Abstract:
A retractable tail unit for guiding projectiles, which unit includes an idle bushing mounted in the rear part of the cylindrical body of the projectile. The bushing has the same diameter as the outer diameter of convergent and divergent composite body portions of said cylindrical body, all being axially aligned with said body. A plurality of substantially trapezoidal shaped blades are pivot mounted at one end on a pivot pin mounted slantwise on the bushing, with the blades in their ''''closed'''' position lying flat tangentially to coextensive portions of the bushing and of the convergent portion of the cylindrical body of the projectile, and parallel to the axis thereof. The blades, when in their ''''closed'''' position, are contained within a circular ring area or recess defined by or between a combination of the body of the convergent portion and of the bushing, and by the outer diameter of the cylindrical body of the projectile. The center of gravity of these blades, as a result of the axial acceleration in the initial launching stage, is so displaced as to cause a moment on the blades which effects the opening and the extension of each blade about the slanting or canted pivot pin, the blades thus placing themselves radially with respect to the axis of the cylindrical body of the projectile, at the desired attachment angle.
Abstract:
A device for volumetrically removing liquids from vacuum operating equipments, particularly reaction vessels and equipments for obtaining polymers, comprising a set of mutually engaging pumping screws, a number of which extend to the inside of the vacuum equipment for a given length, while the remaining screw or screws extend only up to the bottom of said vacuum equipment. Said set of screws is rotatably driven within a body tightly enclosing the same.
Abstract:
A METHOD IS DISCLOSED FOR PURIFYING DIMETHYLFORMAMIDE, WHICH HAS BEEN OBTAINED BY RECOVERY THEREOF IN SUBSTANTIALLY NON-AQUEOUS CONDITION FROM A PROCESS FOR SPINNING ACRYLONITRILE POLYMERS AND COPOLYMERS TO PRODUCE FIBERS AND YARNS, COMPRISING TREATING THE IMPURE DIMETHYLFORMAMIDE BY CONTACTING IT WITH TWO DIFFERENT ION-EX CHANGE RESINS WHICH ARE INSOLUBLE IN DIMETHLFORMAMIDE, ONE OF WHICH IS SELECTED FROM THE GROUP OF STRONGLY ACIDIC RESINS CONSISTING OF SULPHONATED STYRENE-DIVINYL BENZENE COPOLYMERS, AND THE OTHER OF WHICH IS SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF RESINS HAVING QUATERNARY AMMONIUM GROUPS IN HYDROXIDE FORM AND OF RESINS HAVING ALIPHATIC AMINO GROUPS.
Abstract:
Spinnable solutions of polyacrylonitrile, or of copolymers containing over 85% by weight of acrylonitrile, are produced by polymerization of the monomer(s) in dimethyl formamide in at least two sequential stages, in the first of which the polymerization is carried out at 60 DEG to 65 DEG C. until reaching not less than 30% and not more than 40% conversion of the monomer(s), while in the second stage or the following stages the polymerization is carried on under controlled temperature conditions until reaching a higher conversion, the amount of dimethyl formamide and catalyst required to attain said higher conversion being divided into as many fractions as there are stages and one of said fractions being individually added at the beginning of each stage. The final conversion attained is desirably in the range 70 to 80%. The temperature conditions may be controlled by carrying out the process under sub-atmospheric pressure, in which case the polymerization is terminated by increasing the pressure and distilling off unreacted monomer(s). In the examples, the polymerization is carried out in two stages. In Examples 1 and 3 copolymers of acrylonitrile, sodium allyl sulphonate and methyl methacrylate are prepared and in Example 2 a copolymer of acrylonitrile, sodium allyl sulphonate and ethyl acrylate. Lauroyl peroxide is used as catalyst and thiourea dioxide is present in the reaction solutions of Examples 1 and 2.