Abstract: A circular knitting machine for simultaneously making several pairs of tights and the like, with two tubular legs and a body portion having a front and a back, comprises a movable unit carrying a cylinder with a circle of cylinder needles and a plate carrying an adjacent circle of plate needles. The movable unit moves with alternating rotary movement relative to several thread guides disposed around the circles of needles. In order to make several garments simultaneously, the circles are divided into as many arcuate groups of needles as there are garments. Each arcuate group is divided into two equal sub-groups separated by a middle group. The needles of each group are automatically brought into operation in a sequence to knit the toes and legs (on the sub-groups), then the crotch (using the middle group as well), then the body (still using two threads, one for the left-hand and one for the linked right-hand side).

Abstract: Stereoisomers having no cigarette beetle's sex pheromone activity contained in synthesized 4,6-dimethyl-7-hydroxy-nonan-3-one which is an equilibrium mixture of eight stereoisomers may be converted into stereoisomer having said sex pheromone activity by repeating column chromatographic fractionation, epimerization with an acidic or a basic catalyzer and/or racemization with a basic catalyzer in relation to said 3-one compound.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for filling bags with a material and for sealing them, and it can carry the bags in a direction of a bag thickness. A first feature of the present invention resides in that, in the case that the bags are arranged between a pair of chain conveyors disposed in parallel vertical planes, they are gripped by plural pairs of grippers mounted on a pair of axes extending through each rectangular parallelepiped carrier. Further, a second feature of the present invention is that the apparatus according to the present invention is equipped with nozzles for introducing a compressed gas into the bags and pressure gauges for measuring a pressure within the bags in order to detect whether or not each bag is normally gripped by the grippers. Furthermore, another feature of the present invention is that a return pipe is fixed to a filling device so that the filling material may be returned to a storage tank, without being discharged therethrough, by closing the filling nozzle.

Abstract: An electrostatic preventive film or silicone film is applied to the surface of elongated substrates by spraying the substance while in a liquid state, substrate while it is moving at a high speed. The surface tension of the liquid is adjusted and then the surface tension adjusted liquid substance is jet sprayed into a fine particle production chamber and at the same time applied against a vertical impingement plate installed inside the chamber for the sake of producing fine particles smaller than 10.mu.. The fine particles thus produced are stored inside an accumulator tank for raising its concentration to a higher level, then the highly concentrated fine particles are given kinetic energy, thus providing the method of spraying onto the surface of the moving substrate.

Abstract: A helium II phase separator reproducible in manufacture utilizes a thermo-mechanical effect and comprises a plurality of adjacent passage gaps of identical width which are provided in the walls of a cavity dipped into a bath of liquid helium, so that the gaseous helium can be taken off.

Abstract: To produce novel pattern designs differing from patterns which are available, a sewing machine comprising control segments stored in a pattern carrier and corresponding each to one sewing pattern formed by a group of stitches, a device for sensing the program carrier, and a device for controlling the needle and feed movements determining the pattern, is provided with a second program carrier including control segments for at least a single stitch, with the second program carrier being activatable through a selector switch between two consecutive steps of sensing one or more of the control segments of the first program carrier.

Abstract: An ultrasonic atomizing burner for smaller heating apparatus particularly for mobile spaces, such as motor vehicles comprises an atomizer which has a fuel inlet and which is equipped with an atomizer discharge plate and a structure skirting the plate which defines a combustion air flow space for 1% at most of the combustion air amount. This structure includes a cylindrical combustion chamber having a forward discharge end with a flame baffle and with a heating gas outlet tube connected to the discharge end for the axial flow of the combustion gases. The combustion chamber has an ignition zone which is provided with wall bores for admitting primary air and it includes a spark plug in the ignition zone for igniting the combustion gases and the primary combustion air. The combustion chamber also has a burnout zone which is provided with wall slots for admitting secondary air downstream of the primary air.

Abstract: In a scroll type fluid machine wherein there are engaged stator scroll means and rotary scroll means in intermeshing relationship with each other, each having a spiral or scroll blade portion projecting in the axial direction from the lateral plate surface in such a manner that the rotary scroll means may move in solar revolving motion with respect to the stator scroll means mounted stationary on a cup-like member by the rotating motion of a main shaft, while restricting the rotating motion of the rotary scroll means by function of a rotation blocking mechanism, so that the fluid may operatively be sucked into and delivered out of the fluid machine with a differential pressure produced therein in continued variation, an improvement is accomplished in that an angular phase relationship between the rotary scroll means and the stator scroll means may be compensated properly by shifting in rotation the rotary scroll means in the direction of rotating motion thereof in accordance with the extent of initial wear ge

Abstract: A face turning head for machining stations, comprises a drive mechanism for displacing the tool slide transversely. A drive shaft drives a worm gear or its equivalent through a transmission element, such as a cog belt transmission to axially displace a setting rod. This axial movement of the setting rod, which is independent of the rotation of the turning head but can be effected simultaneously therewith, actuates a gib key drive by which a tool slide is displaced transversely to the turning head axis. Through reversing rollers and displaceable blocks, the centrifugal disequilibrium caused by the tool slide movement is compensated for.

Abstract: The present invention has for its object to make a semiconductor optoelectro transducer higher-speed and higher-sensitivity. To this end, a field effect transistor, static induction transistor or static induction thyristor is used as a basic element and at least one portion of the gate region is exposed at the wafer surface.

Abstract: A sleeve connector for connecting the ends of two tubes together, in particular socket tubes, comprises a socket formed with or connected to one of the tubes. The socket has an inner annular recess which is bounded by a conical surface which tapers radially inwardly toward an end of the socket. A retaining collar is secured around the spigot end of another tube to be connected to the first mentioned tube. At least one locking member is disposed around the spigot and is positioned in the annular recess so that it can bear against the conical surface. The locking member has an inner cylindrical contact surface which engages on the spigot and an outer contact surface which has a sectional toroidal shape wherein all normals to the toroidal shape pass through the cylindrical contact surface.

Abstract: One of two drawable furniture parts have an outer rail made from a triangular hollow section having a lengthwise slot for receiving an inner rail. The outer rail is mounted on an inner rail and rides on a triangular array of balls. The inner rail is made of two superposed U sections whose inside legs are flatly welded together and have their edge portions bent apart to form a track for the upper row of balls. The two lower rows of balls are received in the triangular hollow section below the bent edge portions.

Abstract: The method starts with bringing the stack of slats to be assembled into a standby position. The slats are then removed from the bottom of the magazine and stepwise provided with connecting elements having hooks which are then engaged with loops provided on carrier strips of the shutter. Thereupon, the hooks are bent to close and the slats are moved downwardly by steps. After suspending the last slat, the carrier strips are cut through above the last slat, so that on a conveyor provided below, the assembled shutter forms a stack to be removed. This process is continuous, so that in immediate succession, the assemblage of a further shutter begins.

Abstract: An axial ball joint is fabricated from a housing having a substantially cylindrical outer surface and a cylindrical cavity which ends at an opening defined by a rim portion of the housing. The rim portion has a larger accumulation of material than elsewhere on the housing so that the housing can be deformed radially inwardly into a portion of the opening. A ball part with a ball portion and shank is inserted into the opening. A resilient socket is provided around the ball as a lining for the cavity. Once the ball portion is seated in the cavity, the rim portion is deformed inwardly toward the shank to retain the ball portion in the cavity. In this way the ball part is inserted from the opening end of the cavity rather than from an opposite end as is known in the art.

Abstract: The use of respirator masks with positive pressure in the interior of the mask makes sure that during inhalation as well as exhalation a positive pressure prevails which prevents ambient atmosphere from entering. The lung controlled valve is separated by a control membrane into a breathing chamber and an outer chamber. The breathing gas chamber, connected with the interior of the mask, has the internal pressure thereof. For respiratory gas supply, the breathing gas chamber is connected with the respiratory gas source through an inlet valve controlled by the control membrane via a coupling means. The outer chamber contains a shutoff device by which the control membrane, manually actuated by a magnetic key, is held in a shutting position with simultaneous closing of the inlet valve. With the respirator mask taken off, unnecessary flow of respiratory gas is prevented.

Abstract: A router comprises a cage supporting a drive unit having a shaft on which a cutter can be fixed. A rest plate is provided with an aperture for moving the cutter therethrough. The rest plate is connected to the cage through two guide columns on which it is displaceable in axial directions of the cutter and arrestable in a selected position. The rest plate is a hollow structure open downwardly where it is closed by a detachable cover having a smooth outer surface. A cavity of the plate communicates with and encircles the aperture 21 for the cutter and grows toward an exhaust connection which extends tangentially to the cutter, i.e. in the direction in which the millings are thrown. The exhaust connection can be connected to an exhauster. Laterally on the rest plate, an adjustable slide stop may be provided having an angled leg which can be brought into a position flush with the bottom surface of the rest plate or moved downward therefrom.

Abstract: The invention relates to a locking and unlocking device for a gyroscopic rotor which is mounted through the intermediary of an internal cardan (5) placed at the end of a shaft (4) which receives a screwthreaded bushing (10) which is capable of being screwed onto this shaft and into the rotor (3) in order to make the assembly of rotor (3), shaft (4) and bushing (10) integral and hence to isolate the internal cardan (5) from the forces exerted upon the rotor when the latter is in the "locked" position. The bushing (10) is caused to unscrew by a spiral spring (15) to place the rotor (3) in the "unlocked" position.

Abstract: In a method and assembly for trimming a stack of veneer sheets, both lengthwise and transverse cutting lines are determined in advance by means of a director light projecting a line. The position data of the determined line are processed by a computer to control the feed to a cutting plane. Alternatively, the cutting lines are marked. The stack is firmly clamped between conveyor belts of a mechanism by which, after the first lengthwise trimming, the stack is turned upside down, after the same procedure for determining the cutting line, fed to the cutting plane. The transverse trimming is effected in similar fashion.

Abstract: In an apparatus for winding up flat material webs or foils, by means of a rotary winding cylinder, the cylinder is provided with a longitudinal slot and which accommodates a clamping device and by which a portion of the web to be wound up and introduced through the slot by means of a vertically movable blade which causes the web to be seized and firmly held. Upon finishing a roll, the seized portion of the web is disengaged and the roll can be withdrawn by means of a take-off device. This makes it possible to wind up the web at a high speed without forming folds. Also, the laps of the formed roll are very firmly wound and their edges are throughout in a definite position so that they may be heated in a working station.