PURPOSE:To make appropriate the starting of a vehicle in which the hydraulic pressure in wheel cylinders is maintained depending on the disengaging operation of a clutch at the starting on an upward slope, by enabling the setting of the time of release of the braking hydraulic pressure depending on the gradient of the upward slope or the like. CONSTITUTION:When a brake pedal 55 is pressed down to ...

PURPOSE:To facilitate escape of gas during charging and improve charging efficiency, by tilting the accumulator while charging. CONSTITUTION:For initial charge of a lead accumulator 1 with an unformed plate assembly, the accumulator 1 is tilted at an angle of about 20 deg in a water tank 2 during the charge. Since oxygen and hydrogen gases produced in the accumulator 1 can easily escape without re...

PURPOSE:To suppress the thermal stress of a steam turbine rotor which is greatly affected by the load change of a combined plant, by controlling the load on a gas turbine depending on an allowable load fluctuation ratio. CONSTITUTION:In a method of controlling the operation of a combined plant comprising a gas turbine 1; a steam generator 2 which is supplied with the exhaust gas of the gas turbine...

An attachment for lift trucks to enable the truck to work in narrow aisles and manipulate loads in front of and to both sides of the truck without turning the truck. A side shifter which includes a pair of parallel moving arms for supporting the load in which the arms are pivotally supported from a track intermediate the ends of the arms. The side shifter retracts within the width of the truck, bu...

Process for manufacture of polyurethane and poly(urethane/isocyanate) foams utilizing higher levels of aromatic polyester polyols in the polyol component through the substitution of CHClF2 for at least a portion of the conventional blowing agents to provide a foamed product of lower combustibility and lower brittleness.

In a bottle inspection machine a cylindrical hollow shaft is driven rotationally about a vertical axis. Another shaft is splined in the tubular shaft for rotation therewith. Another rotor is mounted coaxially to the inner shaft and the two rotors constitute a means for transporting bottles in a circular path. A light source is mounted on the radially outer side of the circular path and projects be...

PURPOSE:To obtain the device inscribed on the title having an improved productivity by a method wherein a filler being adhered fully automatically to the outer circumferential face of the blank bead, the blank bead and the filler are connected at the same time and the flipper is equipped. CONSTITUTION:The filler 2 is fed to the outer circumferential face of completed bead, i.e., the blank bead 1 f...

A method for effecting logging or servicing operations in a predetermined inclined or horizontal zone of a well, following an initial vertical portion thereof, comprising fastening a logging or servicing tool body at the end of a string of rods lowered into the well, said tool body being provided with an electric male connector, lowering at the end of an electric transmission cable, from the surfa...

A bicycle caliper brake is provided which includes a pair of brake arms each having a brake shoe on one end thereof. A support bolt supports the brake arms rotatably relative to each other. The brake arms each have a boss with a throughbore by which the brake arms are fitted onto the bolt. The bosses are supported on the bolt adjacent to each other. A thrust bearing is interposed between opposite ...

This invention relates to a soybean protein film which contain air bubbles in film and is made from soybean protein solution or suspension which contains air bubbles, and is dried by heating. The density of said protein film thus manufactured is 0.1-0.8 g/cm3. Said soybean protein film containing air bubbles has better adhesive properties between said soybean protein film each other or with other ...

An oriented film is prepared by crosslinking a sheet of polyethylene (preferably HDPE) containing particulate inorganic slip and antiblock additions to provide maximum crosslinking at the surfaces of the sheet and minimum orientation at its middle layer portion, and thereafter heating and stretching the film to obtain an oriented HDPE of high clarity film of improved moisture proof.

Masking films comprise a transparent base, preferably a polyester or a polycarbonate, directly carrying a masking film in the form of a dyed transparent plastics material based upon a vinyl chloride-vinyl acetate copolymer coating, which contains an aromatic polyester-based polyurethane. The amount of vinyl acetate and polyurethane in the coating preferably comprises 30% to 65% w/w of its total po...

Styrene polymer foam is prepared using a mixed blowing agent of carbon dioxide plus ethyl chloride and optionally a fluorocarbon to provide a foam having primary cells and secondary cells formed in the struts and walls.

Low density foams are prepared from an admixture which comprises an unsaturated polyester resin, a free radical initiator which initiator is activated at temperatures from about 100 DEG to about 400 DEG F., and a compound selected from a t-alkylhydrazinium salt or a carbonylhydrazine. The low density foams have uniform cell structure without cracks or voids and the process is efficient.

A down-hole signal generator for a mud-pulse telemetry system comprises a flow constrictor defining a throttle orifice for the mud passing along a drill string, a throttling member displaceable with respect to a casing to modulate the mud pressure for the purpose of transmitting measurement data up the drill string, and a turbogenerator incorporating an electrical generator within the casing. The ...

The present invention relates to masterbatches for delustring processable polyamides. They contain 50 to 90% of a copolyamide used as a binder and consisting of 30 to 100% of hexamethylene adipamide units and 0-70% of caproamide units and 10 to 50% by weight of anatase titanium dioxide coated with 0.01 to 1.5% of silica and 1 to 3% of alumina and treated with a polydimethylsiloxane oil present in ...

In the impact-modification of polycarbonamides, the incompatibility of acrylic core//shell impact modifier with low molecular weight nylon is overcome by forming an impact modifier concentrate of impact modifier and high molecular weight nylon which concentrate is then mixed with a larger amount of low molecular weight nylon so as to modify its impact resistance properties.

A coated plastic article having a good appearance, uniform dyeing and excellent surface properties comprises a shaped plastic substrate and a coating, said shaped plastic substrate comprising a polymer of diethylene glycol bisallyl carbonate, said shaped plastic substrate having at least one unsmooth portion on the surface thereof, said shaped plastic substrate being treated with activated gas, io...