Abstract: The pile of cut sheets (11) are fed one by one, being separated by a friction member (33) which is backed away by a cut sheet (11) advanced thereto by the action of a feeding roller (31). The static friction coefficient between the friction member (33) and a standard sheet of fine paper is set to be 1.0 to 1.5, so as to provide enough amount of frictional force to the interface between the friction member (33) and the cut sheets (11) to ensure the separation of the cut sheets (11).

Abstract: Epoxidized C6-C12 cyclohydrocarbon compounds, for example, epoxidized C6-C12 cycloalkanes, cycloalkenes and/or cycloalkadienes are converted to cycloalkanols, cycloalkanones and cycloalkanes by hydrogenating the epoxidized C6-C12 cyclohydrocarbon compounds with hydrogen under a pressure of 0.1 to 5.4 MPa at a temperature of 100 to 280° C. in the presence of a catalyst containing at least one platinum group metal, for example, Pd or Ru.

Abstract: An automatic fabric-density adjusting device is provided and includes a detecting device for detecting the rotary movement of a knitting machine, a driving mechanism for driving a yarn positive feeding device in response to the signal detected by said detecting device, a controller for controlling the driving mechanism to cause said yarn feeding device to feed a requisite yarn volume for the desired fabric, a fabric tension sensor for detecting variations in the tension of the knit fabric and signaling the controller to vary the take-up of the fabric accordingly.

Abstract: A video communication system provided with a plurality of video communication devices connected to a network includes a circuit for selecting and displaying video data received from the above-described video communication devices and video data received from a video storage apparatus. The video storage apparatus includes a video data storage device and a means for transmitting required video data to the video communication device in case a request for reading is made from the video communication device.

Abstract: A camera control system has one or more cameras, power supply to which can be externally controlled, one or more camera management devices for managing the cameras, one or more terminal stations which communicate with the camera management devices to display images from the cameras, and an instruction device for generating a power turn-on/off instruction of an arbitrary one of the cameras from the terminal station.

Abstract: The process of the present invention comprises the steps of (a) a step of dissolving a condensed tannin powder in an aqueous alkaline solution, (b) a step of admixing an aqueous aldehyde solution with the aqueous solution obtained in the step (a), (c) a step of adding the aqueous solution obtained by the above step (b) to a hydrophobic solvent containing a polyether type nonionic surfactant under heating and stirring to disperse the aqueous solution in the form of droplets in said hydrophobic solvent and (d) evaporating water components from the above-mentioned droplets to form a spherical and gelled insoluble tannins. Water content of the gel can be widely controlled as 5 to 90% as compared with the conventional adsorbent and the network structure and molecular space are changed depending on the size of the metal ion to be adsorbed so that a gelled insoluble tannin which can increase an adsorption capacity of metals can be obtained.

Abstract: A method for predicting printing density for use in a stencil printing in which an ink is transferred from a rotated printing drum to a printing sheet through a perforated stencil, by pressing the printing sheet and the printing drum against each other, is provided. The method comprises (a) a first step of measuring printing densities (OD) on at least two copies of print at corresponding printed portions thereof, the copies of print being obtained under different conditions of F/f, in which F is a pressing force at which the printing sheet is pressed to the drum and f is a rotation speed of the drum, (b) a second step of statistically processing the printing densities measured in the first step to obtain a function of printing density and F/f value, and (c) a third step of calculating a printing density at a desired pressing force and a desired rotation speed based on the function obtained in the second step.

Abstract: A sheet feeder unit being capable of separately supplying cut sheets of any thickness without causing any residual deformation. Cut sheets (11) in a pile are advanced one by one with a pair of feeding rollers (31) contacting thereto from one side thereof. A friction member (33) is disposed in the middle between the pair of feeding rollers (31) which is backed away by a proceeding cut sheet (11) thereby separating the outermost cut sheet (11) from the other sheets by the frictional force of contact therebetween.

Abstract: A sheet feeder unit capable of separately supplying cut sheets of any thickness or characteristics without causing any residual deformation. The pile of cut sheets 11 are advanced one by one with a pair of feeding rollers 31 contacting thereto from one side thereof. A friction member 33 of various configurations is disposed at various positions for separating the outermost cut sheet 11 from the other sheets by the frictional force of contact generated therebetween when the friction member is backed away by the advancing cut sheet 11.

Abstract: In a stencil printing in which a perforated stencil sheet is wound around a circumferential surface of a printing drum to which an ink is supplied, and the ink is transferred from the printing drum to a printing sheet through the perforated stencil sheet by pressing the printing sheet to the printing drum while the drum is rotated, a method for controlling a printing density is provided, which comprises controlling an amount of an ink transferred to a printing sheet by selecting a specific value of D from a range predetermined in accordance with the following equation:D=.sqroot. (F/f)in which F is a possible range of pressing force at which the printing sheet is pressed to the drum, and f is a possible range of rotation speed of the drum.

Abstract: A dehydration catalyst useful for producing a monoalkylether of dihydric phenolic compound by a dehydration reaction of a dihydric phenolic compound with a lower alkyl alcohol with a high conversion at a high selectivity, comprises at least one inorganic substance of the empirical formula (I):Al.sub.a P.sub.b Ti.sub.c Si.sub.d X.sub.e O.sub.f (I)wherein X represents a member selected from the group consisting of (1) an antimony and/or a bismuth atom, and (2) a sulfur atom, a, b, c, d, e and f respectively represent the numbers of Al, P, Ti, Si, X and 0 atoms, the atomic ratio a:b is 1:1.0 to 1.9, the atomic ratio a:c is 1:0.05 to 0.5, the atomic ratio a:d is 1:0.05 to 0.2, the atomic ratio a:e is 1:0.01 to 0.3 when X represents antimony and/or bismuth atom and 1:0.004 to 0.015 when X represents a sulfur atom, and the atomic ratio a:f is 1:4.1 to 8.4.

Abstract: An automatic focus detecting telescope which offers easy maintenance and which, when applied to a surveying instrument such as an auto-level, provides easy detachment and attachment of an optical horizontal compensation system. Even if the optical horizontal compensation system is detached, no readjustments are required for the automatic focusing apparatus and the eyepiece optical system.

Abstract: An inner focus type telescope includes a sighting objective lens, a focusing lens, a horizon compensating optical system, a focal plane, and an eyepiece through which an object image formed on the focal plane can be viewed, arranged in this order from the object side. The position of the focusing lens is adjustable to form the object image on the focal plane in accordance with the distance of an object to be viewed. The telescope further includes a beam splitting optical system provided in the optical path between the objective lens and the focal plane to split the optical path, a surface equivalent to the focal plane, provided in the beam splitting optical system, and a focus detecting system which detects the state of the focus at the equivalent surface.

Abstract: A developing device which develops an electrostatic latent image formed on an image carrier by toner, thereby forming a toner image; a transferring device which transfers the toner image to a fed transfer material; a registration device which provides a timing of feeding the transfer material; a curling device which nips the transfer material so as to produce a curl which is curved in the same direction as the transferring device; a curling control device which controls a nip operation mechanism of the curling device; and mode setting means for instructing the curling control device to operate are disclosed. In accordance with a thick sheet mode set in the mode setting means, the nip operation of the curling device is executed and a dummy transfer period in which the transfer operation of the transferring device is stopped is set.

Abstract: A focusing apparatus for a surveying instrument including an objective lens, a focusing lens and a reticle. The focusing lens is movable in an optical axis direction, by a rotating shaft member which is rotated by a motor, to form an image, of an object to be surveyed, on the reticle. Means for detecting a focus state of the object image and for controlling the motor in accordance with the detected focus state are provided. A focusing knob, coaxial with the rotating shaft member, and movable in an axial direction thereof is also provided. A plurality of clutches disengageably engages the focusing knob or the motor with the rotating shaft member, according to an axial movement of the focusing knob.

Abstract: A display groove is formed along a display pattern provided on a display panel, and a display element unit is arranged along the display groove as a light source to constitute a display device. The display element unit 2 has one or more LED's inserted into a unit case 21 having an elongated opening so that light is emitted over the width area and the length area of this lens 25 for providing an emitted state of a wide display pattern along a display groove in a small number of LED's 231 along the display pattern.

Abstract: A process for preparing an .alpha.-keto acid ester (oxo acid) of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 is a hydrogen atom, aliphatic alkyl group of 1-6 carbon atoms, phenyl group or benzyl group, and R.sup.2 is an aliphatic alkyl group of 1-6 carbon atoms, which comprises causing an .alpha.-hydroxycarboxylic acid ester of the formula: ##STR2## to react with molecular oxygen in a gaseous phase in the presence of copper phosphate, possibly, mounted on a solid carrier.

Abstract: This specification discloses a method of making a hologram imaged substantially without aberrations during the use when the wavelength of a light during the making differs from the wavelength of a light during the use and having high diffraction efficiency. In order to eliminate any aberration occuring when the hologram is used in a light beam of a different wavelength and to obtain high diffraction efficiency, a making light beam is caused to enter a predetermined coaxial optical system from outside the axis thereof to impart a suitable aberration, and a hologram is formed on a hologram sensitive material by the making light beam.

Abstract: A glycolic acid ester is produced by hydrogenating an oxalic acid diester of the formula, (COOR).sub.2, wherein R is a C.sub.1-6 alkyl group, with hydrogen in the presence of a solid catalyst comprising, for example, copper and silver metals carried on a solid carrier, and in the additional presence of an aliphatic alcohol, and collecting the resultant glycolic acid ester from the reaction mixture by distillation, preferably in the presence of an ester of a C.sub.3-12 dicarboxylic acid.