In a system for manufacturing and packaging cigarettes each production unit comprising a cigarette making machine and packaging machines has associated therewith a supply station to which bobbins of raw materials are supplied, that is tipping paper, cigarette paper, carton wrapping paper, inner frame material, box blanks, pack blanks, metallized paper and cellophane or polypropylene, this being do...

A laying roller for textile yarns which, via a central air supply, supplies two air feed channels which are separated from each other. Each channel feeds air via a respective one of two porous sintered bearing bushings which are axially separated from each other. The air passing through the porous bushings builds up an air cushion for supporting a surrounding roller shell.

PCT No. PCT/DE89/00494 Sec. 371 Date Apr. 25, 1991 Sec. 102(e) Date Apr. 25, 1991 PCT Filed Jul. 28, 1989 PCT Pub. No. WO90/01617 PCT Pub. Date Feb. 22, 1990.An improved adjusting device for an electromagnetically-actuated, spring-loaded positioning system in displacement engines, such as for lifting gas exchange valves in internal combustion engines. The adjusting device comprises a spring system...

PCT No. PCT/DE89/00492 Sec. 371 Date Apr. 24, 1991 Sec. 102(e) Date Apr. 24, 1991 PCT Filed Jul. 28, 1989 PCT Pub. No. WO90/01615 PCT Pub. Date Feb. 22, 1990.An improved adjusting device for gas changing valves for use in internal combustion engines comprising a spring system and two electrically-operated, opposed actuating solenoids which are alternately excited to move a reduced mass actuator as...

A package holder (13) for use in a creel (15) of a textile machine, comprises a tubular body part (19) adapted to fit onto a creel peg (12) and having a number, for example four, of spaced formations (24), which may be in the form of T-shapted slots, extending longitudinally of the outer surface (25). Retained in each slot (24) is a correspondingly shaped fin member (27) which extends radially out...

This invention relates to a self-cleaning water filter which self washes in a counter-current of water operating by means of a turbine which rotates both a set of nozzles through which centrifuged jets of water flow and a set of brushes which scrape the external face of the filtering surface.

An error log request is generated by a component of a communication sub-system. The error log request is analyse and compared to entries in one of a plurality of records in a message look-up table. If there is a match between the fields of the error log request and selected entries of a record in the look-up table, a user message request is generated which facilitates the display of a pre-existing...

The invention relates to a sheet delivery system for a sheet-processing machine in which the sheets to be deposited are conveyed horizontally and are deposited on a sheet stack which is carried by a stacking table and lowered with increasing stacking height, said sheet delivery system comprising an auxiliary stacking table, the grate-like bars of which, can be inserted into the stacking area. Auxi...

The invention relates to a method for determining the spatial content of spaces, especially subterranean spaces, such as for example cavities, caverns, caves and the like. The essence of the invention resides in the fact that the volume of a medium filling the space being studied is changed by a sudden and short-lived increase or decrease in volume. In this arrangement, the pressure prevailing in ...

A method of forming edges on contact lenses prepared from laser-machinable, organic polymers wherein the edge is formed by contacting the lens with a laser beam having a wavelength which is absorbed by the polymer. The radiated energy supplied to the polymer by the laser beam is such that the ratio of heat absorbed in vaporization of the polymer to heat absorbed by the polymer bulk is maximized.

An application of covering material, in particular adhesive or laminating material, onto a layer, in particular consolidated nonwoven fabric, having openings is carried out at a temperature sufficient for producing a viscosity for spreading the material to be applied. In the process, however, the dispensed material covering a surface is converted, by cooling, to a film (25) which is coherent in th...

In a system for integrally controlling an automatic transmission and an engine, an ignition timing is temporarily lagged during shifting to decrease an engine torque. The system comprises a detecting device for detecting the presence of a shifting condition; a delaying device for delaying the commencement of actual shifting for a predetermined time duration; and a performing device for performing ...

An acceleration-slippage controller having an instantaneous-slippage detector for maintaining a good acceleration of an automobile. After an acceleration-slippage control has started due to slippage detected at a driven wheel, the instantaneous-slippage detector determines whether the detected slippage is instantaneous. If the slippage is determined to be instantaneous, the acceleration-slippage c...

A laying roller for textile yarns which, via a central air supply, supplies two air feed channels which are separated from each other. Each channel feeds air via a respective one of two porous sintered bearing bushings which are axially separated from each other. The air passing through the porous bushings builds up an air cushion for supporting a surrounding roller shell.

Device for measuring the length of filiform textile material (10) wound as a yarn set onto a winding beam (11), especially onto a dyeing beam, having a pressing device (13) which acts on the beam roll (12) during the winding and which is coupled mechanically to a path sensor (14) detecting the respective roll radius (r) and emitting measuring pulses (15), having a beam-driven rotary transmitter (1...

PURPOSE:To obtain a laminated glass without inclusion of air and any positional deviation by forming a plastisol layer with the thickness changed monotonously on the surface of a glass sheet and gradually bringing another glass sheet preheated into contact with the former sheet from the thick-film part to the thin part. CONSTITUTION:The film forming plastisol (e.g. epoxy group-contg. vinyl chlorid...

PURPOSE:To provide a polymeric luminescent material composed of a novel polymer containing Si as main chain, having excellent luminescent characteristics and capable of emitting light by the excitation of conjugated electrons in the main chain activated by electric field. CONSTITUTION:The objective luminescent material is composed of a polymer containing Si as main chain and having side chains exc...

A method for the production of a cavity in a piston (23) is described. The method comprises the steps of forming a porous body around an element which has the shape of the desired cavity (17), heating to a temperature such that the element melts and infiltrates the porous body at least in the immediate vicinity of the resulting cavity. The article may then, for example, be incorporated into a pist...

A hairdressing comb 10 is provided which comprises a series of hair lifting tooth 14 each having a barb or hook-like formation 18 at the end thereof and one or more plain comb teeth 16 disposed between each pair of adjacent hair lifting teeth. The comb forms parts of a hairdressing kit 30 for use in the foil highlighting of hair. The kit further comprises a former 34 and a tray 16. The former faci...