Abstract: An apparatus for storing and dispensing of a plurality of items of stock (34) such as pharmaceuticals comprises a plurality of storage regions (20), e.g. shelves (26) and a dispensing station (48). The storage regions (20) are arranged to circulate around a continuous path (10) such that each storage region (20) is periodically brought into alignment with the dispensing station (48) so as to allow items to be removed from the storage region (20) at the dispensing station (48).

Abstract: A hammer device in the form of a needle gun. The gun includes a cylinder housing containing a cylinder, in which a flying piston is displaced and an anvil, against which the piston strikes. A needle carrier is located on the anvil, and the needles of the gun are held in the carrier so that the needles can be longitudinally displaced. To reduce the wear on the needle carrier and to preserve the needle heads of the needles, the needle carrier is configured from several layers, at least in the vicinity of the guide plate. The layers are of alternating hard and soft material.

Abstract: The invention relates to a nasal stimulator which is used to dilate and stimulate the elevator muscle of the nose wing. The invention is designed to improve nasal breathing in persons suffering from nasal collapse, who, consequently, breathe mainly through the mouth.

Abstract: An apparatus for storing and dispensing of a plurality of items of stock (34) such as pharmaceuticals comprises a plurality of storage regions (20), e.g. shelves (26) and a dispensing station (48). The storage regions (20) are arranged to circulate around a continuous path (10) such that each storage region (20) is periodically brought into alignment with the dispensing station (48) so as to allow items to be removed from the storage region (20) at the dispensing station (48).

Abstract: An electrically driven press tool that is compact, reliable and cost-effective. There is a press tool in which a crimping tool is retained in a recess by a bolt. An electromotor drives a spindle, which interacts with the crimping tool, by a reducing gear. The spindle is connected to a shaft by a pressure flange. The bearing pressure, which acts on the spindle, is brought to bear on a pressure ring by a pressure flange and a pressure bearing, the ring acting directly or indirectly on a force or pressure sensor. When a predetermine set value of the crimping is reached, the sensor forwards a switching signal to the controller of the drive motor.

Abstract: A pressing tool apparatus with a clamping pincer and a sensory mechanism that permits a measurement of a displacement which the piston covers with the closure procedure of the clamping pincer. With the first closure of the clamping pincer, without a pressing, there results a nominal displacement value which is realized by a displacement sensor and a ring magnet. Electronics in the housing store a measured nominal value and compares it to subsequent closure procedures with a pressing, accounting for programmable tolerance values. Pressings within a permitted range or outside the range are suitably displayed.

Abstract: A pressing tool having an electric motor fed by a battery. The electric motor drives a gear pump with two rotor shafts which are accommodated in a hydraulic block. The rotor shafts are mounted in a gear housing on one side of the hydraulic block and in a cylinder housing of a piston cylinder unit which bears on an other side of the hydraulic block. This gear pump uses an extremely simple construction manner and simultaneously achieves a high delivery volume. The high delivery volume leads to an extremely low loading of the battery, by which its operational duration is increased.

Abstract: A pressing apparatus with an associated, exchangeable pressing tool. The pressing apparatus has a drive unit and a connection unit for connection to a pressing pincer. The connection unit has two holding plates. The pressing pincer with its two T-shaped carrier plates is inserted between the holding plates. A connection bolt is pushed through the holding plates and a receiving opening on the T-shaped carrier plates and is secured. The pressing apparatus is thus ready for use. The pressing pincer with an actuation bears with its two pivot arms on bearing surfaces on the apparatus. With a further retraction of the pressing pincer the pivot arms are pushed out laterally and thus the pressing is undergone.

Abstract: A pressing tool for connecting pipe-shaped work pieces wherein the pressing tool has a fork-shaped receiver and a clamping tool interchangeably held in the receiver by a connecting bolt. The pressing tool has two clamping jaws which can be moved toward each other. A drive motor operates the clamping tool. The connecting bolt can be pushed through bores in the fork-shaped receiver and in the clamping tool, for maintaining the clamping tool in an exchangeable position within the fork-shaped receiver. A contactless electronic tracing device is arranged in the fork-shaped receiver, which determines a relative position of the clamping jaws in relation to the fork-shaped receiver. The contactless electronic tracing device also passes a signal to either an optical warning device or an acoustical warning device.

Abstract: A low-loss, high-energy efficiency and low-cost heatable godet has a plurality of short wavelength infrared radiation heaters closely juxtaposed with the inner wall of the hollow drum of a godet onto which a synthetic yarn can be fed. The heaters can be angularly equispaced within the interior of the drum, closely juxtaposed therewith and of different lengths to heat different axial zones of the drum differently. The heaters can be coated with a reflective material on their sides turned away from the drum to avoid scattering losses and to direct energy to the drum.

Abstract: A process for automated monitoring of faults occurring in textile webs. At least one marking is worked into the web under manufacture. The marking permits incremental measurement of the textile web and facilitates the determination of particular positions thereon. Web faults and other events are detected during manufacture and their positions stored electronically. Detected faults can then be efficiently located and examined using the electronically stored location coordinates and the marking. Since the marking is worked into the web, the location of the fault can be efficiently determined even at later stages in the manufacturing process.

Abstract: A refrigeration control apparatus especially adapted for use in conjunction with cryogenic coolers includes a brushless variable speed drive motor for powering a mechanical cooler-compressor and electronic control circuitry coupled to the motor allowing motor speed and hence cooling rate to be responsive to changes in the temperature of the volume sought to be cooled. A signal corresponding to sensed temperature is compared to a reference signal derived from motor speed. The difference therebetween used to vary the duty cycle of a high frequency pulse train. The pulse train is used to modulate the drive current applied to the motor through pulse position switching circuitry to vary the speed of the drive motor. High and low motor speed limits are provided along with sensor failure protection circuitry to insure continuous motor operation between chosen limits.

Abstract: The percussion mechanism of this device, comprising a cylinder, a free piston, an anvil, a tool holder in which a bundle of needles is disposed, the heads of which are applied to the anvil, is mounted to slide in a tubular housing between two springs used to insulate dynamically the percussion mechanism of the housing and of the handle which holds it. The cylinder is mounted in the housing by a suspension comprising two annular seals and the cylinder is set with a clearance so that the centering provided by the seals insulates mechanically the cylinder of the housing and reduces the transmission of vibrations.

Abstract: A pneumatic hammer comprises a cylindrical housing, in which are a free piston, an anvil, and needles the rear ends of which end in heads designed to rest against the anvil and supported by a tool holder. The anvil comprises a steel cylinder in the lateral surface of which is an annular rebate. The cylinder is surrounded by a plastics material in the rebate, the outer surface of which material forms the cylindrical sliding surface of the anvil. The volume occupied by the plastics material is approximately 50% of the total volume, such that the mass of the anvil is approximately halved.

Abstract: A portable surface processing apparatus which has two rotors (R.sub.1, R.sub.2) fitted with blades driven in opposite directions by a motor (M). The reaction forces arising in the processing therefore mutually cancel each other.

Abstract: A cluster of pins, serving to clean the surface of a workpiece, are slidably mounted in bores of a guide plate which is spring-urged against a metallic anvil, with formation of a clearance between the plate and the anvil in which the heads of the pins can move. The anvil is periodically struck by a ram which is freely reciprocable in a tool housing surrounding the anvil and the guide plate, the housing being provided with a pistol grip carrying a trigger that controls admission of compressed air to a chamber at the rear of the housing which is intermittently vented by the advancing ram to a space communicating with the atmosphere via channels in the anvil and perforations of the guide plate, thereby cooling the movable parts of the tool. The guide plate consists of a hard but light-weight resinous material, specifically polyamide 6.