Abstract: A mask includes a filter portion that is formed of an air-permeable sheet material and covers at least a nose and a mouth in wearing; a substantially annular face-contacting body that is joined to the filter portion, and is in contact with at least a vicinity of the nose and a vicinity of the mouth on a face in wearing; and a hook string to be hooked around either a head or an ear so that the filter portion and the face-contacting body are worn to the face. Here, a protrusion portion is arranged at least at a part of the face-contacting body to be in contact with at least a vicinity of the nose on the face in wearing to the face and press the filter portion to form a three-dimensional shape allowing the filter portion to conform to unevenness of the face.

Abstract: An oxide insulator film contains a first metal oxide and a second metal oxide. An electrical conductivity of the second metal oxide is lower than an electrical conductivity of the first metal oxide. The oxide insulator film includes particles of the first metal oxide which are dispersed in a matrix including the second metal oxide.

Abstract: In a method of the magnetic loading of a sintering material, magnetically susceptible sinterable substances of high magnetization and fine substances of slidable dropping at low speed are segregated in great amounts in an upper portion of a sintering material layer deposited on a pallet. More of magnetically susceptible sinterable substances such as mill scale, returned ore and the like of good magnetic attachment and fine substances of low drop speed are caused to be segregated in the upper portion of that layer. A magnetic force is applied to a starting sintering material, during movement of the latter having been facilitated in its particle size segregation on a sloping chute, by means of a cylindrical magnetic drum having built therein a permanent magnet and disposed downwardly of the sloping chute.

Abstract: In a method of the magnetic loading of a sintering material, magnetically susceptible sinterable substances of high magnetization and fine substances of slidable dropping at low speed are segregated in great amounts in an upper portion of a sintering material layer deposited on a pallet. More of magnetically susceptible sinterable substances such as mill scale, returned ore and the like of good magnetic attachment and fine substances of low drop speed are caused to be segregated in the upper portion of that layer. A magnetic force is applied to a starting sintering material, during movement of the latter having been facilitated in its particle size segregation on a sloping chute, by means of a cylindrical magnetic drum having built therein a permanent magnet and disposed downwardly of the sloping chute.

Abstract: In a method of the magnetic loading of a sintering material, magnetically susceptible sinterable substances of high magnetization and fine substances of slidable dropping at low speed are segregated in great amounts in an upper portion of a sintering material layer deposited on a pallet. More of magnetically susceptible sinterable substances such as mill scale, returned ore and the like of good magnetic attachment and fine substances of low drop speed are caused to be segregated in the upper portion of that layer. A magnetic force is applied to a starting sintering material, during movement of the latter having been facilitated in its particle size segregation on a sloping chute, by use of a cylindrical magnetic drum having built therein a permanent magnet and disposed downwardly of the sloping chute.

Abstract: An apparatus for rolling up laminar sheets of food material in a tubular shape. The apparatus includes an assembly having a plurality of roll-up rollers located at a terminal zone of a conveyor for the laminar sheet of food material. The rolling-up rollers are of the same diameter as well as the same revolutionary speed and are arranged on a concentric circle so that the plurality of rolling-up rollers contact an outer surface of laminar sheet of food material and thereby roll-up the laminar sheet of food material in a tubular shape.

Abstract: Here is disclosed an apparatus for rolling up a laminar sheet of food material into a tubular shape, comprising an assembly of plural rolling-up rollers located at a terminal zone of a conveyor for the laminar sheet of food material. The rolling-up rollers are same in diameter as well as in revolution speed and arranged on a concentric circle so that the plural rolling-up rollers may contact an outer surface of the laminar sheet of food material and thereby roll up this laminar sheet of food material in a tubular shape. This apparatus allows the laminar sheet of food material such as cheese or ham to be efficiently rolled up in a tubular shape.

Abstract: A method of charging coal into a chamber furnace-type coke oven. The coal is fed from a table feeder from a coal hopper so as to be dropped and charged into a carbonization chamber of the coke oven, through a charging cylinder. The coal fed from the table feeder is accelerated by rotation vanes at the initial stage in which the coal starts to drop. The vanes have a rotation center which is located upward on the exterior of a locus of the stream of free fall gravitated by the coal. The rotation speed of the vanes is progressively increased in the latter half of charging of the coal. The coal is thus allowed to accumulate in the carbonization chamber so that the bulk density of the coal in the vertical direction can become uniform. Also disclosed is an apparatus for charging coal into a chamber furnace-type coke oven. The apparatus includes a coal hopper for storing the coal therein. A table feeder feeds the coal from the hopper.

Abstract: A process for continuously casting steel slabs employing a molten steel containing an oxygen concentration of 30 ppm or less, preferably, 20 ppm or less, using a straight immersion nozzle to which an inert gas is not injected, and disposing a static magnetic field generator on the back surface of the mold for applying the strong static magnetic field to the molten steel within the mold, thereby restricting the flow of the molten steel. With this process, it is possible to prevent the nozzle blocking, and hence to obtain the steel slabs excellent in the internal and surface qualities.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of refining of a high purity steel capable of effectively lowering impurities in molten steel into respective ultra-low ranges. In secondary refining for molten steel after a molten iron prerefining process and a converting process, a reducing agent and a flux are added on the bath surface within a ladle containing the molten steel decarburized in a converter so that the composition of slag on the bath surface is adjusted in such a manner that the total concentration of FeO and MnO becomes 5 wt % or less, and subsequently, impurities in the molten steel are effectively lowered into respective ultra-low ranges using a RH vacuum degassing unit.

Abstract: A burden distribution monitoring apparatus, according to the present invention, includes a hollow cylindrical sonde having an inner end radially movable within the internal space of a furnace, such as a shaft furnace. The sonde carries a burden layer depth sensor and/or a burden grain distribution sensor for radially shifting working ends of the sensors. With the foregoing construction, burden depth and/or grading of the burden can be monitored in a plurality of radial points in the furnace.

Abstract: A method and a device for monitoring combustion conditions in a metallurgical furnace which is effective and simple in structure and can provide a wide monitoring range of high accuracy. The combustion conditions in the furnace are monitored by a probe lying oblique to the axis of the blow pipe. Toward this end, the probe is inserted into the furnace through a tuyere. The tuyere has a through opening admitting the probe and allows the probe in an orientation oblique to the radii of the blow pipe.

Abstract: A burden distribution monitoring apparatus, according to the present invention, includes a hollow cylindrical sonde having an inner end radially movable within the internal space of a furnace, such as a shaft furnace. The sonde carries a burden layer depth sensor and/or a burden grain distribution sensor for radially shifting working ends of the sensors. With the foregoing construction, burden depth and/or grading of the burden can be monitored in a plurality of radial points in the furnace.

Abstract: A method of operating a blast furnace comprising the steps of selecting sight factors mathematically and statistically as effective in determining the operating condition of a blast furnace, sensing the eight factors as sample data, converting the sample data into variable factors, comparing the sample data and the variable factors with predetermined limiting factors, generating numerical non-dimension values corresponding to the level of satisfaction between the sample date or variable factors and the corresponding limiting values, multiplying the numerical non-dimensional values by predetermined corresponding weight allocation indices, summing separately the results of the multiplication for the sample data and the variable factors to form a numerical factor grand addition output and a variable factors grand addition output, summing the numerical factors grand addition output and the variable factors grand addition output to form an overall grand addition output and taking appropriate action to control the