Abstract: A fuel vapor treating apparatus includes a lower valve casing and an upper valve casing. A float is provided in the lower valve casing and a valve portion is provided in the float for sealing the flow of fuel. A valve port is provided between the lower valve casing and the upper valve casing and is opened and closed by the valve portion. A vent passage portion is provided in the upper valve casing. A space portion is provided between the vent passage portion and the valve port. A valve portion of the float moves vertically in accordance with a liquid level in a fuel tank and opens and closes the valve port, whereby the fuel tank is brought into communication with the vent passage portion. A vent port is provided in a partition that separates the space portion from the vent passage portion. And, a second float is provided to open and close the vent port. The fuel vapor treating apparatus reliably stops fuel leakage from the fuel tank.

Abstract: An end-cap lockingly securable to the end of the pipe at the same time a secondary action such as a branch line is formed to the main pipe line. The end cap housing has an integral branch forming member to allow a user to lock the end cap to the pipe by forming a branch line on the side of the pipe with the end cap housing sandwiching the end of a pipe between a pipe insert and a pipe receptor in the end cap housing. The pipe receptor includes an insert having a sealing surface, which when engaged to the interior surface of a pipe, forms a leak-proof relationship with the pipe.

Abstract: A lightweight flow control valve for use in cooling towers is provided. The valve includes a lightweight, thin-walled valve body having a flow bore, an inlet port, and an outlet port. The outlet port is disposed in a substantially perpendicular relationship relative to the inlet port. The valve body has a substantially frusto-conically shaped interior surface defining the flow bore. A lightweight, thin-walled barrel having an inlet, an outlet, and a fluid passageway extending between the inlet and the outlet is disposed within the flow bore of the valve body. The inlet of the barrel is concentrically positioned relative to the inlet port of the valve body and the outlet of the barrel is disposed in a substantially perpendicular relationship relative to the inlet of the barrel.

Abstract: A single stage regulator is disclosed wherein a Belleville disk spring configuration is utilized to regulate an input working pressure as high as 4,500 PSI, to an output delivery pressure of about 700 to 1,000 PSI. The single stage regulator can be used on Paintball guns, markers and similar devices powered by compressed gas.

Abstract: An especially for the subterranean mining industry intended non-return valve which is very safe and has a long life-cycle contains a valve piston 10 which is set in a case 18 against the pressure of the valve spring 12 which can be manipulated via the control piston 6. The case 18 contains an inner chamber 19 which is connected to the water release opening and the drilling of the casing via a connecting drilling 25. Thus, a hydraulic damping can be achieved which together with the shape of the valve piston 10 as a plastic piston guarantee for a long life-cycle.

Abstract: A high-purity alumina sintered body having an alumina purity of not less than 99.9% by mass and a relative density of not less than 97% and exhibiting a weight loss of not greater than 100×10-−4 kg/m2 when immersed in boiling 6N H2SO4 or 6N NaOH aqueous solution for 24 hours as measured according to JIS R1614 (1993). The high-purity alumina sintered body is obtained by firing a green body formed from an alumina powder having an alumina purity of not less than 99.9% by mass and containing, as impurities, Si, an Mg, Fe and alkali metals including Na, K and Li in a total amount of less than 100 ppm.

Abstract: A leak detector includes an off-center mounted metering pin cooperating with a single cross-hole in a poppet valve to accommodate adjustment of the flow rate past the metering pin by rotating the poppet valve about its longitudinal axis. A flow director, cooperating with the poppet valve, directs all flow into the leak detector directly into the line during initial flow into the leak detector. A piston, responsive to line pressure, is sized smaller in diameter than the poppet valve to cause the line pressure to increase rapidly and significantly during the leak sense mode and which size permits reduction in size and weight of the leak detector.

Abstract: A rotomolded hydraulic reservoir includes a plastic container body defining a container cavity for receiving hydraulic fluid and forming a filter cavity in fluid communication with the container cavity. An integral baffle extends inwardly and is formed as part of an outer wall of the container body. The baffle controls the fluid flow pattern within the container cavity to provide deaeration and homogenization to the fluid.

Abstract: The fuel delivery and ventilation system according to the invention has a surge chamber in which the fuel pump is arranged, and a compensating container into which at least one ventilation line opens, the compensating container and the surge chamber being joined into a structural unit.

Abstract: An improved structure faucet water diversion device comprised of a body having disposed in the center a stepped bore and in its lateral surface and contiguous with the stepped bore is a threaded hole and a horizontal columnar passage penetrating the stepped through-hole such that a revolvable liquid rechannelling shaft can be pivotably installed into the horizontal columnar passage and a water output coupling screwed into the threaded hole. Respectively installed to the upper and lower extent of the body is a ring nut and a water filtering spout. The revolvable liquid rechannelling shaft consists of a round chambered column having a revolvable button-type handle situated at one end and disposed in the column in a crisscrossed arrangement and also perpendicular to its axial center is a through-hole and a stepped hole, and nested in the stepped hole is a steel ball and a spring.

Abstract: A check valve comprises a body (10) of elastomeric material having a tubular inlet (12) at a first end with a radial flange (14). The body (10) has a side surround with three equi-spaced valleys (16) tapering together towards a second end opposite to the first end and having thereat sealing edges (22) in the form of a triskelion. An openable mouth is extendible between said sealing edges (22) of substantially the same areal dimensions as the tubular inlet (12).

Abstract: A profiled tube (50b) comprising a high carbon content alloy (greater than 0.3%), superalloy or other high creep strength material, has a fluted bore with internal fins (52b) and intervening valleys or troughs (56b). Such a tube is made by centrifugal casting and subsequent electrochemical machining by drawing of an electrode (104) along the tube while at the same time passing electrolyte along the tube and around the electrode and also applying an electrical current between the tube and electrode, so that material of the tube passes into solution in the electrolyte.

Abstract: Ground warp and pile warp thread sheets are supplied to a shed forming device. The ground warp and the pile warp are separately deflected over a deflecting rod upstream from the shed forming device. The deflecting rod supports the ground warp and directs the pile warp to cross and interpenetrate through the ground warp before deflecting the pile warp into the back shed. The deflecting rod is positively driven and controlled to pivot about a horizontal axis to provide a positive controlled partial compensation of the pile warp thread length variations. The pile warp also runs over a pile warp thread reserve and compensating device upstream from the thread crossing location to provide an additional passive uncontrolled compensation of the pile warp thread length variations and to provide a pile warp thread reserve during the pile loop formation and/or the shed changes in the weaving process.

Abstract: A manually-operable crimping tool for lockingly securing a seal member upon overlapped end portions of plastic strapping is provided with particular structure such that the resulting crimped seal member and overlapped end portions of the plastic strapping have an undulated configuration whereby the overlapped end portions of the plastic strapping cannot readily become loosened or disengaged with respect to each other under the influence of axially applied tensile forces. The present invention is also directed toward the particularly structured or configured seal member as well as toward the resulting sealed joint formed or defined between the seal member and the overlapped end portions of the plastic strapping.

Abstract: A ventilation-side floating valve 40 is provided for a fuel tank divided into a main tank part and a sub-tank part through a swelling part. The valve 40 includes an upper casing part 41 in which a float 46, a spring 47 and a retainer 48 are accommodated and a lower casing part 42. In arrangement of the valve 40, the upper casing part 41 is arranged on a central-upper part of the fuel tank above the swelling part. The lower casing part 42 is bent avoid the swelling part.

Abstract: A magnetic material essentially consists of a composition represented by general formula: R1XR2YBZNUHVM100-X-Y-Z-C-V (in the formula, R1 denotes at least one kind element selected from rare earth elements, R2 denotes at least one kind element selected from Zr, Hf and Sc, M denotes at least one kind element selected from Fe and Co, X, Y, Z, U and V are numbers satisfying 2 at. %≦X, 0.01 at. %≦Y, 4≦X+Y≦20 at. %, 0≦Z≦10 at. %, 0.1≦U≦18 at. %, 0.01≦V≦10 at. %, respectively), and comprises a TbCu7 type crystal phase as a principal phase. A nitriding treatment to a mother alloy is carried out in a mixed gas of ammonia gas and hydrogen gas of which partial pressure ratio is set in the range of 3<Py/Px when partial pressure of ammonia gas is PX, that of the hydrogen gas is Py.

Abstract: A method and system for inhibiting corrosion of aluminum and other metal-containing components and structures exposed to water is disclosed. In one embodiment, the silicate solution is used as a test fluid medium for structural testing of aluminum-alloy or other metal container structures including propellant tanks, in which a structure filled with the medium is then subjected to various structural load testing. In another embodiment, the silicate solution is used as a test medium for proof pressure hydrostatic or load testing of launch vehicle booster tanks. The silicate film protects the underlying base metal surface against corrosion during these tests. The film also protects the base metal surface in normal atmospheric conditions from exposure to humidity and other atmospheric moisture after removal of the test medium from the propellant tank following completion of testing.

Abstract: A method of treating a metallic surface which comprises treating a metal-coated steel panel with a nonchromate metallic surface treating agent containing, in each liter thereof, (a-1) a silane coupling agent and/or a hydrolytic condensation product thereof, (a-2) water-dispersible silica in a proportion, and (a-3) a zirconium compound and/or a titanium compound, drying the treated steel panel and coating it with an anticorrosion coating agent containing, in each liter of an aqueous resin solution or dispersion, (b-1) a silane coupling agent and/or a hydrolytic condensation product thereof, (b-2) water-dispersible silica and (b-3) at least one phosphorus-containing ion selected from among phosphate ion, phosphite ion and hypophosphite ion.

Abstract: The steel for nitriding consists of 0.5 to 1.0% of C, 1.0% or less of Si, 0.3 to 1.0% of Mn, 5.0 to 12.0% of Cr, 0.5 to 2.0% of Mo, 0.1 to 0.3% of V, the balance being Fe and exhibits improved wear-resistance and fatigue-strength.

Abstract: Described is a high quality sputtering target and method of manufacture which involves application of equal channel angular extrusion.

Abstract: An alkaline storage battery which is excellent in charge and discharge cycle life characteristics and high-rate discharge characteristics is provided by constructing it using an electrode made of an MmNi type hydrogen-absorbing alloy powders having modified surface. The alkaline storage battery comprises a negative electrode made using a hydrogen-absorbing alloy in the form of powders comprising at least one rare earth element, nickel and at least one transition metal in which the surface portion of the alloy has nickel in metallic state exposed at the surface, pores positioned between the nickel and the nickel, and a nickel-rich layer present on the alloy surface contacting with the pores, a positive electrode made using a metal oxide, a separator, and an alkaline electrolyte.

Abstract: Feed material for use in producing a thixotropic alloy comprising pellets in the form of a solid cylinder having a length to diameter ratio in the range of from 1:1 to 2:1 and a maximum length of 0.250 inch.

Abstract: A method of controlled quenching of light metal castings in a liquid bath has castings in the liquid bath subjected, from below, at least temporarily, by a rising flow of gas bubbles. The gas bubbles are generated in situ in a uniformly distributed way at the base of the liquid bath.

Abstract: An inflator apparatus for inflating an inflatable device and a method are provided wherein a combination of a dissociative gas source material and at least one unreactive dissociation reaction modifier is stored at least partially in liquefied form with the reaction modifier effective to moderate at least one of the temperature and concentration of the at least one gas source material upon the dissociation of at least a portion of the at least one gas source material.

Abstract: A firing mixture which contains explosives, oxidizing and reducing agents is characterized in that it contains one or several explosives which can be fired by laser light. Also disclosed is a process for producing the same and its use.

Abstract: A heavy duty tire comprises a pair of axially outermost circumferential rows of shoulder blocks, each of the shoulder blocks provided with a circumferentially extending narrow groove, the narrow groove subdividing the shoulder block into an axially inner wide main part and an axially outer narrow lateral part, and the narrow groove is curved convexly so that the narrow lateral part is narrower in a middle region than both the circumferential end regions, whereby the heel and toe wear and shoulder wear and resistance to tear-off can be improved.

Abstract: Disclosed is a pneumatic tire effectively controlling uneven wear occurring in the vicinity of a main groove even if a groove width of the main groove is narrowed due to change in tread radius during inflation. In the pneumatic tire, with regard to the main groove having its groove width narrowed during inflation among a plurality of main grooves provided on a tread surface, both groove walls are inclined so that the groove width becomes wider toward the groove bottom, and a protrusion dividing the groove space in the tire width direction is provided at the groove bottom.

Abstract: Disclosed is a pneumatic tire effectively controlling uneven wear occurring in the vicinity of a main groove even if a groove width of the main groove is narrowed due to change in tread radius during inflation. In the pneumatic tire, with regard to a zigzag-shaped main groove having the groove width narrowed during inflation among a plurality of main grooves provided on the tread surface, an inclination angle of a groove wall near the shoulder with respect to the tread surface is made relatively large in a bent portion near the shoulder, an inclination angle of a groove wall near the center with respect to the tread surface is made relatively large in a bent portion near the center, and regions where the inclination angles of the opposed groove walls are different from each other are uncontinuously arranged in the tire circumferential direction.

Abstract: A rubber-covered belt ply forms a belt layer. At least a majority of metal wires in the ply exist as metal wire bundles in which a plurality of metal wires of circular cross-sections and substantially equal wire diameters are aligned in parallel without being twisted together, the metal wire bundles being aligned planarly and in parallel with intervals between the metal wire bundles in a transverse direction. At least one layer, which is a cap layer in which organic fibers are covered with rubber and/or a reinforcing layer which is formed of rubber or whose main component is rubber, is disposed between the belt layer and a tread.

Abstract: A tire having a radial carcass reinforcement, anchored in each bead to an anchoring bead wire to form an upturn, characterized in that a profiled member of vulcanized rubber mix is arranged axially to the outside of the upturn of the carcass reinforcement, the secant modulus of elasticity in tension of which, measured for a relative elongation of 10%, is very much greater than the moduli of the other mixes forming the bead, the main part of the carcass reinforcement having a substantially rectilinear meridian profile between its point of tangency to the anchoring bead wire and a point A located at a radial distance HA from the base D of the beads of between 35% and 65% of the radial distance HE between the points of maximum axial width of the carcass reinforcement and said base D.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire is disclosed, which comprises: (1) a reinforcing rubber layer made of short fiber reinforced rubber, alternatively (2) a reinforcing rubber layer having hardness set in a range of 90° to 99° of JIS-A hardness, which is arranged in an area of a bead section from a bead toe section along a tire inner wall surface, and wherein a chafer composed of an organic fiber cord having a high strength and a high elastic modulus is provided to cover an outer side of the reinforcing rubber layer from the tire inner wall surface to the bead toe area.

Abstract: Upon adhering a film heater 3 to the surface of a heat-conducting plate 1 having a plate shape, first, liquid resin, applied to the surface of the heat-conducting plate 1, is dried and set to form an adhesive layer 2 (S1). Next, the film heater 3 and the heat-conducting plate 1 are placed face to face with each other with the adhesive layer 2 interpolated in between (S2). Successively, this is heated to a predetermined temperature, while applying a predetermined pressure thereto so as to bond the film heater 3 and the heat-conducting plate 1 to each other (S3). Thereafter, a coating process is applied to the film heater 3 (S4). That way, the present invention enables to make a temperature-controlling plate thinner and capable of exerting high performances. Moreover, a heat-conducting plate and a film heater are positively bonded to each other with sufficient strength.

Abstract: A labeling machine servo motor to drive the label feed is combined with a control system which tracks the surface of the item to be labeled wherein all of the parameters affecting the placement of the label are instantly programmable.

Abstract: A shrinking device (1) for the thermal clamping and release of tools in shrink chucks has a preferably inductively operating heating device (17) for heating tool reception sections of shrink chucks and a cooling device for the active cooling of the heated shrink chucks. The device has several, particularly three work stations (5, 6, 7) and in each work station it is possible both to heat a shrink chuck and also actively cool the shrink chuck received. By pivoting a column (16) carrying the heating device it is possible to interchange between the workstations. The shrinking apparatus makes it possible on a continuous basis to shrink large numbers of tools.

Abstract: A manufacturing method for a laminated ceramic electronic component includes the steps of printing a layer of a conductor and a ceramic green sheet formed around the conductor a plurality of times on a carrier film, thus preparing a composite sheet laminate in which composite sheets made up of the conductor and the ceramic green sheet are laminated, and pressing and attaching the composite sheet laminate to another ceramic green sheet and removing the carrier film.

Abstract: A method for repairing a discrete damaged portion of an article surface, for example of a laminated composite material, includes applying an uncured repair material at the damaged portion and then subjecting the repair material and the discrete damaged portion to a vacuum to remove air entrapped in the repair material and the discrete damaged portion. One form of the invention uses a vacuum tool comprising an outer wall including an opening there through having a peripheral edge shaped to conform generally with a portion of the article surface about the damaged portion, and gas evacuation means. The tool is combined with a releasable gas seal generally shaped to interface between the peripheral edge and the article surface and release from the article surface.

Abstract: A method for filling cracks in concrete surfaces using a one-component, hydrophilic polyurethane prepolymer without the addition of any granular impregnating agents is disclosed. The prepolymer is provided in a hand-held aerosol container and is injected into the cracks through hollow injection ports that are adhered in place on the surfaces over the cracks and subsequently closed off when filled. The crack is filled from the bottom up to prevent the formation of air pockets in the crack.

Abstract: A ligand layer on a metal surface is capable of being reversibly switched between adhesion and deadhesion.

Abstract: Fibrous sorbent media or pads are formed from non-woven mats of thermoplastic fibers, preferably polypropylene fibers, having a mean diameter between about 0.5 microns and about 25 microns. The mats have a weight between about 2 ounces/yd2 and about 25 ounces/yd2; a thickness of at least {fraction (1/20)} of an inch; an oil absorbency ratio of at least 5 to 1 or a water absorbency ratio of at least 5 to 1. The sorbent media have first and second major surfaces with abrasion resistant, liquid permeable, integral skins and fibrous cores. The liquid permeable skins of the media are formed by melting fibers at and immediately adjacent the major surfaces of the mats to form thermoplastic melt layers which are subsequently solidified into the skins on the major surfaces of the mats. For many applications, the thermoplastic fibers of the mats are point bonded together at spaced apart locations to increase the integrity of the mats.

Abstract: A method for applying fluids to a strand and useable for bonding adhesive coated strands to substrates in the production of bodily fluid absorbing hygienic articles, by drawing the strand along an isolated path, moving a fluid or adhesive fiber back and forth across a path of the strand as the fluid fiber is dispensed toward the strand, and capturing substantially all of the fluid fiber on the isolated strand, and in some applications contacting an adhesive coated strand with the substrate to bond the strand thereto. The adhesive fiber is vacillated back and forth across a path of the strand beyond opposing sides thereof to at least partially coat all sides thereof with adhesive. In bodily fluid absorbing hygienic articles, the methods substantially eliminate fabric stiffening and loss of moisture absorbing capacity thereof, provide substantially uniformly bonding along the axial dimension of the strand to ensure uniform bunching of fabrics, optimum fluid absorption, and comfort.

Abstract: A sure and efficient manufacturing method of a translucent type screen using micro glass beadsis probided. A carbon toner is scattered onto micro glass beads which are buried and fixed in a UV curable resin layer, and the carbon toner is uniformly filled in the gaps between the micro glass beads by a rotating brush or a press roll or the like. The supply and filling of the carbon toner may be simultaneously performed by an air jet nozzle. Subsequently, an extra fine fiber cloth, sticky tape, sticky roll or the like is continuously brought into contact with the upper surface of the carbon toner to remove the carbon toner at the light emission portion of the micro glass beads.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for fixing a part and a part support for mounting the part by use of adhesive via an intermediate member are disclosed. The adhesive is implemented by photocuring adhesive while the intermediate member is formed of a material transparent for light. The intermediate member is free from coloring and deformation when illuminated by light for curing the adhesive. The adhesive is prevented from dropping or turning round to other portions during assembly.

Abstract: A method for producing a re-releasable bond between two wafers which is stable at high temperatures and mechanically stable is described. The two wafers to be bonded are placed one on top of the other in such a way that a surface of the first wafer is disposed on a surface of the second wafer. Interspaces at least partially connecting the surfaces are created between the wafers. A liquid glass compound is introduced into the interspaces in such a way that a liquid glass film wetting the inner surfaces of the interspaces is formed, in which process voids that are connected to the atmosphere surrounding the wafers remain inside the interspaces wetted with the liquid glass compound. To transform the wetting liquid glass film into a solid silicon dioxide film, the wafers lying one on top of the other are subjected to a temperature treatment.

Abstract: In a method for making a multilayer board with a cavity, a composite comprising a plurality of dielectric layers and at least one release layer provided therebetween are formed. Then, a part of the composite is removed to form a cavity having a bottom face defined by the release layer. This method facilitates production of multilayer ceramic boards with cavities having high planarity.

Abstract: A water-based wallboard adhesive including water, a binder, and a particulate filler is described. The adhesive can have an open time greater than about 5 minutes and a green strength sufficient to support a 4 foot by 8 foot wallboard on a wall frame without fasteners in the field of the wallboard within 15 minutes of applying the adhesive to the wallboard and wall frame.

Abstract: In a plasma reactor including a reactor chamber, a workpiece support for holding a workpiece inside the chamber during processing and an inductive antenna, a window electrode proximal a wall of the chamber, the antenna and wall being positioned adjacently, the window electrode being operable as (a) a capacitive electrode accepting RF power to capacitively coupled plasma source power into the chamber, and (b) a window electrode passing Rf power therethrough from said antenna into the chamber to inductively couple plasma source power into the chamber.

Abstract: While maintaining transferability of a subject to be processed, plasma is made uniform. The plasma processor comprises a member for generating plasma and a member for controlling axial symmetry of the generated plasma. The axial symmetry control member comprises pin conductors movable in Z direction and an insert type gate valve. By approaching the pin conductor to the insert type gate valve and by arranging the pin conductors along an inside shape of the insert gate valve, even in the portion of the insert gate valve, an electric current can be flowed similarly with the portion of the chamber wall. Thereby, current flow can be made uniform.

Abstract: A drum (1) for building tires (2), the drum (1) having two half-drums (12), each of which has an expandable bead clamping device (20), and at least one shaping bladder (27) and a turn-up bladder (33) fixed to an outer tubular body (16) of the half-drum (12) on opposite sides of the respective bead clamping device (20); each turn-up bladder (33) having an outer annular lip (34) extending, at rest, along the respective half-drum (12) and covering the respective bead clamping device (20) and substantially the whole respective shaping bladder (27).

Abstract: The invention relates to a laminating apparatus for sealing or sealing in flat material with the aid of at least one plastic laminating film coated with an adhesive. The laminating apparatus includes a laminating unit and a deposition unit. Lamination is performed as the material passes through a laminating unit, which has at least one pair of rolls with transport rolls driven in opposite senses in the pass direction. To obtain laminates free from curvature, the invention proposes that the transport rolls of the at least one pair of rolls are arranged in pairs at the same height and delimit a nip which can be supplied in a vertically downward pass direction, and in that the deposition unit is arranged underneath the laminating unit.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to an apparatus in an adjustable creasing tool (1). The creasing tool (1) includes two mutually co-operating creasing rollers, a male roller (2) and a female roller (3), a gear wheel transmission with a housing (8) for operation and mutual co-ordination of the creasing rollers (2, 3), means for adjusting the mutual position of rotation of the two creasing rollers (2, 3), means for adjusting the position of one of the creasing rollers along its axis of rotation, and means for adjusting the mutual spacing between the axes of rotation (4, 5) of the creasing rollers. Each respective shaft (4, 5) is fixedly connected to each respective gear wheel (6, 7) in the gear wheel transmission by means of rotationally rigid, both radially and axially limited, flexible couplings (9). These permit adjustment of the mutual positioning of the rollers (2, 3) without the meshing relationship of the transmission (8) needing to be affected.