Abstract: Sodium paraformylphenolate crystallized with two molecules of water is manufactured by:(a) condensing glyoxylic acid with an excess of phenol in water in the presence of sodium hydroxide at a temperature comprised between 30.degree. C. and 100.degree. C.;(b) neutralizing the solution thus obtained and then freeing it from the unconverted phenol by steam distillation or extraction with a water-immiscible organic solvent and then subjecting it hot under a pressure of oxygen, to a catalytic decarboxylating oxidizing degradation in the presence of sodium hydroxide;(c) allowing the aqueous solution so-obtained, after removal of the catalyst by filtration, and then concentration hot under vacuum to 60% plus or minus 10% of its initial volume, to crystallize; and(d) draining the precipitated crystals, washing them and then drying them to constant weight under vacuum of 1 mm of mercury at 20.degree. C.

Abstract: An ignition system of the capacitor discharge type and capable of preventing overrunning of an internal combustion engine includes a control circuit to render a switching transistor connected to a gate-cathode circuit of a main thyristor conductive for a predetermined period of time to interrupt a backward or reverse phase voltage generated by a magneto and serving as an ignition signal for the main thyristor from being applied thereto. The control circuit includes an integrator circuit connected in parallel with a constant voltage source to develop a voltage increasing with time and includes a voltage divider of the constant voltage source to provide a reference voltage. A transistor circuit of the control circuit compares the output voltage of the integrator circuit and the output voltage of the voltage divider and the transistor circuit maintains a control signal to be applied to the transistor circuit until the output of the integrator circuit reaches the reference voltage of the divider.

Abstract: An electrohydraulic rotary brake comprises an inner core, at least one energizing winding, a cylindrical amagnetic insert and an annular part outside the core and the insert. A cylindrical bore is excentric with respect to the cylindrical peripheral surface of the insert, recesses being provided with magnetizable sliding vanes and a brake fluid. On a rotary shaft, are mounted lateral flanges in fluid-tight manner, the inner core being fast to the rotary shaft and to the insert, all three being arranged so as to constitute a rotor for the brake. The annular part outside the core and the insert constitutes an annular stator to which the lateral flanges are fixed and with the bore excentric with respect to the peripheral surface of the insert constituting the outer part of the rotor.