Abstract: A door-lock assembly for an automotive vehicle comprises a locking wedge on a post of the vehicular frame which upon closure of the door slides into a keeper on the outer door surface, this wedge being engageable by a pivoted catch in the keeper under the control of a latch mechanism within the door. Vertical play between the wedge and a guide channel of the keeper is equalized by a central wedge body of plastic material bearing elastically upon opposite edges of the channel through a pair of metallic yokes or by resilient tongues integral with that body.

Abstract: A housing for a bilge pump-filter has a lower part in which oil and like light pollutants are separated from the polluted water. A pump has its intake connected to the lower region of this lower part and its output connected to an upper compartment of a compensation chamber in the upper housing part which is subdivided by a filter into this upper compartment and a lower compartment. A funnel under the filter conducts liquid coming down through the filter by gravity to the lower region of the lower compartment and a drain at the upper region of this lower compartment off the filter water. A level detector in the lower separation chamber operates the pump only when liquid level in this separation chamber is above a predetermined minimum level.

Abstract: A multiplicity of print hammers are supported on one or two planar arrays of leaf springs, the array being parallel to a belt carrying a row of typefaces defining respective character positions, so as to be jointly shiftable parallel to that row between different positions of alignment of each hammer with any one of a set of two or three character positions assigned to it. The hammers are actuated by respective electromagnets whose armatures are normally spaced from the hammers and have faces spanning two or three character positions so as to engage the associated hammers in any of their positions of alignment.

Abstract: A dyestuff applicator for an apertured printing screen, curved about a horizontal axis, comprises an axially extending supply tube within an elongate casing supported thereon, the open casing bottom being surrounded by flanges in clamping engagement with an elastic membrane curving downwardly toward the underlying screen surface under pressure of the overlying liquid and of a limitedly vertically movable loading frame. A metallic foil, curved cylindrically about the screen axis, is interposed between the membrane and the screen, the foil and the membrane being provided with aligned openings which form an outlet for the dyestuff liquid along a median zone of contact bracketed by the frame.

Abstract: An arrangement on screen printing machines, particularly rotary screen printing machines, in which the dyestuff is taken from a dye pan and passed through the apertures in a screen and is applied onto the web of goods to be treated, which comprises a dye shutter disposed in the penetration zone for the dyestuff on the side of the screen remote from the weg of goods, to be closed when the machine is stopped.

Abstract: A camera of the reflex type comprises a view finder with an achromatic finder objective, an eyepiece, and an interposed inverting lens group. The finder objective includes a negative-meniscus lens of relatively low Abbe number and a biconvex lens of relatively high Abbe number. The negative-meniscus lens, which has a concave forward surface, may be air-spaced from the biconvex lens or may be cemented thereto to form a doublet; in the latter instance the doublet is preceded by a positive, biconvex or planoconvex, front lens.

Abstract: A dyestuff applicator, overlying an area of contact between a movable printing screen and a substrate, comprises a horizontal supply tube which supports an axially extending dyestuff-distributing member with freedom of relative mobility in a vertical axial plane of the tube. The bottom portion of the distributing member, forming an axially extending dyestuff outlet in the shape of a slot or a multiplicity of closely spaced apertures, is separated from its top portion, secured to the tube, by a bar-shaped body of relatively soft material which is readily compressible in the vertical direction while resisting deformation in a horizontal plane. The distributing member is weighted down by the pressure of the liquid dyestuff in a overlying space or by springs inserted between that member and the supply tube.

Abstract: A cylindrical printing screen, rotatable about a horizontal axis, rolls on a continuously moving substrate to be imprinted and is internally provided with an applicator forming a gap through which a printing dye can pass to the substrate along the nadir of the screen. A codirectionally rotating scraper roll continuously sweeps the descending part of the outer screen surface and is in turn contacted by a squeeze roller or a doctor blade for the removal of excess dye. A similar cleaning device, e.g. in the form of an elongate suction nozzle, may be disposed along the rising part of the inner screen surface. The scraper roll can be continuously irrigated with rinse water and may be mounted, together with one or more spray heads, on a swingable frame for disengagement from the printing screen.

Abstract: The invention relates to a recording- or reproducing apparatus for a strip-type information carrier having different operating modes and comprising an intermittent drive mechanism including a cam device rotatable about at least one axis. A carrier is movable relative to the cam device and has at least two positions corresponding to different operating modes; at least two cam followers are provided for engagement with the cam device. The cam followers are arranged in spaced relation on the carrier, each cam follower having an operative and at least one inoperative position in dependence on the position of the carrier. The respective cam follower transmits movement from the cam device for the intermittent drive of the information carrier only in its operative position. The apparatus further comprises a mode control device which is operatively connected to the carrier and controls the positions thereof.

Abstract: To facilitate visual and/or electronic determination of the shape of a light-reflecting test object, a source of coherent light such as a laser produces an illuminating beam and a reference beam, the latter beam being combined in an optical system with reflections of the illuminating beam from the test object to form a holographic pattern on a receiving surface. The optical system includes a main objectives and two ancillary objectives, these ancillary objectives focusing the reflected rays of the illuminating beam and the rays of the reference beam upon two substantially coincident points so located on or near the axis of the main objective, in non-conjugate relationship with the receiving surface, as to train upon that surface a defocused composite beam producing a holographic pattern of contour lines. The substantially coincident points also lie in or near the plane of a real or virtual aperture stop, such as a pinhole diaphragm or its image.

Abstract: A fin-stabilized subcaliber projectile having a drive cage comprising a plurality of segments and surrounding the body of the projectile in its central region. A tail disc is fastened to the cage and jointly covers the segments and tears in the region of the joints upon the release of the cage. Both the tail disc and a plurality of reinforcing segments corresponding to the drive-cage segments, and a connecting piece produces the connection to a burnable cartridge case disposed at the tail end of the drive cage one behind the other, these elements being connected to the drive cage by means of non-burnable fastening means.

Abstract: A snap fastener which comprises a male part, a female part, and the male part has on its top an insertion detent means for holding a decorative cover part.

Abstract: A flowmeter utilizes an impingement plate as a measuring element, which is attached to yieldably resilient means, such as a tension or compression spring, elastic rubber or the like rod or tube disposed along the longitudinal axis of a tapered transparent sleeve within a housing inserted into a conduit through which a fluid, whose flow is to be measured, causes the deviation of the plate from a normal position depending on the volume rate of flow of fluid, passing through the tube and being readable on a scale.

Abstract: A zoom lens assembly has a normal-range finder which is operable at all settings of a macro-range finder. The normal-range finder produces relative movement between two lens elements one of which is also positionable by the macro-range finder. This is achieved in one arrangement by controlling the positions of the lens elements with two coaxially arranged tubes which are coupled together for rotational movement but which can be moved axially with respect to one another by the macro-range finder. In another arrangement a single control tube is used to shift the two lens elements in response to adjustment of the normal-range finder but one of the lens elements is also displaceable within the control tube by rotation of a threaded mounting cylinder.

Abstract: A housing has a compartment subdivided by a pair of sleeve valves into an input compartment to which is continuously fed a stream of viscous hardenable material and an output compartment arranged adjacent a transport device which step-wise advances a succession of containers. Each of these sleeve valves has a central piston and has a valve port that can be directed either into the input compartment or the output compartment. Thus one of the sleeves is turned with its port toward the input compartment and its piston is retracted to draw into the sleeve a predetermined quantity of the viscous mass. Thereupon the sleeve is rotated through 180.degree. and this portion is discharged into the output compartment and thence into one of the containers.

Abstract: A boat is equipped with a positioning device for adjusting its depth position in response to the load of the boat and a pressure space such as a flexible bag is disposed between oppositely arranged trim tabs, the position of the trim tabs being controlled by the pressure in the pressure space, so that by change of the pressure the positioning of the boat in the water is changed accordingly in response to the load of the boat.

Abstract: A turnover key with indentations on both sides for operation of bolt keepers of a cylinder lock, and with a sloped keyway at the tip of the key. The sloped keyway, which is situated before each row of indentation, runs almost to the opposite broad side of the key and into it.

Abstract: The present invention provides novel rigid and flexible stratified shaped fiber-reinforced plastic aticles. These are produced by impregnating a layer of fibers with at least two different resins in powder form, the first of said resins being characterized by hardening at 60.degree. C - 100.degree. C, and the second of said resins hardening at a temperature of 110.degree.C - 200.degree.C at elevated pressure to form a resin impregnated fiber sheet. This sheet is first heated at the lower temperature, and then cut to form shaped sections which are positioned in a mold and heated to the higher temperature with the application of pressure to form the stratified shaped fiber-reinforced plastic article.

Abstract: A machine for printing a recurrent pattern on sections of predetermined length of a textile web, comprising a number of parallel rotary-screen printing units spaced apart in the direction of web motion, includes a first sensor for detecting the leading edge of an oncoming web section to be imprinted and a second sensor for ascertaining the passage of a mark indicating the start of a printing pattern on the first unit. The odd-numbered units print the first half of the pattern, in different colors, whereas the even-numbered units print the second half in corresponding colors; between printing operations, the screen of each unit is lifted off the web and can be angularly readjusted to compensate for relative disalignment between the web sections and the printing patterns.

Abstract: A conveyor belt with continuous longitudinal reinforcement strands has a mechanical transverse barrier to prevent longitudinal ripping slitting or tearing. The mechanical transverse barrier is a fabric with warp and weft threads embedded in a cover layer of the conveyor belt. The longitudinally running threads have a substantially lower tensile strength than the transversely running threads, i.e. the tensile strength of the transverse threads is at least 8 times that of the longitudinal threads and preferably upwards of 20 (e.g. 30 to 50) times that of the longitudinal threads.