Abstract: A torque converter comprises a pump rotor, a turbine rotor, and a stator. The turbine rotor is fixed to a gearbox input shaft. The gearbox input shaft forms an axial duct with an initial zone and an end zone for a hydraulic fluid. The gearbox input shaft further comprises a shaft core and a shaft sleeve, surrounding the shaft core, fixed against rotation to each other. The shaft core and shaft sleeve are matched to each other in such a manner that the shaft core runs radially in the shaft sleeve with no play and the shaft core and the shaft sleeve together form the axial duct.

Abstract: A hydrodynamic clutch arrangement is provided with at least a pump wheel and a turbine wheel to form a hydrodynamic circuit in a clutch housing, the drive-side wall of the housing being connected on the side facing the drive unit, such as an internal combustion engine, to the drive unit, a clutch device being provided to bring the housing into or out of working connection with the pump wheel. The clutch device is located inside the clutch housing.

Abstract: A torque converter which has a pump wheel, a turbine wheel, and a stator, which form a hydrodynamic circuit, and also a torsional vibration damper with a primary and a secondary damper element. The primary and the secondary damper element are connected to each other in a rotationally elastic manner by at least one set of springs. The turbine wheel has a turbine wheel shell and is supported rotatably with respect to a turbine wheel hub in a first bearing, which provides axial and radial support. The secondary damper element is mounted nonrotatably on the turbine wheel hub. The turbine wheel acts by way of an intermediate element on the primary damper element. The stator is mounted on a stator hub, which is supported by an axially operative second bearing on a turbine wheel base, which is connected to the turbine wheel shell. The first bearing is located radially outside the second bearing.

Abstract: A torsional vibration damper for a hydrodynamic clutch device particularly for coupling a turbine wheel hub with a turbine wheel shell and/or for coupling a lockup clutch arrangement with a turbine wheel, includes a primary side and a secondary side which is rotatable about an axis of rotation with respect to the primary side against the action of a damper element arrangement. A radial bearing arrangement is arranged for radially supporting the primary side and secondary side with respect to one another. For this purpose, the radial bearing arrangement is arranged radially outside of the damper element arrangement.

Abstract: A torque converter comprises a pumping rotor (1), a turbine rotor (2), driven by the above and a stator (3). The turbine rotor (2) is fixed to a gearbox input shaft (7, 8). The gearbox input shaft (7, 8) forms an axial channel (9) with an initial zone (10) and an end zone (11) for a hydraulic fluid. The gearbox input shaft (7, 8) further comprises a shaft centre (7) and a shaft shell (8), surrounding the shaft centre (7), fixed to each other in a rotating sense. Shaft centre (7) and shaft shell (8) are matched to each other in such a manner that the shaft centre (7) runs radially in the shaft shell (8) with no play and the shaft centre (7) and the shaft shell (8) together form the axial channel (9).

Abstract: A torsional vibration damper for a hydrodynamic clutch device particularly for coupling a turbine wheel hub with a turbine wheel shell and/or for coupling a lockup clutch arrangement with a turbine wheel, includes a primary side and a secondary side which is rotatable about an axis of rotation with respect to the primary side against the action of a damper element arrangement. A radial bearing arrangement is arranged for radially supporting the primary side and secondary side with respect to one another. For this purpose, the radial bearing arrangement is arranged radially outside of the damper element arrangement.

Abstract: A hydrokinetic torque converter includes an impeller driven by an internal combustion engine, a turbine coupled to an output shaft, and a stator that can be blocked in one rotational direction, which together form a converter circuit filled with converter fluid, which is supplied from a supply container by a hydraulic supply system through supply lines and return lines, at least one of which is in flow connection with at least one opening, which is provided on a separating wall located between the turbine hub and the associated casing cover of the converter housing and connects that line to a chamber defined by the casing cover and an adjacent converter element. The separating wall is integrally constructed with the casing cover and preferably acts in the radial extension area of the turbine hub as an axial support for supporting the turbine hub against axial movements.

Abstract: A method of producing a sliding sleeve for a synchronizer of a speed-changing gear, the sliding sleeve being comprised of a sintered powder metal compact having a claw extending along an inner periphery of the sleeve, and the claw consisting of teeth having opposite end faces and a cross-section between the end faces which is reduced relative to an undercut portion at at least one of the end faces, which method comprises the steps of sintering the powder metal compact having the claw consisting of the teeth having the opposite end faces and the reduced cross-section extending between the end faces, and then applying solely an axial upsetting force to the one end face to form the undercut portion thereat while leaving the reduced cross-section unchanged.

Abstract: A hydrokinetic torque converter with a lock-up clutch which is located axially between the turbine wheel and the converter housing comprises a piston which, along with the converter housing, defines a chamber. The chamber is connected by means of at least one essentially radial flow guide to a longitudinal hole in the driven shaft. When oil which has been supplied by the converter circuit and has penetrated into the chamber in the vicinity of the friction lining flows through the chamber, the oil can be transported radially inward for discharge by means of the flow guide toward the converter axis, until it can be introduced into the driven shaft inside a ring-shaped zone surrounding the converter-axis which promotes the formation of a vortex when the converter housing is in rotation, and can then be transported via the longitudinal hole in the driven shaft to the reservoir.

Abstract: A face driver for centering and driving a workpiece to be chucked in a lathe comprises a support provided with a dead center member and several driving pins around the dead center member so as to be movable and pressable against the workpiece by a compression member acting against a pressure plate, the pressure plate is retained so as to be floating in the axial directions of the support, and it has parts or arms associated with the driving pins which are elastically deformable. This causes squareness errors of the workpiece to be chucked to be compensated for automatically at low structural cost.

Abstract: A mold comprising a core which is open at one end and has the negative contour of the workpiece and a sheet-metal outer container surrounding the core. High dimensional stability of the core, easy removability of the workpiece from the mold and a smoother surface of the workpiece are obtained by isostatic pressing of titanium powder in the spaces in the mold. The core consists, at least at its negative contour surface for the workpiece, of a high-temperature alloy, particularly one having a base of nickel or iron. This and the titanium powder material of the workpiece are neutral in chemical reaction and low in or free of diffusion with respect to each other upon the hot isostatic pressing. The core is in the form of a ring of segments surrounded by a solid holding ring.

Abstract: A tool holder for carrying a cutting tool is attached to a drive spindle. For purposes of making possible a rapid and easy exchange of the tool holder while at the same time there is required a small working space the tool holder is carried by an adapter, which interiorly guides a pin on the tool holder. The tool holder is clamped against the adapter by applying a clamping force on a transversal abutting surface on the tool holder.

Abstract: A toolholder has a shank with a tapered body which is adapted to fit into a complementary socket in an end face of a machine tool spindle. A blind bore in the body is engageable by holding means for holding the shank in the socket. A first axial section of this bore is threaded for engagement with a threaded member of one kind of holding means such as a pulling rod or a set bolt coacting with pulling means. A second axial section of the bore is enlarged to form an annular groove for engagement by an expansible head of a pulling member of an alternative kind of holding means. An encoder ring is removably fixed at the toolholder. Each time the tool is exchanged the encoder ring is replaced by an encoder ring corresponding to the new tool.

Abstract: Highly exothermic continuous chemical reactions such as the methanization of carbon oxides are cooled by indirect heat exchange with a liquid coolant such as water, thereby converting at least some of the liquid to a vapor such as steam. When the reaction temperature, because of operational difficulties or the like, exceeds the design temperature of the reaction, said vapor such as steam is passed into the reaction chamber. In this way, the reaction stream is cooled as well as diluted; in addition, since the vapor is preferably selected to be a reaction product, the extent and rate of the exothermic reaction are diminished.

Abstract: In a process for the production of a methane-rich gas from a feed gas of hydrogen and carbon oxides, wherein the feed gas, after preliminary purification thereof, is warmed, then subjected to a multistage, catalytic methanization, and thereupon is subjected to a CO.sub.2 separation step,The improvement which comprises conducting the preliminary purification step as well as at least a portion of the CO.sub.2 separation step by a physical scrubbing process; and employing the same scrubbing agent in both of said physical scrubbing steps.

Abstract: The invention deals with a quick-change-device for a conical, hollow bore spindle of a machine tool in particular a milling machine, for the quick releasing and clamping of tools or tool holders that have conical shanks and which have a ring groove on the end which is facing away from the tool, into which radially movable projections of a clamping element engage, and which projections are part of a longitudinally shiftable drawbar in a spindle, which under the effect of clamping springs act on the drawbar, the clamping element engaging and pulling the conical shaft of the tool holder into the spindle cone of the machine tool; and the clamping element is detachable due to compressing the clamping springs through a power means.