Abstract: A cassette, particularly a cassette for a wide recording tape, consisting essentially of a lid-closable housing of plastics material, snap latch means being provided which interact between the long side of the lid and the wall of the housing opposite the lid hinge, which means consist, according to the invention, of cams on the lid and grooves in the wall of the housing, which cams and grooves engage each other to produce, when the cassette is opened, an initial closing force by deformation of the adjacent wall of the housing, in order to make opening of the cassette more difficult.

Abstract: The new product 3-oximino-4-oxo-2,5-dimethyl-tetrahydrofuran is manufactured by oximation of the new product 3-carboxy-4-oxo-2,5-dimethyl-tetrahydrofuran with aqueous nitrous acid, nitrite esters or nitrosyl chloride. Because of its fine caramel-like fragrance it may be used for the manufacture of scents and flavor materials. In addition it presents an advantageous method of synthesis of the sought-after flavor material 4-oxo-3-hydroxy-2,5-dimethyl-4,5-dihydrofuran (furaneol).

Abstract: The manufacture of pure isomeric 1,4-dibromo-epoxy-cyclohexenes and their derivatives, which are starting compounds for units used to synthesize neutral compounds, e.g. cyclitols or aminocyclitols.

Abstract: New and valuable furan derivatives containing a fluorodichloromethylthio radical, fungicides containing these compounds as active ingredients, and processes for combatting fungi with these compounds.

Abstract: A process for the manufacture of o-benzyltoluenes by reaction of o-xylyl halides with benzenes in the presence of sulfuric acid or in the presence of phosphoric acid and adjuvants or in the presence of sulfuric acid and adjuvants. The products are starting materials for the manufacture of anthracene and anthraquinone and their derivatives.

Abstract: Amidosulfonic acids are manufactured by reacting ureas first with sulfur trioxide and then with sulfuric acid in the presence of organic solvents. The products are sweeteners, in particular cyclohexylamidosulfonic acid and its calcium, sodium and potassium salts, and starting materials for the manufacture of sweeteners, dyes and pesticides.

Abstract: Compounds of the formula ##STR1## in which K is the radical of a coupling component;X is hydrogen, chloro, bromo, methyl or nitro; andY is hydrogen, chloro, bromo or methyl.The compounds are eminently suitable as pigments for coloring printing inks, surface coatings and resins with exceptional fastness properties.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for rapidly letting-down the pressure in continuous high pressure polymerization systems for the polymerization of ethylene. In this process, the let-down hot reaction mixture is passed into an expansion vessel in such a way that the jet of let-down hot reaction mixture issuing from the let-down line is led into the partially water-filled expansion vessel at an angle of from 0.degree. to 45.degree. to the water surface, so that the jet does not enter below the surface but must touch or strike it. The method described makes it possible to let the mixture down partially and thus to slow down the decomposition in the case of explosive decomposition reactions occurring in the polymerization system.

Abstract: A high-speed twisting machine for stranding wires or the like wherein there are a plurality of rotor units or assemblies, one on each side of a cradled take-off spool, each rotor unit consisting essentially of a rotatably driven hollow bearing tube with inlet and outlet openings for the transported wires in combination with open-ended concave guide pots attached at their base to the opposing faces or ends of the bearing tubes on either side of a cradled take-off spool, the outer peripheral guide surface of each pot being symmetrical around the machine axis to define a curved surface corresponding closely to the path of the transported wires taken off during normal twisting operation. The wire openings or bores near the end of the bearing tube must be located outside the curved guide surface of the guide pot connected to the same tube end to provide easy access and visibility.

Abstract: A process for the manufacture of reaction products of fatty alcohols and epichlorohydrin, which have been reacted with polyhydric alcohols or their monoethers and may or may not have been further modified with alkylene oxides, the reaction products per se and emulsifiers, solubilizing agents and fat-like materials consisting of these products.

Abstract: A new pigmentary form of perylene-3,4,9,10-tetracarboxylic acid diimide of the formula ##STR1## which has a specific surface area (measured by the BET method) of from 10 to 35 m.sup.2 /g and a maximum in the particle size distribution at from 0.1 to 0.5 .mu.m, the proportion of particles between these sizes being at least 50% of the total distribution and the mean ratio of length to width being from 3:1 to 1:1. The pure shade of the new pigmentary form gives strongly yellowish red colorations which are very pure and very bright. The new pigmentary form also has a good hiding power, which is from 2 to 3 times as great as that of the pigmentary forms of the prior art.

Abstract: Process for the production of benzothiazoles from N-arylsubstituted thioureas by oxidative ring closure characterized by the use of chlorine as oxidizing agent and by the presence of catalytic amounts of bromine. Yield and quality of the benzothiazoles obtained are very good.

Abstract: A process for the manufacture of homopolymers and copolymers of .alpha.-monoolefins of 2 to 6 carbon atoms by polymerizing the monomer or monomers by means of a Ziegler catalyst system comprising (1) a catalyst component containing titanium and (2) a particular compound of aluminum, magnesium or zinc, the atomic ratio of titanium from catalyst component (1) to metal (Me) from catalyst component (2) being from 1 : 0.1 to 1 : 500, wherein the titanium-containing catalyst component (1) employed is the solid-phase product (VI) obtained by (1.1) first bringing into contact (1.1.1) a particular finely divided, porous, inorganic oxidic material (I) and (1.1.2) a particular aluminum compound (II) dissolved in an organic solvent, to form a solid-phase product (III) and (1.2) then bringing into contact (1.2.1) the solid-phase product (III) obtained from stage (1.1) and (1.2.2) a solution (IV) which is obtained on bringing together (IVa) 100 parts by weight of a particular alcohol, (IVb) from 0.

Abstract: Foundry sand particles are regenerated by contact with a liquid containing ither a peroxide oxidant or an oxidizing salt to remove resinous binder material accumulated around each of the particles.

Abstract: Disperse azo dyes having a diaminopyrimidine as coupling component. The dyes give brilliant colorations on textile material of synthetic fibers which have excellent fastness properties, including fastness to light and fastness to dry-heat pleating and setting. These disperse azo dyes are identified by the formula: ##STR1## in which D is the radical of a heterocyclic diazo component or a substituted diazo component of the aniline series, one X is NH.sub.2 and the other X is unsubstituted or substituted cycloalkyl, aralkyl or aryl or substituted alkyl.

Abstract: Machinery for the industrial mass production of rigid pronged members or of continuous strips of a series of pronged members linked together by linking bridges, and embodying two dies in facing assembly, the first die having a longitudinal groove composed of the following successive segments: an inlet section for guiding a strip of metal, a cutting section with an opening for scrap removal, a die stamping section, and finally an outlet section for guiding the formed pronged members, and the second die, facing the die stamping section, having means for forming the heads of the pronged members and for bending down the prongs, and also having a suitable cutting counter face opposite the cutting die.

Abstract: Substituted phenylpropanals and a process for their manufacture by reaction of the corresponding phenylethenes with carbon monoxide and hydrogen at temperatures of from 50.degree. to 180.degree. C and pressures of from 20 to 1,500 atmospheres gauge, in the presence of rhodium carbonyl complexes. The phenylpropanals according to the invention have pleasant scents. 3-(4-Isopropyl-phenyl)-butanal-1 and 3-(4-tert.-butyl-phenyl)-butanal-1, in particular, have suitable scents for the preparation of flower oil. They are also valuable starting materials for synthesizing drugs, plant protection agents and dyes.

Abstract: A multistage stretching process for producing low shrinkage film bands of a thermoplastic polymer, especially polypropylene, wherein the stretching temperature is increased from one stage to the next under prescribed conditions for each stage and the stretched bands are then heat stabilized with shrinkage in a relaxed condition at a temperature of about 20.degree. C. to 30.degree. C. below the crystalline melting point of the polymer. The resulting film bands are especially useful in carpet backings.

Abstract: N-Alkylglycinonitriles are manufactured by reacting N-alkylamines with formaldehyde and hydrocyanic acid under specific reaction conditions in respect of temperature, reaction time and hydrocyanic acid concentration. The products are starting materials for the manufacture of dyes, fungicides, bactericides, textile assistants and assistants used in dental cosmetics, gas purification and waterproofing.

Abstract: The isolation and regeneration of catalysts of type I or IIclRh(CO)(PR.sub.3).sub.2 Ihrh(CO)(PR.sub.3).sub.3 II,where the R's are identical or different hydrocarbon radicals, to give the catalysts in a pure form, is effected by regenerating aqueous rhodium salt solutions, as obtained on treating distillation residues of hydroformylation mixtures with oxygen-containing mineral acids and peroxides, by a method wherein the said aqueous rhodium salt solutions are treated with a cation exchanger, the latter is then separated from the solution, the absorbed rhodium ions are desorbed with hydrochloric acid, the hexachlororhodate solutions, containing hydrochloric acid, are reacted, in the presence of a water-soluble organic solvent and a tertiary phosphine PR.sub.3, with carbon monoxide, or with compounds which eliminate carbon monoxide, at from 0.degree. to 150.degree.