Abstract: Method for manufacturing glazed cement products of a foam light-weight aggregate, reinforcing steel under pretension or a stress-absorbing layer around the reinforcing steel. An action of generating crack, caused by a difference of coefficient of thermal expansion between the reinforcing steel and a portion of cement material while burning and cooling are carried out, is absorbed by the foam light-weight aggregate, the stress-absorbing layer or pretension given to the reinforcing steel. A reaction of unreacted cement component is promoted by the hydration to harden for recovering mechanical strength.

Abstract: A trapless water flush toilet bowl fixture is disclosed. This fixture has: a water closet cesspool sealing member pivotally supported to shut off a waster water discharge port by impinging from underside upon this port; a sinker imparting a sufficient impingement force applied on a lower surface of the discharge port to the water closet cesspool sealing member to maintain a sealing state while resisting a load created when utilizing the same fixture; and a separating force imparting member manipulated by a manpower which member is capable of separating the sealing member from the discharge port by overcoming the impingement force.

Abstract: There are provided an FRP molded article and a method for production thereof, which has the properties of uniformly reflecting and shielding electromagnetic waves. The molded article comprises a compression-molded laminated structure composed essentially of an electroconductive nonwoven fabric-resin composite surface layer (3), a woven fabric-resin composite intermediate layer (2) and a fiber material reinforced resin substrate layer (1), wherein the nonwoven fabric composite layer substantially contains no bubbles. The molded article can be produced by placing, on a mold, an electroconductive nonwoven fabric substantially containing no liquid resin material, a woven fabric or a prepreg thereof, and a mixture of a reinforcing fiber material and a liquid crosslink-curable resin composition; subjecting the molding materials to depressurization treatment in the mold; and then subjecting the molding materials to compression molding.

Abstract: An apparatus for drain-casting a slip comprises a mold including at least two divisible mating mold portions to form a mold cavity, a slip tank, a pump, air compressors, suction pumps, valves and tubings to connect them accordingly, supporting means of the mold portions, and a moving stand to receive the molded article thereon. The mold portion includes an air-tight vessel and a filter member inside the vessel, the filter member contains a water-drainage means, and the drainage means is communicated with the outside of the vessel. One of the mold portions has a slip supply duct and one other mold portion has an overflow duct, which ducts are communicated with the outsides of the vessels.

Abstract: A novel method for producing a high-strength inorganic cement article is provided. The method comprises kneading under high shearing force a cement mixture containing as essential components hydraulic cement, a hydrophilic organic binder and water, molding the kneaded mixture into an article having a water-to-solid weight ratio of not more than about 0.2, preliminarily hydrating the molded article, firing the preliminarily hydrated article at about 300.degree. to about 1000.degree. C., and then rehydrating the fired article. The resulting cement article has bending strength of not lower than about 200 kgf/sq.cm without fibrous reinforcing materials and has that of not lower than about 350 kgf/sq.cm when reinforced with heat-resistant fiber materials. The cement article can be advantageously glazed in the above mentioned method by applying a glazing agent to a desired surface of the preliminarily hydrated article and then firing the article.

Abstract: The invention relates to an unit tile pack manufacturing apparatus. The apparatus comprises a tile pack conveying passage (8) for conveying a plurality of pallets (9), a combination tile pack forming unit (100), a joint alignment correcting unit (15), an adhesive dropping unit (30), and a connecting sheet supplying and pressing unit (45). These units (100, 15, 30 and 45) are disposed along the tile pack conveying passage (8). In the combination tile pack forming unit (100) a plurality of tiles of different tones of the same color or a plurality of tiles of different color are arranged side by side in lines and rows. The adhesive dropping unit (30) includes adhesive dropping nozzles (35) disposed at a predetermined interval from the tiles and intermittently dropping an adhesive on the upper surface of each of the tiles at positions close to the side adjacent to corresponding positions of the adjacent tiles.

Abstract: Improved resistance to abrasion, high transparency and a high quality appearance, are obtained by incorporating a filler of an amorphous hydrated silicate having an average particle size of 1 .mu.m or less and by a difference of the refractive index between the filler and a resin matrix in a range of 0.00 to 0.05, preferably 0.01 to 0.03.

Abstract: A novel decorative panel comprises specified rigid decorative sheets replaceably installed on a structural support such as frame works, substrate boards or walls. Such decorative sheets can be readily installed or replaced by the use of removable fixing means such as screws. The decorative sheet is characterized by cutouts at the corners thereof and depressions adjacent to the cutouts. When four decorative sheets are assembled together, the assembled corners of the sheets form a cut-out hole where a fixing means is inserted and a depression around the hole where the head of the fixing means is recessed. By utilizing the heads of fixing means, a variety of decorative accessories or articles can be further set on the decorative panel by means of pins, hooks, rods or magnet pieces.

Abstract: A roller tunnel kiln includes a lower kiln body half composed integrally of a kiln bottom and a pair of transversely spaced lower kiln side wall halves which are made of refractory brick, a pair of endless chains disposed respectively on transversely opposite sides of the lower kiln body half outside thereof, the endless chains being movable forward along the lower kiln side wall halves at a height substantially equal to upper ends of the lower kiln side wall halves and movable backward along the lower kiln side wall halves at a height lower than the kiln bottom, a drive device for driving the endless chains in synchronism with each other, couplings mounted at regular intervals on link plates or link pins of each of the endless chains, feed members having opposite ends gripped by respective couplings and movable in a longitudinal direction of the lower kiln body half directly thereabove in response to the endless chains being synchronously driven, the feed members being made of a heat-resistant material and h

Abstract: There is provided an FRP molded article having the properties of uniformly reflecting and shielding electromagnetic waves in the range of VHF to EHF. The molded article comprises a compression-molded laminated structure composed of an electroconductive nonwoven fabric-resin composite surface layer, a woven fabric-resin composite intermediate layer, and a fiber material reinforced resin substrate layer. The molded article can be produced by placing, on a mold, an electroconductive nonwoven fabric or a prepreg thereof, a woven fabric or a prepreg thereof, and then a mixture of a reinforcing fiber material and a liquid crosslink-curable resin composition thereon, and subjecting the laminated materials to compression molding. The molded articles can be advantageously used, for example, as reflecting dish antennas as well as shielding sheets or boards for electromagnetic waves.

Abstract: A novel prefabricated tile panel consisting of a rectangular or square substrate board having side-long rectangular convex and concave portions arranged regularly by turns around the sides of the rectangular or square shape and a multiplicity of tiles arranged regularly and bonded onto the substrate board is provided. The concave portion and convex portion are of specified dimensions, respectively. The convex portions are protruded and the concave portions are set back from the tiles arranged and bonded in a rectangular or square shape. Thus, the prefabricated tile panels can be assembled without trouble by inserting the convex portions of one panel in the concave portions of other panel or panels for installation of the tile panels.

Abstract: An apparatus for drain-casting a slip comprises a mold including at least two divisible mating mold portions to form a mold cavity, a slip tank, a pump, air compressors, suction pumps, valves and tubings to connect them accordingly, supporting means of the mold portions, and a moving stand to receive the molded article thereon. The mold portion includes an air-tight vessel and a filter member inside the vessel, the filter member contains a water-drainage means, and the drainage means is communicated with the outside of the vessel. One of the mold portions has a slip supply duct and one other mold portion has an overflow duct, which ducts are communicated with the outsides of the vessels.