Abstract: The invention is directed to a process for guiding a strand, especially a steel strand in a continuous casting plant with a soft reduction zone in which hydraulic servo units continuously adjust the gap width between oppositely located strand guide rollers. In a strand guiding segment with 4 servo piston-cylinder units, two adjacent servo piston-cylinder units are adjusted relative to the strand so as to be linked with one another hydraulically. The rest of the servo piston-cylinder units are adjusted independently. The invention is further directed to a strand guide.

Abstract: The stack-forming device (10) has a stack compartment (20), which is closed at the bottom by slide plates (22) and to which printing products (16) are fed by the conveying device (14). Above the slide plates (22), intermediate-bottom elements (58) can be pushed into the stack compartment (20), on which elements the fed printing products (16) can be deposited one on top of the other at the beginning of a preliminary stack formation. As soon as a certain number of printing products have been stacked, the intermediate-bottom elements (58) are drawn out of the stack compartment (20), as a result of which the stacked printing products (16) fall onto the slide plates (22), and the preliminary stack is completed by feeding further printing products (16). The finished preliminary stack is then set down onto the depositing table (30) by moving the slide plates (22) apart.

Abstract: Printing products (13) are fed by a conveyor track (11, 14) to a stack compartment (17), which can be charged from above, in an imbricated formation of the kind in which the printing products (13) lie in pairs congruently one on top of the other. In order to be able to form stacks containing an odd number of printing products, a retaining device (24) is provided, adjoining the exit of the conveyor track (11, 14), which retaining device upon activation temporarily lifts the upper printing product (13) off the one lying underneath.

Abstract: This invention is directed to an apparatus for stacking sheet-like articles (15) which are delivered by a conveyor to the upper portion of a stack compartment (18). The stack compartment (18) includes stop rails (19, 20, 21, 22) which define the edges of the stack. The sheet-like articles (15) on the section (12) of the conveyor are fed with one of the corners in front in a conveying direction (17) which forms an angle other than 0.degree. and 90.degree., preferably about 45.degree., with the side edges of the sheet-like articles (15) adjoining the corner so that the sheet-like articles strike against two stop rails (19, 20) which are mutually at right angles at the moment the sheet-like articles reach the stack compartment. Accordingly, the sheet-like articles will each be properly aligned by the two stop rails (19, 20) to form a neat, right-parallelepipedal stack.

Abstract: Printed products are infed in an imbricated formation by a transport device to a stacker apparatus. These printed products are transported by a delivery belt conveyor and an infeed belt conveyor to a pivotably mounted infeed device. The outfeed end region of the infeed device opens into a stacker chute of a stacker device. At the infeed device there is arranged a support element. The printed products delivered by the infeed device to the stacker chute slide onto an elevationally displaceable stacker table. This infeed device is supported by the support element upon the stacked printed products. Governed by the pivotal motion of the infeed device, the stacker table of the stacker chute is incrementally lowered. As soon as sufficient printed products are available for forming a first partial stack in the stacker chute, this first partial stack is pressed by presser structure comprising piston-and-cylinder units and then this first partial stack is rotated about an upright axis through about 180.degree.

Abstract: Apparatus is provided for detecting leakages in hydraulic equipment. A pressure supply line of the equipment has alternate fluid flow paths controlled by respective, oppositely directed non-return or one-way valves which are pre-loaded as by springs. A restricted flow transducer is located in a bypass line which bypasses the alternate fluid flow paths for sensing pressure drops in the system.