A dental floss holder is in the form of a box (20) with a drawer (22) in it. The bottom of the drawer includes a hub (38) which is spring biased to push a bobbin (24) mounted thereon toward an opposite side of the box. The bias is such that the bobbin drags with a predetermined force on an opposite side of the box to maintain tension in the floss. A result is that the bobbin does not unwind while ...

PURPOSE:To prevent the floating-up of the rear part of a car body and reduce the brake capacity of a rear wheel brake by operating the rear wheel brake, together with a front wheel brake, in the selection to the two-wheel drive traveling state in which traveling is performed by the drive of only front wheels, in a four-wheel drive traveling type tractor for steering rear wheels. CONSTITUTION:In in...

PURPOSE:To improve the rigidity of an engine case by fitting both the sides of a fork shaft which axially supports a shifter fork into the shaft holes formed on the left and right engine cases and carrying out tightening by a bolt, in an engine case for a motorcycle in which the left and right engine cases are joined. CONSTITUTION:An engine case 1 is casted in divided form to the left and right pa...

A control system for a motor vehicle drive train including a continuously variable transmission is disclosed wherein a command signal is generated in response to the sum of an integral control factor and a proportional control factor, and the integral control factor is suppressed to almost zero when a deviation of a reduction ratio representative parameter from a target value is greater than a pre...

PURPOSE:To guarantee securely releasability of packing film from a soft processed food, by laying a thin film of an edible oil between the outer surface of soft processed food and at least a release starting part of inner surface of molded packing film. CONSTITUTION:In a production unit for a food packed with a film wherein the pump 5 for packing a soft processed food has the sizing ring 10 at the...

PURPOSE:To prevent the life of positive and negative electrode plates from being shortened by forming the plate in dilute sulfuric acid after immersing it into an aqueous solution containing alkaline ions. CONSTITUTION:An electrode plate is formed in dilute sulfuric acid after immersing it into a solution containing alkaline ions. The timing when the positive or negative plate is immersed into an ...

PURPOSE:To facilitate build-in of a revolving shaft to a supporting plate and build-in of parts around the shaft by providing a notched part, which a detaining tongue piece of a bearing and a whirl stop pin of the revolving shaft can pass, so that this notched part is connected to a part of a supporting hole of the supporting plate. CONSTITUTION:A bearing 40 is pierced by a revolving shaft 10, and...

PURPOSE:To prevent the unwinding of a roving end, by rotating a roving bobbin along the roving-winding direction with a bobbin rotating apparatus while holding the bobbin with a posture-maintaining apparatus and a pressing apparatus. CONSTITUTION:The posture of a roving bobbin 1 is maintained by a posture- maintaining apparatus 44 in the course of passing the bobbin 1 on a bobbin carriage 11. The ...

The appts to open out a yarn end, to prepare it for splicing after a yarn break, has a beating wheel (4) with blades (6) with straight opening edges (8) alternating with blades (6) with sawtooth opening edges (9). ADVANTAGE - The appts. gives an improved action to open out a broken yarn end, when the yarn is composed of strong fibres such as of polyester, or long fibres such as Egyptian cotton.

A process for making a shaped member from sheet metal pieces (37,38) of different thicknesses. In the process flat sheet metal pieces (37,38) are butt welded at their cut edges by laser beam welding. Then the unit, welded together from a number of sheet metal pieces (37,38) of different thickness, are converted into a shaped member by pressing or deep drawing. Since the material of sheet metal pie...

A control apparatus for the automatic clutch of an automotive vehicle includes a pressure regulating valve for selectively connecting clutch actuating pressure to line pressure and a drain, and a control unit for controlling the pressure regulating valve. The control unit senses and/or calculates vehicle inclination, braking torque and engine drive torque. If the braking torque is smaller than a d...

PURPOSE:To produce efficiently firm laminate sheet with uniform strength, even if blank sheet has knots or flares etc., by means of heat treating the shut preliminarily by using a preheat treating roll. CONSTITUTION:The film 2 let out from a blank film 1 is fed into the gap between the first laminating roll 16 and the second laminating roll 17, while the sheet 4 let out from a blank sheet 10 is fe...

The present invention relates to a container, system, and method for creating parenteral solutions at a site, remote from sterile environments. The system includes a flexible container that is empty except for a prepackaged amount of a solute that is housed in the interior of the container. The container includes at least one port and a sterilizing filter in communication with an interior of the p...

A flame-retardant composition useful in rendering polymers flame-retardant by copolymerizing with the starting monomers, which composition comprises a halogenated, phosphorus-containing polyester obtainable by reacting a polyhydroxyphosphonic compound (A) with a halogenated polycarboxylic compound (B) in such a ratio as to provide two or more hydroxyl groups in the resulting polyester, optionally ...

The monitor comprises an optoelectrical monitoring head including a linear array of light sources which are sequentially pulsed to scan the web and a corresponding linear array of optoelectrical light receivers which receive light reflected from the web. The outputs 32 of the receivers are coupled with a signal evaluation circuit including a singal amplifier 34 and a trigger stage (35) controlled ...

PURPOSE:To make a monomolecular cumulative film more precisional by providing a probe light source from which the probe light passing through a measuring position of the monomolecular film or its neighborhood is injected and a detector detecting the polarization quantity of the above-mentioned probe light. CONSTITUTION:Since the probe light 6 injected from a probe light source 5 is passed parallel...

PURPOSE:To obtain the subject fluorescent material having high electroluminescence, low CIEy value of the luminescence and long life by using zinc sulfide as a matrix and compounding Cu as an activator and Cl, Au, etc., as the 1st and the 2nd co-activators. CONSTITUTION:The objective fluorescent material can be produced by using zinc sulfide as a matrix and compounding the matrix with (A) Cu as an...

PURPOSE:To effectively utilize an oil contained in sludge, by adding an unburnt carbon to sludge containing ash and an oil and then granulating the unburnt carbon with the use of the oil as a binder and concurrently therewith separating off the ash. CONSTITUTION:Unburnt carbon produced in the combustion step of a petroleum hydrocarbon is added to a sludge contg. ash and an oil, and the unburnt car...

The safety ski binding has a toe iron, arranged before a front sole plate (21), and a heel iron which exerts a forwardly directed thrusting force onto the toe iron via the inserted ski boot. The toe iron has a sole holder (16) which supports the front part of the sole (14) of the ski boot (15) at the front, the side and the top and can be swivelled counter to a spring force directed essentially to...