A method for metering and injecting small amounts of fluid into the splicing air of a splicing head of a compressed gas thread splicing device including a metering valve having a piston with a metering chamber formed therein, the metering chamber having a given volume determining the amount of fluid to be injected, the piston being slideable between a loading position and an injecting position of ...

PURPOSE:To prevent an unexpected gear change shock, by providing an action detecting means which detects either of a control action based on the change of an engine control means target value and a gear change action of an automatic transmission, and an action prohibiting means which temporarily prohibits the other action at the time of an action detection by means of the above detecting means. CO...

PURPOSE:To prevent burning out of a frictional engaging means or deterioration of speed change shock when output torque of an engine is not controlled to be reduced by performing speed change control in which the difference in transmission ratios is small, that is, speed change in which the difference in engine speeds before and after speed change is small. CONSTITUTION:When control of torque of a...

PURPOSE:To prevent generation of steam in an economizer and dissolve generation of hammering due to steam bubble at restart by circulating existing water among a steam drum, a deaerator, and an economizer at hot banking. CONSTITUTION:During operation of a generating plant, water supplied from a condensate pump 2 is flowed in a deaerator 1 to be deaerated. The deaerated water is pressurized with a ...

In yarn-processing stations, in which yarns are drawn off from two feed bobbins (6) slipped onto a bobbin adapter (5) and are processed, the problem of a residual winding remaining on the feed-bobbin tube (6') arises. To eliminate this residual yarn winding, the servicing and tending device (B) according to the invention is equipped with a pivotable gripper (22), moveable up and down, for removing...

Chlorogenic acid can be separated and produced as free acid or as salts thereof from plant raw material extracts by means of gel permeation chromatography on cross-linked modified polysaccharides, especially on dextrans. To obtain the free acid, the aqueous extract must be adjusted to a pH in the range of about 2 to 2.8. By use of a column of sufficient length the isomeric 5-, 4- and 3-chlorogenic...

A support for a portable lightweight hand-held video camera includes an arm/wrist band which carries a support brace for the camera, the arm/wrist band substantially immobilizing relative movement between the user's arm and wrist to minimize jitters normally associated with recordings made by hand-held video cameras.

A portable, free standing apparatus is provided to support or cradle a hand-held electric hair dryer at various heights and angles, allowing the operator of these types of hair dryers free use of both hands while drying hair.

A method for coating the surface of inactive granules comprises dispersing inactive granules having water adsorbed in advance on the surface thereof in a solution having a higher fatty acid and a metal alkoxide dissolved in small amounts in a non-hydrophilic organic solvent thereby forming on the surface of the granules a dense layer of microfine metal oxide powder produced in consequence of hydro...

To detect roller breakdowns in a roller hearth kiln, a light shielder (15) is provided at the follower end of each roller (2) and two sets of light transmitters (20,21) and light receivers (22,23) are provided on two straight lines between which the axis of rotation of each shielder (15) is positioned. Normally the light rays (A,B) transmitted from said light transmitters to said light receivers a...

A device for exterminating pests having a cylinder filled with carbon dioxide in which (a) pesticide(s) is(are) dissolved, piping coupled to the cylinder, and a plurality of capillary nozzles affixed to the piping, and a method of exterminating pests employed this device. The capillary nozzles are designed such that, considering adjacent capillary nozzles, the ratio of the nozzle exit area of the ...

A blower for transporting grass clippings from a grass cutting unit to a grass catcher of a lawn mower comprises a housing with a protective liner extending over peripheral inside walls thereof. The liner includes a lining material formed of an elastic resin, and a core formed of a plastically deformable metal and embedded in the lining material.

A staggered array printhead, recording medium support and capping and/or maintenance assembly for use in an ink jet printer is described. Capping and maintenance of printhead sub-units of the staggered array is performed by self-positioning and aligning members located on a capping and/or maintenance member which is movably positioned on one side of a recording medium support. The printhead is loc...

PURPOSE:To reduce the number of parts and the manhour for assembling, by constituting an accommodating case main body by using a plurality of dielectric substrate, and forming, in a unified body, high frequency signal I/O terminals, control signal I/O terminals, partitions for electromagnetic shielding, etc. CONSTITUTION:On the metal conductor of a dielectric substrate 5, the following are formed;...

A filter for the purification of tap water containing several layers of different filter materials. One of the layers is an adsorption filter element comprising a self-supporting sintered body of finely dispersed adsortion material, e.g., activated charcoal, a thermoplastic binder material and a finely dispersed, oligodynamic material, wherein these materials provide a fine-mesh, mechanical filter...

PCT No. PCT/EP88/00818 Sec. 371 Date May 5, 1989 Sec. 102(e) Date May 5, 1989 PCT Filed Sep. 9, 1988 PCT Pub. No. WO89/02364 PCT Pub. Date Mar. 23, 1989.A composite part of flexible cellular material and elastic, rubber material, wherein the cellular material is a cellular synthetic material and is compressed with the rubber material under cellular synthetic material hot-stamping conditions, the c...

PCT No. PCT/DE89/00065 Sec. 371 Date Jul. 26, 1990 Sec. 102(e) Date Jul. 26, 1990 PCT Filed Feb. 2, 1989 PCT Pub. No. WO89/06931 PCT Pub. Date Aug. 10, 1989.The heating system for an operating table comprises a multi-layer heating pad (2) having at least one heating segment (12a, 12b, 12c, 12d) which is adapted for being electrically heated and which is pervious to X-rays. A control and regulating...

PURPOSE:To expand the application of an exhibit device by vibrating and reciprocating a Fresnel lends by means of a drive means, displaying an imaginary image from a display device displayed on an exhibit space with magnification/ reduction in a direction of the depth of the exhibit space continuously and displaying the virtual image stereoscopically. CONSTITUTION:When a Fresnel lens 30 is vibrate...

A coffee and/or tea machine (1) has an upper water container (2) which serves to receive the amount of fresh water necessary for the brewing, and downwardly has at least one outlet opening (5) leading to a lower water container (3) where, in operation, the water is heated by means of e.g. an electric heating member (8). With a view to softening the water a ring (13) of a magnetizable ceramic mater...

A cluster for a material handling conveyor in which a plurality of rollers are mounted on a body member at an acute angle to a driven shaft, with bushing pressed into and recessed from each end of each roller to provide a consistent frictional force between the rollers and the member under various conditions of moisture.