Abstract: In a rotary screen printing apparatus, a method and apparatus are disclosed for converting a printing station into a cleaning station. A cleaning attachment replaces either the squeegee or the flood bar, or both, in a conventional print station.

Abstract: A process is provided for obtaining or refreshing the illustration of a printing form, preferably in wet-offset printing. Instead of clearing the illustration over the entire area, the printing form is acted on during the production. For this, a processing agent can act on the printing form in different areas for images. A processing agent preferably acts over the entire area of the printing form, in which case the layer of ink located on the printing form leads to a locally different intensity of the action, corresponding to the illustration of the printing form. Photocatalytic effects are preferably used. A hydrophilization of non-image areas is brought about by irradiation in the presence of water molecules. Since printing ink containing little water lies on the image areas, hydrophilization cannot occur on the image areas. Thus, in spite of the entire-area action on the printing form, an image-related refreshing or obtaining of the illustration is automatically achieved.

Abstract: A positive heat-sensitive lithographic printing plate comprising an anodically oxidized aluminum support having laminated thereon an undercoating layer containing a polymer having a constituent having an acid radical and a constituent having an onium group, an interlayer containing a water-insoluble and alkali-soluble resin, and a heat-sensitive layer containing a water-insoluble and alkali-soluble resin and an infrared-absorbing dye in this order from the support, and the solubility of the heat-sensitive layer in an alkali aqueous solution increases by heating.

Abstract: An image recorder of an external drum type includes a feed/discharge unit located above a drum and having an upper tray and a lower tray. The upper tray is inclined so that an edge thereof on the front side of an image recorder body is downward or at a lower level. For placing a plate on the upper tray, the plate is fed over the lower edge of the tray onto the tray. The upper tray has a movable suction pad for raising the plate. The image recorder of the external drum type can easily feed a large-size image recording material or plate over an upper edge of the inclined tray onto the tray.

Abstract: A plate handling method and apparatus for a printing press that includes printing units, each having a plate cylinder, a main unit motor for driving the plate cylinders, and electromagnetic clutches disposed between the main unit motor and the printing units for transmitting and cutting off a drive force from the main unit motor to the printing units, and is adapted to rotate the plate cylinders upon the drive by the main unit motor and change plates. The electromagnetic clutch of the printing unit is disengaged, when an abnormality in changing of the plate was detected by any of sensors provided in each printing unit for detecting an abnormality in plate changing, to cut off the drive by the main unit motor, but continue plate changing in the other printing units by the drive force from the main unit motor.

Abstract: An integrated detonation element or firing element including a base member, e.g., a silicon member, and a reaction region associated therewith, is provided. The reaction region includes porous silicon and an oxidizing agent for silicon. An arrangement is provided with which a chemical reaction is initiated between the oxidizing agent and the porous silicon. The detonation or firing element is suitable principally for use in a microreactor; in a microbooster, e.g., for course correction of satellites; as a firing element in a gas generator for a belt tensioner or an airbag, e.g., in motor vehicles; or as a primer for the ignition of explosive charges.

Abstract: The invention relates to a pyrotechnic detonator with an igniter support (4) of plastic, which bears an ignition element (2), and a cylindrical metal housing (1) is fastened to the igniter support (4), into which the ignition element (2) reaches, and a booster charge (6) is arranged in the metal housing (1).

Abstract: A projectile which includes a pyrotechnic delay element placed between the fuze and the high explosive.

Abstract: The invention relates to projectile cartridges, explosive cartridges and propellant cartridges containing at least one agent which is perceived, essentially, in an unknown manner. According to the invention, known substances such as pheromones can be used as said agent.

Abstract: The present disclosure suggests a method to remove well bore fluid from the path of a shaped-charge jet in order to reduce the effect it has on the jet tip. This most preferred embodiment uses a precursor liner and a primary liner both pressed in the same housing. In the most preferred embodiment, the primary liner is similar or equivalent to a standard big hole shaped charge liner. The precursor liner is pressed into the apex end of the primary liner and upon detonation is intended to form an initial very fast moving precursor jet to open a path through the fluid of the well bore annulus for the following primary jet. In the preferred embodiment the precursor liner is made from different material, preferably a less dense material and/or a material having a higher sound speed, than the material forming the primary liner.

Abstract: A less lethal ammunition round (10) includes a highly pliant projectile (24) that may impregnated with fine heavy particles. The projectile has an interior void (32) into which is placed a force transfer member (30) that engages an interior surface at the forward end of the projectile in front of the center of gravity. Upon ignition of a powder charge, a piston (26) in the cartridge chamber engages the transfer member which, in turn, elongates the projectile as the projectile forward end is driven, pulling the remainder of the projectile, reducing its diameter. This allows a release from the cartridge and passage through the barrel of the weapon from which it is being fired. Stabilizing fins (39) at the projectile base deploy as the projectile exits the muzzle. A breaching round is impregnated with a greater weight of heavy particles and its transfer member has an initial large diameter portion and a terminal smaller diameter portion.

Abstract: A railway maintenance device movable on a railroad track having a pair of spaced rails, the device including a frame configured for movement relative to the track and having at least two side members. At least one track contacting element is associated with at least one of the sides. An adjustment mechanism is provided for adjusting the relative position of at least one of the track contacting elements to the frame to thus position the frame relative to the rails. The device preferably includes a fluid power cylinder associated with each track contacting element to control the position of the wheel relative to the frame, as well as a stop mechanism for adjustably limiting the pivoting action of the contacting element relative to the frame, and thus control the displacement of the element.

Abstract: A rail plate handling device is provided for removing plates located on rail ties on a railroad track having a pair of rails, and includes a frame configured for movement relative to the track, at least one tie plate gripping assembly mounted to the frame, the assembly configured for grasping a selected tie plate, pulling the plate away from the rail and away from the tie, and subsequently releasing the plate onto the track. The device is mounted upon a cart which is movable on the track, and features gripping assemblies for working on both rails. A tie jack is preferably provided for ensuring the release of the tie from the gripped plate. Still another feature of the present device is a plate height mechanism associated with each gripping assembly for ensuring that the gripping assembly engages the plates at the proper height.

Abstract: Ducting associated with rail track comprising a bed (13) located along at least a portion of the length of the rail track, the bed lying proximate the rails (11), a resiliently deformable cover (27) receivable over the bed and comprising a plurality of elongated channel members located in an end to end relationship having their flanges (29) extending downwardly and outwardly, the cover being intended to cooperate with the bed to define a duct able to accommodate conductors, optical fibres, cable and services. The bed has retention means (21) in the form a groove to receive and retain the lips (31) of the channel members. An apparatus having a carriage (73) is movable along the rail track to cause inward resilient deformation of the cover by pairs of rollers (71) to enable installation and withdrawal of the lips (31) from the grooves (21).

Abstract: The intermediate support device is used for supporting an intermediate portion of elongated element such as a lifeline. The intermediate support device comprises a frame which is to be fixedly attached to an external structure, and a wheel comprising a hub rotatably carried by the frame and a number of peripherally spaced-apart spokes fixedly attached to and radially extending from the hub, the spokes defining a common first channel side and a common second side opposite the channel side. The frame comprises a frame guard in facing spaced register relative to the spokes first channel side and having an edge portion adjacent the spokes whereby the wheel and the frame guard form a substantially closed loop defining a channel therethrough on the spokes first channel side, for allowing the elongated element to extend through the channel.

Abstract: A railway system to enhance loading and unloading of at least one railway car. The system comprises at least one sliding surface engageable with a moveable portion of a railway track for moving a first predetermined end of a first railway car to a predetermined position. At least one platform of a predetermined size, height, and grade is disposed adjacent a railway track. The platform has a first end and a second end. The first end is aligned with the first predetermined end of the first railway car when the first railway car is moved to a predetermined position. The first railway car can be loaded and unloaded without removing the first railway car from the railway track.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to provide an elecroless copper plating solution using glyoxylic acid or a salt of glyoxylic acid as the reducing agent in which the amount of Cannizzaro reaction product is small, and the mechanical property of the obtained plated film is excellent, and to provide a supplementary solution for the electroless copper plating solution, a plating method capable of stably forming a plated film using the electroless copper plating solution, and a method of manufacturing a wiring board having an excellent connecting reliability of a through hole.

Abstract: Provided is a copper source liquid useful in MOCVD processes for forming copper thin films on semiconductor wafers. The source liquid comprises water and a source component wherein the source component contains at least 90 weight % Cu(hfac)TMVS and the copper source liquid preferably contains no more than 10 weight % water. The dissolved oxygen concentration in the water is established at no more than 0.5 ppm relative to the water. Decomposition of the Cu(hfac)TMVS is controlled in the present invention by lowering the dissolved oxygen concentration in the water. The resulting copper source liquid allows for improved reproducibility of CVD film quality by raising the capacity to control the amount of water addition to the copper source liquid used in MOCVD processes.

Abstract: A thermal transfer ink is provided, which includes:

Abstract: According to the invention there are provided fiber-reactive dyestuffs which are compounds of the formula (I) 1

Abstract: The invention relates to mixtures comprising polymers containing hydrogen-siloxane groups and fluoride, in addition to the use of said mixtures as a dental scaling varnish and fluoridation varnish and as a desensitising agent, in addition to the use of said mixtures as a protective covering for glasionomer cement fillings.

Abstract: The present invention has for its object to provide a low friction resistance coating film in water, which is capable of reducing the frictional resistance in the part of a ship or a piping where frictions with fluids such as water may take place. The present invention is directed to a low friction resistance coating film in water of which surface has a water contact angle of 0 to 40°.

Abstract: In order to control volatilization or release of organic solvent, especially formaldehyde, and to adsorb them, and at the same time, to improve weather resistance, water resistance, stain resistance and fungus resistance, natural paint is composed of vegetable drying oil, haze wax, candelilla wax and carnauba wax as the main components, and contains at least one or more of rosin, silk powder and component of rice bran.

Abstract: A emulsion for sealants, coatings and/or mastics having reduced volatile organic compounds is disclosed. The emulsion includes a slurry of substantially fully hydrated colloidal clay and a cutback in preferred ratios such that the emulsion has characteristics adapted to cold application processes. A method of reducing volatile organic compounds in sealants, coatings and/or mastics is also disclosed.

Abstract: The method for preparation quinacridone pigment nanocrystals with sub micrometer to nanometer in average size comprising, supplying supercritical or semi-critical liquid, which dissolves quinacridone pigment, into a specimen tube (ST) composing a reactor possessing a filter of desired opening to the upper stream side and to the down stream side in which quinacridone pigment is set up, flowing out the supercritical or semi-critical liquid in which quinacridone pigment is dissolved from said reactor to a mixing apparatus to which coolant is supplied, and by selecting the kind of supercritical or semi-critical liquid and combination of conditions e.g. supplying speed of each liquids, temperature of the liquid and the reacting pressure.

Abstract: A concrete admixture or a mortar admixture which is obtained by mixing a silicate with an acid in the presence of water and then solidifying the mixture. It is preferable that the silicate is sodium silicate and the acid is a carboxylic acid. This admixture can improve a tensile strength of a concrete or a mortar. Since a concrete or a mortar containing the admixture, cement, an aggregate and water is high in tensile strength, it can advantageously be used in various concrete structures, concrete products or mortar products.

Abstract: The present invention describes a process for manufacture of high iron hydraulic cement clinker in production of cement and cementation binder for application in construction activity andin metallurgical industry for sintering of iron ore fines and making cold bonded briquettes and pellets. The process is cost effective and flexible for utilization of wide varieties of raw material consisting of lime and iron in production of high iron cements for different application.

Abstract: The lightly colored sulfoaluminous clinker contains:

Abstract: A premolded plastic, monolithic design, decorative, and inexpensive niche packaged with all tools and supplies required for installation into a home or office by any professional or do-it-yourselfer with very little if any construction background. Said niche does not require affixing to wall studs. Once installed, the niche is designed to display urns, vases, sculptures, trophies, collectables, and other works of art.

Abstract: Plastic pallet comprising at least one single-piece platform obtained by extrusion and resting on spacers, the platform of which is a hollow profile consisting of two substantially flat parallel elements connected by partitions .

Abstract: A trade show booth that includes a plurality of base members that are removably fastened in a geometric shape. A plurality of inner base members are removably fastened to the base members. At least one countertop is removably fastened to the base members and the inner base members. A plurality of vertical support members extend upwardly from the countertops. A plurality of top members are removably fastened to the upper ends of the vertical support members.

Abstract: A foldable banquet table includes a tabletop and a pair of table supporting frames mounted thereunder. The tabletop includes a top panel, a bottom panel overlappedly mounted to the top panel and defined a receiving cavity between the top and bottom panels, and a reinforcing frame which is received in the receiving cavity including a pair of reinforcing arms longitudinally positioned at two side edge portions of the receiving cavity respectively and at least two transverse supports spacedly connected between the two reinforcing arms. The table supporting frames are foldably mounted to the reinforcing frame at the bottom panel and adapted to fold in a folded position that the table supporting frames are pivotally and inwardly folded toward the bottom panel of the tabletop, and in the unfolded position, the table supporting frames are pivotally and outwardly folded to perpendicular to the tabletop.

Abstract: A sliding drawer received within a housing includes a front panel for covering an open end of the housing when the drawer is closed. A catch pin is urged to a normally extended position to engage an aperture in a tab on the back of the drawer in order to hold the drawer closed and locked. A key operated switch provides power from a battery power source to a push button switch which is operable to close a circuit and deliver electric power to a solenoid mounted within the housing. Activation of the solenoid causes the catch pin to momentarily retract and release the drawer from the locked position. Once released, a spring urges the drawer outwardly to an open position, thereby providing access to contents stored in the drawer. Subsequent movement of the drawer to the closed position compresses the spring and engages the catch pin with the tab on the back end of the drawer to hold the drawer in the locked position.

Abstract: In the process for treating incineration residues from waste incineration plants, the incineration material is incinerated on a furnace grate. The incineration residues produced are quenched in a wet slag remover and conveyed out of the latter. The wet incineration residues which come out of the wet slag remover are firstly divided into two fractions by means of a screening operation, after which the main fraction is washed with water taken from the wet slag remover, and in the process adhering fine pieces are separated off. The washed pieces of the incineration residues are fed for reuse. The washing water together with the ultra fine pieces which have been taken up during the washing operation pass into the wet slag remover. The fine fraction produced during the mechanical separation operation is fed back to the incineration operation.

Abstract: The process for influencing the properties of incineration residues from an incineration plant, in particular a waste incineration plant, essentially consists in controlling the incineration in such a way that a sintering and/or fusing of the slag takes place as early as in the incineration bed of the main incineration zone, and that as yet unsintered or unfused incineration residues are separated off at the end of the incineration operation and fed back to the incineration operation.

Abstract: In the process for treating incineration residues, the incineration is controlled in such a way that a sintering and/or fusing of the slag takes place as early as in the incineration bed of the main incineration zone. The incineration residues produced are quenched in a wet slag remover and conveyed out of the latter. The wet incineration residues which come out of the wet slag remover are firstly divided into two fractions by means of a screening operation, after which the main fraction is washed with water taken from the wet slag remover, and in the process adhering fine pieces are separated off. The washed pieces of the incineration residues are fed for reuse. The washing water together with the ultra fine pieces which have been taken up during the washing operation pass into the wet slag remover. The fine fraction produced during the mechanical separation operation is fed back to the incineration operation.

Abstract: A plant border assembly includes a plant tray defining a cavity and a top opening communicating with the cavity. The cavity has a width and a length that is greater than the width. The plant border assembly further includes a plant border including a growing medium disposed in the cavity and a strip of plants disposed in the growing medium in the cavity. The plant tray is adapted to allow removal of the plant border from the plant tray without lifting the plant border through the top opening.

Abstract: The seed drill element comprises a frame, a seed tank, a seed dispenser, and a member for opening a furrow in the ground. The seed drill element further comprises both means for bearing against the ground, comprising a rear block and/or a front block, with each block being constituted by at least one wheel and an arm hinged to the frame, and also topsoiling means comprising a rear link, two front links, and an intermediate link. The topsoiling means also comprise a mechanism for moving the rear link relative to a reference part connected to the frame. In addition, the seed drill element has for selective locking means so that the topsoiling means can be configured for front topsoiling, for rear topsoiling, and/or for rocker topsoiling.

Abstract: A pneumatic coupler for an agricultural seeding machine comprises a hollow tube having an inner portion and an outer portion that are separated by a radially extending flange. The radially extending flange has an inner surface adjoining the inner portion and an outer surface adjoining the outer surface. A flexible and resilient gasket is fitted over the inner portion and adjoins the inner surface of the radially extending flange. The inner portion is further provided with radially extending catches that are located on resilient axially extending tongues formed in the inner portion. When mounted to receiving apertures the catches contact the interior side of the receiving aperture and the flexible and resilient gasket forms an air seal between the exterior surface of the receiving aperture and the inner surface of the radially extending flange.

Abstract: A sewing machine includes a needle bar driving mechanism for vertically moving a needle bar by rotation of a main shaft, a needle thread take-up driving mechanism for vertically moving a needle thread take-up by rotation of the main shaft in phase with vertical movement of the needle bar, a mounting member on which the needle bar driving mechanism and the needle thread take-up driving mechanism are mounted, and a machine frame supporting the mounting member. The mounting member has two sides provided on the left and right of the needle bar driving mechanism and the needle thread take-up driving mechanisms respectively. The mounting member is supported in one of the sides by the main shaft, a rotating shaft rotated with the main shaft or a bearing member for the main shaft or the rotating shaft so that the mounting member is rotated relative to the machine frame and the main shaft or the rotating shaft.

Abstract: A sewing machine includes a sewing needle moved up and down and having an eye, a threading hook passed through the eye of the needle, an urging member for urging the threading hook upward, an actuating member for moving the threading hook downward against an urging force of the urging member so that the threading hook is passed through the needle eye, a transmitting member moved between a transmission position where an operation of the actuating member is transmitted to the threading hook and a non-transmission position where an operation of the actuating member is not transmitted to the threading hook, a thread holding member for holding a thread, a moving mechanism for moving the thread holding member near to a position where the thread held by the thread holding member is located near the threading hook having been passed through the eye of the needle, and an abutting member abutting the transmitting member when the thread holding member has been moved to the position of the thread to move the transmitting

Abstract: A sewing machine includes a sewing needle having an eye, a threading hook passed through the eye of the needle, a traveling mechanism for traveling the threading hook so that the threading hook is advanced through the eye of the needle and retreated through the eye of the needle, a thread holding member for holding the thread, a moving mechanism for moving the thread holding member between a first position where the thread holding member is close to the threading hook having been advanced through the eye of the needle and a second position where the thread holding member is away from the threading hook having been advanced through the eye of the needle, and a speed reducing mechanism for reducing a moving speed of the thread holding member moved near the threading hook having been advanced through the eye of the needle.

Abstract: A sewing machine includes a needle plate having a needle hole through which a sewing needle is allowed to pass, a thread catcher reciprocally moved forward and backward below the needle plate and being elongated in a moving direction, the thread catcher having a frontward end with respect to a direction of forward movement of the thread catcher and including first and second generally hook-shaped catching portions, and a cutting blade located between the first and second catching portions at least during backward movement of the thread catcher to cut a thread caught between the first and second catching portions. The first catching portion is located nearer to the frontward end of the thread catcher than the second catching portion with respect to the moving direction of the thread catcher during forward movement of the thread catcher.

Abstract: A machine readable file is prepared for use in operating a print line that produces a layer of material having a series of panels printed thereon for quilting. The file includes information on the order in which panels are to be quilted, the amount of shrinkage that will occur to a panel during quilting and the amount of crop to be made between adjacent panels following quilting. Such information is placed, preferably printed, onto the material at the print line. Such information is readable by a sensor at a quilting station, which reads the information and controls a quilter to quilt in accordance with the information. Panels are then quilted in accordance with a schedule and in batches in a most efficient manner. A panel cutter is also controlled by information read from records on the material. Shrinkage is also compensated for and appropriate crops are made between panels.

Abstract: A method of embroidering a pattern by means of a processor-controlled sewing machine, the method comprising the following steps: the fabric that is to be embroidered is placed in the required position in relation to a threaded needle on the sewing machine, a number of embroidery elements having pre-programmed embroideries are provided, each embroidery element is provided with a starting point and an end point for an embroidery on a corresponding physical embroidery element, a directional change associated with the end point is assigned to the embroidery element, in embroidering a sequence of physical embroidery elements by means of the sewing machine a succeeding physical embroidery element is rotated corresponding to the directional change in the preceding physical embroidery element, an embroidery having any desired number of physical embroidery elements in sequence is performed by the sewing machine according to the sequence of selected embroidery elements.

Abstract: A water craft having a bow and a stern including an engine of sufficient thrust to create an enlarged wake at the stern of the boat as the boat moves along the surface of a body of water.

Abstract: A watercraft is described with a powered hull and deck. The deck includes a forward passenger area and a rearward passenger area connected by a passageway. A windshield extends upwardly from the deck at a position forward of the rearward passenger area. An engine is positioned within the hull behind the rearward passenger area. An engine cover covers the engine and at least one compartment adjacent to the engine. The compartment is separated from the engine by a removable wall. The compartment houses at least a portion of a canopy system that may be erected over at least a portion of the rearward passenger area of the boat. The watercraft includes a rear bench that conceals a storage bucket thereunder. A console sits in front of a passenger seat with a console cover, which is hingedly mounted to the console to conceal a sound system.

Abstract: A fill level indicator assembly for an agricultural material bin such as a seed dispensing hopper. The assembly includes an elongate sighting member which provides a water impermeable cover over an indicator opening in the bin cover and has a transparent portion providing visual access to the interior of the sighting member. An indicator rod extends through the indicator opening and has a distinctive marking located near one end. The opposite end of the indicator member has a foot which engages the agricultural material within the bin. Gravity causes the indicator member to lower as the quantity of agricultural material within the bin is depleted. As the indicator member lowers, the distinctive marking within the sighting member is also lowered thereby providing a visual indication of the quantity of material remaining in the bin.

Abstract: The present invention provides a method for fabrication of integrated optical structures and micro-lenses on different substrates based on new process of laser-assisted deposition of optical materials on various crystalline or amorphous solid-state materials. The deposition of target material takes place as a result of interaction of the laser beam with the substrate surface being in direct contact with a liquid containing precursor of appropriate target material.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a capping layer covering a capacitor of a semiconductor memory device, preferably a metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitor, wherein the method includes forming a capacitor having a lower electrode, a dielectric layer and an upper electrode on a semiconductor substrate, forming a capping layer on the capacitor, and crystallizing the dielectric layer. Here, forming the capping layer includes stabilizing for deposition of the capping layer without providing oxygen gas, depositing the capping layer by providing a reaction source for the capping layer; and purging an inside of a reactor for forming the capping layer.