Abstract: The invention relates to bristles, which can be used in brushes, particularly hair brushes, and to a method for producing such bristles. A method is disclosed for molding a head profile onto at least one bristle that can be used in a hair brush, wherein the at least one bristle is guided on a bristle carrier, wherein contactless heating acts upon at least the bristle head.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a method and a device for bending a component (71) made of a thermoplastic material, and to the component (71) itself, in particular a sleeve-shaped component having a straight shank (72), for use in a personal care appliance such as a dental care, a hair care, a kitchen apparatus or the like. A holding means (70) is provided for supporting the component (71) to be formed to shape, and the component (71) is formed by at least two tools (76, 84, 92) arranged for movement relative to each other, and a heating unit is provided for heating the component (71) in its condition as formed.

Abstract: A method for bending a component made of a thermoplastic material. The component involved is in particular a sleeve-shaped component for a personal care appliance such as a dental care apparatus or the like. For the component to be bent it is heated up to the plastic's softening point. The component is brought into engagement with a forming rail and, during a relative movement of the component and the forming rail, is bent against the forming rail by means of a bending tool. As this occurs, the engagement surface between the component and the forming rail varies continuously.

Abstract: Manipulator for carrying out measurements, tests, inspections and repairs in an open-top reactor pressure vessel comprising a manipulator bridge movable along the auxiliary bridge a platform with a substructure disposed above the manipulator bridge a non-rotating boom supported by a bearing surface supported by the platform, the boom projecting into the pressure vessel, guide rails disposed over the entire length of the boom, a U-shaped channel disposed over the length of the boom a boom bearing including a cylindrical part on the substructure, two roller guides inside the cylindrical part, a retaining mechanism for the boom, a carriage including a sleeve tube enclosing the boom braced against the boom, rollers guiding the tube, a fixed support ring, a rotatable support ring, a supporting member supported about the carriage for equipment, drives for the supporting members a load lifting device moving the carriage along the boom including cable drums cables wound on the drums with a free end fastened to a brac

Abstract: Analysis manipulator for non-destructive material testing, including a support device having a mounting flange, a precision coordinate-moving mechanism having at least two guide frames each including coordinate drives in the form of straight guides and a drive having a spindle and a nut being movable by the spindle along the straight guides, the guide frames including a first lower guide frame having a mounting flange being mountable to the mounting flange of the support device, a second guide frame being movable by the coordinate drive of the first guide frame in a first given coordinate direction, and a testing head mount being movable by the coordinate drive of the second guide frame in a second given coordinate direction, and a method for the coordinate control of the analysis manipulator.

Abstract: Probe for eddy-current testing of tubes, the probe having a conically tipped guidance head and a cylindrical coil form, includes a jacket flexible in radial direction disposed between the guidance head and the coil form, the jacket being prestressed uniformly outwardly and having a diameter greater than that of the cylindrical coil form.

Abstract: A nuclear power plant with a metallic, circulatory cooling loop formed with welding seams and including, as components thereof, a reactor pressure vessel, a heat consumer and a pump, as well as a coolant line connecting the components to one another, and thermal insulation provided on the cooling loop, the welding seams being testable by a track-traversing testing device, including a multiplicity of fixedly installed tracks having like profile and being associated, respectively, with welding seams on the components and the cooling line, at least part of the thermal insulation being in vicinity of the tracks and being formed as removable cassettes.

Abstract: Manipulator assembly for testing the material of a pipe elbow from the inside thereof, the pipe elbow being secured to a pipe union extending from a pressure vessel openable for receiving therein a vertically extending manipulator mast having an arm carrying a manipulator, the manipulator being movable by the arm in vertical direction, rotatably about the axis of the mast and in direction of the longitudinal axis of the arm and transversely thereto, the manipulator includes a multimember vehicle drivable in direction of the pipe-union and pipe-elbow axis, the members of the vehicle being articulatingly connected to one another and having extensible and retractable support legs for supporting the respective vehicular members centered relative to the inner periphery of the pipe elbow, the support legs having roller members at the end thereof for transporting the vehicular members in axial direction of the pipe union and the pipe elbow, the vehicular member located at the head of the multimember vehicle being a

Abstract: An apparatus is provided for use with a pressurized-water reactor's steam generator having a manifold chamber enclosing the bottom side of a horizontal tube sheet having holes therethrough in which are mounted the tubes of a heat exchanger tube bundle, the manifold chamber having a manhole giving access to the tube's bottom side to permit internal inspection or repair of the tubes by registration of an end of a flexible guide conduit with the tube sheet holes and through which a flexible carrier can be guided for insertion via these holes in the tube sheet and through the tubes extending from the tube sheet's other side.