A traction control system for a vehicle, which, during normal driving of the vehicle, if a driven wheel speed becomes less than a deceleration-control starting reference value which is set lower than a vehicle speed, a feed-back control of an opening degree of a throttle valve is started so as to converge the driven wheel speed into a target driven wheel speed. If a downshifting is conducted, the ...

A scraper assembly for removing the collected solids component of a feed material from an interior wall surface of a centrifugal separator bowl comprises a supporting shaft positioned within the bowl along a vertically disposed longitudinal axis. The supporting shaft is pivotal between a stowed position and an operational position. At least two longitudinally spaced scraper blades are attached to ...

Disclosed are expandable bladders for use in curing presses for hydrocarbon rubbers such as pneumatic tires. The bladders are a crosslinked elastomer comprising isobutylene repeat units and the bladder composition includes fluorinated ethylene polymers in particulate form dispersed throughout the bladder. A preferred isobutylene elastomer is a brominated copolymer of from 80 to 99 weight percent i...

The thread winder has a tensile strength detector (3) arranged between a thread guide (1) and a traverse apparatus. The detector has a guide portion (4b) to guide a thread (S) to a tensile strength detection position and a holding slit (4a) to hold the thread in the tensile strength detection position. Several thread guides and several detectors are arranged along the axial direction of bobbin ho...

A slicing machine (1) has an automatic carriage (4) for feeding a product (5) to a circular knife (7) and a programme-controlled stacking unit with a chain conveyer (8) and a hinged paddle (9) for removing slices from the chain conveyer and placing them on a conveyer belt (10) below where they are enclosed in a packaging material. A product packaging unit comprising a roll (11) of thermoplastic fi...

In a method for bonding plastic objects together by means of a hot-melt type of adhesive, in addition to or during the heating and addition of a plasticizer-resistant hot-melt adhesive, at least one of the objects to be bonded, is heated up in the area to be bonded beyond the melting temperature of the material of which it is made. The method is particularly advantageous for the joining together o...

Solid bowl centrifuge comprises a rotating drum (1) enclosing a centrifuge chamber (23) having a rotating screw (3), an inlet tube (19) for feeding centrifuge material into the centrifuge chamber, at least one liquid outlet, and at least one solid outlet. The liquid and/or solid outlet is designed as at least one or more openings (27) in a rotating part of the centrifuge, especially openings in th...

To prepare a cut yarn end (E) for splicing, at an open-end spinner, the yarn end is inserted into an air stream which is aligned at a tangent to it. Initially an air flow is directed at the yarn by a jet (3), outside the length (L) which will be reversed into the spinning zone, followed by an air stream from a jet (2) directed at the cut end with an axial and a tangential flow direction component....

Die Erfindung betrifft eine Fadenspleißvorrichtung (22) zum pneumatischen Verbinden zweier Fadenenden (51, 52), mit einem auf einem Grundkörper (23) festlegbaren Spleißkopf (19), der einen Spleißkanal (28) mit wenigstens einer definiert beaufschlagbaren Druckluft-Einblasöffnung (32) aufweist. DOLLAR A Erfindungsgemäß ist vorgesehen, daß der Spleißkanal (28) über wenigstens eine weitere Anschlußöff...

The yarn splicing unit, to join two yarn ends together by a stream of compressed air, has a cover (23) at the splicing head (19) which, when closed for the splicing action, exposes openings (38). The openings allow the flow of compressed air through them from the compressed air in the yarn splicing channel between its two ends. The air escape openings are in rows, aligned along the splicing channe...

Die Erfindung betrifft eine Fadenspleißvorrichtung mit einem druckluftbeaufschlagbaren Spleißkanal zum pneumatischen Verbinden zweier Fadenenden. DOLLAR A Erfindungsgemäß ist vorgesehen, daß die Fadenspleißvorrichtung (10) zwei drehbar gelagerte Prismenteile (27, 28) aufweist, die jeweils zwischen einer Fadenaufnahmestellung (I) und einer Spleißstellung (II) verschwenkbar sind, wobei die beiden Pr...

Eine Maschine zur Herstellung oder Behandlung einer Materialbahn, insbesondere Papier- oder Kartonbahn, umfasst eine Seilführung zum Einfädeln eines Bahnrandstreifens. Die Seilführung weist zwei endlose Seile auf, die zur Bildung einer Seilschere zusammenführbar sind und deren Laufbahn zur Positionierung der Seilschere in einer Einfädelposition innerhalb einer sich in Maschinenlaufrichtung erstrec...

The extraction machine, and especially for digging out hard rock e.g. platinum ore, has a rotating cutter with a sleeve supported in a housing. An eccentric shaft in at the sleeve drilling, supporting the cutters (1), gives an eccentric rotation around the sleeve axis. The assembly has a cycloid gear (20) outside the sleeve (6), with its input and output shaft from the eccentric shaft (4). The cyc...

A power transmission comprises an engine E with a plurality of cylinders, a belt-type continuously variable transmission CVT, which changes the rotational speed being transmitted from the engine, a control valve CV, which variably sets the line pressure used for controlling the speed change ratio of the transmission, and an electrical control unit ECU, which calculates the torque of the output sh...

The invention relates to a solid-bowl screw-type centrifuge, in which the liquid and/or solid matter discharge is/are configured as openings (27, 35) in a rotatable section of the solid-bowl screw-type centrifuge, said openings being covered by a housing (29) that only encloses sections of the bowl (1) of the solid-bowl screw-type centrifuge. To enable operation under high pressur e, seals (31, 39...

An apparatus and method are provided for deploying a data sensing apparatus into a subsurface geologic formation for intermittent or continuously gathering data from the subsurface formation and transmitting the data to a remote data receiver. In a preferred embodiment, a non-linear arrangement of a barrel and a burn chamber is used to provide a gun-like device for firing a bullet-shaped data sens...

Method and device for analysis of a medical fluid after storage but before use. The medical fluid is present in a fluid bag and an analysis device is an integral part of the fluid bag. The analysis device comprises a connection tube provided with a frangible pin, and an air pocket arranged at the end of the connection tube. A reagents agent is arranged at the interior surfaces of the connection tu...

The invention concerns new lubricants comprising a combination of a polyethylene ether and an oligomer amide and an improved metallurgical powder composition comprising a major amount of an iron-based powder and a minor amount of this new lubricant. Furthermore, the invention concerns a method requiring low ejection force and low ejection energy for producing green products having high green stren...

Reinforced ply material having a plurality of reinforcement elements (e.g., steel monofilaments) embedded in an elastomeric (e.g., rubber) sheet. The reinforcement elements are grouped in untwisted sets and each set includes a plurality of reinforcement elements. In an apparatus and/or method for making the reinforced ply material, the reinforcement elements are guided by a guide ins...

A heat−shrinkable polyester film, characterized in that it has a specific composition, that it exhibits a heat shrinkage of 20 % or more in the direction of maximum shrinkage when a specimen of the polyester film in a 10 cm X 10 cm square form is immersed in water at 85˚C for 10 sec, is taken up from the water, is then immersed in water at 25˚C for 10 sec, and is taken up from the latter water, an...