Abstract: Known large vibrating conveyors are not readily suitable as such for conveying bulk materials or small articles into or out of a liquid bath, because the liquid transmits the vibrations to other structural parts, for example a vessel for the liquid, as a result of the incompressibility of the liquid. In order to remedy this, the vibrating conveyor device according to the invention has a compressible space or chamber underneath the vibrating part which damps the vibrations, when suitably coordinated with the liquid bath. The space is preferably gas-filled and its damping properties can be varied by feeding additional gas through a line which can be shut off by a member, or by bleeding some of the filling through a further line which can likewise be shut off by a member.

Abstract: The conveying trough of the vibrator conveyor is disposed spirally around a central pipe and is surrounded by a gasproof vessel. This vessel contains a treatment medium, preferably an electrolyte free of oxygen and water, into which the vibrator conveyor with thee central pipe dips partially. According to the invention, a gas cushion (10) is provided between the bottom (3) or the cover (4) of the central pipe (2) and the bottom (8) of the vessel (6). In this form of realization bulk material can be transported over great differences in height.

Abstract: The gradient coil system for a nuclear spin tomography installation encloses a hollow cylindrical support body, the cylinder axis of which extends in the z direction of an orthogonal x-y-z coordinate system with the coordinate origin in the imaging center, in which direction also the magnetic field B.sub.z of a base generating a field gradient G.sub.z, at field magnet is oriented. The gradient coil system contains for least two ring-shaped individual coils which are arranged symmetrically to the x-y plane extending through the imaging center, and furthermore, pairs of saddle-shaped individual coils arranged symmetrically to this plane, for generating field gradients G.sub.x and G.sub.y. In this gradient coil system, the sound level caused in the hollow cylindrical support body is reduced by rigidly connecting the prefabricated G.sub.x and G.sub.