A method for the gaseous reduction of particulate ores to metals in a moving bed, vertical shaft reactor using a reducing gas externally supplied from a solid or liquid fossil fuel gasification unit. The reducing gas is reformed in a reforming zone located within the reactor and treated prior to injection into the reduction zone of the reactor. A portion of the reducing gas produced in a coal gasi...

PURPOSE:To prevent occurrence of impact at the time of engine start without lowering the torque by providing a torque inversion detecting means for detecting the torque of a frictional element and starting the engine when the torque is under zero while disabling the frictional element. CONSTITUTION:A transmission 15 will block the reverse rotation of an output shaft 12 by the action of a frictiona...

Methods and compositions are provided for preparing polyhydroxylated polyiodo non-ionic contrast media. Particularly, substituted polyiodobenzamides are prepared, wherein the benzamide nitrogen is polyhydroxylated by allylic substitution on the nitrogen and oxidation of the olefinic group to provide for polyhydroxyl substitution. Amino substituents on the benzamide may be polyhydroxylated by allyl...

The incidence of peritonitis is reduced in continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis by irradiating the peritoneum access tube connection with ultraviolet (UV) radiation so as to have an antimicrobial effect on the fluid flow path defined thereby prior to draining and infusion of dialysis fluid therethrough. The apparatus for effecting UV irradiation of the dialysis fluid flow path includes a hous...

Apparatus for withdrawing a thread from a spinning station comprises at least two withdrawing rollers, which are preceded by a reciprocating thread guide and are succeeded by a winding device, which comprises a traversing device. In order to ensure that a reciprocating motion will be imparted to the thread guide, the latter is provided on one arm of a double-armed lever, which is freely rotatably ...

A tire manufacturing process of the type which employs a reusable rubber or the like curing bag or bladder. The process includes deflating, between curing cycles of the tire manufacturing process, the curing bag or bladder; preventing oxygen bearing medium entering the curing bag or bladder; and supplying a non-reactive medium upstream of the curing bag or bladder to maintain the bag or bladder in...

A grinding mill containing a plurality of milling sections and composed of: a single cylindrical stator common to all milling sections; a rotor mounted in the stator for rotation about the longitudinal axis of the stator and having a plurality of milling plates spaced apart along the longitudinal axis and each disposed in a respective milling section; and a blower facility fastened to the rotor fo...

This hydraulic pressure transmission control device is for a vehicle with a transmission system which has, in series in the specified order in the rotational force transmission path, a first transmission mechanism which can be set to any one of several speed stages according to selective supply of hydraulic fluid pressures, and a second transmission mechanism which similarly can be set to any one ...

The invention relates to a collecting container for roving tubes on spinning and twisting machines, having a pivotably mounted bottom flap. The object on which it is based is to reduce the outlay and the space requirement and to lower the proportion of manual activity. This object is achieved in that the collecting container (1) for roving tubes is movable along the machine, a spring (3) is connec...

An apparatus and method for the comminution of plant matter, particularly of moist plant matter, for the production of corn cob mix, for example, provides that a rotor is rotationally mounted in a housing and provided with a drive, the rotor carrying movable blades and the housing carrying stationary blades so that there is a mutual interaction of the blades for comminution. The moving blades are ...

A textile yarn creel having a circular supporting framework and plural yarn package supporting members mounted removably and circumferentially slidably thereabout and axially thereof, the supporting members having plural radially inwardly extending pins for mounting of yarn packages thereon for radially inward yarn withdrawal. Guide eyelet members are mounted in a circular arrangement on the circu...

Binding assembly for a cross country ski boot, having a safety device comprising a hooking arrangement in which the forward end of the boot is retained, and lateral retaining, complementary engaging portions on the ski and in the sole of the boot. The hooking and lateral retaining devices are rigidly affixed to each other without intervening gap, and are releasable at least laterally about at leas...

An improved tire supplying apparatus of the type including a self-propelled type green tire carrying wagon (D) for carrying a green tire (E) to be vulcanized, a green tire unloading means (H) mounted on said green tire carrying wagon (D) and a green tire receiving stand (B) disposed at the predetermined position located in front of a vulcanizing press (A) or a green tire loading means (F) mounted ...

The invention relates to a colour-measuring arrangement having a plurality of optoelectronic transducers and upstream colour filters for obtaining electrical signals corresponding to colour contents in a light to be investigated. In order to be able to construct such a colour-measuring arrangement relatively simply, each optoelectronic transducer consists of a fluorescence plate (1, 2, 3) having a...