Abstract: A transmission joint for angularly connecting a first and a second member, and having a coupling member interposed functionally between the first and second member and extending about an axis; the coupling member has: a first portion connectable angularly to the first member, a second portion connectable angularly to the second member and located radially outwards of the first portion, and an intermediate portion interposed radially between the first and second portion and elongated in a direction crosswise to the axis; the intermediate portion of the coupling member has, from the first portion to the second portion, a first portion decreasing in thickness crosswise to the direction, and a second portion of constant thickness.

Abstract: A production line for hot steel strips, being fed from two casting lines (a, b) for thin slabs of thickness <100 mm, only one of which (a) is aligned with a finishing rolling mill (g), comprises also two pairs of rotatable heating furnaces with mandrel (A1, A2, B1, B2), each respectively on either line, with an intermediate bypass section (d) between the furnaces of the first pair (A1, A2) to allow the endless rolling in a finishing rolling mill (g) locate downstream. The furnaces (B1, B2) of the second pair of furnaces on the line (b) can be transferred along a path (k) from said line to the rolling line and vice versa for producing single strips. Furthermore an induction furnace (f) is provided upstream of the finishing rolling mill (g). Also the corresponding production process is described.

Abstract: Valve for the control of large-section flows with high operating frequency, and in particular for compressors or the like, comprising a flow aperture (102; 106) and a closure device (3; 8), said flow aperture comprising one or more orifices (102; 106) formed on a fixed body (2; 6) cooperating with said closure device (3; 8) and introduced into the flow channel (1), said closure device (3; 8) rotating with respect to an axis perpendicular to the plane on which said fixed body (2; 6) lies, and being equipped with driving means (5); said closure device (3; 8) is equipped with at least a hollow (123; 138) on the surface facing said fixed body (2; 6) which houses an insert (113; 118), said insert being formed so as to be substantially complementary with said orifice (102; 106) of said fixed body (2; 6).

Abstract: Valve for the control of large-section flows with high operating frequency, and in particular for compressors or the like, comprising a flow aperture (102; 106) and a closure device (3; 8), said flow aperture comprising one or more orifices (102; 106) formed on a fixed body (2; 6) cooperating with said closure device (3; 8) and introduced into the flow channel (1), said closure device (3; 8) rotating with respect to an axis perpendicular to the plane on which said fixed body (2; 6) lies, and being equipped with driving means (5); said closure device (3; 8) is equipped with at least a hollow (123; 138) on the surface facing said fixed body (2; 6) which houses an insert (113; 118), said insert being formed so as to be substantially complementary with said orifice (102; 106) of said fixed body (2; 6).

Abstract: Valve, preferably for compressors, comprising a seat (2; 4) in which there are formed one or more flow apertures (102; 104), positioned with their axes parallel to that of the said seat (2; 4), and a valve face member movable in a direction parallel to the axis of the said seat, comprising one or more valve face elements (1; 3) capable of interacting with the said apertures (102, 104) formed in the said seat (2; 4); each valve face element (1; 3) has, on the surface facing the said aperture (102; 104), a concave profile (111; 113) which is symmetrical with respect to the axis of the corresponding aperture.

Abstract: An improved mould for the continuous casting of steel slabs having thickness in the range from 50-120 mm, particularly suitable to be rolled to thin strips, presents two large faces (F), each one having in horizontal cross section a concave or rectilinear central zone symmetrical with respect to each other, connected at both sides to the narrow faces (f) through concave-convex wide bends with respect to the internal part of the mould, without other lengths being parallel to opposite portions of the other face (F), besides to a possible central rectilinear length. the radiuses of the concave portion (r1) and of the convex portion (r2) are in a mutual ratio of a range from 0.6 to 1.

Abstract: A dip pipe (1) which feeds by gravity with a molten metal or alloy (2) from a ladle (3) a slab (4) being formed in a thin mold (5) with cooling walls comprises a length of vertical pipe (6) communicating with the upper ladle (3) and downwards ending into a diffuser (8) of flattened shape having two discharge holes (9, 9'). According to the invention the diffuser (8) has a central partition baffle (14) designed to define two channels (16, 16') for the flow and corresponding to said two discharge holes (9, 9'), and the cross-section area (10) of the flow at the highest level of the diffuser is less than the cross-section area (11) of the pipe (6). Furthermore the inner side walls (12, 12') of the diffuser, which are directed to the narrow sides of the thin mold, form each an angle .alpha..ltoreq.7.5.degree. with the vertical axis (13) while departing therefrom in the downward direction, the flow partition baffle (14) narrowing in its lower portion to form two angles .beta..ltoreq.7.5.degree.

Abstract: Apparatus for the continuous casting of steel slabs, especially low thickness slabs at high speed, comprising a mold (1) fed by the submerged nozzle (2) and connected to an oscillator (3) driven by a hydraulic servocontrol, wherein the following geometrical relation is valid concerning both the mold and the submerged nozzle shapes and their mutual arrangement:0.9.ltoreq.(A1/S1)/(A2/S2).ltoreq.1.1and preferably A1/S1=A2/S2, wherein, on the mold horizontal section at the meniscus level, A1 is the area enclosed between the submerged nozzle and larger sides of the mold, and A2 is the residual area less the nozzle area, between submerged nozzle and smaller sides, S1 and S2 being the total sums of the mold peripheral lengths corresponding to each of said areas. Furthermore, at least in the mold horizontal section at the meniscus level, the distance between submerged nozzle and copper plates forming the mold walls is kept constant.