Abstract: A method of fabricating a porous glass rod having a reaction vessel including an elevational passage from an exhaust port of the vessel side and the top of the vessel over the interior and a burner mounted at the end in the vessel for forming glass fine particles, and a target elevationally movable and rotatably inserted from the passage into the vessel which has injecting to accumulate glass fine particles produced through the burner to form the porous glass rod at the lower end of the target rotated at a predetermined position in the reactor, and drawing the target in response to the growing velocity of the porous glass rod, wherein downward gas stream is produced along the outer periphery of the conduit in the vessel. The method is conducted by an apparatus for fabricating the glass rod. The method and apparatus can stabilize the fluidity in a reaction vessel to stabilize the outer diameter and the refractive index distribution of the glass rod in the longitudinal direction.

Abstract: A simplified method of and apparatus for mounting an electronic part such as a transistor on a circuit board. Two or more selected ones of terminals of an electronic part are angularly bent in prior, and when the electronic part is to be mounted on a circuit board, the terminals are forcibly inserted into through-holes of the circuit board to an extent wherein bent portions of the terminals are projected below the circuit board. As a result, if a weak force is applied to pull the part off, the bent portions of the terminals will frictionally engage with edges of the through-holes to prevent the part from being removed from the board.

Abstract: The invention provides catalysts for the catalytic cracking of heavy oil, comprising an iron-containing crystalline aluminosilicate zeolite. This crystalline aluminosilicate zeolite is obtained by treating a raw crystalline aluminosilicate zeolite material with an acidic solution containing iron ions, or alternatively, by applying a steam treatment and, thereafter, treating with an acidic solution containing iron ions. The use of the catalyst provides a gasoline fraction having a high octane value and an intermediate fraction from heavy oil in high yield.

Abstract: A small table-top hand operated weaving apparatus on is disclosed upon which various patterned fabrics can be woven by extremely simplified operations thereof. In the disclosed apparatus, each heald member is mounted for movement along an inclined path with let-off and take-up rollers located on the same side relative to the path of the healds so that the warp yarns turn their direction at an angle, such as a right angle, at the healds. The heald members are automatically positioned selectively to either of the two end positions of their paths in accordance with a heald selection program by a manual reciprocating movement of a heald selection carriage movable transversely along the apparatus in order to form a desired shed with the warp yarns.