Abstract: A dental hygiene storage device for use in organizing and storing one or more toothbrushes, tubes of toothpaste, and dental floss. The dental hygiene storage device includes a base having an upstanding panel thereon, wherein the base is configured to rest on a horizontal support surface, such as a sink or countertop. The upstanding panel includes a toothbrush holder thereon for use in holding one or more toothbrushes in a vertical orientation. The base has one or more recesses for use in holding a portion of a tube of toothpaste therein. Further, the base includes a compartment in which dental floss can be stored, wherein the compartment is removably covered via a lid and includes an opening through which the floss may extend.

Abstract: A vent valve for a thermostatic valve of a coolant circuit of an internal combustion engine has a ball with a radius and a diameter and serving as a sealing element, and a one-piece metal cage for the ball. The cage has a pot-shaped part with an inside diameter larger than the diameter of the ball, and a bottom having a valve opening surrounded by an outwardly projecting neck. The cage is shaped in one piece from an originally flat metal sheet by stamping, deep-drawing, and pressing, and the pot-shaped part has a height approximately the radius of the ball, and an edge abutted by a plurality of uniformly distributed tabs located on an axial extension of the pot-shaped part, the tabs having inwardly bent ends to retain the ball in the cage with play, the length of the tabs being greater than or equal to the height of the pot-shaped part.

Abstract: A vent valve for a thermostatic valve of a coolant circuit of an internal combustion engine has a ball with a radius and a diameter and serving as a sealing element, and a one-piece metal cage for the ball. The cage has a pot-shaped part with an inside diameter larger than the diameter of the ball, and a bottom having a valve opening surrounded by an outwardly projecting neck. The cage is shaped in one piece from an originally flat metal sheet by stamping, deep-drawing, and pressing, and the pot-shaped part has a height approximately the radius of the ball, and an edge abutted by a plurality of uniformly distributed tabs located on an axial extension of the pot-shaped part, the tabs having inwardly bent ends to retain the ball in the cage with play, the length of the tabs being greater than or equal to the height of the pot-shaped part.

Abstract: A valve plate in the form of a sheet metal preform is disclosed for a thermostatic valve. The preform includes an edge with a surrounding ring groove accommodating a rectangular cross section sealing ring. An exterior wall defining the ring groove is bent inward penetrating into the sealing ring to securely hold it in place.

Abstract: A protective device for a submersible lance to be used in a vessel of molten material, such as steel, prevents undesirable deposition of the material at the juncture of lance and probe by having in the lance a channel for gas, and by having between the lance and the probe a gas-conducting disk which projects this gas circumferentially onto the lower surface of the lance.

Abstract: Apparatus for manipulating a probe which is to be coupled to a vertically movable probe lance, the lance having a longitudinal axis which is vertically oriented, which apparatus includes a supporting frame supported for pivotable movement about a stationary frame axis between a plurality of operating positions, an openable centering funnel supported by the frame, a lifting carriage supported by the frame for vertical movement relative to the frame, a probe holding clamp supported by the carriage at a location below the funnel, a probe separation device supported by the frame at a location below the probe holding clamp and pivotable relative to the frame about a separation device axis parallel to the frame axis, and a sample holding clamp supported by the frame at a location below the separation device, and in which the funnel is mounted to be vertically movable relative to the frame, and the apparatus further includes a support device connected between the sample holding clamp and the frame and supporting the

Abstract: A magazine equipped with centering and coupling elements for measuring and sampling devices for a device for handling the sampling devices by means of measuring lances in melts. The handling device arranged above the vessel adapted to receive and hold the melt is equipped with a lifting mechanism for lifting the measuring lances and is also equipped with a guiding system for guiding a measuring lance. The magazine is displaceable in the direction of its longitudinal axis and is combined with the handling device to form a movable unit with stripping and separating members.

Abstract: An arrangement for improving transloading pourable materials by means of a grab bucket, according to which a hood is carried by a crane member on which a grab bucket is suspended by hoisting means. The arrangement is such that the grab bucket can be pulled selectively from below into the hood which is so dimensioned as to allow the grab bucket substantially fully to open within the hood. The lower rim of the hood which surrounds the inlet opening for the grab bucket and the upper rim of a chute-like member through which the goods to be transloaded are from the grab bucket passed into a receiver, are flange-shaped and of at least nearly equal circumferential dimensions. If desired, an elastic member, e.g. a sealing ring or an inflatable hose may rest on and be connected to the flange-shaped rim of the chute-like member.

Abstract: A charging device, especially for supplying aluminum in the form of wire to a steel melt for quieting the melt, in which a frame positioned adjacent the melt vessel has an inclined wall on the side facing the melt and a boom slidable along the inclined wall contains feed rollers for feeding a wire through a feed tube toward the melt. The wire is derived from a reel supported in the frame with the reel being driven in payout direction. The wire is cut off at the lower end of the feed tube and is dropped into the melt together with a combustible guide sleeve which is releasably clamped to the feed tube.

Abstract: The invention is concerned with a reinforcing rod for concrete and a rolling tool for making the rod. The rod has several cold rolled serpentine shaped ribs distributed around its periphery and extending generally in the axial direction.

Abstract: A grab bucket for pourable material and a method of operating the same, according to which during the closing of the grab bucket, at least one of the two grab bucket sections is at its closing edge subjected to oscillations with amplitudes in the direction toward the closing movement. The grab bucket has at least one of the two grab bucket sections provided with an oscillation starter.

Abstract: A device for changing the location of fuel elements and control rods in a core reactor with a guiding mast which is mounted on a movable working platform for rotation about a vertical axis and which is provided with a gripping body for grasping the fuel elements and control rods, said gripping body being suspended on a lifting mechanism and being displaceable in vertical direction within the guiding mast while being prevented from rotating relative to the guiding mast. The device furthermore comprises winding means for storing supply lines which are introduced at the top into the guiding mast and the gripper body.The device also includes power operated means for actuating the lifting mechanism. The winding means and lifting mechanism rotate with the mast and are so arranged in the mast that any water dripping therefrom runs down the inside of the mast. Supply conduits leading to the mast are connected thereby by slack loops which permit 360.degree. of rotation of the mast.