Abstract: A carrier for a looped cable used to supply power or water to a winning machine in a mine in which a gate is mounted on a body for movement into an open and a closed horizontal position. The body is resiliently mounted on a carrier.

Abstract: A circuit arrangement for the pre-indication of the exposure time to be expected in automatic mirror-reflex cameras in which the brightness of a controllable luminous element, which is constant for the duration of the exposure, is used for the illumination of the photo-receiver of the electronic time-formation system. The voltage dropping over the luminous element, which is proportional to the exposure time, is ascertained by means of a measuring mechanism. The luminous element is formed as luminous diode and in parallel therewith there is connected a current path containing the measuring mechanism fed from a constant current source for the compensation of the response voltage of the luminous diode and for the adaptation of the measuring mechanism to the characteristics of the luminous diode.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for the dehydration of cattle and horse manure, cow dung or pig droppings, characterized by the action of a flow of hot air and of ultrasonic radiation along the path of the matter to be dehydrated, and that of microwave radiation at a preferred frequency of 2450 MHz which produces internal heating, these actions taking place separately or in conjunction. Manure from which gas has previously been removed by aspiration at temperature lower than that of self-ignition, is utilized. Combustible gases are recovered and used preferably to the heating of the air.Two types of apparatus are envisaged, one incorporating a conveyor belt and the other a helical worm provided with a plurality of perforations for the hot air to pass through. The ultrasonic radiation accelerates evaporation and discourages matter from adhering to the surfaces.

Abstract: The switch is provided with a fixed contact and a movable contact attached to a contact arm which is held by means of a spring in at least one of the portions of said contact arm. The spring and the contact arm are made in one piece to form a bracket-shaped catch element which is pivotally mounted in a bearing in the housing. The spring is stressed at least in the dead center position thereof.

Abstract: The camera is for use with film cartridges and is provided with an internal support member within the camera housing which has a film engagement surface thereon. Side walls of a guide channel extend from the support member substantially beyond the plane of the film engagement surface. When the cartridge is fitted in the camera the cartridge web is located in the guide channel together with the film and the film engagement surface presses against the film to bring this into contact with a film conveying surface on said cartridge.

Abstract: Unexpanded structural honeycomb material formed of permanently creasable material is extended in its expansion direction and compressed perpendicular to the expansion direction, e.g. between pressure rollers, so that the cells adopt a configuration in which they have dimensions in the expansion direction which are large compared with their dimensions in the direction of compression and the creasable material is creased. On subsequently being allowed to expand, the material adopts a self-sustaining open cellular configuration.

Abstract: An oscillating fluid-driven actuator for a shaft, such as a ship rudder shaft, a butterfly valve spindle or the like. The actuator comprises (i) a stationary actuator housing defining an annular chamber coaxial with the shaft and having a suitable cross section, and (ii) an annular piston arranged coaxially with the shaft in the chamber and connected fixedly with the shaft by means of an arm mounted intermediate the ends of the annular piston by means of a central piston hub. The piston hub is made with a coaxial bearing surface or surfaces of convex spherical shape and the actuator housing has a central lower hollow hub defining an inner concave spherical bearing surface to support the piston hub by engagement with the spherical surface thereof. A corresponding concave spherical bearing surface is arranged in the upper portion of the housing to cooperate with the corresponding spherical surface of the upper portion of the hub.

Abstract: The invention relates to a door-locking and release system in a building in which system a door is adapted to be held locked by a component removably affixed thereto. Said component is adapted to operate an electrical circuit, such as to deactivate off an alarm circuit, only when detached from the door to provide an indication that the door is in the unlocked condition.

Abstract: A machine to perform in one single operating cycle the molding and curing of tread rings for pneumatic tires, including a central drum rotating around its own axis and translatable about itself, surrounded by a stationary annular carrying structure, carrying radially a plurality of hydraulic or pneumatic double acting cylinders, each rod of the said cylinders being provided at its end turned towards the drum with a mold carrying platen to which there is fixedly secured the mold which is part of a complete annular form and which is part of a complete annular form and which may radially translate with synchronous movement, either going near or away from the surface of the said central drum.

Abstract: The film cassette comprising the usual delivery chamber and take-up chamber for a film provided with a feed perforation and a bridge which connects the two chambers. A feed slot in said bridge extends in the travel direction of the film, a lateral edge of the feed slot having an offset in the end of the slot directed towards the take-up chamber. In this manner, the feed claw of the camera has to perform a lateral movement to effect unlocking of the shutter release mechanism or locking of a further cocking and film transport operation.

Abstract: A plant for boning the meat of the half-carcass of a skinned beast, comprising a plurality of successive working stations where the still warm meat is removed by means of semi-automatic and automatic mechanical devices and, more precisely, on a first track, means for removal of the shoulder and means for cutting the neck and removing the fillet, top, top flank, thin flank, membrane, filet mignon and tail; on a second track, means for treating the cuts removed on the first track, e.g.: boning the leg and the "marrow bone", the blade bone being passed for stock purposes, boning the shoulder and, finally, on a third track followed by the residual carcass, means for boning the breast, the ribs and the thigh.

Abstract: A process and apparatus system for continuous printing of fabric includes a water surface in a vat on which dye materials are formed into a uniform film and fabric is contacted therewith. The film forms in a tiltable tray like container extending the full width of the vat of water and dyes are distributed thereon by compressed air nozzles which tilt with the tray devices. A baffle feeds fabrics into the water during the process.

Abstract: A feeding device for card counting machines has a guide wall member fixed at a distance apart from a feed drum for forwarding sheets of card frictionally and tangentially. In operation, double sheets feeding can decisively be prevented.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for producing multilayer fibrous mats is provided which can form alternate short and long fiber layers continuously on a single forming endless wire cloth. The layers are brought together under the influence of suction air and are held together by interfiber bonds at their interfaces. The apparatus is composed of long fiber defibrators and a short fiber disperser unit placed above the forming endless wire cloth. First, a thin web of long fibers is formed on the forming wire cloth and then a short fiber mat is formed on top of the said long fiber web. At this point, the short fibers to a certain extent are pulled into and among the long fibers of the thin long fiber web by the use of suction air thus forming a long fiber layer, long-short fiber interface layer and a short fiber layer mat construction.

Abstract: A resonant circuit is provided with a number of phase shift circuits connected in series. A control circuit is connected in series with the phase shift circuits for controlling the direct current flowing through the circuits. One of the phase shift circuits is constructed of a pair of transistors interconnected by a capacitor. The emitter resistance of the transistors is determined by the direct currents flowing therethrough from the control circuit, whereupon the frequency of oscillation or resonance of the resonant circuit is dependant upon the emitter resistance.

Abstract: This coupling comprises a rotary cylindrical portion which is recessed and an outlet opening whose lower edge is placed level with the lowest point of a surface which is inclined relative to the rotation axis, whereby the said surface is placed adjacent to the axis and the side opposite to the said opening.This coupling is more particularly intended to be used on the inlets and outlets of pneumatic automatic control modules.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a small electromagnetic relay comprising three independent sub-assemblies serving to fulfill respectively the function of motor, contact and connecting base and which can be assembled together.The contact sub-assembly is formed by an arcing box having recesses serving to receive the contact supports held in place between the base and the motor.The relay according to the present invention is applicable to automation and control circuits.

Abstract: Manipulator operating switches with the aid of a lever moving around a knuckle.The lever is associated with two rectangular devices each of which being returned to the inoperative position by two levers each one associated with a spring.Advantageous arrangement in manipulators controlling lifting gear.

Abstract: A tube valve for use in a catheter tube, the valve having two bodies inserted in the tube, the bodies filling the cross-sectional area of the tube. Each of the bodies is provided with at least one through opening which, in the closed position of the valve in which the two bodies are in coaxial alignment with one another, is closed by the tube or by the other body but can be exposed by elastic deformation of the tube while simultaneously displacing the bodies out of coaxial alignment.

Abstract: A piezoelectric oscillator has two or more piezoelectric vibrator units connected in parallel. At least one said unit has a frequency-temperature characteristic of third degree and the others have characteristic of second degree so as to afford compensation in oscillation frequency in a wide temperature range.