An audible warning device is integrated within an electrical connector in the form of a mains plug or mains adaptor to produce an audible warning in the absence of the mains supply. The plug or adaptor may incorporate further circuits for producing distinctive warnings should the power supply be subsequently reconnected, and also should the voltage of an internal battery powering the device drop b...

Process for the purification of water using activated sludge in the presence of a mixed culture of nitrifying bacteria and of denitrifying bacteria. According to the process, aeration is limited so as to have a maximum dissolved oxygen content of 1.5 ppm and normally aerated zones and zones at the limit of anaerobiosis are alternated a number of times. According to a preferred method, the operatio...

In order to reduce the noise level in pipe transporting installations, a pipe transporting apparatus is proposed for buffer tables, in which apparatus the pipe (30) and/or the group of pipes (20) is moved, in the case of the tables (10) with a horizontal supporting surface (18), by a drivable slide (32) across the table into its storage position, and in which apparatus a braking catch which can be...

1. A slide-in stowage member for fastening containers, in particular onto ships, having a slab-shaped base (2) which is welded to the hull of the ship and which has two first wedge guide faces (5) for sliding in a stowage-piece (1) which is provided with two correspondingly shaped second wedge guide faces (15) and in the completely slid-in state rests against a rear wall (7) of the base (2), chara...

A method for restoration and re-utilization of discharged gas for use in a vulcanization employing inert gas in part of the vulcanization of elastomer products, which includes the steps of restoring a mixture of used inert gas discharged from a vulcanizing unit and vulcanizing medium for steam separation thereof, subjecting the elastomer product mounted in a metal mold to a preshaping by supplying...

In apparatus for producing corrugated thermoplastic tubing and which comprises a pair of complementary upper and lower mold assemblies each having an endless array of articulately interconnected mold blocks which are driven along a forward run and back along a return run, the mold blocks co-operatively interengaging in pairs along said forward run to form an axially extending tubular mold tunnel, ...

A means for releasable connection between a line and the free end of a bar or rod or pin shaped element (4), e.g. the leg of a fish hook, which means comprises a sleeve shaped element (1) adapted to be attached to the line and to axially receive the free end of the bar or rod or pin shaped element (4) under cooporation between the said free end and a substantially U-shaped leaf spring (9) disposed...

PURPOSE:To attain a function test only between bus modules connected to a common bus even with no connection of a microprocessor, by providing a switching circuit for interruption signal to a bus slave. CONSTITUTION:A bus slave S22 contains a switching circuit consisting of a test mode FF221 (TEST), an AND circuit 222, a NOT input AND circuit 223, etc. This switching circuit performs switching bet...

Washing and disintegrating means serve to wash and disintegrate the waste material and to continuously deliver the resulting washed and disintegrated material. A first conveyor serves to receive said washed and disintegrated material from said washing and disintegrating means and to remove water from said washing and disintegrating means and to remove water from said material. A dirt separator ser...

Two-unit architecture for a microprocessor having one unit to execute program instructions and another unit to fetch the instructions in their proper sequence, being arranged to permit the overlap of fetch and execute cycles to increase program execution speed. Each unit includes a register array for storing operands or addresses, each array having two independent read ports and two independent wr...

A pill dispenser mechanism is provided in which a multilayered compartment is releasably attachable to a receptacle for pills in such a way that pills may be selectively advanced into one compartment, then by selective advancement of one of the compartment layers transfer the pill from the first compartment into a discharge compartment to permit sequential recovery of pills therefrom. In order to ...

A device for homogenization and thermal treatment of liquids, and particularly of liquid mixtures for the ice cream industry, comprising a container, a centrifugal pump communicating with the bottom of said container so as to continuously suck the liquid from said container and to pump it back into said container, and heating and cooling means in said pump in heat exchange relationship with the li...

Novel derivatives of pyrimid-2-one having interesting pharmacological properties are described. The compounds of the invention have been found to be of use in the control of, and in particular in the inhibition of the metaphase of malignant tumours and leukaemias. Processes for the preparation of the novel compounds and pharmaceutical compositions containing them are also described.

PURPOSE:To fit both parts reasonably and automatically by chamfer-machining the tip of a convex part and the tip of the coupling hole of a concave part and positioning both parts while swaying them lightly. CONSTITUTION:Taper-like chamfers 2a, 3a are formed on the tip of a part 2 and the hole opening section of a cap 4, and the part 2 is fitted on a base 1 and is set on a positioning holder 5. The...

PURPOSE:To provide robbot which includes movable working arm having desired tool at free end to perform high output press of drilling operation, and has electromagnet on lower surface of the arm to limit rebounding of the arm and to prevent decreasing of working accuracy.

A method for producing mildiomycin in a commercial quantity and at low cost by cultivating a mildiomycin-producing microorganism belonging to Actinomycetes in a culture medium containing an N-methyl compound in an amount of at least 3 mM to have mildiomycin elaborated and accumulated in the culture broth.

In a memory device which has a plurality of recirculating type storage loops and in which information of the same addresses of the respective storage loops can be read and written in parallel, a memory device wherein information representing whether or not the corresponding storage loop is a bad or defective loop is written in a specified address of each of the storage loops.

A dual shell rotational blending apparatus which is formed by two hollow cylindrical leg sections joined at one end to form a closed apex portion. One cylindrical leg section has a mean length greater than the other leg section such that as the unit is rotated and the apex portion reaches the uppermost position, the contents therein separate in unequal portions. The separation of the contents in u...