An engine speed control system causes an engine, equipped with an automatic transmission which shifts up according to predetermined shift schedules, to reduce its output at a predetermined engine speed so as to protect the engine by preventing the engine from being subjected to "over-revolution." The predetermined engine speed is changed according to engine operating conditions such as a decrease ...

A negative electrode for lead accumulators has the shape of a rectangular planar grid plate (11) consisting of expanded copper metal which serves as a carrier for the active mass and for the supply and extraction of current. The grid plate (11) consists of two side regions of expanded copper metal (14) and a copper strip (12) which is arranged between them in one piece therewith, and which project...

A method of manufacturing an absorbent article in the form of a pants diaper or a sanitary panty starts from a flat blank which includes an elongated absorbent body (5) enclosed between two casing sheets (2, 9) which at opposing front and rear end parts of the absorbent body have side parts which extend laterally beyond the body on opposite sides thereof. The method includes the step of folding th...

An electron beam x-ray computer tomography scanner is improved so that a compact, tiltable configuration without mechanical motion is achieved. By introducing the electron beam in a direction which is largely parallel rather than perpendicular to the scan plane, the long large diameter evacuated electron beam pipe of prior art is eliminated. As a result, the scan system according to the invention ...

A method for the manufacture of lead-acid batteries and associated apparatus and a lead-acid battery design resulting therefrom is disclosed. The method involves providing a battery grid and pasting the grid with a battery paste such that a profiled and tapered battery plate is formed. This battery plate is wrapped onto a coil and cured in curing apparatus. A battery element is formed using coils ...

A surgical apparatus for welding two segments of living tissue, usually tubular in structure, comprising means for clamping the first tissue section (12, 16), means for clamping the second tissue section (10, 14), means for moving (203) one of said clamping means toward said other clamping means to bring the first and second sections into abutting relationship to form a seam, and means for transmi...

A green tire building apparatus comprising bead lock segments arranged in the circumferential direction of a building drum at bead-set positions disposed at the both sides of a main body of building drum and movable in the radial direction of the building drum; a turn-up bladder disposed in a state of extending up to a posiition axially outer than the opposite ends of the main body of building dru...

A feed accelerator system for use in a centrifuge, the system comprising a conveyor hub rotatably mounted substantially concentrically within a rotating bowl, and an accelerator including a cone-shaped inside surface disposed between an accelerator base and an accelerator small diameter section. The accelerator is secured proximately to its base within the conveyor hub so that the accelerator rota...

A feed accelerator system for use in a centrifuge, the system comprising an accelerator rotatably mounted substantially concentrically within the centrifuge and including a plurality of disc members concentrically and proximately spaced having a first disc and a second disc, each disc having an inside surface and an outer edge defining a disc diameter. The second disc includes a target surface hav...

A device for cutting moving material webs, especially of fibrous materials, to shape comprises a rotating shape cutting roller and a rotating counter cutting roller. The shape cutting roller has a shape cutting side and the counter-roller a smooth surface. Both rollers are borne in a machine frame by means of rotary bearings and the center distance between them is adjustable. The rollers are rotat...

A system and apparatus for accurately delivering rubberized sheets from a supply, roll of stock material containing an intervening liner to an assembly station for subsequent assembling into an air spring or similar article of manufacture by eliminating the heretofore formation of a "free loop" therein. The supply roll and a liner take-up reel are rotatably mounted on a carriage transversely movab...

The utility model relates to a novel connecting and collecting pipe which is used for a vacuum-pipe solar collector and is especially suitable for a glass vacuum-pipe solar water heater, a boiling-water heater and a water heating system. The utility model has the technical feature that the round hole of the connecting and collecting pipe is changed into a round turning hole. The sealing performanc...

The utility model discloses a sealed lead acid battery, comprising a casing, a cover piece, a battery core, a positive plate, a negative plate, the adsorbing material, an electrolyte, etc. The utility model is characterized in that the positive plate and the negative plate arranged in the casing are arranged perpendicularly and alternately. The middle is lined with a partition board, and a positiv...

The circuit includes a pulse generator which supplies a pulse signal to an input node. A counter receives the pulse signal and counts the number of pulses included in the pulse signal during predetermined intervals. The number of pulses is compared with a predetermined reference number to produce a floating detection signal. The floating detection signal indicates whether the input node is in a fl...

A closed cell, rigid polyisocyanurate foam which comprises the reaction product of a polyisocyanate and a polyol in the presence of (a) a hydrogen-containing blowing agent or a mixture of a hydrogen-containing blowing agent and at least one co-blowing agent, and (b) a siloxane oxyalkylene copolymer (i) having a molecular weight below about 7500 and oxyalkylene portion containing greater than 60 we...

A hair dryer includes an air blower housing 17 with an elongated barrel 11 and a handle 12 extending therefrom. An electrical cord 19 extends from an end of the handle. The handle also has an elongated cord support member 13 extending from the end thereof parallel with the barrel to define a pair of opposite and separated arms to allow the cord to be wound thereon. The cord support member may have...

There is provided a polyol composition which comprises a a) compound having at least two isocyanate reactive hydrogens, at least one of which is a polyoxyalkylene polyether polyol, b) 2-chloropropane, and, c) a C4-C6 aliphatic hydrocarbon. There is also provided a rigid polyurethane foam made with the polyol composition. The 2-chloropropane acts to solubilize the C4-C6 aliphatic hydrocarbon in the...

Rigid, closed cell polyisocyanurate foams are prepared by reacting together a polyisocyanate and a polyester polyol or a mixture of a polyester polyol and at least one other isocyanate-reactive compound in the presence of (a) a hydrogen-containing blowing agent or a mixture of a hydrogen-containing blowing agent and at least one co-blowing agent and (b) a catalyst mixture comprising (i) a carboxyl...

A bipolar snare instrument for use in surgery is provided. The snare instrument has a snaring loop comprising a flexible continuous electrically-insulating loop for supporting bipolar electrodes. The electrodes may be arranged in various geometries on the insulating loop to provide localized selective necrosis and hemostasis of a patient's protruding tissue. Methods of performing surgery with such...

In a navigation system and method for guide-wire-less guidance of driverless floor conveyors of any wheel configuration, navigation interpolation points (P) are arranged in a linear formation chain along a reference track (19), the regular and/or irregular intervals of which points are a multiple of the vehicle wheelbase (22). The navigation interpolation points (P) are constructed as active and/o...