on the machine frame at the rear end and has a leading ballast pick-up unit arranged underneath the track and a trailing discharging end. A conveyor belt is associated with the discharging end and provided for receiving and transporting excavated ballast. A front undercarriage and a rear undercarriage are provided for supporting the machine frame on the track, the rear undercarriage being mounted on the machine frame for displacement in the longitudinal direction from a transit travel position, in which the rear undercarriage is situated between the discharging end and the ballast pick-up unit of the excavating device, in the direction towards the front undercarriage.

Abstract: The present invention provides a low clearance, compact guideway, train positioning system that can be installed in close quarters alongside an existing railroad track. The system is chain driven and features an improved over/under or vertical sprocket carriage drive system in which parts normally exposed to the elements are protected while, at the same time, horizontal space requirements alongside the track are reduced. The system employs a vertically oriented chain drive which employs enclosed vertically mounted drive and idler sprocket units and a chain tube enclosing the lower chain strand which further minimizes exposure of the mechanism chain to the elements by totally enclosing the lower chain path in the over/under arrangement.

Abstract: A vehicle roof has at least two rigid roof components which are tiltable and foldable away rearwardly in an opening operation, a profiled sealing element provided at least between the roof components and extending transversely to a vehicle on a frontal edge of a first one of the roof components, the first roof component being furnished with an associated collecting channel for collecting water that runs off when the first roof component is moved, the profiled sealing element incorporating a channel that is connected with the collecting channel, the further channel providing at least one orifice via which water is in the collecting channel is transferred to the further channel as the first roof component is moved.

Abstract: An ink composition including a near infrared absorbing dye that converts absorbed near infrared radiation into heat without fluorescing significantly and a substantially non-aqueous, organic solvent system. The dye is a tetrakis (dialkylaminophenyl) aminium dye coupled with one anion, a cyanine or a squarylium. The non-aqueous, organic solvent system includes an alcohol, for example, a diacetone alcohol, 1-methoxy-2-propanol, or combinations thereof The method of treating thermoplastic according to the invention includes (a) providing a near infrared absorbing dye that converts absorbed NIR radiation into heat without fluorescing significantly; (b) dissolving the dye into a substantially non-aqueous, organic solvent to form an ink composition; and (c) contacting a thermoplastic part with the ink composition. The contacting step may include painting, dry-burnishing, dip-coating, spraying, printing, and particularly ink jet printing.

Abstract: An ink composition including a colorant; and a solvent, wherein a zeta potential 2 between the colorant and a material selected from the group consisting of silicon, glass, silicon oxide, titanium oxide, chromium oxide, titanium nitride, silicon nitride, zirconium and polyimide is from 0 to −50 mV at a pH of from 6.5 to 11.5. A corrosion inhibitor is preferably added to the ink composition to adjust the zeta potential 2. An ink cartridge containing the ink which optionally includes a recording head discharging the ink to form an image on a recording material, wherein the zeta potential 2 between the colorant in the ink and a material of the recording head contacting the ink is from 0 to −50 mV at a pH of from 6.5 to 11.5. An inkjet recording apparatus including the ink cartridge and a carriage carrying the ink cartridge.

Abstract: The ink composition of the present invention contains a coloring agent, water, a water-soluble organic solvent which is a liquid at least at temperatures of 40° C. or less, and which has a solubility of 1 wt % or greater with respect to water at a temperature of 20° C., and a saturation vapor pressure of 1.7 Pa or less at a temperature of 20° C. (with said organic solvent being contained in the ink composition at the rate of 10 to 35 wt %), and one or more amidine type compounds. As a result, the present invention provides an ink composition, a recording medium, recorded matter and an ink jet recording method that make it possible to obtain images with a high image quality which are superior in terms of the gas resistance of the recorded matter.

Abstract: The invention relates to a novel admixture for mineral binders, composed of a composition containing at the same time a sugar or an oxidized sugar and a hydrogenated sugar.

Abstract: The present invention relates to aqueous composition comprising of a single compound of a ferrosoferric salt as an active ingredient.

Abstract: Organometallic compounds useful for forming aluminum films by chemical vapor deposition are disclosed. Also disclosed are methods of preparing the organometallic compounds and methods of forming aluminum films.

Abstract: Cement clinker, characterized in that it comprises Al2O3 and Fe2O3 wherein the mass ratio of Al2O3/Fe2O3 is 0.05-0.62, and alkali components and C2S wherein the content Y (mass %) of alkali components and the content X (mass %) of C2S satisfy the formula: 0.0025X+0.1≦Y≦0.01X+0.8. The production of the clinker allows the incorporation of alkali components into cement with an advantageous effect of enhancement of the hydration of belite and also with suppression of the lowering of flowability, which leads to the reuse of wastes containing alkali components as a cement raw material.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a construction and coating composition that effectively utilizes vermiculite as a natural resource and is able to satisfy requirements for humidity control and/or deodorizing as well as an attractive appearance, while also offering superior balance between the amount and rates of moisture absorption and release, in particular. This object is achieved by a composition in which non-expanded vermiculite is blended into a base material so that the blended amount is 5-70 wt % of the total composition (solid portion). In addition, the above construction material can be converted into soil by crushing when it has become a waste construction material.

Abstract: A work surface storage system is provided having a work surface with a hook and loop connector material on the bottom surface thereof and a plurality of storage containers which are suspended from the connector material. The work surface and connector material are translucent to permit viewing of the contents of the storage containers by looking downwardly through the work surface.

Abstract: An office desk includes two U-shaped frames and a top is supported on the two horizontal portions of the two frames. Each frame has two legs extending from the horizontal portion thereof. Two bars are respectively connected between two distal ends of the two legs.

Abstract: An improved table frame for fastening loading members includes a fastening section extending from a table frame and a plurality of anchor elements fastened to the table frame at locations corresponding to the fastening section. Each anchor element has a first anchor ledge fastened to the table frame and an anchor flange opposing the fastening section to form a housing space therebetween. The housing space has a height matching the thickness of a loading member for holding the loading member. The anchor elements are fastened to the table frame through fasteners thereby allow the loading member held securely on the table frame.

Abstract: An improved fastening structure for fastening a table top (1) and a leg frame (2) includes an anchor element (11) fixedly attached to the table top (1), and a displacement element (22) coupled to the leg frame (2) and movable thereon for engaging with the anchor element (11) through a fastener (3) such that the table top (1) is detachable from the leg frame (2) to form a smaller size to facilitate storing and transportation.