Abstract: A piston for internal combustion engines, especially Diesel engines, which is equipped with a mantle connecting the piston head with the piston foot and which by means of this foot is pivotally connected to a gudgeon pin bearing of a connecting rod. Within the region of the gudgeon pin bearing there is provided at least one guiding surface for a coolant and/or lubricant sprayed from a crankcase chamber of the internal combustion engine against the piston. The coolant and/or lubricant are directed relative to the gudgeon pin bearing in such a way that the coolant and/or the lubricant carry out a flow around the gudgeon pin bearing while simultaneously flowing against the foot of the piston as well as against the gudgeon pin bearing.

Abstract: A method of introducing aluminum wire into steel melts, and apparatus for practicing the method, according to which the wire is by means of a set of driving rollers withdrawn overhead from a bundle at rest and through a guiding member is introduced into the melt.

Abstract: A heat pump unit comprising a compressor and an expansion machine for respectively compressing and re-expanding a medium which circulates in a heating or cooling circuit. The power used for compressing this medium is at least partly recovered in the expansion machine and is used for driving the compressor. The compressor and the expansion machine are inner axle, intermeshing rotary piston engines which are arranged directly adjacent to one another on a common shaft. The inner side walls of the rotary engines are adjacent to each other and have cavities and thermal insulating means interposed between them and, while being interconnected, are fixedly connected on the one hand to the shaft and on the other hand with outer rotors. The shaft is rotatably journalled in eccentrics of inner rotors, which eccentrics are rigidly connected with a stationary housing.

Abstract: A pressure valve arranged in a rotary piston compressor which valve is mounted in a passage or bore of the housing casing of the compressor. The last mentioned passage is axis parallel to the rotary piston compressor axis. The valve has a cylindrical cross section and can be inserted into the passage or bore parallel to the compressor axis behind an outlet opening in the track of the housing casing through a side wall of the compressor. The valve seat is formed by a longitudinally slotted tubular part which exerts a radially outwardly directed resilient force. The slotted tubular part comprises segmental valve opening slots extending parallel to the side walls of the compressor. Over the slots are located valve lugs or tongues which are cut from a thin-walled tube arranged with a precise fit in the tubular part while the roots of the valve lugs or tongues are connected to the thin-walled tube. An additional tube is with precise fit inserted into the thin-walled tube.

Abstract: A large antifriction bearing composed of a plurality of segments for absorbing forces generating axial, radial and pitching forces, in which each of the individual segments is formed by two bearing ring segments. Within the region of the roller path of the large antifriction bearing one bearing ring segment has a cross section of a substantially one-piece T-shaped profile, whereas the other bearing ring segment in cross section is designed as a U-shaped profile partially surrounding the flange of the T-shaped profile. Holding ring segments are detachably connected to the the ends of the two free legs of the U-shaped profile and extend into the region of the web of the T-shaped profile. The bearing ring segments which abut each other and form the large antifriction bearing are guided by runningpath wires inserted into the bearing ring segment and bridging the areas abutting each other.

Abstract: A valve piston for a hydraulic control valve in which the valve piston has piston sections thereon in axially spaced relation interconnected by a reduced diameter portion with at least one piston section having passage means formed on at least one end in diametrally opposite positions and taking the form of a notch formed into the end of the piston and having a concave axially bottom region with a flow body mounted in the notch and defining therewith an arcuate recess forming one end of the passage means and opening radially and axially outwardly near the periphery of the piston section while the other end of the passage means opens axially from the piston at a radially inner region thereof. The flow body and the notch define the passage means and which terminates at the periphery of the piston in a throttling region that directs fluid along an outwardly inclined path toward the respective end of the piston section.

Abstract: Apparatus for supplying granular and pulverous thermoplastic materials, duroplastic materials, rubber, or similar materials to processing machines, such as extruders. The apparatus includes a charging hopper with conduit-like devices for withdrawing gases which are released from the material. A plurality of vacuum connections arranged one above another respectively degas pertaining layers of the material which is in the hopper.

Abstract: An apparatus for the quantitative in-line X-ray fluorescence analysis of rries by means of a radioactive preparation, e.g. Cd-109, and an X-ray fluorescence detector. The apparatus comprises a substantially vertical measuring tube with inlet and outlet for the slurries to be investigated, and a measuring station. Above the measuring station which contains the radioactive preparations and the fluorescence detector there is provided a filling level control which controls the state of opening of the outlet.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine with exhaust gas turbocharger, according to which in the lower partial load range of the engine for purposes of increasing the temperature of the air charge exhaust gas from an exhaust gas conduit is through a connecting line admixed to the compressed air charge, and according to which in the full load range a portion of the compressed air charge is through a connecting line passed from an air charge pressure line into the exhaust gas conduit ahead of the exhaust gas turbine. Ahead of where the connecting line leads into the air charge pressure line, there is provided an air charge cooler which by means of a thermostatic control controls the charge air of the internal combustion engine to a predetermined temperature.

Abstract: A slide ring seal structure for sealing machine elements rotatable about an axis, especially for sealing pump shafts, with an about rotation-symmetric housing which at one end face has a bottom extending transverse to the axis of the seal structure. The slide ring seal structure also has a primary seal designed as slide ring located in the interior chamber of the housing, and further has a bellows-shaped annular secondary seal as well as a spring arranged between the slide ring and the bottom of the housing. The secondary seal has an outer cone which flares in the direction of the sliding surface of the slide ring and has associated therewith a corresponding inner cone of a clamping member coaxially surrounding the secondary seal. The axial position of the clamping member relative to the slide ring and to the secondary seal being determined solely by the axial force exerted upon the clamping member during the installation of the slide ring seal structure.

Abstract: An arrangement relating to the prevention of the alteration of the primary eam by unwanted particles, such as sputter products, charged ions and electrons and their secondary processes, and to the resulting local improvement in the operational vacuum in electron-beam devices, ion-beam devices and in electron-energy analyzers and ion-mass analyzers using only three-dimensional metallic microstructures known as particle traps. Substantially all the flat parts of the components of the instrument seen by the beams, such as electrodes, diaphragms, screening plates, housing walls and the like, consist of a metal having a low atomization rate and a very low desorption rate, such as titanium or zirconium or similar substances and their alloys. Apertures of less than 0.

Abstract: A space framework for building up dismountable ceilings and walls which comprises pyramid-shaped elements each including reinforced concrete slabs with corners connected to steel profiles which are adapted to be subjected to tensile and pressure forces and come together at a joint. The pyramid-shaped elements are at the corners of the pertaining reinforced concrete slabs put together by means of connecting elements to form a space confining surface adapted in its plane to take up pressure forces. The joints at the tips of the respective pyramids are connected to tension members extending substantially parallel to the reinforced concrete slabs.

Abstract: A centrifuge for removing liquid media adhering to chips, turnings, borings or the like. The centrifuge, which is supplied from above, includes a rotatable sieve drum having its own drive system and an inlet for the material which is to be processed. A distributing plate is rotatably and reciprocally mounted within the sieve drum coaxially therewith and in radially spaced relationship thereto. The distributing plate also has its own drive system.

Abstract: A hook, particularly an eye hook having a forked head. The hook has a hook body which forms a receiving opening for chain links which are to be suspended therein. The hook also has a closure piece detachably fastened to the hook body and projecting into the receiving opening. The closure piece is rigidly arranged on the hook body in such a way that an introduction opening is formed, the inside diameter of which corresponds to the cross sectional dimension of the chain link taken perpendicular to its annular plane.

Abstract: A disposable collecting container of cardboard or synthetic material for used small articles and waste, especially for medical articles, which includes a substantially double layer blank which is foldable into an octagonal box. The wall which in folded-up condition of the box forms the upper longitudinal horizontal wall of the container is provided with a filling opening. The inlet opening is formed by wall sections and is adapted to be closed by yieldingly resiliently moving into the interior of the container.

Abstract: An analogue control device with at least one electric stroke control emitter for the abutment-free stroke limitation of machine tools, especially honing machines, with which either a tool carrier or the workpiece connected to the machine tool carries out a reciprocatory stroke of adjustable length. As stroke control emitter there is provided a simple resistor which is adjustable in conformity with the machining movement and which is passed through by electric current, while pre-set values of the current or of the voltage generated by the current on the resistor are employed for limiting the stroke. The device also includes a warming-up or conditioning control which makes it possible automatically to carry out a predetermined number of working strokes with changed stroke length, the number and/or stroke length being adjustable.

Abstract: A device for preparing metal sheets for transport wherein the sheets are delivered on a conveyor belt from a shearing region to a stacking region in which the sheets are engaged from above at the discharge end of the conveyor belt and transported longitudinally and deposited on selected ones of tables to build up stacks of sheets. The stacks of sheets are moved laterally by lateral movement of the tables or by laterally extending chains to a lifting station wherein the stacks of sheets are engaged from above by cranes and conveyed thereby to a binding station for binding of the stacks of sheets.

Abstract: A pneumatic tire for a vehicle wheel, according to which in the hollow chamber of the pneumatic tire there is arranged a hollow emergency ring or an emergency tube with one or more peripheral protrusions having running-up flanks which when moving into the respective flattened effective surface are substantially located in the elongation of an imaginary secant determined by the respective flattened effective surface.

Abstract: A plant including a power station with power station buildings of a heavy construction and with a cooling tower surrounding the power station buildings, especially a steam power plant with natural draft-cooling tower for dry cooling. The cooling tower has a manner known per se designed as double mantle construction with an inner bowl and an outer bowl surrounding the inner bowl in spaced relationship thereto. The outer walls of the power plant buildings form a portion of the inner bowl or form the entire inner bowl. The remaining cooling tower portions and the outer bowl are designed as light structures. Any portion of the inner bowl which might possibly extend upwardly from the power plant buildings rest on the power plant buildings while the outer bowl on one hand rests on the ground by way of a support structure, and on the other hand by way of wind bracing members rests on the power plant buildings.

Abstract: An apparatus for separating gases from fluids, which apparatus includes a closed cylindrical receptacle and a cylindrical insert which divides the interior of the receptacle into an annular outer part and a cylindrical inner part. The outer part is provided with a tangential inlet for the fluid. Near the top, an opening connects the outer part to the inner part, the latter being provided with a ventilation device. The outer annular part is divided in the axial direction by a partition which ascends spirally from the tangential inlet approximately in a complete turn in the direction of the upper end face cover of the receptacle. The connection opening is formed by an annular clearance which extends over nearly the entire circumference of the receptacle. A similar annular clearance at the bottom of the receptacle connects the inner cylindrical part with the outer annular part, the latter having a tangential discharge outlet in this region.