Abstract: A drum type washing machine is provided. The washing machine includes a tub, a drum rotatably installed in the tub, and a shaft that penetrates the tub and is connected to the drum so as to transmit a drive force of a motor to the drum. A stator is fixed to a rear wall of the tub, and an outer rotor, including at least one magnet, an annular back yoke, and a rotor frame, is rotatably disposed at the outside of the stator. The rotor frame may be made of an aluminum material, and includes a side wall portion and a rear wall portion integrally formed with the side wall portion.

Abstract: A laundry tool for compacting laundry loaded in a top-filling washing machine has a handle, an elongated body and a compaction head. The compaction head is hemispheric in shape with the concave opening of the hemisphere opening outwardly from the elongated body. Slits in the compaction head communicate between the concavity and the outside of the hemispheric compaction head so that during compaction of laundry in a washing machine filling with water, water captured in the concavity is directed outward when compaction is effected.

Abstract: A washing machine wherein a cold water valve is opened during a hot fill operation is described. In one embodiment, the washing machine comprises a cabinet, a tub and basket mounted within the cabinet, and an agitation element mounted within the basket. The machine also includes a cold water valve for controlling flow of cold water to the tub, and a hot water valve for controlling flow of hot water to the tub. A control coupled to the cold water valve controls opening and closing of the cold water valve during the hot fill operation.

Abstract: A freely rotatable endless belt has a bottom face that is opposed, in the water, to an ultrasonic oscillator. A carbon fiber fabric is transferred from a supply roller to a hot roller while being given tension by means of a torque motor and a constant speed motor connected to the supply roller and the hot roller, respectively. The carbon fiber fabric moves in contact with the bottom face of the endless belt, whereby endless belt rotates in synchronism with the carbon fiber fabric. Two oblique movement correcting belts are so disposed as to be pressed against both side portions of the endless belt while gripping respective selvages of the carbon fiber fabric. Each of the two oblique movement correcting belts is connected to a variable speed motor via a uni-directional clutch that transmits a driving force only in the direction of transferring the carbon fiber fabric.

Abstract: A flameresisting apparatus in which two sections, referred to as roller compartments, enclosing a series of rollers provided face to face with one another for transferring precursor fiber, are separated from a heat treatment section by two walls facing each other. The walls include apertures for passage of the precursor fiber. Significantly, the two walls facing each other are provided at a distance which enables the precursor fiber to pass from one wall to the other in 5 to 60 seconds. The surface temperature of the rollers and the temperature of the roller compartments are maintained at a temperature of 10.degree. to 80.degree. C. lower than the temperature of the heat treatment compartment, but not lower than 180.degree. C. In addition, heated air is blown against the precursor fiber into the heat treatment compartment.

Abstract: An apparatus for disintegrating a carbon fiber fabric. The apparatus includes a water vessel containing water, with an ultrasonic wave oscillator immersed in the water and a guide plate for the fabric being located in opposed relation to the oscillator. A conveyor is provided for continuously conveying the carbon fiber fabric along the side of the guide plate facing the oscillator. Sound waves generated by the oscillator function to press the carbon fiber fabric against the guide plate in a manner as to cause the fabric to be disintegrated under the effects of the ultrasonic waves.

Abstract: A hinge assembly for pivotally connecting a closure lid to the cabinet of a top loading clothes washing machine and maintaining the lid in a releasable self-sustaining open position and out of contact with the knobs of the machine control panel. The assembly includes an integrally formed first hinge portion for attachment to the cabinet and provided with a base, a curved bearing surface terminating in a landing and a pivotal hub, and a second hinge portion for attachment to the closure lid and provided with a pivot pin disposable within a passageway formed in the hub. A pair of the assemblies are used to secure a closure lid provided with a radiused bearing section to the cabinet.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for threading acrylic filaments on rollers of an oxidizing furnace, wherein (a) the atmospheric temperature in the furnace is maintained at 180.degree. C. to the oxidizing temperature, (b) the tips of said filaments are fastened to a filament-fastening bar spanning a pair of chains which engage chain wheels provided at both ends of each roller freely rotatable against the roller, (c) the chains are moved, thereby said filament-fastening bar attached to the chains being moved from the entrance to the exit of the furnace and the filaments being threaded on the rollers, and (d) the moving speed of the chains is controlled with progress of heat-treating of the filaments so as to match the behavior of shrinkage and elongation of the filaments.

Abstract: In a process for continuously pulling a web of tows of carbonizable material under tension through an oxidizing oven, the web is introduced into the oxidizing oven by initially feeding a leader in the form of a web of heat-resistant cloth through the oven and then heating the oven if the oven is not already hot. The trailing edge of the leader which remains outside of the oven is then spliced to the leading edge of the web of carbonizable tows, and the leader is used to pull the web of carbonizable tows into and through the hot oven. Use of the heat-resistant leader greatly minimizes wastage within the web of carbonizable tows. Splicing of the trailing edge of the lead to the leading edge of the web of carbonizable tows is accomplished by taping, stitching and folding the two edges to form loops therein into which elongated rods are inserted. The two edges are then secured within a splice bar, the opposite halves of which define slots for receiving the two edges and the included rods.