Abstract: A document is provided having thereon a legible code to distinguish the document from other similar documents, the code comprising an arrangement of alphanumeric characters. Where the document is a banknote, the code may be the serial number which is unique to that banknote, and which is one of a series of such serial numbers carried on individual members of a set of such documents, and having sequential numerical values. To enhance the security value of the serial number portion of the document and to inhibit successful forgery thereof, the alphanumeric characters are provided in reverse, or negative form. The security value derives from the complexity and cost of the apparatus necessary to print a series of successive serial numbers in reverse, rather than positive form. The code may correspond to a code provided elsewhere on the document in positive form. Another reverse code on a different background may be provided elsewhere on the document.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for wrapping core yarns, the apparatus including a plurality of spools driven by a single spindle and the method including the steps of applying two or more layers of wrapped yarn to a core yarn by the use of a minimum number of spindles.

Abstract: A package for temporarily hand-packing a rice-ball of triangular shape together with a sheet of dry laver until the former is field-wrapped with the latter so as to prepare a laver-wrapped rice-ball or "Onigiri". The package includes a packing sheet of square shape folded along a fold extending through a pair of opposite angles to form a pair of folded sheets of equilateral triangular shape for holding the dry laver inbetween. The packing sheet is made of a moisture-proof material such as paraffine paper or vinyl sheet. Further inclusive is a pull-out sheet which extends from one of the vertical angle portions of the folded sheets and which is folded back toward the fold of the packing sheet. The pull-out sheet thus provided is sized to have such a sufficient margin, when the rice-ball is placed thereon for the temporary hand-packing operation, as can facilitate its hand pull-out operation at its margin before the rice-ball is wrapped with the dry laver.

Abstract: An antenna has a housing at least one opening with a drum rotatably mounted in said housing perpendicular to the opening and a wave receiving stylus carried by the drum for projection from the housing through said opening. The stylus is a band preformed according to a given curved shape about its longitudinal axis with the band being sufficiently resilient so as to be flattened and wound up on the drum and being sufficiently flexible so as to assume a tubular configuration in cross-section in the absence of stress when in a position extended from the housing. Idler rollers are carried by the housing around the drum in spaced relation thereto to limit band sliding frictions with respect to the housing and guide elements are interposed between the idler rollers to promote a correct superimposition of the band spirals on and off the drum.

Abstract: A railway bearing housing has a cylindrical bore in which a cylindrical bearing liner is seated to receive a railway vehicle axle, at least one cavity being formed in the lower part of the housing and extending along the length of the housing to contain lubricant. The cavity communicates through an opening extending along the length of the housing bore with either a corresponding opening extending along the length of the bearing liner or with a number of spaced apertures in the bearing liner so that lubricant can flow through the cavity and the opening or apertures onto the rotating axle within the liner.

Abstract: A method of draining oil from a transmission housing, of an oil-injected screw compressor comprising a compressor housing containing rotor means and a transmission housing. A shaft of the compressor extends into the transmission housing from the compressor housing and the transmission housing is underslung relative to the compression housing. The first portion of the compressor intake stroke, or rotation, is prevented from being filled with intake gas such that a depression is created. Said depression is applied via a bore to a sump portion of the transmission housing, so that the absolute pressure differential between the sump and the suction portion of the rotor means draws oil out of the sump and into the rotor spaces. A compressor employing this method of draining oil is also described.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a twin reel beltwinder which is designed to support an indeterminate length of conveyor belt for transportation within a mine cavity. The present invention includes a frame structure rotatably mounted on four wheels and including a framework for supporting a roll of conveyor belt. The entire roll of conveyor belt is initially positioned on one arm of the support structure. Subsequently, a portion of the conveyor belt is unreeled onto the second arm of the support structure. By equally distributing the conveyor belt between the first arm and the second arm of the support structure, the overall height of the apparatus is low enough to be accommodated within a mine cavity.

Abstract: A process for the manufacture of sintered metal articles includes the steps of selecting a prealloy powder having a composition consisting essentially of 10-18% chromium, 2-6% iron, 2-6% silicon, 2-6% boron, 0.5-2% carbon, balance nickel, mixing the prealloy powder with copper powder in an amount equal to between 20% and 50% of the weight of the total of prealloy powder and copper, preferably adding a small percentage of a suitable lubricant, pressing the mixture to form a compact, and sintering the compact in the range 1050.degree.-1100.degree. C. for such a time that the copper and the nickel-rich prealloy only partly dissolve in one another.

Abstract: A keyboard musical instrument utilizes a magnetic action to strike a resonator element with a hammer in response to playing of a pivotally mounted key, the magnetic action including a pair of opposite polarity magnetic poles mounted on an actuating end of the key and a magnetic pole mounted on the hammer to be disposed in horizontal alignment with one of the poles mounted on the key of an opposite polarity when the hammer is in a rest position such that the opposite polarity magnetic poles attract one another with the hammer in the rest position and, when the playing end of the key is depressed, the similar polarity pole on the actuating end of the key is moved to repel the magnetic pole carried on the hammer to impel the hammer to strike the resonator element. A block of non-magnetic material can extend from the lower magnetic pole on th actuating end of the key under the magnetic pole of the hammer to engage the same and initiate movement of the hammer when the playing end of the key is depressed.

Abstract: A head/neck support for a vehicle seat comprises a cushioned head rest having a support frame which is mounted on a spindle attached to the upper end of a post projecting from the seat back. The spindle carries two spaced detents engageable with two members of the frame spaced along the spindle to lock the frame against rotation around the spindle, the head rest being released for adjustment by bodily moving the rest along the spindle against the action of a return spring to release the detents and then turning the rest to the required attitude and releasing it to allow the spring to return it along the spindle to re-engage the detents.

Abstract: An artists' canvas is preformed on its rear face with an integral perimetrical and an articulated frame is composed of sectionally hinged rigid pivotally interconnected bars and is disposed flat at the rear face and is movable from a collapsed pointed star shape into a rigid rectangular expanded condition wherein the hinged sections of each bar are in axial alignment and are held in such state by positive locking latches provided at each hinge point. In such expanded condition, the bars fit in the pocket and the expanded frame exerts a constant even stretching force in all directions on the canvas which is held in a taut condition, ready for artistic usage, and which can be removed undamaged from the frame.

Abstract: A sheet element, such as a banknote or other document of intrinsic value, incorporating an optical authenticating device comprising a thin film element, preferably in the form of a strip, or thread disposed within the thickness of the sheet element and having known characteristics of spectral reflectance and transmittance, and wherein in the region of a least part of the thin film element the sheet element is formed with a pair of superposed windows between which the thin film element extends so as to be visible through each window.

Abstract: A window wiper mechanism for an opening rear window of a motor vehicle comprises a motor unit mounted on a fixed part of a vehicle body a flexible output drive extending to a guide adjacent the window and then along the inner side of the window adjacent and parallel to the hinge axis of the window to a drive unit mounted on the inner side of the window. The drive unit has an output shaft extending through the window to which a window wiper is connected.

Abstract: A compressor comprises one or more stages each including an impeller mounted for rotation on a shaft and rotatable in an impeller housing. A transmission is drivingly connected to the shaft and a bearing is provided supporting the shaft. Lubrication means are provided for the bearing which provide a continuous lubricant seal around the shaft between the shaft and the bearing to prevent air leaking through the bearing. A chamber is located between the impeller housing and the bearing for collecting excess lubricant and has an outlet for draining lubricant.

Abstract: A spectacle washer including a washing tub of a generally rectangular shape and a vibrator of not ultrasonic but mechanical type. The washing tub is formed at one of its longer side walls with a nose-shaped bulge which bulges thereinto and extends along the vertical center line of that particular side wall. The bottom wall of the washing tub is partially raised to form a raised bottom which extends around that center line and merging into the nose-shaped bulge. This raised bottom is shaped and sized to allow both the lower portions of the paired rims and the paired nose pads of a pair of spectacles to stably rest thereon, while one of the sides of the spectacles being placed on that portion of the bottom wall, which is left unraised. The mechanical vibrator is equipped with an electric motor and an eccentric weight. The electric motor has its vertical shaft of rotation positioned in the vertical center plane, in which the afore-mentioned center line extends.

Abstract: In a rotary piston machine the main rotary piston makes sealing engagement with at least one end wall of the main rotor bore and at least one inlet port is provided in that end wall and is located within the compass of the cylindrical portion of the main rotary piston, the main rotary piston is cut-away to open the inlet port to the working spaces of the machine, which are defined by the main and auxiliary rotor bores, the outer peripheries of the rotary pistons and the end walls of the housing, in order to induce working fluid into such spaces.

Abstract: A conveyor system for delivering articles in succession has an endless conveyor loop, which is guided by guide rollers around a closed path including a horizontally extending run. The guide roller at one end of the horizontally extending run of the closed path and a further guide roller in a part of the path other than the horizontally extending run are mounted on a support, which is pivoted by a reciprocating mechanism so as to cyclically extend and retract the horizontal run of the loop at one of its ends while maintaining tension in the loop.

Abstract: A collimator gunsight has a collimator lens, a transparent graticule in the focal plane of the lens, and a window behind the graticule. A small artificial light source is positioned between the graticule and the window but does not obscure the ambient light entering the window from illuminating the graticule. The graticule pattern has a first portion through which light from the artificial source can pass into the aperture of the collimator lens, and a second portion which diverts, e.g. by refraction, ambient light entering the window and by-passing the artificial source so as to fill the aperture of the lens.

Abstract: An exhaust gas silencer having a casing including gas inlet and exhaust passages, a plurality of baffle plates having inner portions together defining a central chamber constituting one of said passages and extending longitudinally of the casing, and outer portions extending between the central chamber and the inner wall of the casing to direct the exhaust gas along a tortuous path, each outer portion meeting said inner wall along a line circumferentially spaced from any radius extending from the longitudinal axis of the central chamber through the juncture of the inner and outer portions.

Abstract: Photometric apparatus for use as a color analyser or color temperature meter or graphic arts photometer has a logarithmic photometer, means for storing the analogue output of the photometer combined with a reference signal, and means for comparing the stored signal with a subsequent photometer output signal connected by a different reference signal. In a color analyser or color temperature meter switchable color filters are provided with automatic switching of the reference signals in accordance with the color section.