In order to assure the geometric uniformity of a tire molded with a segment mold when the sculpturing of said tire includes blocks 11 surrounded by recesses formed by grooves 15 and incisions 16, the said grooves 15 are thinned at the level of the joint planes 550 between segments. Furthermore, wear indicators 17 are arranged at the level of the joint planes 550 between segments.

A method of correcting the variations of radial force between a tire and the ground, including measuring on a uniformity machine the variation in radial force of the tire/mounting-rim rolling assembly, reconstituting a radial variation on basis of the harmonic variations to be corrected, and effecting said correction by means of wedges in the form of circular rings placed between the mounting rim ...

PURPOSE:To suppress the deterioration in deaeration performance to the minimum at partial load operations by providing a means of reducing the amount of heat exchanging with cooling water for a condenser as an operating means when the volume of steam from a steam turbine declines. CONSTITUTION:The captioned system is equipped with gas turbines 1a-1c to rotate respective generators 4a-4c, exhaust h...

PURPOSE:To generate the electric power utilizing wind power in stable ways by arranging a power generator inside a trunk body part having a streamline shape and a windmill for driving the power generator in the rear part and staying the trunk body part in the air through a mooring cable which serves also as electricity feeding wire and a balloon. CONSTITUTION:A trunk body part 1 is formed into a s...

Apparatus for splicing fibrous yarns includes structure having walls which define a chamber accessible to receive respective portions of the yarns and confine them adjacent one another. A gas stream may be directed into the chamber transversely to the yarn portions. Means is provided to maintain the gas stream entering the chamber, and preferably also the walls of the chamber, at an elevated tempe...

The invention relates to a lead accumulator with a thixotropic gel consisting primarily of sulphuric acid and a gel former as an electrolyte, whereby the electrolyte consists of two different phases, a liquid, gel former-free phase, by which essentially the pores of the active materials are filled in, a solid phase, as a thioxotropic gel, by which the electrolyte space especially between the elect...

An apparatus and method for controlling an electro-magnetic particle clutch is provided. The apparatus includes first through third sensors, a memory, first through fourth calculating devices, first through third determining devices and a controller. The first sensor detects a throttle opening and outputs a first detected signal. The second sensor detects an actual engine revolution speed and outp...

A control system for an infinitely variable transmission has a transmission ratio control valve having a spool for controlling oil supplied to a cylinder of a drive pulley to change the transmission ratio. The transmission ratio control valve has chambers at both ends of the spool. By controlling the pressure of oil supplied to the chambers in accordance with the difference between a desired trans...

The separation of organometallic compounds and/or metal carbonyls from their solutions in organic media is effected according to the invention with the aid of semipermeable membranes of an aromatic polyamide.

The blower unit is used in the delivery drum area of a printing machine. It has a blow pipe (8) mounted with the gear (9-17) on the drive shaft (7) by means of a tension device (18-22). The tension device comprises the support arm (18) on which the blow pipe (8) is fixed, two further arms (18.1 and 18.2) which are each associated by a support roller (19) with the drive shaft, and the free end of t...

The sheet guide mechanism in the delivery drum area of a printing machine comprises grippers which take hold of the front edge of the sheets. The blow tube (8) which extends over the entire width of the sheet and operated rhythmically is associated by gearing (9-17) with the drive shaft (7) and is swivel mounted in the turning point (17). The angle (alpha 2) greater than 0 deg. is associated with ...

A process is claimed for applying a layer of electrically conductive polymer (I) to a material by applying a suitable polymer soln. to the surface of the material; the novelty is that the substrate surface is pretreated with a protic activator (II). Pref. (I) is polyaniline or a deriv. thereof, pref. contg. as comonomer a 5-membered nitrogen- or sulphur-heterocycle. Pref. (I) is, e.g., a copolyme...

Device for the partial straightening and parallelizing of fibers of a thread or thread end, including a turbine being drivable by compressed gas, the turbine including a rotor being accessible from outside the turbine, the rotor having a central opening formed therein being coaxial with the axis of rotation of the rotor for receiving a thread or thread end.

The formation efficiency of pasted positive plates of a lead-acid battery is greatly enhanced by providing in situ a layer of lead dioxide (PbO2) on the pasted plate surfaces prior to formation. The PbO2 layer is preferably formed by treating the surfaces of the plates with an ozone-enriched gas to convert a portion of the poorly conductive positive active precursor material (nPbO.PbSO4) to electr...

PURPOSE:To easily confirm the position of an object to be broken in an organism by equipping the subject device with a picture subtraction processing means to execute data subtraction processing for picture data between a B mode picture before an impulse wave is transmitted and the B mode picture after the impulse wave is transmitted whenever the impulse wave is transmitted and a display means to ...

PURPOSE:To afford a water supplying function sufficient for washing an organism, to control a temperature with high accuracy, and to minimize heat capacity by controlling the temperature of a platinum resistance element having a characteristic to change according to the temperature through a temperature detecting part. CONSTITUTION:In a sheath 21, a coaxial cable 31 is inserted in an axial directi...

PURPOSE:To form bead apex effectively and to improve its property by providing a measuring and cutting means upstream of the wrapping machine attaching a belt onto the outer periphery of a bead core, and a storing part keeping temporarily the belt went continuously from an extruder upstream thereof. CONSTITUTION:The measuring and cutting means 5 measuring the length of a belt 3 and cutting it, and...

A method and apparatus for use at the stage of a radial tire building process at which a tread and breaker, and sidewall rubbers, are added to the expanded carcass. A tread assembly is built, comprising tread rubber breaker and sidewall rubbers and is then located around the carcass which is then expanded into the tread assembly. A tread assembly former has a central portion expansible to bring si...

A safety binding apparatus for alpine skiing. The binding includes a longitudinal slide affixed to the upper surface of the ski, a body solidly affixed to a base longitudinally slidably mounted on the slide and including a retention jaw, preferably for the rear end of the boot, as well as an energization mechanism for the jaw, an elastic return device which includes a recoil spring for biasing the...