The invention relates to a process for centrifugal separation and to an apparatus for carrying it out, applicable to a mixture of phases of any states, said apparatus comprising, disposed coaxially and moved in rotation in a fixed enclosure, a fan adapted to create a depression upstream, a rotary distributor converting the pressure drop resulting from the action of the fan on the upstream pressure...

PURPOSE:To prevent stirring of oil in a transfer by stabilizing oil level by returning oil easily by tightening an oil pan accommodating a main and a sub hydraulic control devices to the lower face of a change gear case. CONSTITUTION:An oil pan 12 is tightened to the lower faces of a transmission case 3 and an extension case 5 by a bolt. And the oil pan 12 is provided with an automatic change gear...

PURPOSE:To release a brake at an exceedingly proper timing and enable the smooth start of a car by providing a means that senses the change rate of the position in the fuel reguration member of a fuel injection pump when the car is started. CONSTITUTION:An actuator 16 that controls the position of the fuel regulation member of a fuel injection pump 2 is configured as a voice coil type motor that o...

PURPOSE:To move an operating lever up to a start point, middle point, and an end point and simplify and facilitate the operation of a brake by connecting the operating lever and brake through a long hole with a wire. CONSTITUTION:An operating lever 14 is borne on a machine body 1 by a shaft 16 and an axial cylinder 15 and an arm 17 are made to adhere to the shaft 16. In addition, a fan-shaped turn...

PURPOSE:To improve safety without mistakenly operating a pair of right and left clutch levers with an inner stop section to the brake release side by providing these levers at the lower front of the upper end of a long hole section. CONSTITUTION:The operation section of a machine body 6 is provided with the outer catch sections 21 and 21 of a wire 20 connected to the arm section of a pair of shift...

A tubular plate for electrical lead acid accumulators comprises tubes formed of porous fibrous material having a shape such that the ratio of volume to surface area of active material is no greater than 0.20 times the thickness of the tube taken in a direction between the sides of the plate which face the negative electrodes. At least one side of each tube has a concave surface. The tubes are form...

A vertically mounted high speed winding device for parallel plied textured yarns which device has a vertical friction roller driven at a constant high speed and adapted to rotate a package by surface contact. The device also includes a traversing mechanism embodying an L-shaped lever rotatably attached at its apex to a layrail which is adapted to reciprocate longitudinally of the package at a cons...

A method and an apparatus for measuring the wall thickness of a plastic article, particularly of a hollow rotation-symmetrical plastic article. According to the method, the wall of the plastic article is subjected to infra-red radiation and the intensity of, e.g., the continuously transmitted radiation is measured at preselected points, said intensity being a function of the wall thickness to be m...

A sheet feeding machine (Figure 1) comprises a platform 2 for supporting a stack of paper on a pallet 10. The platform is cantilevered from a supporting column 1 and may be raised and lowered by a leadscrew mechanism 11. A sheet feeder head (Figure 2) comprises a rotating spool 29 having ports 32, 33, 34 for controlling the flow of vacuum and compressed air to a lifting sucker 25, a separating air...

A transport cart for material carriers such as bobbins or drums having threads or other elongated material wound thereon, has a cart frame with wheels and a tilting frame journalled in said cart frame. The tilting frame carries two parallel skids for supporting a material carrier on its rollers. The tilting frame is tiltable between a first position in which the skids extend horizontally for loadi...

Circuitry is provided for distorting an audio signal, useful in providing a "dirty" sound to an electric guitar simulating a vacuum tube amplification thereof. The circuit includes components for simultaneously changing the amount of distortion introduced by a clipping circuit and the amount of gain boost provided at a preselected narrow bandwidth. Addition of such gain boost leads both to increas...