Abstract: Constant speed joint assembly comprising an inner joint body member, an outer joint body member and at least two rolling elements arranged therebetween capable of transmitting a torque which engage in an inner arcuate groove in the inner joint body member curved in a longitudinal direction about a center of curvature lying on the axis of rotation of the inner joint body member and in an outer groove in the outer joint body member lying radially opposite the inner joint body member curved in a longitudinal direction about a center of curvature offset in a longitudinal direction on the axis of rotation of the outer joint body member in relation to the radius of curvature of the mating inner groove and control means maintaining the rolling elements in a plane bisecting the angle between the axes of rotation during angular movement of the axes of rotation of the two joint body members, said inner joint body member having a centric cavity, said control means comprising a control body mounted in said cavity having

Abstract: A draw frame for spinning machine is provided with a blocking mechanism movable into a position between the upper and lower feed rollers in the event of yarn breakage, to lift the roving from contact with the driven rollers. The blocking member is mounted on a rail, extending parallel to a load arm on which the upper rollers are mounted. Both load arm and the bearing arm rail are swivelably mounted. Each of the bearing rails are arranged so that they are weighted by the supporting arm, when placed in the operating position, by a resilient member acting on a connecting member between the bearing rails.

Abstract: A tool assembly comprising a support base having a plurality of longitudinally oriented guideways disposed next to one another in a common clamping plane and at least one tool holder which is adjustably mounted along the guideways and can be secured in the guideways by clamping means, characterized in that the guideways are formed by a plurality of rib-like projections in the base defining a series of grooves arranged in at least two groups at each end of the support base and the clamping means are formed by at least one holding projection of the tool holder which engages in a groove of the two groups whereby the holding projections of the one group and the holding projections of the other group are arranged mutually adjustable to one another by adjusting means against the sidewalls forming the grooves in the base.

Abstract: A support for a tension roller is comprised of two cup-shaped sleeves, oriented with their open ends in the same direction, and with an inner one of the cup-shaped sleeves extending into the other of the cup-shaped sleeves. The outer end of the inner cup-shaped sleeve is outwardly flanged, to define a clamp between the flange and the open end of the other cup-shaped sleeve for holding the inner ring of the tension roller bearing. The bottoms of the two cup-shaped sleeves are initially spaced, and are drawn together upon tightening of a mounting screw extending therethrough into a machine frame, in order to clamp the inner bearing ring between the flange and the open end of the other cup-shaped sleeve.

Abstract: A system for measuring the variation in the capacitance of a bearing installed on a shaft in a housing. It is shown to include an electrically conductive measuring ring interposed between the bearing and the housing, an insulating layer surrounding the measuring ring wherein the insulating layer between the bearing and the measuring ring is considerably thinner than the remaining portion of the insulating layer, and measuring means connected to the measuring ring and the shaft to measure the variations in the capacitance of the bearing. In such a system, capacitance measurements are made without significant interference from the capacitance existing between the housing and the shaft.

Abstract: A ball bearing for lengthwise and rotational movement on a shaft has circumferentially distributed endless rows of balls. It consists of an outer sleeve with an axially extending cylindrical race in its bore for the loaded balls of each row and a sleeve-shaped cage rotatably arranged in the bore of the outer sleeve. The cage has axially extending races for the loaded and unloaded balls and these guides are interconnected in pairs by semi-circular shaped radially outwardly open turnaround races. An axially extending return recess for the unloaded balls of each row is machined between each pair of cylindrical races, either in the cylindrical bore of the outer sleeve or on the cylindrical shaft. In order to avoid contact wear of the balls in the turnaround races upon turning movement of the shaft, the cage is held at its two ends by an end ring having an outer section radially covering the turnaround guides of the cage.

Abstract: The invention refers to a conveyor incorporating a conveyor belt (1) which runs in a track on a girder (2). The girder (2) is at one or both sides provided with two longitudinal, open ducts (4, 5) which are situated one inside the other and which both can be reached from the outside of the girder (2). Hereby the girder sections can easily be interconnected by means of mounting moldings (8) in one of the ducts (4) at the same time as railings (7) or the like can be mounted in the other duct (5).

Abstract: An hydraulically operated clutch release has an annular piston hydraulically moveable in an annular chamber. A felt ring is mounted on a shoulder of the piston away from the chamber, to engage the bore surface of the chamber, and a holding ring is snapped onto the end of the shoulder to hold the felt ring on the shoulder. An extension of the holding ring forms a seal with the bore on the chamber, and defines, with the felt ring a dust catching recess.

Abstract: In a wear measuring arrangement for bearings, a support sleeve is slidably mounted in one of the bearing rings, and supports an inductive sensor having a plunger type armature with a probe tip. The support sleeve is mounted to be held in a position with the probe tip away from the other bearing part, and to be released by a control shaft. Upon release, a spring arranged in the bore of the support sleeve resiliently urges the probe tip to engage the other bearing part and pierce any grease layer on the surface thereof.

Abstract: A gas mixture obtained from reduction of material containing zinc oxide in a furnace, is cleaned from accompanying vapor of metals or compounds having a boiling point higher than zinc and from accompanying dust particles by cooling the hot gas mixture to almost the saturation temperature of zinc vapor by the introduction therein of solid or liquid metal.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and plant for converting waste material containing and/or comprising thermally disintegratable chemical substances to stable final products such as CO.sub.2, H.sub.2 O and HCl, the waste material being subjected to a plasma gas of high temperature generated in a plasma generator in order to effect disintegration.The waste material in feedable form is caused to flow through a reaction zone, heated by a plasma gas to at least 2000.degree. C. The reaction zone comprises a cavity burned in a gas-permeable filling in piece form arranged in a reaction chamber, by means of the plasma jet from the plasma generator directed towards and projecting into said filling. An appropriate oxygen potential is maintained in at least the reaction zone such that the disintegration products are continuously converted to stable final products.

Abstract: In a clutch throwout, particularly for automotive clutches, a self-centering clutch bearing is arranged on or in a sliding sleeve. The stationary bearing ring of the clutch bearing is connected with the sliding sleeve via an intermediate element, which features guides for the radial sliding, in two mutually crossing radial directions, of the clutch bearing in relation to the sliding sleeve.To enable the clutch bearing to slide in any radial direction and to position itself precisely centered in relation to the tongue ends of the clutch diaphragm spring, without great constraining forces, while, regardless of position, damping the relative movements of clutch bearing in relation to sliding sleeve, intermediate element is radially interlocked with the stationary bearing ring and with the sliding sleeve, in two mutually crossing directions.

Abstract: The passage of material through a textile spinning or twisting machine is regulated through operation of a control element associated with the movement of said material. Light reflected from the moving material is converted into a variable electrical signal which is then modulated and used to operate a light-emitter. The modulated output of the light-emitter is sensed by a receiver located remote therefrom, but in direct-line-of sight, into an electrical command signal for operating the control element.

Abstract: A method and a device is provided for continuously supplying from above piece-shaped, i.e. lumps of, material to a shaft through which a high-temperature gas is conducted from below upwardly to a centrally disposed upper gas outlet. The piece-shaped material at the upper end is fed into the shaft at the top via evenly distributed and closed feed tubes or via an annular feed gap adjacent the periphery of the shaft.

Abstract: Novel, unitary, full complement bearing components are described which comprise a plurality of rolling elements embedded in a solid, self-supporting lubricating matrix with at least one arcuate operative surface of each rolling element exposed for rolling contact with another bearing component, the rolling elememts being in side-by-side contact or only slightly spaced from each other, and the matrix being composed of a gel obtained by thermally curing a mixture of lubricating oil and a high molecular weight polymer, and being capable of exuding lubricating oil under sliding friction in operation after insertion of the bearing component into a bearing structure in a single assembly operation. Full complement as used herein means a cageless rolling element bearing with a maximum number of rolling elements wherein no additional rolling elements can be added to the complement of rolling elements and wherein the rolling elements are in side-by-side relation.

Abstract: A self aligning bearing structure, especially adapted for electric motors, has an outer ring with a plastic jacket thereon. A housing for supporting a bearing has a cylindrical seat for receiving the outer ring. The plastic jacket has one annular central ridge of greater diameter, in the unassembled condition, than the seat, so that the annular ridge is compressed to substantially the compression limit when the outer ring is assembled in the seat. The plastic jacket may have a conical end to simplify assembly.

Abstract: A method of reducing and recovering volatile metal from metal oxides comprising the steps of injecting metal oxide-containing material into a shaft reactor, simultaneously injecting reducing agent into said reactor, continuously maintaining said reactor substantially filled with coke, supplying thermal energy to the reactor, preferably by means of a plasma burner, such that at least some of the metal oxides are reduced to metal and melted or volatilized depending upon whether the metal is volatile. The melted metal is removed from the bottom of the reactor while the volatilized metal is permitted to flow upwardly through the shaft reactor in the form of metal vapor together with a gas flow. The coke in the shaft reactor through which the volatilized metal passes is maintained at a temperature in excess of 1000.degree. C., thus screening the upper portion of the shaft reactor and the reactor top by means of the coke so as to prevent condensation of the volatilized metal.

Abstract: The present invention relates to selective reduction of heavy metals out of finely grained, substantially oxidic material by blowing the oxidic material into a furnace together with an amount of reducing agent required for obtaining desired selectivity while simultaneously heat energy is supplied by a gas heated in a plasma generator, the temperature being adjusted to such a level as to correspond to the oxygen potential at which the desired metals are transformed into a particular, isolatable phase as metal melt, metal vapor, speiss or matte and at which the remaining metals enter into a slag phase and can be isolated as slag melt.

Abstract: A support roll assembly adapted to be rotatably journalled between spaced frame members comprising an elongated hollow support roll, and support pins mounted in opposite axial ends of said roll, at least one of said support pins being supported in a ball bearing consisting of an outer ring having a generally cylindrical outer race and terminating in a radially inwardly facing thrust shoulder, an inner member having a groove-shaped inner race and formed integrally with the support pin and a plurality of balls arranged in the annular space between the inner and outer races and elastic means in the form of a sealing plug adapted to be mounted in the thrust shoulder of the outer ring and including an axially inwardly yielding elastic wall confronting the inner axial end face of the inner member and fastening means in the form of a fastening screw member engaging in the threaded bore section of the inner member to secure the inner member and support pin to the frame and being of a predetermined configuration so th