Abstract: A device for estimating at least one property of fodder includes a screw at least partially installed in a cylinder bore configured for transporting a part of the fodder, an electromagnetic radiation source configured for irradiating the part of the fodder transported by the screw by radiation with wavelengths longer than 780 nm, and a photonic sensor configured for detecting electromagnetic radiation transmitted through, reflected by or emitted by the part of the fodder transported by the screw, and for outputting an output signal representing the detected electromagnetic radiation.

Abstract: A logistics system is provided for shipping items using a vehicle. A system of this type comprises: an item supply system which is designed to be transported in a vehicle; and a data management system which is designed to link at least one item, present in at least one position in the item supply system, with at least information from at least one sales order, and is designed to link all components of the logistics system with at least one external input or output device such that they interact. Depending on the information from the at least one sales order, the at least one position of the at least one item in the item supply system is variable, and the at least one item is removably stored in the item supply system.

Abstract: A sealing for back and forth moving machine elements, particularly for the sealing of rods for hydraulic cylinders, with a seal which seals against the housing as well as against the axially back and forth moving machine part, a preceding protection element which is arranged between the seal and the pressurized chamber of the cylinder, and a stripper, which stripper is turned toward the atmosphere. The preceding protection element is provided with a lip, the lip being directed toward the oil pressurized chamber, which lip touches the back and forth moving piston rod and has openings, which openings produce a connection between the pressurized oil chamber and that oil chamber which is formed between the preceding protection element and the lip seal.

Abstract: Rotary connection having a housing which is provided with annular ducts and with feed bores for pressurized oil and non-pressurized oil and having a piston-shaped inner part arranged in the housing, the inner part being formed with bores and with grooves on its periphery, for the passage of high-pressure oil and practically non-pressurized hydraulic oil. By means of a valve piston which can be acted-on at both end surfaces thereof with pressurized oil, lubricating ducts are connected, depending upon the switched position of the valve piston, via a central longitudinal bore provided with transverse bores, with the respective annular duct which at the time is not applied with pressurized oil.

Abstract: A valve piston for a hydraulic control valve in which the valve piston has piston sections thereon in axially spaced relation interconnected by a reduced diameter portion with at least one piston section having passage means formed on at least one end in diametrally opposite positions and taking the form of a notch formed into the end of the piston and having a concave axially bottom region with a flow body mounted in the notch and defining therewith an arcuate recess forming one end of the passage means and opening radially and axially outwardly near the periphery of the piston section while the other end of the passage means opens axially from the piston at a radially inner region thereof. The flow body and the notch define the passage means and which terminates at the periphery of the piston in a throttling region that directs fluid along an outwardly inclined path toward the respective end of the piston section.