Abstract: A printing apparatus for applying a coding on a surface which is transported past the printing apparatus, comprising a text roll for the coding characters, supported by a frame and rotatably mounted on a shaft. Said text roll is drivable by the passing surface. The printing apparatus further comprises a rotatable inking means for inking the coding characters. The text roll is movable backwards and forwards in radial direction, wherein a driving means is provided for rotating the text roll and moving the text roll in radial direction from a rest position, in which the text roll is completely free of the surface to be coded, to a working position, in which the text roll engages the surface to be coded, when a surface to be coded comes up to the text roll. The driving means is adapted to return the text roll in radial direction and to rotate the text roll to the rest position from an end position reached by the coding operation after applying the coding.

Abstract: A process and a means is described for burning solid fuels, preferably coal, in pulverized form, which are mixed with a carrier liquid, such as water and/or oil or the like, to thereby form an emulsion, and for this purpose the fuel emulsion is injected through a substantially annular entrance port into a combustion chamber so that an approximately hollow cone-shaped flow configuration is produced. Within this flow configuration, a low pressure is built up immediately behind the entrance port for the fuel emulsion opening into the combustion chamber, so that a portion of hot combustion gases and a remainder of unburnt fuel particles are recirculated to the entrance port. Furthermore, gas entrance ports are provided in the end wall of the combustion chamber, through which the gas or air flows the path of flow of which extends concentrically and spirally towards the axis of the entrance port for the fuel emulsion opening into the combustion chamber.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for measuring the amount of papermaking stock on a moving fabric in a fourdrinier papermaking machine, including a backscattering mass sensing device and a hydrofoil blade adapted to scrape water from the underside of the fabric and to support the mass sensing device in close proximity to the papermaking belt.

Abstract: A two-stage distillation method for separating a mixed liquid such as a dimethylformamide-containing aqueous liquid or a methanol-containing aqueous liquid, into light and heavy fractions. The mixed liquid is first subjected to a distillation treatment in a first distillation zone of a vapor recompression type. When the boiling point of the mixed liquid is close to that of the desired light fraction, the top product from the first distillation zone is recovered as the light fraction, while the bottom product is subjected to a further distillation treatment to obtain the heavy fraction as its bottom product. When the boiling point of the mixed liquid is close to that of the heavy fraction, the bottom product from the first distillation zone is recovered as the heavy fraction, while the top product from the first distillation zone is subjected to a further distillation treatment to obtain the light fraction as its top product.

Abstract: An electrohydraulic drive for process line equipment, especially a spooler that winds and pays out an indefinite length of metallic strand, varies the output torque of a hydraulic motor by controlling its displacement and the pressure differential between its inlet and outlet. A valve controlled by a proportional actuator reduces the supply pressure of the hydraulic fluid in a feed line for the motor. A sequence valve located in a return line from the motor maintains the pressure at the motor outlet at a preselected and adjustable value. During braking, fluid from the return line is directed to a regeneration circuit that includes a flow divider returning one portion of the flow to the feed line and another portion to a supply reservoir. A servo-amplifier circuit includes an integrating amplifier that compares the actual rotation speed of the motor to a speed command signal. An analog multiplier produces a control signal for the proportional actuator.

Abstract: The invention relates to a roofing-material provided with perforations and comprising a bituminized carrier with a non-sticking lower surface and destined for being applied on a substratum and for being covered by an upper layer, which may contain a carrier which is bituminized with modified bitumen, and which may be applied by means of a torch.According to the invention the carrier of the roofing-material is bituminized with modified bitumen, and the perforations are so large that the upper layer can be directly applied on the roofing-material by means of a torch and can be adhered to the substratum via the perforations.

Abstract: A papermaker's felt is formed by needling a compressible batt layer onto one or both sides of a base layer woven fabric. The batt layer is formed from a mixture of at least two types of fibers. A first type is present in much smaller quantities than the remainder and has a melting point at a temperature below the melting point of the remainder. The felt is heated to a temperature between the melting point of the first type of fibers and the remainder, so as to melt the first type such that it bonds the remainder together and to the base fabric. The felt is then formed into an endless belt.

Abstract: A method of providing an ameliorating effect on the subjective symptoms and objective signs of a patient with heart failure comprising administering to said patient an effective amount of taurine.

Abstract: A novel condensation product obtained by reaction of an aldehyde and two kinds of sulfonic acid group-containing aromatic compounds. The product is useful as a dispersant for forming a pitch-in-water slurry.

Abstract: An orthodontic appliance for correcting teeth in a patient's mouth, has a bracket having a slot or groove and adapted to be secured to a tooth of the patient by means of an adhesive, a correcting wire placed in the slot or groove of the bracket, a magnet body having at least one magnet element, and a holder detachably attached to the bracket for holding the magnet body.

Abstract: In appliances for practicing aquatic sports with water flowing upwardly over a sloping bottom surface a premature breakdown of the flow caused by the accumulation of portions of water slowed down by friction at the boundary faces is prevented by at least partially removing said portions of slowed down water. This can be done by sucking off at least the increasingly portions of slowed down water which are preferably refed to a return pipe of the appliance. A further possibility provides that portions of slowed down water are accelerated by supplying water at an increased flow rate. Suction of the portions of slowed down water as well as the supply of water at an increased flow rate is particularly effected through apertures in the bottom surface in the regions in which the portions of water are particularly slowed down, i.e. above all in the regions in the vicinity of an overflow at the upper end of the sloping bottom surface.

Abstract: An electrochemical cell of the type characterized by an essentially constant operating voltage essentially independent of the degree of cell discharge is disclosed, which in its output voltage exhibits one or more step changes of predetermined and fully adjustable magnitudes at any predetermined point or points during the life of the cell. This enables timely replacement of the cell under non-critical circumstances, and also can be used to indicate state of discharge of the cell. In essence, the anode of the cell comprises a plurality of anode elements which become depleted at mutually different degrees of cell discharge. As each anode element becomes depleted, the internal resistance of the cell increases to cause a drop in the operating voltage of the cell as the remaining active anode elements are required to supply the required current.

Abstract: A material with high thermal conductivity for insulating electronic parts is formed by exposure to a compressive shearing force of a compound containing 50 to 95% by volume heat conductive, inorganic powder and 5 to 50% by volume bonding agent. The bonding agent contains at least 0.2 to 30% by volume polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), preferably 1.0 to 20%, and synthetic rubber, where the volume ratio of rubber is 1/4 or more of the PTFE. The compressive shearing force fibrillates the PTFE and disperses the inorganic powder so that there is an even aggregation of heat conductive material. Other ingredients such as vulcanizing agents, vulcanizing accelerators, stabilizers, processing aids, flame retardents, coloring agents, and solvents may be added. The material may be reinforced with a woven or non-woven fabric or staple fibers.

Abstract: The invention concerns an ion-selective electrode comprising a polymer membrane, and its manufacturing procedure. Selectivity of the electrode to a given ion has been achieved in that the membrane is of material polymerized from a substance or mixture of substances containing the ion in question and from which after the polymerizing step a quantity of ions of this kind has been removed so that gaps of equivalent size have been produced in the material. An example of said polymerizable substances is a mixture formed by allyloxy-substituted propyleneglycol phosphate and calciumbisdiallyl phosphate, which is used in making a calcium-selective electrode. If in the example mixture calcium is replaced by another ion, an electrode which is sensitive to this particular ion is similarly obtained. It is to advantage in view of the electrode's mechanical properties to make the electrode without internal solution by affixing the polymer membrane directly on the surface of a semiconductor body consisting e.g.

Abstract: A stepless automatic transmission for a motor vehicle includes a V-belt type stepless transmission mechanism having input and output pulleys mounted respectively on input and output shafts, each pulley being provided with a hydraulic servo for varying the effective diameter thereof, and a V-belt linking the input and output pulleys to transmit power therebetween, in combination with a forward/reverse change-over mechanism and a coupler such as a fluid coupling, centrifugal clutch or friction clutch, and a hydraulic control system.

Abstract: The photosensitive recording material of the invention includes a substrate, an active ray-shielding layer formed on the substrate and a photosensitive composition layer formed on the actinic ray-shielding layer, wherein the binder used for the actinic ray-shielding layer, a material which is swellable or soluble in aqueous neutral salt solution and also and the binder used for the photosensitive composition layer is a material which is soluble in aqueous neutral salt solution. The product is provided a non-silver-salt type photosensitive recording material superior in both workability and stability with time.

Abstract: The supporting frame (1) for the loading crane of a truck (2) is transported by a trailer, whose swingability is blocked in the operating position of the loading crane. In the operating position the truck (2) is rigidly connected to the supporting frame (1) via hydraulic units (5,8).

Abstract: A process for sintering or reaction sintering ceramic or refractory materials with hot plasma gases. The hot plasma gases are produced by injecting a combined primary plasma arc with a secondary gas stream directly into a reaction furnace. The secondary gas stream is tangentially injected into the primary plasma arc gas stream to mix the gases for the required sintering temperature at the highest energy efficiency. The plasma torches are positioned in the furnace ports so that the plasma gas flow is perpendicular to the furnace process gas flow. This process is inexpensive and efficient and results in a superior quality sintered product. It may be adapted to continuous or periodic kilns to achieve a high furnace productivity.

Abstract: A variable venturi type carburetor including both inner and outer venturis, a main nozzle for injecting main fuel into the inner venturi and a piston valve displaceably mounted on the outer venturi to move under the influence of negative pressure transmitted from the intake passage. The carburetor further includes an auxiliary fuel nozzle for feeding auxiliary fuel to the outer venturi in response to movement of the piston valve. The auxiliary fuel nozzle is disposed on the outer venturi adjacent to the main nozzle and the center axes of both the nozzles are located on the same or substantially same plane extending in the direction of the intake passage. A bleed air valve is mounted midway of the atmospheric pressure introduction passage which is branched from the auxiliary fuel passage so as to open the passage when higher negative pressure is transmitted from manifold.