Apparatus and a method for removing suspended particles from water in a circular tank having a distribution and flocculation chamber immersed in the tank of water and carried circularly around the tank by a carriage. Flocculating material and inlet water are introduced into the body of water from the moving flocculating chamber at the same rate as clarified water is discharged through a filter sub...

A method of preparing ribbed ticks comprising a textile top sheet (60) and a textile bottom sheet (61) and partition-wall strips (1), said strips being welded along their opposite side edges to the top sheet and bottom sheet, respectively, by heating the entire surface of the joined webs of textile material after placing of lengths of folded partition-wall strips (1) in a given pattern, said strip...

An improved blow dryer holder includes a plastic ring member fixedly securable around the blow dryer and being pivotally attached to a support stand. The blow dryer is secured within the ring by means of a thumbscrew, and the ring includes an elongated thickened portion against which the blow dryer is forced by a tightening of the thumbscrew. The dryer is thus supported in a stable manner within t...

The reel tape fixing device according to this invention comprises reel tape fixing means for securing the reel tape wound on the reel frame, slide means having a flat surface which slides on a side surface of the circular reel frame, radially positioning means for retaining a position in the radial direction, projected from the slide means, and engaged in a groove formed in the reel frame in the c...

A means and method for applying innerliner material to a tire building drum and more particularly to a means and method for cutting and applying the innerliner material and further allowing for stock width measurement and precise centering without the possible edge distortion of known guiding systems.

Apparatus is provided for weaving a woven endless tire reinforcing belt on an endless weaving surface in a zig-zag pattern. The apparatus comprises input means for receiving information defining said zig-zag pattern; means for storing said pattern-defining information; central computer control means for reading said stored information and controlling the weaving of said belt as defined by said inf...

Novel 3-aminocarbonyl-1,4-dihydropyridine-5-carboxylic acid compounds of the formula: [I] wherein R1 is H, C1-5 alkyl, C2-5 alkenyl, C3.5 alkynyl, C3-8 cycloalkyl, R2 is C1-10 alkyl, and the NO2 group is substituted at ortho- or meta-position, provided that when the NO2 group is substituted at ortho-position and R2 is methyl, R1 is C3-5 alkyl, C2-5 alkenyl, C3-5 alkynyl, or C3-8 cycloal...

The life expectancy of a mechanical structure that undergoes repeated loading is estimated by determining the maximum crack length on the surface of the structure. The maximum length of the cracks on the surface of the structure is related to the life ratio of the structure, wherein the life ratio is a ratio of the number of loads the structure has undergone to the number of loads the structure wi...

PURPOSE:To execute a transmission program for phase pulse signal of the next cycle in a normal way through an arithmetic processor by resetting immediately an arithmetic device when a program has a runaway. CONSTITUTION:The reference pulse supplied from a reference pulse generating circuit 2 is impressed to the synchronizing input terminal 4 of the arithmetic processor CPU3, and therefore the CPU3...

An automatic running work vehicle which is adapted to repeat a running travel reciprocatingly and which has means for teaching the running course of one travel by sampling the running direction detected by an orientation sensor every predetermined running distance detected by a distance sensor during the travel and for steering the work vehicle based on the information of running course taught by ...

A tire body reinforcing component is provided for underlying the tread and at least the sidewall regions of a pneumatic tire. The component comprises at least one continuous cord disposed across the width of said component from one edge to the other thereof. The component forms at least one tread section for underlying the tread region and extending along the circumferential direction of the tire ...

The device (1) for clamping the reinforcement manufactured from a single wire (4) essentially comprises two jaws (10, 11) gripping the wires arranged at the beginning (41, 42) and at the end (43, 44) of the reinforcement. A sharp blade (13) cuts the wires and then, without unclamping the jaws, the latter bear against the core (7) for immobilising the wire (4) by virtue of the layer of raw rubber w...

A process is disclosed comprising mixing selected shrinkage-minimizing halocarbons with selected two-carbon hydrogen-containing halocarbons, HCFC-123, HCFC-123a and HCFC-141b, and using this mixture as a blowing agent to produce minimal shrinkage closed-cell polyurethane foams.

The labor costs associated with manufacturing wooden articles often represent a substantial portion of the total cost of producing the wooden article. This invention discloses a polymeric composition which can be easily molded into articles which have physical properties which are very similar to those of wood. By utilizing the polymeric composition and techniques of this invention, it is possible...

Apparatus for detecting line-over defects at the finish of a glassware container. A bifurcated fiber optic bundle (30) includes sender (31) and receiver (33) fiber branches; one of the branches terminates at a modulated visible red high intensity LED light source, the other at a photosensor. The non-bifurcated, probe end (46) of the fiber optic cable terminates in a rectangular pattern of sending ...

Compositions useful in decomposition molding procedures such as destructive foam casting or ceramic or metallic powder sintering are provided by blends of polymers having greater than 50 weight percent propylene carbonate units and polymers having greater than 50 weight percent methyl methacrylate units. Such blends exhibit an unexpectedly even decomposition profile over the range of temperatures ...

A sound wave receiving device associated with a probe lowered into a well at the end of a cable and applied against the wall of the well by opening anchorage arms. In the part of the probe in contact with the wall of the well there is disposed at least one receiver assembly comprising a sensor case connected by a resilient sheath and a sleeve, movable along a cylinder integral with the body, to th...

A fluid brake system has a brake pipe, a control valve device, a brake cylinder and a brake rigging, and in addition, a handbrake pipe, a protective device, a fluid pressure releasable spring handbrake cylinder, and a manually operable handbrake device for selectively governing brakes of the brake rigging under varying conditions, as when air supply is disconnected from a train. A moveable fulcrum...

In order to improve a method for minimizing material utilization during spreading of a flawed material web, in particular, a fabric web, such that it can be carried out in a manner which always economizes on material or fabric, it is proposed that proceeding from a region determined by the flaw, a set of at least two virtual stop lines be placed in the pattern representation and all flawless patte...

A printer including a first and a second guide shaft (9, 10) which extend parallel to an elongate platen (11), to slidably support a carriage (12) on which a print head (13) is mounted. The second guide shaft (10) is spaced by a greater distance away from the platen (11) than the first guide shaft (9). An active length of a print rribbon (15) is exposed outside a container (14) of a ribbon cassett...