A pneumatic tire manufactured with a sector mold consisting of a plurality of arc-shaped segments comprises a plurality of island rows of ribs (9-12) or blocks (5-8) in its tread portion and sipes (13-15) formed in at least one island row. Among these sipes, the depth of a sipe located in the vicinity of a position of a tread surface corresponding to an edge of the arc-shaped segment is made shall...

Method for manufacturing, by means of co-laminating, bars of a steel forming a medium or high alloy with a mild steel. It comprises bars (1) consisting of alloyed steels obtained by means of powder metallurgy and whose compacting gangue (matrix) (5) has been conserved.

A device for winding a thread onto a spool body is comprised of a main thread traversing guide having a stroke a and a compensating thread traversing guide with a stroke a/2. The thread is guided from a thread feeding device via a stationary deflecting guide roller, a third deflecting guide roller which corresponds to the compensating thread traversing guide, and a second deflecting guide roller w...

A solid waste material comminuting system having a electric motor for providing rotary motion, a pair of cutter stacks with cutter elements of one stack interleaved with cutter elements of the other, and gear means to transmit the rotary motion of the electric motor to counter-rotate cutter elements of one stack with cutter elements of the other. Each of the cutter stacks comprise a central shaft ...

Ein Verfahren zum Ausfiltrieren und Rückspülen von Feststoff-Partikeln aus Flüssigkeiten arbeitet mit einer gänzlich unter dem Flüssigkeitsspiegel 6 angeordneten Filtertrommel 5, deren Mantelfläche 7 mit einem Filtermedium 8 belegt ist und von außen nach innen durchströmt wird. Es ist eine Rückspülvorrichtung zum Entfernen des Filterkuchens von dem Filtermedium 8 vorgesehen. Zu Beginn jedes Rücksp...

A machine for cleaning cops or supports (4) of spools of thread for the textile industry comprising means (3) for axially locking the cop or support of a spool to be cleaned and means (5) for scraping the residual thread (6) wound on the cop or support (4). The scraping means (5) are movable along the lateral surface of the cop or support (4) along a direction which has a component that is axial w...

In a process of separating a liquid sample having phase portions of different densities by centrifugal separation, a phase separator container is employed. The phase separator container comprises a housing having concentric inner and outer cylindrical walls defining a longitudinal axis and a top wall and further a piston body constituting a bottom wall of the housing. The piston body defines toget...

A process for cutting a moving strip to form a series of plates, such as battery plates, includes the initial step of transporting the strip past a rotary divider including a cutter having radial blades configured to cut the strip into the plates. The cutter further has a set of blades for cutting individual pieces from the strip, which pieces are not part of the plates. As the cutter blades cut t...

An error log request is generated by a component of a communication sub-system. The error log request is analyse and compared to entries in one of a plurality of records in a message look-up table. If there is a match between the fields of the error log request and selected entries of a record in the look-up table, a user message request is generated which facilitates the display of a pre-existing...

A centrifugal processing system for cultured cellular suspensions comprises a reservoir (66) for pooling a desired volume of the cellular suspension from a plurality of individual containers (60) in which the cellular suspension have been cultured. A centrifugation chamber (36) is provided operative in response to centrifugal force for separating the cellular suspension into a cellular component a...

A control system for a vehicle engine coupled with an automatic transmission, which comprises a torque controller (B5) operative to vary torque produced by the vehicle engine (1), in accordance with a controlled variable, so as to suppress torque shock resulting from a speed change operation carried out to vary a gear ratio in a power transmitting gear arrangement (20) provided in the automatic tr...

A vehicle control apparatus and method therefor has a number of controllers (50, 63, 56) interconnected with one another by a data highway (10), the engine controllers being formed for example by a CPU. The engine controllers are each connected to a sensor for sensing a vehicle parameter and the controllers are also connected to a respective actuator (53, 58) for varying the associated vehicle par...

A method of controlling the rotational speed of a continuously variable transmission having a pair of pulleys which each includes a fixed pulley member and a movable pulley member, including the steps of decreasing and increasing the groove width between each pair of fixed and movable pulley members to respectively increase and decrease the rotational radius of a belt wrapped around the pulleys. A...

A method of forming an oxide film and a method of manufacturing an electronic device utilizing the oxide film is disclosed. A silicon oxide film is formed on a substrate by sputtering. Therefore, the film formation is carried out at a low temperature. The sputtering atmosphere comprises an oxidizing gas and an inert gas such as argon. In order to prevent fixed electric charges from being generated...

The side has a plurality of parallel ribs (2) and, perpendicularly to them, successions of slots (3) alternated with successions of stiffening elements (4, 5) formed by sections of wall alternated inward and outward from the hose-winding device and provided with stiffening ribs (6). In the side there are seats (7, 8) for the introduction of ends of a handle element (102) and of a base element (101...

In the bobbin change of a winding machine having a turret, the or each thread is guided by a guide member (14) extending over the length of the bobbin spindle. The guide member (14) is carried pivotably at both ends by supporting levers (12, 33). The movements of these levers (12, 33) are synchronised by two further supporting levers which are connected by means of a force-transmission mechanism. ...

A pre-adjusting device for tools has a rolling-contact bearing (13, 15) and a bearing sleeve (13) with an inner and an outer circumferential surface, the bore of which is provided to accommodate a conically designed bearing journal (3) with its likewise conical inner circumferential surface. The rolling-contact bearing is designed as a needle roller bearing (13, 15). The bearing sleeve (13) also h...

A machine for disintegrating organic refuse such as coarse household refuse, trimmings from bushes, and similar material has a first conveyor (47) which delivers the refuse to a cutter (18) which cuts the refuse into relatively large pieces.These pieces are delivered to a moving grid (52) which delivers them to a disintegrating rotor (24). The moving grid (52) consists of two endless chains runnin...

The longitudinal slitting machine for a web of material, especially a web of corrugated cardboard, has at least one cutting knife which is arranged on one side of the web of material and is supported by a holding support which can be displaced transversely to the web of material. There is present on the other side of the web of material at least one countersurface, which can be displaced transvers...

A device for cutting moving material webs, especially of fibrous materials, to shape comprises a rotating shape cutting roller and a rotating counter cutting roller. The shape cutting roller has a shape cutting side and the counter-roller a smooth surface. Both rollers are borne in a machine frame by means of rotary bearings and the center distance between them is adjustable. The rollers are rotat...