Abstract: An improved curved cable support member adapted to the ends of the rail guides of a Bowden window lift. This support member (2) comprises at least one projecting first catch means at its side facing the rail guide (1), the projecting catch means is undercut so that a free gap about the material thickness of the guide rail (1) exists between a free-standing lip (3) and the body of the support member, and the free-standing lip (3) is provided at its inside with a beak (4) entering a corresponding clearance (5) in the guide rail when the support member is slipped onto the guide rail and secures the support member against being pulled off the guide rail.

Abstract: A retriever for a climbing aid used as an anchor in cracks where the aid has an operating bar. The retriever has:(a) a fork body with tines;(b) hooks on the ends of the tines for engaging the operating bar of the climbing aid;(c) finger holds located on the fork body;(d) a longitudinal bore in the fork body extending from the base of the tines to the upper end of the fork body;(e) a rod having a first and a second end and mounted for reciprocation in the bore;(f) a stop secured to the first end for applying pressure upon the support bar of the climbing aid; and(g) a handle secured to the second end and engaging the base of a thumb of a climber.

Abstract: An adjustable jaw end wrench, in which the adjustable jaw is operated by a worm gear, the worm gear is meshed with the rack of the movable jaw and the worm gear is driven by an electric motor. Linear motion propelling the jaw open and/or closed is produced by the electric motor. Batteries in the handle provide the power for the electric movement and a DPDT (Double Pole Double Throw) switch controls the function of the wrench.

Abstract: The heat-hardenable binder mixture based on organic resins comprises an organic resin having primary and/or secondary and, if appropriate, also additional tertiary amino groups and a cross-linking agent based on an organic compound containing at least 2 carbalkoxymethyl groups. The binder mixture can additionally contain pigments, fillers, cross-linking catalysts, corrosion inhibitors and further finish auxiliaries. The binder mixture is used in a process for preparing coatings by applying a coating agent in the form of a film to a substrate and subsequently hardening the film by baking.

Abstract: A process for preparing cyclooctene-4-ol-1 with a content in excess of 70% by reacting cyclooctadiene-1,5 with formic acid and then saponifying or transesterifying the cyclooctenyl formate with an alcohol of low boiling point.In the absence of a catalyst, formic acid is reacted with cyclooctadiene-1,5 at 50.degree. to 200.degree. C., preferably 95.degree. to 105.degree. C. The reaction product without further processing is directly distilled, and the formic acid ester so obtained is transesterified with an alcohol of low boiling point into the formate of that alcohol and into cyclooctene-4-ol-1.

Abstract: A process and apparatus for the continuous production of alkylesters of saturated aliphatic carboxylic acids by reacting olefins with carbon monoxide and alkanol in the presence of a catalyst consisting of a cobalt compound and a promoter selected from the group consisting of pyridine, non-ortho-substituted alkylpyridines and mixtures at elevated pressure and elevated temperature, the reaction based on olefins having at least 8 C atoms and being carried out in a reactor wherein the flow characteristic is adjusted so that tubular flow without back-mixing predominates, and wherein the raw materials are supplied in the desired ratios at the input side of the reactor.

Abstract: Disclosed is an emitting or detecting element for an in-line flow measuring instrument operating on the thermopulse-injection and transit time measuring principle. The element is composed of a severally meandering resistance path spread only across a partial cross-section which is small compared to the flow cross-section and which is anchored at its mutually insulated reversing points by means of holding tapes and electrode leads into the flow-wall of the measuring instrument. The emitting or detecting element can be produced in the most diverse ways. For instance, it can be etched out of thin metal foils by lithographic methods, it can be stamped out of sheets, and also it can be made by welding resistance wires together.

Abstract: Process for the production of fine particulate, expandable styrene polymers by suspension-polymerizing styrene or possibly mixtures of styrene and other monomers having at least 50% by weight of styrene in the presence of expanding agents having low boiling points in incompletely filled reactors. The polymer beads to be charged with expanding agents are vigorously stirred during the addition of the expanding agent(s) in such a manner that these beads undergo the least possible contact in time and space with the gas phase and with each other, and so that the surface of the stirred medium retains a topology as free as possible from a funnel shape during stirring.

Abstract: Fine particulate expandable styrene polymers suitable for the production of molded bodies with improved minimum mold dwell times, containing 0.01 to 2.0% by weight, referred to the polystyrene or the total of the polymerized monomers, of polyoctenamer having I values from about 10 to 400 ml/g and trans octylene contents from about 20 to 90%.

Abstract: In a process for depositing a coat of paint on wood-cement boards manufactured by pouring a strewable mixture of fibers and binder onto press plates and then stack-pressing, with a coat of paint being applied to the board surface after pressing, the board shall be provided with a coat of paint of extremely long life approximately corresponding to the life of the board. This problem is solved by the invention in that a binder liquid colored-through with an inorganic dye is deposited on the layer of the strewable layer poured on the press plate and that the press plate together with the layers so deposited is fed to the press.

Abstract: The invention relates to aqueous dispersions based on a polyurethane synthetic resin which has been obtained by reacting a hydroxyl-containing unsaturated polyester with a diisocyanate and reacting the product with a dihydroxycarboxylic acid, dihydroxysulfonic acid, diaminocarboxylic acid or diaminosulfonic acid, neutralizing the intermediate product with a tertiary amine and transferring it into an aqueous phase, and then reacting the terminal isocyanate groups with a primary and/or secondary diamine, as a chain-lengthening agent. The dispersions contain hydrolyzed shellac as second binder component. They produce coatings having excellent solvent resistance and excellent adhesion, even to difficult substrates.

Abstract: The exposure meter is used in mirror reflex cameras wherein an image of an object projected by a picture taking lens onto an image plane is observed by means of a pentaprism through an ocular. For the purpose of the selective integral or spot exposure metering, a pentaprism (6) is provided at the lower edge of its exit surface with a partly transmitting concave mirror (16). The angles of the pentaprism (6) are selected so that a portion of the light flux leaving the exit pupil (EP) of the picture-taking lens (2) is incident on this concave mirror (16). A first photoelectric detector system is associated with the concave mirror (16) and a second detector system is associated with the prism surface (6c) following the concave mirror in the direction of the beam path, and the output signals from these detectors control a display and/or an exposure control. An additional optical component (13,14a,15b,15) is provided to implement a desired beam path in the pentaprism (6).

Abstract: A process for coating an electrically conductive substrate, connected as the cathode, with a cationic coating agent from an electrocoating bath and subsequently hardening the coating, is characterized in that an aqueous dispersion made from:A. cationic, synthetic resins which have been protonated with acids, contain basic groups and are in a dissolved or dispersed form andB. dispersed, finely divided, ionic plasticsis used as the cationic coating agent.

Abstract: The invention relates to a self-crosslinking heatcurable binder, in particular for electropaints, which is based on an organic synthetic resin which contains primary and/or secondary and, if desired, also tertiary amino groups and esterified carboxyl groups and is water-dilutable due to partial or complete neutralization with acids. The esterified carboxyl groups are activated in the alcohol component by a substituent which induces a negative inductive effect.

Abstract: A process for preparing improved molding materials of expandable styrene polymers by coating the particles with glycerin esters of long-chain fatty acids. The coating comprises organosols of pulverulent glycerin esters having 14 to 24 carbon atoms in aliphatic hydrocarbons having 3 to 8 carbon atoms. The proportion of glycerin monoester is at most 40, but not less than 10% by weight and the particle size of the pulverulent ester is less than 100 microns. The molding materials are used to manufacture molded articles.

Abstract: Interferon is produced in-vitro from whole blood, obtainable from animals or humans including blood from corpses or retroplacental blood, in a simplified non-critical process preferably carried out in a sterile system of interconnected plastic bags. The blood is stabilized and innoculated with an interferon inducer before culturing in an incubator. This results in interferon containing blood useful directly for transfusions or further processable to obtain a variety of therapeutic interferon containing preparations including plasma, serum and albumin in accordance with disclosed phases of this invention. Interferon carrying plasma is thus separated and treated further to isolate interferon carrying serum or albumin, if desired. In-vivo innoculation to produce antibodies before taking blood provides improved disease fighting characteristics in the derived product.

Abstract: A water-dilutable coating agent for preparing the base layer of a multilayer coating. The coating agent contains pigments and optionally flow-control agents, thixotroping agents, fillers, organic solvents and other customary auxiliaries.

Abstract: Powdered polyamide mixtures for use in the heat sealing of textiles by the powder point process. The polyamide homogeneous mixtures contain:(a) about 95 to 40% by weight of at least one copolyamide with a melting point of at least about 110.degree. to 140.degree. C. and having a proportion of a basic lauryllactam monomer component of at least 20% and at most 70% by weight; and(b) about 5 to 60% by weight of at least one copolyamide with a melting point between about 80.degree. to 110.degree. C. and having a proportion of a basic lauryllactam monomer component or lauryllactam and 11-aminoundecanoic acid copolymer of at least 25% and at most 70% by weight, where the percentages are based on the total weight of the copolyamide mixtures.

Abstract: A process and apparatus for the preparation of aqueous synthetic resin dispersions by using water to precipitate the synthetic resins from their solutions in water-miscible solvents. The solutions may contain pigments, extenders, and additives. The precipitated solids are separated off and dispersed uniformly in an aqueous medium. The precipitation of the synthetic resins is carried out in the presence of inert grinding bodies.