Abstract: A golf putting practice device which provides visual feedback to the user, comprising a head position indicator, visible only when the user's head is in the correct position while striking a golf ball, and which changes color to indicate when the user may move his or her head, and a device for determining that the putter has been maintained in the proper position relative to the ground surface.

Abstract: Halogenated benzenes are hydrodehalogenated in a particularly advantageous manner and at low temperatures by contacting them at temperatures of between 100.degree. and 250.degree. C. together with hydrogen with a catalyst prepared by application of one or more salts of palladium and/or platinum and, if desired, of copper to an alumina or titanium dioxide support.

Abstract: Fireproofing gels based on amine salts of acid phosphates are characterised in that they comprise an aluminium component, a phosphorus component, an amine component and if appropriate water in proportions such that, at 5 to 30.degree. C. for more than 24 hours, they form a mixture which is capable of flow, and on heating to temperatures above 45.degree. C. they change into a transparent gel in less than 24 hours. In addition to other uses, such fireproofing gels are particularly suitable for the production of laminated glass constructions having a-fire protection action.

Abstract: The new polymeric dyestuffs which are obtainable by reaction ofA) Polyamidoamines having an average molecular weight, determined as the weight-average, of 260 to 10,000, which in turn are obtainable by reaction of aliphatic polyamines (I) which contain at least two primary amino groups and at least one secondary amino group, if appropriate as a mixture with diamines (II), with dicarboxylic acids (.alpha.), with the proviso that the molar ratio of the sum of primary and secondary amino groups contained in (I) and if appropriate (II) to the carboxyl groups in (.alpha.)>1, and is preferably 1.05 to 3, withB) a dyestuff which contains, per molecule, at least one group which is reactive towards primary and secondary amino groups,the molar ratio of the sum of primary and secondary amino groups contained in A) to B) being 1 to 15, preferably 1 to 10,are outstandingly suitable for dyeing and printing materials containing cellulose groups and amide groups and as recording liquids for ink jet recording systems.

Abstract: Waterproofing agents for mineral building materials based on aqueous emulsions of organo-silanes and/or organosiloxane resins containing reactive groups in which the disperse phase has an average particle size of 0.55 to 1.1 .mu.m and a scope of particle size range of less than 1.3.

Abstract: A compound having the following formula: ##STR1## wherein Me represents a methyl group, having an anti-bacterial activity.

Abstract: Molten maleic anhydride is introduced in the form of fine droplets at 53.degree. C. to 250.degree. C. and preferably at 60.degree. C. to 120.degree. C. into a gas atmosphere which consists either of pure gaseous ammonia or of a gas mixture of ammonia and at least one other gas and of which the temperature is between 20.degree. C. and 500.degree. C. The process is carried out at a temperature of 120.degree. C. to 180.degree. C. for the production of polysuccinimide and at a temperature of 10.degree. C. to 120.degree. C. for the production of maleic amide acid.

Abstract: Saturated, fluorine-containing and chlorine-free hydrocarbons are prepared by catalytically hydrogenating unsaturated, fluorine- and chlorine-containing hydrocarbons at temperatures above 80.degree. C. in the gas phase.

Abstract: Substituted imidazo[4,5-b]pyridines and benzimidazoles are prepared by reacting imidazo[4,5-b]pyridines or benzimidazoles with appropriately substituted benzyl halides. The substituted imidazo[4,5-b]pyridines or benzimidazoles can be employed as active compounds in medicaments, in particular for the treatment of arterial hypertension and atherosclerosis.

Abstract: The device for continuous filtration and drying of a solid suspension comprises a belt filter (1) and downstream a belt drier (2). By use of a porous conveyor belt (3) the filter cake generated in the belt filter (1) is conveyed further into the belt drier (2) in which there are provided heating devices for heating and drying the filter cake (7) which is on the conveyor belt (3). After leaving the belt filter (1), the filter cake (7) is present on the conveyor belt (3) in the form of a gas-permeable bed of solids in layer form having a maximum layer thickness of 50 mm, preferably a maximum of 20 mm. The heating devices in the belt drier (2) comprise, on the one hand, a hot gas chamber (8) disposed above the conveyor belt (3) to generate a hot gas which flows through the bed of solids downwardly from above and, on the other hand, one or more contact heating elements (10, 15, 18, 19, 20, 22) disposed above and/or below the conveyor belt (3).

Abstract: According to the invention, a new process has been found for the preparation of 2,2-difluoro-benzo[1,3]-dioxole-cabaldehydes of the formula (I) ##STR1## in which benzo[1,3]dioxole-carbaldehydes are chlorinated, the 2,2-dichloro-dichloromethylbenzo[1,3]dioxoles formed, which are likewise new, are partly fluorinated to give the 2,2-difluoro-dichloromethyl-benzo[1,3]dioxoles, which are likewise new, and these are then reacted with urotropin to give the desired compounds.

Abstract: The preparation of dimethyl carbonate by reaction of methanol, carbon monoxide and oxygen in the presence of Cu compounds is carried out in distillation units and the water of reaction is removed at least partially from the stripping region or the bottom phase.

Abstract: A method for determining a platelet function in a primary hemostasis is provided in which a blood sample or a platelet containing fraction thereof is introduced into a vessel having a flat bottom which has an inner surface covered with a substrate capable of inducing platelet adhesion thereto and aggregation such as ECM (extracellular matrix). Preparation is then rotated inside the vessel, and consequently shear forces develop on the surface which bring to adhesion an aggregation of the blood platelets to the surface. Morphological parameters of blood aggregates are then determined.

Abstract: Organic carbonates which contain at least one aromatic ester group can be obtained continuously from carbonates, which contain at least one aliphatic ester group, and a phenolic compound in the presence of a transesterification catalyst known per se in that the reaction is carried out in a bubble column reactor or in a cascade of at least two bubble column reactors in such a way that the phenolic compound is metered into the first bubble column and the carbonate containing at least one aliphatic ester group is metered into each individual bubble column, but preferably only into the last bubble column. The carbonate containing at least one aromatic ester group is taken off in the liquid state from the last bubble column. Volatile reaction products, for example eliminated alcohol or a dialkyl carbonate are taken off at the upper end of each individual bubble column, preferably at the upper end of the first bubble column.

Abstract: A lightweight, heavy duty, large volume centrifugal compressor for use in mechanical vapor compression systems, especially water vapor compression systems in heat pump installations, said compressor comprising a shaft driven propeller-like rotary member consisting of a frusto-conical hub and a plurality of curved blades made of a lightweight material, each being secured to said hub along a longitudinal curved line and radially extending therefrom; each pair of adjacent blades being interconnected by a bridging membrane member of a lightweight material curvingly extending from the roots of the leading edges of said adjacent blades to the tips of the rear edges of the blades; said rotary member being encompassed within a closely fitting shroud, so that curved vapor flow channels are defined between each said pair of blades, their associated membrane member, and the shroud.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a stretched, multilayer, transparent film which is reflection-reduced on at least one side, consists predominantly of polypropylene and is very suitable as window film for envelopes.

Abstract: Novel substituted 2-arylpyrroles of the formula (I) are described ##STR1## in which R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, R.sup.4, Ar, Y.sup.1 and Y.sup.2 have the meaning given in the description, as is a process for their preparation.The novel 2-arylpyrroles are used as agents for combating pests.

Abstract: 2-aryl-ethane-sulphonic acids of the formulaAr.sup.1 --CH.sub.2 --CH.sub.2 --SO.sub.3 H (I),in whichAr.sup.1 denotes a carbocyclic or heterocyclic aromatic radical which can be bound to an anellated benzene nucleus,can be obtained by reaction of the underlying vinyl aromatic compound with sulphurous acid, if the reaction is carried out in the presence of an amine of the formulaN(R.sup.1,R.sup.2,R.sup.3 (III),in whichR.sup.1, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 have the meaning mentioned in the description.

Abstract: Reactive dyestuffs, a process for their preparation and their use and novel intermediates and a process for their preparation.Reactive dyestuffs of the formula (I) ##STR1## are described, in which A denotes a radical of the formula ##STR2## B denotes a bridging member, and R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, R.sub.4 and X have the meanings given in the description.

Abstract: Ethylene glycol carbonate (EGC) can be isolated in purified form from contaminated material which contains impurities from the group comprising starting materials, by-products and/or catalysts of the preparation process in that the contaminated EGC is subjected to a fractional melt crystallization and the crystals of the purified EGC formed in this case are mechanically separated off from the remaining impurities dissolved in the residual melt.