Abstract: A device for separating drops of liquid from a stream of gas or steam comprises a closed casing having a horizontal inlet and an outlet respectively having their openings in two compartments separated by a vertical grid, a deflecting nozzle in coaxial relation with the inlet and providing a slit leading to a gap external of the nozzle forming part of a first collecting chamber which communicates with a reservoir, a cusped inner shell cooperating with the nozzle coaxially and provided with a trailing edge forming a slit with an overlapping edge of a second collecting chamber which also communicates with the reservoir, and means for the fine separation of liquid known in the prior art which are placed between the vertical grid and the outlet.

Abstract: The light beam projector and the directive light receiver of a light barr intrusion detector are mounted side by side on a common mounting body which is angularly adjustable in a fixed casing, so as to direct the projected light for maximum reflection to the receiver by a remote mirror. A light emitting diode is provided as a visible indicator on or near the casing or the mounting and responds to the photosensitive element of the receiver through an intermediate amplifier, so that its brightness enables the effectiveness of the directional adjustment to be easily observed.

Abstract: The inductance of a coil wound on one end of an elongated rectangular core with an elongated central window is caused to vary by the displacement of a conducting plate or ring arrangement lengthwise of the core. The other end of the core may also be wound with a coil to produce a differential type of transducer. The elongated core may be bent around into a circle in order to provide a transducer for rotational displacement. Additional ferromagnetic bodies in fixed relation to the core or to the short-circuiting rings can be used to modify the translation characteristic.

Abstract: In addition to a deformable disk membrane with a valve seat on a portion of a flange immediately surrounding a discharge opening, there is provided a similarly deformable annular disk membrane on a valve seat surrounding that of the disk membrane set back into the flange surface by at least the thickness of the annular disk membrane somewhat obliquely to form a wedge-shaped flow channel communicating with the inlet opening for the working medium. The two membranes are clamped together at their outer edges with an O-ring and a cap providing the chamber for the control medium. The annular membrane operates as a built-in check valve when back pressure of the condensate pushes the disk membrane off its seat, the annular membrane remaining on its seat and blocking the inlet opening against backflow.

Abstract: Rapidly varying light phenomena are observed by scanning on a screen the image of a slit in a photocathode which collects the light coming from the phenomenon to be studied. The image converter tube comprises separate electronic means respectively for forming the image of the longest dimension of the slit on the screen and for focusing and deflecting the beam in the plane of the screen in a direction at right angles to the longest dimension of the slit.

Abstract: The rotary disk that mechanically provides radial acceleration to the particles of the coating powder as they enter the electrostatic field of the apparatus is provided with a grid or screen of fine wires on its upper side near its outer edge to break up agglomerates of the coating material that may be present in the powder when it reaches the neighborhood of the disk.

Abstract: A zoom lens device comprises a zooming section including a group of focusing lenses, a group of variator lenses and a group of compensator lenses, and a relay section for focusing the light beam from the zooming section. The zoom lens device permits its zooming section alone to be interchanged with another zooming section. By fitting this other zooming section to the relay section, the zoom lens device having different magnification, and so on can be obtained. The light beam from this other zooming section is substantially equal in aberration and image forming conditions to the light beam from the original zooming section.

Abstract: A device for subjecting n (n .gtoreq. 1) test specimens to alternate tensile and compressive stresses comprises an excitation source having a horizontal axis of displacement and a guide rod which is capable of free translational displacement along a horizontal axis. The guide rod is rigidly fixed at one end to the exciter and provided at the other end with means for clamping the ends of n test specimens. A massive part is provided with nozzles for the injection of a gas under pressure and with n horizontal bearing blocks constituting gas bearings for n cylindrical and horizontal masses to which the other ends of the test specimens are secured.

Abstract: In the present thermographic camera, an object is scanned by a horizontal and vertical scanning mechanisms in order to obtain temperature signals of each point on the object, and the temperature distribution of the object is indicated on a scanning display device, such as a cathode ray tube, on the basis of the signals obtained by the scanning. Temperature information of one or more arbitrary points on the object are sampled from each frame, and temperature variation of a point on the object is measured, while the identity of the point or points is marked on the temperature distribution display.

Abstract: An electromagnet release device for a motion picture camera having a drive motor, a shutter control member actuated by the driving force of the motor, a blocking mechanism to selectively block the actuation of the shutter control member, an electromagnet member to control the actuation of the blocking mechanism and a release control switching member with a delay circuit having a charging circuit that delays, for a predetermined time, the timing of the actuation of the motor relative to the timing of the actuation of the electromagnet and a discharging circuit to keep the motor energized for a period after the electromagnet is released to assure the driving of the shutter to the proper stop position. Circuits are also shown for reducing magnet current during continuous operation and for timing the operated period of the electromagnet in single frame operation.

Abstract: After a preliminary differentiation, the demodulated signal is supplied in parallel to a peak rectifier and to a second differentiating network, the outputs of the latter two circuits being added in the input circuit of a switching transistor that controls the blanking gate of a receiver. The value of the resistor across the output capacitor of the peak rectifier, as well as the rectifier capacitor, is so chosen in value that periodically recurrent pulses that may be persistently present in the signal build up a blocking bias on the switching transistor reducing its sensitivity and preventing corresponding differentiated pulses from switching it on, whereas occasionally or irregularly appearing pulses develop a negligible bias through the rectifier, so that their twice differentiated derived pulses will switch on the transistor and produce blanking.

Abstract: The halves of a ferrite core respectively set in the jaws of a pick-up clip are held in plastic holders loosely mounted in the respective clip jaws with compression springs between the holders and the jaws that are weaker than the spring that pulls the clip jaws together. This arrangement enables the core halves to accommodate to each other to produce a flush fit and reduces the impact on closing the clip which the main spring would otherwise produce. A conducting coating is provided for electrical shielding against stray fields.

Abstract: The dimethyl ethers of succinic, glutaric and adipic acids show a great increase in their water miscibility when they are mixed with either 6-hydroxycaproic acid methyl ester, one or more of the glycol ethers, diglycol ethers and glycol ether acetates, or both 6-hydroxycaproic acid methyl ester and one or more of the glycol ethers, diglycol ethers and glycol ether acetates. These dimethyl esters are, accordingly, substituents for the glycol ether derivatives in water-miscible solvents for film-forming resins. They may provide up to 80% by weight of the non-water components of the solvent. They may be produced at the same time as the methyl ester of 6-hydroxycaproic acid in a single esterification step by esterifying a fraction of acids derived from the waste salt solutions of cyclohexanone manufacture, as described in a related application, Ser. No. 372,021, now U.S. Pat. No. 3,859,335.

Abstract: The arm carrying the optical head that projects and focuses a light beam onto a record trace on a video disc record is provided with a tracking movement by mounting the arm on an electromagnetically driven moving coil system that produces torque, driving the arm radially of the disc in accordance with a combination of coarse and fine tracking correction signals. The light beam is deflected by mirrors both at the pivot of the arm and at its extremity. The mirror at the arm extremity is either associated with a focusing lens or else provided with a parabolic curvature so that the light beam will be narrowed to a spot on the record trace. For transparent records, a photocell on the other side of the record disc is carried on a second arm mounted on the same torque-producing moving coil system in a manner elastically rather than rigidly coupled to the moving coil structure. In a system for opaque discs, the arm extremity deflecting mirror is a half mirror and the photocell is mounted behind the half mirror.

Abstract: A circuit resonant at a frequency above the frequency band occupied by a signal to be protected is set into damped oscillations by high-frequency components of an interfering pulse and produces a voltage spike at the beginning of the interfering pulse. A differentiator circuit produces a close succession of a pair of oppositely polarized spikes in response to the spike produced by the resonant circuit, while substantially eliminating the rest of the signal and a switching transistor is caused to discharge a capacitor suddenly when the positive-going spike of the pair reaches it. The common connection point of the coil, capacitor and resistor of the resonant circuit is a point at which a delayed signal is obtained and the signal to be protected is thus provided with the benefit of this delay before it is subjected to blanking by the pulse produced at the collector of the switching transistor.

Abstract: A zoom lens structure for use with an optical instrument comprises a zooming optical system movable along the optical axis thereof and including a magnifying system and a correcting system; support frames for holding the zooming optical system; a plurality of guide shafts fitted in the support frames of the zooming optical system to cause sliding of the support frames; a frame member for holding the guide shafts at the opposite ends thereof and surrounding the zooming optical system; a fucusing optical system; a holder frame for permitting the focusing optical system to be moved along the optical axis independently of the zooming optical system; and a mechanism using a cam to drive the holder frame. Within the frame member surrounding the zooming optical system, a beam splitter for splitting an object light beam to derive a viewfinder light beam is interposed between the portion of the frame member remote from an object to be photographed and the zooming system.

Abstract: A finishing process for magnetic half-core members of the pot core type, comprising a base, a cylindrical part and a central annular part. The half-core members are carried by a belt moving past at least one machining apparatus, the half-core members are placed in the belt such that, in the machining apparatus, the cylindrical part moves against two parallel fixed abrasive surfaces, between which is disposed an abrasive cylinder, which projects with respect to said abrasive surfaces, in order to machine simultaneously the central annular part, whereby an air gap is formed when two half-core members are assembled.

Abstract: A flexible light guide of the liquid filled type is provided with a liquid supply container outside the light guide.

Abstract: After a combustion chamber is filled with a combustion mixture of gases, channels extending upward from the valves for admitting the gas components of the mixture to a gas inlet bore are flooded with a quantity of water injected through an additional valve by a hydraulically driven piston. After the hydraulic pressure behind the piston is turned off, the water chamber in front of the piston is refilled by the inflow of water at water line pressure, which is not sufficiently high enough in pressure to reopen the water outlet valve until the piston is again driven.

Abstract: Radio frequency disturbance recognition circuits having their inputs tuned to different frequency bands by resonant circuits are coupled to the antenna input of a receiver to be protected through a decoupling stage that prevents excessive coupling and AND-gates are provided so that an interference blanking circuit will be operated to produce a momentary interruption of the low-frequency signal path only when a disturbance is detected by the radio frequency recognition circuits in both of their respective operating frequency ranges and at the same time a pulse disturbance is detected in the output of the receiver demodulator by a disturbance voltage detector circuit tuned to a frequency band higher than the frequency band of the low-frequency signal to be protected.