Abstract: Process for producing an elongated superconductor with a bismuth phase having a high transition temperature and a superconductor produced according to this process. An elongated superconductor with at least one conductor core made of high-T.sub.c Bi-containing superconductor material with the 2212 or 2223 phase is to be manufactured. For this purpose, the cross section of a structure made of Ag matrix material and a precursor of the superconductor material is reduced. Subsequently the raw conductor thus obtained is annealed in an oxygen-containing atmosphere. According to this invention, a temperature variation between a higher temperature (T1) and a lower temperature (T2) is provided for the annealing. The higher temperature (T1) is at most 7 K above the decomposition temperature (Tz), and the lower temperature (T2) is at most 9 K below the decomposition temperature (Tz).

Abstract: The invention concerns a device for varying the valve timing of gas exchange valves of an internal combustion engine, said device being arranged in the region of the cylinder head (1) of the internal combustion engine on a camshaft (3) and comprising an element (6) which is attached to a crankshaft of the internal combustion engine and is in driving relationship with the crankshaft through a traction element, said device further comprising an element (7) attached rotationally fast to the camshaft (3), both of said elements (6, 7) being adapted to rotate and to be fixed relative to each other between two end positions in response to an adjusting element which is hydraulically actuatable by a solenoid control valve (25).

Abstract: Apparatus for adjusting a rotational relation between a camshaft and a timing pulley of an internal combustion engine of a type having a crankshaft for driving the timing pulley and a cylinder head for rotatably supporting the camshaft, includes a housing receiving a double-acting piston for displacement in an axial direction between two axially spaced end positions and defining with the housing two pressure compartments. Secured to the piston is a control bushing which is geared to the timing pulley via a first gearing and operatively connected to the camshaft via a second gearing.

Abstract: A hand-held power tool, particularly hand-operated angle grinder has a device housing having a motor housing receiving an electric drive, a gear head arranged at one end of the motor housing and having a projecting drive spindle for a tool, and a handle arranged at another end of the motor housing and having a switch strip for switching the electric drive on and off, at least one of the handle and the gear head forming a rotatable housing part and being rotatable relative to the motor housing around a longitudinal axis of the motor housing. A manually actuated positioning device fixes the rotatable housing part in at least two different rotational positions, while the motor housing being provided with a central bearing neck, the rotatable housing part being provided with a rotating cross which is received on the bearing neck so as to be rotatable and secured against axial displacement, the positioning device being formed to cause a positive-locking engagement between the motor housing and the rotating cross.

Abstract: In an electric hand machine tool, particularly an angle grinding machine, for the purpose of ergonomic handling the handle, together with the switch bar, is designed to be rotatable, relative to the tool mounting on the gear head (11). For the rapid, problem-free changing of the position of the handle relative to the tool mounting, the handle (12) can be locked against rotation on the motor casing, containing the electric drive, in at least two turned positions by a manually operable locking device, and can be clamped on the motor casing by a manually operable clamp device. In a preferred embodiment the locking device (40) and clamp device are coupled together by constraint and are operated simultaneously by means of a single tightening lever.

Abstract: A carrier material for a tool for treating surfaces is composed of a metal alloy with a homogeneous, fine-grained structure. The carrier material is treated in a material removing manner to obtain a predetermined size and a roughness. Then an activating layer, a pure metal layer and a transition layer composed for example from nitrogen are applied, so that the outermost region of the tool contains a non-metallic hard layer. The non-metallic hard layer has a high hardness and elasticity so that the tool is suitable especially for treating surfaces of structural parts.

Abstract: The invention relates to a check valve, for use as an insert check valve, with a valve seat and a valve element that is resiliently prestressed against the valve seat by a valve spring. According to the invention, a retaining element embodied as a retaining bracket is provided, which supports the end of the valve spring remote from the valve element and the retaining element can be locked resiliently to a recess, particularly an annular groove, of the valve housing. This enables fast, simple assembly of the check valve from its individual parts.

Abstract: A hand held power tool has a working disc and a working sheet held on the working disc by a burdock connection. The working disc has a burdock surface. An intermediate pad is held on the burdock surface of the grinding disc. The intermediate pad has a first side provided with a velour coating and releasably connectable with the burdock surface of the grinding working disc and a second side releasably connectable with the working sheet.

Abstract: A tool for machining of openings, shafts and the like has a body having concentrical stepped cylindrical working regions, grooves provided between the working regions, and transitional regions arranged between the grooves and the cylindrical working regions. The transitional regions extend substantially tangentially in a machining direction and a deformation process of an outer surface of the workpiece to be machined is performed without material removal by compression.

Abstract: A fuel injection pump having a pump piston in a bore of a pump cylinder, wherein the pump piston is rotatable for fuel control, and having a niche disposed in the pump cylinder for receiving a control slide, wherein the niche can be made by non-cutting shaping. The niche has a flat niche bottom, which changes into two oblique niche walls, which extend in two straight parallel niche walls facing one another, these parallel niche walls in turn, change into oblique faces and terminate in slideways, in which the control slide is guided against twisting by slide runners that simultaneously act as impact aprons. The niche is embodied by non-cutting shaping in such a way that its wall thickness relative to the cylindrical outer shape of the pump cylinder is embodied as virtually constant.

Abstract: A composite superconductor comprises a matrix of an alloy which is normally conductive at operating temperatures with the alloy being copper and another alloying element. Several superconducting filaments are embedded in the matrix with these filaments being formed by a diffusion reaction between at least two elements. An aluminum jacket surrounds the matrix. A barrier layer formed from at least one intermetallic copper-aluminum compound is disposed between the aluminum jacket and the alloy matrix. The aluminum jacket may be formed by extrusion at an elevated temperature with the boundary layer between the aluminum jacket and the alloy matrix being concurrently formed by diffusion.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method for manufacturing a superconductor with a superconductive intermetallic compound by means of techniques employing solid-state diffusion in a heat treatment, wherein, in order to increase the effective current density and the critical current of such a superconductor, either the heat treatment for forming the superconductive compound is carried out in a hydrogen atmosphere, or, alternatively, a thermal post-treatment is carried out in a hydrogen atmosphere after the heat treatment for forming the superconductive compound is performed.

Abstract: Air mattress with upper and lower sheets, the upper sheet being transparent to ultra-violet and the lower sheet being reflective.

Abstract: A compost container including a base section for receiving fertilizer sap, and an upper compost containing section having multiple compartments for receiving decomposable garbage and waste mounted on the base section. A floor divides the upper section from the base section for retaining the decomposable garbage and waste in the upper section but permits the fertilizer sap to gravitate therethrough to the lower section. Access means are provided for adding the decomposable garbage or waste to the compartments, and for removing compost and fertilizer sap from the upper section and base section respectively.

Abstract: A method for the manufacture of a superconductor with a superconductive intermetallic compound consisting of at least two chemical elements in which a ductile structural part made of at least one element of the compound is brought into contact with a second structural part which contains a ductile carrier metal for the remaining elements of the compound after which the remaining elements of the compound are admitted to the second ductile structural part through a chemical transport reaction at elevated temperature, the compound being formed by a reaction of its remaining elements, diffusing through the second structural part, with the first structural part.

Abstract: The invention concerns a method for the manufacture of a superconductor which comprises a superconductive, intermetallic compound including at least two elements. A ductile component of at least one element of the compound is brought into contact with a ductile carrier metal bearing the other elements of the compound. The structure so obtained is heat-treated in a vapor formed over a separate melt of the elements found in the carrier metal in such a manner that the intermetallic compound is formed through reaction of the vapor, diffusing through the carrier metal, with the ductile component. The heat treatment applied until the ductile components and the other elements reach the same temperature is performed in a vacuum with a residual maximum gas pressure of 10.sup.-.sup.2 Torr or in an inert gas at a maximum gas pressure of 500 Torr.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a superconductor having a superconductive intermetallic compound of at least two elements in which a ductile component consisting of one element of the compound is brought into contact with a second component consisting of an alloy containing a ductile carrier metal and the remaining elements of the compound, after which the two components are subjected to a cross section reducing process and then heat treated such that the compound is formed through a reaction of the first component with the elements of the compound contained in the second component.

Abstract: Annular metallic blanks which consist of packages of interconnected laminae or of sheet metal strips which are coiled edgewise and whose strata are riveted or otherwise secured to each other are converted into stators for electrical machines by cold forming between upper and lower dies and outer and inner calibrating members so that the inner diameter of each blank is increased during cold forming, that the peripheral surface of the stator has two cylindrical portions flanking a convex median portion, and that the outermost portions of the end surfaces of the stator are formed with annular recesses. Prior to cold forming, each blank is subjected to a preliminary shaping treatment including chamfering the axial ends of its internal and peripheral surfaces.