Abstract: Disclosed herein is a novel frequency division multiplex system for use in connection with transient signals such as speech and music signals. One embodiment includes a pair of comb filters, the response characteristics of which are staggered so that the pass bands of one comb filter are in alignment with the attenuation bands of the other comb filter. Each channel signal is filtered by its associated comb filter and then combined to develop a comb frequency division duplex (CFDD) signal for transmission over a transmission medium. At the receiving terminal the CFDD signal is decombined into the individual channels and passed through another pair of comb filters, the response characteristic of each comb filter being the same as that of the comb filter in a corresponding input channel. In another embodiment, a recording and playback system is provided to record the CFDD signal, i.e., two channels of information in a single track on disc or tape and to playback such recorded information.

Abstract: An open end spinning machine has individual spinning locations which include a spinning rotor, various drive rollers and conduits and drive shafts which are brought into tangential engagement with drive belts or the like. For this purpose, each spinning location is enclosed in a movable housing which can be displaced vertically on a column mounted on the machine by one end. A stop pin in the column cooperates with a rotating ring in the housing and provides therewith a bayonet-like engagement. The motion of the housing in the opposite direction is limited by the angled arm of a lost-motion slide connected to the housing which makes contact with the stop pin in the column. Easy removal without tools permits ready access to the machine space behind each housing.

Abstract: An electro-magnetically actuated solenoid valve is provided with two opposing valve seats between which the armature moves axially. The armature loosely holds valve closure members which cooperate with the opposing valve seats. The valve closure members are urged apart by a spring, and the combined force of this spring and of two further springs exhibits an abrupt change which stabilizes the armature in a position approximately mid-way between the two extreme positions.The end portion of the armature and of the cooperating pole piece is so configured that the path of the armature is limited to a region within which the magnetic force does not change rapidly.

Abstract: An air inlet through which supply air is blown into the room of a building or the like including at least one roller-shaped elongated blowing element, two mutually parallel disposed bearing shells between which the blowing element is mounted and at least one spring clamp. The spring clamp engages both bearing shells and retains them in assembly with the blowing element to thereby hold the blowing element in a form-fitting and positive force-transmitting manner while permitting the blowing element to pivot about its longitudinal axis. The blowing element includes walls defining a passage through which the air passes into the room. In one embodiment the walls define projections which in turn define an inlet passage for the blowing element which is narrower in width than its outlet passage.

Abstract: Apparatus comprising a first frame having first pipe holders for gripping a large-diameter pipe and a second frame having second pipe holders for gripping a small-diameter pipe. The first frame and the second frame are movable relative to each other to insert the small-diameter pipe into the large-diameter pipe and/or pulling the former out of the latter.

Abstract: An apparatus for mounting valve bags on the filling spouts of machines which fill the bags with finely-grained material, e.g. cement. The bags are folded flat and are stacked in a bag storage container. A feed mechanism removes the topmost bag from the stack and positions it in the path of a pivotal arm. The arm is provided with rollers which correctly position and shape the top of the bag and open the valve therein. Lever-actuated clamps hold the bag while it is mounted on the filling spout of the filling machine.In a variant of the invention, the bag feeding mechanism rotates and occupies successive stations, one of which is traversed by the pivotal arm which removes the bag from the mechanism for mounting on the filling spout.

Abstract: A dry transfer sheet of the kind described comprising a carrier sheet, at least one design carried by said carrier sheet and releasably bonded thereto, and a layer of shrinkable pressure sensitive adhesive covering said design and overlapping said carrier sheet to stress the edges of the design to cause at least a reduction of bonding between the edges of the design and the carrier sheet.

Abstract: An apparatus for treating fluid provides a main flow path for fluid. The apparatus includes a plurality of pairs of basins arranged along the main flow path which define a series of enlargements and constrictions. Each pair of basins is constituted by a basin on each side of the main flow path opposite one another, both basins being in fluid communication with the main flow path. The walls and floors of the basins may be flat or may be curved or have some other configuration. The size of the pairs of basins may vary from one end of the flow path to the other. In operation, liquid flowing through the apparatus executes an oscillatory motion about a median longitudinal axis defined by the flow path.

Abstract: Metals are recovered from the electrodes and connections of spent electric storage batteries by the step of: (a) recharging the spent electric batteries; (b) removing the electrolyte from said recharged electric batteries; (c) removing the bottom of said recharged batteries from which the electrolyte has been removed; (d) washing the electrodes and inside and outside the bottomless batteries obtained in step (c) with water; (e) drying the batteries washed in step (d) and closing the openings in the top of the dry batteries; (f) connecting the positive terminal of a power supply to the negative pole of the batteries obtained according to step (e) with protection against contact between electrolyte and the negative pole; and (g) immersing the batteries obtained according to step (f) in an electrolyte.

Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for supplying fuel for acceleration during the warm-up phase of an internal combustion engine. The fuel supplied downstream of an arbitrarily actuatable throttle butterfly valve located in the induction tube of the engine being in addition to the fuel supplied by a fuel supply system. There is disclosed a motion control means which is associated with the butterfly valve and actuated thereby upon opening of this valve. The motion control means further includes electrical contacts disposed in an electrical circuit, electromagnet means in the circuit and other valve means arranged to be controlled by said electromagnet for feeding fuel into said induction tube downstream of said butterfly valve upon closing of said contacts. There are several variants of the control means; one constituted by a flexible bellows and the other by a dash pot.

Abstract: An electrical equipment terminal or connecting member is designed to clamp and lock elastically the bared end of a supply or distribution cable. It comprises a cylindrical core with constant cross-section, an elastic ring of cross-section conjugate with that of said core and adapted to encircle the core, and a clamping screw engaged in a diametric tapping of the core after having traversed a conjugate opening of the ring. A longitudinal cavity of the core starting from its side opposite the tapping and whose plane of symmetry passes through the axis of the tapping defines with a portion of the inner surface of the ring, a housing to conductively contact the bared end of the cable. The elements are all of cupriferous metal. The invention is especially advantageous in an electrical end pressure contact connector.

Abstract: A speed control system for electric vehicles for varying the applied voltage to a series wound traction motor to vary the speed thereof by dividing the main power source into a number of small units, which are then grouped and re-grouped through a series of relays actuated by a controller to provide several values of voltage from low to high voltage in an orderly progressive manner. The circuit is also provided with a ballast or surge-limiting resistor in each grouping and re-grouping, resulting in a smooth power flow and thus smooth speed change while at the same time limiting the battery drain to a safe maximum. The ballast resistor is automatically shunted out of the power circuit as the vehicle picks up speed, thereby providing an intermediate control point between each battery re-grouping step.

Abstract: A fuel injection system for stratified-charge engines includes a fuel metering valve assembly controlled by an air flow sensor. The restoring force on the movable plunger in the fuel metering assembly may be varied in dependence on load by a differential pressure valve whose bias is changed by a cam-follower which cooperates with a gas-pedal linked cam. The system may also include a throttle bypass also controlled by a cam. The system may further include separate fuel injection valves for each main combustion chamber, fed by a fuel distributor mechanism.

Abstract: A fuel injection system for externally ignited internal combustion engines in which a fuel metering and distributing valve is controlled by an air sensing element disposed in the air suction tube of the engine and by structure which is adapted to alter the restoring force exerted on the air sensing element through the fuel metering and distributing valve. The noted structure includes a control pressure conduit, a pressure control valve connected to the control pressure conduit and a further conduit for connecting the pressure control valve to the suction tube of the engine downstream of the butterfly valve. With this structure it is possible to alter the restoring force mentioned above so that a momentarily enriched fuel-air mixture is achieved when the butterfly valve is suddenly opened and so that a momentarily weakened fuel-air mixture is achieved when the butterfly valve is suddenly closed.

Abstract: A process and a device for producing bags from a strip of thermoplastic material wherein mated layers of foil strip are supplied to serially arranged bonding devices to provide bonded seams extending over the width of the layers at specific intervals corresponding to the width of the bags with said bonding devices being alternated with cooling means to lower the temperature of the bonded areas and thereafter advancing the material to a cutting device designed to separate the bags divided by the bonded seams from the chain of bags produced by the bonding operation.

Abstract: A projectile having an elongated body portion to the aft end of which is attachable a base constructed of thinner metal than the projectile body, there further being an isotropic charge positioned in the projectile which is subjected to pressure via the base when the charge is exploded in a gun barrel. Also taught is a method of assembling the charge into the projectile.

Abstract: An apparatus for continuous unwinding of wire from reels includes two adjacent hollow, partially cylindrical and partially frusto-conical housings, each of which contains a reel of wire. In operation, the tail end of the wire of the first reel is joined to the beginning of the wire on the second reel, permitting continuous unwinding. When one reel is empty, the wire must pass from one hollow housing to the second hollow housing. The apparatus is constructed from two cooperating halves, which may be hinged or capable of other relative motion, to permit passage of the wire when desired but which close fully during the unwinding process to prevent discontinuities in the interior surface which would tend to damage the moving wire.

Abstract: A fuel injection system for an internal combustion engine is controlled by a follower control loop. The fuel quantity is arbitrarily set by the gas pedal and a first potentiometric transducer generates an electrical command signal. The air flow through the induction tube constitutes the controlled variable whose magnitude is transformed into an electrical signal by a second potentiometer coupled to an air flow rate meter. The two signals are compared at the input of a control amplifier which drives a servomotor. The servomotor adjusts the opening of the air throttle valve of the engine, thereby changing the air flow through the induction tube until the air flow rate meter signals that the air quantity is proportional to the metered out fuel quantity.

Abstract: A connector for connecting two lengths of electric cable, especially of h current capabilities, comprising a male terminal or plug, traversed by a pin, and a female terminal or socket carrying a sleeve freely rotatable thereon but resiliently urged longitudinally toward the end of the socket by a resilient means on the socket. When inserted in the socket, the contacting surfaces on both plug and socket are positively engaged and a rotation of the sleeve further interlocks the pin and sleeve by increasing the resilient load of the resilient means by a slight relative longitudinal displacement of the sleeve resulting from the rotation thereof. This connector ensures a highly efficient electrical contact between the cable ends and eliminates all risk of accidental disconnection.

Abstract: The selective connection device has a safety disc and a complementary disc pivotally mounted on the socket coaxially with the safety disc and displaceable in rotational motion at the same time as the safety disc between the initial position and the final connection position. The complementary disc has a number of openings corresponding to the number of contact locations on the socket and distributed in the same manner. The relative angular position of the socket and of the complementary disc is such that the openings come opposite to the contact locations in the final position.