PURPOSE:To improve the utilization rate of the active material by making a plate for a clad-type lead storage battery by performing chemical formation on members connected together each of which is formed by packing a minium powder into a porous tube in the center of which a core is installed up to the lower 1/3-2/3 portion of its total length and packing a lead powder into the remaining upper por...

Comminuting apparatus with two mutually separate comminution spaces and with revolving comminuting tools, in which the two comminution spaces are mutually separated by means of comminuting tools and counter-holders, counter-blades and the like, the comminuting tools executing a motion relative to the counter-holders, counter-blades and the like and overlapping these in their flat, preferably plana...

A bed frame for a sofa-sleeper including pivotally interconnected head, body, intermediate and foot sections, each having a pair of opposed side rails adapted to support an overlying link fabric frame and mattress, which are movable between a retracted position in which the bed frame is contained within the sofa frame of the sofa-sleeper and an extended position in which the bed frame extends outw...

The present invention is an electronic controller for use with a laser system which includes a mechanical triggering device and which generates a beam of light energy in the infrared spectrum. The electronic controller includes a laser modulator which turns the laser system on and off at a frequency rate of two hundred cycles per second and a trigger/reset circuit which is electrically coupled to ...

A toe-abutment member providing safety ski boot release in the event of a backward-fall movement combined with a twisting movement of the skier's leg comprises a fixed locking member having an inclined ramp and an abutment body pivotally mounted on a cross-pin. The jaw unit for retaining the toe end of the ski boot is movably mounted within the abutment body and carries a transverse rod which is a...

An indicator in a grasping piece of a safety ski binding for indicating the setting of an adjustable operating characteristic, including a window and an elongated indicating member operatively connected at one end to the operating characteristic adjusting means, the opposite end of the indicating member bearing on the window, the indicating member being supported intermediate its ends.

An interlayer film for a laminated glass, which comprises polyvinyl butyral and a plastecizer ad has a T peel strength at 20.degree.C of not more than 0.5 kg/cw, said polyvinyl butyral satisfying the following expression V?-3X + 486 wherein X is the degree of butyralization in mole % and Y is the half-value width in cm-1 of hydroxyl absorption in the infrared absorption spectrum of the polyvinyl b...

The invention relates to a releasable ski binding, in which binding parts are provided on the ski and binding parts are provided on the ski boot, which has in its sole at least one front recess and one rear recess serving for locking it, the binding parts provided on the ski being arranged in a binding housing which extends in the longitudinal direction of the ski, is fastened to the ski and in wh...

The invention relates to a safety ski binding having a rear heel retainer and a front jaw, both of which are arranged on a sole-bearing plate or the like which can be swivelled about a pin arranged in the central region of the sole-bearing plate. The heel retainer is held in the ski-off position by means of a catch member of a spring-loaded catch device. The object of the invention is to provide a...

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A release ski binding comprising a sole plate having thereon a rear jaw for a ski shoe, a central part thereof being pivotal relative to the ski about a vertically upright axis and about a transversely extending axis. The sole plate is held in a skiing position by an elastic holding mechanism on the ski. The holding mechanism is responsive to a swivel movement occurring between the sole plate and ...

A safety ski binding includes a sole holder which is pivotally supported on a base member for movement upwardly about a transversely extending axle relative to the base member. The sole holder in the position of use is held thereat by a locking spring which acts onto a locking mechanism also supported on the base member. A hand lever is pivotally secured to the base member for movement about a sec...

The invention relates to a heel holder, the bearing block of which carries in the upper region thereof a pivot axle for a binding housing having a down-holding means and a stepping mandrel. In the lower region of the bearing block there is arranged a pivot axle for a control lever. A two-arm release lever is hingedly secured to the control lever, an arm of which release lever engages a projection ...

The telescoping parts of a rotary measuring arm mounted on an axis between two centering devices enable the outer part of the measuring arm, which is equipped with a scanning roller, to be let out or pushed in by the contour of the bore as the arm is swung around by a remote control drive. During such a scan of the bore wall, an inductive or capacitive transducer provides signals representative of...

In a grinding machine wherein a first carriage for the grinding wheel is movable at right angles to the axis of the grinding wheel toward and away from a second carriage which supports a dressing tool as well as the reciprocable or pivotable sensor of a distance measuring instrument and is movable in parallelism with the aforementioned axis, the grinding wheel is dressed by the dressing tool while...

A hydraulically controlled brake is equipped with a device preventing an excessive rise in temperature of the hydraulic fluid. The control piston of the brake comprises a cup-shaped piece and also an insulating core accommodated in the cup and having a free end face via which the piston pushes on the friction element. The core is screwed onto a central threaded column projecting from the bottom of...

A brake actuating system for use with a brake assembly having a body, a brake actuator and at least one friction member cooperating with the actuator and the body to brake a brakeable member. The invention provides a system with improved operator "feel" of braking force, and has a first fluid valve receiving pressurized fluid and controlling actuation of the actuator, with a signal input adapted t...