In a tire mold (22) having a pair of mold parts separable about cooperating surfaces (62,64) of the respective mold parts which define a parting line region, each of the mold parts includes a surface defining at least a portion of a cavity for shaping a tire. The tire mold further includes a plurality of pockets (108,122) for defining a respective plurality of circumferentially arranged tread elem...

PURPOSE:To manufacture a lead-acid battery having a high-rate discharge characteristic and a long life by increasing the formation property for battery jar formation. CONSTITUTION:An active material paste kneaded with the lead oxide powder containing minium, sulfuric acid, and water is filled in a current collector to form an undried positive electrode plate, and the undried positive electrode pla...

PURPOSE:To manufacture an electrode for a thin type lead-acid battery excellent in productivity and correctly applying an active material paste to current collectors. CONSTITUTION:A base 6 supporting a plastic sheet 5 is prepared, and the base 6 is provided with projections 6a on the upper face. Current collectors 3, 4 are stuck on the plastic sheet 5, and positioning holes 3a, 4a, 5a are formed o...

PURPOSE:To improve the adhesiveness between a grid body and a paste by sticking carbon black on the surface of the grid body made of lead or lead alloy containing no antimony. CONSTITUTION:A grid body made of lead or lead alloy containing no antimony is used for a paste type lead-acid battery. Carbon black is stuck on the surface of the grid body, then a paste is applied. The specific surface area...

PURPOSE:To provide a sealed battery of a large capacity and a long lifetime by preventing stratification of an electrolyte in a boundary between an electrolyte holding body and a paste type electrode plate without deterioration of high rate electric discharging performance. CONSTITUTION:Split electrolyte holding bodies 1b, 2b made of porous glass fiber are pressed onto active layers of a positive ...

PURPOSE:To provide a hybrid vehicle in which discharge of harmful gas is small and a traveling distance is equivalent to or more than that of an engine vehicle level. CONSTITUTION:A driver for a hybrid vehicle comprises a generator 3 rotatably driven by an engine 1 to generate power, a battery 4 for converting an output of the generator 3 to DC to store it, a motor 5 for generating drive power wit...

The invention under proposal is a system for feeding aggregate to hammer mills producing sand or other granular material in general, its function being to provide a regulated acceleration of the immission of raw material for processing and the elimination of contact between the hammers and the material to be crushed during those unfavourable moments which give rise to the build-up of unprocessed m...

A method of preparing ribbed ticks comprising a textile top sheet (60) and a textile bottom sheet (61) and partition-wall strips (1), said strips being welded along their opposite side edges to the top sheet and bottom sheet, respectively, by heating the entire surface of the joined webs of textile material after placing of lengths of folded partition-wall strips (1) in a given pattern, said strip...

An electromagnetic valve assembly having a valve unit with a valve seat and a coil arrangement. An armature is slidably disposed in the bore of the coil arrangement. A yoke unit surrounding the coil arrangement is in two parts having cooperating longitudinally extending edges forming two axially extending air gaps on diametrically opposite sides of the yoke unit. End flange portions of the two par...

UN MOLDE MEJORADO PARA MOLDEAR NEUMATICOS ESPECIALMENTE BANDAS DE RODADURA QUE TIENEN UN RELIEVE, PRESENTANDO DICHO RELIEVE BLOQUES DE CAUCHO RODEADOS POR VACIADOS CONSTITUIDOS POR RANURAS, INCLUYENDO CADA BLOQUE UN VOLUMEN TEORICO DE CAUCHO, SIENDO DICHO MOLDE DEL TIPO QUE COMPRENDE SEGMENTOS, CADA UNO LIMITADO EN EL SENTIDO CIRCUNFERENCIAL POR CARAS TRANSVERSALES, ESTANDO PROVISTOS DICHOS SEGMEN...

Method and apparatus for the production of metal granules from a molten metal are disclosed. A molten metal stream (19) is directed against an impact element (8) located above the surface of water in a water tank. The impact of the molten metal upon the impact element causes the molten metal to disintegrate into drops (20) which spread out radially from the impact element. The drops fall down into...

The process for filtering air in an apparatus of the filter cyclone type consists in producing a reduction in the upward velocity of the air to be filtered, in the bottom part in the form of a skirt (16) of the filter cartridge (4). In its skirt (16), the filter cartridge (4) has perforations (15) which make it possible to increase the entry surface area of the air to be freed from dust, thus...

PURPOSE:To prevent the evaporation of separated liquid by closing the openings of liquid collecting bottles, which are opened until the completion of a separating step, other than the liquid collecting, bottle, into which liquid is being injected, in a liquid collecting bottle rack used in a liquid chromatography apparatus. CONSTITUTION:The openings of all liquid-collecting bottles 2 are covered w...

PURPOSE:To make it possible to supply a program without preparing plural kinds of supplying media in a host machine by receiving and analyzing a command from the host machine and transferring a program stored in a non-volatile memory to the host machine. CONSTITUTION:A command transmitting part 6 issues a transfer request command for a program to be used to a printer device 1. A command receiving ...

The process consists in hydrophilising sponges made of polyurethane foam. The latter do not spontaneously become soaked in contact with water. After application of the process they are soft and absorbent. This process consists in treating the material in an alkaline solution for a variable period which is a function of a number of factors. The objective is an improvement of the utilisation conditi...

The apparatus is provided with a slot for inserting an information carrier, for example a bank card (7). A flap (5) which slides perpendicular to the plane of the path of insertion of the card (7), can shut off the slot. There are provided inclined portholes (51) which cooperate with two lugs (11) integral with feelers (3, 4), arranged upstream of the said flap (5) in the said path, and returned e...

The invention relates to bi-oriented composite polyester films comprising a filled or unfilled thick layer (A) and at least on one of the faces of layer (A) a layer (B) of a grafted polymer derived from a sulphonated copolyester and at least one acrylic monomer, of a thickness lower than that of layer (A), presenting the following characteristics: Rt