Abstract:
A push-push arrangement includes a housing, a pusher supported in the housing to be rotatable and axially movable, and a ring surrounding the pusher and supported in an axially fixed and rotatable manner. A first diverting surface on the pusher engages a projection of the ring and rotates the ring when the pusher is moved into the housing by a first stroke. A locking recess on the pusher receives the projection when the pusher is released after the first stroke and locks the pusher in a locking position after a reverse stroke. A second diverting surface engages the projection when the pusher is moved out of the locking position by a second stroke further into the housing, whereby the pusher is movable out of the ring into its furthest extended position. The projection of the ring exits through an opening at the inner actuation end of the pusher.
Abstract:
The invention disclosed herein relates generally to mailpieces and more particularly, a hazardous material detector for detecting hazardous material in a mail stream. The present invention is directed, in general to detector for collecting sample(s) of hazardous materials from a mail processing device. The mailpiece generally comprises an envelope comprising a front side and a back side; holes formed in at least one of the front side or the back side of the envelope; a hazardous material test strip for detecting the presence of hazardous material in contact with the test strip; whereby when hazardous materials are detected by the hazardous material test strip a physical change occurs to the hazardous material test strip and the physical change can be viewed through at least one hole formed in the at least one of the front side or the back side of the envelope. The detector helps to quickly determine whether hazardous materials are present in the mail stream.
Abstract:
A fuel door housing for the fueling of an automobile including a tub-like body, a flap which is hingely linked to the body, a thrust spring biasing the flap toward an opened position, a locking element having a locking and an unlocking position, and an actuating element for placing the locking element into the unlocking position. The locking element is moved towards the unlocking position through a one-way transmission of the actuating element upon a movement of the flap into its closed position or beyond thereof, respectively, and the locking element completely engages the catching element upon arrival of the flap at its closed position. A casing is formed at the inner side of the body. The locking element and parts of the actuating elements are accommodated by the casing, and a locking portion of the locking element is sealingly extended through a wall portion of the casing facing the catching element.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for manufacturing barber scissors (1), wherein the scissor blades (23, 33) are pre-shaped from blanks by a predetermined degree of curvature in the direction facing away from the edge. This is followed by a step of welding on a hard metal material in the form of a welding bead on respective mutually facing faces of the scissor blades (23, 33) in order to form the edges (24, 34), wherein the preliminary curvature of the scissor blades (23, 33) is neutralized owing to the influence of heat during the welding process. Subsequently the welding beads are ground so as to form the edges (24, 34), and the scissor halves (2, 3) are pre-set and hardened. Then the barber scissors (1) are hard-set in the assembled condition. The invention furthermore relates to barber scissors (1) having such a configuration. Here the edges (24, 34) are present as massive material over the entire thickness of the scissor blades (23, 33), so that even severally repeated re-grinding or re-setting of the barber scissors (1) is possible without any loss of functionality.
Abstract:
A guide sleeve for neck rests on vehicle seats adapted to slidingly accommodate a rod carrying a neck rest, the sleeve comprising an enlargement adjacent to the upper end thereof which extends transverse to the axis of the sleeve, a slider element slidably guided within the enlargement and including a manually operable portion extending outwardly of the enlargement. A pin-shaped metallic locking element is positioned in the slider element adapted to cooperate with the rod on the side opposite to the manually operable portion whereby an axial displacement of the rod is prevented. A spring element of the locking element acts on the slider element to bias the pin element towards the rod, the spring element being formed by a bent elongated spring portion of the pin-shaped locking element which is supported by a rear wall of the enlargement.
Abstract:
This invention relates to a method and apparatus for integrating a newly formed continuous filament into a continuous strand. Mechanically complicated prior integration devices are usually expensive to purchase and operate and do not always ensure that the initially formed section of the new filament is separated from the new filament, that the fiber diameter of the new filament is predrawn sufficiently for ready integration, or ensure the reliability of the guiding elements facilitating integration. The present invention includes the operations of drawing a plurality of continuous filaments 3 from a bushing 1 into a fiber fan 4 by gathering the filaments 3 into a continuous strand 6 at a deflection point or roller 5. Should one of the filaments 3 break, a new continuous filament 8 is formed which is deflected by a guide plate 9 toward the point 5. A water stream 13 separates the filament 8 from its associated initially formed section and concomitantly predraws the filament 8 to an initial fiber diameter conducive to integration. The filament 8 is further predrawn and conducted by the stream 13 between guide bars 15 to a point 5 where the strand 6 and the filament 8 are jointly deflected along a common path X defined at least by the point 5 and another point or roller 7 such that the newly formed filament 8 is drawn to its final fiber diameter and integrated with strand 6.
Abstract:
Fixing device for fixing an actuation device with push-push kinematics on a component of a motor vehicle, in particular a fuel filler housing, comprising an at least in sections cylindrically formed housing of the actuation device with at least one guiding element provided on the outer surface of the housing and at least one locking recess provided also on the outer surface of the housing, further comprising an opening in the component, into which opening the actuation device can be inserted with its housing, and at least one guiding element provided on the component starting from the opening in the insertion direction of the housing, wherein the guiding element of the actuation device and the guiding element of the component, upon insertion of the actuation device into the opening, cooperate such that the actuation device is guided into the opening in at least one predetermined rotational position, and further comprising at least one locking projection provided on the component starting from the opening in the insertion direction of the housing, wherein the locking projection of the component and the locking recess of the housing lock with each other upon the actuation device being inserted fully into the opening in the predetermined rotational position, and thus fix the actuation device on the component, and wherein the locking can be released again by rotating of the actuation device out of the predetermined rotational position.
Abstract:
A drive actuating a flap pivotably supported in or on an automobile, in particular actuating a fuel tank flap, comprising a push-push kinematics cooperating with one side of the flap, said push-push kinematics exhibiting the following features: a housing suitable for integration into an automobile, a pushbar supported in axially displaceable manner in the housing and which in all its axial positions partly projects through a housing aperture (34) out of the housing and which comprises an external actuating end cooperating the flap, a spring in the housing prestressing the pushbar to project from the housing, a rotatable ring which encloses the pushbar and which is supported in the housing in axially fixed manner at the outside of the pushbar, at least one groove running parallel to its axis and at least one protrusion at the inner circumference of said ring to engage said groove over a wide adjustment range of the pushbar, as a result of which the ring retains its rotational position in said range of the groove when the pushbar is displaced axially, a first deflection face, running obliquely to the axis of the pushbar, which is configured between the groove and the actuation end and which cooperates with the protrusion of the ring and rotates this ring through a predetermined angle when the pushbar is displaced by a predetermined excursion into the housing a locking recess pointing toward the actuation end and situated at the pushbar at a circumferential spacing from the first deflection and receiving the protrusion when the pushbar is released following the first excursion, as a result of which the pushbar following a return excursion is locked in a locked position in the housing, a second deflection face running obliquely to the pushrod axis between the locking recess and the actuation end, cooperating with the protrusion when the pushrod is moved out of the locked position by means of a second excursion farther into the housing, whereby the ring is rotated by a predetermined second angle and the protrusion is aligned with the groove and the pushbar is displaceable into its maximally extended position.
Abstract:
An inspection system having a light source, a mirror sensor, and an image sensor. The mirror assembly is aligned with the camera; the light is reflected from the container to the camera, and the camera creates multiple images of the container at a viewing angle. The multiple images are analyzed to detect defects.
Abstract:
A drive for actuating a flap pivotably supported in or on an automobile includes a push-push kinematics. The kinematics includes a pushbar axially displaceably supported in a housing and having an external actuation end cooperating with the flap. A rotatable ring encloses the pushbar. A groove runs parallel to the pushbar axis and engages with a protrusion at the inner circumference of the ring. A first deflection face runs obliquely to the pushbar axis and cooperates with the protrusion of the ring to rotate this ring when the pushbar is pushed into the housing. A locking recess situated at the pushbar for receiving the protrusion when the pushbar is released, to lock the pushbar in the housing. A second deflection face runs obliquely to the pushbar axis and cooperates with the protrusion when the pushbar is moved out of the locked position by being pushed farther into the housing.