A device for non-stop pile changing in a delivery of a sheet printing press has sheet separating devices (4, 5) arranged on side guides (10, 11) above insertable sheet supporting surfaces on auxillary pile carriers. For improving the transfer of printed sheets for forming an auxiliary pile to be generated on the sheet supporting surfaces sheet supporters (6A, 6B, 7A, 7B) may be provided on sheet s...

A delivery for a rotary printing press with a circulating conveyor system in which the sheets fixed in gripper closures are released while being deposited on to a sheet pile has a blown air device arranged above the sheet pile for assisting the sheet deposition. At least a part of the blown air unit (6) is variable in its position so that the distance between blown air unit (6) and the upper edge ...

A strip of sheet material (80) is wound on a spool (64) by a driving belt (32) wrapped around spaced rollers (28, 34, 36, 38) of a surface winder (12) which urge the sheet material into contact with the spool, rotating the spool, and at the same time, applying the sheet material to the spool, with layers of the material being separated by a liner (78) wrapped around the spool as the sheet material...

A textile machine thread traversing device includes a traversing arm and a holding device to retain the arm as it moves in a back and forth motion. A drive mechanism is connected to the holding device to rotate the holding device relative to a turning axis. A programmable control system is configured with the drive mechanism and includes a detecting device disposed to detect the angular position o...

A method and apparatus for imaging a heart with a scanning computed tomography (CT) imaging system. A cardiac cycle of a patient is measured. The patient's heart is then scanned with the scanning CT imaging system at an angular rate asynchronous to the measured cardiac cycle to obtain image data. An image of the patient's heart is then assembled from chronologically discontinuous segments of the i...

Zwei Bauteile (2, 3), die durch Vibrationsschweißen miteinander verbunden werden sollen, bilden auf einer oder beiden Seiten der Schweißnaht (10) eine Labyrinthdichtung (20). Sie fängt Abrieb der Fügeflächen (16, 17) dadurch in Kammern (25, 26, 27) auf, daß der Abrieb von Kammer zu Kammer durch Spalte (21, 22) wandern muß und für den Durchtritt durch den jeweils nächsten Spalt umgelenkt wird. Dadu...

An apparatus for rear-driving an automotive vehicle having a drive power source (14. 16), an output member (22) operatively connected to a drive wheel (52), a gear type synthesizing/distributing device (18) including a housing (20), and a first, a second and a third rotary element (18s, 18c, 18r), the first and second rotary elements being rotated in respective opposite directions when the third r...

ÄObjectÜ To provide a motive-power transmission device for a vehicle comprising a torque converter, a gearbox, and a clutch for cutting off the transmission of motive power between the input shaft of the gearbox and the turbine of the torque converter. The gearbox is accommodated in the crankcase, and the motive-power transmission device is compact in the axial direction of the crankshaft. ÄSoluti...

A control apparatus for controlling a hybrid automotive vehicle including an engine (14) and an electric motor (16) as drive power sources for driving the vehicle, and an electric generator (16) operable by the engine to charge a battery (42) while the vehicle is driven by the engine. The control apparatus includes a charging opportunity selecting device (60, 102, S6-S8, R7) operable to determine ...

A toroidal continuously variable transmission (2) transmits the rotation output of a vehicle engine (1) at an arbitrary speed ratio. The toroidal continuously variable transmission (2) comprises two disks (31, 32) disposed coaxially, and power rollers (33) in contact with the two disks (31, 32). Surfaces of the two disks (31, 32) and of the power roller (33) are provided with oil. The oil is tempo...

Mutants of the human PAI-1 protein are described which are inhibitors of neutrophil elastase or are inhibitors of vitronectin (Vn)-dependent cell migration. These mutants preferably comprise one or two amino acid substitutions in the reactive center loop of PAI-1, particularly at positions 331 and 346 of the mature protein. These mutants are notable in being resistant to inactivation by elastase, ...

The device delivers a sheet stack (1) to a table from which the individual sheets are fed via a separation device, using a transport carriage (4) for delivering the sheet-stack to a delivery point (7). The transport carriage has a stop rail on the opposite side to the stack insertion side and a perpendicular stop rail on the opposite side to the stack delivery point. The drive for movement of the ...

A throttle controller is provided so as to reduce a load imposed on the drive and transmission system in the stall state in which both the accelerator and brake are depressed. The controller comprises a throttle control section for calculating a degree of opening of the throttle for generating a driving force in accordance with the actual degree of depression of the accelerator used as a target de...

The present method is intended for controlling a shift event in a transmission (14) wherein a synchronization device (30) shift actuator (48) develops a force to effect the engagement of a clutch (122, 124, 126) and a gear (98, 114, 116, 118, 120). The method comprises detecting when a non-fully engaged condition of the clutch (122, 124, 126) and the gear (98, 114, 116, 118, 120) occurs, indicatin...

Provided is a method for improving energy input in heating and melting of a scrap bulk. The method includes burning a channel into a scrap bulk with a hot, oxygen-containing gas jet having a temperature of at least 500° C. Additional energy for the heating and melting of the scrap bulk is then input through this channel.

ÄObjectÜ To provide a motive-power transmission device for a vehicle comprising a torque converter, a gearbox, and a clutch for cutting off the transmission of motive power between the input shaft of the gearbox and the turbine of the torque converter. The gearbox is accommodated in the crankcase, and the motive-power transmission device is compact in the axial direction of the crankshaft. ÄSoluti...

An oscillator that has a substantially-constant voltage source configured such that it does not require the voltage source to be tuned to a particular voltage to oscillate a particular frequency. The oscillator has greater precision and reliability since the inputs of the comparator are periodically switched to reduce the effects of comparator bias and to equalize the voltage stresses on the input...

A method of inspecting the condition of a track used in a transport system comprises: fitting an inspection device to a transport vehicle of the transport system; and using the device to inspect the track. Aspects of the invention relate to determining track condition, in particular, but not exclusively, to crack detection in a rail (210) used by a train locomotive (200). By fitting the device to ...

This invention relates to a puncture-resisting tire composition comprising a thermoplastic elastomer, styrene-based block copolymer, as an active ingredient, unlike the conventional solvent-based rubber or emulsifier-based rubber containing some volatile substances. The viscous elasticity layer, so formed in such a manner to coat the puncture-resisting tire composition in a tire by a hot melting p...

A self supporting pleated fluid filter medium having different fibers to provide pleats sufficiently self supporting to maintain pleated form during fluid filter treatment, the invention further including low melt fiber and an optional support frame and a method of making such pleated filter.