Abstract: A sliver formed along an inner surface of an outer rotor is drawn out through a hole of an inner rotor which is concentrically provided in and rotated differentially to said outer rotor, whereby drafting of said sliver is effectuated by the relation between the speed of drawing out said sliver and differential speed between the inner and outer rotors. Furthermore, floating movement of the fibers of said sliver is effectively suppressed by use of plural or one centrifugal disk which is pressed onto said sliver while being revolved at the rim of the inner rotor and subjected to self-rotation on its axis.

Abstract: Herein disclosed is an arrangement of strand twisting apparatuses, comprising a plurality of strand twisting apparatuses which are side-by-side and vertically installed in a row on floor, and each of which comprises a fore portion of a frame including a flyer unit vertically disposed for supplying and twisting strands into a cable, a take-up unit disposed in side-by-side relation with the flyer unit to wind the cable, a direction change roll unit disposed immediately above the flyer unit for changing the cable vertically fed from the flyer unit to a horizontal direction, a capstan roll unit disposed immediately above the take-up unit for smooth feed of the cable fed from the direction change roll unit to the take-up unit, and an over-twister unit disposed between the direction change roll unit and the capstan roll unit to stabilize twisting of the cable during travelling between the direction change roll unit and the capstan roll unit; and a rear portion of the frame including a driving the flyer unit, the ta

Abstract: Aerodynamically profiled ring travelers of generally ear-shaped configuration and designed for movement in only one direction along the inside of a ring of a yarn twister or like machine with minimized aerodynamic resistance and ring to traveler friction, are disclosed. Any such traveler is characterized by transverse cross-sectional configurations which have, as viewed in the intended direction of movement, an oblong shape with a relatively wider or more blunt leading edge and a relatively narrower or less blunt trailing edge, and which further have an airfoil shape in certain sections of the traveler that are so oriented as to cause lift forces to be generated at those sections in opposition to the centrifugal force and, if desired, also the yarn force, acting on the traveler when the same is in use.

Abstract: Multi-filament reinforcing carbon yarn coated with a resorcinol-formaldehyde-latex (RFL) composition for use in reinforced rubber articles such as tires. The reinforcing yarn is prepared from a multi-filament carbon yarn having a limited denier of about 500-4,000, having a twist factor of the yarn of about 0-250, and having individual filaments which have a denier of 1.4-2.0. The reinforcing yarn is impregnated with RFL, so that the amount of coated RFL is at least about 10 weight percent based on the yarn. Treatment of the carbon filament yarn with an epoxy resin, prior to being subjected to impregnation with RFL, is also disclosed.

Abstract: Textured polyester multifilament yarn having uniform quality in dye-absorbing properties and crimp properties is produced by a combined draw-texturing method wherein a feed yarn composed of a plurality of polyester filaments having a birefringence of at most 0.04 is drawn and simultaneously or sequentially textured, said feed yarn being produced by meltspinning a synthetic linear ethylene terephthalate polymer to form an undrawn multi-filament yarn, winding up the undrawn yarn and, before and/or after the winding operation, applying to the undrawn yarn a finishing agent which is not capable of diffusing into the inside of the filaments but is capable of preventing protuberance formation at a surface protuberance number larger than 5 on the surface of the filaments when the feed yarn is aged at a temperature of 40.degree. C at a relative humidity of 70% for 21 days and, then, twisted at a twist number of 32500/.sqroot.D turns/m, wherein D represents a denier of the feed yarn, without drawing.

Abstract: Digital display is retained in upper spacer of watch module by means of screws and a spring having resiliently deflected fingers engaging the upper spacer. Resilient deflection at both the screw attached end and the spring finger end resiliently restrains the display and ensures contact of the display with an elastomeric type connector.

Abstract: The switching mechanism for setting the time in an electronic wrist watch comprises a switch blade actuated by a double-lobe cam which is connected by a lost-motion coupling with a coaxial transmission wheel having at its periphery gear teeth meshing with a winding pinion on a round part of the winding stem which is perpendicular to the axis of the transmission wheel and cam. The winding pinion and a clutch wheel which is rotatable with the winding stem have rectangular teeth which are engageable with each other to connect the winding pinion with the winding stem. A protuberance of a cam spring is engageable with one lobe of the cam to restrain rotation of the cam until the lost-motion coupling reaches the end of its travel. The construction permits its use in a thin watch.

Abstract: An electronic timepiece of the type having a display and a time-correcting switch for effecting correction of the displayed time is provided with a safety switch for enabling and disenabling the time-correcting switch. Whenever the safety switch is switched so as to enable the time-correcting switch, the displayed time on the display panel flashes at one second intervals thereby providing a visual indication of the enabled state of the time-correcting switch to thereby alert the timepiece user that actuation of the time-contacting switch will effect a time correction.

Abstract: A world clock comprises a cabinet including a front plaque carrying a world map, a time display board slanted to face the viewer for easy reading of the displayed time, a plural pair consisting of a touch pin and a signal light disposed in the neighborhood of each other in the world map and electric circuit means contained in the cabinet for displaying the time at the place of use in the time display board when no touch pin is touched with a finger and displaying the time at a desired district in the time display board and lighting a corresponding signal light at the desired district in the world map. The time display board can be easily exchanged by releasing a simple engagement. The pair consisting of a touch pin and a signal light source may be integrated. From this device one can easily know the time at a desired district in the world simply by touching a touch pin at the desired position in the world map.

Abstract: Instead of having separate digital display means for seconds, minutes, hours, dates and months, an electronic timepiece uses the same liquid crystal display and differentiates between seconds, minutes, hours, dates and months by displaying each in a different color. This makes it possible to have the timepiece smaller and at the same time have the individual digits of the display larger and hence more easily legible. The different colors of the display are obtained by using a plurality of driving voltages for the liquid crystal display device and switching circuitry for applying the different drive voltages to the liquid crystal device according to whether seconds, minutes, hours, dates or months is to be displayed.

Abstract: A time adjusting system for an electronic timepiece has a discriminating circuit for discriminating between an advanced signal appearing during the first 30 seconds of a minute and a delayed signal appearing during the latter 30 seconds of the minute. In the advanced state, the supply of 1 HZ pulses to the time-measuring device is temporarily stopped for a time equivalent to the duration of the advanced time thereby delaying the time. In the delayed state, time adjusting pulses higher in frequency than the 1 HZ pulses are supplied to the time-measuring device in a number equal to the duration of the delayed time thereby advancing the time.

Abstract: A time clock is provided which includes a minute wheel that is advanced every minute and an hour wheel that must be advanced every hour, wherein a deflecting pawl device is utilized, in place of gears, to connect the wheels. Both wheels have ratchet teeth, and a pawl that oscilltes once each minute to advance the minute wheel. The minute wheel, which rotates once every hour, has a cam that moves beside the pawl to deflect it sidewardly so that the pawl engages a tooth on the hour wheel. Thus, at the next oscillation of the pawl, both wheels are advanced. The minute wheel bears the numbers 0 through 59, while the hour wheel bears the numbers 1 through 12 repeated five times, so that both wheels have 60 numbers.

Abstract: A process for forming low-emission combustion gases. A lean mixture of fuel and air provides a substantially homogeneous mixture within the combustion zone. The fuel is preferably vaporized and, alternatively, may be introduced into the burner as microscopic droplets. Combustion temperature is maintained below about 3,000.degree. F. to reduce nitrogen oxides and combustion is conducted under stable conditions which sufficiently exceed lean blowout to reduce formation of carbon monoxide and unburned hydrocarbons. The flow velocity into the burner is higher than the turbulent flame velocity.A dilution zone may be provided downstream from the combustion zone. To control performance, input air may be split into a first stream to the combustion zone and a second stream to the dilution zone. A quantity of water may be admixed with the fuel and be prevaporized to form water vapor containing fuel droplets.A method of operating a gas turbine with a burner operated as above, generating combustion gases to the turbine.

Abstract: A containment shroud is attached to the exhaust outlet of a pneumatically powered turbine engine starter for containing the turbine wheel should it be inadvertently disengaged and expelled from the starter motor. The shroud includes a radially flared annularly shaped member attached to and extending outwardly or rearwardly from the exhaust outlet of the motor. A relatively massive central cylindrical member or button is positioned within the annularly shaped member adjacent the outer opening of the annularly shaped member. Four circumferentially spaced, radially outwardly extending bars tie the button to the annularly shaped member and position it adjacent the outer opening of the annularly shaped member. Should the turbine wheel dislodge from the starter motor, it will exit through the starter exhaust opening into the annular member and contact the button and inner surface of the annular member.

Abstract: A stagnation sensing control for determining when a gas turbine engine has stagnated during a start phase of operation includes means for sampling the engine speed at a first predetermined point in time and means to hold the sampled speed in memory and further including means operative following a period of time to compare engine speed at the later point in time with the speed in memory and means operative if the speed increase is less than an established amount greater than the sampled speed in memory to produce an engine shutdown signal to operate engine starter and shut down circuits for terminating engine operation.

Abstract: A gas coupled or free turbine type gas turbine engine of the type having two or more independently rotatable turbines has a set of hydraulic (oil cooled) clutches for coupling a gasifier turbine to a power turbine and wherein the turbine engine includes a combustor for supplying motive fluid to both of the turbines and having an operating characteristic that produces an abrupt fall in the motive fluid temperature at the turbine inlets upon synchronous operation of the independently rotatable turbines.

Abstract: A combustor for a gas turbine engine has a prevaporization chamber wall having a plurality of air passages therethrough and wherein a variable geometry air flow control element is located in overlying relationship with the air passages to control air flow therethrough. A fuel injector is located concentrically within the chamber for supplying fuel for combustion with air supplied thereto and a hydraulic control actuator is located in surrounding relationship with the injector immediately outboard of the chamber including the hydraulic actuator having pressure supplied thereto from the fuel flow through the nozzle and including means for coupling the actuator directly to the control element for increasing primary air flow in accordance with increased fuel flow to the prevaporization chamber.

Abstract: An electronic circuit is used to control a gas turbine engine primarily as a function of turbine inlet temperature and compressor speed and in particular includes a speed governing loop to control compressor speed according to throttle position and modified by a temperature limiting compensation loop which accurately sets the turbine inlet temperature limit according to a schedule which avoids engine surge and destructive temperatures. The compensation loop is particularly designed to provide quick response to acceleration demands and a smooth transition to temperature limiting. A start fuel schedule circuit is also used to moderate the speed loop during engine starting.

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Abstract: A hydraulic torque converter with a lock-up clutch wherein the cross section of a torus formed by an impeller, turbine and a stator is determined to satisfy that the ratio of its axial length L to its radial height H (L/H) is 0.64-0.80, the ratio of its inner diameter D.sub.i to its outer diameter D.sub.o (D.sub.i /D.sub.o) is 0.40-0.33 and the ratio of an annular flow passage area a at the exit of the impeller to a circular area A defined by the torus outer diameter (a/A) is 0.18-0.23.

Abstract: The shiftably supported, rotatable feed rolls on a forage harvester or other material processing machine are operably coupled to a control lever on the hydraulic pump regulating the feed roll drive motor such that the angular velocity of the rolls is increased in response to shifting movement of the rolls away from one another, thereby enabling the rolls to readily rid themselves of a larger-than-normal slug of material should the same be encountered during harvesting. An additional control lever of a second hydraulic pump regulating another drive motor for the standing crop cutter and gathering elements of the harvester is operably coupled to the first control lever by a lost motion connection that permits the control levers to be shifted simultaneously for in unison manual operation of the motors, yet the first lever may be actuated independently by the feed rolls to control the first drive motor in response to relative shifting movement between the rolls.

Abstract: A thermomechanical oscillator for generating electricity, pressurizing fluid or pumping heat is disclosed. The device includes a heat source and sink, positive displacement oscillating elements that subject a working fluid to a thermodynamic cycle in which work and heat are exchanged, and a load that extracts enthalpic energy from the working fluid by positive displacment oscillating elements. A thermodynamic cycle produced by such oscillator is also disclosed.

Abstract: The rotary closed series cycle engine system is a rotary version of the latest type of series or double-acting reciprocating Stirling cycle engine. Identical rotary units are mounted in a tandem arrangement with each unit providing the displacement function for an adjacent unit, in a series gas flow loop.Thermal transfer is greatly improved by the application of a large number of small transfer tubes in a high external loop with separation between the hot and cold sources.Since the rotary unit has non-contacting vanes, friction is kept to a minimum while the compression ratio is moderately high.Hydrogen gas is the fuel for the system which is obtained from an electrolysis unit with a wind generator, operating on a continuous demand controlled basis.

Abstract: An air pressure regulating arrangement for regulating charging air pressure of an internal combustion engine which is provided with an exhaust gas turbo-charger including a charging blower and an exhaust turbine. A pressure regulating device responding to charging pressure of a charging blower operates a control device arranged in an exhaust channel by passing the exhaust turbine with the charging air pressure between the charging blower and a load regulating member of the internal combustion engine being monitored so that, upon exceeding a predetermined charging air pressure, the fuel supply to the internal combustion engine is interrupted until such time as the charging air pressure is decreased to the predetermined air pressure whereupon the fuel supply to the engine is then restored.

Abstract: A steam turbine construction wherein the turbine rotor shafting is mounted in bearing means located in the end walls of the turbine housing and wherein the bearings are lubricated with water condensed from the working steam supplied to the turbine. The lubricant flows in a re-circulating system tapped from the condensate-return line leading back to the boiler from the condenser after the turbine has been started and is supplying power, and an auxiliary supply of lubricant water is taken from a reserve gravity flow tank to supply water to the bearings during the starting and stopping runs of the turbine.

Abstract: A multirotary energy conversion valve comprising inlet and outlet passages interposed by meshing pairs of inlet and outlet rotors of unequal constant volume displacements with an enclosed channel in between having energy conversion means and additionally interposed by meshing intermediate rotors of unequal constant volume displacements with at least one rotary linkage connecting an inlet and an outlet rotor and additionally an intermediate rotor in synchronous rotation about one axis, said valve being applicable in a range including check valves, heat pumps, heat engines, vacuum pumps, vapor flash valves, cool engines, direct air conditioners and nuclear fusion devices.

Abstract: A method is provided for filling a subterranean void, e.g. a mined out cavity such as a tunnel. An aqueous suspension of solid particles the mass of which when at rest has a permeability of about 40 darcies, preferably less than 20 darcies, is injected into the void to effect complete filling.

Abstract: This invention relates to a trench shoring assembly which includes a pair of spaced-apart side walls for vertical disposition within a trench. Spreader pipes and spreader collars interconnect the side walls and allow limited pivotal movement between the side walls. Each side wall includes outer and inner metal plates connected to a horizontally extending hollow top beam which extends longitudinally along the top of the side wall, two intermediate beams parallel the hollow metal beam and a bottom beam. A hardwood insert is disposed within the top beam to prevent the collapse of the hollow metal beam. A number of hollow beams extend perpendicularly to the horizontal beams and ribbed members extend perpendicularly to the horizontal beams. The side walls of the assembly have a tapered bottom portion which defines a triangularly shaped pointed lower extremity extending between the ends of the bottom portion.

Abstract: Apparatus for, and a method of, laying a pipe line utilizes an advanceable drive shield composed of parallel displaceable cutter planks supported by a frame to excavate an open trench. Behind the shield is a receptacle which is closed to the trench and receives individual pipe sections for extending the pipe line through an opening in the receptacle. Some of the cutter planks and the receptacle are provided with gripping devices selectively operable to engage the trench walls to anchor the respective components against shifting forces. The receptacle is connected with the frame for movement therewith or for independent movement. A roller bed which can be raised or lowered or tilted in a universal manner is provided in the receptacle to receive the pipe section lowered into the receptacle. The frame also has an adjustable bulkhead at its front end which can be partly opened to allow material at the working face of the trench to enter the shield for subsequent removal.

Abstract: A trenching machine comprising a carriage, a trenching unit, operating machinery and buoyancy tanks; the carriage has wheels and is guided on the pipeline so as to permit swinging of the carriage around the pipeline; the carriage is also driven along the pipeline by engagement of the wheels with the pipeline; the trenching unit is rigidly connected to the major inert masses of the machine including the buoyancy tanks, whereas the carriage is carried by said major masses by vertical, hydraulic cylinders.

Abstract: An improved Vuilleumier cycle refrigerator is disclosed. To reduce fluid contamination and inactive refrigerant volume, the hot and cold fluid displacers of the refrigerator are driven by a magnetic drive mechanism. The magnetic drive mechanism has a first and second assembly. The first assembly is contained in the fluid chamber together with the hot and cold displacers; the second assembly including the drive motor is mounted exteriorly of the fluid chamber. The first and second assemblies of the drive mechanism include adjacent magnets separated by the wall of the fluid chamber. Thus, the first and second assemblies are coupled together by their magnetic field for rotation to drive the hot and cold displacers and the fluid chamber provides an hermetic seal to contain the working fluid thereby removing the motor with its air space and contaminants from the fluid chamber.

Abstract: A space heating and cooling system utilizing an ice making apparatus having a refrigerant compressor and condenser and a plurality of ice making plates defining passages for the movement of refrigerant therethrough. Valves are utilized for selectively directing the refrigerant to the plates. During a given period of operation, the valves direct unexpanded refrigerant to plates having ice formed thereon whereby the heat of the unexpanded refrigerant serves to release ice from the plates. At the same time, expansion valves are utilized for directing expanded refrigerant to plates having ice forming thereon. By successively operating the valves, the plates are all used in sequence for ice forming and are all sequentially subjected to the ice releasing operation. During the period of time when heat is required, heating fluids are moved adjacent the condenser, and the heat picked up by these fluids is then employed for heating the space.

Abstract: Apparatus is provided for compressing refuse, for freezing the compressed refuse, and for storing the frozen, compressed refuse for subsequent pickup by a refuse collector. A clam-shell like device with hold bars thereon is utilized for a backup structure for previously frozen refuse, which previously frozen serves as a backup for the compression of fresh refuse. The frozen refuse is maintained at optimum temperature.

Abstract: In the refrigerator according to the present invention, the driving motor is provided outside of the refrigerator and hence the heat load of the freezing cycle can be decreased by the value corresponding to the value of heat which would be generated by the driving motor provided inside of the refrigerator, thereby reducing the time of cooling operation. Additionally, a bush is used to block the gap around the driving shaft penetrating into the refrigerator and hence a complete shut-off is established between the interior and the exterior of the refrigerator. Since the driving motor is housed in a completely sealed housing so that construction of the driving motor free from lock troubles is available. In addition, in the case of construction wherein a liquid polyurethane is filled in the insulated wall of the refrigerator for foam-forming therein, leakage of the liquid polyurethane can be fully prevented.

Abstract: The present invention relates to Flexing-Disk Couplings that permit moderate angular and axial displacements between two rotating parts connected thereby. They contain a plurality of adjacent disks operating in parallel. Each disk transmits only a portion of the total torque. To keep the several disks acting in a similar manner, their outer ends at least are connected with one of said parts through yielding rubber-like layers, permitting said disks to slightly move out or in relatively to each other. This avoids high stresses when said parts tilt with respect to each other. The use of several disks in parallel permits to increase the load capacity or reduce the coupling diameter and weight.

Abstract: A flexible shaft coupling is disclosed in which hub members each having a plurality of axially directed peripheral teeth are adapted for mounting on the shafts to be coupled. In one embodiment, the grooves between the teeth are provided with a rounded bottom and a serpentine grid element interconnects the hub members. The grid element has a circular cross section and includes rungs which are seated in the grooves of both hub members. In other embodiments more than one layer of rungs having circular cross sections are seated in the grooves. The grooves may also have side walls which diverge radically outwardly, and the outer layers of rungs may have a greater diameter than the radially inner layers.

Abstract: A cam mechanism for a circular knitting machine includes stitch cams each of which is provided with main cam wall sections adapted to control the position of each descending needle after its operating butt has come into contact on its upper side with the one of the main cam wall sections. The stitch cam is also formed with auxiliary cam wall sections of substantially the same contours as the main ones for guiding the needle on the underside of either the same or another operating butt to permit smooth movement of the needle while the operating butt is being controlled by the main cam wall sections. The two cam wall sections cooperate to guide the needles without irregular motion of their butts or needle points.

Abstract: Closing the toe opening of a stocking, or the end of a tube by providing a two ply welt defining the toe pocket, and constricting the fabric of at least one of said plys about the axis of the toe opening to obstruct the same. The constriction or gathering of the fabric is effected by winding a thread about the fabric. The knitting of the stocking and the welt and the closing of the opening are carried out automatically, as an integrated operation and on a single machine.A stocking, the toe pocket of which is defined by a two ply welt having an end opening, said opening being closed by gathering fabric there-across.

Abstract: An elastic warp knit fabric having balanced bi-directional stretch is disclosed. The fabric comprising in combination an inelastic knitted ground structure and an elastic inlayed thread.

Abstract: A warp-knitted fabric comprises one set of threads forming a multiplicity of inerconnected, contracted loop and two sets of laid-in threads arranged in pairs. Each of the threads of the pairs of lay-ins includes in each repeat of a knitting pattern at least two short lay-ins between wales and at least two long lay-ins between wales, there being for each long lay-in between wales of each thread of each pair a corresponding short lay-in between wales of the other thread of the pair which is located in the same course as and extends in the opposite direction from the said long lay-in between wales. The threads of each pair of laid-in threads form mirror images of each other which are offset from each other by at least two courses and are thus of substantially equal total lengths in each repeat.

Abstract: An automatic anti-theft device or lock is secured to a support of a portable apparatus to secure the apparatus against theft. The lock has two mating halves secured together to form a shatter-proof casing. One casing half includes a hollow spindle integral with the inside wall of the casing half, a retractile reel mounted on the spindle with a cable secured at one end thereto and wrapped around the reel. The second free end of the cable extends through one wall of the casing. The second casing half mounts a lock mechanism having a rotatable lock member which extends into the spindle when the casing halves are joined. The free end of the cable includes a lock cylinder which aligns with the rotatable lock member when it is inserted into the first casing half, and is secured by the rotatable lock member. The first casing member includes a slidable latch which is spring-biased to a first position to engage and latch the reel against rotation.

Abstract: A safety lock and its actuation key are disclosed. The lock comprises an apertured barrel mounted in a cylinder which barrel can be rotated with respect to the cylinder when notched cams inside said barrel have their notches aligned, so that by rotating the key at least one longitudinal catch placed between the barrel and said cylinder can take place into said aligned notches. The apertures form two couples of shanks perpendicular to a central channel for the key body and the shanks of a couple are offset in height with respect to one another.

Abstract: An enclosure, for housing a manually operated lock, comprising a wall which may be mounted on either the lock or a door to surround the lock and, if necessary, its striker plate. A cover is pivotally mounted on the wall and provided with a key-actuated lock to prevent unauthorized operation of the manually operated lock.

Abstract: Rolling mills, especially for sheet metal, and also paper, rubber and similar rolling mills, require accurate control of the gap between the rolls since this determines the uniformity of the gauge of the material rolled by the mill. This invention provides a rolling mill with sensors that cooperate with the circumferential surfaces of the rolls, or rigid parts thereof, to detect relative movement of the rolls in directions that affect the roll gap and the gauge of the material being rolled. Response of the sensors operates a transducer to affect automatic correction of changes in the spacing of the rolls from one another.

Abstract: Thin-walled metal duct particularly useful for heating and air-conditioning purposes is usually made by grooving, spiral wrapping, and seaming strips of thin metal sheet. The resultant tubular form provides the necessary rigidity to resist collapse of the tubular form. In the past, at least one end of the ribbed tubular ducts have been reformed to permit the ducts to be joined together. The end reforming techniques of the past have resulted in reformed ends having insufficient rigidity and strength to resist the abuse the ducts frequently receive in shipping, storing, handling, and installation.The present product, method, and apparatus provide a ribbed thin-walled tubular duct having reformed ends with rigidity and strength superior to the prior art products. This achievement is accomplished in the present invention by moving more metal into the end portion of the duct prior to reforming the end portion, thus reinforcing the end portion of the duct.

Abstract: A pipe reeling machine guide for guiding and burnishing an external surface of a pipe having a work contact surface of a composition consisting essentially, in percent by weight, of: 0.70-0.90 carbon, up to 1.75 manganese, 0.08 max. phosphorus, 0.08 max. sulfur, 0.5-1.75 silicon, 8-12.0 nickel, 23-27 choromium, and the balance being essentially iron with residual impurities.

Abstract: A wire winding blade extends through spiral outfeed guide members and receives spring-like unannealed wire from a source drawn by rotation of the winding blade; the wire from the source first passes through tensioning means then over an infeed guide pulley which guides it into a linear guide member having a bore slightly in excess of the wire diameter from which the wire passes over a small diameter idler roller sheave which imparts a back bend to the wire which is then fed into the slot of the spiral wire guide means where it is bent in a reverse manner about the winding blade.

Abstract: A rolling mill comprises a movable mill stand mounted in slideways and accommodating a mill roll unit installed therein on supports, said mill roll unit including housings with grooved mill rolls disposed therein and roll necks which are coupled with hydraulic drives and gear wheels in mesh with each other. The movable mill stand is equipped with two linear cylindrical inductors establishing a travelling magnetic field. Said inductors are mounted on supports coincident with the axis of rolling of a round ingot, referred to hereinafter as a continuous round casting, and are rotatable about said axis of rolling through an angle of at least 90.degree., the mill roll unit being disposed intermediate of said inductors and being fixed rigidly to the end faces of the inductor bodies.

Abstract: An entry rollerway for a cooling bed for elongate rolled stock in which all parts necessary for guiding and laterally ejecting the rods are carried by lantern-shaped cast members which also constitute the bearings for the rollerway rollers, so that the long support structure or the frame-like understructure previously used in entry rollerways is avoided.

Abstract: There is disclosed a rolling assembly for the initial rolling passes of a metal ingot coming from a continuous casting machine and having substantially triangular or trapezial cross-section with mutually proportional sides. The rolling assembly comprises at least a first rolling unit with three rolls each having the same geometrical shape defining a substantially circular passage. This shape is such that the metal ingot entering the rolling unit comes into contact along a preponderal part of its peripheral contour with the rolls and that the forces acting on the metal ingot have at each point of contact a resultant substantially directed towards the center of the metal ingot.