This application describes a rotation-only CT scanner with beam deflections; the deflection and the rotation being so related as to permit the derivation of absorption data in groups focussed on respective "pivot points" outside the detector locus. Data derived from different detectors, but focussed on the same pivot point, relate to groups of paths, some of which overlap, and the overlap is used ...

An X-ray apparatus, comprising a weight compensation device which is suspended from the ceiling and which includes a carriage which is displaceable along the ceiling. A component is displaceable along a patient table is suspended from the carriage by means of a cable. A signal from a transducer is applied to an electric motor which drives the carriage compensate for the relative displacement betwe...

PURPOSE:To obtain the titled device for converting a closed-end bladder into an open-end bladder by hole-forming machining, by a method wherein a bladder is rotated by supporting it, a part to be machined of the bladder is pushed out to a cutting position, and the part is cut. CONSTITUTION:The closed-end bladder 5 is rotated by supporting it by a bladder-supporting device 2, and the part 50b to be...

PURPOSE:To make design of center def compact by making a center def composed of planetary gear groups of four-wheel-drive vehicle having lateral engine coaxial with the output shaft of transmission then driving front and rear wheels through center def. CONSTITUTION:Driving force of engine is inputted through a clutch 5 to the input shaft 6 of transmission 3 then speed changed properly and transmit...

PURPOSE:To increase freedom for selecting arrangement of front def by driving the center def of four-wheel-drive vehicle having lateral engine through a chain while off-set arranging the front def against the center def. CONSTITUTION:Driving force of engine is transmitted through a clutch 5 to the input shaft 6 of transmission 3 where it is speed changed properly and outputted through a drive spro...

A yarn splicing device for spun yarns to each other wherein end sections of two yarns are untwisted and placed in overlapping relationship one on the other and thus overlapping portions of the yarns are acted by fluid to intended splicing of the yarns. An untwisting nozzle of the yarn splicing device comprises a fluid injecting hole formed to open to an inner circumferential face of a nozzle pipe ...

A high capacity continuous solid bowl centrifuge is disclosed having longitudinal vanes which cooperate with helical flights to form longitudinal channels. The longitudinal vanes may be curved vanes or they may be planar vanes disposed either radially or at an acute angle relative to a radius from the longitudinal axis of the centrifuge. In operation, the solids/liquid mixture fed into the centrif...

New X-ray contrast agents are provided which are esters of diatrizoic acid having the structure wherein R is an alkyl group of 10 to 22 carbons or a group of the structure wherein R<1> is an alkyl group of 2 to 15 carbons. X-ray contrast medium containing the above X-ray contrast agent and a carrier therefor such as a liposome carrier.

A weighing system is disclosed which operates in conjunction with a scale that has a trigger mechanism for terminating the flow of material into the scale's bucket. This system automatically periodically revises a tare signal stored in a latch circuit for combination with a weight signal to produce a net weight signal. The tare signal provides a measure of the residue stuck in the scale bucket. In...

A rotary bit for oil and gas well drilling has cutting elements (1) set in a hard facing material (3) which in turn is supported by a sintered steel section (4) between the hard facing and the steel base (7) of the bit.

A recombination electric storage battery comprises a container 14 sealed by a lid 16 and containing two or more cells connected in series. Each cell is separated from the or each adjacent cell by a planar intercell partition constituted by the walls of two plastics bags 22 and contains a single positive electrode member 6 separated from a single negative electrode member 6 by separator material 10...

A method of manufacturing recombination electric storage cells includes assembling a plurality of cell packs comprising alternating positive and negative electrodes interleaved with compressible fibrous absorbent separator material. Each cell pack is placed in a respective open plastics bag and the cell packs are constrained to occupy a volume which is less than their natural volume. The cell pack...

A method of manufacturing a recombination electric storage cell includes pasting positive and negative electrodes with damp active electrode material and forming a cell pack of alternating positive and negative electrodes interleaved with separator material. The cell pack is inserted into a plastics bag while the active electrode material is still damp and the electrodes are then cured by subjecti...

A method of manufacturing a recombination electric storage cell comprises assembling a cell pack of alternating positive and negative electrodes 4 and 6 interleaved with separator material. The cell pack is inserted into a plastics bag, electrolyte is added to the cell pack, the plastics bag is surrounded by water in a water bath and an electric current is passed through the cell pack to form it. ...

A lead acid cell comprises a container 2 closed by a lid 10 and contains a single positive electrode member 4 separated from a single negative electrode member 6 by separator material. Each electrode member is of sheet form with n folds in it, with n=2 or more, thereby dividing each electrode member into n+1 electrodes which are arranged to be of alternating polarity. Each electrode member has n/2...

An electromagnetic actuating device is proposed which consists of an electromagnet (32) and a pressure tube (13) which can be used for various magnet types. The same pressure tube (13) can be used by modifying the terminating piece in which either a closure plug (22) or a pressure tube (41) is fitted for a switching magnet (11) or a magnet (40) having a movement sensor (47). A housing (10) or (44)...

The invention relates to a device for the reproducible production of graphs, having a cephalostat (1 to 11) for the production of a defined position of the head of a patient, and a spot-film device (18 to 22, 31). The spot-film device holds the X-ray emitter and a holding device (21) for a film plate such that the X-ray beam (23) of the X-ray emitter always impinges at right angles on the plane of...

The invention relates to a bobbin carriage 1, especially for the transport of full yarn bobbins 14 between textile machines. This bobbin carriage 1 has a number of approximately horizontally arranged bearing journals 3 which are movable by means of a pivoting device 7 out of the horizontal plane H into an oblique position S directed obliquely upwards.

A profile-embossed grid electrode for storage batteries provided with parallel linear grooves on both surface and comprising a perforated metal conductor grid and a matching latticed plastic structure comprising parallel meshes. The metal-plastic grid is filled with the active material and it is covered on both sides with a woven or non-woven fabric. The electrode is then embossed on both sides wi...