PURPOSE:To provide a method and apparatus for sticking a sheet material capable of improving sticking accuracy by accurately detecting the width of a sticking sheet material to a sheet material to be stuck being transported on a sticking conveyer. CONSTITUTION:The sticking conveyer 1 is to transport a sheet material Wa to be stuck such as a carcass or the like, and on the sticking conveyer 1, ther...

PURPOSE:To reduce the space for transferring a flat article such as a tire to the min. and permit the storage in the transfer in the mixed state of the articles having different sizes. CONSTITUTION:A tire T transferred on a roller coveyor 2 drops between a guide member 3 and a free roller 9, and rolls on an inclined plate 5 and placed on the rollers 19,.... Since the rollers 19,... and free roller...

PURPOSE:To produce a high-temp. heat exchanger excellent in strength, by which heat is efficiently exchanged between the fluids having a different temp. and without the fluids being leaked to the outside even if an easily available heat-exchange element consisting essentially of a porous silicon carbide sintered compact is used. CONSTITUTION:A cylindrical element 21 presents a honeycomb structure ...

PURPOSE:To obtain the subject tube having high and stable adhesiveness by mutually bonding thermally shrinkable polyester films using a solvent. CONSTITUTION:The objective tube can be obtained by mutually bonding thermally shrinkable polyester films each 1.30-1.35 in density with 1,3-dioxolan or its mixture with an organic solvent compatible therewith.

Mixtures of aqueous polymer dispersions, which are suitable as an adhesive, contain at least one dispersion of a nitrile rubber (polymer A) and at least one dispersion of a polyurethane/polyurea (polymer B).

PURPOSE: To enhance drawing strength of a velour needle felt. CONSTITUTION: An optionally pre-needle-punched staple fiber web 12 is set on a circulating brush-like needling support 3 and needle-punched while forming a pile on the side facing the support 3 for producing the velour needle felt. The pile fibers are pierced through a layer 9, particularly a spun-bonded nonwoven, having higher drawing ...

PURPOSE: To enable a hose conduit provided with several parallel hoses to be windable around a drum to avoid the risk of collapsing, and at the same time, to surely control tension. CONSTITUTION: In a mechanism for feeding or pulling out a hose conduit 17 provided with several parallel hoes 18 windable around a drum 20 to and from a grooving cutter, the hoses 18 are connected with cross bars 25 at...

PURPOSE: To provide a stent attachment device which automatically attaches a stent to a balloon-tip catheter of a kind to be used in a typical treatment of percutaneous tubular coronary artery-plasty(PTCA). CONSTITUTION: A stent attachment device is equipped with a tubular member 5 housing a long elastic member 20 in a bag form surrounding the stent to be attached. The distal end 90 of a balloon-t...

PURPOSE:To improve the adhesion without lowering an impact absorbing property by placing a primer layer on one side of a foamed thermoplastic resin sheet and laminating an asphalt sheet, heated at a specified temperature, on the primer layer of the foamed thermoplastic resin sheet. CONSTITUTION:A primer layer 13 is placed on one side of a foamed thermoplastic resin sheet 1, and an asphalt sheet 3,...

A cryogenic station for delivering a cryogen substantially free of higher boiling impurities. The cryogenic station includes an insulated main tank and an auxiliary tank. Liquid stored in the main tank and pressurized by a pressure building circuit is driven into the auxiliary tank. Cryogenic vapor formed in the auxiliary tank is warmed to ambient temperature by an external heat exchanger and is t...

A wheel brake mechanism is disclosed for a vehicle such as a carriage or stroller having a wheel mounted on an axle. The wheel is of the normal type having radially extending ribs with spaces or recesses therebetween. The brake housing is mounted for pivotal movement around the axle between a normal unbraking position and a braking position by depressing a foot pedal attached to the housing. The b...

A wheelbarrow side wall extension apparatus (10) for attachment to a wheelbarrow (12) is disclosed herein. The apparatus (10) includes a flexible barrier (14) coupled between an upper rail (26) and a lower rail (28), the lower rail (28) being configured for coupling to the rim (36) of a wheelbarrow bin (12). A plurality of vertical support members (42) coupled between the upper rail (26) and the l...

A wear resistance layer is formed on a surface of a portion of a sliding contact part adapted to contact with a recording medium and slide relative thereto. The wear resistance layer is formed of a material mainly composed of chromium oxide and at least one of conductive nitride and conductive carbide. Accordingly, the wear resistance of the sliding contact part can be greatly improved to thereby ...

A lightweight mine extracting plow is provided that can be mounted on any type of armored vehicle to enable the vehicle to cross minefields in an attack formation or to assist the armored vehicle in escaping from scattered minefields, either laid by air or by artillery, by removing obstacles, such as mines, from all areas of land. The plow has tines which penetrate the land to extricate the mines....

The invention relates to a suspension device for linking an item of on-board equipment item to the structure of a vehicle, such as a rotary wing aircraft. Advantageously, it comprises first (5) and second (6) elements shaped at least approximately as plates and capable of being fixed respectively to said structure (3) and to said equipment item (2), and suspension means (7) including damping membe...

A gripper assembly for clamping articles comprises a first clamp member and a second clamp member pivotal relative to the first clamp member. An actuator pivots the second clamp member relative to the first clamp member from an open position into a closed position. A coil spring is compressed when the second clamp member is in the open position. A pin engaging in a slot maintains the coil spring i...

A torsion damping assembly which is installed between the crankshaft of the engine and the input element of the change-speed transmission in a motor vehicle has two coaxial flywheels one of which is driven by the crankshaft and the other of which can transmit torque to the transmission in response to engagement of a friction clutch. The transmission of torque between the two flywheels takes place ...

Supertwist liquid-crystal displays having excellent properties are obtained using a nematic liquid-crystal mixture based on component A which contains one or more compounds of the formula IIa or IIb: nds of the formulae IIc to IIe: IIc IId IIe and one or more compounds of the formulae IIf to IIf IIg IIh IIi

A regulation circuit which guides a laser beam along the data track of a recording medium includes a first comparator which receives an HF signal and a first threshold signal. The HF signal is normally high and goes low when the laser scans a dirty or damaged area of the recording medium. The first comparator provides a first output signal when the HF signal is less than the first threshold signal...

PURPOSE: To improve the grass collection ability of various mowers by compacting mown grass stored in a grass collection box. CONSTITUTION: This mower is provided with an under carriage, a cutting member, a motive force source, a driving line for transmissively linking the motive force source and the cutting member, an air current generating means for generating a pressurized air current, a grass ...