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THE · CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, AUGUST 16, 1956.

SCIENCE

Drip Feed Technique For New Gear Hardening

Furnaces

New electric furnaces recently installed at the Elswick and Scotswood Works of Vickers-Armstrongs (Engineers) Ltd include two batch furnaces with separate cooling chambers, for carburising gear wheels, and a continuous hardening furnace with a roller hearth.

of

MINIATURE

ELECTRIC

SWITCHES

То MALOET specifications Britain's Ministry of Supply, Dunlop Rubber Company Lid (Aviation Division) has developed miniature electrio switches. They art primarily

designed to meet the peed

H

to house several switches within the small compass aircraft

ди

handle they

he supplied catiller

1160

control

alno

separate

The push-button switch has been approved by the Ministry

for of Supply

reneral aircraft duly al 2.0 ampere (non-indyclive) and 0.5 ampere Induc- itve).

It has been designed for rapid make and break and 30 give the

minimum resistant. The ounfacts #re OF

MEDIJO.

contact switch silver.

minimum life

100,000

of is

From 20 cents per packet upwards. An entirely new series, Boutz

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Hong Kong Birds

Harklots, G. A. C. 1953. Hong Kong Birda, Pp. vil+233, 11 pl. 8 in colour, numerous black-

and-white drawings in text. Hong Kong: South China Morning Post, Ltd., HK$35.00.

a most welcome handbook for ornithole gists resident or station- ed in Hong Kong. the hitherto recorded species

An

a short account is given

operations

proved, stale the firm, for each of these conditions: 2.0 ampere,

negligible induelance at

sea level; 2.0 ampere, negligible in- dyolanoc AL 60,000 feet; 0.5 amper, inducive t SEA level: 0.5 ampere. Inductive at 00,000 feet.

Firm: Dunlop Rubber Company I,td. Aviation Division, HL George's Road, Foltshill, Covrulky, Eng – land,

MAN-CARRYING CENTRIFUGE

To facilitate medical researel into the reaction of high speed. flight on the human body a man-carrying centrifuge has been designed art installed at Britain's Royal Air Force Institute of Aviation Medicine.

Incorporated in the equip- meal 15 bek-talk apparatus which enables the subject to describe la observer what

ecurs during the test

The contract for the instal- lation was placed by the Air Ministry with M B Wild and Company

Street. Ltd., Argyle Nechells, Birmingham, England,

The Arm acted as main con- Iructors, while the electrical plant and control gear was sup- plied by the General Electric Company Lad, Kingsway, Lon- don, England.

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Basically, the centrifuge con-

of

A horizontal rotating under a precisely con- trolled cycle of acceleration and deceleration which can be ac- curately repeated any number of times.

About 60 feet long. the arm has car suspended at each end, and is mounted on 12-ton flywheel attached to a vertical spindle driving motor installed in a central pit in the centrifuge chamber,

Very complex problems of are included; design had to be overcome plumages are clearly and before

constructional details concisely described, and could be decided. Briefly, the unsic theory of operation can be of fleld characters, simply stated an follows: the

status, voice, hablis,

arm, when etc. The illustrations, except for three platca of photographs, are all by Car, A. M. Hugh and include four attrao,

cors attached to the rotated at uniform spoed by the driving motor, are subjected to an accoteration, in a direction magnitude 2wr where the w towards the axis of rotation of

tive plates of the heade is the angular velocity and the

of 42 species and many the radius of the ann.. Thus useful drawings in the

the magnitude of the accelere-

text, The writer of this tion is controlled by the speed

the review

would

have of

radius motor and the effectlye

benefited greatly from this book when

station ed in Hong Kong some years ago. Even now, on referring to it, nemo 40 unfamiliar aptales on which noles were made at the time have almost all proved eally Idențilable. D. W. &

¿Maunot from "The This" official began of the British Ornitholoplats" Unlen, British Museum).

S. C. M. POST

HỒNG KÔNG

KOWLOON

the

arm

therefore, the rate of change of necelers lion is governed by the Inte change of motor speed.

pf

Each car is mounted on trun- nions, fore and aft, so that it can awing out to maintain the dination of the resultant ac- accccration on the subject up- changed

centrifuge speeds up. At maximum motor speed of 55 revolutiona per minuto and the full radius of 30 feet, the acceleration produced has

gas

The

processing almospheres ure generated within the funlaces |from a liquid mixture introduced

by a drip wed technique.

The furnaces were designed and supplied by The General {Electric Company Lld which also {developed the special fluid from which in- atinospheres are jobtained.

a magnitude of

can

or

30 times the normal.

of gravity. The

operated eller

automatically by a controller,

The carburising furnaces are uf identical design each having a set of three baskets to carry the charge. with effective dimen- sions 25 in. in diameter and 30 in sleep

Inside each furace (k a heat- resisting skeel lining, which is supported by a witle flange and I free to expandi ut the base with the broas in tempera- ture

Round the outer periphery of the chamber la u sund channel

ENGINEERING

A charge of gear wheela being removed from the cool- ing chamber which forms part of the G.E.C. gas carburising farmaco installation of the Bootswood Works of Armstrong 14.

which takes the furnace lid to R

effect a gus Ught seal

The bottom of the ex Lericis Infer

trough.

#l

Vicker-

Straddle Carrier

London was

RECENTLY on exhibition in up from ground level, transport

I' straddle distance of 220

yards (201 carrier which, since it obviates chamber

the need for cranes and over- sealing | head gantrys, can be put to a

number of uses.

Buch furtuICE is closed by un |wasity operated lift and swing lid having o lear spring and n ratchet operated lifting lever.

Thx Ude are lined on the in- side with heat resisting steel plate. They are centrally supportd and can be rotated with tommy bars for bedding down in the sand seals,

which

The size of the loads I can handle with ease eun be Judged from the fact that an average saloon car finds umple parking space under the huge vehicle.

An indication of the speed at which the carrier can operale was seen in recent tests which demonstrated that it could pick

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Soldering Tool Heats Job Directly

A new

design

of

BATTERY-OPERATED FLUORESCENT

A

LIGHTING

CONVERTOR unit has been designed which ls claimed to give a suitable outpýt sufficient to operate two 15-watt fluorescent tubes from a | 12-volt direct current battery supply.

is mated to be maltabip, 12.7 centimetres by 12.7 centi- among other uses, for the light- metres) and weighs ten pounds of small sulling craft. (4.835 kilograms); the lighting camvana, market studis and troughs (type C16) ore 20 Inches soldering tool is based email mobile workshops Suc- by B B inches by 41⁄2 inches (50.8 cessful tests have also been made centimetres by 20.32 centimetres on the principle of with i la excite "brilliant" by 11.43 centimetres), and euch heating the job directly poster paints and inks in the weighs eight pounds (3.620 kilo-

dark.

grams). instead of depending on

By 1160 of the equipurvat, first heating a mass of adequate fluorescent lighting can metal from which abe obtained for a battery drais of only 4 amperes at 12 volts ar |further small amount of 2 amperes at 24 volts.

The output from the convertor

accommodating the 18-inch (45.72

For the ultra-violet applica-

heat is transferred. This

is effected by the use of it is fed to two Lough units tongs, which serve as contimetros) fluorescent tubca. leads for the electriction these treaighs are fitted with

Exclude current to the special special gloss filters to

all visible light. type of electrodes.

When used with normal tubes for emergency or portabla lighting the filters are replaced by clear glass screens.

The convertor unit (lype X18)

To salder, the parts are held in the tongs and the heating time is controlled by a push button.

The stems are detachable and interchangeable, which, together measures 13 inches by 6 inches with the special carbon elec-by 3 inches (33 centimetres by trodes, enable most types of work to be done, including werk in otherwise inaccessibile posi- tions.

Bower is from a B-voli bultery or transformer, and the too has a low

consumpti, CURSO which varies to some extent with the thickness of the material to be soldered.

When operated from a B-vo}L car battery the soldering tool is fully mobile and independent of power-supplies.

tu

efficient

In normal use, the only ex- pandable parts are the defached electrodes, which have been de- and give signed economical service. metres) and set down a load of

and adjustable Interchangeable seven and a half tons, 23 feet stans and electrode-holders, as electrodes of different and well as (seven meires) in length, return

unladen to the starting shapes, permit aux types point in an inclusive time of Holdering to be done

on

Behaviour Of Combustion Gases

the

Apart from

opplivd research

with

vurjous machines described, certain work fundamental principles carried

with out, particularly regard to the bahaviour of com- bustion gason in passing through boiler systems.

Full information can be obtain- ed from Easco Electrical (Hold- ings) Ltd, Brighton Tenruce, Lendon, SWB, England.

Small Objects Profile Projector

Now in production is a profile projector which is designed to project magnifled forms of small parts, such as screw-threads, on to a screen which is an integral purt of the projector.

CIT

Small objects are placed the platform which is situated at right-angles to optical-axis

the of the projection-lens and, by | means of aluminised mirrors, the Image of the part is thrown on to the instrument-screen,

a

to

The platform or stage in ad- justed by means of a micrometer Hlumination movement-central. Ly provided by a 100-watt pre- focussed.

projection-type lamp. The projection-lens

doublet giving achromalle magnification of X10. A supple- This work which has been pro- increase

mentary lens can be provided to

the magnification coding over a number of years, X15 has disclowed that sulphuric acid

Either ions gives good defini- of is produced by the passage 01

tion, colour correction and free- products of combustion over

dom from distortion. Objects up heated Iron, surfnoca when the

to threa-quarter Inch diameter be used for soldering latter are raised to an elevated It can

are covered by the X10 objective, solid material from 1/64-Inch to temperature, due to surface and Bems up to three-eighths It is possible to pick up at | half-inch In diameter, or the catalysis;

original finding

inch in diameter with the X15 the rule of 300

surfaces,

which in copper quivalent tons per hour

the greatest

objective. 1n. and move the loads a distance brass or

other solderable portance

station power of 220 yurds. Firm: British materials. Firm: Aircraft practice and has been recognised Straddle Carrier Company Lid Services and Export Ltd, 15, as such throughout the world.

Chesterfield.

Palace Cardens, | Buckingham

Gardens, London, W1.

London, SW1, England,

Derby, Englund.

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of

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I'D MARRY. TAKE ME HOME -

AND STOP THIS

NONSENSE!

I WANT THAT MAN ARRESTED

WHILE OUTSIDE GAMBIT'S OFFICE.

THEY TOOK A LITTLE. LONGER THAN I HANTER JESSI NOW INSİPEL

WHAT FOR ?

with one

By Lee Falk and Phil Davis

YOU'LL SEE IF THIS

IS NONSENSE!

By Mik

By Ernie Bushmiller

BLACK MAIL

--ERNIE BUSHMILLEmus

By Frank Robbins

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For

prodibes,

International Combustion Ltd.

EVEN

MAGICIANS

scrow -

accurate projection of

of espectully tho object must be with 1 parallel and A

computed le

condensar-lens

to

fitted achieve this. The screen consists

mately

|tween "

8. inches by 8 Incline

ber

of two shoots of ginss

which is sandwiched of Ethujon tracing film,

The made can be drawn

drawing

of

A material and the

profile on the projector

can then be

be used ay a

comparator

The projector

23.36 inches in height, 10 inches in width, and 19.39 inches in

depth. It weighs 21 pounds,

Firm is: Newbold and Bulford Ltd Enbecco House, Roger Street, Grays Inn, London, WC1, England.

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