Abstract: A gardening vehicle, more particularly a lawn-mower, comprising two sections and a composite duct across them: a first section, which comprises a front axle, a driver's scat and a couplings for a tool; and a second section, which comprises an engine with a corresponding transmission, a rear axle and a dump box; the first and the second section, together with the duct elements, being mutually articulated about a common vertical axis so as to perform a steering action.
Abstract: A device for adjusting the clamping pressure in applicators for clamping terminals onto electrical cables comprising a composite pivot interposed between an actuation hammer and a supporting element to which the tools for clamping the terminal respectively onto the insulation and onto the core of the conductor are slidingly coupled in a mutually parallel arrangement; the thrust of the hammer acts on the heads of the tools, and the pivot is rigidly coupled to the hammer or to the supporting element. The pivot has coaxial threaded regions on which respective wheels are engaged. Screwing/unscrewing of the wheels varies axial distance, with respect to the hammer, of either the tools or only of the insulation clamping tool.
Abstract: A gravity drainage cord formed by braiding a plurality of strands of silk of the type used for surgical sutures, and fitted loosely, in the median region, in a tubular sheath made of a material such as silicone which is adapted to facilitate sliding with respect to tissue, increases biocompatibility and allows optional coupling to mechanical aspiration units.
Abstract: A high-efficiency drying kiln, particularly for wood-like material, constituted by an internal chamber, which is covered with thermally insulating material and is provided with at least one opening for loading and extracting the material to be treated; two flues for recirculation of the air inside the chamber by aspirating and delivering air respectively from and into the outside environment; an air heating device; an air acceleration duct and air acceleration elements located inside the acceleration duct; the air acceleration duct has, at least at its output section, elements for orienting in an axial direction the air stream that is forced by the acceleration elements.
Abstract: An edge grinding unit for machines for working the edges of plates in general and of glass sheets in particular comprising at least at one rim of a plate being worked, a grinding wheel which is accommodated in a carousel element provided with a rotatable cage formed by a plurality of circumferentially distributed rollers. The edge grinding unit further comprising an arm for supporting the grinding wheel which provides, for the grinding wheel, a first oscillation axis and a second oscillation axis which are spaced one another and are substantially perpendicular to the advancement plane of the plate.
Abstract: An accessory component for piping, such as a valve, filter or the like, comprising a hollow body that can be connected to sections of piping and is provided with elements for coupling the component to a supporting structure, the coupling elements being formed on at least one outer wall of the body.
Abstract: A device for coupling multiple connectors, comprising two connector supporting plates, one fixed and one movable, and two threaded members which are supported by the two plates; one of the members has a combined rotary and translatory motion for the coupling and uncoupling of the plates; the member provided with combined rotary and translatory motion is associated with a fluid-actuated actuator for the approach and spacing of the threaded members.
Abstract: A use of tetralin derivatives as biocidal and antifouling agents for preventing and slowing the growth of algae, molds and microorganisms. In particular, the vitamin derivatives are constituted by salts of menadione bisulfite with the heterocyclic bases triazine and piperazine.
Abstract: A welding generator comprising an input rectifier stage, a bank of leveling capacitors, an inverter block, a transformer, a rectifier stage and an inductor downstream of which the arc forms and an input voltage adapting regulator stage having, in series at the output of the input rectifier, a first controlled electronic switch with in output a first diode also connected to the common line, an inductor, a second controlled electronic switch and a second diode being connected in series downstream of the first controlled electronic switch, the output of the inductor being connected to the common line, the second diode being connected to the bank of leveling capacitors; the voltage Vin measured at the output of the rectifier stage having thus the same orientation as the voltage V0 measured across the bank of leveling capacitors.
Abstract: A liquid level detection device (10), particularly for submersed pumps, characterized in that it comprises means (13, 14) for detecting variation of electric and/or magnetic field in relation to the variation of the level of the liquid; the means are associated with a controller (16) for switching on and off a submersed pump (12).
Abstract: A frame particularly usable for in-line or ice skates, comprising two mutually facing approximately vertical walls, transversely to which there are, along the same longitudinal axis, multiple holes for placing the hubs of respective wheels. The frame has, in a transverse cross-section, an oval shape which is closed in the interspace between at least two adjacent wheels.
Abstract: The bag is made from a polyethylene sheet and has a mouth with at least one sheath along its edge, the sheath containing an inextensible ribbon which is graspable from outside through a hole cut in the sheath, in order to close the bag after filling. An elastically extensible ribbon is fastened at its opposite ends to the material of the bag. When the bag is received in a rigid bin with its upper margin overturned over the bin rim, the elastic ribbon is pulled radially, looped and released around the overturn of the bag to clamp it around the bin.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 8, 2002
Date of Patent:
July 1, 2003
Assignee:
Nuova Poliver di Oddone Colomba & C. S.n.c.
Abstract: A luminaire, of the ceiling-mounted type or of the type for recessed fitting in ceilings and walls for interior lighting, comprising a hollow body which is shaped like a paraboloid and forms a back on an upper part and an opening on a lower part, the body accommodating a light source in its internal cavity; the internal surface of the body is divided into sectors which form receptacles that can be engaged detachably by a plurality of reflective laminar elements in order to form various hues, chromatic compositions and/or light distributions.
Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing threaded caps comprises a plurality of compression molding assemblies which are arranged on a rotating carousel and comprise an upper male mold half and a lower female mold half. The male mold half comprises a tubular element, a sleeve guided coaxially to said tubular element, and a punch guided in the tubular element and having a helical slot for forming the thread of the cap. The punch enters the female mold half and produces, together with it, the cap through compression of a dose of plastic material deposited in the female mold half. After the spacing of the punch from the female mold half, the removal of the cap from the punch occurs by way of a removal device, which comprises a ring gear associated with the sleeve and provided with a collar in sliding contact on the punch, a rod which can slide axially in a seat of the carousel and supports a gear meshing with the ring gear and connected to a motor drive mechanism.
Abstract: An actuation and control device for opening and/or closing high- and medium-voltage circuit breakers having at least one fixed contact and at least one moving contact, comprising actuation means which are operatively connected to the moving contact and supply the energy for performing the opening/closure movement, the particularity of which consists of the fact that the actuation means comprise a servomotor, an electronic control and power supply unit, and elements for transmitting motion, and that the actuation means and/or the coupling between the fixed contact and the moving contact are such as to achieve a desired speed of the moving contact at the instant in which it separates from the fixed contact.
Abstract: A method for generating a frequency-modulated signal with high receivability quality, comprising the steps of:
before sending an input modulating signal to a modulator, modifying the input modulating signal so as to compensate for distortions which will be introduced in the modulated signal receiving section.
Abstract: A generator for arc welding machines provided with an input rectifier stage which has a unit power factor and comprises an inductor, on the mains side, two diodes and two electronic switches, one for each diode, which are driven by a driver which renders the absorption of the input rectifier stage practically sinusoidal.
Abstract: An improved sprung hinge for supporting panel-like closure elements is of the type comprising a first articulated quadrilateral and a second articulated quadrilateral which share a first lever and a second lever, and at least first and second elastic elements arranged in series which act on mutually opposite parts of each one of the quadrilaterals, the first lever being formed monolithically.
Abstract: A device for transmitting rotary motion to a plate-holding impression cylinder of a plate mounting machine for flexographic printing, comprising a backup roll which can be actuated rotatably by a first motor; a beam, which is provided with crescent-shaped rests for rotatably supporting end pivots of the impression cylinder; a gear coaxial to the impression cylinder and rotatably supported by a head associated with the beam; and a hollow transmission shaft engaging at one end, one of the pivots and, at the other end, the gear; the transmission shaft being movable coaxially to the gear between a retracted disengagement configuration and a protruding engagement configuration in which the impression cylinder is actuatable.