The invention relates to a radiographic apparatus, especially for mammography, having a mounting which contains a radiation head, the mounting being rotatable about a horizontal axis around a bearing located in a stand so as to be vertically pivotable. The bearing is influenced by a weight balancing device. In order to obtain a radiographic apparatus of the type mentioned in which the mounting can...

PURPOSE: To adjust the position of a bobbin so as to suit the kind of yarns and to smoothly feed yarns by constituting the yarn-feeding structure in such a way that the distance between a weft bobbin and a yarn guide hole varies but an angle between a tangent line on a curved track and a line linking the point of contact with the yarn guide hole is constant when moving the weft bobbin along the cu...

PURPOSE: To obtain the subject sheet suitable for a garment for protecting asbestos by carrying out point-bonding and water-jet-softening finishing by a sheet of flash-spun polyethylene plexifilamentary film-fibril strands. CONSTITUTION: A lightly compressed sheet of flash-spun polyethylene plexifilamentary film-fibril strands having 20-50 g/m<2> weight is formed between each nipped two rolls. A r...

In a yarn splicing device having a splicing head defining a splicing chamber and a yarn insertion slot, a compressed air passageway network is formed for delivering compressed air into the splicing chamber, the passageway arrangement having opposed air discharge passageways which extend laterally with respect to the splicing chamber in spaced relation therealong in a common plane at the back side ...

A method of treating a rubber expandable tire cure bladder by forming a base release coat thereon followed by application of a lubricant topcoat. The base release coat is derived by applying a composite of an hydroxyl terminated polyorganosiloxane and an aminoorganosilane to an expanded bladder and thereafter applying a lubricant topcoat derived from selected polyorganosiloxane components. The inv...

An automatic bagging machine comprising a collector for receiving a predetermined number of articles to be placed in a single bag therein. A trap door is disposed under the collector. A first bag on a wicker is opened, filled through the trap door, and dropped onto a first bag support platform. A clamp retains a top end portion of the bag on a clamping surface after it has been filled and the supp...

A wind-directed ventilator hood assembly for a narrow elongated air exit opening in the roof of a farm building spanning a long portion of the roof, including hood supporting uprights projecting upwardly from the air exit opening at plural spaced locations, a horizontal elongated pivot shaft journaled in the uprights above the exit opening, and a pivoted elongated hood for covering the opening hav...

A toe unit of a ski safety binding has a housing (15) which is fixedly mountable on a ski, a release spring (14) and sole clamp arms (18) which are pivotable outwardly to the side relative to the housing against spring force and which locate the tip of an inserted ski boot in the sideways direction on the ski (40), but pivot sideways outwardly against the spring force and release the ski boot on t...

A test sample color comparison device is disclosed which has a casing unit with an insertion slot for inserting a color test sample therein, and a display section for displaying the color test sample adjacent at least one of a plurality of reference color shades, as the reference color shades are successively moved into position adjacent the color test sample by a manipulation wheel. When an opera...

A chamber (32) having therein a V-belt type continuously variable transmission (13) is separated from another chamber (34) havig therein a differential mechanism (20). These chambers (32, 34), however, are in fluid communication with an oil pan via generally vertical holes.

A method of manufacture of a pneumatic tire in which an annular component, such as a tread/breaker assembly, is accurately located in a supporting box (30)(l5). Other tire components such as sidewalls, and carcass, are assembled to said annular component whilst it is held in the box. The box (l5) (30) is a transfer box which is detachable from a rotatable conveyor (ll) for relocation in turn at ea...

The described device comprises a bearing element (2) positioned to engage a bead core and subjected to the action of a friction wheel (7) acting in such a way as to make the bead core rotate around its own axis. Two pressure discs (17, 18) arranged specularly with respect to the lying median plane of the bead core act on opposite sides of a filler (34) to apply the same on the outer peripheral cha...

Disclosed herein is a polyester film containing specific fine spherical silica particles. The film of the present invention is especially suitable as a base film for a magnetic recording medium or dielectric for a capacitor. The films of the present invention have the markedly improved properties such as surface properties, electromagnetic properties, electrical properties, etc. due to the excelle...

A biaxially-oriented polymer film having dual-sided appearance, i.e., the color of each side is chromatically different. Also a method for making such films.

PURPOSE:To efficiently obtain a hydrocarbon rich in benzene, toluene and xylene by blending a light hydrocarbon with a hydrocarbon containing a polycyclic and a monocyclic hydrocarbons and reacting in the presence of a zeolite- containing catalyst. CONSTITUTION:(A) 2-8C light hydrocarbon is blended with (B) 1-50wt.% (1-30wt.%) based on the total amounts of hydrocarbons of >=9C hydrocarbon containi...

Ground polymeric elastomer or other polymeric plastic, particularly from recovered scrap, is surface modified by treatment with a gaseous mixture containing a minor amount of fluorine and a larger amount of at least one reactive gas in an inert gaseous carrier. By the treatment the ground material is made more compatible for admixture with polyfunctional polymer-forming liquids, thereby obtaining ...

Composite articles with internal surface are prepared by heating a porous compact formed about an insert body of infiltrant material. The insert body has an external surface corresponding to the desired internal surface of the article and consists of a material having a melting temperature less than that of the article. The porous compact has substantially the net shape of the article and is made ...

A probe is disclosed, for lowering into a water-well or other hole. The probe includes conductivity measuring electrodes, to distinguish between e.g., water and contaminants, such as gasoline. The probe also includes an optical sensing facility to locate the junction between air and liquid. The probe comprises a transparent plastic tube, mounted inside a housing. A beam of light from a LED passes ...

A method and apparatus for determining particle size distribution of lightweight material such as shredded expanded polystyrene. An agitator cap assembly initially contains the material and agitates it to avoid clogging, etc. A plurality of sieves are stacked on a receptacle, and the material is driven from the agitator caps through the sieves. The amount of material retained on and passed through...

An apparatus for synthesizing diamond, which comprises a reaction chamber, a means for supplying to the reaction chamber a gas mixture comprising a hydrogen gas and an organic compound decomposable by a plasma to form a diamond or a gas mixture comprising a hydrogen gas, an inert gas and said organic compound, a means of conducting a microwave of frequency larger than 300 MHz to the reaction chamb...