A system and apparatus for accurately delivering rubberized sheets from a supply, roll of stock material containing an intervening liner to an assembly station for subsequent assembling into an air spring or similar article of manufacture by eliminating the heretofore formation of a "free loop" therein. The supply roll and a liner take-up reel are rotatably mounted on a carriage transversely movab...

PCT No. PCT/CH89/00172 Sec. 371 Date May 9, 1991 Sec. 102(e) Date May 9, 1991 PCT Filed Sep. 19, 1989 PCT Pub. No. WO91/04217 PCT Pub. Date Apr. 4, 1991.A device for joining a large number of threads on a single frame. Each of a plurality of thread clamps has a guide tube communicating with a vacuum duct. A carriage for carrying a thread joining system is arranged on the frame. As the carriage mov...

PURPOSE:To efficiently heat or cool without output/input of heat by disposing a ventilation fan in a dwelling space and a heat exchanger at an arbitrary position in a housing, intaking the atmospheric air to the attic space of the housing from suction/discharge port through the exchanger, and discharging the air in the dwelling space from the fan externally through the exchanger. CONSTITUTION:The ...

PURPOSE:To utilize solar heat in winter, to simultaneously ventilate a dwelling space, and to externally discharge heat generated in the space in summer by forming a gable ventilation port with a valve mechanism in the attic space of a housing, and coupling a heat collection duct disposed in a roof collector space to a pipe communicating with a dispersion duct disposed in an underfloor space with ...

PURPOSE:To prevent heat from being fed into or out of a housing, and to improve occupancy, durability by employing a dwelling space as one of the route of an air cycle, ventilating with less heat loss, collecting solar heat at an outer wall and a roof thereby to reduce energy in winter, and sucking or discharging it through a heat exchanger. CONSTITUTION:The air taken in through a suction/discharg...

An automatic exposure metering system for radiology equipment used in mammography, comprising a short test exposure, in which said test exposure is carried out with a constant radiation dose and radiogenic tube voltage but has a variable duration.

An apparatus for cutting perforations into moving webs consists of a rotationally drivable perforating cutter and of a grooved cylinder into the peripheral grooves of which the perforating cutter parts penetrate. To avoid any undesirable tearing of the perforations cut in the web, a support is rigidly connected to a cutter shaft, and the support is provided with a pin disposed parallel to the cutt...

A PbO2 cathode of a lead-acid battery is activated by electrochemical doping with colloidal solution of carbon which is subjected to electrochemical modification endowed with -C-O-O- and C-O- groups on its surface. The battery shows the following advantageous characteristics: (i) high charge current without extraordinary increase in the temperature; (ii) high discharge current; and (iii) the incre...

A polymer attenuation filter (16) in a CT machine is mounted at its center and allowed to expand freely at its ends to prevent cracking of the filter as it expands with temperature and after it becomes brittle with x-ray exposure. Vertical expansion of the filter at its center is accommodated by a stress relief hole (30) cut between the center fastening points (24,28). Relatively greater horizonta...

A centrifuge comprising a yoke element that rotates about a rotational axis and a processing chamber having an axis. The processing chamber includes a bowl element, a spool element, and a mechanism for joining the spool and bowl elements for relative movement between a mutually cooperating position for centrifugal processing and a mutually separated position for loading. A hinge attaches the proce...

PCT No. PCT/DE94/00017 Sec. 371 Date Sep. 1, 1995 Sec. 102(e) Date Sep. 1, 1995 PCT Filed Jan. 11, 1994 PCT Pub. No. WO95/15907 PCT Pub. Date Jun. 15, 1995This invention relates to marking the yarn end of a package, which is wound at the end of a winding cycle over a narrow axial range of the package surface in the form of a yarn bead. For purposes of marking the yarn end (105) of the package (103...

A machine (10) for peeling products such as fruit, tubers and vegetables and for cleaning mussels consists of a container with cylindrical chamber (11) near whose lower base rotates coaxially therewith a motorised processing disc (14). The container (11) exhibits a side passage (16) for unloading of the peeled product. An element with cylindrical wall (17) coaxial with the cylindrical chamber (11)...

Wenn an einer Spulmaschine ein Faden umgespult wird, vollführt der Faden eine ballonförmige Schwingung um die Ablaufspule. Die Ballonform hat Einfluß auf die Fadenzugkraft und damit auf das Verhalten des Fadens während des Spulens. Zur Herabsetzung der Störrate wird mittels einer erfindungsgemäßen Einrichtung der Fadenlauf dadurch beeinflußt, daß die Einrichtung (10) eine Führungsfläche (17) für d...

An electronic diary (10) for remotely inputting destination information to mobile navigation apparatus mounted in a motor vehicle comprises an input device (12) for inputting a schedule including a destination; means (33) for storing the input schedule information; means (30, 31, 32) for storing the names of individual destinations as a group and at least one of an address and a telephone number f...

The present invention relates to a method for increasing penetration of mammalian ova by mammalian male sperm by contacting sperm in vitro with a penetration-enhancing amount of a penetration-enhancing thymosin polypeptide or a penetration enhancing anti-thymosin antibody. In preferred embodiments, treatment comprises contacting mammalian sperm with thymosin alpha 1 or antibodies to thymosin alp...

The invention relates to a device for applying a liquid, e.g. oil, to a running fibre, with a rotatable roller (1) projecting into the fibre run to accept a liquid film on its surface (1') from a liquid tank (9) and apply the liquid by surface contact. In order to improve the handling and use of such a yarn waxing device and especially to be able better to regulate the quantity of liquid taken by ...

PCT No. PCT/PT95/00005 Sec. 371 Date Oct. 30, 1996 Sec. 102(e) Date Oct. 30, 1996 PCT Filed May 4, 1995 PCT Pub. No. WO95/30487 PCT Pub. Date Nov. 16, 1995A centrifuge for a fluid uses a series of centrifugal modules to separate the fluid from particles suspended in the fluid. The fluid enters through the bottom of the centrifuge and is subjected to the centrifugal force by a set of rotors. The fl...

The invention relates to an apparatus for substantially bisecting a crustacean at a bisecting plane into a head portion and a tail portion. The apparatus comprises means for gripping the crustacean adjacent the bisecting plane; cutting means for substantially bisecting the crustacean at the bisecting plane, the cutting means having a circumferentially arranged cutting surface adapted and arranged ...

A lens system is provided which has a plurality of lens systems each having a Dove prism and a lens for imaging the light received from its Dove prism on the image field of a CCD camera. Each lens system views a different scene and images that scene on a different portion of the image field. The Dove prisms rotate the scenes so that they can be of maximum size on the image field.

A fluid dispensing system (10) for delivering sterile preservative-free solution (20) is disclosed. The system (10) uses double self-sealing valves (56, 58) mounted in series inside a tip compartment (22) which fits on the outlet of a multiple dosage squeeze container (12) to prevent undesirable retrograde flow of the dispensed liquid back into the bottle (12) during the decompression cycle. The v...