PURPOSE: To prolong the life of a bowl spoke plow by setting the impingement angle of the bowl spoke plow upon a wearing material at <75 deg.. CONSTITUTION: Bowl spokes 18 extend perpendicularly in the axial direction from a flat plate 22 of a bowl head 12. The bowl spoke plow 30 is mounted on the front surfaces 32 of the bowl spokes 18. The bowl spoke plow 30 has an impingement angle of <75 deg. ...

PURPOSE:To improve the efficiency of a centrifugal sepn. treatment operation by exchanging a centrifugal pipe by means of a centrifugal pipe supplying rotor which rotates synchronously with a centrifugal rotor and a centrifugal pipe taking out rotor. CONSTITUTION:The centrifugal pipe supplying rotor 20 which is rotated integrally by a pulse motor 2 and the centrifugal pipe taking out rotor 30 are ...

Disclosed is a process for fabricating a composite polycrystalline diamond or cubic boron nitride (CBN) compact. Briefly, the process is conducted by mating a pre-formed sintered polycrystalline diamond or CBN compact and a plastically deformable support, and subjecting the mated composite compact to elevated temperature and pressure conditions sufficient to plastically deform the support into att...

PURPOSE:To accurately measure the thickness of a plate and to automate measurement by measuring the thickness of a plate for a storage battery at many points by a noncontact method, and automatically calculating an average of measured values. CONSTITUTION:When a plate 2 is moved between laser displacement meters 1, 1', distance between A and B is measured with sensors of the displacement meters 1,...

The conical connection 2 which connects the centrifugal drum 1 to the drive spindle 3 has a first section A1 which is constructed as a frictionally engaging connection and a second section A2 in which means 4 are provided for elastically supporting the centrifuge drum. Tilting movements of the centrifuge drums which can be produced by torque unbalances are elastically absorbed in the second sectio...

A wet laid watermark of uncoated paper is simulated by the use of a resin or resin-plasticizer mixture dissolved in a slow evaporating, high boiling solvent. A sufficient quantity of the low viscosity solution is printed onto an uncoated paper sheet of stationery grade by a standard flexographic press to penetrate the paper fiber and deposit a non-tacky solid having a refractive index which closel...

A disconnectable electrical plug for use with a urological endscope comprising a housing; a conductor; a connector; and an extension block keyed for insertion into a guide block of the endoscope. The extension blocks extends from the housing at a substantially right angle to the entry of the conductor into the housing and is insertable into the guide block in either a first or second position. A u...

Pneumatic rubber tire with a puncture sealing feature comprised of an enveloped open network structure containing a sealant composition on the inner portion of the tire.

A rider truck lift utilizes a see-through mast assembly and a forwardly positioned rider compartment to improve visibility of the load for the operator. The rider compartment is accessible from either side of the truck and comprises a low-rise deck which allows for one-step ingress and egress. A pseudo-tricycle wheel arrangement provides for a tandem articulated rear wheel steering assembly that r...

A safety system helps prevent injury from falls from stacks of containers while loading and unloading container ships using an overhead trolley crane. The crane is of the type including a frame movable in fore and aft gantry directions, a trolley track supported by the frame and a trolley movable along the trolley track in on shore and off shore trolley directions. The trolley includes a container...

The invention relates to a heel-piece for a safety ski binding, the heel-piece being released when the load on the binding exceeds a specified limit. A link mechanism is mounted on the heel-piece for connecting the sole-holder to the binding plate of the ski. The link mechanism is engaged by two spindles, which in the operational position of the heel-piece are transverse to the ski and parallel to...

The invention involves a method for determining the concentration of electro-chemically convertible substances in a solution by means of an analyzer equipped with a test electrode, so that a precise determination of the concentration, dependable over extended periods, is possible. The invention provides for a potential varying with time within a potential interval to be impressed on the test elect...

A particulate detergent composition, such as one comprising sodium linear higher alkylbenzene sulphonate (LAS) and bentonite, is made directly from anionic synthetic organic detergent acid by neutralizing such acid with a neutralizing agent, such as aqueous sodium hydroxide solution, in a reaction vessel and directly discharging the neutralized detergent salt from the reaction vessel into an absor...

Solvent-free water-based emulsions of hydrophilic polyurethane polymers, their preparation and solvent-free coatings produced from the emulsions are described. Also described are compositions produced by subjecting a homogeneous blend of a curable polymer precursor such as rubber latex and the polyurethane emulsion to curing conditions. Moisture permeable membranes, water swellable sealants, extru...

PURPOSE: To obtain a catalyst with a good rate of conversion of residual oil and a good gasoline yield by blending a crystalline aluminosilicate with an acid-treated porous kaolin or metakaolin, a clay, an active matrix and a synthetic matrix in a specified ratio. CONSTITUTION: The cracking catalyst consists of 5-50 wt.% crystalline aluminosilicate, 5-80 wt.% kaolin or metakaolin obtd. by washing ...

PURPOSE:To obtain a molding which radiates far infrared rays of a wide range of wavelength with extremely high efficiency in a relatively low temp. region by incorporating ground hulls as a far IR radiator into a binder and molding the mixture to a proper shape. CONSTITUTION:The hulls are let off into the gap which has a spiral shape on the inside or outside surface consisting of a screw and outsi...

A method of providing B channel diagnostics to an integrated services digital network (ISDN) comprises the steps of monitoring error performance on the ISDN D channel and comparing the D channel error performance to a predetermined criterion as a measure of the B channel error performance. If the predetermined threshold is exceeded any of a number of possible actions can be taken by a network diag...

Support structure for sofa beds, with pull-out, raisable auxiliary bed, which comprises an upper frame (6) carrying support means for a mattress and connected, by means of rods (9a,b) linked as a parallelogram, to two lower bars (10) transverse to the larger dimension of the frame, blocking means (25) being present for the raised position and balancing means for the weight of the frame, the sofa b...

Method of making a composite coated article by the steps of: (a) initiating chemical vapor deposition of separated diamond or diamond-like particles (50) onto a nondiamond or nondiamond-like substrate (49) surface by use of low pressure metastable deposition of carbon in the presence of atomic hydrogen and at a temperature (i.e., 600-950 DEG C) that favors the nucleation of such particles, the sub...

PCT No. PCT/JP88/00041 Sec. 371 Date Sep. 22, 1988 Sec. 102(e) Date Sep. 22, 1988 PCT Filed Jan. 21, 1988 PCT Pub. No. WO88/05409 PCT Pub. Date Jul. 28, 1988.A specific oxidation product layer is formed on the surface of a styrene resin container body, and via the oxidation product layer, a coated layer of a copolymer of vinylidene chloride, vinyl chloride and a (meth)acrylate is provided. This co...