Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for producing a fiber web comprising a feeder 1 for supplying a fiber material, a plurality of fiber opening cylinders 2.sub.1, 2.sub.2, 2.sub.3, . . . 2n (n is a natural number) mounted adjacent to one another for transferring and opening the fiber material fed from the feeder 1 and having metallic wires 2a mounted to the surface thereof, a conveyor 7 arranged for receiving the opened fiber unloaded from the fiber opening cylinder 2n mounted at the outlet end, and a suction box 8 arranged beneath the conveyor 7 for drawing the opened fiber towards the conveyor 7 by a sucking action, said fiber opening cylinders 2.sub.1, 2.sub.2, 2.sub.3, . . . 2n being enclosed in a housing 3 which has fiber transfer openings 4 between any two adjacent fiber opening cylinders and a fiber releasing opening 5 for unloading the opened fiber from the last fiber opening cylinder 2n, and also arranged so that any two adjacent cylinders can rotate in opposite directions.

Abstract: The invention provides an article for joining the pieces of a fractured bone, characterized in that the article is composed of a high-molecular weight material which is absorbable in the living body and that the article is in the form of a tubular body having a hollow interior and a cutout extending over the entire length of the tubular body in the longitudinal direction thereof.

Abstract: An apparatus for attaching a tire component member to a rotating toroidal green case includes support shafts whose axes are located substantially in a plane including a rotational axis of the green case. Stitching rollers are supported by the support shafts and rotatable about the axes of the support shafts, respectively. An urging device moves the stitching rollers toward the green case to urge outer circumferences of the stitching rollers against the tire component member. A swing device serves to swing the stitching rollers to continuously move contact points of the stitching rollers with the tire component member from an axially inside to an axially outside, to attach the tire component member to the outer surface of the green case.

Abstract: An osteosynthetic pin characterized in that the pin is formed substantially of a poly-L-lactic acid having a molecular weight of at least about 70,000, and is formed by axially drawing about 2 to about 10 times at an elevated temperature of about 70.degree. to about 120.degree. C.

Abstract: A remote control side mirror device for a vehicle capable of rotating a mirror housing with respect to a mirror base fixed to an automotive body by a motor driven remote control. The motor driven by a remote control is fixed in the mirror housing to rotate a first gear through a reduction gear. A support shaft for rotatably supporting the mirror housing vertically is formed at the mirror base, and a second gear engaged in mesh with a first gear is arranged at the mirror housing side of the support shaft. Since the second gear is stationarily connected by the frictional force to the support shaft through a friction transmitting mechanism. When the motor is driven, the mirror housing is rotated around the support shaft of the mirror base. When the mirror housing receives a strong external force, the second gear can slide around the support shaft to prevent the reduction gear from damaging.

Abstract: A releasable fastening construction for detachably fastening together both ends of an article such as personal ornaments which is capable of not only readily accomplishing the fastening and releasing operation but ensuring the positive and reliable fastening.

Abstract: An adhesion preventive for preventing adhesion between vital tissues is provided. The present adhesion preventive is a molded material consisting essentially of a biodegradable and absorbable polymer. It has an advantage of requiring no reoperation for its removal since it would be degraded and absorbed after completing its function in vivo.

Abstract: A mirror apparatus having a wiper means intended to wipe a surface of a mirror supported on a mirror holder, wherein the wiper means comprises: a rubber ribbon for wiping the mirror surface; a pair of holders for supporting the rubber ribbon; and a pair of stays for supporting the pair of holders, respectively, to cause them to exert wiping operations, the rubber ribbon being provided with a curvable intermediate portion and a curvable end portion which are resulted from arrangement of the rubber ribbon being supported by the pair of holders excluding an intermediate portion and at least one end portion of the rubber ribbon, the pair of stays being coupled to each other by a shaft member at a site just above the intermediate portion of the rubber ribbon to provide for pivotable actions of these stays, that particular holder which located on the curvable end portion side of the rubber ribbon being coupled to its mating stay at a site located within a groove formed at a corresponding site of the rubber ribbon,