During the process of binding a bale of crop material with binding twine in a crop baler, malfunction of the knotter (54) is checked once upon completion of the binding sequence for one bale, and then a second time after the twine has been prepared by the knotter for formation of the next bale. The monitoring system is particularly appropriate for a double knotting mechanism in which each knotter ...

The battery of the present invention comprises a container having a plurality of cells including at least two positive terminal cells and at least one negative terminal cell. Each cell of the battery contains a plurality of alternating positive and negative electrode plates containing active material. The positive electrode plates of each positive terminal cell are electrically connected to their ...

The invention provides a method and apparatus for continuous sheet delivery. According to the invention, a continuous stream of sheets is separated into a main pile, supported by a removable pallet, and an auxiliary pile, in which sheets are stored while the pallet and the main pile are removed and a new pallet is introduced. An embodiment of the invention includes a sheet supply, a pallet for acc...

A new tire construction and method which makes the toe guard integral with the inner liner is provided. A tire is made using an inner liner that has a width substantially equal to the width of a prior art inner liner plus the width of prior art toe guards minus any overlap. The edges (14) of the inner liner (12), which wrap around the bead, are reinforced so that the edges of the inner liner prote...

A cap for dispensing liquids from a container comprising a base portion; structure to attach the base portion to a container; and an off-center dispenser tip projecting from the base portion and having a passageway extending between an orifice at the distal end of the dispenser tip and the interior underside of the cap, the axis of said passageway forming an angle of no greater than 90 with the lo...

A heel unit for ski bindings with automatic reset means, including a heel unit body (2) which can be fixed to a ski (3) and supports a ski boot grip jaw, a kinematic system (20) acting on said grip jaw; the kinematic system is connected to a spring which can be calibrated so as to removably retain the grip jaw in ski boot securing position. A pedal (40) interacts with the ski boot for actuating th...

An electronic terminal of the type employing a card reading device mounted within the interior thereof accessible through an input port formed in a wall of the terminal. A one-piece shield formed of an elastomeric material is mounted adjacent the input port of the card reader to prevent the entrance of debris into the interior of the terminal. The shield provides at least two opposing movable flap...

A process for producing charged uniformly sized metal droplets in which a quantity of metal is placed in a container and liquified, the container having a plurality of orifices to permit passage of the liquified metal therethrough. The liquified metal is vibrated in the container. The vibrating liquified metal is forced through the orifices, the vibration causing the liquified metal to form unifor...

Metal and metal alloy preforms having closed cell, spherical porosity are spray formed at high deposition rates by introducing blowing agents into the thixotropic semisolid deposition layer, within which gas formed in thermal decomposition reactions are trapped. Density reductions of nearly 30% were generated in a phosphor bronze matrix, using barium carbonate as the blowing agent. Hollow glass pa...

The invention pertains to a water blown integral skin polyurethane foam having a skin with good abrasion resistance. The foam is manufactured by employing as a polyol composition a polyol having a functionality of from 1.75 to 2.65 and a molecular weight of from 1500 to 5000 along with a surfactant and water as a blowing agent. The particular surfactant is a particular siloxane or an ethylene oxid...

A carriage running control system includes a plurality of readable and writable memory media (T) installed along a running track of carriages (A). Each carriage (A) is capable of communicating information with the memory media (T). The running track includes special zones such as curved sections (P), branching sections (D), merging sections (J), and sections including stations (ST). When a precedi...

A line interface for a two wire bus for detecting defects of the bus. The interface includes a shaping circuit having three comparators. The first comparator having two inputs connected to the two wires of the bus, the second comparator having a first input connected to one of the bus wires and another input connected to a reference signal, and the third comparator having a first input connected t...