Abstract: This invention relates to an apparatus for breaking-up, without contact, concrements present in the body of a living being, which comprises waveguide means filled with a liquid medium and adapted to be placed against said body, and means for generating shock waves within said waveguide means.

Abstract: This invention relates to an improvement in a rotary piston machine comprising a jacket and two side parts forming a housing, inlet and outlet means on said housing, a piston patterned after a saddle-free epitrochoid 1:1 mounted in said housing for rotation on an eccentric shaft, annularly-closed axial seals on the sides of the piston in proximity to the piston edge, and a pair of oppositely-positioned radial seals in said housing, the improvement comprising that the axial seal on each side of the piston is composed of two seal means equidistant with respect to each other and being closed within themselves, and lubricant opening means in said side parts in proximity to at least one of said radial seals, said openings being located essentially in the interstice between said two seal means in any position of the piston, or being covered temporarily at least in part by one of said two seal means.

Abstract: This invention relates to an improvement in a rotary piston machine of trochoidal construction for compressing a gaseous medium having working chambers between a trochoidal piston and a housing corresponding to the coordinated outer envelope curve, said working chambers being separated from each other by radial seals in the housing, and outlet openings closed-off by means preventing backflow for discharging medium from the working chambers, the improvement comprising trough-shaped recess means in the peripheral piston surface which, in the dead center position of the piston, are positioned immediately ahead of a radial seal.

Abstract: This invention relates to a process for the preparation of a cellulose hydrate moulding which comprises (a) treating a cellulose hydrate moulding while in the gel state, for a period within the range of from 10 seconds to 20 minutes, with an aqueous liquid having dissolved therein at least one plasticizer, a chemical cross-linking agent comprising at least one cyclic urea compound having at least 2 N-methylol groups, and at least one cross-linking catalyst, (b) drying the moulding to a residual water content of from 8 to 12% by weight, and (c) heating the moulding at a temperature within the range of from 100.degree. to 150.degree.C for a period of from 30 seconds to 20 minutes. The invention also relates to a cellulose hydrate moulding prepared by the novel process.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for automatically spraying a liquid on the surface of a moving object, particularly developer, rinse and gumming liquids on an exposed, photosensitive printing plate, in which the liquid is continuously supplied to a distribution line at a predetermined pressure, and simultaneously with the supply of liquid, the object is transported past a spray means connected to the distribution line, an impinging spray of the liquid is alternately applied to the object for a first predetermined period and the application is interrupted for a second predetermined period and the cycle is repeated a plurality of times during the passage of the object past the spray means, as by a solenoid valve mounted in the distribution line and a timer connected to the solenoid valve to open and close the same.

Abstract: This invention relates to an improvement in a casing for a rotary piston engine of trochoidal construction with an outer envelope curve, in which radial sealing strips are mounted in the casing between the individual working chambers, the improvement comprising that the working chamber delimitation between the radial sealing strips constituting the casing is formed by a circular arc approaching the extent of the exact envelope curve, whose center is positioned on the axis of symmetry of the respective working chamber.

Abstract: This invention relates to a smokeless fluxing agent for hot-tinning, hot-galvanizing, and hot-leading iron articles comprising a mixture of zinc chloride, potassium chloride, sodium chloride and lithium chloride, and containing no ammonium chloride.

Abstract: This invention relates to an improvement in the process for the production of water-adsorbing, but largely water-insoluble, cellulose ethers, in which cellulose is alkalized in the presence of alkali hydroxide and isopropanol as a reaction medium and is so reacted with an etherification agent that by etherification only a water-soluble cellulose ether is produced, and in which process the cellulose is reacted with a cross-linking agent which is polyfunctional towards cellulose in an alkaline reaction medium before, during, or after the etherification of the cellulose, the improvement comprising effecting the etherification of cellulose to carboxymethyl cellulose, carboxymethyl hydroxyethyl cellulose, hydroxyethyl cellulose, or methylhydroxyethyl cellulose, reacting the cellulose with the polyfunctional cross-linking agent in the presence of 0.8 to 7.

Abstract: A process for making carrier sheets of paper, treated with aqueous solutions of heat-hardenable, aminoplast condensation resins, such as, the reaction products of melamine, urea, thiourea, and like aminoplast constituents with formaldheyde, in which the treated sheet is stretched, as by passing it over broad-drawing rollers while it is in a warm-deformable condition (at a temperature between about 80.degree. to 130.degree.C), transversely with respect to the grain of the paper and, if desired, longitudinally with respect to the grain of the paper, and the treated stretched sheet is then cooled to a temperature of about 30.degree.C by blowing with air or passing the same over cooling rollers.

Abstract: The invention relates to a photopolymerizable copying composition comprising at least one polymerizable compound, at least one photo-initiator, and at least one copolymer of (A) an unsaturated carboxylic acid, (B) an alkyl methacrylate with at least 4 carbon atoms in the alkyl group, and (C) at least one additional monomer which is capable of copolymerization with monomers (A) and (B), the homopolymer of said additional monomer having a glass transition temperature of at least 80.degree.C.