Abstract: A roller closing device is provided with an inner element and with an outer element. These two elements are arranged at least partially in a coaxial manner. The inner element can be deflected radially with respect to the outer element by the use of at least one elastic body which is arranged between the two elements. This elastic body is configured as a rolling diaphragm. A seal is configured between the inner element and the outer element. The seal closes off a gap between the two elements to prevent impurities from entering the roller closing device when any radial deflection of the inner element takes place.

Abstract: An inking device of a printing press, including an ink ductor roller reciprocating between a receipt position, at which the ink ductor roller contacts an ink fountain roller to receive ink, and a transfer position, at which the ink ductor roller contacts an ink distribution roller or a first intermediate roller located downstream in an ink transfer direction to pass the ink on to the roller, comprises: a pair of split clamping holders supporting the ink ductor roller and supported swingably; and moving means, comprising a shaft, a sleeve, a bearing portion, a worm wheel, a worm shaft, and an operating shaft having a dial-equipped handle, for moving the pair of split clamping holders in the axial direction of the ink ductor roller.

Abstract: A planarizing element is described for use in a thermal imaging process. The planarizing element includes a support; a planarizing layer comprising a crosslinkable binder having a weight average molecular weight of about 20,000 to about 110,000.

Abstract: A plate inserting device includes a plate cylinder, roller, and rotation braking unit. The plate cylinder has a groove portion in its outer surface to extend in an axial direction. A plate is to be mounted on the outer surface of a plate cylinder. The roller is rotatably supported to be able to come close to and separate from the outer surface of the plate cylinder. The roller comes into contact with the outer surface of the plate cylinder, when a distal end bent portion of a new plate is to be inserted in the groove portion of the plate cylinder, to press the distal end bent portion of the new plate. The rotation braking unit brakes rotation of the roller in relation to insertion operation of the distal end bent portion of the new plate into the groove portion of the plate cylinder.

Abstract: A hydrophilic substrate comprising: a hydrophilic layer; and a support, wherein the hydrophilic layer contains a hydrophilic particle having a surface area of from 1 to 1,000 m2/g.

Abstract: A method for producing a printing plate, especially inside a printing press, wherein a printing plate with a rewritable surface is provided, and wherein to produce a permanent as well as an erasable image on the surface of the printing plate, the erasing of the surface and/or the imaging of the surface are carried out with the use of an atmospheric plasma.

Abstract: A method and a device for monitoring the quality of print formed in a printing process, in which a web running continuously in a printing machine is measured substantially continuously by at least one measuring means. In addition to the product to be printed, at least one image pattern, which is printed with at least one printing ink and surrounded by unprinted paper, has been printed on the web. Both the image pattern and the unprinted paper are measured by the same measuring means, or at least one runnability or condition monitoring parameter of the printing machine is measured. The obtained measurement results are compared, and at least one factor affecting the quality of the print on the basis of the comparison is determined.

Abstract: A process is provided for printing a graphic image onto a cue sports cloth to form a cloth layout including a bed cloth and cushion cloths. The process comprises supplying the desired dimensions of the bed cloth and cushion cloths to a digital computer, accessing a digital image, and scaling and dividing the digital image to enable the image to be printed onto a cloth, with part of the image on the bed cloth and part of the image on at least one of the cushion cloths. The image is then printed onto the cloth using a digital printing apparatus and suitable inks to create a piece of printed cloth having on it a series of image portions making up the bed cloth and the cushions. When separated and fitted to the cue sports table, the bed cloth and cushion cloths co-ordinate to create a printed image having a portion of the said image on the bed cloth and a co-ordinating portion of the image on at least one cushion cloth.

Abstract: A method for registering patterns on a web to provide independent scale control in both the lateral and longitudinal directions is provided. The method includes routing the web over a first roller; routing the web over a second roller and stabilizing the web; applying a pattern to the web using process hardware; measuring registration of the pattern and providing an error signal; controlling lateral position error using the error signal; controlling longitudinal position error using the error signal; controlling lateral scale error using the error signal; and controlling longitudinal scale error using the error signal. The method provides independent scale control in both the lateral and longitudinal directions. Independent scale control avoids non-linear distortions otherwise imposed by attempting to accomplish both corrections by stretching the web in both directions.

Abstract: An apparatus comprises an advancing arrangement for advancing an elongated element in an advancing direction, a first decorating device for decorating a first surface of said elongated element, and further comprises a second decorating device for decorating a second surface of said elongated element, said second surface being distinct from said first surface; a method comprises moving an elongated element in an advancing direction, decorating a first surface of said elongated element, downstream of said decorating there is provided further decorating a second surface of said elongated element, said second surface being distinct from said first surface.

Abstract: A hybrid polyvalent projectile or warhead with an active means such as a fragmentation, disk, ring, hollow-charge or P-charge head in conjunction with a module comprising an active laterally effective penetrator includes a pyrotechnic unit serving at the same time for the active laterally effective penetrator and the active means as a producing/accelerating element. The terminal-ballistic efficiency of ALP projectiles, which is reduced at low impact velocities, is ensured by an additional device which as a pyrotechnic unit produces an axial action or accelerates fragments in the desired direction. The explosive of an HC-portion with a triggering device which can be of any design configuration at the same time provides the pressure for the adjoining ALP-module.

Abstract: A dual spin projectile includes a base; a body connected to the base with a first snap joint, the first snap joint allowing relative rotation between the base and the body; a can having an open forward end and connected to the body with a second snap joint, the second snap joint allowing relative rotation between the body and the can; an aft payload disposed in the body; a forward payload disposed in the can; and a cap connected to the can and closing the open forward end of the can.

Abstract: A warhead including a first section with a dish-shaped first fragmentation layer, and a second section with a barrel-shaped second fragmentation layer.

Abstract: A pellet for at least one of a compressed gas and spring operated weapon includes a forward head portion and a cylindrical rearward tail portion which is disposed about a common centerline with the head portion and which has an air pocket formed therein. A frustoconical middle portion connects the tail portion to the head portion. The pellet design is adaptable for use with various commonly available caliber weapons.

Abstract: Rifle bullet for hunting purposes, with a jacket of a lead-free soft ductile material and a core, connected to the jacket, made from a material softer than the jacket. The aim of the invention is to improve the bullet to provide a persistent cut of hair and bleeding at the point of entry, mushrooming in a controlled manner with considerable cross-sectional enlargement, whilst only marginally breaking up with a high residual weight (90% and more). The rifle bullet has a thinly-jacketed bullet tip and has a marked sharp edge at the transition point of the jacket on the bullet tip to a substantially thicker-jacketed tail section. The rifle bullet is internally provided with a circumferential channel reducing the wall thickness of the jacket at said point, filled with the core material.

Abstract: A wood preservative composition comprising an aqueous preservative and 0.001-1.0 wt % of a polyether-modified silicone having a specific structure is provided. The polyether-modified silicone reduces the surface tension of the composition and helps the preservative penetrate deeply into the wood interior.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a phthalocyanine colorant characterized in that it has, as substituents, at least one unsubstituted sulfamoyl group and at least one substituted sulfamoyl group, the total number of these groups being 2 to 4, and the unsubstituted sulfamoyl group and the substituted sulfamoyl group are bonded to the phthalocyanine ring at the ?-position. Said phthalocyanine colorant is suitable for use in an ink, especially a cyan ink, for an ink-jet printer. A printed matter obtained by printing with said ink is excellent in light fastness, ozone fastness and moisture fastness.

Abstract: An inkjet ink is provided, which includes a solvent and a pigment having an average particle diameter of not larger than 250 nm. The number of flocculates of pigment particles having a diameter of 1 ?m or more is 1.6×108/cm3 or less.

Abstract: Disclosed are composites comprising regenerated cellulose, a first active substance, a second active substance, and a linker. Methods for preparing the composites that involve the use of ionic liquids are also disclosed. Articles prepared from the disclosed composites and further disclosed.

Abstract: A method is provided for forming a wet-laid nonwoven glass fiber mat comprised of a plurality of bundles of fibers. The method includes the steps of adding chopped fibers to an aqueous slurry containing a sufficient amount of a suitable hydrophobic agent to cause the fibers to form a plurality of bundles. The fibers are then formed into a mat which may be used in a number of reinforcement applications. A method is also provided for modifying the components in the water slurry to produce mats comprising either bundles of fibers or dispersed fibers.

Abstract: The coating liquid for forming porous silica according to the present invention is characterized by preferably containing a partial hydrolysis-condensation product of an alkoxysilane compound, a surfactant and an organic ampholyte, and by having a metal content of not more than 50 ppb. Conventional coating liquids for forming porous silica have such a problem that porous silica films formed therefrom may have poor regularity in micropore alignment when the shelf life of the coating liquids are long. On the contrary, the coating liquid for forming porous silica of the present invention is excellent in self-life stability. Namely, the quality of porous silica formed therefrom is hardly affected by the length of self-life period of the coating liquid.

Abstract: A rapid setting, controlled low strength composition of Class C fly ash is provided having a quantity of hydrated lime and an iron chelating compound in an amount sufficient to accelerate the hydration and set time of the fly ash. In some examples, a filler material is added. A method for acceleration of the hydration and set time of a cementitious mixture is provided wherein hydrated lime is added to the cementitious mixture in an amount in the range of 0.1% to 15% by weight and an iron chelating compound in an amount in the range of 0.01% to 5.0% by weight of the cementitious material. Further, a calcium source and an iron chelating compound may be added to a Class C fly ash to accelerate the hydration and set time of the ash.

Abstract: A main component of cement is cement clinker, which is produced from a mixture of raw materials containing calcium oxide, silicon dioxide, aluminium oxide and iron oxide by means of mixing, grinding and burning. According to the invention, the mixture of raw materials consists of a calcareous component and converter slag, the converter slag being added in a proportion of up to 30% by weight. Natural resources of raw materials can hereby be preserved and the carbon dioxide output during burning of the cement clinker can be reduced.

Abstract: A composition for improving the properties of a cementitious composition comprises a fluid blend of at least one polyalkylene oxide, at least one aqueous paraffin emulsion, at least one siloxane and, if necessary for fluidity, water.

Abstract: The invention provides a process for preparing a sulphur cement product comprising the following steps: (a) selectively oxidising hydrogen sulphide to elemental sulphur by contacting, in a reaction zone, a hydrogen sulphide containing feed gas and a molecular-oxygen containing gas with a particulate oxidation catalyst under selective oxidation conditions; (b) discharging a stream comprising liquid and/or solid elemental sulphur and particulate oxidation catalyst from the reaction zone; (c) admixing the stream comprising elemental sulphur and particulate oxidation catalyst with at least any one of elemental sulphur, a sulphur cement filler, a sulphur cement modifier, or aggregate at a temperature at which sulphur is molten; (d) solidifying the mixture obtained in step (c) by cooling it to a temperature below the melting temperature of sulphur to obtain the sulphur cement product.

Abstract: An improved support member for use with a table having a frame comprising a table perimeter portion defining an opening, and a channel portion located at least partially within the opening and substantially adjacent the table perimeter portion. The support member comprises a support portion and a lower anchor portion, and is configured to support a table top having a peripheral edge. The upper support portion of the support member supports the table top adjacent the peripheral edge, and the lower anchor portion of the support member is received by the channel portion of the table frame. As such, the present invention provides an improved table top support member for use with table tops made of relatively brittle materials, such as glass. Unlike prior art table top supports, the table top support member of the present invention provides continuous support adjacent the peripheral edge.

Abstract: A new and improved knockdown pallet structure comprises a relatively flexible base panel which is fabricated from a suitable woven plastic material, such as, for example, polypropylene, and a pair of laterally spaced, longitudinally extending pockets are secured upon undersurface portions of the base panel so as to accommodate rigid support members, which may comprise rigid thermoplastic tubes or pipes, for accommodating the fork tines of a forklift truck when a pallet structure, having a palletized load disposed thereon, is to be lifted and transported.

Abstract: A pallet display comprising a four way pallet on which the merchandise is supported in two or more layers. Two or more pallet displays can be stacked for storage and transport. The permanent base may comprise a metal frame which can be covered by a base wrap containing graphics relating to the merchandise on display. The base wrap can be folded and is stored and transported with the pallet display. Additionally, the base can include cut-outs for forklift arms that allows the pallet display to be moved after the base wrap can include cutouts for forklift arms that allows the pallet display to be moved after the base wrap is applied.

Abstract: A blow-molded or other plastic table has an internal frame. The internal frame preferably includes at least first and second support beams disposed lengthwise in the top, and more preferably also has both lateral and medial support beams, and a cross member that couples the lateral and medial support beams. The lateral and medial support beams need not extend the length of the table, and indeed in some embodiments they extend less than half the length of the table. Such a configuration allows the top to be manufactured, shipped, and stored in halves or other pieces. The lateral support beams can also be disposed to overlap, with or without touching one another. The top is preferably blow molded, and includes a core having a first plurality of baffles. Such baffles can be disposed in any suitable manner, including longwise and cross-wise.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a water-cooled grate, which can be cooled while avoiding high and low temperature corrosions. The water-cooled grate comprises: at least one cooling pipe for guiding flow of cooling water; a grate body for placing waste matters to be burned, said grate body being formed with a pipe-receiving portion for receiving the cooling pipe; and a heat transfer controlling member fixed to the pipe-receiving portion for increasing and decreasing heat transfer between the grate body and the cooling pipe by varying thermal resistance to the cooling pipe through thermal deformation according to temperature change of the grate body.

Abstract: A grate covering for a roller grate of an incineration furnace has a furnace space, the grate covering includes a plurality of metallic grate bars arranged on a carrying structure of the roller grate such that they form an outer surface of the roller grate and are exposed directly to the furnace space. The grate bars have a cavity configured to receive a liquid coolant. In addition, a roller grate having such grate bars is provided.

Abstract: The invention discloses a wastewater ballast method that includes the steps of collecting wastewater, treating the collected wastewater, storing the treated wastewater, and discharging the treated wastewater during ballast operations.

Abstract: The planing surface of amphibious vehicle hull (2), with reference to (FIG. 2), comprises at least one discontinuity, e.g. wheel arch recesses (12) to (15). The wheels may be retractable. Access is required to the full arch aperture during vehicle manufacture, but not in use. To maximize the planing area, planing plates (9, 11) are provided. These are fixed in position in both land and marine modes; but may be removable for maintenance. At least one plate may comprise at least part of a strake (22, 25) attached to, or incorporated in, its underside. Such strake section(s) may be sacrificial, and may be made from rubber. A trim tab (30, FIG. 9), may be provided aft of a rear planing plate, and may be hinged thereto. The plates may include water drains and jacking apertures. A ride plate (38, FIG. 1) may be provided between two planing plates, and may be integral therewith.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for quickly reducing and/or stopping human carbon monoxide exposure and/or inhalation in connection with the operation of a gas powered boat. The present invention may be adapted to a wide variety of boats, new or used, wherever carbon monoxide is produced in connection with the operation of a boat. In addition to swim steps, ladders, sun decks, platforms and swim platforms, the present invention may be adapted to virtually any form of device on a boat where carbon monoxide and one or more humans may be present.

Abstract: The invention relates to means for launching into the water, from a height H greater than a predetermined height hmax, a life-saving means (1) designed to be able to be launched into the water in free fall from this maximum height hmax. One end of a halyard (4) is fixedly hooked to the life-saving means or to the launch site (2); the halyard functionally cooperates (at 7) respectively with the launch site or the life-saving means so that the life-saving means falling by gravity is braked on and/or by the halyard over at least one part (H-hmax) of its drop height. By controlling the braking effect, the life-saving means, falling from the height H in a braked manner over at least one part (H-hmax) of this height hits the surface of the water (5) with a kinetic energy not exceeding that which it would have at the end of a non-braked free fall from at most the height hmax.

Abstract: Detachable Clearance Wands are disclosed. The wands provide a driver of a large vehicle having slideout compartments with a clear dimension for the extension length of the slideout. The wands are attachable to the vehicle's side prior to parking it to provide the extension length without risk of damage to the slideout. The wands are length-adjustable so that they can be configured for any length slideout. In an alternate embodiment, the wands are comprised of several pieces of wand material interconnected to one another, such that the wand can be collapsed for consolidation and storage when not in use.

Abstract: An indicating tablet for a traffic cone includes a main body formed with a recessed surface for receiving a pattern or letters. The main body has its lower end formed integral with an insert member, and between the main body and the insert member is formed a connecting edge to enable the insert member to be moved elastically for facilitating the insert member to be inserted in the upper opening of a traffic cone. A plurality of clamping members are fixed at proper locations of the main body for clamping a pattern or letters on the indicating tablet for producing another indicating effect.

Abstract: An over-height vehicle barrier has a supporting beam mounted above a carriageway, with multiple blade-like members rotatably mounted to the supporting beam such that the blade-like members are suspended downwardly from the beam in parallel relationship and in close proximity one to another. A leading edge of each member faces oncoming traffic on the carriageway for possible engagement by an over-height vehicle such that each member can rotate about the axis of the beam independently of the other members when struck by an over-height vehicle. A further beam is engageable by the rotating members when struck by a vehicle to limit the extent of rotation about the axis of the beam and to thereby cause the members to rotate in a return direction. Engagement of the members by a vehicle generates a warning noise to alert the driver of the vehicle and the further beam itself can generate further additional noise when engaged by the rotating members.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing a halyard system configured to suspend a flag to a flag pole. The halyard system includes a holding member, a line member and a weighted-down mass structure. The holding member is coupled to the flag pole. The line member is operatively coupled to an upper side portion of the flag and extends through an upper portion of the flag pole to be removably coupled to the holding member. The weighted-down mass structure is operatively coupled to a lower side portion of the flag and operable to freely hang from the lower side portion of the flag. With this arrangement, the weighted-down mass structure is operable to place tension on the line member and a peripheral side of the flag so as to substantially maintain the peripheral side of the flag in a suspended position along side the flag pole.

Abstract: A rescue locator and related methods are disclosed.

Abstract: A crystallization apparatus includes an illumination system which illuminates a phase shifter having a phase shift portion, and irradiates a polycrystal semiconductor film or an amorphous semiconductor film with a light beam having a predetermined light intensity distribution in which a light intensity is minimum in a point area corresponding to the phase shift portion of the phase shifter, thereby forming a crystallized semiconductor film, the phase shifter has four or more even-numbered phase shift lines which intersect at a point constituting the phase shift portion. An area on one side and an area on the other side of each phase shift line have a phase difference of approximately 180 degrees.

Abstract: A lithium tantalate substrate obtained by working in the state of a substrate a lithium tantalate crystal grown by the Czochralski method is buried in a mixed powder of Al and Al2O3, followed by heat treatment carried out at a temperature kept to from 350 to 600° C., to manufacture a lithium tantalate substrate having volume resistivity which has been controlled within the range of from 106 to 108 ?cm. The substrate obtained has no pyroelectricity, and it can be made colored and opaque from a colorless and transparent state and also sufficiently has the properties required as a piezoelectric material.

Abstract: A method of forming (and system for forming) layers, such as calcium, barium, strontium, and/or magnesium, tantalates and/or niobates, and optionally titanates, on a substrate by employing a vapor deposition method, particularly a multi-cycle atomic layer deposition process.

Abstract: A silicon-based wafer support tower particularly useful for batch-mode thermal chemical vapor deposition. The surfaces of the silicon tower are bead blasted to introduce sub-surface damage, which produces pits and cracks in the surface, which anchor subsequently deposited layer of, for example, silicon nitride, thereby inhibiting peeling of the nitride film. The surface roughness may be in the range of 0.25 to 2.5 ?m. Wafer support portions of the tower are preferably composed of virgin polysilicon. The invention can be applied to other silicon parts in a deposition or other substrate processing reactor, such as tubular sleeves and reactor walls. Tubular silicon members are advantageously formed by extrusion from a silicon melt.

Abstract: Provided are methods of selectively forming an epitaxial semiconductor layer using an ultra high vacuum chemical vapor deposition (UHVCVD) technique. One embodiment is directed to a method that includes loading a substrate having an insulating layer pattern into a reaction furnace. The reaction furnace is evacuated, and the substrate in the reaction furnace is heated to a temperature of about 550 to about 700° C. A semiconductor source gas is injected into the reaction furnace for a first duration to selectively form an epitaxial semiconductor layer on a region of the heated substrate. The semiconductor source gas remaining in the reaction furnace is then purged for a second duration. A selective etching gas is injected into the reaction furnace for a third duration to selectively remove semiconductor atoms adsorbed on surfaces of the insulating layer pattern. The selective etching gas remaining in the reaction furnace is then purged for a fourth duration.

Abstract: The use of surfactants that do not themselves act as dopants and are isoelectronic with either the group III or group V host atoms during OMVPE growth significantly reduces the incorporation of background impurities such as carbon, oxygen, sulfur and/or silicon. For example, the use of the surfactants Sb or Bi significantly reduces the incorporation of background impurities such as carbon, oxygen, sulfur and/or silicon during the OMVPE growth of III/V semiconductor materials, for example GaAs, GaInP, and GaP layers. As a result, an effective method for controlling the incorporation of impurity atoms is adding a minute amount of surfactant during OMVPE growth.

Abstract: A ZnO bulk single crystal of the invention has n-type conductivity with a maximum resistivity of one (1) ohm-centimeter (?-cm). N-type conductivity is achieved through introduction of dopants in the formation of the crystal using a Bridgeman growth technique. The dopants can be a single species or combination of species from Group III, Group VII, Lanthanides, Actinides, Transition metals, or other element or combination of elements resulting in a net positive addition of carriers, i.e. free electrons, to the crystal. Dopant concentration ranges from 1×1015 to 5×1021 atoms/cc. The maximum resistivity at which doped ZnO will exhibit enhanced n-type behavior is one (1) ?-cm at room temperature, so dopant concentrations used to form the crystal are present in an amount that yields this result. The conductivity of the ZnO crystal can be tailored due to the general trend of increasing dopant concentration providing increasing conductivity. The crystal can be cut and polished to produce one or more wafers.

Abstract: An edge ring for use in batch thermal processing of wafers supported on a vertical tower within a furnace. The edge rings are have a width approximately overlapping the periphery of the wafers and are detachably supported on the towers equally spaced between the wafer to reduce thermal edge effects. The edge rings have may have internal or external recesses to interlock with structures on or adjacent the fingers of the tower legs supporting the wafers or one or more steps formed on the lateral sides of the edge ring may slide over and then fall below a locking ledge associated with the support fingers. Preferably, the tower and edge ring and other parts of the furnace adjacent the hot zone are composed of silicon.

Abstract: Provided is a spin coating apparatus having a ring-shaped or polygonal auxiliary member for use in manufacture of a coated substrate via spin coating, wherein the auxiliary member is positioned adjacent to the side of a substrate for coating, within a range of a spaced distance of 0.03 to 0.8 mm and a range of a height deviation of less than 0.1 mm, upon mounting the substrate. When a surface of a substrate for coating is spin coated with a coating agent using the apparatus of the present invention, it is possible to eliminate or effectively reduce a ski-jump phenomenon at end portions of a coated substrate occurring when spin coating is performed, thereby resulting in uniform coating of a coating solution on the substrate, and it is also possible to effectively decrease contamination of the substrate for coating due to inflow or stay of the remaining coating agent.

Abstract: According to one embodiment of the invention, a system for applying an adhesive substance to an electronic device having a region designated to be coupled to another device is provided. The region has a first shape defined by a first boundary. The system includes a tube having an open end. The system also includes a nozzle having an opening coupled to the open end of the tube. The opening has a second shape that is approximately the same as the first shape.