Abstract: A coupling system for a closed fluid transfer system includes a coupling member that features a coupling member housing. The coupling member housing includes a housing portion that at least partially surrounds a sealing member receptacle in an axial direction with respect to the longitudinal axis and which includes a coupling member housing threaded portion on the inner surface facing the sealing member. The coupling system also includes a mating coupling member for coupling with the coupling member. The mating coupling member includes a mating coupling member housing that has a mating coupling member guiding structure. The coupling member housing threaded portion of the coupling member is configured such that the mating coupling member guiding structure and the sealing member receptacle structure are jointly and movably guided, in particular in a predetermined positional relation to each other, by the coupling member housing threaded portion.

Abstract: A valve combination is for connecting a first fluid chamber boundary to a second fluid chamber boundary via a safety chamber. The valve combination includes a first valve having a first valve seat and a first closure member and a second valve having a second valve seat and a second closure member. The first valve is configured to seal the first fluid chamber boundary against the safety chamber and the second valve is configured to seal the second fluid chamber boundary against the safety chamber. The valve combination is configured to provide, via the first valve seat and the second valve seat, thermal insulation of the safety chamber against the first fluid chamber boundary and the second fluid chamber boundary.

Abstract: A poppet valve configured comprising a valve housing with line connections and a valve seat formed therebetween in the valve housing, and a closing element, which is axially displaceable in the valve housing and which cooperates with the valve seat, and a membrane extending around the closing element and from the latter up to a fixing site on the housing side. Due to the fact that a spring-elastic and in particular annular element is additionally provided for fixing the membrane under preload on the housing side, and due to the fact that the spring-elastic element is subdivided towards the sealing fixing site into partially circumferential segments having formed thereon extensions, which press the membrane against the cylindrical fixing site and, in so doing, deform the membrane.

Abstract: In a steam trap comprising a seat valve that is adapted to be switched over between an open position for a first discharge state with large throughput and a closed position for a second discharge state with small throughput, the closure element and the seat of the seat valve define, at the closed position, a two-part passage, said passage having a jet cross-section, which first decreases in size in the discharge direction and, subsequently, re-increases in size, and being delimited by the seating area, the sealing face and at least one, only local control groove in the sealing face and/or the seating area. In the aseptic double seated valve the steam trap serves to carry out a flushing cycle as well as a sterilization cycle in a filling plant.

Abstract: A steam trap is provided comprising a housing having formed therein a seat for a closure element between a steam and/or condensate inlet and an outlet, the closure element being adapted to be switched between a closed position in the seat and an open position raised from the seat, an annular gap is formed upstream of the seat in the final phase of the switching movement to the closed position and at the end position of the closed position, said annular gap being used for at least pre-filtering condensate and preventing particles from getting stuck in the seat as well as clogging of a nozzle.

Abstract: A poppet valve configured comprising a valve housing with line connections and a valve seat formed therebetween in the valve housing, and a closing element, which is axially displaceable in the valve housing and which cooperates with the valve seat, and a membrane extending around the closing element and from the latter up to a fixing site on the housing side. Due to the fact that a spring-elastic and in particular annular element is additionally provided for fixing the membrane under preload on the housing side, and due to the fact that the spring-elastic element is subdivided towards the sealing fixing site into partially circumferential segments having formed thereon extensions, which press the membrane against the cylindrical fixing site and, in so doing, deform the membrane.

Abstract: In a double seat valve with upper and lower valve discs and a flow divider in a leakage room, wherein respectively one valve disc can be set to a lift position to supplying a cleaning medium flow into the leakage room, and first channels are provided in the flow divider and second channels in the lower valve disc towards a leakage outlet, the first channels are disposed in extensions of the flow divider that axially bridge the lower leakage room part and that join within the second channels the flow divider forming in at least one of two lift positions with its external circumference with the external wall of the leakage room a leakage gap for a side flow that is significantly smaller than a main flow that is deflected and directed by the flow divider into the first channels or into the second channels and to the leakage outlet.

Abstract: In a steam trap comprising a seat valve that is adapted to be switched over between an open position for a first discharge state with large throughput and a closed position for a second discharge state with small throughput, the closure element and the seat of the seat valve define, at the closed position, a two-part passage, said passage having a jet cross-section, which first decreases in size in the discharge direction and, subsequently, re-increases in size, and being delimited by the seating area, the sealing face and at least one, only local control groove in the sealing face and/or the seating area. In the aseptic double seated valve the steam trap serves to carry out a flushing cycle as well as a sterilization cycle in a filling plant.

Abstract: A pipe connector including a compensator and a centering sleeve that, in the mounted state, extends along the entire length of the compensator.

Abstract: In a double seat valve with upper and lower valve discs and a flow divider in a leakage room, wherein respectively one valve disc can be set to a lift position to supplying a cleaning medium flow into the leakage room, and first channels are provided in the flow divider and second channels in the lower valve disc towards a leakage outlet, the first channels are disposed in extensions of the flow divider that axially bridge the lower leakage room part and that join within the second channels the flow divider forming in at least one of two lift positions with its external circumference with the external wall of the leakage room a leakage gap for a side flow that is significantly smaller than a main flow that is deflected and directed by the flow divider into the first channels or into the second channels and to the leakage outlet.

Abstract: A valve device includes a double-seat and/or double seal valve and a cleaning valve to clean the leakage space of the double-seat and/or double seal valve. The axis of the cleaning valve forms an angle between 1° and 89° with the axis of the double-seat and/or double seal valve.

Abstract: A method for coating a steering wheel and a corresponding steering wheel having a steering wheel rim comprising a steering wheel skeleton having a foam layer applied thereto and intended to be encompassed by a cover layer made of leather or plastic are provided. In order to simplify production, the cover layer is positioned on the steering wheel rim as a strip and is fixed to the foam layer on one end. The cover layer strip is then glued onto the foam layer and the lateral edges of the cover layer strip are sewed together in a known manner.

Abstract: A multi-piece valve disk of a sliding and/or seat valve, a ring seal with an elastic sealing ring with an external sealing zone is placed in a ring groove of the valve disk onto a dimensionally stable backup ring, and where an elastic restoring region effectively positioned between the backup ring and the external sealing zone is arranged in the backup ring, the restoring region being embodied in one piece with the sealing ring of its material adjacent to the external sealing zone of the sealing ring.

Abstract: An actuator for a rotary function element, having a housing with at least one pressure means supply and being closed at both sides by a cover, in which housing a piston is guided to reciprocate in a sealing manner, the piston containing diametrically opposed, convolution-like connecting links for a transverse axis of an actuator shaft rotatably mounted in one cover, and having two guide rods firmly anchored in the housing only at one end and engaging into guides in the piston, with the one guide rod anchored in one cover, whereas the other guide rod is anchored in the other cover, and the two guides end blind in the piston in opposite directions.

Abstract: A double seat valve having a seat for cooperation with two valve disks which are linearly adjustable relative to each other and together relative with respect to the seat, for a seat valve function and a sliding valve function, each of the valve disks containing a ring seal with an elastic sealing ring in a ring groove, both sealing rings being manufactured with the same shapes and dimensions, each sealing ring being positioned in the ring groove with a backup ring, and both sealing rings being arranged in rotational positions differing with respect to the respective sealing function relative to the direction of adjustment of the valve disks.

Abstract: A method for producing a steering wheel for a vehicle is provided with the method including the following steps: providing a steering wheel rim, providing a first and a second blank, in particular made of leather, for producing a covering of the steering wheel rim which covering is visible after the steering wheel is completed; producing the covering by connecting a first edge section of the first blank to a first edge section of the second blank via a seam; and finally covering the steering wheel rim with the covering in such a manner that the seam, which connects the first and the second blank to each other, continues essentially along an inner circumference of the steering wheel rim and is visible from the outside in the completed steering wheel.

Abstract: A pipe connector including a compensator and means for centering the pipe connector, wherein the means for centering the pipe connector includes a centering sleeve that, in the mounted state, extends along the entire length of the compensator.

Abstract: A drive device for a double seat valve having, between flow paths, a seat and first and second valve disks, where first, second and third pistons movable in a sealed manner by alternating pressure pulses for initiating an opening cycle and cleaning cycles of the valve disks each are provided in a drive device housing, where the pistons can be selectively connected with valve disk couple elements so as to transmit movements. Pressure transmission paths lead into the drive device housing to chambers defined by the pistons, the second piston being guided in a sealed manner separate from the first piston in the drive device housing, sealing areas of the first and second pistons define a first chamber in the drive device housing, and at least one pressure transmission path leads, for the cleaning cycle of the second valve disk, laterally and transversely to the common axis of the drive device housing and the valve chamber at least directly into the first chamber.

Abstract: A method and a device for thinly coating a component on all sides are provided. A single layer is applied onto the component by casting in a casting mold, wherein during the casting process the material to be applied moves as laminar flow in the region of the decorative element. For this purpose, a casting mold consisting of a lower and an upper part is provided, in which proceeding from at least one sprue in the upper part to the side of the component to be coated a runner extends in direction of the component to be coated for filling the casting material into the casting mold, wherein in the runner in the vicinity of the component to be coated a retaining groove is provided for distributing the casting material across the width, and wherein the runner has a reduced passage subsequent to the retaining groove.

Abstract: A multi-piece valve disk of a sliding and/or seat valve, a ring seal with an elastic sealing ring with an external sealing zone is placed in a ring groove of the valve disk onto a dimensionally stable backup ring, and where an elastic restoring region effectively positioned between the backup ring and the external sealing zone is arranged in the backup ring, the restoring region being embodied in one piece with the sealing ring of its material adjacent to the external sealing zone of the sealing ring.