PURPOSE:To reduce the shock when speed is changed, by providing an electromagnetic valve that is opened to increase the amount of fuel to an injector when the speed is shifted down, and an electromagnetic valve that is opened to decrease the amount of fuel to the injector when the speed is shifted up. CONSTITUTION:The fuel sucked up by a gear pump 2 reaches a piping 4 via a strainer 3, part of whi...

A liquid crystal display device comprises two supporting plates which are kept spaced apart and the facing surfaces of which comprise a pattern of line electrodes and column electrodes, respectively, which form a matrix of display cells. A mixture of a nematic liquid crystal with a cholesteric addition is present between the supporting plates. The mixture has a positive dielectric anisotropy and a...

The invention relates to improvements made to centrifugal separation apparatuses, which can be applied especially to the scrubbing (cleaning) of gaseous mixtures. According to a principal arrangement, the movable equipment comprises a separator device 13 formed from several rotationally symmetric plates essentially of two different types, one 13a having a central opening 17 and a solid peripheral ...

Controlled compressed-air splicing device for textile threads with a controlled compressed-air metering valve supplied from a compressed-air supply device, including an automatic quality control device for ensuring the quality of spliced joints formed by the splicing device.

A SEPARATING AND CLEANING DEVICE FOR SHELLFISH A machine for cleaning and sorting shellfish into a predetermined range includes an inner drum connected to a central shaft and formed with a plurality of relatively large openings dimensioned to allow shellfish falling within the predetermined range to pass therethrough. The contents of a plow or dredge are fed into an inlet end of this inner drum an...

A conductor guide assembly for conductors of an offshore well platform having a jacket with an interior pile for extending from a sea bed to above a water level which is over the sea bed. In accordance with one inventive feature, a first guide mechanism comprising a plurality of vertically spaced supports which hold the tubular conduits within the interior pile is assembled in a plurality of secti...

The surface of a polished semiconductor wafer is examined by an apparatus comprising a light source, a first optical means for converging the light to a parallel light and projecting it onto the surface to be examined and a second optical means for converging the light reflected by the surface and projecting it onto a light receiving screen. If the surface has a defect, such as a crystal imperfect...

A method and apparatus for heating pressure vessels used in the tire retreading and tire repairing industry which includes a plurality of heat exchangers in the form of plate coils associated with the pressure vessel with steam being circulated through the plate coils for heating the pressure vessel to a temperature required for vulcanizing rubber. Steam is supplied from a boiler and returned to a...

In order to improve the flame-protection effect without substantially impairing the mechanical properties of the articles covered with the flame protection agent, the flame protection agent is provided with a compound in a proportion by weight of 7.5 to 30% which contains at least one sulfo group or sulfonium ion. This compound is preferably a water-soluble ammonium salt. As binder there is used a...

Blends of a polyester with a desiccant and a poly(mono-1-olefin); optionally with an oil.

The present invention relates to a method for fine positioning vehicles in exact relationships to geographic reference markings, whereby the vehicle (1) is adapted to fetch and deliver loads (2) preferably goods carried on loading stools or pallets, at fetching and delivering points (3-14), whereby it is required that the vehicle (1) repeatedly may be brought to exact positions relative to said fe...

A front jaw for a safety ski binding includes a support member mounted on a ski having a hold-down cooperable with a ski shoe sole supported for vertical movement, a pair of centering levers cooperable with the sides of the ski shoe sole supported for pivotal movement about vertical axes, and a compensating lever supported for pivotal movement about a substantially horizontal axis. One end of the ...

In a protected control-pulse supply, for example for railway systems, comprising a protected pulse generator (T) and intrinsically unprotected threshold stages (S1, S2), mutually phase-shifted control pulses for at least two data processing systems (D1, D2) are in each case supplied to one threshold stage (S1 and, respectively, S2). If at least one of the threshold stages (S1) detects a deviation ...

A continuously operating bead filler assembly system for forming filler material on top of a tire bead includes a multiple station assembly machine having at least one station for placing the bead and positioning the filler material in cylindrical form adjacent the bead and at least one station for forming and rotating the filler material on top of the bead. The multiple station assembly machine i...

A gas cleaning installation, such as might be used to filter particulate material from exhaust gases of a power generating boiler or the like, which comprises a pair of gas cleaning chambers each containing filtration means for a gas stream passing through the installation. The chambers are spaced apart to define between them a gas inlet passage or passages into the underside of each chamber and, ...

In a brake actuator device, wear of brake lining, which results in the increase of stroke of the brake actuator device consisting of piston and cylinder, is compensated by an adjuster which functions automatically when the brake is operated. The adjusting process takes place continuously and preferably at the onset of the actuation of the brake. A slip clutch turns the adjuster member which is con...

Disclosed is a process for the formation of olefin-vinyl alcohol copolymer pellets which comprises mixing particles of the copolymer with water to obtain a wet cake containing about 20-70% solids by weight to thereby obtain a plasticized mass of the copolymer, thereafter extruding the copolymer at a temperature of about 5 DEG -7 DEG C. below the melting point of the mass through a nozzle to form ...

A tintable coating is applied to a transparent substrate such as a polycarbonate lens. The coating is made from a coating solution of (1) a further curable organopolysiloxane preferably made by hydrolyzing ethyl ortho silicate with methacryloxytrimethoxy silane and/or vinyltriethoxy silane with phenylphosphonic acid, and an (2) organic solvent for the organopolysiloxane. The coating is cured, an a...

A heat-shrinkable film suitable for use in fabricating bags for packaging frozen poultry. The film composition comprises a resin mixture of between about 75 and about 95 weight percent of an ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer having a vinyl acetate content of from at least about 1.7 to about 5.0 weight percent, and having a melt index of from at least about 0.15 to about 0.35 decigram per minute; an...