Manhole Clamp With High-Strength Chain
The well-proven manhole clamp now available with a chain instead of a polyester sling
* Simple applying and disconnecting by means of holdfast application: clamp must not be lifted manually
* No adjustment of the clamping range
* Huge multiplication guarantees optimum safety
* One clamp for manholes and cones according to DIN 4034 Part 1 and 2
* With spring tension
* With web sling or high-strength chains
Because of their characteristics the rotary-table shotblasting machines can easily be incorporated in diversified machining, adapting to the treatment of various parts of different shape and type.
Positioned on the moving table the articles are uniformly covered with a wide jet of shot launched by centrifugation by one or more turbines.
Our production range covers from a minimum table diameter of 500 mm to a maximum of 2400 mm.
On the same principle we produce a 3-table satellite machine, called “T3/100”, with tables of 1000 mm each, suitable for delicate articles and large-scale production.
The vertical grindig machines have the same dimension as the range of vertical lathes (from 600 mm to 6500 mm of table diameter).
The main features are:
Grinding spindle, Orientation of the CNC-grinding head
Roller wheel dresser or fixed diamond, Interpolation also with table movement (if required).
Combination of a grinding head with a turning/milling ram (if required), Automatic change of the grinding wheels and casings
Automatic balancing of the grinding wheels. Magnetic table with demagnetization in and outside the machine
Detection Technology offers two standard series of high-quality photodiodes for various measurement purposes.
Detection Technology’s ultra-clean processing method provides excellent performance characteristics and high reliability.
The use of unique guard-ring concept offers impressive performance improvements.
PDA Series
Photodiodes in PDA series are optimized for applications requiring ultimate leakage current performance at unbiased operations. In the visible and NIR-region excellent light response can be used by using PDA series photodiodes.
Benefits
Low noise due to reduced leakage current
High sensitivity
Applications
Visible precision photometry
Absorption and intensity measurements
The ADSE 745 caters fully for all aircraft types and the different electrical power supplies.
It can be used for testing high performance civil and military aircraft, fix and rotary wing The multi-pressure outlets option can suit the more complex pilot-static-systems.
This Pitot Static Tester is designed primarily for flightline use to cover the testing of all barometric and manometric pressure instrument systems.
The large touch screen display, with on-screen help, enables all checks to be carried out easily on the flight deck or in the cockpit, by a single operator.
The Test Set is robust and housed in a mobile weatherproof
case fitted with tyre wheels.
An attached bag contains the pressure hoses and electrical
cables.
Accessories to suit specific applications may be supplied.
On December 13th the French National Railways (SNCF) inaugurated its first Francilien commuter train on the H line of the busy Paris-Ile de France suburban network.
These state-of-the-art trains are jam-packed with innovative technology! Some of this technology will see trains equipped with systems using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID).
This project is part of a decision that became a law in 2005, to make public transport widely accessible to people with reduced mobility; PMR project.
Located at Crespin near Valenciennes in the north of France, BOMBARDIER had developed at the SNCF’s request, an on-board system situated under the train doors that fills the space between the train and the raised platform making access possible for all wheelchair users.
The RFID system developed by BALOGH and manufactured in its factory in Pont L’Eveque, Normandie, France, will detect the correct position the train and trigger a “bridge” system to enable easy access for wheelchairs to cross the gap between the train and the platform.
In the near future, all Paris/Ile de France stations using SPACIUM trains will be identified as accessible to wheelchair users.
After an initial order of 172 Francilien commuter trains, there could an additional 200 as optional. 70 trains of the 200 additional could be ordered in early 2010.
The system for detecting areas of wheelchair accessibility includes the following:
– 2 Balogh RFID readers positioned 3m apart, installed at the front and rear of the Bombardier Spacium train at the wheelchair access zone doors
– On the nose of the platform (raised or not) at 920mm, 6 encoded Balogh RFID tags cover at least 9m of the platform
The presence of the reader in front of the electronic tags trigger a blue light in the driver’s cabin which enables the final braking and activates the automatic opening of the wheelchair zone doors.
This new automatic detection system ensures the smooth functioning of the “bridge” device.
The principles of “redundancy” ensure high system reliability even allowing simultaneous failure of a reader and an electronic tag with zero consequences.
A promising future is in perspective for this system. It could be a standard feature in not only French but all European stations making transportation friendlier to wheelchair passengers.
Small diameter endmills able to handle various machining modes.
Next generation TAC endmills allow one tool for various types of machining.
Hybrid TAC Mills provide comparable results to solid carbide endmills in high productivity, machining accuracy, and multi-functional machining capability!
EPH – High Accuracy – Long Cutting Edge Length – Shoulder Milling! Allows low cutting forces, high productivity, and highly accurate machining that is comparable to solid carbide endmills! Inserts are available in various corner radius sizes.
EVH Multi-functional – Center Cutting Edge – Shoulder Milling!
The toolholder has a center cutting edge which allows shoulder milling, slotting, drilling, and other kinds of machining with only one tool.
EXH High Feed – Center Cutting Edge – High Productivity!
Super high feed machining capability improves productivity in roughing. Center cutting design allows it to be used in a variety of machining.
more: www.tungaloyamerica.com/
Bucky Turco got a $250 credit for his next United Express flight after he complained about the two-hour gab fest between two United stewards he endured on a recent trip from SLC to ORD. In that time he learned from the two women such factoids as: Hispanics, Blacks and Asians shouldn’t go blonde, a type of birth control gave one of the stewards’ sister menstrual spots, how getting spit on is the ultimate disrespect, right up there with getting a shoe thrown at you like George Bush did, and more. Too much information!
The women were so loud and voluble that Bucky couldn’t get any sleep during the whole flight. He called United right afterwards and they swiftly issued him the $250 coupon, which he doesn’t plan on cashing in anytime soon.
Unfortunately, I don’t think I’ll ever fly United Express again,” wrote Bucky. “Neither should you.”
United Express Flight Attendants Disgust Passengers With Oversharing, Inability To Shut Up [ANIMAL]
Well, this is a fun reversal. Shenzhen Great Loong Brother has been manufacturing the P88—which looks just like, hey, a giant iPhone—for about six months. And they’re pretty ticked that Apple has so blatantly stolen their idea.
Okay, so maybe the P88 and iPad don’t have that much in common. Or really, hardly anything. The P88 has a resistive screen, has a 250GB hard drive, an ethernet port, a webcam, and run Windows. It also gets an hour and a half of battery life, and costs, um, $525. Still! The intellectual property of Shenzhen Great Loong Brother will not be wrongly appropriated! At least, not if SGLB president Xiaolong Wu has anything to say about it:
We are considering legal action, but we can not do much in the United States. But if Apple brings the iPad to China, we will be forced to denounce them, because it will certainly affect our sales.
Keep considering, Xiaolong Wu. There’s a long line of Apple lawsuits ahead of you, some of which actually seem to have an iota of merit. [El Mundo via Wired]
Packaging is not the same as packing. Its diversity of surface properties is a special challenge in Pick & Place applications in the packaging industry. The reason: handling paperboard containers, Styrofoam, films and blister packages demands vacuum cups that can adapt optimally to uneven, corrugated or flexible work-pieces. Apart from the shape, the material itself plays a decisive role.
Tepuflex®: Elastic and wear-resistant
Those involved with the packaging of pharmaceutical and cosmetic items come across different materials that must be suctioned securely with short cycle times. FIPA offers the polyurethane compound, Tepuflex®, especially for the most diverse surface structures. The material is elastic as rubber, wear-resistant as plastic and can be deployed ideally for temperatures between 0 and 70 degree Celsius.
Vacuum cups made of Tepuflex® guarantee the shortest possible cycle times, long intervals between successive rounds of maintenance and ensure a firm grip. The material can be used for a large variety of packaging surfaces depending on its shape:
•Flat cups with cleats are suitable for even surfaces. They have large lateral sensitivity; the cleats prevent flexible parts from being suctioned.
•Bellows-type cups having 1.5 folds compensate for unevenness and height differences on the work-piece.
Vinyl: Fits perfectly and anti-static
Uneven and flexible materials such as sausage packages are gripped securely and firmly by vinyl cups. Their soft, cuddly and air-tight lips adapt themselves optimally to corrugated and yielding surfaces. The material is particularly wear-resistant and highly robust.
As a result, down times and shutdown times are drastically reduced on account of any replacement and maintenance of the cups.
Owing to its flexible and anti-static properties, vinyl is suitable for handling sensitive products such as CDs and DVDs – in addition, it withstands temperatures up to 80 degree Celsius. Yet another large area of application: Box aligners.
The right cup – always
The right vacuum cup for every packaging machine is the FIPA philosophy. Hence, there is the vinyl range of cups having a large bandwidth. It includes flat cups, bellows-type cups having 1.5 folds, bellows-type cups having 2.5 folds, as well as oval bellows-type cups with 2.5 folds.
However, if the standard range still does not have the right cup for you, the experts at FIPA would develop and manufacture cups customized to meet your needs.
– High Power output
– High level of performance and minimum running costs
– Maximum integration and compactness
– Constant, repeatable power generation via microprocessor control
– Continuous, non-stop generation
– State-of-the-art electronics
– Stainless Steel casing
– Interfaces with CEIA Power Controller v2, Master Controller v2 and PHPC units to manage heating cycles (temperature, time and power)
– Built-in Self-diagnosis
– Compliant with the Regulations on Electrical Safety and Electromagnetic Compatibility
– Switcher for optional double head
The 200 series is the State-of-the-Art of the Medium-High Frequency Generators today available in the market. The Generators of this family combine the extremely high efficiency of the miniaturized CEIA Heating Head solution (patented) with a powerful, continuous-duty rated, compact generator.
The 90/200, 180/200, 360/200 and 720/200 Power Cube generators are complementary to the CEIA family of medium-frequency heaters, being perfectly suited to applications involving localized quenching and braze welding of particular metals that require very rapid heating.
Ideal for mounting on automatic production systems, they are also easily employed in manual applications thanks to their compact size and extremely simple operation.
As all the other CEIA Power Cube Generators, the 200 series is modular with the CEIA Power Controller, Master Controller and PHPC electronics units, and can be interfaced with PCs or programmable controllers via their analog (optional) and RS-232 interface.
The use of innovatory technical solutions and latest-generation components place the 200 series generators winning in terms of performances, Power output and operational cost.
DF ELECTRIC launches its new modular fuse holder for 14×51 and 22×58 cylindrical fuses.
The main features that offer the new are:
• Available in a extended range of different versions with fuse indicator, with microswitch, 690V, 24 V DC, Microswitch FUSING+PRE-BREAKING+FUSE LINK DETECTION
• Accessory available to lock the fuse holder by a padlock
• IP20 Security accessory in Terminal zones. For wires of section d10 mm2
• All the versions with label holder for a good circuit identification
• Compact design
• Accessories for Multiple poles assembly for fuse holders and Microswitch
• Ventilation zones optimized for a better heat dissipation
• 2 position DIN Rail fixation
• Made of a polymer high performance with a fusion temperature more than 300 °C. This provides a safety margin against a possible overheating of the fuse, and when it exceeds the rated power acceptance of the fuse holder.
• The PMX fuse holder can be fixed/ unfixed on DIN rail with the same screwing tools that the installer uses for cable terminal fixing, regardless the screw driver head is in form of slot or PZ2.
• PMX Fuse holder is made of halogen free plastic, prepared for future restrictions on these substances.
All these features make the new PMX Fuse holder one of the most complete product in the market.
DF ELECTRIC
Fuse links, fuse holders, bases and transformers
for further information visit www.df-sa.es
This LM5072 based 5V out 25W POE+ PD power supply is fully compliant with IEEE 802.3at standard. This design converts 48 Vdc to 5 Vdc. It can deliver up to 25W power as specified by the IEEE 802.3at standard. It has a 2 event detection circuit which can identify the PSE as either Type one or Type two.
The 2 event detection circuit is located on the bottom layer of the PC board. In those applications where this 2 event detection feature is not required, the user only needs to populate top layer components.
The input current limit is 800 mA. The efficiency of this design is high enough to keep input current under 800mA at 38Vin full load. The input under voltage lock has 7V hysteresis, with 38V rise and 31V fall. This design also has output short circuit protection.
This design can also be powered by a 24V AUX power supply. In this configuration, the AUX input port bypasses the LM5072 internal hot swap MOSFET and allows input current to be greater than the 800 mA limit
Rising energy prices and political guidelines have attracted the notice to providers of cold chain logistics to the needs for increased energy-efficiency. Automated truck loading systems can substantially reduce the cooling losses during the loading and unloading process. Therefore, those systems can contribute to the sustainable and efficient energy management in temperature-controlled transport.
Automated truck loading systems are used predominately for shuttle transport where loading times play an important role. Conventional truck loading or unloading with fork lift trucks takes on average 30 minutes. With automated systems, the loading times can be reduced to just approx. 2 minutes.
Due to unnecessary long truck waiting times at the dock and open gates the interface between trailer and dock is often the cause of energy loss. Furthermore, it is often the weakest link in an uninterrupted cold chain.
Ancra Systems have developed a system which is designed and engineered in accordance with the highest standards and regulations required for deep-frozen products. Inflatable shelters are installed at the dock to prevent circulation of open air when the trailer is docked to the loading or unloading system. In addition, an automatic bridge swings down closing the gap between the trailer and the docking system. A special chill proof enclosure including a control unit enables the truck driver to control the loading and unloading process without being exposed to the freezing environment. Special wiring is used to maintain flexibility in low temperatures up to – 25 ° Celsius (- 13 ° Fahrenheit).
The minimization of cooling loss as well as the heavily reduced loading and truck waiting times contributes to an increase in efficiency. Therefore, not only are energy costs reduced through substantial savings of energy, it also increases profit for the customer and the environment.
The importance of energy-efficiency will augment in the future. For this reason, automated truck loading systems within the scope of professional energy management can constitute a competitive advantage in cold chain logistics.
Colder Products Company introduces more than 350 new fittings and luers. The new line of FitQuik™ Connectors adds hundreds of cost-effective connection options to its current product offering of quick disconnect couplings and fittings.
“Our customers have been asking for a single source for high-quality fittings, luers and couplings; we’ve added these products to meet this demand,” said Dennis Downs, business development manager. “This vastly expanded offering gives medical device manufacturers and OEMs thousands of connector options from one supplier, making it easier to order multiple part numbers.”
FitQuik Connectors are manufactured under Colder’s rigorous quality standards and are available in both black and white nylon and animal-free, natural polypropylene. These fittings feature precise hose barbs and thread forms to ensure a secure fit. New fitting styles include luers, tube-to-tube, thread-to-tube, blood pressure fittings and are offered with NPT and 10-32 threads. Additional configurations and materials will be added as part of an extensive product line expansion.
Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide (QTWW) announced that it has been selected by the US Postal Service (USPS) to supply an electric vehicle which will be used as a postal delivery vehicle.
Quantum competed with four other companies to participate in a 12-month test program which will be conducted by the USPS in Washington DC. Depending on the demo’s success, the infrastructure could be extended to a great percentage of the USPS fleet.
With a total of 178,000 Long Life Vehicles (L… (read more)
The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] and industry supplier HAVELSAN announced today that they have completed installation of Mission Simulator and Mission Support Center hardware for Turkey’s Peace Eagle Airborne Early Warning and Control (AEW&C) program.
The hardware installation was completed in October and November 2009 at the Peace Eagle Ground Support Center in Konya, Turkey. The team will next install software, then conduct an integration and checkout program.
The Mission Simulator features 10 mission consoles, instructor operator stations, and aircraft equipment rack assemblies.
It will provide training for Turkish Air Force crews on a full range of AEW&C missions, reducing the monetary and environmental costs associated with training on the aircraft.
The Mission Support Center hardware includes both mission planning and flight planning terminals, replay terminals, and Electronic Support Measures workstations.
The center has two main functions: loading mission software onto the Peace Eagle aircraft and providing initial data analysis following a mission.
“These installations are a major step forward for the program and set the stage for formal integration of the hardware and software, as well as for developmental test and evaluation in spring 2010,” said Mark Ellis, Peace Eagle program manager for Boeing.
“We appreciate the significant cooperation and support we have received from the Turkish Air Force at the base in Konya. Likewise, HAVELSAN demonstrated outstanding capability, focus and enthusiasm while working with us over the past 15 months to achieve these two complex design and installation tasks.”
HAVELSAN designed the subsystems, acquired the equipment and performed the two installations. Boeing is providing technical guidance and oversight to ensure total system integration according to the Turkish customer’s requirements.
“Boeing has been an incomparable partner to us in the achievement of this major milestone,” said Buyurman Baykal, Peace Eagle program manager for HAVELSAN.
“HAVELSAN will continue to demonstrate excellence in the Airborne Early Warning and Control domain.”
Installation of a third subsystem, the Software Support Center, is scheduled to be completed in Konya in 2010.
This center will be used for software testing and upgrades. It features a live communications capability for interaction with the Peace Eagle aircraft.
The Peace Eagle program includes four 737 AEW&C aircraft plus ground support segments for mission crew training, mission support and system maintenance.
The Boeing 737-700 features 21st century avionics, navigation equipment and flight deck features. Because of its advanced technology and a worldwide base of suppliers, parts and support equipment, the aircraft requires minimal downtime for maintenance.
About Boeing Defense, Space & Security
A unit of The Boeing Company, Boeing Defense, Space & Security is one of the world’s largest defense, space and security businesses specializing in innovative and capabilities-driven customer solutions, and the world’s largest and most versatile manufacturer of military aircraft.
Headquartered in St. Louis, Boeing Defense, Space & Security is a $34 billion business with 68,000 employees worldwide.
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“Eco-friendly” is probably one of the last adjectives one would use to describe a gas station, but the BP gas company has taken on its first green gas station initiative with the Helios House. Located in Los Angeles, California, on the busy intersection of Robertson and Olympic, the futuristic-looking Helios House is an environmentally friendly gas station that incorporates green themes into its design and operating structure.
Simply advertised as a “little greener” than the average pump station, the Helios House features a LEED-certified gas pump, ninety solar panels, and attendants who dish out tips on sustainability instead of pumping gas.
The building features a geometric stainless steel design that was partially constructed using salvaged materials from the former gas station on site. The pavement consists of concrete mixed with recycled glass, which reduces the amount of heat absorption throughout the day. The public restroom also features tiles made from recycled glass, as well as a digital jukebox that allows occupants to create a music playlist while inside.
The Helios House is an experimental project designed to inform and encourage people on the balance between using energy and exercising social responsibility. To that end, patrons are free to pick up a “postcard you can plant,” which contains seeds embedded into the paper fibers.
Zentralfriedhof, Vienna’s largest and most famous cemetery, is the final resting place for many important Europeans. The cemetery has a particularly notable constituency of composers: Beethoven, Brahms, Schoenberg, Schubert, and the Strauss family are all buried there.
Perhaps the most intriguing grave site, however, belongs to Ludwig Boltzmann, the Austrian physicist known for his contributions to statistical mechanics and thermodynamics. While his tombstone is surely not the grandest, it is interesting for its simple and unique inscription: S = k log W. Boltzmann spent his life defending this equation of his, but committed suicide before he could see experimental verification of his ideas.
Ludwig Boltzmann was a peculiar man. He was subject to drastic mood swings, causing many of his personal relationships to be ridden with turmoil. Some speculate that the physicist suffered from bipolar disorder, and he himself jested that his fickle temperament must be due to the fact that he was born during the night between Mardi Gras and Ash Wednesday.
No matter the cause for his behavior, Boltzmann faced many difficulties in his career as a result. To make matters worse, most of the physicist’s ideas were highly controversial at the time. Not surprisingly, Boltzmann had many scientific opponents and his work was the subject of frequent criticism within the physics community.
For one, Boltzmann was an outspoken advocate for the atomic theory, which states that matter is composed of discrete units called atoms. All of his theories presupposed the existence of atoms and molecules, but even in the late 1800s many physicists rejected the idea of a fundamental building block of matter. In the minds of the opposition, matter could be divided into any arbitrarily small quantity.
Also at the heart of Boltzmann’s theories was the notion that nature can be described by statistics. His statistical conception of mechanics and thermodynamics provided a framework with which the microscopic and macroscopic worlds could be connected. Boltzmann asserted that the individual properties of atoms and molecules could be used to explain a material’s bulk properties such as heat, energy, and work.
Wilhelm Ostwald, perhaps Boltzmann’s greatest foe, often challenged the statistical basis of the physicist’s ideas. In a particularly heated debate in 1895, Ostwald rejected Boltzmann’s notion that any phenomenon could be explained with suitable equations: “The actual irreversibility of natural phenomena thus proves the existence of processes that cannot be described by mechanical equations, and with this the verdict on scientific materialism is settled.” Although Boltzmann had considerable support in this case, he continued to spend his final years defending his work from continuing attacks.
Depressed and in poor health, Boltzmann hung himself while on a family vacation in 1906. The true motives for his actions are unclear, but his suicide is generally attributed to an underlying mental illness and the lack of acceptance of his work. Only a few years later, Jean Baptiste Perrin’s experimental verification of Brownian motion would settle the century-long debate about the atomic theory and thereby validate Boltzmann’s career.
The formula on his tombstone, S = k log W, is the equation for the entropy of a system of particles. It states that entropy, which can be regarded as a measure of a system’s “disorder,” depends only on a constant number k (now named Boltzmann’s constant) and the number of possible “microstates” W. Microstates essentially describe the configurations of the locations and momenta of particles in a system.
Despite Boltzmann’s troublesome career, he will be remembered as one of the most important physicists of his time. Aside from his contributions to statistical mechanics and thermodynamics, he was also one of the first to recognize the importance of James Clerk Maxwell’s electromagnetic theory and arguably anticipated quantum mechanics by suggesting that the energy levels of an atom might be discrete.
MERIDIAN, Idaho — Members of an Idaho church wept early Sunday as their pastor reported the Haiti rescue mission they helped launch only a week ago had taken a terrible turn.
Five members of the Central Valley Baptist Church were among 10 Americans detained Friday in Port-au-Prince as they tried to take 33 children across the border into the Dominican Republic.
Senior Pastor Clint Henry told church members Sunday the Americans were trying to rescue children from an orphanage in the Haitian capital. But officials said they lacked the proper documents.
“They’ve been charged with child trafficking,” Henry said. “You need to understand that obviously those are serious charges, but they’re in a nation where this has been a practice, a wicked and evil practice.”
Drew Ham, an assistant pastor at the church, said they hadn’t had any contact with the team since Saturday, when the church members’ cell phones were confiscated.
No charges had been filed, though Haiti’s national secretary for security, Aramick Louis, said a judge had already done a preliminary investigation into the case.
“We are doing everything that we know to do,” Henry said. “We certainly are talking to our State Department. We have been in touch with the embassy down there.”
The 10 Americans include five members of the Central Valley Baptist Church in Meridian, Idaho and at least two members of the East Side Baptist Church in Twin Falls, Idaho, as well as people from Texas and Kansas.
The Americans face a Monday hearing before a judge, and Henry said he hoped they would be released.
The church became involved with the “Haitian Orphan Rescue Mission” because the founders of the proposed orphanage for the children, Laura Silsby and Charisa Coulter, were members of its congregation in southwestern Idaho, Henry said.
The 500-member church, where signs taped to large bins outside the pastors’ offices read “Donations for Haiti,” donated several thousands of dollars toward the mission, Henry said.
“This is something we’ve been talking about doing for a long time so it wasn’t specific to this earthquake,” he told reporters at a press conference after church services.
Since the Americans were detained, the pastors said the church is getting backlash through obscenity laced phone calls and faxes, condemning the group leading the rescue mission.
“People come back and say, ‘How could you be stealing children?’” Ham told The Associated Press.
Church members were asked to pray that the outcome of the Monday hearing will vindicate the detainees and their mission.
“The whole world is going to know that we weren’t there doing the kind of things we’re being accused of doing,” Henry said.
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