Abstract: An electrophotographic sensitizing screen having a great number of apertures, wherein at least an insulating layer and a conductive layer are successively formed on a conductive mesh, is disclosed. These apertures are regularly arranged at such an angle as not to produce moire fringes with respect to a light image projected on the screen.

Abstract: A process for producing fiber-reinforced magnesium alloy materials with improved mechanical properties which includes the steps of placing a shaped article of silicon carbide whiskers or silica type, alumina type or silica-alumina type fibers in a casting mold, and pouring into the mold a molten matrix of a magnesium alloy at a temperature lower than 800.degree. C. The shaped article is impregnated with the molten matrix by means of a high pressure coagulation casting method while maintaining the original configuration of the shaped article to form a composite. A magnesium-silicon compound and/or a magnesium-aluminum compound are precipitated in the matrix at the filling and composite-forming step by reaction between the surface fibers of the shaped article and the molten matrix. The whiskers or fibers may be covered by a film of copper, nickel or silver to vary the amount of the precipitated compounds.

Abstract: An apparatus for measuring a range to a subject comprising a first optical system for forming a first stationary image of the subject on a first photosensitive element such as a photosensor array, a second optical system for forming a second image of the subject on a second photosensitive element, said second image being shifted with respect to the first stationary image by rotating a rotatable scanning mirror of the second optical system, and a pin hole member having first and second pin holes formed therein and arranged in front of the first and second photosensitive elements in such a manner that the pin hole member can be moved in a direction parallel to optical axes of the first and second photosensitive elements as well as in a plane perpendicular to the optical axis so as to change a size and a position of a range measuring area with respect to a field of view.

Abstract: A device for detecting and locating radiations, comprising at least one cathode brought to a first potential with respect to a reference potential in a sealed enclosure, a plurality of threadlike anodes insulated from one another and photosensitive means, said enclosure being provided with a port-hole transparent to the radiations involved, situated in register with said cathode and anodes, said device further comprising an insulating support with two faces, a portion of one of said two faces, situated in register with said port-hole, being coated with a layer of a conductive material forming a mesh network constituting said cathode, the extremities of said anodes being in the shape of a point and the axes of said anodes respectively coinciding with the axes of the meshes of said network, these points being recessed with respect to the insulating support face, coated with the network conductive meshes.

Abstract: A belt conveyor transportation system includes a plurality of belt conveyor units each having an endless belt whose main constituent element consists of a magnetic material so as to be magnetically attractive with magnets, and the conveyor units are continuously arranged lengthwise along a desired transportation network layout to form a conveyor line. The conveyor units of the conveyor line drive their magnetic belts separately or in groups each including a number of the units at an independent speed. A moving body or bodies are arranged to move along the conveyor line, and the moving member includes a magnet system. By virtue of the magnetic attraction between the conveyor units and the magnet system, the moving member travels along the conveyor line while being hauled by the magnetic belts of the conveyor units at their respective speeds.

Abstract: Acrylonitrile is produced from propylene in an excellent percent conversion of propylene, percent selectivity to acrylonitrile and percent yield of acrylonitrile, by bringing, at an elevated temperature, a reaction feed containing propylene, molecular oxygen and ammonia, each in gas phase, into contact with a catalyst consisting essentially of an oxide composition of the empirical formula:Mo.sub.a Co.sub.b Ni.sub.c Fe.sub.d Bi.sub.e X.sub.d Ti.sub.g O.sub.hwherein X represents at least one atom of an element selected from vanadium and tellurium; the subscripts a, b, c, d, e, f and g respectively denote the numbers of the respective atoms of the elements, the ratio a:b:c:d:e:f:g being in the range of 10:0 to 10:0 to 10:1 to 7:0.08 to 1.1:0.01 to 1:1 to 15, and the ratio of a to the sum of b and c being in a range of 10:3 to 10, and; the subscript h represents the number of oxygen atoms which satisfies the average valency of the elements, the ratio a:h being in a range of 10:36.7 to 84.1.

Abstract: A cooking device with a microwave heater and a gas heater as well as a cooling fan for the microwave heater. A first circuit operates the microwave heater and is connected to a source of electric power through a first switching circuit. A second circuit operates the gas heater and is connected to the electric source of power through a second switching circuit, as well as a switch arranged to be operated with a gas cock. A driving circuit for the cooling fan is connected to that switch so as to be parallel with a circuit connecting in series the second circuit and the second switching circuit. The switch, furthermore, has a first contact connected to the electric source of power through the first switching circuit and has a second contact connected to the source of power without passing through the first switching circuit, while being arranged to be connected to the first contact when the gas cock is closed and to the second contact when the gas cock is opened.

Abstract: A rail clip, for holding down a railway rail, is made by bending a metal rod so that it comprises a substantially straight leg, at one end of which is one end of the rod, the other end of the leg being joined to a part on one side of the leg which is joined to a final part on the other side of the leg, this final part terminating in the other end of the rod, near which, on the under-side, a step in the rod is formed, this having a depth no more than 2 mm. or no more than 1/4 of the thickness of the rod before it was bent. Apparatus for performing a second bending operation on a rod, which in a first bending operation has been given the shape indicated above but without the step, has support surfaces for supporting various parts of the bent rod and two shaping tools between which the final part of the rod is distorted to give it its final shape, including the step.

Abstract: A pneumatic rotary motor comprising a body to which is secured a bracer bushing closed by a cover. A deformable bushing is freely housed within the bracer bushing and is interposed between the cover and the casing. The bushing has a bore and two opposed longitudinal circular recesses extending from the bore. Two intermeshed rotary gears extend longitudinally in the bushing and are centered in a respective recess, the gears teeth sealably contacting the internal bushing along the circular recesses. The gears have shafts respectively supported for rotation in the cover and the casing and form opposed working chambers on either side of the recesses and in communication with openings provided in the cover for the intake and exhaust of a fluid. Screws, or the like, are mounted in the bracer bushing for abutting against the internal bushing to produce deformation thereof at the recesses for effecting sealed contact with the teeth of the gears.

Abstract: A simulator for simulation of signals of a target radiator includes a first free-running frequency generator operating at a first frequency for simulating the intensity fluctuations of a target radiator, an amplitude regulator connected to the free-running generator for controlling the amplitude of the first frequency, a second free-running generator operating at a second frequency lower than the first frequency for simulating the amplitude and phase of a vectoril target representation, and a frequency divider chain for coupling the first generator to the second generator.

Abstract: A mechanism for controlling two rotatable cut-off devices which are mounted in series in a shell for connection to one and the same pipe, comprises a jack in respect of each cut-off device, each jack being articulated to a lever fast with a journal of a respective one of the cut-off devices and to the shell in the zone thereof supporting the journals of the other cut-off device.The invention is particularly applicable to the valves for protecting a hydraulic machine in a high-fall hydraulic power station.

Abstract: An article of furniture which comprises first and second support members and at least one planar member supported by at least one of the support members, the support members being movable between first positions at which the planar member is substantially horizontal thereby forming a working top, and second positions at which the support members provide at least part of a sleeping surface.

Abstract: A telescopic jib of a load-handling device, having telescopically extensible sections in the form of fluid cylinders. An annular sealing assembly is employed at the end portions of the sections, in the form of a sleeve which defines an annular space with the end face of the fluid cylinder of greater diameter and the side surface of the fluid cylinder of smaller diameter. A floating ring is mounted in the annular space and has seals which engage the external periphery of said smaller-diameter fluid cylinder and the end faces of the floating ring. Annular grooves are coaxial in the external peripheral surface at the end of each said fluid cylinder and in the end face of the respective one of said sleeves such that, a support ring is accommodated in each pair of annular grooves. A rope-and-sheave system having at least two runs symmetrically extending with respect of the longitudinal axis of the jib is used to govern the motion of the sections.

Abstract: A mechanism for a hydraulic pipe comprises two rotatable cut-off devices in series arranged inside two half-shells which are arranged symmetrically, relative to a mean transverse plane, and which are connected by being bolted together by their flanges. Each half-shell supports the journals of a cut-off device and an intermediate piece may be provided for supporting center gaskets.The mechanism is particularly applicable to the protection of turbines in a high-fall hydroelectric installation.

Abstract: Improvements in multiflow refining blastpipes for equipping converters for refining and including at least two concentric tubes 1 and 3, which define between them an annular gap 4 and an annular ring 8 connected by welding onto the outer tube 3, which consist in arranging at the end of the outer tube 3 which is located next to the inlet for the fluids into the blastpipe, a shoulder 12 prolonged by a cylindrical portion 13 which defines an annular chamber 14 for the introduction of a protective fluid, and in arranging the annular ring 8 on the said cylindrical portion 13.

Abstract: The device includes a rigid stay-bar which is bent so as to reproduce approximately the shape of the forward part of the boat, at least one of the ends of which is connected to a torsion-bar fixed onto the grating and arranged transversely with respect to the boat. The bent central portion of the stay-bar rests against a rigid bearing surface integral with the forward portion of the boat. The stay-bar ensures the holding in position of the forward portion of the boat due to the elastic force exerted by the torsion-bar, which opposes the forces exerted by the waves to lift the forward portion of the boat.

Abstract: A revolving flats arrangement for carding operation, and which is provided with a drive, guide and deflection element. Flats on both ends slide on guides, and are constructed so as to avoid the use of a flats chain. A driving element pushes ahead the flats in the region of a deflecting roller. Of the two deflecting rollers that are provided, one is used as a driving element. The driving element has engaging members 8, shaped as sprocket portions, and the flats can be pressed against the sliding guide by a belt or an elastic element. The flats are directed along a predetermined path by the sliding guide, and they form on the side facing the card cylinder, at one location, a gap which is associated with a vacuuming device. The clothing of the flats is located on the side facing from the card clothing, and is cleaned by an axially movable cleaning device.

Abstract: A photosensitive screen for an electrographic apparatus adapted to modulate a flow of corona ions by an electrostatic latent image produced thereon is disclosed. The photosensitive screen is composed of an electrically conductive mesh which is coated on one side with an insulating layer and an electrically conductive layer superimposed one upon the other in the order as mentioned and coated on the other side with a photosensitive layer.The photosensitive screen comprises further an insulating thin film layer which covers at least the electrically conductive layer for the purpose of protecting it against surrounding atmosphere and hence improving durability thereof.

Abstract: Apparatus for frequency multiplexed radio links between a control transceiver and at least two operator transceivers, said apparatus being of the type in which the control transceiver comprises on the one hand a transmitter receiving a low frequency signal from a microphone and transmitting a high frequency wave Fe and on the other the same number of receivers as there are operator transceivers, each receiver being adjusted to a particular high frequency Fi which differs from Fe, each receiver supplying a low frequency signal which is directed to a loudspeaker and in which each operator transceiver comprises on the one hand a receiver adjusted to the said frequency Fe and supplying a loudspeaker and on the other a transmitter connected to a microphone and operating on one of the said frequencies Fi, wherein it also comprises means located in the control transceiver for reinjecting part of the low frequency signals supplied by each of the receivers of the control transceiver into the transmitter of said transc