Abstract: A portable unitary apparatus, preferably wheeled, is provided herein for disposing of hazardous light bulbs, e.g., fluorescent light bulbs. The apparatus is in the form of a housing which includes an upper compartment, and a lower compartment. The top of the housing is provided with a cylindrical fluorescent light bulb feed chute for a fluorescent light bulb to be disposed of. A rotary, bulb crushing fluorescent light bulb device, comprising a pair of rigid articulated crushing hammers is secured to opposed ends of a securement member, by means of a chain-type joint, each rigid articulated crushing hammer including an arm and a weighted end, the weighted end being secured to the end of an associated arm by a chain-type joint. The rigid articulated crushing hammers which are powered by a motor, are disposed within an enclosed reduction chamber shroud which depends from the upper compartment.

Abstract: A portable unitary apparatus, preferably wheeled, is provided herein for disposing of hazardous light bulbs, e.g., fluorescent light bulbs. The apparatus is in the form of a housing which includes an upper compartment, and a lower compartment. The top of the housing is provided with a cylindrical flourescent light bulb feed chute for a fluorescent light bulb to be disposed of. A rotary, bulb crushing fluorescent light device, which is powered by a motor, is disposed within an enclosed reduction chamber shroud which depends from the upper compartment. A disposable, pulverized fluorescent light bulb collection bag is selectively disposed within the lower compartment in air-sealed relationship to the reduction chamber. A filter system is disposed within the upper chamber. This filter system includes exhaust tubes which are connected between the reduction chamber and the fluorescent light bulb feed chute, and is constructed to draw noxious vapors through a primary filter by means of a vacuum generator.

Abstract: A navigation apparatus for vehicles which comprises a GPS receiver connected to a GPS antenna, a gyro sensor, a vehicle signal processing circuit for processing vehicle signals such as a vehicle speed signal, a CD unit for driving a CD-ROM containing map information, a display unit for displaying a map, and an ECU for controlling the entire operation, wherein at least the CD unit, the display unit and the ECU are disposed within a detachable unit which can be detachably installed in a vehicle.

Abstract: A display control circuit of a display unit is divided such that circuit portions and connecting means susceptible to noise are arranged in the display unit, while circuit portions and connecting means other than the circuit portions and connecting means susceptible to noise are placed away from the display unit through an extension cable. Due to this, the display unit can be made thinner and noises can be prevented from entering the circuit portions and connecting means arranged in the display unit. Further, the display apparatus may have a movement mechanism for making the display unit stand up. In this case, two guide grooves are formed at the sides of an intermediate case of the display unit housing. Due to this, the intermediate case can be made thinner, matching the thickness of the display unit.

Abstract: A guide system gives sight-seeing guidance for various sight-seeing objects located within a wide area without an interval of pause. The guide system includes guide data storage wherein guide data, for showing objects located along the travelled road, and for showing streets and other objects in the local area, is classified into types and stored. A guide information output section outputs guidance information pertaining to an object, located by search, having sight-seeing interest. A position detector detects and traces the current position. Further, the guide system has a plurality of search mechanisms, each of which searches only within a specific category of guide objects and only within an area defined at least in part by the current position, as identified by the current position detector. The guide system searches for and extracts information for an object from the guide data storage and outputs the information pertinent thereto.

Abstract: A guide system for a vehicle includes guide data storage containing guide data for conversion into output information concerning guidance objects along roads to be travelled by the vehicle and in the general area thereof. A TV monitor and microphone serve to output the information. A present position detector detects the present position which is traced on a map display output on the TV monitor. A first search routine searches over a first area range for guidance objects on the basis of the detected present position and a second search routine searches for guidance objects over a second area range different from the first area range. Once a guidance object is located, the guide data for that located guidance object is read out from the guide data storage and converted into output information. A manual key is provided on a remote controller for switching to the second search routine.

Abstract: Herein disclosed is a control system to be used in a continuously variable transmission for a vehicle for continuously varying and transmitting the revolutions of an engine to the wheels. The control system comprises: a vehicle speed detector for detecting the running speed of a vehicle; a speed demand change detector for detecting a signal corresponding to the speed demand change by the driver; a setting device for setting the target speed of the vehicle to a predetermined value when the vehicle speed is higher than a preset value and the speed demand change is lower than a preset value; and a torque ratio controller for controlling the torque ratio between the input shaft and output shaft of the continuously variable transmission in accordance with the predetermined value of the target vehicle speed.

Abstract: A zinc oxide-hydroxide complex produced by heating freshly prepared zinc hydroxide at a temperature from about 150.degree. C. to about 450.degree. C. is useful as an adsorbent for malodorous gases such as hydrogen sulfide, mercaptans and the like. The complex alone or its combination with aluminum dihydrogen tripolyphosphate may be incorporated into a synthetic thermoplastic resin for fabricating shaped plastic articles for deodorant uses.

Abstract: A stepless transmission in which travel in two different shift regions is made possible by a main transmission unit constituting a stepless transmission mechanism and an auxiliary transmission unit coupled to the stepless transmission mechanism, and in which torque ratio is capable of being varied steplessly in response to signals indicative of detected vehicle traveling conditions. The transmission is equipped with a function which improves the feeling of a speed reduction, makes possible a smooth start and provides excellent accelerability, a function which assures that the vehicle will start moving forward reliably, a function which enhances brake durability, and a function enhances safety in the event of motor malfunction.

Abstract: A fiber control apparatus in an open end spinning frame, which is a spinning rotor provided with a structure capable of producing a rotary stream by which breaking or bending of fibers or formation of floating fibers in a spinning chamber of the rotor can be effectively controlled. This structure is mainly characterized by the arrangement of the exhaust vents formed in the spinning rotor.

Abstract: A dust-removing mechanism in an open-end spinning frame has a dust-removing chamber into which a dust-removing opening opens, the dust-removing opening being defined by a rear wall disposed upstream in the direction of rotation of the combing roller and having an edge and a front wall disposed downstream in the direction, there being an angle .alpha. formed between first and second lines passing through the front and rear wall edges and the center of the combing roller, an angle .beta. formed between a third line passing through the center of the combing roller and the center of an opening in the rotor and a fourth line passing through the center of the combing roller perpendicularly to the third line, an angle .UPSILON. formed between a surface of the front wall and a fifth line extending parallel to the fourth line through the front wall edge, and an angle .delta.

Abstract: A yarn draw off tube for an open-end spinning unit which improves the twist transmission to a fiber ribbon in a spinning rotor. The yarn draw off tube is provided with a yarn inlet on the top wall thereof and a yarn outlet on the lower side wall thereof, and the yarn inlet is eccentric from the center in a direction opposite to the yarn outlet. In the spinning operation, a twist imparted to a yarn drawn off from the spinning rotor can smoothly be transmitted to the root portion thereof. Thereby, yarn breakage is restrained and a yarn of good appearance and strength can be obtained.

Abstract: A sliver guide has a restrictor and deflectors for imposing uniform transverse forces on a sliver immediately before the latter is supplied to a feed roller in an open-end spinning unit, thereby spreading the sliver and loosening the core thereof. The sliver guide serves to prevent grain variations and neps that are otherwise caused in the spun yarn by the hard core and twists of the sliver which naturally form as the latter is being produced.

Abstract: A rotor type open-end spinning unit in which in order to prevent blowing of air to the rear of an outlet of a fiber transporting channel formed in a spinning body and impingement of an air stream from the fiber transporting channel against the back face of a separator, the rear end of the outlet of the fiber transporting channel on the central side of a rotor is expanded forward of an imaginary line, connected between the rear end of the channel outlet furthest from the center of the rotor and the center of the rotor, and the angle .alpha. between the face of the fiber transporting channel confronting the combing roller and the plane intersecting the axis of the rotor at a right angle is made substantially equal to the taper angle .theta. of the back face of the separator.

Abstract: There is provided a process for production of o-(2,6-dichloroanilino)phenylacetic acid or a salt thereof by reacting o-chlorophenylacetic acid or an alkali metal salt thereof with 2,6-dichloroaniline in the presence of a base and at least 0.5 mol of a copper catalyst per mol of o-chlorophenylacetic acid in a polar solvent.

Abstract: In an open-end spinning apparatus provided with a spinning rotor rotatably disposed in a rotor housing and a combing roller rotatably disposed in a frame body, a spinning chamber being formed when the frame body is combined with the rotor housing when the normal spinning operation is carried out, when it is required to remove impurities from the inside wall of the spinning rotor, firstly the frame body is displaced away from the rotor housing and simultaneously a receiving plane is created at a position adjacent to the opened rotor housing, where suction force is being applied, and secondly, the impurities are removed from the spinning rotor and accumulated on the receiving plane so that the received impurities are carried outside of the spinning apparatus by the suction force.

Abstract: A ringless spinning frame comprises a spinning frame body, above which a plurality of sliver cans are disposed on a platform, and a plurality of spinning units attached to the spinning frame body. A sliver from each sliver can is guided by a sliver guide conduit, which is disposed between the corresponding sliver can and spinning unit, to the corresponding spinning unit. The sliver guide conduits extend downwardly behind the corresponding spinning units and within the spinning frame body the interior of which reaches a temperature higher than that of the exterior by about 10.degree. to 20.degree. Celsius. To prevent the sliver guide conduits within the spinning frame body from being raised in temperature, the ringless spinning frame is provided with a device disposed near the sliver guide conduits for preventing heat produced in the spinning frame body from being transmitted to the sliver guide conduits.

Abstract: A device for forming a transfer tail wind around a bobbin held by a take-up mechanism of a ringless spinning machine such as an open-end spinning machine. The tail wind forming device comprises an auxiliary yarn guide disposed at a position along a yarn passage formed between the delivery roller means and a traverse motion mechanism of the take-up mechanism. The auxiliary yarn guide is provided with a groove for restricting the above-mentioned yarn passage to a position corresponding to an end portion of the bobbin, where the yarn is free from the traverse motion mechanism, when the transfer tail wind is being formed on the bobbin.

Abstract: An improved method and apparatus for making yarn packages of cheese form by winding units of a textile machine, wherein a bobbin of a yarn package is rotatably supported by each cradle turnably supported by a pivot shaft secured to a bracket in such a condition that the contacting pressure between a yarn package and a friction roller for rotating the yarn package is gradually decreased in an exponential manner according to the increase in the size of the yarn package and the above-mentioned change of the contacting pressure is attained by utilizing means for compensating the contacting pressure which connects the cradle with the bracket.