Abstract: A carton end closure score line breaker mechanism for pre-breaking the top closure score lines before the filling and closing and sealing steps does not include a center post, or any components which extend into the inside of a carton end closure, eliminating any chance for contamination inside the end panels. The center-free breaker mechanism includes a pair of blades each having an arcuate center section for caving in the adjacent end panel and, thereby, bulging the side end panels and pulling in the oppositely disposed panel, and a blade fork and another pair of blades, wherein the blade fork includes two longitudinal, parallel blades which slide across the side body panels, and each blade of the other pair is a flat-faced bar for engaging the adjacent end panel and causing the side end panels to project outwardly completing the pre-breaking of all end closure score lines.

Abstract: There is disclosed herein a fluid flow apparatus including a discharge nozzle arrangement comprising a single continuous, meandering stainless steel strand to create a planar screen operatively connected at its outer periphery to a diffuser chamber. The screen is adapted to retain a volume of fluid thereabove until the fluid is forced under pressure through the openings between adjacent segments of the strand. Portions of the screen are adapted to flex resiliently downwardly, out of the plane of the outer periphery, to provide additional clearances between adjacent segments of the screen, in the event particulates should tend to build-up, to thereby resist clogging by flushing same. The round cross-section of the strand facilitates continual cleanliness, and serves to produce better-behaved flow out of the nozzle, thereby reducing foaming of the product being discharged during the filling operation.

Abstract: A system of digitally operating cordless telephone including a fixed station (20) connected with the common net (11) and several freely movable mobile stations (30.1 to 30.4). The naturally provided functional area (22) of the system can be enlarged by using a relay station (40). For this purpose the relay station (40) can permit the retransmission of transmission packages arriving from the fixed station (20) without changes to further mobile stations (30.5, 30.6) in a further functional area (23). In the other direction, the relay station (40) forwards respective packages arriving from the further mobile stations (30.5, 30.6) to the fixed station (20). For this purpose the relay station (40) maintains transmission channels, which are associated with each other in pairs and are chronologically very closely coupled, to the fixed station (20) as well as to the further mobile stations (30.5, 30.6) in accordance with the DECT Standards (Digital European Cordless Telecommunications).

Abstract: A gear pump comprises rotors disposed in roller bearings. For the delivery of very viscous polymer meltings, bearings surfaces of at least one of inner races, outer races of the bearings and bearing surfaces of roller elements are made of a steel with a high-temperature stability. Bearing takes place on material pairings consisting of one of S6-5-2 high-speed steel and silicon nitride Si.sub.3 N.sub.4. The roller bearings are either unlubricated or lubricated by a lubricant remaining in the bearing, preferably a solid-substance lubrication. A distance of supported shafts, from a gearwheel face to a supporting area of the shafts, determined by the outer contact point in the roller bearing, is smaller than twice the median diameter of the shafts therealong.

Abstract: To reduce squeeze pressure peaks on meshing rotors of a gear pump, recesses are molded into the product duct wall in the meshing area, on the delivery side and the suction side. The recesses are formed with spherical segments or other continuously curved surfaces.

Abstract: An optical trigger is provided for use in a postage meter having a planar paper path. A light source with controllable intensity is mounted above the paper path and shines toward the paper path. A light sensor mounted above the paper path detects the reflected light if any. A dark region is provided below the paper path. More power is supplied to the light source when the sensor detects some light. An actuator is coupled with the printing mechanism of the meter to actuate it for printing of postage. When light is reflected from a mail piece, a timer is started, and when the timer reaches its programmed interval the actuator is actuated. The interval is adjustable by a trimmer adjustment, and two preprogrammed intervals may be selected by a front-panel switch.

Abstract: Apparatus and process for handling thermoplastic liquified material is disclosed. A system including an extruder feeding into a degasifying chamber is disposed upstream of a gear pump for pressurizing the material. The extruder gravity delivering, by way of a multiple-billet die, billets to the gears outside of the gear meshing area.

Abstract: A gear pump rotor assembly is disclosed. In order to prevent that the gear toothing is cooled in an unreliable manner, radial heat flow is reduced in the toothing area of the shaft, preferably by means of an insulation air chamber or other insulated section, with respect to the heat flow in other shaft areas to be cooled.

Abstract: A gear pump comprising a housing for housing gear pump rotors in a housing interior, said housing having a housing end at an end face side of the housing through which at least one pump rotor shaft is guided from the housing interior to outside the housing, a shaft bearing in the housing end for rotatably supporting the rotor shaft, and a labyrinth seal in the housing end which in use surrounds the rotor shaft, wherein the shaft bearing is arranged separately from the labyrinth seal at a position spaced axially inward toward the housing interior with respect to the labyrinth seal.

Abstract: Disclosed is a circuit for controlling the load of an asynchronous motor (11), the circuit comprising two capacitors (19, 20), one of which (20) can be connected, by means of a switch (70), in parallel with the other (19). Control is provided by a current sensor (30) and a voltage sensor (40), whose signals (S.sub.1, S.sub.2) are compared by a comparator (25). Depending on the relative size of the signals (S.sub.1, S.sub.2) a switch control unit (60) with relaxation hysteresis characteristics switches the switch (70) on or off. The circuit is simple, operates independently of the mains voltage (U) being used and its switch point can be adjusted by means of the current sensor (30).

Abstract: A sorting plant which has a closed rail (3) that forms a loop (2) on which an endless chain (4) of carts is guided. Loading stations (9) for the loading of the carts (5) with piece goods (10), as well as target stations (11) that receive the piece goods (10), are arranged along the rails (3). Each cart (5) has two receptacles (13, 14) that can be individually swiveled about a collective axis and also two separate activation elements to tilt the receptacles (13, 14). Each target station (11) has two cams that can be individually activated to initiate the tilting process. A package (10) is loaded onto the cart (5) at the loading station (9), namely, onto both receptacles (13, 14) of this cart (5) or only one of these receptacles, depending on the size of the package (10). The target station (11) of the occupied receptacle (13, 14), or the occupied receptacles (13, 14 ), are entered into a control device (12).

Abstract: Method and apparatus for on-site cleaning of a gear pump by coupling the gear pump outlet to the gear pump inlet and to the inlet end of the passage and which bypasses the bearing and is preferably controlled by a valve element which can block off the bypass in normal operation and be opened for a cleaning operation to increase the pressure on the side of the bearing connected to the inlet and thereby increase the velocity of the flushing stream.

Abstract: A folding and tucker-tacker station operates upon a flat bottom end closure of a packaging sleeve, which closure comprises first and second panels opposite each other, third and fourth panels opposite each other and between the first and second panels, and a minor panel protruding from the outermost edge of the third panel. The station comprises a mounting supporting first, second and third jaws oscillatable transversely of the sleeve axis for folding inwards the first, second and third panels, and a fourth jaw displaceable along, but not transversely of, the axis for folding inwards the fourth panel. The third jaw has a recess for receiving the minor panel.

Abstract: Stable, emission-free, low-shrinkage, fireproof aminoplastic cellular foams are obtained by using an unsaturated, halogenated polyalcohol in the resin precondensate constituent and a dodecylbenzolsulphonic acid partially esterified preferably with a fatty alcohol and a long-chain polyhydric alcohol, preferably a polyethylene glycol, in the foaming agent hardener consituent. The foams are particularly suitable for building construction and for covering, as well as in the agricultural sector and or oil absorption. For certain of these applications, the resin pre-condensate constituent of the invention can be processed with a conventional foamer hardener constituent or the foamer hardener constituent of the invention can be processed with a conventional resin precondensate constituent.

Abstract: In a method of emptying from a case a compressible load consisting of carton blanks, prongs penetrate through preformed perforations in opposite side walls of the case and push the load away from those walls, an upper portion of the case is partially severed by knives along respective paths at those walls, other cuts are formed across the top wall along the other two side walls of the case, suction cups pull away that upper portion, the load is received between support fingers, the load and the lower portion of the case are turned through 180 degrees in a vertical plane, the inverted lower portion is removed from the load by suction cups, and a gripping head seizes the load and removes it from between the support fingers.

Abstract: A tying machine for packaging articles in stack form comprises a band guide (12) limiting the extension of the loop and having a sliding surface (16). During the advance and after the end position has been reached, a winding band (18) is maintained by pneumatic means in a loop form determined essentially by the sliding surface (16), during the band pull-back is drawn out of the band guide (12) without the movement of any mechanical parts and is laid round the packaging articles.The band guide (12) with the sliding surface (16) and lateral guides (36, 38) for maintaining the winding band (18) in a loop form has exclusively pneumatic means.

Abstract: A folding and tucker-tacker station operates upon a flat bottom end closure of a packaging sleeve, which closure comprises first and second panels opposite each other, third and fourth panels opposite each other and between the first and second panels, and a minor panel protruding from the outermost edge of the third panel. The station comprises a mounting supporting first, second and third jaws oscillatable transversely of the sleeve axis for folding inwards the first, second and third panels, and a fourth jaw displaceable along, but not transversely of, the axis for folding inwards the fourth panel. The third jaw has a recess for receiving the minor panel. The fourth jaw is disposed after the third jaw along the path of a mandrel transporting the sleeve.