Abstract: A sighting device is used to aim along a line of sight at a target. The sighting device includes a reticle structure formed of a roof prism assembly having an inclined final roof-prism mirror surface that is not perpendicular to the line of sight. The inclined final roof-prism mirror surface is the last surface of the roof prism assembly from which an optical path of the target reflects before leaving the roof prism assembly. There are two sets of sighting reference features, wherein the sets of sighting reference features are disposed on the inclined roof-prism mirror surface. A separately operable illumination source is provided for each of the sets of sighting reference features, wherein each illumination source illuminates only one set of sighting reference features.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a lure comprising a body (1), at least one hook fastener (2), line fastener (6) and, if needed, a swimming plate (4) attached to the body. The body is made as a ready bait body and it is enclosed within a coat (5) manufactured substantially of a transparent material in a die space where the bait body is in.

Abstract: An insect-catching lamp includes a casing having its front side bored with a through opening. The casing is installed with an insect-luring lamp of LED in the interior and provided with a deep-colored adhesive paper at one inner side. When the LED emits bright light outward, mosquitoes will be attracted to fly around the insect-luring lamp and be stuck by the adhesive paper. The insect-catching lamp of this invention is provided with neither electrode bars nor high-voltage electronic elements so it is quite safe in use and able to prevent people from touching the adhesive paper. In addition, the insect-luring lamp employs the low-power LED as an electric source, able to lower consumption of electricity, prolong service life and reduce cost in use.

Abstract: A process is described for preparing alkylene oxide-adducted hydrocarbyl amides having less than 2 wt % of amine by-products by a) reacting a C4-C30 fatty acid or fatty acid lower alkyl ester with a mono- or di-hydroxy hydrocarbyl amine to form a hydrocarbyl amide; b) reacting the hydrocarbyl amide with alkylene oxide; and c) extracting the product of b) with water, acidic water, or water-containing inorganic salts or a combination thereof at a temperature from about 5° C. to 95° C. to yield an alkylene oxide-adducted hydrocarbyl amide having less than 2 wt % of amine by-products.

Abstract: The process generates energy from organic material utilizing microwaves. The waste from food item is dried and further heated under temperature control to convert it into a renewable source of energy. Enclosed in a glass chamber (2) it is then exposed to microwave energy. Apparatus comprises a microwave oven (1), a heat exchanger (3) and energy extraction systems (5) and (6). The microwave absorption creates an ionized hot air atmosphere of high-energy Plasma. This new process for hot plasma generates heat, pressure and electromotive energy, which can be converted by a heat exchanger; a microwave ignited internal-combustion engine or a Magneto-Hydrodynamic (MHD) system, to the useful form of mechanical or electrical energy. The process incorporates a method for plasma confinement to harness its energy. Suitable feedback-control (7) makes the process self-sustaining with net gain in the output energy. Energy efficiency of the process measures the nutritional value of food item used.

Abstract: An embodiment of the invention is a composition of diesel, biodiesel or blended fuel (DF) with exhaust gas (EG) mixtures or with liquid CO2. The composition is in a liquid state near the supercritical region or a supercritical fluid mixture such that it quasi-instantaneously diffuses into the compressed and hot air as a single and homogeneous supercritical phase upon injection in a combustion chamber. Suitable temperatures and pressures are greater than about 300° C. and 100 bar, and the mole fraction of EG or CO2 (XEG or XCO2) in DF is in the range of 0.0-0.9. In a combustion process embodiment, composition embodiments are injected into a combustion chamber under supercritical conditions. The content of EG or CO2 in DF can be controlled as a function of engine operating parameters such as rpm and load. The thermodynamic and transport properties of supercritical DF-EG or DF-CO2 compositions can be more easily tuned and controlled than subcritical two-phase compositions.

Abstract: The present invention constitutes a heat treatment apparatus like a fluidized-bed dryer for heat treating a particulate material in a low temperature, open-air process. Preferably, available waste heat sources within the surrounding industrial plan operation are used to provide heat to the dryer. Moreover, conveyor means contained within the dryer can remove larger, denser particles that could otherwise impede the continuous flow of the particulate material through the dryer or plug the fluidizing dryer. This invention is especially useful for drying coal for an electricity generation plant.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a film for carpet type lawn culture. The film of the present invention is made of a synthetic resin and is configured such that a plurality of drain holes are bored at a predetermined interval and have their total area corresponding to 2% to 20% of an area of the film. According to the present invention, washout of a compost layer can be greatly reduced since water is smoothly discharged through the relatively large drain holes, and the lawn can absorb nutrients from the soil of the ground and grow well since roots of the lawn are taken into the soil of the ground.

Abstract: A growing medium includes a bulking agent and a water-retentive polymer blended together and compressed at a volume-to-volume ratio ranging from about 2:1 to about 10:1, being substantially free of a water-soluble binder material.

Abstract: A plant substrate, e.g., for the cultivation of ornamental plants, vegetables, or trees, contains red-rot wood that has been mechanically or thermomechanically pulped. Additives of the following types can be mixed with the pulped wood: pesticides, e.g., fungicides and bactericides, wetting agents, dyes, stabilizers, odor inhibitors, fragrances, peat, coal, charcoal, lignite, activated carbon, organic powders, and pH regulators.

Abstract: An apparatus for use under an object utilizes a weighing mechanism and an adjustable indicating system for monitoring weight change. The apparatus may be particularly adapted for monitoring soil moisture level in a pot holding houseplants. The apparatus provides a guide for a caretaker to restore the adequate soil moisture level by balancing the weight change. The method of using the apparatus is described.

Abstract: A plant packaging and covering system including a floral sleeve having a decorative pattern thereon. The sleeve may have a lower portion sized to cover a pot and an upper portion which can surround a plant disposed in the pot and which can be detached after the protective function of the upper portion is complete or which can be used to support the sleeve from a support device prior to use. The decorative pattern preferably has an arcuate upper boundary in the flattened condition which when opened, gives the sleeve the appearance of having an upper edge which is parallel to the upper rim of the pot disposed within the sleeve.

Abstract: A molded body for improving the cultivating conditions of plants includes at least one tapering projection. The molded body is disposed such that the projection extends into a plant substrate from the bottom. The projection is a highly porous material for providing an exchange of water by capillary forces and/or air, between the interior and the area surrounding the projection. The molded body comprises a depression provided opposite the projection and serving as a water reservoir that is spaced apart from the plant substrate.

Abstract: A reforming device includes a reforming portion generating reformed gas from a mixed gas, in which fuel and steam are mixed and including a reforming portion loop-back channel provided at the reforming portion so as to extend along an axis line thereof, a combusting portion provided at an inner circumference of the reforming portion in order to generate combustion gas, a combustion gas channel including a loop-back channel within which the combustion gas flows, an evaporating portion generating steam by heating water and supply steam to the reforming portion; and a carbon monoxide reducing portion provided at an outer circumferential wall of the evaporating portion in order to reduce a level of carbon monoxide in the reformed gas that has been exhaled by the reforming portion, and in order to supply such reformed gas to a fuel cell.

Abstract: An apparatus for gasifying solid organic fuel includes a refractory-lined oxidation chamber, fuel storage, a transfer connecting the fuel storage with an inlet into the oxidation chamber for transferring in an upwardly inclined direction the solid fuel from the fuel storage into the inlet to form an upwardly mounded fuel bed. An oxidant is supplied into the fuel bed to gasify the organic materials in the fuel to produce a gaseous effluent from the fuel bed, thereby leaving a residue of the fuel. The residue drops through an opening under the oxidation chamber onto a residue removal transfer. The oxidant is supplied through a plurality of perforated air distribution members extending across the fuel bed cavity in the oxidation chamber so as to introduce air into the interior of the fuel bed to thereby promote evenly distributed gasification, evenly distributed through the fuel bed.

Abstract: The present invention provides a platform door device in which two movable fences 33, which are provided along the side edge 30a of a station platform 30 for getting on and off a car and each supported movably by a support member 32, move relative to each other in the longitudinal direction of the platform 30 to open and close a passage between the platform side and the car side, wherein the platform door device is configured so that the two support members 32 are erected on the platform 30 and are housed in the two movable fences 33; the two support members 32 are housed in the two movable fences 33; and each of the support members 32 is arranged in a plane in the thickness direction of each of the movable fences 33 so as to be covered with the movable fence 33, by which the movable fence 33 can be moved relatively between the inner surface thereof and the outer surface of the support member 32.

Abstract: A refrigerator includes a main body having a storage compartment formed therein; a door formed with a handle on a first side thereof and rotatably disposed on the main body; a sensor disposed on the door and sensing whether or not a user is touching the sensor; and a rotational cam mechanism having a plurality of rotational cam units, each of the rotational cam units having a different rotational radius, installed in the main body and opening the door sequentially according to a sensing of the sensor.

Abstract: A opening control apparatus for a sliding door of a vehicle, includes a driving source, a clutch arranged to connect the driving source and the sliding door in an engaged state and to disconnect the driving source and the sliding door in a disengaged state, and a control section. The control section brings the clutch from the disengaged state to the engaged state when a measured distance of movement of the sliding door from a stop position to a position in one of an opening direction and a closing direction reaches a first predetermined distance and then a measured distance of movement of the sliding door from the position in the one of the opening and closing directions reaches a second predetermined distance, and drives the sliding door to move in the one of the opening and closing directions by the driving source.

Abstract: A window structure is provided which may be used as a rear window in a pick-up truck or the like. In certain example embodiments, the window structure includes a slidable window panel or sheet located between a pair of fixed window panels or sheets. The slidable window panel may have a hydrophilic coating on an interior major surface thereof for anti-fogging purposes.

Abstract: A slider window assembly for a vehicle includes at least one fixed window panel, a movable window panel and at least one sealing member. The fixed window panel has a perimeter edge that defines at least a portion of an opening. The movable window panel is movable relative to the fixed window panel to open and close the opening. The movable window panel and the fixed window panel have opposed surfaces. The sealing member is attached to one of the opposed surfaces and slidably engages the other of the opposed surfaces as the movable window panel is moved relative to the fixed window panel.

Abstract: A glass run for use in a motor vehicle includes an outside wall, an inside wall and a bottom wall and has a generally U-shaped cross-section. An outside seal lip and an inside seal lip respectively project from open ends of the outside wall and the inside wall to extend into an interior of the glass run. An outside cover lip and an inside cover lip respectively project from the open ends of the outside wall and the inside wall for covering an outside end and an inside end of the door frame. And a corner part of the glass run, which is adapted to be attached to a corner of the door frame, has a lip extension along a projecting end of the outside cover lip for covering a joint between an upper frame and a vertical frame of the door frame.

Abstract: A composite material comprises a plurality of cores of material selected from the group comprising carbides, nitrides, carbonitrides, cemented carbides, cemented nitrides, cemented carbonitrides and mixtures thereof, dispersed in a matrix. The matrix comprises the components for making an ultra-hard material, such as diamond or cBN abrasive particles, and a suitable binder. The ultra-hard material is polycrystalline in nature and is typically PCD or PcBN. The cores are typically provided as individual particles or in the form of granules. The granules may be further coated with a second coating, which may be a similar material to that of the cores or of an ultra-hard material of a different grade to that of the first coating. The composite material typically takes on a honeycomb structure of a hard material and cores within the pores of the honeycomb structure bonded to the honeycomb structure. The pores of the honeycomb structure may be ordered or random.

Abstract: A gutter cover is adapted for covering an opening of a generally U-shaped eaves gutter used for catching and distributing rainwater runoff from a pitched roof. The gutter cover includes an elongated cover panel having a longitudinal upstream section adapted for residing proximate a top rear edge of the gutter adjacent an eaves of the roof, and a longitudinal downstream section located away from the roof eaves. The downstream section is adapted for engaging an outwardly-spaced leading edge of the gutter. The cover panel defines a first row of longitudinally-spaced debris filter openings adapted for receiving rainwater runoff from the roof into the gutter. A longitudinal weir ridge is formed downstream of the first row of debris filter openings, and is adapted for slowing and flattening a downstream flow of rainwater runoff bypassing the first row of debris filter openings. The cover panel further defines a second row of longitudinally-spaced debris filter openings downstream of the weir ridge.

Abstract: A flash pan is adapted for collecting and distributing water infiltrating a building at an access opening. The flash pan includes a low-profile base designed to reside beneath the access opening. The base has opposing longitudinal inside and outside edges, opposing lateral end edges, and top and bottom major surfaces. A plurality of feeder channels are formed with the top major surface of the base, and extend from the inside edge towards the outside edge. A longitudinal collection channel is formed between the inside and outside edges of the base. The collection channel communicates with the plurality of feeder channels for receiving water collected by the feeder channels. A drain channel communicates with the collection channel, and extends outwardly towards the outside edge of the base. Water collecting in the feeder channels flows to the collection channel, and is distributed away from the base through the drain channel.

Abstract: A ground anchor, including a body having an upper surface and a lower surface, ground piercing members depending from the lower surface of the body, the ground piercing members being adapted to engage an underlying ground surface and prevent movement of the body along such ground surface, ballast positioned on or in the body, the ballast being sufficient to maintain the ground piercing members engaged with the ground surface when under load, and means for securing an anchor line to the body.

Abstract: A partition system includes a first and second panel assembly. Each panel assembly includes a frame including a top portion and a bottom portion, and a panel disposed within the frame. A first top connector is disposed at the top portion of the first panel assembly frame. The first top connector includes a first base member disposed within the frame and a first extending member disposed outside of the frame. The first extending member includes a downward facing tab. A second top connector is disposed at the top portion of the second panel assembly frame. The second top connector includes a second base member disposed within the frame and a second extending member disposed outside of the frame. The second extending member includes an upward facing tab.

Abstract: Stackable trim molding system is provided. The stackable trim molding system includes a base shoe made of a resilient manmade material having a bottom end configured to contact a floor and a wall base of resilient manmade material having a bottom end configured to communicate with a top end of a base shoe to form a clean border with the base shoe and stacked on top of the base shoe. Some embodiments include a top trim mounted to the wall base. Some embodiments include a top trim mounted to the wall base with an integral cove toe. Some embodiments include a top trim mounted to an existing wall base. A method of installing the trim system is provided. The method includes trimming existing wall base to remove the cove toe to allow for the installation of a base shoe between the wall base and the floor.

Abstract: A frame apparatus for a fenestration unit comprising an elongated frame member including a first side and a second side, wherein the largest distance between the first side and the second side defines a width of about 1.25 inches, the elongated frame member also includes a first end and a second end, wherein the largest distance between the first end and the second end defines a length of at least 5.625 inches, wherein the first side includes an exterior notch at least 0.25 inches from the first end, wherein the exterior notch is at least 0.1 inches wide and at least 0.2 inches deep and the second side includes a backcut located at least 2.0 inches from the second end, wherein the backcut measures at least 0.25 inches deep and at least 0.1 inches wide and wherein the elongated frame member includes a ridge.

Abstract: A garnish system for a vehicle. The system comprises a garnish having a patterned surface with styling features, a cavity, and a mounting aperture within the cavity for receiving a fastener to attach the garnish to a mounting structure. A cover is shaped to engage and close the cavity such that the cover, which is patterned to correspond to the styling features of the garnish, visually obscures the cover when the cover is installed. A method employs the cover.

Abstract: A decorative paving tile or panel comprises a plurality of irregularly shaped stone elements of the same or differing thickness embedded in a backing layer or base to form a tile or panel of the predetermined thickness wherein the normally exposed surfaces of said stone elements lie in a plane substantially parallel to a mounting surface of said backing layer or base. A flowable displacement material may be employed in the interstices between-adjacent stone elements and/or a boundary wall of a tile or panel mould to forma grouting channel. An irregular space between adjacent stone elements of adjacent tiles or panels allows the formation of an optically seamless tiled or panelled surface when grouted.

Abstract: A deployable rectangular truss with folding or removable chordal members and diagonals and orthogonal hinge joints for continuous and synchronous retraction and extension. The truss is rectangular in cross section, with four common chords on the corners. Two opposing sides of the truss have diagonals that meet at side joints. One or more end frames may be used to close off or mount one of more ends of the deployable truss. A plurality of telescoping transverse struts may extend between major joints on one side of the truss.

Abstract: An anchoring device is disclosed comprising a generally horizontal top element having an elongate, generally vertical, collapsible element extending downwardly from the underside thereof, the horizontal top element comprises a metallic plate reinforced plastic.

Abstract: A baluster assembly mountable between a base and a handrail includes a hollow post, a top connecting element, and a bottom connecting element. The hollow post has a pair of opposite end sections, and an intermediate patterned section between the end sections. Each of the end sections defines a hole. The top connecting element has a first plug portion fitted into the hole of one of the end sections, and a first anchor portion extending upward from the first plug portion and connected to the handrail. The bottom connecting element has a second plug portion fitted into the hole of the other one of the end sections, and a second anchor portion connected to the base.

Abstract: A portable container is provided which comprises a passing room(s) allowing entry into a second area into a first area, the passing room having at least two openings with a walkway in-between. Barrier device(s) can be located in the walkway but not connected to the first or second opening. A control room(s) can also be provided, the control room being connected to the passing room(s).

Abstract: In a joint boot to be mounted on an outer housing having a non-circular outer peripheral configuration, the invention is designed for ensuring a high sealing capability without impairing the moldability. To that end, its large-diameter attachment part to be attached to the outer housing is configured, in its internal peripheral contour, to bulge radially inwardly in plural circumferential places thereof so that bulging portions each include an inner wall portion radially inwardly bulging in a curved form, an arc-like outer wall portion constituting part of an outer peripheral face of the large-diameter attachment part, a radially extending central strut wall linking these inner and outer wall portions in peripheral centers of both, and lateral strut walls linking on both sides of the central strut wall the inner and outer wall portions. The lateral strut walls are slanted such that their outward parts approach the central strut wall.

Abstract: Natural lighting profiles are affected in a building facade and internal transparent membrane using a transparent sheet having one or more pixel elements, wherein each of the pixel elements is capable of being driven to control opacity (by shading). A programmable controller is used to send control commands to control opacity of the pixel elements, wherein the percentage of light transmitted through the display panel forming part of the facade is controlled via the controller.

Abstract: Connectors for joining adjacent modular floor covering units. The connectors include a film and an adhesive layer coated on one side of the film. To install tiles using the connectors, a first tile is placed on the floor and a connector is positioned so that the adhesive layer faces upward and does not contact the floor. The connector is typically positioned so that only a portion of the adhesive layer adheres to the underside of the tile, leaving the remainder of the connector extending from the underside of the tile. Tiles are then positioned adjacent the first tile so that a portion of the connector adheres to the adjacent tiles. In this way, the connectors span adjacent tile edges. The tiles are assembled on a underlying flooring surface without the need to attach them to the floor surface. Rather, the tiles are linked to each other with the connectors, so that the tiles create a floor covering that “floats” on the underlying floor surface.

Abstract: A radiant heat panel system comprising multiple radiant heat transfer panels (16), each of the panels having a thermal mass (18) and a conduit channel (20); a fluid conduit (21), the conduit communicating with an apparatus (23) for heating fluid (22) in the conduit; the multiple panels positioned adjacent each other such that the conduit extends through a series of the conduit channels; the panels, conduit and apparatus so configured and arranged to permit heat transfer from the fluid to the thermal mass of the panel, whereby heat radiates from the panel.

Abstract: An improved method and apparatus for providing end seals on vertical stand up packages that prevents pleat formation and gusset variation. A clamping device is mounted below sealing jaws. A bottom end seal is made by the sealing jaws to form an open-ended tube. The open-ended tube is moved downward. The clamping device engages the tube to prevent twisting when product is placed into the tube. Product then enters an open-ended tube of flexible film packaging and the top seal is made.

Abstract: Packets of prismatic geometry referable to a longitudinal axis, presenting two larger side faces, two smaller flank faces and two end faces, are overwrapped by a method including a step in which each packet, enveloped initially by a tubular wrap projecting beyond the two end faces, is inserted into a holder of a transfer wheel in such a way that two appendages of the tubular wrap projecting at either end from a first flank face of the packet are flattened over the end faces; the appendages are pinned immediately along two lines coinciding substantially with the corner edges of the end face as the packet enters the relative holder, and held stably in position during a subsequent step of transferring the single packets from a feed station to an outfeed conveyor.

Abstract: A side sealing apparatus for a shrink packaging machine comprising closed loop temperature control of a heater for maintaining an optimum temperature for cutting and sealing two layers of thermoplastic film. The heater comprises a cable or cartridge heater with an internal thermocouple, and it is connected to an automatic temperature controller. The heater is mounted on the side sealer apparatus between two sets of top and bottom V-belts mounted around drive rolls and idler rolls. The V-belts provide nip pressure against the film in order to drive the film. Nip pressure is generated by nip rolls on the scrap side of the film, and by belt support plates on the package side of the film.

Abstract: A side sealing apparatus for a shrink packaging machine comprising closed loop temperature control of a heater for maintaining an optimum temperature for cutting and sealing two layers of thermoplastic film. The heater comprises a cable or cartridge heater with an internal thermocouple, and it is connected to an automatic temperature controller. The heater is mounted on the side sealer apparatus between two sets of top and bottom V-belts mounted around drive rolls and idler rolls. The V-belts provide nip pressure against the film in order to drive the film. In one embodiment, nip pressure is generated by nip rollers on the scrap side of the film, and by low friction belt support guides on the package side of the film. In another embodiment, the belt support guides are replaced with a series of upper and lower nip rollers, and adjustable toggle clamps provide adjustable pressure on the series of upper and lower nip rollers.

Abstract: Computer assisted systems, methods and mediums for filling one or more orders. One embodiment of the present invention is a system that includes an order consolidation station configured to receive at least one bottle containing pills individually counted and/or at least one package containing pharmaceutical products without having been designated for any of the orders when the package was created and/or at least one literature pack optionally including patient specific information. The order consolidation station is further configured to combine automatically the received bottle and/or package and/or literature pack into a container to be sent to a recipient including, for example, mail order pharmacies, wholesalers and/or central fill dealers for subsequent distribution or sale including retailer distribution or sale. The bottle is specifically designated for the order, and the order generally includes at least one prescription for the package.

Abstract: A strap pressing device for a strap packing apparatus includes a strap presser, an eccentric shaft, and a spring. The eccentric shaft consists of a first shaft and a second shaft eccentrically connected to the first shaft and received in an oval hole of the strap presser. The first shaft is pivotally connected to a side of the base. A spring is fitted around the second shaft in the oval hole, so the strap presser may be pressed down to press a strap closely contact the upper surface of the base, and also moved bias by movement of the second shaft when the first shaft is moved by a lever so that the strap presser may be moved bias to rise up quickly to leave the upper surface of the base so as to prevent a curved bottom surface of the strap presser from frictionally sliding on the strap to give scar on it.

Abstract: A horse browband having a plurality of decorative components adhesively attached to a flexible band with lengths of thread extending through the decorative components from one end of the flexible band to the opposite end of the flexible band to provide added protection against the decorative components falling off the flexible band when, for example, the adhesive fails.

Abstract: An equestrian tattletale rider hand-training device including a left wrist strap releaseably connected to a right wrist strap, and the wrist straps releaseably connected to the saddle.

Abstract: A dust collecting filter such as a honeycomb-type industrial filter for the industrial filtering of gas containing solid particles is provided. The filter includes a plurality of collateral inlet and outlet channels separated by shared filtering boundaries. The inlet channels coalesce at both their extremities into opposite inlet plenums, and the outlet channels similarly coalesce into an outlet plenum at at least one of their extremities. The filter is easily cleanable by flow reversal without dead-end accumulation of particles in the inlet channels since they do not have any dead-end.

Abstract: A vacuum cleaner of the present invention guides air and dust sucked from an inlet 12 to a dust collection chamber 29 through a guide path 41. A cylindrical passage member 55 is locate data linear section of the guide pipe 41 so that its axial line may come along a direction in which the linear section 52 extends. A plurality of vent holes 47 are formed on the passage member 55 and each of the vent holes 47 is covered with a mesh filter 50. When dust is accumulated in the dust collection chamber 29 to some extent, air flowing into a lead-in pipe 43 flows to the outside (the side of a bypass passage 31) through the vent holes 47 and is guided directly to an outlet by bypassing the dust collection chamber 29.

Abstract: A multi cyclone dust collecting apparatus comprises a multi cyclone unit having a first cyclone and a plurality of secondary cyclones. The first cyclone separates relatively large particles whereas the secondary cyclones separate out smaller particles. The cyclones are under a top cover mounted on a top portion of the multi cyclone unit and having a plurality of connecting covers forming a connecting path for guiding air flowing out of the first cyclone to the secondary cyclone, and a discharge cover forming a discharge path for guiding air flowing out of the secondary cyclone to the outside. The connecting covers and the discharge cover are integrally formed. A contaminant collecting unit is mounted to a bottom portion of the multi cyclone unit and collects contaminants separated from the first cyclone and the secondary cyclones.

Abstract: A cyclonic separator for a suction cleaner comprises a cyclone body of which at least part is afforded by components which fit together at interfaces extending axially of the cyclone body.