Abstract: A device for the continuous wet treatment of moving webs, particularly the washing and drying of textile webs, wherein the webs pass through a chamber over reversing rollers from top to bottom or from bottom to top in a substantially horizontal mode of travel, the device comprising in addition to the reversing rollers, guide rollers and squeezing rollers, and a plurality of wipers for stripping liquid off the web, some of said wipers being arranged in the free horizontal stretches between the several rollers.

Abstract: The invention is concerned with a device for slowing down a fed printing specimen as it is fed to the paddle wheel, and includes a pair of rollers, one of which is adjustable relative to the other to provide for an adjustable wedge portion therebetween which includes means to slow the speed of the fed printing specimen down as it is fed to the paddle wheel.

Abstract: A pivotal implement, such as a pivotal plow includes an implement frame having an axle extending longitudinally in the direction of travel which is pivotally supported on an undercarriage for movement relative thereto about its axle. The undercarriage includes a pair of spaced apart wheels each of which is supported by a transversely-extending axle which is coupled to the undercarriage for independent vertical movement in a substantially vertical direction, relative to the longitudinal axis of the undercarriage, for movement between an upper limiting position and a lower limiting position. Blocking means are associated with each of the wheel axles for preventing a tipping of the undercarriage relative to the implement frame about its longitudinal axis.

Abstract: Folding device for roller rotating printing presses for folding a prefolded pack of sheets which is fed by a pair of endless conveyor belts underneath a folding knife in parallel direction of its feeding movement wherein at the arriving end and on both sides of the folding knife, a finger is moved into the feeding path of the pack of sheets so as to engage an advancing front edge of the pack of sheets. The finger is forcibly moved into rotation by a shaft which runs laterally beneath the endless conveyor belts whereby the rotation moves the finger in a working cycle above the lower plane of the endless conveyor belts and the finger runs slowly in direction of the feeding motion, but more slowly than the same.

Abstract: A roof bar for surface support elements having an L-shaped gap sealing plate which is fixed to at least one side of the roof bar and displaceable toward an adjacent roof bar. The vertical section of the roof bar is formed as a buffer plate for engaging a pivoted hydraulic cylinder supported on the roof bar. A horizontal section of the gap sealing plate is held in a guide below the top plate of the roof bar.

Abstract: A fungicide mixture for combatting stem-breaking diseases and spike or ear diseases in cereals and corn, comprising from 50 to 90 percent by weight of N-(1,1,2,2-tetrachloroethylthio)-3a,4,7,7a-tetrahydrophthalimide and from 50 to 10 percent by weight of 2-(4'-thiazolyl)-benzimidazole, based on the total weight of the two components.

Abstract: The invention is concerned with a safety for a revolver in which the release button or thumb piece is provided with three positions, one of which is the normally open and non-firing position, a second of which is an intermediate, but normally closed, non-firing position, and a third of which is the normally closed and firing position. A spring mechanism is provided to hold the release button in its intermediate position while permitting movement to the first or normally open, or non-firing position, but preventing movement to the third or normally closed position or firing position. The button is connected with the conventional pawl blocking mechanism which prevents the firing of the ammunition when the button is in the intermediate or normally open position.

Abstract: A lid removing device for removing lids from containers, consisting of a flat, resilient sheet of material having a plurality of circular segments, concentrically formed within the sheet. The innermost segment has a central aperture and each of the circular segments are integrally coupled to the outermost circular segment. There is also formed a tab on the outermost segment, with a hole to allow the device to be hung up. Each of the circular segments has a common coupling to join them together and hold them to the tab. The device is preferably constructed from a sheet of resilient material.

Abstract: An apparatus for incinerating a waste gas comprises a combustion furnace main body having a peripheral wall and a hearth and a plurality of flare burners disposed on the hearth. Each of the flare burners includes a burner main body having a peripheral wall and a bottom wall, a waste gas main pipe provided under the burner main body, water gas branch pipes extending upward from the waste gas main pipe and each having a vertical zigzag passage in an intermediate portion thereof, gas nozzles mounted in the upper ends of the waste gas branch pipes respectively and positioned inside the peripheral wall of the burner main body, a steam main pipe extending through the waste gas main pipe and projecting upward through the bottom wall of the burner main body, steam branch pipes extending upward from the steam main pipe, and steam nozzles mounted on the upper ends of the steam branch pipes respectively and positioned close to the gas nozzles.

Abstract: A device for gripping, pressing and depositing a tire core upon a raw tire blank, has a supporting cylinder which is shiftable axially and which consists of two rings located side by side and having parallel annular troughs upon their inner side. The annular troughs are airtightly covered by separate rings consisting of polyesterurethane or similar tough elastic plastic material with a high E-modulus. These rings have crack zones located mirror-like symmetrically in several radial planes; they are rigid against change in shape and cross-sectionally they are adjustable as toggle joints relatively to each other. The ring zones located closest to the ring center are swingable inwardly tongs-like in radial planes by increased air pressure.

Abstract: A gaff hook holder for receiving the hook portion of a gaff hook consisting of a housing having a semicircular chamber with a diameter slightly larger than the periphery of the gaff hook. The chamber also has a thickness slightly larger than the thickness of the gaff hook. There is a detent formed in the chamber adjacent to its walls and reducing the thickness of the chamber so that when the hook is inserted into the chamber, it psses over the detent and snaps into place within the chamber. The holder preferably is constructed of a flat plate and a formed plate containing the chamber, both of which are riveted together and have belt loops formed on the sides for receiving the strap or belt.

Abstract: A needle and needle bed assembly for flat and circular knitting machines for making right-right and left-left knitted articles, includes at least one horizontally-disposed needle bed having a generally concavely-shaped upper surface which has formed therein a plurality of transversely-extending, generally arcuately-shaped grooves, and a plurality of generally arcuately-shaped needles, each of which is slidably supported within one of the grooves of the bed for movement between a push-out position and a drawing-in position, in which positions one end of the needles extends beyond a lateral edge of the bed. The needles are guided in the grooves such that the angle defined between the ends of the needles, as measured by the tangent thereto, and the vertical axis of the bed, decreases as the needles are moved from the drawing-in position to the push-out position.

Abstract: A prosthetic device which includes a frame for mounting a gluteraldehyde-fixed porcine aortic valve and includes a sewing ring which surrounds the frame. The frame is provided with a proximal end and a distal end which extends beyond the ring, and the entire unit is covered with medical grade fabric.

Abstract: A device for transporting annular raw belt-supported running strips for pneumatic tires consists of a gripping device fixed to a supporting ring. The device can be shifted sidewise and adjusted radially. According to the invention the gripping device consists of a ring which has a U-shaped axial cross-section, which is closed up to radial center, which consists of a viscous elastic plastic substance and which can change its shape radially inwardly by air pressure.

Abstract: A multicylinder dryer, particularly for the drying of a web, includes cylinders located alternately in two rows one above the other, guiding rolls situated between adjacent cylinders in both rows and drying fabrics wrapping the web on said cylinders, the cylinder which is the first in the direction of travel being a lead-on cylinder, the other cylinders being heated drying cylinders of equal diameters.

Abstract: In a process for making large-size building elements called "plate bricks" of ceramic material, which comprises preparing the ceramic material, forming it to large-size plate-shaped bricks, drying and burning the same, the improvement which consists of drying the element evenly over the cross section after forming. The invention also relates to the brick made by the process.

Abstract: A device for holding flexible, yieldable information carriers such as paper in a correct readable position comprising a retaining or clamping device for the flexible, yieldable information carrier for at least partially rigidizing the same so that it remains in a free supported reading position.

Abstract: A stand for a conventional rectilinearly shaped compact high-speed manual digital calculator is provided which is removably mountable on a table-top, desk-top or like planar support and skid resistant thereon. The stand includes a substantially rectilinear web having a first elevated end and a second descendent end contiguous to the planar support. Proximately underlying the second end of the web is a rail flange having upper and lower oblique surfaces corresponding to the angle of elevation of the web and providing a level mount therefor. Issuing generally upwardly from the second end of the web is a lip flange which provides a fixed support for a calculator overlying the web. Cooperating means are mounted in the surfaces of the stand that engage the support which render the stand substantially skid resistant thereon.

Abstract: A roller skate of the type known as "single tracked" that is having only a single row of rollers one behind the other, is provided with fastenings for the foot of a wearer including an ankle bracing support extending above an ankle strap which holds the foot of a wearer in contact with a heel grip at the rear of a foot plate or base of the skate. The ankle bracing support includes a C-shape padded cradle for engaging part way around the leg of a wearer above the ankle and has a strap by which it can be securely fastened to the leg. The cradle itself is secured to the base or the heel grip in such a way that it can pivot about a transverse axis parallel to the axes of the rollers to permit free movement of the foot in the required direction but resists transverse or twisting movements to support the ankle against twisting.