Abstract: Improvements in a machine for shaping hamburgers, which include a table-frame with a horizontally displaceable mold into which mold the ground meat enters directly and which has an element for detecting the pressure of the meat. The element, when it is drawn back, produces a signal for starting up the machine. A device is provided for expelling the freshly shaped hamburger, which device has structure for preventing the hamburger from sticking. This structure includes a chamber inside the expelling device, through whose periphery atmospheric air escapes, a knife provided on its base with a conduit with openings, through which air escapes in order to detach the edges of flexible sheets enveloping the hamburger, and upper and lower rolls for supplying flexible sheet, which rolls have inertia brakes including a pair of motorized rollers, above which rests the respective coil.

Abstract: An apparatus for the preparation of mixtures, especially dye solution. The apparatus includes a device for withdrawing a predetermined batch of product at a withdrawal station and for transferring the product to a separate dissolution station (SD). A device is provided for the dissolution of the product in the solvent, disposed in the dissolution station. A programmable electronic device is provided for operating the devices for withdrawal, transfer and dissolution of the product. The device for dissolution includes in a fixed horizontal plate with an annular seal housed in a corresponding channel of the lower surface of the plate making up a tight-sealing element for the mouth of a corresponding cylinder vessel containing the product to be dissolved. The vessel is associated with a vertical operating cylinder for driving the vessel from a lower to an upper position.

Abstract: A terminal block with a plastic housing and insulation displacement contact elements provided therein for incoming and outgoing conductors. In order to simplify the termination of the conductors at the insulation displacement contact elements and to permit a protection of the conductors against surge voltages and surge currents, it is provided that the insulation displacement contact elements are disposed separately from each other in the plastic housing, and that each insulation displacement contact element is provided with a center tapping. The spaced center tappings opposedly disposed in the plastic housing can be connected with each other by different function plugs.

Abstract: A fluidic nozzle which is flown through by a singular injection jet and which periodically deflects the injection jet. The nozzle has a nozzle channel, whose cross section is expanded in relation to the injection jet, and with control openings opening into the nozzle channel downstream close to the neck of the nozzle for injecting a control fluid that brings about the deflection of the jet. The nozzle channel has a channel cross section, which is two-dimensionally expanded in height and width in relation to the cross section of the jet, with a cross-section contour corresponding to the desired distribution cross section, and it is provided with a number of control openings. The control openings are arranged offset in relation to one another in the circumferential direction of the nozzle channel and are activated one after another in sequence to generate a jet movement rotating along the circumference of the nozzle channel.

Abstract: An eyeglass frame wherein one of the components such as the temples, the bridge and/or the connection bar between the eyewires is made of a shaped memory alloy which is able to regain its initial shape by simple heating after having undergone a permanent deformation and a lower temperature.

Abstract: A device for fixing the dies in the die table of a tabletting machine, especially of a rotary tabletting machine, using die holders. To make it possible to rapidly remove the old dies and to rapidly fix the new dies during the replacement of the dies for cleaning the machine, the die holders are arranged between the rotor axis and the pitch circle of the dies, and structure is provided for jointly moving the die holders on the die table.

Abstract: A pivoting transfer means for a jet of bulk material between a first cover belt conveyor and a second cover belt conveyor. The bulk material leaves the cover belt conveyor in the area of the tail pulleys and enters the receiving mouth of a second cover belt conveyor as a free jet of bulk material. Both cover belt conveyors are arranged pivotably in relation to one another around a pivot axis. The receiving mouth of the cover belt conveyor is limited by the bottom belt, the cover belt and the side walls. The jet of bulk material is deflected from the vertical into the horizontal direction of delivery within the receiving mouth. The first belt conveyor may be arranged at a higher level with the second cover belt conveyor arranged thereunder. However, the second cover belt conveyor may also be arranged at a higher level with the first cover belt conveyor arranged thereunder wherein the transfer is still from the first cover belt conveyor to the second cover belt conveyor.

Abstract: A miniature motor comprising a case having a positive temperature coefficient resistor incorporated therein and a permanent magnet fixedly fitted thereto, a rotor comprising an armature and a commutator, and a case cap having a pair of power-feeding brushes and a pair of input terminals electrically connected to the brushes, in which a lanced and raised lug or lanced and raised projections are provided at the tip of a retaining member made of an electrically conductive material, a retaining part is formed by bending a part or the whole of the tip of the retaining member toward the side of the lanced and raised lug or lanced and raised projections, the size of a gap between a projection or a lanced and raised lug provided on any one surface of a pair of input terminals, and the retaining part in free state and the lanced and raised lug is made smaller than the thickness of the positive temperature coefficient resistor being inserted therebetween so that the positive temperature coefficient resistor can be inse

Abstract: A device is provided for detachably fastening an embroidery frame, slidingly arranged on a support surface, to a drive member of a feed mechanism of a sewing or embroidery machine. The device includes a coupling device acting in a positive-locking manner and nonpositively acting locking device. Two coupling pins, which are located at mutually spaced locations from one another in the horizontal direction and carry a head each, are fastened to the said embroidery frame. A holding element is fastened to the drive member and contains two elongated holes, which extend in parallel to the said support surface of the machine and whose height corresponds to the diameter of the said coupling pins. A free space is provided in the area of the elongated holes for the heads of the said coupling pins.

Abstract: A special design of a funnel for filling liquids safely especially into nontransparent containers, e.g., fuel tanks of lawn mowers. To indicate the filling level of the container, a measuring rod of a float is guided in a perforated plate of the funnel. Passage slots, through which the liquid filled into the funnel can enter the container, are located in the funnel tube under the perforated plate. Due to buoyancy, the float strikes the underside of the perforated plate, and as a result it prevents the container from being overfilled.

Abstract: A termination unit for telecommunication and data lines, including a front portion provided with an insertion opening, a frame, an electrical plug connector, a plug socket and contact elements for the lines. In order to simplify accessibility to the electrical plug connector of the termination unit, the front portion is adapted as one piece together with the frame and is provided with a removable access cover and that the electrical plug connector and the plug socket are disposed on the rear side of the removable access cover behind the insertion opening of a component unit disposed on the rear side of the front portion and connected to the plug connector with the plug socket.

Abstract: A protective hood (1) made of an elastic, elastomeric, gas-impermeable material, with a head area (2) and a neck area (4) joining the head area (2) with its top end (3), is to be improved such that good seating of the protective hood is achieved at different head sizes. This object is accomplished by the protective hood (1) being made in one piece according to the dipping process by means of a plate-shaped mold, the material of the protective hood having an elongation at tear greater than or equaling 600% and a modulus 100% of 0.15 to 1.3 N/mm.sup.3, and that with the protective hood (1) folded up flat, the greatest width (10) of the head area (2) is 250 mm to 340 mm and preferably about 287 mm.

Abstract: The present invention pertains to an instrument to insert stents into arterial ducts in which a coaxial hose and sheath together, adjacent to a push rod, define a housing (27) designed to receive the stent (28) and the sheath slides longitudinally with respect to the hose due to the thrust of a fluid pressurized in a chamber (22) with closed ends between the hose and the sheath behind the housing of the stent, the movement of the sheath with respect to the hose causing the stent to be released.

Abstract: The present invention pertains to a motor vehicle, in which a gearshift lever and a hand brake lever are arranged in the center of the vehicle, and the hand brake lever, designed as a short-arm lever, is mounted pivotably around a transverse axis, and cooperates with a progressively acting leverage-increasing mechanism. The gearshift lever and the hand brake lever are arranged next to each other in a common housing at right angles to the longitudinal axis of the vehicle.

Abstract: The present invention pertains to a device for cutting materials and including a straight blade 10, to which are connected two sharpening units 13, 14 with angulation complementary to that of the cutting edge of the blade. Each sharpening unit 13, 14 comprises a support 15 and defines a chamber 16 for a piston 17 and a pneumatic motor 18 contained in the piston, and has an outlet shaft 19 supporting a diamond disk grinding wheel 20 which is advanced towards the blade to be sharpened.

Abstract: A machine is disclosed for the continuous washing of fabric (T), comprising eans (3) for introducing the fabric to be treated into said machine, means (5) for extracting the treated fabric from said machine and, between said means of introduction and said means of extraction, a treatment tank. It comprises at least two fabric treatment tanks (7, 9) arranged in series with respect to the overall direction of advance of the fabric (T) through the machine and, between said at least two tanks (7, 9), means of reversible transfer (11) that transfer said fabric from the first tank (7) to the second tank (9) and back again.