Abstract: An article of manufacture contains a substrate which contains a bar code field containing bar elements and background elements. The bar code elements have embossed, optically-reactive, microscopic periodic, relief structures which are suitable for optical-machine readout. A readout device generates an incident light beam and contains photosensors to detect the diffracted light beams.

Abstract: In order to decrease the interfering reflection of radar radiation from building walls during radar surveillance on the ground, the outer walls are formed on their surfaces so that the reflected radar waves are subjected in part to a phase shift of one half wavelength with respect to each other. This results in a partial obliteration of the reflected waves. The reflecting surface of the outer wall comprises for that purpose of individual elements whose superficial extent is smaller than the surface irradiated by a radar impulse, and which are staggered in depth in such manner that adjoining surface elements are located at a distance from each other which is equal, for perpendicular incidence of the radar radiation, to one quarter wavelength of the radar radiation used.

Abstract: A Hall element has a polygonal plane cross-section. In the cross-sectional plane, on the sides of the cross-section, are cross-sections of electrodes, the number of which is a multiple of four. The locations and cross-sections of the electrodes are mathematically conformal mappings into the polygonal plane cross-section of a fictitious group of non-overlapping cross-sections of electrodes in equal number transformed from a fictitious plane in which they are arranged radially symmetric on the circumference of a circle. The radius of the circle is equal to one. The fictitious group is sub-divided into groups of four within which the cross-sections of the corresponding fictitious electrodes are always at the same distances to each other on the circumference of the circle.

Abstract: The invention relates to a package for liquid made of a coated cardboard composite, having a pierceable opening for a drinking straw, which has incisions 11 running towards one another in the form of rays or a star, and perferably a cutout 9 located at the star point of the incisions. An opening thus constructed for a drinking straw easily enables an arbitrarily concentric expansion of the star flaps located between the incisions, so that said flags rest sealingly on the drinking straw in each case. This guarantees for different drinking straws a uniform opening for the drinking straw which can be introduced into the multilayer cardboard composite both before it is coated and after it is coated.

Abstract: An electrophotographic typewriter comprises a housing on which are mounted an alphanumeric keyboard, a flat-plane display unit, a paper feed tray and a paper output tray. A paper feed path is routed through an electrographic print unit, located in the housing, and comprises a photoconductive drum surrounded by a charging unit, an optical print head, a developing unit, a transfer unit, an erasing unit and a cleaning unit arranged in sequence about the photoconductive drum. An electronics package processes the alphanumeric input data to generate the flat-plane display and the outputs to the optical print head. Hard paper copy is produced where the paper feed path passes between the photoconductive drum and the transfer unit.

Abstract: The arrangement comprises a tracking sensor with a light source, an optical means and a receiver with two photosensitive detectors, as well as a measuring apparatus with a computing unit. The optical means focuses light to provide a beam which falls on a moving web of foil. The tracking sensor may, for example, be installed in a re-winding installation, and during re-winding of the web, senses by means of the beam a marking track which is embossed in the web in the longitudinal direction of the web and which is composed of two different diffraction grating tracks. Each diffraction grating track projects the light diffracted therefrom in a predetermined direction of incidence to a respective detector. The sensed signals supplied by the receiver are converted into a difference signal by the measuring apparatus, and processed to provide correction signals which are supplied to a control means of the re-winding installation in order to compensate for lateral deviation of the moving web of foil.

Abstract: A blower burner capable of operating in two burner steps comprises a drive for an air throttle capable of running in a first direction from closed to open and in a second direction from open to closed, an auxiliary switch connected to the drive of the air throttle, a latch-free no-voltage relay, and a single-wire relay. The auxiliary switch is activated by the drive when the drive is running towards open position before the air throttle reaches the set position for the first burner step. The no-voltage relay is excited upon activation by the auxiliary switch. The single-wire relay operates under the control of the latch-free, no-voltage relay to cause the drive to switch over to drive towards the closed position after a built-in delay when the no-voltage relay has been excited.

Abstract: A split tube centrifugal pump comprises a pump casing divided into a pump space and a motor space, an impeller driving a conveying fluid in the pump casing, a vertically disposed shaft in the casing, the shaft being hollow and including an axial channel therein, a rotor including a channel therein, and a partition separating the pump space from the motor space. The partition includes a first aperture through which the shaft passes and a second aperture. The conveying fluid circulates between the pump space and the motor space in a circuit comprising the first aperture in the partition, the channel in the rotor, and the channel in the shaft. In a particularly preferred embodiment of the invention, the split tube centrifugal pump further comprises a filter disposed upstream or downstream of the first aperture in the partition, and a slide ring sealing associated with the second aperture and through which the vertical shaft passes.

Abstract: The invention relates to an actuating device for a tap on a beverage decanting installation. The tap 1 bears a plug-in receptacle 5 with a non-return valve 8-10 of a connection 6, 7 for a pressurized gas pipe. Fitted on to the plug-in receptacle 5 is a casing 13 formed with connecting channels and connecting chambers 16, 18, 19, 21, 22, 28, 29 for the supply of a pressurized gas to an actuating piston 32 disposed in a chamber 30 for an actuating member 3 of the tap 1. When the casing 13 is fitted on, the non-return valve 8-10 accommodated in the plug-in receptacle 5 is retained in the open position by a tappet 16 of a connecting channel 18, so that the actuating piston 32 can experience pressure via another valve 25, 26, 27 actuable by a rocking lever 40. The other valve 25, 26, 27, constructed as a non-return valve, is actuated via a tappet 34 which takes the form of a valve and via which the chamber 30 of the actuating piston 32 can be relieved of pressure.

Abstract: The invention relates to a temperature-stable inductive proximity switch having a transistorized resonant circuit oscillator. The feeding into the emitter-to-collector circuit of the resonant circuit transistor T1 of a balancing current, which depends on the individually determined temperature of the resonant circuit transistor T1 and the individually determined temperature of the resonant circuit coil, ensures that the proximity switch is temperature-stable with respect to its switching distance for every adjusted basic current.

Abstract: A method for rendering harmless chrysotile asbestos comprises wetting the asbestos fibers with an aqueous solution containing about 1 to 10% by weight of a weak organic acid, such as trifluoroacetic acid. The weak acid solution hydrolyzes the magnesium oxide units contained in the crystal structure of chyrsotile asbestos, thereby destroying this crystal structure and the fibrous nature of the asbestos. The method may be used on building materials already in place to remove the asbestos fibers contained therein.

Abstract: A track position detecting mechanism is used to detect an outermost peripheral track position of a magnetic disc for use as a reference point in making various accesses to the magnetic disc. The track position detecting mechanism has an optical detector including a light emitting element and a light receiving element, where an optical path is formed between the light emitting element and the light receiving element, and an interrupt member provided at such a position on a carriage that the interrupt member interrupts the optical path within the optical detector when a magnetic head is located at an outermost peripheral track position on the magnetic disc. The optical path substantially coincides with a plane which includes a center line of a guide shaft which guides the carriage, and the plane is parallel to a base of the carriage.

Abstract: An accessory device for use in connection with a video terminal comprises an attachment mechanism for mounting a display board on either or both isdes of a video terminal. The display boards are pivotable about both horizontal and vertical axes. The accessory includes a lighting fixture for illuminating the surface of each display board and a circuit for automatically adjusting the intensity of light produced by each lighting fixture to maintain a constant predetermined level of illumination on the surface of each display board. The video accessory increases the vertical work surface available for use by a video terminal operator and results in a work station area which is more comfortable for the video operator.

Abstract: The optical sight for the correction of the geometry of the convergences of a color camera according to the invention is such that it is adapted to the two most common formats and therefore usable in bi-format 4/3 and 16/9 cameras: the sight is constituted of a group of elementary motifs constituted of a central zone of n lines of p motifs and adjacent zones formed of two lines of p motifs used in addition to the central zone for the 4/3 format, and two columns of n motifs, used in addition to the central zone for the 16/9 format.

Abstract: For automatic recognition of the authenticity of items in sheet form such as bank notes, for example in an automatic service machine, the transparency of each bank note is examined in predetermined spectral ranges. The measuring system is arranged between units of a transport system and, in a passage opening formed from a collector and a diffuser, produces a narrow read-out light beam which extends transversely over a scanning plane. The bank note is conveyed through the read-out light beam, and the light which shines through the bank note in the read-out area is collected in the collector and passed to a photosensitive detector. An evaluation device forms a single measurement value in respect of transparency in the spectral range for each of the successively scanned read-out areas, and compares the measurement values of the bank note being tested with pattern signals stored in a memory of the evaluation device.

Abstract: The present invention provides an adjustable and automatically disengaging overload clutch for driving a tool, comprising a first clutch half frictionally engaged with a second clutch half and a coupler bracket for transmitting torque form the second clutch half to the tool. The clutch further comprises a spring connecting the second clutch half to the coupler bracket to transmit torque from the second clutch half to the coupler bracket. The spring is designed so that if a predetermined torque is exceeded, the second clutch half is released from the coupler bracket, thus preventing the transmission of any further torque. Levers associated with the coupler bracket and the second clutch half are also provided for disengaging the second clutch half from the first clutch half.

Abstract: An article of manufacture including an optically variable surface pattern is disclosed. The optical surface pattern makes visible one out of a plurality of N image representations for each one out of N predetermined viewing directions. The surface pattern comprises M grating elements, each of the grating elements being divided into N grating element sub-portions. Each of the N sub-portions of each grating element contains a diffraction element in the form of a relief structure with predetermined parameters for diffracting incident light. Each of the sub-portions of each grating element thereby corresponds to one pixel of one of the N image representations, so that one of the N image representations is visible from each of said predetermined viewing directions.

Abstract: In an arrangement for measuring an electrical power or energy, for each of a plurality of phases, the arrangement includes a voltage input in a transformer supplied with current and connected to an integrator with a high ohm input. Each transformer is connected via an integrator with a high ohm input to a mark-space-amplitude modulator, one of which is provided per phase. Each voltage input is also in communication with the corresponding mark-space-amplitude modulator. Each mark-space-amplitude modulator comprises a mark-space modulator and a pulse amplitude modulator. Each pulse amplitude modulator is provided with two push-pull outputs, each of which is connected to an input of a current/frequency converter for the integration of marks (pulses) and spaces (i.e. spaces between pulses) present at the output of the pulse amplitude modulator. The current/frequency converter is connected to processing and display circuitry for displaying an output.

Abstract: An improved temperature stable synthetic polycrystalline diamond (PCD) product includes at least one temperature stable PCD integrally and chemically bonded to a matrix carrier support through a carbide forming layer which is of a thickness of at least about 1 micron, the layer on at least one surface of the PCD is in turn bonded to the matrix carrier. A wide variety of shapes, sizes and configurations of such products is achieved through relatively low temperature and relatively low pressure processing. Various products of various geometries are described as well as the details of the processing to achieve chemical bonding of the PCD elements in a variety of support matrix carrier materials to form a unitary structure having a temperature stability up to about 1,200 degrees C.

Abstract: A dual ring with protector comprises a pair of rings arranged to be worn together on one finger. One of the pair of rings has an integral protective channel which is adapted to receive the second ring of the pair. The second ring of the pair has ornamentation around its circumference which requires protection from scratching, abrasion, and the possibility that the stones worn facing the inside of the hand will fall out if the gold holding them catches on clothing or hits an object. The protective channel of the first ring is adapted to receive the second ring and protects the complete inner portion, facing the inside of the hand, from wear, scratches, abrasion and the possibility that the stones worn facing the inside of the hand will fall out if the gold holding them catches on clothing or hits an object.