Abstract: An armchair (10) comprises a support frame (11, 12) to which a base seat (14) and a back (16) are fastened, which elements are movable between a first and a second position through power-driven movement means (21). The base seat (14) is pivotally mounted, at the front, to the support frame according to a first transverse axis (15). The back (16) is pivotally mounted to the base seat, at the rear thereof, according to a second transverse axis (17) for rotation of the back itself. The back (16) has extensions (18) extending downwardly past said second axis (17) and having ends constrained to slide longitudinally of the armchair. In this manner, on rotation of the back about said second axis (17), the base seat rotates in the same way about said first axis (15).

Abstract: A hinge for furniture comprises a bowl (11) adapted to be fastened to a door (12) of a piece of furniture and a wing (13) designed to be fixed to the piece of furniture. The wing has an end (15) which is pivotally mounted to the bowl for rotation relative to the bowl and a spring (17) is received in the bowl, the thrust end (19) of the spring exerting pressure on cam means (20) placed on the wing to move the wing towards a near steady position corresponding to the open or closed hinge position. The spring has a reaction end (21) reacting on the bowl at a rest surface (22) keeping said reaction end (21) oriented in a direction non-parallel to the bowl bottom. Advantageously, the spring reaction end is directed opposite to the bowl bottom and the rest surface (22) is a side wall of the bowl.

Abstract: An automotive wheel rim has intermediate its ends a wall extending transversely of the axis of said rim and having formed therein a first air duct opening at one end on the outer periphery of the rim for communication with the interior of a tire mounted thereon, and at its opposite end on the outboard side of the wall. A second duct formed within the wall opens at one end on the outboard side of the wall and at its opposite end on the inboard side of the wall for connection to a tire inflation system. A tire inflation control valve is secured to the outboard side of the wall and has therein a pair of air inlet/outlet ducts sealingly secured in communication with the ends of the first and second ducts where they open on the outboard side of the wall.

Abstract: An iced-beverage making machine comprises a tank (11) to contain the beverage, a mixer (12) to stir the beverage in the tank and a refrigerating circuit (14) to cool the beverage in the tank. The mixer is connected by a magnetic joint to a movement reduction motor (13). The magnetic joint comprises a driving portion (16) which is provided with a crown of first magnets (22) and is connected to the reduction motor (13), and a driven portion (17) which is provided with a crown of second magnets (21) and is connected to the mixer and magnetically driven in rotation by the driving portion. Close to the two magnet crowns there is the presence of means (23, 24) for detecting the angular phase displacement of the two crowns relative to the angular position of maximum attraction between the magnets, the detecting means sending a disabling signal (26) to the refrigerating circuit when the detected angular phase displacement exceeds a preestablished value.

Abstract: A hinge of the frame type for hinging of a door to the front frame of a piece of furniture, comprising a base (11) having a rest surface (17) to be fixed to the frame of a piece of furniture, an element (16) for fastening to the door and a wing (12) which is linked to the base by position-adjusting means (13, 14) and extends at the front of the hinge until an end carrying a pivotal mounting (15) for connection with the fastening element (16). The adjusting means (13, 14) comprises a rear element (14) for adjustment of the hinge depth and a front screw (13) for adjustment of the right-left alignment of the door. The rear region (31) of the hinge around which the inclination movement between the base and wing takes place is in a lower plane than the plane passing through the rest surface of the base.

Abstract: A generally rigid, plastic housing has therein a pair of chambers, one of which is larger than the other, and each of which opens at one end thereof on the front of the housing and is closed at its opposite end by an integral back wall of the housing which is secured by a pair of plastic bolts to the plane surface of a rather rigid, laminated bus bar. Secured in each of a pair of spaced socket recesses in the housing back wall is a female socket terminal, one of which extends into its associated recess from a conductor in the bus bar, and the other of which is connected to another, male terminal which is housed in the other chamber. Each of the two socket recesses opens on the larger chamber, and the sockets therein are disposed to accommodate a pair of male terminals which project from a circuit breaker releasably housed in the larger chamber. Also, an additional male terminal projects from another conductor from the bus bar into the other chamber adjacent the other terminal located therein.

Abstract: A laminated bus bar has thereon a male terminal formed either from only two electric strip conductors separated by a layer of insulation, or from two groups of conductors separated by a layer of insulation. When only two conductors are employed, one may be slightly longer and wider than the other, and the terminal section of the one conductor has a marginal edge portion thereof extending beyond the edge of the registering terminal section of the other conductor. Both terminal sections of the two conductors have exposed outer surfaces forming a male terminal disposed to be inserted releasably into a female receptacle of an electric circuit, and a dielectric insulator barrier is secured on and covers the marginal edge portion of the terminal section of the one conductor and overlies the edge of the other terminal section.

Abstract: Two perforated metal sleeves are secured in radially spaced coaxial relation one within the other between a pair of rigid end caps that are releasably secured to opposite ends of a plurality of rods which support the caps removably and sealingly over opposite ends, respectively, of the sleeves. An annular filter cartridge is releasably secured in the radial space between the sleeves with resilient annular end caps on opposite ends of the cartridge disposed in releasable, sealing engagement with the rigid end caps. Fluid that is to be filtered is delivered to the radial space separating two annular filter elements in the filter cartridge. When one or the other of the end caps is removed from the support rods the cartridge can be removed from between the sleeves and replaced without having to destroy the sleeves or the rigid end caps.

Abstract: The housing of a two station machining device has thereon a stationary jaw and two movable jaws reciprocable between open and closed positions relative to the stationary jaw by a pair of spaced slides that are reciprocable in a recess in the housing beneath the work surface. A piston in the recess has one end thereof secured to one of the slides and has its other end slidable sealingly in an axial bore and counterbore in the other slide. Normally the slides and the piston are retained resiliently in first limit positions in which the movable jaws are disposed in their open positions. Hydraulic fluid under pressure is supplied to the bore in the other slide beneath the head of the piston initially to move the piston and the one slide into second limit positions in which the jaw connected to the one slide is moved to its closed position, and then to move the other slide to a second limit position and its associated jaw to be moved to its closed position.

Abstract: A device for emission of red/infrared light radiation for treatment of a human body comprises red/infrared lamps (11) and lamp-emission modulating means (12) which modulates the emission between a low level and a high level with a modulation period included between 0.1 and 20 seconds.

Abstract: A plant for dyeing and processing of yarns on reels comprising at least one processing station (11, 12, 13) with a processing device receiving reels stacked on vertical rods (25, 125). The processing device has an upper opening for loading and unloading the reels and the vertical rods are engaged in a removable manner in seats in said device. A rod-grasping unit (15, 115) is movable vertically and horizontally to be arranged above the opening in the processing device to grasp the rods (25, 125) and hoist them with the reels thereon out of the device or insert them in place in the device. In case of a plurality of stations passage between the stations is in this manner fully automatic.

Abstract: A guide for drawers comprises two elongated metal parts, mutually slidable along each other. One of said two parts has a wall conveniently bent to define a raceway (15) with play for a wheel (13) rotatably fastened to the other part. In the raceway (15) a wall region (17) is deformed to define a passage (d) having a predetermined interference for the wheel. A method of manufacturing the guide comprises the steps of bending a wall of a first one of said two parts to define the raceway (15) with play for the wheel (13), inserting a gauged template (21) into a predetermined raceway region, deforming the raceway from the outside against the template to obtain the passage with a predetermined interference for the wheel in the predetermined region (17). Also described is a guide manufacturing machine.

Abstract: A two-piece tire rim is prepared from a molded, one-piece wheel casting which is generally cup-shaped in configuration. The casting, which is open at one end and closed at its opposite end, has an inner annular recess formed coaxially in the inner surface of its closed end, and has formed coaxially in its outer peripheral surface an external annular recess radially spaced from, and in axial registry with an internal annular recess. The casting is separated into two separate sections by cutting through the casting in a circular path extending from the external annular recess to the internal annular recess, thereby producing a generally annular shaped inner rim section, and a generally disc-shaped outer rim section. The two rim sections are then machined to final form, and are secured together to form the desired two-piece tire rim.

Abstract: Electronic equipment for the production of stimuli for treatment of the human body comprises a base unit (11) and at least one satellite unit (13). The satellite unit comprises in turn a power supply battery (23) and means (21, 22) powered by this battery for producing an electric signal and applying it to a stimulus emission member (17) in response to said signal. The base unit (11) comprises means (28) for generating at least one actuation and de-actuation command for production of the electrical signal of the satellite unit (13) with the base unit and satellite units being connected by a wireless transmission for transfer of said command from one to the other.

Abstract: The reticle of a single magnification reticle projector mechanism of a multiple magnification video inspection apparatus may comprise a liquid crystal display (LCD) module the pixels of which are selectively energized by a conventional plug-in video card that forms part of a CPU. As the magnification setting of the apparatus is changed, the CPU causes a corresponding change in the size and spacing of the pixels that are energized. The energized pixels form clear or transparent dots on the reticle, while the remaining, unenergized pixels cause corresponding areas of the reticle to remain opaque. Alternatively the reticle is provided with a plurality of viewing areas or fields of different size, each area comprising a plurality of spaced openings or transparencies of equal size, and progressively larger fields having progressively larger openings.

Abstract: A circular tire rim has intermediate its ends an annular drop-center section, and coaxially on opposite ends thereof enlarged diameter, circumferential flange sections engageable with the beads of a tubeless tire to support the tire on the rim. Adjacent one end thereof the drop-center section has projecting from its outer peripheral surface a pair of projections angularly spaced 180° from each other about the axis of the rim. Removably secured coaxially on the drop-center section of the rim is an annular runflat device the outer peripheral surface of which normally is radially spaced from the inner peripheral surface of the properly inflated tire on the rim, but engageable by and slidably supporting the inner peripheral surface of the tire when the latter is operated in a runflat mode. The two projections on the drop-center section of the rim seat in registering recesses formed in the inner peripheral surface of the runflat device to prevent any relative movement between the device and the rim.

Abstract: A base for fastening of a hinge to a piece of furniture comprises a body (11) from which, at the lower part thereof, a pair of anchors (12) of the radial expansion type for fastening to a piece of furniture and, at the upper part thereof, an element (13) for hooking of the hinge, project. A U-shaped lever (15) has arms connected to the anchors to produce a simultaneous movement of both anchors between a non-expansion position and an expansion position on movement of the lever between a lifted position and a lower position. Advantageously, the lever can be employed as a handle for easy removal of the base from the piece of furniture.

Abstract: A packaging device is provided with a feed unit for a highly stretchable polyethylene-based plastic film which during use is able to generate and maintain a high number of electric charges on its surface. A vertically movable head having on its lower end a gripping surface with a very smooth, mirror-like gripping surface, is then lowered to have its gripping surface engaged with the leading end of the film which overlies and is supported on a planar supporting surface. The smooth gripping surface of the head adheres cohesively by electrostatic molecular attraction to the film, which is then moved by the head over the upper end of a package containing food, or the like, which is to be covered by the film. The head then descends severing the film from the supply thereof and securing the edge of the film to the edge of the container.

Abstract: A double-acting trolley for a one-cable installation support for chair lifts and cabin lifts, includes a bearing member mounted in a swinging manner to a one-cable installation support, and supporting two equalizers respectively below and above the one cable and with each equalizer having at least two rollers engaged with the cable. Also, above and below the cable the respective two equalizers are articulated centrally and respectively to supports each of which is articulated in an elastically damped manner at one end to the bearing member.