In order to achieve a mechanical retraction of piles in a sheet feeding apparatus with a lifting table, the lifting table can be lowered to the level of the floor and serves to take up, one at a time, a pile supporting surface loaded with a pile of sheets. Each of the pile supporting surfaces is in the form of a mobile carriage and there is a carriage retracting mechanism with a tugging device whi...

The invention relates to a process for the preparation of positive or negative active mass of lead accumulators by using the active mass separated from production-refuse plates and/or the active-mass wastes produced during production. According to the invention when positive active mass is prepared then positive active mass, while when the negative active-mass is prepared then negative active-mass...

PURPOSE:To precisely and rapidly position an X-ray camera device by providing a cam surface having a recessed surface and an inclined surface projecting from the recessed surface, and a rod which is pressed against the cam surface by an urging means, in a positioning means. CONSTITUTION:A positioning means 9 has a cam plate 19 incorporating a cam surface 11, and a rod 13 pressed by a spring member...

PURPOSE:To prevent a shock at the time of a start by suppressing the rise of the engine rotating speed when an accelerator is depressed while the tightening force of a friction element is reduced in a system reducing the tightening force of the friction element to decrease a creep when a vehicle is stopped in the running range. CONSTITUTION:An automatic transmission switches and controls an electr...

PURPOSE:To finely and precisely control the fuel injection quantity by coupling an automatic transmission torque transfer coupling device when the idle state of an engine is judged and the position of a shift lever is detected to be in the forward or reverse state. CONSTITUTION:The vehicle speed is detected by a means 1, the accelerator opening is detected by a means 2, and the idle state of an en...

PURPOSE:To solve the deficient acceleration during straight running and the insufficient brisk feeling during large-lateral acceleration turning by providing a lateral G sensor detecting the lateral acceleration, and changing the traction controller sensitivity in response to the lateral acceleration. CONSTITUTION:This device has a traction control means A which either brakes driving wheels or con...

PURPOSE:To piece a two ply yarn under a condition suitable for the properties of each single yarn thereof by independently adjusting the inner diameters and compressed air-jetting angles of the yarn end-untwisting pipe and twist- piecing nozzle of each air type piecing member for separately piecing each single yarn. CONSTITUTION:A two ply yarn is divided into two single yarns, which are conducted ...

A ski binding comprises two clamping pieces 5, which can be locked into the clamping position by means of a locking member and which are each placed in their respective side edge 2 of the toe-support iron 1,2, which clamping pieces are arranged to be pivoted into the clamping position essentially in a plane running transversely to the longitudinal direction of the binding and are arranged to clamp...

A device for detecting differences in color of a material to be inspected, which device comprises a first light source emitting light of a first color and a second light source emitting light of a second color, an optical system adapted to project portions of the light emitted both by the first and the second light source onto first and second spaced apart measuring regions respectively, each meas...

A camera (18) arranged in the axis of a bottle to be tested is used to take pictures in order to determine defects in the upper end face of the mouth lip (43). A circular, coaxial light-conducting body (30) which is surrounded by a light source (28) is arranged between the lip (43) and the camera (18). It has a central viewing opening (40) with the shape of a double conical frustum (40a, 40b). The...

A method and apparatus for detecting through-hole voids in a multi-layer printed circuit board. The through-hole is formed with an electrical conductor for interconnecting wiring patterns of upper layers and wiring patterns of lower layers of the printed wiring board and is illuminated with a beam having a wavelength falling within a specified wavelength band capable of exciting an luminescent bea...

PURPOSE:To easily and distinctly display a white color or a black colors as a ground color and plural colors by controlling a two-frequency driven TN liquid crystal by means of combining a 1st signal for vertically orienting the liquid crystal and a 2nd signal for returning it to twist orientation. CONSTITUTION:Light from a light source 5 passes a polarizing plate 4 and made incident on a color co...

PURPOSE:To prevent the degradation in image quality and contrast caused by the spacers on picture element parts by controlling the arrangement of the internal spacers by utilizing local electrification. CONSTITUTION:Glass substrates 1 are adhered with each other via the internal spacers 5, by which the liquid crystal display panel is formed. The spacers 5 are easily and surely arranged only in the...

PURPOSE:To easily form a liquid crystal device which is free from the flocculation of spacer particles and is uniform in intersubstrate spacing by dispersing and disposing the spacer particles injected and scattered from a nozzle onto a fixing plate to the surface of a substrate subjected to an orientation treatment. CONSTITUTION:The spacer particles 2 are injected and scattered from the nozzle 3 ...

Support structure for sofa beds, with pull-out, raisable auxiliary bed, which comprises an upper frame (6) carrying support means for a mattress and connected, by means of rods (9a,b) linked as a parallelogram, to two lower bars (10) transverse to the larger dimension of the frame, blocking means (25) being present for the raised position and balancing means for the weight of the frame, the sofa b...

PCT No. PCT/DK89/00121 Sec. 371 Date Aug. 9, 1990 Sec. 102(e) Date Aug. 9, 1990 PCT Filed May 12, 1989 PCT Pub. No. WO89/10699 PCT Pub. Date Nov. 16, 1989.An apparatus for shelling shellfish such as shrimps consists of a dosing chamber (3) and a heat treatment chamber (5) separated by a slide valve (11) and sealed by cylindrical membrane valves (7, 9). From a funnel (31) the shellfish fall down in...

A process for thermochemical beneficiation of carbonaceous solids including a fraction of particles of a size less than 1/4 inch across is provided. The process includes steps of providing a reactor vessel including therein a retaining structure operably positioned to separate a portion of carbonaceous solids from a wall of the reactor vessel, with a free standing liquids region therebetween. The ...

A port is described which will lock on to a standard hose and clamp nipple end, and accommodate more axial mis-match between the axis of the port and nipple than is normally experienced in the fabrication of piping to join between two devices. A releasing member which will release the male from the port can also be included. When two ports are used in a sleeve-like device 20 in FIG. 1, and release...