Abstract: The bone implant for prostheses, particularly joints or joint members, preferably joints of the human locomotor system and especially the walking system, contains a shaft insertable into a cavity in a bone. The shaft has a total cross-section increasing from its diaphysis-associated distal end to its metaphysis-associated proximal end. Preferably, The shaft possesses in the region of the metaphysis-associated proximal end an integrally formed or separate intermediate piece at which the joint or joint member can be arranged. The shaft is preferably immediately and securely anchored in the bone and particularly is made of a metallic material. The shaft possesses an oblong rotationally symmetrical shaft body having an outer surface generated by, if desired, a longitudinally curved or preferably a substantially straight generatrix. The shaft body substantially has the shape of a truncated cone.

Abstract: A metallic die for extruding a metal material, preferably a material of Al or alloys thereof, and/or of nonferrous metals, particularly Cu or alloys thereof, has an essentially flat, disc-shaped die body with at least one aperture, and a second aperture segment which adjoins a first aperture segment. The first aperture segment corresponds to and gives the final form to the desired cross section of the extrusion, and the second aperture segment is at least coincident with the first in its extent transversely to the pressing direction, and is preferably everywhere wider than the first aperture segment. The die body has at least two die parts which adjoin each other at a surface which is preferably generally flat and extends transversely to the press direction.

Abstract: The device for pressure-aided molding of shaped bodies formed from high-molecular masses, preferably of small dimension, comprises at least one preparation chamber having at least one plasticizing or transport and mixing screw conveyor and at least one charging port for filling the preparation chamber with preferably thermally plasticizable and possibly molecularly cross-linkable molding mass. The preparation chamber flow communicates with a pressure-tight transition with at least one storage chamber for plasticized polymer. The storage chamber opens into at least one mold cavity filling conduit for charging a mold with molding mass. The device also comprises a drive mechanism for translatory-relative motion of the preparation chamber and the mold cavity filling conduit. The preparation chamber has at least one prolongation.

Abstract: The weapon barrel comprises a liner and at least one jacket tube. The liner is made of a highly wear-resistant material, like a cobalt or nickel base alloy, and the jacket tube is made of a tough alloy, like steel. In the manufacturing process the liner material is packed into the jacket tube in the form of a powdery material which may be pre-pressed or pre-sintered. The packing is arranged such as to leave a central free space in the jacket tube, and the jacket tube may be surrounded by an encapsulating tube. The jacket tube or the encapsulating tube is closed either before or after evacuation, and the closed tube arrangement is subjected to a combined heat and pressure treatment at temperatures of at least 900.degree. C., but below the melting point of the relevant materials and at pressures of at least 900 bar. The compound body thus obtained is formed with a full-area metallic bond between the liner and the jacket tube.

Abstract: The liquid jet cutting machine contains at least one cutting head provided with an apparatus for producing high-pressure liquid at pressures in excess of 1000 bar. The cutting head delivers a high-pressure liquid cutting jet and is preferably movable or guideable along a predetermined cutting path. An apparatus is provided for holding the workpiece to be cut at least during the cutting operation. At least the high-pressure liquid producing apparatus, preferably inclusive of a drive and/or auxiliary aggregate, the cutting head, the holding apparatus and a cutting jet collector are connected with a common frame and form a positionally displaceable transport unit. The cutting head is preferably automatically controllable in its movements by a guiding apparatus which constitutes an industrial robot. The holding apparatus may also perform controllable movements and preferably contains an infeed and/or outfeed device for the workpiece to be cut, as well as a drain device for the spent jet liquid.

Abstract: A drilling bit, such as a crenellated drilling bit for fluid-jet supported rotary drilling in rock comprises a nozzle for directing a jet of high-pressure fluid against rock material being bored. In addition to transporting away rock chips, the jet penetrates fissures in the rock and supports the breaking down of the rock structure by the drilling bit. Since such nozzles tend to wear more rapidly than the cutting edges of the drilling bit, a readily exchangeable nozzle insert is provided. The nozzle insert is seated in a retaining body incorporated in the drilling bit and is held in the retaining body by a threaded annular cap. The annular cap has a hexagonal recess for accommodating a tool such as an Allan-key.

Abstract: The liquid jet cutting apparatus contains a cutter head with a nozzle block and a jet exit opening which communicates with a jet discharge passage. A jet of a pressurized liquid cutting medium is formed in the cutter head and the jet exiting from the jet exit opening passes through the jet discharge passage without contacting the wall thereof. The jet discharge passage communicates through an opening in its wall with a pressure transmission line connecting a gas space formed in the jet discharge passage with a pressure sensor. A transmitter is operatively associated with the pressure sensor and is operated when the pressure in the gas space of the jet discharge passage exceeds or drops below a predetermined pressure threshold value. The transmitter acts upon an actuator or control member of a cut-off device or throughflow regulator which is arranged in the liquid supply line which supplies the pressurized liquid cutting medium to the cutter head.

Abstract: An aftercooler for a horizontal continuous casting system is comprised of a plurality of individual cooling elements adapted to be positioned in contact with the strand after it leaves the mold. Each of the cooling elements has a passage for the flow of a fluid cooling medium through it and either or both of the contact pressure of the element against the strand and the flow rate of cooling medium may be adjusted to control the rate of cooling to suit the solidification characteristics of the metal being cast. Preferably, a plurality of sets of cooling elements are sequentially disposed along the length of the strand immediately downstream of the mold, each of the sets being disposed circumferentially around the strand so as to cool it on all sides. Control of the contact pressure and cooling medium flow rate is effected by a computer which compares measured values of cooling medium temperatures and flow rates in the elements with stored data representing desired characteristics for the metal being cast.

Abstract: The pressure plate of a pressing tool is made of a chromium containing alloy essentially consisting of, each in percent by weight, carbon up to 0.3, silicon up to 1.0, manganese up to 1.5, chromium in the range of 11 to 17.2, molybdenum up to 1.5, nickel up to 6.0, copper up to 4.5, columbium up to 0.45, and nitrogen up to 0.10, the remainder being iron and impurities resulting from the melting conditions, wherein a chromium equivalent defined as the sum of % chromium+% molybdenum+1.5.times.% silicon.times.0.5.times.% columbium has a value smaller than or equal to 17.2, a nickel equivalent defined as the sum of % nickel+0.5.times.% manganese+30.times.% carbon+20.times.% nitrogen has a value greater than or equal to 4.65 the chromium equivalent to nickel equivalent ratio has a value smaller than or equal to 3.0 and the ferrite content is smaller or equal to 5%. The pressure plate is provided with a uniformly structured working surface by chemical or electrochemical etching.

Abstract: A mobile metering apparatus is provided for metering into a liquid stream or flow an agent which is to be metered or dosed in a quantitative proportional relationship. The metering apparatus contains liquid meter through which passes the liquid flow and a metering pump connectable to a dosing agent reservoir on the input side thereof and to a metering location at the output side thereof. The metering pump meters the agent from the reservoir into the liquid flow as a function of signals supplied by the liquid meter. The liquid meter is installed in a short conduit portion provided with an inflow connection and an outflow connection. The short conduit portion, liquid meter and metering pump are mounted at a supporting frame enclosing the aforementioned members on all sides. The drive of the metering pump is accomplished by the pressure of the liquid flow.

Abstract: The use of thermally insulated bodies is determined by their insulative properties, on the one hand, and by the economy of their fabrication on the other hand. A particularly simple method for manufacturing a thermally insulated body, e.g. a pipe, with inner and outer shells, especially with metallic inner and outer shells, forming an intermediate space which is filled with porous particulate and/or porous powdered insulating material, evacuated and hermetically sealed consists in first evacuating the intermediate space between the inner and outer shell, maintaining the space under vacuum and then introducing the insulating material from a reservoir maintained under vacuum and sealing the intermediate space.

Abstract: A work-hardenable austenitic manganese steel has a base composition (each in percent by weight) of 0.7 to 1.7 carbon, 5.0 to 18.0 manganese, 0 to 3.0 chromium, 0 to 4.0 nickel, 0 to 2.5 molybdenum, 0.1 to 0.9 silicon, up to 0.1 phosphorus and contains micro-alloying elements of 0.0 to 0.05 titanium, 0.0 to 0.05 zirconium and 0.0 to 0.05 vanadium; the remainder being iron and impurities arising from the melting process. The ratio of carbon to manganese is in the range of 1:4 to 1:14 and the total amount of micro-alloying elements is limited to a range of 0.002 to 0.05 percent by weight. The melt of the base composition is tapped at 1,450.degree. C. to 1,600.degree. C. into a casting ladle in which the micro-alloying elements are added. An ingot is cast, cooled, reheated to austenitization temperatures and quenched.

Abstract: A method of regulating the melting rate of a self-consumable electrode during electroslag remelting in a slag bath, wherein the lowering speed of the electrode which is to be remelted, the length of which is determined, is regulated in consideration of maintaining a set or reference value of the melting rate and the current intensity and/or the potential. There is continuously determined the weight of the part of the electrode immersing into the slag bath from the actual total electrode weight and the length of the electrode above the surface of the slag bath and such is compared with a set or reference value and altered when there is present a deviation of the quotient U.sub.Ref and J.sub.Ref, wherein the former represents the reference potential or voltage and the latter the reference current, and the product remains constant. The actual melting rate is compared with a set or reference melting rate and when there is present a deviation there is correspondingly altered the product of J.sub.Ref and U.sub.Ref.

Abstract: The apparatus for sealing a movable member with respect to a liquid medium, especially an oscillatory movable plunger or a rotary shaft within the bore of a high pressure installation comprises an intermediate sleeve, a ring member, and a bushing which are successively arranged with respect to a pressure space or chamber and which are axially biased towards the pressure space by a pressure sleeve. On the side remote from the pressure space the ring member is provided with a recess in the shape of a truncated cone or pyramid. On the side facing the ring member the bushing is formed with a protrusion possessing a complementary truncated cone or pyramid shape. A support ring may be arranged between adjacent surfaces of the ring member and the bushing. On the side facing the intermediate sleeve the ring member has a section of reduced diameter surrounded by a biasing ring subjecting the ring member to a radial force directed towards the movable member.

Abstract: A process for producing seamless tubes of austenitic steels is disclosed. A metallic melt is continuously poured into a cooled mold having a round molding cavity. The as yet fully unsolidified extracted billet is electromagnetically agitated in a direction about its longitudinal axis. Once hardened, the billet is cross cut, and the castings are subjected to annealing at a temperature between 1100.degree. C. and 1250.degree. C. (preferably between 1150.degree. C. and 1200.degree. C.) for between 30 minutes and 4 hours (preferably between 1 hour and 2 hours). The castings are allowed to cool, are machined into extrusion blooms and the seamless tubes produced by extrusion of the blooms.

Abstract: A cutter head for a suction dredge, especially suction dredge vessels or barges, comprising cutter head blades and teeth holders each carrying a respective tooth tip with the teeth holders welded to the cutter head blades. Each tooth holder possesses at its end region, facing away from the tooth tip carried by the tooth holder, an essentially T-shaped or double T-shaped profile or sectional configuration. Each cutter head blade is provided with slots in which there is arranged a respective web of such sectional shape or profile.

Abstract: A method of and apparatus for producing consumable electrodes with large diameters to be used for remelting involves assembling the electrode of individual longitudinal parts adjacently arranged. Which longitudinal parts are continuously cast in special moulds as strands having polygonal cross sections. The parts are assembled so as to form a polygonal overall cross section, and their end faces are welded together with a common gripping head for the electrode holding device.

Abstract: In a method of and apparatus for producing ingots of unalloyed and alloyed steels having an improved primary crystallization, reduced ingot segregation and a reduced content of non-metallic inclusions, molten steel is poured into a mould, a slag mixture is supplied onto said steel, energy is supplied to the slag mixture while the steel is solidifying in the mould, and the upper rim zone of the molten steel bordering on the slag mixture is cooled.

Abstract: In a method of producing ingots of unalloyed and alloyed steels having an improved primary crystallization, reduced ingot segregation and a reduced content of non-metallic inclusions, liquid steel is poured into a mould in an amount substantially approximately equal to the desired weight of the ingot to be obtained, slag is applied to the steel and energy is supplied to the already melted slag to maintain the liquid core zone of the slag at a high temperature, while the walls laterally confining the slag are cooled to create and maintain a layer of solid slag in that area, the energy supply to the slag is effected by resistance heating by means of at least one consumable electrode having a chemical composition identical or similar to that of the ingot, and the quantitative composition of the at least one consumable electrode is selected in a manner as to obtain a concentration of segregating elements in the amount of steel melted off per time unit that is lower by that amount in which the concentration of seg

Abstract: A steam-operated sterilization apparatus for sterilizing laundry, bandages, instruments and the like, includes a heat-insulated container, and a sterilization chamber disposed within the heat-insulated container. A space between the heat-insulated container and the sterilization chamber is filled with a fluid acting as a carrier of heat. A heating device heats the fluid to a temperature above 100.degree. C., and a water conduit, connected to a source of water, is disposed in the space for passing the water therethrough. The water conduit includes a water-evaporation section for converting the water into steam, and a steam-heating section for converting the steam into superheated steam. The water conduit communicates with the sterilization chamber for introducing the steam and the superheated steam thereinto, and a discharge device communicates with the sterilization chamber for at least condensing the steam and the superheated steam, and for discharging the condensate.