Apparatus for withdrawing a thread from a spinning station comprises at least two withdrawing rollers, which are preceded by a reciprocating thread guide and are succeeded by a winding device, which comprises a traversing device. In order to ensure that a reciprocating motion will be imparted to the thread guide, the latter is provided on one arm of a double-armed lever, which is freely rotatably ...

A plastic underpad holder, for use by generally incontinent patients has its ends secured to a mattress. The underpad holder having a rectangular frame to securely receive a disposable underpad to contain excess excretions. The underpad holder also has circular perforations providing ventilation to minimize heat build-up between the patient and the underpad holder.

A safety ski-binding having force transmitting surfaces which are inclined at an angle which corresponds substantially to the angle of friction. The force component acting in the direction of release of the sole plate created by the additional load compensates for the friction, so that the release resistance is not influenced even for a heavy load from the ball of the skier's foot even for the pur...

In a ski binding 1 there is provided ski boot heel locating members 30, 31 for locating a ski boot mounted plate 3 between a pair of clamping members 16, 17. The plate member 3 is provided with curved lateral edges 4, 5 the forward edge of which is provided with a length and angle for moving the plate 3 and the ski boot 2 to which it is attached forwardly at a distance sufficient for the heel of t...

A tube coupling with snap action for quick interfitting of tubes or tubular articles.

A system for generating a substantially-continuous stream of binary signals representative of the presence of copper on the surface of a fluorescent, substrate of a board. A beam is swept by mirror facets of a rotating mirror drum along a path on the board. When the beam strikes copper it is merely reflected. When the beam strikes the substrate, a fluorescence is produced. The resultant light is g...

A control system for protecting a computer system against external fault conditions, including, in combination, circuits for monitoring and reacting to a plurality of power supply fault conditions, circuits for monitoring and reacting to a plurality of environmental fault conditions, circuits for monitoring and reacting to unauthorized access fault conditions, and circuits for driving off the supp...

A monitoring circuit for an electronic postage meter operating under control of a programmed microprocessor, including a transistor switch for receiving an output signal from the programmed microprocessor and generating an output signal in response thereto; timer means electrically coupled to the transistor switch for generating an output pulse in the absence of a signal from the transistor switch...

An automatic running work vehicle having a device for teaching the outer periphery of the entire area of a work site and automatically producing from the result a running course covering the interior thereof. The vehicle is adapted to automatically run the course under steering control.

After enamelling, a paste of minerals or their derivs., e.g. corundum, silica (quartz), aluminium oxide, titanium oxide and rutile, is applied by xerography. After drying for 10 mins. the bath again goes into the storing oven at 800-850 deg. C. The enamel melts at this temp., allowing penetration of the mineral paste. On cooling, the enamel solidifies, presenting a high relief due to incrustations...

PURPOSE:To measure contaminative components with good reproducibility by passing sample air through filter paper impregnated with a reagent and discoloring it with contaminative components, transmitting light through the discolored impregnated filter paper and an optical plate and receiving the light by a photoelectric element, and detecting their difference in the quantity of photodetection. CONS...

PURPOSE:To allow an inspection camera to always follow the center of a mouth part, by changing the moving speed of an inspection means corresponding to the eccentric degree of the mouth part. CONSTITUTION:A bottle 1 is rotated at least once in a detection region A and the eccentric degree of a mouth part 1a is detected by an eccentricity detection means 20 during rotation. Herein, the distance X f...

A system for testing a differential logic network is provided which includes a differential exclusive OR circuit having a plurality of inputs for receiving complementary signals from the differential logic network and first and second output terminals and means, e.g., a conventional exclusive OR circuit, for determining the voltage difference between the first and second output terminals to indica...

A safety ski binding includes a cross-country plate having a front jaw and heel holder thereon and pivotal about an axis extending transversely of the ski. Two W-shaped bar parts of different lengths are pivotally supported thereon and movable to positions between the plate and ski. Each bar part includes two spaced outer legs, two spaced inner legs therebetween, two support webs connecting adjace...