Abstract:
An apparatus is disclosed for measuring the damping of vibrations in visco-elastic materials, such as nonvulcanized, slightly cross-linked rubbers, the apparatus having a moveable arm in communication with the elastic material and carrying a scale attached thereto, the scale having a set of logarithmic graduations in which the interval between each two successive graduation marks is directly proportional to the distance to the zero point. The apparatus is also provided with a counting means for determining the decrease in the number of graduation marks passed in successive vibration periods.
Abstract:
AN APPARATUS FOR MEASURING THE REFRACTIVE INDEX OF A SOLUTION IN A ROTATING CENTRIFUGE PROVIDED WITH A MULTICELL ROTOR AND WITH A SELECTOR CIRCUIT FOR OBSERVING A GIVEN CELL WITH APPLICATION OF A LIGHT SOURCE CONTINUOUSLY OMITTING RADIATION AND A MOTOR-OPERATED ROTARY DISC, SERVING AS A GATE, WHOSE SPEED OF REVOLUTION IS DERIVED FROM THAT OF THE ROTOR, BOTH THE ROTOR AND THE DISC BEING EQUIPPED WITH MEANS FOR THE GENERATION OF PULSES WITH A FREQUENCY THAT IS DIRECTLY PROPORTIONAL TO THE NUMBER OF REVOLUTIONS AND WHEREIN USE IS MADE OF AN ELECTRONIC CONTROLLER WHICH FEEDS THE DISC DRIVE WITH PULSES OF A FREQUENCY EQUAL TO THAT OF THE ROTOR PULSES, UNLESS SAID MOTOR IS ROTATING AT TOO HIGH A SPEED, WHILE IN THE CASE OF A SYNCHRONOUS OR LAGGING SPEED OF REVOLUTION THE TIME DURATION OF THE PULSES TO BE FED TO THE MOTOR IS REDUCED BY THE PULSES GENERATED BY THE DISC IN SO FAR AS THE LATTER PULSES COME WITHIN THE TIME DURATION OF THE PULSES TO BE FED TO THE MOTOR, AND THE DISC IS COUPLED WITH A DAMPER FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF ROTATIONAL VIBRATIONS.
Abstract:
A balance having a rotatably suspended balance arm connected to a horizontally disposed tension wire; the tension wire is mechanically linked to a barrel-shaped coil holder which is rotatably mounted in a casing; a permanent magnet is fixed to the casing to extend within the coil holder; conducting coils are arranged on the exterior of the coil holder to cooperate with the magnets to restore the balance arm to an equilibrium position; the current supplied to the coils to restore the balance arm being a measure of the weight of the object placed on the balance arm.