Abstract: The sealing element comprises an annular active portion of elastomer material adapted to be compressed radially between the outer surface of a male end and the wall of a cylindrical recess in a socket in which the male end extends and means for anchoring the sealing element in the socket, the active portion comprising an outer annular face, an inner annular face and an end face having, when the sealing element is at rest, a minimum inside diameter exceeding the outside diameter of the male end and a maximum outside diameter exceeding said minimum inside diameter by an amount exceeding the radial clearance between the recess and the male end. The end face is connected to each one of the annular faces of the active portion by a circular edge, and, when the sealing element is in the free state, in axial section, the rise or dip of the arc generating the end face is at the most equal to 1/5th of the length of the associated chord.

Abstract: The machine comprises a housing, a casting mould rotatably mounted in the housing and a device for axially placing and maintaining a core against the end of the mould. The device comprises an element for urging the core against the mould, a releasable mechanism for fixing the core to the element and means for shifting the element between a position in which it urges the core against the mould and a withdrawn position. According to the invention, the mechanism is movable on the housing between a position in which it fixes the core to the element when the latter applies the core against the mould and a withdrawn position, the arrangement being such that the mechanism can follow, between its withdrawn position and its other position, the movement of the means for shifting the element. A return element is provided for returning the mechanism to its withdrawn position.

Abstract: The device comprises cooling water spraying systems extending throughout the length of the mould for cooling the latter. At least one additional local cooling water spraying element is slidably mounted on a guide bar through a slide. The bar is parallel to the mould and the local spraying element is adjustable in position on the bar for each casting for further cooling a selected part of the mould.

Abstract: In a spraying container structure, before the sealing and blowing operations there is mounted in the valve body comprising a housing and a cover which is provided with a temporary sleeve, a closure member which is adapted to cooperate with a sealing element to close the valve. The closure member is maintained in the valve open position in the valve body during the production of the container.

Abstract: Machine for injecting and blowing a plastics material into hollow bodies. It comprises a rotary polygonal-sided turret which carries on each side a set of support members for the plastics material which are made to pass step-by-step to an injection station for injection of a blank and a blowing station for blowing the material into a hollow body in passing through intermediate stations including a transfer station. A rotatable oven structure having sockets rotatable step-by-step about an axis of the oven structure is located adjacent the transfer station for transferring the sets from the turret to the oven structure and, after a complete rotation about the oven structure axis, transferring the sets from the oven structure to the turret. Each turret side and each socket of the oven structure receives a respective one of the sets which is fixed to the turret or oven structure in a removable manner to allow the mentioned transfer.

Abstract: The valve is of the type having a body and a butterfly valve closure member. One of these parts has an annular sealing element which is retained in a cavity with which it defines an annular chamber. The other part has an annular surface for contacting the sealing element when the valve is closed. A conduit puts the chamber in communication with the upstream side of the closure member when the latter is in its valve closing position. According to the invention, an exhaust conduit is provided for putting the chamber in communication with the downstream side of the closure member when, and only when, the closure member is not in its valve closing position.

Abstract: This process for manufacturing spheroidal graphite cast iron pipes by centrifugal casting has the feature that the rate of the cooling of the liquid iron just centrifugally cast in a tubular layer is increased from a zone of the layer spaced away from the mould to the free inner surface of this tubular layer while the cooling of the liquid iron in the vicinity of the surface of the mould is slowed down.

Abstract: This installation has an extracting carriage provided with an extracting tongs. The extracting carriage is provided with means for driving the extracting tongs in rotation at the same speed as the mould. Consequently, in the extraction of large diameter cast iron pipes not intended to be annealed there is no risk of the pipes becoming oval.

Abstract: The control device comprises an electric motor whose rotor drives a rotary spindle which shifts the closure member of a valve. Means are provided for detecting the stoppage of the rotation of the spindle. Switching means for opening the supply circuit of the motor are responsive to the detecting means so as to stop the supply when the spindle stops rotating.

Abstract: The composite pipe union comprises a body of glass fibres embedded in a thermosetting plastics material. The body has at least two tubular end portions having a generally cylindrical shape. A metal case formed of two assembled half-shells surrounds the body and the latter adheres to the case throughout the provision of a film of a material ensuring said adhesion and interposed between the body and the case.

Abstract: A synchronous motor having a variable reluctance comprising a stator provided with poles each bearing an inductive winding and comprising radial teeth on their polar face. The synchronous motor further comprises a rotor which is coaxially disposed with respect to the stator and which is externally provided with radial teeth.The windings, which are all identical and which are supplied with a threephase electric current, are connected in such a way that the rotating magnetic fields produced by the windings are closed through adjacent poles. In a motor having twelve poles, the windings (E) provided on the diametrically opposed poles are placed in series with a diode (D) to form a group (G) of elements. Each diode (D) is such that two diodes (D) connected respectively to two windings (E) provided on two adjacent poles permit the passage of oppositely directed electric currents.

Abstract: A device is disclosed for braking the rod of an electric motor driven valve when the electric motor is put out of action and releasing the rod when the motor is brought into action. It includes a magnetic core integral with the stator of the motor and a magnetic armature capable of being attracted by the core to release the rod when the motor is supplied with current. Spring means automatically returns the device to its rod braking position when the supply of current to the motor is cut off.

Abstract: Casing voussoir of the type comprising a web in the general shape of a sector of a cylindrical ring and at least two juxtaposition walls substantially perpendicular to said web and parallel to each other, wherein the voussoir has guide means for the juxtaposition of said walls between two neighboring voussoirs of the casing, said guide means being constituted by at least two elements of conjugate shape, one being a hollow in one of the walls and the other being a projection on the other wall, said elements having a clearance therebetween when the two voussoirs are juxtaposed along said walls.

Abstract: The motor has a first element carrying toothed studs and windings mounted on the studs and a second element constituted by a mass of magnetic material on which second element there are formed teeth capable of effecting a relative movement with respect to the teeth of the first element, the number of teeth of the first element being different from the number of teeth of the second element so that said teeth are capable of modifying the reluctance of the magnetic circuits that they constitute respectively with said studs, in order to produce a relative movement of the two elements when the windings are supplied with a poly-phase current. The number of teeth of the two elements satisfies the following relation:.vertline.Z.sub.I - Z.sub.II .vertline. = skin which:Z.sub.I = number of teeth of the first element including fictive teeth which may be assumed to be located between the studs;Z.sub.

Abstract: The socket of one of the pipe elements has on at least a part of its outer end a radial abutment defining an abutment face facing inwardly of the socket. A device for locking the joint against forces tending to separate the pipe elements comprises at least one locking member having the general shape of a sector of a cylindrical ring and defining an inner wall which is secured to the smooth end portion of the other pipe element. At least one projecting portion is provided on the locking member and bears axially against the abutment face.

Abstract: This valve has a body, in which a cartridge is slidably mounted under the action of a flow rate regulation control member, the inlets for hot water and cold water radially disposed in the lateral wall of the cartridge. According to the invention, this valve comprises in the mixing chamber, defined by the cartridge, two deflectors for converting the radial inlet flows of hot and cold water into axial flows directed towards one another.

Abstract: A coupling in which a male end of a pipe element is inserted in the socket of a second pipe element and the axes of the pipe elements may have an angular deviation therebetween. An abutment projection on the male end is axially supported by an inner shoulder on the socket through a ring, bearing against the projection on the side of the latter adjacent the shoulder, and a mass of hardenable material disposed around the projection and the ring between the sealing element of the coupling and the shoulder.In the case where the shoulder of the socket defines a large radial clearance between itself and the male end, an intermediate tensile locking means is interposed, in the axial direction, between the hardenable material and the shoulder and, in the radial direction, between the male end and the socket, the outside diameter of this means having, with respect to the inside diameter of the socket, axially inwardly of the shoulder, sufficient clearance to allow the angular deviations of the pipe elements.

Abstract: A control device for a valve adjusting rod comprising an electric motor having a variable reluctance, the stator of which is attached to the frame of the valve and the rotor of which is connected for rotation with the adjusting rod - coaxially with respect to the latter.The rotor and the adjusting rod are co-rotated by means of a key arrangement which provides for an angular play between the rotor and the rod equal to the angular pitch P of the denticulations of the rotor.Repetition thereof with a nominal couple of the motor makes it possible to increase the locking or unlocking couple of the valve.

Abstract: A mould cavity for casting the part is supplied with liquid metal by a main runner formed in the mould and connected to the upper end of a supply pipe whose sectional size is in the neighborhood of the sectional size of the main runner and which extends into a fluidtight vessel containing the liquid metal. The metal is supplied to the mould cavity by the action of a gas pressure on the free surface of the metal in the vessel.According to the invention, the mould cavity is supplied with the metal from the main runner through a secondary runner whose sectional size is much less than the sectional size of the main runner, and the gas pressure is maintained until the secondary runner has solidified whereafter the gas pressure is returned to atmospheric pressure, whereby the liquid metal in the main runner and supply pipe returns to the vessel.

Abstract: The casing is stationary and has at least one end a transverse end wall which defines an opening affording access to the end of the casting mould. A screen axially projects from the transverse end wall and extends at least partly around the opening for the purpose of screening the machine operators off from any splashes of molten metal which might be thrown out of the mould due to a faulty socket core.