Abstract: Various aspects of the invention can be found in a method or system of global vendor financing that automatically process vendor financing applications. A vendor financing application is received over a computer network and indicates an asset(s) to be financed and an applicant desiring the asset(s). Credit information is gathered about the applicant and the application is scored and a prices is then determined if the customer qualifies for the vendor financing. The credit information may be gathered from one of a plurality of credit information sources in one or more countries. The method or system of global vendor financing may handling vendor financing applications in multiple languages and multiple currencies. Optionally, the system or method may include push services and workflow management.

Abstract: A machine for machining workpieces has at least one milling tool with an internal cutter. The machine is provided with a first guide system and a second guide system parallel to the first guide system. The first guide system has at least one compound slide having a slide part, wherein the at least one compound slide is moveable in a longitudinal direction of the first guide system and wherein the slide part is moveable transversely to the longitudinal direction. A milling tool is secured on the slide part. The first and second guide systems have sliding guides or roller bearing guides. The at least one compound slide has a transverse guide system and the slide part is guided on the transverse guide system.

Abstract: A woodburning device including a heated tip, an elongated case delimited by a guard device having a substantially circular protrusion and prolonged by a protective cage which allows emergence of a end of the heated tip only when the device is in an operational mode.

Abstract: A pottery wheel for shaping pottery of the type including a base supporting a disk that can be driven in rotation along an axis of rotation A, and a guiding device that enables operations on the pottery of diametrically opposed manual efforts in relation to the axis of rotation (A) of the disk by at least one tool.

Abstract: A rotary machine element has at least one functional part performing movements into stop positions, which stop positions are nominal stop positions or mechanical terminal stop positions and are functionally correlated. At least one position sensor is provided for detecting individual actual position values of the stop positions independently from one another. At least one position sensor is located in a control path between the at least one functional part and an NC control. The control path is active in positions between the nominal stop positions; the mechanical terminal stop positions; or the nominal stop positions and the mechanical terminal stop positions. Based on acquired actual position values of the at least one functional part, the speed and acceleration of the at least one functional part are determined by NC-control.

Abstract: A machine for machining workpieces has at least one milling tool with an internal cutter. The machine is provided with a first guide system and a second guide system parallel to the first guide system. The first guide system has at least one compound slide having a slide part, wherein the at least one compound slide is moveable in a longitudinal direction of the first guide system and wherein the slide part is moveable transversely to the longitudinal direction. A milling tool is secured on the slide part. The first and second guide systems have sliding guides or roller bearing guides. The at least one compound slide has a transverse guide system and the slide part is guided on the transverse guide system.

Abstract: A device enabling a user to reproduce an observed scene on a drawing board support including a first mirror; at least one second mirror, the mirrors being arranged to transmit an image from the support onto an eyepiece in front of which the user can position a first eye; and a secondary support capable of being intercalated between the scene and a second eye to be able to handle a close scene.

Abstract: A drive for machine components has at least one threaded spindle having spindle sections with oppositely oriented axial pitch. Nuts are seated on the at least one threaded spindle and engage the spindle sections, respectively. At least one motor is connected to the at least one threaded spindle for driving the at least one threaded spindle. A first one of the nuts is connected to a machine component. A second one of the nuts is spatially stationary. The at least one threaded spindle provides a drive moment for driving the machine component.

Abstract: The present invention pertains to a bead-weaving system comprising means for spacing apart a multiplicity of warp threads, each of said beads being pierced by a hole through their diameter and intended to be threaded on a weft thread by means of a needle and to be positioned between each warp thread

Abstract: A bead-weaving system including a multiplicity of beads for spacing apart a multiplicity of warp threads, wherein the beads are pierced by a hole in their diameter and threaded on a weft thread by a needle and positioned between each warp thread, the needle having a body including an end portion having an eye for passage of a weft thread and another end portion including a bead holder extending along the another end portion to hold the beads in selected positions along the another end portion and a point.

Abstract: A device enabling a user to reproduce an observed scene on a drawing board support including a first mirror; at least one second mirror, the mirrors being arranged to transmit an image from the support onto an eyepiece in front of which the user can position a first eye; and a secondary support capable of being intercalated between the scene and a second eye to be able to handle a close scene.

Abstract: The invention provides the nucleic acid sequence encoding the protein associated with familial Mediterranean fever (FMF). The cDNA sequence is designated as MEFV. The invention is also directed towards fragments of the DNA sequence, as well as the corresponding sequence for the RNA transcript and fragments thereof. Another aspect of the invention provides the amino acid sequence for a protein (pyrin) associated with FMF. The invention is directed towards both the full length amino acid sequence, fusion proteins containing the amino acid sequence and fragments thereof. The invention is also directed towards mutants of the nucleic acid and amino acid sequences associated with FMF. In particular, the invention discloses three missense mutations, clustered in within about 40 to 50 amino acids, in the highly conserved rfp (B30.2) domain at the C-terminal of the protein. These mutants include M6801, M694V, K695R, and V726A.

Abstract: In a method for stocking tool magazines of a device for machining workpieces, the device having at least a first spindle and a second spindle configured to be independently movable relative to one another at least in one axis, wherein the first and second spindles have correlated therewith at least a first tool magazine and a second tool magazine, respectively, workpiece machining is continued by the second spindle during stocking of the first tool magazine, and workpiece machining is continued by the first spindle during stocking of the second tool magazine. Alternatively, stocking the first and second tool magazines can be carried out simultaneously.

Abstract: A rotary machine element has at least one functional part performing movements into stop positions, which stop positions are nominal stop positions or mechanical terminal stop positions and are functionally correlated. At least one position sensor is provided for detecting individual actual position values of the stop positions independently from one another. At least one position sensor is located in a control path between the at least one functional part and an NC control. The control path is active in positions between the nominal stop positions; the mechanical terminal stop positions; or the nominal stop positions and the mechanical terminal stop positions. Based on acquired actual position values of the at least one functional part, the speed and acceleration of the at least one functional part are determined by NC-control.

Abstract: A drive for machine components has at least one threaded spindle having spindle sections with oppositely oriented axial pitch. Nuts are seated on the at least one threaded spindle and engage the spindle sections, respectively. At least one motor is connected to the at least one threaded spindle for driving the at least one threaded spindle. A first one of the nuts is connected to a machine component. A second one of the nuts is spatially stationary. The at least one threaded spindle provides a drive moment for driving the machine component.

Abstract: A bearing device for a threaded spindle has a bearing housing with at least one receptacle configured to receive a bearing part of the threaded spindle. The at least one receptacle is a clamping bushing securing the bearing part by electromechanical elements or fluid-operated elements. The clamping bushing has a wall that is elastically deformable by a pressure medium. The wall and the bearing housing define an annular chamber configured to receive the pressure medium. A control unit is provided to control the pressure of the pressure medium and thus the clamping action of the clamping bushing.

Abstract: A reversible cutting tip for a cutting tool has a cutting wedge defined by a first face and a first flank. The cutting wedge has a clearance angle of 0° to 3°. The first flank is produced by applying a first coating to the cutting tip and the first face is produced by applying a second coating to the cutting tip. The tool is employed for removing cuttings from a workpiece by the cutting tips and for subsequently smoothing the crack surface of the workpiece, created by removing the cuttings, by employing the first flanks.

Abstract: Drills, particularly rock drills, with a chisel shank and a drill head with at least one drill bit or tool bit on a face pointing in a feed direction have the tool bit formed of at least one cutting edge provided on the face side between a rake surface and a free surface with the rake surface being in the direction of rotation of the drill and being ahead of the cutting edge. The free surface has at least a portion which extends into the drill bit over at least one sub-area to form a concave depression.

Abstract: The invention relates to a lifting device for lifting heavy loads, e.g. derailed rail vehicles, for permanent or temporary installation, having at least one cylinder, in particular hydraulic cylinder, for actuating a mechanical ram, in which device cylinder 2 and ram 3 are separate from one another and the ram 3 is accommodated in a guide tube 4.

Abstract: A bearing device for a threaded spindle has a bearing housing with at least one receptacle configured to receive a bearing part of the threaded spindle. The at least one receptacle is a clamping bushing securing the bearing part by electromechanical elements or fluid-operated elements. The clamping bushing has a wall that is elastically deformable by a pressure medium. The wall and the bearing housing define an annular chamber configured to receive the pressure medium. A control unit is provided to control the pressure of the pressure medium and thus the clamping action of the clamping bushing.