PURPOSE:To provide utmost stretch treatment to each yarn by detecting the difference in the rate of elongation of yarns due to stretching force by means of the amount of movement of a weight and removing a yarn whose amount of movement is beyond an allowable range, from a regular running part and treating the yarn with a different ratio of feed-in speed to a draw out speed. CONSTITUTION:A yarn 14 ...

PURPOSE:To obtain the lightness of weight of a battery and improve its workability, by previously fixing connection members, located in the lower part of plate groups of the battery in which the connection between its cells is performed at upper and lower parts of the plate group, liquid-tightly to the lower parts of battery jar partition walls. CONSTITUTION:Between cylindrical battery jars 1 with...

A tire forming drum (1) provided with two half drums (3, 4) axially mobile relative to each other and arranged to support on their outer periphery tubular plies of a carcass (2) to be formed, each half drum (3, 4) being arranged to produce automatic folding of the relative end (49) of said tubular plies about a respective annular bead (50) by means of a respective multiple air chamber element (38)...

Apparatus and method for starting respective leading ends on web running continuously and wound into successive rolls, such as paper. As each roll reaches a final diameter, a fresh leading end is provided on the web by slitting in a generally cross-machine direction from a leading starter tongue projection extending downstream. The starter tongue projection with the fresh leading end of the web is...

The present invention relates to a polyethylene terephthalate film having the sum of F-5 values in longitudinal and transverse directions of 3500 to 5000 kg/cm2, absolute heat shrinkages in longitudinal and transverse directions at 100 DEG C. of up to 2.5% and amorphous orientation factor of -1.5 to 0.5, a process for the production thereof and a magnetic recording medium containing the film as a...

Polyorganopolysiloxane/polyoxyalkylene block copolymers suitable for use as stabilizers in making soft polyurethane foams, of the formula [R1Si(OSiR2)n]mZm-1(OR2)m+2 in which R is an optionally halogen-substituted alkyl group with up to 4 C atoms, R1 is the substituent R or a phenyl radical, R2 is an aliphatic, optionally unsaturated radical with up to 18 C atoms or a group of the formula R3(OCH2C...

In a device for testing the rim around the apertures of bottles for flaws there is a rotor which has an optic fiber bundle for transmitting light to the rim or sealing surface of the bottle and another fiberoptic bundle for receiving light reflected or scattered by the surface that is to be sealed with a crown cap. The optical axes of the light transmitter and receiver are arranged in a common sca...

This invention concerns the manufacture of a layer of elastomeric material to form part of a pneumatic tire, and the manufacture of a reinforced elastomeric layer. According to the invention a layer of elastomeric material is formed as a progressive helical winding along a mandrel. The layer may be transferred in cylindrical form to a tire carcass building former to constitute an inner lining for ...

The present invention is directed to carbon fibers which are coated on the surface with a sizing agent of either a polyisocyanate, such as polymethylene polyphenyl polyisocyanate, or a sorbitol polyglycidyl ether having a specifically defined total chlorine content and epoxide equivalent weight. The coated carbon fibers are employed to prepare carbon fiber composites wherein the matrix resin is a ...

There is provided a monitoring apparatus and method for the trimmed edge of pre-cold rolled strip, the edge having a rounded portion, a cut portion and a fractured portion. The apparatus includes a television camera and a magnification lens system for taking a magnified picture of the edge. A television display device shows the magnified picture on a video screen, and there is applied to the video...

A vehicle electronic control system for a friction clutch having a clutch position signal generator which senses the vehicle operating conditions and produces a command signal which dictates the state of engagement of the clutch. A clutch actuator control is responsive to the command signal, and includes a transducer that produces a feedback signal indicative of clutch position which is fed into a...

A brake or clutch having two relatively rotatable members and a hollow fluid-distensible resilient annular tube frictionally engaging one of the members. The tube is split and the ends butted together. And at the butt ends of the tube means are provided for increasing the durability and life of the tube.

A process of moulding a product (and a product thus formed) wherein particulate ligno-cellulose such as shredded paper, flour, Portland cement, a small amount of caustic soda, and water are mixed together, placed in a mould, and subjected to both pressure and heat until set, and the moulded product is then removed from the mould.

Process for the production of fine particulate, expandable styrene polymers by suspension-polymerizing styrene or possibly mixtures of styrene and other monomers having at least 50% by weight of styrene in the presence of expanding agents having low boiling points in incompletely filled reactors. The polymer beads to be charged with expanding agents are vigorously stirred during the addition of th...

Fine particulate expandable styrene polymers suitable for the production of molded bodies with improved minimum mold dwell times, containing 0.01 to 2.0% by weight, referred to the polystyrene or the total of the polymerized monomers, of polyoctenamer having I values from about 10 to 400 ml/g and trans octylene contents from about 20 to 90%.

A highly water absorbent polymer having high resistance to salt solution is prepared by crosslinking a hyrophilic polymer or copolymer having carboxyl and/or carboxylate groups and water content of 10 to 40 wt. % with a crosslinking agent having at least two functional groups capable of reaction with said carboxyl and carboxylate group. An improved hydrophilic polymer is produced by polymerizing a...

PURPOSE:To avoid the impairment and the characteristic deterioration of the superconductive wire by winding the hollow conductor round the winding barrel along the ultra-thin and multi-core conducting wire and then fixing such superconductive wire to the hollow conductor via the low fusing point metal. CONSTITUTION:Hollow conductor 3 is supplied continuously to winding barrel 5, and at the same t...