Abstract: In some examples, a sheet-fed printing unit is configured as a screen printing unit and includes at least one screen printing forme cylinder and at least one impression cylinder cooperating therewith. A cylinder barrel of the impression cylinder includes a supporting surface for sheets, and which includes at least one impression portion having a constant barrel radius that extends over an angle of at least 170 degrees about the axis of rotation of the impression cylinder. The screen printing forme cylinder has an effective screen radius that is smaller than a barrel radius of the impression cylinder, and the effective screen radius is larger than half the barrel radius.

Abstract: A printing machine includes a plurality of inkjet print heads arranged together in a printing unit and controlled by a control unit. At least two of the inkjet print heads are jointly arranged in relation to a stationary position in a transport path at a printing nip. The control unit activates a first inkjet print head when a substrate of a first substrate type moves past the stationary position, and activates a second inkjet print head when a substrate of a second substrate type moves past the stationary position. The first substrate type and the second substrate type differ from each other in material and/or nature of a surface to be printed. The inkjet print heads arranged in the printing unit are each configured to print an ink that comprises at least one colorant, both for the first substrate type and for the second substrate type.

Abstract: A blade for an ice skate (e.g., for playing hockey). The ice skate comprises a skate boot for receiving a foot of a user and a blade holder for holding the blade. The blade may be designed to be lightweight yet strong and possibly provide other performance benefits to the user, including by being made of different materials (e.g., at least three different materials) that are strategically arranged and secured to one another.

Abstract: The invention relates to a drilling tool for creating a bore in the ground, having a tubular drill shank, at least one removal device which is configured to remove ground material, a supply device for supplying a fluid through the drill shank through at least one outlet opening for the fluid into the bore and at least one mixing element which extends radially to the drill shank, is arranged on the drill shank above the removal device and is configured to mix ground material with the fluid.

Abstract: A skate for skating on ice, in which a blade holder and/or a blade of the skate may be designed to: improve skating, including speed, power, agility (e.g., turning), and/or other performance aspects of a user while skating, such as by providing enhanced stiffness characteristics of the blade holder (e.g., an improved stiffness profile in a longitudinal direction of the blade holder, better torsional stiffness of the blade holder, etc.); facilitate replacement or other installation and/or removal of the blade (e.g., by allowing toolless installation and removal of the blade from the blade holder while protecting against accidental release of the blade from the blade holder upon the blade holder and/or the blade being impacted in use); enhance retention of the blade by the blade holder; improve an appearance of the blade and/or the blade holder (e.g., at an interface of the blade with the blade holder); and/or otherwise enhance the skate.

Abstract: A construct for a hockey blade formed from layers of sheet molding compound material. The sheet molding compound material may be manufactured to have longer average fiber lengths entrained within the sheet molding compound material with random orientation in order to enhance the mechanical properties of the formed hockey stick blade.

Abstract: A beverage caddy assembly includes a collapsible cup holder to minimize space for transport, where the cup holder is hinged for 180° rotation back up against a two-part adjustable mounting arm. The hinge may be formed between a cantilevered and inclined yoke of the cup holder and a forward depending portion on a proximal end of a first mounting arm segment. A second mounting arm segment is releasably and slidingly coupled with the first mounting arm segment, thus providing an adjustable length of the adjustable mounting arm for a varying gaming table rail width. An engagement member on the distal end of the second mounting arm segment of the mounting arm engages an inner edge of the gaming table and a cell phone holder is provided on the distal end of the first mounting arm segment.

Abstract: A door latch assembly includes a housing, an inside and outside handle operably coupled with the housing, and a latch plunger. A latch cam is operably coupled with the inside and outside handles, and the latch cam further includes a crank arm slidably disposed against an inclined surface of an offset plunger leg operably coupled to the latch plunger. A biasing member urges the latch plunger to an extended position, wherein rotation of the inside or outside door latch handle in a first direction rotates the crank arm of the latch cam and displaces the plunger leg of the latch plunger and the latch plunger to a retracted position against the urging of the biasing member.

Abstract: A skate (e.g., an ice skate) or other footwear for a user, in which a skate boot or other foot-receiving structure for receiving a foot of the user may be configured to enhance power transfer of the user (e.g., for push-off and skating straight), agility of the user (e.g., for turns), and/or other aspects of performance of the user, such as by comprising a sole region that is configured to be disposed under the user's foot and includes different materials strategically distributed (e.g., in a longitudinal direction of the skate boot or other foot-receiving structure) or otherwise implements these enhancements.

Abstract: A hockey stick apparatus may include a hollow shaft structure having a proximal end and a distal end, and a blade structure coupled to the proximal end of the hollow shaft structure. The blade structure may include a top edge spaced apart from a bottom edge by a blade height, a heel spaced apart from a toe by a blade length, a front face spaced apart from a back face by a blade thickness. The blade thickness may vary along the blade height, and the top portion of the blade may have a greater blade thickness than a blade thickness of the bottom portion, and a stiffened top portion of the blade may have a first stiffness and a flexible bottom portion of the blade may have having a second stiffness, and the second stiffness may be less than the first stiffness.

Abstract: The invention relates to a diaphragm wall cutter for cutting a cutting trench in the ground, comprising a cutting frame, at least one rotatably drivable cutting wheel which is mounted on an lower side of the cutting frame, a suction nozzle, which is arranged in the region of the at least one cutting wheel and is provided with at least one suction opening, and a suction pump which is configured for suctioning slurry from the cutting trench during cutting via the suction nozzle, the suction pump being connected to the suction nozzle via a suction line. According to the invention, it is provided that at least one filling port is provided for filling the suction pump and the suction line with a liquid when the suction line is shut-off, wherein the suction line and the suction pump are filled with liquid for starting the suction pump.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a colloidal mixer for colloidal processing of a slurry, in particular processing of construction materials, with a colloidal mixer, in which at least one liquid is introduced into a mixing trough, at the lower region of which is arranged an outlet opening with a mixing device having a mixing rotor, which is driven in rotation. According to the invention, the at least one pulverulent solid component is introduced into the mixing trough, the at least one liquid mixed with the at least one pulverulent solid component is induced to flow by the rotatingly driven mixing rotor and is discharged from the mixing trough through the outlet opening, wherein the mixture is led back again for a certain time via a backflow line into an upper region of the mixing trough for further mixing and, after a desired mixing state has been attained, the mixture is discharged as a finished slurry from the outlet opening by means of a discharge line.

Abstract: The invention relates to a measuring arrangement for measuring a position, in particular a verticality, of a vertically adjustable and lowerable working apparatus with respect to an upper fixed point, with at least one measuring cable which is on the one hand connected to the vertically adjustable working apparatus and on the other hand extends towards the fixed point, at least one measuring means which is connected to the corresponding measuring cable and designed to measure an angle of inclination of the measuring cable relative to a vertical measurement axis and is arranged in a connection region between the measuring cable and the working apparatus, and at least one connecting means which is arranged between the measuring means and the working apparatus and designed to keep the measuring means torsion proof about the vertical measurement axis and at the same time capable of being angled with respect to the vertical measurement axis on the working apparatus.

Abstract: In some examples, a processing machine for processing a substrate includes at least one shaping unit. The at least one shaping unit includes at least one forme cylinder and at least one impression cylinder. A processing point for processing a substrate is arranged between the at least one forme cylinder and the at least one impression cylinder. The processing machine includes a control unit for correcting a processing length of the substrate, and which controls a speed of at least one of the at least one forme cylinder or the at least one impression cylinder. The at least one forme cylinder and the at least one impression cylinder have a speed ratio with respect to one another that is changeable at the processing point as a function of the processing length of the substrate, and the speed ratio differs at least once within a full cylinder revolution.

Abstract: A hockey stick apparatus may include a molded blade structure coupled to the proximal end of a hollow shaft structure. The molded blade structure can include: a top edge spaced apart from a bottom edge by a blade height, a heel spaced apart from a toe by a blade length, a front face spaced apart from a back face, and an optional slot defining an aperture extending through front face and the back face. A stiffness of the blade may vary along the blade height by changing the shape of the blade and changing a quadratic momentum of the cross-section along the blade height.

Abstract: Hockey goalkeeper leg pads wearable on legs of a hockey goalkeeper to protect the legs, in which the hockey goalkeeper leg pads may be configured to enhance performance, comfort and/or other aspects of goalkeeping of the hockey goalkeeper, including when the hockey goalkeeper leg pads drop onto a playing surface (e.g., ice) to lie substantially horizontally on the playing surface with their front facing play (e.g., as in a “butterfly” position or otherwise).

Abstract: A helmet for protecting a head of a wearer, such as a hockey, lacrosse, football or other sports player. The helmet may have various features to protect the wearer's head against impacts, such as linear impacts and rotational impacts. For example, pads of the helmet may be movable relative to one another in response to an impact on the helmet. The helmet may comprise a frame comprising a plurality of frame members carrying respective ones of the pads and configured to move relative to one another in response to the impact to allow relative movement of the pads.

Abstract: The Invention relates to a mast element, in particular leader element, for a construction machine, with an elongate, hollow mast profile, which is approximately rectangular in cross section and comprises a linear guide for a mast carriage on its outer side along a longitudinal direction of the mast. In addition, according to the invention, at least one diagonal reinforcement element extends within the mast profile along the longitudinal direction of the mast, which is arranged at an oblique angle to the sides of the approximately rectangular mast profile.

Abstract: The invention relates to a mast element, in particular a leader element, for a construction machine, with an elongate hollow mast profile which, at a front side, is provided along a mast longitudinal direction with two guide strips through which a linear guide for a mast carriage is formed along the front side. According to the invention, provision is made that at least one guide strip is designed as part of a guide profile on which at least one connection web is formed in one piece with the guide strip, which connection web extends away from the guide strip, and that, in order to form the hollow mast profile, elongate wall elements are provided which, together with the at least one connection web, form the hollow mast profile and enclose an inner cavity of the mast profile.

Abstract: The invention relates to a soil working device for creating a substantially vertically running hole in the ground, which hole is provided with a slurry, said soil working device having a base body, a connection apparatus which is arranged on an upper end region of the base body, and a soil removal apparatus and/or a soil displacement apparatus, which is arranged on a lower end region of the base body. According to the invention is intended that, at a lower region of the base body, a first pressure measuring apparatus for measuring a first ambient pressure is arranged, and that at an upper region of the base body, which is vertically spaced apart from the lower region, a second pressure measuring apparatus for measuring a second ambient pressure is arranged. The invention also comprises a method for creating a substantially vertical hole in the ground by means of such a soil working device.