Proceq Sa

Bureau Bbr Ltd.

Dietmar Leeb

Marco Brandestini

Ueli Brunner

Hans Rudolf Siegwart

An apparatus for measuring the surface hardness of building materials, having a housing comprising a test hammer, a driving spring and an impact pin, said test hammer being moveable by means of said driving spring along a path in said housing to be brought to impact against said impact pin, which for measurement is placed on the surface to be measured, and further having measuring device for measuring a rebound height of said test hammer wherein said test hammer is provided with an optical pattern extending over at least part of its length and wherein said measuring device comprises an optical detection unit arranged adjacently to said path of the test hammer and provided for detecting said optical pattern of the test hammer, and wherein said measuring device further comprises an evaluation circuit connected to said optical detection unit to determine the maximum height of the rebounding hammer at the upper end of its path after impact.

Apparatus for measuring the surface hardness of building materials

An upset head and a method of producing the same at a high-strength tension wire, wherein there is formed a supporting seating surface at the transition between the head and the wire. The maximum head diameter is located in the third of the height of the head situated closest to the seating surface. The head diameter at the free head end is equal to or smaller than the wire diameter and the head possesses the shape of a truncated cone at its end section.

Upset head at a high-strength tension wire and method for the production

A method of, and apparatus for, testing the hardness of a material by means of an impact device wherein an impact body having a test tip or point which is either integrated, e.g., connected with, or separate from, the impact body is brought to impact against the material to be tested. There is determined the velocity of the impact body and/or the test tip both directly before and after impact, and there is then formed a characteristic value from both velocities which is utilized as criterion for the hardness of the material.

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Zurich, Switzerland

Dietmar Leeb