Abstract: Fastening an attaching eye to the base of a dashpot by welding. The object is to simplify tooling and position the parts more accurately. The eye (3) is fabricated from strip, preferably by rolling or bending, prior to welding and is provided with an outward-tapering V-shaped abutment (4). The base (1) is provided with a transverse W-shaped groove comprising two rounded depressions (5 & 6), their depths and middle elevations (7) dimensioned to ensure that the eye will come into contact with the lateral edges (8 & 9) of the groove. The abutment is more or less in alignment with the groove's elevation.

Abstract: A device for attenuating the amplitudes of impacts, especially against the wheel of a vehicle. At least one piston is accommodated in a housing and divides it into two attenuating spaces. The piston is attached to a piston rod and operates in conjunction with a component that handles smaller amplitudes. This component is either a diaphragm or a displaceable rigid disk that divides a space and communicates hydraulically with either the upper or with the lower attenuating space.

Abstract: The invention relates to a locking device and a door-drive device comprising a locking device for a door which can be secured against opening by unauthorized persons using force from the exterior. The locking device has a lever element consisting of two lever arms which pivot about a first pivoting shaft. A connecting element is hinged to the first lever arm for connecting the door and the second lever arm which has an engaging device.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a pressurized two-chambered container in the form of an aerosol can, in which a housing is provided with an opening that can be sealed tightly by a spray or aerosol valve. A product chamber and a propellant chamber are formed separately fluid-tight from each other by a flexible diaphragm in the housing. The product chamber can be charged with a product which can be release through said valve. The propellant chamber can be charged, on the other hand, with a compressed propellant. The product chamber communicates with the product-release opening. At least one end of a blank is left open to constitute subsequently the housing. The diaphragm is inserted into the blank through the open end, and the blank then is formed into the housing. An edge of the open end of the blank is reformed to narrow it into an integral mouthpiece that accommodates the product-release opening.

Abstract: An especially stable glass module (3) that is resistant to bending stress and releases no shards when shattered. The module can be employed to construct an area of a wall, roof, or ceiling entirely of glass and without frames or fittings of metal or another material. The module (3) consists at least two components (31 and 35) fastened total surface to total surface by cement or laminating adhesive. At least one component is a length of glass L or U structural section. The lengths are preferably of clear or ornamental glass, rolled glass, or reinforced glass, wire-reinforced glass or single-pane safety glass for instance. A wall, roof, or ceiling area composed of such modules will not need auxiliary support and will comply with strict specifications for the safety of anyone under it.

Abstract: A railroad track brake in which a piston track brake is shifted out of an active state into an inactive state by a track-brake lowering device with a length of structural section extending along the piston track brake and having drag bars attached thereto while engaging the piston track brake. The active and inactive states are produced without contacting the housing of the piston track brake, and the braking process is free of acceleration forces. The drag bars contact the piston track brake only when it is in an inactive state to prevent acceleration forces.

Abstract: A cam with a bore that has a funnel-shaped core-insertion section. To ensure that the cam will rest more securely against the core and remain more precisely centered, the section (5) comprises at least two mutually aligned conical extents (6 & 7), each expanding outward at a different apical angle.

Abstract: A regulable hydraulic dashpot for motor vehicles and including a cylinder (1) filled with hydraulic fluid and a piston (2) that is attached to the end of a piston rod (7), travels back and forth inside the cylinder, and divides it into two chambers (3 & 4) that communicate through at least one bypass. The bypass's cross-section can be varied in size by a component that is, preferably continuously, controlled by a motor or magnet. To facilitate adjusting the dashpot, the cross-section varying component is a plate-shaped slide (23) provided with one or more breaches (25) and traveling from side to side, preferably in a slot (24), with its flat surface (27) subjected to fluid from each cylinder chamber alternately by way of channels (14, 15, & 16).

Abstract: In the case of a jack with a supporting element, at which the insertion trunnion (11), which can be folded vertically over a joint (12), is mounted with a stop (16) limiting the depth of insertion, in order to construct the stop (15) and fix it securely and reliably in position in a simple manner and so as to have little weight, it is a part of an intermediate layer, which is disposed in the region of the joint (12) between the insertion trunnion (11) and the supporting element.

Abstract: A hydraulic vibration damper for motor vehicles comprising a cylinder (1) containing damping fluid and a sealed, axially displaceable piston rod (2) that plunges into said cylinder. A damping piston (3) is secured to the lower end of the piston rod and divides the cylinder area into two working areas (4, 5). Said damping piston is provided with passages that can be modified and which are controlled by throttle valve bodies, in addition to a bypass for the pressure and traction stage, whereby the cross-section of the bypass is adjusted by an electrovalve that functions in three or more stages and the toroid coil more or less opens a valve slide (13), whereupon two or more bypass openings are released in a successive manner. The inventive damper is designed in such a way disruptive influences caused by constantly changing hydraulic forces arising from the flow of the damping agent are reduced when the flow from the bypass channels is shifted or controlled.

Abstract: Transmission for a wind-power plant with blades (3) distributed around a rotor (1) and with a generator (6) mounted by way of an azimuth bearing (7) on a mast (27). The transmission is a two-stage planetary transmission with an input stage and an output stage, and the input stage is directly connected to the rotor. The input stage (4) is provided with double-helical cogs and the output stage (5) with single-helically cogged planet wheels.

Abstract: A piston (1) with a piston ring (10) for a hydraulic or pneumatic unit fitted with a damping device and is mounted on a piston rod, dividing a cylinder (9) into two working areas and consisting of at least two parts (2, 9) that are adjacent to a surface (4) extending perpendicularly to the axis of symmetry (5). The piston ring (10) has an axial extension (14) that is several times greater than the thickness (15) of the wall of the ring and is disposed in an outer circumferential groove (6) that extends over both parts (2, 3). The invention provides a piston that prevents rumbles and is easy to produce, requiring only a few components.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for recycling polyethylene terephtalate (PET) flakes, characterized in that the flakes are extruded and granulated under vacuum, after which the granulate is aftercondensed in a solid phase under vacuum. Extrusion is preferably carried out in differentiated vent zones and aftercondensation of the solid phase is dependent on temperature, vacuum and time spent in a tumble dryer. Said dryer ensures the even and careful mixing and constant viscosity of the PET product. Said method is used in particular for making PET beverage bottles.

Abstract: An instrument for measuring the apical angle of a countersink (3). A jig (5) positions a probe (8) with preferably three branches (11) that rest against the inner surface of the countersink. A contact lever (12) pivots on at least one branch, and rests axially inside the countersink. A dial (13) communicates with the contact lever by way of a sensor (14). The sensor rests against the contact lever remote from the articulation (15) between the lever and the branches.

Abstract: A machine for cutting stacked sheets of stock. The machine has a counter for accommodating the stock. The rear of the counter accommodates the stock to be cut and the front of the counter the cut stock. The rear of the counter also accommodates a mechanism for advancing the stack and a baffle for one side of the stack to rest against. A bent is positioned above the counter and accommodates a blade for cutting the stock and a holdfast that can be lowered onto the top of the stack. A control panel and a display panel are positioned on the front side. The machine in accordance with the present invention is characterized by at least one camera (22) at the rear (9) of the counter. The camera monitors the position of the stock in relation to the stack-advancing mechanism (10) or the lateral baffle (12) and displays on the display panel (17) a real-time image (26) of what it can discern.

Abstract: A dashpot piston in halves, the face of each resting against that of the other. The piston can be fastened to the end of a piston rod either directly or by way of a connector. Each half (1 & 2) is provided with a depression (7) along the circumference remote from the face of the other, creating a continuous groove (8) with a shorter diameter and accommodating a piston-assembly ring (9). Manufacture is facilitated by the inclusion of at least one resilient supporting ring (11) between the piston-assembly ring and the base of the groove.

Abstract: In order to provide a cost-effective, time saving method for producing aging-resistant strip consisting of aluminum-killed steel, for which, initially, a strip is produced in the usual manner by rolling and the rolled strip is annealed continuously, the still hot strip is wound into a coil and cooled to room temperature, the strip, cooled in the coil, being finally finished.

Abstract: A method for purifyiing flue gas derived form incinerators burning refuse, wood, or sludge, in which the flue gas is cooled in a spray drier. A dust remover removes the dust from the flue gas. The flue gas is filtered through a filter-bed adsorber having filtering surfaces and packed with an adsorbent containing calcium hydroxide. The filter-bed adsorber is cleaned at intervals for removing adsorbate from the filtering surfaces. An aqueous suspension is prepared from at least some of the adsorbate that is removed from the filtering surfaces, and the flue gas is brought into contact with the suspension in at least one location upstream of the filter-bed adsorber for further separation of contaminates. The aqueous suspension is supplied to the spray drier for improving the purification of the flue gas.

Abstract: The invention relates to a line-changing device for the tracks (1, 2) of a magnetic levitation train. The tracks (1, 2) are formed by track supports arranged one after the other and the lines are changed by means of a rail joint between the tracks (1, 2). To connect the tracks a track support configured as a bendable support (5) is positioned along each track which bendable support can be bent to establish a connection between the tracks (1, 2). In its bent state each bendable support can be positioned in relation to the other bendable support (5). Along each track (1, 2) a track support situated next to the bendable support (5) is configured as a connecting support (6), which when the rail joint is established can be moved out of the clearance gauge of the train. The invention consists in the fact that the connecting supports (6) can be moved without deformation.

Abstract: A process is disclosed for the automated diagnosis of monitored objects, especially of drive strings, with a stationary, fully automatically operating data collecting unit positioned on the monitored object and a monitoring terminal spatially separated therefrom, whereby the quantitative description of the damage condition and therefore the activation of data transfer and subsequent reporting of diagnosis statements at the monitoring terminal is triggered by the significance of a damage property correspondingly weighted by the damage type, or a combination of different damage properties, which are specified by the amplitude of the physical variable corresponding to the kinetic occurrences which are formed for the harmonic excitation within the spectrum of the wide band signal detected by way of sensors at the machine surface, or for the impact impulse type excitation of the high pass filtered envelope curve spectrum of the same signal, or for the discontinuously appearing determinant impulse excitation from t