1. Nursing breast pad, comprising a front garment facing surface and a rear wearer facing surface attached to each other by a peripheral flange, wherein the space between said front facing surface and said rear facing surface contains a centrally located chemical endothermic cooling means.
2. The nursing breast pad of claim 1, wherein an absorbent pad is attached to the outside of said rear wearer facing surface.
3. The nursing breast pad of claim 1, wherein said breast a pad and said absorbent pad have a circular shape.
4. The nursing breast pad of claim 2, wherein the front and rear facing surfaces are made of thin walled plastic.
6. The nursing breast pad of claim 1, wherein said garment facing surface includes a convex shaped surface.
7. The nursing breast pad of claim 1, wherein the said endothermic chemicals are comprised of a liquid chemical which is contained within a flexible bag and a powder chemical which surrounds said bag;
said liquid containing bag capable of being pinched and burst by the user so that said liquid can mix with said powder to create said endothermic reaction.
8. The nursing breast pad of claim 2, wherein the outer surface of said absorbent surface is made of a soft, absorbent wick like cotton.
9. The nursing breast pad of claim 1, wherein the wearer facing surface is in permanent contact with the woman’s breast when the pad is placed on the users brassiere.
10. The nursing breast pad of claim 1, wherein the cooling means is in permanent contact with the wearer’s nipple when the pad is placed on the user’s brassiere.
11. The nursing breast pad of claim 1, wherein the cooling means has a general rounded shape capable of facilitating it’s placing on the inner surface of the wearer’s brassiere.
12. The nursing breast pad of claim 2, wherein the annular absorbent surface is in full contact with the surface that surrounds the nipple of wearer’s breast.
13. The nursing breast pad of claim 1, wherein the wearer is a breastfeeding mother.
14. The nursing breast pad of claim 13, wherein the cooling means is capable of soothing the nipples, alleviating pain and stopping bleeding.
15. The nursing breast pad of claim 13, wherein the absorbent surface is capable of providing absorbency of leaking breast milk.
16. The nursing breast pad of claim 1, wherein the diameter of the cooling means is larger than the regular diameter of a woman’s nipple.
17. The nursing breast pad of claim 2, wherein the diameter of the absorbent surface is larger than the diameter of the cooling means.
18. The nursing breast pad of claim 1 wherein the said garment facing surface includes on its inside wall a plurality of ribs helping said powder to remain evenly dispersed.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A process for removing acid gases from a hydrocarbonaceous fluid stream or an oxygen-comprising fluid stream which comprises contacting the fluid stream with an aqueous solution which is essentially free from inorganic basic salts and comprises (i) 2 to 5 kmolm3 of at least one alkanolamine and (ii) 0.5 to 2 kmolm3 of at least one metal salt of an aminocarboxylic acid andor an aminosulfonic acid.
2. The process according to claim 1, wherein the aminocarboxylic acid is an \u03b1-amino acid or a \u03b2-amino acid andor the aminosulfonic acid is an \u03b1-aminosulfonic acid or a \u03b2-aminosulfonic acid.
3. The process according to claim 1, wherein the aminocarboxylic acid is a N-mono-C1-C4-alkylaminocarboxylic acid or a N,N-di-C1-C4-alkylaminocarboxylic acid.
4. The process according to claim 1, in which the metal salt is an alkali metal or alkaline earth metal salt.
5. The process according to claim 1, wherein the metal salt of the aminocarboxylic acid is the potassium salts of N,N-dimethylglycine or N-methylalanine.
6. The process according to claim 3, wherein the metal salt of the aminocarboxylic acid is the potassium salts of N,N-dimethylglycine or N-methylalanine.
7. The process according to claim 1, wherein the alkanolamine is selected from monoethanolamine (MEA), diethanolamine (DEA), diisopropanolamine, triethanolamine (TEA), diethylethanolamine (DEEA), ethyldiethanolamine, aminoethoxyethanol (AEE), dimethylaminopropanol (DIMAP), methyldiethanolamine (MDEA), methyldiisopropanolamine (MDIPA), 2-amino-2-methyl-1-propanol (AMP), 2-amino-1-butanol (2-AB) or mixtures thereof.
8. The process according to claim 1, wherein the alkanolamine is a tertiary alkanolamine.
9. The process according to claim 7, wherein the alkanolamine is a tertiary alkanolamine.
10. The process according to claim 1, in which the aqueous solution in addition comprises one or more activators.
11. The process according to claim 8, in which the aqueous solution in addition comprises one or more activators.
12. The process according to claim 10, wherein the activator is selected from piperazine, methylaminopropylamine, aminoethoxyethanol and 2-amino-1-butanol.
13. The process according to claim 11, wherein the activator is selected from piperazine, methylaminopropylamine, aminoethoxyethanol and 2-amino-1-butanol.
14. The process according to claim 10, wherein the aqueous solution comprises:
(i) methyldiethanolamine and piperazine,
(ii) methyldiethanolamine and methylaminopropylamine,
(iii) methyldiethanolamine and aminoethoxyethanol, or
(iv) methyldiethanolamine and 2-amino-1-butanol.
15. The process according to claim 11, wherein the aqueous solution comprises:
(i) methyldiethanolamine and piperazine,
(ii) methyldiethanolamine and methylaminopropylamine,
(iii) methyldiethanolamine and aminoethoxyethanol, or
(iv) methyldiethanolamine and 2-amino-1-butanol.
16. An absorption medium for removing acid gases from a fluid stream, comprising an aqueous solution which is essentially free from inorganic basic salts and comprises (i) 2 to 5 kmolm3 of at least one alkanolamine and (ii) 0.5 to 2 kmolm3 of at least one metal salt of an aminocarboxylic acid or aminosulfonic acid.