Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the determination of the electron density in a part volume in a patient by means of an X-ray tube, said tube comprising an anode symmetrical with respect to rotation as an electron beam rotates relative to the axis of rotation. As a result an X-ray emission from several points is obtained. By means of the scattered X-rays the electron densities can be measured.

Abstract: In active element of an audio amplifier, there exists a neutral point in which the amplification is minimum. When the middle point of AC mode in a circuit is coincident with the neutral point, noise elements accompanying with input signals are not amplified, i.e. the signal-to-noise ratio of an audio amplifier is improved. The middle point of AC mode in a circuit can be varied by adjusting resistors or capacitors of the circuit.

Abstract: A mould for producing a lamp lens element comprises a mould plate having a plurality of recesses in one face thereof. Each recess is adapted to produce a projection on one face of the lens element produced from the mould, and is shaped so as to define in the projection a lens integral with and overlying a prism. In one embodiment, each recess has a concave part-spherical surface portion whose axis is inclined to the perpendicular to the general plane of the said one face of the mould plate. Alternatively, each recess is in the form of an elongate groove having a part-cylindrical mid-region whose axis is inclined relative to the general plane of the said one face of the mould plate. In the latter case, the groove also has part-spherical end regions whose axes are each either perpendicular to the said general plane or inclined at an acute angle to the perpendicular to the general plane.

Abstract: A diaper comprising a plurality of superimposed plies of material. The diaper is foldable around a center line defining two sections of the diaper. In use the diaper is in its folded state and for washing and drying the diaper is in an unfolded state.

Abstract: A headlamp levelling system for a road vehicle, comprises an electric motor which, in use, drives a member coupled to the headlamp so as to allow the headlamp to be adjusted in a manner to vary the direction of the light beam emitted, in use, by the headlamp. The motor is connected across the terminals of an electrical supply by way of an electrical circuit including switch means and a plurality of spaced pairs of electrical contacts. The switch means has a plurality of switch positions, one for each of said pairs of contacts, and a bridging member is associated with said pairs of contacts. The contacts and the briding member undergo relative movement in response to movement of said driven member so that the bridging member bridges said pairs of contacts, in turn, in respective discrete positions of the driven member and hence of said headlamp.

Abstract: A group valve for selectively connecting two liquid supply lines separately to a container. The valve comprises a housing with three chambers, one of which is separately connected to the others communicating with a respective liquid line. In each chamber there is a rotary slide, said slides cooperating to at each particular time open one line and close the other. In order to prevent leakage from one line to the other said two chambers communicating with the liquid lines, respectively, are provided with an outlet to the atmosphere, said outlet of each chamber being closed by the rotary slide when the liquid line is open and open when the line is closed.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for the husking and drying of cereal and legume kernels comprising separating the kernels from their husks by means of rotating plate bodies and discharging the husks from the kernels/husks mixture by means of air.

Abstract: An electric vehicle traction motor control circuit includes separate armature and field current controls. The armature control includes a difference amplifier connected to compare a current demand signal with an actual current signal from a transducer and a switching circuit controlled by this difference amplifier. The field control includes a second difference amplifier which operates to weaken the field current in either of two eventualities. In motoring the second difference amplifier receives its input via a start up circuit which connects the output of the first difference amplifier to the input of the second difference amplifier when the switching means has been in a first state for more than a predetermined time. In this case the field is weakened in accordance with the short fall of the output of the first difference amplifier below a first reference level.

Abstract: A combination of a biological dry toilet and a biological waste water purifying plant. In the combination the heat and coarse sludge of the so called grey water from households is recovered in the dry toilet to which also the fine sludge from the waste water purifying plant is pumped. The heat obtained is used for heating the compost and both sludges collected in the filters are from time to time combined to compost them together with the other waste in the dry toilet. A suction fan in the dry toilet also sucks the air needed by the biofilter through the filter bed. The purified water obtained from the waste water purifying plant is absorbed in the soil.

Abstract: Apparatus for continuously measuring rates of flow of a liquid has two containers arranged serially in the liquid flow path and each associated with a self-levelling balance beam. Beam displacement is measured capacitively and used to alter current fed to a coil tending to maintain the beam level. The magnitudes of the currents necessary to maintain the beams level is a measure of the liquid level in the containers and is used to keep the liquid levels between pre-determined upper and lower values by controlling valves through which the liquid flows into the containers. The differentials of the currents with respect to time when the liquid levels are falling in both containers, are added. If the liquid level in the first container is rising, however, no differential is provided whereas the differential of the second container liquid level, when rising, is supplied to the adder but negatively. The adder provides an output which is a measure of the volume of liquid supplied by the apparatus.

Abstract: The compression-moulding composition according to the present invention contains 95 to 98 parts by weight of a product resulting from the treatment of crushed wood with an aqueous solution of phenol and formaldehyde at the boiling temperature of said solution in the presence of hydrochloric acid at a weight ratio between phenol formaldehyde, water, hydrochloric acid and crushed wood equal to 0.15-0.40:0.048-0.27:10-15:0.0724-0.1086:1 respectively, 1 to 3 parts by weight of a curing agent, viz. hexamethylenetetramine, 0.5 to 1 part by weight of a curing accelerator such as calcium oxide or magnesium oxide and 0.5 to 1.0 part by weight of a lubricant such as stearing, oleic acid or stearates. The compression-moulding composition of the present invention has an increased water-resistance (its water-absorption is at most 42-82 mg), a high curing rate (0.57-0.8 min/mm), elevated Martens yield temperature (up to 146.degree. C.

Abstract: In an automatic measuring apparatus and method for a numerically controlled machine tool, the dimension of a stylus secured to a cross slide and a desired dimension between two opposite points on a workpiece to be measured are inputted into an automatic measuring device in advance, the cross slide is moved under numerical control to bring the stylus into contact with the two points and to remove the stylus therefrom, and measurement of the amount of movement of the cross slide is started when the stylus leaves from one of the two points and the measurement is ended when the stylus leaves from the other point. The measurement value thus obtained, the dimension of the stylus and the desired dimension are subjected to addition and subtraction, thereby to automatically measure the actual dimension between the two points, and the difference between this actual dimension and the desired dimension.

Abstract: A compression-molding composition contains a phenol-formaldehyde resin, a filler, a curing agent, viz. hexamethylenetetramine, a curing accelerator such as calcium oxide or magnesium oxide, and a lubricant such as stearin or stearates. The filler comprises a product resulting from the treatment of crushed wood with an aqueous solution of phenol and formaldehyde at the boiling temperature of said solution in the presence of hydrochloric acid at a weight ratio between phenol, formaldehyde, water, hydrochloric acid, crushed wood equal to 0.15-0.80:0.045-0.864:6-15:0.0435-0.1086:1 respectively. Proportions of the components are as follows, parts by weight:______________________________________ phenol-formaldehyde resin 15 to 45 filler 47.5 to 75 curing agent 7 to 9 curing accelerator 0.5 to 1 lubricant 0.6 to 0.9 ______________________________________The compression-molding composition according to the present invention has an increased water-resistance (17 to 19 mg), heat-resistance (up to 182.degree. C.

Abstract: A device for a sewing machine for making functional and ornamental stitches permits locking the needle bar according to signals that are given from a pulse transmitter, which monitors the rotational position of the top shaft, to a control system which actuates the drive motor of the sewing machine in coincidence with a foot starter. The sewing machine possesses a manually adjustable stitch selector and a device controlled by the needle bar drive for monitoring the relative position of the end of an ornamental stitch pattern. With both the stitch selector and the monitor device are operatively connected respective reversing switches adapted to be brought each into one of two change-over positions.

Abstract: Water proofing compositions containing a reclaimed butyl rubber of used inner tube scraps as the active component have a high adhesion to cement mortar or concrete and are used for water proofing materials in buildings and civil engineering works.

Abstract: A device for monitoring the composition of the exhaust emission of a combustion process includes a hollow elongated body open at one end thereof and an elongated substrate located in the body and defining adjacent the one end of the body an exhaust emission sensing element and a resistive heating element. The sensing element and the heating element are printed on opposite sides of one end of the substrate and are electrically connected to respective first conductive areas extending to the opposite end of the substrate. A carrier is mounted in the other end of the body and supports at least two terminal members which are electrically connected to respective second conductive areas provided on first and second elongated, flexible circuit elements which at their free ends project from the carrier and are folded inwardly so that said second conductive areas are presented to each other.

Abstract: A method and means for inserting fluid into a uterus of an animal is described. One or more inlet cannula lead into a uteral area and communicates with the exterior of the animal. Means for sealing off the uteral area is provided and one or more outlet cannula lead from the uteral area and communicate with the exterior of the animal. By this means, ova can be removed without the need for separate surgical operation. As described, the means for sealing off the uteral area consists of inflatable diaphragms.

Abstract: The invention relates to the propulsion of transport vehicles in air or water, which involves the new use of a nozzle comprising an internal surface, a curved surface merging into the internal surface, a narrowed throat in the internal surface located towards the leading edge of the nozzle, a jacket surrounding the internal surface, an annular internal slot located in the internal surface between the curved surface and the narrowed throat and communicating with the jacket. The fluid under pressure is supplied through the slot the arrangement of the slot being such that the fluid is ejected at an acute angle of under 45.degree. to the direction of the exit flow tangentially to the curved surface.

Abstract: A surgical instrument comprises two elongate members which are pivoted together intermediate their ends in crossing relationship, so as to define a major plane extending substantially perpendicular to the axis of pivotal movement of the members and in which the members move during relative pivotal movement thereof. Each member has at one end an operating portion which cooperates with the operating portion of the other member when the two operating portions are brought together by relative pivotal movement of the two members. Each member has at its opposite end an actuating key which can be urged towards the actuating key of the other member for bringing the operating portions into cooperating disposition. Each actuating key comprises a substantially rectangular plate which extends transversely to the major plane of the instrument whereby force can be applied to urge the actuating keys together.