Seat back reclining mechanism having a coarse adjustment device and a fine adjustment device. The fine adjustment device includes an eccentric cam which may be mounted about a pivot pin for connecting a stationary plate secured to the seat bottom with a movable plate secured to the seat back. In the fine adjustment device, there is provided a locking device which prevents the eccentric cam from ro...

PURPOSE: To simplify a folding structure of a backrest by constituting a rear seat through a process of providing two backrests capable of being independently folded, by supporting both backrests by a common bar, and by attaching one backrest to the bar so that it may be pivotally moved. CONSTITUTION: A rear seat is provided with two independent backrests formed of rectangular frame structures 1, ...

Continuous production of a panel, partic. a mineral wool insulation panel; covered or at least two adjacent faces from a continuous band consists of the following operations all carried out at the same line speed or the moving band: (a) Sticking the covering (2) on a first face of the band; (b) Maintaining the covering in position until the bonding is complete; (c) progressively folding the coatin...

A process for reducing the release of gas from dumped solid refuse comprises injecting into the solid refuse a liquid slurry formed by mixing a solid mixture comprising a) at least one siliceous component which is actually or latently hydraulic, b) at least one alkaline earth component based on CaO, Ca(OH)2, MgO or Mg(OH)2 as initiator for the hydraulic component, and c) anhydrous or hydrated ca...

A system for cleaning lower print head structure of ink jet printing apparatus effects: (i) a condensation cycle wherein a droplet stream(s) are directed past such print head structure in a solvent condensing mode, (ii) a drying cycle in which air is directed across said print head structure to remove condensed solvent and (ii) a heating cycle wherein the lower print head structure is heated to a ...

Combinations of physicochemical and biological treatment processes are capable of removing dioxins, polychlorobiphenyls (PCB's) and other halogenated organic compounds from wastewaters. The dioxins and PCB's are removed by at least 90 percent in the pretreatment steps of neutralization, oxidation, and sedimentation; the residual amounts are removed in a powdered activated carbon enhanced sequencin...

Contaminated water is contacted with an agent which contains salts or cations of mono-, di-, or trivalent metals in a maximum amount of 50 masspercent and rock granules containing at least 25 masspercent zeolite, preferably clinoptilolite and/or mordenite. The amount of metal salts respectively cations present in the parent zeolitic rock can be increased according to necessity by ion-exchange, ads...

When an abnormal washing condition occurs during a washing process, an auto-off power source switch is made automatically to present an off condition after a long shelf time such as one hour. In case of the abnormal washing condition of the washing process, since the switch maintains the long shelf time, an operator can notice such an abnormal condition during this long shelf time and then remaini...

Enol esters and ether prodrugs of 3-acyl-oxindole-1-carboxa mides of formulae (I) are new, where X and Y=H, Fluoro or chloro R1=2-thienyl or benzyl R=2-10C alkanoyl, 5-7C cycloalkylcarbonyl, 7-10C phenylalkanoyl, chlorobenzoyl, methoxybenzoyl, thenoyl, omega-1-3C alkoxycarbonyl 3-5Calkanoyl, 2-10C alkoxycarbonyl, phenoxycarbonyl, 1-(2-4C acyloxy) 1-4C a lkyl, 1-(2-5C alkoxycarbonyloxy) 1-4C alkyl,...

PCT No. PCT/AU86/00348 Sec. 371 Date Apr. 28, 1987 Sec. 102(e) Date Apr. 28, 1987 PCT Filed Nov. 18, 1986 PCT Pub. No. WO87/02888 PCT Pub. Date May 21, 1987.An apparatus (10) for testing the sensory system in humans or animals comprising housing parts (12, 14) which are jointed together in volume defining manner to form a housing. The housing has a gap formed by recesses (64, 66) in the housing pa...

A method for the manufacture of very low density mineral wool structural panels on a moving foraminous support wire (40) by frothing a dilute aqueous dispersion of mineral wool. The froth, a mass of delicate, non-resilient and non-uniform bubbles among the entangled mineral wool fibers readily breaks, is stripped of water and dried without substantial loss of the highly open, porous structural con...

In a method of removing tetrahedral aluminum from an aluminosilicate zeolite, the zeolite is treated with an aqueous fluorosilicate solution which reacts with tetrahedral aluminum in said zeolite to produce water-insoluble aluminum fluoride. In addition, during or after aluminum removal, the zeolite is contacted with an aqueous solution containg a water-soluble fluoride capable of reacting with th...

PURPOSE:To prevent the generation of thickness reduction in a screw part by arranging a porous body in a core and a suction means for sucking the part opposed to the core of a film toward the core through the porous body. CONSTITUTION:A vacuum pump 41 is driven with the starting of air blow to the interior of a parison 2 and the space part between the bottom part 31b of a core and a film F is redu...

A chuck jaw changer is provided for a machine tool such as a numerically controlled lathe (22) for automatically changing the gripping jaws (32) of a quick change chuck (28) on its work spindle (26). The set of gripping jaws of the chuck are replaceably engaged in respective radial guideways (56) in a chuck body (30), with each gripping jaw being slid into and out of one guideway when that guidewa...

A liquid chamber (3) arranged in the bottom of the socket cavity (2) is latitudinally sealed by the engaging ball head (4) of the femoral prosthesis shaft. The ball head (4) of the hip joint prosthesis is supported hydrostatically by the liquid chamber (3) filled with synovia and sealed by the ball head following a deformation of the elastic sealing edge (5). By means of the hydrostatic support, t...

1. Articulated two-wheeled manually drawn cart for transporting or handling goods, can be used on any kind of grounds, including stairs, made up of an upper frame (1) which carries the load, and an under frame (2) which ensures the mobility of the device and which, part from the two standard wheels (4) comprises two belts (5), either notched or smooth moving, facing the ground, around a rounded un...

A mandrel for holding gradient coils in an instrument that measures nuclear magnetic resonance is fastened directly to the magnet of this instrument. It is shown that this arrangement can be used to reduce the output of noise while, at the same time, making it easy to adjust the position of the mandrel. The device comprises two sets of brackets fastened by their struts, on either side of the magne...

The present invention relates to a device for dispensing a fluid from a container (2) by means of the axial movement of a piston within the container under the influence of a plunger moved by the device, which device is adapted to receive the container on its forward end and to move the plunger (5) axially forward towards or within the container so as to dispense a selected amount of fluid from th...

PURPOSE:To obtain a means which can be limited once a day by comparing the day of the week of an existing timepiece unit with a fixed day stored in a day- of-the-week memory means, and executing a self-diagnosis program when no coincidence is obtained from said comparison. CONSTITUTION:The contents of a fixed day-of-the-week memory part 12 are defined as A; while the contents of a day-of-the-week ...