Abstract: A system for melting and delivering glass to a work area such as spinners for making fiberglass includes a melter with heaters so arranged that the “hot spot” in the molten glass is located away from the walls and corrosion sensitive parts so that the various elements of the melter wear out at substantially the same time. The system is further provided with a dual exhaust arrangement when the melter, conditioner and forehearth are located on the same floor of the plant, the first exhaust being at the juncture of the melter and conditioner, and the second being an alternating replacement for one of the heating/cooling orifices and mechanisms in the conditioner, so as to effectively limit the amount of corrosive volatiles reaching the forehearth.

Abstract: A porous preform vitrification apparatus of the present invention, provided with a means for forcibly feeding nitrogen etc. from a furnace core tube to a discharge gas pipe so as to balance a pressure between a furnace core tube accommodating a porous preform and a heating furnace body surrounding this and so as to suppress pressure fluctuation in the furnace core tube to a minimum level, controlling the gas feed rate and discharge rate to the furnace core tube and the heating furnace body, and controlling the feed rate of the nitrogen from the furnace core tube to the discharge gas pipe based on a differential pressure signal of a pressure in the furnace core tube and a pressure in the heating furnace body.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a single-mode optical fiber having a configuration which enables lowering of dispersion slope while securing a sufficient MFD. This single-mode optical fiber has a refractive index profile in which an indent with a sufficient width is provided at the center of its core region.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of making a preform which can restrain each member from deforming at the time of making, and a method of making an optical fiber with a smaller polarization mode dispersion by utilizing this preform. In the method of making a preform, the collapsing step carried out when making the preform is divided into at least two stages composed of a first step of forming a first collapsed body by collapsing a core rod member and a first cladding tube member, and a second step of forming a new collapsed body by collapsing the first collapsed body and a second cladding tube member. Also, in at least the first step, the collapsed body obtained is elongated, whereas such a plurality of stages of collapsing step and elongation of the resulting collapsed body reduce the outer diameter ratio of the outer member to the inner member to be collapsed, whereby the deformation resulting from the heating at the time of a single collapsing operation and the like is hard to occur.

Abstract: A flat knitting machine has at least two oppositely located needle beds provided with stitch formers and/or comb gap plates, one of the needle beds having a wire which forms a knocking off base for stitches, so that for changing a comb gap width of the stitch formers and/or of the comb gap plates they are arranged jointly adjustable on the at least one needle bed.

Abstract: The invention concerns a device for lifting the knitted item made on a circular knitting machine for knitwear and hosiery. It includes a lifting pipe 15 coaxial inside the cylinder, rotating with this, moveable in height between a lowered position and a raised position and one bearing a summit bell 16 with a flared lip 19, which extends above the internal sinker crown to the close vicinity of the needs and which has radial slits 20 in line with the sinkers. The pipe with the summit bell is raised from the lowered position by dedicated control means to raise the item, also close to the needs to be picked.

Abstract: In a laundry drum, a liquid diverter includes a driver having a driver interior and a run-off ramp therein. The driver interior receives liquid scooped and lifted by the drum during rotation thereof. The driver discharges scooped liquid in its lifted position into the drum interior. The run-off ramp is oriented horizontally or has a descending gradient when the drum rotation axis is orientated in a direction deviating from horizontal and when the drum is in a rotary position in which the driver is in its highest position, and thereby, permits, in all of the drum's rotation directions, a flow of scooped liquid on the run-off ramp in a direction of a rising part of the rotation axis when in the driver's lifted position. The liquid is conducted into only part of the drivers in a case of low liquid level as a result of the inclination.

Abstract: A compact drive apparatus for a front-loading laundry treatment machine includes a support having a projection and a rear face, a shaft having an axis, a laundry drum having a rear wall, and a motor having magnetic poles and a stator with field windings and laminated cores. The laundry drum is mounted substantially horizontally on the support through the shaft. The rear wall has a bell-shaped depression with an inner circumference. The depression extends in a direction of the longitudinal axis and accommodates the projection. The motor is disposed on the rear face and directly drives the shaft. The laminated cores are disposed on the projection, and the magnetic poles are distributed on the inner circumference and are disposed externally opposite the laminated cores to accommodate the field windings with an air gap therebetween. Preferably, the projection is a bell-shaped flange of the support or of the rear wall of the support to surround the shaft as a bearing sleeve.

Abstract: A handcuff restraint strap is disclosed herein. The strap is made of a substantially soft, flexible, and strong material, such that it is comfortable to hold, and will withstand the forces applied while an officer holds and controls a suspect. The strap mounts to the center chain on the handcuffs and provides a handle for an officer to easily manage a handcuffed individual.

Abstract: A combination lock having a housing, a shackle, a dial, a pushbutton, and a lock assembly. The lock assembly is made of a group of rotating disks having windows that can be aligned to open the lock. When the dial is turned according to the combination of the lock, the windows become aligned so that the user can depress the pushbutton to release the shackle. The pushbutton travels in a direction that is perpendicular to the axis of rotation of the dial. When the shackle is locked again, the pushbutton returns to its original position. As the pushbutton travels back to its original position, portions of the lock assembly are turned so that the combination must be reentered in order to reopen the lock.

Abstract: The invention generally provides a security storage container for items of recorded media. The device automatically closes and locks when the item of recorded media is inserted into the security storage container. A locking mechanism having dual locking fingers is used to hold the device in the locked configuration. The security storage container may be configured to allow compact discs and DVD jewel boxes and other storage containers to be loaded in a “spine-out” configuration while fully displaying the front cover of the storage container.

Abstract: An apparatus for forming two plates into a hollow workpiece has a pair of dies having edge regions adapted to be pressed together against outer peripheries of the plates. An outer element in the edge region of one of the dies is adapted to rotate therein about an axis generally parallel to the direction and an inner element set in the outer element is rotatable therein about an axis generally parallel to and offset from the outer-element axis. The inner element is formed offset from its axis with an axially throughgoing feed passage aligned with a feed hole in the plate engaging the one die. A fluid forced under pressure through the passage and hole into a space between the plates deforms the plates away from each other in the direction while displacing the hole perpendicular to the direction with movement of the passage perpendicular to the direction.

Abstract: A rolling mill, especially an inclined roll or Diescher roll mill 3 its stand formed by a pair of portal frames on a foundation spaced apart by cassettes holding the upper and lower roll units and tie rods securing the portal frames against one another and the cassettes. The tie rods are spaced apart vertically or horizontally on the portal frames.

Abstract: Device for embossing metal pipe including a frame supported on ground, a length of core having one end detachably fixed horizontally to an upper surface of the frame having a plunger hole at a center thereof in an axis direction and a plurality of core pass through holes perpendicular to the plunger hole in a portion of the core, a first stock fixed to one side of the upper surface of the frame, first reciprocating members fixed in the first stock and the frame each for reciprocating perpendicular to the axis of the core, first segments respectively fitted to insides of the first reciprocating members for moving along the movement of the first reciprocating members, casings detachably and respectively fitted to the segments for coming into a close contact with the core as the casings move inward or moving away from the core as the casings move outward, having a plurality of casing pass through holes in an inside surface thereof opposite to the core pass through holes, a punch movably inserted in each of the c

Abstract: In an odor measuring apparatus, a plurality of detection outputs with respect to a sample gas is obtained by a plurality of odor sensors having different response characteristics. In an odor fractionation processing section, based on the detection outputs, it is determined which one of a plurality of predetermined odor categories the odor of the sample gas belongs to. In case of calculating an odor index from the detection outputs, the same regression line can be utilized for the same odor category. An odor index calculating section utilizes regression coefficients determined in advance for each odor category, to thereby calculate the odor index. Accordingly, without using an organoleptic test by panels, the odor index can be obtained easily and accurately.

Abstract: A gas sensing element is placed in an element insertion hole of an insulator. The element insertion hole consists of a larger-diameter portion and a smaller-diameter portion. A clearance between an inner surface of the larger-diameter portion and an outer surface of the gas sensing element is filled with a sealing material. A clearance between an inner surface of the smaller-diameter portion and the outer surface of the gas sensing element is filled with a cushion filler having strength of 5N to 1,000N.

Abstract: An improved method for detecting leaks in a sealed package or container, where the contents of the container includes at least one liquid component, is disclosed. First the container to be tested is placed in a vacuum chamber which is in turn sealed. A vacuum is then applied to the vacuum chamber to lower the pressure, within the chamber, to a pressure that is below the vapor pressure of the liquid component in the container being tested. The vacuum source is then isolated from the chamber. The presence and severity of any package leak is detected by monitoring the increase of pressure in the vacuum chamber as a leak indicative signal whereby a relatively steady increase in pressure over time is indicative of “leaking” unrelated to the package under test and wherein relatively uneven increases of pressure, over time ,is indicative of boiling liquid and therefore a leak in at least one test specimen.

Abstract: A device for measurement and control of the conditions of stability of a vehicle, in particular an industrial vehicle, comprising at least one load cell (10), which is integrated inside the lower pin of each articulated joint or steering “pivot” (11) of each steering axle (12) of the vehicle, at the level of the wheel hubs (18), so that a structural component of the front and rear steering axle of a four wheel vehicle is a measurement instrument; an electronic control instrument (14), by means of appropriate control software, processes signals (P1-P4), appropriately amplified, transmitted by each load cell (10), so as to calculate the stability of the vehicle in real time and, furthermore, provide a command to disable certain vehicle functions, in the event that the stability values are beyond a certain pre-established safety range.

Abstract: A sensor sheath for a thermal air flow rate sensor that is intended for disposition in a pipeline through which a fluid flows. In order to prevent the spread of ignition to the remainder of the fluid upon ignition of the fluid in the surroundings of the sensor, a wire grid is provided with meshes which are embodied such that a fluid flows substantially unimpeded through the wire grid, and which has an opening through which the sensor to be sheathed can be introduced into the wire grid.

Abstract: A sight glass apparatus has a liquid level indicator for identifying the level of a clear to slightly translucent liquid in tube by a change in color of the indicator. The indicator has a transparent body with a convex lens, and a concave lens at opposite ends of the body, and V-grooves open to opposite sides of the body. A moisture indicating medium on the body functions to identify the presence of water in refrigeration and air-conditioning systems.

Abstract: An electronic wheel balancer performs imbalance measurements at variable speeds for different size wheels. The inertia of a wheel mounted on the balancer is determined by measuring the acceleration time of the wheel from a first speed to a second higher speed and the operating speed is adjusted accordingly. An improved operator interface pod incorporates correction plane indicators/selection buttons adjacent the weight display. Auxiliary weight storage is also provided.

Abstract: The invention relates to an acceleration monitoring method for a longitudinal dynamics open-loop or closed-loop controller in motor vehicles, in which an actual acceleration value is compared with a desired acceleration value, a defective operating condition of the motor vehicle being detected when the actual acceleration value is situated outside an error corridor including the desired acceleration value.

Abstract: Method for the determination for an actual speed of a movable displacement element wherein

Abstract: In a capacitance type dynamic quantity sensor, a movable electrode is connected to a support substrate through a frame shaped displacement portion. The displacement portion is composed of first and second beams and a beam connection part connecting the first and second beams at ends thereof. The support substrate has electrode pads for wire bonding involving vibration. The first and second beams can perform flexural vibration at a natural frequency with the beam connection part working as a free end. The shape of the beam connection part is adjusted so that the natural frequency at the flexural vibration is different from that of the vibration applied by the wire bonding.

Abstract: An aircraft has several ultrasonic phased arrays acoustically bonded to parts of its structure to be monitored. The arrays are energized to produce an ultrasonic beam that scans the structure in two planes. A monitor receives the output from the arrays produced by reflection of energy from discontinuities within the structure. When there is a change in these outputs, the monitor signals a pilot display unit and a flight control system such that the aircraft flight envelope can be restricted to minimize damage.

Abstract: A vibration coupling stud for use in a vibration monitoring system includes digital memory and temperature sensing devices. Data is transferred between the vibration coupling stud and a vibration monitor. Data stored in the stud may include asset identification code, measuring point identification, prior measurement data, machine or bearing part numbers, and alarm limits.

Abstract: A pressure transducer including: a silicon substrate including: a first surface adapted for receiving a pressure applied thereto, an oppositely disposed second surface, and a flexing portion adapted to deflect when pressure is applied to the first surface; at least a first sensor formed on the second surface and adjacent to a center of the flexing portion, and adapted to measure the pressure applied to the first surface; at least a second gauge sensor formed on the second surface and adjacent to a periphery of the flexing portion, and adapted to measure the pressure applied to the first surface; a glass substrate secured to the second surface of the silicon wafer.

Abstract: A method for monitoring a structure (10) for the formation of cracks (18) includes first pretreating a surface (14) of the structure by applying a first coating (30) to the structure which bonds uniformly to the surface of the structure and creates a uniform surface coat. A second coating (40) is applied over the first coating and contains microcapsules (44). The microcapsules rupture in response to cracking of the structure to release a dye or pigment which changes the color of the second coating about the crack. Cracked portions which form in the structure may then be identified by observing color changes (48) in the second coating resulting from eruption of the microcapsules.

Abstract: A non contacting angular differential displacement torque sensor utilizes a split shaft with a connecting torsion bar with a pair of receive disks each with an intervening coupler disk carrying a conductive attenuating pattern where the inductive coupling between transmit and receive disks is individually attenuated in accordance with the angular position of the shaft on which the disks are mounted. The pair of receive disks which receive signals from a common transmitter have their angular difference taken and this is the actual torque on the shaft.

Abstract: The present invention discloses an abnormal state detecting apparatus in a torque sensor which uses a pair of coils to detect a torque on the basis of a change in inductance.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided for extracting cross-sectional samples of bulk material from a moving belt conveyor with a rotating sample cutter. The sample cutter is driven around a circular sampling path by a pair of double-acting pneumatic cylinders that are connected to angularly offset crank throws. Fluid flow in and out of each pneumatic cylinder pressure chamber is independently regulated as a function of the respective cylinder rod position and direction of movement whereby both chambers may be simultaneously open to the pressure supply or to the atmospheric vent for a brief rotational arc.

Abstract: A control apparatus and method of a vehicle is provided for correcting a lowered value of the output shaft torque in the gear shifting and suppressing a input shaft speed on the basis of the lowered torque correction. The input shaft torque is adjusted at the termination of the gear shifting on the basis of the lowered torque correction.

Abstract: A shift-assisting device for a transmission, equipped with an electric motor for operating a shifting mechanism in a direction same as the direction of shifting operation of a speed-change lever, said shifting mechanism being coupled to said speed-change lever to actuate the synchronizing mechanism of the transmission. The electric power for driving the electric motor is determined depending on a shift stroke position detected by a shift stroke sensor and on a shifting force detected by a shifting force sensor.

Abstract: A shift-assisting device for a transmission, that is equipped with an electric motor for operating a shifting mechanism in the direction same as the direction in which a speed-change lever is shifted, said shifting mechanism being coupled to said speed-change lever and actuating the synchronizing mechanism of the transmission, and comprises a controller for controlling the electric motor. The controller judges whether the gear is to be disengaged or engaged based on the shifting direction of the speed-change lever and on the shift stroke position of the shifting mechanism, detects the shifting operation speed and obtains an average shifting operation speed in the gear-disengaging operation or the gear-engaging operation, and operates the electric power for driving the electric motor based on the average shifting. operation speed.

Abstract: In a very simple production and assembly process, reliable stop absorption between a drive-side gear wheel (1) and a driven-side carrier (2) is obtained when there is a mutual relative movement between the gear wheel (1) and the carrier (2) that is caused by the stop. To this end, a cam (2.1) of the carrier (2) elastically deforms a spring element (1.1) of the gear wheel (1) via a tangential stop bevel (1.11; 1.12). The gear wheel (1) and the carrier (2) are preferably configured as injection molded parts, which are axially spaced and interconnected when produced and assembled and which can be axially fit together by releasing or breaking the connection.

Abstract: A grip gear-shifter for being used in actuating a derailleur of a bicycle is provided. The grip gear-shifter includes a return spring, a resilient steel plate having a polyhedron-formed controlling pawl, a guiding ring having a guiding notch for guiding a cable, a first module for lodging and positioning said controlling pawl when the bicycle are in the state of shifting gears, and a second module having a projection and a positioning unit for operating in coordination with the return spring and the resilient steel plate, thereby forming a relative motion of the resilient steel plate and the first module to correctly shift gears when the bicycle are in the state of shifting gears.

Abstract: A method for preparing a highly crystallized metal powder, comprising: supplying at least one heat-decomposable metal compound powder into a reaction vessel using a carrier gas; and forming a metal powder by heating the metal compound powder in a state in which the metal compound powder is dispersed in a gas phase at a concentration of no more than 10 g/liter, at a temperature that is over the decomposition temperature of the metal compound powder and at least (Tm −200)° C. when the melting point of the metal contained in the metal compound powder is Tm° C. The method provides a high-purity, high-density, highly dispersible, fine, highly crystallized metal powder consisting of spherical particles of uniform size, which is suited to use in thick film pastes, and particularly conductor pastes and the like used in the preparation of multilayer ceramic electronic parts.

Abstract: A titanium dioxide compound was isolated from a rare type of naturally occurring ore. Processes for efficiently isolating and obtaining these TiO2 compounds, as well as methods for using them have been developed. These TiO2 compounds may be used directly in applications such as paper, plastics and paints without being subjected to the chloride or sulfate processes. Also they made be used as a feedstock for the chloride or sulfate processes. In order to obtain these TiO2 compounds, one may grind or pulverize the naturally occurring ore, disperse it in a solution or suspension, and process it by selective flocculation or aqueous biphasic extraction.

Abstract: The tool is provided with an oblong handle (1), which at one end has a portion (5) for engaging the cap (7) of a preserving jar (8), and a jaw (2) for engaging the lower edge of the cap. The mouth of the jaw is turned away from the other end of the handle, and between the free end (3) of the jaw and the portion (5) for engaging the cap (7) a concave, circular cylindrical guide slot (6) is provided said guide slot (6) guiding the tool into position against the rim of the cap in such a way that the jaw grips the lower edge of the cap, after which a slight lifting of the handle brings about an elastic deformation of the rim of the cap allowing the vacuum in the preserving jar to be broken.

Abstract: Interface between the spindle nose (1) and the fixture flange (11) of interchangeable tool, gauge or workpiece holder (7) of a machine tool with a shortened centring taper (8) on the underside of the flange of the holder (7), said taper being formed as an axially and radially rigid but in circumference elastically expansible tubular stub (15), which due to its elastic properties adapts itself to the diameter of the centring taper (6) on the spindle nose (1).

Abstract: An improved live center for use with tapered shanks.

Abstract: An arrangement for cutting off the projection of a cover layer comprises a transport device which moves an object with cover layers projecting on the sides past the edges of the object relative to a cutting device. A cutting device has a rotating cutting edge which is guided along the edge. The cutting device has a rotating cutting wheel which is biased toward the edge. Such a cutting arrangement is used on a coating system for plates.

Abstract: An automated material jam release system adapted for an impression system is disclosed in which various material presence sensing arrangements transmit “present” or “absent” signals that control automatic release and locking systems to either (a) remain in a first or operating position with a head holding an anvil in a predetermined position adjacent to a frame mounted die holder roller or (b) move to a second or open or jam release position where the anvil is not in an operating relationship to the roller.

Abstract: A paper feeding device and method, wherein a tray including a paper loading unit, a paper feeding device, a paper cutting device is slid out of a main body of an image forming apparatus. When a new rolled transfer paper is loaded in the paper loading unit, the rolled transfer paper is conveyed so that a tip portion thereof is discharged from a rolled transfer paper outlet of the tray. The discharged tip portion of the rolled transfer paper is cut by the paper cutting device.

Abstract: A machine for cutting sheets of material in stacks. The machine has a counter that supports the material, a blade for cutting the material, a hold-down that descends onto the material being cut and a saddle for advancing it toward the blade, a keyboard with alphanumeric characters, icons, etc. for operating the machine, a processor for processing input from the keyboard, and a display for displaying the state of the machine and/or the cutting program.

Abstract: A machine for cutting bread into slices, comprising a crumb deflector situated beneath the cutting device in order to receive the crumbs as they fall from the cutting device during the cutting of a loaf and guide them toward a crumb-collecting bin. In an advantageous embodiment, the crumb deflector comprises a front part that slopes down toward the crumb-collecting bin and a rear part that extends to form the rear wall of a compartment. The zone of the machine housing the drive and mechanical transmission members is thus separated from the crumb-receiving zone and is thus kept clean and protected from showers of crumbs.

Abstract: A punching unit for punching holes of a selected geometry in a wall of a component. The punching unit has a frame for supporting the component and the tool and die assembly releaseably securable to the frame. Tool and die assembly has a punch operatively coupled to a mandrel and a male die member and a female die member cooperating to form the hole in the wall. A portion of the tool and die assembly is interchangeable to provide a selected one of a plurality of predetermined hole geometries for the component.

Abstract: Device for trimming wane-affected planks The device makes it possible to optimize the work of a trimming machine with multiple blades. It comprises, in the plank transfer assembly located upstream of the trimming machine, between the scanner and the trimming-machine entry table, an intermediate preparation table (10) facing which are arranged means of emitting at least two light beams, particularly four laser beams (L1, L2, L3, L4) directed onto a plank (24) stopped on the preparation table (10) and forming marks on this plank. The position of the beams can be modified manually and remotely by an operator to take account of wane zones (25, 26) and defects (27, 28) in the heart of the wood. This corrected position is taken into consideration automatically by the positioning of the blades of the trimming machine accordingly.

Abstract: A paper punching device is disposed on a paper conveyer passage for punching plural holes in a paper that passes on said paper conveyer passage, and comprises plural punches disposed on the upper side of said paper conveyer passage at right angles with the direction in which the paper is conveyed, plural pushing members mounted on the upper ends of said plural punches, and a punch-operating mechanism for operating said plural pushing mechanisms.

Abstract: Saw teeth, particularly for tree harvesting, have a wear-resistant insert or inserts of tungsten carbide, for example, oriented along the side and/or outer surface of the saw tooth, extending rearwardly from the leading edges, instead of being along the impact face as is conventional. As wear occurs, sharpness is retained longer and less material needs to be removed once sharpening is required. The principle may be adapted to a wide variety of saw tooth configurations.