Abstract: A test device for monitoring a predetermined pressure load on a patient's foot as exerted by the body weight of the patient during walking has a pressure sensor which is designed as a circular, ring-shaped, curved washer having a snap portion in the form of a conically shaped elevation that can be snapped-over from a rest position into an active monitoring position when a predetermined pressure load is sensed. This the snapping action is accompanied by an audible signal as well as by a sensitive sensing signal acting bodily against the heel of the patient's foot under which the test device is placed.

Abstract: A test device for monitoring a predetermined pressure load on a patient's foot as exerted by the body weight of the patient during walking comprises a pressure sensor which is designed as a circular, ring-shaped, curved washer having a snap portion in the form of a conically shaped elevation that is adapted for being snapped-over from a rest position into an active monitoring position when a predetermined pressure load is sensed whereby the snapping action is accompanied by an audible signal as well as by a sensitive sensing signal acting bodily against the heel of the patient's foot under which the test device is placed.

Abstract: A device for providing an acoustic signal to a patient when a predetermined load is placed on the patient's foot comprises a fluid filled control ms with a first bladder underlying the patient's foot and a second bladder as interconnected via a flexible tube. The second bladder is adapted to actuate a signaling means comprising a resiliently supported and biased click spring that provides an audible click noise when actuated by the second bladder of the control means at a predetermined pressure of the liquid corresponding to a predetermined load as placed on the patient's foot.

Abstract: To strip laminated foil cuttings, which are provided with incisions in a cover foil adhered to a carrier paper through a self-adhesive bottom layer, an incision forming a separation line is made into the carrier paper of a forward edge of each foil cutting before the edge zone is pulled off from the carrier paper by a transfer means in cooperation with a deflection edge.

Abstract: In a process for cutting the cover foil of a laminated foil material, the sound field scanned by the cutting contact of the cutting edge is evaluated for controlling the depth of penetration of the cutting edge maximally up to the plane separating the cover foil from the carrier foil of the foil material.

Abstract: A method of stripping laminated foil cuttings includes a transportation device for transporting the foil cuttings in a given transportation direction. A cutting device for cutting the forward edge of each foil cutting with an obtuse angle is arranged upstream of a deflection edge along the transportation direction. At the deflection edge, a foil remainder of a cover foil of each laminated foil cutting, provided adjacent to incisions of the cover foil, is removed in a branched off transfer direction from a carrier paper of each foil cutting. The carrier paper is removed in a transportation direction in common with an advertising print or a commercial art as formed by such incisions in the cover foil and remaining on the carrier paper at the deflection edge.

Abstract: A single head capstan winch comprises a capstan head which is movably arranged on a supporting frame for being guided relative to a pressing roller and is also rotatably arranged on this supporting frame and provided with a dynamically balanced surface of a shape that complements the enveloping surface of a multiplicity of windings of a cable or rope of the winch to thereby obtain a load-controlled clamping force necessary for the hauling-in of a load by means of the forward extending portion of the cable or rope the rearward extension of which runs off free of any load from the capstan head.

Abstract: In a portable cable winch the smooth shell of a motor-driven cable drum is provided with at least one conical surface having an angle of inclination corresponding to the angle of friction between the load-bearing cable and the cable drum. A clamping disk driven in synchronism with the cable drum pulls the load-bearing cable away from the smaller-diameter end of the conical surface and towards a cable storing means. The cable has applied thereto a clamping force which is transmitted as a pulling force back to the cable section to be drawn in via the conical surface. In an embodiment in which the shell of the cable drum is subdivided into two conical surfaces having identical angles of inclination but being disposed on the axis of the cable drum extending in opposite directions, it is possible also to employ the cable winch for raising and lowering loads upon the direction of rotation of the cable drum being reversed to alternatingly guide the cable onto the one or the other of the two conical surfaces.