Abstract: Apparatus for controlling the relative rates of flow of gases through a pair of ducts including a bellows chamber defining a substantially enclosed interior and a partition member movably mounted within the chamber dividing the interior thereof into first and second partial volumes which are fluidly sealed from each other. The first partial volume is in fluid communication with a first duct in which a gas flows while the second partial volume is in fluid communication with a second duct in which a gas flows such that a change in the rate of flow of a gas through one of the ducts changes the pressure in the associated partial volume whereby the partition member will move to accommodate the same. A linkage is associated with the partition member for transmitting the movement thereof to a damper located in one of the ducts such that the gas flow opening provided by the damper in the duct is regulated by the extent of movement of the partition member.

Abstract: A thermostable heterocyclic polymer constituted by monomer units of the general formula ##STR1## where R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 denote an organic radical having from 2 to 1000 carbon atoms;a radical having 2 to 1000 carbon atoms, containing:1 to 1000 atoms of Si,and/or 1 to 1000 atoms of F,and/or 1 to 1000 atoms of Cl,and/or 1 to 1000 atoms of Br,and/or 1 to 1000 atoms of N,and/or 1 to 1000 atoms of S,and/or 1 to 1000 atoms of P,and/or 1 to 1000 atoms of B,and/or 1 to 1000 atoms of O,R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 being either the same or different;R.sup.3 .dbd.NH, CH.sub.2 ;R.sup.4 is a radical which, with R.sup.3 .dbd.NH, may be ##STR2## while with R.sup.3 .dbd.CH.sub.

Abstract: An apparatus for measuring parameters of work diagram of piston machines comprises, connected to one another, a current crankshaft rotation angle counter having inputs coupled, via a crankshaft angular position pulse former and a top dead center pulse former, to an angular mark sensor, and a decoder decoding top dead center signals. To the latter is coupled an input of a flip-flop of an analysis and control unit which also has a counter having an input coupled, via a main coincidence gate, to one of n pressure sensors in cylinders of piston machines, in accordance with the cylinder selected for indication, and a logical circuit having an input coupled to a reversible counter connected to a flip-flop. The apparatus also comprises a series circuit including a decoder for decoding bottom dead center signals coupled to the reversible counter and flip-flop, a cycle length counter and a main flip-flop coupled to the bottom dead center decoder and to an AND gate.

Abstract: Properties of mechanical paper pulp which is produced by grinding or otherwise frictionally acting on natural fibrous raw material containing plasticizable constituents which become heated to a temperature sufficiently high to soften the plasticizable constituents thereof are improved by the addition of paper filler material which is chemically inert to the pulp at a time which results in the filler being in contact therewith while the plasticizable constituents are plasticized and thus softened and sticky. This causes the filler, without chemical reaction, to adhere to the plasticized constituents and thus to the fibers of the pulp to result in improved properties of a totally mechanical pulp. The properties which are improved include the optical and printing properties of the paper made from the pulp.

Abstract: A magnetic deflection system comprising a cylindrical magnetic circuit which surrounds two pairs of saddle-shaped deflection coils, horizontal and vertical, fitted coaxially with the magnetic circuit and at right angles to each other, each said coil being provided with a longitudinal portion and a lateral portion which mate together through a jointing area, each said jointing area having its cross-section of a variable thickness, which cross-section diminishes from a maximum value measured along a section through a boundary line of the jointing area limiting either the longitudinal portion or the lateral portion to a minimum value measured along a diagonal section that passes through the jointing area at right angles to the deflection plane of the electron beam.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for loading and/or unloading water vessels including providing a pair of floating elongate pontoon members and locating the same substantially parallel to and spaced from each other substantially perpendicular to the edge of a dock or quay so as to define an area between the pontoon members for accommodating a water vessel. The vessel which is to be loaded or unloaded is directed between the pontoon members. Mobile crane apparatus is supported on the pontoon members on either side of the vessel and travels along the length of the pontoon members, and has hoisting apparatus which horizontally extends over the width of the vessel. In another embodiment, an elongate pontoon member is located substantially parallel to the edge of the dock or quay defining a vessel accommodating area between them. Mobile crane apparatus is movably supported on the pontoon member and quay on either side of the vessel and has a hoisting apparatus horizontally extending over the width of the vessel.

Abstract: The invention is concerned with an auxiliary off-shore column located near a working column or platform for sea-bed exploitation. Said auxiliary column is fitted up at least in part between its top and the main float with dwelling rooms, living quarters or like accommodation facilities for the staff on duty on the working column or platform. Said auxiliary column also comprises means for providing on at least temporary communication between both columns with a view to transferring said staff.

Abstract: The method of thermal-mine recovery of oil and fluent bitumens or kerogens includes providing a system of mine workings above an oil-bearing formation and drilling from these workings and from the ground surface a series of injection wells into the oil-bearing formation. An operation gallery is provided within the oil-bearing formation, from which a system of horizontal and inclined recovery wells is drilled. Then a heat carrier is positively injected into the oil-bearing formation to heat it to a temperature whereat the oil attains the required fluidity within the formation. Then a fluid is charged into the formation to force the oil from the oil-bearing formation into the horizontal and inclined recovery wells, toward the operation gallery, from which the oil is directed to the ground surface.

Abstract: A linear induction motor comprises an inductor with a magnetic core structure formed of first- and second-group laminations and with a polyphase concentrated winding, and a secondary element having an electrically conductive part arranged on a magnetically conductive base. The first-group laminations are extended at right angles to the direction of movement of the inductor and are interconnected by means of the second-group laminations extended in the direction of movement of the inductor. Each first-group lamination has n slots. Rods of the first-group laminations fit tightly in slots of the second-group laminations so that no gaps exist therebetween and toothless active zones are formed in the direction of movement of the inductor, whereas appropriate gaps are provided between the yokes of the first- and second-group laminations. The polyphase concentrated winding includes two groups of coils.

Abstract: The components of a transistor oscillator are mounted on an end cap rotatably mounted on the outer tube of a cavity resonator which stabilizes the oscillator. The intensity with which a high frequency is applied to the cavity resonator is adjustable by rotation of the end cap.

Abstract: An off-shore device for mooring a large-sized floating body to an anchoring system anchored to the sea bed, comprising a mooring head located above water level and connected to said anchoring system by a connecting arrangement capable of withstanding tractive force and tiltable in any direction as well as a possibly adjustable tractive force generator providing a vertically upwardly directed force component and adapted to act upon said mooring head while bearing upon said floating body.

Abstract: The invention relates to the production of compounds of the general formula: ##STR1## wherein X is selected from the group consisting of oxygen, CH.sub.2 and CH radicals, and when X designates oxygen, R designates alkyl, isoalkyl, aralkyl, and substituted aralkyl groups and when X designates CH.sub.2 then R designates alkyl, phenyl or substituted phenyl group, and A-B is a single bond, and when X designates CH.sub.2, R designates alkyl, phenyl or substituted phenyl groups and A-B is a double bond; and physiologically acceptable salts of these, and pharmaceutical compositions containing the same as active ingredient.

Abstract: The invention relates to contact trays with a self adjusting free section for rectification and absorption tray columns in gas (steam)-fluid systems operating in a wide range of gas (steam) loads. The contact tray comprises a base with apertures in every one of which a valve is mounted providing a one-way outlet of gas and having an upper wall, side walls, and position limiters to define the upper (open) and lower (closed) positions of the valve. Every valve is manufactured from a blank made in the form of a circular sector with a truncated apex, whose peripheral side and segment portions are bent to form side walls of the valve, one of the lower position limiters and the upper wall of the valve. This makes it possible to simplify the technology of manufacturing valves, improve the conditions of operation and raise the efficiency of the tray.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing paper, cardboard, or another equivalent fiber web having a certain stretchability and/or a high coefficient of friction includes the steps of shortening or upsetting a paper web just prior to conveying the latter to a press section while adhering the web at the press section to a fabric in the form of a suitable felt or wire which is common to successive press nips of the press section for conveying the web to the successive press nips, these press nips including first and second press nips where the web is engaged by an additional endless fabric structure in the form of suitable felt or wire so that at least at the first and second press nips the web is sandwiched between a pair of fabrics, with this additional fabric structure being spaced from the part of the web which travels from the first to the second press nip.

Abstract: According to the proposed method, the starting material is separated into ncentrated suspension and clarified liquid fraction. The concentrated suspension is heated and hydrolyzed under excess pressure in the presence of a mineral acid as a catalyst. The clarified liquid fraction of the starting material is sterilized and mixed with the hydrolysate. The mixture is then neutralized to the required pH. The neutralized mixture is then separated from harmful volatile admixtures and cooled to obtain nutrient medium suitable for cultivating microorganisms.

Abstract: A train comprising a lead and a plurality of interconnected succeeding transport vehicles and having devices for actuating the steering gears of succeeding vehicles. Adjacent transport vehicles are interconnected through links, whereas each device for actuating the steering gear incorporates two shafts vertically mounted on the bodies of adjacent transport vehicles and connected to pulleys wound around with a flexible pulling member, and a bushing hingedly installed on each vertical shaft and rigidly associated with said link. The vertical shaft mounted on the preceding transport vehicle is kinematically associated with an independent drive remotely controlled from the lead transport vehicle, while the succeeding transport vehicle and the shaft of the steering gear thereof carry pulleys wound around in a crosswise manner with flexible pulling member.

Abstract: A single lens reflex camera including an objective having an optical axis for focusing an image of an object and a device for determining when the objective has properly focused an image at an image plane which is located at a position which is optically equivalent to the location of the film plane, the latter including an image-forming device including a first refracting device for receiving an image from the objective and for providing at least a pair of identical images of the object to be photographed at the image plane, a detecting plane provided along the optical axis having a pair of identical photosensitive detectors, each of which provides an output which varies as the image is moved longitudinally therealong and an image-transmitting device situated at least in part at the image plane which includes a second refracting device for receiving the images from a first refracting device and for participating in the transmission thereof to the detecting plane in a manner according to which the identical im

Abstract: The unoccupied space intermediate the races, the rolling bodies and the metal cage of a conventional antifriction bearing is filled with a solidified antifriction compound, with the cage of the conventional bearing being fast with the compound and reinforcing it. An annular gap is provided intermediate the outer race of the bearing and the solidified compound body for removal of the wear products. To manufacture a bearing of this kind, a bearing of the conventional kind is filled with a solidifiable antifriction material, with subsequent thermal treatment. The invention offers a simple, readily implementable and relatively inexpensive technique of adding a new quality to conventional antifriction bearings, viz. the ability of prolonged operation under adverse conditions, without periodic lubrication.

Abstract: A paper machine has a forming wire loop which transports a web to a detachment transfer roll situated inside said wire loop at a detaching location where the web is to be detached from the wire and transported to a press section. A relatively dry felt engages the web on a sector of the detachment transfer roll at the detaching location and receives the web from the wire and continues to transport the web, while it adheres to the felt, to the press section. The detachment of the web from the wire on the detachment transfer roll is facilitated by the centrifugal force acting on the web which results from the substantial change of direction undergone by the web on the detachment transfer roll. In one embodiment, the press felt is directed to cover the web on a sector of the detachment roll by a press suction roll located on substantially the same level as the detachment transfer roll, the press roll having a suction sector which facilitates transfer of the web from the wire to the felt.

Abstract: An automatic cartridge ejecting apparatus for magnetic tape player is provided. The apparatus comprises an eject lever for ejecting the cartridge from the tape player and an electromagnetic latch device adapted to latch the eject lever in a depressed position. The latch device comprises a movable member operatively connected to the eject lever, a magnet and a ferromagnetic lever pivotally connected to the movable member and being engageable with the magnet when the eject lever is in the depressed position. The ferromagnetic lever is configured to provide a mechanical advantage to the magnet for holding the eject lever in the depressed position.