A belt, band or other tire component folding machine and method are characterized by a rotatable and expandable drum (46) comprising a substantially rigid cylinder deck (56) having a precisely formed peripheral deck edge (174) and an inflatable bladder assembly (60) positioned slightly axially and radially inwardly subjacent the deck edge which cooperate to define a precise fold line along the dec...

The present invention relates to compositions for making sealing walls, dump linings and the like, especially barriers placed in the ground. The compositions contain expandable clay minerals, cement and fillers in aqueous suspension, as well as additives of alkali metal aluminates and alkoxy alkylsilanes. On the basis of these additives, the sealing action against water and pollutants is substanti...

A valve for the simultaneous delivery of two liquid substances under pressure in separate concentric containers (17, 18) has a cylindrical valve housing (1) which is sealed at one end by an outer annular seal (2) through which a manually operated opening and delivery shaft (4) can be moved, counter to the force of a spring (3) which restores it to the closed position, as required and in a manner w...

Method and apparatus for production of a combustible product gas from particulate coal in a fluidized bed system. A vertically positioned vessel includes an enlarged upper section and a smaller diameter cylindrical lower separator section, of diameter d, bounded at the bottom by a perforated or porous conical distribution plate (20) inclined at 7 DEG to 15 DEG with respect to horizontal; (the pl...

PURPOSE:To simplify substantially the execution of producing a cryostat by mounting a metal roof on the upper portion of a plurality of planer concrete side plates provided on the inner peripheral surface with heat insulating materials and membranes and fastening both side plate and metal roof by a prestressed steel wire. CONSTITUTION:After compression resisting adiabatic materials 6 are incorpora...

PURPOSE:To simplify substantially the execution of a cryostat by mounting a roof on the upper portion of a plurality of concrete side plates provided on the inner peripheral surface with heat insulating materials and membranes and fastening the adjacent side plates to each other with a prestressed steel wire to form a tank barrel. CONSTITUTION:After compression resisting heat insulating materials ...

PURPOSE:To prevent the fire grate body from overheating and increase the stability of burning by providing a blow-by portion on a fire grate. CONSTITUTION:A reverse flow burning type hot blast generating furnace is composed of a burning chamber 4 and a burning chamber 5 located respectively at the upper and lower side of the fire grate 3. A blow-by part 7 having a space B larger than a space A of ...

PURPOSE:To prevent the leak of waste ink when drawing a cartridge by a method in which a plastic thin film enclosed bag into which waste ink is to be housed is provided, an air-permeable filter is provided to a part of the bag, and the bag is housed in the cartridge. CONSTITUTION:When waste ink is discarded through a tube 6' into a bag 8 from the tip of a needle 7 by action of a pump, the bag 8 is...

In a multiprocessor system, a controllable cache store interface to a shared disk memory employs a plurality of storage partitions whose access is interleaved in a time domain multiplexed manner on a common bus with the shared disk to enable high speed sharing of the disk storage by all of the processors. The communication between each processor and its corresponding cache memory partition can be ...

A fusion-bondable sheet is provided which is used as an overtape for covering a joint portion of a heat-shrinkable cover sheet applied onto a joint of steel pipe or cable and which is also used as a cover sheet for repairing a damaged protecting cover of a steel pipe. The fusion-bondable sheet comprises (a) a crosslinked polyolefin sheet, (b) a fusion-bondable layer formed on one surface of the cr...

PURPOSE:To produce continuously and simultaneously a plurality of tubular bodies hardly tearable and high in impact strength, by using a heating body that is rotated synchronously with the traveling speed of films to fuse, cut and weld two films, which are put one over the other, at positions with arbitrary spaces between them. CONSTITUTION:Two polyethylene type films put one over the other (or a ...

PURPOSE:To produce simultaneously a plurality of tubes that can be hardly torn at the welded sections and is high in impact strength, by slitting two films, which are put one over the other, at arbitrarily spaced positions, and bringing a heating body near to the edtes of the slit to weld the edges. CONSTITUTION:Two polyethylene films that are put together one over the other (or a folded tube) are...

PURPOSE:To produce high-strength tubes by a method wherein two films put together are fused, cut and welded at arbitrarily spaced positions to produce a plurality of tubes continuously, the method being characterised in that the fused and cut sections are preheated, and the welded sections are cooled with the welded sections free from contact pressure. CONSTITUTION:After two polyethylene type film...

An absorbent body is provided for absorbing body fluids. The body is generally planar and elongated and is surrounded by a peripheral edge. A portion of the edge is densified so that fluid striking the absorbent body at a point in proximity to the densfied peripheral edge will be transported rapidly away from said point.

An absorbent body is provided for absorbing body fluids. The body is generally planar and elongated and is surrounded by a peripheral edge. A portion of the edge is densified so that fluid striking the absorbent body at a point in proximity to the densfied peripheral edge will be transported rapidly away from said point.

The device comprises a disc interposed between a first station, supplied with articles by means of a first conveyor, and a second station, positioned downstream of the first station, in the region of the initial part of a second conveyor. To one side of the said disc are articuled a plurality of transfer means angularly equidistant with respect to one another, each of which provided with a square ...

PURPOSE:To prevent bubbles from being generated in a method wherein a bottom body upper surface in the shape of a plate is fitted onto the undersurface of a cylindrical drum main body with a step between them, and they are subjected to ultrasonic welding, by providing a clearance between the fitting sections. CONSTITUTION:The undersurface of a cylindrical drum main body 1 of a transparent acylic r...

PURPOSE:To decrease the number of masks to be prepared and to reduce cost by using a mask having apertures of the pattern including all the elements of plural kinds of marking patterns and using the same by shielding the apertures unnecessary for the marking pattern. CONSTITUTION:Light shielding plates 7 shield a part of apertures 4 of a mask 3a and are provided by as much as the number of the ape...

PURPOSE:To diagnose cutting abnormality in conformity with the actual situation, by comparing a level of load during cutting operation with the reference value and outputting a diagnostic signal of cutting abnormality when the occupying proportion of a time integrating cutting abnormality in a certain length of time exceeds a fixed value. CONSTITUTION:An abnormality detecting device 13 inputs load...

PURPOSE:To form a diagnostic device of cutting abnormality with excellent observational accuracy, by discriminating abnormality during cutting operation by the variable method through an abnormality discriminating method selector in accordance with the kind of a tool and the quality of a material to be cut. CONSTITUTION:Load data during cutting operation of a work aiming at observation and referen...