PURPOSE:To automatically wind a belt shaped article round a roll by floating the free end of said article by jetting a fluid between a belt and said article and by closely contacting said free end with the outer periphery of a wind-up roll while guiding it onto said periphery in the early winding stage of an article to be wound, i.e., the belt shaped article. CONSTITUTION:A brush roll forming a me...

An electromagnetically operated fuel injector includes a disk-type armature and a ball-type valve joined to the armature. The response characteristics and speed of the injector's ball valve are improved by modifying the surface structure of the valve ball to reduce its mass. Preferably a plurality of plunge-ground "flats" are formed on the surface of the ball.

In an exemplary embodiment, several sources of radiation, arranged with their focuses angularly offset by angles of equal size, having a radiation measuring arrangement with a number of radiation receivers equal to the number of radiation sources for determining the radiation intensity behind the object, having a drive device which drives a rotating frame for producing rotational movements of the ...

Circuitry is provided for distorting an audio signal, useful in providing a "dirty" sound to an electric guitar simulating a vacuum tube amplification thereof. The circuit includes components for simultaneously changing the amount of distortion introduced by a clipping circuit and the amount of gain boost provided at a preselected narrow bandwidth. Addition of such gain boost leads both to increas...

1525427 Moulding tyres GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER CO 7 Oct 1976 [20 Oct 1975] 41697/76 Heading B5A A tyre 10 with a white strip 25 between circumferential ribs 14, 16 is moulded after applying an uncured white strip circumferentially about the unshaped uncured sidewall of an uncured tyre; the strip and sidewall are shaped in a mould to the form shown in Fig. 4 in which margins 52, 54 of the strip part...

Compositions having rodenticidal activity are disclosed which are constituted by a solution of a compound having anti-coagulant activity and which is an indane dione or a 4-hydroxycoumarin, preferably chlorophacinone, diphacinone, bromadiolone or coumachlor, in a glycol in admixture with a volatile co-solvent, preferably acetone or dichloromethane, which increases the solvent activity of the glyco...

PURPOSE:To perform an automatic sweep securely in safety even in a muddy rice field, etc., by changing swiveling positions and performing the sweep when swiveling is not completed within a certain time after the starting of the swiveling after the 1st backward movement. CONSTITUTION:A harvesting machine having started sweeping operation swivels to left while moving backward and if a sensor s6 does...

PURPOSE:To stabilize the operation of the monitoring circuit, by counting the number of times of the operation of the program monitoring timer of a monitoring circuit for programs, and stopping a system according to the counted value of the number of times of operation. CONSTITUTION:When a power source is turned on, a program monitoring timer 1 and a counter 3 are cleared and then triggering is pe...

A circuit arrangement incorporates a microprocessor for controlling, e.g. a vending machine. Outputs (5, 11, 15) of the microprocessor (2) are connected to intermediate circuits (6, 12, 16) each associated with consumer devices controlled via their respective outputs (7, 13, 17). A fault protective circuit is connected to an output (19) of the microprocessor (2) so that, in the event of a fault in...

Apparatus is provided for detecting ferrous contamination in a fluid such as engine transmission lubricant. The apparatus has two spaced apart electrodes, a magnetic flux extending between the electrodes the lines of force of which are substantially rectilinear, the electrodes being connectable to a circuit for signalling when an electrically conductive path is formed from one electrode to the oth...

A method of manufacturing a tire bead ring of the package type by winding metal wires on a form of revolution, the radially inner face of the tire bead ring having a frusto-conical shape of half angle alpha at the apex and of radius R with respect to the axis of rotation of the tire bead ring, in which a permanent circular deformation is effected on the wires prior to their winding on the form of...

A process for the manufacture of cellular polyurethane products comprises castings polyurethane solution in a mould, the material of the mould having a releasable solvent which migrates to displace the polyurethane solvent and cause precipitation of the polyurethane in a cellular form. The releasable solvent is miscible with the polyurethane solvent but a non-solvent for polyurethane. Use: in the ...

A fibre optics head (10) comprises a light-emitting fibre (12) and light-collecting fibres (14) having transparent cores (15), and light- trapping means (28, 31) between them. The thickness of the light- trapping means (28, 31) is predeterminedly constructed at the ends of the fibres (12, 14) so that at least 50% of the specular reflection coming from the light ingress surface (27) of the indicato...

The herbicide phenmedipham is prepared from meta-aminophenol by reaction with phosgene in an alkyl alkanoate solvent to make meta-hydroxyphenylcarbamic acid chloride, followed by reaction of the chloride with methanol and then reaction of the obtained methyl meta-hydroxyphenylcarbamate with meta-tolyl isocyanate, to obtain the required methyl 3-m- toylcarbamoyloxyphenyl-carbonate.

Bore hole instrument and methods of manufacturing and using the same. The instrument includes an elongated flexible probe which is inserted into a bore hole and can travel freely around bends of relatively short radius in the hole. The probe includes a plurality of sensors, explosive charges or the like which are spaced apart and embedded in a flexible body comprising a mass of cushioning material...

Silica plastic compositions containing a silicate filler finely dispersed therein are produced by simultaneously adding a mixture of an aqueous solution of an alkali silicate and a coagulable latex emulsion of a plastic polymeric material and a solution of at least one salt of hydrochloric or sulfuric acids and a metal selected from the group consisting of zinc, magnesium, calcium, and maintaining...

A blend suitable for preparing low density cellular products comprises (1) a vinyl chloride resin, e.g., polyvinyl chloride; (2) a rubber, e.g., butadiene- acrylonitrile; and (3) a polymerisable monomer, e.g., styrene. Insulation products such as sheets or tubes (for pipe insulation) are easily fabricated by freely expanding (i.e., without employing forming molds) blends of the invention which con...

A long shelf life cementitious anchoring capsule having a separate compartment with interactive base and catalyst components. The base component comprises cement and water, and the catalyst component comprises a catalyst and water. The base component also includes cement particles coated with a water insoluble coating and an additive to complex any calcium ion released from the cement into solutio...

A ratio controlling mechanism for a continuously variable transmission consisting of an input pulley combined with a hydraulic servomechanism for varying the effective diameter thereof, an output pulley combined with a hydraulic servomechanism for varying the effective diameter thereof and a V- belt extended between said output pulley and said input pulley, comprising an electronically- controlled...

A method of preventing buckling of a drill string during drilling of a well in the earth comprises the steps of: (a) measuring the forces on, and the azimuth and inclination of, a segment of the drill string; (b) resolving said forces into the axial and normal compounds applied to the next shallower segment, said axial and normal components being related to measured azimuth and inclination of sa...