Abstract: An apparatus for separating sponge iron products from the hot discharge material of a rotary furnace. A discharge chamber is connected to the rotary furnace for receiving the hot discharge material from the rotary furnace. A screen is provided at the lower end of the discharge chamber for separating the sponge iron products from the hot discharge material. The screen is attached to a support which is removably sealed to the lower end of the discharge chamber and is provided with a mechanism for displacing the support and attached screen. The support includes a discharge chute connected beneath the screen for carrying away the material which passes through the screen and is provided with cooling means.

Abstract: In an electrode for electrical resistance seam welding apparatus, which electrode is arranged to roll against a workpiece to be welded and is composed of a pressure member maintained out of contact with the workpiece, connected to a welding current supply, and made of a material which is a good electrical and thermal conductor, and a contact member in the form of an endless element mounted to roll against the workpiece and to be pressed against the workpiece by the pressure member, the contact member is composed of a rigid ring of a heat-resistant material selected to not form an alloy with the workpiece material, and the ring is mounted to surround the pressure member and to permit relative movement between the ring and the pressure member.

Abstract: A compound substance of great hardness and toughness, comprising a metal matrix, having embedded therein, hard material granules of a size of 0.1 to 5 mm. The metal matrix comprises 1 to 4% carbon, 0.3 to 0.6% silicon, 0.5 to 1.5% manganese, 0.8 to 2.8% vanadium, 0.5 to 1.5% chromium, 2 to 10% tungsten, about 0.01% aluminum and the remainder, iron.

Abstract: Apparatus for recovering oil, especially edible oils, from oil-containing fruit and seed in which immediately upon cleaning the fruit and seed, this oil-bearing material is subjected to cold pressing without prior heat treatment to recover a portion of the oil and the residue is thereupon extracted.The apparatus comprises a worm press formed with a perforated cylinder and a worm rotatable in said cylinder, said worm and said cylinder are subdivided along their lengths into a plurality of sections by respective shear gaps and throttles. The depth of the helical groove between flights progressively decreases toward the shear gaps and, in general, along the worm. The thread depth can range between 2 and 12% of the outer diameter of the worm which is preferably constant over the entire length thereof. Each flight may have a progressively decreasing pitch angle toward the outlet side and can be between 7.5 and 15.

Abstract: A pop-top lid with a pre-formed opening which serves for dispensing the contents, is located in the lid plane, and is provided with essentially parallel side edges. The lid also includes a closure part which is provided with a tab and is slidably guided along the side edges of the pre-formed opening. The closure part is provided with an uninterrupted peripheral groove which corresponds to the shape of the pre-formed opening; to limit the slide path of the closure part, an abutment or stop is provided.

Abstract: A floatable bridge element for briding obstacles, especially bodies of water. Automatically latching coupling elements are provided along one longitudinal side and along both end faces in such a way that the bridge element can be widened with a further, identically or correspondingly embodied bridge element into a bridge, or with further bridge elements can be extended into a "single-track" or "dual-track" floating bridge. The bridge element includes a flat hollow compartment panel filled with foam and simultaneously serving as a roadway, and below which extends a buoyancy body likewise filled with foam and rigidly connected therewith. The buoyancy body, for reducing the impact pressure in flowing waters, is inclined or angled-off along the lower edge of that longitudinal side of the bridge element not provided with coupling elements.

Abstract: A device for supplying gas to a revolving cylindrical furnace. Over the length of the rotary axis of the revolving furnace, gas-permeable bricks are used in the region of the fireproof lining of the revolving furnace mantle. The bricks are made of porous, ceramic material, and terminate flush with the surface of the fireproof lining of the revolving furnace. The bricks may have a sheet metal mantle surrounding the same. The gas-permeable bricks have bottom sheet metal plates into which respectively a gas supply connection is welded. Measuring, regulating and control devices may be installed in and on the gas supply connections.

Abstract: A machine stepper has a machine-supporting platform that normally stands on the floor by means of fixed support posts. A substantially rectangular frame is provided underneath this platform and can shift relative to it. This frame is constituted by a pair of generally parallel longitudinal members and a pair of generally parallel transverse members pivoted together at corners at each of which is provided a respective upright and vertically extensible leg. Two of the diagonally opposite legs pivot about respective longitudinally extending horizontal pivot axes and the other two legs pivot about respective transverse horizontal pivot axes. Cylinders are provided for horizontally shifting the frame relative to the platform so that when the legs have been extended to lift the posts of the platform off the ground these cylinders can step the platform horizontally and when the expansible legs are shortened it is set back down on the floor.

Abstract: A method of removing the front and rear segments of a rolled wire fed in winding packages subdivided into good stock and into scrap windings separated by cutting movements corresponding substantially to the transporting movement of the winding packages. The windings spirally or helically surround a guidepipe element. Several cutting wheels rotate in the region of the upper surface of the guide-pipe element. The cutting wheels, together with counter knives, which stand still during the cutting procedure, form a separating device. The peripheral speed of the cutting wheel and cutters corresponds at least substantially to the transporting speed of the winding packages.

Abstract: An apparatus for the injection molding of tire treads on reinforcing belts (tire-tread rings) comprises a belt support which is substantially incompressible but is yieldably mounted on a back-up structure and defines a mold cavity with a pair of half shells which close around the support. When the injection-molded tread is released by opening of the half shells, the support can be relaxed and the tread structure picked up by a transfer ring.

Abstract: A method of and apparatus for removing front and rear segments of rolled wire or wire rod which, in the form of winding packages, is supplied to the apparatus (connected before a collecting device) and is subdivided by separating procedures into good windings and scrap windings.

Abstract: A coke-oven door assembly has a doorjamb having an outwardly facing annular doorjamb surface. A rigid door body has an annular outer edge aligned with and generally perpendicular to the doorjamb surface and is provided with an annular and hollow rigid frame juxtaposed with this edge and limitedly displaceable relative to the door body. An annular seal strip engages the door edge and bears inwardly on the doorjamb surface. A rail is movable inside the frame toward and away from the doorjamb surface and a plurality of elastically compressible biasing devices are engaged between the rail and the seal strip to urge the latter toward the doorjamb surface. A plurality of spacers extending from the doorjamb are engaged with this rail, normally via respective plungers, so that the biasing force effective on the seal strip remains the same even if the door body is distorted by the effects of heat.

Abstract: A compound body comprising a metallic basic body, an inner layer or layers of carbides and/or nitrides of Ti, Zr, Hf, V, Nb, Ta, Cr, Mo, W, Si, or B, and an outer layer or layers of a mixture of oxides and nitrides and/or oxynitrides of Cr, Al, Ca, Mg, Th, Sc, Y, La, Ti, Hf, V, Nb, or Ta. The compound body can be used as a part subject to wear, and for machining metallic materials.

Abstract: In a Doppler log for a vehicle equipped with transmitting and receiving units associated with two mutually transverse measuring axes which are parallel to a plane defined by the longitudinal and transverse axes of the vehicle, for the emission of directed beams of sound energy in directions which extend along the measuring axes, each beam being inclined with respect to the plane by a known emission angle such that all of the beams are to the normal to the measuring axes, the transmitting units operating at selected, known transmitting frequencies, and each receiving unit being connected for receiving the reflected components of the sound energy from a respective emission direction, the log further including a Doppler frequency analyzer connected to the output of each receiving unit for producing a representation of the Doppler frequency component of the sound signal received by that receiving unit, and a ratio former connected to the output of each analyzer and the associated transmitting and receiving unit f

Abstract: Method for producing a hard metal body having increased wear resistance, the body containing at least one of the binder metals iron, cobalt and nickel and at least one carbide of the elements titanium, zirconium, hafnium, vanadium, niobium, tantalum, chromium, molybdenum and tungsten, the body being produced by way of sintering and having a nitrogen containing surface, comprises subjecting a hard metal body containing the binder metal and carbide to a pressure between 2 bar and 5000 bar in a sintering autoclave at a high temperature and in a nitrogen containing atmosphere, after final sintering, to enrich the hard metal body with nitrogen and to form the nitrogen containing surface.

Abstract: The invention herein disclosed is directed to novel magnetic cores, particularly magnetic tape-wound cores, and to a new, novel and less expensive method of manufacture. The alloys employed in the manufacture of these cores employ smaller quantities of expensive metals such as nickel and, accordingly, result in substantial savings. The cores are exceptionally useful because of their high available flux-density change and high pulse permeability. Generally, the alloys employed contain nickel contents of from about 49 to 56 percent by weight of the alloy, and the remainder is substantially iron and small quantities of additives. The magnetic core is heat treated in a hydrogen atmosphere for several hours, cooled to room temperature, then reheated above the Curie Point and then cooled in a transverse magnetic field. Alternatively, it is possible to cool to just above the Curie Point, and omit the room temperature cooling and subsequent reheating.

Abstract: A magazine equipped with centering and coupling elements for measuring and sampling devices for a device for handling the sampling devices by means of measuring lances in melts. The handling device arranged above the vessel adapted to receive and hold the melt is equipped with a lifting mechanism for lifting the measuring lances and is also equipped with a guiding system for guiding a measuring lance. The magazine is displaceable in the direction of its longitudinal axis and is combined with the handling device to form a movable unit with stripping and separating members.

Abstract: A device for handling semi-continuously vertically cast rectangular strands, especially of aluminum and aluminum alloys. The strands are simultaneously adjacent to each other lowered by means of a downwardly movable casting table, brought into engagement with a supporting member, and by a pivoting movement of the dummy bars and of the supporting member which are operatively connected to the casting table are moved into an at least nearly horizontal positon with regard to the casting table. The above mentioned pivoting movement is coupled to the upward movement of the casting table. The strands are cast in such a way that one of their narrow sides is located opposite the supporting member. During the upward movement of the casting table, the supporting member with the strands one narrow side of which engages the supporting member are pivoted about a pivot axis which is eccentrically located with regard to the longitudinal plane of symmetry of the casting table.

Abstract: A multi-layer container which includes a container forming a body of rotation in a tubular or at least partially spherical or conical shape, and having a plurality of layers of weldable sheet metal therewith. The first one of these layers is wrapped directly upon and around the container and the other layers are wrapped around the first layer and one upon the other. Each layer includes at least one joint extending in the longitudinal direction of the container; at least some are only partially filled with welded material.

Abstract: A continuous mold with a mold chamber, preferably a rectangular mold chamber, for continuously casting metals, especially copper and copper alloys, which includes a one piece or more piece graphite block and also includes cooling pipes forming components of a cooling circuit and being frictionally connected to the graphite block for improving the heat transfer to the mold chamber of the graphite block. The cooling circuit is structurally separate from the graphite block, and the cooling pipes yieldably engage the outer surface of the graphite block.