Abstract: A device for extending supply lines to winning machines in mining operations comprises a traction chain housing which includes a covered guide for a traction member such as an endless conveyor chain. The traction member rides in the housing and is preferably covered thereby both in respect to its upper and lower reaches. A supply line support bar is secured to the traction members at spaced locations along its length for movement therewith and has a forked support extending outwardly from the housing which has one leg portion defining a support over which the supply lines are laid and another leg portion covering the supply lines. The device may be made with an endless chain conveyor which has upper and lower reaches as well as a chain conveyor having side by side reaches and in each case the housing or a cover for the housing provides for the lateral extension of the forked portion of the supply line support bar.

Abstract: A sea anchoring system for anchoring floating sea stations to a sea bed floor such as on a foundation or a stay block comprises a tension member connected between a floating station and the sea bed foundation or block with a plurality of tension members connected between the bed foundation and the floating station through universal joints. The universal joints include an assembly comprising an inner spherical body and an outer spherical body arranged over and slightly embracing the inner spherical body. The outer spherical body includes an opening on one side and a pin connected to the inner spherical body and extends through this opening and is connected, for example, to the foundation or to the floating body. The outer spherical body has a connection for example to the tension member. The inner and outer spherical bodies have spherical surfaces facing each other and at least one of these surfaces has a lining of a material which permits sliding interengagement with a minimum friction and wear.

Abstract: In a shaft seal having a radial plane seal ring gap and comprising a seal ring rotating with a shaft, and a non-rotating seal ring mounted on a housing of the seal through an element which is elastically yielding in every direction and serves as a packing at the same time, the sealing fluid flows into the sealing gap through supply bores and through associated distributing pockets which are provided in the non-rotating seal ring and/or at the outer or inner circumference of the rotating seal ring. Sensors for measuring the sealing gap are provided in the non-rotating seal ring on the gap side. By means of the measured values, electromagnets disposed in the seal housing to face each other and cooperating with opposite magnetizable bodies provided in the non-rotating seal ring, are electronically controlled to maintain a predetermined constant small width of the seal gap.

Abstract: An oil pump arrangement for the pressure oil supply for internal combustion engines, especially a gear oil pump, which includes impeller gears housed in a pump housing. The gears are driven by the internal combustion engine and the pump housing is connected with a suction pipe and a pressure pipe. The pump housing is arranged in an unmachined recess provided at the side of the timing gears in the crankcase. The pump housing is open on the side of the driving means for the impeller gears and is flanged to the timing gear case of the internal combustion engine. The timing gear case forms the closure of the pump housing and the recess, and at least the driving means for the impeller gears is supported in the timing gear case.

Abstract: A device for feeding welding wire in a submerged arc welding operation in which there is a narrow gap between workpieces which are to be welded together comprises a guide support having a plurality of spaced apart welding wire straightening roller assemblies mounted thereon which are in a position at selected angles relative to each other around and in engagement with the welding wire and which define a feed guide path for the passage of the welding wire between the rollers of each assembly. A welding head is pivotally mounted on a support for pivotal movement transverse to the welding direction and the head includes a welding guide and a carrying guide which together define tongs of the head which are mounted on the support for pivotal movement toward and away from each other. Tongs carry a plurality of guide shoes which define a continuing guide path for the welding wire received from the welding wire feed guide and deliver it to the welding zone between the workpieces.

Abstract: An oil burner for installation in heating or steam-raising boilers. The ber has downstream of an oil atomization device a plate having a single opening or a plurality of openings arranged in a ring coaxially of the oil atomising device, the plate opening or openings being the only throughway for combustion air. A mixing tube is arranged coaxially at a distance downstream of the plate. The mixing tube has a diameter greater than the diameter of the single opening or of a circle which encloses the plurality of openings in the plate. A flame tube positioned coaxially around the mixing tube has a length such that the flow of combustion gases downstream of the mixing tube is applied against the internal wall of the flame tube. To enable the burner alternatively to be used for burning gaseous fuel at will, an annular chamber for the supply of a gaseous fuel and having gas outlet openings in the region of the plate opening or openings is also provided downstream of and close to the plate.

Abstract: A seal device for a shaft rotating with respect to a housing comprises a rotating seal ring having opposite radial side surfaces and a circumferential end surface. The rotating seal ring is connected for co-rotation with the shaft. A non-rotating seal ring is non-rotatably connected to the housing over a yielding packing element and surrounds at least a portion of the rotating seal ring to define axial plane sealing gaps and an annular circumferential gap. Sealing fluid is pumped to each gap over bores communicating with the radial plane gaps. An electromagnet is connected to the housing and attracts or repels magnetic material in a radially extending portion of the non-rotating seal ring for regulating the width of each radial plane gap. Electromagnet is connected over a control unit to a sensor for sensing each gap, to maintain a selected gap width for each gap by regulating the activation of the electromagnet. The non-rotating seal ring is also slidable within a smooth sleeve connected to the housing.

Abstract: An electric furnace or electric arc or resistance melting furnaces comprises a housing with a refractory lining which defines a furnace hearth in the housing and with a plurality of electrodes extending through the refractory having one of their ends terminating in the hearth and the opposite ends extending out of the housing. A plate is arranged in spaced relationship to the housing on its exterior and is connected to the opposite ends of the electrodes. The plate is arranged to define a cooling space outside of the housing which surrounds the electrodes. A cooling fluid is circulated into the cooling space and over the electrodes.

Abstract: In a ball joint accessible for inspection and connecting the service tower of an offshore station to the foundation on the sea bottom, one side of a spherical joint part is firmly connected through a neck to the foot of the tower, and the other side of the spherical part is mounted for universal motion within a joint casing which is anchored to the foundation. The two parts of the joint are connected to each other by a tension member. The spherical joint part is seated on exchangeable supporting bearings 11 which are provided within the joint casing and are well accessible. The top of the joint casing is formed by a cover ring having a collar designed as a spherical zone. From above, the ball joint is sealed and protected by a spherical cap in which an air cushion is maintained. The gap between the cover ring and the spherical joint part is sealed by a stuffing box.

Abstract: A device is disclosed for cutting two parallel partially intersecting bores, such as the bores used in a screw type compressor housing, comprising, a device housing, a pair of spindles rotatably mounted to the housing and a tool holder connected near the end of each spindle. The spindles are engaged with each other through gears so that rotation of one spindle in one direction causes rotation of the other spindle in opposite direction. A drive shaft is connected to one of the spindles for rotating the pair of spindles simultaneously. Each tool holder is elongated along a major tool holder axis thereof which is substantially transverse to an axis of its associated spindle. The major axes of the two tool holders are always substantially perpendicular to each other so that free rotation of the two spindles, in opposite directions is possible.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for controlling the travel speed of automatic welding machines uses a rotatable member which is engaged with the workpiece as the workpiece is moved relative to the welding head. The rotatable member advantageously includes one or more apertures on one side of which light is directed and the opposite side of which light pulses are received during rotation of the member and these pulses are used as an indication of the speed of the welding machine. In the preferred apparatus a separate frictional member is frictionally engaged with the workpiece and moved by the movement of the workpiece relative to the welding head and through suitable gearing drives the rotatable member having the aperture.

Abstract: The universal joint construction for use at the bottom of a connection between a surface platform and a foundation anchored on the bottom of the sea comprises an outer top ball cup which is adapted to be connected up to the platform and an inner bottom ball cup disposed within the outer top ball cup enclosing the bottom thereof. The inner ball cup has an exterior in slidable engagement with the interior of the outer ball cup and a bell forming an enclosed pressure space is defined between the exterior of the upper cup and the bottom cup. In addition a ring seal bearing is defined between the inner bottom ball cup and the outer top ball cup adjacent the edge of the outer top ball cup. The interior of the bottom ball cup carries a plurality of shoes which bear in sliding engagement with the interior of the top ball cup.

Abstract: An articulated vehicle such as, a bus having a lead car and a trailer coupled to each other through the intermediary of a central ball joint in the central longitudinal plane of the vehicle. The central ball joint transmits only horizontal forces between the lead car and the trailer and can therefore be supported through comparatively lightweight elements which require little space. The transmission of vertical forces between the lead car and trailer is effected through arms located on both sides of the joint. A cardan shaft is extended along the longitudinal center plane of the articulated vehicle from the lead car to the trailer.

Abstract: A sealing system is intended for wet cylinder liners and having a flange seat on the crankcase of internal combustion engines. Sealing rings are respectively provided in the recess and in an annular groove arranged in the area of the upper guiding portion of the liner. The annular groove should not reduce the length of the guiding portion by more than 40%. In this manner, salt crystals forming as cooling water evaporates are prevented from penetrating up to the top sealing ring, so that this ring will not be corroded, and its sealing action is maintained.

Abstract: Strut of a tubular wrapping of reinforcing fibers in a synthetic resin on a core, with two rounded tension end caps, the wrapping terminating on the rounded portions thereof, and with respectively one compression cap on an outer peg of each tension end cap and around the rounded section of the wrapping, in which strut the wrapping has longitudinal fibers extended over the rounded portions about pins affixed thereat and oriented obliquely toward the outside, and the core is a fiber-reinforced synthetic-resin pipe respectively attached on an inner peg of the tension peg for the concomitant absorption of the longitudinal compression or the longitudinal compression and longitudinal tension.

Abstract: A flow machine particularly a superheated gas turbine comprises a housing with a rotor disposed in the housing for rotation therein and sealed at each end with the housing by a labyrinth seal. The construction includes rotor shaft bearings which rotatably support the shafts and which are supported by bearing blocks disposed on the foundation. The housing and the shaft are mounted relative to each other by means of fluid pressure operated cushions adjacent each end of the shaft and adjacent the labyrinth seal so as to maintain the shafts and the seals with a predetermined clearance.

Abstract: A resilient sealing frame having two continuous slots, one for accommodating the periphery of a vehicle window and the other for accommodating a web projecting from the vehicle body into the vehicle opening which accommodates the window. One wall of each slot has a continuous groove, and a pair of closely spaced-apart holes extend from each groove to the exterior surface of the sealing frame. Each groove is flanked by prominent sealing lips which seal against a surface of its respective window or web. The short length of each groove between the pair of holes is plugged, such as with a resilient cord. Fluid cement is injected into one of the holes of each pair; the cement flows through the long length of each groove and when it reaches the other hole of the pair, further injection of cement is terminated, since the groove has been completely filled.

Abstract: An improved device for regulating the output a compressor arrangement in which a regulator is connected to a throttled balancing pipe interconnected between the suction and the discharge of the compressor arrangement.

Abstract: To save space in furnace installations and obtain an optimum continuous charging, an arrangement is disclosed in which electric smelting furnaces are arranged in a furnace bay unilaterally, close to the adjacent ladle bay and the associated charging equipment and bins are provided sequentially in a vertical zone between the crane runways of the two bays. Bins are filled with iron material, such as iron sponge, alloying mechanisms, and fluxing substances by a conveyor traveling thereabove. The contents of bins are delivered through conveying and metering devices which are provided between crane runways to a reversible conveyor extending at a lower level and equipped with discharge mechanisms and fed through a charging tube 1 into electric furnace. A traveling metering device is provided for adding alloying into the furnace, and fluxing material for subsequent treatment in the ladle, through charging tube. A housing encloses the furnace on all sides, to prevent emissions.

Abstract: The invention sets forth a method and apparatus for improving the injection and mixture of fuel and air in air-compressing combustion engines. The fuel is admitted into a rotationally symmetrical combustion chamber in such a manner that all droplets of the fuel stream are finely atomized at all speed and/or load ranges of the engine, and that the complete spray on entering the combustion chamber is so broken up that, from the combustion chamber wall to a point approximately one third of the combustion chamber radius, the broken-up spray matches the combustion chamber geometry, the injection of the fuel being effected in such a manner as to match the velocity and/or density distribution of the combustion air which rotates in the combustion chamber.