Eastman-kodak Company

Geze Sport International Gmbh

Geze Gmbh

Suco Robert Scheuffele Gmbh & Co. Kg

Spidescape Products, Inc.

Eze Sport International Gmbh

Skylotec Gmbh

Ulrich Kowatsch

Martin Bogner

Gerd Hoitz

Georg Scheck

Manfred Schmidt

Friedrich Ueffinger

Otto Harsanyi

Heike Bauer

Uwe Kohle

Peter Stabel

Marcell Kempf

In a rappelling device () for braking a load guided on a cable which can be fixed to the rappelling device (), the cable () is friction-guided over a distance () and the cable () which runs through the rappelling device () is guided over a brakable shaft (). The cable () is pressed onto the brakable shaft () by means of a pre-definable pressing force (). The braking elements for the brakable shaft () can be kept small in weight and design because an additional braking of the cable () takes place over the friction-guided distance in the rappelling device ().

Rappelling device

An abseiling device for braking a load () that is suspended on a rope () and may be fastened to the abseiling device (), with which the rope () passes through the abseiling device () and is frictionally guided along a section (), at least one portion of the section () being guided by a part () of the abseiling device () that is movable out of an unloaded starting position relative to a housing () of the abseiling device; when a load is suspended, the part () generates a frictional force that is a function of the weight of the load ().

Abseiling device

A device allows easy, rapid, and reliable loading of X-ray cassettes of different formats into a transport receptacle of a processing apparatus for X-ray cassettes in a space-saving and user-friendly fashion. This is achieved, according to the invention, by the fact that a plurality of guide elements for the conveying means configured as a cassette loading device are provided, which are arranged in a stationary fashion between the transport mechanism spaced apart perpendicular to the cassette transport direction. The guide elements can be conveyed by a drive into and out of a horizontal plane formed by the transport mechanism in such a way that during a conveying movement of the transport mechanism, an X-ray cassette is supported on the transport mechanism in a vertical position and is arrested only by the transport receptacles.

Device for simplified vertical loading of an X-ray cassette into a transport receptacle of a processing apparatus for X-ray cassettes

The invention comprises an apparatus for emptying and rinsing out photographic chemical containers into a mixing tank and provides a means of completely removing all chemical residues from the containers in a manner which is safe for the operator. The apparatus has an emptying trough for emptying the chemicals into the mixing tank, the emptying trough having a base and a locating plate opposite the base. In the base there are outlets each of which corresponds to a locating hole in the locating plate for the purpose of emptying the chemical containers through their open necks. In each outlet of the apparatus according to the invention is a nozzle incorporating a valve mechanism which can be operated by placing the neck of a chemical container over the nozzle or removing same.

Apparatus for emptying and rinsing out photographic chemical containers

In a device for moving a slide from a slide tray via a slide chute (3) into a slide gate, an integral component (1) is provided which includes the slide chute (3), a support means for a motor-driven cam (15) and support means for a slide lifter (22), slide pressure means (24, 26) and a tray release lever (16) adapted to arrest a slide tray as well as supporting guide means (6, 6a) for the tray release lever (16) and guides (8d, 8e) adapted to receive the lens mount.

Device for moving a slide into a slide gate and for receiving a lens

A toe unit of a ski safety binding has a housing (15) which is fixedly mountable on a ski, a release spring (14) and sole clamp arms (18) which are pivotable outwardly to the side relative to the housing against spring force and which locate the tip of an inserted ski boot in the sideways direction on the ski (40), but pivot sideways outwardly against the spring force and release the ski boot on the occurrence of sideways forces which lie above a predetermined release value. The space for movement (11) between the housing (15) and the outwardly pivotable sole clamp arms (18) is filled out, at least in the regions which border on the outside atmosphere, and preferably radially outside of the associated pivot axis (13), by an elastic filling piece (12). The elasticity of the filling piece (11) is restricted so that the elastic resetting force at the sole clamp arm (18) generated through compression of the filling piece (12) in the release position of the ski boot only amounts to a fraction of the resetting force generated by the release spring (14).

Toe unit for a safety ski binding

A laterally releasable toe unit of a safety ski binding has a sole clamp (18) which is pivotable about substantially vertical tilting axes (16) provided on the binding housing (11) and is pressed by a release spring (12) against tilting surfaces defining the tilting axes (16). The angle .alpha. between the line of action (19) of the release spring (12) and the tilting axis (16) is smaller than 90.degree., so that a force N is exerted on the sole clamp (18) by the release spring which draws it downwardly.

Laterally releasable jaw unit of a safety ski binding

A safety ski binding for holding the tip of a ski boot and capable of releasing sideways has two side jaws (13, 14) which hold the ski boot at the sides; a sole hole-down member (15), and a release spring (11) which extends substantially in the longitudinal direction of the ski. The release spring is braced at one of its ends against the binding housing (12) which is fixedly mounted to the ski and acts at its other end on the sideways release mechanism which a forwardly directed force. The sole hold-down member (15), the side jaws (13, 14), the sideways release mechanism and the point of action (16) of the release spring (11) are arranged on a carrier (18) which is pivotable upwardly relative to the binding housing (12) about a transverse axle (17). The transverse axle (17) is located at a distance (A) above the line of action (19) of the release spring (11) such that a predetermined hold-down force originating from the release spring (11) acts from the upper side on the sole (42) of the ski boot.

Safety ski binding capable of releasing sideways

The cross-country ski binding has a plate which is arranged on the upper surface of the ski and is pivotable about a vertical axis located in the ball region of a boot. The plate is held in the central position by means of a latch device which releases to permit rotation of the plate relative to the ski on the occurrence of impermissibly high turning moments relative to the vertical axis and thus relative to the ball region.

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Leonberg, Germany

Ulrich Kowatsch