Abstract: Various movable mirrors are arranged within a camera for shifting operation by a lifting mechanism and are provided with a mechanism for promptly settling the movable mirror on its return to an original position from a shifted position. The mechanism includes an antibounce member and when the mirror is forcedly shifted in response to an operation of the camera, the position of the member is biased to the outside of the moving locus of the mirror and upon return of the mirror to its original position, the member is released from the biased state and comes within the moving locus of the mirror to prevent rebound thereof.

Abstract: A variable length shaft assembly particularly for steering shafts in motor vehicles, wherein a pair of telescopically axially displaceable shaft members have a resilient sliding sleeve interposed therebetween, with the sleeve being affixed to one of the shaft members and with pairs of radially extending fins formed longitudinally along the sliding sleeve being radially directed toward the other shaft member to effect deformation and a resilient force attending to eliminate the feeling of play between the shaft members during operation of the steering assembly.

Abstract: An apparatus for reproducing information signals from a record bearing medium having the information signals recorded together with different pilot signals which are repeatedly recorded, one after another, in a plurality of recording tracks. The apparatus includes a reproducing device arranged to trace the recording tracks on the record bearing medium; a reference signal generating device for generating reference signals which have frequencies corresponding to the pilot signals; a detection signal generating device for generating a plurality of detection signals having different frequency components by using the pilot signals reproduced by the reproducing device and the reference signals; and a tracking error signal generating device for generating a tracking error signal by utilizing the different frequency components of the detection signals.

Abstract: A cluch disc of a motor vehicle clutch comprises a clutch disc hub and a hub flange integral therewith. The hub flange is provided with a plurality of coherent windows each of which receives both a helical compression spring and an interconnection bolt interconnecting the cover plates of the clutch disc which are angularly movably mounted on the clutch disc hub. The window is closed at its radially outer side by an uninterrupted web.

Abstract: In a double band press each of the press belts has an associated pressure chamber in which fluid pressure medium acts to pressurize the sheet form material passed between the press belts. Each pressure chamber is formed by a pressure plate, the associted press belt and a sliding surface seal mounted in a groove in the pressure plate with the seal in sliding contact with the press belt. The sliding surface seal is secured within a retaining member fitted with narrow play into a groove in the pressure plate. Each press belt extends horizontally between a pair of spaced rollers. The retaining member is vertically displaceable within the groove. Support members located within the pressure chamber secure the retaining member to the pressure plate. A groove seal in the form of an O-ring is located between the base of the groove and the retaining member and is in contact with the opposite sides of the groove.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for the dumping of shells, having a dumping station and pattern carriers in which the dumping station is combined with several pattern carriers transported in a circle and their pattern device. By means of this device, it is possible to carry out the dumping of shells without non-productive times, that is, without taking into account the hardening times of the shells and without stoppage of the machine, which results in a considerable saving in time.

Abstract: A wall member for a converter chamber for the treatment of cast iron melt with magnesium. The size and shape of the wall member of a converter have a decisive influence on the efficiency of the treatment of a cast iron metal in a converter and on the accuracy of obtaining a residual magnesium content. For an optimum control of this influence, the length L of the wall member is determined in accordance with the formula L=600.times.T.sup.0.45 .times.A and the height H is determined in accordance with the formula H=0.5 L.times.A, wherein A is a coefficient ranging between 0.5 to 1.5 depending upon the sulfur content of 0.01 to 0.15% by weight and depending upon the thickness of the refractory lining of the converter vessel ranging from 40 to 150 mm.

Abstract: A compact zoom lens including, from front to rear, a first lens unit of positive power, a second lens unit of negative power, a third lens unit of positive power and, if desired, further a fourth lens unit, with the separations between the first and second units, between the second and third units and between the third and fourth units being made variable to vary the focal length of the entire system, wherein as the focal length is varied from the shortest to the longest value, the first and third units move axially forward, and the third unit is provided with a positive lens having an aspherical surface.

Abstract: The fluid friction coupling, which is suitable especially for a fan of an internal combustion engine, comprises a buffer chamber (39) which receives a part of the entire quantity of shear fluid contained in the coupling, through an inlet opening (43) placed beneath the shear fluid level (47), when the coupling is not in rotation. The received partial quantity lowers the liquid level in the shear gaps (23). In cold starting therefore the coupling transmits a reduced torque, which by reason of the consequently increased slip increases the pump effect of a pump device (37) and reduces the fan noise. The quantity of shear fluid contained in the buffer chamber (39) is delivered again to the shear fluid cycle of the coupling with time retardation through a constricted opening (45) when the coupling is in operation.

Abstract: A flash shot control device for a camera in which the angle of flash lighting is controlled in accordance with the output of a backlight detector. On assumption that a subject of principal photographic interest takes its place at the center of the field of view, when backlight is detected, the flash lighting is concentrated to the central portion of the field of view, thereby the shadows of the subject are lightened by the flash.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for deriving an off-course signal for an orbiting th satellite, preferably a geostationary satellite, by an earth-horizon sensor. The earth-horizon sensor operates in the infrared range and comprises, in the focal plane of an input lens, a chopper disk, which is periodically reciprocated with a determined chopper frequency (f) and which has a diameter corresponding to the image of the earth, and a detector (1) receiving the periodically interrupted radiation of opposite earth rims. The output signal of the detector is demodulated synchronously with the chopper frequency (f) and corrected with a correction signal corresponding to different temperatures of opposite earth rims (earth anomaly).

Abstract: In the disclosed camera, an arrangement shifts the light detecting location of a light sensor facility from a first position offset from the camera's optical axis to a second light detecting location offset from the axis and angularly displaced from the first position. In a specific embodiment, a mount, rotatable about an objective lens, shifts a light detector from below the lens to the side of the lens so that when the camera is turned from a horizontal to a vertical position, the light detector may still be located below the lens. Preferably, the mount also carries the flash emitter of a flash unit and a camera grip so they retain their positions when the camera is turned. Effectively, the light detector, the flash emitter, and the grip remain in position while the camera body is turned.

Abstract: A waterproof camera having portions liable to crack, or when scratched, to cause a loss of the optical performance is provided with a support frame in front of these portions to protect them. This support frame is made of elastic material, and is secured to the camera body by an expandable band.

Abstract: A hip joint socket for cement-free anchoring in the pelvis includes a socket member with a hemispherical exterior surface which is flattened at its apex region and a socket which is spherical-symmetrical relative to the rotational axis of symmetry of the exterior surface.The exterior surface of the socket member projects rimless above the equatorial plane of the socket and has the form of a regular cylinder beyond the equatorial plane.

Abstract: A thread spooler includes a plurality of spool units, each of which includes a thread defect sensor of a defect classification device which reacts to defects of the thread to be wound up. A large number of sets of predetermined operational parameters of the spool units and/or the defect classification devices can be recorded by a central input device into a central memory which stores all these data simultaneously. Each of the spool units includes a decentralized memory, into which one of the centrally stored operational parameter sets can be loaded individually for each spool unit by a call-up switch. A central control determines for respective groups of spool units a predetermined sequence, in which the operational parameter sets can be called up by the spool units. The classification device determines the thread defect, preferably individually for each spool unit, and indeed respectively referred onto the last wound gauged length of the thread.

Abstract: A rear light condition detecting device for a camera is arranged to measure distances to a plurality of parts appearing within a taking picture plane on the assumption that an object located nearby is the main object to be photographed or that a light source such as the sun is among faraway objects. The device determines the object to be in a rear-light or counter-light condition in cases where the luminance of the nearby object is extremely lower than other objects or that of a faraway object is extremely higher than other objects.

Abstract: A dust guard cap for the tool holder in a hand-held drilling device is formed of a casing secured on the tool holder and a cover member mounted on and extending across one end of the casing. The cover member forms an opening through which a tool can be inserted into the tool holder. Attached to the cover member and extending inwardly from the through opening is a resilient sleeve-like torus which forms a seal around the tool. An outwardly projecting bead is formed on the inner end of the torus and bears against the casing.

Abstract: A composite polymeric material having a high permeability to oxygen is proposed comprising a vinyl chloride moiety, an organosilicon moiety and, optionally, a third polymeric moiety. Such a composite polymeric material can be prepared in several ways including copolymerization of vinyl chloride monomer, a polymerizable organosilicon compound and, optionally, a third monomer, graft-polymerization of a polymerizable organosilicon compound on to a polyvinyl chloride resin, graft-polymerization of vinyl chloride on to an organopolysiloxane, graft-copolymerization of vinyl chloride and a polymerizable organosilicon compound on to a third polymer and blending of the respective polymeric components.

Abstract: Most of the elements constituting this camera system consists of digital circuits, whereby a central processing unit is built in this camera system in such a manner that various kinds of photographic modes are possible without increasing the number of the elements.

Abstract: A flash photographic exposure control system for a camera having an electrically timed shutter is provided with an additional electronic or mechanical timing device in combination with an electronic changeover switch responsive to attainment of the threshold level of the flash unit associated therewith. This is done to switch the camera from an automatic daylight exposure range to an automatic flash exposure range in which a particular timed interval suited for flash photography is made by the timing device which is brought into cooperation with the shutter operating means when the changeover switch is actuated, while the intrinsic timing device for the shutter being cut off from the control means for the shutter.