Abstract: Crossbar for heald-carrying frames of weaving looms comprising a main element of the crossbar made, at least in part, of a light metallic material, such as aluminium, magnesium or alloys thereof; and a heald-carrying element made of a high-resistance material, such as steel. The heald-carrying element is steadily fastened to the main element of the crossbar by means of a lock joint, through plastic strain between a longitudinal rib projecting from the main element of the crossbar and a corresponding groove formed in the heald-carrying element.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a paper machine mesh, in particular a forming mesh including: an upper fabric layer including upper transverse threads, the outer side of which forms a paper side of the paper machine mesh; a lower fabric layer including lower transverse threads, the outer side of which forms a machine side of the paper machine mesh; and tie threads, arranged in pairs and extending transverse to the transverse threads, which connect the upper and the lower fabric layer to each other in that the tie threads of each pair are woven with upper transverse threads to form upper tie sections and with lower transverse threads to form lower tie sections, wherein each upper tie section is formed by weaving one tie thread of the pair with one or more consecutive upper transverse threads and an upper tie section of the other tie thread of the pair is arranged between two consecutive upper tie sections of the tie thread, wherein in the case of each upper tie section the tie thread crosses at least one uppe

Abstract: A system for simultaneously filling a plurality of paintball pods with a reduced incidence of spilling includes a housing, a pod support, a reservoir, and a valve. The pod support includes a plate with at least one aperture configured to maintain at least one paintball pod in a vertical orientation. The pod support is configured to be positioned in the housing. The reservoir includes at least one opening in a bottom wall thereof. The valve selectively and controllably allows or obstructs a flow of paintballs from the reservoir to one or more paintball pods positioned in the pod support. The components of the paintball filling system may be coupled or nested into a single transportable unit.

Abstract: An air inflation device is a pass-thru vehicle tire inflation device. It ensures exact air pressure without the use of an air gauge. It works by attaching to a tire valve, and then to an existing air supply, such as those found at gas stations, and utilizing an internal pressure relief valve that is pre-set to exact PSI recommendations. This means that the inflation device will put only the amount of air needed in every tire without having to use a pressure gauge. Air is moved through an internal air chamber that is constructed of plastic or rubber tubes that runs through the nozzle to the head that attaches to the valve of the tire. A plastic valve is located on the back of the apparatus that will connect to any existing air supply. A pressure relief valve is integrated into the bottom of the nozzle that ensures that the exact PSI recommendations are maintained. The air flow device is connected against the tire valve and then to an air supply.

Abstract: A filling valve apparatus for a beverage filling machine includes a primary valve portion. A replacement valve portion is coupled to the primary valve portion. A release mechanism is slideably mounted to the primary valve portion. The release mechanism selectively couples the replacement valve portion to the primary valve portion, and the release mechanism is moveable between an engaged position securing the replacement valve portion to the primary valve portion and a disengaged position releasing the replacement valve portion from the primary valve portion.

Abstract: A hydrogen tank filling station includes a high-pressure hydrogen storage tank, a hydrogen supply nozzle for filling a hydrogen tank mounted on a vehicle with hydrogen from the high-pressure hydrogen storage tank, a hydrogen supply pipe, a holder stand for holding the hydrogen supply nozzle, a limit switch for detecting whether the hydrogen supply nozzle is held on the holder stand or not, a cooling system for cooling the hydrogen tank, and a valve controller for controlling a cooling operation performed by the cooling system on the hydrogen tank.

Abstract: The installation for packaging a product in receptacles comprises a series of filler stations each having a filler spout comprising a spout body with a top end connected to a filler spout feed duct and a bottom end provided with an orifice fitted with a controlled valve, the filler spout being fitted with a looping duct opening into the spout body above the controlled valve and adapted to be connected by a link member to a general feed duct between a stop valve and an isolation valve, a purge valve being connected to the general feed duct between the isolation valve and the link member.

Abstract: Disclosed is a measuring bottle cap that attaches to the neck of a bottle. The measuring bottle cap has a seal for sealing the top of the bottle to prevent fluid within the bottle from leaving the bottle, a cylinder that fits over the neck and is fixed to the seal, an annular ring having an inside edge that is fixed to the cylinder and an outside edge that is displaced away from the cylinder, and sides that extend upward from the outside edge of the annular ring. The sides, annular ring, cylinder, and seal form a cup for holding a liquid. The inside edge of the annular ring may be fixed to the top or the bottom of the cylinder. The sides of the measuring bottle cap may be marked with gradations to indicate the amount of fluid held by the cup. The cup may be sealed with a lid.

Abstract: A service station facility for replenishing various motivational energy sources onboard different types of automotive vehicles is disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the service station facility includes a rack, replaceable fuel tanks, a service module, and an electronic computer control system. The replaceable fuel tanks are stocked on the rack and substantially filled with various fluids, such as hydrogen, which are utile as motivational energy sources within fuel-operated automotive vehicles. The service module is mounted on the rack, and the electronic computer control system is connected in electrical communication with the service module. In this configuration, the service module is controllably operable to receive a depleted replaceable fuel tank from a fuel-operated automotive vehicle and also selectively deliver one of the filled replaceable fuel tanks onboard the automotive vehicle.

Abstract: A nozzle (10) has a diaphragm valve (50) mounted at or near the downstream end of the spout (20). The diaphragm has an opening (56) responsive to fluid pressure in the spout, allowing fluid to pass with sufficiently high upstream pressure and preventing fluid, from passing with lower upstream pressure. The opening can have any suitable shape and size, but is preferably multi-branched, with a central point from which side openings radiate. The diaphragm is preferably place very close to the down-stream end of the spout to reduce dead space, and may advantageously be included in an installation frame (80B).

Abstract: A system and method of reducing particle generation in packaging containers used to transport ultra pure liquids. Particle generation in the containers is reduced by reducing the air-liquid interface present during filling, transport, and dispensing of the liquid.

Abstract: A method and device for filling a container with a fertilizer, pesticide, fungicide, herbicide, insecticide, chemical, or the like material by gravity, includes a housing with an inlet and an outlet, a valve for opening or restricting a flow between the inlet and outlet and having open and closed positions, and an actuator disposed downstream of the inlet for actuating the valve between the open and closed positions, wherein the actuator is operated by a container to be filled with a material.

Abstract: The accumulator and harvesting arms in a front cut felling head are offset to one side of the machine so as to hold a bundle of cut trees more to one side than the other so as to create more room in front of the accumulator arms to the side of the bundle in which to cut and receive a freshly cut tree.

Abstract: A chisel quickly adjusting and positioning device for a chiseling machine includes a plurality of separating members for adjusting a gap between a sleeve and the bottom of a machine body, and a chisel unit composed of a chisel and a drill fitting lengthwise in the chisel. After the drill is fitted in the chisel and then clamped in a drill chuck, the chisel unit is fitted in the sleeve. Then the separating members can be pivotally moved in or out of the gap between the sleeve and the bottom of the machine body, and then the sleeve is pushed up so that a gap between the chisel blade and the tip of the drill may be formed for quickly adjusting and positioning the chisel unit with the machine body.

Abstract: A router includes a base for supporting a workpiece and a housing assembly movable with respect to the base by a depth adjustment mechanism in order to adjust the depth of cutting performed on the workpiece by a tool bit carried on the housing assembly. The depth adjustment mechanism includes a wireless remote control device that generates and transmits a radio signal in response to manipulation by an operator. A control unit is mounted on the base to receive the radio signal and generates a control signal for selectively operating a control motor that drives the movement of the housing assembly with respect to the base through a worm-gear based transmission.

Abstract: A worktable includes a base supporting a main table and an auxiliary table, two guide rods slidably supported on the auxiliary table, a sliding board slidably supported on the guide rods, a linking mechanism having a linking rod affixed to the bottom wall of the sliding board for carrying the guide rods to move with the sliding board when the sliding board is moved from a first direction to a second direction reversed to the first direction.

Abstract: A computer-based method for maximizing the use of lumber in the production of truss members for a truss assembly using a linear feed saw apparatus. The method comprises storing a list of truss members to be cut by the linear feed saw apparatus, selecting from the list a first truss member for cutting , the first member having a trailing end. A second truss member from the list is selected for cutting, the secong member having a first end that will nest with the trailing end of the first member. The second member is oriented such that its first end nests with the trailing end of the first member. The members are then cut using the linear feed saw. The nesting members can abut across the entire member width, only across a portion of the member width or at a single point. The nested ends of the first and second members may be bevel cuts.

Abstract: A water-based composition for treating copper or copper alloy surface for lead-free soldering, the composition comprising a compound represented by general formula (1): wherein R1 is hydrogen or methyl, and either R2 and R3 represent chlorine and R4 and R5 represent hydrogen, or R2 and R3 represent hydrogen and R4 and R5 represent chlorine.

Abstract: An age hardenable martensitic steel alloy is disclosed. The alloy has the following composition in weight percent. C 0.30-0.36 Mn 0.05 max. Si 0.05 max. P 0.01 max. S 0.0010 max.? Cr 1.30-3.2? Ni 10.0-13.0 Mo ?1.0-2.70 Co 13.8-17.4 Ti 0.02 max. Al 0.005 max.? Ce 0.030 max.? La 0.010 max.? The balance is iron and the usual impurities. The composition of this alloy is balanced to provide a unique combination of very high strength, together with good toughness, ductility, and resistance to fatigue.

Abstract: Adaptive structures, systems incorporating such adaptive structures and related methods are disclosed. In one embodiment, an adaptive structure is provided which includes a first structure and at least one microstructure associated with the first structure. The at least one microstructure may include a microscale beam configured to be displaced relative to the first structure upon the adaptive structure being exposed to a specified temperature. The beam may be formed for example, of a metallic material, of multiple different metallic materials, or of a shape memory alloy. In one embodiment, a plurality of the adaptive structures may be associated with micropores of a skin panel. The adaptive structures may be utilized to control the flow rate of a coolant or other fluid through the micropores responsive to a sensed environmental parameter such as, for example, temperature.

Abstract: Metallic glasses of superior mechanical and magnetic properties are manufactured by annealing the glasses under the influence of an electric current to convert the glass to a composite that includes crystallites, preferably nanocrystallites, dispersed through an amorphous matrix.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an anti-galling alloy with finely dispersed precipitates, more particularly to an anti-galling alloy comprising Ni, Cr, Sn, Bi, Mo, Fe, Si and Te, in which the matrix has a fine dendritic structure and the Bi-rich precipitates are finely dispersed between the dendritic structure, so that the anti-galling properties are significantly improved, while physicochemical properties such as corrosion resistance and hardness are not deteriorated. The anti-galling alloy of the present invention will greatly contribute to the improvement in life cycle and mechanical precision of a variety of wet machinery parts such as rotor, shaft, valve and mechanical sealing.

Abstract: A copper-based alloy that has the soundness of alloy enhanced by restraining the concentrated occurrence of microporosities while suppressing the lead content and an ingot and a liquid-contacting part using the alloy are provided. The copper-based alloy has the soundness of alloy improved during the course of solidification of the copper-based alloy by crystallizing an intermetallic compound capable of solidifying at a temperature exceeding a solidus line in dendritic gaps of the alloy, suppressing migration of a solute, thereby allowing dispersion of microporosities, utilizing crystallization of the intermetallic compound as well for effecting dispersed crystallization of a low melting metal or a low melting intermetallic compound capable of solidifying at a temperature falling short of a liquidus line, and relying on the low melting metal or low melting intermetallic compound to enter the microporosities and suppress occurrence of microporosities.

Abstract: [PROBLEMS] To provide an aluminum alloy fin material for a heat exchanger, which has high strength and high heat conductivity after brazing, and is excellent in the resistance to sagging, erosion and self-corrosion and the in the sacrificial anode effect. [MEANS FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS] A method for producing an aluminum alloy fin material for a heat exchanger which comprises providing a molten aluminum alloy having a chemical composition, in wt %, that Si: 0.5 to 1.5%, Fe: 0.15 to 1.00%, Mn: 0.8 to 3.0%, Zn: 0.5 to 2.5%, with the proviso that the content of Mg as an impurity is limited to 0.05 wt % or less, and the balance: Al and inevitable impurities, casting the molten alloy continuously into a thin slab having a thickness of 5 to 10 mm by the use of a twin belt casting machine, winding up the slab into a roll, cold-rolling the slab into a sheet having a thickness of 0.05 to 2.0 mm, subjecting the sheet to an inter annealing at 350 to 500® C.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods are provided for cooling workpieces. A cooling gas is directed toward a surface of a workpiece. The workpiece is moved relative to the flow of cooling gas. The cooling gas may include at least a first component that is gaseous at a reference ambient condition and a second component that is a liquid at the ambient condition. The second component may be delivered as a gas or as droplets.

Abstract: The emulsion fuel according to the present invention is prepared by emulsifying about 55 to 90% by weight of a mixture of heavy oil, 45 to 10% by weight of water, and 0.3 to 0.8% by weight of a catalyst. The catalyst comprises caustic soda (sodium hydroxide) and calcium dichloride in half and half. The calcium chloride can be partly substituted with calcium sulfate.

Abstract: The invention disclosed herein relates to an explosive capable of enhanced combustion efficiently capable of sustaining a high pressure over a period of time in a confined environment, such as an air tight room or a cave, where oxygen may be in limited supply. An embodiment of the present invention is a metal composite that combines a binder, a nano-sized reactive metal and an oxidizer.

Abstract: A gas generator 10 includes an autoignition composition that contains an alkali metal chlorate such as potassium chlorate as an oxidizer, a carboxylic acid such as DL-tartaric acid as a fuel, and a desiccant in operable communication therewith. Gas generating systems 180 such as vehicle occupant protection systems 180, containing the gas generator 10, are also provided.

Abstract: The invention relates to an energetic igniter charge consisting of a mixture of at least one secondary explosive and an optical doping material in powder form. In accordance with the invention, the optical doping material is a metal. The energetic igniter charge can be used in a detonator as well as in an igniter.

Abstract: A manufacturing method of a rubber member for a tire includes a winding step in which a rubber strip is spirally winding and overlapping around a surface of a to-be wound body, thereby forming a tire rubber member around which the rubber strip is overlapped. A purality of air-vent grooves are formed on at least one of surfaces of the rubber strip. Each air-vent groove extends at an angle ? of 20 to 90° with respect to the longitudinal direction of the rubber strip, the maximum groove width of the air-vent groove is 0.3 to 3.0 mm, and the maximum groove depth thereof is 0.1 to 3.0 mm.

Abstract: A traction device for vehicle tires is provided for when the vehicle is stuck in mud, snow, ice or similar terrain, comprising an adjustable support member having a first end and a second end; a connection member extending from the first end of the support member, wherein the connection member is connectable to a wheel; a shaft extending from said second end of said support member; and a traction member rotatably mounted to the shaft, wherein the traction member includes one or more tire-gripping portions. A double-ended embodiment of the traction device is also disclosed for providing greater traction in appropriate situations.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire comprises a tread portion, a pair of sidewall portions, a pair of bead portions, a bead core disposed in each bead portion, a carcass comprising a ply of carcass cords extending between the bead portions through the tread portion and sidewall portions and turned up around the bead core in each bead portion, and an inner liner made of air-impermeable rubber extending on the tire cavity side of the carcass from one of the bead portions to the other. The radially inner end of the inner liner is located radially inside the radially innermost end of the carcass. In a radial region between the radially innermost end of the carcass and the radially outermost end of the bead core, the thickness of the inner liner is not less than 0.15 time but not more than 4.0 times the cross section diameter of the carcass cord.

Abstract: Closed cellular elements (1) intended for use on the inside of an assembly (E) formed of a wheel with a rim (J) provided with an inflation valve (V), on which is mounted a tire (P), the said cellular elements (1) having walls formed from thin, flexible sheets (11, 12) impermeable to gas. The cellular elements contain a given amount of a chemical composition which is solid or liquid at ambient temperature, but which changes to the gaseous state by phase change or by the shift of a chemical equilibrium between 40° C. and 80° C.

Abstract: A heavy duty tire having improved resistances to uneven wear and cracking at groove bottom without impairing durability, comprising a belt layer having first and third plies of cords arranged at an angle of 10 to 45° relative to the tire equator, a second ply of cords arranged at an angle of at most 5° relative to the tire equator, and optionally a fourth ply disposed radially outward of the third ply wherein the widths W1 and W3 of the first and third plies are at least 85% of a ground contact width Tw and the width W2 of the second ply is at least 70% of the width Tw and is smaller than the widths W1 and W3, and preferably the difference W1?W3 is at least 14 mm; and a pair of reinforcing rubber layers disposed between the first and third belt plies so as to extend axially outwardly from the axially outer ends of the second belt ply wherein each reinforcing rubber layer comprises an axially inner portion having a complex elastic modulus E*1 of 8.0 to 14.

Abstract: A tire having an outside-in ply construction is provided which torques the tire bead into the rim of the wheel to which it is mounted. The tire has first and second axially-spaced bead cores, a carcass having at least one belt extending under a tread, and a first ply layer having first and second ends. A first end is located axially outside and adjacent a first bead core, and a second end folds from a position axially outside a second bead core to a position axially inside and around the second bead core. The carcass further comprises a second ply layer having first and second ends, a first end is located axially outside and adjacent the second bead core, and a second end that folds from a position axially outside a first bead core to a position axially inside and around the first bead core.

Abstract: A strip member is wound by a tire building machine having a building drum for taking up a strip member of predetermined length without discrete ends and a transfer conveyor for feeding the strip member to the building drum. The winding-start end of the strip member transferred from the transfer conveyor to the building drum and the winding-finish end of the strip member are detected by means of end sensors, measuring the angle through which the building drum has rotated from the output of a winding start signal to the output of a winding finish signal in response to output signals from the sensors by means of an angle detector. A lapping margin between the winding start end and the winding finish end of the strip member is calculated based on the rotational angle and diameter of the building drum by means of an operational means.

Abstract: Foamed, aqueous adhesive compositions are used to manufacture tissue laminate products including or especially as bathroom tissue, facial tissue, paper towels, and the like. Foaming typically occurs by introducing pressurized gas and adhesive flows in a nozzle chamber on demand, wherein the kinetic energy of the flows is used to provide mixing energy. The adhesive preferably is dispensed as a plurality of discrete, foamed adhesive particles. The foamed adhesive can be used for intralamina bonds, interlaminate bonds, bonding loose sheet extremities, bonding roll to roll, and the like. The invention provides a reliable, straightforward way to accomplish in-nozzle foaming of an adhesive.

Abstract: An apparatus for providing uniform axial load distribution for laminate layers of multilayer ceramic chip carriers includes a base plate configured to support a plurality of green sheet layers thereon, the base plate having at least one resiliently mounted load support bar disposed adjacent outer edges of the base plate. The load support bar is mounted on one or more biasing members such that the top surface of the support bar extends above the top surface of the base plate by a selected distance.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a biomedical scaffold material for articular cartilage repair, which is a multi-layer composite scaffold in the cylindrical plug form. It includes a lower porous ceramic layer intimating the bone zone of the joint, and an upper porous ceramic layer intimating the bottom cartilage zone of the joint; a dense ceramic separation layer connecting the lower and upper porous ceramic layers; and a porous gelatin layer, intimating the middle cartilage zone of the joint, affixed to the upper porous ceramic layer.

Abstract: The invention relates to thick film conductor compositions which are useful in application to both via-fill and/or line conductors to manufacture of Low Temperature Co-fireable Ceramic (LTCC) devices and other Multilayer Interconnect (MLI) ceramic composite circuits such as Photosensitive Tape On Substrates (PTOS); gold, silver and mixed metal multilayer circuits and devices. The invention is useful for forming microwave and other high frequency circuit components selected from the group comprising: antenna, filters, baluns, beam former, I/O's, couplers, via feedthroughs, EM coupled feedthroughs, wirebond connection, and transmission lines.

Abstract: In accordance with the present invention, there is provided a method for the forming or curing of polymer composites, the method including the step of: forming or curing the polymer composite in the presence of water vapour at about atmospheric pressure.

Abstract: A method of producing a tire having an outside-in ply construction is provided.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire comprises a carcass comprised of at least one carcass ply containing a steel cord(s) arranged at a cord angle of 70-90° with respect to an equatorial plane of the tire and toroidally extending between a pair of bead cores and turned up around the bead core inward or outward in a radial direction to form a turnup portion, wherein a wrap part wrapping on a peripheral face of the bead core therealong is formed in the turnup portion of the carcass ply.

Abstract: A woven panel is formed from a plurality of elongated yarns, with and without a center core. The core yarns provide mechanical strength for the woven material in supporting the coreless yarns when used in load bearing articles such as the seat or back portions of an article of furniture.

Abstract: A stretch label attaching device for attaching a stretch label on a good, including an adapter supporting the label from the inside thereof and has an opening into which the good is inserted; an adapter support member configured to support a lower portion of the adapter and has an opening into which the good is inserted; and an adapter fixing member configured to fix the lower portion of the adapter together with the adapter support member. A method for attaching a stretch label on a good including setting a stretch label on the adapter mentioned above; inserting the good into the openings of the adapter and adapter support member while extending the label at a ratio not greater than 5%; and releasing the stretch label attaching device from the good while holding the label, to attach the label to the predetermined position of the good.

Abstract: A method for producing a pultruded component includes providing a plurality of fiber tows each formed of a plurality of fibers. The method also includes providing a first chamber and a second chamber for wetting the plurality of fiber tows with a polymeric resin precursor. The method further includes pulling the plurality of fiber tows through a first chamber to wet their exterior surfaces with the polymeric resin precursor, pulling the plurality of fiber tows through a second chamber to wet the plurality of fibers within each tow, and pulling the wetted plurality of tows and fibers through a curing die to form the pultruded component.

Abstract: Containers suitable for storing pressurized fluids at cryogenic temperatures of ?62° C. (?80° F.) and colder are provided and comprise a self-supporting liner and load-bearing composite overwrap, whereby means are provided for substantially preventing failure of the container during temperature changes.

Abstract: A dunnage platform is in the general shape of a rectangular slab with legs extending form one side. The dunnage platform is made from an expanded polystyrene core. A chemical combination process is used to chemically combine portion of the core proximal to its surface with high impact polystyrene. In a first of two parts of the combination process, the core is placed in a forming mold with one of its two sides and two thirds of its thickness extending therefrom. A heated sheet of high impact polystyrene is brought into contact with the portion of the core extending from the mold. In a similar manner, the other of the two sides of the core is made to extend from the forming mold for contact with a heated sheet of high impact polystyrene.

Abstract: In a roll-to-roll step, an adhesive solution is applied to a release film 1 including a polyethylene terephthalate film and this film 1 is passed through a drying oven 500 regulated to 60 to 150° C. to thereby form an adhesive layer 2. Subsequently, an insulating film 3 including a polyimide film is laminated on the adhesive layer 2 at room temperature (about 25° C.) to thereby produce a layered product 6 including the release film 1, adhesive layer 2 and insulating film 3. Next, the release film 1 is stripped from the layered product 6 and a conductor film 4 including a copper foil is laminated to the adhesive layer 2 to thereby produce a conductor-clad laminate 8.

Abstract: Provided is a method of manufacturing a barrier rib structure for a high-definition flat display panel by using a metal. The method includes preparing a base substrate, forming a photoresist layer on the base substrate, exposing a portion of the base substrate adhered to the photoresist layer, plating an upper surface of the exposed portion with a metal for the barrier rib structure, and removing the photoresist layer to form the barrier rib structure.