Abstract:
A loading device for a machine tool in which a workpiece holder is arranged to be mounted on a machine tool, the workpiece holder having releasable gripping means associated therewith for retaining the workpiece. The gripping means is provided with a tapering surface arranged to provide, in conjunction with a cooperating tapering surface on the workpiece holder, a stickingtaper wedging action to grip the workpiece on axial movement of the workpiece into or over the gripping means. The gripping means is also arranged to permit the workpiece to be withdrawn therefrom solely by an axially directed extracting force applied to the workpiece, of which the following is a specification.
Abstract:
A POLYURETHANE PREPOLYMER COMPOSITION COMPRISING A POLYURETHANE PREPOLYMER AND THE REACTION PRODUCT OF A CARBOXYLIC ACID WITH A MONOMERIC ISOCYANATE. ALSO THE METHOD FOR PRODUCING SHAPED ARTICLES WHICH COMPRISES FORMING INTO THE DESIRED SHAPE AND AT LEAST PARTIALLY CURING A FOAMABLE COMPOSITION CONSISTING OF THE POLYURETHANE PREPOLYMER COMPOSITION PLUS A POLYFUNCTIONAL AMINE CURATIVE.
Abstract:
In an aircraft brake a brake thrust transmission member is arranged between a stack of friction members and a circular arrangement of spaced brake actuators to provide even circumferential distribution of the localised thrusts exerted by the actuators. The transmission member has at least one deformable section of frusto-conical shape, an annular ring engaged by the actuators, and another annular ring, which may have two or more co-planar surfaces, for engagement with a friction member.
Abstract:
A method of mounting a tire on a wheel rim having an inwardly depressed bead seat and a detachable flange comprising arranging the tire on the rim and then expanding the bead seat to hold the tire and the detachable flange permanently in position.
Abstract:
A BELT CONVEYOR WHEREIN A LOAD-CARRYING PORTION OF THE BELT IS SUPPORTED BY CAUSING THE AIR PRESSURE BELOW THAT PORTION TO BE GREATER THAN THE AIR PRESSURE ABOVE THAT PORTION OF THE BELT, OF WHICH THE FLOWING IS A SPECIFICATION.
Abstract:
AN IMPROVED METHOD FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF METAL FRAMES FOR BADMINTON, TENNIS AND OTHER GAMES RACKETS HAVING FLANGED APERTURES FOR THE STRINGS THEREOF, STARTING FROM A METAL TUBE HAVING AN 0.2 PROOF STRESS NOT EXCEEDING 30 TONS/SQUARE INCH, MAXIMUM STRESS NOT EXCEEDING 55 TONS/SQUARE INCH AND AN ELONGATION ON 2 INCHES OF NOT LESS THAN 25%. AFTER THE FLANGED APERTURES HAVE BEEN
FORMED IN THE TUBE AND THE LATTER BENT INTO THE SHAPE OF THE RACKET FRAME, THE FRAME IS SUBJECTED TO A HARDENING PROCESS TO GIVE THE METAL A 0.2% PROOF STRESS AND A MAXIMUM STRESS EACH NOT LESS THAN 70 TONS/SQUARE INCH AND AN ELONGATION OF 2 INCHES OF NOT MORE THAN 15%.
Abstract:
Apparatus for heating or preheating a rubber article before moulding and vulcanization. The apparatus comprises a chamber, means for locating an article within the chamber in a position symmetrical within the space in the chamber, a closure member for enclosing the article in the chamber, and a wave guide for supply of microwave energy to the chamber for heating the article, the wave guide communicating with the space in the chamber via a wave guide entry in the base of the chamber, the entry being location in a position so as to establish a multimode distribution of energy in the chamber.
Abstract:
D R A W I N G A PALLET FOR SUPPORTING HEAVY OR BULKY OBJECTS SUCH AS PACKING CASES DURING TRANSIT FOR EXAMPLE FROM PLACE TO PLACE IN WAREHOUSES, N THE FORM OF A FLEXIBLE RUBBER OR PLASTIC MATERIAL HAVING EMBEDDED THEREIN TWO SEPARATE CORD LAYERS EACH OF INDIVIDUALLY FLEXIBLE HIGH MODULUS PARALLED CORDS, AND A TEXTILE REINFORCEMENT OR CORD RUBBER OR PLASTIC LAYER SANDWICHED BETWEEN THE CORD LAYERS,
THE CORDS OF ONE CORD LAYER BEING PARALLEL WITH THE CORDS OF THE OTHER CORD LAYER AND THE SEPARATION OF THE CORD LAYERS BEING SUFFICIENT O GIVE THE PALLET A DEGREE OF TRANSVERSE RIGIDITY.