Abstract: A system is provided for the holding of a membrane in tension, that system having: a frame; a plurality of frame members with longitudinal anchoring channels. The channels having first and second channel flanges. Also provided is a retention strip disposed upon at least a part of the periphery of the membrane, wherein the retention strip engages the first and second channel flanges.

Abstract: A profile for a light wall includes at least one first, essentially closed hollow chamber, into which a connector can be inserted on at least one end side of the profile, and at least one second hollow chamber having a system groove running essentially parallel to the longitudinal axis on a lateral outer face, into which a holder for a wall element, which can be arranged essentially parallel to the lateral outer face, can be inserted. The profile includes at least one third hollow chamber with at least one cable groove, which runs essentially parallel to the longitudinal axis and emerges from a cover face and/or a bottom face. The profile and profile system may be used, for example, for trade fairs and exhibitions.

Abstract: A block construction system for the construction of exterior/interior walls used in residential housing and light commercial construction that utilizes solid concrete blocks. The blocks are secured to one another using two steel or fiberglass rods inserted into the holes manufactured into the blocks, starting in the top of the uppermost block and extending down almost halfway through the next block below. The system is mortar-less, making it less expensive, stronger and more fire resistant than traditional wall construction systems.

Abstract: The present invention is a multi piece curved molding including at least two curved sections adapted to butt together at an abutting joint. It further includes a flexible hinge for connecting the curved sections together at the joint for operably folding and unfolding the curved sections. Preferably it also includes a wafer for connecting two abutting curved sections at an abutting joint.

Abstract: A support for a grain bin having an elongated body with a back surface bent to form support surfaces that extend outwardly from the back surface to form a cavity therein. Connected to the elongated body is a base having a vertical portion and a horizontal portion. The horizontal portion having corners that extend upwardly to form flanges that engage the support surfaces of the elongated body.

Abstract: A ridged insulation board assembly that is comprised generally of a ridged insulation board and an additional structural element that has been pre-installed in or onto the surface of the insulation board. The assembly is installed onto a support surface such as roof deck without separate stress plates.

Abstract: A method of constructing a concrete wall. A mold form is placed upon on a surface at a construction site. A support structure is placed into the mold form and concrete is poured around the support structure within the mold form to form a concrete panel. The upward facing surface of the poured panel is altered with one or more of a color, a texture, and a pattern to form a decorative concrete panel while the panel lies on the ground. The decorative concrete panel is then lifted into an upright position by a crane connected to lifting inserts of the panel. The lifting inserts are desirably located at a side or top end of the panel and not in the decorative surface.

Abstract: A modular block wall system is comprised of a plurality of differently sized blocks. Each block comprises a front surface and opposing rear surface, a top surface and opposing bottom surface, and first and second opposing tapered side surfaces. Blocks further includes a recess extending inwardly from top surface and a protrusion extending outwardly from bottom surface. Blocks may also include a plurality of cores through the block from top surface to bottom surface. Blocks may further include a removable portion that can be cleaved off to create a decorative face on rear surface. The projection on each block is configured to fit within the recess of a block in the next lower course of blocks, regardless of the sizes of the respective blocks. Preferably, the varying lengths and heights of the blocks are evenly divisible by a uniform dimension. This allows modular blocks to be easily put together in any configuration to create a finished looking, yet non-uniform wall.

Abstract: Tubular beams for building frames include laser-cut ends to form highly-accurate integrally-formed tab connectors for connecting the beams together and to other building beams. The tab connectors are integrally formed of continuous and contiguous material of the metal beam and are spaced apart to closely engage a second beam for secure and reliable and stress-distributed connection. The tab connectors can be formed and/or bent to define a pocket oriented at a desired angle for receiving a mating beam, such as for supporting a roof truss at a desired pitch. Fasteners extend through holes in the tabs and into or through the second beam for securing the beams together. The tab connectors can be cut to many different shapes, formed to any orientation, and made to accurately mate with corresponding structure of the mating second beam, regardless of the angle and size of the two beams.

Abstract: A method of forming a building wall system in the absence of building paper or housewrap that comprises providing a generally flat structural insulating sheathing. The sheathing comprises at least a first layer, a second layer and a third layer. The first and third layers comprises an alkenyl aromatic polymer foam. The second layer comprises paperboard. The insulating sheathing is fastened to the stud wall to form the building wall system such that a seal is formed that inhibits water from penetrating therethrough. The building wall system in the absence of building paper or housewrap passes the test requirements set forth in Section 1403.2 of the 2003 International Building Code.

Abstract: A skirting board arrangement (1) with at least one skirting board (3) attached to the wall (2) and with a plurality of connecting elements (4), in the installed state of the skirting board arrangement (1), each connecting element (4) being introduced from through the skirting board (3) from an outer side thereof into a common drill hole (5) in the skirting board (3) and in the wall (2). The common drill hole (5) is driven into the wall (2) through the skirting board (3) in a single drilling process and the skirting board (3) is held in a force-fit and form-fit manner on the wall by the connecting elements (4).

Abstract: A roofing system provides a stronger bond than conventional roof systems to withstand greater uplift pressures in hurricane force winds, while also providing a sound fire rating. The system includes a non-corrosive metal blocking structure, including a perimeter edge closure that has an anchoring flange for attachment to the roof deck, a parallel upper flange and an intermediate flange extending perpendicularly between the upper and lower flanges. The system further includes lightweight insulating concrete applied to the roof deck and filled between the upper and lower flanges of the edge closure, an inter-ply sheet applied by torch or self-adhesive directly to the insulating lightweight concrete, and a torch applied cap membrane over the inter-ply sheet. Direct attachment of the inter-ply sheet to the lightweight insulating concrete without the use of hardware fasteners preserves the integrity of the underlying lightweight insulating concrete for future re-roofing.

Abstract: A hidden-type fastener for attaching laterally adjacent grooved decking members to an underlying support includes a body with a fastener opening, first and second connection wings, and a flange. The wings extend out from a top edge of the body in opposite directions. Each includes a first portion perpendicular to the body and a second portion oriented at an angle theretoq. The flange is perpindicular to the body, and is attached to a bottom edge thereof. In use, the wing opposite the flanges is placed in the groove of a first decking member. A connector is secured into the support through the opening, causing the fastener and wing to flex into engagement with the decking member. A second decking member is placed laterally against the first by maneuvering its side groove over the over wing, causing the wing to flex for engagement therewith.

Abstract: Corrugated framing elements adapted for use as a backing, spacing, or cross-connecting bracing member in a wall, floor, or roof frame-assembly of a building are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, an elongated framing element comprises an elongated flat sheet-metal strip that includes at least a first lengthwise and inwardly protruding corrugated groove, wherein the first inwardly protruding corrugated groove includes a plurality of laterally spaced first apertures sized and positioned to receive the plurality of studs.

Abstract: The reinforced building structure which is lightweight, and working efficiency is preferable, and has a fire preventive performance and a decay durability, and can improve earthquake resistance strength without relying bracing. The structural building frame includes a pair of columns placed at facing in right and left, the upper horizontal member and the lower horizontal member jointed to each columns. The predetermined size of fiber reinforced cement siding 9 is installed in the structural building frame by horizontal boarding, and is fastens by nail 4 or screw by predetermined spacing.

Abstract: The fan filter mounting frame is useful in installation of equipment in a cell of suspension grid systems when the equipment is passed through and is placed in a corner of the cell. The equipment is supported partially directly by the grid and partially indirectly by the grid through an adapting frame insert. The frame insert is connected between the equipment and the suspension grid system and may have two legs that meet at an apex, a first leg extending along a first grid rail and a second leg extending along an adjacent second grid rail. Each of the two legs also extends between its respective rail and the equipment, supporting the equipment on the respective suspension grid rails. Thus, the grid system may be in its design position or condition prior to and during placement and replacement of the equipment without disruption.

Abstract: A siding clip for assistance in the installation of sidings. The clip comprises a hook about which the clip is to be hooked onto the top edge of a first siding panel which is already fastened to a substrate, a receptacle within which the bottom edge of a second siding panel is received. The receptacle lies below the hook so that the bottom portion of the second siding panel overlaps the top portion of the first siding panel. The clip further comprises a removal tab which when pulled downwards, the clip deforms and eventually unhooks itself from the first siding panel thus resulting in its removal; the tab is to be pulled after the second siding panel is fastened to the substrate.

Abstract: A lightweight board has a face board, a base board, a center layer positioned between the face board and the base board, and a frame structure encircling the center layer between the face board and the base board, with the frame structure having a plurality of tubular sections. The face board, the base board and the center layer are combined to form a single unit.

Abstract: A truss connector for releasably coupling ends of truss structures in a quick and uniform fashion. The connector connects trusses, end-to-end, by binding to their tubular truss members in spigot fashion with an arbor, traveling nut and expandable collet assembly and by binding to the truss gusset plates in a directly fastened, mated plate assembly.

Abstract: A frame corner joint includes first and second frame rails having hollow interiors of predetermined contours and ends in mitered abutment. A corner key has legs inserted into the mitered ends of the frame rails. End portions of the legs substantially fill the hollow interiors of the frame rails forming a substantially closed cavity within the frame rails and between the end portions of the corner key legs. Solidified resin foam is disposed within this cavity rigidifying the corner joint, while the remainder of the interiors of the frame rails preferably is substantially free of solidified foam. At least one end portion of at least one leg of the corner key preferably has a flexible wall portion to permit escape of foam from within the cavity in the event of excess foam pressure. The hollow interiors of the frame rails preferably are mirror images of each other, and the legs of the corner key, including the end portions of the legs, preferably are mirror images of each other.

Abstract: A retainer (10) holds elongated members (12), such as hoses, pipes, wiring, etc, has a first arm (30) which extends from one side portion (24) of a base (20) and a second arm (32) which extends from another side portion (26) of the base. The arms (30 and 32) have end portions (46 and 50) which are spaced apart from each other when an elongated member (12) extends through an opening (14) in the base (20) and is disposed in engagement with a connector or bottom portion (22) of the base. At least one of the end portions of one of the arms (30 and 32) is movable away from the connector portion (22) of the base (20), under the influence of force transmitted from the elongated member (12), to effect engagement of the end portion (46) of one of the arms (30) with an opening (76) formed in the other arm.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the production of concrete blocks or concrete slabs of varying formats and sizes, whereby concrete is filled into molds for several blocks or slabs, the surface layer of which or the facing concrete layer of which has a base color and the surfaces, which have regions of difference colors, is puddled by means of vibration and/or compacting and subsequently hardened, whereby, before puddling, at least one portion of a pigmented and/or variously-pigmented and/or a color-containing finishing material is projected or thrown by means of at least one application device.

Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention provides for a method of placing a concrete structure in a generally horizontal position. The method includes building the concrete structure in an essentially vertical position, the concrete structure being defined by a first end. The concrete structure is pivotably supported at a support location proximate the first end while the concrete structure is in the essentially vertical position. The concrete structure is then pivoted about the support location to move the concrete structure from the essentially vertical position to the generally horizontal position.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are storm panels and methods for manufacturing the same. In one embodiment, the storm panel comprises a polymeric sheet having an arced geometry. The polymeric sheet comprises, a polymeric substrate layer, a polymeric top layer comprising an ultraviolet light stabilizer, a polymeric bottom layer comprising an ultraviolet light stabilizer. The storm panel has a uniform thickness, exhibits less than or equal to about 4.0 % haze, and exhibits a yellowness index shift that is less than or equal to about 9.0 after 1,500 simulated hours of aging.

Abstract: In a feeding device, a feeding channel receives articles, or corks, supplied, with a selected orientation, by a selector situated upstream of the device. The feeding channel has, downstream of an initial section, a descending track, in which the articles, or corks are made to slide, due to gravity, toward an outlet section. A first stop, situated in the outlet section, causes an accumulation of articles, or corks, arranged in row, one after another. An extractor is situated at the outlet section to move, with a selected pace, a foremost article, or cork, situated each time ahead of other articles, along a guide toward the discontinuous picking up station for supplying a gripper working at said station.

Abstract: An apparatus for extracting air from within flexible packages having granular or otherwise flowable contents includes a package conveyor and a downwardly-open, vacuum extraction hood through which the packages are conveyed so that an upper portion of each package is moved through the extraction hood. The interior of the hood is joined in fluid communication with a vacuum source, so that air is extracted from within each package as it is conveyed through the hood. The present apparatus further includes a closing mechanism positioned immediately downstream of and in operative association with the extraction hood, whereby the upper portion of each package is maintained in a closed configuration prior to sealing, so that the interior of each package is not exposed to ambient conditions after it is conveyed out of the extraction hood, and prior to sealing of the upper portion.

Abstract: According to one embodiment of the present invention, an arrangement of plates for receiving food is disclosed. The arrangement of plates comprises a plurality of nestable plates, wherein the plates within the plurality of nestable plates have an animal theme. Each of the plates having an animal theme include a main compartment depicting a primary attribute of an animal corresponding to the animal theme, and at least two independent wells adjacent to the main compartment. Each of the wells are shaped to depict a secondary attribute of the animal corresponding to the animal theme. The plurality of plates include a first plate depicting a first animal and a second plate depicting a second animal that is different from the first animal. The secondary attribute within the wells of said first plate is a first physical feature of the first animal and the secondary attribute within the wells of the second plate is a second physical feature of the second animal.

Abstract: A flexible container forming and filling apparatus comprising a flexible container forming assembly, a flexible container filling assembly and a transfer assembly. The flexible container forming assembly is configured for forming at least two side by side flexible containers which define at least a first output and a second output. The flexible container filling assembly is associated with the flexible container forming assembly and has a receiving region configured for receipt of sequential flexible containers for filling. The transfer assembly is configured for sequentially transferring flexible containers from the first output to the receiving region of the flexible container filling assembly and from the second output to the receiving region of the flexible container filling assembly.

Abstract: A shrinkable film machine includes a lower pulley and an upper pulley so as to feed the shrinkable film to a control unit located between a shaft and the upper pulley. The control unit includes a detection part and a transferring part. The guidance device includes two side walls and a slot defined therebetween so that the film passes through the slot before being mounted to the shaft. The two side walls extend through the detection part so that the film is guided before entering the transferring part.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a second-stage separator device for a vacuum cleaner, comprising a cylindrical barrel and a conical barrel that are vertically joined together, an exhaust tube coaxially disposed inside the cylindrical barrel, the side wall of the said cylindrical barrel being connected with two air inlets which have an involute central line and a rectangular longitudinal section, the two air inlets being disposed on the cylindrical barrel at the same height and staggered 180° in the circumference, with air inlets thereof being located in the common plane through the axis line of the cylindrical barrel and orientated oppositely. The present invention can increase the air inlet area of a dust cleaner and improve the dust-removal efficiency of a dust cleaner.

Abstract: An air filter for electric welding includes a box having an opening for connecting with a sucking tube, an dividing plate dividing the box into an upper chamber communicating with the opening and a lower chamber, a spark blocker inside the upper chamber, a movable filter device set under the spark blocker inside the upper chamber and provided with a cloth filter, a blower inside the lower chamber, and an extractable screening device installed outside it and communicating with the lower chamber. In using, when the blower is switched on, the air is sucked in from the sucking tube to the spark blocker, the movable filter device, the blower and the extractable screening device orderly, blocking sparks completely and achieving an effective filtration.

Abstract: This system comprises an air-ventilating and cleaning element positioned with a housing. The housing contains multiple vents in the housing walls. The vents serve as channels that enable air to flow into and out of the air-ventilating device. The air-ventilating and cleaning element can vary and can range from a simple air ventilator to and an air purifier. The cleaning element can contain a filter element to further facilitate cleaning of the air. The cleaning element can be positioned in the housing on a track or pin to allow for movement of the cleaning element within the housing. Movement of the cleaning element may be desired in order to more efficiently clean air channeled through the device. Because of the ability to move the cleaning element, air flow through the device can be adjusted depending on a particular cleaning application.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a drawer for receiving debris into a suction debris collection system includes: a floor; walls extending up from the floor, the floor and the walls defining a chamber having a forward part and a rearward part; an outlet from the rearward part of the chamber; and a seal configured to prevent the passage of air through an opening to the suction system when the drawer is in a closed position and suction is supplied to the opening.

Abstract: A cyclone and a cyclone air purifier include a device with an inlet port structure such that a suction area through which a fluid is suctioned into the cyclone is increased, pressure loss is reduced, and a centrifugal force applied to the fluid is increased, to improve performance of air purification and to reduce noise. The cyclone includes a cylinder into which a fluid is suctioned, a guide extended from the cylinder, an outlet pipe provided in a center of the cylinder to guide a fluid that inversely rises to be discharged, and a vortex induction member provided between the cylinder and the outlet pipe to form vortex channels.

Abstract: An exhaust gas filter comprises an outer tube, a plurality of center-closing filter units each having an isolation plate; and a plurality of center-opening filter units having an annular isolation plate, two kinds of filter units being arranged alternately in the outer tube. The isolation plate and annular isolation plate are enclosed by flammable fibers. When a contaminated gas goes through the flammable fibers, it can be filtrated.

Abstract: Porous ceramic articles such as ceramic filters are provided from ceramic extrusion batches comprising mixtures of oxides and oxide precursors with a reactive binder system, the binder system comprising a cellulosic temporary binder and two or more reactive binder components such as colloidal alumina, carbohydrate pore formers, reactive high charge density polymers, and chemical cross-linkers, the reactive binder system promoting cross-linking or networking reactions in the batch that enhance the fine pore structures of the porous ceramic products.

Abstract: There is disclosed a honeycomb filter capable of minimizing an initial pressure loss during an exhaust gas treatment in a state in which a high efficiency is maintained in trapping particulate matters included in an exhaust gas. In the honeycomb filter which includes porous partition walls to define and form a plurality of cells constituting channels of a fluid and in which the predetermined cells each opened at one end thereof and plugged at the other end thereof and the remaining cells each plugged at one end thereof and opened at the other end thereof are alternately arranged, an average pore diameter of the partition walls is in a range of 8 to 18 ?m, and a standard deviation in terms of common logarithm in pore diameter distribution, when pore diameters are expressed in terms of common logarithm, is in a range of 0.2 to 0.5.

Abstract: A mower-conditioner conditioning roller comprising a superficial relief over the entirety of its periphery. This roller, of cylindrical overall shape, is hollow and has no cylindrical core and has a wall of reduced thickness directly comprising reliefs. The body of the roller is formed with at least one structured plate comprising reliefs obtained by bending or rolling.

Abstract: A drag-type cotton harvester operated by an independent driving unit, which comprises a stripper-type cotton picker platform having a series of fingers that are aligned parallel to the forward direction of the machine, wherein the front ends of the fingers are close to ground level and the back ends thereof are ramped in an upward direction; a cleaning apparatus that receives the picked cotton from the picker platform, which cleaning apparatus comprises a set of rotary dentate cylinders that engage the cotton and remove the heavy masses or impurities therefrom, while a rotary brush that is disposed tangential to the dentate cylinders disengages the clean cotton from the aforementioned fingers; and a trailer that receives the clean cotton from the cleaning apparatus, then stores it and transports it.

Abstract: A control system for a cutting reel unit includes a height-of-cut adjusting system and a reel-to-bedknife clearance adjusting system. The height-of-cut adjusting system includes a first frame; a second frame; a cutting reel supported by the second frame; a bedknife arranged adjacent to the cutting reel and supported by the second frame; at least one support element arranged to translate along the ground and arranged to support the first frame; and at least one first actuator connected between the first frame and the second frame and arranged to adjust the relative elevation of the second frame with respect to the first frame. The reel-to-bedknife clearance adjusting system includes at least one second actuator operatively connected between the reel and the second frame and a sound detector. The reel mower cutting unit may be manual or self-adjusting.

Abstract: A control system for a cutting reel unit includes a height-of-cut adjusting system and a reel-to-bedknife clearance adjusting system. The height-of-cut adjusting system includes a first frame; a second frame; a cutting reel supported by the second frame; a bedknife arranged adjacent to the cutting reel and supported by the second frame; at least one support element arranged to translate along the ground and arranged to support the first frame; and at least one first actuator connected between the first frame and the second frame and arranged to adjust the relative elevation of the second frame with respect to the first frame. The reel-to-bedknife clearance adjusting system includes at least one second actuator operatively connected between the reel and the second frame and a sound detector. DC electric rotary motors assemblies may be used to set the reel-to-bedknife gap and height-of-cut for the reel cutting unit.

Abstract: According to the principles of the present invention, a ride-behind rotary mower having an advantageous construction is provided. The ride-behind rotary mower includes a mobile structure and a plurality of rotary mowing units. Each mowing unit consists of a mower deck, or cover, a rotary blade, and a plurality of acoustic Helmholtz resonators disposed around the periphery of the mowing unit, with an orifice tube positioned adjacent to the travel of the rotary cutting blade. Each resonator is constructed and tuned such that its resonant frequency is generally equal to the blade pass frequency of the rotary blade during normal operation. As such the resonators will generally reduce the noise of the mower during normal operation.

Abstract: A portable cleaning apparatus for removing debris from a fluid retaining enclosure. The apparatus comprises a curved palm portion having a first end and a second end, a plurality of elongated, individual members having an arcuate second end of the elongated member and coupled to the second end of the palm portion at a first end of the elongated member; and an extension fastener coupled to the first end of the palm portion and adapted to permit a manipulator to be coupled to the palm portion.

Abstract: In order to construct a power transmission chain, a configuration of a metal sideplate is proposed in the case of which the sideplate has a first end region and a second end region, the first end region having at least two through-holes (2, 4). The second end region of the sideplate made from metal has a number of elements (5, 6) which corresponds to the number of through-holes (2, 4), which elements at least partially extend during the construction of a power transmission chain into the respective through-hole of another sideplate, the elements (5, 6) protruding from the plane of the sideplate owing to a forming method, in particular plunging.

Abstract: Thermodynamic cycles with diluent that produce mechanical power, electrical power, and/or fluid streams for heating and/or cooling are described. Systems contain a combustion system producing an energetic fluid by combusting fuel with oxidant. Thermal diluent is preferably used in the cycle to improve performance, including one or more of power, efficiency, economics, emissions, dynamic and off-peak load performance, temperature regulation, and/or cooling heated components. Cycles include a heat recovery system and preferably recover and recycle thermal diluent from expanded energetic fluid to improve cycle thermodynamic efficiency and reduce energy conversion costs. Cycles preferably include controls for temperatures, pressures, and flow rates within a combined heat and power (CHP) system, and controls for power, thermal output, efficiency, and/or emissions.

Abstract: A first stage rotor disk (50a) and a connecting member (30) on the compressor side are fixed by a spindle bolt (20). The spindle bolt (20) is covered with a tubular member (100), between the first stage rotor disk (50a) and the connecting member (30) on the compressor side.

Abstract: A method for assembling a turbine engine to facilitate preventing ice accumulation on the turbine engine during engine operation. The method includes coupling a manifold to the gas turbine engine such that the manifold is coupled in thermal communication with a heat source, coupling a first heat pipe to the manifold such that the first heat pipe partially circumscribes the gas turbine engine in a clockwise orientation, and coupling a second heat pipe to the manifold such that the second heat pipe partially circumscribes the gas turbine engine in a counter-clockwise orientation.

Abstract: A thruster has a chamber defined within a tube. The tube has a longitudinal axis which defines an axis of thrust; an injector injects ionizable gas within the tube, at one end of the chamber. A magnetic field generator with two coils generates a magnetic field parallel to the axis; the magnetic field has two maxima along the axis; an electromagnetic field generator has a first resonant cavity between the two coils generating a microwave ionizing field at the electron cyclotron resonance in the chamber, between the two maxima of the magnetic field. The electromagnetic field generator has a second resonant cavity on the other side of the second coil. The second resonant cavity generates a ponderomotive accelerating field accelerating the ionized gas. The thruster ionizes the gas by electron cyclotron resonance, and subsequently accelerates both electrons and ions by the magnetized ponderomotive force.

Abstract: The invention concerns a turbofan jet engine that includes an external casing, connected by radial arms to an annular internal device, downstream of which is mounted, opposite to the external casing, a shell forming a fairing, ancillaries on the outside of the external casing, and ancillaries on the inside of the shell. It is characterised by the fact that the turbofan jet engine includes at least one monoblock arm for the connection of ancillaries between the outside of the external casing and the inside of the shell, placed parallel to a radial arm. The invention applies to double-flow turbofan jet engines.

Abstract: A gas turbine engine comprising a bypass duct defined radially outwardly by a nacelle and radially inwardly by a core engine casing. The nacelle comprises a thrust reverser unit having at least one blocker door rotatably attached to a static part and slidably connected to a translating part. The translating part is arranged to move between a stowed position and a deployed position and in the deployed position the blocker door spans the bypass duct. In the stowed position the blocker door is stowed inside the translating part and does not form part of an airwash surface of the bypass duct.