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A single-piece seamless construction container formed from a thermoformable material, the container including a vessel, at least one wing, and at least one hinge coupling the wing to the vessel. The wings comprise a patterned surface, although only the vessel, or the wings and the vessel may also be configured to include a patterned surface. The wings are configured to wrap about the container with the patterned surface serving to trap air between an outer surface of the vessel and an inner surface of the wing. The trapped air and the wing forms an insulative air gap between a surface of the container and the wing. The container may be nestably stacked in a wing open or wing closed position.

A wheeled utility bag that includes a customizable storage area for conveniently transporting a number of items and extendable axles for increased stability. The utility bag includes a rigid base incorporating an extendable handle, a fixed handle, extendable axles supporting at least one rotatable wheel and a container such as a flexible bag. A supply kit can be removably mounted to a first side of the rigid base while the flexible bag is permanently attached to a second side of the base. The flexible bag forms a main compartment area for transporting tools or implements. A customized insert can be included in the main compartment. The utility bag also including a number of secondary compartments, retainers, handles, attachments and pockets.

A transport tank system includes a molded thermoplastic tank defining an aperture therethrough and having a discharge end and an opposing end, the thermoplastic tank being rigidly configured for holding a consumable cargo received through the aperture and including a material resistant to passage of oxygen to preserve the consumable cargo. The tank is capable of standing alone for storing the consumable cargo, or the tank can be loaded into a standard dry box container to convert the dry box container into a bulk liquid transport container.

A device for densely loading a divided solid into a chamber, intended to interact with a divided-solid supply device arranged to release the divided solid above an access to the chamber. The loading device contains a shaft rotated about an axis X1 at an adjustable rotational speed, a plurality of deflecting elements rigidly connected in rotation with the shaft, the deflecting elements having an angle, relative to the shaft, which is separately adjustable from the rotational speed of the latter. According to a preferred embodiment, the shaft is hollow in order to define a passage for the divided solid, at least some of the deflecting element having an end arranged at a distance from the axis X1 that is smaller than the distance separating the axis X1 from the hollow shaft.

A transport tank system includes a molded thermoplastic tank defining an aperture therethrough and having a discharge end and an opposing end, the thermoplastic tank being rigidly configured for holding a consumable cargo received through the aperture and including a material resistant to passage of oxygen to preserve the consumable cargo. The tank is capable of standing alone for storing the consumable cargo, or the tank can be loaded into a standard dry box container to convert the dry box container into a bulk liquid transport container.

An environmentally friendly, lightweight, sturdy, water-resistant riser platform having columns of multiple heights is disclosed. The riser platform can be provided with a top cover suitable for the display of promotional materials. The riser platform can also be provided with internal dowels for increased load-bearing capacity. The riser platform can be utilized in and for any variety of industries or needs, including residential, commercial, retail, food service, and industrial uses.

A transport tank system includes a molded thermoplastic tank defining an aperture therethrough and having a discharge end and an opposing end, the thermoplastic tank being rigidly configured for holding a consumable cargo received through the aperture and including a material resistant to passage of oxygen to preserve the consumable cargo. The tank is capable of standing alone for storing the consumable cargo, or the tank can be loaded into a standard dry box container to convert the dry box container into a bulk liquid transport container.

A collapsible crate, which has an especially sturdy construction, making it particularly suitable for containing and transporting large containers, such as one-gallon water or milk jugs, is disclosed. The crate may also be used for suspending file folders without the use of a rack onto which the file folders are suspended. The crate comprises a bottom panel, a top rectangular frame, two side panels pivotally connected at opposite ends of the frame, and front and back folding panels pivotally connected at their lower ends to opposite ends of the bottom panel and at their upper ends to corresponding opposite ends of the top frame, adjacent the side panels. The crate appears as a normal milk crate, but is collapsible to a very low profile by swinging the side panels up toward the frame, so that the side panels are substantially parallel to the bottom panel and co-planar with the frame, then allowing the front and back panels to fold inwardly to bring the top frame and bottom panel together, such that the crate structure is compressed into a compact configuration.

A process is provided for stabilizing a petroleum liquid feed stream which contains a more volatile hydrocarbon portion, a less volatile hydrocarbon portion and water. The more volatile hydrocarbon portion of the petroleum liquid feed stream is reacted with the water in a fluidized bed heat exchanger to form a solid hydrate and a petroleum liquid product which contains the remaining less volatile hydrocarbon portion of the petroleum liquid feed stream. The petroleum liquid product is separated from the solid hydrate to recover the resulting petroleum liquid product which is substantially less volatile and more stable than the petroleum liquid feed stream and more suitable for storage or transport, particularly at low pressures.

A collapsible truck trailer comprises an upper container that houses, and is slidably engaged with, a primary container via a lifting mechanism and vertical guide rails. The lifting mechanism changes trailer between a collapsed configuration wherein the upper container completely houses the primary container, and an extended configuration wherein the upper container is completely above the primary container. The vertical guide rails comprise a vertical c-channel fixed to the upper container that is slidably engaged with a complementary vertical rail fixed to the primary container. The lifting mechanism includes a series of intersecting lift arms driving by a motor and actuator. An automatically adjusting wind guard covers the front side of the upper container to reduce wind drag. The wind guard has a base portion connected to the truck roof and a flat portion having a terminal end that rests upon the upper container.

A reconfigurable surface cleaning apparatus includes a floor cleaning unit comprising a surface cleaning head, and a portable cleaning unit comprising an energy storage member and an inverted cyclone. The reconfigurable surface cleaning apparatus is operable in an above floor cleaning mode in which the portable cleaning unit is removed from the floor cleaning unit and in a floor cleaning mode in which the portable cleaning unit is mounted to the floor cleaning unit. In the floor cleaning mode. In the floor cleaning mode, the cyclone air inlet is located up to 20 inches above the floor.

A reconfigurable surface cleaning apparatus includes a floor cleaning unit comprising a surface cleaning head, and a portable cleaning unit. The reconfigurable surface cleaning apparatus is operable in an above floor cleaning mode in which the portable cleaning unit is removed from the floor cleaning unit and in a floor cleaning mode in which an upflow duct is received in the portable cleaning unit and defines the air flow passage upwardly through the portable cleaning unit to a cyclone chamber air inlet.

A reconfigurable surface cleaning apparatus includes a floor cleaning unit comprising a surface cleaning head, and a hand vacuum cleaner. The reconfigurable surface cleaning apparatus is operable in a floor cleaning mode in which the hand vacuum cleaner is mounted to a rigid wand of the floor cleaning unit and operated using an energy storage member of the hand vacuum cleaner, and also operable in an above floor cleaning mode in which the hand vacuum cleaner is disconnected from air flow with the floor cleaning unit and operated using the energy storage member. A cross-sectional area through the rigid wand is less than a cross-sectional area through an upstream portion of an airflow path of the hand vacuum cleaner. A velocity of air travelling through the wand in the floor cleaning mode is greater than a velocity of air flow through the upstream portion in the above floor cleaning mode.

Both the reaction of hydride-forming compositions with hydrogen to form hydrides, and the decomposition of such hydrides to release hydrogen may be promoted electrochemically. These reactions may be conducted reversibly, and if performed in a suitable cell, the cell will serve as a hydrogen storage and release device.

A lightweight aluminum container body is provided which is typically of much greater length than the prior art. The container body which has a series of removable filter sections is provided. The container body which includes a top pivoting rear gate sealed by dual hydraulic piston arrangement and manual vice locks is provided. The container body having a central wall supporting a novel manifold and inlet drain offset system which automatically controls the sludge inlet drain flow and way the positionally balances sediment deposit is provided.

The present invention relates to a method of producing a nanofibrillated cellulose (NFC), the nanofibrillated cellulose product obtained and the use of the nanofibrillated cellulose product. The method comprises the steps of: Providing cellulosic fibres dispersed in water; Solvent-exchanging water in the fibres to an organic solvent, such as alcohol, suitably ethanol or isopropanol; Impregnating the fibres with a solution comprising a halogenated aliphatic acid having more than 2 carbon atoms; Heat-treating the impregnated fibres at a temperature of more than 50° C. in an alkaline solution comprising an organic solvent, which solution is optionally aqueous, to carboxyalkylatethe fibres; Washing the fibres; Converting the carboxyl groups their alkali metal counter-ion form; Optionally filtering the fibres; Dispersing the fibres in water; Mechanically disintegrating the fibres to provide the NFC product.

A re-facing apparatus for pipe threaded connections having independent machining stations for pin-end (male) and box-end (female) threaded connections. Among other benefits, the machining stations can be used to restore torque shoulders by machining a face of each shoulder using custom spindle and cross slides. The pipe connection re-facing apparatus can be set up over existing pipe racks and allows pipe sections to be rolled through for processing. For example, the apparatus of the present invention can be installed and utilized in proximity to a pipe storage and inspection facility, such that out-of-specification pipe connections can be re-faced without incurring significant transportation and / or machine shop expenses.

In a heat spreading module, a plurality of hollow paths is formed in a thin plate-shaped main body so as to pass though the heating portion, and the hollow paths communicate with each other in a heating portion, a working fluid is enclosed in the hollow paths, a wick is disposed in each of the hollow paths such that a vapor flow path in which vapor of the working fluid flows is formed in each of the hollow paths, a part of each wick is positioned at the heating portion, and the vapor flow paths formed in the hollow paths communicate with each other in the heating portion.

An apparatus for the treatment of infections associated with respiratory disorders in a mammal with a mixture for use as an inhalable medicament. The apparatus includes a patient interface, at least one source of helium for providing gaseous helium, at least one source of oxygen for providing gaseous oxygen, an application device for providing a mixture to the patient interface, at least one source of nitric oxide for providing gaseous nitric oxide, a gas injector for injecting the nitric oxide into the mixture, an injector for injecting a means for inhibiting growth of pulmonary pathogens, a controller programmed for controlling the gas injector, the application device and the injector.

A lithium-ion hybrid supercapacitor comprising (i) an electrode comprising nitrogen-doped carbon nanotubes (N-CNTs), and (ii) an electrode comprising an electrically conductive graphene material. The supercapacitor can comprise an electrolyte which is a solution of (i) a lithium salt selected from Li[PF2(C2O4)2], Li[SO3CF3], Li[N(CF3SO2)2], Li[C(CF3SO2)3], Li[N(SO2C2F5)2], LiClO4, LiPF6, LiAsF6, LiBF4, LiB(C6F5)4, LiB(C6H5)4, Li[B(C2O4)2], Li[BF2(C2O4)], and a mixture of any two or more thereof, and (ii) a solvent selected form dimethyl carbonate (DMC), ethyl methyl carbonate (EMC), diethyl carbonate (DEC), methyl propyl carbonate (MPC), ethyl propyl carbonate (EPC), ethylene carbonate (EC), propylene carbonate (PC), and a mixture of any two or more thereof

A method for manufacturing and preparing for assembly a stator core of a generator, the stator core having a central cylindrical bore along a longitudinal axis of the stator core, the method including in a first step, mounting a first press plate onto a tooling device and concomitantly and / or subsequently positioning at least one key bar to be manufactured in an axial direction with respect to the longitudinal axis in a spaced manner along a peripheral circumference of the first press plate. The method includes in a second step, stacking a plurality of generator laminations onto the first press plate and mechanically coupling the plurality of generator laminations with the at least one key bar and, in a third step, mounting a second press plate onto the plurality of generator laminations, fixing the second press plate to at least one of the at least one key bar and at least one axial fixing device and concomitantly and / or subsequently exerting axial stress on the first and the second press plates.

A combi box for the transport and storage of goods, containing a lower part and an upper part of a cut up plastic crate, with a middle part placed between the lower part and the upper part. The inserted middle part is connected on the lower perimeter with the lower part and on the upper perimeter with the upper part by means of locking joints, wherein each locking joint contains the first locking portion formed on a vertical rib of the lower part and on a vertical rib of the upper part, wherein this first locking portion fits into the second locking portion formed on the lower perimeter and on the upper perimeter of the middle part. The second locking portion is surrounded by a solid surface or a cut is provided from the second locking portion towards the open sides of the middle part.

An agricultural machine having a trailed chassis and a transverse bar in several portions extending substantially transversely to the direction of advance in the work position and extending substantially parallel to the direction of advance in the transport position, the transverse bar includes two portions able to be folded around a first respective articulation with a substantially vertical axis, each portion supports a seeder device made up of a hopper and a seeder bar. Each seeder bar is fixed on the corresponding portion using a second articulation with a substantially horizontal axis oriented parallel to the direction of advance in the work position.

A method of eliciting a cytotoxic immune response as a result of injecting antigen encoding expression constructs. Minimalistic expression constructs are used that comprise a promoter, a coding sequence and a terminator, and hairpin-shaped oligonucleotides on their ends, to the loop of which cationic peptides are covalently attached. These peptide-coupled expression constructs lead to a cell mediated response type after intradermal injection. The use of a DNA expression construct operable in eukaryotic cells for making a vaccine for intradermal injection to elicit a type 1 cell mediated immune mediated immune response is described.

A double-sealed thin film electrochemical pouch cell, comprising a cathode current collector, a cathode, an electrolyte, an anode, and an anode current collector, which is double-sealed by a first inner laminate layer forming a primary seal covered by a second outer polymer layer forming a secondary seal. The second outer polymer layer comprises embedded particles to increase the thermal conductivity of the second outer polymer layer.

An agricultural machine having a trailed chassis and a transverse bar in several portions extending substantially transversely to the direction of advance in the work position and extending substantially parallel to the direction of advance in the transport position, the transverse bar includes two portions able to be folded around a first respective articulation with a substantially vertical axis, each portion supports a seeder device made up of a hopper and a seeder bar. Each seeder bar is fixed on the corresponding portion using a second articulation with a substantially horizontal axis oriented parallel to the direction of advance in the work position.