Abstract:
To avoid deposits on the restrictor that channels extractant into a collector, a heated capillary tube pressure release restrictor, has a thermally insulated outlet end in a collecting trap substantially colder than the capillary tube. The restrictor is heated between the insulation and the capillary tube by Joulean heating. The solvent in the trap is at a pressure of 5 to 200 psi above atmospheric pressure. The thermal resistance of the insulation is selected to reduce the heat added to the extractant to a minimum and yet cause the temperature of the extractant to be in a range within which it is sufficiently hot so it does not freeze when added to the collection solvent but not so hot as to reduce partitioning of the extract and extractant before the extractant leaves the collection solvent. It has a thermal conductivity no greater than 60 BTU's per hour, per square foot, per inch for a one degree Fahrenheit difference.
Abstract:
An apparatus for supercritical fluid extraction incorporates a removable extraction cartridge which in operation has insignificant pressure difference between its inside and outside walls. Because of the low pressure difference, the extraction cartridge need not have the strength to withstand significant pressure and can be made out of molded plastic for disposable use as well as stainless steel and/or machined plastic for reusability. The extraction cartridge can be removed and opened for sample access without the use of tools. The outside of the cartridge can be purged after it is installed in a heated high pressure vessel to remove contamination from its exterior. In one embodiment, the extractor includes a fraction collector fr extractants, an automatic sample changer and an automatic cartridge transfer mechanism which provide completely automated extractions.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a sliding shoe for a rotatable swash-plate type refrigerant gas compressor. This shoe is slidably connected between a rotatable swash-plate and a ball rotatably engaged with a piston. One of the major surfaces of the shoe slidably contacts a sliding surface of the swash-plate. A sliding surface of the shoe facing the swash-plate is formed with a flat plane at its center portion and chamfered surface at the remaining portion of the sliding surface. At least the sliding plane of the shoe is coated with a lead alloy. According to the present invention, even if the swash-plate type compressor has no lubrication, abrasion and seizing of the shoe can be reduced to a great extent.
Abstract:
Shoes for operatively connecting a swash-plate with the compression pistons of a swash-plate type compressor are made from a novel Cu-based alloy. Improved shoes are characterized by a combination of high heat conductivity and excellent wear resistance properties particularly when subjected to a lubricating condition so severe that no lubricating oil is supplied to the surface of the shoes at the initial period of the compressor operation. At least three alloying elements are selected from Mn, Si, Pb, Sn, the IVb and VIb groups of the periodic table, and added in predetermined amounts to the Cu-based alloy, so that the properties mentioned above are simultaneously obtained. The compressor according to the present invention can be reliably employed, without the occurrence of seizure over a long operational period for air-conditioning vehicles, in which the sliding condition of the shoes is drastically varied with the rotation of the engine.
Abstract:
A swash plate type compressor for compressing a refrigerant of an air conditioning system incorporating therein a rotating swash plate made of an aluminum alloy, one or more compressor pistons reciprocating in a cylinder block for effecting compression of the refrigerant, and an operative engagement means which is between the swash plate and the piston or pistons. The operative engagement means is made of a carbon steel material and a flattened face of the operative engagement means contacting the aluminum alloy swash plate consisting of a cementation treatment layer formed in the carbon steel material of the operative engagement means.
Abstract:
A vehicle air conditioning compressor which is driven by e.g., the prime mover of the vehicle as required to cool the passenger compartment comprises a swash plate mounted on a rotatable shaft and a plurality of pistons, each being reciprocated by the rotating swash plate via a set of a ball and a shoe rotatably engaging with each other, wherein said compressor is provided for each piston with a shoe composed of a steel backing plate having a sintered porous layer integrally formed thereon of a powdered copper alloy comprising 2.5 - 12.1 wt.% Sn, 7.0 - 25.0 wt.% Pb and the balance being substantially copper, in a critical thickness ranging from 0.1 mm to 0.5 mm.
Abstract:
A conveyor roller and support assembly for conveying and guiding a belt or the like along a predetermined path of travel. Means are provided by which a roller can be conveniently relocated or removed from the system which includes a pluraltty of fingers extending from the body of the roller terminating in an inwardly turn lip capable of being seated within any one of a number of complementary grooves formed in the roller support member.