Abstract: A device for articulating the limbs and head to the body of toy figures. The device consists essentially of plastic disks that grip the covering material and of a plastic bolt that extends through the disks and has barbed sections. The object is to facilitate assembly of the toy and establish a secure joint that will also be mobile. The bolt (8) has three essentially cylindrical securing sections (13, 14, and 15). Each section accommodates a disk (9, 10, and 11). The section (13) adjacent to the head (12) of the bolt accommodates a disk (9) with several rings of teeth (26) that engage similar teeth (27) that are displaced by half their width in relation to the first ring of teeth on the disk (10) accommodated on the adjacent section (14), gripping the fabric (6) that covers the limb (2) or head between them. The third disk (11), which secures the fabric (5) that covers the body (1), is in the shape of a bowl or cup and at least to some extent receives the two other disks (9 and 10).

Abstract: A single piece electrode comb or device includes two circuit boards having conductor paths and two separate rows of needle-like recording electrodes which are electrically connected to separate paths of the respective circuit board encapsulated in a single plastic resin body with the electrode rows extending to a recording edge formed in a rib along one edge of the body. To form the electrode comb, a device having two substantially similar rectangular cross-sectional shaped halves is assembled in one position to form a winding core on which a wire is wound with a plurality of turns, clamped and joined to the respective circuit boards which are mounted on faces of the two halves, subsequently the wires are separated along a parting plane and the two halves are disassembled with one being rotated 180.degree.

Abstract: A single piece electrode comb or device includes two circuit boards having conductor paths and two separate rows of needle-like recording electrodes which are electrically connected to separate paths of the respective circuit board encapsulated in a single plastic resin body with the electrode rows extending to a recording edge formed in a rib along one edge of the body. To form the electrode comb, a device having two substantially similar rectangular cross-sectional shaped halves is assembled in one position to form a winding core on which a wire is wound with a plurality of turns, clamped and joined to the respective circuit boards which are mounted on faces of the two halves, subsequently the wires are separated along a parting plane and the two halves are disassembled with one being rotated 180.degree.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method for the recognition of colors on a colored image illuminated with a light source of a known spectrum composition, wherein the intensities of three primary colors are measured opto-electronically as color components, which represent the spatial co-ordinates of the color locations in a color space. Prior to color recognition the color components of at least one characteristic test point in each color or color region, which is to be recognized, are measured and noted. The test color components represent the corresponding test color locations in the color space. An identification symbol is assigned to each color component triplet of the test points and noted too.

Abstract: A facsimile scanning method for converting a video signal, generated by opto-electronic scanning of an original copy, into a bilevel black/white signal in facsimile reproduction.In the black/white recording of colored originals in which both the background and the information can be white, black, grey or colored, white/grey (colored)/black transitions in the original are frequently not picked up correctly so that information is lost in the copy.The invention solves this problem by recording colored, grey or black areas in the original as "white" with black boundary lines, by means of suitable electronic circuits.If the colored area in the original is a background area without information content of its own but containing a black item of information (letter), the legibility of the black letter in the area is increased in the copy by reproducing the background area as "white".

Abstract: A facsimile scanning method for converting a video signal obtained by opto-electronic scanning of an original into a two-level signal suitable for transmission.A first companion signal is first generated which lies essentially above the video signal and which follows the video signal when it rises but when the video signal declines remains at the voltage reached when the video signal was at a maximum until a difference value between the first companion signal and a reference signal is reached, which then comes close to the declining video signal until the difference value is reached, which remains at the voltage value then reached until the first companion coincides with the video signal, and which then follows the rising video signal.At the same time a second companion signal is generated which lies substantially below the video signal and which progresses accordingly. From the first and second companion signals is derived a threshold signal which follows the video signal dynamically.

Abstract: A recording device for use in electrostatic reproduction of an image on a recording medium includes a support, two carrier plates juxtaposed relative to each other on the support, covers for the carrier plates, a row of electrodes near one side of each carrier plate, supply leads for the electrodes near each carrier plate on its other side, a plurality of counter electrodes spaced apart from the electrodes, and an insulating layer between the carrier plates. The electrodes and counter electrodes define a gap adapted for the passage of the recording medium.

Abstract: A process for the identification of a predetermined plurality of colors on the surface of an object which is scanned by electrical-optical means to produce measured signals substantially representing the colors red, green, and blue coordinates, the plurality of colors defining color-regions, and defining color-identification-regions, wherein the boundaries of the identification-regions are simulated electronically through threshold-value circuits for each of the coordinates, the output signals of which are transferred to coincidence circuits, which indicate the presence of one of the plurality of colors when the coordinates of the color signals lie within the color-identification-region.