1515688 Multi-cell battery DUNLOP AUSTRALIA Ltd 25 Nov 1975 [25 Nov 1974] 48470/75 Heading H1B A multi-cell battery includes a plurality of frames of mouldable electrically insulating material inert under battery use conditions, each frame defining a plurality of separate material support areas 22, 23, 24 side-by-side across the frame, each frame having dividers 20, 20a between said areas, the fra...

A method and apparatus for serially removing the forwardmost plate from a stack of plates comprises rotating a cylindrical carrier having a chordal segment defined on its periphery with the stack of plates oriented so that the forwardmost plate is tangentially adjacent to the periphery of the carrier. A vacuum source draws air into an air inlet located on the chordal segment thereby creating a low...

An apparatus for supporting an X-ray unit in a vertically adjustable manner. The apparatus includes a frame having two posts and a carrier supported between the posts. The post are slotted and the carrier includes guide members received within the slots. The carrier also includes a counterbalance for supporting the carrier between the post. The counterbalance includes a support cable and force ele...

A method and an apparatus for measuring the wall thickness of a plastic article, particularly of a hollow rotation-symmetrical plastic article. According to the method, the wall of the plastic article is subjected to infra-red radiation and the intensity of, e.g., the continuously transmitted radiation is measured at preselected points, said intensity being a function of the wall thickness to be m...

This invention relates to a procedure for splicing yarns, whether textile or otherwise, with a join made by coupling two single untwisted yarns and thereafter retwisting them, wherein the single yarns are untwisted beyond a substantially nil twist value and are then coupled and retwisted so as to impart to the single yarns a desired twist at least the same as the twist comprised in the original ya...

Arrangement for a materials handling appliance (2), preferably a fork-lift truck, for moving pallets (4) and similar load-bearing elements in a plurality of directions (52-54), wherein, in the vicinity of the materials handling appliance (2) and mounted thereon there is a load-moving arrangement (30) for lifting a pallet (4), etc., and which can be moved between a position close to the said applia...

The invention relates to a self-locking device which makes it possible to adjust, with the aid of the armrests, the slant of the backrest of an armchair having a plurality of use positions. This device comprises a rack-mechanism toothing 12 which is securely fastened to each armrest 9 and an oscillating element 10 mounted at the upper end of the legs 1, 2 in order to engage automatically the rack-...

PCT No. PCT/EP79/00008 Sec. 371 Date Oct. 6, 1979 Sec. 102(e) Date Oct. 5, 1979 PCT Filed Feb. 6, 1979 PCT Pub. No. WO79/00591 PCT Pub. Date Aug. 23, 1979. In a safety ski binding, a sole plate secured against lifting off is rotatably mounted on the ski surface in the heel region of the ski boot on a pivot extending perpendicular to the ski surface. The sole plate has a toe holder at its front end...

1. Apparatus for self-monitoring a circuit (5) containing a microprocessor, having an evaluation device connected to a control pulse channel (a1, b1; a2, b2; a3, b3) which monitors the reception of control pulses (P11, P11a; P12, P12a; P13, P23) at the correct time and, when the received control pulse train deviates from a predetermined expected control pulse train, outputs a control signal (C1, C...

The invention contemplates the manufacture of a wrinkle-free, amorphous, unoriented polyester film which is produced by an extrusion blowing process. The process consists of extruding a bubble of polyester, expanding the bubble, and then collapsing the bubble at a temperature above the polyester's glass transition temperature to prevent the formation of wrinkles. The collapsing step is effected th...

A hemopurification apparatus includes a porous membrane permeable to gas but impermeable to liquid and dividing a container into two mutually-isolated compartments. The apparatus is adapted to remove water from blood by causing the blood to flow through one of the compartments and a fluid, the water vapor pressure of which is lower than that of the blood, to flow through the other compartment, whe...

A vehicle transmission clutch control including an electronic logic control which controls the transmission gear selection, a clutch position signal generator responsive to vehicle operating parameters to produce a command signal which operates a clutch control to govern the engagement of the clutch. A clutch disengagement control receives a gear change signal from the logic control and produces a...

The invention relates to a fluid for increasing the strength and/or weathering resistance of a porous article, in particular a brick, by penetration of the fluid into the capillaries or pores of the article. Minute particles (2a) of a diameter smaller than that of the capillaries (5) or pores are suspended in the fluid (2). The particles (2a) are capable of swelling, due to the water (3) incorpora...

Flowing (free flowing) granular compositions based on fluoroelastomers, containing dispersed on their surface, as an anti-caking agent, from 5 to 70% by weight of a polyolefin powder.

A power transmission apparatus having an input shaft connected, by planetary gearing, to two coaxially arranged output shafts. The planetary gearing permits differential rotation between the output shafts. A limiting device located between the output shafts to limit the differential rotation thereof. The limiting device includes a clutch member mounted on the first output shaft and alternating fir...

A torque sensing braking controller senses directly the braking torque exerted by a rotating element (14, 114, 214, 314) upon at least one friction element (20, 222, 320 and 332) of the brake (10, 210, 310), such that the sudden decrease in torque which occurs when wheel lock-up and skidding occurs is sensed and results in the communication of an increased output pressure to oppose outward displac...

Polyorganosiloxane foams are obtained by blending, dispensing and curing two-part polyorganosiloxane compositions comprising a liquid hydroxyl endblocked polydimethylsiloxane, a liquid alkyl orthosilicate as the curing agent, a catalytically effective amount of a tin compound, a blowing agent and, as a foam stablilizer, a resinous organosiloxane copolymer comprising trimethylsiloxy units, SiO4/2 u...

The use in conventional polyolefin extrusion foaming processes of a stability control agent (e.g., stearamide, EAA copolymer, etc.) in conjunction with certain mixed blowing agent systems, the mixed blowing agent system containing 60-95 weight percent of 1-chloro-1,1-difluoroethane or 60-95 weight percent of 1,1-difluoroethane. These compounds have a shorter atmospheric lifetime and lower stabilit...