Abstract: To permit high-temperature differential cross flow of an initially cool, heat absorbing medium and an initially hot, heat releasing medium, with temperature differences in the order of 1000.degree. and higher, and to prevent localized thermal overload, the heat exchanger is a two-stage heat exchanger, with plate packages (5, 6) which are serially passed by the media, typically gaseous media. The first package (5) forms a preheater stage and the second package (6) forms a final heater stage. Connecting ducts (9, 10) are provided and so arranged that the initially hot fluid medium is conducted through flow channels in the second heater stage which receives heat absorbing medium which has already passed through the preheater stage, so that it has already been preheated, thereby reducing the temperature difference between the preheated heat absorbing medium and the initially hot, heat releasing medium.

Abstract: A hearth for use in a furnace, which comprises an upper layer of magnesia containing chromic oxide, a lower layer containing graphite and an organic bonding agent, and an intermediate layer of a mixture of the materials forming the upper and lower layers. The hearth is particularly useful in DC arc funaces, in which steel rods embedded in the bottom act as the anode. The hearth has improved service durability.

Abstract: In order to make possible precisely controlled and reliable operation of the rotors of a neutron chopper each rotor is to be driven by a hysteresis motor, whose rotor is in the form of a hollow cylinder. The attachment of each drive rotor to the one end of the rotor is by way of a non-magnetic disk or ring which is screwed to the lower end of the rotor or the top end thereof in accordance with the design. The drive rotor is only shrunk onto the disk or ring. The stator placed around the drive rotor is embedded within the neutron chopper housing in an electrically insulating cast material which is not affected by high vacuum and radiation.

Abstract: An air-compressing, self-ignition or spark-ignition, four-stroke internal combustion engine having direct fuel injection, turbo-charging, and load-dependent exhaust gas recirculation which is effected, at least in certain operating ranges, by intervention in the gas change system. In order to prevent weakening of the air swirl energy (charge swirl energy) by exhaust gas recirculation at low load in such an internal combustion engine, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, to obtain assisted cylinder scavenging at higher loads, the intake valve is briefly opened during the exhaust stroke. The opening of the intake valve occurs no earlier than 30 degress crank angle after gas-change bottom dead center, and the highest lift is between 15 and 30% of the maximun intake valve lift; and, at the latest, when the exhaust valve closes (shortly before gas change top dead center).

Abstract: An electronic control method and apparatus for controlling the sloughing strokes in sloughing machines for coal and other minerals, has a stroke frequency generator which supplies recurrent signal codes to parallel-connected inlet and outlet stroke generators. Power amplifiers are connected to the stroke generators for amplifying command pulses therefrom, the pulses being supplied to inlet and outlet valves of the machine. A signal code is supplied from the stroke frequency generator through a divisor in a freely selectable clock sequence to the outlet stroke generator or alternatively the divisor releases the command pulse from the outlet stroke generator to the outlet valve in a freely selectable clock sequence.

Abstract: In a discharge device for heavy matter discharge in settling machines for the processing of coal or other mineral raw materials by means of a bottom drain with variable opening cross-section actuated by a device for sensing the heavy matter layer, at least two bottom drains arranged one behind the other in flow direction are actuated simultaneously by a single sensing device.

Abstract: The invention relates to gravity-closing tongs for handling steel ingots, slabs, and similar products. The tongs include two legs, each of which has two arms which are supported, in a tongs housing, on pivots disposed horizontally and transversely to the plane in which the tongs legs move. The lower arms of the tongs legs are provided with gripping pins or similar devices, and the upper arms are hinged to links of equal length. An adjusting device permits axial displacement of the tongs pivots and an accumulator intensifies the force with which the tongs gripping pins are applied. In order to minimize the investment for intensifying the contact pressure of the tongs gripping pins and to mitigate impacts or shocks on the drive of the adjusting device(s), the accumulator includes two horizontally acting force-accumulating elements (compression springs) which are each arranged between the upper end of the corresponding tongs leg and the extreme end of the corresponding link.

Abstract: An arrangement for increasing the roll stability of rail vehicles equipped with air suspension. Two air spring bellows having integrated emergency springs of a first bogie are controlled by a respective leveling valve. In addition to these bellows, a roll stabilizer is provided, so that in the vicinity of the first bogie, the car body, when viewed in the horizontal direction, is nearly parallel to this bogie. So that when track twist is encountered, the second bogie can swing relative to the car body, only one of the air spring bellows of this bogie is controlled by a third leveling valve disposed in the center of the car body, while the other air spring bellows is connected via an equalizing line with one of the air spring bellows of the first bogie. A central emergency spring extends concentrically around the center pivot of the second bogie.

Abstract: Method and device for measuring two orthogonal electromagnetic field components using a cross coil and for evaluating the components in the distance measurement in electronically course-steered vehicles (13). For rapid and ensured detection of malfunctions of the distance measuring system, use is made of an antenna effecting concurrent positionally and timewise measurements, and with the coils each consisting of bifilar or trifilar coil wires representing a redundant measuring system. A monitoring unit is used to continuously compare the signals generated by the various wires of the antenna when scanning the magnetic field. When a malfunction occurs in one of the channels, vehicle steering control is continued by the respective other channel and the defect is indicated via the monitoring unit. As monitoring signals, use can also be made of direct currents superimposed in the coils.

Abstract: In an automatic control method for reduction in the level of contaminants emitted by a gas engine, the automatic control process is orientated in accordance with the reference point at which lambda is equal to unity and enriches the mixture after detecting this point by a certain step. Subsequently the instantaneous probe potential is measured and used by an automatic control circuit as a set point, which so affects the actuator for setting the air ratio that the probe potential is kept constant at this set point. The automatic control system in keeping with the invention reacts immediately in response to a disturbance and does not have to wait until a renewed search for the reference point takes place.

Abstract: A thermally insulating piston for internal combustion engines is provided on the piston crown or in its dished combustion space portion with a thermally insulating liner which on the side thereof facing the combustion space consists entirely of a ceramic material, and which on the side thereof facing the piston crown or its dished combustion space portion has a metallic or metal-ceramic material fused with the piston metal.

Abstract: A vertically adjustable emergency support for the bodies of, for example, rail vehicles. Due to wear of the wheel tires, the bogie frame and the car body supported on it tend to descend. In the case of emergency supports in the region of the center pivot, where access is difficult, it is proposed, in order to compensate for this drop, to connect the striker plate which faces an emergency spring at a distance "w" to a box underneath which as vertically guided via guide elements on sliding-contact liners of a cut-out in the bogie frame. If the distance "w" increases due to wear of the wheel tires, an adjustment has to be made by raising the box via a plate connected to the center pivot. Plates of a thickness which compensates for the wear are inserted between the box and abutments which are connected to the bogie frame. After securing the plates via bolts, the car body is lowered again, whereupon the distance "w" is restored.

Abstract: In order to perform an ice-breaking operation more readily or with a defined geometry, an ice breaking aid is employed by virtue of which the ice is irradiated with high-frequency oscillations such as phonons or photons prior to the ice-breaking operation proper.

Abstract: A reactor comprises a vertically elongated cylindrical housing with at least one bottom in the housing which supports a catalyst bed which is permeable to gas and through which heat exchanger tubes extend. The construction includes a cylindrical wall within the housing which encloses the catalyst. The housing is constructed so that a cover thereof may be removed to lift the bottom together with the cylindrical wall and the catalyst bed with the tubes out of the housing. The cylindrical wall is advantageously formed by finned tubes. The construction advantageously includes upper and lower header portions and the heat exchanger tubes which extend through the bed are bent at each end and extend into these headers. In an alternate embodiment, the reactor has more than one bottom at spaced vertical locations. Coolant is advantageously supplied through one of the headers of the heat exchanger tubes, for example, a lower one for exit out through the upper one.

Abstract: A differential holographic method and arrangement for measuring and testing the changing conditions of objects or articles, in which there are taken intermediate holograms of an unflawed reference object, and from which there are employed the reconstructed object waves of the reference object in order to illuminate the test object for a holographic exposure. Two reference beams record two intermediate holograms of the reference object on one holographic plate, and successively illuminate the test object with the reconstructed object wave fields from the intermediate holograms with utilization of the associated conjugated reference beams.

Abstract: A fresh-gas intake system for engines with combination supercharging, i.e. exhaust gas turbocharging combined with resonance supercharging. The object is to improve such a system so as to make it very compact. On the one hand, the otherwise usual plenum tank is omitted, and on the other hand the incorporation of the resonance pipes in the integral unit, as well as the supply of the fresh gas, is improved. This is essentially achieved in that at least one resonance tank is formed with such a length that it extends over all of the inlet port openings of all of the in-line cylinders, and in that the fresh gas supplied by the turbocharger is delivered via a supply cover into the resonance pipes.

Abstract: Method and arrangement for the functional testing of computers used in the control of processes. A data word signal generated by the computer is compared in a comparator with a test word of the same bit length generated by a pseudo-random number generator. When the two words are completely coincident, the comparator issues a trigger pulse to two non-retriggerable monoflops which provide a time frame and the function of which is acknowledged dynamically to the computer through an acknowledgement line, which provides a shift clock pulse for the pseudo-random number generator upon the lapse of the window frame. When a fault arises in the computer or in the check unit, an alarm unit is triggered through an NOR gate to transfer the process into a defined safe state. All faults in the check unit itself can be detected by the computer through acknowledgement lines.

Abstract: A common coolant circuit for cooling an internal combustion engine, on the one hand, and the charge air and possibly other media, on the other hand. In order to achieve a constant positive flow through the charge air cooler (intercooler) of a coolant which is at a low temperature level of 45.degree. C. or less and, respectively, to ensure rapid heating of the engine after cold starting, a single four-way thermostat incorporating a double valve is provided. In the cold starting mode, the valve causes a bypass operation of the coolant in the cooling jacket of the engine and the coolant in the common cooling circuit, in conjunction with a separate coolant pump for each. In the hot operating mode, the valve controls circulation of a pre-determined coolant flow in the cooling circuit. The thermostat element of the thermostat is constantly exposed, during this process, to a pre-determined coolant flow from the cooling jacket of the engine (more specifically the coolant outlet of the engine).

Abstract: A simple-to-construct noise-isolated fastening of an oil sump to a crankcase using an intermediate layer of elastic material. In this concept, the oil sump and crankcase are not connected by screws or bolts, but by spring clips which are lined with soft elastic material and which, in the connected condition, elastically engage shaped connecting flanges of the crankcase and oil sump.

Abstract: A method for operating a reactor for producing synthesis gas, wherein, after gas treatment, a part of the waste heat of the gas production is recycled by subjecting the fly ash-free, cooled synthesis gas to a high-temperature conversion, cooling it again, compressing it, scrubbing it and reheating it, and returning it after partial oxidation into the continuous process.