Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for improving the plant growth regulation of and/or enhancing crop plants, by applying to the plants a mixture of a plant growth regulator, and seaweed extract, and to a composition comprising the same.

Abstract: An apparatus for transporting and for transferring shaped bodies such as, for example, substantially non-rigid shaped bodies, for example of cookie dough, onto a transport surface. The apparatus for transporting the shaped bodies includes a revolving driven conveyor belt which is guided around at least one deflecting roller, a guide roller and in the region of the transport surface around a transfer body mounted laterally on a machine frame. An adjusting device is provided for variation and adaptation of the bending line of the transfer body.

Abstract: A method for increasing the resistance of a potato plant to cold stress and/or improving plant growth which method comprises treating the potato tuber from which the plant is to grow with at least one strobilurin at surprisingly very low rates.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus are provided for transporting shaped bodies such as, for example, substantially non-rigid, biscuit dough shaped bodies, from a receiving region into a transfer region, and for transferring the shaped bodies onto a transport surface such as, for example, a heated baking belt of a baking machine. The apparatus for transporting the shaped bodies includes a revolving driven conveyor belt which is guided over at least one deflecting roller, over a drive roller and around a transfer body in the region of the transport surface. The conveyor belt is laterally displaceable by a positioning apparatus at least over a section of its longitudinal extension.

Abstract: A hollow body is made from a flat baked wafer cake by first juxtaposing the wafer cake with a cavity of a deep-drawing mold and then forming edge regions of the cake with a plurality of deformations out of a plane of the cake at a uniformly spacing around a periphery of the cake. Then the cake is pushed by a deep-drawing punch into the cavity to it into a hollow body and to form each of the deformations into a multilayer fold.

Abstract: A shaft coupling and roller arrangements with a shaft coupling for the coupling a shaft journal having a polygonal cross-section to a drive or a bearing axle. The shaft coupling has a rotatably drivable coupling body, which has a coupling opening for receiving the shaft journal. The coupling body has a as multipart configuration and is openable along a dividing line, which intersects the coupling opening. A clamping apparatus is provided for non-positive holding of the shaft journal in the coupling opening. The coupling opening is formed at least in part by clamping jaws, which in the closed position are pressed onto the shaft journal, preferably areally flush against the shaft journal, via the clamping apparatus.

Abstract: A nozzle configuration for the metered, shaping dispensing of mass bodies from pumpable, viscous or doughy masses includes a mass supply line for supplying the mass through a mass outlet opening into a separating region located outside the mass supply line. A gas nozzle configuration is provided for delivering one or more gas jets directed onto the mass located in the separating region and for the shaping separation of the mass body. An apparatus having at least one nozzle configuration and a method for the metered, shaping dispensing of mass bodies are also provided.

Abstract: A baking device for producing baked goods, in particular for producing filled baked goods, includes baking presses that can be swung open and closed, can be moved from a feeding device through the baking chamber of the oven and to a goods removal device on a continuously moving continuous conveyor that circulates in the longitudinal direction of the oven. The baking presses have a lower baking mold and an upper baking mold, each movable between open and closed positions about a baking-press axis. The baking presses are connected to the continuous conveyor by releasable mechanical connections. The baking device also has a baking-press removal station at at least one point of the continuous conveyor, at which baking-press removal station baking presses can be removed and reattached. The removal and redelivery of the baking presses are performed on the continuously moving continuous conveyor.

Abstract: An apparatus for producing pillow-shaped hollow bodies which are formed by the division of hot wafer tubes that are plastically deformable in the warm-baked state. In the frame of the device there is provided at least one crimping device which revolves along a circular orbit which is configured as a mechanically actuatable tongs and separates the wafer tubes into pillow-shaped hollow bodies. A horizontally disposed rotatable mounting is provided in the frame of the device which contains the crimping device configured as tongs and moves this along the circular orbit from an upper receiving position provided for receiving the wafer tubes to a lower dispensing position provided for dispensing the pillow-shaped hollow bodies.

Abstract: A baking plate for wafer or waffle baking machines has at least one wafer or waffle baking surface formed in steel or cast iron by engraving and an optionally executed final processing. The at least one wafer or waffle baking surface is hardened by nitriding or nitrocarburizing, optionally with subsequent oxidizing. A baking apparatus and a method for manufacturing baking plates are also provided.

Abstract: Apparatus, arrangement, baking system and method for forming elongate strip-shaped bodies of a pumpable mass which is sensitive to shear forces for forming baked products. A pump apparatus conveys the mass into a pump outlet region. A dividing section is located downstream of the pump outlet region in the flow direction. A plurality of dividing openings delimited by dividing elements are provided in the dividing section. A plurality of separate dividing channels lead from the dividing openings as far as the mass outlet openings. A moving transport surface transports the strip-shaped bodies emerging from the mass outlet openings. The dividing channels comprise a continuously running-together reducing region and the mass outlet openings are spaced apart from one another in the transverse direction of the transport surface.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to methods of increasing the environmental stress tolerance of a plant, to methods of improving the quality and/or yield of a plant crop, to methods of application of agrochemicals having a physiological effect on a plant in the plant irrigation water, and to crops produced using said methods.

Abstract: A mixing apparatus has a mixing container disposed in the upper part of the mixing apparatus, preferably standing on a frame, which is open towards the top. The mixing container includes a single-shaft agitator disposed in the lower part of the mixing apparatus. The agitator has a vertically disposed agitator shaft to which is fastened an agitating tool configured as a rotor body which is disposed in the mixing container just above the container base. The single-shaft agitator is a statorless agitator and the rotor body fastened to the agitator shaft is surrounded by an external free space between the rotor body and the container wall of the mixing container. The agitator shaft is adjustable in its spacing distance from the cylinder axis.

Abstract: Mixtures comprising cis-jasmone and an agrochemical active ingredient are useful in agriculture.

Abstract: A method for the continuous production of roll wafers having a short texture, includes applying a shortenable baking mass to a moving heated baking surface to form an endless baked strip, baking the baked strip substantially dry during the movement, then at least partially removing the baked strip in a hot plastic state from the baking surface and feeding the baked strip to a rolling apparatus, winding the baked strip around a rolling mandrel in the rolling apparatus and forming the baked strip into an endless hollow tube, and filling, coating, spray-coating and/or bringing the baked strip and/or the hollow tube into contact at the same time, before or afterwards with a shortening agent for shortening.

Abstract: A system for producing end product by cutting flat blocks, in particular flat and hollow wafer blocks. The system includes a main cutting station in which a contour cutting apparatus, which cuts the blocks through contour cuts transversely to a rectilinear transport path, is provided and which extends in longitudinal direction of the system. A main conveying device disposed along the transport path conveys the blocks through the contour cutting apparatus. At least one contour cutting module of the cutting apparatus is provided with at least one cutting tool that can be moved to and fro in the transverse direction of the system to produce a contour cut in the blocks passing the contour cutting apparatus in the longitudinal direction of the system.

Abstract: A laser arrangement for cleaning one or more baking surfaces of a baking machine has a laser head and an interface for connection to the baking machine. The laser arrangement is coupled to the baking machine mechanically and/or by control technology. A baking machine with such a laser arrangement is described, as well as a method for cleaning baking surfaces wherein a laser head is disposed in the region of the baking surface of a baking machine. A laser beam is guided onto the baking surface for cleaning the baking surface and the treatment region of the laser arrangement is moved over the baking surface by relative movement between the laser head and the baking surface.

Abstract: A composition suitable for control of diseases caused by phytopathogens comprising a mixture of a compound of formula (I), with two compounds selected from compounds known for their fungicidal activity; and a method of controlling diseases on useful plants.

Abstract: An apparatus for forming a flat-rolled continuously conveyed dough sheet has an upper roller and a lower roller. The upper roller is driven rotationally about a first axis of rotation and the lower roller is driven rotationally about a second axis of rotation. The direction of rotation of the upper roller is opposite to the direction of rotation of the lower roller. A roll nip is formed between the upper roller and the lower roller for guiding therethrough and rolling out the dough sheet. The rollers have a configuration which favors resting of the dough sheet on the lower roller and the axes of rotation of the two rollers can be inclined relative to one another.

Abstract: The invention relates to a system for the production of sandwich cookies, having a suction belt conveyor (2) disposed along a sandwiching path, the sandwich cookies being created on the suction belt (11) of said sandwiching path. Successively disposed over the suction band conveyor (2) are: a cookie depositing head (17) for depositing the lower cookies onto the suction belt (11), a first cookie feeding device (3), a first inspection device (4) for the lower cookies positioned on the suction belt (11), an application head (23) of an application device (5) for applying a filling mass onto the lower cookies, a cookie depositing head (31) of a second cookie feeding device (6) for depositing the upper cookies onto the filling mass applications of the lower cookies, a second inspection device (7) for the cookie sandwiches disposed on the suction belt (11), and a calibrating device (9); for the sandwich cookies.