It is known to apply coatings which have desired characteristics, e.g. wear resistance, thermal barrier capabilities anti-oxidation, to articles the material of which does not have the desired characteristic, wherein the coating is applied directly to the article. Some article materials, e.g. Titanium are highly reactive which immediately obviates several known methods of applying coatings. The in...

This invention relates to a method and an apparatus for avoiding untwisting during the formation of a binding of two fiber bundles. The rotational direction of deformation members acting on the fiber bundles is selected to be different in different groups of deformation members in order to reproduce or to increase the original twist during the binding operation.

In a method of manufacturing positive tube plates for accumulators a mixture containing essentially Pb and Pb compounds is filled into the tubes of the tubular pockets, which contain a lead core connected to the terminal strip, from the ends of the tubes remote from the terminal strip, until the tubes are full, whereupon the filling openings of the tubes are closed. In this method lead dust is gra...

PURPOSE:To fold the excessive margin area of a ply or plies without any operational danger by a structure wherein full folding blades are set on the axis of a green case molding drum and can be expanded from the form of a cylinder smaller in diameter than a bead core and these blades are arranged laterally on the circumference. CONSTITUTION:A carcass 20 is stuck onto the circumference of a tire mo...

PURPOSE:To obtain the titled device of high productivity that can supply a circular member to a tire molding machine without changing the shape of the circular member and automatically by providing a special circular member retaining means, a retaining plate, a supporter, and a supporter moving means. CONSTITUTION:The desired circular member supplied is composed of a circular member retaining mean...

PURPOSE:To obtain the titled method capable of taking out circular beads easily one by one by supporting many beads in mutual contact on the external circumference of a bead stock supply drum. CONSTITUTION:A bead takeout means 5 and a bead stock supply drum 3 are approached to each other and arranged at a coaxial position to extrude beads 55 axially out of the bead stock supply drum 3 toward the b...

A data handling assembly for a bookmaker is disclosed in which a data storage means stores and updates data in respect of stakes wagered on contestants the odds and the total of the stakes in order to give the bookmaker a visual record of his liability for various possible outcomes of a contest. The input data is keyed in to the data storage means by a keyboard and a printer prints individual rece...

A sheet of material 30 having fibers 43 and a thermoplastic material 44 binding the fibers and the thermoplastic material together, as well as a method of making the same, is provided. The thermoplastic material 44 comprises fibers that were initially mixed with the other fibers 43 to provide a fiber textile-like mat 36 that was subject to heat and pressure to melt the thermoplastic fibers and den...

A wraparound heat-recoverable sleeve (1) is provided with at least one strip of pigmented adhesive (5,6) capable of flowing on application of heat. The pigmented adhesive is placed on the innermost surface of the sleeve (1) directly under the thickest section of the sleeve, e.g. under closure rails (2,3) of the sleeve. The sleeve (1) is wrapped around a substrate (7) and closed by a channel (8). W...

The invention provides apparatus for releasably locating a transducer housing (1) in a borehole (2) formed in rock strata, the housing providing a support member of the apparatus. A wedge arrangement is provided comprising a first wedge component (10) resiliently urged towards the housing by a resilient bias (11) and a second wedge component co-operable with the first wedge component, the second w...

A method of bond moulding rubber on glass, wherein the rubber-glass bond is established while the rubber undergoes dimensional conformation and chemical change from the plastic phase into the elastic phase under the combined actions of time, heat and/or pressure. The method comprises the following steps: glass degreasing by means of organic solvents of the alphatic and/or aromatic series; applicat...

A process for preparing oriented film in which a film comprising a substrate layer of a propylene homopolymer or copolymer and on at least one surface of said film a layer comprising a blend of 10 to 40% wt of a propylene homopolymer having a M.I. of 5.0 to 10.0 g/10 min and a degree of crystallinity of at least 45% and 60 to 90% wt of a butene-1/ethylene copolymer, the ethylene content in thereof...

1. A suspension of finely divided materials in a suspending medium wherein the suspending medium being a liquid which provides swelling of cellulose and containing microfibrillated cellulose in such amount to produce a sufficiently stable homogenous suspension as well as containing in case a hydrophilic polymer.

A drum brake (10) comprising a torque plate (50) for supporting pair of brake shoes (34) and an hydraulic actuator (52) for urging said pair of brake shoes (34) into frictional engagement with a brake drum (14) characterized in that said torque plate 150) comprises two stamped torque plate parts (58, 60), each having a central planar portion (62) to be affixed to the other planar portion and to a ...

Fine particulate expandable flame retardant styrene polymers having an improved minimum mold dwell time and reduced block shrinkage are prepared by: (a) mixing together styrene monomer or a mixture of styrene and a copolymerizable monomer with an organic halogen compound and an expanding agent in an aqueous dispersion; (b) adding before or during polymerization to the mixture of (a) from 0.0001 to...