Abstract: In a process and apparatus for spinning a package with a double yarn, which is used as a feed package for a subsequent twisting operation, it is provided that, when one or both fed slivers run out, an automatic splicing of new slivers is carried out.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for preventing that an open-end spinning rotor becomes inoperative. In an open-end spinning rotor assembly which has a rotor with a fiber collecting groove and a rotor shaft, it is provided that the operability of the open-end spinning rotor after the wearing-out of the rotor shaft in the are of the step bearing surface is restored by the fact that the distance between the fiber collecting groove and the step bearing surface is restored to its predetermined value by the axial shifting of the shaft in the hub of the rotor plate.

Abstract: A combination clothing belt and animal headstall device (10) in which an intermediate portion (19) of the belt comprises two strap-like portions (20), (21) which, in the headstall configuration, part to form a loop to encircle the nose of the animal whilst the end portions (11/24) (14) of the belt cooperate to encircle and hold the head of the animal.

Abstract: A tilting and lifting apparatus for vehicle bodies for the ergonomically favorable preparation of batches of bodies in the series assembly of vehicles comprises a separate tilting device and a lifting device operable independently of the tilting device. The tilting device includes a swivelling frame which on the tilting side is swivellably guided on a pair of horizontally extending guide paths and on the lifting side on two vertically extending lifting pillars. The vehicle body is fastened rigidly on, and at a distance from, this swivelling frame, which is made as flat as possible. For the purpose of lifting this tilting device, two scissors-type lifting apparatus are disposed beneath the tilting device. The entire arrangement for the independent raising and lowering and the tilting of the body is mounted on a flat, rectangular platform on which it is possible to walk and which, in plan view, projects beyond the vehicle body to the extent of a gangway width.

Abstract: A process for adjusting the boost pressure in an internal-combustion engine, supercharged by an exhaust-gas turbocharger with adjustable turbine diffuser, to a predetermined desired boost-pressure value dependent on the operating point. To improve the efficiency of the internal-combustion engine in the non-steady-state mode, especially after a positive load change out of low load and speed ranges, or, after a positive load change during the non-stead-state mode, below a predetermined threshold value for the exhaust-gas counterpressure upstream of the turbine the boost pressure is regulated according to a first characteristic corresponding to the instantaneous true deviation of the actual boost-pressure value from the desired boost-pressure value. After this threshold value has been exceeded, the exhaust-gas counterpressure is regulated predetermining hypothetical control deviations for the boost-pressure control circuit according to a special characteristic.

Abstract: A remote sensing apparatus for conducting (spaceborne) measurements of ocean geophysical parameters integrates a radar altimeter subsystem with a radiometer subsystem through the use of a shared antenna feed horn that permits each subsystem to have the same viewing aperture, so that each subsystem sees the same location on the ocean. The horn is a multiport, multifrequency horn having a throat and a tapered sidewall portion extending from the throat to the outer edge of the horn. A first sidewall port is coupled to the transmit/receive channel of the radar altimeter. A second sidewall port is coupled to a first receive channel of the radiometer, and a third sidewall port is coupled to a second receive channel of the radiometer. A throat port is coupled to a third receive channel of the radiometer.

Abstract: A motor vehicle is disclosed having a safety belt assigned to a seat and having an airbag system which is assigned to the same seat and has a pressure gas source which can be actuated by means of a deceleration sensor. In order to optimize protection for the seat user in the event of an accident, the invention proposes that at least two pressure gas sources which can be actuated independently of one another are provided, and in that in the event of an accident only one pressure gas source can be actuated by means of the deceleration sensor when the safety belt is being worn, while when the safety belt is not being worn all the pressure gas sources can be actuated so that it is only in this case that the maximum airbag internal pressure is available.

Abstract: A process and device for controlling a motor vehicle central locking system that has multiple station operation from the driver's door and from the trunk lid. A central locking of the door locks of the motor vehicle is avoided when mechanically securing the lock of the trunk lid against opening from the outside without a key in the unlocked state. This is done by switch-controlled suppression of the effect of the locking control signal normally generated when locking.

Abstract: A device for detecting nitrogenous, phosphoric, chloric and/or oxygenous substances inside an object, particularly of explosives or addictive substances in pieces of luggage. A nuclear activating device stimulates the emission of positron radiation from nitrogen, phosphorous, chlorine and/or oxygen, and an activity measuring device records positron-electron annihilation radiation.

Abstract: A 4-high-rolling mill includes a pair of upper and lower works, a pair of upper and lower backup rolls supporting the upper and lower work rolls, respectively, a roll bending device for applying a bending force to the upper and lower work rolls, and a roll shift device for shifting the upper and lower work rolls in an axial direction of the work rolls. Each of the upper and lower work rolls has a curved initial crown portion formed on one side portion of a barrel of the work roll which is not less than a half of the length of the work roll barrel, and a substantially cylindrical initial crown portion formed on the remainder of the work roll barrel. Teh curve of the curved initial crown portion approximates to a curve represented by the formula Y=X.sup.n, (n.gtoreq.1.

Abstract: In transferring color image data having a tone on a recording paper, a threshold matrix data for adjusting the tone is selected in accordance with the image data having a dot arrangement. The threshold conversion curve of the threshold matrix data selected is used to correct a variation in the tone of the image data due to mechanical and electrical variations in a color image transferring apparatus including variations in the rotation speed of a transferring drum, a power source voltage to be applied to a transferring head and a relative position between the transferring drum and the recording paper. This correction can achieve improved transference of the image data on the recording paper.

Abstract: A gripping device for gripping microscopically small objects for fine-mechanical precision uses a basic body and gripping elements. The basic body consists of one or more semiconductor chips. Thin layer tongues of silicon and metal are precipitated and vapor deposited, respectively, on the body and are equipped with layer-shaped heating elements on or between the tongues for changing temperature and moving a held object.

Abstract: An adaptive filter having a correlation weighting structue having a single Bragg cell, acting as a tapped delay line and having an input and an output, the Bragg cell intensity modulating a write laser beam for computing correlation values, and modulating a read laser field strength for multiplying the correlation values by delayed signal values. A photorefractive element is arranged such that substantial portions of diffracted and undiffracted light components from the single Bragg cell overlap within the photorefractive element. A write laser is intensity modulated by an error signal to produce an optical write signal that is received at the photorefractive element input and which writes correlation coefficients in the photorefractive element. A read laser produces a light signal, a portion of which is diffracted by the single Bragg cell, the portion of the light signal that is not diffracted by the single Bragg cell being partially diffracted by the photorefractive element.

Abstract: A method for the automatic shifting of a multi-path toothed-wheel gear change box between two gears which are formed in a first gearbox subunit temporarily engages a middle gear formed in a second, parallel gearbox subunit. It is simultaneously ensured, by control of the working pressures for actuating the power-shift clutches connecting the gearbox subunits to the input shaft, that the speed characteristic of the input shaft shifting is essentially steady without remaining at the middle gear speed value.

Abstract: In a spinning machine for pneumatic false-twist spinning, a plurality of spinning points are provided which are each equipped with one drafting unit. Two air nozzles are connected behind a pair of delivery rollers of the drafting unit and are pivotable around a separate swivel shaft and are connected by a restricted guidance in such a manner that, by an actuating movement, they can be moved into servicing positions which deviate from one another.

Abstract: A servicing apparatus and method are disclosed for locating a yarn end on a spool package at respective ones of the plurality of spinning units. A mobile servicing unit includes an auxiliary driving roller for driving the spool package and a yarn seeking nozzle for seeking a yarn end on the spool package. To obtain a precisely spaced location of the yarn seeking nozzle from the outer circumference of the spool package for different diameter spool packages, devices are provided for determining the package diameter and for controlling the position of the yarn seeking nozzle in the radial direction of the spool package as a function of the determined diameter.

Abstract: The proposal is for a thrust nozzle for aircraft fitted with jet engines especially for lateral thrust vector control, in which the upstream ends of at least two flaps (8, 12) actuated via lever-like adjusters are arranged to pivot simultaneously at different angles of rotation about spindles running across the nozzle axis (20) and between walls (22, 23) running substantially parallel to the nozzle axis of a square nozzle housing in such a way that, with a permanently convergent nozzle contour, a narrowest cross-section is formed between the flaps (8, 12) at the outlet side; one end of each lever-like adjuster (28, 29) is to engage in downstream ends of the flaps, said adjusters being arranged at their movably mutually coupled other ends to travel in a guide path (30) which is curved so as to produce continuously different flap rotation angles; one or more narrowest cross-sections can either be kept continuously constant or change dependently upon the jet deflection angle.

Abstract: In a conveyor system including a main conveyor line and a plurality of branch lines, when there is a stoppage in one of the branch lines, the operating speeds of the branch lines which are still active are increased so as to ensure that the entire flow of articles is disposed of. Each branch line which is still active changes to the faster operating speed only after it has been found that articles have actually accumulated on that branch line.

Abstract: An arrangement for changing the relative rotating position of shafts in an internal-combustion engine has a camshaft, which can be rotated with respect to a shaft driving it, that has a phase converter with a piston which is acted upon hydraulically on both sides. The sprocket wheel driving the camshaft has an external toothing. A toothing, which is connected with the camshaft via a hollow shaft, is constructed as an internal toothing. Corresponding toothings of the piston engage in both toothings. In the camshaft, an axial recess is arranged in which an inserted pipe separates two spaces from one another. An on/off valve fed from the oil circulating system, in one position, via one of the spaces, supplies the piston with oil pressure so that it is axially shifted into a first end position and, in the process, turns the camshaft. In a second position, the piston is axially pushed back by the second space with oil pressure.

Abstract: A split flywheel for reducing the transmission of vibrations from the engine to the drive shaft at certain frequencies of the flywheel is provided. Included are two flywheel elements drivingly connected to one another wherein one of which is connected or can be connected in a driven manner to the engine and the other of which is connected or can be connected in a driven manner to the drive line. The resonant frequency of the split flywheel unit is well below the frequency of engine vibrations which occur during normal traveling, so that only slight amplitudes of vibration occur between the flywheel elements during normal travel operation. However, during start-up of the engine, the resonant frequency of the flywheel is passed through. The drive connection between the elements a slip clutch having a greater friction contact than the maximum torque of the engine, placed in series with a spring mounting and positioned between the two flywheel elements.