Abstract: The invention relates to a gas cooled high temperature reactor located in the cavity of a pressure vessel, with spherical fuel elements, and removal apparatus for fuel elements. The latter is made of at least one ceramic pebble outlet tube extending through the graphite structural parts of the nuclear reactor (bottom reflector, bottom layers) and a number of metal pebble outlet tubes installed through the bottom of the pressure vessel. They are arranged coaxially in the liner of the passage through the vessel. To be able to dismantle the metal pebble outlet tubes, they are constructed of several releasably interconnected tube segments. Between the uppermost tube segment and the corresponding ceramic pebble outlet tube a compensating tube is provided and connected with the tube segment by means of a sliding joint. The other end of the compensating tube is fastened to the thermal bottom shield.

Abstract: A gas cooled high temperature reactor with spherical fuel elements surrounded by a reflector utilizes at least one ceramic tube and at least one metal tube for removal of pebbles from the core of the reactor. Each cermaic tube is surrounded directly by a ring of graphite columns wherein a plurality of recesses house a number of rod-shaped boron bodies. Additional plate-shaped boron bodies may advantageously be located in the bottom layes of the reflector.

Abstract: A mixing and kneading apparatus with a kneading shaft bearingly supported in a cylindrical housing, a plurality of disk elements mounted perpendicularly and axially spaced apart on the kneading shaft. The disk elements carry scraper edges arranged essentially transversely to the plane of the disk elements and facing the housing wall at a slight distance. The housing wall, the kneading shaft, and the disk elements are optionally heatable or and coolable. In order to obtain an intensive intermixing and a uniform retention time of all of the product particle present in the toroidal reaction space, at least one mixer arm connected to the housing or the kneading shaft projects into the toroidal space to a distance at least in the vicinity of the axial and radial center of the toroidal cross section between two axially adjacent disk elements. The mixing arm applies a mixing and/or transport action onto the goods or products present between the inner wall of the housing and the kneading shaft.

Abstract: A process controlling the use of a document reserved to the titleholder along or to the authorized bearer, and is characterized by consisting prior to the activation of the document in integrating into a predetermined zone of the document a predetermined and random coded transcription of a set of letters and/or digits constituting a secret "word" known only to the titleholder, the coded data being spread across a matrix of n rows and p columns, in comparing at the time the document is used the coded data with a "word" issued by the document bearer following the transcription in the same code, and in determining and displaying whether in there is coincidence or not.The process applies in particular to checks or the like. The invention also relates to the documents and the coding and reading means designed or developed to implement this process.

Abstract: A sensor for fluid systems for continuous detection of operating pressures and temperatures, with a sensor housing to receive a temperature probe and a pressure sensor. Simultaneous detection of pressures and temperatures is achieved by a sensor housing having a connecting nipple equipped with a bore. A temperature probe passes through the bore forming an annular flow channel which is fluidically connected to a pressure sensor chamber of a pressure sensor. The temperature probe is adjustable in an axial direction by an adjusting device.

Abstract: A dental working stand comprises a stationary working table with a lower cabinet forming an instrument module and/or an upper cabinet.To facilitate the dentist's access to the lower and/or upper cabinet during sole working the lower and/or upper cabinet, respectively, are pivotal around a vertical axis from a first position in which the front of the cabinet faces the position of the dental nurse at the front of the working table to a second position in which the cabinet front faces a dentist's postion at one end of a patient's support.

Abstract: Trailer of the type which can be widened out or retracted when required, made of a frame on which there is mounted a wheel assembly. The frame comprises a traction bar, a rear transverse member fixedly mounted at one end of the traction bar, a front traction member which is parallel to the rear traction member and is also fixedly mounted on the traction bar, along the latter, short of its opposed end. The portion of the traction bar between the front transverse member and the opposed end thereof constitutes a traction rod. A movable framework is disposed on both sides of the traction bar between the rear and front transverse members. The wheels of the trailer are mounted on the movable frameworks, which can laterally extend thereby widening out the trailer, or they can be retracted in the narrow position of the trailer. This trailer can easily be attached to a four- or three-wheeler of the sporting type and, when it is widened out, it can be used to carry the four- or three-wheelers.

Abstract: A high, reduced or alternating pressure fluid measuring system equipped with lines connected to measuring, control or regulating points combined in a collector. The collector is a rapid, multiple coupling and is actuable under operating pressures. The plug or socket is connected to a measuring device with sensors, control or regulating devices. The measuring device has a housing with plural bores, each to receive a pressure transducer and connected to a fluid and a vent channel. The fluid channel leads to a coupling bushing. The plug and socket housing have axially parallel bores to receive a coupling bushing, each with a radial clearance. A spring loaded mechanically actuated check valve and cylindrical valve body is located in each bushing. The outer edge or frontal surface of a bushing sealing shoulder presses against a gasket when closed. The coupling bushing or sealing bush located in the coupling bushing and the gasket form a sealable flow channel.

Abstract: When a light-emitting diode is controlled for transmitting high-frequency signals, such as video signals, or quick-changing analog signals, the electro-optical signal conversion is subjected to distortions due to temperature variations in the barrier layer of the diode which arise due to rapidly varying power losses. The circuit presented herein includes a compensating stage operatively connected to the diode, for alleviating such signal distortions. The system is capable of differentiating between the respective conditions of rising and falling edges of the control in the representative signal of signals to be transmitted.

Abstract: Substances that are toxic to yeast and which cause cessation of fermentation during alcoholic fermentation are adsorbed by microorganism cell walls added to a medium being fermented. The cell walls are from a gram-positive microorganism such as yeast, and are obtained by boiling or autolysis of the microorganism followed by washing material recovered. The cell walls can be added before or during fermentation, and may be added to a previously fermented medium followed by inoculating with new yeast. The toxic substances may be certain fatty acids and their ethyl esters, pesticide residues and substances secreted by certain microorganisms. Preferably, the cell walls are added when making wine, and the medium may contain Botrytis cinerea.

Abstract: A nuclear power plant (heating plant) with a helium cooled high temperature reactor with spherical fuel elements, located in a cylindrical prestressed concrete pressure vessel, suitable for supplying heat (for local or remote heating or the generation of process steam) with a capacity of approximately 50 to 300 MWth. The high temperature reactor core is located out of center in the prestressed concrete pressure vessel, with at least two heat exchangers installed adjacent and offset in the upward direction relative to it. The heat exchangers are each connected on the secondary side to an intermediate circulation loop including an intermediate heat exchanger and circulating pump, and have an auxiliary circulation loop with a recooling system connected in parallel with them for the removal of decay heat. The auxiliary loops are closed in normal operation.

Abstract: An improved device for the automatic feeding of silk screen printing machines with extension platens. The apparatus comprises:a storage magazine for the sheets to be printed, piled flat in a pile;structure associated with the printing platen and comprising a positioning support in an extension of the plane of this platen;apparatus to seize and transfer individual sheets from the pile onto the positioning support;frontal and lateral positioning structure for the sheet placed onto the positioning support; andpositioned sheet transfer apparatus to seize and transfer the sheet from the positioning support to the printing platen.

Abstract: A nuclear reactor installation located in the cavity of a pressure vessel comprises a nuclear reactor with a core traversed from top to bottom by a cooling gas, a plurality of main loops consisting of heat exchangers and blowers, together with auxiliary loops for the removal of decay heat. According to the invention, the auxiliary loops contain no heat exchangers but a bundle of heat pipes independent of each other, the heat absorbing part of which is arranged in the pressure vessel cavity. As a heat sink, an external cooling water loop is provided for each bundle of heat pipes in which water is circulated. The cooling water is recooled in a cooling tower. In a preferred embodiment the heat transferring part of the heat pipes of each bundle terminates in an external water reservoir to which the cooling water loop is connected. For a certain period of time, in case of a sufficient volume of water, the decay heat may be removed only by evaporation from the water reservoir.

Abstract: A cutter type knife comprises a hollow handle, a housing in said handle adapted to receive a removable blade fixed in position relative to said handle and projecting at least partly from one end of said handle. A blade cover is slidably disposed within said handle to be movable axially between a first position in which it is retracted into said handle and a second position in which it is adapted to surround or cover the part of said blade projecting from said handle. Means are provided for moving said blade cover between said first and second positions consisting of a trigger pivoted to said handle and a transmission mechanism is adapted to convert rotation of said trigger into axial displacement of said blade cover within said handle, whereby when said trigger is depressed said blade cover is moved to said first position.

Abstract: An indoor baseball game includes apparatus comprising a rectangular enclosure having netting walls and roof, a playing surface of synthetic grass or the like within the enclosure has a minature baseball diamond marked thereon and a bonus "home run" area is defined on the wall of the enclosure behind second base, a "running line" is marked on the diamond 11.5 meters past home, first and second bases, and must be reached by a runner to avoid being "out", before the baseman on the proceeding base contacts the base with the ball in hand. Various parts of the walls of the enclosure are defined as providing bonus bases when the batter hits the ball so as to contact such parts. Bonus bases are in addition to those achieved by running and to which safe passage is ensured. A complete set of rules for playing the game are set forth.

Abstract: A single loop nuclear power plant with a helium cooled high temperature reactor for generation of electric current, designed for a capacity of 1-5 MWe. The plant, which in addition to the high temperature reactor includes a gas turbine assembly and a heat exchange apparatus, is housed in two pressure vessels located above each other and connected in a releasable manner. The lower pressure vessel contains the high temperature reactor and is charged with the primary gas. The other circulation components are located in the upper pressure vessel which is filled with a protective gas. The gas turbine, the radiators, the high temperature compressor, the intermediate radiators, and the low pressure compressor, are arranged above each other in this sequence and aligned with the high temperature reactor. the recuperator is laterally arranged. A generator may also be located in the upper pressure vessel or in a container set upon the upper pressure vessel.

Abstract: The invention relates to a nuclear power station for a gas cooled high temperature pebble bed nuclear reactor. The nuclear power station is characterized by a combination of features, whereby the system inherent properties of a high temperature reactor are utilized to make possible the economical operation of a nuclear power station of medium capacity (300-600 MW.sub.el) while maintaining a high standard of safety. The characteristics comprise a reactor protection building equipped with pressure relief means in combination with filters, several auxiliary cooling systems separate from the operating cooling systems for the removal of decay heat in the case of accidents, and the utilization of a liner cooling system for the prestressed concrete reactor pressure vessel to assure the removal of the decay heat in case of a failure of the auxiliary cooling systems.

Abstract: In order to increase the protection of security documents such as ban notes, etc., against forgery, security threads are embedded in the document which have at least two areas extending in the longitudinal direction of the thread and differing in their physical properties. The thread is preferably a coextruded multicomponent synthetic thread whose individual components contain additives such as dyes or fluorescent substances and/or particles having electrical or magnetic properties. The testing of the authenticity of the security thread is directed toward the presence of these additives and their mutual geometrical distribution in certain areas of the security thread.

Abstract: A metering slide for fine-grained solids for gastight closing and cross-section-variable opening of vessels and piping in pneumatic conveying systems. A sliding plate provided with a metering opening is moved between two slide rings by a drive in a compression-proof slide casing. The intake side slide ring opening has a predetermined nominal width between 1/10 and 1/3 of the outside diameter of the slide ring. The discharge side slide ring has an inside diameter corresponding to 3 times to 10 times the nominal width of the intake. The slide casing is filled with a lubricant which is under a pressure equal to or higher than the operating pressure of the penumatic conveying system.

Abstract: A gas cooled high temperature nuclear reactor utilizes an independent cooling system for the safety enclosure surrounding the reactor vessel. The cooling system comprises means for circulating cooling medium at least on the reactor side of a concrete safety enclosure shell and a separate closed cooling loop for circulation of separate cooling medium through a reservoir of the first cooling medium and to the outside of the entire nuclear reactor installation.