Abstract: A drinks machine, in particular a coffee machine, with an entry device for solid cleaning agent, in particular in pressed form, being user-friendly and safe during cleaning, and having an automatically dosing, enclosed dosage device for the cleaning agent which includes a spout, a storage container protected from the spout, and at least one dosage unit.

Abstract: A drinks machine is described, in particular a coffee machine with an entry device for solid cleaning agent, in particular in pressed form. With this drinks machine the user-friendliness and safety during cleaning are to be improved. For this purpose the provision of an automatically dosing, enclosed dosage device for the cleaning agent is suggested which includes a spout, a storage container protected from the spout and at least one dosage unit.

Abstract: There is described a coffee machine comprising a coffee outlet (9) and a milk outlet (10), which machine is of simple construction, can be cleaned easily and is improved with respect to operability and functional performance. To this end the present invention suggests that the coffee outlet (9) should be constructionally combined with the milk outlet (10) to obtain an outlet unit (8).

Abstract: The invention relates to a saucepan lid having a lid handle detachably secured thereto, particularly for a steam pressure cooker, including monitoring elements disposed within said lid handle. Means are provided for permitting said handle to be detached from said lid without technical difficulties and to be safely re-attached thereto. To this effect the lid and lid handle are provided with projections and engagement recesses at locations permitting them to be brought into mutual engagement for attaching the handle to the lid and to be readily released from such engagement for detaching the handle, at least one such projection forming a movable component of a locking closure means. In a preferred embodiment the locking closure means is designed as a snap-engagement locking means (FIG. 1).

Abstract: Open-air compound insulators are made treating a prefabricated glass-filter rod with silane, extruding a rubber layer on the rod, strengthening the rubber layer and bonding prefabricated screens to the rubber layer by vulcanization.

Abstract: For fixing metal sheaths on glass fiber reinforced plastic rods, which rods are used, for example, in composite insulators: the sheath is in a number of sections in a longitudinal array; there is an abutment inside the sheath at each sheath section, there is a shoulder piece on the outside of the rod inside each sheath section; the abutment in a sheath section is at one longitudinal side of the respective shoulder piece in that sheath section; elastic and compliant buffer means, such as springs, or the like, are placed between the abutment and its shoulder piece; the compliance of the buffer means increases toward one end of the arrangement to compensate for the different rates of expansion of the sheath and the rod; other embodiments all have appropriate buffer means in each sheath section, which buffer means increase in compliance moving toward the end of the sheath through which the rod exits.

Abstract: Composite insulator having a plurality of umbrella-shaped sections on a trunk; each section is comprised of a mould filled with a hardenable material which adheres to the mould and the trunk; shaping the mould to receive the hardenable material.