PURPOSE:To detect whether or not a ROM pack module is loaded completely to an electronic device main body visually or audibly easily by detecting electric connection between the ROM pack module and an electronic device main body. CONSTITUTION:A terminal 8 of a connector (not shown) provided to an electronic device main body is connected to an electric power supply and a terminal 9 is grounded simi...

Apparatus for providing a feed of irregularly sized and shaped objects in a spaced arrangement has a sloping slide with longitudinal corrugations for accelerating the objects and guiding them into alignment in the corrugations. The slide discharges the rows of objects onto an accelerating belt which is moving at a speed which is greater than the speed of the objects discharged onto its surface, an...

1. Apparatus for the aerobic biological purification of waste waters according to the combined filtration-activation method, with at least one submerged filter (1) rotating about a longitudinal axis (3) and submerged to the greater part in the waste water, which includes laminar growth bodies (33) as substrates for a so-called biological hotbed, wherein several growth bodies (33) are held mutually...

A base is proposed for the installation of electrical apparatuses or apparatus modules, such as transformers, capacitors, measurement transducers, rectifiers or the like, which base can be assembled easily from prefabricated components and requires little space, especially during despatch. To this end, the base consists of a polygonal or circular supporting plate (1) and of at least three cantilev...

The protection screen for sprayers, consisting of a rigid sheet of synthetic material, comprises a transversally curved plate (2) and a securing ring (3) which may be resiliently secured to the sprayer (4). The protection screen (1) is provided with a peripheral reinforcement wall (8) extending downwardly. The screen (1) is used to limit downwardly the spray flow delivered by the sprayer, for exam...

A method for accelerating the transfer of media between materials reacting in a fluidized bed in a centrifuge. The rotating fluidized bed increases the relative boundary layer velocities of the phases and assists in the transfer of material across the interface.

PCT No. PCT/DE83/00207 Sec. 371 Date Aug. 2, 1984 Sec. 102(e) Date Aug. 2, 1984 PCT Filed Dec. 10, 1983 PCT Pub. No. WO84/02251 PCT Pub. Date Jun. 21, 1984.The apparatus is intended for the breaking of ground used for the cultivation of plants with a probe, whereby by means of a rapid closing valve compressed air and by means of an injector valve a substance may be introduced into the soil in an i...

In a furniture system for arrangement against a sloping wall and comprising a number of sections designed as shelves, chests of drawers, cupboards, etc., and separated or limited by vertical partitions (7) at right angles to the sloping wall (1) each partition comprises a number of juxtaposed vertical plate members (8-10) having different heights and an obliquely cut upper edge. On or at their adj...

PCT No. PCT/AT84/00012 Sec. 371 Date Nov. 30, 1984 Sec. 102(e) Date Nov. 30, 1984 PCT Filed Mar. 14, 1984 PCT Pub. No. WO84/03843 PCT Pub. Date Oct. 11, 1984.For the treatment of combustion gases, particularly for domestic use, the gases are sprinkled or sprayed in parallel current or in counter-current with a washing liquid traversing vertical channels or ducts. At the upper end of each vertical ...

PCT No. PCT/EP84/00088 Sec. 371 Date Oct. 5, 1984 Sec. 102(e) Date Oct. 5, 1984 PCT Filed Mar. 29, 1984 PCT Pub. No. WO84/03847 PCT Pub. Date Oct. 11, 1984.An apparatus for scraping off excess coating composition from a traveling web of paper has a doctor, in the form of a flexible blade used as is or with a metering rod thereon. The doctor is fastened to a doctor supporting beam and can be presse...

A method for the recovery and reuse of an expensive palladium-tin catalyst whereby alkali hydroxide or carbonate is added to the exhausted catalytic solution and/or the spent rinse water solution to precipitate out a catalyst residue, which is then filtered, collected, washed, and dissolved in a hydrohalide acid and adjusted to a predetermined concentration.

An apparatus (14) embodying heat exchange means for treating solid, granular and aggregate materials, and in particular for treating spent, i.e., used, chemically bonded foundry sand. The subject apparatus (14) includes a rotatable first chamber means (16) in which the used foundry sand is preheated while traveling in a first direction therethrough from one end thereof to the other end thereof. Fr...

Described is a robot having a proximity sensor which is based on the reentrant-loop magnetic effect. In one embodiment this sensor in a robot hand can detect the position and orientation of magnetized objects within about a 5 cm range, independently of the speed of approach.

For manufacturing articles of plastics, rubber or any other material a mold or die assembly comprising a mold or die base assembled from repetitive modular standard elements consisting of substantially "ready to use" interchangeable base plates is provided by the invention. The base plates are prefabricated by high-precision castings or galvanoplastics or any other similar high-precisious non-cutt...

A thermal-sensitive record sheet copy system provides multiple copies by applying a coating to one record sheet. The single coating formulation includes ingredients which react to heat to provide a tacky condition having a desirable adhering property and thereby produce images on the two sheets. The coating includes a binder of synthetic polyterpene in the mixture in combination with a thermochrom...

The spring cover (7) according to the invention has a tubular form adapted to the outer contour of the rod (4) of the wiper arm; a slot (7f) enables its positioning on the wiper arm (5); it further comprises means for the clamping thereof to the rod (4), such as ratchet holes which cooperate with the heads of the articulation pin (3) which connects the rod (4) and the driving head (1) of the wiper...

The spring cover (7) comprises means (7g, 7h) to fix the cover to the spring of the wiper and rear fixing means (7j) to the rod or arm of the wiper; a flexible hinge is formed by the slots (7e) of the wings of the spring cover. It may be set in place by a simple ratchet system. Application to windshield wipers of motor vehicles.

Wall turbulence is prevented upon relative motion between a wall and a fluid by establishing adjacent said wall a boundary layer and causing flow elements to oscillate three-dimensionally. This is accomplished by means of riblets (10) provided on said wall and having a height of maximally about 0.1 mm.

A personal emergency rescue assembly comprising a container (400) attachable to a person with an automatically inflatable flotation device (413) stored in the container. The container (400) is readily opened by pull on a release (401) so that the flotation device (413) automatically inflates.

A casing article which includes a tubular core member and a length of shirred casing disposed on the core with its inner periphery in gripping engagement about the core. A deshirring control is carried by the core and engages a rear portion of the shirred casing. The deshirring control prevents forward movement of the rear portion of shirred casing until all the shirred casing forward of the contr...