Abstract: A bucket for an adjustable turbine guide baffle system for gas turbines is formed of an alloy material comprised of a dispersion-strengthened Fe-Cr-Al alloy containing 64.5-75.5% by weight of Fe, 15-25% by weight of Cr, 3-8% by weight of Al, 0.1-1% by weight of Ti, 0-3% by weight of Co, 0.1% by weight of Y or Ce, and 0.1-1.5% by weight of yttrium oxide or aluminum oxide. The bucket has a shank which is under friction stress in the guide baffle system and which is coated with a layer of slip-providing material that contains 90-100% by weight of nickel oxide and 0-10% by weight of one or more oxides of chromium, aluminum, zirconium, titanium, iron, manganese, or magnesium.

Abstract: A novel sausage casing binder made of elements of plastic and a method by which the elements are mounted against the constricted portion of the casing so as to form a clamp ring thereabout, whereafter the elements are joined to stabilize the rigid and entirely closed annular shape of the clamp ring in secure engagement with the constricted portion. For binding the casing in the end which is going to be suspended by the smoking of the sausage a binding element is used which is provided with a suspension member forming an integral part thereof, whereby the use of special suspension members to be laid under the clamp is obviated and a very safe suspension is obtained.

Abstract: A miniature diagonal blower with axial inward flow and radial outward flow is disclosed. The blower comprises a drive motor having a shaft stub and a motor housing, a fanwheel including a hub fitted with fan blades, said hub being mounted on the shaft stub of the drive motor, a fanwheel housing surrounding the fanwheel without contacting said fanwheel and being provided with recesses for the inward flow and outward flow, a flanged surface associated with the motor housing, said flanged surface projecting on the outward flow side beyond the fanwheel toward the inward flow, said fanwheel housing being provided with support legs distributed about the circumference of the fanwheel in the vicinity of the outward flow, said legs delimiting recesses located between them for the outward flow and being mounted by their soles on said flanged surface means associated with the motor housing with fastening means.

Abstract: A valve-actuating lever, especially a rocker arm or drag lever, for internal combustion engines which is provided at its end actuating the valve on both sides of the valve abutment surface with one lateral guide surface each; the valve abutment surface is thereby formed at a valve-clearance adjusting element fixed at the lever between the lateral guide surfaces.

Abstract: A kick-down circuit for an automatic change-speed transmission with a kick-down control member transmitting a kick-down control signal when an accelerator or gas pedal is floored and with at least one gearshift control element operating in dependence upon a transmission output speed and a position of the gas pedal for an auxiliary operating force of a shift actuating member participating in a shifting between a higher gear and a lower gear. The gearshift control element, upon an occurrence of the kick-down control signal, may be brought into its position for the lower gear under the effect of an auxiliary control force dependent upon a position of the gas pedal. The kick-down control signal is temporally limited independently of the position of the gas pedal.

Abstract: An installation for the support of an inboard engine at a transom plate connected with the boat transom for an outboard drive of a propeller, in which a neck secured at the boat engine and receiving the connecting shaft between the boat engine and the outboard drive is inserted into an aperture of the transom plate and is connected with the transom plate, respectively, with the aperture thereof by way of an elastic element surrounding the neck; the elastic element is retained at the neck by axially clamping its inner circumferential area and axially clamping its outer circumference area at the transom plate while a radially and axially elastic section which is not clamped is provided between these two clamping areas.

Abstract: A multiple-link gas pedal of a synthetic resionous material for a motor vehicle. The links of the gas pedal are joined by hinge-like film hinges integral in the material. A connecting member for a hinged connection of the foot plate with a pivotal lever suspended into a foot space is arranged in a zone of an upper end of the foot plate on a rear side thereof. A mounting member is articulated to the connecting member through a further film hinge. The mounting member is provided with a bore for receiving the free end of the lever. The bore exhibits at least one flaring portion and a lower end of the lever exhibits projections corresponding in number and shape to the flaring portions. After a passing of the lever end through the bore, the constructional position is obtained by mutual twisting of the components, in such a way that the projections rest on the underside of the mounting member on marginal zones of the bore which are not widened.

Abstract: A locking cap for an oil gauge pipe which includes a gauge rod mounted thereon, with the gauge rod being adapted to be inserted into the oil gauge pipe. An eccentric level arrangement is provided for locking the locking cap at the oil gauge pipe while a sealing ring is pressed between the locking cap and a flange of the oil gauge pipe. The eccentric lever is mounted on the locking cap and, in a locking position, reaches under the flange of the oil gauge pipe. In a locked position, the locking cap rests against the flange with the sealing ring being interposed between an inner surface of the locking cap and the flange.

Abstract: A gas-operated internal combustion engine which includes a volume control valve for a gas supplied to an air/gas mixer. An air filter is arranged within a charged air supply arrangement and, between a diaphragm of the volume control valve in a section of the air charge supply, a pressure equalizing connection is provided which, starting from the air filter or from the air/gas mixer and extending in a direction toward the volume control valve includes a throttle and a blocking biased check valve. A conduit branches off in the pressure-equalizing line at a point between the air filter and the check valve, with the conduit leading through a diaphragm operated valve to the intake manifold. The valve is controllable by the intake manifold vacuum such that the conduit is blocked with a high value intake manifold vacuum and opened with a low value intake manifold vacuum.

Abstract: A hydrostatic bladder-type storage means for storing mechanical energy by a compressible media in a pressure bottle. An interior of the pressure bottle contains an elastically resilient bladder accommodating the medium. The pressurized medium is introduced into the bladder from one side of the bottle, with the bladder being surrounded by hydraulic oil which is adapted to be forced into and removed from a cavity located between the bottle and the bladder. A porous elastic body of foamed synthetic resinous material is provided in the bladder with the medium filling pores of the foam body. The foam body is intimately joined to the wall of the bladder and has a specific thermal capacity which is greater than the thermal capacity of the medium.

Abstract: An apparatus for introducing a candy filling forced out of a conveyor into a rod-forming machine in which the candy composition receives its final shape. A filling tube extends into an interspace between conical rolls of the rod-forming machine and a rigid connecting pipe is hingedly inserted between the conveyor and the filling tube by way of movable pipe fittings.

Abstract: A fuel injection pump for an air-compressing fuel injected internal combustion engine with a pump piston arranged in a pump cylinder and controlling a fuel control bore in the pump working chamber and with a control element in constant connection with the pump piston for the purposes of fuel control. The control element is constructed so that it constantly connects the pump working chamber to an intermediate chamber located above the control element and serving as a reservoir. The control element connects the pump working chamber and the pump pressure chamber by way of a bore arrangement only during a piston stroke. An arrangement is provided by which the communication between the pump working chamber and pump pressure chamber is temporarily interrupted during the piston stroke in such a way that, prior to the interruption, a variable preliminary injection quantity is conveyed and, after the interruption, a principal injection quantity is fed.

Abstract: A device for cleaning a lamp arrangement of a motor vehicle such as, for example, a divided headlight arrangement which is disposed so as to be set back with respect to a forward panel frame member of the motor vehicle. A separating web of the panel frame is located between two juxtaposed lamps of the divided headlamp arrangement with at least one nozzle being disposed in two lateral surfaces of the separating web. The nozzle is oriented toward the respective lens of the headlamps and emits a jet of cleaning fluid on the respective lenses.

Abstract: A wheel cover for passenger motor vehicles with a mounting member fashioned as a wire spring ring. The wire spring ring is provided with radially outwardly projecting bracket members which are guided at the hub cap and are lockable into a recess at a rim of a wheel. Two mutually concentrically arranged hubcap sections are provided which cover the rim of the wheel and form between them an annular vent slot. The hubcap sections are connected to each other by webs. An inner hubcap section covers the wire spring ring and the webs are arranged axially in front of braces of a bracket member, which braces emanate toward the outside from the circular ring shape of the wire ring.

Abstract: A solar cell arrangement with an associated optical collecting lens system. The lens system focuses a light impingement area onto the solar cell to intensify incident radiation. The collecting lens system includes an optically active layer provided between the light impingement area and the solar cells. The optically active layer images and disperses the incident light in a manner adapted to the surface and light absorption characteristics of the solar cells.

Abstract: A vehicle, especially a cab-over engine commercial vehicle, with a steering wheel which is disposed generally horizontally in a normal operating position and a steering column which is generally vertical and displaceably supported in the direction of the vehicle from in the vicinity of the steering wheel. A steering assembly formed by the steering wheel and steering column is displaceable to a protective position in which position the steering wheel assumes a fixed position when the steering column is displaced in the direction of the front of the vehicle. The steering column and steering wheel are automatically and positively displaced into their protective positions as a function of the deceleration of the vehicle and/or deformation of the vehicle front.

Abstract: An arrangement for preventing an unauthorized starting of vehicles which includes a data carrier preferably connected to a key provided for mechanical locks of the motor vehicle and with an evaluating circuit triggering a signal if the correct information is introduced into the arrangement. The data carrier contains at least one of unerasable vehicle-related information or erasable arbitrary information. The evaluating circuit includes at least one read/write unit and a comparison unit wherein the total data of the data carrier are examined and which, in addition to the signal triggered if the information was recognized as correct, passes on the vehicle-related information at least partially to a terminal provided for one of external diagnostic systems or a diagnostic system provided in the vehicle.

Abstract: A trimmer for a motorboat with a drive mechanism mounted to be rotatably movable in a gimbal ring by way of horizontal pins is disclosed. The trimmer comprises a revolving part and a fixed part arranged within a horizontal pin. The fixed part is connected for rotation with the pin and the revolving part is connected for rotation with the gimbal ring.

Abstract: A fastening arrangement for fastening a carrier to a roof of a motor vehicle. The motor vehicle includes a support member which extends in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle and is disposed at respective side edges thereof. The fastening arrangement includes a carrier bracket which is adapted to be mounted near a side edge of the motor vehicle. The carrier bracket includes a threaded bore for accommodating a threaded portion of a carrier holder of the carrier. A cap cover is detachably insertable into the threaded bore so as to seal the bore when the carrier holder is not accommodated therein. The carrier bracket may be completely disposed beneath the surface of the roof or include a portion which projects beyond the upper surface of the roof. The carrier bracket may be provided with an annular flange that is applied with a seal and with pretensioning to the roof surface with a lower portion of the bracket being swagged so as to fix the bracket to the roof surface.

Abstract: A piston internal combustion engine with at least one cylinder and with a cooling system coordinated thereto that operates with a fluid medium and includes an oil-spray cooling system; at partial engine loads, the cooling output is reduced by disconnection of a part of the oil-spray cooling system so that the heat content in the combustion space increases while the specific fuel consumption is reduced and the warm-up period of the engine after the start is reduced.