PURPOSE:To perform accurately and easily yarn tying work, by threading a yarn end parallel in the same direction through a yarn tying apparatus, sucking the yarn in the bottom in a guide with the operation of a suction nozzle, and operating a knotter. CONSTITUTION:Both ends 8 and 9 of a yarn 6 on the cop side and a yarn 7 on the cheese side are paralleled in the same direction, and threaded throug...

Plate blocks are clamped by pneumatically inflatable multilayer elements.

PURPOSE:To enhance the engine braking effect, by providing a decompression valve in a combustion chamber of a two-cycle engine and performing the intake and exhaust actions through said valve. CONSTITUTION:When a motorcycle is driven by driving the two-cycle engine and a front wheel braking operation lever is operated to the braking side to decrease the speed of the motorcycle, an outer end 16 of ...

PURPOSE:To obtain strong automatic engine brake at emergency, by changing transmission to low speed range automatically by applying strong brake, without changing shift lever.

PURPOSE:To prevent an exhaust gas economizer from vitriolic corrosion by providing a low pressure steam generator, a hot water generator and a condensate flow regulating control valve between the main steam separating drum and a water heater. CONSTITUTION:A low pressure steam generator 5 and a hot water generator 54 are provided on the piping system from the main steam separating drum 2 to a water...

PURPOSE:To increase effectively utilizable energy, by providing a propeller in front of a windmill to suck a large quantity of air and conduct it to the windmill. CONSTITUTION:A windmill system 11 comprises a propeller 13 and a propeller-type windmill 12. The windmill is mounted on a rotary shaft 14 and can rotate on a plane 15 perpendicular to the rotary shaft 14. The propeller 13 is rotatably pi...

PURPOSE:To enable NOx to be efficiently decreased to within a permissible range in accordance with an operating condition of the generating plant, by jointly using three methods of steam injection, water injection and catalyzer denitration in the waste heat recovering combined-cycle turbine. CONSTITUTION:A combustion gas which has completed the work in a gas turbine 4 is fed to an exhaust gas boil...

PURPOSE:To improve the fuel consumption of a car with the specification of an automatic transmission by permitting compulsory down-shift only when the conditions to permit compulsory down-shift for an automatic transmission are ready at a prescribed speed or more. CONSTITUTION:An idle switch 72 and a brake switch 73 are installed in the lock- up control circuit for an automatic transmission. The s...

PURPOSE:To permit low speed setting and improve fuel cost by allowing a fuel cut signal to disappear irrespectively of other conditions in case of a speed change to the lowest step of gear change gear, in a car with automatic transmission equipped with a fuel cutting device on an engine. CONSTITUTION:An idle switch 72 outputs the idle signal S1 at L level in accelerating pedal release and at H lev...

A method of generating electrochemical activity in positive plates of Plante cells is disclosed. An agent corrosive to the unformed pure lead positive plate is incorporated in the electrolyte and the cell charged, the corrosive agent being selected to be destroyed by the anodic conditions at the negative plate at the end of the charging cycle. Nitrate ions are preferred.

A holder for holding electrode sets during the manufacture of an electric battery includes a pair of spaced partition holders and a pair of spaced wedge holders. The wedges are coplanar with the partitions and are wider than the partitions. The partition holders and wedge holders are movable toward one another to close around sets of electrodes disposed therebetween. The wedges continue to travel ...

The present invention concerns a bipolar storage battery. The storage battery (10) consists of bipolar elements (12) in consecutive mutual contact, each element comprising a plate (13) of electrically conductive material which has been coated on one side with a positive active compound (14) and on the other side with a negative active compound (15); of separator plates (16) containing electrolyte,...

IN THE CANADIAN PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE PATENT APPLICATION entitled : Improved apparatus for centrifugal separa tion of a mixture containing at, least one gaseous phase. Applicant : Pierre SAGET Improved apparatus of the type comprising inside a fixed enclosure, a rotary assembly constituted by a treatment rotor with apertured discs angularly offset one with respect to the other, upstream by a...

An apparatus and method for processing hard shell crabs is disclosed, and which includes means for initially engaging and aligning the crab bodies with the path of travel through the apparatus, and then clampingly pressing the bodies against a supporting surface to maintain the orientation of the bodies during their movement through the subsequent processing operations. Trimming saws are mounted a...

A laser surgical system for use in the operating room is suspended on the ceiling and can be moved horizontally in an X-Y direction. The system has the laser tubes, power supplies and cooling unit in the suspended assembly. A carbon dioxide laser for cutting and a neodymium YAG laser for coagulation excite a common optical channel. A third laser argon, or other wavelength, can be added to the syst...

The diathermy electrode comprises a flexible insulating guide tube (1) in which a flexible electrode lead (3) adapted to be connected to a diathermy current source is slidably displaceably disposed. Attached to the free end of the electrode lead (3) next to the patient is a resilient electrode snare (5) which is capable of resiliently spreading apart when slidably moved out of the guide tube (1) a...

Method and apparatus for building annular tire components such as steel cord tread reinforcements, in which a measuring drum is employed to receive strip material and simultaneously to feed it to a component building former. The strip material laps a portion only of the measuring drum, and a measured length of the strip is severed on the measuring drum and the major portion of the length of strip ...

A molded polyurethane foamed shape has finely ground dry fire-retardant particles containing a volatile active fire-retardant component which releases fire-retardant gas when exposed to fire and distributed throughout the shape and encapsulated by the polyurethane so as to protect the component against evaporation until exposed by initial burning of the shape.