Abstract: The invention relates to a process for producing a clothing wire which is suitable for fitting to an opening-cylinder base body, wherein a raw wire which is customarily used to produce clothing wire is processed on end to form a wire coil, in which the teeth of the wire are perpendicular to the coil axis and which has a diameter which corresponds to the diameter of the opening-cylinder base body or differs by at most ±5% from the diameter of the opening-cylinder base body, and the wire coil is pushed loosely onto a support device and, together with this device, is introduced into an electroplating unit, the process steps which are customarily used for the chemical deburring of a raw wire and the nickel-diamond coating of a clothed opening cylinder taking place in the electroplating unit, and the clothing wire being removed from the electroplating unit.

Abstract: A ceramic material is provided containing 45 to 55% by weight TiB2 and 40.5 to 54.7% by weight BN and 0.1-1.5% by weight Ca in the form of a compound selected from the group consisting of the calcium oxides and calcium borates and mixtures thereof, which material contains from 0.2 to 3% by weight of a compound selected from the group consisting of the oxides, carbides and nitrides of the elements Al, Si, Zr, Ti and mixtures thereof.

Abstract: A connecting element for the friction-increasing connection of workpieces which are to be joined, which is a thin resilient element which bears particles of a defined size at its surface, the particles being made from a material with a compressive and shear strength which exceeds that of the workpieces to be joined.

Abstract: An evaporator is provided for the evaporation of metal, which has a cross-sectional area in the region from which evaporation of the metal takes place which is greater than the corresponding cross-sectional area of a triangular evaporator of the same width and height and has, in the specified region, a smaller minimum circumference than a rectangular evaporator having the same width and height.

Abstract: The invention relates to a flash TV evaporator for the evaporation coating of cathode ray tubes with aluminium, having a cavity from which the aluminium is evaporated when a current flows through the flash TV evaporator, wherein the width of the cavity tapers from the upper edge of the evaporator to the lower edge of the evaporator.

Abstract: A process for reclaiming a consumed grinding suspension which has been used for machining silicon, quartz or ceramic is made from a cutting fluid, in which abrasive grain and abraded material are dispersed. In a first process step, the grinding suspension is carefully separated, by means of a drying step, into a solid component and a liquid component. In a second process step, the solid component is separated into abrasive grain and abraded material by a separation method.

Abstract: A bearing material of silicon carbide particularly useful for application in the hot water field is provided having improved corrosion resistance under increased thermal stresses wherein the bearing material is characterized by a predominantly course-grained silicon carbide matrix of pressureless sintered silicon carbide having a biamodal grain sized distribution wherein the biomodal grain size distribution is formed by from 50 to 90% by volume of prismatic, tabular, silicon carbide crystallites having a length of from 100 to 1500 .mu.m and from 10 to 50% by volume of prismatic tabular silicon carbide crystallites having a length of from 5 to <100 .mu.m.

Abstract: Dense sintered bodies are provided whicha) comprise from 45 to 99.5 wt % of SiC, the SiC being present in the sintered body as a crystalline first phase, andb) comprise from 0.5 to 55 wt % of a sintering aid, from 0.5 to 30 wt % of which is selected from the group consisting of reaction products of Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 with Y.sub.2 O.sub.3, mixtures of at least one nitrogen-containing aluminum compound with reaction products of Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 with Y.sub.2 O.sub.3, mixtures of at least one rare earth oxide with at least one nitrogen-containing aluminum compound and/or Al.sub.2 O.sub.3, and from 0 to 25 wt % of which is selected from the group of the nitridic silicon compounds, the sintering aid being present in the sintered body as a second phase and optionally further phases, wherein the second phase and optionally the further phases are either amorphous to an extent of more than 10% or are present in amorphous form at the interface to the first phase to a width of at least .gtoreq.5 .ANG.

Abstract: A process for surface treatment and wear resistant coating of opening rollers for open end spinning of the type having a basic metallic body and a raw wire clothing, includes the steps of introducing the opening roller into a sealing bath in such a way that this sealing bath fills even the smallest voids between the raw wire and the basic body of the roller, rinsing off the opening roller clean on the outside, heat treating the opening roller, and subjecting the opening roller thus pretreated to deburring and antiwear coating in a conventional manner.

Abstract: A composite material includes boron carbide and titanium diboride in a volume ratio B.sub.4 C/TiB.sub.2 of from 90:10 to 10:90 parts and a proportion of elemental carbon greater than 2% by weight up to a maximum of 50% by weight, based on the boron carbide content. The composite material has a density greater than 92% TD, a hardness HK 0.1 greater than 2300, a four-point flexural strength greater than 400 MPa and a fracture toughness greater than 3.5 MPa.sqroot.m. The composite material is suitable for producing wear-resistant components or cutting tools.

Abstract: A process for producing shaped bodies of boron carbide, metal diboride and carbon, which includes(a) homogeneously mixing pulverulent boron carbide with at least one pulverulent monocarbide of an element Ti, Zr, Hf, V, Nb and Ta in an amount corresponding to from 2% to 6% by weight of free carbon, based on the total weight of the boron carbide;(b) shaping this mixture into green bodies of a density of at least 50% TD;(c) heating the preformed body thus obtained to from about 1250.degree. C. to 1450.degree. C. with exclusion of oxygen in a sintering furnace and maintaining it within this temperature range for from 10 to 120 minutes; and(d) subsequently sintering the preformed body by heating to from 2100.degree. C. to 2250.degree. C.

Abstract: Composite materials are provided based on titanium diboride and processes for their preparation.The composite materials contain(1) 70 to 98% by volume of titanium diboride,(2) 1 to 15% by volume of Fe.sub.2 B and(3) 1 to 15% by volume of Ti.sub.2 O.sub.3and have the following properties:density at least 93% of the theoretically possible density of the total composite material,hardness (HV10) greater than 1,900,bending fracture strength (measured by the three-point method at room temperature) at least 400 MPa andfracture resistance K.sub.IC (measured with a sharp incipient crack produced by the bridge method) of at least 4.5 MPa.sqroot.m.

Abstract: The invention relates to the reprocessing of used evaporation boats. This is done by a method which comprises comminuting used, aluminum-contaminated evaporation boats and roasting them in a nitrogen-containing atmosphere.

Abstract: A continuous flow method and system is provided for converting environmentally pollutant by-product waste gases emitted during the manufacture of silicon carbide in a first manufacturing plant to methanol in a second manufacturing plant such that release of the gases into the atmosphere may be prevented.

Abstract: The invention relates to mixed sintered metal materials based on high-melting borides and nitrides and low-melting iron binder metals having the composition:(1) 40-97% by volume of borides, such as titanium diboride and zirconium diboride;(2) 1-48% by volume of nitrides, such as titanium nitride and zirconium nitride;(3) 0-10% by volume of oxides, such as titanium oxide and zirconium oxide, with the proviso that components (2) and (3) may also be present as oxynitrides such as titanium and zirconium oxynitride; and(4) 2-59% by volume of low-carbon binder metals, such as iron and iron alloys and to processes for preparing the same.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for producing green compacts by the slip-casting process, injection-molding process or extrusion process from sinterable mixtures based on a starting powder mixture containing silicon nitride, and, if appropriate, aluminum nitride and/or alumina and other oxides as sinter aids. The dispersant and binder used is a magnesium chloride hydrate as a mixture with magnesium oxide and water and, after molding, the mixtures are hardened at temperatures from 30.degree. to 60.degree. C. In addition, ceramic fibers, such as silicon carbide, can also be processed as fillers. The green compacts thus produced are sufficiently stable, so that they can be worked mechanically.

Abstract: A runner is provided which consists of a radial turbine ceramic rotor with an integrated ceramic shaft and a non-ceramic compressor impeller which are connected by a releasable, thermally and mechanically loadable mechanical coupling in such a way that the releasable mechanical coupling is located with the compressor impeller. This coupling consists of a cylindrical slotted sleeve which, on the one hand, is fitted into a cylindrical fitting bore in the compressor impeller and, on the other hand, accepts the end of the ceramic shaft in a fitting bore. In addition, the coupling has a tie rod with a screw thread and a pair of conical clamping elements between the cylindrical sleeve and the compressor impeller.

Abstract: Pressure-sintered polycrystalline mixed materials, with a base of boron nitride, oxides and carbides, are provided in which the hexagonal boron nitride fraction is about 30 to about 85% by weight, the oxide fraction (ZrO.sub.2, MgO) is about 10 to about 50% by weight, and the carbide fraction (SiC, TiC, ZrC) is about 5 to about 20% by weight. These mixed materials have a density of at least 94% of the theoretical density and can be produced by hot-pressing powder mixtures composed of hexagonal boron nitride, the selected oxides and carbides at temperatures in the range of from 1500.degree. C. to 1800.degree. C. under a die pressure of 7 to 20 MPa or by isostatically hot-pressing, in a vacuum tight closed case, at temperatures in the range from about 1400.degree. C. to about 1700.degree. C. under a pressure of about 100 to about 300 MPa in a high-pressure autoclave using an inert gas as the pressure transfer medium.

Abstract: Stable slip casting composition having a total solids content of from 50 to 80 percent by weight on a base of finely divided, AlN-containing powders. It contains as liquid dispersion medium, water mixed with a water-soluble, aliphatic, polyvalent alcohol and admixtures for adjusting the viscosity required for slip casting. The liquid dispersion medium can contain, for instance, from 1 to 20 percent by weight of an alcohol such as glycerin calculated on the total weight of water and alcohol.

Abstract: The invention relates to polycrystalline sintered articles comprising at least 50% by weight of crystalline silicon nitride phase of which at least 90% by weight is in the .beta.-form, and at least one secondary crystalline intergranular silicate phase, and having a density of at least 99% of the theoretically possible density, a modulus of elasticity at room temperature of less than 300 kN/mm.sup.2, a short-term bending strength at room temperatue, measured according to the 4-point method, of at least 600 N/mm.sup.2 which, up to 1200.degree. C., decreases by less than 50%, and a long-term bending strength, measured according to the 4-point method, which is characterized by a numerical value of more than 40 at 1200.degree. C. for the crack growth resistance parameter n.