Articles are removed from a belt conveyor or not, in one position or another according to their orientation, by a laterally oscillatable catching member that places them in the path of a pusher which moves them over a support having a portion that swings downwardly. If the articles are mispositioned on the support, they will fall from the edge left by the downwardly swung portion of the support.

A powdered composition obtained by adsorption of active ingedients, previously dissolved in an organic solvent, on instant sugar, and a process for producing this composition. As a medication, it contains at least one medically active ingredient adsorbed on the external and/or internal surface of particles of an instant sugar very rapidly soluble in water.

A stapler apparatus for fastening junction staples (2) on one end of a conveyor belt (1) comprises a working head (10) slidable along a guide plate (7) provided for guiding the fastener clamps (4) of the staples to be fastened on one end of the conveyor belt (1). The working head (10) comprises a punch (13) for driving-in the clamps (4) and a mobile die (11) for folding down the clamp spikes. The support (25) of the die (11) and the punch (13) are driven through a sliding member (22) slidable in…

A spring unit for a vehicle suspension system, the unit comprising two springs so arranged that in the pretare condition they operate in series and in the gross load condition operate in parallel.

A bending-press tool can be fixed instantaneously on its tool-holder by means of a device which permits positioning and extraction of the tool on the front side of the machine without any need to displace adjacent tools. The device comprises a clamping member pivotally mounted on a longitudinal shaft and having a shouldered portion, the heel of the tool which has a suitable shape being intended to engage on the shouldered portion. After engagement, the tool is thrust from its position of equilib…

A material which transmits wound moisture, made up of an upper layer of an elastomer having a thickness of 0.01-0.2 mm which is provided with pores having a diameter not exceeding 0.7 .mu.m and a pore density of 1-75% of the surface, and a lower layer of an elastomer having a thickness of 0.05-1 mm which is provided with macropores having a diameter of 50-200 .mu.m, at least some of the walls of said macropores being provided with micropores having a diameter of 0.1-0.25 .mu.m, is provided. The …

A single handle mixer valve with hard material plates, wherein a fixed member forming a delivery connection for mixed water projects up to the level of the movable plate of the valve, whose cavity forming the duct for water passage encircles the delivery connection by engaging the same, in order to offer a guide for the swinging displacements of the movable plate, while the delivery connection acts as a fulcrum therefor. The cavity of the plate may be blind or it may tranverse right through the …

A wheel (4) for setting sown seeds, for use in a sowing machine, is rigidly connected in rotation with at least one gauging wheel (5) having a rolling radius smaller than the radius of the periphery of the setting wheel (4). The gauging wheel (5) is a wheel with a deformable peripheral coating, such as a low pressure pneumatic tire (13).

A power supply for supplying power to a switched regulator includes a programmable voltage source 14, a constant voltage source 12 and a programmable switched mode current source 16 connected in series between the positive and negative outputs. A catching diode 18 is connected in parallel with the constant voltage source 12 and the current source 16. The supply operates to provide a controlled current at the output, irrespective of the load voltage.

The invention deals with means to prime a bin with rod-shaped articles such as filter rods and cigarettes. The articles are fed at one end of the bin between an arm and an overlying curtain which maintains the orientation of the articles. The articles between these two elements press on a switch which causes the arm to swing through the bin in a step-by-step operation. Eventually when the volume of articles is such that they can form a heap on their own, the arm becomes inoperative and an endles…