Abstract: A fishing lure is split horizontally to provide an upper body portion and a lower body portion, so that the upper body portion which carries the tail portion may flex freely without the rigidifying effect of the shank of the hook mounted in the lower body portion.

Abstract: The invention relates to a quick make and break switch, particularly to measures which permit the positive opening of the normally closed contacts if the contacts in question are welded, and then to utilize the measures taken to make possible the opening of contacts even in the case where the elastic element necessary for rapid opening is fractured.According to the invention, this is achieved in that the rocking lever has a second arm whose second end arranged opposite the first end is located in the vicinity of the movable contact and is supported beneath the inverter member in the form of a rigid bracket if the latter has not switched under the action of the elastic blade at the time when alignment is performed and in that the lever pivot is located substantially equidistantly from the push-button of the second end.

Abstract: A centralizing device comprising a plurality of blades and a pair of substantially cylindrical collars adapted to receive and carry the blades. Each collar is formed with at least two parts detachably and/or pivotally connected to each other, and each collar carries inwardly extending deformable metal fixing projections. Each end of each blade is bent substantially at right angles to a portion of the blade adjacent the end. When the blades are fitted so as to lie internally of the collars, each bent end fits into a slot in one of the collars and the projections are deformed so as to lie on the sides of the blade portions remote from the collars to thus fix the portions to the collars.

Abstract: A helical blade is provided for a mixing or conveying apparatus which can be used for heating or cooling or in general effecting a thermal treatment such as drying, evaporating calcining or crystallizing a product fed to the apparatus. The blade comprises a pair of pressed ring shaped discs welded together. One disc is shaped with its inner margin curved into or nearly into the axial direction, and the other disc is welded to it at its inner and outer margins. The blade may be welded directly to a shaft, mounted freely thereon or welded to blocks on the shaft to provided spaces between the flights of the blade and the shaft.

Abstract: Cabinet and cubicle formed by assembling framework members having at their ends on the one hand two cylindrical openings, and on the other two conical cylindrical projections which are centered in the said openings, whereby a screw traverses each projection to ensure the fastening by means of a nut which is supported on the edges of the opening.

Abstract: This invention relates to a system for interconnecting pluggable logic modules, for example in industrial automation or process control systems. The modules incorporate flexible connecting members which enable them to be plugged directly onto the ends of a series of parallel metal pins which are arranged in a regular pattern on one or more insulating supports, the pins having conductive portions intermediate their ends which are accessible from the side of the supports to which the modules are plugged, the said conductive portions of the pins being standarized so as to allow conductors which interconnect the modules to be readily attached to said sections.

Abstract: An apparatus for automatic exposure control in a single lens reflex camera including an objective lens having a diaphragm regulating ring and a preselection ring forming part of a preselectable diaphragm means.A photo-electric receiver controls the exposure.A light regulating element having an adjusting device for varying the transparency thereof is provided in the light path from the lens and is positioned in front of the photo-electric receiver.A coupling arrangement is provided in which a receiver diaphragm ring engages the lens diaphragm preselection ring.First and second lugs are provided on the adjusting device of which the first lug can be coupled with the receiver diaphragm ring.A spring loaded lug is provided on the diaphragm regulating ring.

Abstract: A metal string for a fingerboard type stringed musical instrument has a core wire, or wires, and a first part of the length of the string is loaded in known manner whilst a second part of the length of the string remains non-loaded, the respective lengths of the loaded and non-loaded portions being such that, when the string is fitted to a musical instrument having two string supports such as the conventional "nut" and "bridge," the string may be arranged with the loaded portion supported by the nut and with the non-loaded portion supported by the bridge, but with the vibrating portion between the nut and bridge (the "speaking length" of the string) constituted substantially wholly by loaded string.

Abstract: A packaging apparatus for placing a fixed quantity of powdery and/or granular material in bags has one bag-supplying device and two filling and weighing devices mounted in a line on the same base, and two distribution/conveyance devices, which distribute empty bags and convey them to the filling devices between said bag-supplying device and said filling devices. There is also a sealing device which seals the top edge of each bag filled with a weighed quantity of material. All the devices are arranged generally in a straight line and can continuously supply and open empty bags, fill them with material, and seal said bags without any pause.

Abstract: Multiway pneumatic valve comprising supply inlet and a plurality of separate outlets connected to the inlet by separate circuits.Third and fourth circuits are respectively in series with first and second circuits. Calibrated diaphragms are exposed at their periphery to the supply pressure and in their central portion to the pressure in the tank which they control. If a tank fails, the corresponding diaphragm isolates this tank. Flaps each comprising a loose strip isolate the whole tank system in the case of a supply failure.The valve can be applied to any gas distribution problem and more particularly to pneumatic brake circuits.

Abstract: An apparatus for treating continuous unexpanded structural honeycomb material formed of permanently creasable material comprises rollers for drawing the material in the expansion direction whilst compressing it perpendicularly thereto so that it adopts a second unexpanded state. A guide receives the advancing material and permits slight re-expansion and a double acting severing device, e.g. a circular blade driven by a double-acting ram in forward and return strokes, severs the slightly re-expanded material to form cut lengths. The severing device may be located at the position of a guide of compact form, or at the outlet end of a guide in the form of a channel having at least one resilient wall. A receiving surface, formed in part by a conveyor belt may be provided to receive the cut lengths and allow them to expand. Guides for the expanded material may be arranged to discharge the expanded material from the receiving surface.

Abstract: Functional stretcher shell device designed for picking up and transporting wounded, injured or sick people with orthopaedic retention of the lesions of the limbs, the head, the spine and the torso, characterized by the combination of a carrying unit serving the purpose of a stretcher and splint cradle, with self-adhesive straps positioning and immobilizing the various of the body.

Abstract: A suspension for a beam axled trailed vehicle ensures steering characteristics which reduce sway and other objectionable behaviour by moving a wheel subject to bump conditions forwardly as it moves upwardly. The forward movement is achieved by ensuring that the springs allow limited longitudinal travel of the axle and by positioning leading radius rods each to thrust the associated wheel forwardly when it experiences bump conditions.

Abstract: A process for the separation of solids from liquids in a closed pressure system, wherein liquid is passed through a treatment column containing purifying material. A portion of the purifying material is removed in a timed intermittent quasi-continuous manner and cleaned in a rinsing column. The cleaned purifying material is then fed back to the treatment column by backflushing and the use of a liquid transport medium.

Abstract: When a concavity-shape part is formed in the center of skid material and cooling mechanism is arranging in the concavity-shaped hole, a steel material, e.g. slab, bloom or the like, can be cooled without any of deformation of said material.

Abstract: An oxygenator (artificial lung) comprising a blood storage tube of an elongated cylindrical configuration; an oxygenating tube of an elongated cylindrical shape longitudinally inserted through said blood storage tube and having a central portion of its lower end provided with an oxygen injection means with a built-in perforated plate and having said lower end provided with blood inlet ports; a blood capacity control means provided at an upper portion of said oxygenation tube and including a rotatable cylinder and side openings; a debubbling chamber formed in an upper portion of said blood storage tube; and a blood storage chamber (reservoir) defined by a lower portion of said blood storage tube and incorporating a heat exchanger.

Abstract: An improved supply circuit for electromagnets. The supply circuit comprises a bridge rectifier, an attracting winding positioned in the diagonal of the bridge rectifier, a holding winding placed on the magnetic circuit of the electromagnet, and an isolating contact which isolates the bridge at the end of the pulling-in course of the movable member of the magnetic circuit. The holding winding being connected in parallel across the system formed by the isolating contact and the bridge rectifier.

Abstract: A heat-insulating panel, particularly adapted for walls of buildings, including two parallel thin ribbed metal sheets covering an intermediate layer, consisting of a heat-insulating resin, in which the said covering metal sheets show in positions corresponding to each other and at a regular distance undercut reliefs projecting on one face whereat there are inserted coupling organs of the said metal sheets, consisting of material having a low thermal conductivity, and on each projecting relief there are fixed movably fastening means to the support structures and the end portions of the two metal sheets are folded over and shaped so as to build a concave edge and a convex edge, which may be coupled by embedding with each other and provided on their inner surfaces with gaskets having a series of longitudinal lamellar reliefs, placed in intercalated positions.