Abstract: A printing system includes an ink-amount control unit for controlling the amount of ink to be supplied to a printing press based upon an image area rate contained in a pre-press data, and at least one ink-amount calculation unit for calculating the image area rate. The ink-amount control unit is connected to the at least one ink-amount calculation unit on a network.

Abstract: A plate handling method and apparatus for a printing press that includes printing units, each having a plate cylinder, a main unit motor for driving the plate cylinders, and electromagnetic clutches disposed between the main unit motor and the printing units for transmitting and cutting off a drive force from the main unit motor to the printing units, and is adapted to rotate the plate cylinders upon the drive by the main unit motor and change plates. The electromagnetic clutch of the printing unit is disengaged, when an abnormality in changing of the plate was detected by any of sensors provided in each printing unit for detecting an abnormality in plate changing, to cut off the drive by the main unit motor, but continue plate changing in the other printing units by the drive force from the main unit motor.

Abstract: Method for printing pages within a booklet to improve the appearance of images on opposing pages includes sequencing images such that opposing pages are printed with the same print engine and/or fused the same number of times. Booklets include opposing pages having images fused the same number of times and/or printed with the same print engine as the image on the opposing page.

Abstract: An electronic detonator which comprises an ignition charge, a battery unit for emitting ignitor current for initiating the ignition charge, and an electronic circuit for controlling said emission of igniter current. The battery unit is movable in the detonator between a resting position and an activated position, in which the battery unit is connected to emit said igniter current. Battery activating means are provided, in response to external activation, for pyrotechnically causing the battery unit to move from the resting position to the activated position.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a composed projectile for subcalibre projectile comprising a sabot, a projectile and a driving speculum, whereby said composed projectile comprises a projectile made of a metal material, preferably having a high density, and that the length of the composed projectile is not substantially longer than the projectile, as well as a cartridge comprising such a composed projectile.

Abstract: Adaptation to varying distances between successive ties is facilitated with a ballast tamping unit for tamping ballast under successive ties of a railroad track, which comprises a frame extending in a longitudinal direction, and tamping tool arms mounted on the frame for pivoting about an axis extending perpendicularly to the longitudinal direction, the tamping tool arms having at least one recess at a lower end thereof for receiving and affixing a tamping pick arranged to be immersed in the ballast between two adjacent ties, and at least one of the tamping tool arms having two such recesses arranged successively in the longitudinal direction for selectively receiving and affixing the tamping pick. A reciprocating drive is connected to an upper end of each tamping tool arm for pivoting the tamping tool arm about the axis in the longitudinal direction.

Abstract: A mounting device has a first member attachable to a vertical surface, a first channel for releasably receiving a planar member forming a writing surface to dispose the writing surface at a generally horizontal position and a second channel for releasably receiving the planar member to dispose the writing surface at an inclined position.

Abstract: A novel pillar is provided. The pillar having a longitudinal axis and first and second ends, an outer skin, an extruded support structure disposed within the outer skin, with the support structure including multiple cells arranged along the longitudinal axis for support of longitudinal loads, and a tension bar disposed at least partially within the extruded support structure. The outer skin and extruded support may include structural plastic, and the extruded support structure may be separately insertable into the outer skin. However, in an alternative embodiment the outer skin and extruded support structure are co-extruded as a single monolithic piece.

Abstract: Knockdown furniture including a table with flat, interlocking, planar parts assembled or disassembled without tools or fasteners. Planar legs oriented in radially, spaced apart, mutually abutting relation upon erection, compressively grasp and support an elevated top. Each leg has a foot touching the ground, an integral, upwardly, outwardly diverging arm for grasping the top, a vertically upright protrusion of gradually decreasing width, and a junction region from which these parts emanate. A planar lock includes slots through which the protrusions pass when the furniture is press-fitted together. Lock notches aligned with the slots concurrently engage the arms. Each protrusion decreases in width, with the outside of each protrusion forming a ramp, and the inside forming an elongated, vertical edge. The wedging action resulting from slot-to-ramp engagement locks the legs together, with the complimentary protrusion edges firmly abutting one another and with the top compressively grasped by the arms.

Abstract: Plant for the hot treatment of waste gases from municipal waste incinerators or the like, comprising a first line of taking up hot waste gases for treating in an exit section of a municipal waste incinerator, a one stage or multiple stage fluid bed contained within one or several reactors and invested by the waste gases to be treated, at least one hopper for charging the solid granular material into the reactor or reactors, a cyclone separator at the outlet of the reactor or of the last of the reactors; the treated waste gases exiting from the reactor or reactors being first introduced into said separator and subsequently conveyed, by said first uptake line, toward a final discharge chimney; said first uptake line providing, downstream of said cyclone separator, a second recirculating line moving the waste gases treated by the reactor or reactors, upstream of the reactor or of the first of the reactors, so that by this second line said treated waste gases mix with the waste gases to be treated originating fro

Abstract: A furnace binding and adjustment system for maintaining a refractory furnace hearth under compression utilizes a plurality of buckstays connected at their upper and lower ends by tie members. A fluid-pressurized tensioning device, preferably a hydraulics device, is provided at the ends of at least some of the tie members to permit some relative movement between the tie member end and the buckstay to permit adjustment of compressive forces applied to the refractory hearth. The use of multiple hydraulic devices permits simultaneous activation of the tensioning devices, and also permits the hydraulic pressure in the cylinders to be accurately adjusted and monitored from a remote location.

Abstract: In the process for treating incineration residues from waste incineration plants, the incineration material is incinerated on a furnace grate. The incineration residues produced are quenched in a wet slag remover and conveyed out of the latter. The wet incineration residues which come out of the wet slag remover are firstly divided into two fractions by means of a screening operation, after which the main fraction is washed with water taken from the wet slag remover, and in the process adhering fine pieces are separated off. The washed pieces of the incineration residues are fed for reuse. The washing water together with the ultra fine pieces which have been taken up during the washing operation pass into the wet slag remover. The fine fraction produced during the mechanical separation operation is fed back to the incineration operation.

Abstract: A sewing apparatus includes a hollow needle that can pass through a work cloth, and a needle cover that has a passing hole through which the needle passes and holds the work cloth. The needle cover functions as a presser foot and holds at least a part of a thread between a previous stitch point where a stitch has been previously made and a succeeding stitch point where a stitch is to be currently made. Accordingly, sewing can be performed on the workpiece without use of a lower thread.

Abstract: In a looper and cutter drive mechanism for sewing machine, an upper looper and a lower looper are respectively disposed below a throat plate, respective loop-taker points of these loopers are arranged in the same direction such that the loop-taker points pass a front side of the needle as seen in the stitching direction. The upper looper and the lower looper are driven such that the upper looper and the lower looper perform movements having traces on planes substantially parallel to each other. Due to such a constitution, the looper drive mechanism has both of the lockstitching function and the over-edge stitching function and can perform both functions by a single sewing machine.

Abstract: A sewing machine includes an actuator moving a threading hook downward so that the threading hook is passed through an eye of a needle, a transmitter moved between a transmission position where an operation of the actuator is transmitted to the threading hook and a non-transmission position where an operation of the actuator is not transmitted to the threading hook, a thread holder holding the thread, a moving mechanism for moving the thread holder near to a position where the thread held by the thread holder is located near the threading hook having been passed through the needle eye, and an abutment abutting the transmitter when the thread holder has been moved to the position of the thread to move the transmitter from the transmission position to the non-transmission position.

Abstract: a sewing machine frame for a sewing machine including an integral frame member, and reinforcing ribs. The integral frame member is made from a synthetic resin and provides an outer surface defining an external shape and an inner surface providing an internal space. The integral frame member includes a bed portion, a tower portion upstanding from the bed portion, and an arm portion extending from the tower portion in a cantilevered fashion. The reinforcing ribs are provided at substantially entire area of the inner surface for reinforcing the integral frame member.

Abstract: An automatic thread cutting apparatus for sewing machines to cut off a thread and hold the remaining portion of bottom yarns after sewing operation is completed includes a thread cutter, a linkage mechanism and a driver. The thread cutter includes a cutting blade and an upper and a lower fixed blade. The cutting blade has a first cutting section and a second cutting section. When the driver provides power to drive the linkage mechanism, the cutting blade is swung between the upper and lower fixed blades. The thread is cut off by the first cutting section and the bottom yarns are cut off by the second cutting section and held for use in the successive sewing operation without the need of redoing yarn threading.

Abstract: A flotation device for maintaining a watercraft in a floating condition is provided. The flotation device comprising a cover releasably secured to the watercraft. At least one directing bladder is positioned between the cover and the watercraft. At least one inflatable flotation bladder is positioned between the cover and the watercraft wherein upon inflation of the directing bladder, the directing bladder releases at least a portion of the cover from the watercraft.

Abstract: Composite-shell pneumatic craft convertible into a closed box, having a rigid hull and an inflatable float fixed to the edge thereof, a removable rigid panel constituting a lid for the hull containing the deflated float; a profile fixed along the outer edge of the hull comprises a supporting flank and a groove with narrow opening which opens into an upper wall close to the flank; the groove holds a bead joined to flexible skirt of the float; the upper wall, in its part adjacent to the groove opposite to the flank, can support a lip of the removable panel; a portion of the flank cooperates with members for fixing the profile to the hull.

Abstract: A method of making an assembly for repelling birds from a selected area, including forming fins and vents on a rotor and rotatably mounting the rotor on the distal end of a support member, the proximate end of which is adjusted to be fixed within the selected area. The fins and vents on the rotor arc responsive to wind currents to rotate the rotor and generate bird repelling noises and visual effects. The fins may include light reflective and/or other design indicia to enhance the visual effects. An electrical sound producing device may be mounted on the rotor for emitting the sound of a bird predator.

Abstract: A signal device for attachment to a vehicle having a housing with a plurality of signal members carried therein. The signal members are pivotally connected within an interior compartment of the housing and may be individually pivoted out of the compartment through an opening provided in the housing. An attachment device is connected to the housing and provides that the housing may be attached to a vehicle window in such a manner that the housing projects generally perpendicularly outwardly with the respect to the vehicle window, with one or more preselected signal members being exposed and hanging downwardly from the housing for alerting passersby.

Abstract: A vehicle parking guide apparatus adapted to provide visual indication when a predetermined position is reached. The vehicle parking guide apparatus includes a base and a pivotable contact rod with an indicator attached thereto. The base of the vehicle parking guide is positioned on the ground at a location selected to ensure that a vehicle properly engaged with the contact rod will be longitudinally and laterally aligned. To laterally position the vehicle relative to one or more lateral reference objects, the operator aligns the cross-car center of the vehicle with the indicator. To longitudinally position the vehicle relative to one or more longitudinal reference objects, the operator advances toward the parking guide until the vehicle engages the contact rod thereby causing the indicator to move. The movement of the indicator provides the operator with a visual indication that the vehicle is properly positioned in the longitudinal direction.

Abstract: The detonation of e.g. a grenade or another explosive body is simulated by the evaporation of a liquid and subsequent ejection through a nozzle 17, thereby forming a cloud of vapor at the location of the detonation. The device includes an evaporator 10 heated e.g. by combustion means. The heating system 14 is designed to produce the heat for a continuous evaporation of a liquid in the evaporator. The liquid is preferably a mixture of ethylene glycol in water. It is thereby possible to simplify the handling and application and to reduce the danger potential.

Abstract: A system for optimising the production performance of a milk producing animal herd is provided. The system comprises a milk sampling apparatus, an analytical apparatus comprising separate equipment for analyzing compounds or parameters that in the presence of compounds indicative of the physiological or nutritional condition of the herd member, generates detectable signals, and apparatus directing a part of the milk sample (directing apparatus) to each separate equipment, which is controlled by data for the physiological and nutritional state of a herd member, so that the directing apparatus is only activated at pre-selected points in time or at pre-selected time intervals in the production and/or lactation cycles. Specific compounds are compounds indicative of mastitis, including beta-N-acetylhexosaminidase (NAGase) E.C. 3.2.1.

Abstract: A milking parlor having a plurality of translatable shuttle stalls allows for presentation of animals to be milked and corresponding release of the animals, independent of the milking status of additional animals. The shuttle stalls can be disposed in a herringbone or perpendicular orientation with respect to a corresponding operator pit, wherein the operator pit can accommodate human or robotic devices for implementing the milking process.

Abstract: A rotary milking parlor milker detacher having a pivoting support arm and retracting chain arrangement that is synchronized with a rotating platform position to move the detacher between a storage position, a presentation position, and a milking position to protect the detacher from damage and provide a superior ergonomic design that reduces operator fatigue and turnover.

Abstract: A milking apparatus for laboratory animals enables a milking operation to be performed on a laboratory animal (such as a rat) by a single experimenter, and also enables universal milking data to be obtained that is not influenced by individual difference among experimenters. A teat cup enables milking to be performed directly from the nipple of a relatively small and prolific laboratory animal such as a rat and mouse. The invention provides useful means for clarifying the influence of harmful extrinsic substances on living organisms via milk. The apparatus comprises a milk-collecting container 10 whose inside can be kept blocked from the outside air, two, i.e., a first and second, tubes 12, 13 inserted into the milk-collecting container in a communicated manner, and a teat cup 20 replaceably mounted on the other end of the first tube 12.

Abstract: A game feeder utilizes an improved feed dispensing mechanism that allows feed to enter the feed dispensing mechanism from the side. A game feeder utilizing the improved feed dispensing mechanism prevents access to the feed through the feed dispensing mechanism thereby eliminating the need to keep the game feeder out of the reach of wild animals.

Abstract: A topical insecticide is provided which can be safe to use and avoids many common deleterious side effects of conventional topical insecticides. In one preferred embodiment of the invention, the active ingredient of the insecticide formulation is an amine derivative, having a nitro-methylene group, a nitroamino group or a cyanoamino group, which can be formulated to have low toxicity and excellent insecticidal activity. One particularly suitable insecticide is 1-{(tetrahydro-3-furanyl)methyl}-2-nitro-3-methylguanidine (dinotefuran), an aldulticide that will kill adult fleas, dissolved in a solvent such as ethanol and/or DPM.

Abstract: A gas-fired water heater has a combustion chamber with a bottom wall defined by a perforated flame arrestor plate forming a portion of a flow path through which combustion air may be supplied to a burner structure within the combustion chamber. During firing of the water heater a combustion air shutoff system having a heat-frangible temperature sensing structure disposed within the combustion chamber senses an undesirable temperature increase in the combustion chamber, caused by for example a partial blockage of the flow path, and responsively terminates further air flow into the combustion chamber, thereby shutting down the burner, prior to the creation in the combustion chamber of a predetermined elevated concentration of carbon monoxide.

Abstract: The present invention aims to allow an arbitrary selection to be made between gas operation and diesel operation, to achieve a reduction in NOx even when in diesel operation, to allow the compression ratio to be adjusted and altered in accordance with the operating state when in gas operation, to allow quick starting, and to perform operations at a high combustion efficiency over the entire load range. The dual fuel engine of the present invention is provided with a precombustion chamber unit, which is located in the cylinder head of the dual fuel engine, having a precombustion chamber and an electromagnetic fuel injection valve (a liquid fuel injection valve) and also with a compression ratio control valve. The compression ratio control valve opens and closes an air passage that connects the main combustion chamber with an intake port.

Abstract: A temperature sensitive fluid type fan coupling apparatus obtains linear characteristics without spoiling the drag performance. The fan coupling apparatus has a sealed case divided by a partition into an oil reservoir chamber and a torque transfer chamber. A valve is adapted to open and close an outflow regulating port in the partition in accordance with external ambient temperature. A driving disk is in the torque transfer chamber, and the transfer of torque is controlled by increasing and decreasing an effective contact surface of the oil with the driving disk. An idle oil reservoir chamber is formed in a hollow inner portion of the driving disk. A communication port is made in a side wall of the oil reservoir chamber and communicates with the torque transfer clearance. The communication port is closer to an inner circumference of the torque transfer chamber.

Abstract: A variable stroke engine includes: a connecting rod connected at one end to a piston through a piston pin; a subsidiary arm turnably connected at one end to the other end of the connecting rod and connected to a crankshaft through a crankpin; and a control rod connected at one end to the subsidiary arm at a position displaced from a connection position of the connecting rod; a support position of the other end of the control rod being capable of being displaced in a plane perpendicular to an axis of the crankshaft. In the variable stroke engine, a switchover means switches over: a state in which a high expansion stroke is provided such that the stroke of the piston in an expansion stroke is larger than that in a compression stroke when an engine load is high; and a state in which a constant compression ratio is provided when the engine load is low.

Abstract: An intake quantity control apparatus for an internal combustion engine which controls a valve opening characteristic and intake pressure to control the intake quantity more suitably is provided.

Abstract: A valve control for adjusting a stroke of valves in motor vehicles has at least one adjusting shaft for moving a valve shaft of a valve via at least one transmitting chain. At least one hydraulic drive is provided and acts on the at least one adjusting shaft. The hydraulic drive provides a limited rotation to the at least one adjusting shaft about an axis of the at least one adjusting shaft.

Abstract: A variable camshaft timing system having a camshaft with a vane-type rotor, where oscillation of the housing relative to the vane is actuated by pressurized engine oil, derived in part from a torque pulse in the camshaft. An annular locking plate is positioned coaxially with the camshaft and the housing. It is moveable relative to the housing along the longitudinal central axis of the camshaft between two positions, the teeth on the locking plate engaging the teeth on the housing and where the teeth on the locking plate are disengaged from the teeth on the housing, each position preventing circumferential movement of the housing relative to the rotor. The locking plate is biased by a plurality of metallic straps towards engagement of the teeth on locking plate with the teeth on the housing. The straps have one end secured to the locking plate and another end secured to the rotor.

Abstract: A variable cam timing system that utilizes the same spool that controls the VCT mechanism to actively control the locking pin. The positions of the spool's multiple lands directly influences whether source oil is supplied to both the locking pin and either the retard or advance chamber of the phaser.

Abstract: Valve actuating devices may include a pivot lever (8) having an abutment element (21) displaced from a bearing pin (6). The pivot lever is pivotable by a reciprocating push rod (54). An intermediate lever (26) is pivotably disposed on the pivot lever. A valve lever (40) is pivotably disposed in the intermediate lever and has an abutment surface (44) for contacting the abutment element. A locking device (14, 16) is capable of fixedly coupling the intermediate lever to one of the pivot lever or the valve lever. When the intermediate lever is fixedly coupled to the pivot lever or the valve lever, the valve is actuated according to a first valve stroke function. When the intermediate lever is pivotable relative to the pivot lever and the valve lever, the valve is actuated according to a second valve stroke function.

Abstract: A deactivation valve lifter includes a lifter body. The body defines at least one annular pin chamber therein. The lifter body has a first end configured for engaging a cam of an engine. A pin housing includes a pin housing wall and pin housing bottom. The pin housing wall includes an outer surface. The pin housing bottom defines a radially directed pin bore. The pin housing is concentrically disposed within the lifter body such that the outer surface of the pin housing wall is adjacent to at least a portion of an inner wall of the lifter body. A deactivation pin assembly is disposed within the pin bore and includes pin members. A portion of each pin member is disposed within the annular pin chamber to thereby couple the lifter body to the pin housing. An external lost motion spring is coupled to the body and pin housing.

Abstract: An engine intake resonator and manufacturing method is provided by a pair of molded sheets mated to each other along a plane and defining a plurality of tubular channels therebetween and having different length for attenuation of different frequencies.

Abstract: An air intake apparatus for supplying air to an internal combustion engine comprises a unitary hollow enclosure, a motor vehicle battery and an air compressor for compressing air supplied to the engine. The enclosure is partly divided by a partition wall into a battery compartment and a compressor compartment, access to which is provided by a pair of covers. The battery compartment houses the battery and the compressor compartment houses the air compressor. An engine air supply path leads through the enclosure from an air inlet an air outlet, the enclosure inlet and enclosure outlet defining respectively an upstream end of the air supply path and a downstream end of the air supply path. The air supply path extends through the partition wall. The battery housing encloses an upstream part of the air supply path and the compressor housing encloses a downstream part of the air supply path.

Abstract: A structure of bearing housings of a cylinder block comprises aluminum alloy for constituting the whole cylinder block and a plurality of fiber reinforced metal (FRM) areas. The FRM areas are formed by integrally casting a sheet-like preform containing reinforced metal fibers with aluminum alloy. A plurality of such sheet-like preforms are separately provided in a bearing housing in an axial direction of a crankshaft.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for pumping oil in a machine. The apparatus and method includes a first gear drivably connected to the machine, a second gear connected to the machine such that a set of teeth located on the first gear engage a set of teeth located on the second gear, an oil inlet port located near the teeth of the first gear slightly before a point of engagement of the teeth of the first and second gears, and an oil outlet port located at the point of engagement of the teeth of the first and second gears.

Abstract: There is provided a rotary internal combustion engine (20) comprising a plurality of rotors (21) each having a plurality of lobes (22) for intermeshing with lobes of other rotors to form successive combustion chambers. Axial seal elements (60, 61) are provided at the rotor tips and trailing tips of the rotors respectively. Circumferential axial edge seals (59) are also provided to interconnect the axial seals. The seals engage sealing plates (30) on each axial side of an engine housing (29) so as to effect the combustion chambers. Fuel inlets and ignition means are provided at suitable locations, as are exhaust means.

Abstract: A direct fuel injection engine basically comprises a combustion chamber, a piston with a cavity, a fuel injection valve, a spark plug and a control unit. The fuel injection valve is configured and arranged to directly inject a fuel stream into the combustion chamber in a substantially constant hollow circular cone shape in a stratified combustion region. The control unit is configured to ignite a first air-fuel mixture formed directly after the fuel stream is injected and prior to a majority of the fuel stream striking the cavity when the direct fuel injection engine is operating in a low-load stratified combustion region, and to ignite a second air-fuel mixture formed after a majority of the fuel stream is guided by the cavity toward an upper portion of the combustion chamber above the cavity when the direct fuel injection engine is operating in a high-load stratified combustion region.

Abstract: The present invention provides an ignition method for an internal combustion engine, an injection being alternatively performed in at least one first operating mode or in a second operating mode, and the ignition coil being charged as a function of the current operating mode. A control-pulse curve characteristic of the current operating mode is provided, and the charging of the ignition coil is performed by a control logic element in response to the control-pulse curve, using corresponding, different time characteristics of the primary current. The present invention also provides a corresponding ignition device for an internal combustion engine.

Abstract: A device having a monitoring circuit for a knock control and a control circuit which initiates substitute measures in the event of a fault in the knock control, depending on the output signal of the monitoring circuit, is described. The control unit is designed, for example, so that the number of fuel injection operations per operating cycle of a cylinder of the engine is increased as the substitute measure.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating a direct-injecting gasoline internal combustion engine (1), especially of a motor vehicle, wherein the gasoline is injected directly into the combustion chamber (4) of the engine (1) and an ignition spark is ignited in the combustion chamber (4). In order to be able to reliably ignite an air/gasoline mixture with a relatively low ignition voltage notwithstanding a relatively large electrode gap of a spark plug (10) of the engine (1), it is suggested that the ignition spark be ignited in advance of the start of injection (45) and that a spark burn duration (44) be maintained up to past the end of the injection (45).

Abstract: A fuel cut control device that stops supply of fuel to an internal combustion engine during deceleration of the internal combustion engine having a throttle valve for each cylinder, which detects a maximum value of an intake pipe pressure during one combustion cycle of the internal combustion engine, starts fuel cut control when it is detected that the detected maximum value of the intake pipe pressure becomes less than a set fuel cut start determination value, and stop the fuel cut control when it is detected that the detected maximum value of the intake pipe pressure exceeds a fuel supply restart determination value set higher than the fuel cut start determination value to restart the supply of the fuel to the internal combustion engine.

Abstract: A bore portion of a throttle body of a throttle valve is formed in double-tube structure. In the double-tube structure, a central axis of a cylindrical inner bore tube is deviated downward from a central axis of a cylindrical outer bore tube in order to prevent water from entering an air inlet port or an air outlet port of a bypass. A valve body of an ISC valve (an idling speed control valve) controls an opening degree of the bypass. A trapping concavity on a bypass side has larger internal volume than on a side opposite from the bypass. Thus, the bore portion of the throttle body can be downsized. Meanwhile, performance for preventing icing of the throttle valve can be improved.