Apparatus for use in continuous web reeling apparatus for connecting a web to a winding roll as the web is being unwound from an unwinding roll by deflecting a run of the web and pressing the deflected web against joining tape provided on the surface of the winding roll. The apparatus includes a plurality of axially aligned pressing members, a fluid-actuated expandable actuating device for exertin...

Est décrit ici un appareil 11 pour diviser une grille d'accu à unités multiples 31 en des grilles d'accu individuelles 21 et pour ensuite appliquer de la pâte sur les grilles d'accu individuelles 21, lequel appareil comprend un dispositif d'empâtage 13 pour appliquer de la pâte sur les grilles, un dispositif de division 61 situé en amont du dispositif d'empâtage pour diviser les grilles d'accu ...

Perfectionnement aux récipients dont le goulot 2 renferme un obturateur mobile 3, déplaçable à volonté entre une position de stockage où il obture le récipient et une position d'utilisation où il assure une communication entre l'intérieur du récipient et l'extérieur, conditionnement caractérisé en ce que l'obturateur est solidaire d'un sas 4 renfermant au moins un élément de modification du liq...

A ski binding for retaining an end of a boot on a ski, including a body preferably mounted for pivoting vertically with respect to the ski, a jaw having a pair of arms arranged for lateral movement and elastic bias relative to the body and, further, having a pair of lateral wings arranged for lateral movement on respective lateral arms. Upon movement of one of the lateral arms of the jaw a predete...

A vital microcompressor-based rate decoder for use in a vital processing system in on-board main line railroad and rapid transit automatic train protection systems; the design is such that a method is incorporated for tolerating specific kinds of signal disruption and in such a way that the probability of a wrongside failure has a calculable upper bound. A pickup coil transmits external or wayside...

The optical pickup for reading out information from an information recording media, such as an optical diskette, comprises a light source for irradiating light beam onto an optical diskette, an optical sensor for detecting the light beam reflected at the optical diskette, and an optical system including a wave plate and two hologram lenses. The first hologram lens diffracts the light beam from th...

The optical head appts. has a light source mounted on a base element so that a light emitting end face is made flush with a front end face of the base element. An optical incidence device diffracts a light beam emitted from the source into a number of diffracted light beams and focuses the beams to a number of spot lights on a data storage media. The splitter is interposed in the optical inciden...

The optical system comprises a device for directing a lightbeam onto the optical memory. The resultant lignt is separated into several beams. The light is separated using light reflecting surfaces each at a different angle relative to the memory to direct the light beams in a direction not normal or parallel to each other. The resultant light beams are launched onto a single plane. At least three ...

The prodn. of a porous film consists of; mixing 30-80 pts. wt of inorganic fine powder (A) of sp. surface area 12m2/g or less, an average particle size of 0.4-4 micro-m (pref. spherical particle shape), with 20-70 pts. wt. of a polyolefin resin, (in 100 pts. wt. of the mixt.); melt-moulding to form a film; linear stretching 2-7 times the original length of the obtd. fim. Pref (A) is from pptd. CaC...

Numerically-controlled grinding cell. It comprises a grinding wheel at the end of a remotely controlled arm 30 making it move inside a working volume VT, a movable carriage 31 carrying a component to be ground, as well as devices for pointing 32 and changing 33 the grinding wheel on which the remotely controlled device may deposit the grinding wheel. The machining trajectories are changed automati...

The invention relates to a device for measuring the injection pressure of concrete or the like, particularly in a system for manufacturing piles using a string of rods such as hollow augers 12, the string of augers including at least two augers 12a, 12b butted up together removably and including a hollow core at the upper end of which the concrete is introduced and via the lower end of which the c...

The invention relates to a self-locking differential with epicycloid gear train including an input member 3a and two output members 5a, 4a, 25. It comprises securing means 27, 28 for rotationally securing two of the three input and output members by axial displacement of the input member, and thrust means 17a, 18a for giving rise to the said axial displacement of the input member on the occasion o...

A method of controlling the level of entrained air in hydraulic cement compositions is disclosed comprising the sequential steps of preparing a hydraulic cement composition in the form of an aqueous slurry containing an air entraining plasticizer and a defoamer, and increasing the air content of the composition by adding to said composition an air entraining agent. This method prevents undesired a...

Integral accelerator-brake control for motorcycles, characterized in that the handle grip which is rotatable, is provided with an anatomically shaped radial extension to act as a lever aid for the turning of the handle grip, and has a conical end including a section having teeth along approximately one-third of its perimeter, the remainder being smooth, while tangentially and diametrically opposit...

Photopolymerizable dental compositions are proposed which are curable with visible light and which apart from usual auxiliary substances and additives contain polymerizable monomers of the group of the poly-thiol compounds and of the group of the poly-ene compounds and photoinitiator and which, in order to obtain a curing free from any smeary layer, contain at least 10 % by weight poly-thiol compo...

A power discontinuity sensor for a heatable windshield with bus bars having a double lead configuration. Sensor lines extend around the perimeter of the windshield in close proximity to adjacent bus bars or leads. The sensor lines are provided with current from an upper bus bar through a connecting bridge along the upper bus bar. Voltage in the sensor lines is monitored and current to the bus bars...

a substrate (6) of first type; a surface charge storage region (5a) and a bit line region (5b) both of second type; a first gate electrode (2) for the charge storage region; a second gate electrode (3) for the bit line region; insulation layers separating the regions and the gate electrodes; and two high concn. impurity regions (10a,10b) adjacent the charge storage and bit line regions forming pn ...

The invention relates to a flat pallet 1 comprising hollow conical feet 2 which are open at the upper surface of the pallet and which can be nested when stacking similar empty pallets, the said feet 2 comprising perforations 3 made in their support surface. The internal walls of the feet 2 comprise ribs 4 which penetrate into the perforations 3 during the stacking of pallets 1. This embodiment aim...

The present invention relates to the field of coatings of metal substrates applied by dipping. It relates to a method of coating a metal substrate using a surface coat applied by dipping after coating of said substrate with a powder primer. It also relates to powder compositions which can be used as adhesion primer, as well as to composite materials: metal substrates/adhesion primer/surface coat.

Hip prosthesis with great internal travel, consisting of a head 4 receiving a cup 5 which sits in the pelvis, supported by a neck 2 integral with the shaft 1 to be anchored in the femur. When the prosthesis is considered as being in the rest position, the neck 2 is offset outwards relative to the axis of the head 4. Between its connection sections 7, 8 the neck 2 is a body of revolution whose axis...