Abstract: A manually operated implement comprising a housing for accommodating a drive motor that drives a tool. A fan wheel is disposed in the housing and is driven by the drive motor. A fan wheel cover covers the fan wheel toward the outer side of the housing. Ribs are disposed on the outer surface of the fan wheel cover and span an intake opening of the fan wheel cover in the vicinity of the fan wheel. Beyond the intake opening, the ribs form channels, and upper faces of the ribs that face away from the outer surface of the fan wheel cover form an intake face that in a second area of the ribs is disposed transverse to the outer surface of the fan wheel cover.

Abstract: A retroactive device as part of a hydraulic servo-steering system that also includes a hydraulic servo-valve device, the retroactive device comprising an arrangement for hydraulically producing a restoring moment into a central position that produces the restoring moment as a function of the pressure differential between a pressure side and a low-pressure side. The system has at least one valve arrangement that, when pressure is applied in the central position of the servo-valve, is adapted to produce a pressure differential between the external and internal chambers of the valve. The valve arrangement is disposed hydraulically in series with the retroactive device.

Abstract: A rod for rotating rod-bands for agricultural machines, and a method of making the same, are provided. The rod comprises a rod body and metallic securement pieces serving for placement on flexible, pull-resistant belts. The securement piece has a first, flat length section secured to one of the belts by rivets or the like, and a second length section with a sleeve-like configuration for accommodating the rod body.

Abstract: An installation for the electrostatic oiling of metal strips, with an integral system for heating the fluid circuits which allows the application of products which are solid at room temperature with melting point of 30-50° C., wherein the main heated components of the installation are constituted by: a container (3) provided with double wall an shell and bottom within which diathermic oil circulates, a heated circulation pump (5); an electrical passage heater (6); heated Duplex filters (7, 13); heated metering pumps (8); heated pipelines (4, 12, 14); a heated booth (20); heated self-priming pump (16).

Abstract: A portable sprayer having a backpack to which are secured a blower unit and a supply tank. The blower unit includes a drive motor and a blower driven thereby. The blower unit is mounted on the backpack by at least one anti-vibration element. The supply tank, for example for spray agent, is mechanically separated from the blower unit and is also mounted on the backpack by at least one anti-vibration element. A removable, at least approximately rigid connection element is provided for coupling the supply tank and the blower unit together or for isolating them from one another with respect to vibrations.

Abstract: A plate link chain in the form of a conveyor chain comprising at least two chain strands that are disposed parallel to one another and are comprised of a sequence of inner plate members and outer plate members, wherein the inner plate members are provided with openings for receiving at least one sleeve for connecting the inner plate members of oppositely disposed chain strands, wherein the outer plate members are provided with openings aligned with the openings of the inner plate members to receive a link pin that extends through the sleeve and is fixed on the outer plate members, and wherein the inner plate members are comprised of at least two individual plates, one of which, of at least the inner plate members of one chain strand, is provided with angle brackets for the mounting of further chain components.

Abstract: A tubular handle for a manually guided implement, especially a power chain saw or the like, is provided. The handle has an essentially circular cross-section and at least one mounting portion for fixing the handle to the implement. In the area of the mounting portion, the circular cross-section is flattened to form an at least approximately planar abutment portion, beyond which a circular cross-sectional portion is retained. The abutment portion is provided for fixing the tubular handle to the implement.

Abstract: A device for producing ammonia from urea pellets includes a pellet dispensing device, a pellet accelerator, a pellet shooting channel, and an ammonia reactor having a chamber or zone for shooting in urea pellets and a pellet deflector arranged on an end of the shooting path. The device further includes a urea pellet evaporation device and a hydrolytic catalytic converter. The urea pellets are removed from the reservoir in a regulated number/quantity by a dispensing device and transported to the accelerating device, where the pellets are moved from the pellet shooting channel into the ammonia reactor, where they are broken down into small pieces by impacting a pellet deflector at the end of the shooting path. The pieces are converted into a gas mixture containing ammonia and isocyanic acid by means of a urea evaporation device. The isocyanic acid is subsequently converted into ammonia and carbon dioxide.

Abstract: A blade holder for cutting machines includes a blade head held on a raising and lowering device and an adjustment mechanism for a circular blade that is held on the blade head. The adjustment mechanism, for the movement of the circular blade between a cutting position and a ready position, is provided with an adjustment piston rod having an adjustment piston that is guided in a chamber of the blade head housing and can be moved by compressed air. The adjustment piston rod is biased by a compression spring into the ready position of the circular blade. The piston surface of the adjustment piston has a cross-sectional area that is configured such that as the path of the adjustment piston in the direction of adjustment increases, the piston surface that is acted upon by compressed air increases.

Abstract: A manually-guided, portable suction device/blower is provided, and includes a blower unit having a motor for driving the blower unit, a blower tube that extends from the blower unit, a collection bag, wherein during suction operation of the suction device/blower, the blower tube opens out into the collection bag, and a potential-equalizing device disposed within the collection bag, wherein the potential-equalizing device is electrically conductively connected with an electrical ground connection of the suction device/blower.

Abstract: A manually guided implement driven by an internal combustion engine having a carburetor that is actuated by a throttle lever arrangement, which includes a throttle lever that is mounted in the implement so as to be pivotable about a pivot axis, and also includes a transmission element that operatively connects the throttle lever with the carburetor. The transmission element is an essentially rigid connecting rod that is mounted on the throttle lever and on an actuating lever of the carburetor.

Abstract: A combination exhaust gas post treatment/muffler device in the exhaust gas section of an internal combustion engine is provided. The exhaust gas post treatment within the muffler, which forms sulfuric acid, takes place in at least one exhaust gas post treatment/muffler module, and only that housing thereof through which flows exhaust gas that is to be cleaned is produced from ferritic or austenitic stainless steel, thus making it possible to produce the outer walls of the muffler, as well as any inner element thereof, such as a transverse wall, that is disposed externally of the exhaust gas post treatment/muffler module of unalloyed sheet steel that is coated with aluminum or some other material.

Abstract: A manually guided implement comprising an engine housing that at least partially surrounds a cylinder of an internal combustion engine. The engine housing has a wall provided with an opening for a spark plug that is disposed in the cylinder. A spark plug connector arrangement is placed over the outside of the spark plug and extends through the spark plug opening. Externally of the wall of the engine housing the spark plug connector arrangement is provided with a mechanism for insertion or application of a tool.

Abstract: A carburetor including a mixture channel and an air channel that are separated from one another, wherein a fuel opening opens into the mixture channel. A throttle element is rotatable about an axis of rotation that extends transverse of the direction of flow in the mixture channel and in the air channel and extends through both channels. As a function of its position, the throttle element throttles a flow cross-section of the mixture channel and the air channel. The flow cross-section of a portion of the mixture channel and/or of the air channel has a non-circular shape in the vicinity of the throttle element.

Abstract: A surfing device is provided comprising a board-like body having a foam core, an upper side, and a lower side. The foam core is encased in laminate, wherein at least an edge region of at least one of the front longitudinal end, the rear longitudinal end, the left side, and the right side of the board-like body is provided with at least two woven laminate plies, at least one of which extends from the upper side to the lower side, or vice versa, about a profile of the corresponding end or side.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for the thermal treatment of metallic workpieces with which gas quenching can be obtained that is low in distortion, even for workpieces with an undulating shape or workpieces that are projectingly stackable are provided. In accordance with the method, after being heated the workpieces are cooled in a quenching chamber with a quenching gas, whereby the quenching gas is intentionally caused to flow around the workpieces by means of guide channels that have a closed lateral surface and that enclose the workpieces along the direction of flow of the quenching gas. The apparatus comprises a quenching chamber in which the workpieces can be cooled with a quenching gas, and wherein guide channels are provided to ensure that the quenching gas flows around the workpieces, the guide channels having a closed lateral surface and enclosing the workpieces along the direction of flow of the quenching gas.

Abstract: An arrangement and method for coupling an air compressor to the driving shaft of an internal combustion engine that is used as the drive engine of a vehicle, wherein the air compressor supplies a pneumatic device. The arrangement contains a controllable turbocoupling, the pump impeller of which can be driven by the driving shaft of the internal combustion engine and that, by means of a fluid in the form of a working medium, drives the turbine wheel that in turn is operatively connected with the shaft of the air compressor that is to be operated.

Abstract: An energy attenuation device for a conduit that is adapted to convey a pressurized fluid therethrough, comprising a hose section disposed about a portion of the conduit, wherein such conduit portion is provided with at least one aperture, for example in a surface thereof, and wherein in a non-pressurized state of the conduit, the hose section rests against the portion of the conduit over essentially the entire length of such portion.

Abstract: A charge control apparatus and a method for operating an reciprocating internal combustion engine are provided. The charge control apparatus includes a rotary disc valve disposed in the intake conduit upstream of the intake valve and connected to a motor and a control unit. The rotary disc valve is movable by the motor between a position in which the rotary disc valve closes the intake conduit and a position in which it permits flow along the intake conduit to the intake valve. The control unit controls the movement of the rotary disc valve in its closing position in the intake conduit such that the closing time point of the rotary disc valve is set increasingly ahead of the closing time point of the intake valve as a function of decreasing performance demands.