Abstract: A multiple piston pump with a constant discharge capacity for liquid chromatographs comprises at least three piston-cylinder units (1,2,3), whereof the pistons (7) are driven through a non-linear drive by a motor (23) with a mutual phase displacement of 360.degree./n, when n represents the number of piston-cylinder units. A regulating system varies the speed of the motor (23) during each period or cycle of the piston movement in such a manner as to compensate for the non-linear drive so that the pressure of the liquid conveyed during each period or cycle remains at least approximately constant. The motor (23) can be constructed as a stepping motor, which is supplied with current pulses whereof the frequency determines the speed of the motor.

Abstract: An electromagnet for producing the constant magnetic field required for use in NMR tomography consists of a cylindrical field coil and a stable cylindrical shell made of iron encompassing and simultaneously supporting the coil. The field coil may comprise constituent coils, including error coils, and is capable of producing an at least approximately homogeneous magnetic field within the space defined by the field coil for receiving the object to be examined. Due to the strictly symmetric geometry of the coil assembly, the homogeneity of the magnetic field is not adversely affected by temperature fluctuations, even if the dimensions of the apparatus are such that the coil will admit a human body.

Abstract: A formwork system for a concrete floor provided with a floor joist, comprising side form elements for the lateral surfaces of the floor joist, the sheathing of the side form elements being fastened to frame pieces extending perpendicularly to the longitudinal axis of the floor joist, further bottom form elements having at least one sheathing for the underside of the floor joist, and devices for interconnecting the side form elements, characterized in that at least the side form elements (1, 2, 61, 130, 131) of one side are pivotally suspended from the ceiling formwork (girder 65) and that the side form elements are interconnected by fastening means (7, 9, 148) that can be released for stripping.

Abstract: A cushion for pressing an element of grafted skin against the body surface, wherein the portion (2) to be applied to the body has a window or opening (4) the dimensions of which approximately equal that of the graft. The edges (6) of the window (4) are attached to the skin so as to be impervious to air or liquids. The filling medium of the cushion (air or a liquid) is maintained under pressure.

Abstract: An agitator for grape mash comprising a rotary shaft and blade-shaped stirring wings having at least one first section inclined at an angle relative to the sense of rotation is characterized in that the said first section (19, 23) ends--viewed in at least one sense of rotation--in a second wing section (20, 21, 25, 26, 50, 51) inclined in the same direction but at an angle smaller than the angle of inclination of the said first section.

Abstract: An auxiliary device enabling reflection measurements to be carried out by an IR spectrometer designed for the performance of transmission measurements comprises two deflecting mirrors (22, 23) to be positioned in the straight beam section of the spectrometer and two focussing reflector arrangements (26, 2, 27) of which the first forms at the location of the sample (16) to be investigated by the reflection method a reduced image of the focus (30) situated within the ray of beams (28) deflected by the first deflecting mirror (22) while the said second focussing reflector arrangement forms an enlarged image of the said reduced focus at a distance before the said second deflecting mirror (23) so that the beam of rays (33) emitted by the said second deflecting mirror forms a prolongation of the beam of rays inciding upon the said first deflecting mirror just as if the auxiliary device did not exist.

Abstract: A loudspeaker is provided for high-quality and particularly stereophonic sound reproducing systems positioned close to a wall of a room. To reduce distortion due to that part of the reflected sound which arrives from substantially the same direction as the direct sound, the positioning of the sound radiating surfaces is such as to make the reflected sound from the wall arrive substantially in phase with the direct sound throughout a large frequency range, while at higher frequencies the reflected sound is attenuated by a sound absorber.The loudspeaker has a casing with a rear wall (5a). Loudspeaker units arranged to be the sound source for mid-range (12b) and/or high (14a) frequencies has the sound radiating surfaces (12b, 15a) at short distance (D2, D1) from the plane of the rear wall (5a) and facing slantwise forwards.

Abstract: A mixing chamber for liquids, which are supplied to the mixing chamber in measured quantities one after the other alternating over a period of time, in particular for liquid chromatographs is divided by a fine-pored filter plate (109) into two areas (105, 106). The inlet pipe (111) is connected to one area and the outlet pipe (112) is connected to the other of these areas. The two areas (105, 106) each widen out in a conical shape from the opening of the connected pipe (111) towards the filter plate (109). The filter plate (109) preferably consists of a steel or glass frit with a pore size in the range of 2 to 50 .mu.m.

Abstract: The invention relates to a tank-type container for the processing of wine grape must, particularly a fermentation tank for red wine must. The tank is equipped with a slowly rotating agitator having a plurality of longitudinally spaced blades disposed the full length of its shaft extending parallel to the longitudinal axis of the tank. The invention resides in at least one section, preferably an outward section, of the cross-sectional area of the agitator blades parallel to the agitator shaft being larger than the cross-sectional area which is normal to the agitator shaft. The pomace cap floating on the surface of the juice is disintegrated and punched down into the body of the juice by means of the flat wide blade sections.

Abstract: A portable transmitter provided with a base for mounting a subassembly with a circuit board and a battery adjacent to each other and within a removable cover. The subassembly having adjustable frequency determining elements and the base having a flap integral therewith extending over and covering the frequency determining elements.

Abstract: In ion cyclotron resonance spectroscopy, a gaseous sample substance contained in a measuring cell and exposed to a constant magnetic field therein is ionized and is subsequently subjected to an electric HF measuring field oriented orthogonally to the magnetic field. The frequencies of the electric field encompass the frequencies of the cyclotron resonance frequencies of the ions of the sample substance. Sample substances often include ions which are of no interest to the material under study but which produce very strong lines that can be highly disturbing because of the limited dynamics of the spectrometer and, especially, the relatively low concentration of ions in the measuring cell which is necessary to prevent space charge effects.

Abstract: A wireless security system in which a sensor for detecting a security violation is provided with a radio frequency transmitter adapted to excite the receiver of a control unit at a different location, the transmitter of the sensor radiating a signal responsive to the occurrence of a security violation. The sensor also having means to periodically excite the transmitter after the lapse of a period of time to indicate that the sensor is in proper working order, that period varying randomly. The control unit is provided with a memory and stores responses to the random signals, and at intervals long with respect to the random periods, samples the memory. The control unit responds to the absense of a stored response from the transmissions of the sensor.In a preferred construction, a plurality of sensors are employed with a single control unit, each of the sensors radiating a unique encoded signal.

Abstract: A temperature controlled oven for heat treating materials such as solid state electronic devices in which a housing forms an enclosure and has an opening for receiving a first sub assembly which forms a second enclosure with an aperture confronting the opening in the housing, and a second sub assembly is disposed within the first sub assembly and removable through the aperture of the first sub assembly to permit external cleaning, the second sub assembly having an opening confronting the opening of the housing and forming a closed air circulation path which contains a heater, blower, and filter for the purpose of maintaining the atmosphere in the second sub assembly relatively particle free.

Abstract: A controlled temperature oven provided with a pyrometer having a temperature sensitive resistance, an electrical heating element, a nonlinear heat sensing element within the oven chamber, and a variable power supply electrically connected to the heating element, the variable power supply being controlled in response to the nonlinear heat sensing element, and a switch assembly having a plurality of pairs of single pole double throw switches with a common actuation member for each pair of switches, one switch of each pair being connected in a first cascade of switches and the other switch of each pair being connected in a second cascade of switches, the switches of the first cascade of switches connecting one of a plurality of manually adjustable resistors to the variable power supply to control the output thereof, and the switches of the second cascade of switches connecting one of a plurality of variable resistors to the pyrometer to indicate the temperature selected by the switches of the first cascade of sw

Abstract: For transferring data between a random access memory (RAM) and a rotating magnet memory on which the data are stored in tracks which can be addressed individually, the data are divided into blocks, each of which fits to one track of the magnetic memory, and each of the tracks of the magnetic memory is assigned to a different one of the data blocks. The addresses for the individual data in RAM are formed by adding the starting address indicating the beginning of the corresponding data block and the offset indicating the position of the individual data with regard to the starting address. The transfer of a data block starts at an address determined by the position of the magnetic memory when a transfer command occurs and it is performed by cyclically modifying the offset according to the number of storage locations belonging to one data block.

Abstract: The invention concerns an automatic safety device for handguns and especially for self-loading pistols, in which a longitudinally movable firing pin is secured positively by a spring-loaded safety member which, on the one hand, is carried in a recess in the weapon and, on the other, engages in a transverse recess in the firing pin. For the release of a shot, the safety member is forced out of the firing pin area by the trigger before the release of a hammer. In order to achieve an enhanced security against unintended release, e.g. through shock or fall of the weapon, as well as a more economical production, the safety member is in the form of a rocker which engages in the firing pin with an arm and is preferably accommodated in a slot in a bolt, in some cases rotatable, arranged at right angles to the weapon.

Abstract: The useful range of the disclosed pressure transducers is extended by isolating the sensing means of the transducer from bending moments produced in the transducer body by the fluid pressure being measured. The isolating means may comprise an isolating ring interposed between the body and the sensor means, disposed behind a diaphragm which is attached to the isolating ring and the body. The isolating ring is connected to the body by means adapted to hold the sensor means in an established relationship with the diaphragm while being of a character to avoid transmitting bending moments, whereby the isolating ring and the sensor means are isolated from bending moments developed in the body due to fluid pressure.

Abstract: Material obtained from animals, poultry, or fish and containing edible flesh along with normally inedible relatively hard or tough components, such as bone, gristle, tendons, etc., is fed in ground condition into one end of a perforated conduit that has a conveyor srew therein which progressively decreases in conveying capacity from the feed end of the conduit to an imperforate discharge end thereof. Such inedible components are compacted within the imperforate discharge end of the conduit by an extension of the conveyor screw prior to discharge following build-up and conveyance along the interior surface of the perforate portion of the conduit as a filter mat through which edible flesh is forced toward and through the perforations of the conduit to provide a substantially bone-free edible product. The discharge passage surrounding the .[.exeension.]. .Iadd.extension .Iaddend.