A combined thermal power station and a desalination plant for seawater in which the power station includes a gas turbine set, a waste heat boiler connected to the exhaust gas outlet of the gas turbine and a steam turbine. The waste heat boiler includes first and second sections arranged in cascade on the water side in the flow path of the turbine exhaust gases, the first section in the exhaust gas...

PURPOSE:To improve the safety of a vehicle as well as the fuel consumption by a method wherein the speed changing ratio and the slottle opening are controlled according to signals from an acceleration pedal sensor and a vehicle speed sensor. CONSTITUTION:An output from the acceleration pedal sensor 10 is inputted to a driving power pattern determinating instrument 14, and an output from the vehicl...

PURPOSE:To restrain the occurrence of short-circuiting due to falling down of active material by inserting glass mat-like separators in the form of U in the gap between the side face normal to the plate face of an electrode plates group and the inner wall of a battery jar. CONSTITUTION:An electrode plates group 4 is made up of a negative electrode plate 1 using an expanded metallic grid structure,...

In order to improve the sensitivity and the spectral resolution in measuring the luminescence of diverse sample materials, adapted optical imaging relationships at variable excitation output are provided for the different optical paths of the luminescence light emitted by the sample material. An excitation bundle of rays which can be stopped down and the central beam of the secondary beam which em...

Electrodes for lead accumulators, characterized by being prepared by admixing powdered lead for us as an active material in lead accumulators with at least one member selected from lead sulfate salts to obtain a mixture and then having the thus obtained mixture held uniformly on grids without need of previous kneading, aging and drying of the mixture, thereby to obtain electrodes.

Method of producing a knot-free thread connection by splicing, which includes mixing, alternately interlocking and anchoring individual fibers of the threads to be joined to each other in a first pre-splicing operation, and subsequently further and finally intertwining and anchoring the threads to each other in a separate finish-splicing operation, and an apparatus for carrying out the method.

A method for feeding a dosed mixture of splicing air and liquid into a splicing chamber of a compressed-air splicing device, including a valve movable from a receiving to an operating position upon receiving a splicing signal, the valve having a dosing chamber determining the quanity of splicing liquid by the volume thereof, and a mixing chamber, and an element containing a liquid supply, includes...

A knotting arrangement, especially for spool frames for warping and other textile machines in which the orbital knotting head is connected to a suction tube and has a freely movable clamping body, e.g. a ball, therein which, when air pressure is supplied to the suction tube can press the ball against a seat to hold the yarn end. The clamping body is not connected to any elements within the head an...

A process for the preparation of a dilatant or rheopectic hydrocarbon liquid having a viscosity of at least about 10 mPa.s, characterised by the following steps: (a) preparation of a first solution of an organic hydrocarbon liquid and a neutralised sulphonated polymer containing from about 4 to about 200 milliequivalents of sulphonyl groups per 100 g of polymer; (b) preparation of a second solut...

The reeling assembly is fitted to each textile machine for the preparation of the yarn (horizontal mule, vertical mule, apparatus for forming reels (bobbins), ring twisting machine). It comprises a stationary reeler 2 for holding the yarn hank 9, provided with an annular guide 5 along which the yarn "balloon" rotates, a small lappet (eyelet) 10 located at the top of the "balloon" and constituting ...

New antibiotics SF-1130-x1 substance and SF-1130-x2 substance are produced by cultivating a microorganism Streptomyces myxogenes SF-1130 now deposited under FERM-P. 676 and ATCC. 31305 in a liquid culture medium under aerobic conditions, and these antibiotics may be isolated from the fermentation broth and are useful as an activator for enhancing the host defense system in living animals. The acti...

A control system for a plurality of I/O apparatuses used for transferring data between a main memory and an I/O apparatus controlling device through a channel control device. If an error occurs in the data transfer, no response signal is sent to the I/O apparatus controlling device from the channel control device and the absence of the response signal is detected by time supervision in the supervi...

PURPOSE:To obtain coke aggregates capable of raising iron-melting temperature in refining in converter, for charging in converter, by blending strongly caking coal coke powder, steelmaking slag powder and organic binder followed by compression forming. CONSTITUTION:The objective coke aggregates can be obtained by blending (A) strongly caking coal coke powder containing water which has been so adju...

The locations of defects in flat glass (1) are detected during conveyance through a detection station where the glass is scanned by a radiation beam (11). The beam sweeps transversely across the path of the glass through a distance in excess of the glass width so that the beam sweeps through both side edges. Beam deflection occurs when the beam encounters a side edge boundary of the glass (1) and ...

A telephone has a card reader with a slot (2) into which a credit card (1) for operating the telephone can be inserted. The slot has a "lead-in" pocket (8) of roughly hemispherical shape to facilitate card insertion. The slot (2) can be closed by a slide (3) with a stud or knob (14) for manual operation, but once the card has been put in for a call the slide is locked by a stud (18) controlled by ...

A safety toe unit for a ski binding has two sole retaining jaws (11, 12) which can pivot laterally outwards in opposite directions. A respective projection (13, 14) of a pressure member (19) acts on each of the sole retaining jaws at the front between the pivot axes (15, 16) and shoe retaining rollers (17, 18). The pressure member (19) is arranged for displacement in the longitudinal direction of ...

Fuel briquets containing binding agents and additives are obtained by briquetting of approximately 80 to 99% by weight of an essentially solid fuel, approximately 0.1 to 19% by weight of a natural or synthetic binding agent and approximately 0.1 to 10% by weight, calculated on a dry basis, of a cationic resin obtained by reacting polyamines with halohydrin.