A sytem and apparatus therefor which stores and processes flexible strip materials and particularly tire manufacturing components such as the tread portion. A portable storage unit has a pair of hollow, cylindrical-shaped spools loosely supported on a pair of cradles within a frame. A pair of annular flanges adjacent the ends of each of the spool surfaces engages stop plates on the frame to retain...

In a 4 volt lead accumulator which can be assembled in a modular construction and has a contained electrolyte, a basic module comprises two individual electrodes 1, 2, which are located in a plane and are provided with terminal tabs 3, 4, and two further electrodes 5, 6, in a plane parallel thereto, as a quasi-bipolar double plate with a connecting strip 7, but without terminal tabs and oriented s...

PURPOSE:To start smoothly without causing engine stall even for incomplete clutching by interlocking an accelerator operating device through an interlocking device for realizing the operating condition suitable for normal starting of car. CONSTITUTION:Upon bringing sub-speedchange lever 18 to high speed position, a speed regulation lever 6 is rolled by an interlocking device 33 through an accelera...

In a 4 volt lead accumulator which can be assembled in a modular construction and has a contained electrolyte, a basic module comprises two individual electrodes 1, 2, which are located in a plane and are provided with terminal tabs 3, 4, and two further electrodes 5, 6, in a plane parallel thereto, as a quasi-bipolar double plate with a connecting strip 7, but without terminal tabs and oriented s...

The present invention discloses a turbomachinery blading configuration. The configuration includes a circumferential recess in a blade support structure and a plurality of blades. Each blade has a platform for mounting the blade within the recess. Each platform includes oppositely directed, generally circumferentially facing edges, each edge having a first and second axial surfaces separated by a ...

Apparatus is provided for measuring both the angle between the vertical and a particular axis of a body and the azimuth angle of the displacement of such axis from the vertical. The body houses a trasnducer having a bar magnet mounted on the free end of a pendulum beam and confronting four solenoids forming two differential fluxgate pairs disposed symmetrically with respect to the neutral position...

A long, thin annular belt-like channel is designed for use in sedimentation field flow fractionation. This channel, which may be contained in the rotor of a centrifuge, has a generally rectangular cross-section. It has an inlet positioned to introduce particulates (includes particles and/or macromolecules) approximately at the radial distance from the outer wall that is the equilibrium distance re...

A method and apparatus is disclosed for serially winding a high speed running yarn onto bobbins without yarn stoppage between bobbin changes, and without loss of yarn. The method and apparatus includes at least two bobbin receiving chucks which are adapted to be serially delivered to a winding position. When the first bobbin becomes full, it moves laterally away from the yarn traverse guide, and t...

Ethylene glycol is prepared by a process in which ethylene oxide is extracted from an aqueous solution with near-critical or super-critical carbon dioxide. Thereafter an ethylene oxide-carbon dioxide-water mixture is contacted with a catalyst to form ethylene carbonate, which is then hydrolyzed to ethylene glycol in the presence of the same catalyst. The ethylene glycol is separated as product and...

This invention concerns a process for making alkanols which comprises contacting a mixture of CO and H2 at a pressure of 500 psig or greater and at a temperature of at least 150 DEG C. with a catalyst system comprising a ruthenium-containing compound and a halogen-free titanium or zirconium-containing compound dispersed in a low melting quaternary phosphonium or ammonium base or salt.

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 reducing gas is generated in a molten metal bath wherein fuel, oxygen and a flux are injected into a pressure-tight vessel beneath the bath to produce a partially-desulfurized partial-oxidation gas having a hydrogen and carbon monoxide content of at least 50% and the process is controlled by injecting steam or a fuel rich gas consisting substantially of hydrogen, carbon monoxide methane, or a mi...

In one working operation or in directly successive working operations a tube 2 is extruded having at least two layers of different materials and the wall thickness thereof is structured to be wave-shaped or undulatory, i.e. has thick portions and thin portions at intervals. The thus formed tube sections are then cut from the tube to form the individual inner liners 50. The periodic variation in wa...

(S) alpha -cyano-3-phenoxy-benzyl alcohol having the formula I and a novel process for its preparation and novel intermediates.

PURPOSE:To obtain a blood component quantitative meter with limited adverse effect due to variations in the flow velocity, by arranging an electrode for detecting interfering substance inserted into a passage, an electrode for detecting substance to be inspected and a flow velocity detection means for detecting and outputting the flow velocity of a sample flowing through the passage. CONSTITUTION:...

Process for preparing a food flavour comprises inactivating yeast and carrying out enzymatic degradation of biopolymers in conjunction with fermentation with micro-organisms. Preferably the enzymatic degradation is carried out with more than one enzyme either simultaneously or sequentially.