Abstract: A heat exchanger assembly comprises a plate-shaped heat exchanger having a plurality of flow channels each having an inlet end through which heat transferring fluid is introduced for passing through the flow channels in a flow direction and an inlet chamber into which the inlet ends of the flow channels open. The heat exchanger assembly further has a flow distributing flat nozzle situated in the inlet chamber of the heat exchanger. The nozzle has an outlet end oriented towards the flow channels and directly connected with the inlet end of the flow channels and an inlet nipple defining a tubular conduit. The flat nozzle defines a distributor chamber which is in communication with the tubular conduit and with the outlet end.

Abstract: A pipe cluster unit comprises a plurality of plastic pipes arranged parallel to one another and being in mutual engagement with one another along longitudinal lines of contact to form a pipe cluster and a cover layer bonded to external surface portions of the pipes. The cover layer connects adjoining pipes to one another by bridging the adjoining pipes at locations spaced from respective lines of contact between adjoining pipes.

Abstract: A blow-molded plastic hollow body has a plurality of defined, throughgoing apertures in a bottom wall adapted to be mounted on a base surface. The apertures are spaced from one another by web-like parts of the bottom wall and have a total area of between 10% and 70% of the outer face of the bottom wall.

Abstract: A multilayer medical working means comprises at least two walls each made of a glass-clear, soft plastic, with one of the two walls being physiologically unobjectionable and the other wall or walls being a physiologically questionable wall provided with at least one physiologically questionable and/or untested additive. A full-area circumferential connection exists between the physiologically unobjectionable wall and the physiologically questionable wall. A softener gradient is provided between the walls of the working means in such a manner that the physiologically unobjectionable wall has a higher softener content than the physiologically questionable wall directly adjacent thereto which contains at least one physiologically questionable and/or untested additive. The position of the additive is kept constant in the adjacent physiologically questionable wall against the gradient pressure of the softener.

Abstract: A blow-molded thermoplastic body is made by a method which comprises the following steps: inflating a hollow parison within a mold cavity for causing the parison to expand and conform to inner wall surfaces defining the mold cavity, whereby the blow-molded body is shaped; further inflating the blow-molded body within the mold cavity for causing a wall portion of the body to expand beyond the mold cavity into a port cavity communicating with the mold cavity thereby reducing the thickness of the wall portion; applying a counter pressure on an outer face of the wall portion for moving the wall portion back in the direction of the mold cavity against an inflating pressure prevailing within the blow-molded body, whereby connecting portions attaching the wall portion to the blow-molded body are reduced in thickness; and discontinuing the application of the counter pressure for allowing the wall portion to be driven anew away from the mold cavity into the port cavity by the inflating pressure.

Abstract: The invention relates to an earplug, produced with the use of a polysiloxane which is made foamable and cross-linkable by the use of expanding and cross-linking agents. The method for producing such an earplug comprises preshaping the polysiloxane together with the additives, then finally shaping the earplug in the foaming process and then tempering the finally shaped product.

Abstract: A method for forming a connecting sleeve having an internal groove at the end section of a tube made of crystalline or partially crystalline thermoplastic material in which the end section is heated to the deformation temperature and then is axially upset in a heatable device which defines an annular gap until the annular gap is filled. This increases the wall thickness of said end section, which is then shaped to form the connecting sleeve during axial displacement in a mold. The end section is heated to a processing temperature within the range of the deformation temperature and up to the crystalline melting temperature. In the initial step in the heatable device the application of the first axial upsetting force is such that the upsetting begins at the front end of the end section and continues until the annular gap in the heatable device is filled.

Abstract: A method of forming an electrically insulating material having good mechanical properties by mixing a polyvinyl chloride polymer with a natural cellulose material in an amount of from 25 to 30% by weight to form a substantially homogeneous mixture consisting essentially of the polyvinyl chloride and natural cellulose material.