PURPOSE:To prevent any stress strain caused by machine work, and increase the corrosion resistance of a lead storage battery by forming an electrode plate from an active material layer, and a plate-like current collecting body which is made of lead or a lead alloy and is made in close contact with one surface of the said active material layer. CONSTITUTION:The symbol 1 represents a plate-like curr...

PURPOSE:To prevent any internal short circuit or plate deformation caused due to the expansion of a positive active material layer, which develops when charge and discharge are repeatedly carried out, by burying a resin network into the positive active material layer. CONSTITUTION:In the figure, the symbol 1 represents a plate-like current collecting body which is used for an anode and made of a P...

PURPOSE:To eliminate the application of a vacuum pump by introducing a pressure at the lower side of a suction air throttle valve into a brake booster. CONSTITUTION:Both flow lines extending from a negative pressure take-out port 9 which opens to a suction pipe 1 at the lower side from a suction air throttle valve 2 and from a vacuum pump 10 via check valves 11 and 12, respectively, meet before ru...

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...

An arrangement is provided for scattering electrons in an electron accelerator capable of variable acceleration energies. The arrangement has two scattering foils arranged at a mutual spacing from one another along a direction of an electron beam. A first scattering foil in the beam direction has a constant thickness whereas a second scattering foil has a thickness which decreases from its cente...

An exemplary embodiment comprises a support pivotal about a shaft which, on one side of the shaft, is provided with an x-ray tube, and on the other side, is provided with an arrangement for the adjustment of an image recording carrier along the support. In order to produce an x-ray examination apparatus in which, in the case of a tomography examination, the central x-ray always strikes the film ce...

Dough strands pass to a knife shaft with offset longitudinal knives adapted to the shape of the grooves feeding the strands, together with wipers to remove the cut strands and a cam control to lift the frame and knock the cut dough off. The cutting edges of a knife set are held variably spaced from the grooved drum passing the dough in and lie in a plane between the prepared-for-cutting and the cu...

Products which are phosphorus containing oligomers having ¦¦ -O-C-C-O- ¦¦ linkages between phosphorus atoms and which are obtained by the self-condensation of beta -haloalkyl esters of pentavalent phosphorus acids or by condensation of these esters with an alkyl ester of a pentavalent phosphorus acid are treated after residual acidity has been neutralized with an alkylene oxide for a period of ...

Products which are phosphorus containing oligomers having ¦¦ -O-C-C-O- ¦¦ linkages between phosphorus atoms and which are obtained by the self-condensation of beta -haloalkyl esters of pentavalent phosphorus acids or by condensation of these esters with an alkyl ester of a pentavalent phosphorus acid are treated with an alcohol having the formula ROH wherein R is a C1-C20 alkyl group or a substi...

A sole-support mechanism having a stepping plate for the heel of a ski boot which is urged by a spring-loaded ski binding part, in particular by a heel holder, toward a front jaw which forms a ski-fixed support in longitudinal direction of the ski, and is supported on a guide plate, which plate is movable in longitudinal direction of the ski through the force of at least one thrust spring over a h...

Tire building apparatus for building complete uncured tires includes a triad of orthogonally oriented tire building drums mounted on a turret rotatable about an axis inclined at an angle of between 35 and 36 degrees with respect to a horizontal plane. Each of the drums occupies successively two tire fabricating stations wherein the respective drums are oriented horizontally and a third station whe...

A safety ski binding has a housing (11) which can be attached to the ski and in the upper region of which a sole support (13) is attached to be pivotable about a transverse axis (12). The sole support (13) is held in the closed position by means of a slideway cam mechanism (14, 15) and can be brought into an open position against the force of a release spring apparatus (16). A manual opening lever...

Compounds of the formula wherein R<1> is aliphatic or alicyclic hydrocarbyl or optionally substituted phenyl; R<2> is hydrogen or aliphatic hydrocarbyl; R<3> is hydrogen, alkyl, cycloalkyl, optionally substituted phenyl or, with R<4>, R<4> is alkyl, cycloalkyl, optionally substituted phenyl, optionally substituted phenalkyl or, with R<3>, alkylene; or R<2>, R<3> and R<4>, together with t...

1462791 Television recording and playback MCA DISCO-VISION Inc 15 Feb 1974 [20 Feb 1973] 7021/74 Heading G5R A video recording made by a modulated laser beam is read by a second laser beam distinguished from the recording beam by having a different wavelength. As shown, a beam 40 from an argon ion laser 30 is modulated by video signals in a Pockels cell 32 and passes via a Glan prism 38 and a micr...

Disclosed is a process for producing fiber-reinforced elastic articles comprising: 1 to 20 parts by weight of 1,2-polybutadiene fibrils dispersed in a matrix of 100 parts by weight of a rubber material. In the process, the 1,2-polybutadiene in the form of particles are dispersed in the matrix of rubber material; the dispersion is extruded through a die at a temperature of at least 5 DEG C. above ...

A water resistant and thermally insulating silicate article is produced using a starting mixture having the oxidic composition: from 62 to 68% SiO2; from 1.5 to 5% Al2O3; from 5 to 10% B2O3; from 0.1 to 0.5% CaO+MgO and from 21 to 26% by weight Na2O, all percentages being expressed on a weight basis, and subjecting the mixture to baking at a temperature of 600 to 700 DEG C. The oxidic composition ...

In a free-wheeling vehicle drive system in which the free-wheeling function is cut in and cut out entirely in response to normal driving operation of acceleration and deceleration, at least the signal corresponding to engine acceleration, which may be provided by the accelerator pedal, is subjected to delay before it may set a flipflop establishing the free-wheeling function. The braking signal, w...

Thermally formed aliphatic polyamide surgical devices having an alpha crystallinity of at least 15% and a total crystallinity in excess of 25%, are obtained by heating them at 60 DEG C to 100 DEG C in an environment essentially saturated with moisture (preferably in hot water), to improve their strengths.

Removal of ambient oxygen from aqueous liquids is effectively catalyzed by enzymatic deoxygenation systems comprising alcohol oxidase in the presence of alcohol optionally with catalase. Suitable deoxygenation systems described can be used to alleviate corrosion and oxidative degradation in areas such as oil field fluids, circulating water systems, water storage tanks, alcoholic beverages and food...