Abstract: System for metered feeding of cylindrical bodies from a stock to a processing machine. This involves, starting from the stock, first aligning the cylindrical bodies and then feeding them in a metered manner to a transfer device in order to move the cylindrical bodies to the processing machine. According to the invention, the device for aligning the cylindrical bodies coming from the stock consists of a rotatable drum-shaped member consisting of a number of bars disposed in the form of a ring. Between the bars the opening through which the cylindrical bodies can emerge is delimited.

Abstract: Apparatus for encapsulating parts of elements into a plastic material to manufacture electronic components. The mould has one or more parallel rows of mould cavities, into which a plastic material is injected through one or more sprues. The elements are part of a strip of which the length is a multiplicity of the length of a row of cavities, which strip is step by step treated in said mould such that an uninterrupted strip of components is obtained.

Abstract: The invention relates to a mould for encapsulating parts of elements into a plastic material to manufacture electric components. The mould comprises a number of steel blocks or rods with accurately finished surfaces for clamping them completely tight together in a holder, whereby recesses in said blocks or rods are forming the mould cavity or mould cavities and the sprues. A layer of high hardness, such as a nitride layer, is deposited by means of vapor deposition in vacuum at a high temperature onto at least those surfaces of said blocks or rods determining the mould cavity or mould cavities and the sprues. Furthermore the blocks or rods are concerning their dimensions and/or flexibility and/or structure and/or finishing of the surfaces turned away from the mould cavity embodied such that deformations in the position in which said blocks or rods are clamped into said holder, caused by the depositioning of said layer, are eliminated.