Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Daifuku Co., Ltd.

Hitachi Shipbuilding and Engineering Co., Ltd.

Masami Murakami

Takusen Ito

Isamu Matsuoka

Eizo Ishikawa

Yoshiyuki Nakai

Masatoshi Miyazaki

Keiichi Otsuka

An apparatus capable of transferring objects to be transferred, such as car bodies and workpieces, in an inclined state. A support section capable supporting an object to be transferred is supported by three trolleys. These trolleys are guided for travel along the main rail. A pair of subrails branch from the main rail to opposite sides. Of the three trolleys, the one on the front side of the support section remains on the main rail while the other two are capable of moving from the main rail onto the subrails. The relative positions of the main rail and subrails, particularly the vertical positions are changed, whereby the object which is supported on the support is inclined.

Transfer apparatus

A conduit for feeding a combustible waste gas to a ground flare is divided into a plurality of branch pipes each connected to burners of the ground flare. A stop valve is mounted on each of the branch pipes except the first pipe and provided with a limit switch for detecting the closing of the valve. A pressure detector is mounted on each of the branch pipes except the last pipe. The valve on each branch pipe opens in response to an opening signal from the pressure detector on the preceding branch pipe and closes in response to both a closing signal from that pressure detector and a signal from the limit switch on the valve on the following branch pipe, whereby the number of branch pipes used for feeding the waste gas is controlled in accordance with variations in the feed of waste gas.

System for controlling feed of waste gas to ground flare

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Osaka, Japan

Masami Murakami