A direct-current arc furnace has a vessel with a floor and a cover, at least two vault electrodes projecting down into the vessel through the cover, and a hearth electrode exposed in the vessel generally in the floor below the vault electrodes. A scrap-metal charge is melted in this furnace by first energizing the vault electrodes with direct-current voltage of opposite polarity while displacing t...

PURPOSE:To reduce size of a transmission unit in the lateral direction of a vehicular body, by arranging an interaxle differential gear for a laterally arranged engine on a longitudinal axis of the vehicular body, and to improve comfortability in a compartment, by accommodating the unit in a tunnel provided at the center of a floor surface of the vehicular body. CONSTITUTION:An axis of an interaxl...

A method for removing suspended particles from a liquid by means of gas-bubble flotation, in which, before the gas-bubble flotation step proper, the liquid is more or less saturated with the gas in one or more preceding gas introduction steps, so as to obtain a longer average life-time of the smaller gas bubbles in the final flotation step.

PURPOSE:To improve the production capability by automating the assembly frame insertion process in an electrode group constituent inserting unit which inserts electrode group constituents into an assembly frame used to assemble the electrode group of a mono-block cell. CONSTITUTION:Unit cell electrode group constituents are conveyed by a bucket conveyor 2 from a stacker which stacks a preset numbe...

A process and apparatus for the manufacture of plates of an electrical storage battery involves the partial or total severing of a plate blank from a strip of stock material and the subsequent filling of a grid of the plate blank with a material in paste form prior to the removal of the filled plate from the stock material.

PURPOSE:To prevent the defects of products and facilitate the transfer to the next process by controlling the transfer speed of a rack conveyor so as to increase by a certain rate at the top edge part and the terminal part of a sheet material and shallowly laying the both edge parts of the sheet material onto the rack conveyor. CONSTITUTION:A certain amount of rubber material is molded into a shee...

A device for supporting and sealing a final drive shaft bearing in a speed change gear having a construction in which a final drive shaft is supported by a bearing holder via a rolling element bearing and the bearing holder is fitted and fixed to a gear box. A stopper flange is formed at the inner end portion of the bearing holder and a first nut is screwed to the outer end portion of the bearing ...

In a driving gear for front and rear wheels of automobile, comprising an engine with a crank shaft disposed in the direction of width of the car body, a transmission means supported on an engine case at one side axially of said crank shaft, a clutch provided between the engine and the transmission, a first differential gear coupled to the transmission, a second differential gear transmitting one o...

PURPOSE:To decrease bending moment acting on the shaft of a reduction gear so as to use the shaft and a bearing without any necessity for increasing their strength, by placing a gear meshing part in a position aside to an engine from an axial line of the reduction gear. CONSTITUTION:A helical gear generates thrust force acting on its meshing part, accordingly if an output gear and a gear 61 are pl...

An apparatus for handling textile roving coils (5), with a hole at the centre, to pile them up in a container (71) for successive handlings, comprises: a rod (43) to receive, in a usually horizontal position, a coil (5) expelled from a rod (3) of the coils forming machine; a means (25) for the lift and transfer in a vertical, downwardly directed position of said rod (43) with the coil (5) being he...

PURPOSE:To remove contaminants such as a nonvolatile residue from a large umber of form component parts with a minimum solvent loss, by a method wherein a title device is composed of a self-contained contaminant removing system of a recirculating and close-loop method. CONSTITUTION:A rotatable drum 11 holds component parts of a form. An inlet line 12a is divided, a part of a solvent flows into the...

PCT No. PCT/JP84/00129 Sec. 371 Date May 17, 1985 Sec. 102(e) Date May 17, 1985 PCT Filed Mar. 23, 1984 PCT Pub. No. WO85/01557 PCT Pub. Date Apr. 11, 1985.A hollow portion of a tubular shaft (1) contains an elastic filler element (4) which has projections (6) formed on the outer periphery thereof. A lubricating-oil passage is defined between the inner peripheral surface of the hollow portion of t...

PURPOSE:To confirm output data, by providing a storage means, where data indicating the internal operation state is stored at a prescribed timing, and an output means, which outputs this stored data, in a one-chip microcomputer. CONSTITUTION:Data sent to a program counter 31 in a one-chip microcomputer 30 is sent to a shift register 32 also at a prescribed timing. Data is stored in the register 32...

PURPOSE:To improve the sensitivity as well as to eliminate the insensitive region by locating a linear light source to irradiate the plate to be examined along the width of said plate, thereby allowing the light widthwise of the plate to converge on a photo detector through a cylindrical lens. CONSTITUTION:The light source 9 comprises a linear light source such as fluorescent or mercury lamp. A cy...

A brake system intended for automotive vehicles provided with a brake pressure transmitter (1) which is linked to the wheel brakes through pressure medium lines, and with sensors (19 to 22, 24) which are responsive to the brake pressure or to the behavior of rotation of the wheels and by means of which the braking effect at the wheels brakes is detectable. Furthermore, separating valves (SO1, SO2,...

Un procédé pour le contrôle de façon continue et automatique du fonctionnement électrique et de la conformité de la commande dans une unité d'affichage 1 à cristaux liquides, consistant à déterminer le temps de décharge ou de charge du condensateur 14 ayant pour plaque chaque segment 3 et l'arrière-plan ou électrode de retour 2 de l'unité d'affichage quand l'alimentation dudit segment est décon...

An apparatus (11) for inspecting the sealing surface (86) of a container (15) for dips, saddles and lean is disclosed. While the container (15) is rotated, a beam (77) of light is projected horizontally above and through a finish portion of said container. An optical detector (100) detects the height of said sealing surface (86) by detecting the location of a minimum in the light beam. Dips in the...