Abstract: A multiple-power gear drive transmission comprising a planetary differential gear drive including a plurality of drive elements such as sun gear, web gear and internal gear. A gear drive input shaft is connected with at least one of the drive elements; a gear drive output shaft is connected with another of the drive elements; a first positive-displacement machine operable in both directions as pump or motor is coupled to a third of the drive elements for controlling the direction of rotation and speed of rotation thereof; and a second positive-displacement machine operable as a pump or motor is energy-transmissively coupled with the first positive-displacement machine. The planetary differential gear drive includes two of the sun gears which have different diameters; on web gear being arranged dual planetary gears, the gears thereof meshing with the sun gears and with an internal gear wherein the larger sun gear is connected with the gear drive input shaft.

Abstract: An injection nozzle for an air-compressing direct injection internal combustion engine which has a combustion chamber in the shape of a body of revolution in the piston head or in the cylinder head, and in which a rotary air movement occurs in the combustion chamber about its longitudinal axis while a portion of the injected liquid fuel is being deposited as a thin film on the wall of the combustion chamber. The injection nozzle has a slot-shaped discharge opening which is so located with regard to the combustion chamber that the fuel spray emitted through this discharge opening, when viewed over its entire width, at nearly the same time impinges upon the combustion chamber wall and spreads thereon in the form of a wide surface film, the cross section of the discharge opening corresponding to the cross section of a one-bore injection nozzle customarily employed for the mixture formation and combustion method under the same conditions.

Abstract: A heat exchanger for indirect recooling of a heat transfer medium, such as water, by air. The heat transfer medium has a relatively high heat transfer coefficient compared to that of air. The heat exchanger has two substantially parallel end walls or plates which are provided with holes. Associated with these end walls are side walls which are provided with inlet and outlet means for the heat transfer medium. Nonfinned tubes with air flowing therethrough are disposed between the end walls and are sealed thereagainst.

Abstract: This invention pertains to a method for removing deposits of uranium compounds in uranium hexafluoride handling equipment. A fluorocarbon containing bromine is internally injected into the handling equipment at or below ambient pressure and this brominating agent removes uranium compounds which have been formed therein. A fluoridating agent is also preferably used in conjunction with the fluorocarbon containing bromine.

Abstract: A rail vehicle for the transport of heavy and/or bulky goods with one multi-axle driving mechanism each. The driving mechanisms are respectively arranged on both ends of said rail vehicle. The rail vehicle furthermore includes at least one bridge girder interconnecting the bogies at each end of said rail vehicle. Pivotally mounted on said at least one bridge girder by means of an interposed displaceable member is a beak of a loading bridge supported by said driving mechanisms. The displaceable member with a displacing device facing the vehicle end infinitely variably displaceably and/or arrestably is connected to the bridge girder. The displacing device which faces toward the central portion of the vehicle rigidly or movably connects the displaceable member by way of a pivot point or bolt fixedly guided on the beak to the beak which is rotatable about a joint. The two displacing devices are adapted by a controlling device to be controlled in conformity with each other.

Abstract: Apparatus for purification of synthesis gas produced by coal gasification is provided with a vertical gas distribution chamber which is internally pressurized and within which the synthesis gas leaving the reactor is cooled. The chamber is formed with a gas take-off line which opens into the gas distribution chamber and extends therefrom at an angle, the gas take-off line leading to a serially connected waste heat boiler. A coolant bath is contained in a lower portion of the gas distribution chamber and a heat exchanger is formed in this lower portion by tube coils which are arranged in the wall of the distribution chamber defining the lower portion.

Abstract: A combustion process and apparatus for a spark ignited air compressing internal combustion engine with direct injection of the major portion of the fuel onto the wall of the combustion chamber provided in the piston in the form of a body of revolution, according to which a rotary motion is imparted upon the inflowing air in such a way that the fuel is gradually released from the combustion chamber wall and mixed with the air in the form of vapors. The injection nozzle is positioned in the cylinder head near the combustion chamber throat while the ignition device extends into the combustion chamber at the top dead center position of the piston. The fuel is injected onto the combustion chamber wall by means of a jet from which individual small fuel particles are detached which are immediately mixed with the air on being emitted from the injection nozzle opening.

Abstract: An arrangement for air-compressing, direct-injection internal combustion engine having fuel ignition, at least one piston with a combustion chamber having a constricted throat and a pertaining cylinder having a pertaining cylinder head is disclosed. In this arrangement, the fuel injector and the combustion chamber of the piston are in communication with one another, the point of intersection of the longitudinal central axis of the fuel stream with the plane of the pertaining cylinder head which limits the upward movement of the piston is positioned within an imaginary circle having a diameter which is at most 1.1 times the greatest diameter of the combustion chamber, and the fuel injector is adapted to be located from the combustion chamber at a distance of up to about 30% of the greatest diameter of the combustion chamber.

Abstract: Arrangement for retaining at least two approximately mutually parallel extending tubes, including an adapter having an aperture through which the tubes are conducted. A clamping element is arranged in the aperture intermediate the tubes and presses these against the wall structure of the aperture.

Abstract: An omnibus including a drive block constituted of an engine, clutch and transmission, in which the drive block is arranged so as to transversely extend behind the rear axle of the omnibus. An angle drive leads from driving end of of the drive block to the center axle drive on the rear axle, and in which a flywheel energy accumulator is installed intermediate the drive block and the rear axle.

Abstract: Control of valve needle lift in fuel injections for direct-injection internal combustion engines wherein an injector having at least one fuel supply pipe and one leak-off pipe is provided with a nozzle body in which is situated an axially slidably supported valve needle which is maintained by the force of at least one closing spring in its closing position and capable of being lifted off its valve seat by the pressure of the fuel. A sleeve is provided with connecting ports or openings in the injector which sleeve is capable of being moved axially by means of a hydraulic control medium. The connecting openings or ports can be covered by a piston when the end face of the sleeve is acted upon by the control medium, and when the valve needle is lifted off its valve seat, permitting the valve needle lift to be reduced.

Abstract: A method of producing partially reinforced cylinder heads, including casting a material on a preformed workpiece with special material properties, whereby the casting material produces a mechanical and/or metallic bond with the preformed workpiece in the transition phase of the two materials, and cylinder head made according to this process.

Abstract: A device for ducting process gas in a centrifuge block, comprising a hood for sealingly covering the centrifuge block and for defining at least one duct for the process gas. One embodiment has tubes within the hood in communication with connecting openings in centrifuge housings of the centrifuge block. According to a second embodiment, the tubes may be serpentine. A third embodiment has ducts formed directly in the hood, while a fourth has partitioning walls within the space enclosed by the hood for dividing the space into ducts.

Abstract: A method of burning fuels ignited by applied-ignition in an air-compressing direct injection internal combustion engine according to which the fuel is, preferably in the form of a jet, sprayed onto the wall of the combustion chamber having the shape of a body of revolution with the major portion of the fuel being deposited in the form of a film to be gradually removed in the form of vapors by and mixed with the air admitted and performing a rotary motion. An ignition device provided at the upper dead center position of the piston projects into the combustion chamber in the vicinity of the injection nozzle opening arranged near the combustion chamber edge between the free fuel jet penetrating the combustion chamber on the one hand and the combustion chamber wall on the other hand. The pressure level in the high pressure section of the injection system and thus the rate of fuel injection into the cylinder is selected to lie between 0.7 and 1.3 per degree of crank angle times liter stroke volume.

Abstract: To evaluate the condition of the bearing, particularly of bearings used in exhaust gas turbo-superchargers, the end cut surface of a light guide bundle having individual light guide fibers or filaments is exposed to a gap between rotating and stationary surfaces, for example the end portion of a sleeve bearing, or a disk attached to the rotating shaft portion of another type of bearing, the light being passed to the bearing gap being evaluated either by counting the light fibers which have a light intensity indicative of the size of the gap at any instant of time, or determining the average light output. If a disk is used, light can be transmitted from one group of bundles through a gap to another group of bundles, the size of the gap varying in dependence on the quality of centricity of the bearing and other operating conditions. Preferably, the bundle is enclosed within a tube, with clearance, and compressed air is supplied within the tube to clean the end surfaces.

Abstract: A hydraulic system for actuating gas-change valves in internal combustion engines or compressors wherein the output piston associated with each gas-change valve is capable of being moved against the force of a closing spring through a control circuit filled with control fluid by an input piston operable by a cam, with means for venting the control fluid at the highest point of the hydraulic system, and wherein the input cylinder communicates with a system for refilling with control fluid. The means for venting the control fluid are formed as permanent venting means, a variable area restrictor determining the amount of control fluid in the hydraulic system during operation is provided which is located in a discharge circuit, and the cam actuating the output piston is formed with a pre-ramp and a post-ramp.

Abstract: A fuel injector, for internal combustion engines, having a nozzle needle supported in a nozzle body so as to be axially displaceable therein. The nozzle needle, which can be lifted off its valve seat by the pressure of fuel, has a throttling pin which, at least during part of its lift, projects below the valve seat into a bore centrally arranged in the nozzle body. The throttling pin has at least one control edge or flat portion which is shaped and oriented in such a way that the fuel spray direction and/or the fuel spray characteristic or pattern vary with the nozzle needle lift.

Abstract: Swirl tube or chamber apparatus is provided for separating isotope or gas mixtures of a process gas having heavy and light gas fractions intermixed. This apparatus includes a swirl chamber having feed ports issuing tangentially thereinto for feeding processed gas to be effectively centrifuged in the swirl chamber. Extraction elements are provided for extracting the heavy gas fraction from the outer walls of the swirl chamber and for extracting the light gas fraction from the interior of the cylinder near the longitudinal axis thereof. The swirl chamber is a rotatably support chamber which is symmetrically configured with respect to its center. In particularly preferred embodiments, the process gas fed into the swirl chamber also serves to form a bearing cushion for the container, as well as for imparting driving forces to the container to rotate the same.

Abstract: A fuel delivery system provided with at least a fuel delivery pump and a high pressure pump distributing fuel to individual injectors on the cylinders included with apparatus for preheating the intake air for air-compressing internal combustion engines. Communication therewith occurs through a header pipe. Components thereof include an injection valve provided at the end of all high pressure pipes leading to the engine cylinders and arranged to open at a predetermined pressure. Each of the high pressure pipes is provided with a branch off conduit arranged to be shut off by an isolating valve. All branch offs are brought together to a common header pipe supplying the preheating equipment with fuel.

Abstract: An air-compressing direct injection internal combustion engine having a combustion chamber in the shape of a body of revolution which combustion chamber at the end of the compression stroke contains nearly the entire necessary amount of combustion air which by suitable means is circulated about the cylinder axis of the respective pertaining cylinder of the engine. In this engine, a substantial portion of the liquid fuel is in the form of a thin film applied to the combustion chamber wall where it is processed so as to be picked up by and intermixed with the combustion air, whereupon the fuel air mixture is burnt. For purposes of facilitating the processing of the above mentioned fuel film and/or the realization of a pre-oxidation of the fuel, and for facilitating the pick-up of the fuel in the direction of the rotation of the air, additional means are provided and arranged in or on the combustion chamber wall and, when viewed in the direction of rotation of the air are located ahead of the fuel film.