Abstract: An electromagnetically actuatable valve is proposed, in particular a fuel injection valve for fuel injection systems in internal combustion engines, which by using a resilient element between a valve housing and a collar of a spacer ring exerts a long-lasting pressure upon a guide diaphragm that radially guides a valve element. In this manner, an exact fixation of the valve element on a valve seat when the valve is closed is assured even if long-term strain on the injection valve results in a slight loosening between a nozzle holder that includes the valve seat and the valve housing.

Abstract: A portable environmental clean air frame facility including a power unit section and a clean air section. The frame is formed by P.V.C. pipes and fittings so that clear plastic sheeting material may be formed and draped over the clean air section to form a clean air enclosure. The power unit section includes a blower motor having a prefilter unit on each end. One end draws air from the surrounding medium and one is connected to the clean air enclosure. The prefiltered air is directed through a HEPA filter, through an air delivery duct and into the enclosure. A bypass damper is provided for controlling the air flow velocity and for producing either a positive or negative pressue in the enclosure.

Abstract: An apparatus for burning solid particles, in particular soot particles, in the exhaust gas of internal combustion engines having a combustion chamber and an ignition burner connected coaxially through an overflow opening. The combustion chamber includes an annular cup portion forming a hot combustion chamber that is open toward the overflow opening, and downstream of this hot combustion chamber has a plurality of labyrinthine annular conduits toward which a plunger tube extends centrally toward the combustion chamber, through which tube a flow of exhaust gas carrying the soot particles is directed into the hot combustion chamber. The flow of exhaust gas having the soot particles emerges into the hot combustion chamber through radial outlets transversely to the direction of extension of the ignition flame that is propagating through the overflow opening. The soot particles that are supplied are for the most part burned in the hot combustion chamber, and the remainder is burned in the labyrinthine conduits.

Abstract: An adjusting device for a fuel injection pump having a plug connection for connection with a control unit. In order to attain sealing off of the plug connection in the vicinity of its passageway through a cap of the housing, the plug connection is connected to a substrate secured in the housing, which substrate has a bushing-like extension passing sealingly through an opening in the cap, and contact pins and conductors are embedded in the substrate.

Abstract: An injection valve for fuel injection systems in internal combustion engines which comprises a movable valve element cooperating with a valve seat disposed in a nozzle body, with a guide bore provided downstream of the valve seat. A swirl insert is partially compressed in the guide bore and disposes open swirl channels in the direction of its circumference. The swirl channels extend in an axial direction from one end of the swirl insert to the other, are slanted toward the longitudinal shaft of the injection valve and discharge in a tangential direction into a preparation bore. The swirl channels serve simultaneously as metering channels whose throttling length is adjustable by displacing the swirl insert inside the guide bore.

Abstract: An apparatus for controlling the spring firmness of road vehicles is proposed, which is combined with a control of the shock absorber firmness. Both controls are performed using a single control valve. Trigger signals for the control valve are ascertained by means of an electronic device, which receives its signals from sensors, disposed on the vehicle, for spring travel, acceleration, vehicle speed and steering angle or the like, and in particular for the travel sensor, which picks up the shock absorber compression and emits it as a signal to the electronic device, with the goal of bringing about a change in the spring stiffness.

Abstract: A damper element is proposed which serves to damp a pulsating fluid flow, in particular to smooth out and reduce pressure fluctuations arising in fuel supply systems for internal combustion engines in motor vehicles. The damper element includes a base and a cap, which are welded to one another and a damper diaphragm is clamped between these elements. The damper diaphragm, in order to prevent diffusion of the fluid into a damper chamber of the cap, is embodied either as a polyimide diaphragm or as a combination of a fabric diaphragm and a polyimide diaphragm. The clamping area of the cap is embodied as inclined slightly toward the damper diaphragm by an angle .alpha., so that a long-term fastening and sealing of the damper diaphragm is assured.

Abstract: A fuel injection pump for internal combustion engines has a pump piston which via a pressure plate rests with a piston bottom on an axially driven tappet with slight play. This contact is brought about by a pressure spring, which is supported on a spring plate so as to grip the piston bottom from behind. To prevent the pressure plate from falling out if the pump piston should become stuck, the spring plate is cup-shaped and includes a cylindrical cup portion having two projecting protrusions. The pressure plate has a radial flange adapted to rest on the projecting protrusions. Those protrusions and the radial flange are adapted to one another such that the pressure plate can be introduced in a predetermined position through the protrusions. The piston bottom located between the pressure plate and the plate bottom of the spring plate prevents the pressure plate from being able to assume a position, after assembly, in which it could slip and escape back outwardly through those protrusions.

Abstract: The invention is directed to improvements in furnaces.

Abstract: A pneumatic diaphragm control element for a fuel injection apparatus for internal combustion engines, in particular for supercharged diesel engines, has a thrust rod that is axially displaceable between two end stop counter to the force of a restoring spring, which thrust rod acts upon a control member of the fuel injection apparatus and is connected to a pressure-actuated diaphragm. One end stop determines the position assumed by the thrust rod when there is no pressure and is embodied as a stop screw for the thrust rod. The second end stop defines the position assumed by the thrust rod with maximal pressure being exerted on the diaphragm, and to this end cooperates with a counterpart stop that is adjustably coupled with the thrust rod.

Abstract: Automatic control device for the slats of a venetian blind which responds to ambient radiation and which includes at least one reversible electric motor connected to rotate the slats between open and closed conditions, a sensing device indicating the level of ambient radiation of light and/or heat, two switches connected to the motor to determine its direction of rotation, an electrical control circuit responding to the sensing device to operate either one of the two switches, and limit switches to halt the motor in predetermined condition of the slats.

Abstract: An apparatus for producing liquid-filled bag packages including a tube former for shaping a tube from a strip of packaging material. To introduce amounts of liquid into the end of the tube, a filling tube extends into the tube former with its outlet end having a metering valve. To supply the liquid to the filling tube, the filling tube has, on its end located at the height of the inlet opening of the tube former, a crosswise extending supply fitting, the end face of which is closed with a flexible diaphragm. To actuate the valve, a rod extending in the filling tube is pivotably connected at the height of the supply fitting with a lever, which is pivotably connected to an adjusting cylinder. For pivoting of the lever, the lever has two crosswise arms, which are pivotably connected to connecting rods, the longitudinal axes of which intersect one another in the center of the diaphragm.

Abstract: A throttle valve adjuster with which a quantity of air supplied to an internal combustion engine during idling, for instance, can be adjusted. The adjuster comprises a stator which is supported within a throttle valve pipe and which is rotated by actuation of a driving pedal. Supported inside the stator is an armature, which is firmly connected to the throttle valve. Located on the stator is a coil winding, which initiates a magnetic flux that acts upon the armature via two oppositely disposed guide shoulders which forms between the armature air gaps and the guide shoulders. The armature rotates relative to the stator counter to the force of a spring. The entire rotational movement of the throttle valve is thus a combination of the relative movement between the stator and the throttle valve pipe and the relative movement between the armature and the stator.

Abstract: The subject invention relates to an improved method and apparatus to control the rate of heat release (ROHR) from a reaction zone confined within a chamber, air and fuel having been introduced into said reaction zone to achieve combustion, plural sensors being utilized one sensor adapted to sense ROHR, another to generate a target value for a desired ROHR within a comparator, still another sensor to determine heat generation and transmit it to the comparator, a control means for controlling ROHR of heat generation and connecting said comparator with said control means to achieve coincidence between a target value and said sensed value.

Abstract: A pivoting armature which functions as part of an electric control motor is rotatably supported on a shaft in a housing of the electric control motor and has a pole carrier on which pole shoes are mounted, the pole shoes being joined to the pole carrier in a rotationally fixed manner. The pole shoes can be produced by sintering or welding on a pole shoe ring that is pressed onto the pole carrier, or by stacks of laminates.

Abstract: An apparatus for producing and filling tubular bag packages includes a shaping mandrel, about which a sheet of packaging material is shaped into a tube and an open end of the tube is filled with one portion of a product at a time and separated from the formed tube. For sending the portions of the product gently and quickly through the hollow shaping mandrel, a feed apparatus is disposed in the mandrel. The feed apparatus has a plurality of spaced flaps pivotably connected at equal intervals to two synchronous belt drives. In a feed conduit of the shaping mandrel, these flaps define downwardly moved chambers which receive portions of the product and transport them to the lower end of the shaping mandrel, and then, through a relatively narrow return conduit in the shaping mandrel, the flaps return upward again in an upright position by the belts.

Abstract: A 3/3 way control valve including a three-stage electromagnet for controlling a hydraulic working cylinder that actuates a control member of an injection system, including a winding of the electromagnet the axis of which extends crosswise to the axis of an armature and directional control valve and in which the pole pieces of the pole legs of the yoke are unequally polarized. The armature is actuated counter to a restoring spring and slides between two corresponding cylindrical hollow faces of the pole pieces which act as a proportional magnet, and in which the winding and in part the yoke have an extrusion coat of insulating plastic.

Abstract: A method is proposed for operating an internal combustion engine with decomposition gas generated by gasifying methanol into hydrogen and carbon monoxide in a gasification reactor. The enthalpy necessary for gasifying the methanol is obtained from the heat of the exhaust gas of the engine. To attain high efficiency and high power, the decomposition gas is injected at high pressure directly into the combustion chamber of the engine.

Abstract: An overload coupling having coaxially arranged coupling halves. At least one of the coupling halves is axially displaceable and is held by spring force in form-fitting engagement with the other, and the coupling halves have a face gear on their facing ends for effecting the form-fitting engagement. The flanks of the gear-tooth system that rest on one another during torque transmission generate an axial force component, which acts in the direction of disengagement, and a radial force component. The axially displaceable coupling half is embodied such that it is radially variable counter to a restoring force.

Abstract: A clutch type change speed apparatus for a working vehicle comprising a first transmission shaft (3) acting as an input shaft, a second transmission shaft (4), a second clutch (8) operatively interconnecting the first transmission shaft (4) and the second transmission shaft (8), a third transmission shaft (6), a fourth transmission shaft (7) acting as an output shaft, a third clutch (9) operatively interconnecting the third shaft (6) and the fourth transmission shaft (7), a first gear mechanism (10) provided between the first transmission shaft (3) and the third transmission shaft (6), a second gear mechanism (11) provided between the second transmission shaft (4) and the third transmission shaft (6), a third gear mechanism (12) provided between the second transmission shaft (4) and the fourth transmission shaft (7), the first to third gear mechanisms (10-12) being the constant mesh type and having different reduction ratios, a first clutch (13) adapted to switch a freely rotatable gear (G1) of the first gear