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A magnetic forming system (10) for creating a fluid circuit joint between a tube and a fitting includes an induction coil (12). The induction coil (12) may form a first stage electromagnetic current. A field concentrator (132) may focus the first stage electromagnetic current to form a second stage electromagnetic current. An insert (136) may focus the second stage electromagnetic current to form an electromagnetic field. The electromagnetic field forms the fluid circuit joint. The induction coil (12) may be insertable within the tube, generate an electromagnetic field, and impose the electromagnetic field on and to expand a portion of the tube within the fitting to form the fluid circuit joint. The system (10) may include a receptacle (54) that is external to the tube and the fitting. An insert (56) may be mechanically coupled within the receptacle (54) and limit the outward expansion of the tube and the fitting.

A mountable signage enclosure for encasing a graphic media comprising a frame being generally elliptic or having a substantially aerodynamic edge, an encasement for protectively displaying the graphic media through a clear covering through a front side of the mountable signage enclosure and allowing the exchange of the graphic media, a plurality of light emitting diodes perimetrically positioned to illuminate the encasement and the graphic media inserted therein, a power source for providing power to the light emitting diodes, a plurality of suction cups fixed to a back side of the mountable signage enclosure enabling the fixing of the mountable signage enclosure on a smooth surface; and optionally comprising a photovoltaic charging means providing an electric current for charging the power source. The mountable signage enclosure provides a stand-alone illuminated sign that can be easily installed in a variety of configurations, while allowing the quick exchange of the signage.

A lightweight, portable lateral heat press machine that allows an operator to quickly and economically transfer graphic characters or images using an ink transfer paper process or a sublimation process, or vinyl onto the surface of a garment or an object. The device includes a vertical aligned sliding arm assembly perpendicularly aligned to a horizontally aligned chassis assembly. Attached to the chassis assembly is at least one workstation assembly and a console. The workstation assembly includes a pedestal with an exchangeable, horizontally aligned lower platen that may be selectively rotated and locked in portrait or landscape orientation and a height and pressure adjustment feature. The sliding arm assembly extends upward and forward and includes a heated, upper platen attached to a manually operated plunger. The console contains the controls for operating the heating element inside the upper platen and a timer. In a second embodiment, a second workstation assembly is provided which enables the operator to slide the arm assembly between workstations thereby enabling the operator to setup one workstation as the pressing procedure is being performed on the other.

The present disclosure relates to a battery system for a hybrid or an electric vehicle. Another aspect of the present disclosure provides a battery assembly designed for easy and quick exchange of battery assemblies enabling a vehicle to resume driving much more quickly than traditional charging permits.

A baler is supported by wheels on the ground and is either self-propelled or hitched to and driven by a tractor. The baler has pickup and conveying devices for collecting and transporting the harvested goods to a pressing channel where bales are formed. The bales are tied by tying material supplied from a storage container arranged on the baler and moveable from an operating position into a servicing position allowing access to machine components of the baler covered by the storage container in the operating position. The storage container is moveable into a loading position for inserting or removing rolls of the tying material. The loading position and the servicing position are identical. In the loading and servicing position the storage container has, in comparison to the operating position, a greater spacing relative to a longitudinal center plane of the baler and a reduced spacing relative to the ground.

An apparatus (1) for measuring structures (3) on a mask (2) and for calculating structures in a photoresist on a wafer resulting from the structures (3) on the mask (2) is disclosed, wherein the apparatus (1) comprises at least one incident-light illumination means (14) and / or one transmitted-light illumination means (6), wherein the apparatus (1) comprises at least one imaging optics (9) and a detector (11) of a camera (10) for imaging the structures (3) on the mask (2), wherein a first computer program (17) is associated with the detector (11) of the camera (10) and provided for determining the position and / or the dimension of the structure (3) on the mask (2). A method for measuring structures (3) on a mask (2) and for calculating structures in a photoresist on a wafer to be expected from the structures (3) on the mask (2) is also disclosed.

The present invention concerns a grinding apparatus (1) including a number of grinding units (3), a number of drive units (11) and a number of screen units (2), where a number of the grinding units (3) are enclosed by at least one of the screen units (2), and where at least one the screen units (2) is arranged with a pipe connection (4) adapted for connecting one or more suction units (21), where the screen unit (2) with the pipe connection (4) is designed along a lower edge (6) with a number of spacer members (7) that are arranged adjustable and replaceable, and a number of sealing members (8) that fit tightly to an underlying surface, that the spacer members (7) establish an adjustment of spacing of the grinding units (3) relatively to an underlying surface, and that the sealing members (8) interact with the suction units (21) for forming a vacuum that holds the grinding apparatus (1) against the said surface during operation.

Provided is a powder and granular material crushing and sizing apparatus in which stators are easy to disassemble and assemble, i.e. in which disc-like rotors and stators can be cleaned and replaced easily. A drive shaft, on which a plurality of disc-like rotors are disposed, is supported in a cantilever manner on a bearing housing. A plurality of stators are disposed on a holder to make up a stator assembly. The stator assembly is detachably disposed in the bearing housing. An opening is formed in a side wall of the casing. The disc-like rotors and the stator assembly are housed via the opening, and the casing is detachably disposed on the bearing housing. ion.

A circular-cutter unit for equipment cutting flat lengths of material and sheet metal in a horizontal plane has upper and a lower circular blades both in planes perpendicular to the horizontal plane and in a longitudinal direction, carried by an upper and lower blade shaft, respectively, which are parallel with the horizontal plane and perpendicular to the longitudinal direction. The two blade shafts are rigidly and rotatably mounted in a common frame. The frame is U-shaped with the upper and lower legs connected by a flat yoke intersecting the horizontal plane at an acute angle. Several cutter units are mounted in a single apparatus and driven by a common drive from which the units can be individually detached for servicing.

An endotracheal tube exchanger (ETX) includes a tube slide portion having an elongated lengthwise dimension having a first end and a second end, a relatively narrow width dimension having a curved cross section, and a generally arcuate shape having inner and outer peripheries wherein the curved cross section forms a concavity along the inner periphery, and a handle portion extending outwardly from the outer periphery of the first end of said tube slide portion. Associated methods describe the use of the endotracheal tube exchanger which does not require insertion of the exchanger device within the endotracheal tube to be changed or within the new replacement endotracheal tube.

A bicycle control system includes a housing having an upper mounting surface and housing a brake actuation system. A lever is pivotally coupled to the housing about an axis and is operably coupled to the brake actuation system. An electronic module includes a housing releasably coupled to the upper mounting surface. The housing sealingly encloses at least one electronic component. The lever may be pivotally coupled to the housing about both a shift axis and a brake axis, wherein the shift axis and the brake axis being non-orthogonal. A bicycle control kit includes different first and second electronic modules.

The present invention concerns a grinding apparatus (1) including a number of grinding units (3), a number of drive units (11) and a number of screen units (2), where a number of the grinding units (3) are enclosed by at least one of the screen units (2), and where at least one the screen units (2) is arranged with a pipe connection (4) adapted for connecting one or more suction units (21), where the screen unit (2) with the pipe connection (4) is designed along a lower edge (6) with a number of spacer members (7) that are arranged adjustable and replaceable, and a number of sealing members (8) that fit tightly to an underlying surface, that the spacer members (7) establish an adjustment of spacing of the grinding units (3) relatively to an underlying surface, and that the sealing members (8) interact with the suction units (21) for forming a vacuum that holds the grinding apparatus (1) against the said surface during operation.

A model for learning dentistry skills and including a shell attachable to a phantom head, through-holes disposed in the shell, teaching teeth individually arranged in the through-holes, and having a carrier plate attachable to the shell, such that a teaching tooth is releasably fixed on the shell and is adapted to be inserted into the model and removed therefrom at least one peg disposed on the carrier plate, and a holding chamber disposed in the peg, wherein a holding element projects from each tooth and passes through a through-hole in the shell and is aligned with a holding chamber and is inserted into the holding chamber, and a holding strip disposed between the shell and the carrier plate and adapted to contours of the carrier plate and the shell and disposed in openings, the holding strip being movable for securing the holding element of the teaching tooth to the carrier plate.

A welding shoe, a plastic welding extruder, which has a conveying device, a housing for the conveying device, a melting chamber, a welding shoe and / or a nozzle device, and a method for producing a plastic welded seam by means of a plastic welding extruder wherein a ceramic is used at least partly as a material of construction, as a result of which contamination of the melted material and wear are avoided and an increase in the temperature of the composition becomes possible, so that highly fluorinated plastics (PTFE (Teflon), FEP (hexafluoropropylene copolymer), PFA (perfluoroalkoxyalkane) or the like, high-tech plastics or the like can be processed.

The invention allows an increase in scope of application of a surgical device wherein the operational handpiece is embodied in the form of two parts, one of which includes a handpiece with an injection cannula and the other being a complementary part. The complementary part includes a stabilization handle and can be placed onto the injection cannula in addition to being able to be fixed to the handpiece of the operational handpiece.

A suction gripper system includes a suction calotte for the handling of at least one article and a counterpart configured correspondingly to the suction calotte. Further, the suction gripper system includes a magnetic element and a movably mounted ball, which are arranged to interact magnetically with respect to one another to influence a spatial position of the suction calotte in relation to the counterpart. Further, a method for handling the at least one article, a method for producing at least one spectacle lens, and the use of the suction gripper system are disclosed.

A system for conveying pasty material through a conduit has an eccentric screw pump having a stator, a rotor that rotates in the stator, a housing with an intake port, and an output port connected to the conduit. A drive rotates the rotor and thereby draws the pasty material in through the intake port and expels the drawn-in material as a compressed-material strand into the conduit. A valve supplies gas pulses to the conduit at time intervals for separating the compressed-material strand into material plugs of limited length traveling through the conduit.

A drive unit for a door includes a guiding device comprising guide rail and a guide element extending in a movement direction of the door. A drive device arranged inside a carriage moves back and forth along the guide rail and is engaged in the guide element. The drive unit is supplied with power via the guide rail and the guide element. Electrical plug connectors are provided on an external power source for the electrical connection of the guide element and the guide rail.

A laying device simultaneous lays at least two substantially parallel and axially spaced apart groups of flexible media lines in at least one flat layer in the soil, wherein each group of flexible media lines has at least one flexible media line. The laying device has a cutting device for generating at least one slot in the ground. The cutting device has one or more substantially vertical blades and a substantially horizontal blade connected to a lower end of the one or more vertical blades, or the cutting device, viewed in the cutting direction, has a round, semi-circular, oval, polygonal or Y-shaped configuration. At least two devices for dispensing the groups of media lines are arranged on the side of the laying device that is facing away from the cutting direction.

A pressure hood with a pressure hood body to be used in conjunction with especially a heated cylinder in a machine for the production and / or conversion of a fibrous web, especially a paper-, cardboard- or tissue web, and a seal assembly to seal said pressure hood body against the cylinder, provides that the seal assembly can be inserted into or removed from the pressure hood body—particularly when the pressure hood is installed on the cylinder—through a movement in axial direction relative to the pressure hood body.

There is described an ink wiping system (100; 100′; 100″) of an intaglio printing press comprising a wiping tank (101) and a rotatable wiping roller assembly (102; 102*) supported on and partly located in the wiping tank (101) for wiping excess ink from the surface of a rotatable intaglio printing cylinder (80) of the intaglio printing press. The ink wiping system (100; 100′; 100″) comprises a wiping roller retracting device (150) which forms an integral part of the ink wiping system (100; 100′; 100″) and is adapted to be coupled to the wiping roller assembly (102; 102*) to move the wiping roller assembly (102; 102*) between a working position (W) where the wiping roller assembly (102; 102*) is supported on and partly located in the wiping tank (101) for cooperation with the intaglio printing cylinder (80) and a parking position (P) where the wiping roller assembly (102; 102*) is retracted out of the wiping tank (101) and away from the intaglio printing cylinder (80). In the working position (W) of the wiping roller assembly (102; 102*), the wiping roller retracting device (150) is coupled to the wiping roller assembly (102; 102*). The ink wiping system (100; 100′; 100″) further includes, at the parking position (P), a storage section (110) adapted to receive the wiping roller assembly (102; 102*) which is retracted by the wiping roller retracting device (150).

A precision abrasive finishing apparatus comprising a base, preferably of granite and being ground to true flat; an abrasive lap capable of being vacuum-clamped against said base and having an abrasive material disposed on it upper, lapping surface; and vacuum clamping means. The abrasive material may be any conventional abrasive grit, such as aluminum oxide, silicon carbide, cubic boron nitride, or other material of suitable hardness, sharpness, friability, durability, inertness, and cost, but preferably is diamond.