Fuel economy of a multi-cylinder internal combustion engine has been improved by allowing, when a vehicle is at a standstill, the engine to run on selected cylinders of all. The idling operation of the engine on the selected cylinders has been made smooth by the provision of a switch valve in a control circuit of the transmission. With the switch valve, as soon as an accelerator pedal is released ...

PURPOSE:To smoothly fill a specified amount of active material lead powder into a clad tube, especially a small diameter tube without formation of bridges by press-filling from an open end of the clad tube the slurry which is manufactured by adding a thickening agent to an active material and mixing them. CONSTITUTION:In the figure, 1 shows a lateral bone electric conductive part which is bonded t...

PURPOSE:To increase discharge performance and a cycle life in charge-discharge by using as an active material very fine lead oxide of less than 0.1mu average particle size containing 0.10-10.0wt% of polytetrafluoroethylene powder. CONSTITUTION:1.0wt% (this invention 1) and 5.0wt% (this invention 2) of polytetrafluoroethylene powder (PTFE) of about 0.3mu average particle size are added to lead oxid...

In an apparatus for joining textile threads with the aid of compressed air, there is provided a device for checking the tearing strength of the joint zone of the threads before their extraction from the apparatus. The device comprises at least one mobile member arranged to act on the loop formed by the joined threads with a predetermined traction force at an intermediate point between the points a...

The invention relates to a soft tissue filter arrangement in X-ray imaging of a patient's skull by means of a chefalostat, wherein a patient (P) is by means of ear plugs (5) or the like supports preferably fixed relative to imaging coordinates as well as by means of a nasion and/or forehead support (6) set in a determined position and location between an X-ray source (1) and a film (4) or the like...

A stable structure comprises two or more layers of fibre wadding. A reinforcement is placed between at least two of the layers and they are fixed together with the reinforcement at least partially enclosed between them. - The layers of fibre wadding include some thermoplastic fibres or a component in a bicomponent fibre which has a lower melting point than the remaining fibres. In an initial formi...

A composite tip-off type cap, and closure sealing means, operatively connected to a container for closure thereof and sealing of the contents therein. The composite cap includes a narrow elongated exterior top portion, a peripherally enlarged open bottom skirt at the bottom thereof, and a container access opening closure seal means, operatively disposed within the skirt and operatively integrated ...

PURPOSE:To prevent the surreptious use of a proper code number by a third person, by carrying out the writing and reading out in and out of a storage element by means of the same modulating and demodulating codes. CONSTITUTION:An input data 1 comprising a proper registrated code number and a check word and an output signal of a modulating code generator 4 which generates a modulating code correspo...

A tire building apparatus is provided having an improved mechanism for turning up the plies of the tire carcass and wrapping them around each tire bead ring. The mechanism is designed so that it can also be used to apply the sidewall pads to the expanded carcass of a radial tire. The improved mechanism includes a bladder that has a molded conical portion in its outer fold adjacent the building dru...

1. An orthopedic apparatus for straightening a vertebral column comprising : - a pelvian belt (3) for surrounding the body of the patient, said belt comprising a posterior raised portion forming a back (7) and two anterior ends (4) spaced from one another so as to provide a central opening (5) therebetween ; - a rigid abdominal plate (8) with rounded angles and the lower end of which is secured un...

The present invention relates to the technical field of accessories for beds, divans and the like and, in particular to a dismountable universal mattress. The technical problem to be solved is to produce a mattress which is at the same time simple, comfortable and adaptable to the most varied requirements and is also fully washable and disinfectable. The problem is solved by means of a mattress wh...