Author: claimsbot

1. A pressable pen including:
a tube body, having a front end where a sealing unit, a cosmetic base and a cosmetic head are placed in order, and an inner portion of the tube body having a space to fill cosmetic materials;
a base, having a front surface with locking holes and a spiral through hole which is engaged with an elongated rod with a spiral portion thereon, and the elongated rod having a front end coupled with a plug unit, wherein the base is located at the inner portion of the tube body which closely contacts with the plug, and the base forms an inner space having a resilient unit therein;
a guiding unit, having an outer surface with a protruding circle which is exactly against a free end of the resilient unit, and a plurality of protruding units extending from the protruding circle towards a rear end of the guiding unit, wherein an inclined surface is formed at a front end of each protruding unit, and a guiding rail in an inner portion of the guiding unit is engaged with a guiding slot of the elongated rod;
a revolving unit, having a plurality of double-beveled surfaces at a front end thereof and enclosing the guiding unit while the double-beveled surfaces being engaged with the inclined surfaces in the guiding unit;
a positioning unit, having a bottom surface with spacing columns, an engaging unit at a front end of the positioning unit to engage the locking hole of the base, and an inner inclined surface located at the inner surface of the positioning unit against the inclined surface of the guiding unit; and
a pressing unit, having a plenty of equally-spaced shorter first slots and long second slots on a circumferential surface of the pressing unit, and exerting pressure on the revolving unit and the guiding unit, wherein either the first slot or the second slot is aligned with the spacing column of the positioning unit.
2. The pressable pen of claim 1, wherein a cap placed at a circumferential surface of the cosmetic head of the front end of the tube body, is designed to seal with the sealing unit at the front end of the tube body.
3. The pressable pen of claim 1, wherein the cosmetic is a brush.
4. The pressable pen of claim 1, wherein the cosmetic is a lipstick.
5. The pressable pen of claim 1, wherein the inner portion of the tube body has a circular slot which can be wedged with a corresponding ring of the base, and the bottom of the base has a stopping element around the bottom circumferential surface of the tube body.

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 thermomechanical pulping method comprising:
refining wood chips, pre-conditioned wood fibers or other comminuted cellulosic materials to a refined pulp with a high consistency refining stage, and
a medium consistency refining stage or multiple stages processing the refined pulp discharged from the high consistency refining stage.
2. The method of claim 1 wherein the high consistency refining stage includes refining the wood chips, the pre-conditioned wood fibers or the other comminuted cellulosic materials with a pressurized high consistency refiner.
3. The method of claim 1 further comprising at least one of: treating the wood chips, the pre-conditioned wood fibers or the other comminuted cellulosic materials by pressurized chip destructuring in a chip press and gentle defibration in a fiberizing refiner before the high consistency refiner.
4. The method of claim 3 wherein pretreatment chemicals are added at a discharge of one of a chip press discharge, fiberizer refiner and the high consistency refiner.
5. The method as in claim 1 wherein the high consistency refining stage includes refining the wood chips, the pre-conditioned wood fibers or the other comminuted cellulosic materials in a high intensity primary refiner.
6. The method as in claim 1 further comprising chemical treating the wood chips, the pre-conditioned wood fibers or the other comminuted cellulosic materials prior to or in the high consistency refining stage.
7. The method as in claim 1 further comprising diluting the refined pulp discharged by the high consistency refining stage in a standpipe and fluidizing the pulp in the standpipe, and feeding the fluidized refined pulp to the medium consistency refining stage.
8. The method as in claim 1 wherein the medium consistency refining stage includes a mechanical disc refiner having plate segments with an open inlet.
9. A thermomechanical pulping method comprising:
refining wood chips, pre-conditioned wood fibers or other comminuted cellulosic materials to a refined pulp in a high consistency refining (HCR) stage, wherein the refined pulp is in a suspension at a discharge of the HCR stage and the suspension has a pulp consistency of at least twenty percent (20%) by weight of the suspension;
diluting the suspension of refined pulp discharged from the HCR stage to a medium consistency having a pulp consistency in a range of 5% to 14% consistency by weight, and
refining the refined pulp in the medium consistency suspension from the dilution step using a medium consistency refining (MCR) stage.
10. The method of claim 9 wherein the dilution step is performed in a stand pipe having a conditioner fluidizing the refined pulp near a bottom of the stand pipe.
11. The method as in claim 9 further comprising preconditioning treatments applied to the high consistency pulp suspension prior to refining the pulp, wherein the preconditioning treatments enhance pulp in the HCR stage.
12. The method as in claim 9 further comprising pumping the pulp suspension diluted to a medium consistency through a medium consistency pump to the refining step for the medium consistency pulp.
13. A thermomechanical pulping system comprising:
a high consistency refining stage having an inlet receiving wood chips, pre-conditioned wood fibers or other comminuted cellulosic materials, a refining zone, and an outlet discharging refined high consistency pulp;
a pulp dilution stage have a first inlet to receive the refined high consistency pulp and a second inlet to receive a liquor, a chamber to dilute the refined high consistency pulp with the liquor to form medium consistency pulp, and an outlet discharging the medium consistency pulp, and
a medium consistency refining stage having an inlet receiving the medium consistency pulp from the outlet of the pulp dilution stage, wherein the medium consistency refining stage includes a refining zone to refine the medium consistency pulp and an outlet for the refined medium consistency pulp.
14. The thermomechanical pulping system of claim 13 wherein the high consistency refining stage includes a pressurized high consistency refiner.
15. The thermomechanical pulping system of claim 13 wherein the pulp dilution stage includes a standpipe and conditioner fluidizing the pulp in the standpipe.
16. The thermomechanical pulping system as in claim 15 further comprising a degassing pump extracting air from the pulp in the standpipe and through the conditioner.
17. The thermomechanical pulping system as in claim 13 wherein the medium consistency refining stage includes a mechanical disc refiner having plate segments with an open inlet.

1. A disposable pull-on garment contained in a package, the pull-on garment having a waist opening and leg openings, and having a longitudinal centerline and a transverse centerline, the pull-on garment comprising a main portion and side portions extending transversely outwardly from the main portion, the pull-on garment having longitudinal side contour lines to define a transverse width of the pull-on garment, the pull-on garment having a first transverse width between the longitudinal side contour lines at the waist opening and a second transverse width between the longitudinal side contour lines at the side portions, the second transverse width being greater than the first transverse width and being the greatest transverse width at the side portions in a flat contracted and unfolded condition of the pull-on garment, wherein
the side portions are folded along a folding line toward the longitudinal centerline when the pull-on garment is contained in a package such that the second transverse width decreases and the difference between the first transverse width and the second transverse width decreases when the side portions are folded compared with when the side portions are unfolded.
2. The disposable pull-on garment of claim 1 wherein the longitudinal side contour line at the side portion has an inclination with respect to the longitudinal direction of the pull-on garment to become more distant from the longitudinal centerline as it gets closer to the leg openings when the side portion is unfolded, and the angle of the inclination of the longitudinal side contour line decreases with respect to the longitudinal direction of the pull-on garment when the side portion is folded.
3. The disposable pull-on garment of claim 1 or 2 wherein the transverse width at the side portions is constant along the longitudinal centerline when the pull-on garment is in a flat uncontracted and unfolded condition.
4. The disposable pull-on garment of claim 3 wherein the pull-on garment comprises a waist elastic material along the waist opening and a side elastic material on the side portion, wherein contracted width between the longitudinal side contour lines at the waist opening is greater than contracted width between the longitudinal side contour lines at the side portions when the pull-on garment is in a flat contracted and unfolded condition.
5. The disposable pull-on garment of claim 1 wherein the folded width of the side portion adjacent to the leg opening is greater than the folded width of the side portion adjacent to the waist opening.
6. The disposable pull-on garment of claim 1 wherein the side portion adjacent to the leg opening is folded and the side portion at the waist opening is not folded.
7. The disposable pull-on garment of claim 1 wherein the side portion is folded along the folding line disposed laterally outside the main portion such that the main portion is not folded.
8. The disposable pull-on garment of claim 1 wherein the pull-on garment comprises an absorbent main body and a belt, the absorbent main body comprises waist panels and a crotch panel between the waist panels, the belt comprises a central panel and side panels transversely outwardly extending from the central panel, wherein the main portion comprises the waist panels, the crotch panel and the central panel, and the side portion comprises the side panels.
9. The disposable pull-on garment of claim 1 wherein the side portion comprises a front side portion and a back side portion, and the side portion is folded such that the folded portion of the side portion is sandwiched between the front side portion and the back side portion.
10. The disposable pull-on garment of claim 1 or 9 wherein the main portion comprises a front main portion and a back main portion, and the side portion is folded such that the folded portion of the side portion is sandwiched between the front main portion and the back main portion.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

Patent claims:

1. Actuator for an electro-hydraulic braking system of the brake-by-wire type comprised of a hydraulic pressure generator or master brake cylinder and a travel simulator, with said master brake cylinder including at least one piston that is operable by an actuating pedal, and wherein a device for detecting a driver’s deceleration wish is provided, said device cooperating with said piston and being at least partly arranged in a master brake cylinder housing, characterized in that the device for detecting a driver’s deceleration wish comprises an annular housing (10) embracing the piston (6) in a radial direction and accommodating signal receiving elements (11) which cooperate with signal transmitting elements (12) mounted on the piston surface.
2. Actuator as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the piston (6) is guided in the housing (10).
3. Actuator as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the annular housing (10) is axially preloaded in relation to the master brake cylinder housing (20).
4. Actuator as claimed in claim 1, characterized in that the housing (10) includes a first cable guide part (16) extending through a flange (4) that is used to attach the actuator (1) to a vehicle wall.
5. Actuator as claimed in claim 4, characterized in that the first cable guide part (16) is sealed radially in relation to the flange (4).
6. Actuator as claimed in claim 4 or 5, characterized in that the first cable guide part (16) is shaped so that its contour in a determined angular area corresponds to the contour of an area of the master brake cylinder housing (20) that extends into a passenger compartment of a motor vehicle.
7. Actuator as claimed in claim 4, 5 or 6, characterized in that an electric connector part (22) is provided at the end of the first cable guide part (16).
8. Actuator as claimed in claim 7, characterized in that interposed between the first cable guide part (16) and the connector part (22) is a second cable guide part (19) that extends in parallel to the master brake cylinder housing (20).
9. Actuator as claimed in claim 8, characterized in that the second cable guide part (19) is attached to the master brake cylinder housing (20) near the connector part (22).
10. Actuator as claimed in claim 8 or 9, characterized in that the housing (10), the first cable guide part (16), the second cable guide part (19), as well as the connector part (22) have an integral design.
11. Actuator as claimed in claim 8, 9, or 10, characterized in that the housing (10), the first cable guide part (16), the second cable guide part (19), and the connector part (22) are made of plastic material.
12. Actuator as claimed in any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the housing (10) is arranged completely in the master brake cylinder housing (20), while the first and the second cable guide part (16, 19) are at least partially arranged outside the master brake cylinder housing (20).
13. Actuator as claimed in any one of the preceding claims, wherein the master brake cylinder piston is sealed in relation to the master brake cylinder housing by means of a packing, characterized in that the packing is integrally designed with the annular housing.
14. Actuator as claimed in any one of the preceding claims 4 to 13, characterized in that the flange (4) is sealed in relation to the vehicle wall by means of a flat seal (5).
15. Actuator as claimed in any one of the preceding claims, wherein the master brake cylinder piston is operable by means of a piston rod coupled to the actuating pedal and wherein a sealing element is provided between the piston rod and the master brake cylinder housing, characterized in that the flat seal is integrally designed with the sealing element.