Abstract: A circuit arrangement for supplying electrical energy to a power supply has a fuel cell and an accumulator arrangement. Electrical energy is delivered by the accumulator arrangement during the starting procedure, and is fed into the power supply by the accumulator arrangement via at least one DC/DC converter during starting of the circuit arrangement.

Abstract: A transfer conveyor for transporting an object from an intake location to an output location according to the invention has a frame adjacent the locations, a planet carrier rotatable on the frame about a carrier axis, a wheel rotatable on the frame adjacent the carrier about the carrier axis, and at least one planet gear carried on the carrier and rotatable thereon about a planet axis parallel to but offset from the carrier axis. A ring gear meshing with the planet gear is centered on but not rotatable relative to the carrier axis. The gears have respective pitch circles and the circumference of the ring-gear pitch circle is a whole-number multiple of the circumference of the planet-gear pitch circle. A support carried on the wheel is coupled to the planet gear offset from the planet axis so that the support orbits about the planet axis as the planet gear rotates. A suction gripper mounted on the support moves jointly therewith at least radial of the carrier axis.

Abstract: The loading apparatus of our invention comprises a filling shoe for input of small products, particularly pharmaceutical products, into a plurality of receptacles of a package component moving by and below the filling shoe. The filling shoe is provided with at least one feed chamber for receiving and dispensing the product which has a mouth opening below to the package component. A product duct for feeding the products one after the other is connected to and ends in the feed chamber. Each feed chamber is connected to at least one vacuum passage which is connected to and communicates with a vacuum source. The front side of the feed chamber in the motion direction of the package component may be formed as a guide slope running slantedly downward toward the package component opening in or to a vacuum passage with the feed chamber and to the package component. Vacuum slots may be provided running in a wall of the product duct and ending in the feed chamber to augment the vacuum effect in the product duct.