Abstract: This specification discloses an original urging device for enabling an original to be well placed and supported on the original supporting carriage of a copying machine, a printing machine or the like. The supporting member for the original urging plate of the device has one end thereof pivotally supported. A point for taking the resilient force of a resilient member is provided at a point on the supporting member. During replacement of the original, the original urging plate may be made stationary within a predetermined range of angles facilitating the handling of the urging plate, in accordance with the rotated position of the supporting member and by the relationship between the moment produced by the gravity force acting to the supporting member and urging plate and the moment produced by the resilient force of the resilient member.

Abstract: A heavy duty pneumatic radial tire having tread patterns divided into a central zone and peripheral zones by two main continuous zigzag grooves spaced apart a distance 25-38% of the overall width of the tread and having a main groove oblique or zigzag angle of 55-78.degree. relative to a radial plane of the tire. Each of the peripheral zones is divided into the form of arrow feathers by traverse grooves having walls tilted through at least 20% of the depth of the traverse groove at an angle within 20-40.degree. to a center line of the traverse groove. The ratio of total areas of the central zone to those of one of the peripheral zones is 1:1.0 to 1:1.5, and the ratio of the total areas of inner and outer peripheral blocks in the peripheral zones divided by a continuous zigzag groove substantially parallel with the main grooves is 1:1.5 to 1:2.

Abstract: A magnetic recording member comprising a non-magnetic support having thereon a magnetic layer of a ferromagnetic powder dispersed in a binder, wherein the magnetic layer contains an organic silicone compound represented by the formula (I): ##STR1## wherein R and R', which may be the same or different, each is a saturated or unsaturated hydrocarbon group containing 7 to 21 carbon atoms, and n is an integer of 0 to 50.

Abstract: A copying apparatus comprises an original supporting table having a transparent plate for supporting thereon an image original to be copied, scanning mirror means having a first and a second movable mirror for scanning the image original on the original supporting table without varying the length of the light path thereof to project the image original, a plurality of stationary mirror means stationary during copying operation, lens means disposed in a first light path formed by the mirror means for focusing the image of the original onto a photosensitive medium, and means for newly forming a second light path at a position out of the way of the scanning mirror means by displacing the lens means or by varying the angle of reflection of one of the stationary mirror means.

Abstract: This invention relates to a magnetic recording substance comprising a support and a magnetic layer containing a ferromagnetic metal powder of liquid phase reduction type in a binder, the ferromagnetic metal powder being obtained by mixing an aqueous slurry containing the ferromagnetic metal powder with an organic solvent capable of forming a minimum boiling azeotropic mixture with water and subjecting the mixture to distillation to remove the water.

Abstract: A magnetic recording medium comprising a support having thereon a magnetizable recording layer containing a ferromagnetic powder dispersed in a binder, said magnetizable recording layer containing a silane coupling agent.

Abstract: Iodinated compounds useful for photoscanning the adrenal glands.

Abstract: A magnetic recording material comprising a non-magnetic flexible support having thereon a magnetic recording layer comprising a ferromagnetic powder dispersed in a binder, the surface of the non-magnetic flexible support having the magnetic recording layer thereon satisfying an S-factor expressed by the following relationship (I-1) ##EQU1## wherein S.sub.1 is the surface roughness in .mu.m of the surface of the non-magnetic flexible support having the magnetic recording layer thereon and d is the thickness in .mu.m of the magnetic recording layer, with the thickness (d) of the magnetic recording layer being about 5 .mu.m or less, and the back surface of the non-magnetic flexible support opposite that having the magnetic recording layer thereon satisfying an S-factor expressed by the following relationship (I-2) ##EQU2## wherein S.sub.2 is the surface roughness in .mu.m of the back surface of the non-magnetic support opposite that having the magnetic recording layer thereon and d is as described above.

Abstract: A process for producing a ferromagnetic metal powder comprising treating a ferromagnetic metal powder produced by a solution reduction process with an aqueous solution containing at least one anionic surface active agent.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for driving an electrochromic display device in which an electric current is applied only to one of display elements for which non-coincidence exists between an initially applied display information signal and a subsequently applied display information signal. In one preferred embodiment, a driver circuit comprises a latch circuit for storing a display information signal, a non-coincidence detection circuit for detecting non-coincidence between a subsequently applied display information signal and an initially applied display information signal stored in the latch circuit, and a signal generating circuit responsive to a non-coincidence signal from the detection circuit for generating an output signal for a display element for which non-coincidence is detected.

Abstract: A device for successive reproduction of original image information to be used in a recording apparatus of a type, wherein the device includes a reciprocating table for carrying an original. The device is generally constructed with a movable table which reciprocates over the original carrying table, and on which information to be changed and selected is placed. A mechanism sequentially and automatically shifts the movable table by a driving force of the reciprocating motion of the original carrying table and thereby selectively changes the information; the shifting and changing mechanism is constructed with a plurality of mutually engaged links, wherein one of the plurality of links is displaced by the reciprocating motion of the original carrying table so as to move the movable table, and, by making variable the engaging length of at least one of the mutually engaged links, the moving distance of the movable table is made variable.

Abstract: A magnetic recording material comprising a substrate having a magnetic recording layer thereon which comprises a finely divided ferromagnetic material dispersed in a binder comprising a polyurethane resin, a modified alkyd resin and a polyisocyanate compound.

Abstract: A testing machine for a tire on an imitation road in which a tire to be tested is urged against a crawler with the aid of a cantilever arm connected through a crosshead to a lifting and lowering disc engaged with screw threaded rods rotatably mounted in a machine frame. The crawler is composed of an endless chain and a road surface forming rods detachably mounted on the endless chain and replaceable by new rods made of different kind of material. In the crosshead are incorporated slip and camber angle setting mechanisms. Provision is made of load cells such as a strain gauge operatively connected to a tire supporting shaft, driving and driven shafts of the crawler and a guide rail of the crawler and for detecting a vertical load subjected to the tire, a torque for driving the crawler under various load conditions and a transverse component of force subjected to the crawler when the tire having a given slip angle or a camber angle is urged against the crawler.

Abstract: A hydraulic machine, such as a reversible pump-turbine, is provided with an automatic air vent valve disposed in the casing area and a conduit having a valve for providing direct fluid communication between the casing area and the draft tube, in addition to compressed air means for depressing the water level within the draft tube below the runner, when the guide vanes are closed so that the runner may be rotated substantially only within air.