Abstract: An electrically conducting material including a polymeric substrate containing mercapto, thiocarbonyl, quaternary ammonium salt, amino or isocyanato groups, and copper sulfide bound to the polymeric substrate. The electrically conducting material may be prepared by treating the polymeric substrate with a source of monovalent copper ions and a sulfur-containing compound to form copper sulfide bound to the polymeric substrate.

Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus for providing a shower of fog onto a web or a machine component in contact with a web. The fog, which has a temperature lower than the temperature of the surface of the web or the machine component to be cooled, is applied to the surface and is caused to evaporate by the difference in the temperatures. A supply of dry air is supplied to transport the evaporated fog from the region surrounding the surface to be cooled. Fog may be generated through the use of an air-atomizing nozzle which propels water and compressed air through a small orifice under pressure to create an atomized mist or fog. The fog may also be generated through the use of an ultrasonic transducer which expels fine droplets of water from its surface by means of a high-frequency oscillating transducer motion. In one embodiment, the fog may also be generated in controlled specified quantities locally at each nozzle as required to provide for a controllable fog application rate across the full apparatus width.

Abstract: A data telecommunications system and method is provided for sending a data stream of characters in distinct data packets between two units of data terminal equipment (which can be either terminals and/or computers) connected over communication lines. A modem is connected between each unit of data terminal equipment and the communication lines, and one initiating modem includes a means for changing the packet size of the data which is transmitted. The receiving modem checks the packets for errors, and if errors are found, the packet is retransmitted. The initiating modem counts the number of transmissions of data packets as well as the number of retransmissions of data packets. A ratio of retransmissions to transmissions is used to determine the optimum packet size. The packet size is continually subject to change as the ratio changes during transmission.

Abstract: Described herein is a hydraulic servo suitable for friction coupling elements in automatic transmissions. The hydraulic servo of the invention is compact in construction and easy to assemble, including an annular drum rotatably or fixedly mounted in an automatic transmission case, a piston provided in a predetermined position of the drum, a return spring provided on the piston, and a connecting member for connecting the return spring and the piston, characterized in that the piston is provided with a guide sleeve at the tip end of one end face thereof for guiding one end of said connecting member.

Abstract: In an apparatus for farming vegetation lying on the ground, comprising a central frame, two first carrying arms that are pivotably mounted at the opposite sides of the frame and two second carrying arms that are pivotably mounted at the ends of the first carrying arms. Each second carrying arm is mechanically connected with the frame in such a way that pivoting the first carrying arm automatically leads to pivoting the second carrying arms. For this purpose a coupling bar can be provided between the central frame and each second carrying arm.

Abstract: The invention concerns a centrifuge intended for use in mainpulating liquid batches on an analytical scale. The centrifuge consists of a body (2) rotatable about its axis (1) provided with input and output conduits (8,9,11) and presenting the essential feature that therein are contained two parallel, circular arc-shaped volumes (3,4) located at different distances from the axis (1) of the body (2) constituting the center of curvature, and communicating with each other through a narrow gap (7) so that when the body is rotating, the heavier components of the liquid accumulate in the volume (4) further away from the axis, and the lighter components accumulate in the volume (3) closer to the axis, whereafter one of these two volumes can be emptied through a conduit (12), while the surface tension acting in the gap between the volumes keeps the liquid in the other volume in its place. The centrifuge of this invention is particularly appropriate for separating blood plasma from the red and white cells in the blood.

Abstract: Elastomers are plasticized with a polymerizable monomer, in homogeneous admixture therewith, by adding the monomer to a latex of the elastomer, free of polymerization initiator, followed by coagulation of the monomer and polymer solids. The coagulated solids recovered from the latex may be compounded with a polymerization initiator for the monomer and a vulcanizing agent for the polymer and, optionally, an inorganic filler, and shaped into the desired product form. Polymerization of the polymer and vulcanization of the elastomeric polymer are initiated after shaping.

Abstract: Device for continuously controlling the clamping force in monocable ropew, comprising a test spring which acts against the pressure spring and which is arranged with the latter-mentioned in the pressure mechanism. A signal and/or stop device is responsive to a deformation of the test spring when a predetermined threshold magnitude of deformation has been exceeded.

Abstract: Disclosed is a steam-shower apparatus and method including a supply of steam which is fed through a Coanda nozzle and along a path running parallel with one surface of the apparatus. The sheet to which the steam is to be applied runs parallel to this same surface of the machine, but in a direction opposite to the direction of the flow of steam. The sheet travels along a path spaced slightly from the surface of the machine, and the flow of steam runs the entire length of this surface heating the sheet as it flows in the opposite direction. The apparatus may be divided into several sections so that the sheet may be profiled along certain regions which are defined by these sections. In addition, means are included for altering the volume of flow to any one of the particular sections.

Abstract: Novel benzo[.alpha.]phenazine derivatives of the formula ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is hydrogen, halogen, methyl, hydroxyl or alkoxy, R.sup.2 is --COOR.sup.5 (wherein R.sup.5 is hydrogen, straight or branched chain alkyl, cycloalkyl having 3-6 carbon atoms, benzyl or phenyl) or ##STR2## wherein R.sup.6 and R.sup.7 are the same or different and are each hydrogen or lower alkyl, or R.sup.6 and R.sup.7 together with the nitrogen atom to which they are attached form pyrrolidine or piperidine), R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 are the same or different and are each hydrogen or lower alkyl, and n is an integer of 2 or 3, and the salts thereof are disclosed. These compounds have antitumor activity in mammals.

Abstract: In a method for reprocessing aqueous, oily and greasy cleaning solutions by separating oil and grease out of the solution in an oil separator, a mixture of oil, grease and cleaning solution separated in the oil separator is subjected to vaporization for the purpose of thickening it, the hot water vapor thereby resulting is used to heat the oil separator and the condensed water resulting from the vapor is fed back to the cleaning solution for its regeneration. An apparatus for performing this method is characterized in that the oil separator is enclosed by an outer casing, in the bottom region of which the separated cleaning solution containing oil and grease is collected and vaporized, the hot vapor thereby resulting being utilized to heat the cleaning fluid in the oil separator. A condensate collecting tray is provided between the bottom region of the outer casing and a bottom wall of the oil separator and condensed water flows from this tray back into the cleaning solution.

Abstract: A cleaning web for fixing roll of copy machines, the cleaning web consisting of a fibrous base material containing 20 to 85 wt % of aromatic polyamide fibre and 80 to 15 wt % of polyester fibre and having seal portions and non-seal portions with an apparent density of 0.2 to 0.4 g/cm.sup.3 distributed substantially over the entire area thereof, the fibrous base material being impregnated with silicone oil.

Abstract: Device for tapping containers filled with liquid, in particular, tin cans filled with beer, with a mounting for fixing the device relative to the container, with a tubular piercing member sharpened at the front which penetrates the wall of the container, with a tap arranged on the tubular piercing member, and with a sealing collar enclosing the tubular piercing member and abutting against the container wall. The tubular piercing member is immovably connected to the mounting, and, when the latter is positioned on the container, penetrates the container wall. The sealing collar protrudes beyond the cutting rim of the tubular piercing member so that when the device is fixed on the container, the sealing collar abuts against it sealingly before the tubular piercing member penetrates the container wall.

Abstract: There is disclosed a solid ultrasonic delay line comprising a solid ultrasonic delay medium on which polygonal multiple-reflective surfaces are formed. An input transducer for radiating longitudinal waves is disposed on one of the reflective surfaces. The longitudinal waves are transformed into transverse waves by other one of the reflective surfaces and then reconverted by yet other one of the reflective surfaces into longitudinal waves which enter an output transducer disposed on still other one of the reflective surfaces. Ultrasound absorbers cover at least portions of the main boundary surfaces perpendicular to the reflective surfaces. Spurious waves of the longitudinal waves radiated from the input transducer are transformed by the main boundary surfaces into transverse waves which enter the absorbers.

Abstract: There are disclosed an optical fiber junction device and a method of making the same. The method comprises the steps of providing a central inner pipe or rod of glass, arranging a plurality of optical fibers around the inner pipe or rod, and externally heating the optical fibers and the central inner pipe to form a thermally fused assembly having cores of a sectorial cross section. The inner pipe may include a tapered portion having a reduced diameter. The optical fibers may comprise optical fiber junction units each composed of a plurality of optical fibers.

Abstract: A weighbridge unit for use in a conveyor weigh scale has a support for part of the conveyor belt, such as a trough or one or more idlers, a bridge carrying the support, and load cells formed by cantilever strain gauge bridge units supporting the ends of the bridge, the electrical outputs of the bridge units being summed to provide a weighbridge output signal. Cantilever arms of the load cell bridge units preferably extend in the direction of movement of the belt.

Abstract: Described herein is a hydraulic servo suitable for friction coupling elements in automatic transmissions. The hydraulic servo of the invention is compact in construction and reduced particularly in axial dimensions, and essentially comprises: an annular drum rotatably or fixedly mounted in a transmission case and having a press-formed annular plate member with an first cylinder portion and a second cylinder member joined to the first cylinder portion by fully encircling welding; a piston fitted between the first cylinder portion and the second cylinder member; and a reaction area formed by extending the annular plate member of the drum radially inward to support return springs.

Abstract: An electrically conducting material including a polymeric material having adsorbed sulfides of a first metal selected from copper, cobalt, tin, mercury and lead and of a second metal selected from silver, gold and elements of the platinum group. The polymeric material is in the form of powder or a shaped body such as a fiber, film or string and is formed of a synthetic polymer without cyanic groups such as a polyester or a polyamide or a naturally occurring polymeric substance such as silk or wool. The electrically conducting material may be prepared by treating the polymeric material with hydrogen sulfide, and then treating the resultant material having absorbed hydrogen sulfide with (a) a source of ions containing the first metal, (b) a source of ions containing the second metal and, optionally, (c) a sulfur-containing compound to form sulfides of the first and second metals adsorbed by the polymeric material.

Abstract: A method of and apparatus for burning liquid fuels such as oil or the like and/or solid fuels, especially coal, peat or the like, in pulverized form, the latter either in dry condition or mixed with a carrier liquid such as water and/or oil to form an emulsion being introduced together with the liquid fuel into a combustion chamber while creating a recirculating flow profile, said flow profile being confined by a rotating outer flow of air. For thorough breaking-up of the fuel introduced into the combustion chamber the fuel inlet is constituted by a plurality of inlet ports approximately evenly distributed along a circumference, especially a circle, the liquid-fuel inlet ports and the inlet ports for solid fuel or a fuel emulsion being alternately arranged along said circumference. The fuel inlet ports may be directed either radially and/or at an outward inclination in the direction of flow, based on the longitudinal axis of the combustion chamber.