Abstract: A filling and/or charge-amount-monitoring method for a reservoir for storage of a fluid in a cooking device with an inner casing, including a cooking chamber with a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet, a ventilation device with a fan inside the inner casing, for the circulation of a part of the fluid in the inner casing and a control or regulation device, cooperating with the ventilation device and/or a filling and/or charge-amount-monitoring device, whereby a characteristic parameter for the ventilation device, changing on the basis of the force exerted by the fluid incident on the fan, is analyzed by the filling and/or charge-amount-monitoring device and may be rotation speed, power or current consumption of the ventilation device and a cooking device with a filling and/or charge-amount-monitoring.

Abstract: A device for cutting out reinforcing elements, from a matrix. The device includes a support frame movable in the longitudinal direction of the reinforcing elements and cutting blades for cutting the reinforcing elements away from the matrix as the support frame is moved longitudinally.

Abstract: In forming a connecting element for use in introducing forces into a strural part, a continuous roving is removed from a source of supply, impregnated with a synthetic resin, and guided over a rotatable disk. Extending outwardly from each of the opposing faces of the disk is a removable bush. The roving is wound in layers on each face of the disk in an alternating manner. During the winding operation, as the disk rotates, the roving is secured in a recess on the circumferential periphery of the disk then it moves across one face of the disk into contact with the bush on that face and finally is secured in another recess spaced angularly from the previous recess. At this time the roving is displaced in the axial direction of the bushes toward the other face of the disk and the winding operation is repeated on the other face. By repeating these operations a multiple number of layers are displaced on each face of the disk.

Abstract: In a shock absorber assembly for a vehicle, a closed flexible hollow body mounted on a rigid support member, such as a part of the vehicle understructure, and a highly compressible fluid medium, for instance air, is filled into the hollow body. Another rigid support member of closed hollow construction is mounted against the opposite side of the hollow body from the support member on the vehicle understructure. The hollow support member can be lined interiorly with a closed bladder-like member and connected by a throttling member to the hollow body to act as an equalizing member when the hollow body is compressed by shock forces. As an alternative, two similar shock absorber assemblies can be spaced apart on a vehicle with each including one of the closed flexible hollow bodies and with the throttling member connected between the hollow bodies in the separate shock absorber assemblies.