Abstract: Numerically controlled surface processing wherein contour coordinates of a workpiece clamped in a clamping device are determined in a number of default positions by a sensor, and the coordinates are imaged point by point. Through interpolation of these coordinates, at least one continuous function for the contour profile of one coordinate is determined in one spatial direction from at least one other coordinate in a second spatial direction.

Abstract: The invention relates to a grinding machine for sharpening (honing) blades (4) of knives, scissors, hand tools or the like, with a magazine, a feed station (1) or similar, and with a honing station (2) for the blades (4), which has two contra-rotating grinding wheels (6a, 6b). In order to automate a method to be performed using the said machine whilst maintaining a high degree of machining accuracy, it is proposed to use a robot (3) with memory-programmable control having a manipulator (5) moveable in at least four of the six possible translatory and rotational degrees of spatial freedom, a gripper head, which has a holding device for accommodating and moving a blade (4), being fixed to the manipulator (5).

Abstract: A beverage container for a motor vehicle is provided for. The beverage container holder is located in a vehicle glove compartment. The beverage container holder is pivotally attached to the glove compartment cover and a side wall of the glove compartment so that the bottom of the beverage container holder remains horizontal when the cover is in a closed position. The beverage container holder also has a system for allowing cool air from the vehicle's ventilation system into the glove compartment through an air duct for the purpose of cooling items placed in the beverage container holder. An aperture located in a side wall of the glove compartment cover allows cooling air to be circulated when the glove compartment cover is in a closed position. When the glove compartment cover is open, the side wall of the glove compartment cover prevents cooling air from being circulated within the glove compartment.

Abstract: A built-in, movable, object support for installation in a console, or the like, including a housing having two opposite first side walls and an opening defined by and between the first side walls. An insert is installed through the opening in the housing. The insert has second opposite sides opposed to respective ones of the first side walls. The insert has a front closure wall which serves as a support for an object when the insert is out of the housing. Object holding and support elements are at and above the closure wall. Converging guide ribs on the housing first side walls and slide pieces on the insert second sides engage the ribs. The orientation of the ribs are such that the insert turns with reference to the housing as it moves in and out of the housing due to the guidance of the ribs. The closure wall of the insert is substantially horizontal for supporting an object with the insert out of the housing. Additional object holding elements are supported at the closure wall of the insert.

Abstract: Polycyclic mutagens are removed from aqueous or organic solutions by contacting the solution with a grafted dextranomer adsorbent which contains hydroxypropyl groups covalently linked to a reactive phthalocyanine dye.