Disclosed is a method and apparatus for winding glass optical waveguide filaments during drawing thereof. When a spool is full, the apparatus automatically changes spools, attaches the filament being drawn to a spool moved into the winding station, and severs the filament from the full spool.

This invention relates to a liquid composition comprising a C3-C8 carboxylic acid, an ion selected from NH4+ and a Group I or Group II metal according to the Periodic Table due to Mendeleef, and water, the ratio of acid to cation is between 2.1 and 4:1 on a chemical equivalent basis.

PURPOSE:To produce a lead battery plate where the mats in which the active substance will never drop out are laminated properly and stably, by filling a lead grid substrate with the active substance paste and immediately thereafter pressing the inorganic mat onto the coating face and drying. CONSTITUTION:It is comprised of an outer frame 1A and a face section 1B filled with an active substance sur...

PURPOSE:To improve the offer of service to the users greatly, by introducing a simple type road machine for a local route induction in a zone not performed with conventional systems, while keeping conventional route induction systems. CONSTITUTION:The progressing direction corresponding to a district code is picked up from a direction indicating storage memory 211 at a direction detection circuit ...

A sprayable preparation for accelerated hemostasis and optimized biochemical control of wound closure contains a powdery mixture of 15 to 60% by weight of thrombin, 5 to 80% by weight of a desiccating and stabilizing agent, viz., albumin, globulin and/or fibrinogen, and 1 to 10% by weight of a fibrinolysis inhibitor. The powdery mixture is suspended in a low-boiling, anhydrous solvent, which is us...

A sprayable preparation for accelerated hemostasis and optimized biochemical control of wound closure contains a powdery mixture of 15 to 60% by weight of thrombin, 5 to 80% by weight of a desiccating and stabilizing agent, viz., albumin, globulin and/or fibrinogen, and 1 to 10% by weight of a fibrinolysis inhibitor. The powdery mixture is suspended in a low-boiling, anhydrous solvent, which is us...

A hollow article (e.g. a bottle) made of a biaxially oriented thermoplastic is produced by heating a sheet of thermoplastic material (12) to a temperature above its orientation temperature; forcing the heated sheet by pressure into a first mold half (20); maintaining the sheet in contact with the surface of the mould half (20) to allow the sheet to reach its orientation temperature, and then forci...

Water-dilutable waterproofing agent for expanded minerals, consisting of a) a compound of the formula where R is alkyl or alkenyl each having 8-22 carbon atoms, preferably 14-22 carbon atoms, or C8-C22-alkylphenyl, R1 is hydrogen or methyl, n is a number from 0 to 4, the sum of u + v + x + y is a number from 0 to 10, preferably 0 to 6, and z is a number from 0 to 2, preferably 1, and b) a...

PURPOSE:To process a function described under a microinstruction at high speed, by providing a flag indicating the type of a function, in using a logical minimum atom as the function in an area indicating an attribute of a cell constituting binary tree list. CONSTITUTION:The architecture for cells 21,22 and 23 consists of a left tag 31, a left pointer 32, a right tag 33, and a right pointer 34. In...

A microprocessor-based test system for functionally testing and troubleshooting microprocessor-based systems is connected in place of the microprocessor circuit of the unit 18 being tested (UUT). The test system includes a microprocessor circuit 42 which is supplied with the UUT clock signal and is the same type of microprocessor circuit as is utilized by the UUT 18. The test system periodically s...

PURPOSE:To decrease soldering areas for leads on a circuit substrate by a method wherein flat package type of leads are shortened and only several leads which are used to determine the position with respect to the substrate are cut in such a way that the leads pass through the substrate. CONSTITUTION:Most leads 2 of a flat package are bent downward at points where they come out of the molded part ...

Compounds of formula I, R2 represents hydroxy or amino, R3 represents hydrogen or hydroxy, R4 represents hydrogen or hydroxy, R5 represents amino, methylamino, dimethylamino or, when R2 represents amino, also hydroxy and R6 represents hydrogen or methyl, in free base form or in the form of an acid addition salt. These compounds can be used as chemotherapeuticals, in particular as anti...

PURPOSE:To simplify a drive circuit for straightening recording for one line by equally inclining each nozzle group at a given angle to the straight line on which plural nozzle groups are aligned in a multi-head nozzle. CONSTITUTION:A nozzle head supporter 13 has plural smooth faces equally inclined to the aligning direction of nozzles, and nozzle heads 14a, 14b, and 14c having parallel grooves ar...

An apparatus for reproducing information from a track of a magnetic record carrier by means of a reproducing head divided into two reproducing portions. The apparatus comprises an amplifier circuit having a pair of input terminals, connected to the outputs of the two reproducing portions, a first signal combination unit, at least one variable gain amplifier and an output terminal. The controllable...

Piperazinyl derivatives containing a spiro-2,4-thiazolidinedione heterocyclic component with relatively selective psychotropic properties are disclosed. The compound 2-[4-[4-(7,9-dioxo-6-thia-8-azaspiro[4.4]nonan-8-yl)butyl]-1-piperazin yl]pyridine-3-carbonitrile which has selective anti-psychotic activity constitutes a typical embodiment of the invention.