Abstract: Successive cigarettes of a series of cigarettes, such as filter cigarettes, are transported sideways in the axially parallel peripheral flutes of a rotary drum-shaped conveyor to the inlet(s) of a straight or V-shaped rolling channel or of two successive straight channels defined by the rolling surface(s) of one or two stationary block-shaped rolling members and the external surface of an endless belt trained over several rollers and being at least partially confined in a recess or groove of the conveyor in such a way that the surface(s) of the rolling member(s) cooperate with the surface of the belt to roll successive cigarettes in the channel or channels about their longitudinal axes while one or more beams issuing from one or more lasers or other radiation source(s) impinge upon the wrappers of the cigarettes rolling in the channel or channels.

Abstract: The invention relates to a mail-item container of a sorting device for the controlled transfer of a flat mail item into stationary sorting containers, the container having a stationary wall part and a movable wall part that is disposed at the front in the transport direction, and is inclined counter to the transport direction and has a slide part. In accordance with the invention, the slide part is embodied to swing, completely or partially, such that the front portions of the mail items are given momentum as they slide out, due to a swinging movement of the slide part that is initiated by the opening of the movable wall part, the momentum preventing short mail items from overturning due to the torque generated by gravity; the swinging duration is at least long enough that the respective short mail item has already exited the slide part at the time of the next swinging movement directed at the mail items.

Abstract: A cable assembly includes a sleeve body of plastic material; a protective tube extending in the sleeve body; a cable element disposed within the protective tube; and a transverse port provided in the wall of the protective tube. The plastic material extends through the transverse port into the protective tube and cross-sectionally seals the protective tube water tight in a region of the transverse port.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for regulating the brake(s) of an escalator or moving walkway, independently of the load. According to the invention, actual values are supplied to at least one regulator which contains at least one nominal value, the regulator intermittently performs a comparison between the nominal and actual values and controls at least one brake magnet using these values. The brake magnet or magnets in turn regulate(s) the brake(s) in such a way that a predeterminable linear braking deceleration can be achieved, whereby nominal values, in particular, in the form of several temporary deceleration values, are stored in the regulator in nominal value fields or nominal zones.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing formoxysilane. A silane of the formula RnSiH4−n, wherein R is an organic or inorganic substituent and n=0, 1, 2 or 3, is converted with carbon dioxide in a solvent in the presence of a catalyst consisting of a compound of a transitional metal pertaining to the subgroup VIIIb of the periodic system. The aim of the invention is to find a catalyst for the method mentioned above. The catalyst should be more simple, easy to produce and thus more cost-effective, easily available in large quantities and being provided with high activity and product selectivity. To this end, a halide of the transitional metal or a compound of the transitional metal are used as catalyst. Said compound is produced by converting a halide of the transitional metal with a nitrile in the presence of the silane of the formula RnSiH4−n.

Abstract: The filler of a cigarette rod has a tubular portion made of shredded tobacco and surrounding at least one row of spherical inserts made of aromatic material or aerosol. The tubular portion is made by feeding tobacco shreds against the underside of the horizontal lower reach of a foraminous conveyor belt advancing beneath a suction chamber to accumulate a first layer of shreds. The inserts are delivered to the underside of the first layer and are attracted thereto by suction. A second layer of shredded tobacco is assembled by showering shreds against the underside of the first layer where the second layer underlies the spherical inserts. The thus obtained filler is draped into a web of wrapping material to form a cigarette rod ready to be subdivided into sections of unit or multiple unit length. The spherical inserts are expelled from a revolving receptacle under the action of centrifugal force to form a row which is conveyed toward the underside of and advances with the first layer.

Abstract: A fiber processing machine includes a clothed roll entraining fiber material thereon; a roll cover circumferentially partially surrounding the roll and defining an annular clearance therewith; a transfer opening provided in the roll cover for admitting fiber material to the roll; a waste discharge opening provided in the roll cover for removing waste from the clearance; a fiber removal opening provided in the roll cover downstream of the waste discharge opening as viewed in the direction of roll rotation; an arrangement for generating an air stream for doffing fiber material from the roll and for discharging doffed fiber material through the fiber removal opening; an arrangement for varying a strength of the air stream at the fiber removal opening; and an arrangement for varying the extent of waste removal through the waste discharge opening.

Abstract: A device is provided for gathering and conveying printed sheets over a conveying path. The device includes a gathering segment, with the legs of the printed sheets straddling the gathering segment. The gathering segment includes a conveyor device having a saddle-shaped support surface for receiving the printed sheets and is adaptable to be loaded by sheet feeders disposed along the gathering segment, and driven carriers disposed on the conveyor device having a guide apparatus to raise at least one leg of at least one of the printed sheets to define first printed sheets without raised legs and a second printed sheets with raised legs. The device further includes a stop apparatus projecting into the conveying path of the second printed sheets and griping the front edges of the second printed sheets, wherein the stop apparatus is adaptable to be shut off when the first printed sheets are conveyed past.

Abstract: Apparatus for pneumatically conveying filter rod sections from a sender to a remote cigarette filter tipping machine has a first switching device which receives filter rod sections from a single outlet of the sender, a second switching device which delivers filter rod sections to a single inlet of the tipping machine, and at least two conduits connecting the switching devices. The first switching device can direct filter rod sections into the receiving end of either one of the conduits while establishing a path for the evacuation of piled-up filter rod sections from the other conduit. The second switching device can connect the inlet of the tipping machine with the discharge end of either of the two conduits while connecting the discharge end of the other conduit with a source of compressed air in the event of clogging of the other conduit.

Abstract: A cable terminal contract assembly (3) encompasses two spaced apart tongues (4) with contact springs (7) exhibiting contact points (8), wherein the longitudinal edges of the tongues are intended for the insertable, positive meshing with guide grooves of one of the chambers of a multiple-connection strap. The tongues (4) exhibit wire connecting means at the free end, insulation-piercing connecting devices (5), and are connected on the inner end by a web (6) with a narrow width. The contact assembly is a through contact that is transformable into a separating contact by separating the web, or into a switching contact by inserting an isolating piece or via molding. The connection strap casing can be produced as a one-piece plastic body.

Abstract: A method of and device for recognizing a network-synchronous interfering signal during a data transmission in which pauses occur between useful signals, with the duration of a shortest pause being Tp and a main frequency being f are disclosed. The method includes the steps of defining a time span Td being shorter than the shortest pause Tp, but longer than the longest period 1/f or ½ f, of a network-synchronous interfering station; determining whether pauses occur that are longer than Td during a time period T check>Td; and interpreting an occurrence of pauses as the presence of a useful signal without a network-synchronous interfering signal, and interpreting a lack of an occurrence of pauses as the presence of an interfering signal.

Abstract: A method and a device for determining the operating time and the operating condition of a hydraulic percussion unit, in particular a hydraulic hammer, having a percussion piston which is guided inside a housing and, under the effect of a controller, alternately performs an operating stroke in an impact direction and a return stroke in a return direction. The method and device obtain information to determine whether the percussion unit requires maintenance operations. Signals are generated during the consecutive, individual operational segments of the percussion unit. The number of signals is proportional to the strokes performed by the percussion piston in one movement direction. The number of the signals is continuously added and is stored as a total number. The current total number of signals can be displayed at least at times for indicating the operating condition of the percussion unit.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine comprising at least one intake valve and/or exhaust valve moving axially between a closed position and a position of maximum opening and means for moving the valves adapted to move, on command, this valve between the closed position and the position of maximum opening, the valve movement means comprising an elastic member adapted to maintain this valve in the closed position, a hydraulic actuator selectively adapted to move this valve from the closed position to the position of maximum opening by countering the action of the elastic member, and a hydraulic circuit adapted to supply pressurized fluid to the hydraulic actuator, the hydraulic circuit comprising a delivery duct connected to the hydraulic actuator and pumping means adapted to supply pressurized fluid into the delivery duct, the pumping means comprising the elastic member and the hydraulic actuator.

Abstract: For a quantification of the electrostatic responsiveness and for the extraction of high-current parameters of integrated circuits and individual structures (DUT—“Device under Test”) a method and a device are proposed wherein a high current pulse can be injected via a terminal into the DUT under strictly defined marginal conditions. The substrate into which the circuit to be analysed is integrated, together with the reference electrode disposed at a defined spacing, forms a capacitor dependent on the actual circuit and determining the loading parameters, which capacitor has a dielectric consisting, as a rule, of air. The method is characterised by an intrinsic impedance which is almost constant throughout the entire system and defined by the mechanical and material properties. It is also possible to use a complete semiconductor wafer including a plurality of circuits as substrate.

Abstract: A catheter for the introduction into blood vessels having a lumen and guide means arranged therein wherein the guide means include a pre-bent wire (26) displaceable in the longitudinal direction of the catheter (10) and the catheter (10) has at its distal end an exit lock means (38) such that the pre-bent wire (26) can issue from the catheter (10) through the exit lock means (38) at the distal end.

Abstract: The method of cryptological authentification in a scanning identification system comprising a base station, which supplies energy via the alternating field to a transponder connected to the object to be identified, includes the following method steps. For essentially the entire communication between the base station and the transponder, the base station generates an inquiry signal. Upon receiving the inquiry signal transmitted by the base station, the transponder responds with an identification number stored in its memory. The base station then encodes a first bit sequence it has generated by using a key bit sequence that is allocated to the identification number of the transponder, and transmits the second bit sequence obtained in this manner to the transponder. When the second bit sequence is received, the transponder generates a checking bit sequence from the second bit sequence, and, following the complete reception of the second bit sequence, transmits this checking bit sequence to the base station.

Abstract: An apparatus is provided for automatically trimming tree open side edges of printed products bound along a fourth edge to a desired format for each printed product. The printed products are transported in a transport direction along a surface of a trimming table. First, second and third trimming stations are located one after the other in the transport direction along the trimming table. Each trimming station includes a trimming device having at least one stationary blade that can be driven in a plane extending perpendicular to the surface of the trimming table, a positioning device for positioning one of the open side edges of a respective printed product on the trimming table to be cut, and a pressing device, with which a respective positioned printed product can be pressed over essentially the entire format during a out of the positioned open side edge.

Abstract: An apparatus for transporting folding packaging material forms in the tobacco-processing industry, particularly carton forms for cigarette hard packs that have been scored or pre-punched along fold lines, from a feed station to a processing station. A rotary table is mounted for rotation about an essentially vertical axis. The rotary table includes at least one receiving platform having oppositely located lateral holders defining limits for the packaging material. At least one of the lateral holders is movable from a feeding position into a holding position relative to the oppositely-located lateral holder.