Abstract: The invention relates generally to rotary hydraulic machines of the kind comprising, in a casing, a rotatably-mounted shaft and a plurality of cylinder-piston units mounted radially in star around the shaft and co-operating with eccentric means so arranged as to impart a relative movement to each of said units in turn, conjointly with the rotation of the shaft, and also with fluid-circulation means so arranged that each of the cylinder-piston units are supplied with fluid in turn. The eccentric means may comprise an eccentric bearing surface provided on said shaft and co-operating with the cylinder-piston units supplied with fluid through conduits formed in the shaft, under the control of a distribution ring engaged on the eccentric surface. The cylinders of the units are oscillatably mounted, and controlled retention means prevent any driving action on the distribution ring by the eccentric surface.

Abstract: Device for winding a cable on a drum in such manner as to form turns each comprising a circular portion extending over the major part of its circumference and connected to an adjacent turn by a short oblique portion, wherein the cable in the course of winding is guided by a cable guide member, means being provided to displace this member step-by-step along the drum in rotation, in such manner as to keep it stationary during the major part of each revolution of the drum and to displace it by one step over a distance equal to the diameter of the cable while the drum is completing its revolution.

Abstract: In a typical pulp mill bleaching process, a pulp slurry is subjected to one or more chlorination treatments, each being followed by a caustic extraction stage. To decrease the volume of effluents, water re-use is practiced with a portion of the first caustic extraction stage filtrate being reused for direct countercurrent washing to increase the concentration of the filtrate and the balance thereof being removed as a concentrated caustic extraction effluent. According to the novel feature, the caustic extraction effluent removed, having a pH of about 9 to 12, is combined with an acidic solution having a pH of less than about 1.5 to form a combined effluent having a volume of less than about 2500 gallons per air dried ton of bleached pulp and a pH below about 2.8, whereby a precipitate is formed which removes organic color bodies from the combined effluent. Part or all of the acidic solution is preferably a concentrated chlorination effluent obtained by recycle of the chlorination stage washer filtrate.

Abstract: The invention concerns a digital coder subject to a compression law having multiple linear segments with slopes decreasing in geometrical progression having a ratio of 1/2, in which a chain of threshold detectors in a linear progression is used a first time to determine the number of the segment, then a second time to determine the position of the level on the segment.