Abstract: A filter has a filter housing. An adjustable support couples a filter element to the filter housing. A first end of the adjustable support is fixedly connected to the housing. A movable portion of said adjustable support is coupled to said filter element. The movable portion is opposite the first end. The movable portion is disposed in the throat of the filter element. The filter element occupies a fluid intake position when said movable portion is in a first position. The filter element occupies a bypass position when said movable portion is in a second position.

Abstract: A container (1) is proposed for replenishing ink or solvent in an ink jet printer ink system. The container (1) has a plug-in connector (7) for attachment to a mating connector on the ink system along an axis so that fluid within the container (1) can be transferred to the ink system. Adjacent to the connector (7) a cam surface is disposed so as to cause the connector (7) to disconnect from the mating connector on rotation of the container (1) in a direction about the axis.

Abstract: A portable unit for changing clothes of a baby comprises a substantially stiff base body (2) adapted to support the body of a lying baby and a pair of movable wings (5) rotatably engaged on opposite sides of the base body (2) and shiftable between a closed position in which the movable wings (5) are superposed on the base body (2) and an operating open position in which the movable wings (5) are disposed externally of said base body.

Abstract: A method of and apparatus for flushing a printhead of a continuous ink jet printer is disclosed, in which the printer has a feed line to which ink is normally fed in use. A gutter line is also provided through which unused ink is removed from the printhead. A bleed line is connected to the printhead for bleeding ink from the printhead, and a flushing line is connected to the printhead through which line flushing fluid is selectively caused to flow through the flushing line to the printhead and from the printhead through the bleed line.

Abstract: A molding element for car bodies is provided which comprises a main body (2) of elongated conformation and attachment projections (9) operatively associated with the main body (2) and adapted to engage a corresponding anchoring region (5a) formed on a car body (5). The attachment projections (9) are rigidly in engagement with a continuous support element (7) to be fitted in a longitudinal housing (10) formed in the main body (2).

Abstract: A plant flat-collapsible-container made from a first panel of thin heat-sealable film, a second panel of thin heat-sealable film, a first decorative panel and a second decorative panel. The first panel, second panel, first decorative panel and second decorative panel are joined together along a first longitudinally-extending seam and a second longitudinally-extending seam. The first longitudinally-extending seam forms a first angle with a transverse axis of the container. The second longitudinally-extending seam forms a second angle with the a line drawn transverse to the axis of the container. The first and second angles can be the same, or, alternatively, the first angle can be between 55.degree. and 65.degree. and the second angle can be between 85.degree. and 90.degree.. The container can include a protruding portion which extends beyond a transversely-extending edge of the container. The protruding portion can have perforations.

Abstract: An automatic sewing machine comprises a folding device and a guiding and feeding device for a folded workpiece and a main workpiece on which to sew the folded workpiece. The folding device comprises an outer frame with creasing modules which have folding bars. The creasing modules are mounted on the outer frame in a manner adjustable in their direction of extraction and approximately crosswise thereto.

Abstract: A single flighted multi-screw conveying bushing that has only one helical screw element extending the length of the bushing. The bushing has a cross-section shape that has a segmented circular base and a lobe extending from the base. The lobe has a truncated crest that is sized to have a circumferential angle of from 15.degree. to 30.degree. and preferably from 22.degree. to 24.degree.. Also, a twin screw extruder having a pair of side by side drive shafts with at least two of the single flighted screw bushings mounted end to end on each shaft.

Abstract: An ink jet ink is disclosed which comprises a binder, a colorant, a conductivity controller and a liquid vehicle in which at least the binder and colourant are soluble, the binder being a nitrocellulose having a viscosity of 15 centipoise or less as measured by method 1 herein; or a weight average molecular weight of not more than 25,000 as measured by method 3 herein; or the nitrocellulose has both the said viscosity and the said weight average molecular weight;and in that the nitrocellulose has a nitrogen content of at least 9.5% by weight as measured by the method of ASTM D 301-72;and in that the ink has a viscosity of 1.6 to 4 centipoise at 25.degree. C. using a Brookfield DV-11+ viscometer with a number 00 spindle at 60 r.p.m (method 2 herein).

Abstract: A sewing installation for the production of a lined pocket opening on a workpiece comprises a stand on which a working plate is supported. A cutting device for the production of corner cuts in the workpiece is disposed underneath the working plate. This cutting device is held on a support which lodges in the stand pivotally about an axis so that the cutting device can be moved into a position in which it is free from the working plate.

Abstract: An automatic plant for thermal treatments of metal materials, in particular steel materials, is provided which comprises work stations (3, 4, 5, 6) having chambers (4a, 5a, 6a) with a well-shaped conformation, a flat bearing structure (7) in superposed relationship with the work stations, a movable assembly (8) provided with a slidable plate-like base (9) close to the bearing structure (7), at least one bell-shaped region (10) formed in the plate-like base (9) and adapted to house a charge-holding basket (18), and at least one vertical-movement device (12) adapted to move the basket (18) from an inner position to an outer position relative to the bell-shaped region itself (10).

Abstract: A traveling wave piezoelectric motor having essentially a stator (1) in the form of an annular plate PLANE, the stator connected to two groups of cylindrical polarized ceramic piezoelectric elements (2, 3, 4) and excited by an alternating current with a phase shift of 90 degrees between the groups so as to generate a deformation in the form of a traveling wave at the surface of the stator, and of a rotor in the form of a disk. The piezoelectric elements are connected to the stator by the intermediary of an auxiliary coupling piece (5, 6, 7) in the form of a truncated segment and in permanent contact with the stator by their small-section extremity.

Abstract: I provide an outer anti-corrosion aluminum or aluminum alloy protective coating composition. The composition may be applied directly to the aluminum or aluminum alloy or to an anodized form thereof or to an anodized or non-anodized aluminum or aluminum article which has a non-chromium conversion coating therein. The outer protective coating composition contains as essential ingredients an aqueous emulsion of a polybasic acid, a polyol and a lanolin wax acid which react in-situ on the article. Also, I provide the aluminum or aluminum alloy article having thereon an outer layer of an anti-corrosive lanolin wax polyester coating and a method of forming an anti-corrosion layer on the outer surface of the article.

Abstract: An enveloping corrugated pipe (1) comprises corrugated sections (3) which are disposed one after the other in the direction of the axis (2), extending over more than half its periphery. Further, it comprises corrugated partial sections (3", 3'") which are disposed one within the other, which are turned towards each other and adjoin the ends of the corrugated section (3).

Abstract: An assembly of a formed wire roasting rack, a roasting pan and a foil cover, each of which is removable from the rack. Each of the pan and cover has a base, an upstanding sidewall, a rim and a peripheral bead formation surrounding the rim. The rack has a first pair of parallel elongated wire form sections terminating in upwardly extending portions providing outwardly extending wire handles, and a second elongated wire form section extending transverse to the first wire section and terminating in an upwardly extending portion at each end. At each end thereof, a bead gripping formation and an actuator for retracting the bead gripping formation is provided. The bead gripping formations are sized and proportioned to grippingly retain the pair of pan and cover bead formations in a nested array, and to grippingly retain the pair of pan and cover bead formations when one of the pan and covers is inverted to overlie and cover the other.

Abstract: A strap driving device for looping machines has with a strap guiding channel for a looping strap and two pairs of drive rollers engaging in the strap guiding channel. Each pair of drive rollers has a driving roller driven in rotation and a pressing roller to be set to the latter for free running. For being set to the driving roller, the pressing roller is mounted on a rocker.

Abstract: A multi-shaft screw-type extruder having a casing with two parallel intersecting casing bores and two shafts drivably disposed in the casing bores. Screw elements intermeshing kneading disks are fixed on the shafts The widths of the respective crest portions of the kneading disks are smaller than the disk width and form mixing-and-scraping-studs on the periphery of the disks. The mixing-and-scraping-studs on each kneading disk are axially misaligned relative to each other such that their peripheral faying surfaces jointly cover the entire disk width.