T.m.c., Inc.

U.S. Philips Corporation

Radko Pavlovec

Josef Svoboda

Hubert Wuerthner

Heinz Wittmann

Alois Himmetsberger

Roland Erdei

Johann Zotter

Tibor Szasz

Harald Neckamm

Kurt Liedl

Peter Parrer

Anders Dyne

A reading device for an integrated circuit card includes a slide movable in an insertion direction of the integrated circuit card between a rest and an operational position and is loaded by a spring in a direction opposite to the insertion direction. The slide is blocked in its rest position by a locking device switchable between a blocking position and first and second release positions. The locking device is loaded by a further spring in the direction of the blocking position when the integrated circuit card is not inserted. At the end of an insertion movement of an integrated circuit card past a read position into an adjacent over position, the locking device is switched into its first release position by the integrated circuit card, whereby the slide is moved from its rest position into its operational position. During movement of the slide, a contact carrier is moved into contact with contacts on the circuit card. Upon release of the insertion force from the circuit card, the locking device moves the card into the reading position while its contacts are contacted by the associated contacts in the contact carrier. The slide includes a manual control operable to move the slide from its operational position into its rest position in the insertion direction, the locking device being returned to its blocking position again and the integrated circuit card being ejected from the scanning device by the locking device after this rest position has been reached.

Reading device for an integrated circuit card

Non-sole dependent ski binding

A gymnastics apparatus having a support rod and a handle bar movable toward and away from one another against the force of a spring. A connecting rod and a pipe is arranged between the support rod and the handle bar, the pipe surrounding the connecting rod and housing the spring. A spring abutment member which opposes the connecting rod can be adjusted in an axial direction in the pipe and can be fixed relative to the pipe. In order to facilitate, in such a gymnastics apparatus, an adjustment to various body sizes, the invention provides that the connecting rod is connected, if desired hingedly, to the support rod and the pipe to the handle bar.

Gymnastics apparatus

A ski binding part, in particular a front jaw, having a guide rail adapted to be fastened to the upper side of a ski and on which is arranged a jaw unit movable in a longitudinal direction of the ski and is secured on a base plate. A housing is provided and a locking mechanism for locking the jaw unit in predetermined sliding positions on the guide rail. The locking mechanism has a locking part which is movably held on the jaw unit and which can be moved by a spring into a form-locking engagement selectively with a complementary locking recess on the guide rail. An operating member is adapted to engage the locking part for effecting a disengagement of the locking part from the complementary locking recess. The operating member is supported on the locking part and is provided with at least two surfaces defining an angle with one another and of which each lies at a different distance from a support point and thus determines the engaged or disengaged position of the locking part. The two surfaces are held pressed on the housing in these positions selectively by the spring.

Ski binding part, in particular a front jaw

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Vienna, Austria

Radko Pavlovec