PURPOSE:To permit the unravelling of a roving at a high speed and the stable unravelling on restart of operation by unravelling the roving from a roving bobbin by using a pair of rollers one of which is in positive drive. CONSTITUTION:The roving A to be unravelled is set onto a positive driving roller R1, and the top edge B of the roving A is allowed to pass between the positive driving roller R1 ...

A fire alarm system which makes fire determination based on a novel idea which considers various changes of the physical phenomena in the surroundings caused in relation with the occurrence of a fire in terms of changes of vectors. These changes in the physical phenomena are detected by the detecting section in the form of analog data and processed by a data sampling section as sampled data and st...

An electromagnetic valve assembly is shown having an armature and armature-actuated valve member the mass of which is substantially less than the armature and which is not fixedly connected to the armature; upon electrical energization the armature first overcomes a restraining force and then travels a major part of its stroke before actuating the valve member, at a relatively high speed, thereby ...

To unravel a terminal portion of a textile yarn, in particular in preparation for joining that yarn to another one by twisting their ends together, an extremity of the yarn is vibrated to loosen the fibers while a part of the yarn spaced from its end is held fast and the yarn extremity is combed or subjected to an aspirated air stream to remove loose fibers. In a preferred arrangement the air stre...

The method according to the invention can be applied in microelectronics, optoelectronics, sensor technology and optics. The aim and object of the invention consists in finding a production method for a coating having regions of different optical transmission, a coating having a wavelength-dependent transmittivity tau 1( lambda ) being deposited on a substrate. According to the invention, the obje...

A process for the preparation of the enantiomeric pairs (1R-3R- alpha S+1S-3S- alpha R) and (1R-3S- alpha S+1S-3R- alpha R) from a mixture of all 8 stereoisomers of the compound alpha R/S-cyano-3-phenoxy-4-fluorobenzyl 3R/S-(2,2-dichlorovinyl)-2,2-dimethyl-1R/S-cyclopropanecarboxylate, comprising dissolving the mixture in a secondary or tertiary alkylamine having 2-6 C atoms per alkyl radical, su...

In a data storage apparatus, memory chips are arranged in groups, each group having an address bus which is connected to the address inputs of all the chips in that group. Each address bus is terminated at both ends by circuits which perform the dual function of suppressing reflections and checking the addresses. Because reflections are suppressed, the time taken to address the store is reduced. O...

A process for the preparation of the enantiomeric pairs (1R-3R- alpha S+1S-3S- alpha R) and (1R-3S- alpha S+1S-3R- alpha R) from a mixture of all 8 stereoisomers of the compound alpha R/S-cyano-3-phenoxy-4-fluorobenzyl 3R/S-(2,2-dichlorovinyl)-2,2-dimethyl-1R/S-cyclopropanecarboxylate, comprising dissolving the mixture in a secondary or tertiary alkylamine having 2-6 C atoms per alkyl radical, su...

A device for detecting differences in color of a material to be inspected, which device comprises a first light source emitting light of a first color and a second light source emitting light of a second color, an optical system adapted to project portions of the light emitted both by the first and the second light source onto first and second spaced apart measuring regions respectively, each meas...

A pneumatic tire and a method of constructing a tire bead for the same, in which the tire has a bead portion which is reinforced by a bead core of wire running around the bead portion and the wire is housed in a circular elastomeric support which forms a cradle in which the wire is located. The bead can be made by winding wire around the preformed elastomeric cradle.

A solid-state electrosurgical generator is disclosed which provides output waveforms that are optimized for electrosurgical fulguration. The fulguration output circuitry consists of a radio-frequency tank circuit which is periodically pulsed to produce a periodic damped-sinusoidal output waveform. However, the damping factor is sufficiently low so that many cycles of the waveform occur between per...

In a bottle inspection machine a cylindrical hollow shaft is driven rotationally about a vertical axis. Another shaft is splined in the tubular shaft for rotation therewith. Another rotor is mounted coaxially to the inner shaft and the two rotors constitute a means for transporting bottles in a circular path. A light source is mounted on the radially outer side of the circular path and projects be...

In an alarm for an enclosed space (eg a vehicle theft alarm) an externally accessible keyswitch (or the like) achieves temporary disarming to allow an authorised person sufficient access to an internal arming/disarming arrangement. The externally accessible device may be remotely actuable (eg by radio). The internal device may be associated with the ignition switch.

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...

A measuring device for long-term installation in a bore in a rock formation for detecting gradual changes in bore diameter, especially gradual constriction which might affect the condition of radioactive waste deposited in the bore, utilizes telescoping parts under outward spring pressure. One of the two elements of the transducer which by the relative displacement of these elements measures chang...

Rubber compositions and metal-reinforced rubber ply members have improved metal adhesion and metal adhesion retention. The improvement comprises admixing from about 0.5 to about 10.0 parts per hundred rubber (phr) of bis(2-mercaptobenzothiazato) nickel with a vulcanizable rubber composition prior to combining the metal and rubber and then curing. A method for improving the metal adhesion and metal...

A repaired elastomer article having a cut or crack entirely therethrough. A treating agent is located about the cut portion on the inner surface of the article and an amine curable polymer or prepolymer layer resides over said treating agent. A cured elastomeric patch resides over said curable polymer. Since the amine curable polymer cures at ambient temperatures, the repair of the elastomer artic...

An early high-strength mineral polymer composition is formed of a polysialatesiloxo material obtained by adding a reactant mixture consisting of alumino-silicate oxide (Si2O5,Al2O2) with the aluminum cation in a four-fold coordination, strong alkalis such as sodium hydroxide and/or potassium hydroxide, water, and a sodium/potassium polysilicate solution; and from 15 to 26 parts, by weight, based u...

In a method of producing a gas containing carbon monoxide and hydrogen, in which method the gas does not need to be subjected to energy-consuming and costly scrubbing steps before being used as reduction gas, combustion gas or synthesis gas, the gas is produced from material containing carbon and/or hydrocarbon and oxidant and is supplied to a reaction chamber (2) simultaneously with a gas heated ...

The invention is related to a device for measuring the flowrate of fluid through a well. The device according to the invention comprises an upper portion adapted for connection with a cable, two elongated side members, generally parallel to and spaced from each other, secured to the upper portion, a vortex generating assembly comprising at least one obstacle secured between said side members trans...