Abstract: A nuclear power plant includes a containment for containing activity carriers. An outlet in the form of an excess pressure safety device leads out of the containment. A filter connects the outlet to the atmosphere. The filter includes a container, a washing fluid disposed in the container, a Venturi scrubber being integrated in the container and connected to the outlet, the container having an upper region with a gas outlet, and a stack connected to the gas outlet.

Abstract: An upper fixed plate (3) can have an annular fixed plate (4) attached, where both are disposed at the lower end of a work arm (1) of an industrial robot. A spring-supported receiver disk (5) with an attachment ring (5a) for a gripper (2) can be supported on the upper fixed plate (3) and on the annular fixed plate (4). The upper fixed plate (3) and the annular fixed plate (4) each can have four engagement-catch recesses for ball-shaped locking elements (6). The engagement-catch recesses can be of conical shape and can have an opening angle of about 120 degrees and can have a depth of about 3 mm. In addition, the upper fixed plate (3) can be provided with two centering bores (3c) for motion-limiting pins (9). The motion-limiting pins (9) protrude into the motion-limiting bores (5c) of the spring-supported receiver disk 5. Next to the motion-limiting bores are disposed threaded bores (5b) with a threaded socket ( 7) for the ball-shaped locking element (6).

Abstract: After a dyeing operation has been concluded, the hot dyeing liquor present in the piece dyeing jet is returned via a cooling heat exchanger in the dyeing circulation system back into the makeup storage vessel for the dyeing liquor. Thereafter, the liquor-free dyeing system, which is still under an elevated static pressure, is relieved to atmospheric whereby the dyeing system is cooled down adiabatically together with the dyed textile material present therein to such an extent that a sample can be taken therefrom rapidly and safely.

Abstract: Method for coating continuously moving substrates by the deposition of compounds from the gas phase by means of plasma discharge, produced by an electrode, with a chemical reaction, a system of magnets for the generation of a magnetic trap to constrict the plasma being disposed on one side of the substrate. The objective is to be accomplished by limiting the action of the plasma and the chemical reaction to the immediate vicinity of the system of magnets. For this purpose, the surface of the substrate to be coated is held at a distance "S.sub.1 " from the electrode, which is less than the dark-space distance that arises under the specified process conditions. Moreover, the magnetic trap is adjusted so that it passes through the substrate and is closed over the surface of the substrate to be coated and moreover in such a manner, that the constricted plasma is maintained on the surface of the substrate that is to be coated.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a chemically sensitive component including an optical filter that reversibly changes color or transparency in response to a gas or vapor to be determined or detected. The optical filter comprises a mixture of a basic or acid color former or dye of the triphenyl methane system and a complementary acid or basic compound which may be embedded in a matrix and/or applied as a coating to a carrier. The optical filter's change in color or transparency can be measured photoelectronically, e.g., with a luminescent diode as a light source and a photodiode or a phototransistor as a light detector.

Abstract: New arthropodicidal synergistic mixtures comprising the known active compounds (I) the pyrethroid: .alpha.-cyano-3-phenoxy-4-fluoro-benzyl 2,2-dimethyl-3-dichlorovinyl-cyclopropanecarboxylate or .alpha.-cyano-3-phenoxybenzyl 2,2-dimethyl-3-dibromovinyl-cyclopropanecarboxylate (decamethrine) and (II) 0,0-dimethyl 0-2,2-dichlorovinyl phosphate (dichlorvos) and (III), if desired, 0-isopropoxyphenyl N-methylcarbamate (propoxur). The novel mixtures are particularly suitable for use in aerosols and oil sprays.

Abstract: Process and apparatus are provided for the batchwise wet treatment of textile material with an aqueous liquor that contains dyestuff or other textile processing products according to an exhaust technique. Textile material in continuous loop form is recirculated in a jet dyeing machine, and a recirculating gas stream propels the material. A blower recirculates the gas stream while aqueous liquor is metered into the stream by aspirating the liquor at the upstream side of the blower. The action of the blower finely disperses the liquor within the gas stream.

Abstract: Acid halides of the formula (R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3)C--CO--Hal are obtained by reacting alkyl halides of the formula (R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3)C--Hal with carbon monoxide under a pressure of 5 to 1,000 bar and at a temperature of -20.degree. C. to +100.degree. C. in the presence of 0.001 to 0.3 mol of AlCl.sub.3 and/or FeCl.sub.3, if appropriate in the presence of a further Bronsted or Lewis acid, per mol of the alkyl halide. The process is carried out, if desired in the presence of a solvent which is customary for Friedel-Crafts or Friedel-Crafts-related reactions and, if appropriate in the presence of a hydrogen halide. The acid chloride can be isolated from the reaction mixture or further reacted.

Abstract: Novel fungicidally active decahydronaphth-2-yl-alkylamines of the formula ##STR1## in which A represents optionally substituted decahydronaphth-2-yl andR.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are identical or different and represent alkyl or alkenyl, orR.sup.1 and R.sup.2, together with the nitrogen atom to which they are bound, represent an optionally substituted, saturated heterocycle which may contain further hetero atoms, or a plant-tolerated acid-addition salts thereof.

Abstract: Use of the plant Reynoutria sachalinensis for combating fungi in agriculture.

Abstract: In a DPCM coder respective estimated values are subtracted from digitized picture element signals and estimated errors are used for signal transmission after quantization and coding. Each estimated value is derived from a reconstructed picture element signal formed in an adder. Separate, simultaneous subtractions of the signal taken at the output of the adder, as well as of the positive and negative adder limit values, from the respective picture element signal at the input thereby occur, whereby an overflow recognition device and a multiplexer provide that only the difference from the three differences formed up to this point are taken into consideration for quantization on the basis of the actual addition result, including no overflow, positive overflow and negative overflow.

Abstract: Novel fungicidally active acyloxythiophene-carboxamides of the formula ##STR1## in which R.sup.1 represents alkyl, alkoxyalkyl, alkylthioalky, fluoroalkyl, cyanoalkyl, alkenyl, alkinyl or cycloalkyl,R.sup.2 represents alkyl or optionally substituted phenyl,R.sup.

Abstract: Optical waveguides of plastic usually consist of a core and a jacket, the core material having a higher refractive index than the jacket material. A suitable core material is a fluorine-free polymer and a suitable jacket material is a fluorine-containing polymer, which can also contain deuterium. The optical waveguides can be produced by passing a polymer rod through a solution of the jacket polymer and then removing the solvent. The optical waveguides are particularly suitable for the transmission of data with the aid of light waves with a wavelength of 500 to 750 nm.

Abstract: A component for surface mounting is fixed by means of adhesive to a surface of a member. For improving the adhesion, the fixable surface of the component includes a structure which makes it possible, first, for this fixable surface to lie flush against the surface of the member. Second, the structure of the fixable surface also makes it possible for a quantity of adhesive adequate for fixing to remain between the fixable surface of the component and the surface of the member.

Abstract: Microbicidal substituted pyrazolin-5-ones of the formula ##STR1## in which R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 independently of one another each represent hydrogen, alkyl, alkenyl, alkinyl, cyanoalkyl, hydroxyalkyl, alkoxyalkyl, alkylthioalkyl, alkoxycarbonyl, hydroxycarbonylalkyl, alkoxycarbonylalkyl, aminocarbonylalkyl, alkyllaminocarbonylalkyl or dialkylaminocarbonylalkyl, or represent in each case optionally substituted oxiranylalkyl, aralkyl, heterocyclyl or aryl andHet represents an optionally substituted heterocyclic radical.Intermediates therefor of the formula ##STR2## in which R is alkyl, are also new.

Abstract: Novel 12- and 13-substituted ergoline derivatives are suitable, e.g., as psychopharmaceuticals and for hypertension therapy.

Abstract: A gas laser tube assembly includes a gas laser tube having ends, optical elements each vacuum-tightly closing off a respective end of the gas laser tube, each of the optical elements including a washer-shaped ceramic flange and a terminating plate being transparent to laser radiation and thermally matched to the ceramic flange, the ceramic flange having an outer rim joined to the gas laser tube and a central beam passage opening formed therein, and the terminating plate having two base surfaces, and glass solder connecting the terminating plate to the ceramic flange with the terminating plate covering the beam passage opening and projecting beyond the ceramic flange with at least one of the base surfaces thereof and a method of manufacturing the same.

Abstract: A high-pass element of a filter assembly for a line connected to static converters having a high voltage level for filtering harmonics and damping resonance sites includes a first series circuit including a first capacitor, a first choke coil, and a second choke coil. A resistor is connected in parallel with the choke coils. A second series circuit is connected directly in parallel with the second choke coil. The second series circuit includes a second capacitor and a damping resistor. On the other hand, the second capacitor and the damping resistor may be in parallel with the second choke coil and at least one other series circuit may be connected in parallel with the second choke coil. The at least one other series circuit includes a series capacitor and a series resistor.

Abstract: Particulate, multiphase polymers which have a core (A) and an overlying shell (B) wherein the core (A) is an organic, resinous polymer comprising polymerized olefinically unsaturated monomer units having softening point temperatures of at least 30.degree. C. and wherein the shell (B) is an organopolysiloxane are obtained by producing in a first stage an organic resinous polymer in latex form by emulsion polymerization and, in a second stage, the latex particles of the first stage are surrounded with a shell (B) organopolysiloxane by polymerizing low molecular weight organosiloxanes in the presence of the latex particles of the first stage.

Abstract: Bifunctional initiators for anionic polymerization are prepared by reacting an alkenylaromatic compound of the general formula I ##STR1## where Ar is aromatic hydrocarbyl which may be substituted by alkyl or another group inert toward organoalkali metal compounds and may contain nitrogen,R.sup.1 is linear or branched alkyl, cycloalkyl, alkenyl or aralkyl or from 1 to 22 carbon atoms where at least the carbon adjacent to the double bond is saturated and aliphatic,R.sup.2 is hydrogen or is likewise linear or branched alkyl, cycloalkyl, alkenyl or aralkyl or from 1 to 22 carbon atoms where at least the carbon adjacent to the double bond is saturated and aliphatic, and where R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 may be part of a common cycloaliphatic ring, in the presence of one or more ethers and of tertiary amines and in the presence or absence of a further inert aliphatic, alicyclic or aromatic solvent, at from -20.degree. to +70.degree. C.