Abstract: An interface sealing component for enclosing electrical battery cable between a cover and an array of batteries includes a base member having a first side shaped to matingly engage a battery surface of one or more batteries. A second side of the interface sealing component is opposite the first side, and is shaped to matingly engage a battery cover so that the base member forms an interior volume between the battery surface and the battery cover. Each battery surface has at least one terminal disposed on the battery surface into the interior volume through a base aperture in the base member. In this manner, the interface sealing component and battery cover can seal a number of battery terminals from outside environmental conditions, such as dust, moisture, or chemical exposure that can damage the battery terminals and reduce the operating life of the battery.

Abstract: An interface sealing component for enclosing electrical battery cable between a cover and an array of batteries includes a base member having a first side shaped to matingly engage a battery surface of one or more batteries. A second side of the interface sealing component is opposite the first side, and is shaped to matingly engage a battery cover so that the base member forms an interior volume between the battery surface and the battery cover. Each battery surface has at least one terminal disposed on the battery surface into the interior volume through a base aperture in the base member. In this manner, the interface sealing component and battery cover can seal a number of battery terminals from outside environmental conditions, such as dust, moisture, or chemical exposure that can damage the battery terminals and reduce the operating life of the battery.

Abstract: A system and method sorts bulk material containing lightweight components and heavier components, by separating the lightweight components from the heavier components. The method includes the steps of a) conveying the bulk material to be sorted, and releasing it through a corresponding outlet along a given trajectory; and b) generating an airflow and projecting said airflow adjacent to the outlet so that the airflow intersects the given trajectory of the bulk material, and draws along with it the lightweight material via a Venturi effect, thereby separating the lightweight components from the heavier components. This enables namely to easily, quickly and inexpensively sort out fairly lightweight materials, from heavier materials, at a substantial high throughput.

Abstract: A process for the layout of wrappers for cigars in a half-leaf of tobacco, of the type in which the layout plan of the wrappers is set up by disposing them one by one on the half-leaf taking into account the real contour of said leaf and its possible blemishes, the wrappers being placed tangentially with respect to one another and/or to the contour of the half-leaf and/or to the possible blemishes.

Abstract: A process for laying out a maximum number of cigar wrappers in a leaf or half-leaf of tobacco, the position of each wrapper being located within the leaf or half-leaf by two series of variables which are, on the one hand, the abscissa or ordinate from the center of the wrapper plotted with respect to the main direction of the leaf and to one end of this leaf, and on the other hand the angle that the main direction of the wrapper makes with the main direction of the leaf, said process comprising the step of successively laying out the wrappers so that, for each wrapper, the abscissa, or ordinate, from the center or its angle with respect to the main direction is maximum or minimum.

Abstract: A device for automatically taking off elements drawn or formed on pieces carried by a moving support and for displacing and depositing the taken off elements on a take-up conveyor, wherein said device comprises at least one arm mounted to rotate on a shaft located between the support for the elements to be taken off and the take-up conveyor on which the taken off elements must be deposited, said arm bearing a taking off member, in principle a suction disc, mounted so as to be able to be oriented and displaced with respect to said shaft, means for driving said shaft in rotation, means for orienting and displacing the taking off member with respect to said shaft and means for controlling these latter drive means provided and arranged to ensure, in synchronism with the movements of the piece support and of the conveyor taking up the taken off elements, the taking off of all the elements formed on each piece and the deposit thereof in parallel and regular arrangement on said take-up conveyor.

Abstract: A process for the repetitive and optimalized layout of shapes having the determined contour of a cigar wrapper within each of the elements of a series of tobacco leaves or half-leaves (having an irregular shape and defects), with a view to cutting out and removing from said elements wrappers having said shapes, in which process at least one sample leaf is determined having dimensional characteristics inferior to those of the whole section of the series of the leaves to be cut out, then, for each of the sample leaves, cut out pattern cards are drawn up, each comprising the outline of a possibility, distinct from the others, of cutting a leaf similar to the sample leaf into said shapes of determined contour, wherein said pattern cards relating to the same sample leaf are graded into groups, as a function of their decreasing yield of wrappers, the pattern cards within the same group are graded as a function of at least one criterion other than that of yield and relative to the interest of use presented by said p

Abstract: Device for the transportation, transversely to their axis, of cylindrical rod-shaped objects such as cigarettes, of the kind comprising an upstream conveyor with sockets in which said objects are lodged, and an ascending downstream conveyor, smooth, arranged such that it maintains the transported objects through suction, a transfer zone being further arranged at the lower end of the downstream conveyor, wherein said zone which widens from downstream to upstream has in its upstream area a width at the time inferior in diameter to that of a cigarette and substantially the same as the latter when measured at the bottom of the socket.