Abstract: Folding apparatus for signatures having a given format includes at least a first longitudinal folding device, a plurality of cylinders arranged in succession thereafter and followed by at least a second longitudinal folding device. Also included are a cylinder section having a base frame, and two cross-fold systems operatable independently of one another and integrated in the base frame. Each of the cross-fold systems has cylinders for guidingly carrying signatures having a given format, the signature-carrying cylinders being of such diameter as to have an outer cylindrical surface extending over the circumference thereof adequate for carrying one behind the other at one time at least two of the signatures having the given format.

Abstract: Bitumen granulate containing from 0.5 to 15% by weight, preferably from 6.1 to 15% by weight, of a powdering and separating agent such as, for example, synthetic silica or carbon black is produced by atomizing hot, liquid bitumen in a spray mixer and at the same time introducing the powdering and separating agent into the spray mixer by way of the stream of cold air.

Abstract: A method of repairing a damaged (e.g., cracked) portion of a buried sewage pipe by permeating one or more layers of fibrous material with a hardenable plastic compound (such as epoxy resin), convoluting the thus obtained mat around a radially expandible length of hose to permit frictional engagement between the internal surface of the mat and the external surface of the hose, introducing the hose into a selected defective portion of the pipe, expanding the hose and the convoluted mat so that the mat engages the internal surface of the pipe, deflating the hose, and withdrawing the hose from the pipe, preferably after the plastic compound has set wherein a film of polyethylene is inserted between the external surface of the hose and the internal surface of the convoluted mat to enhance friction and to thus compel the hose to turn in the course of the expanding step.

Abstract: It is the object of the invention to provide a simple folding device rotating at high speed, the folding device producing a longitudinal fold without any sliding guidance device or reverse-motion device, and in which during the folding the folding blade executes a movement of stroke, perpendicular in every direction, towards the printed copy.

Abstract: A process for the production of a pasteurized immunoglobulin preparation is described, which comprises heating a solution of an immunoglobulin in the presence of a carboxylic acid or one of its salts and/or of a saccharide until viable pathogens, which may remain undetected in conventional tests, in particular hepatitis viruses or HTLV III ("Aids") viruses, are inactivated i.e. are rendered incapable of reproduction and/or of being intracellularly or otherwise reproduced.A preparation of this type can be used for therapy or prophylaxis or as component of a diagnostic kit.

Abstract: Monitoring system for an electronic digital system. It includes an electronic digital control unit, a plurality of peripheral units, a bus system, the various system parts, and further an output circuit connected to the control unit. It further includes an output stage circuit with inputs connected to the output circuit, and outputs transmitting signals to the peripheral units for interrogating fault conditions therein, an interrupt trigger circuit with outputs connected to the control unit, and a digital filter connected between the monitoring system and the peripheral units for filtering out noise signals from the peripheral units.

Abstract: A web-fed printing press with apparatus for the making of a longitudinal fold in the conveying direction of the printed copies, the longitudinal fold being preferably produced after a cylinder cross-fold. The folding device includes a folding blade disposed parallel to the conveying direction, the folding blade being moved in a reciprocal vertical fashion through the intermediary of drive cranks. Without sliding guide parts, the vertical reciprocating motion is executed towards the printed copy, and the additional crank is driven through the intermediary of a toothed belt.

Abstract: Apparatus for singularizing stacked paper sheets has a rotary withdrawing conveyor with an annulus of equidistant satellites having suction cups which attract successive lowermost sheets of a stack in a magazine adjacent a first portion of an endless path for the satellites. The satellites deliver the sheets into a second portion of the endless path where the leaders of the sheets are caused to project radially outwardly and to enter the spaces between the open jaws of grippers which are transported by an endless chain in such a way that a gripper which is about to receive a sheet is moved at the speed of the oncoming sheet-carrying satellite and in the same direction. The satellites have discs cooperating with an endless band serving to gradually release a sheet which is in the process of advancing with a gripper.

Abstract: The toothpaste for preventative oral hygiene contains a mixture of synthetically prepared precipitated silicic acid and perlite in addition to a solvent as cleaning body.A mixture consisting of glycerol (86%) and water is used as solvent.

Abstract: Apparatus for advancing sections of newspapers has a first conveyor with equidistant grippers which deliver a series of suspended sections to a transfer conveyor. The latter delivers successive sections into successive pockets of a turret-shaped conveyor and comprises a driven shaft carrying two annuli of bearings for the stubs of two sets of plate-like clamping members. Each clamping member of one set cooperates with a clamping member of the other set to engage a section which is delivered by an oncoming gripper and to transfer the thus engaged section into a pocket of the turret-shaped conveyor. The clamping members of each set are pivotable relative to the shaft and orbit about the shaft when the latter is driven to advance the clamping members along an endless path. The devices for pivoting the two sets of clamping members during predetermined stages of each revolution of the shaft employ exchangeable stationary cams and followers provided on the respective sets of clamping members to track the cams.

Abstract: Method of determining the rotational speed of a machine having a drive into which a setpoint value for the rotational speed has been introduced and a rotational-speed sensor from which a measured actual value is obtainable, which comprises feeding the setpoint value to a mathematical model of a controlled system formed by the drive and the machine, deriving from the output of the mathematical model a computed actual value, determining the difference between the measured actual value and the computed actual value, forming the absolute value of the difference, and, if the absolute amount of the difference is exceeded, passing on the computed actual value, and if the absolute amount of the difference is not exceeded, passing on the measured actual value; and device for performing the method as the determined rotational speed of the machine.

Abstract: In a method of the separation of yeasts from a fermentation liquor contained in a fermentation tank the fermentation liquor is forced by a pump through a conduit system into a filter container in which the fermentation liquor is forced through a number of vertically suspended candle-like filters so that yeast filter cakes are formed on the filter cloth with water of the filters. The cakes are then washed with water, blown off with pressurized air for dewatering, loosened with a counterflow of a pressurized gas and discharged from the filter container. The filter container is immediately connected to the fermentation tank.

Abstract: A spherical bearing with selectable electrical conductivity includes a bearing body having a spherical supporting surface, a layer of electrically insulating material and a housing having a concave spherical seating surface which form a ball joint having a center around which the bearing body may swivel relative to the housing when the housing is not clamped against the insulating layer and bearing body with the force required for operation of the bearing. A first positioning pin of electrically conductive material projects radially through the insulating layer and into a recess formed in the housing. Electrical connection between the housing and the bearing body is provided by a compression spring which bears against the recess and the first positioning pin. A second positioning pin of electrically insulating material may be selected in lieu of the first positioning pin and spring to provide a bearing configuration wherein the body is insulated from the housing.

Abstract: A link chain has alternating first and second links which are articulately connected to each other by universal joints. Each first link carries a gripper with a fixed jaw and a second jaw pivotable between first and second end positions through a dead-center intermediate position. Springs are provided to permanently bias each second jaw to either of the two end positions, and each second jaw is connected with a follower which can track a set of cams at two spaced-apart stations to move the second jaw between its end positions. Each link of the chain carries two shafts for pairs of roller followers which track the lateral edge faces of two flanges of an elongated guide rail having an H-shaped cross-sectional outline. The guide rail is bent and/or twisted, if necessary, to establish a helical, arcuate, looped and/or other complex path for advancement of successive links between the two stations.

Abstract: A system for determining the position of movable machine parts including an incremental pulse generator for generating angular-speed pulses includes a computer. At least one counting circuit via which the incremental pulse generator is connected to the computer counts the generated angular-speed pulses.

Abstract: The method for lining a pipe laid in the ground, especially a sewer conduit made from concrete, asbestos cement or stoneware, comprises making a lining tube for the pipe with an outer layer and an inner layer made from fiber fleece and a barrier layer impermeable to fluid located between the inner layer and the outer layer. The outer layer is soaked with a stress-free hardenable plastic resin adhering well to the pipe in one or more regions of over its entire length and the inner layer is soaked with the same or another plastic resin having reduced shrinkage not impairing the outer layer. The lining tube is introduced into the pipe and pressed on the inner surfaces of the pipe to be sanitized. The plastic resin is hardened to form an adhesive bond between the pipe and the outer layer. Advantageously the outer layer is soaked with epoxy resin and the inner layer is soaked with polyester resin. The product of this method, a sanitized conduit, is also described.

Abstract: Method of monitoring a clock signal includes bringing a bistable element to a first state through pulses of the clock signal and, upon the occurrence of pulses of a reference signal having a frequency lower than the frequency of the clock signal, scanning the state of the bistable element and outputting it as an output signal, and subsequently setting the bistable element to a second state.

Abstract: A method and device for evaluating signals of an incremental pulse generator for generating at least two mutually phase-shifted angular speed signals includes counting the angular speed signals only if a permissible combination of the angular speed signals is present.

Abstract: An apparatus for the treatment of wafers in the manufacture of semiconductor elements in the form of a process buffer through which a plurality of wafers travel at the same time to various treatment stations and which cooperates with a transport apparatus for the wafers. The apparatus has a shaft magazine, in which the treatment stations, each for one wafer, are disposed spaced apart from and above one another. The shaft magazine is provided with a loading and unloading opening, and the treatment stations are movable individually into the vicinity of the loading and unloading opening. The apparatus occupies less surface area in the process line for the manufacture of semiconductor elements, enables treatment of the wafers independent of external factors, and can be used for various types of treatment of the wafers in the manufacture of semiconductor elements.

Abstract: An insert head (102) is tightly inserted in the rearward end of a commercially available ampoule (101) equipped with a plunger (100). A galvanic, gas-generating cell is arranged in the insert head (102). The plunger (100) is driven forward by the gas generated by this cell. A throttle device (103) constituted by a capillary tube is connected to the Luer's syringe (109) of the ampoule (101), the infusion fluid driven out by the plunger (100) flowing through this throttle means into a catheter (104).