Abstract: Our invention is a three-way valve including a pressure-tight housing, a ve seat, a closing member mounted movable in the valve seat and an operating member guided through a shaft seal. The housing is formed with three connecting channels and the valve seat with associated connecting passages. The closing member has a metering passage by which two of the connecting channels are connectable alternately with a third channel with connecting passages intervening. In an additional controlling position the closing member seals the connecting channels. Our invention is characterized by a closing member formed like a sliding plate and the valve seat has two sealing disks between which the sliding plate is positioned moveable up and down. The sealing disks are equipped with the connecting passages and at least one of the sealing disks has its connecting passages in a controlling spacing which is larger than the diameter of the metering passage in the sliding plate.

Abstract: The connector pipe segment for conductor pipes or conduits for gaseous as well as fluid flow media comprises a pressure-tight outer shell, at least two connector pieces, a plurality of sealing surfaces and a wear-resistant sleeve, advantageously of a sintered ceramic material. The wear-resistant sleeve is inserted in the outer shell and the sealing surfaces are located on the outer shell. The wear-resistant sleeve is inserted with radial play and with axial play free of force in the outer shell so that a gap is formed between the outer shell and the wear-resistant sleeve. The gap is connected with the open cross section of the wear-resistant sleeve and admits the flow media.

Abstract: The ball valve, especially for a solvent-containing flow and/or an abrasive solid mixture, has a housing, a sintered ceramic valve seat, a sintered ceramic valve ball and an operating shaft for the valve ball guided through a shaft seal in the housing. The valve ball is positioned free of an elastic seal between seating surfaces of the valve seat and the valve seat has at least two sintered ceramic seat rings which are mounted in the housing and which are acted on with a pressing force by an elastic element supported in the housing. The valve ball is positioned between the seat rings which seal on the housing and are acted on with a sealing force. The seat rings have a plurality of seating surfaces which are formed like the surface of an inner core and contact tangentially on the valve ball along circumferential sealing lines.

Abstract: A ball cock having sinter ceramic valve ball and seat rings, also has wear-resistant bushings between the pipe connectors joined to the ends of the housing sleeve and the seat rings. Compressible seals bearing upon the bushings and clamped between the bushings and the pipe connectors press the bushings against the seat rings and the seat rings against the valve ball.

Abstract: The digging tool assembly for an excavator in which the tooth tip is formed with a pin anchored by a securing ring in a recess of an adapter head which fits into the tooth base and traverses a hole in the tooth base so that the pin not only holds the tooth tip and the tooth base together but also anchors both of them to the adapter head which mounts the tool on the movable tool carrier of the excavator, e.g. a tunneling machine or a suction dredge.

Abstract: The digging tool for loosening and loading comprises an adapter attached to a tool support and a tooth attachable to the adapter. The tooth has a tooth bottom portion and a tooth peak which are independent separate components. The tooth peak has a supporting face and is mounted with that supporting face on a complementary supporting surface of the bottom portion of the tooth. The tooth peak has a mounting pin which is guided through a hole surrounded by the supporting surface of the bottom portion and is deformed into a rivet attaching the tooth peak and the tooth bottom portion.

Abstract: A replaceable tooth article is disclosed for a digging and breaking tool used in a suction head of an excavator consisting of an adapter and a replaceable tooth having a pyramidal outer shape modified with a rounded apex and a plurality of rounded edges. The replaceable tooth is provided with a core composed of a low alloy, temperable and hardenable steel. A tooth peak of hard metal is mounted on the core. The edges of the core extending from the tooth peak are at least partially bevelled. On the bevelled surfaces formed thereby a plurality of edge elements composed of a hard metal, advantageously a carbide metal, are placed so as to form hard metal reinforced edges. All components of the tooth are joined together in a smooth surface.