Abstract: In a method, especially for stripping enamel and removing coatings from objects, the advantages of a solvent treatment are to be retained, without having to put up with the disadvantages of contaminating the environment. This is accomplished essentially by using in a closed treating vessel a treating mixture with at least a preponderance of a solvent with a proportion of water in excess of that required for an azeotropic mixture and carrying out the treatment while boiling the treating mixture. After the treating mixture is removed from the vessel, any solvent components still present are distilled off azeotropically from the system with water and removed before the vessel is opened.

Abstract: An apparatus for developing and after treatment of photographic development material includes a plurality of containers arranged one after another in a row with the containers having open tops. The containers are arranged to receive different treatment fluids. A preparation station is located at the upstream end of the row of containers. A first transfer device is located above the preparation stations and a first one of the containers. The first transfer device extends over the preparation stations and the first container for moving frames holding the development material into the first container. A second transfer device is located downstream of the first transfer device for placing the frames in the downstream containers and for transferring them from one station to another. The second transfer device has a carrying element displacable in the vertical and horizontal directions and extending over the upper tops of the downstream containers.

Abstract: A preparation for the abhesive coating of baking tins, baking molds, frying pans, metal pots and the like is disclosed. The preparation which comprises predominantly a heat-curable, polyol-modified polysiloxane A and 0.05 to 4% by weight, based on polysiloxane A, of a linear siloxane B that is capable of reacting with polysiloxane A. The modified polysiloxane A is obtained by reaction of a polysiloxane A1 of the general formula. ##STR1## wherein OR.sup.1 is an alkoxy group, derived from a primary or scondary alcohol with 1 to 4 carbon atoms,R.sup.2 is alkyl and/or phenyl,a=1 to 1.5,b=0.1 to 0.08,with a multihydric alcohol A2, with the characteristic feature that, as multihydric alcohol A2, is used an ester group-containing polyo of the general formula ##STR2## which can be obtained by the esterification of 1 mole of dicarboxylic acid HOOC--R.sup.7 --COOH with 2 moles of alcohol of formula R.sup.6 OH, the R.sup.6 groups in the molecule being the same or different and representing the groups ##STR3## wherein R.

Abstract: At a seat carrier 4 of a chair, a backrest 5 is pivotally connected. A seat which rests on the seat carrier 4 and the backrest can be interdependently adjusted in their inclination. For return into the resting position and to fix in any desired position, a gas pressure spring 10 and, if necessary, additional springs 11 are provided. The one end of the gas pressure spring 10 engages at the free end of a thrust lever 15 which is pivotally held at the backrest 5, wherein this pivot axis 7 is arranged at a distance from the pivot axis 6 between the backrest 5 and the seat carrier 4. A lever arm 16 which is pivotally attached at the seat carrier 4 also engages at this thrust lever 15 at a distance from its pivot axis 7. The thrust lever 15 can perform a relative motion with respect to the backrest 5 by means of the arrangement of the lever arm 16. Therefore a relatively small movement of the backrest 5 results in a correspondingly larger movement of the gas pressure spring 10.

Abstract: The outer surface of a transparent optical mass is directly coated with an internal reflection suppressing coating having an index of refraction smaller than that of the optical mass for suppressing internal reflections of light passing through the mass at angles of incidence to the surface greater than the critical angle. The coating includes a dispersing medium and a material in the form of light absorbing particles having dimensions smaller than one-fifth of the wavelength of visible light dispersed in the medium. The particles have a sufficient density near the surface to absorb a major portion of visible light at all wavelengths incident upon the surface through the mass at angles of incidence greater than the critical angle.