Abstract: An apparatus for the adjustment of the valve control of a reciprocating piston internal combustion engine with a cam shaft driven from the crankshaft by an endless, flexible transmission member, in which the cam shaft and a valve control adjustment device are brought into engagement with each other by a control member arranged transversely to the plane of the separating surface of a control space housing with a loosened threaded connection; the driving gear is nonrotatably fixed with respect to the cam shaft by way of the transmission member drivingly connected with the crankshaft and tensioned by a tensioning roller while the crankshaft is nonrotatably fixed in the top dead center position with respect to the crankcase by a locking pin.

Abstract: A piston internal combustion engine in which for the engagement and disengagement of an exhaust gas turbocharger (12), its exhaust gas closure device (33) is opened, respectively, closed only so far that the charging air pressure produced by the continuously engaged exhaust gas turbocharger (11) remains approximately constant. By re-routing a small air quantity by way of a by-pass line (36) to the suction side of the compressor (24), the power input of the compressors (21 and 24) is kept small. During the engagement of the exhaust gas turbocharger (12), a small energy quantity is therefore sufficient in order to accelerate the same to its operating rotational speed. Thereafter, the engaging operation is terminated by complete opening of the exhaust gas closure device (33) and by opening of the charging air closure device (34).

Abstract: A catheter and closure device in the form of a valve which remains in place at the hose during normal urination and has to be separated from the hose only for flushing out; the catheter valve includes a conical part serving for the insertion into the catheter hose; additionally, the valve includes on its inside a rubber-elastic valve hose adapted to be influenced from the outside, which during actuation of the valve is opened uninterruptedly but is closed in the non-actuated rest position by a single or multiple kink, fold or twist; the valve includes a fixed part with a through-bore as well as the rubber-elastic hose in extension of this bore; a sleeve with a spring 5 is placed over these parts, whereby the kinked hose is straightened out by the axial displacement of the sleeve opposite the spring force.

Abstract: A sun visor provided with a protective sun visor plate for the windshield of a vehicle whose protective sun visor plate is pivotally and axially displaceably supported on a horizontal mounting rod whereby the mounting rod is pivotally retained in a fixed bearing support about an approximately vertical axis by way of an angularly bent area; in order to obviate a separate displacement of the sun visor into its optimum axial position, when pivoting the sun visor in front of the window of the coordinated side door, provision is made according to the present invention that a lever which, on the one hand, is operatively connected with the protective sun visor plate and, on the other hand, is pivotally secured at the vehicle, is so arranged that during the pivoting of the mounting rod about the approximately vertical axis, an axial displacement of the protective sun visor plate on the mounting rod is automatically effected.

Abstract: An air-compressing fuel injected internal combustion engine which includes a fuel injection pump for supplying predetermined quantities of fuel to the engine in response to a positioning of a control rod. A load lever is operatively connected with an accelerator pedal and a governor is operatively connected to the fuel injection pump for controlling a positioning of the control rod in dependence upon a rotational speed of the engine. An idling spring is operatively connected with the governor for regulating the position thereof and the idling spring is pretensioned as a function of the rotational speed by an independent idling control arrangement so as to control an injection quantity of the fuel by the fuel injection pump in accordance with an actual idling rotational speed of the engine.

Abstract: Device for the semiautomatic or fully automatic electric longitudinal-seam mash resistance welding of can bodies from overlapping, cut-to-size sheet-metal blanks rolled into sidewalls (20), with a guide arranged in front of the welding site for determining the lap width of the sidewall edges (21, 22) including resilient guide elements (32-34), whereby the sidewall edges (21, 22), when traveling toward the welding site, can be pressed against the bases (29, 30) of the groove of a Z-rail (13), and with a calibrating rim (40) arranged in the zone of the welding site, with such a construction of the guide means that the lap width of the sidewall edges (21, 22) at the welding site is at most six times the thickness of the can wall, and with wire electrodes (11) that can be pulled off a reel and are guided over electrode rollers (7, 9), these electrodes being fashioned as flat-wire electrodes (11) having a width exceeding the lap width of the sidewall edges (21, 22) at the welding site.

Abstract: An exhaust-gas offtake for a track-guided vehicle propelled by combustion-energy, the exhaust gas being led into a force-ventilated waste gas duct located above the vehicle, which is anchored to the roof of a tunnel along the route followed. The exhaust pipe of the vehicle extends vertically through the vehicle interior, up to a point above the roof, and is surrounded by a protective tube. A collecting funnel is located on the vehicle roof, which funnel overlaps the end of the exhaust pipe, possesses a transfer pipe with a boat-shaped cross-section and, pivotably mounted on suspension elements, is resiliently directed into an upwards-pointed position. This arrangement enables small horizontal and vertical movements of the vehicle body to be compensated in relation to the tunnel waste gas duct.

Abstract: In a transmission method for variable parameters from loaded vehicle wheels, wherein energy is transmitted to a secondary coil (5) mounted concentrically on a wheel during varying excitation by a primary coil (2) integral with a vehicle, and an information signal, which is a function of the output signal of a sensor, is fed back from this secondary coil to a receiving coil integral with the vehicle, the primary coil (2) itself serves as the receiving coil. The information signal can be temperature-compensated, and compared in an evaluation circuit with a set value which is modified in accordance with various pressure-related parameters.

Abstract: In a testing apparatus and method for the tire pressure of automotive vehicle wheels, individual testing units for each wheel are arranged outside of the wheels at their suspension members. Only a single wheel is provided with an additional calibrating means for an exact tire pressure determination, in order to provide a calibrating standard for the relative measurement of the tire pressures of the wheels which can be performed with the aid of the testing units to produce a warning indication of low tire pressure.

Abstract: A hot chamber die casting machine for a processing of molten metals. The die casting machine includes a frame having a slanted surface for accommodating a closing unit. The closing unit is operable from a crosshead by way of a toggle lever mechanism and is mounted on guide bars supported at the frame. The closing unit includes two mold mounting tables which are adapted to be pressed together. A scissors-type linkage mechanism is disposed below the closing unit and includes transversely joined levers with a drive arrangement being provided for spreading the linkage mechanism so as to enable an adjustment of the closing unit.

Abstract: A mixture-compression internal combustion engine has an auxiliary chamber opening into the combustion space via an injection duct, to which is allocated an ignition unit. In order to provide secure, rapid and large volume ignition of the fuel/air mixture, several auxiliary chambers open into the combustion space and the injection duct of a first auxiliary chamber is directed towards the injection duct of a further auxiliary chamber. Starting from the ignition unit allocated to the first auxiliary chamber the fuel/air mixture in the combustion space is ignited, and starting from the first auxiliary chamber, the mixture is ignited sequentially in the other auxiliary chambers.

Abstract: A self-priming centrifugal pump wherein an external formation of a mixture formed of a storage liquid and drawn-in air from a suction line begins during a priming operation. The mixture is conveyed into a venting chamber arranged above a pump impeller wherein the air is at least partially separated and the liquid is recycled into two partial quantities to a pump volute to repeat the mixture formation. The first partial quantity is conducted to the pump volute by way of a backflow duct and a nozzle. The second partial quantity passes through a stilling chamber and surrenders or releases any residual amount of air contained in the second partial quantity.

Abstract: A non-metallic eyeglass frame with nose pads arranged at adjustable nose pad supporting arms; during the manufacture of the frame center part, for example, by injection molding, a center piece preferably consisting of metal and connecting the two nose pad arms is formed-in within the nose bridge area of the frame; one mounting each for the nose pad arms may be provided in the end areas of the center piece.

Abstract: A ball-type through-passage serves for the pivotal support of the gearshifting lever of a motor vehicle, which consists of two ball halves split along the gear-shifting lever and abutting thereat and of a two-partite bearing housing receiving the same. In order to compensate for radial play, two O-rings are inserted between the ball halves and the gearshifting lever. For the axial fixation radial pins are formed-on at the ball halves, which engage in radial bores of the gearshifting lever.

Abstract: An improvement comprising a device for determining a recommended gear-shifting of a transmission of a motor vehicle, especially a commercial motor vehicle, which is powered by an internal combustion engine and which is provided with a transmission having gradient speeds. In operation, measured values are provided for determining current operating points, with the measured values being compared with values of an optimum range of the engine performance characteristic with regard to fuel consumption. Measuring sensors are fitted for sensing at least one of the engine speed, the engine torque, and the speed of the vehicle.

Abstract: A casing for an equipment part, both casing and part being accommodated in a space located between the engine compartment or boot and the splash wall of a motor vehicle, the portion of the casing surrounding the equipment part from below, or its connection to the remaining casing being designed to be movable, in such a way that, when the casing is installed or removed for maintenance, for example, the lower portion yields temporarily changing its shape and then assumes its initial shape again.

Abstract: The invention relates to a control unit which comprises one or more switches and is capable of integration into a trim component installed inside the passenger compartment of a motor vehicle. The control unit is designed in such a manner that, after fitting the trim which accommodates it, a baseplate can be fixed to the trim, the baseplate accommodating the bases of all the control elements intended for the control unit.

Abstract: A high-speed filling machine for filling a fluid product into small containers, in which a continuously moving conveyor belt brings empty containers to their filling position underneath filling nozzles, where the empty containers are held stationary by an indexing mechanism while the filling nozzles are lowered into the empty containers, the fluid product is discharged into the containers and upon completion of discharge stroke of the filling units, the nozzles are again raised whereafter the indexing mechanism will release the filled containers for further movement by the conveyor belt; the single channel from the inlet end thereby branches out into two parallel channels upstream of the filling station, each provided with its own indexing mechanism, while a nozzle support structure which raises and lowers the filling nozzles into the containers, is also adapted to reciprocate so that alternately the empty containers in one channel and then in the other channel are filled.