Abstract: An enclosure for a circuit breaker includes a housing sized to support at least one circuit breaker and to permit electrical connections to be made to the circuit breaker. A housing cover or lid is movable between an open position in which the circuit breaker is accessible and a closed position in which access to the electrical connections of the circuit breaker is prevented. An actuating bar is mounted slidably to the lid, and includes a switch-engaging formation for engaging the operating lever of the circuit breaker. The actuating bar includes a switch-engaging formation for engaging the operating lever of the circuit breaker and is operable to move the operating lever between the first, active position and a second, inactive position. An interlocking formation in the form of a waisted portion defined in the bar is adapted to prevent opening of the cover when the switch operating lever is in the first position and to allow opening of the cover when the operating lever is in the second position.

Abstract: A film charging apparatus for a photographic printer is disclosed. The apparatus includes a film mount for supporting a film or a holder of the film from the under, a fixing cover manually openable and closable relative to the film mount and operable, in a full-closed state thereof, to fix the film or the holder supported on the film mount by pressing the film or holder from the above, and a positioning mechanism switchable between a position-fixing state for restricting a movable range of the film relative to the film mount thereby to fixedly position the film relative to the mount and a position-releasing state for releasing the restriction. The positioning mechanism is set at the position-fixing state when the fixing cover is under a predetermined opened condition. The mechanism is switched over to the position-releasing state when the fixing cover has reached an intermediate state before a full closed state in the course of movement thereof to the full closed state.

Abstract: Compacted ITO material is ground to a powder with particles in the size range of less than 500 .mu.m, whereupon the powder thus obtained is molded into new target blanks, either alone or in a mixture with unused ITO powder, under the simultaneous action of pressure and temperature. The temperature is kept sufficiently low so that recrystallization does not take place and the original grain size is preserved.

Abstract: An electrode plate of planar structure contains lamellar electrode elements, with adjacent electrode elements being separated from one another by a gap. For a better escape of the gas from the electrode/membrane area, the lamellar electrode elements are provided with an expanded-metal structure, the openings of which serve to improve the passage of gas. The electrode elements are provided with angled upper edge strips in order to facilitate the escape of gas in the vertical direction. The electrode configuration is particularly suitable as an anodically connected electrode in direct contact with an ion exchanger membrane, but can also be used as a cathode at a distance from the membrane.

Abstract: Modular vacuum system includes functional units arranged in tandem to form two parallel transport paths which connect at one end of the system. Each unit includes a housing milled from a single block of metal having external walls, an internal wall, and side-by-side openings which align with side-by-side openings in an adjacent unit.

Abstract: Brush contact for a vehicle, in particular a vehicle that runs on rails and that has a propulsion unit that is to be supplied with an electric current, with a sliding element for the transferral of the electric current from a live conductor, which is carrying an electric current, into the vehicle, whereby the sliding element contains carbon in at least one part of its contact surface that is turned toward the live conductor, whereby the brush contact is characterized by the feature that the contact surface that is turned toward the live conductor has at least one current-transferral region of a layer that comprises a composite material based on carbon-fiber-reinforced carbon.

Abstract: The invention relates to antibodies which specifically bind to tyrosine kinase active proteins. The proteins have more than one protein kinase domain, and no SH2 domains. Exemplary proteins are the Janus Kinases, or "JAK1" and "JAK2". Both polyclonal and monoclonal antibodies are a part of the invention, as are hybridomas which produce the monoclonal antibodies.

Abstract: Oligonucleotides having the general formula, ##STR1## in which B denotes an arbitrary nucleobase,A equals 0 or CH.sub.2 ;X or Z equals O, S, NH or denotes CH.sub.2 whereby X and Z can be the same or different,V and W denote O, S, Se, NH.sub.2 or an alkyloxy residue, or OH or SH whereby V and W can be the same or different in a monomer unit andL is a H atom or a partner of a binding pair andC equals --O--R and R is an alkyl group with at least 1 C atom which may be modified if desired, or it denotes an alkenyl or alkynyl group with at least 2 C atoms which may be modified if desired, whereby the modification consists of a substitution by one or several halogen, cyano, carboxy, hydroxy, nitro or/and mercapto residues, andn is an arbitrary whole number, are stable antisense probes which bind specifically. Such oligonucleotides and polynucleotides may be used for the regulation of gene expression and as pharmaceutical agents.

Abstract: A wrapping device having a laminate film is disclosed. The laminate film includes at least a pair of outer layer and inner layer comprising synthetic resin layers non-heat-fusible relative to each other, a bonded portion through which the outer layer and the inner layer are bonded to each other by bonding means and a non-bonded portion where the outer layer and the inner layer are separated from each other. A communicating passage is formed at the non-bonded portion by the inner and outer layers. A communicating construction is provided to the inner layer at the non-bonded portion, the construction allowing communication between space facing the inner layer and the communicating passage.

Abstract: A filter material from active carbon compacts is prepared by the following steps:(a) mixing active carbon powder with polyvinyl alcohol powder in the ratio of 9:1 to 3:1,(b) mixing the powder from step (a) with distilled water or a mixture of distilled water and ethyl alcohol,(c) shaping tablets and similar articles in a mold under pressure, and(d) successively heating the tablets at1) 40.degree. to 80.degree. C. for 3 to 6 hours,2) 80.degree. to 120.degree. C. for 10 to 14 hours.A filter material according to the invention for the selective separation of organic material from an organic phase consists of active carbon compacts thus prepared and is used for the selective separation of organic and inorganic phases.

Abstract: A dust-removing apparatus for removing dust from a dusty surface of a material. The apparatus includes a dust-removing member for picking up dust from a dusty surface in association with continuous and alternate movement of various portions of a dust-removing face thereof to a removing position and also a take-off member for taking the dust off the dust-removing face of the dust-removing member through contact thereof with each of the various portions of the dust-removing face when the portion comes to a non-removing position.

Abstract: Apparatus for coating substrates 31, 31", . . . in a vacuum chamber 2 including a substrate carrier 30 disposed therein and a device 29 for generating a first plasma cloud 28 and, further, including magnets 26, 27 directing the plasma cloud 28 onto the surface of the substrates 31, 31" . . . wherein this device for generating the plasma cloud 28 has an election emitter 11 and a downstream tubular anode 38, the anode has an inlet 10 for the process gas to ignite the plasma and, further, the device is provided with magnets 4, 7 for directing and guiding the plasma through the anode tube 38 into the process chamber 43 and including a device for generating atoms, molecules or clusters of the materials for producing a layer on the substrates 31, 31", . . . , preferably an electron beam evaporator 37 from which the evaporated or sputtered material 33 can be directly applied onto the substrates 31, 31" . . . .

Abstract: The invention concerns a process for the production of recombinant proteins in streptomycetes in which the expression is carried out in Streptomyces galbus DSM 40480, preferably under the control of the ermE-up promoter or an inducible promoter.

Abstract: A quartz glass component having a projection on a flat face is manufactured by molding a quartz glass body at a high temperature and under high pressure. The heating temperature is set to a range of from 1800.degree. to 2000.degree. C. and slight pressure is applied by the female die which forms the projection, or pressure in a direction against gravity. The molding die includes a graphite frame surrounding a molding space formed by a female die and a receiving die sandwiching the quartz glass body in the graphite frame. The space between the receiving die and the female die is width-reducible, the compositions of the graphite frame and the two graphite dies are made to differ, the female die and receiving die contacting the quartz glass body during pressure molding have a plurality of gas-permeable micropores such as in sintered graphite for example and are formed by a high-purity graphite material having air permeability.

Abstract: The invention concerns new indophenyl-substituted maltose derivatives, their use for the determination of the enzymatic activity of .alpha.-amylase and reagents for the determination of .alpha.-amylase which contain the new indophenyl-substituted maltose derivatives as the enzyme substrate.

Abstract: In a moisture sensor (1), the effective sensor field (4) is formed by two sensor elements (8a, 8b,) having interdigitating parallel tracks. These sensor elements consist of layers of a metal nitride compound, especially a chromium-nitrogen compound, deposited by means of magnetron cathode sputtering or glow discharge onto a dielectric substrate (2), the metal nitride layers being deposited onto the substrate surface which has first been cleaned by ion sputtering. These sensor element layers (8a, 8b) have a high hardness of about 2,000 on the Vickers scale, as a result of which the sensor elements (8a, 8b) are highly resistant to abrasive wear such as that caused by windshield wipers or scratching from ice. The moisture sensor can be produced with a low electrical surface resistivity of <100 ohms.quadrature. and is chemically stable with respect to environmental effects such as salt water and/or windshield cleaning fluids.

Abstract: An area of an insulating strip (3) which is to remain free of metal is covered by an endless cover strip (4), which rests on the insulating strip (3) and travels along with it at the same speed. Before it enters a vapor deposition zone (5), the cover strip is provided with a film of oil on the side facing the metal evaporator (6) and, after the cover strip (4) has passed through the vapor deposition zone (5) and after the cover strip (4) and the insulating strip (3) have been separated from each other, the oil which has been deposited from the vapor phase onto the cover strip (4) is removed by heating the cover strip (4) with a heater (7) installed in the immediate vicinity of the cover strip (4).

Abstract: A robot welding device with a servo-valve controlled drive for the electrodes and an electrical control for the servo-valves with at least one transducer for actual data on the welding process and an interface for the measurements to a computer unit. By way of a holder program running on the computer, it is possible to freely select the set data assigned to the individual work phases. The comparison between the set values of the holder program and the actual data measurement sensors makes it possible, in conjunction with the interface for the servo valves, to complete the preselected work phases with precision.

Abstract: A reactor vessel includes a quartz glass body having sidewalls and a ceiling formed as a single unit without welds. Translucent or opaque portions are formed by bubbles in the glass where heat insulation is desired and transparent portions are formed by absence of bubbles where heat transmission and visibility are desired. The body is formed by adding quartz glass powder to a mold which is rotated about a central axis so that centrifugal force causes a layer of powder to form on the inside of the mold. The layer is then heated until it melts.

Abstract: A rotary clutch (1) for the drive of cleaning spirals (6) for the cleaning of pipelines has a set of clutch jaws (2), which can move radially with respect to the axis (A--A) of the clutch, each of these jaws having an inner friction surface for carrying along the cleaning spiral (6) and at least one first outer control surface (8), extending at an angle to the clutch axis (A--A). A drivable control sleeve (4 or 5) with at least one second inner control surface (9) can execute relative motion toward this control surface (8), the inner control surface having an inclination comparable to that of the outer control surfaces (8) of the clutch jaw (2). To reduce the actuating forces and to increase the drive torque, the clutch jaws (2) and the control sleeve (4 or 5), at least one of which is provided, are provided with positively engaging carrier elements (10, 11).