Author: claimsbot

1. A loom shaft comprising a heddle frame of upper and lower support bars, upper and lower heddle support rails attached to the support bars and heddles lined up on the heddle support rails, each heddle having two end eyes, at least one of the eyes being formed as an elongated opening extending in a longitudinal direction of the heddle in a manner that, even during operation and bending of the shaft in a region of a central area of the shaft, a distance between an inner rail edge of one of the support rails in the vicinity of said one eye and an outer rail edge of the other of the support rails is greater than a distance between an inner stop shoulder of said one end eye and an outer stop shoulder of the opposite eye, said loom shaft further comprising a strip of elastic material connected along said one of said support bars adjacent an inner edge thereof, said elastic material being engageable by an end portion of said heddle in which said end eye is formed to damp movement of said heddle during operation of said loom shaft.
2. The loom shaft according to claim 1, wherein both of the end eyes have elongated openings extending in the longitudinal direction of the heddle.
3. The loom shaft according to claim 1, wherein, at a preset position of the shaft, the distance between an inner edge of the elastic material and the outer rail edge of the other of the support rails, is greater than the distance between an outer stop shoulder of the heddle in the vicinity of the elastic material and an outer stop shoulder of the opposite eye, and the distance is smaller between the inner edge of the elastic material and the outer rail edge of the other of the support rails than the distance between the outer stop shoulder of the one heddle eye and the outer stop shoulder of the opposite eye during an elastic deformation of the shaft while the heddle support rails are closer to one another in the region of the center of the shaft.
4. The loom shaft according to claim 1, wherein a strip of elastic material is connected along each of the support bars adjacent an inner edge thereof.
5. The loom shaft according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the two end eyes of the heddle is sized in a longitudinal direction that between a side of the heddle support rail with which the one eye is associated and a confronting side of the one end eye there is a free play gap whereby the size of the one end eye in the longitudinal direction is a minimum of 19 mm and a maximum of 21 mm for a J-shaped heddle end eye, is a minimum of 27.5 mm and a maximum of 29.5 mm for a C-shaped heddle end eye, and a minimum of 15.5 mm and a maximum of 17.5 mm for an O-shaped heddle end eye.
6. The loom shaft according to claim 1, wherein at least one damping element is connected along an inner edge of one of the support bar facing a heddle support rail, the dampening element comprising a rubber-like elastic material having a Shore hardness greater than 80, the damping element being snap fitted to a mounting element on the one support bar, and the damping element being dimensioned such that the opposite end eye is at least spaced away from the opposing heddle support rail during operation of the heddle and during contact of an outer end of the heddle with the damping element.
7. The loom shaft according to claim 5, wherein the end eye is J-shaped and the free play measures at least 5.2 mm relative to the fitted heddle support tail.
8. The loom shaft according to claim 5, wherein the end eye is C-shaped and the free play measures at least 5.2 mm relative to the fitted heddle support rail.
9. The loom shaft according to claim 5, wherein the end eye is O-shaped and the free play measures 6.5 mm relative to the fitted heddle support rail.
10. The loom shaft according to claim 6, wherein the damping element is detachably snapped into a groove extending longitudinally along the inner edge of the one support bar.
11. The loom shaft according to claim 6, wherein the inner edge of the one support bar has a longitudinally extending projection in snap fitting engagement with a longitudinally extending groove of the damping element.
12. The loom shaft according to claim 11, wherein the projection is integral with the support bar.
13. The loom shaft according to claim 11, wherein the projection is formed on a separate element attached to the support bar.
14. A method for the operation of the loom shaft according to claim 1, comprising, operating the shaft in such a manner that in a preset position the distance between the elastic inner edge of the support bar and the outer edge of the heddle support rail arranged on the opposite support bar, the distance between the outer end stop of the heddle in the region of the elastic inner edge and the outer stop of the heddle end eye in the region of the opposite support bar and the heddle support rails, which closer to one another in case of occurring elastic deformation of the shaft at high stress on said shaft, and the distance in the region of the shaft center between the elastic inner edge of the support bar and the outer edge of the heddle support bar arranged on the opposite bar are smaller than the distance between the outer end stop of the heddle in the region of the elastic inner edge and the outer stop of the heddle end eye in the region of the opposite support bar.

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 method comprising:
receiving, by a processing device, a request from a client pertaining to a certificate;
determining, by the processing device, whether the client is or is not online certificate status protocol (OCSP) compliant; and
sending, by the processing device and to the client, a status of the certificate in response to determining that the client is OCSP compliant or a certificate revocation list (CRL) corresponding to a certificate authority that issued the certificate in response to determining that the client is not OCSP compliant.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein determining whether the client is or is not OCSP compliant comprises:
determining a port at which the request from the client was received; and
determining whether the client is or is not OCSP compliant based on in view of the determined port.
3. The method of claim 1, wherein sending the CRL comprises:
storing a plurality of certificate revocation lists (CRLs), wherein each of the plurality of CRLs corresponds to a respective one of a plurality of certificate authorities;
receiving the certificate from the client;
identifying one of the plurality of certificate authorities from data in the certificate; and
identifying one of the plurality of CRLs that corresponds to the one of the plurality of certificate authorities.
4. A method comprising:
identifying, by a processing device, a certificate;
identifying, by the processing device, one of a plurality of online certificate status protocol (OCSP) responder servers that is a certificate revocation list (CRL) distribution point for the certificate; and
sending, by the processing device, a request for the CRL pertaining to the certificate to the one of the plurality of OCSP responder servers on a port, the port indicating whether the request is OCSP compliant.
5. The method of claim 4, further comprising receiving the CRL in response to the port indicating that the request is not OCSP compliant or receiving a status of the certificate in response to the port indicating that the request is OCSP compliant.
6. The method of claim 4, wherein identifying one of the plurality of OCSP responder servers that is the CRL distribution point comprises:
examining an extension in the certificate.
7. A system comprising:
a memory;
a processing device operatively coupled to the memory, the processing device configured to:
receive a request from a client pertaining to a certificate;
determine whether the client is or is not online certificate service protocol (OCSP) compliant; and
send, to the client, a status of the certificate in response to determining that the client is OCSP compliant or a certificate revocation list (CRL) corresponding to a certificate authority that issued the certificate in response to determining that the client is not OCSP compliant.
8. The system of claim 7, wherein to determine whether the client is or is not OCSP compliant, the processing device is further configured to:
determine a port at which the request from the client was received; and
determine whether the client is or is not OCSP compliant in view of the determined port.
9. The system of claim 7, wherein to send the CRL, the processing device is further configured to:
receive the certificate;
identify an issuing certificate authority that corresponds to the certificate from data in the certificate; and
search a plurality of certificate revocation lists for the CRL that corresponds to the issuing certificate authority for the certificate.
10. A system comprising:
a memory;
a processing device operatively coupled to the memory, the processing device configured to:
identify one of a plurality of online certificate status protocol (OCSP) responder servers that is a certificate revocation list (CRL) distribution point storing the CRL for the certificate; and
send a request for the CRL to the one of the plurality of OCSP responder servers on a port, the port indicating whether the request is OCSP compliant.
11. The system of claim 10, wherein to identify one of the plurality of OCSP responder servers that is the CRL distribution point, the processing device is further configured to:
examine an extension in the certificate.
12. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium including instructions that, when executed by a processing device, cause the processing device to:
receive a request from a client pertaining to a certificate;
determine whether the client is or is not online certificate status protocol (OCSP) compliant; and
send to the client, a status of the certificate in response to determining that the client is OCSP compliant or a certificate revocation list (CRL) in response to determining that the client is not OCSP compliant.
13. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 12, wherein to determine whether the client is or is not OCSP compliant, the instructions further cause the processing device to:
determine a port at which the request from the client was received; and
determine whether the client is or is not OCSP compliant in view of the determined port.
14. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 12, wherein to send the CRL, the instructions further cause the processing device to:
store a plurality of certificate revocation lists (CRLs), wherein each of the plurality of CRLs corresponds to a respective one of a plurality of certificate authorities;
receive the certificate from the client;
identify one of the plurality of certificate authorities from data in the certificate; and
identify one of the plurality of CRLs that corresponds to the one of the certificate authorities.
15. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium including instructions that, when executed by a processing device, cause the processing device to:
identify a certificate;
identify one of a plurality of online certificate status protocol (OCSP) responder servers that is a certificate revocation list (CRL) distribution point storing the CRL for the certificate; and
send a request for the CRL pertaining to the certificate to the one of the plurality of OCSP responder servers on a port, the port indicating whether the request is OCSP compliant.
16. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein to identify one of the plurality of OCSP responder servers that is the CRL distribution point, the instructions further cause the processing device to:
examine an extension in the certificate.

1. An emulsion concentrate comprising:
(a) 3 to 5% by weight lauryl glucoside,
(b) 1 to 2% by weight myristyl glucoside,
(c) 5 to 7% by weight polyglycerol-2-dipolyhydroxystearate,
(d) 4 to 8% by weight of a C12-24 fatty alcohol,
(e) 70 to 75% by weight of an oil component,
(f) 4 to 5% by weight of a hydrotrope selected from the group consisting of a diol, a polyol and a glycerol, and mixtures thereof; and
(g) 2 to 10% by weight water.
2. The emulsion concentrate of claim 1, wherein the emulsion has a viscosity at 23\xb0 C. of less than 2,000 mPa.s, as measured with a Brookfield RVF viscosimeter, spindle 5, 10 r.p.m.
3. The emulsion concentrate of claim 1 wherein the emulsion is transparent.
4. The emulsion concentrate of claim 1 wherein the emulsion has a mean droplet size of less than 100 nm.
5. The emulsion concentrate of claim 4 wherein the mean droplet size is less than 50 nm.
6. The emulsion concentrate of claim 5 wherein the mean droplet size is less than 10 nm.
7. The emulsion concentrate of claim 1 wherein the C12-24 fatty alcohol is a cetyl alcohol, a stearyl alcohol or a combination thereof.
8. The emulsion concentrate of claim 1 wherein the hydrotrope is glycerol.
9. An emulsion concentrate comprising:
(a) 3 to 5% by weight lauryl glucoside,
(b) 1 to 2% by weight myristyl glucoside,
(c) 5 to 7% by weight polyglycerol-2-dipolyhydroxystearate,
(d) 4 to 8% by weight of stearyl alcohol or cetyl alcohol, or a combination thereof.
(e) 70 to 75% by weight of an oil component,
(f) 4 to 5% by weight of glycerol; and
(g) 2 to 10% by weight water.
10. A cosmetic or pharmaceutical composition comprising from 5 to 40% by weight of the emulsion concentrate of claim 1.
11. A cosmetic or pharmaceutical composition comprising from 5 to 40% by weight of the emulsion concentrate of claim 9.
12. A substrate for body care which is treated with the cosmetic or pharmaceutical composition of claim 10.
13. A substrate for body care which is treated with the cosmetic or pharmaceutical composition of claim 11.

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 method for producing Plasmodium falciparum protein MSP-1 in milk of a non-human transgenic mammal, comprising:
1) providing a non-human transgenic mammal whose genome comprises a modified nucleic acid sequence encoding said MSP-1 operably linked to a promoter which directs expression in a mammary gland and a signal sequence directing secretion of said MSP-1 into milk, wherein said modified nucleic acid sequence has been modified by replacing a number of AT-containing codons of a nucleic acid sequence encoding said MSP-1, as it naturally occurs in Plasmodium falciparum, with a codon or codons preferred by a mammalian cell for the purpose of expression and encoding the same amino acid as the replaced AT-containing codon or codons, wherein the number of codons replaced is sufficient to allow expression of said MSP-1 in said non-human transgenic mammal; and
2) allowing said non-human transgenic mammal to express said MSP-1 in its milk.
2. A method for producing Plasmodium falciparum protein MSP-1 in milk of a non-human transgenic mammal, comprising:
1) providing a non-human transgenic mammal whose genome comprises a modified nucleic acid sequence encoding said MSP-1 operably linked to a promoter which directs expression in a mammary gland and a signal sequence directing secretion of said MSP-1 into milk, wherein said modified nucleic acid sequence has been modified by introduction of one or more silent mutations into a number of AUUUA mRNA instability motifs, as they naturally occur in Plasmodium falciparum, thereby eliminating said number of AUUUA instability motifs, allowing expression of said MSP-1 in said non-human transgenic mammal; and
2) allowing said non-human transgenic mammal to express said MSP-1 in its milk.
3. A method for producing Plasmodium falciparum protein MSP-1 in milk of a non-human transgenic mammal, comprising:
1) providing a non-human transgenic mammal whose genome comprises a modified nucleic acid sequence encoding said MSP-1 operably linked to a promoter which directs expression in a mammary gland and a signal sequence directing secretion of said MSP-1 into milk, wherein said modified nucleic acid sequence has been modified by:
a) replacing a number of AT-containing codons of a nucleic acid sequence encoding said MSP-1, as it naturally occurs in Plasmodium falciparum, with a codon or codons preferred by a mammalian cell for the purpose of expression and encoding the same amino acid as the replaced AT-containing codon or codons, and
b) introduction of one or more silent mutations into a number of AUUUA mRNA instability motifs, as they naturally occur in Plasmodium falciparum, thereby eliminating said AUUUA instability motifs,
wherein the number of said modifications is sufficient to allow expression of said MSP-1 in said non-human transgenic mammal; and
2) allowing said non-human transgenic mammal to express said MSP-1 in its milk.
4. The method of claim 1, 2 or 3 wherein the modified nucleic acid further comprises at least one substitution of a glutamine codon for an asparagine codon, resulting in the loss of at least one N-glycosylation site in said MSP-1.
5. A non-human transgenic mammal whose genome comprises a modified nucleic acid sequence encoding Plasmodium falciparum protein MSP-1 operably linked to a promoter which directs expression in a mammary gland and a signal sequence directing secretion of said MSP-1 into milk, wherein said modified nucleic acid sequence has been modified by replacing a number of AT-containing codons of a nucleic acid sequence encoding said MSP-1, as it naturally occurs in Plasmodium falciparum, with a codon or codons preferred by a mammalian cell for the purposes of expression and encoding the same amino acid as the replaced AT-containing codon or codons, wherein the number of codons replaced is sufficient to allow expression of said MSP-1 in said non-human transgenic mammal, and wherein said non-human transgenic mammal expresses said MSP-1 in its milk.
6. A non-human transgenic mammal whose genome comprises a modified nucleic acid sequence encoding Plasmodium falciparum protein MSP-1 operably linked to a promoter which directs expression in a mammary gland and a signal sequence directing secretion of said MSP-1 into milk, wherein said modified nucleic acid sequence has been modified by introduction of one or more silent mutations into a number of AUUUA mRNA instability motifs, as they naturally occur in Plasmodium falciparum, thereby eliminating said AUUUA instability motifs, allowing expression of said MSP-1 in said non-human transgenic mammal, and wherein said non-human transgenic mammal expresses said MSP-1 in its milk.
7. The non-human transgenic mammal of claim 6 wherein said modified nucleic acid sequence is further modified by introduction of one or more silent mutations into a number of AUUUA mRNA instability motifs, as they naturally occur in Plasmodium falciparum, thereby eliminating said AUUUA instability motifs, and allowing expression of said MSP-1.
8. The non-human transgenic mammal of claim 5, 6, or 7 wherein the modified nucleic acid further comprises at least one substitution of a glutamine codon for an asparagine codon, resulting in the loss of at least one N-glycosylation site in said MSP-1.