Abstract: An apparatus for coating substrates with a coating material is disclosed. The apparatus includes a frame, a crucible arrangement including a first crucible and a second crucible disposed offset from one another in a horizontal plane, where the crucible arrangement is disposed on the frame. At least one first shaft is associated with the first crucible and at least one second shaft is associated with the second crucible, where the at least one first and second shafts are disposed in the frame beneath the first and second crucibles, respectively. A first lifting device is associated with the at least one first shaft and a second lifting device is associated with the at least one second shaft, where the first and second lifting devices are disposed in the frame. The frame is linearly displaceable in the horizontal plane.

Abstract: An apparatus for coating substrates with a coating material is disclosed. The apparatus includes a frame, a crucible arrangement including a first crucible and a second crucible disposed offset from one another in a horizontal plane, where the crucible arrangement is disposed on the frame. At least one first shaft is associated with the first crucible and at least one second shaft is associated with the second crucible, where the at least one first and second shafts are disposed in the frame beneath the first and second crucibles, respectively. A first lifting device is associated with the at least one first shaft and a second lifting device is associated with the at least one second shaft, where the first and second lifting devices are disposed in the frame. The frame is linearly displaceable in the horizontal plane.

Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus and a method for heating a workpiece of an inductively heatable material, for example a turbine blade. Such a turbine blade consists of a massive blade base and a low-mass blade leaf. To enable the blade base and blade leaf to be heated in a manner appropriate to each an induction coil is provided, which surrounds the blade base and the blade leaf. By suitable choice of the alternating currents which flow through the induction coil and/or through the interposition of a susceptor between turbine blade and induction coil, the blade base and blade leaf can be heated in an appropriate manner.

Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus and a method for heating a workpiece of an inductively heatable material, for example a turbine blade. Such a turbine blade consists of a massive blade base and a low-mass blade leaf. To enable the blade base and blade leaf to be heated in a manner appropriate to each an induction coil is provided, which surrounds the blade base and the blade leaf. By suitable choice of the alternating currents which flow through the induction coil and/or through the interposition of a susceptor between turbine blade and induction coil, the blade base and blade leaf can be heated in an appropriate manner.

Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus and a method for heating a workpiece of an inductively heatable material, for example a turbine blade. Such a turbine blade consists of a massive blade base and a low-mass blade leaf. To enable the blade base and blade leaf to be heated in a manner appropriate to each an induction coil is provided, which surrounds the blade base and the blade leaf. By suitable choice of the alternating currents which flow through the induction coil and/or through the interposition of a susceptor between turbine blade and induction coil, the blade base and blade leaf can be heated in an appropriate manner.

Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus and a method for heating a workpiece of an inductively heatable material, for example a turbine blade. Such a turbine blade consists of a massive blade base and a low-mass blade leaf. To enable the blade base and blade leaf to be heated in a manner appropriate to each an induction coil is provided, which surrounds the blade base and the blade leaf. By suitable choice of the alternating currents which flow through the induction coil and/or through the interposition of a susceptor between turbine blade and induction coil, the blade base and blade leaf can be heated in an appropriate manner.

Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for the coating of substrates (10) with thin films, having a vacuum chamber (1), a target (6) to be atomized, situated opposite the substrate (10) in the vacuum chamber (1), with magnets (19, 19′, 19″; 20, 20′, 20″) to produce a magnetic tunnel in front of the area of the target (6) to be atomized, an inlet (8) for a process gas into the process space (11), an anode (12), which is electrically insulated with respect to the vacuum chamber (1), and a current-voltage supply to produce a plasma in front of the target (6). The target (6) is shaped as a rotation-symmetrical body, which provides a ring-shaped enclosure around the substrate (10), wherein the magnets (19,19′, . . . ; 20,20′, . . . ) are supported on the side of the hollow cylindrical target (6), facing away from the substrate (10), and can move around the rotational axis (R) of the target (6).

Abstract: A vacuum coating device coats substrates on all sides by rotating the substrates in a material flow. The device is for use in a vacuum chamber with a material source, and includes a holder for holding the substrates opposite the material source and drives correlated with the holder to bring about a rotation and shifting movement of the substrates. The device includes a hollow manipulator arm formed from three legs which extend at an angle with respect to one another. More specifically, the first leg extends at an obtuse angle with respect to the second leg, and the second leg extends at an approximately right-angle with respect to the third leg. The substrates are then held at the end of the third leg by the holder. The manipulator arm, when driven by a motor, can rotate around the longitudinal axis of the first leg, and, moreover, can move back and forth in the direction of this longitudinal axis.

Abstract: A bevel angle drive having an input shaft with a plurality of first gears disposed at intervals thereon and a plurality of output shafts driven through second gears by the first gears and disposed radially to the input shaft. Each of the first gears has a hollow shaft. The output shafts with the second gears in the form of bevel gears are mounted each in a drive casing in which the particular first gear is journaled. The input shaft is brought in a longitudinally displaceable manner through each hollow shaft of all first gears and is joined for co-rotation to the letter by means of a driver.

Abstract: An apparatus for producing and coiling films of insulating material coated under a vacuum with electrically conductive material, comprising an electron beam vaporizer, a feed drum, a roller disposed above the electron beam vaporizer and looped by the film, a take-up drum, and deflector rolls for establishing a path for the film, at least one plasma source oriented towards the path of the film so that the plasma touches the film, said plasma source being disposed in the region of the path of the film from the electron beam vaporizer to the take-up drum, wherein the plasma source is disposed at the end of the angle of contact specified by one of the deflector rolls.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for producing rolls or coils of film of insulating material which has been conductively coated, in a vacuum, by vaporizing conductive material in direct electron beam bombardment and condensing the vapor on the film surface. According to the invention, the film is subjected to a plasma treatment after coating and before the film is wound in a coil.

Abstract: A purification apparatus for water purification with a settling device for sediment which, settling device comprises a settling vessel and a separate sediment container, which for the purification, stand open in communicative connection with each other in the assembled condition and are sealed tightly in the connection plane toward the outside by a seal, and for exchange of the sediment container are constructed moveable relative to each other. The settling vessel is supported with a roller wagon on running rails, which roller wagon has longitudinally variable supports which each comprises a telescopic tube with a spring arranged therein. A purification system includes a separation device and a collection vessel in inlet and outlet communication, respectively, with the settling vessel, the separation device including a vibrating screen, a supply line entering the settling vessel, and a purge from the collection vessel spraying water on the screen.