Institut Dr. Friedrich Forster Prufgeratebau Gmbh & Co Kg

Institut Dr. Friedrich Forster

Helmut Reitz

Ulrich Dreher

Heinrich Braun

Helmut Schwarz

A device for testing elongated objects, particularly wires, optionally with cross-sectional irregularities, which has a rotating test head traversed by the object and on which is provided a probe, particularly an eddy current probe, provided on rotary probe holding means and guided on circular paths about the object. For the change of the radial spacing between the object and the probe with the test head rotating, externally controllable e.g. by a sensor for irregularities, the device has a switching device with two inherently stable switching states, whereof one can correspond to a testing position near the object and another to a raised position further removed from the object and which can be rapidly set for protecting the probes.

Apparatus for testing elongated objects having a radially adjustable

A driver for oblong material having three arms carrying the driving elements which swing vertically with respect to the material path of movement. For a selected setting angle of the arms, the point of contact of a driving roller with the material is displaced such that, on the diameter of the test material becoming smaller, the point of contact is moved towards the edge of the roller. This feature has three desirable consequences: First, wear is not concentrated on a single track of the roller surface; second, the pressing-on force of the rollers is decreased with the decreasing diameter of the test material; and third, when using three rollers, the seeing angle can be adjusted such that for the narrowest approach of the rollers possible, one edge each of a roller meets with the respective edges of the other rollers in one point.

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Metzingen, Germany

Helmut Reitz