Abstract: The mechanical actuating device for a disc brake has an automatic adjusting device to compensate for wear of the brake pads. The actuating device enables an easy resetting of the adjusting device for brake pad replacement and has a compact construction of all parts. The adjusting spindle extends axially through the actuating device and a clutch secures the adjusting spindle against rotation when the adjusting nut is turned to compensate for wear of the brake pads. To reset the adjusting device for brake pad replacement, the adjusting spindle is turned back by a turning tool.

Abstract: In a direct-current-operated, gas-vortex stabilized high-voltage arc furnace with hollow electrodes and a vortex chamber, the gas to be heated is blown in tangentially to the common axis of the electrodes. In the hollow electrodes, the ratio of the internal diameter of the cathode to that of the anode is 1.6 to 2.5, and the spacing between the electrodes is 0.9 to 0.7 times the internal diameter of the cathode. In the method of operation of the arc furnace, the momentum flow of gas to be heated is at least 10 kg m/s.sup.2, the gas entering into the vortex chamber is at a gas velocity of at least 10 m/s and pressures in the vortex chamber range from 1.5 to 10 bar (absolute).

Abstract: A circuit arrangement for retrieving data contained in binary data signals contains an integration stage that at least partially integrates and limits the binary data signals an outputs sample signals to a following phase control circuit, the sample signals being allocated to the integrated and limited data signals. The integration stage outputs further data signals allocated to the integrated and limited data signals to a decoder stage which retrieves the data by use of reference signals output by the phase control circuit. The time constant in the integration and the pulse duration of the sample signals are varied according to the frequency of the reference signals output by the oscillator. They are varied by use of switch stages that are designed in correspondence with an oscillator in the phase control circuit.

Abstract: An apparatus for working a elongated angle-iron workpiece having a pair of nonparallel flanges at least one of which is to be drilled has a transport unit for displacing the workpiece longitudinally through a working station and a support in the station for holding the workpiece with the one flange forming an acute angle with the horizontal. A drilling unit including a drilling tool can move horizontally in the station transverse to the workpiece and transverse to the workpiece and at the acute angle to the horizontal perpendicularly through the one flange. To obtain a given displacement along the workpiece flange, the carriage supporting the drill unit is moved horizontally through a horizontal distance equal to the desired displacement times the secant of the angle that the flange forms with the horizontal.

Abstract: A floating-caliper spot-type disc brake whose caliper member is retained and guided on parallel pins clamped in the brake carrier member. A sealing boot is provided which protects the pins against moisture and dirt. One end of the sealing boot is armored by a crown spring having finger-shaped spring arms which firmly urge the one end against a part of the pin. A bellows portion succeeding the one end extends at right angles to the longitudinal axis of the pin and permits swivelling of the brake caliper relative to the brake carrier around one of both pins for a change of the pad without excess twisting of the sealing boot. The other end of the sealing boot is armored by a metal ring and engages with a groove which is provided at the open rim of the opening for the pin.

Abstract: A tunnel-type batch washing machine has an outer tunnel-forming housing tube centered on a horizontal axis and provided internally with a helical wash screw rotatable in the tube about the axis and having a plurality of flights defining axially spaced compartments. A generally cylindrical sleeve is fixed to this screw and is coaxially received within the tube between the screw and the tube. A treatment liquid is flowed axially in one direction through the housing and respective batches of articles to be washed are held in the compartments between the flights. For washing the screw is oscillated back and forth about the axis through substantially more than 360.degree. to agitate the articles in the liquid. Periodically the screw is rotated about the axis through substantially more than 720.degree. in a rotation direction to advance the batches axially opposite the direction of liquid flow.

Abstract: A tunnel-type batch washing machine has an outer tunnel-forming housing tube centered on a horizontal axis and provided internally with a helical wash screw rotatable in the tube about the axis and having a plurality of flights defining axially spaced compartments. A generally cylindrical sleeve is fixed to this screw and is coaxially received within the tube between the screw and the tube. A treatment liquid is flowed axially in one direction through the housing and respective batches of articles to be washed are held in the compartments between the flights. For washing the screw is oscillated back and forth about the axis through substantially more than 360.degree. to agitate the articles in the liquid. Periodically the screw is rotated about the axis through substantially more than 720.degree. in a rotation direction to advance the batches axially opposite the direction of liquid flow.

Abstract: A process for the preparation of a supported catalyst containing a catalytically active metal such as a noble metal is disclosed wherein the supported catalyst is prepared by initially contacting the inert support with a base and disposing an amount of base in the support corresponding to 0.01 to 50 gram equivalents of base per gram equivalent of catalytically active metal to be deposited thereon, drying the so-treated support to a residual moisture content of less than 10 percent of the maximum absorbency of the support and thereafter impregnating the same with a salt solution of a catalytically active metal, e.g., a salt of a catalytically active noble metal. The inert support is one having a BET surface area of less than 20 square meters per gram. The catalyst is useful in hydrogenation, dehydrogenation, hydrogenolysis, oxidation, polymerization, isomerization or cyclization reactions.

Abstract: A process for the hydrogenation of nitrobenzene to aniline is described wherein the nitrobenzene is contacted with hydrogen in the presence of a multi-component supported catalyst containing 1 to 20 grams of noble metal per liter of support and 1 to 20 grams per liter of support of one or more transition metal of the Groups IVa, Va, or VIa of the Periodic Table. The catalyst can contain 1 to 20 grams per liter of support of a further transition group element or of a member of the main group. The catalyst is one which has been prepared by a process involving pretreatment of the support with a base prior to impregnation with the catalytically active substances, followed by drying to a residual moisture content of less than 10 percent of the maximum absorbency of the support.

Abstract: A rotary drum storage tank for receiving and conveying garbage includes a rear cover for the tank with a helical baffle protruding into the storage tank and which acts as a pressing screw which pushes the material which is dumped into the tank backwardly into the rear thereof. The baffle acts in conjunction with a plurality of strikers arranged on the inner wall of the rotary drum storage tank and which rotate with the tank to force the material into the storage space. The drum is mounted on annular ball bearings which are secured on a bolt which is mounted on a box girder or closed frame girder having a central opening therethrough which accommodates the bearings.

Abstract: Apparatus for drying tobacco which is caused to pass through a steam-heated rotating drum has a blower for admission of hot air into a first conduit which discharges hot air into the inlet of the drum or into a second conduit which discharges hot air into the outlet of the drum. The temperature of hot air which flows into the inlet is regulated in dependency on changes in moisture content of tobacco ahead of the drum, and the temperature of hot air which flows into the outlet is regulated in dependency on changes in moisture content of dried tobacco. A first pipe draws vapors-containing air from the outlet when the drum receives hot air via first conduit, and a second pipe draws vapors-containing air from the inlet when the drum receives hot air from the second conduit.

Abstract: The invention is related to a process for the stretch-texturing of high-molecular weight linear synthetic endless filaments travelling at speeds of 300 to 1200 meters per minute by continuously guiding the filaments through a delivery zone, a heat-fixing zone, a false-twister and a stretching godet. The endless filaments are passed through a stretching zone S 55 to 180 cm long, defined by the distance between the delivery stage and the stretching godet, the distance between the delivery stage and the false-twister inlet amounting to S-X cm and the distance X between the false-twister outlet and the stretching godet being 5 to 30 cm.

Abstract: The invention is related to a method for producing texturized yarns from polyamide 6 which have small parts of a transitional structure in the .alpha.-modification in addition to the predominant .alpha.-modification, using a rapidly spun yarn in the .alpha.-modification, wherein a yarn with an elongation of 40 to 100% and a density of 1.130 to 1.140 is texturized at texturizing speeds of from 4000 to 1600 m/min at a temperature of from 170.degree. to 220.degree. C while maintaining a constant thread tension ratio of twister outlet to twister inlet of from 1 : 1.0 to 1 : 1.5 by means of a frictional twister while simultaneously stretching in a ratio of from 1 : 1.05 to 1 : 1.5.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a device for closing swinging doors which is mounted in a door frame and has an elongated housing with a spindle rotatably mounted in one end thereof by which the door closer is secured to a door. A cylinder is interiorly formed in the other end of the housing and has a piston disposed therein. The piston rod extends from the cylinder and is secured at its extended end to a pair of flat carrier plates which are slidably mounted within the housing about the spindle and biased to maintain the door in a closed position. Camming surfaces are carried by the spindle which cooperate with a pair of cam followers carried by the carrier plates to hold the door in an open position. Valve means communicating with the cylinder are provided to permit fluid flow from one end of the cylinder to the other about the piston for controlling the rate of travel of the piston within the cylinder and thereby regulate the rate of movement of the door as it is being opened, closed and latched.

Abstract: A sealing ring is disclosed for sealing a pin which is displaceable chiefly along its axis through a passage in a housing wall into a chamber. A sealing ring housing is inserted into an annular groove in the housing wall. The sealing ring housing encompasses a ring made of wear-resistance material seated on the pin with a small radial clearance and having a large radial clearance in the sealing ring housing. A slide ring is seated on the pin without clearance with a large radial clearance in the sealing ring housing. The invention provides a sealing ring which permits easy axial and radial movement of the pin and prevents the ingress of dirt and humidity into the interior of the housing from the outside through the pin passage.

Abstract: Apparatus for introducing starting materials into the shearing gap of a machine for producing plastic films, ribbons, foils or plates. A plasticized plastic starting material is severed into strings having a length substantially equal to the working width of the shearing gap and the resultant strings are introduced into the shearing gap substantially simultaneously over the width of the gap. The apparatus greatly increases the capacity of the machine, the homogeneity of the product over the entire width and the capability of the machine to supply a greater number of starting materials.

Abstract: Tobacco particles, particularly Burley tobacco, which form a continuous stream are conditioned during transport by a series of vibratory conveyors. The foremost conveyor receives tobacco particles from a unit which contacts the particles with an atomized liquid, especially casing, and the conveyors thereupon transport the particles seriatim through preconditioning, heating, cooling and moisturizing units. The preconditioning unit has a housing consisting of one or more coiled steam pipes having orifices which discharge currents of steam against the underside of the tobacco stream at a pressure which suffices to enable the currents to form a cushion for the moving tobacco particles. The currents condense on contact with the relatively cool tobacco particles whereby the particles entrain the condensate into the heating unit wherein the particles are relieved of nitrogen and the casing is caused to penetrate into the fibrous structure of each particle with attendant roasting of the casing.