Abstract: A tool change device for manipulators, which have a rotary connection for fluidic supply lines of the tool. The rotary connection comprises a fixed part and a rotary part, whose contact plane is directed at right angles to the power take-off axis of rotation of the manipulator. The rotary and fixed parts have ring channels, which are arranged in concentric circles around the power take-off axis of rotation and open into cross channels. The rotary and fixed parts are flatly in contact with one another and are held together in the housing of the manipulator-side coupling part along the power take-off axis of rotation in an adjustable tensioning connection.

Abstract: The present invention pertains to a process and a device for packaging and supplying fiber material 5. In a multi-location fiber plant 1, the fiber material is filled into a closable freight container and is compacted in a filling station 2, and the freight container is subsequently shipped to a remote further processing station 3 with a transport vehicle 7. The fiber material 5 is filled into the freight container 4 as a collective load and without additional baling and hooping, and it is subjected to further processing from the freight container 4.

Abstract: A clamp made of plastic for clamping sheet-like objects. To easily clamp objects manually over the longest possible clamping line with the strongest possible clamping force, the present invention provides two mounting sites for two clamping levers. The mounting sites are parallel to the clamping line, are located at spaced locations from one another, and are connected to one another in an articulated manner. A U-shaped spring includes legs which are spring-tensioned against the clamping jaws of the clamping levers.

Abstract: A linear bearing structure comprises a bearing bush, a plurality of annular ball retainers each holding a plurality of bearing balls, circumferentially and a pair of annular endpieces respectively removably secured to ends of the bush to confine the ball retainers therein. The bearing bush comprises an outer metal cylinder and an inner cylindrical lining layer formed by a bearing material having a small coefficient of friction and a small coefficient of wear and is provided with a slit which has a predetermined width and extends along the axis of the bush over the entire length thereof so that the bush can be circumferentially elastically compressed by a magnitude corresponding to the width of the slit. Each of the endpieces has, at the inner side thereof, an annular groove having a diameter smaller than that of the bush so that by compressing the bush into the annular grooves of the endpieces at the ends of the bush, the bush and the endpieces can be elastically fitted together.

Abstract: A pressing or pelletizing device for compacting vegetable materials, in particular grass blades, is disclosed for use with a harvester. In order to reduce the pressing forces required for the pelletizing process, the pressing channels are heated up to a temperature above 100 degrees C. It has been demonstrated that by heating the pressing channels, local overheating of the device, which could otherwise lead to malfunctions, can be avoided. The pelletizing device has two co-axial hollow cylinders in which the pressing channels are delimited by radial lands which alternatively engage the pressing channels of the other hollow cylinder. The hollow cylinders are heated by means of a liquid circuit guided through the lands and linked to a heat exchanger that utilizes lost heat from the internal combustion engine of the harvester.

Abstract: The warhead comprises a preliminary shaped charge, a coaxial main shaped charge which is arranged at a distance from the latter, and an arrangement for increasing the axial distance between the preliminary shaped charge and the main shaped charge, which arrangement consists of a tube, in which the preliminary shaped charge is supported, a propelling charge, which is arranged behind the preliminary shaped charge, and a supporting device for the tube. The preliminary shaped charge is held in the tube by means of one or more shearing pins, wherein both the tube and the supporting device are provided in the ogive portion of the warhead with a cooperating catch device, so that the tube can be moved from the moved-in rest position into a moved-out working position after the ignition of the propelling charge for the preliminary shaped charge and can be caught in that position.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a terminal element including electrical contacts in insulation displacement technique in chambers of a receiving part for the strapless connection of conductors. The terminal element defines openings for receiving the electrical conductors. A chamber of a receiving part includes at least one opening for the introduction of a conductor. A sliding part surrounding a part of an insulation displacement contact element disposed in the chamber. The sliding part has an opening coinciding in one position of the sliding part with the opening in the receiving part, with the opening in the chamber and with the contact zone of the insulation displacement contact element. The closing part includes a device accessible from outside for moving the sliding part.

Abstract: A respirator filter with a pot-shaped filter housing, with a flange at the edge of the filter housing, with a flow channel passing through the filter housing with a sealing surface, with a housing cover and with a filter element located in the filter housing is to be optimized in terms of simpler manufacture. To accomplish this task, with the housing cover located at a spaced location from and in parallel to the filter housing, a distance a between the sealing surface and the corresponding part of the housing cover, on the one hand, and a distance (b) between the flange and an outer edge of the housing cover, on the other hand, are dimensioned such that distance (a) is smaller than distance (b), so that when the housing cover is being placed on the filter housing, it comes into contact first with the sealing surface and then with the flange, while the housing cover warps.

Abstract: The present invention pertains to a process for preparing ceramic shells as casting molds, wherein a) a pattern of a part to be cast, which pattern can be melted or dissolved out, is prepared, b) the pattern is dipped into a dip-coating composition of a slurry of a refractory material and a binder in order to form a wet coating on the pattern, c) a coarse refractory powder is sprinkled onto the coating, d) the coating is dried, and e) steps b), c) and d) are repeated until the mold shell has reached the desired thickness. A ceramic protective material is added to the dip-coating composition and/or to the coarse refractory powder. Carbon is introduced into the ceramic protective material during the preparation in the molten state. The carbon is able to chemically bind oxygen at the time of the cooling of the casting essentially at mold temperatures above the firing temperature of the casting mold and is thus able to prevent skin decarburization and surface defects in carbon-containing steels.

Abstract: A plurality of hooks (23U) is capable of engaging the initial hem of a pocket (MP) formed by the needles (7X) of a sector covering approximately a semicircumference, and of transferring the said initial hem to the needles of the other opposite sector of needles; the said hooks (23U) are disposed at the ends of rods (23) which are elastically flexible and moved longitudinally; a curved support (47) is hinged so that it can oscillate about an axis which is diametric with respect to the circumferential working area of the needles (7) of the cylinder (1); radial sliding passages for the individual rods are formed radially in the said support.

Abstract: A paper guide printer with simple structure, high positioning accuracy and color print of excellent picture quality. The printer/recording unit includes a platen roller, a roll type recording paper which is pulled and fed on the platen roller and a recording head. A recording paper pull-feed mechanism is installed which includes a clamp opening closing unit for catching the end of the roll type recording paper and for making the linear reciprocation movement by the designated cycles at every recording in accordance with the length of main run direction being recorded at one time, and also the roll paper drum that can be turned in reverse direction for pulling back the recording paper when the roll type recording paper reciprocates at the designated cycles.

Abstract: A game wherein characters are defined to form a data pool. Each character in the data pool is related to and distinguished from the other characters in the data pool by a geographic location data. The data preferably includes actual information such as geographic information, city, country(the character is present in), maps, house plans etc.. However, the data can also be fictitious, such as imaginary worlds with imaginary cites towns etc. The character data may be presented to the player for review or interaction to further develop the character. The characters may be randomly selected from the data pool to simulate the possibility/probability of living at the locations corresponding to the data. Several characters may be provided in sequence, each with a potentially different date and location data.

Abstract: An armored bridge-laying vehicle with a laying device for bridges or bridge sections located one on top of another, wherein a single laying girder is rotatably mounted on a support ring structure on the tower ring. The laying girder is pivotable around a horizontal pivot bearing, and the pivoting is performed by a piston-and-cylinder unit. Telescopic U-shaped girders are arranged inside the laying girder, and the top edges are located in the same plane as the upper chord edges of the laying girder. The bridge elements are laid by a flanged feeding unit, support rollers and a pivotable arm in the rear of the laying girder.

Abstract: An insect locating device includes a support, a brush element connected to the support and a magnification element connected to the support. The magnification element is positioned adjacent to the brush element for viewing a zone adjacent to an area which has been brushed. The support and the brush element include brush connection structure for connecting the brush element to the support and disconnecting the brush element from the support. The support and the magnification element include magnification element connection structure for connecting the magnification element to the support. Illumination structure is also provided, connected to the support for illuminating the viewing zone.

Abstract: An anhydrous viscoelastic buffer joint including a filling of viscoelastic bituminous material between the floor slab including the joint slit and the upper zone covered by the vehicles. The joint further includes drainage and canalization systems for the downflow of water in the zone of the joint.

Abstract: An index-feed machining system having such a construction that a plurality of machining units on which a cassette incorporating a plurality of machining means is detachably mounted are disposed at intervals of mp (m being a given positive integer, p being a workpiece-feeding pitch) in the workpiece-feeding direction corresponding to a plurality of machining processes; the machining processes being sequentially performed by the machining units at the workpiece-feeding pitches, in which drive means for driving the machining means are provided in the cassette comprising a plurality of machining units, and the driving force of the driving means of a particular machining unit is made larger than the driving force of the driving means of other machining units.

Abstract: The present invention is a bonding anchor coating agent and a laminated film having an anchor coating layer which provides a high anti-static performance on a film surface without having to mix the anti-static agent into the basic material of the film. The bonding anchor coating agent contains polyethylene imine and a bridge formation polymer having the ability to prevent electrostatic induction. The laminated film contains the anchor coating agent in the basic material of the film.

Abstract: A geared multishaft turbocompressor with impellers arranged in series in terms of flow, which are fastened to two or more pinion shafts, which are arranged in parallel to one another and are driven directly via a central gear or indirectly via pinion shafts on the circumference of the central gear. Two or more compressor impellers are arranged in the same direction of flow in the area of the high-pressure stages III and IV on a pinion shaft. An intercooler is arranged between an intermediate outlet housing and an intermediate inlet nozzle. In stage III, the gas enters the impeller through the inlet nozzle, and it leaves the compressor via an intermediate outlet housing. After intercooling, the gas again enters stage IV via the inlet nozzle, and it leaves this stage via the outlet housing after flowing through the second impeller. An analogous arrangement of the stages Ia, IIa, IIIa is used in the radial expander, with opposite direction of the gas flow.

Abstract: Gas generator for a safety system for the protection of occupants of motor vehicles, with a tubular or cylindrical housing, wherein the gas-generating solid propellant is contained in a combustion chamber within which volume-equalizing structure is arranged, surrounding the propellant, both in the direction of flow--along the principal axis--and peripherally over the entire circumference.