Abstract: In a dough billet kneading machine, in order to be able to remove and clean the partitioning cylinders, which are radially moveable in the partitioning drum, they are grouped in a linear manner into cylinder bars along a generatrix, and these cylinder bars can not be removed in axial direction, but in radial direction, greatly reducing the space required for maintenance operations.

Abstract: A fuel tank cap at the filler neck of a motor vehicle fuel tank, with a locking gas cap, which can be swiveled about a pivoting axis and a locking part, which is disposed internally at the locking gas cap and lies against the edge of the filler neck, sealing it, in the closed position, in which it can be locked and in which the locking gas cap is spring-loaded in the opening direction, it being possible to unlock the locking gas cap and swivel it into the open position by pressing down on it briefly especially by means of a robot-guided fuel pump nozzle, the opening of the tank connection pipe, which is to be closed off, being disposed offset towards the inside at the inner end of an essentially cylindrical expansion of the tank connection pipe and that, internally, at the locking gas cap, a casing being fastened, in which a piston, which is provided with a seal that is seated on the opening that is to be closed off, is mounted axially displaceable and which, when acted upon axially by pressure, forces a bloc

Abstract: A dust removal device for yarn supply carriers and thread guides of textile machines comprises blowers movable past the yarn supply carriers and supported on a common supporting bar. The blowers and all driven by a single common drive motor which not only rotates the vanes of the blowers but also imparts to the same the movement past the yarn supply carriers.

Abstract: A pressure air tool for blowing threads into thread guiding pipes comprises an air guiding passage having two ends, a handle provided on the air guiding pipe, and a blowing head provided on one of the ends of the air guiding pipe, the blowing head being connected with the air guiding pipe so that its blowing direction is adjustable.

Abstract: Knot catcher for yarns and threads includes two rotary rollers spaced from each other to form therebetween a thread-receiving through opening which is limited at two ends thereof by two opposite walls of the housing of the knot catcher. The size of the opening can be adjusted by adjusting the rollers relative each other.

Abstract: An apparatus for pneumatic dedusting of yarn supply supports and thread guiding elements of textile machines comprises at least one blowing element which forms a blowing air stream in a dust forming region occupied by a yarn supply support and a thread guiding element, and at least one filter lattice wall which bounds the dust forming region on its periphery at least locally, so that the blowing air stream which exits the dust forming region is directed to the filter lattice wall.

Abstract: A thread storing and supplying device for textile machines, especially knitting machines comprises a housing, a driveable thread storage drum provided in the housing for supporting several windings of a thread, a thread guiding element arranged to supply a thread to the thread storage drum, and a thread brake and a knot monitor which together form a combined thread braking and knot monitoring unit located immediately after the thread guiding element as considered in a thread running direction this thread braking device includes two freely rotatable axes-parallel rollers, one of the rollers being displaceable relative to another of the rollers which is non-displaceable against a braking spring force the thread braking device also has an adjustable abutment which defines a maximum displacement value for the gap between the rollers, and the non-displaceable roller is arranged so a thread is deflected over it. The displaceable roller is mounted on a supporting means which is pivotally mounted on the housing.

Abstract: A pressure oil lubricating device, particularly for knitting machines, comprises an oil storing container, at least one oil spraying nozzle, an electromagnetically actuatable oil pump having a suction side connected with the oil storing container and a pressure side connected with the at least one oil spraying nozzle, a pressure conduit connecting the pressure side of the oil pump with the at least one oil spraying nozzle and being branched into several branching pressure conduits, a plurality of electromagnetic valves each opening and closing a respective one of the branching pressure conduits, an oil distributing chamber with which each of the branching pressure conduits is connected, a plurality of nozzle supplying conduits also connected with the oil distributing chamber and each provided with a connecting nipple with a return valve, and control unit provided with a microprocessor and operative so as to activate automatically and arbitrarily at will a driving of the oil pump and a successive opening of th

Abstract: An arrangement for positively supplying elastomer fibers in a textile machine, comprises a device supplying a non-elastic filament fiber, a drive for driving the non-elastic filament fiber supplying device, a yarn spool for an elastomeric filament, a freely rotatable holder for the yarn spool, a drive roller arranged so that the yarn spool abuts against the drive roller over a predetermined abutment length, the drive roller being connected with the drive means and having a length which is greater than the predetermined abutment length, the drive roller having an axis extending in a predetermined plane, and a support which supports the spool holder and is longitudinally displaceable along a line such that the line or its projection extends in the plane of the axis of the drive roller and at an acute angle relative to the axis of the drive roller.

Abstract: A balancing arrangement for rotating machinery has a pressure lock permitting access to the rotor without disturbing a pressurized rotor housing. The pressure lock is carried on a cover of the housing by threads which permit an inward movement of the pressure lock. A sealing cover which is provided on the pressure lock isolates the housing from the atmosphere when the rotor operates. A safety hood protects the pressure lock during operation of the machinery. Balancing of the rotor is accomplished by moving the lock against the rotor and removing the sealing cover, thereby permitting access to balancing weights in the rotor.

Abstract: A thermal turbomachine such as an axial flow steam turbine of the center intake opposite flow type includes an intake duct surrounding the rotor and which is delimited by a portion of the internal surface of an inner housing surrounding the rotor and by the juxtaposed surfaces of two rotationally symmetrical shells. In order to permit the shells to expand substantially unhindered in relation to the inner housing as a result of imposed thermal stresses and still provide a gastight seal between an internal surface portion of the inner housing and the peripheral portions of the shells the latter are pressed into a slidable sealing engagement with the former rather than rigidly attached to each other. According to one embodiment, the slidable sealing engagement between the parts is established by means of a groove provided on one part into which the other part is fitted.

Abstract: A low pressure multi-stage axial flow steam turbine comprises an outer housing and an inner housing structure constituting a carrier for the rows of guide blading of the various stages. A steam inflow housing located within the inner housing structure forms the boundary of a crescent-shaped intake duct which surrounds and admits steam to the first stage guide blading which flows through the duct in the same direction as that in which the turbine rotor rotates, and the cross sectional area of the intake duct decreases progressively in the direction of steam flow therethrough such that the tangential components of the steam velocity conform to a predetermined function. The curvature of the intake duct at the inner periphery thereof increases progressively in the direction of steam flow therethrough such that the radial components of the steam velocity conform to a second predetermined function.