Abstract: A sheet-processing machine includes a turning device. Sheets can be conveyed, by a sheet conveyor system, from a sheet guide cylinder in the turning device, and can be conveyed in a sheet conveyor direction on a sheet conveyor path. A sheet guide element is provided beneath or along the sheet conveyor path. A deionization device is assigned to the sheet guide element. The deionization device can provide positive and negative ions.

Abstract: A sheet-processing machine includes a turning device. Sheets can be conveyed, by a sheet conveyor system, from a sheet guide cylinder in the turning device, and can be conveyed in a sheet conveyor direction on a sheet conveyor path. A sheet guide element is provided beneath or along the sheet conveyor path. A deionization device is assigned to the sheet guide element. The deionization device can provide positive and negative ions.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an animal litter comprising a carrier material of calcium silicate, which is at least coated with sodium-containing bentonite, the animal litter comprising a complexing agent for complexing free calcium ions and/or a component forming poorly soluble salts with calcium ions, and to a process for preparing it.

Abstract: The present invention relates to indicator granular material, especially for a cat lavatory, in which at least one first granular material is substantially completely coated with a first polymer layer, which is solid at a first pH and is dissolved at a second pH; and also to a cat lavatory and the use of the indicator granular material in a cat lavatory.

Abstract: The present invention relates to indicator granular material, especially for a cat lavatory, in which at least one first granular material is substantially completely coated with a first polymer layer, which is solid at a first pH and is dissolved at a second pH; and also to a cat lavatory and the use of the indicator granular material in a cat lavatory.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an insert which can be placed in a lower part of a cat lavatory and is replaceable, wherein the blank of the insert is substantially rectangular, the corners of the insert being sloped.

Abstract: A cat lavatory consisting of a container (1) with a circumferential side wall which, in the state in which it is delivered to the consumer, contains at least one absorbent material (3), and which is closed on all sides and is designed in such a way that it is opened before use and is disposed of in its entirety after use, wherein it encompasses a separate upper part (10) forming a circumferential rim disposed in the region of the side wall of the container.

Abstract: A folding pack for absorbent material for use in a cat lavatory, and a cat lavatory equipped therewith, which forms a dimensionally stable container pack that can be unfolded for use and placed in a cat lavatory.

Abstract: A method of preparing calcium silicate hydrate granules by reacting crystalline and optionally amorphous silica or materials containing same with calcium oxide or materials containing same by homogenising them in water, moulding, autoclave curing, comminuting, drying and classifying, the homogenisation being performed by dispersing the solid starting materials in water while adding an anionic surfactant that has previously been converted in water into a microporous stable foam, wherein the homogenised mixture is filled, to a maximum depth of 60 cm, into moulds which are at least 5 square metres in area; a product obtainable by this method and its use as or in animal litter.

Abstract: A cat lavatory with a lower part and a container holding an absorbent material that can be inserted into the lower part, characterised in that the container comprises a lining layer of non-woven material.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for indicating the watering quantity suitable for a pot, particularly a flower pot, via the determination of the pot volume V from the pot height H and pot diameter D, as well as to a volume measuring tape or tape measure usable in this method.

Abstract: Support material from porous ceramic granulate, produced from a mixture of 45 to 80 parts by weight clay, 0 to 50 parts by weight calcite, quartz sand, dolomite, feldspar, chamotte and/or sepiolite, 15 to 30 parts by weight water, 0.01 to 0.03 parts by weight deflocculant, 0.001 to 0.01 parts by weight surfact and optionally agents counteracting the deflocculant and foamed under an overpressure of at least 0.3 bar prior to baking and filled or charged with at least one volatile substance.

Abstract: Animal litter, especially, consisting of or containing a proportion of particles comprising at least one moisture-absorbent organic material and at least one flaked mineral material, and process for producing a special embodiment of this animal litter.

Abstract: The furnace effects a partial heat-treatment of drills and similar tools having a clamping portion and a working portion and with respect to which it is important to subjecting only the working portion, to a heat treatment, particularly hardening. The physical properties of the clamping portion are, retained essentially in their original state during the heat treatment. The furnace is provided with a tool receiver that cooperates with hearth-bottom plates that are traversed by cooling fluid. The tool receiver assures that the drills or other similar tools are maintained in their clamping portion at substantially the same temperature level during the heat treatment while the working portion of the tools is freely exposed to the heating and quenching.