PURPOSE:To simplify a production line by pushing out a counter plate synchronously with a separator-covered plate for stacking a plate group. CONSTITUTION:Counter plate sending-out equipment 6 detects the passing of a separator-covered plate 1 and synchronously places a counter plate 2 on the separator-covered plate 1 on a claw conveyer. By installing this plate automatic stacking equipment just i...

A removable pillow top for use as the top member of a bed protects the inner spring bed mattress. The pillow top has a cover, a support member, and a cushion. The cover has top and bottom walls and side walls coupled together to form an interior space for receiving the support member and the cushion. The support member is made of foam and has a bottom wall and side walls forming a shallow cavity f...

PCT No. PCT/JP86/00567 Sec. 371 Date Nov. 30, 1987 Sec. 102(e) Date Nov. 30, 1987 PCT Filed Nov. 7, 1986 PCT Pub. No. WO88/03674 PCT Pub. Date May 19, 1988.When a vehicle is caused to move under guidance in a working area including a target passage immovable area where a high guiding accuracy is required and a target passage variable area where changing of a moving passage is required, the vehicle...

The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for the on-line measurement of fiber orientation in a translucent sheet. To measure the fiber orientation, coherent light is directed onto one surface of the sheet in a pattern of sufficient intensity to produce a second pattern on the other surface of the sheet. The shape of the second pattern is determined, at least in part, by the orientati...

The system includes a first computer for communicating with automatic guided vehicles on a guided vehicle loop and storing information related to vehicle position. A second computer determines vehicle destinations. The first computer and the second computer maintain separate databases. Information in the data of the first computer relating to vehicle position is copied into the database of the sec...

A watchdog timer works in concert with special computer program features to monitor program execution and reset the computer in case of malfunction. The computer CPU is programmed to periodically output one of an alternating pair of values to a register which holds the value for a comparator. The output value is compared to a predetermined value equal to one of the alternating output value. When t...

PURPOSE: To easily lock a surgical staple retainer by using lock means comprising a toggle joint. CONSTITUTION: A means 114 for releasably locking both main members 102, 104 together with jaws 106, 108 at a working position is provided while slender pusher bar 140 serviceable as staple drive actuator means envelops laterally projecting pin 142 which is slidably accepted in a slot of first main mem...

PURPOSE: To lessen the production cost of a service valve and simplify the service valve production process by providing a bottle cap member with a flat upper face having a push-breakable film-furnished first upward protrusion, and a filter-fixed bottom face with an aperture extending up to the upper face. CONSTITUTION: Bottle cap member 10 of a nourisher set assembly relates to a part of intestin...

TITLE IMPROVED TWO-LAYER PROCESS FOR APPLYING ANTISTATIC COMPOSITIONS TO POLYESTER SUPPORTS An improved antistatic coating for a polyester support bearing a photographic layer is applied in two coatings using conventional coating equipment. The first coating contains an electrically conductive polymer and optionally a binding agent; the second coating contains a crosslinking agent.

A core drilling tool for drilling rock in underground soil formations which includes an outside pipe and an inside pipe therein that can be conveyed separately to the surface. The inside pipe includes a core-receiving receptacle at its lower end, and at its upper end is provided with a measurement unit for on-site acquisition, processing and storage of data, such as borehole, core and/or drilling ...

Aqueous effluent solutions containing metal cations may be treated with an extractant comprising an organophosphinic acid, a di-2-ethylhexyl phosphoric acid and/or an aliphatic amine or a salt of any of these to selectively separate metal cations, for example chromium, nickel, cobalt, copper and lead cations from the aqueous solution. Typical extraction techniques include liquid-liquid extraction ...

The physical and mechanical properties of closed cell phenolic foam are improved by incorporating into certain foamable phenolic resole compositions small quantities of alkyl glucosides, particularly methyl glucosides. The alkyl glucosides also improve the process for preparing the closed cell phenolic foam.

The invention comprises a blowing agent composition useful in the production of insulating styrenic foams comprising ethylchoride, propane and a halogenated ethane selected from the group consisting of 1,1,1-trifluoro-2-fluoroethane, 1-chloro-1,1-difluoro-2,2,2-trifluoroethane,and 1-chloro-1,1-difluoroethane The invention further comprises a method to produce dimensionally stable insulating styren...

Functionalized polymer microparticles having particle diameters of from about 200 to about 4000 ANGSTROM are prepared and are useful in facilitating a variety of flocculation and thickening of dispersions of suspended solids applications.

A novel latex is derived from a crosslinked carboxylate latex containing from 1-20 phr of itaconic acid (IA) and at least 70 phr of one or more copolymerizable monomers one of which is an acrylate having the structure (I) wherein R1 is hydrogen or methyl; R2 represents C1-C20 alkyl, C2-C7 alkoxyalkyl, C2-C7 alkylthioalkyl, or C2-C7 cyanoalkyl; and at least 40 phr of said acrylate in s...

In humid atmospheres (e.g., 40% relative humidity or above) solutions of 2,2-bis(3,4-dicarboxyphenyl)hexafluoropropane dianhydride/2,2-bis[4-(aminophenoxy)phenyl]hexafluoropropane polyimides tend to be unstable in the sense that during spin coating operations undesirable precipitate formation occurs on the rotating surface of the water. The result is the formation of unacceptable coatings due to t...

A transmitter 1 comprises an impeller assembly 7 rotatable by a liquid flow, and an electrical generator 8 having a stator and a rotor arranged to be driven by the impeller assembly 7. The impeller assembly 7 comprises a main impeller portion 9 and a secondary impeller portion 10 angularly displaceable relative to one another about the axis of rotation of the impeller assembly 7 in response to a c...

PURPOSE:To make superconductors applicable to a superconductive magnet or the like so as to enhance a critical current density even in a high magnetic field by alternately laminating the superconductors and normal conductors on a substrate. CONSTITUTION:Superconductors S and normal conductors N are alternately laminated on a substrate 13. An external magnetic field B is applied in parallel to a no...

PURPOSE:To prevent deterioration taking place at the time of heat treatment while heightening the critical current density by heating and holding a core material at a temperature higher than the evaporation temperature of a core material followed by switching to an oxygen atmosphere for having its temperature raised up to the baking temperature of a superconductive material to be held for a prescr...