Abstract: An apparatus by which a sensor holder of a surface testing apparatus can be moved along a preselected path of movement over the surface to be examined. The apparatus has a guide rail establishing the path of movement, which can emulate the contour of the surface and on which the sensor holder is supported.

Abstract: An atmospheric gas boiler has two vertically arranged end pieces and at least one middle piece arranged between them, as well as burner lances disposed in the lower part of the gas boiler. The pieces of the boiler through which hot water flows define a furnace, with secondary heating surfaces adjoining thereto. In order to lower the quantity of NOX arising during the combustion, the middle piece has a tongue through which hot water flows, extending into the furnace. The tongue possesses cooling ribs on the outside, which extend into the adjoining furnace spaces.

Abstract: A cap to cover all sides of the end of a supporting body of a hammer mill rotor. The cap has two side walls, each end of which is provided with an approximately rectangular opening. In the direction of rotation of the rotor, the cap has a forward transverse wall and a rear transverse wall, each of which is provided with openings for a securing element or a plug. Each transverse wall also has a planar, inwardly directed surface, with these surfaces being directed approximately toward the center of the rotor and forming equal acute angles symmetrically relative to a plane that extends through the hammer shaft and an axis of rotation of the rotor. The inwardly directed surface of the forward transverse wall rests upon a forward end face of the supporting body. A filler member having a rectangular cross-sectional shape fills the gap between the rear inwardly directed surface and a planar rear abutment surface of the supporting body.

Abstract: A sorting apparatus for the material outlet of a machine for breaking-up scrap. The machine has a horizontally disposed hammer breaker rotor that is disposed in a housing, the bottom of which is trough-shaped. A material inlet that extends to the rotor and includes an anvil is produced at the downwardly rotating side of the rotor. An impact or deflection chamber having an outlet opening is disposed above the rotor. The housing has a curved inner surface portion in the bottom trough, and a further inner surface that adjoins the curved inner surface portion and is on the upwardly rotating side of the rotor. The further inner surface is provided with ribs that are disposed parallel to the direction of movement of broken-up scrap. The open distance between adjacent ribs is approximately equal to the greatest desired diameter of broken-up and compressed scrap pieces. Channels are formed between adjacent ribs for respective streams of broken-up scrap.

Abstract: In magnetic bearings and magnetic suspension devices, sensors (4), as they are used for bearing regulation of support and guide magnets in magnetic transportation technology, continuously measure the distance of a magnet (6) from a reaction rail (7), in order to obtain a signal with which the magnet (6) is controlled with regard to the energizing current in such a way that it remains suspended at the predetermined distance. In known devices, there is no accurate monitoring of the sensor signal, which can result in faulty regulation of the excitation if the sensor signal is faulty, which represents a significant safety risk.

Abstract: A dual coupling (1) comprises two elastic and articulated couplings (2 and 2a) interconnected by a hollow, intermediate shaft (3). Each one of the couplings (2,2a) contain an outer half (4,4a) with a hub (5,5a) from which extend several arms (6). Between them sit more arms (6a) of the intermediate shaft (3). With its arms (6a), the intermediate shaft represents the inner halves of the couplings (2,2a). The ends of the interacting arms (6 and 6a) are interconnected by rubber-elastic connecting rods (7) so that two rows (8) of arms are provided on bolts (10) to the left and right of the arms (6 and 6a) forming a joint plane. Therefore, two joint planes are present. While the connecting rods are connected to the bolts (10) in form closing fashion, the bolts are fixed or articulated in the arms (6 and 6a). One hub ( 5) is connected to a solid axle (15) and the other hub (5a) to a hollow shaft (18).

Abstract: A socket for a round plug having the same contact pattern. The periphery of the shell of the plug, in the insertion region thereof, is provided with a guide key and several coding keys. The keys can be disposed at various angular positions relative to one another. The coupling region of the socket has a housing with an inner wall that has keyways for all of the coding keys and the guide key of the plug, with the width of each of the keyways covering the entire range of the possible positions of the guide or coding key associated with that keyway.

Abstract: Improved small dendrite arm spacings and good technical values, regarding the technical properties of aluminum alloys, particularly tensile strength, yield strength and elongation percent, can be reliably obtained by refining the grain of the casting to provide the smallest possible spacings between the secondary dendrite arms, by casting the aluminum alloys in a ceramic mold provided with numerous micro-sized rough spots and pores and to the inner wall of which mold after it is dried and fired has been applied a thin layer of a salt mixture in which the cations are primarily from the alkalis and/or alkaline earths and the anions are primarily from halogens and which applied salt mixture has a liquidus temperature lower than the casting temperature of the alloy.

Abstract: A fuel element bundle cutter that has horizontal rod bundle feed. A portion f the radioactive dust that is produced when a rod bundle is cut is picked up by scavenging air and is withdrawn with the latter via the chute for the cut-off rod pieces. The bottom of the lower part of the cutter housing, between the housing wall that faces the rod bundle feed and the side walls of the housing, is embodied as a grating, on the bottom side of which is disposed a base plate to which is connected a withdrawal mechanism that includes at least one collecting funnel and withdrawal channel for the remainder of the radioactive dust, which is conveyed by a portion of the scavenging air from the cutter housing. Each withdrawal channel communicates with the chute for the cut-off rod pieces.

Abstract: The feature characterizing the method is that in an operation following the finishing of the track supporting structure, the mounting bodies are machined in a way such as to correct the structural inaccuracies caused by manufacturing tolerances of the prior art steel and concrete construction, to obtain an accurate mutual position of the equipment parts at the location of attachment. For this purpose, preferably, the mounting bodies are provided at the securing locations with bores and countersinks which are accurate in all the coordinates and correspond to the bolts or bores of the equipment parts, to finally mount these parts by means of bolts and spacer bushings. The bores and countersinks are formed by computer controlled drilling machines in a workshop where the support structures are held at a position which they will ultimately have in the field.

Abstract: The invention relates to a surface testing apparatus in which sensors are driven with a reciprocating movement above the surface being tested. To minimize the forces which are required for the driving of the sensors, a vibratory system is provided for this movement, which is driven by an exciter system at or close to its natural frequency.

Abstract: A double coupling comprising two flexible couplings are connected to each other through an intermediate hollow shaft and have outer parts on each and each with a hub and radially extending arms between which rubber blocks shaped as ring segments are inserted in a prestressed state. The rubber blocks each comprise a central, radially inwardly narrowing wedge to which two rubber members carrying plates on their free surfaces are symmetrically vulcanized on either side. The wedges are connected to corresponding claws of the intermediate shaft. The wedge and claws, along with the intermediate shaft serves as a common hub portion and form an inner part of the flexible coupling. One hub is secured to a solid shaft and the other hub is secured to a hollow shaft. The solid shaft extends through the hollow shaft and they move relative to each other, even in misaligned positions. As compared to similar prior art couplings for transmitting comparable power, the weight of such a doubling coupling is reduced.

Abstract: In a forging die including a lower die with an embossing insert, an upper die and actuating elements displaceable to form with the upper die and the lower die an embossing groove receiving a blank to be forged, a locking member, cooperating with the actuating elements, is provided to lock the latter in a closed position.

Abstract: A magnetic suspension for a railway vehicle with electromagnetic carrying, guiding and driving gear, wherein the forces of the exciter and transverse flux magnets support, guide, drive and brake together with an active motor section by regulating the gap distance from a track-side reaction rail measured by gap, measured by gap sensors, and wherein the vehicle includes hover frames and the magnets are resiliently mounted to the hover frames in such a way that both supporting and guiding magnets as well as the carrying magnets of the two longsides of the vehicles are separated from each other as to action and the hover frames are coupled to the vehicle superstructure through spring means is disclosed. Each magnet includes at least four coils and the transvers flux magnets have adjacent coils with coil lengths selected so that within the magnet coil peripheries of the adjacent coils, lying side by side, do not coincide.

Abstract: An excitation arrangement for a long stator drive for rapid transit systems has combined generation of propulsive and portative forces. The arrangement comprises at least one heteropolar magnet which has a plurality of channels extending at right angles relative to the direction of the long stator, the channels being open at their pole plane lying opposite the long stator and magnetic coils are located in the channel. The channels have a rectangular cross section extending up to the pole plane and the conductors of the magnetic coils are wound in tight contact with one another and with the channel walls on the side of the poles. The magnet comprises at least one recess extending parallel to the channels beneath the pole plane.

Abstract: An excitation arrangement for a long stator drive, particularly a synchronous long stator drive for rapid transit systems having combined generation of propelling and carrying forces comprises at least one heteropolar magnet which has a plurality of channels extending at right angles to the long stator direction and which are open at their pole plane lying opposite the long stator and in which magnetic coils assigned to the conductors are disposed. In order to improve the dynamic properties of the magnet, a subdivision of the magnetic coils generating the magnetic field is provided. Differing electrical behavior for slow and fast changes in the voltage driving the coil current is achieved by a tight coupling of one of the sub-coils to a short-circuit coil. Given slow changes in the drive voltage, a magnetic force resulting from the entire coil flux occurs. Given fast changes in the drive voltage, a dynamic reduction of the effective coil inductance leads to a fast current and magnetic force changes.

Abstract: The feature characterizing the method is that in an operation following the finishing of the track supporting structure, the mounting bodies are machined in a way such as to correct the structural inaccuracies caused by manufacturing tolerances of the prior art steel and concrete construction, to obtain an accurate mutual position of the equipment parts at the location of attachment. For this purpose, preferably, the mounting bodies are provided at the securing locations with bores and countersinks which are accurate in all the coordinates and correspond to the bolts or bores of the equipment parts, to finally mount these parts by means of bolts and spacer bushings. In supporting structures of steel tracks, mounting bodies accessible from both sides are preferably employed.

Abstract: A sleeve connector for connecting the ends of two tubes together, in particular socket tubes, comprises a socket formed with or connected to one of the tubes. The socket has an inner annular recess which is bounded by a conical surface which tapers radially inwardly toward an end of the socket. A retaining collar is secured around the spigot end of another tube to be connected to the first mentioned tube. At least one locking member is disposed around the spigot and is positioned in the annular recess so that it can bear against the conical surface. The locking member has an inner cylindrical contact surface which engages on the spigot and an outer contact surface which has a sectional toroidal shape wherein all normals to the toroidal shape pass through the cylindrical contact surface.

Abstract: The incremental detection of the vehicle position of a magnetic levitation vehicle, particularly having an elongate stator motor, can occur with at least one coded measuring strip which extends in the direction of travel with a fixed positional assignment to the stator winding and can occur with a sensor system disposed on the vehicle. The sensor system comprises a plurality of sensors disposed at a distance in the direction of travel for detecting the coding. For reliably identifying the relative and the absolute vehicle position given high resolution of the measured signals, the measuring strip, in addition to a pole position coding, also exhibits a slot coding for determining the vehicle location and the sensors arranged independently of the drive system comprise measuring windings for the pole position decoding and measuring windings for the slot decoding.

Abstract: A polyphase winding of ladder-like configuration for a linear motor is installed into a prearranged inductor assembly having a plurality of parallely arranged grooves, the inductor being attached to the underside of a T-shaped type carrier; a vehicle runs on that carrier carrying a drum for storing the winding (cable assembly), and there is a deflection system which runs the winding from the drum towards the underside of the carrier in near-tangential disposition whereby a tool resiliently mounted on an outrigger causes rungs of the ladder to be sequentially forced into the grooves of the inductor and, possibly, locked therein.