Abstract: A rail vehicle, especially self-propelled vehicle, in which pulling and braking forces are transmitted between pivotless bogies and the main frame of the rail vehicle, and in which on both vehicle sides, symmetrically with regard to the longitudinal central axis of the rail vehicle, pressure and pull rods are on one hand connected to the outside of the bogies and on the other hand to hydraulic cylinder-piston systems connected to the main frame. The corresponding working chambers of the hydraulic cylinders on both sides of the vehicle are respectively adapted to communicate with each other. On each vehicle side between two bogies, there is arranged one hydraulic cylinder-piston only which has two separately acting working pistons each respectively connected to a pressure rod and pull rod.

Abstract: A pressing worm or screw, especially for filter presses of the type used to press liquids from solids, e.g. oils from eatable-oil-bearing seeds, is formed with an outwardly opened groove along its flight or thread which is filled with a harder metal than the flight by deposit welding.

Abstract: A method of performing a treatment of a dust cloud includes the successive steps of generating the dust cloud from a gas and from solid particles, passing the dust cloud through a reaction zone, separating the dust cloud into its components in a separator, and reintroducing at least one part of at least one component into the dust cloud. There is further formed a solids column into which fresh or recirculated solid particles are introduced. The solids column which seals the gas used for generating the dust cloud from the separator, is height-adjustable for controlling the concentration of solids in the dust cloud formed from the solid particles constituting the solids column.

Abstract: A tube stranding machine with spool carriers which are coaxially arranged with the rotor and are rotatable relative thereto, spools being arranged in the spool carrier. Each spool carrier is provided with at least one eccentrically arranged displaceable weight adapted by displacement thereof in case of a determinable turning movement of the spool carrier to compensate for the unbalance of the spool carrier.

Abstract: A method is provided for processing dusts and muds from dust removing systems in the iron and steel industry by pelletizing them for further processing. Green pellets are formed by pelletizing the dusts and/or muds with a moisture content of between 10% and 16% for less than 6 minutes with an addition of water such that the moisture content of the green pellets is between 17% and 30%. The green pellets, together with a reducing agent, are then introduced into a rotary furnace.

Abstract: Method for producing steel from sponge metal with the use of a gas plasma in a melting vessel containing a metal bath. The sponge metal is fed into the melting vessel and is melted directly by the plasma without the addition of base or acid means. The slag produced from the melting of the sponge metal is removed continuously from the metal bath.

Abstract: A hammer drill bit has an axis, a shaft and a crown and a plurality of hard metal circumferential studs carried by the crown and distributed along a circumference thereof. Each circumferential stud has an axis inclined at an acute angle with respect to the bit axis and a conical cutting tip oriented obliquely away from the bit axis. The acute angles of the axes of consecutively viewed circumferential studs alternate between a relatively large magnitude and a relatively small magnitude differing by 10.degree. to 25.degree. from one another.

Abstract: A cooling tower including a jacket composed of a non-self-supporting shell, a spacer ring and a ground support between which the shell is stretched, a mast composed at least in part of a metallic material, a main lifting ring attached to the mast, and cables connected between the spacer ring and the main lifting ring for supporting the spacer via the main lifting ring, is further provided with an auxiliary lifting ring attached to the mast, and the mast, the main lifting ring and the auxiliary lifting ring are each provided with a row of spaced bores, with the bores of each lifting ring being located adjacent the respective bores of the mast, and the bores of the mast extending at regular intervals from the top of the mast and over a significant portion of its height.

Abstract: A delivery arm for depositing wire in a laying reel has an elongated and rigid support member formed generally as a three-dimensional spiral having an upper axially opening inlet end and a lower tangentially opening outlet end. Two generally parallel rows of rollers are mounted on the support member and define a generally spiral path therealong for a rod or wire that moves from the inlet end to the outlet end. Each of the rollers is rotatable about a respective roller axis generally perpendicular to the path at the respective roller and has a generally hyperboloidal outer surface engaging and guiding the wire or rod.

Abstract: A sifting machine includes a screen; a plurality of spaced leaf springs supported below the screen and extending transversely to the length dimension of the screen; and a drive connected to the leaf springs for causing each leaf spring to periodically bend away from the screen and subsequently move rapidly towards the screen to intermittently beat the latter. The active beating length of each leaf spring is somewhat less than the useful width of the screen. There are further provided a downwardly resiliently yielding support for opposite ends of the active beating length of each leaf spring and a cable or the like attached to the mid portion of each leaf spring. The cable forms part of the drive for agitating each leaf spring.

Abstract: Apparatus for use with a system in which successive pulses, each composed of a train of high frequency oscillations, are emitted by a transmitting transducer, propagated through a transmission medium, and received by a receiving transducer having a given transient behavior, the apparatus serving to measure the time interval between reception of successive pulses by the receiver transducer and to prevent erroneous measurements resulting from propagation of the pulses over indirect paths through the transmission medium, prevention of erroneous measurements being achieved by effecting time interval measurements only with respect to those pulses for which the output signal from the receiving transducer in response to reception of each such pulse exceeds a selected threshold value during a predetermined time interval subsequent to passage of that output signal above a given comparison value which is less than the threshold value.

Abstract: Method for implanting and subsequently removing mechanical implants of an Ni-Ti or a Ti-Nb alloy material which exhibits the memory effect which occurs due to heating of the implant to a temperature above the specific temperature for the alloy material. The memory effect is actuated by heating the implant after implantation of same in the living tissue, and upon completion of the healing process, the implant is substantially returned to its shape upon implantation by cooling it to a temperature below the temperature which actuates the opposite memory effect to facilitate removal.

Abstract: In a method for erecting the jacket of a cable net cooling tower which has a center mast, which method includes hoisting the jacket by lifting forces produced by hoisting means located at the top of the center mast, the jacket is suspended from pulling members composed of groups of threaded steel rod units, each unit being composed of a succession of individual steel rods joined together at their ends by threaded sleeves, the lifting forces are transmitted to the steel rod units by setting elements detachably connected to the steel rods, and the uppermost individual steel rod of each unit is removed when it is no longer in force transmitting relation with the hoisting means.

Abstract: A system for identifying an object, and in particular a vehicle, by analyzing the noise spectrum emitted thereby to determine the basic noise characteristic thereof and then comparing the basic noise spectrum signal with known basic noise spectra. The noise from the object, which includes both the basic noise characteristic and other superimposed noise, is detected and converted to an electrical analog signal which is then sampled. The sampled electrical signal, preferably after passing through an analog to digital converter, is sequentially converted into its orthogonal components in the frequency domain, e.g. by means of a Fourier conversion, converted into a signal with the logarithms of the noise spectrum components, and then reconverted into a signal of the noise spectrum components in the time domain, e.g. an inverse Fourier conversion.

Abstract: An improved sonar system of the type wherein a plurality of acoustical beams are transmitted with directional characteristics which are simultaneously swept over adjacent sectors of the observation area. The transmitting directional characteristics of each pair of adjacent sectors are swept or pivoted over their respectively associated sectors in a continuous manner and in opposite directions so that they leave and reach the common borderline between the sectors at the same instant of time.

Abstract: A casting alloy consisting essentially of 20 to 40% chromium, 2 to 12% molybdenum, up to 2% silicon, up to 5% manganese, up to 1% carbon, 0.1 to 1% nitrogen, and the remainder cobalt and the usual impurities inherent to the manufacturing process. The alloy is subjected to a heat treatment to homogenize the lattice of the alloy, and thereafter the alloy is rapidly quenched in order to prevent reformation of deposits in the lattice.

Abstract: A cooling tower with a non-self-supporting envelope which is supported by a net of cables and by pulling elements extending from a portion of a supporting post which portion protrudes upwardly beyond the outlet opening of the cooling tower mantle, in which annular means surround the outlet opening of the mantle and are connected to the supporting post by elements extending in a spoke-like manner from the supporting post and at least partially subjected to pull only.

Abstract: A method of drying cans to be covered with a layer of varnish and/or a printed upon layer, according to which the can body is brought into snug body engagement with a heating body along that can surface which is located opposite the can surface to be covered with the layer while the temperature of the heating body is controlled in conformity with the maximum temperature for hardening the layer to be applied to the respective can.

Abstract: In a method for winding yarn on a yarn winding region of a bobbin in a textile machine having a yarn supply device delivering yarn to the bobbin, which method includes after severing of the yarn between a full bobbin and the yarn supply device, drawing off by means of a suction device, the yarn which continues to be delivered by the yarn supply device, and, at the commencement of winding a bobbin, the yarn coming from the yarn supply device is engaged by a hook-shaped catch element which rotates with the bobbin, a tie on reserve winding is formed from the yarn downstream of the catch element by positioning the suction device so as to bring the yarn leaving the yarn supply device to a position where it intersects the plane of rotation of the catch element at the diameter at which the catch element is located and, immediately after the yarn is caught by the catch element, bringing the yarn subsequently coming from the yarn supply device into the winding region and simultaneously extracting the yarn downstream o

Abstract: A mixing extruder with an extruder worm for processing rubber and synthetic materials, which has three regions following each other in its feeding direction. The first one of these regions represents a mixing chamber which can be closed at intervals at all sides. The second region is formed by a storage zone for securing a smooth change-over from discontinuously feeding the extruder to continuously feeding the extruder, and the third region is designed as an ejection zone for feeding material in the extruder to the discharge opening thereof.