Abstract: A supply channel for the thread has its exit end surrounded by an annular orifice. A connection is provided for supplying a flowing pressurized fluid to the upstream side of the orifice, and an elongated mixing tube is arranged to receive the thread as well as fluid discharged from said orifice and substantially forms an extension of said channel. A sleeve surrounds only the outflow end portion of the mixing tube, the upstream end of the sleeve having a sealing engagement around the mixing tube, and the downstream end of the sleeve lying in substantially the same plane as the downstream end of the mixing tube. A sleeve-shaped filling piece fills the space between the downstream end portion of the sleeve and the mixing tube and contains axial exhaust channels. A connection is provided for supplying a flowing pressurized fluid to the interior of the sleeve upstream of the filling piece.

Abstract: This invention provides composite material compositions comprising wastepaper, a thermoplastic resin and/or other additive(s), said compositions having higher heat resistance, flame retardancy and mechanical strength and smaller linear shrinkage in molding than the conventional compositions of synthetic resins alone or blended with woodmeal or an inorganic filler. There is also provided a method of producing said compositions comprising a wastepaper crushing step, a step of mixing crushed wastepaper with a thermoplastic resin and/or other additive(s) while drying said wastepaper, a blend melting step, a blend kneading step and a blend granulating step. In an embodiment of this invention, scraps of moldings from the composite material compositions using wastepaper may be mixed with wastepaper, a thermoplastic resin and/or other additive(s) and similarly treated and molded into a new composition.

Abstract: A valve housing is adapted to be built into a pipeline, and a valve plate is movable into a valve-closing position in the housing. A displaceable sealing member provides a seal between the valve plate and the housing. At least one spring tends to displace the member into sealing position, and at least one pressure-medium actuated bellows is arranged, upon receiving the pressure medium, to displace the member away from sealing position.

Abstract: A tube has a longitudinal slot extending over the entire working width of the apparatus, and at least one cover element is arranged on the side of the fabric web remote from the slotted tube. The cover element extends over the entire length of the slot, and also extends over a substantial portion of the path of the fabric web, immediately preceding the slot, and over another substantial portion of the path of the fabric web immediately following the slot. A guide surface for the fabric web is provided on the same side of the web as the slotted tube, which surface forms with the cover element a flow space for conducting the working fluid, which flow space extends from a point in the path of travel of the fabric web lying substantially ahead of the slot to a point in the path of the web lying substantially beyond the slot.

Abstract: Apparatus for forming a supply coil from a thread supplied from a yarn stock, said apparatus comprising a stationary winding drum and a thread guide which is rotatable with respect to the drum, said drum having an adjustable circumference and being provided with means for moving axially along the drum the supply coil formed thereon, whereby the winding drum is composed of a radially fixed part, in which the means for axially moving the formed supply coil are received, and of a radially adjustable part.

Abstract: A transformer framing structure in which the distance between the opposing end faces of the primary and secondary coils is increased to improve the dielectric strength of the transformer, and also the primary and secondary coils are framed by separate frameworks to allow separate winding of the respective coils to thereby improve assembling workability. According to this invention, the number of the dies used for molding of the frame body, bobbin assembly and cover of the framing structure is lessened, and mounting of the terminals is simplified to allow easy terminal assemblage. Also, adaptability of the transformer to a printed substrate is improved.

Abstract: A hospital bed is described having a twin canting plate mechanical jack for raising the top of the bed relative to the base or chassis, for holding the top in any elevated position, and for permitting descent, in which the jack comprises a horizontally arranged main shaft which extends through the canting plates, with opposite ends of the shaft being connected to respective bell cranks of a linkage system which carries the bed top. A main shaft passes through a locking plate and a raising plate, and it is an important feature that a pedal shaft which effects displacement of the locking plate to allow the top to be lowered is also connected to the raising plate so that the raising plate locks the bed during the time that the locking plate is being moved to the release position so that subsequent descent of the bed top can be without jerk.

Abstract: Chlorodibenzo-p-dioxin impurities are removed from a polychlorophenol that contains at least one chlorodibenzo-p-dioxin as an impurity by preparing an aqueous solution of a water-soluble alkaline salt of the polychlorophenol, mixing the aqueous solution with cyclohexane to extract the dioxins therefrom, decanting the purified aqueous solution from the cyclohexane phase, neutralizing the purified aqueous solution to precipitate the purified polychlorophenol, and separating the precipitate.

Abstract: A device for watching the flowing condition of a gas in a conduit, which device is provided with a liquid tube connecting a velocity pressure point with a static pressure point, whereby the liquid tube comprises a chamber which is divided by a freely movable partition into two leak tight, mutually separated compartments and separates the liquid tube into two sections which each with one end open into a compartment of the chamber and with their other end are connected with the velocity pressure point and the static pressure point of the conduit respectively, the chamber having a volume which corresponds to the product of the maximum admissible height of the liquid column and the cross-section of the liquid tube.

Abstract: A method of a ceramic fibre lining to a furnace comprises forming strips of fibre by making transverse cuts through a ceramic fibre blanket in which the axes of the fibres are substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the blanket, said cuts being made at an acute angle to the major faces of the blanket, and arranging the strips on the furnace wall to be lined with a thus cut face against the said wall. The invention provides also furnaces lined according to said method and prefabricated lining modules having a backing and a lining made according to said method.

Abstract: A suspended filing drawer having a relatively low back and sides and a relatively high front and a file supporting assembly mounted on the low section of the drawer and connected to the rear face of the drawer front, the file supporting assembly including parallel rails for the accommodation of suspended files. The drawer may be of "knock-down" construction comprising separate side, back and front panels interconnected by connecting pieces whereby the drawer may be stored and transported in a "knocked-down" or disassembled condition and erected subsequently.

Abstract: A drawer runner comprising an elongated member having a longitudinal channel formed in the face thereof which is adjacent to the drawer in use, a stop member projecting into the channel at a position spaced inwardly from the end of the runner which is forwardmost in use and having a rearwardly directed face, the stop member being arranged to co-operate with a projection on a drawer to prevent complete withdrawal of the drawer from its cabinet or other housing, a portion of the upper surface of the runner being cut away in the region of the stop member whereby to permit upward tilting of the drawer about the front end of the runner to disengage the projection from the stop member and enable the drawer to be withdrawn from the housing.

Abstract: A reed baulk unit for a pneumatic weaving machine comprising a series of reed blades held in a groove in a head portion of said unit and at least one blowing nozzle housing located close to said reed blades, said blowing nozzle housing being fed from a pressurized air container through valve means which are mounted on the reed baulk and adapted to be actuated by a control shaft supported by the reed baulk, said reed baulk having an arm portion by means of which it is fixed to rocking trunnions which are rotatably mounted in the weaving machine, said reed baulk unit being characterized in that the reed baulk is formed of an extruded hollow profile, a longitudinal hollow space of which serves as said pressurized air container communicating, through an opening in the wall of the reed baulk profile, with blowing nozzle housing located on the outer side of the reed baulk profile, and control valves for said blowing nozzle housing accommodated by the blowing nozzle housing, while said control shaft is supported in

Abstract: The invention provides a feeder having two stacks which are top fed by reciprocating suction boxes, the stacks feeding alternately and a belt being used to transfer blanks from the rear stack.

Abstract: A cable in the form of a tubular braid which is built of two oppositely directed, helically interlaced sets of strands of untwisted, individually insulated, fine copper wires. Each wire strand of each set repeatedly passes over two consecutive strands, and then under the next two consecutive strands, of the other set. At each extremity of the braid, the end portions of all the stranded wires are stripped of their insulations, assembled into two predetermined groups, and preferably soldered, to provide a pair of terminals.

Abstract: The apparatus comprises a main drive including a main motor and main gearing disposed between the main motor and the unit being driven; an auxiliary drive including an auxiliary motor and auxiliary gearing disposed between the auxiliary motor and the main gearing; a clutch between the auxiliary gearing and the main gearing; and a centrifugal brake connected to the auxiliary drive. A further centrifugal brake is connected to the main drive.

Abstract: A die member in an ejector die assembly is movable obliquely with respect to the axis of movement of the ejector die assembly. Backup plate means is connected to the ejector die assembly by a lost motion connection. The backup plate means locks the die member by direct engagement with the die member in the machine closed position and is moved away from the ejector die assembly in the machine open position to permit withdrawal of the die member from the die cavity.

Abstract: A semiconductor device in the nature of a bipolar transistor, which is formed on a low resistance substrate, comprises regions serving as emitter and collector separated by a gate region, the emitter and collector regions being separated from and encompassed by a surrounding region that may be maintained at a selected potential relative to the encompassed regions.