Abstract: An automatic freight stacking system for loading previously determined freight articles of various configurations (shapes, size, material, etc.) to be shipped, using a loading scheduler for determining a loading schedule on the basis of the existing various configurations of the freight articles, marshalling equipment for receiving the freight articles in a given order and delivering them in a predetermined order which is determined by the scheduler, a feeding conveyor for carrying the delivered freight articles and transporting means to the places of the respective loading means allocated by the loading scheduler, and the loading means for loading the carried freight articles on the transporting means in accordance with the scheduled operation sequence.

Abstract: A piling planning method for cargoes in which an operator can designate a piling position of each of the various cargoes, and by displaying the piling result graphically on a graphic terminal, a piling patern is determined so that vacant space is reduced, and by using a final piling pattern, a piling position and a piling order of each cargo, and a piling operation sequence of the palletizing robot are determined. A piling system is provided in which cargoes supplied thereto are piled on a pallet in accordance with piling planning data prepared by a piling planning device which executes the above piling planning method.

Abstract: The invention relates to a metal wire closely covered with a layer 5 to 100 micron thick of a polyethylene iso-terephthalate copolymer containing from 5 to 30 mol % of isophthalic acid component and having an intrinsic viscosity of from 0.7 to 1.0.

Abstract: A polyester polymer powdered paint comprising a thermoplastic polyethylene iso-terephthalate copolymer containing from 8 to 20 mol % of isophthalic acid component and having an intrinsic viscosity of from 0.7 to 1.0.

Abstract: A coated hollow metal tube being processable by bending, pressing or punching without the cracking or peeling of the coating; said tube comprising a hollow metal tube and a coating, in tight adhesion thereto, of a thermoplastic crystalline copolyester having a second order transition point of at least 50.degree. C and a degree of crystallization of not more than 15%. A coated hollow metal tube processed by bending, pressing or punching is produced by coating the hollow metal tube with the thermoplastic crystalline copolyester, cooling the coating, and then subjecting the coated hollow metal tube to bending, pressing or punching. The product has utility in furniture, conduits for municipal gas and water supplying facilities, automobile parts, and other indoor or outdoor articles and building materials.

Abstract: Pulp particles consisting essentially of 50 to 90% by weight of mica particles and 50 to 10% by weight of polyamide-imide, said polyamide-imide forming a continuous phase in which said mica particles are dispersed discontinuously.A paper-like sheet comprising an integrated intimate mixture of 20 to 95% by weight of the pulp particles and 80 to 5% by weight of staple fibers of a thermally stable polymer.

Abstract: A piling planning method for cargoes in which an operator can designate a piling position of each of the various cargoes, and by displaying the piling result graphically on a graphic terminal, a piling patern is determined so that vacant space is reduced, and by using a final piling pattern, a piling position and a piling order of each cargo, and a piling operation sequence of the palletizing robot are determined. A piling system is provided in which cargoes supplied thereto are piled on a pallet in accordance with piling planning data prepared by a piling planning device which executes the above piling planning method.