Abstract:
Fixed blading for an axial compressor constituted by a succession of blades fixed on at least one annular wall and a method of operating the same. Fluid passing through a passage between adjacent blades is drawn into a suction opening and the pressure at the suction opening is maintained substantially equal to the flow static pressure in the passage.
Abstract:
In order to corrugate or pleat between forming rolls sheet metal irrespective of its ductility while containing the blister formed at the end of the corrugation or pleat in the course of formation, the sheet is heated locally, at a short distance upstream of the rolls, to a temperature capable of rendering the sheet ductile. The rolls are protected against harmful heating by the distance between the heating region and the forming rolls.
Abstract:
To enable visual observation and X-ray analysis of a sample irradiated by an electron beam, a heat-protective assembly overlying a sample-supporting surface includes an enclosure with a central window for the electron beam, a surrounding annular window for light rays and a pair of lateral windows for X-rays emanating from the sample. An inner shield has a frustoconical body, with generatrices converging toward the supporting surface, which gives passage to both the light rays and the electron beam while screening an area surrounding the annular lighttransmissive window of the enclosure without, however, blocking the passage of the X-rays. A set of deflecting plates for the electron beam is mounted on the inner shield, between its frustoconical body and a diaphragm forming the central window, in a zone between the paths of the light rays and the electron beam.
Abstract:
A plastic liquid-gas bottle including an inner liner made of wetting fabric which closely hugs the bottle walls and dips continuously in the liquid as the same is consumed, whereby to maintain over the entire inner bottle surface in the gaseous zone a moist film that assists heat transfers and thereby enables the output of gas from the bottle to remain constant through time and independent of the level of liquid remaining in the bottle.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a target animator and more particularly to a command mixer operating on a weapon system which substantially includes a sighting telescope movable in elevation and in azimuth responsively to command signals emitted by the aimer, a first input of said mixer receiving said commands and a second input thereof being provided to receive disrupting signals designed to selectively simulate varied movements of a target which may be towed or parachuted or even motionless.
Abstract:
THE INVENTION PROVIDES A METHOD OF PREPARING A FIBROUS METAL MATERIAL, WHICH COMPRISES, FIRSTLY, COVERING AN ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE CARBON SKELETON, HAVING A GENERAL SHAPE CORRESPONDING TO THAT OF THE FINISHED MATERIAL WHICH IT IS DESIRED TO OBTAIN, WITH A DEPOSIT OF A SLIGHTLY ELECTROPOSITIVE METAL OR ALLOY, THE ELECTROPOSITIVITY NOT BEING GREATER THAN 0.7 AND, SECONDLY, ELIMINATING THE AFORE-MENTIONED SKELETON BY OXIDATION AT A HIGH TEMPERATURE LEAVING THE DEPOSITED METAL OR ALLOY ONLY, HAVING A FIBROUS TEXTURE.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a rotor hub for rotary-wing aircraft, in which a hollow one-piece rotor hub-mast is provided at its upper end with lobes lying in planes parallel to the rotation axis of the rotor hub-mast, pairs of such lobes forming yokes for respectively receiving a flapping hinge-pin for the associated blade.
Abstract:
A method for the industrial manufacture of chromium powder from chromium oxide powder by reducing the latter with magnesium vapor, including the steps of preparing chromium oxide powder masses of between one and about 10 kilograms, imbedding in each of said masses a magnesium ingot, thermally insulating the masses from each other, and heating the masses to react the magnesium vapor produced by the magnesium ingots with the chromium oxide powder.
Abstract:
The invention is concerned with a device for the rapid fixing and releasing of a tool such as a countersink to the end of a rotating shaft. In accordance with the invention the tool has a transverse bore having an internal projection. A resilient device is provided within the bore and the shaft has a facet on which the resilient device can bear.
Abstract:
An apparatus and method for the heat treatment of a material in an enclosure comprising an electron gun for treating the material and means for the spectrographic analysis of the X-rays emitted by the material under bombardment by the electron gun. The method is carried out by continuous spectrographic analysis of the Xrays produced so that a monitoring of the heat treatment is performed.