Abstract: An socket is provided with a flexible nib that is able to be received by a mounting plate with an aperture. The socket is easily removed and secured to the mounting plate and will also be received in a mounting plate without an aperture.

Abstract: The present invention generally relates to a lighting fixture where individual light sources can be removed and/or replaced from a strand of light sources. The preferred embodiment of the light fixture comprises a plurality of light sources strung together by a plurality of wire assemblies. Each light source preferably has one end of a tongue and groove connector where the opposing end of the connector is attached to an end of a wire assembly. The strand of light sources is then placed within a lens component, preferably an extrusion. The lens component is connected to a base component; wherein the plurality of light sources are mounted to the base component and contained within the lens component. The fixture can be mounted to, inter alia, a wall, a chair, or a railing in an area to be lit by the fixture.

Abstract: The present invention generally relates to a lighting fixture where individual light sources can be removed and/or replaced from a strand of light sources. The preferred embodiment of the light fixture comprises a plurality of light sources strung together by a plurality of wire assemblies. Each light source preferably has one end of a tongue and groove connector where the opposing end of the connector is attached to an end of a wire assembly. The strand of light sources is then placed within a lens component, preferably an extrusion. The lens component is connected to a base component; wherein the plurality of light sources are mounted to the base component and contained within the lens component. The fixture can be mounted to, inter alia, a wall, a chair, or a railing in an area to be lit by the fixture.

Abstract: A linear actuator comprises an electric motor and a screw-and-nut transmission device in which the nut member comprises a planet-carrier member driven in rotation about the axis of the screw, and at least one planet mounted so that it is free to turn on the planet-carrier member about an axis that is parallel to and set at a distance from the axis of the screw. The planet has a plurality of collars set in planes perpendicular to the axis of the screw which engage respective portions of the bottom of the thread of the screw, in such a way that, as a result of the rotation of the planet-carrier member, the planet rolls around the screw forcing the latter to translate axially due to the engagement of each collar against the sides of the respective portion of the thread of the screw.

Abstract: A device for controlling the tension of a yarn includes a gauge measuring tension of the yarn and optionally a brake driven by the tension gauge to vary braking of the yarn. The gauge comprises electromagnetic control means having a moveable control element subject to a force dependent on the tension of the yarn, and a control circuit. The latter circuit supplies the electromagnetic control means with a current so that the moveable control element remains virtually still in a given position, during variations of the yarn tension. This current is indicative of the tension of the yarn and is measured to obtain a measure of the yarn tension. The device can be associated with a yarn feeder having a drum and moveable eyelet coaxial with the drum.

Abstract: A measurement instrument in which, when the initially loaded instrument is partly unloaded in such a fashion that the part load falls in a lower load range with a finer display-scale interval, the instrument continues to use the scale for the larger load until the load is removed completely. When the load is removed completely, however, the display reads "zero" as soon as the result R(m) at calculation stage m satisfies the condition .vertline.R(m).vertline..ltoreq.d.sub.jmax /2 (zero region) where d.sub.jmax is the largest display-scale interval. The next-finer display-scale interval is selected if the difference d.sub.s between two successive results determined at a particular time-interval satisfies the condition d.sub.j .ltoreq.d.sub.2 /10. A zero store is updated to include each result in the zero region.

Abstract: The parallel guide of an elastic force reducing dynamometer comprises a frame secured to a base plate, two essentially parallel plates, a load carrier, and four elastic tie joints. The load carrier supports a balance pan for receiving weights. A load-carrying element is clamped between the upper end of the load carrier and the lower end of the frame. Compressive force exerted on the load carrier is converted into an electric signal. The parallel guide is manufactured from a single piece, for example by profile extrusion or wire erosion. In an alternate embodiment of the invention, the load-carrying element is clamped between the lower end of the load carrier and the upper end of the frame. Tensile force exerted on the load carrier is converted into an electric signal.

Abstract: A balance, which is virtually insensitive to angular deviation and to the presence of additional accelerations of the base, has two dynamometers (2, 3) each having a parallel guide (26). The parallel guides are mutually parallel and their degree of freedom coincides with the direction of gravitational acceleration when the balance is horizontal. The dynamometer (2) measures the weight (M) of the object to be weighed, and the dynamometer (3) measures that of a reference mass (8, 22,24). The balance also has a computer (4) which, from the signals emitted by the two dynamometers (2,3), accurately determines the mass of the object to be weighed independently of the angular deviation of the instantaneous total acceleration. During calibration, which can be carried out only by the manufacturer, the dynamometer (3) determines the weight R.sub.1, R.sub.2 of the reference mass (8, 22, 24) at two different inclinations of the balance and the dynamometer (2) determines the weight (N.sub.1, N.sub.

Abstract: Mass and force meter manufactured from a single block extruded from a profiled bar and comprising several components, with a frame, a load support guided parallelly and vertically by guiding means consisting of at least two flat springs mounted one above the other, a motionless measuring system and at least one transmission member that transmits only part of the weight of the mass or part of the force to be measured to the measuring system, in which at least one component implements at least two functions of the meter.

Abstract: Mass and force meter with a body, a load support guided parallely and vertically, a strokeless measuring system and a lever system for transmission of the load acting on the load support to the measuring system. The lever system consists at least partially of a single, flat plate a part of which is tightly connected to the body.

Abstract: A mass and force meter particularly suited for weighing large and bulky loads, for example vehicles, which, in spite of the large dimensions of the load support due to the nature of the load, has a small total height and in which possible unpredictable deformations of the frame do not influence the precision of the measurement, said mass and force meter having a frame, a load support directly supported by two brackets each of which is connected to the frame by means of two flat springs forming a parallel guiding device, a measuring system, springs compensating the main share of the load and an elastic transmission element transmitting to the measuring system the load-proportional remaining share of the load.

Abstract: Mass and force meter with a body, a load support, a load cell, an intermediate body mounted between said body and said load support and supported by said body over a number of supporting points, said load support being supported by said intermediate body over the same number of loading points, whereby said supporting and loading points are mounted pairwise in the same horizontal plane, said intermediate body consisting of two rigid parts linked by two horizontal, flexible parts mounted one below the other, said supporting and loading points being anchored to said rigid parts, said loading points being shifted horizontally by the same amount and in the same direction from said supporting points, whereby at least one spring, the resilience of which is much greater than that of said flexible parts, has one of its ends fitted into one of said rigid parts, its other end being linked with said load cell which is linked to the other rigid part.

Abstract: Mass and force meter with a frame, a load support guided parallely and vertically by parallel guiding means comprising at least two flat springs lying in two at least substantially parallel planes lying one above the other, with a rigid measuring system and a resilient transmission element transmitting only a part of the weight of the mass to be measured or of the force to be measured to the measuring system, said flat springs being fitted in said frame and said load support.

Abstract: Mass and force meter with a frame, a load support and a rigid measuring system, in which only a part of the weight of the mass to be measured or of the force to be measured is transmitted to the measuring system, an intermediate body mounted between the load support and the frame which comprises two rigid parts linked by at least one resilient part, the load support being connected to the intermediate body by means of a number of load connections, the intermediate body being supported by the frame by means of an equal number of supporting connections, said rigid parts carrying each a spring lying outside the plane of said flexible part, the ends of these springs being linked to the measuring system.

Abstract: A mass and force meter locked over its measuring system and comprising a frame, a load support, and a force transmission channel with a load-dependent force transmission ratio and at least one swivel lever is provided, in which the combination of the non-linearity of the measuring system with that of other elements of the meter can be eliminated with a force transmission channel having a non-linear characteristic, such a channel having a smaller resilience than the known meters coupled with a better adaptability to meeting the requirements for the parameters determining the non-linearity to be eliminated and with easy adjustment of these parameters, the swivel lever being connected with at least one adjacent element of the force transmission channel by means of a link having one of its ends fitted to the swivel lever, the link being mounted at least partly outside the action line of the force transmitted and being at least zone-wise elastically bendable.

Abstract: Method and scale are designed for the manual or automatic weighing of objects of the same nominal weight by means of a scale locked over its measuring system, having a computing device for establishing the weight of the goods to be weighed from the digital output signals of mechanical-electrical converters, e.g. from pre-tensioned measuring strings loaded by the weight of said goods, in which if the load on the measuring system is lower or higher than predetermined limits of the load corresponding to said nominal weight, an electromagnetically generated force acts upon the load support of the scale and prevents the overshooting of said pre-determined load limits.

Abstract: Scale with a computing device and a digital display, in particular for commercial applications, said scale having logical and computing means for selection of one measuring range out of at least two measuring ranges in function of the weight of the goods on its platform, the smallest display units of each range being at least in a ratio 1:2, and further logical and computing means for selection in function of the weight of the higest load that may be displayed.

Abstract: A mass and force meter with a frame, a load-support and a measuring system, wherein the mass or force to be measured acts indirectly on the tension of two transversally vibrating, pre-loaded strings excited by electronic means, so that the resultant frequency changes serve for calculating the magnitude of said mass or force in a computing device. Both strings, a first transmission element for the transmission of a pre-loading force and a second transmission element for the transmission of a force depending on the load to be measured are fixed to a force distributor.

Abstract: A scale with a digital computing device and a digital display, in particular for weighing bulk goods, in which the weighing result is determined as a mean value over a measuring cycle, comprising means for assessing the difference between the results of two consecutive measuring cycles, means for comparing this difference with a pre-determined value and means for controlling the length of the measuring cycles in function of this comparison.