Abstract: A cutting system for cutting natural or composite products is disclosed. The cutting system includes a fixed shear cutting blade having a cutting edge that faces upwardly. The cutting system also includes a movable ram positioned above the cutting edge. The movable ram can be moved upwardly and downwardly relative to the cutting edge. In use of the cutting system, a product desired to be cut is fed between the movable ram and the cutting edge of the cutting blade. By moving the movable ram downwardly toward the cutting blade, the product is compressed against the cutting blade thereby causing the cutting edge of the cutting blade to cut upwardly through the product.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for forming a composite product. The method involves compressing a semi-hydraulic medium within a compression cell thereby causing the semi-hydraulic medium to fill voids in the compression cell and to encapsulate an incompressible element within the compression cell. The present disclosure also relates to composite products made in accordance with the above method.

Abstract: A closure device is provided for a cabriolet roof structure having at least one closure element which can assume an open position and a closed position, wherein the closure device is at least at times assigned a sensor device which can detect the open position and the closed position. According to the invention, it is provided that the sensor device comprises only one sensor which generates a first signal when the open position is reached and which generates a second signal when the closed position is reached. The invention also relates to a roof structure for a cabriolet and to a method for monitoring a closure device for a cabriolet roof structure.

Abstract: The invention relates to a closure device (10) for a cabriolet roof structure (12) having at least one closure element (14) which can assume an open position and a closed position, wherein the closure device (14) is at least at times assigned a sensor device (16, 18, 20) which can detect the open position and the closed position. According to the invention, it is provided that the sensor device (16, 18, 20) comprises only one sensor (16) which generates a first signal when the open position is reached and which generates a second signal when the closed position is reached. The invention also relates to a roof structure for a cabriolet and to a method for monitoring a closure device for a cabriolet roof structure.

Abstract: The burnout of a fuel element in a reactor is determined by first transferring a fuel element from a reactor to a measuring position and then subjecting the transferred fuel element at the position to a neutron flux. A first detector measures the total ? radiation emitted by the transferred fuel element and thereafter, if the radiation measured by the first detector exceeds a predetermined first limit, the transferred fuel element is returned back to the reactor. If not, a second detector measures a magnitude of high energy ? radiation above 1 MeV emitted by the transferred fuel element and thereafter only if the radiation measured by the second detector exceeds a predetermined second limit, the transferred fuel element is transferred back to the reactor. The element is not returned to the reactor if the radiation measured by the second detector is below the second limit.

Abstract: Previous methods for measuring the burn-out of a combustion element from a pebble-bed high-temperature reactor, in particular with high circulation rates, have as a rule an error margin of up to 10%. The inventive method for measuring burn-out is extremely rapid, but nevertheless highly accurate, with an error margin of only 1-2%.

Abstract: Device for the reading-out and/or testing of matrices or optical storage media (2) that have been set in rotation, with an opto-electronic scanning system (1), an electronic control device (18) for the opto-electronic scanning system (1), an amplifier device (7) for the amplification of the HF signals originating in the opto-electronic scanning system (1), a decoder device (10) for the decoding of amplified HF signals, and an optionally present signal-processing device (11) for the processing of amplified HF signals for a measurement and evaluation device (19), at least the amplifier device (7) that is able to be releasably connected to the opto-electronic scanning system (1) and the decoder device (10) being configured as separate modules (6, 9) which are preferably able to be releasably connected to each other via plug connectors (17′b) and/or connection lines (25).

Abstract: A control device for an electric motor which drives a motor vehicle part which is displaceable between reference positions, which is provided with a switch unit (12) for controlling the motor, there being a ratchet wheel (14) which, when the motor vehicle part is displaced, is forced to rotate less than 360 degrees between its end positions via an eccentric gearing (10) and actuates the switch unit depending on the rotational position of the ratchet wheel, the eccentric gearing having an externally toothed internal wheel and an internally toothed external wheel (24) which is interdigitally engaged to it, the ratchet wheel being supported for wobble motion with reference to a motor-driven shaft (18) which coupled to move with the motion of the displaceable motor vehicle part and which is pivotally mounted in a gearing housing (26), the ratchet wheel forming either the internal wheel or the external wheel of the eccentric gearing, the ratchet wheel and the switch unit being located within the gearing housing.

Abstract: A scrap cutter transport unit reduces assembly and dismantling times during production of mass-produced components. The scrap cutter transport unit includes a base frame for accommodating assemblies in both their transportation and operating states. During transportation, the transport unit accommodates a cutter stand in a removed state so that the cutter stand can pivot about a point. A second transport unit is formed by a press frame which includes auxiliary supports for transportation purposes.

Abstract: Preparing an adsorption material for treating waste water containing heavy metals. Brown algae is crushed, separated from an alginate, crushed and ground to form particles about 500-1000 um and then rinsed with seawater and fresh water and thereafter dried to form the adsorption material.

Abstract: Drive device for a vehicle part that is displaceable between end positions, with an electric motor connected by a reduction gear to a driving pinion which is connected to the vehicle part so as to drive it, as well as with a switching device for controlling the motor to stop the motor in at least one predetermined position of the vehicle part. To actuate the switching device there is a switch wheel which, during displacement of the vehicle part between its end positions, is rotated less than 360.degree. by an eccentric gear train. The eccentric gear train has an external gear with an internal toothing coaxial to a common shaft of the reduction gear and the eccentric gear train, an eccentric disk that is connected to the common shaft in a manner precluding relative rotation between the eccentric disk, and an internal gear with an external toothing that meshes with the internal toothing of the external gear.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process and a device for reclaiming used foundry sands. In the process according to the invention the used sands are free from carbon-containing materials in a first step by means of a thermal treatment, inasmuch as they contain organic, carbon-containing material, and are subsequently mechanically cleaned batch-wise, for which purpose wear-resistant friction elements are moved through the sand charge as a function of the degree of oolitization of the respective sand batch at such a speed that the said grain of the batch is not destroyed. The device according to the invention consists of a cylindrical housing, in which rotatingly driven friction elements are provided, means for the batch-wise filling of the receptacle with used sand and means for discharge cleaned sand from the receptacle being provided.

Abstract: The electric circuit of the torque indicator in a torque wrench is automatically adjusted by the electric circuit of a detachable adjusting and calibrating instrument which is separably connectable to the wrench so that its torsion bar is deformable by the torque applicator wrench. Each circuit includes a microprocessor with means for displaying the measured torque, and interfaces are provided to separably connect the microprocessors to each other preparatory to an adjusting or calibrating operation. Each circuit further comprises one or more bridge circuits with strain gages, amplifiers for signals at the outputs of the bridge circuits, and analog-digital converters for transmission of signals from amplifiers to the respective microprocessor.

Abstract: A device or appliance comprising a light waveguide plug connector is composed of a pin seated resiliently and with play in a socket. Both the pin and socket have cylindrical portions and conical end portions, one of the pins and socket has an intermediate tapering portion with a taper substantially less than the taper of the conical end portion. The slightly tapered intermediate portion will facilitate the plugging in of the pin into the socket, even given a radial offset of the axis of the socket and the pin to each other.

Abstract: An adaptor for a light plug connector comprises a housing with a through-opening extending between a first and second end and has a pair of webs on side walls of the housing extending into the opening adjacent the second end, said pair of webs merging with the top wall of the housing and having open, free ends to receive channels of a plug part moved transversely to the axis of the opening into the housing. A spring clip having a U-shaped structure with portions overlying the webs to entrap or interlock a plug part assembled thereon and other portions engage projections on a second plug part inserted into the other or first end of the housing.

Abstract: A connector for lightwave guides with release levers attached at the narrow sides thereof, which, when lateral pressure is applied, actuate detents. Simultaneously at the narrow sides of the connector casing recesses are provided for the release levers such that the release levers do not rise more than a small amount above the edge of the recess; whereby, the connector can be pulled by manual actuation of the release lever through the recess.

Abstract: A process and a device for substantially eliminating tolerance-dependent variations of a preselectable space between the components of an optical communication apparatus is described. U-shaped recesses are provided in a metal casing for pressing in flange-type necks of, for example, optical transmitting and receiving devices. The parallel arranged devices are so spaced from each other that they are not subject to tolerance-dependent variations. For this purpose the metallic necks are coated with a plastic layer, and ribs provided at the lateral walls of the U-shaped recesses dig into the plastic layer. The necks are pressed in precisely at a predetermined spacing by means of a gauge. By the application of varying degrees of pressure when the ribs are pressed in on one side and the other side of the neck, one of the U-shaped recesses can be off-center.

Abstract: A device for securing fiber-shaped light waveguides in a lead-through opening of a housing comprises a fixing member of elastic deformable material which is inserted into the through-opening. The fixing member has at least one channel for loosely receiving the light waveguide and is provided with a recess, either in the interior of the member or between an outer periphery of the member and an edge of the opening in which a stopper member is inserted to cause elastic deformation of the fixing member so that the channels grip the optical waveguides.

Abstract: Adjacent lying plug-connector halves, the front ends of which exhibit pin or sleeve shaped plug elements, are provided with first and second supporting bodies, of which the first supporting body, with a sleeve shaped plug element, may be connected by means of a joinable groove-tenon-interconnect lying crosswise to the plug insertion direction, and exhibits an entrance channel for a plug connector half with a pin shaped plug element. The second supporting body with a concentric guiding tube for the insertion of pin shaped plug elements from both directions exhibits a tenon-groove-interlock contour at both ends that matches that of a sleeve shaped plug element. The first supporting body can therefore be interlocked with second supporting bodies or sleeve shaped plug elements at choice, whereby light wave guides single or double plugs may be connected to transmit- and/or receive modules and light wave guides single or double plugs may be inter-connected.

Abstract: A torque wrench including an elongate deflection beam section. Two strain gauges are attached to the beam in longitudinal spaced relationship from the ends thereof and relative to each other. Each strain gauge is connected in a related cyclically energized measuring bridge, the output voltage of which is amplified and, under control of a switch, is conducted to and stored in a related measured value memory. The two stored measured value voltages are cyclically and alternatingly conducted to a micro-processor by means of an analog-to-digital converter. The micro-processor compares the measured value voltages and conducts a resulting signal to an indicating instrument which displays the resulting signal in force units.