Abstract: A vibration damper is disposed between two components (2, 3) of a portable handheld work apparatus (4). The vibration damper is held especially between a housing (6), which holds an internal combustion engine (5), and a handle (7) which is fixed on the housing (6) for guiding the work apparatus (4). The vibration damper includes a coil spring (9) and respective attachment elements (11, 12) at the ends (10, 13) of the coil spring. A coupling member (17) is provided to ensure that the work apparatus can be guided notwithstanding a break of a coil spring. The coupling member (17) projects through the coil spring (9) and bridges the axial distance (16) between the attachment elements (11 and 12). The coupling member (17) is connected to each attachment element (11, 12) so that it cannot separate therefrom.

Abstract: A vibration damper is disposed between two components (2, 3) of a portable handheld work apparatus (4). The vibration damper is held especially between a housing (6), which holds an internal combustion engine (5), and a handle (7) which is fixed on the housing (6) for guiding the work apparatus (4). The vibration damper includes a coil spring (9) and respective attachment elements (11, 12) at the ends (10, 13) of the coil spring. A coupling member (17) is provided to ensure that the work apparatus can be guided notwithstanding a break of a coil spring. The coupling member (17) projects through the coil spring (9) and bridges the axial distance (16) between the attachment elements (11 and 12). The coupling member (17) is connected to each attachment element (11, 12) so that it cannot separate therefrom.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a portable handheld work apparatus including a motor-driven chain saw, cutoff machine and the like. The work apparatus includes a housing and an internal combustion engine mounted in the housing for driving a work tool. The housing defines a space from which said engine draws combustion air and a fan wheel is disposed in the housing for generating a cooling-air flow which leaves the fan wheel in a direction tangential to the periphery of the fan wheel for cooling the engine. The housing has a U-shaped channel for conducting the cooling-air flow. The U-shaped channel is disposed so as to face toward the fan wheel with the base wall thereof being disposed at a predetermined spacing from the periphery of the fan wheel. The U-shaped channel has a pass-through formed in the base wall at a pregiven spacing downstream from the fan wheel for passing a portion of the cooling-air flow to the space as combustion air for the engine.

Abstract: Welding tongs for dot or spot welding having two arms which are disposed without crossing relationship and carrying weld electrodes respectively on one end. The arms are made of flat, spaced bars, and a substantially flat spacing member made of an elastic or resilient material, spaces the two arms from each other thereby interconnecting the tong arms in a range of pivot motion of the arms. An E-shaped mounting member limits lateral deflection of the tong arms and holds the spacing member. A hydraulic drive is connected to the other ends of the tong arms for obtaining the pivot motion of the arms in relation to each other, through tensioning and upsetting or compression of the spacing member.