Abstract: The invention relates to a method, which can be used to determine the local itinerary of a user of a variety of public means of transportation. Based on said determined itinerary then the travel cost can be equitably distributed among the individual operators of the means of transportation. The basis of the method is a comparison of the coordinates of stops of the public means of transportation with the coordinates of base stations for sending and receiving operations in mobile phone communication (GSM). Said coordinates must be determined only once and can be stored in a memory. If the coordinates of a base station into which a mobile phone is logged are close to the coordinates of a stop, it is assumed that the user of the mobile phone is located at said stop. During the travel of the user of the public means of transportation, it is detected at regular intervals—for example in intervals of 30 seconds—into what base station the mobile phone is logged.

Abstract: The method for the production of partial warps wound on warping beams or sectional beams, or warps of synthetic filament yarns wound on warp beams, which are completely stretched and sized, consists of sizing a group of parallel synthetic thermoplastic filament yarns, the filaments of which are not completely stretched, in a sizing zone, predrying the sized yarns in a heated predrying zone, subjecting the predried sized group of yarn by final drying in a heated final drying zone, and finally winding the dried group of yarns on warping or (sectional) beams, while the filaments of the filament yarns are stretched jointly and simultaneously in the predrying zone. The stretching occurs preferably between rolls (5, 6) assigned to the sizing zone and rolls (10) assigned to the final drying zone. The method may be carried out with conventional, at most slightly modified sizing machines and it furnishes very uniform partial warps or warps.

Abstract: An apparatus for assembling warps of spun fibers and/or filament yarns present on yarn beams to form a warp present on a warp beam is described. This apparatus has a pneumatic pressure regulator (1), an electromagnetically operable pneumatic valve (2) downstream of the pressure regulator, a three-position rotary disk valve (3) downstream of the pneumatic valve, and pneumatically operable brake cylinders (4) of the yarn beam brakes (12) which are arranged downstream of the three-position rotary disk valve and connected in parallel with each other and a pneumatic by-pass limited in time so that asynchronous pneumatic braking of the yarn beams and of the warp beam during rapid braking is avoided. The by-pass serves to bridge the switching time of the three-position rotary disk valve (3). According to one embodiment, the control of the pneumatic valve (6) switchable with delay and of the pneumatic valves (7 and 8) occurs pneumatically.