Abstract:
A tachogenerator for measuring the speed of a rotating shaft is described. The tachogenerator has two discs each with spaced peripheral slots; one disc is rotated at a constant speed and the other at the speed to be measured. A light beam is projected through the slots to a light sensitive device coupled to an electrical filter and a signal indicative of speed is obtained from the filter. Electrical noise in the signal from the light sensitive device is reduced by the filter. A further reduction in noise is obtained by using one or more pairs of light beams, with the beams diametrically opposed with respect to the discs. A light sensitive device is provided for each beam and these devices are coupled to the filter input. Instead the devices may be coupled to means for combining the pulse trains generated, to provide the output signal.
Abstract:
Method and apparatus for determining the optical density for radiation within a predetermined range of wavelengths in which a first signal is produced related to the attenuation of radiation over a known path length in the fluid, a second signal is produced related to the attenuation of the radiation over the same path length by solid matter suspended in the fluid and the second signal is utilized to correct the first signal for the presence of the suspended solid matter in the fluid.
Abstract:
A prosthetic device comprising mutually engageable male and female components to afford pivotal rotation in a plane, the female component including a socket member having a concave bearing surface with a cross section in said plane substantially in the form of a first circular segment subtending an angle greater than 180*, and a first shaft projecting from the rear of said socket member, and the male component including a head member having a convex bearing surface with a cross section in said plane substantially in the form of a second circular segment of equal radius to said first segment, subtending an angle significantly greater than said first segment, and relieved towards one end over a segmental angle of at least similar order to that by which said first segment exceeds 180*, and a second shaft projecting from the rear of said head member.
Abstract:
THE DEWATERING TIME OF A SLUDGE OBTAINED BY ANAEROBIC DIGESTION OF A PRIMARY SEWAGE SLUDGE IS REDUCED SUBSTANTIALLY BY SUBJECTING THE DIGESTED SLUDGE TO AERATION WITH AIR OR OTHER SUITABLE OXYGEN CONTAINING GAS. TYPICALLY, AERATION IS CARRIED OUT FOR AT LEAST 4 HOURS, THE SLUDGE IS ALLOWED TO SETTLE, AND THEN DEWATERED WITHIN TWO DAYS. AERATION MAY BE CARRIED OUT BY MEANS OF DIFFUSED AIR OR, PREFERABLY, BY MECHANICAL MEANS USING A SURFACE AERATOR.
IN WHICH Z REPRESENTS AN ARYL, ALKENYL OR CARBOALKOXYALKENYL GROUP, Y REPRESENTS A HYDROGEN ATOM OR AN ALKYL, ALKENYL OR ALKADIENYL GROUP OR AN ARYL GROUP OR A HETEROCYCLIC GROUP WHICH THEMSELVES MAY BE SUBSTITUTED BY ALKYL, ALKENYL, ALKADIENYL OR ALKOXY GROUPS OR HALOGEN ATOMS, AND R1 AND R2 WHICH MAY BE THE SAME OR DIFFEENT, EACH REPRESENT A HYDROGEN ATOM OR AN ALKYL, ALKENYL OR ALKADIENYL GROUP. FURROIC ACIDS AND FURONIC ACID LOWER ALKYL ESTERS ARE ALSO DISCLOSED.
Abstract:
A female incontinence device comprising a support adapted for insertion into and stable retention in the vagina, a flexible diaphragm engaged at its periphery with the support, and remotely operable means carried by the support to elevate the diaphragm relative to the support and thereby upwardly displace both the urethra and bladder neck, while slightly elongating the urethra.
Abstract:
SILICONE ELASTOMERS ARE DESCRIBED WHICH CONTAIN A HYDROLYTIC DEGARDATIN RESISTANT ADDITIVE WHICH IS AN ADDUCT OR FERRIC CHLORIDE AND AN ORGANIC COMPOUND HAVING THREE AROMTAIC NUCLEI ATTACHED TO ONE ATOM. PREFERRED ADDUCTS ARE THOSE OF FERRIC CHLORIDE WITH TRIPHENYLAMINE OR WITH TRIPHENYL CARBINOL AND A CONVENIENT METHOD OF PREPARING THE FERRIC CHLORIDE/TRIPHENYLAMINE ADDUCT IN SOLUTION IS DESCRIBED. THE ADDUCTS OF THE PRESENT INVENTION INTERFERE WITH THE CROSS-LINKING REACTION OF MOST CURING AGENTS BUT A CLASS OF CURING AGENTS, OF WHICH 2,5-DIMETHYL-2,5-DITERTIARYBUTYL PEROXYHEXANE IS THE BEST MEMBER, WHICH ARE NOT INTERFERED WITH ARE DISCLOSED.
Abstract:
A radiometer apparatus suitable for use on a supersonic aircraft for clear-air turbulence detection includes means for operating at four selected wavelengths within an atmospheric absorption band, for example the 15 Mu band of carbon dioxide. At any particular height of the aircraft each of a set of filters used to select the four selected wavelengths has a weighting function which depends on the effective absorption coefficient of the atmosphere at that wavelength and each indicates which part of the atmosphere ahead provides a significant contribution to the radiation measured by the apparatus. At longer wavelengths the atmosphere is opaque and the radiometer apparatus receives radiation from immediately in front of the aircraft. By generating suitable functions from the outputs of radiation passed by two or more of the filters it is possible to detect turbulence of the type looked for.
Abstract:
A multiplex spectrometer has its spectral line information encoded by transmitting the line through rows of apertures presented in sequence. The apertures occur in a pattern derived from a matrix of binary numbers. Decoding is achieved by adding or subtracting the output in a store containing addresses equal to the number of columns in the matrix.
Abstract:
A hybrid analogue-digital analyzer for the online digitization of electrically recorded mass spectra. The device, which does not incorporate a digital computer, accurately selects peak maxima to provide triggering pulses for timing circuitry, and uses directly controlled buffer storage to reduce the effective rate of data acquisition to that of the average speed of the associated output channel. The analyzer is primarily intended to provide records of complete high resolution mass spectra suitable for off-line computer processing. For real time production of reduced and annotated spectra the analyzer may be used as an active interface directly coupled to a computer.