Abstract: Refractory material in wet slurry form is applied onto the inner surface of a furnace. The improvement is characterized in that the water to be added into the powder-like refractory material for producing the above slurry refractory material is finely and accurately regulated so that the resultant refractory material sprayed from the spray nozzle fixedly adheres onto the abraded or eroded portion of the inner surface of the furnace with a minimum amount of rebound loss.

Abstract: In an apparatus which applies refractory material in either wet or dry form onto the inner surface of a furnace by means of a spray pipe, a rotating mechanism for rotating the spray pipe is provided with an automatic oscillating device for automatically effecting a continuous oscillation of the spray pipe, the continuous oscillation improving the operability of the spraying operation while uniformly applying an optimal amount of refractory material onto the inner surface of the furance.

Abstract: In an apparatus of this invention which applies refractory material in either wet or dry form onto the inner surface of a furnace, the improvement is characterized in that all the devices inevitable for the lining operation including an operator's seat are effectively mounted on the transport car thereof which can be steered readily in any direction around the furnace.Due to the above construction, the lining apparatus of this invention can conduct the spraying operation with great mobility and reliability.

Abstract: A television signal is encoded by the use of a sampling pulse synchronized with a color subcarrier frequency included in an input television signal, the encoded signal is compressed and recorded in a memory for later reproduction of a desired compressed picture image having a desired size and center position, the recorded signal is reproduced under the control of a clock pulse signal produced in synchronism with a sync signal obtained in a studio, for example, and the reproduced signal is corrected by inverting the polarity of the chroma component according to frame information at the time of recording of said reproduced signal.Thus, it is possible to freely obtain phase coupling of different synchronizing signals; for instance, it is possible to bring the phase of a different television signal of a different synchronization system into coincidence with the phase of a central synchronization signal and it is possible to reproduce an object image optionally compressed on a TV display screen.