Coupling apparatus for interconnecting submerged conduit sections, which apparatus includes coupling connecting members and coupling jack units which are generally circumferentially dispersed about the submerged coupling apparatus. The coupling jack units are operationally independent of the coupling connecting units. A bifurcated guide and a handle facilitate the installation of a seal between coupling members of the apparatus. A coupling including a circumferentially translatable, flange-jacki...

A d.c. gas discharge lamp in which the space at the electrodes communicates through one or more apertures sufficiently small in cross-section to prevent arcing but sufficiently large to permit diffusion of metallic vapor. A single channel or a diaphragm may be utilized in a hot or cold cathode tube.

An electric striking mechanism for clocks and the like including an electromagnet, a sounding body, a striking mechanism responsive to the electromagnet for striking the sounding body, a circuit for supplying an impulse current to the electromagnet and a control responsive to the electromagnet for controlling the circuit.

Malodorous/foul smelling paper mill effluents are deodorized by treating same with an effective deodorizing amount, e.g., from 0.01% to 5% by weight thereof, of an alkyl or polyoxyalkylene ester of undecylenic acid, for example methyl undecylenate or a polyoxyethylene undecylenate having 8 or 10 ethylene oxide recurring structural units.

A method and an apparatus are provided for releasing a fluid tight seal formed about a well bore perforation by a perforating and sealing tool. A pressure differential across the sealing means urges the fluid tight seal into engagement with a well casing adjacent a perforation. To release this seal and remove the perforating and sealing tool from the well bore, the pressure differential acting on the seal is eliminated by equalizing the pressures acting on the two faces of the seal. The equaliza...

A data processing system includes the data processing apparatuses formed with the VUPU architecture by combining a general-purpose data processing unit and a special-purpose data processing unit equipped with a data path unit for specialized data processing that is executed according to special-purpose instructions, and equipping the general-purpose data processing unit with a communication function for communicating with the general-purpose data processing unit in another data processing appara...

A gasket is capable of providing an excellent slidabiity and holding its sealability without applying lubricant and a gasket that can prevent a resin film from being peeled off of a gasket body and prevent the generation of a molding defect such as pinholes. The gasket can be installed slidably in a outer tube of a syringe, including a gasket body and a resin film formed of a material lower in coefficient of friction than a material of the gasket body, which covers at least an outer periphery of...

The present invention relates to a structure of a stacked stator core formed when rotary motors are manufactured and to a method of manufacturing the stacked stator core. It is possible to improve the workability in the winding process and the productivity of the stator and the rotary motor because the stacked stator core includes a plurality of stator cores 300, each of which is made up of a prescribed number of stacked sheet magnetic materials, a plurality of yoke members 301 forming each stat...

A liquid atomizing method and apparatus including a conduit member having an annular ring eccentrically mounted thereon such that a radial port in the ring is aligned with a radial aperture in the conduit member. A thin flexible orifice ribbon is intercalated between the ring and the conduit member. In one embodiment of the invention, a vibratory device is rigidly mounted upon the exterior surface of the conduit member and functions to induce the formation of uniform droplets within fluid flowin...

The switch comprises a body carrying fixed electric contacts and a movable member rotatably mounted in the body. The body has curved ribs of identical radius which extend around a barrel and define between them a plurality of free spaces containing electrically conductive balls. At least two of the spaces are partly occupied by the fixed contacts. An electrically conductive ring is interposed between the balls and elastically yieldable members carried by the base of the movable element. The cond...