Batteries for boats and vehicles require a CRA (cranking) battery 23 and an AUX (auxiliaries) battery 22 to ensure a start. The preferred version has an AUX battery made of parallel plates and a CRA battery made of parallel plates lying in a monobloc case in face to face positions. Each battery has a pair of CRA terminals 20, 30 for the electric starter and a pair of AUX terminals 19, 31 for the A...

An apparatus for removing sliver residues from a coiler can includes a transporting carriage for transporting a coiler can along a path of travel. The transporting carriage has an undercarriage; two generally vertically oriented walls supported on the undercarriage and having respective upper portions; a transverse beam interconnecting the walls at the upper portions thereof; a receiving bay defin...

Installation and process are claimed for separating the components of air by cryogenic distillation, in which the air is compressed (in 2), refrigerated (in 4), dried and decarbonated (in 10) by circulation through adsorbents, cooled to its liquefaction temperature (in 12) and distilled with production of a residual gas (16). The residual gas is expanded and separated into a hot flow and a cold fl...

A bead locking apparatus comprising bead support segments (6) disposed in an annular arrangements at each of the axially opposite ends of building drum (1) mounted on a rotary shaft (4) the support segments (6) being movable outwards or inwards radially of the drum (1), an elastic ring (8) fitted in an annular recess (20) formed in the outer periphery of the annular arrangement of segments (6), a ...

The front end (S) and rear end (K) of a belt-shaped member (18) having a predetermined length are grasped by front end grasping means (62) and rear end grasping means (90), respectively, movable in synchronism with and independently from each other when required. The front and rear end grasping means are moved in synchronism with each other until the front end (S) of the belt-shaped member arrives...

A lead acid storage battery comprising a battery container, a plate assembly assembled by stacking a negative electrode plate (1) and a positive electrode plate (2) one upon another through a separator interposed between the negative and positive electrode plates, and a saddle placed on the bottom surface of the battery container for absorbing the extension of the positive electrode plate. Legs (1...

In the wet-mechanical separation of solids according to their density in a separation apparatus by float-sink separation in a centrifugal field of a rotating vessel, difficulties result with variations in the suspension properties and the solids properties in relation to the sharpness of separation and the throughput. As a result of the configuration according to the invention of the separation ap...

A device for cleaning large quantities (3) of water from debris at overflow edges (2) has a separating surface (10) which is arranged in a stationary position and through which the quantity of water flows. The separating surface (10) is designed as a piece of a cylinder circumference (7) with an axis (8) lying parallel to the overflow edge (2). Allocated to the separating surface (10) is a receivi...

PCT No. PCT/EP95/01730 Sec. 371 Date Mar. 18, 1996 Sec. 102(e) Date Mar. 18, 1996 PCT Filed May 6, 1995 PCT Pub. No. WO95/32141 PCT Pub. Date Nov. 30, 1995An apparatus for applying a liquid to threads of a yarn sheet. The apparatus comprises multiple thread wetting elements, each of which has at least one thread guide groove for each thread. In the thread guide groove the thread travels with the l...

Disclosed are expandable bladders for use in curing presses for hydrocarbon rubbers such as pneumatic tires. The bladders are a crosslink elastomer comprising isobutylene repeat units and the bladder composition includes graphite. A preferred isobutylene elastomer is a brominated copolymer of isobutylene and p-methylstyrene. The bladders have enhanced lubricity, low adhesion to tire innerliners, a...

Disclosed are expandable bladders for use in curing presses for hydrocarbon rubbers such as pneumatic tires. The bladders are a crosslinked elastomer comprising isobutylene repeat units and the bladder composition includes fluorinated ethylene polymers in particulate form dispersed throughout the bladder. A preferred isobutylene elastomer is a brominated copolymer of from 80 to 99 weight percent i...

The apparatus and method of the present invention improves precision of measuring a yaw rate by mutually making up for a drawback of a yaw rate sensor for directly measuring the yaw rate and a drawback of a structure for estimating the yaw rate. An estimated yaw rate operation element (51) gives an estimated yaw rate gamma e based on a steering angle θf of front wheels, a vehicle speed V, a left ...

Biphenyl tetracarboxylic acid esters and derivatives thereof are prepared by the coupling reaction of 4-halogen substituted o-benzenedicarboxylic acid ester, carried out in an aprotic polar solvent in the presence of a pre-prepared triphenylphosphine-nickel chloride or trialkylphosphine-nickel chloride catalyst, zinc powder as the reducing agent, and an alkali metal halide promoting agent. The est...

A method for manufacturing yarn guiding rings, includes a first step of blanking a plate (3) to form a plate body (1) constituted by a supporting element (7) and by a fork element, and a second step of bending the fork in order to obtain a circular ring. The fork element has two arms (5). Each arm is constituted by two portions with different curvatures (R, S). The outer portions of the arms are f...

In the prodn. of Guerbet alcohols (I) contg. little soap and heavy metal by condensation of prim. and/or sec. 2-30 C alcohols in the presence of alkaline catalysts and heavy metal cocatalysts, the novelty is that the reaction prod. is sepd. by filtration, extn. and/or centrifugation without washing. Pref. prim. or cyclic alcohols, esp. 6-22C linear prim. alcohols are condensed at 200-260 deg C and...

The device has a turbine wheel revs. rate detector (14), an engine revs. rate detector (10), a memory unit (6) and a controller (6,20). The memory unit stores a characteristic relating the capacity of the torque converter (2a) to its revs. rate and a characteristic relating the engine (1) torque to its speed.The controller derives the converter speed from the detected engine speed and turbine whee...

A drive line device for an automotive vehicle is provided which includes a transmission and a clutch consisting of a flywheel connected to an engine and a clutch disc connected to an input shaft of the transmission. The drive line device includes a brake unit which applying a brake to a given peripheral portion of the flywheel so as to synchronize rotation of the input shaft of the transmission wi...

In a plunger-type armature electromagnet (11), the armature (21) is guided in a pressure tube. A sensor element (33) which is dependent on magnetic field, especially a Hall element, is arranged in order to vary or regulate the excitation current of the coil (28) via an electronic control device for various attraction forces and armature positions. Said sensor element (33) is located in a projectio...

In a earth boring bit including a body, the improvement comprising: a matrix integral with and forming the outer surface of at least a portion of said body, at least one temperature stable polycrystalline synthetic diamond element which is bonded to said matrix to form a cutter; each said temperature stable synthetic diamond element having a coating including a carbide forming metal of at least 3 ...

A unit for controlling valves being actuated by electromagnets for a pressure fluid includes a housing having a housing frame and a lid defining an interior. At least one valve coil and components of the at least one valve coil, such as a wound coil body and a yoke ring, are disposed in the housing. The at least one valve coil is spaced from the housing frame defining interstices therebetween, and...