Abstract: A truck, especially a large capacity vehicle or tractor semi-trailer combination including a motor-steering unit, which essentially includes the motor, the transmission, the axles, the wheels, and where applicable, a fifth wheel for a semi-trailer; a payload carrier or semi-trailer; and at least one vehicle control cab. The vehicle control cab and other additional structures respectively form separate units which are arranged on top of one another in any desired order and are firmly interconnected. The lowermost respective unit may be mounted on the motor-steering unit.

Abstract: A resonance torsional vibration damper, especially a multi-member vibration damper which includes a primary member including one, preferably a plurality of, fixedly interconnected parts and arranged on a shaft or crankshaft. The damper furthermore includes one or more secondary members arranged adjacent to each other in axial direction but spaced from each other and by means of elastic members connected to the primary member. In the primary part there are provided cooling air openings which lead outwardly and into the region of the secondary members. At the free end face or end faces of one or more secondary members there are provided preferably radially outwardly leading cooling fins.

Abstract: A valve element is formed with a groove or notch in the region of the valve seat. The valve element is then introduced into a crucible pot which has the outer shape of the valve, when coated, and a cover is placed thereover completing the shape of the valve, when coated. Granular coating material, for example "Colmonoy 6" (0.75% C, 4.25% Si, 13 to 20% Cr. remainder Ni, 4.75% Fe and 3% B), is placed on the valve element, the cover is then placed thereover, leaving a small gap of the thickness of the coating around the valve element. The assembly is then subjected to vacuum, about 10.sup.-6 -10.sup.-7 torr, and heated to liquefaction temperature of the armor-coating material, which will fill the space between the valve element and the crucible pot and cover, thus coating the valve element with a thin coating therearound, and a thick layer in the region of the groove of the valve element, which may be in the order of millimeters, whereas the remainder may be in the order of thousandths of a millimeter.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a fiber-reinforced plastic body of irregular geometrical shape including winding a ring of fibers such that different sections of the ring around its periphery correspond in contour to sections of the body. The sections of the ring are cut from the remainder of the ring, and the sections joined together, such as by bonding to each other, to form the final body. The cut sections may be mechanically processed before joining them together. The fibers run approximately parallel to the outer contour of the finished body.

Abstract: To provide for engagement between adjacent bearer rings throughout their entire engagement line or surface, in spite of slight misalignment or tilting of the actual axis of rotation of the shaft of the printing cylinder with which the bearer ring is associated, the bearer ring is located on the shaft of the printing cylinder with a slightly spherical engagement surface, preferably by attaching a hub to the shaft having a slightly convex outer surface which matches a slightly concave inner surface of the bearer ring. Preferably, a shock-absorbing, wear-resistant elastic material is interposed between the respective engagement surfaces. To permit alignment of the bearer ring with respect to the cylinder, and exact concentricity, eccentric alignment pins are provided, engaging the bearer ring and the end face of the printing cylinder, at least three such attachment arrangements being located circumferentially on the end face of the printing cylinder, and bearer ring, respectively.

Abstract: The invention relates to a drive arrangement for a changeable satellite printing mechanism of a rotary printing machine in which at least two main subject matter printing cylinders, that is, cylinders directly carrying subject matter to be printed, or transfer cylinders, can be selectively engaged with a common counter cylinder or with each other, in which arrangement the main subject matter printing cylinders can be selectively coupled with the counter cylinder or with each other while maintaining registry by selective teeth engagement of one or two sets of cylinder gears secured to the drive shafts of the printing cylinders, and at least one of the two subject matter cylinders is rotatable about a predetermined angle upon shifting of their drive shafts.

Abstract: In a cabin for trucks with trailer-fixtures, a first sleeping-berth is arranged behind and between the seats on the rear wall of the cabin pivotally about a horizontal pin. A second sleeping-berth is provided, that is conveyable from an operational position next to the first sleeping-berth to a horizontal storing position above the first sleeping-berth. A linkage for moving the second berth comprises two cantilevers that are pivotally fixed to the cabin about a horizontal pin and hold the second sleeping-berth at the lateral sides thereof.

Abstract: An elongated carrier or holder 11, in the form of an elongated, hollow channel profile, is screwed to the frame 2 of the printing machine. The carrier 11 is formed with a long slot 15 through which clamping bolts 17, 18, attached to clamping plates 16 internally of the channel 11, can pass. The clamping bolts clamp individual supports 19 to the channel, adjustable longitudinally of the machine and up and down since the slot is wider than the side of the bolts, the supports each carrying a synchronous motor 27, and a gear train 26, 24 meshing with gear 23 attached to the adjustment screws 7. A stop 28 prevents excessive travel. The connecting cable for the motors is located within the channel.

Abstract: A bus arranged in accordance with the present invention permits the boarding level to be minimized at bus stops without unduly reducing the ground clearance to be maintained during operation. When supporting struts are being extended at a bus stop, the bus will tilt forward about a horizontal transverse axis extending through these supporting points, so that the distance between the bus body and the roadway will considerably decrease in the forward portion of the bus. Short-circuiting the air suspension bellows of front and rear axles prevents the air bellows from countering the down-movement of the bus body with a restoring force. When passengers have boarded, the bus is restored to its horizontal position by retracting the supporting struts, with the air from the air bellows of the rear axle flowing back to the front axle.

Abstract: A heat exchanger for indirect recooling of a heat transfer medium, such as water, by air. The heat transfer medium has a relatively high heat transfer coefficient compared to that of air. The heat exchanger has two substantially parallel end walls or plates which are provided with holes. Associated with these end walls are side walls which are provided with inlet and outlet means for the heat transfer medium. Non-finned tubes with air flowing therethrough are disposed between the end walls and are sealed thereagainst.

Abstract: A fuel injector for air-compressing, direct-injection internal combustion engines. The injector essentially comprises a nozzle body, a hollow nozzle needle which is axially displaceable therein, and a second nozzle needle which is displaceable within said hollow nozzle needle. The two nozzle needles are controlled in such a way that in the lower speed and/or load range of the internal combustion engine, initially only one nozzle needle opens to release one or some of the spray holes, while the full fuel injection, which may be in different directions, occurs only at full load by opening the other nozzle needle. One of the spray holes is coaxial with the longitudinal axis of the injector, and in the closed and partly opened state of the injector, a pin of the second nozzle needle extends into this hole with clearance.

Abstract: To permit replacement of a cylinder bearer ring without disassembly of the respective cylinder from the printing machine, the cylinder bearer ring is constructed as a composite element assembled of two parts 1, 9; one of the parts has a central, generally U-shaped cut-out to surround the shaft of the associated cylinder, the width of the cut-out being at least as large as the width of the diameter of the shaft; the other part, 9, fits into the cut-out and is formed with a central part-circular recess to surround the shaft. The two parts 1, 9, when interfitted, surround the shaft and form a continuous circular outline and thus a continuous bearer ring. The parts are secured together by bolts.

Abstract: A fuel injector for internal combustion engines having an axially slidable nozzle needle capable of being lifted off its sealing seat by pressure of fuel against at least one spring and having a control pintle below the sealing seat sliding in a blind-hole recess is provided with the improvement comprising a cavity starting immediately below the sealing seat and formed as an eccentric widening extending parallel to the blind-hole type recess, said spray holes opening into said blind-hole type recess and the cross sectional areas of the nozzle seat gap and the cavity at each position of the needle nozzle are greater than the cross sectional area of the at least one spray hole uncovered at any time by the movement of the control pintle.

Abstract: A method for preventing undesirable heat losses in a cooling system for liquid-cooled vehicular internal-combustion engines by affecting the flow at the connections of the lines to and from the header tank of the cooling system by measures commonly practiced in flow engineering such that the pressure will be the same at the inlet and the outlet of the header tank, so that with the thermostat closed no coolant is allowed to flow through the header tank and on through the radiator. With a cooling system having an engine vent line which connects to the header tank this method produces, by affecting the flow in the engine vent area and with the engine running and the thermostat closed, a pressure at the connecting point of the vent line for engine venting which is equal to that prevailing at the entry of the vent line to the header tank.

Abstract: To permit slight tilting adjustment of a bearer ring with respect to the shaft of an associated printing cylinder upon interposition of a layer of resilient, shock-absorbent, wear-resistant material between the shaft and the shaft-receiving opening of the bearer ring, and to allow for inaccuracies of fit due to this elastic insert, the bearer ring is formed with openings therethrough in alignment with similar openings formed in the end face of the associated cylinder, exact positioned alignment between the bearer ring and the printing cylinder being obtained by introducing adjustment pins through these openings, the adjustment pins having relatively eccentrically offset sections in the bores of the bearer ring and the printing cylinder so that, upon rotation of the eccenter pins, exact concentricity of the bearer ring and the printing cylinder can be obtained.

Abstract: To provide for automatic threading of a paper web throughout an entire printing press equipped with a press threading mechanism, and also over the folding former thereof, two paper guide baffles are located at the back side of the folding former extending in converging direction from the edges of the former to the tip thereof and up to the nip between a pair of take-up rollers located below, and adjacent the tip of the former. Air pressure differential generating means, typically air blast nozzles are directed towards the guide baffles to generate an under pressure adjacent to surfaces thereof which will pull paper downwardly into the nip between the take-up rollers. The take-up rollers themselves have a knurled, or ribbed surface and are driven by air blasts directed against the ribbing of the surface, to move paper which is guided over the folding former by the air blasts away and through the former mechanism.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for the nickel-plating of components, in which the finished component, which is to be nickel-plated, is heated to a temperature between 150.degree. and 200.degree. C. and is at the same time subjected to a continuously flowing gas stream containing nickeltetracarbonyl (Ni(CO).sub.4) and an entrainment gas. In this procedure nickel is constantly desposited from the gas phase on the heated surface from the gas stream which continuously flows around the finished component and consists of an entrainment gas and nickeltetracarbonyl. The nickel coating produced by this procedure adheres well, given normal pre-cleaning, and is practically seal-tight even in very thin coating thicknesses (0.1-1.mu.).

Abstract: The rear radially extending component of a radial flow turbine or compressor rotor is centered on a cylindrical surface spaced from the common shaft, on which the rotor is wedged by a tapered sleeve, by an extension of one component fitting into a recess in the other, but this cylindrical surface is not required to transfer any torque, because that is transferred from the forwardly extending component to the radially extending component by ridges of one fitting into radial grooves of the other near the base of the vanes. Greater thermal expansion of the radially extending component is accommodated by the claw ridge slipping radially in its groove.

Abstract: A method of and apparatus for use in connection with alloying, inoculating, and deoxidizing cast iron melts produced in a cupola furnace. An additive, for instance electrode graphite, is continuously added in fine granular form to the surface of the molten iron by means of a dosing device and connecting pipe, the mouth of which is located above the surface of the melt. The additive is added to the molten iron in the furnace channel after the molten iron has left the cupola siphon. Turbulence is imparted to the molten iron in the furnace channel by means of turbulence-inducing element located therein. The additive is added at a rate of between 0.1 and 0.6 percent by weight.