THERMAL ADJUSTMENT APPARATUS FOR ROTATING MACHINES A method and apparatus for setting the positioning between a first rotating member and a second fixed or rotating member in a rotary machine comprises controlled thermal elements positioned on the frame supporting the members and/or on the rotating member(s) itself to counteract the effects of centrifugal force on the rotating member(s) to thereby...

Apparatus for conveying solid particles into a carbonaceous material gasifier, comprising a vessel defining a vessel outlet, a separator defining a separator particle outlet for separating solid particles from a fluid, fluid conducting means for conducting a fluid from the vessel outlet to the separator, a vertical conduit attached flowingly to the particle outlet, a horizontal conduit attached fl...

A system and method for diagnosing and treating undesired internal conditions and structures, such as occluded vessels or aberrant histological regions. Diagnosis is effected by means of doppler analysis of laser light directed to the effected site from an inserted laser-containing unit, and treatment is accomplished by the same unit through direction of laser emissions of controlled characteristi...

A safety ski binding releasably holding a boot on a ski. The binding includes a jaw adapted to hold the boot and to pivot laterally, and an elastic mechanism biasing the jaw against lateral pivoting. When vertical stress acts on the binding, friction is generated which further biases the jaw against lateral pivoting, thereby preventing lateral release of the boot when dangerous lateral stress acts...

Hospital mattresses are generally made of foam plastic having predominantly open cell cores and are in the form of a parallel-epipedic block which is provided with a protective layer consisting of a plastic film which is easy to clean so that injurious substances and bacteria can be removed. Such mattresses have the drawback, however, that when used they produce sounds which are disturbing. These ...

A method of manufacturing a self-supporting measuring probe suitable for application in a highly corrosive environment such as for example in a muffler or suction channel of a motor vehicle, is disclosed. The probe is provided with a protective foil which is applicable on a rigid substrate carrying the measuring layers, by means of a heat sealing process in which heat and pressure are simultaneous...

A first reaction mixture, prepared from (a) aromatic isocyanates with isocyanate contents of from 5 to 50%, and (b) compounds with molecular weights of from 32 to 10,000 which contain at least two isocyanate-reactive hydrogen atoms, in an equivalent ratio of component "a" to component "b" of 0.8:1 to 5:1, from 0.1 to 20% of a blowing agent and, optionally, other known additives, is introduced into...

A process for afterburning and purifying process exhaust gases, which contain combustible constituents, wherein the process exhaust gases and the oxygen-containing gases required for a combustion are separately supplied to a fluidized bed reactor of a circulating fluidized bed. In the fluidized bed reactor, the gas velocity is adjusted to 2 to 10 m/s (empty pipe velocity), the mean suspension dens...

A magnetic recording material which comprises a film of a polyester and a magnetic layer formed on at least one side of said film, said polyester containing more than 85 mol % of the repeating unit represented by the formula below and having an intrinsic viscosity of 0.3 to 1.4, and said film of said polyester having a refractive index ratio of 0.935 to 0.975 in the thickness direction and a densi...

A biaxially oriented film of a film-forming aromatic polyester derived from an aromatic dicarboxylic acid as a main acid component and an aliphatic glycol as a main glycol component, said film having surface properties such that (1) it has a surface flatness, RCLA, of from 0.001 to 0.016 micron, (2) it has a coefficient of travelling friction, mu k, of from 0.01 to 0.20, and (3) the following rel...

A light beam directing apparatus is described which permits a reflected collimated beam of light, such as a laser, to be directed in a path which comprises a plurality of straight segments. Each segment of the beam is associated with a segment of a robot's arm in a fixed spatial relationship.

A loading apparatus for a recording medium comprises a holder for holding a recording medium, a guide provided on the holder, a slide plate mounting thereon, and a raised member which supports the guide when the recording medium is not inserted into the holder and which releases the support when a recording medium is fully inserted into the holder. The holder is urged downward so that, when the gu...

A pipelined digital processor includes a common data and control bus and a source (100 or 105) of instructions and data words. An arithmetic section (110) processes one data word with another data word through selected processing subsections (112, 115, 116) performing operations according to an expression, thereby producing a resultant data word and a status signal. A destination (105) receives th...

PURPOSE:To monitor efficiently runaway by setting up a runaway monitoring address in an unused address area out of addresses assigned to mappers and detecting a bus time-over corresponding to said address. CONSTITUTION:Plural mappers 111, 112,...1116 corresponding to the tasks of a program are switched by an address read out from a memory 2 under control by a CPU1 to access I/Os 12, 13 or the like...

PURPOSE:To improve the detection of abnormal operation in a control system based upon a watchdog timer by detecting the abnormal operation from the generation of time-out of a timer to be reset by the execution of a reset subroutine. CONSTITUTION:A firmware program stored in a ROM2 writes a command (reset subroutine) for resetting the watchdog timer (WDT)5 in a RAM3. On the basis of the execution ...

MODULAR ISLAND DRILLING SYSTEM A gravity-type offshore structure, useful as an offshore drilling platform, e.g., is provided for use in ice-covered waters such as offshore of the Alaskan and Canadian North Slope. The structure is composed of a plurality of floatable and controllably ballastable modules, each of which can be fully submerged. The modules are stackable by selective ballasting and deb...

TIP-OFF CAP AND CLOSURE FOR CONTAINERS A tip-off cap and closure for a container, for closure thereof, and sealing of the contents therein. The cap includes a narrow elongated exterior top portion, a peripherally enlarged open bottom skirt at the bottom thereof, and a container closure for an access opening, operatively disposed within the skirt and operatively integrated therewith. The integrated...

MULTIPLE BLOOD BAG SYSTEM MADE OF PLASTIC SUBSTANTIALLY FREE OF BLOOD EXTRACTABLE PLASTICIZERS of the Invention An improved multiple blood bag system is disclosed in which donor as well as transfer bags are made of polymeric substances which are substantially free of bloodextractable plasticizers. The polymeric substance for a donor bag can be the same or different from that of a transfer bag. The...

An improved process is provided for producing mechanically alloyed powders of simple and complex alloy systems. In the improved process, the mechanically alloyed powder is milled to an acceptable processing level in a gravity-dependent ball mill to obtain a powder characterized by a laminate-type microstructure which is substantially optically homogenous at a magnification of 100X. Such acceptable...