Abstract: Provided are a method of full body cutting a brittle material without via the bend-breaking step, an apparatus of cutting a brittle material, a method of manufacturing a brittle material, and a cut brittle material. A method of cutting a brittle material, the method comprising: a conveyance cutting step of converging and irradiating an infrared ray to the brittle material linearly along a line using an infrared line heater while moving the infrared line heater relative to the brittle material in a direction along the line, thereby cutting the brittle material along the line.

Abstract: Provided are a method of full body cutting a brittle material without via the bend-breaking step, an apparatus of cutting a brittle material, a method of manufacturing a brittle material, and a cut brittle material. A method of cutting a brittle material, the method comprising: a conveyance cutting step of converging and irradiating an infrared ray to the brittle material linearly along a line using an infrared line heater while moving the infrared line heater relative to the brittle material in a direction along the line, thereby cutting the brittle material along the line.

Abstract: A pulverized coal combustion burner has a circumferential distribution of pulverized coal density at an outlet portion of a pulverized coal nozzle made uniform, and a complete NO.sub.x decrease is attained. An oil gun (01) for stabilizing combustion is provided at a center portion. An annular sectional oil primary air flow path (02) surrounds the oil gun (01), and an annular sectional pulverized coal and primary air mixture flow path (14) surrounds the oil primary air flow path (02). Around the mixture flow path (14) is an annular sectional secondary air flow path (15), and an annular sectional tertiary air flow path (16) surrounds the secondary air flow path (15). A pulverized coal supply pipe is connected in the tangential direction to the mixture flow path (14). Further, an entering angle control (28) of the mixture is provided within the pulverized coal supply pipe (11). Within the mixture flow path (14), a pulverized coal density dividing cylinder (25) is provided.

Abstract: A resinous composition for fragrant substances is provided which comprises an ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer containing from about 5% to about 35% of vinyl acetate monomer, by weight, and a diffusing agent selected from the group consisting of benzyl benzoate, benzyl salicylate, and di-(lower alkyl)phthalates, and mixtures thereof. The diffusing agent is absorbed in the copolymer. When fragrant substances are enclosed in a container made from the resinous composition of the present invention or the composition of the present invention is impregnated with such fragrant substances, a well-balanced, mild fragrance, inherent to the fragrant substance employed, is uniformly released over a long period of time.