Abstract: An independently suspended wheel rear axle suspension for motor vehicles of the torsion spring type is improved by the provision of a bolster that is designed for reducing the suspension space requirements, while providing optimal noise damping and stable wheel guidance. The improved bolster includes, according to a preferred embodiment, a thrust bearing, a rigid longitudinal support that is connected to the vehicle body by the thrust bearing for providing only vibration insulation and guiding, a support bearing, and a resilient spring member connected to the vehicle body by the support bearing for receiving the preponderant torque of the torsion spring and the vehicle weight, while providing vibration insulation. The longitudinal support means is mounted so as to be elastically displaceable under the influence of forces in the vehicle longitudinal direction, while being relatively rigid under the influence of forces in the vehicle transverse direction.

Abstract: Industrial waste gases containing sulfur dioxide, hydrogen fluoride, hydrochloric acid and sulfur trioxide are treated within a reaction tank in a first stage with a solution containing ammonium ions to increase the dew point of the gases. The gases are then cooled below the elevated dew point in a second stage below which a deflector system directs the gases along the wall of the reaction tank into a third stage where the gases are cooled by a spray mist of an ammonia mixture to form ammonium salts. The gases are then treated in a fourth stage at the bottom of the reaction tank with the solution containing ammonium ions to precipitate ammonium salts into a reservoir below the reaction tank. Purified waste gases are discharged into a cooler where a stripper removes entrained droplets of liquid before discharge into the atmosphere. The droplet size of the solution sprayed into the second stage is larger than the droplet size of the solution sprayed into the first stage.

Abstract: A method for producing a highly precise and inherently stable analyzer system for a multipole mass filter, wherein a tube of material that is electrically poorly conductive and thermally softenable is put over a core which is precise in size, has a higher expansion coefficient and has parallel grooves. The tube material is joined to the grooves of the core by heating and, subsequently, after cooling for the purposes of solidifying, is removed from the core with the impressed tube indentations. Before the tube is heated, layers of electrically higher conductive metallic components, which can be easily connected to the softenable tube material, are applied between the core and the tube in the region of the grooves. The layer material is connected to the tube material when the tube is softened and joined to the grooves of the tube. When removing the tube that has been shaped in this manner, the layers connected to the impressed tube indentations are also removed from the core.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for improving the picture quality during transmission of facsimile signals which have an image signal having a signal of a particular polarity but has an minimum amplitude to represent a first information state such as white and a maximum amplitude to represent a second information state such as black whereby due to changes of information of the signal inverter pulses are obtained for the formation of a signal of changed polarity such that the change in polarity represents an information state and the zero position represents the second information state.

Abstract: A retractable searchlight for vehicles of the type which is movable from a working position to a retracted position includes at least one searchlight supported by a supporting device mounted upon a shaft which is rotatably driven by a motor. The supporting device is formed of at least two members, a first of which is secured to the shaft for movement therewith and a second of which is secured to the searchlight and is mounted so as to be displaceable relative to the shaft. Between the first and second members a disengagement means is located for enabling the second member connected to the searchlight to be displaced with the first member between the working a retracted positions during normal operation and for disengaging the first member from the second member when the searchlight encounters a resistance so that continued movement of the searchlight is interrupted thereby precluding injury to the arrangement or persons standing nearby.

Abstract: The cutter head of a rotary cutting head is formed with three pairs of recesses separated by a wall portion of the head. An abutment member is received in one recess of each pair, and a tool bit in the other recess in such a manner that a cutting edge of the bit projects from the cutter head. A threaded fastener engages the bit and the abutment member and clamps the bit to the wall portion, thereby releasably fastening the bit to the head.

Abstract: Process for preparing metal phosphide pesticide compositions which hydrolyze to release hydrogen phosphide in which the pesticide is coated with a water soluble polymer.

Abstract: Disclosed are modified, water-dilutable polymer oil imides containing carboxyl groups, methods for producing same and coating compositions, preferably electro-dip-lacquering compositions, containing same.

Abstract: A device for the reduction of vibration on a rigid supporting pipe disposed longitudinally between an engine and a drive unit and surrounding a drive shaft is formed by connecting the supporting pipe to a suppressing mass through the intermediary of one or more elastic damping elements.

Abstract: A casing for the lubrication of a camshaft of an internal combustion engine for automotive vehicles is partially filled with lubricating oil to effect splash lubrication of cams carried by the camshaft and has at least one lateral overflow port to maintain the oil at a substantially constant level. The overflow port is configured so as to prevent removal of oil which is not in excess of the required amount as a result of the shifting of the oil due to a uphill or downhill inclination of the vehicle. According to a preferred embodiment, the overflow port has a horizontal lower wall which corresponds to the desired maximum level of oil when the vehicle is level and this lower wall is flanked by inclined walls which correspond to the desired maximum level when the vehicle is in uphill and downhill orientations, respectively.

Abstract: A multiple measurement system for the electrochemical analysis of fluids and gases includes a housing adapted to receive a plurality of isolating members which are firmly held in position in the housing. The housing and isolating members are adapted to receive measurement-probes, each of which extends into the isolating member and is in intimate contact with a measurement chamber provided therein. Inflow and outflow openings or channels communicating with the measurement chamber are provided in the insulating members. The end surfaces of each insulating member and the contact surface of a pair of end members are frusto-conically shaped to provide intimate contact between touching surfaces of the isolating and end members. The inflow and outflow channels or openings provided in the isolating members and end members are in alignment and provide a continuous fluid flow path from input to output.

Abstract: A tuning device for musical instruments, which includes: harmonic filters for the prevention of zero transits of the tone frequency voltage extraneous to the fundamental tone oscillation or to the second or fourth harmonic, a Schmitt-trigger for the conversion of the filtered tone frequency voltage into a digital oscillation, an oscillation counter with decoder and display means to the input of which the digital oscillation signal together with the reference period signal is fed via an AND-gate and which is reset by the signal for lacking amplitude of the tone frequency voltage, a reference frequency source, a reference period generator, triggering means for triggering the reference period generator, a flip-flop for the generation of an oscillation period signal, and a synchronizing device for synchronizing the beginning of the counting period with the reference frequency voltage.

Abstract: Apparatus for continuously separating sulfur from an aqueous sulfur suspension which is heated above the melting point of sulfur. The apparatus comprises a pressure vessel having heating and stirring devices in its upper part, the lower part of the vessel serving as a settling tank where sulfur is precipitated out of the aqueous solution and withdrawn through an outlet in the bottom of the vessel. Inclined separator plates extend within an outer annular chamber formed between the vessel and heating device. Intermediate the upper and lower parts of the vessel is a substantially horizontal, shallow conical partition which has apertures or slots therein to permit the suspension to pass from the upper part to the lower part. A steam-heated jacket surrounds the vessel. Pressure sensing devices are utilized to maintain the level of the water in the top part and the boundary surface between the water phase and the sulfur phase in the bottom part at desired heights.

Abstract: A process of obtaining digital data for color components of a color image includes the steps of quantizing color-processor derived signals to obtain first and second raster signal scans, wherein each of the raster signal scans has a multiplicity of raster spots spaced apart from one another at first and second predetermined distances. The first and second distances of the first raster signal scan correspond substantially to the second and first distances of the second raster signal scan, respectively. Only the raster signal scans corresponding to the color-processor obtained signals in the first and second memory segments, respectively, are stored.

Abstract: An inner cylindrical shell assembly includes a metal cylinder with the wall thereof divided along at least one but typically a plurality of longitudinal parting lines. A stress compensator tube extends along each parting line and is welded to the edge surfaces of the metal cylinder. An inner stratum of solid corundum bricks overlies an outer stratum of corundum bricks which has internal spherical hollows. These strata of bricks are retained under stress within the inner cylindrical shell assembly. This assembly is received within an outer cylindrical metal shell and annular members are disposed within an annular space between the shells with a felt mat disposed between the annular members and the inner cylindrical shell.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for color correction in the manufacture of printing forms which uses a correction circuit to determine correction parameters that are stored and then used in a correcting circuit for the color correction process and wherein the determination and correction are separate processes and in which in the correction circuits there are arranged a regulating unit controlled by digital values in the path of each the signal to be corrected and that the regulating units can be adjusted for determination of the correction parameters to digital values so as to obtain the desired correction and which are then stored in a storage medium from which they can be transferred in at least one correction circuit for a subsequent color correction process.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for electro-optically scanning a picture with a head having multiple electrical optical scanning devices which can be simultaneously moved across the picture and wherein the output of such scanning devices are alternately supplied to storage or memory devices which convert the information from the scanning devices into series arranged information corresponding to each scanning device and wherein during the time that the scanning devices are scanning certain portions of the picture and supplying information to a first set of storage or memory devices, information from a second group of storage or memory devices is being read out to a transmitter for transferring the data to a second location. The invention and method further include a receiver for receiving such information and includes a pair of plurality of storage devices one of which is receiving the incoming information and the other is supplying previously stored information to scanning writing heads.

Abstract: The coagulation of blood is measured by introducing the blood into an annular gap in a beaker formed between the inner surface of the beaker and a cylindrical member depending into the beaker. The beaker is mounted on the upper end of a rod-like support. A coil arrangement about the lower part of the rod-like support impresses a circular orbiting motion on the support and beaker. Another core associated with the rod-like support measures changes in amplitude of the support produced by the development of fibrin in the blood sample in the annular gap.

Abstract: An internal combustion engine with an exhaust gas turbo-charger and with a control valve arranged in the exhaust gas manifold which responds to the charging pressure of the supercharging blower; the control valve controls an exhaust gas by-pass line by-passing the exhaust gas turbine, while a catalyst is arranged in the exhaust gas manifold either upstream or downstream of the exhaust gas turbine.

Abstract: A laminar contact material having one layer of silver or a non-oxidizable silver alloy and another layer of silver intimately mixed with an oxide of cadmium and/or other oxidizable metal is made by cladding the non-oxidizable layer with a silver alloy of the oxidizable metal in the "as cast" condition by continuous hot rolling, and thereafter exposing the compound material at elevated temperature to an atmosphere rich in oxygen.