BATTERY PLATE CONTAINING FILLER WITH CONDUCTIVE COATING The plate (10) comprises a matrix or binder resin phase (12) in which is dispersed particulate, conductive tin oxide such as tin oxide coated glass fibers (14). A monopolar plate (11) is prepared by coating a layer (18) of electrolytically active material onto a surface of the plate (10). Tin oxide is prevented from reduction by coating a sur...

A foldable sofa sleeper fixture comprises a rectangular metal frame having pivotally interconnected head, body and foot sections. That rectangular metal frame is characterized by side and end frame members and an all cloth deck supported by the frame members. The all cloth deck is made from woven polypropylene fabric material which is connected to the side frame members without any resilient conne...

A device adapted to be mounted on a ski comprising a first maintenance element, a pivotable plate adapted to pivot around an axis substantially perpendicular to the ski comprising a second maintenance element; and a braking assembly. The braking assembly comprises at least one braking element adapted to shift between active and inactive positions and at least one boot-sensitive element adapted to ...

A ski binding adapted to pivot both laterally and vertically. The binding includes a support attached to the ski and an assembly adapted to pivot therearound. The assembly includes a jaw, a pivoting element and an elastic system which biases the pivoting element and support into contact with each other. The pivoting element and the support form a lateral pivoting system having two projections and ...

A tire manufacturing unit having two tire building drums mounted on respective coaxial and independent half shafts butt connected in a rotary manner so as to define a single continuous shaft supported in a rotary manner on a platform mounted for rotation in successive 180 DEG steps about a horizontal axis; each half shaft having a respective independent driving device, and one of the drums moving...

PURPOSE:To reduce the power consumption by dividing a guide wire through which a driving signal current for a self-traveling robot flows by the nodes set at the position corresponding to each cell, storing previously a node map in a memory of a computer and supplying the signal current only between the necessary nodes via a cell control unit. CONSTITUTION:A guide wire (c) set among working cells (...

A transfer roll (32) for transferring a strip component from a conveyor (91) to a tire building drum (54) has an outer rim member rotatably mounted on a cylindrical ring member which is mounted on an inner hub for movement relative to the tire building drum. A pair of piston-cylinder assemblies (88) control the movement of the cylindrical ring member to press the outer rim member against the strip...

In a slip-controlled system for road vehicles with all-wheel drive, the rear-axle differential gear (5) and/or the intermediate differential (3) are equipped with differential locks (33, 34). An electronic brake slip control unit (50) automatically disengages the differential locks (33, 34) partially or entirely upon the occurrence of an imminent locked condition or upon commencement of brake slip...

The invention provides (Figure 1) for the connection of an actuating cable 33 to a parking brake lever 21 after the brake has been installed. The end of the lever remote from its pivot is formed to provide a space 26 that can receive an enlargement 34 on the end of the cable 21. At the lower end of the space 26 is an inclined ramp 27 that slopes towards an extension 25 of the space 26. A guide, in...

An optical type head device comprises an optical beam separating means having a first surface which functions to reflect a principal light beam emitted from a light source and to separate it into a zero-order subbeam and positive and negative first-order subbeams.

A cementitious composition, which comprises a cement and a particulate inorganic substrate (e.g. calcium carbonate or iron oxide) previously surface-treated with a fatty acid (e.g. oleic or stearic acid), the surface-treated inorganic substrate being present in an amount sufficient to increase the strength and water-resistance of the composition.

Disclosed is a method for producing spun bonded nonwoven fabrics which have a highly uniform fleece structure and a uniform weight per unit area. In the method, a plurality of linear ranks of filaments, disposed side by side are spun from a plurality of long spinnerets. The filaments are aerodynamically drawn downward, stretched, and then fixed on a moving screen. The linear ranks of filaments are...

A special feed distributor is provided to radially, annularly, and uniformly feed and distribute oil and gas in a hydroprocessing unit, such as an ebullated bed reactor. In the preferred form, the feed distributor comprises an octagonal manifold with tangential outlet openings, a circumferential set of downward outlets, and a slotted skirt with radial discharge openings.

A process for preparing improved pellets of a hydrolyzed ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer which comprises extruding a methanol or a water-methanol solution including a hydrolyzed ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer and a lubricant into a coagulating liquid in the form of a strand and cutting the strand into pellets. According to the process of the present invention, the molding processability can be ...

A feedstock pipe for a FCC unit is provided with a plurality of turbulence generating members mounted on its interior surface. Each of the turbulence generating members has a pointed tip pointing toward the discharge end of the pipe and a ramp inclined toward the center of the pipe leading to the pointed tip.

A stable latex composition possessing a viscosity of less than about 50 cp. comprised of an ethylacrylate/methylacrylic acid/acrylic acid polymer and co-surfactant system comprising a nonylphenol polyethylene oxide ether sulfate and a propoxylated, ethoxylated propylene glycol nonionic surfactant block polymer useful for increasing the viscosity of water that is injected into subterranean petroleu...

In order to prevent bonding wire sag and to allow high lead count an insulative bridging member is provided between the ends of inner leads of a lead frame and a centrally mounted integrated circuit die. The bridging member (30) of annular square configuration has transverse plated spaced conductive pathways (31). A first series of short bonding wires (40) connect selected die contact pads to an i...

The present invention provides a burner for the partial oxidation under pressure of a first fluid by the second fluid. This burner comprises two fluid introduction tubes, one being internal to the other, with each of the tubes comprising a plate, and with each plate having several holes and a plate of the external tube has holes placed opposite the holes in the internal plate.

Microcrack resistant composites are prepared by precoating and prepregging woven fabrics of poly(phenylene terephthalamide) fiber at low warp tension.

A method for producing titanium particles suitable for powder metallurgy applications by atomizing a free-falling stream of molten titanium. Prior to atomization the molten titanium is maintained in a crucible lined with a solidified layer of titanium which separates the molten mass of titanium from the crucible interior to protect it against contamination. The bottom of the crucible has a nozzle ...