Abstract: Systems and methods are presented herein that provide for ignition of explosive devices through electric discharge. In one embodiment, an electrostatic discharge is directionally propagated through air to conduct electric current to the explosive device. The electric current may ignite the explosive device via heat, via triggering of ignition circuitry, via induced electric current conduction to the explosive material therein and/or via direct electric conduction to the explosive material therein. Alternatively or additionally, a system is configured with a vehicle to distally position the propagated energy to the explosive device such that damage caused by the explosive device is reduced.

Abstract: The present invention refers to an impact-resistant and penetration-resistant textile structure, to a method and to an apparatus for production thereof.

Abstract: Prefabricated ribbed ferrocement element E sandwich type is effused in the mould K with vibrating motor 14 embedded, and it consist from box looking shell 15 made from ferrocement with fortified ribs 16 thermal isolation layer 17 and protective layer 5; on the side of the elements E hooks 18 have been positioned made from armature and used for removing elements from the mould K and his placement on the construction site. Moustaches 19 made from armature and positioned on the frontal side of the element serve for binding with armature of the reinforced concrete arches 6; they have an optional openings 8 made for windows, ventilation and other installations. A construction structure is constructed using the prefabricated ribbed ferrocement element E.

Abstract: A combination magazine and outer skin for a firearm including a magazine core adapted to releasably engage a firearm in communication with an action assembly associated with the firearm. Multiple cores are stackable end-to-end to define a continuous interior, with an end cap engaging an open bottom of a lowermost core. A design indicia exhibits an interior recess and is assembled around the stacked cores. A dual use follower is in use with an uppermost located magazine and maintains the assembly bolt in an open position and following the last cartridge being fired until such time as the magazine is removed. In the further variant, with a BHOA installed in place, the follower activates the BHOA and the bolt to remain in the retracted/open position, following magazine removal.

Abstract: Disclosed is a variable displacement compressor having improved compressor performance such as reduced pulsation and improved durability and resistance to pressure and allowing smooth and high-precision control of a swash plate tilt angle at a target tilt angle by using an axial movement member.

Abstract: A digital hydraulic controller has at least two rows of valve elements: one can connect a supply line to a controller output, the other can connect the controller output to an outlet line. The valve elements of each row are connected in parallel and are switchable individually or simultaneously in different combinations with each other and have different flow cross sections. The valve element with the smallest flow cross section is present twice in the row. A system unit has a differential cylinder and a digital hydraulic controller with four rows of valve elements, two of which are, with their common controller output, connected to the one pressure chamber of the differential cylinder, while the other two rows of valve elements are, with their common controller output, connected to the other pressure chamber of the differential cylinder. The differential cylinder can be used as a precisely adjustable linear actuator.

Abstract: An apparatus can include a piston movably disposed within a pressure vessel and defines a first interior region and a second interior region. The piston has a first position in which the first interior contains a gas having a first pressure and has a volume greater than the second interior region, and a second position in which the second interior region contains a gas having a second pressure and has a volume greater than the first interior region. A seal member is attached to the piston and to the pressure vessel. The seal member has a first configuration in which at least a portion of the seal member is disposed at a first position when the piston is in its first position, and a second configuration in which the portion of the seal member is disposed at a second position when the piston is in its second position.

Abstract: An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a method of controlling a PAC-to-particulate ratio in a potion of an exhaust system from a furnace. The method comprises measuring a second amount of particulate exiting a particulate removal system, and controlling a first amount of particulate removed by the particulate removal system based in part on the measured second amount of particulate, such that a desired ratio of PAC-to-particulate is obtained in the portion of the exhaust system.

Abstract: A filter assembly system including, a filter bag having an opening, a seal coupled to the filter bag adjacent the opening, wherein the seal comprises a gasket band and a perforated metal band, and the perforated metal band is configured to bias the gasket band in a radial direction into a sealed position upon expansion or contraction of the perforated metal band.

Abstract: The invention relates to a gas scrubbing process, as well as a method for the operation thereof, in which during normal operation in an absorber column, gas components are separated from a gas mixture (feed gas) by scrubbing with a scrubbing liquid. The scrubbing liquid, loaded with separate gas components during the scrubbing process, is regenerated in a regeneration system that comprises at least one regeneration device equipped with a liquid level control. The regenerated scrubbing liquid is then recycled into the absorber column. When the feed gas is lost/reduced, the nominal value of the liquid level control is raised, and the resultant additional storage volume provided in the regeneration device is used for storing scrubbing liquid.

Abstract: A method for removing particulate matter from a particulate-bearing gas stream comprises flowing a particulate-bearing gas stream at a first volumetric flow rate to a plurality of ESP units; producing electrically charged particulate matter; collecting electrically charged particulate matter on collection electrode plates; reducing the flow through at least one of the ESP units; sequentially increasing the flow through one or more remaining ESP units in an amount so as to maintain the sum of flow through all of the ESP units at the first volumetric flow rate; subjecting the collection electrode plates in the at least one ESP unit with reduced flow to forces which dislodge the particulate matter from the collection electrode plates; collecting the dislodged particulate matter in a particulate collection receptacle; and withdrawing a gas stream of reduced particulate matter contamination.

Abstract: One exemplary embodiment can be a vessel. The vessel can include a body, an inlet, and an impermeable impingement plate. The body may include a substantially cylindrical structure orientated substantially horizontally, and first and second heads coupled at opposing ends of the substantially cylindrical structure. Generally, the body forms an interior space, and a lower portion of the body forms a trough having a length and a width. The inlet can communicate with the interior space of the vessel. Typically, the impermeable impingement plate has an impingement surface. The impermeable impingement plate may have a first side and a second side extending substantially the length of the trough. The first and second sides may be substantially parallel and spaced apart across at least a portion of the width of the trough.

Abstract: Metal-organic framework (MOF) materials are provided and are selectively adsorbent to xenon (Xe) over another noble gas such as krypton (Kr) and/or argon (Ar) as a result of having framework voids (pores) sized to this end. MOF materials having pores that are capable of accommodating a Xe atom but have a small enough pore size to receive no more than one Xe atom are desired to preferentially adsorb Xe over Kr in a multi-component (Xe—Kr mixture) adsorption method. The MOF material has 20% or more, preferably 40% or more, of the total pore volume in a pore size range of 0.45-0.75 nm which can selectively adsorb Xe over Kr in a multi-component Xe—Kr mixture over a pressure range of 0.01 to 1.0 MPa.

Abstract: Synthesis of a support material impregnated with silver sulfide provides a sorbent composition. Generating the silver sulfide relies on reaction of sulfur dioxide and one of hydrogen gas and hydrogen sulfide in presence of the support material following silver loading of the support material. Contacting a fluid stream with the sorbent composition removes heavy metal from the fluid stream.

Abstract: A gas-liquid contact column tray has a section including a gas pathway (SAA) and a liquid pathway section (SD) delimited by at least one downspout, wherein a deflecting system including a roof is included, located above the liquid gas interface at the level of the liquid pathway section (SD), in order to apportion the gas phase over a surface section greater than the section including the means of gas pathway (SAA). In a method for gas-liquid contact in such a column, most of the gas phase part is redirected and apportioned over the whole pathway section available for gas, corresponding to the tray section provided with the gas pathway (SAA), increased by the liquid pathway section (SD), using a deflecting system consisting of the roof located higher than the gas-liquid interface level of the liquid pathway section (SD), and the liquid collected is evacuated toward the lower tray.

Abstract: Physical solvent is regenerated using flashing and stripping processes to produce an ultra-lean solvent. In especially preferred aspects, flashed C1-C3 hydrocarbons are recycled to the absorber, while C4+ hydrocarbons are recovered from the CO2 that is removed from the solvent. It is further preferred that depressurization of the rich solvent provides most of the refrigeration duty.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of corrosion, temperature and spark resistant electrically conductive components in wet electrostatic precipitator systems (WESPs). In particular, the present invention is directed to using a conductive composite material in the fabrication of wet electrostatic precipitator system components.

Abstract: A sorbent container includes a permeable plastic container, a permeable membrane, and a sorbent. The permeable plastic container includes a sidewall and an endwall, the sidewall defining an opening opposite the endwall. The permeable membrane is fused to the sidewall to cover the opening. A fused junction is formed between the sidewall and the permeable membrane. The sorbent is disposed within the plastic container.

Abstract: A filtration system has a blowdown conduit and a filter unit. The blowdown conduit is adapted to be operably connected with a gas compressor station. The filter unit includes a filter housing, an inlet port, a pollution filter positioned within the filter housing to remove the pollutants from the vented gasses entering through the inlet port, and an exit port enabling the vented gasses to exit the filter housing once the pollutants have been removed by the pollution filter.

Abstract: A dust scrubber (30, 130) for a mining shearer machine (12) is adapted to be mounted behind the rear surface of the shearer arm (18), on the opposite side of the arm to the mine surface being cut, so as to extract airborne particulates. The scrubber may be mounted to the shearer via a compensation mechanism such as a double hinge (160, 162) and link (164) arrangement which maintains relatively static position and/or orientation of the scrubber despite the pivoting of the shearer arm in operation.

Abstract: In order to provide an electrical household appliance, in particular comprising an electronic control device for different control functions by activation of respective switching elements, as well as comprising an acoustic signal generator, wherein different acoustic signals being pleasant for the user can be generated, it is proposed that the signal generator is an electronic sound generator, by means of which sounds with different sound frequencies and/or amplitudes can be generated.

Abstract: It is disclosed an espresso coffee machine, which comprises a temperature regulation system that includes a water storage vessel, in direct flow connection with a water heater of thermoblock type. The water heater of thermoblock type is at a first warming temperature and contains inside a coil through which the water flows at room temperature coming from the water storage vessel. When the water flows at room temperature through the coil the temperature is raised up to an initial warming temperature, producing steam in this way, to reduce later its temperature from the initial warming temperature up to the final extraction temperature.

Abstract: A computer controlled coffee maker includes a filter basket for holding coffee grinds above a water filled carafe. A motorized dunking mechanism controls the movement of said filter basket into and out of the water in said carafe for steeping and draining said coffee grinds. The dunking cycles and water temperature are determined by a preprogrammed computer and user selected inputs to provide coffee brewed with minimal exposure of the grinds to high temperatures. A breakaway connection is provided between the dunking mechanism and the filter basket.

Abstract: A wand for dispensing vapor for heating and/or frothing a quantity of milk by vapor being introduced into a container in which the milk is located. The wand is provided with a first end, in the region of which it receives the vapor, and a second end, through which the vapor is dispensed. The second end can be positioned inside and outside the container by means of angular movements of the wand about an articulation to which the first end is connected. The articulation is mounted on a portion of a machine for preparing drinks. The wand further comprises a thermoelectrical sensor for detecting the temperature reached by the milk in the container. The sensor can transmit an electrical signal relating to the detected temperature outside the wand.

Abstract: The invention concerns a device for heating, cooking and/or mixing food, comprising: a steam generator (1), a vessel (2) removably closed with a lid (3), and in which are arranged: a removable basket (21) with perforated base to contain food to be cooked or heated, a cutting blade (41) arranged underneath the basket, to mix food placed in the vessel, a motor (4) to drive the blade in rotation; the device is noteworthy in that: the removable basket comprises a central steam channel (22), the lid comprises a radial steam channel (31), communicating with the central channel, and the lid comprises an outer wall (35) distant from the radial channel.

Abstract: A baking pan includes a body, a cavity formed in the body for receiving batter, and a member positioned within the cavity for supporting a filling material in the batter.

Abstract: The invention comprises a container adapted to house a cooking egg during cooking, wherein said container is water permeable, and is impermeable to liquids of the density of raw albumen and raw vittelus, and has an in use top region and an in use bottom region, and said top comprises an aperture so sized as to allow the introduction of a raw cooking egg into the container.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a mobile meat roaster, which includes: a casing which forms the outer body; a heat supply part mounted in the casing far providing heat to food; and a first grill operation unit mounted at the upper portion of the heat supply part for rotating the grill as well as moving it in the vertical and horizontal directions, wherein the first grill operation part includes a first grill fixing part for attaching or detaching an end of grill, horizontal moving unit for moving the grill in horizontal direction, a rotating unit for rotating the grill, and a lifting unit for moving the grill in the vertical direction.

Abstract: A method for at least partially dehydrating the casing of co-extruded food products, wherein an aqueous salt solution is supplied to the exterior of the co-extruded food products. A device for at least partially dehydrating the casing of co-extruded food products.

Abstract: A method for controlling a braking mechanism for a supply roll with wrapping material for a round baler that passes through a first phase wherein, after detection of sufficient crop material in the baling chamber, wrapping material is brought up to the baling chamber and introduced into the baling chamber. The braking mechanism provides a higher braking force during the wrapping operation than the first phase. The wrapping operation is started on detection of movement in the wrapping material. This prevents the braking mechanism from being activated prematurely and leaves sufficient time to deactivate the braking mechanism after the wrapping operation.

Abstract: A solar-powered waste compactor comprises a waste container for housing waste, a compactor ram actuated by a hydraulic cylinder and piston assembly for compacting the waste in the waste container, and a hydraulic power unit operably associated with the hydraulic cylinder and piston assembly for powering the compactor ram. The hydraulic power unit comprises a motor/pump assembly including a pump unit, a single-phase electric motor driving the pump unit and a flow control valve operating the motor/pump assembly at first or second flow rate depending on an operating pressure. The hydraulic power unit further comprises a battery unit, a solar panel to charge the battery unit, a DC-to-AC inverter, a single-phase AC power inlet connectable to a source of a single-phase electrical power grid, and a reversing contactor providing the electric current only from the inverter or the power inlet at any given time.

Abstract: An agricultural ram press has a bale chamber, a baling ram moveable in an oscillating manner in the bale chamber, a feed channel, a feed rake arranged in the feed channel and switchable between a gathering stroke motion which compresses crop in the feed channel and a filling stroke motion which moves the crop from the feed channel into the bale channel, and a drive for driving the feed rake and having a control rod interacting with an adjustable stop to control at least one of the motions of the feed rake.

Abstract: The invention provides an integrated inkpad and embosser which serves to apply ink and emboss simultaneously the surface of a document. The device applies ink to only the embossed areas of a document. Thus perfectly rendering the seal easily visible on originals and copies. Positioned on the distal end of the unit is a set of two embossing plates which emboss and ink a document when the jaws of the plates are squeezed together. The novel feature taught by the present invention is the inclusion of an inkpad positioned on the bottom of the upper jaw so that ink is applied to the surface of the document when the jaws are squeezed together. The inkpad is covered with a surface having openings to allow the flow of ink selectively to the tops of the embossed characters.

Abstract: A pad printing machine with a holder for a printing plate includes an ink supply device having a hollow body which rests with its front face on the printing plate during operation of the machine, a device for producing a relative movement between the printing plate and the hollow body, and a printing pad which can be pressed onto the inked printing plate and receives the ink from recesses in the printing plate and transfers the ink to an object to be printed. The drive assembly for the relative movement between the hollow body and the printing plate has a rotatably driven first cam and the drive assembly for the pad has a rotatably driven second cam, wherein both cams are arranged on a single control disc.

Abstract: A variable cutoff printing press is provided. The variable cutoff printing press includes a first cylinder printing on a web at a first longitudinal portion of the web and a second longitudinal portion of the web at the same time, the second longitudinal portion being downstream of the first longitudinal portion at least a distance equal to an effective circumference of the first cylinder. The variable cutoff printing press also includes a second cylinder forming at least one nip with the first cylinder, the first and second longitudinal portions of the web passing through the at least one nip. A method of variable cutoff printing is also provided.

Abstract: The present invention is an imprint system including an imprint unit transferring a transfer pattern to a coating film formed on a substrate using a template having the transfer pattern formed on a front surface thereof to form a predetermined pattern in the coating film, the imprint system including: a substrate carry-in/out station connected to the imprint unit, capable of keeping a plurality of the substrates, and carrying the substrate into/out of the imprint unit side; and a template carry-in/out station connected to the imprint unit, capable of keeping a plurality of the templates, and carrying the template into/out of the imprint unit side at a predetermined timing.

Abstract: Two-stage imprinting techniques capable of protecting fine patterned features of an imprint lithography template are herein described. In particular, such techniques may be used during fabrication of recessed high-contrast alignment marks for preventing deposited metal layers from coming into contact with fine features etched into the template.

Abstract: In a printing press having a transfer cylinder for transferring a freshly printed substrate, a method of preparing the printing press for printing is provided. The method comprises placing a first edge of a flexible jacket over one of a hook type attachment structure or a loop type attachment structure coupled to a first edge of the transfer cylinder and pressing the flexible jacket into contact with the hook type attachment structure or the loop type attachment structure, wherein the pressing is performed by surface contact between the flexible jacket and a loop type material attached to a tool.

Abstract: A print control strip to be applied to printing material during a multicolor printing process, includes multiple measuring fields associated with one ink zone on the printing material. The measuring fields, which are associated with one ink zone, include at least two gray measuring fields. A method of measuring measuring fields in print control strips on printing material with a measuring device and a control unit connected thereto, and a method of controlling metering of ink in offset printing presses including at least one ink metering device in each printing unit and a control unit, are also provided.

Abstract: My Ring Airfoil Glider Expendable Cartridge and Glider Launching Method is form launching a reduced caliber ring airfoil glider from a conventional grenade launcher barrel with preferred application for less lethal use. A caseless ammunition base contains a primer communicating with a propellant in a rupture disk sealed chamber with a vent used to create, seal and channel propelling gas into a space behind a sabot mounted on a central guide on the base, whereupon releasing the gas, the sabot aligns, seals, pushes and rotates the glider in passage down the barrel, to a point of maximum velocity, whereon, the propelling gas is vented ahead of the glider by the central passage in the sabot as it leaves the guide, whereupon, the bore decelerates the sabot by friction freeing the glider to fly down the bore centered by a turbulent boundary layer of air until it exits the muzzle.

Abstract: An auto/manual gas inflator incorporating a gas cylinder and an auto cap. A first indication mechanism is provided for indicating the status of the gas cylinder which is visible through a first window in the inflator housing and a second indication mechanism is provided for indicating the status of the auto cap through a second window in the inflator housing. The auto cap in one embodiment uses a dissolvable pill for automatic inflation. A manual activator, such as a lanyard assembly can be used for manual inflation. In either activation method, a pierce pin is moved upward to break the cylinder's seal and release the gas contained within the cylinder.

Abstract: The diesel-electric locomotive (10) includes: a diesel engine (12), an alternator (20) mechanically coupled for driving thereof to the diesel engine (12) and connected as output to a direct current bus (26) through a rectifier (22), at least one electric traction motor (14) connected to the bus (26) through a traction inverter (34), at least one piece of auxiliary equipment (16, 18) with a power supply, powered from the diesel engine (12). It includes, to power the or each piece of auxiliary equipment (16, 18), a chain (80) for shaping the current connected as input to the direct current bus (26).

Abstract: An ink composition includes a slightly water-soluble alkanediol having 7 to 10 carbon atoms and cyclodextrin compound.

Abstract: The invention is directed to an improved dental composition useful in the repair of cavities, apex repairs, root perforations and root canals. Disclosed is a dental composition and dental composition additive which have improved handling characteristics, for example improved viscosity and setting time. The addition of effective amounts of a modified cellulose and calcium chloride to available dental repair compounds, such as mineral trioxide compound, results in the improved dental composition without affecting the other characteristics of the dental repair compound.

Abstract: Compositions for hardening paint, particularly residual waste water-based paints are described. The compositions comprise at least one water soluble or water dispersible, natural or synthetic polymer and optionally an agent that increases the ionic strength of the paint. Methods of hardening waste water-based paint for environmentally responsible disposal are also described.

Abstract: Use of a wax-containing composition as a surface coating in order to improve the cleanability of the surfaces, whereby the composition comprises: alkyd resin as binding agent at a concentration in the range of 20-60% by weight, sulfonates at a concentration in the range of 10-30% by weight, a wax, in particular a micro-wax at a concentration in the range of 1-10% by weight, and aliphatic hydrocarbon-based solvent at a concentration in the range of 10-50% by weight.

Abstract: The invention relates to reactive derivatives on the basis of dianhydrohexitol-based isocyanates.

Abstract: The invention concerns a new synthetic mineral matter containing carbonate, the decomposition of which reduces the rate of fossil fuel carbon dioxide emission. It also concerns its manufacture in batches, or in a batch-continuous manner, or in a continuous manner, together with its uses in the pharmaceutical field, the field of human or animal foodstuffs, or again the papermaking field with, notably, manufacture of paper, filler or coating, or again every other paper surface treatment, together with the fields of water-based or non-water-based paints, together with the field of plastics, such as that of breathable polyethylene films, or again the field of printing inks.

Abstract: Provided herein are compositions and methods including hydraulic cement, supplementary cementitious material, and/or self-cementing material. Methods for making the compositions and using the compositions are provided.

Abstract: The invention relates to a compound of following formula (I): the preparation method thereof and the use of same.