Abstract: In a circuit for an ionization vacuum gauge having a thermionic filament, a control circuit receptive of a control current for controlling the filament and a switch for applying the control current to the control circuit, a circuit is provided for indicating a filament interruption independent of the state of the switch. The circuit includes at least one resistor by-passing the switch to provide a continuous sensing current to the filament and a detector for detecting the interruption in the sensing current and for indicating such an interruption.

Abstract: Process for the preparation of benzanthrones of the formula ##STR1## in which R designates alkyl or halogen andn represents 0, 1, 2 or 3, characterized in that anthraquinones of the formula ##STR2## in which R and n have the meaning indicated above, are reacted with acrolein or compounds from which acrolein can be formed under the reaction conditions, in the presence of phosphorus or phosphorus compounds having a reducing action, in relatively highly concentrated sulphuric acid at elevated temperature, and the reaction mixture is worked up in a manner which is in itself known to give the benzanthrones of the formula (I).

Abstract: The invention provides inorganic fibers based on calcium sulfate dihydrate or calcium sulfate aluminate hydrate (or their dehydration products), wherein the ratio of average length to diameter of the fibers is more than 100:1 and the length of the fibers is at least 0.2 mm; preferably the ratio of average length to diameter is 300-800:1, and the length is 0.5-6 mm.

Abstract: Pipette with elastic bellows wherein the travel of the bellows is limited by preset stops. The bellows is prestressed between the stops over a range of movement within which the bellows possesses adequate springback force to return to a rest position predetermined by one of the stops.

Abstract: High-purity metal powder is made by the electron beam melting of a starting material in rod form in a vacuum wherein the molten metal is momentarily caught on a spinning plate rotating at high speed and flung therefrom and thereafter solidified by cooling. The metal on the spinning plate is bombarded with an electron beam that is so focused and periodically deflected that its focal spot is many times smaller than the diameter of the spinning plate. The beam deflection between the rotational center of the spinning plate and its marginal area is performed such that the spinning plate is scanned in a zone that extends radially of the axis of rotation of the spinning plate and is small in relation to its diameter. Cooling of the metal particles to the point of solidification is accomplished by radiation loss.

Abstract: Fuels and heating oils containing hydrocarbons, water and emulsifiers are disclosed wherein the emulsifier is a non-ionic emulsifier and the non-ionic emulsifier is one which contains less than 1,000 ppm of salt constituents and less than 1 percent by weight of polyalkylene glycol ether constituents.

Abstract: A process of treating aqueous condensate which is formed as a result of the cooling of raw gas produced by the gasification of solid fuels under a pressure of 5 to 150 bars. The condensate formed as a result of the cooling is at a temperature of at least 110.degree. C. and under a pressure of at least 2 bars and at least part of it is pressure-relieved. The flashed-off vapor is removed and the pressure-relieved condensate is fed to a separator, from which a condensate phase consisting mainly of water is withdrawn. The condensate or a portion thereof is used as a coolant for the raw gas. The flashed-off vapor may be burnt.

Abstract: Novel diagnostic composition for the detection of leukocytes in body fluids, comprising an absorbent carrier impregnated with a buffer substance and a chromgen, wherein the chromogen is an azo dyestuff ester of the formulaA--N.dbd.N--B(OR).sub.nwhereinA is a five- or six-membered heterocyclic radical of up to 2 hetero ring atoms selected from nitrogen, sulfur and oxygen, and wherein the heterocyclic ring may be substituted with at least one member of the group selected from halogen, lower alkyl and lower alkoxy; orA is phenyl substituted by at least one member of the group selected from lower alkyl, lower alkoxy, nitro, sulphanato and acylamino;B is benzene, naphthalene or quinolone, optionally substituted with one or two radicals selected from sulphanato, lower alkoxy and lower alkoxypoly-alkyleneoxy;R is a carboxylic acid residue or an amino acid or peptide residue having a nitrogen protective group; andn is 1 or 2.

Abstract: Cationic anthraquinone dyestuffs of the formula ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 denotes hydrogen, alkyl or cycloalkyl,R.sub.2 denotes hydrogen, alkyl or bromine,R.sub.3 denotes alkylene,R.sub.4 and R.sub.5 denote alkyl, aryl or aralkyl,R.sub.6 denotes alkyl or aralkyl andX.sup..crclbar. denotes an anion,and the substituents mentioned can in turn be substituted by non-ionic radicals, are prepared by reacting anthraquinones of the formula ##STR2## with amines of the formula ##STR3## in the presence of a proton acceptor and of copper salts as a catalyst, in a solvent mixture consisting of 50 to 90% of one or more aprotic, non-polar or slightly polar solvents and 10 to 50% of one or more protic or aprotic, polar solvents, trapping the acid formed during the reaction by bases which do not precipitate the catalyst and then quaternizing the product, without intermediate isolation.

Abstract: A synergistic fungicidal composition comprising (1) at least one carboxidide of the formula ##STR1## in which Y represents a bifunctional group linking the two carbonyl groups with formation of an optionally substituted 5-membered heterocyclic ring with a total of 1 or 2 hetero-atoms (O and N),and (2) ##STR2##

Abstract: The invention relates to the preparation of pulverulent formulations of transfer printing dyestuffs.The process is characterized in that the aqueous dispersions of these dyestuffs are mixed with compounds of the formulaR--ZwhereinR denotes a hydrophobic radical with at least 5 C atoms andZ denotes the groups --COOH, --NH.sub.2, --O(C.sub.2 H.sub.4 O).sub.n H, --NX.sub.1 X.sub.2 or --NH(CH.sub.2).sub.m NX.sub.1 X.sub.2,in whichn is 0, 1 or 2,m is 2-6 andX.sub.1 /X.sub.2 is H or C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkyl,with the proviso that R represents a non-cyclic aliphatic radical when Z represents COOH,and the aqueous mixtures are converted into dry pulverulent form in a manner which is in itself known.The preparation can easily be dispersed in organic media, for example in organic solvents such as those customary in the preparation of printing pastes, and are outstandingly suitable for the preparation of printing inks for printing temporary supports for heat transfer printing.

Abstract: Cationic dyestuffs of the formula ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 independently of one another represent a lower alkyl, alkenyl or hydroxyalkyl radical,R.sub.3 represents H or halogen,R.sub.4 represents H, halogen, or a lower alkyl, alkenyl or alkoxy radical,R.sub.5 represents H or a lower alkyl radical,R.sub.6 represents a lower alkyl, alkenyl, halogenoalkyl, alkoxyalkyl, hydroxyalkyl or cyanoalkyl radical andX.sup.- represents an anion,at least one of the substituents R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 being other than H, are used for dyeing and printing natural and synthetic materials, in particular polyacrylonitrile.

Abstract: Use of compounds which, in the form of the free acid, correspond to the formula ##STR1## in which Z represents halogen or alkylcarbonylamino with 1-4 C atoms in the alkyl radical,m is 0, 1 or 2 andn, r and s represent the numbers 0 or 1 with the proviso that the sum of n, r and s has a value of 1 or 2 and s can be 1 only if r at the same time is 0,for dyeing polymeric materials containing amide groups, material dyed in this way and colorants containing the compounds of the indicated formula.

Abstract: A machine for the crosscutting of a multi-ply web includes a crosscutter, a guide preceding the crosscutter in the direction of web travel and a feed section disposed between the web guide and the crosscutter preceding the web to the crosscutter which includes a pair of rolls. Differences in sheet lengths of the various plies cut by the crosscutter is compensated by mounting the web guide for pivotable movement as a unit about the axis of one of the two rolls of the feed section and for fixing the web guide in a selected position in the path of motion thereof.

Abstract: In the process for decreasing the COD-content of effluent by treating with hydrogen peroxide in the presence of a transition metal compound, the improvement which comprises adding to the effluent about 5 to 40% of the calculated quantity of H.sub.2 O.sub.2 required for the total oxidation of the total COD-content of the effluent, the transition metal compound being dissolved in the effluent in an amount such that the molar ratio of H.sub.2 O.sub.2 to transition metal is from about 30:1 to 3:1, bringing the pH initially to about 2 to 9, maintaining the effluent at about 5.degree. to 100.degree. C., and separating from the effluent whatever material has flocculated. Thereafter the effluent can be subjected to conventional biological degradation such as by the activated sludge process.

Abstract: The invention relates to selectively protected 4,6-di-O-(aminoglycosyl)-1,3-diamino cyclitols (and methods for their preparation) useful as intermediates for the synthesis of antibiotics, such as those of the sisomycin type.

Abstract: A process for the production of chlorine dioxide by membrane electrolysis of aqueous sodium chloride, reaction of hydrogen and chlorine so-formed to form hydrogen chloride and reaction of the so-formed hydrogen chloride with the sodium chlorate also formed by the electrolysis to form chlorine dioxide is disclosed. Also disclosed is the production of chlorine by such a process.

Abstract: A process for separating acetonitrile from a crude olefinically unsaturated nitrile which comprises passing a reaction gas obtained in the ammoxidation of propylene or isobutylene through a quenching column, an absorption column with water, an extractive distillation column for the olefinically unsaturated nitrile and a stripping column for acetonitrile successively, condensing the acetonitrile-containing vapor from the top of the stripping column, evaporating the condensate acetonitrile-containing liquid into a gas, subjecting the resulting gas mixture to a vapor-liquid separation and subjecting the gas separated to an incineration while withdrawing the liquid separated.

Abstract: In the production of thiocarbohydrazide by reacting hydrazine hydrate with carbon disulphide in the presence of water to form in a first stage hydrazinium dithiocarbazinate, subsequently thermally decomposing the hydrazinium dithiocarbazinate in a second stage to form thiocarbohydrazide, and recovering the thiocarbohydrazide from the reaction medium, the improvement which comprises effecting the entire reaction in the mother liquor of a preceding batch, carrying out the first reaction stage at a temperature between about 25.degree. C. and 45.degree. C., with injection of carbon disulphide below the surface of the reaction mixture; carrying out the second stage at about 62.degree. to 65.degree. C. without prior isolation of the intermediate product; filtering off the thiocarbohydrazide formed after cooling, separating the amount of mother liquor in excess of that required for the next batch, and feeding the balance of the mother liquor to the next batch.

Abstract: A photographic silver halide material is provided which comprises in at least one layer a solid dispersion of at least one water-insoluble methine dye of the formula ##STR1## wherein L and L' each represent an optionally substituted methine group, n is O, 1 or 2, Z represents the atoms necessary to complete an optionally substituted acidic carbocyclic or heterocyclic ring, Y represents the atoms necessary to complete an optionally substituted basic carbocyclic or heterocyclic ring, at least one of the rings Z and Y being substituted by a --COOH group or being substituted by a group which comprises a --COOH group. The solid dispersion of the dye is finely divided in the binder material of said layer, which is normally a filter or anti-halation layer. A marked increase of sharpness of the images obtained from photographic material containing in at least one layer the solid dyestuff dispersion can be observed.