Abstract:
Method and apparatus for producing silicon nitride molded bodies by means of a pseudoisostatic hot pressing process. Silicon nitride is initially ground in a grinding vessel with grinding elements wherein the vessel is lined with the same material from which the grinding elements are made, e.g., hot pressed silicon nitride. Grinding is continued until a specific surface area greater than 15 m.sup.2 is obtained. The grinding takes place in the presence of a grinding liquid to prevent oxidation of the freshly ground silicon nitride. The silicon nitride suspension is then treated in a pressure vessel to remove the grinding liquid therefrom and form a blank. The blank is thereafter embedded within a pressure transfer medium, e.g., boron nitride, and inserted into the die of a hot pressing furnace to obtain the desired hot pressed silicon nitride.The pressure vessel used in this method comprises a chamber for the silicon nitride suspension, an outlet means connected to the bottom of the chamber to permit the vacuum removal of the grinding fluid from said suspension; and an inlet means connected to the chamber for admitting an inert gas, e.g., nitrogen, into the chamber.
Abstract:
An extruder head wherein the housing for a mandrel has a lateral inlet for admission of plasticized material into an arcuate bore of the mandrel and the mandrel has two divergent connecting passages which cause the plasticized material to form a first tubular stream with two radial seams at the inner end of an elongated annular chamber which is defined by the housing and mandrel and wherein the material flows toward an extrusion orifice. The inner end of the chamber contains a ring which divides the first stream into two discrete streams one of which flows along a neck portion of the mandrel and the other of which flows around the ring. The two discrete streams merge into a fourth tubular stream downstream of the ring. The periphery of the ring and/or the neck portion of the mandrel has inclined baffles which subdivide the respective discrete stream into several fields whose boundaries at the downstream end of the ring are out of alinement with the seams of the other discrete stream. This insures that the fourth stream does not have any radial seams which extend all the way from its inner to its outer surface.
Abstract:
1,133,167. Carrying liquefied gases. LINDE A.G. 16 March, 1967 [28 March, 1966], No. 12353/67. Headings B7A and B7S. [Also in Division F4] In a tanker vessel for the transport of a cargo of liquefied gas at low temperature, the cargo is carried only in containers 5 which are located wholly above the level of the upper deck 3. Smaller auxiliary tanks 6 extend parallel to the fore-and-aft axis of the tanker outboard of containers 5. The sides of the hull 1 are connected by a cladding 7 with the outer walls of the auxiliary tanks and the containers. An insulating layer 8 is arranged between the cladding 7 and the containers and auxiliary tanks. The deck 3 is protected by a second barrier 12 arranged on a load-bearing insulating layer 13. The space between the cladding 7 and the second barrier 12 forms a gas-tight chamber which may be filled with a protective gas.
Abstract:
The present invention concerns a stretch machine with a drive mechanism which is placed in a drive enclosure (3). This drive is covered by a movable top (2), which lies with its edge areas (24) on a stationary part (10) of the stretch machine and which top carries a blower (4) with at least one suction side and one discharge side. The blower stands with its suction side in connection with a filter (5) and with its discharge side open to the interior of the drive enclosure (3). Within the drive enclosure is provided an air distribution system (6). This is so arranged and so oriented that the blower (4) produces, in the entire peripheral area of the cover (2), an effect which is essentially of uniform strength. The blower 4 is provided with a control apparatus (71) for a reversal of its direction of impelling air.
Abstract:
A spinning or twisting device in which a yarn is to be back-fed into the bore of a pipe-shaped element subjected to negative pressure in order to repair a yarn break. This pipe-shaped element is made in form of a yarn draw-off pipe of an open-end spinning device or as part of a pneumatic twisting device.A presenting device is moved over and beyond the pipe-shaped element into a yarn inserting position. The end of the pipe-shaped element towards the moving path of the presenting device is provided with a nozzle which is provided, in relation to the bore, on its side towards the yarn inserting position of the presenting device with a yarn support, and on its side away from the yarn inserting position with a yarn insertion groove, oriented in the direction of movement of the presenting device. The bottom of the yarn insertion groove is at a greater distance from the moving path of the presenting device than the yarn support.
Abstract:
A spinning machine with unit to service spinning and winding stations, which is capable of travelling alongside the spinning machine and contains control and drive elements in a housing. The housing is enclosed by covers and is equipped with an anti-collision device taking effect in a direction opposite to the direction of travel. The anti-collision device of each direction of travel comprises two elements, of which the first element is attached to the lateral cover of the housing so as to be capable of pivoting. The first element is made to act as an actuating mechanism of the second element which acts upon the control elements.
Abstract:
A coextrusion head for the continuous production of laminated tubes to be used as parisons in blow molding. The tubes consist of a plurality of layers of synthetic resins. The synthetic resin layers include one or more supporting layers, usually a barrier layer, and adhesive layers as necessary. The layers are brought together by axial, annular feed passageways within the coextrusion head prior to the laminated tube being extruded through a nozzle in the head. Frequently one layer, generally the barrier layer, has different flow characteristics than those of the other layers, whereupon structural defects can arise in the formed tube. The apparatus described forestalls such structural defects by feeding the various layers into confluence in a manner that precludes, or sufficiently minimizes, the time layers having differing flow characteristics have contact with feed passageway walls while in confluence. As a result, shear stresses within or between the individual layers is avoided and the tube so produced is free of structural defects.
Abstract:
A separate boom vehicle is provided for transporting a telescopic boom, which is adapted to be coupled to a revolving superstructure and to be detached from it for transporting. The boom vehicle is provided in its forward portion with a coupling structure for retaining a telescopically extensible part of the telescopic boom, and is provided in its rear portion with a lifting structure for supporting the boom. The lifting structure is so arranged that when it has been longitudinally aligned with the revolving superstructure, a coupling yoke, provided at the lower end of the telescopic boom, is adapted to be displaced by extending and retracting cylinders along tracks provided on the revolving superstructure to a position in which bearing eyes of the telescopic beam register with bearing bores of the revolving superstructure. The revolving superstructure is provided with a pivot pin for coupling the boom to the revolving superstructure.
Abstract:
In a heavy-duty crane particularly suitable for lifting heavy loads over tall buildings, a substructure supports a rotatable main boom. A jib for carrying the load and a secondary spar for carrying a counterweight by means of a cable are hinged to the tip of the main boom. The counterweight swivels together with turning of the loaded crane. The jib is guyed by way of the secondary spar which overhangs so far that the counterweight is disposed beyond the confines of the substructure.