In a turret winder, for traverse-winding cops from continuously- delivered yarn, each cop 28 is supported adjacent a threaded region 38 or 40 which draws yarn, extending to a wound package when indexed to the unloading station, towards the empty cop 28.

A tape squeezing device for folding an adhesive tape over both side edge portions of a work, eg., a door sash of an automotive vehicle, comprises a main body 11, including V-shaped first 41, second 43 and third 45 grooves arranged in spaced relation to one another, and an elastic sheet 19 arranged to connect to the main body 11 and arranged to contact both side edges portions of the work and the g...

An apparatus for the winding of striplike material, in particular steel strip, in each case on one of two spreadable winding mandrels which are arranged, overhung, horizontally and parallel to one another and which, driven in rotation independently of one another, are mounted, in a carrying structure rotatable about a common horizontal central axis, on a vertical carrying wall in the form of a cir...

Systems for positioning and/or analyzing samples such as cells, vesicles, cellular organelles, and fragments, derivatives, and mixtures thereof, for electrical and/or optical analysis, especially relating to the presence and/or activity of ion channels.

A laminate film for preventing glass from shattering, which comprises: (A) a biaxially oriented polyester film of a copolyester containing ethylene-2,6-naphthalenedicarboxylate recurring units in an amount of at least 80 mol% of all recurring units, (B) an adhesive coating film on at least one side of the above biaxially oriented polyester film, (C) a hard coat layer on the above adhesive coat...

A control system of an automatic transmission (5) for a vehicle comprises first detecting means (2) for detecting an accelerator pedal opening angle (θacc), second detecting means (6) for detecting a vehicle speed (Vsp), calculating means (13) for calculating a required horsepower value (Hp) by reference to a map parameterizing the accelerator pedal opening angle (θacc) and the vehicle speed (Vsp)...

A control panel for an inflatable structure includes a multi-layer planar fluid flow control panel sealed together at predetermined locations to define at least one fluid flow conduit with at least one layer of the panel having a plurality of apertures located in a predetermined pattern that communicate with the conduits. A plurality of discrete, inflatable chambers are sealed in planar orientatio...

In a process for the manufacture of dipped tire cord fabrics (11) made of organic fiber cords, two organic fiber cords (8A,8B) before treatment, each formed by subjecting two or more bundles of organic multifilaments to cable twisting and ply twisting, are connected to each other in a particular connection apparatus to form a continuous cord having a joint portion (8C), and a tire cord fabric is m...

The utility model discloses a water level controller for a water tank of a solar water heater, which is composed of a self-control electromagnetic valve and a detecting float. The middle part of a valve body is provided with a valve disc and a seal ring which is provided with two holes A and B, and a pressure spring is arranged between a valve core and a valve body which are arranged at the upper ...

The utility model discloses a cleaning solar water heater, which has a structure comprising a water tank composed of an outer water tank and an inner water tank. A water tank cover is arranged on the outer water tank. The key points are that a cleaning hole is arranged on one side of the inner water tank. A sealing ring and an end plug are matched and arranged on the cleaning hole. The utility mod...

The utility model relates to a flat plate type absorption heat collector of a solar air conditioner. The flat plate type absorption heat collector of a solar air conditioner mainly comprises an adsorption bed, a heat insulating device, unit bodies, a refrigerant inlet, a refrigerant outlet, refrigerant channels, refrigerant collecting pipes, a cooling water inlet, a cooling water outlet, a cooling...

The utility model relates to an umbrella transmission solar kitchen range, which is composed of an annular step-shaped concave-convex lens and an arced orbit type focus fixing device and can be used for heating for steaming rice, cooking, bathing, calcining, smelting, welding, etc., wherein, a lighting focusing part is made of common transparent material such as glass, organic glass, etc. The util...

BCRF1 proteins, and expression vectors for producing them, are provided for treating conditions associated with excessive production of IFN- gamma . Compositions of the invention containing BCRF1 proteins are useful in treating a variety of disorders, including allergy, psoriasis, tissue rejection, and MHC-linked autoimmune diseases.

In an electron beam tube arrangement, such as an IOT amplifier, an input cavity (5) surrounds an electron gun (1). The cavity (5) includes parts which are at high and low relative electrical potentials. These are separated by RF chokes (16 and 17) to provide dc isolation whilst acting as a short circuit to high frequency radiation coupled into the cavity (5). The arrangement also includes a bypass...

The invented grid coating paste of lead-acid cell is made of lead powder, sulfuric acid, distilled water and liquid oxidizing agent. The present invention uses certain proportion of liquid oxidizing agent to substitute part of the sulfuric acid in existent coating paste to prepare the new coating paste, due to the reaction of oxidizing agent and sulfuric acid, it produces good binding force betwee...

A heald (1) made of strip material with distributed heald eye (2) with heald eye (2) arms (21, 22) distributed by a plane distribution in the distribution area whose length is superior to the height of the heald eye (2). The invention also relates to a method of distribution of the heald eye in which the heald (1) is gripped between the shaping surfaces (31, 32, 331, 341) of a former (3) along a l...

A battery including a container, a cover and an end wall stiffener block. The container is molded with a compartment between an outer and an inner end wall into which the stiffener block is inserted. The stiffener block is preferably made of a stiff plastic or of metal. The stiffener block and compartment are sized so that a contacting relationship is maintained between the inner wall, the block, ...

Automated methods are provided for the editing and authoring of topic scripts for the dynamic operation of virtual robots. A virtual robot, or BOT, processes natural language input from a user to effect certain actions according to user input. Typically, BOTs are constructed using topic scripts. Topic scripts may comprise example statements that typify the topic in question and patterns that are m...

A sofa-bed (1) is disclosed comprising: a carrier structure (2); at least three main moving frames (6, 7, 8); at least one first and one second auxiliary frames (12, 13); and a kinematic control mechanism (10) for its operation. The sofa-bed (1) is further equipped with: elastic means (20) that realise a thrust to facilitate the passage from its closed position to its open position when transformi...

Powder having a diameter less than 200 nm is produced from solid feed material 20 in a plasma arc reactor which comprises two electrodes 7 and 12, plasma gas introducing means and plasma arc generating means, wherein the first electrode 7 has a solid material feed channel which exits into the space between the electrodes 7 and 12. Preferably the channel also supplies the plasma gas 25 (e.g. helium...