Automated production of a multicell lead-acid storage battery is facilitated by providing the battery container (1) with one open side through which packs of the electrodes are passed for insertion in the container cells, the open side being subsequently sealed by welding on a side wall (18). The electrode packs are formed by concertina-folding of an assembly of continuous lengths of positive and ...

A method and apparatus for forming a palletless package having a plurality of layers of objects, the bottom layer of which is formed with cavities to receive the fork arms of a lift truck. A stack of the objects to be packaged is first formed in a palleting device by placing the objects in a plurality of layers each having the same base area. Then, an additional layer of objects is placed on top o...

PCT No. PCT/SE83/00169 Sec. 371 Date Dec. 29, 1983 Sec. 102(e) Date Dec. 29, 1983 PCT Filed Apr. 28, 1983 PCT Pub. No. WO83/03837 PCT Pub. Date Nov. 10, 1983.Inactivated polyurethane and a method for preparing it are disclosed. The polyurethane is inactivated by being coated with a layer of a polymer which contains e.g. hydroxyl groups. These hydroxyl groups react with free isocyanate molecules in...

An arrangement for calibration, an ovalness gauge, for pipes, boreholes or the like, especially calibration of constrictions by measuring of the smallest diameter of the constriction, comprises a body designed to be moved through the hole, an even number of sensors emerging from the body and able to expand against the wall of the pipe, and a mechanical-electrical signal transmitter arranged in the...

PURPOSE:To elevate the reliability of a function circuit with a reduced occurrence of troubles during the operation as well as a lower cost with a higher yield in the manufacture by forming a feed back loop thereof whose output terminal is connected to the input terminal thereof to discriminate a defect and a fault detecting whether or not the loop oscillates. CONSTITUTION:When inspecting a defect...

PURPOSE:To detect early and accurately a malfunction and to facilitate the maintenance and diagnosis, by comparing the time series digital information of plural normal types of timing waveforms of a storage part with plural types of timing signals generated from a timing circuit. CONSTITUTION:When a read or write instruction is transmitted to a storage device from an access orinator device, a timi...

PURPOSE:To confirm assuredly and with high reliability the faults of a scanner relay and a signal source, by connecting a bias circuit in parallel to an analog input device to make the switching operation of the scanner relay interlock the operation of an analog input device. CONSTITUTION:The low output impedance signal sources 1, 6 and 8 consisting of thermocouples, for example, are scanned by sc...

A composition comprising from 2 to 25 weight percent of at least one free radical ethylene polymer with a specific gravity between 0.91 and 0.94, and from 75 to 98 weight percent of at least one copolymer of ethylene and at least one alpha -olefin containing at least 4 carbon atoms, with a specific gravity between 0.905 and 0.940 and a melt index between 0.4 and 3 dg/minute, wherein the average p...

An aqueous phenol formaldehyde resole, suitable for use in the manufacture of phenolic foam insulation, has a molar ratio of formaldehyde to phenol in the range of from about 1.7:1 to about 2.3:1, and a weight average molecular weight greater than 800. Preferably, the resole also has a number average molecular weight greater than 350 and a dispersivity greater than about 1.7. Phenol formaldehyde r...

A closed cell phenolic foam having a cell structure in which the cell walls are substantially free of both ruptures and perforations is made by foaming and curing a foamable phenolic resole composition containing an aqueous phenol formaldehyde resole, a surfactant, a blowing agent and optionally other additives, with an acid foaming and curing agent which is an anhydrous aryl sulfonic acid which h...

An electronic article theft detection system accurately senses the presence of a target on a protected article by sensing electromagnetic disturbances at a plurality of frequences, comparing their relative amplitudes and producing a detection signal when the compared relative amplitudes correspond to those produced by the presence of a target.

PURPOSE:To improve the operating efficiency of a computer system, by converting all work stations distributed at each place into main consiles. CONSTITUTION:When a computer system is reset, a specific terminal is used as a main console with a system request SYSRQ set ineffective. When an SYSRQ KEY effective command transmission processing part 7 produces a command to the initial main console, this...

PURPOSE:To facilitate an easy change of the program flow, by stopping (C-stop) the processing at a desired address without lowering the executing speed of a processor and at the same time enabling the C-stop even with the program within an ROM. CONSTITUTION:An instruction executing part 4 extracts fetched instructiond codes out of an instruction buffer register 6 and executes them successively bas...

A fog lamp has a paraboloid reflector (10), a light source (12) and a lens (13). Projecting located next to one another and vertically from the inside thereof are cylindrical lenses (14) with a cross-section in the form of a parabola (or a hyperbola). This produces a light distribution having two lateral light intensity maxima, as a result of which the two edges of the road are illuminated adequat...