A metering valve which is particularly advantageous for use in gas mixing devices such as patient ventilators, to accurately control the volume and frequency of gas flow for each gas and to provide a feedback of the actual flow through the valve. A valve (82), actuated by solenoid (164) is connected to the core of a linear variable differential transformer (192). As the valve opens, the core (206)...

PURPOSE:To movably provide the working member of a brake device, making an interlocking motion to a side clutch, axially to a clutch gear then allow a shifter, operated by a manual control mechanism, to move said working member thus apply the above described brake device for that as the parking brake. CONSTITUTION:In travelling operation of a machine body if a side clutch A is operated, a clutch g...

PURPOSE:To prevent any drop in early battery capacity due to deep charging and discharging from occurring, by forming an unformed plate using a lead- calcium alloy grid in a battery electrolyte added with a primary tin-ion, then injecting the electrolyte added with the same ion into an assembled battery, and replenishing the charging. CONSTITUTION:After forming both unformed positive and negative ...

A machine for applying a configuration of reinforcement/stiffening or decorative material in powder form to a receiving surface (20), for subsequent fusing, cooling and pressing to a substrate such as shoe upper. The machine comprises a deposition station (12), a heating station (14) and a press station (16). A tensioned receiving belt (20) receives the configuration of powder through a cut-out (4...

An incontinence device consisting of a rectangular pad of absorbent material incorporating along its upper surface at least one strip of a skeleton polyester foam material, the function of which is to enable urine to flow rapidly to the surface of those regions of the pad not immediately saturated by urine. In a preferred embodiment there are provided three strips of skeleton foam, two peripheral ...

A fastening arrangement for connecting a knife to a cutter shaft, having a movable connecting member between the cutter shaft and the knife, it being possible for the cutter to be demounted from the connecting member and mounted on the connecting member without using tools. In order to considerably simplify the known fastening arrangements whilst reducing the components and simultaneously having a...

A positioning device for bobbins to be arranged standing firmly on their tube in a space-saving manner in a pallet, but without touching one another, can be optimised in terms of production and operation if a positioning template remaining at the packing location is provided for positioning the individual bobbins and a positioning plate with a soft surface is provided both underneath and above eac...

In a combined gas and steam turbine power station with a preconnected coal gasifier and a gas cooling and gas purification system post-connected to the coal gasifier, the naphtha and oil fractions occurring are to be used for obtaining energy in a way that promises the greatest possible efficiency. To this end the invention provides for return of the tar fractions occurring in gas cooling and puri...

A release ski binding having a sole plate which in its center area can be pivoted about an approximately vertical axis and can be tilted up about a transverse axis arranged in front of the vertical axis, which sole plate is held on the ski in the skiing position by a resilient holding mechanism, which holding mechanism is responsive to a swivelling movement of the sole plate relative to the ski an...

Single and multiple porous media impingement type air filter elements are disposed in filter housings which provide access to the filter elements from top opening doors or plenums in the housing for service or repair of the elements. Housing sections defining the plenums are provided with mechanism to lift and swing the housing sections clear of the filter opening, and the housing sections are mov...

An overshoe is provided for an orthopaedic cast such as a plaster cast. The overshoe comprises a sole, an upper piece connected to the sole and a toe cap. The upper piece has first and second parts adapted to receive a plaster cast in the overshoe and has fastening means, such as a "Velcro" (Trade Mark) fastening, allowing those parts to be fastened together to hold the cast firmly within the over...

An automatic braking control system is capable of automatically maintaining a braking force once a vehicle has been stopped by the driver. The braking force is maintained until the clutch of the vehicle is engaged, at which time the force is automatically released so that the vehicle can be restarted. This system is especially useful for restarting a vehicle which has been stopped on an upward slo...

PURPOSE:To reduce the manhour and improve the yield, by a method wherein a submount is put upon a lead frame to be fixed, the lead frame is applied to the positioning of the submount, and then chip mounting, lead connecting and checking are performed for each submount. CONSTITUTION:A submount 2 is pinched with a pair of tweezers, and accommodated in the retaining part 12 of a lead frame 11. The su...

The invention relates to a device for switching through busbar lines of electrical assemblies which can be arranged in a row and are provided with plug devices on the mutually facing sides. In order that any desired assembly can be released individually from the row without adversely affecting the through-switching and mounting of the other assemblies which are connected in the row, the invention ...

In a device for eliminating the backlash of at least two gear pairs in mesh in a speed change gearbox, especially one for motor vehicles, some of the gears being arranged in a fixed manner on a shaft and the others arranged on another shaft in a manner which allows them to be engaged, at least one third rotary bearing arrangement for at least two further gears is provided, the gears being in mesh ...

Polyolefin foams which have a density of from 30 to 300 g/l, do not exhibit after-shrinkage and possess taut cells are prepared by letting down a polyolefin/blowing agent gel, the latter first being let down to 0.1-10 bar gage pressure and the foam being kept at this pressure until it has cooled to at least 20 DEG C. below the expansion temperature.

A foldable film of extruded, biaxially stretched, metallised, opaque polypropylene or polyester, provided with pinholes (vacuoles), has an areal stretching ratio of 60 to 80 and a water-vapour permeability of 0.1 - 0.2 g/m<2> . d. To increase the foldability, the polypropylene has added to it a natural or synthetic low-molecular weight resin with a softening point of 60@ to 180@C, in particular of...

A brake support (92) for mounting on a spyder (90) extends around opposite sides of a disc. The fixed support has a slide for receiving a sliding brake shoe carrier adjacent a piston (38). The support also has spaced parallel trunnions for supporting a caliper (100) assembly which extends over the rotor disc which is attached to a wheel assembly. The caliper (100) assembly has a mounting means for...

1. Phenolic resin compositions suitable for the manufacture of phenolic prepreg mats, according to which the compositions employed for impregnating the fibre mats consist of phenolformaldehyde resins of the resole type, fillers, pigments and hardening agents, characterized in that these compositions contain an additive consisting of at least 20% by weight of an alkali or alkaline-earth metal metab...