Abstract: An arrangement for controlling the addition of liquid in the cleaning of containers, especially of milk tanks, has a circulating pump operative for circulating a cleaning liquid withdrawn from a lower part of the container and again sprayed into the container at a higher part thereof, a measuring path flanked by two measuring electrodes directly introduced into the measuring path and incorporated into the circulating arrangement, so that the continuous variations of the electric resistance of the liquid column flowing through the tubular measuring path during the circulation are sensed by the measuring electrodes and transmitted as signals to a control element which converts the signals to a further signal which actuates a closing valve arranged at a liquid inlet conduit.

Abstract: The invention relates to a holding-down apparatus for a deep-drawing press. It is known for the deep-drawing of particularly heavy platines that the holding-down of the platine by the holding plate is of very great significance for the quality of the workpiece. The setting of the respective correct holding-down forces is decisive for whether the workpiece is flat and without folds or tears at the drawing flange and at the deformation zone when it comes out of the deep-drawing press. A too high holding force hinders the reduction of the workpiece diameter which is derived from the stroke of the deep-drawing and overloads therefore the vicinity of the border of the deformation zone. A too low holding-down force leads to the formation of folds.