Abstract: In the disclosed video signal recording and reproducing apparatus, a cylinder member arranged to have a tape-shaped recording medium wound thereon, includes five rotating heads. The first head has a specific head width and azimuth angle. The second rotating head is approximately equal in head width to the first rotating head but differs from the first rotating head in azimuth angle. The third rotating head has a narrower head width than the first rotating head but is equal to the first head in azimuth angle. The fourth rotating head is approximately equal in head width to the third rotating head and equal in azimuth angle to the second rotating head and the fifth rotating head is equal in azimuth angle to the third rotating head.

Abstract: A rotary head device for a rotary head-type magnetic recording/reproducing apparatus comprising a fixed drum and a rotary member which has a magnetic head disposed therein is provided with a ball bearing which is formed by inserting a plurality of rolling members into annular grooves which are respectively formed in the fixed drum and the rotary member on their opposed sides and are located adjacently to their peripheries.

Abstract: An expansion dowel assembly includes an axially elongated sleeve having a leading end and a trailing end, an axially extending spreading member located within the sleeve adjacent its leading end, and a threaded bolt extending into the trailing end and toward the leading end of the sleeve. The threaded bolt is axially movable within the sleeve between a first position where the dowel assembly can be inserted into the borehole and a second position where the bolt is driven further into the sleeve into expanding contact with the spreading member for radially expanding the spreading member and the sleeve. An abutment is provided for the leading end of the dowel assembly to prevent displacement of the spreading member out of the sleeve when the bolt is driven from the first position toward the second position.

Abstract: The present method and apparatus can be applied to cultivation of young seedlings of Welsh onion economically in a mass production way utilizing the growing progresses of this vegetable, during which seed coats can be scraped and removed by the flange of each mesh of a screen sheet or screen film when a stalk stretches itself at the knee part uprightly. Young seedlings of Welsh onion are supplied as material for hors-d'oeuvre, soup and Japanese "sushi".

Abstract: An axially elongated expansion sleeve is formed from an extruded cylindrically shaped blank with a blind hole in one end. An axially extending part of the blank from the other end is deformed into a U-shaped section of uniform thickness. The U-shaped section is upset so that it increases in thickness toward the other end. The upset U-shaped section is shaped to provide it with a cylindrically shaped outside surface with the inside base of the section sloping toward the axis of the sleeve in the direction toward the other end.

Abstract: An axially movable lens holder sleeve has a drive member or members made of piezoelectric material on one or either side thereof with a bias spring member on the opposite side or in sandwiched relation. When a voltage proportional to the required amount of movement of the lens is applied to the drive member, adjustment in position of the lens is controlled.

Abstract: In the automatic film transportation type camera using an electric motor in which upon a forward rotation thereof the film is wound and upon a reversed rotation thereof the film is rewound, a mechanism for moving a photographic lens barrel between a standard or wide angle setting and a telephoto setting is provided with a clutch capable of transferring the motion of the motor from a rewind fork to the moving mechanism, and a switch arranged to be closed when the clutch is cut off, thereby the motor is energized to rotate in the reverse direction, driving the barrel to move axially from one of the settings to the other, while leaving the rewind fork stationary.

Abstract: A lens barrel having incorporated therein a motor includes a vibration-proof ring for absorbing vibrations of the motor, which ring is made in such a form as to accommodate the lead wires of the motor.

Abstract: A mutilayer film, as shown in FIG. 3, consists of a support film (6) and a blown, coextruded composite film (1), which is joined to the support films (6) by means of an adhesive (5) and is interlocked into a tube (1'). The layers of the composite film (1) consist of polyethylenes or polyethylene copolymers of different mechanical shock resistance. At least one of the polyethylenes or polyethylene copolymers has a mechanical shock resistance of more than 100 cN. The composite film (1), interlocked into a tube (1'), has two outer layers (A, A') of corresponding material and thickness and two inner layers, (B, B') of corresponding material thickness. The inner layers (B, B') are connected by interlocking and the outer layers (A, A') are connected to the inner layers (B, B') by melt bonding.

Abstract: A recording apparatus for use with a recording medium including a detecting device for detecting whether the recording medium is applicable for information recording and a preventing device responsive to the detecting device for preventing the recording medium from being loaded on a loading station when the recording medium is not applicable for information recording.

Abstract: Hydrophilicity of a poorly hydrophilic fabric material of synthetic fibers can be remarkably and durably increased by the synergistic effect of the treatments first with a specific hydrophilic agent, e.g. water-absorbent agent and antistatic agent, and then by exposure to low temperature plasma generated in an atmosphere of oxygen or oxygen-containing gaseous mixture so that the capacity of the fabric material for water absorption is greatly increased and the antistatic performance thereof is greatly improved with decreased surface resistivity and charge voltage induced by rubbing.

Abstract: An element for electrophoresis comprising the following three-layer structure laminated in the order:(I) a support layer;(II) an adhesive layer comprising a polymer having at least one specifically selected repeating unit; and(III) a medium layer for electrophoresis comprising an aqueous polyacrylamide gel formed by crosslinking polymerization of an acrylamide compound and a crosslinking agent in the presence of water.

Abstract: Apparatus for transporting sheet metal plates from a supply source and positioning the plates at a plate shearing table includes a carrier capable of horizontal transport. A device is secured to the carrier for effecting up and down and turning movement. A gripper member is mounted on the device and moves with it. The gripper member includes at least one electromagnetic plate with an annular sealing lip in the surface of the plate. In combination with the surface of the plate, the sealing lip forms a suction space connected to vacuum producing equipment. A switch controls the electromagnetic plate and a control valve operates the vacuum producing equipment with the switch and control valve arranged in a parallel switching network.

Abstract: A grip for a camera including a grip body, a fixing mechanism having a manually operable member fixing the grip body to the camera body in a predetermined state and a movable covering for covering the manually operable member of the fixing mechanism.

Abstract: The invention provides a novel integrated body of an elongated form capable of sustainedly releasing vapor of a vaporizable substance contained in the body into the atmosphere, such as an aromatic compound, pesticide, fungicide and a sex pheromone as a means for the control of a pest. The inventive sustainedly vapor-releasing integrated body is very advantageous in the high efficiency of shaping into desired configuration and setting or installation in the field in large numbers by virtue of the good shape-retainability as a result of the integrated structure composed of a capillary tubing of a polymeric material filled with the vaporizable substance and a metal wire with plastic deformability and a sufficiently large cross section and integrated side-by-side with the capillary tubing to retain the latter in the compulsorily deformed disposition. The inventive integrated bodies are suitable for mass production in a relatively simple process.

Abstract: In an electromagnetically driven diaphragm shutter having the shutter blade serving at the same time as the diaphragm, uses a quasi-TTL actual aperture light measuring system for measuring the incident light by providing the light measuring element at the auxiliary opening (auxiliary aperture) whose opening amount varies in proportion to that of the principal opening. The auxiliary opening is variable with the opening of the shutter blades. Structure is provided for generating a signal representative of the finished state of an exposure which is adapted to detect the output variation of the light measuring element at the auxiliary aperture when the shutter is closed and then to supply the signal to enable subsequent action such as start of motorized film winding.

Abstract: A compression type A/D converter for producing an output in the form of a digital value almost equal to the square root of the input analog value. For this purpose, the A/D converter is constructed as a dual-slope A/D converter in which the current signal for inverse integration increases as a function of a polynominal of order n (n=1) of the inverse integration period.

Abstract: A video signal reproducing apparatus which reproduces a video signal from many evenly spaced recording tracks formed on a recording medium, comprises:a first rotating head;a second rotating head which has a larger width than the first rotating head and which traces the recording tracks alternately with the first rotating head;detecting apparatus for detecting the positional errors of the first and second rotating heads relative to one of the recording tracks by using the outputs of these heads;adjusting apparatus for adjusting, on the basis of the difference in head width between the first and second rotating heads, the output of the detecting apparatus related to the second rotating head;recording medium moving apparatus for moving the recording medium in a direction which intersects the recording tracks; andcontrol apparatus for controlling the moving apparatus on the basis of the output of the detecting means adjusted by the adjusting apparatus.

Abstract: New compounds effective as antibacterial agent are disclosed. These new compounds include 8-[4-(4-aminobenzyl)-1-piperazinyl]-9-fluoro-6,7-dihydro-5-methyl-1-oxo-1H ,5H-benzo[ij]quinolizine-2-carboxylic acid, hydrates and acid addition salts thereof, and possess superior activities against gram-negative and gram-positive of aerobicbacteria.

Abstract: In methods of manufacturing olefines by thermally cracking hydrocarbons, there is disclosed a thermal cracking method for producing olefines from hydrocarbons, characterized in that hydrocarbon in burnt with oxygen in the presence of steam to generate a high-temperature gas containing steam of 1500.degree.-3000.degree. C., methane and hydrogen are supplied into the high-temperature gas containing said steam, with the molar ratio of methane to hydrogen in said high temperature gas being 0.05 or more, then hydrocarbon to be cracked is supplied into said high-temperature gas containing said methane, hydrogen and steam, so that the hydrocarbon is subjected to thermal cracking by maintaining the partial pressure of hydrogen at more than at least 0.1 bar at the outlet of a reactor, under conditions of reaction temperature, 800.degree.-1200.degree. C. and residence time in the reactor 5-300 milli second, and then the reaction product is cooled in a rapid manner.