Abstract: Leather is finished on the basis of a purely aqueous system using aqueous polymer dispersions, casein and crosslinking agents in the bottoming and seasoning.

Abstract: Ceramic moldings, in particular those having geometrically complicated shapes, are produced by a process in which a ceramic powder is mixed with a molding additive and the mixture is injected into a mold. In order to improve the mechanical properties of the molding, a solution of a high molecular weight polymer in a solvent is used as the molding additive. The mixture is injected at a temperature below the boiling point of the solvent and under from 100 to 1,500 bar into a porous, gas-permeable mold which is at a temperature above the boiling point of the solvent, the injection pressure being maintained until gas no longer escapes from the molding material or the mold.

Abstract: An auger-type of device has a hollow central shaft for taking undisturbed soil samples. The tip of the device has teeth for grinding soil from around the sample. The device comprises a helical conveyor for transporting the ground product upwards and away from the soil sample.

Abstract: Navy and black dye mixtures contain one or more thiophene-azo dyes of the formula ##STR1## where R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, R.sup.4, R.sup.5, X and Y each have defined meanings, and one or more dyes F whose absorption maximum is at a wavelength of from 390 to 520 nm, the proportion of thiophene-azo dyes being from 60 to 99% by weight, based on the total weight of thiophene-azo dyes and dyes F in the mixture.

Abstract: Copolymers of monoalkyl maleates and vinyl alkyl ethers are prepared by free radical copolymerization of maleic anhydride and a vinyl alkyl ether followed by reaction with an alkanol, by a process in which the vinyl alkyl ether component is present in excess in the reaction mixture in each phase of the polymerization, the free radical copolymerization is carried out in acetone and the acetone is removed by distillation during or after ester formation at up to 70.degree. C.

Abstract: The printability of paper is improved by applying an aqueous coating agent consisting of(a) 100 parts by weight of a finely divided pigment,(b) from 5 to 70 parts by weight, based on solids, of a cationic aqueous polymer dispersion of a paper size and(c) from 0.01 to 10 parts by weight of a surfactant which interferes with the formation of the surface size and/or of a polymeric dispersantin an amount of from 0.5 to 4 g/m.sup.2 to one or both surfaces of the paper and drying the coated paper.

Abstract: The invention relates to novel thienone compounds useful in dyeing fibers, of the formula: ##STR1## where R.sup.1 is cyano, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkoxycarbonyl, carbamoyl or C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -monoalkylcarbamoyl or -dialkylcarbamoyl,R.sup.2 is hydrogen, C.sub.1 -C.sub.8 -alkyl, substituted or unsubstituted phenyl, furyl, thienyl or halogen,X is nitrogen or CR.sup.4 where R.sup.4 is hydrogen, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkyl, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkoxycarbonyl, cyano or substituted or unsubstituted phenyl, andR.sup.3 is an aniline, thiazole, indole, styrol or isoindole radical, with the proviso that if R.sup.1 is cyano, X is CH and R.sup.3 is 4-dimethylaminophenyl or styryl, then R.sup.2 is not methyl or phenyl and that if R.sup.1 is cyano, X is CH and R.sup.3 is phenyl or 4-methoxyphenyl, then R.sup.2 is not phenyl.

Abstract: A simple process for preparing 1-(4-hydroxy-phenyl)-butan-3-one, a sought-after natural aromatic, in a pure form and in good yield from easily accessible starting materials, wherein a 4-tert-alkoxy-benzaldehyde is condensed, under alkaline conditions, to give a novel 1-(4-tert.-alkoxy-phenyl)-but-1-en-3-one, the latter is hydrogenated, during or after this condensation, to give a novel 1-(4-tert.-alkoxy-phenyl)-butan-3-one, and isobutene or 2-methyl-but-1(2)-ene is eliminated from this compound in the presence of a catalytic amount of an acid. The novel intermediates have the general formula ##STR1## where R is H or CH.sub.3 and the broken line may or may not be an additional carbon-carbon bond.

Abstract: Impact-resistant translucent rubber-modified polystyrene is produced by polymerizing compounds from the class of the styrenes in the presence of an elastomeric polymer which contains thiol groups.

Abstract: Novel photopolymerizable recording materials suitable in particular for producing photoresist layers and lithographic printing plates are composed of one or more photopolymerizable, olefinically unsaturated organic compounds, optionally a polymeric binder, a photopolymerization initiator, a color-forming system composed of a color former and a photooxidant, novel 4-quinazolone compounds as sensitizers and optionally further additive and/or auxiliary substances.

Abstract: Pyrroles of the formula I ##STR1## are prepared by a process in which a dialkoxytetrahydrofuran of the formula II ##STR2## where R.sup.2 to R.sup.5 in the formulae (I) and (II) are identical or different and are each hydrogen, a straight-chain or branched alkyl or alkenyl radical of not more than 12 carbon atoms, a cycloalkyl or cycloalkenyl radical of 5 to 8 carbon atoms, an aryl, alkylaryl or aralkyl radical of 6 to 16 carbon atoms, and two non-adjacent radicals R.sup.6 to R.sup.9 are alkoxy and the other two radicals R.sup.6 to R.sup.9 are hydrogen, is reacted with ammonia or a primary amine H.sub.2 NR.sup.1, where R.sup.1 in formula (I) is hydrogen, alkyl, aryl, alkylaryl, aralkyl or cycloalkyl, in the presence of an acidic, solid, heterogeneous catalyst. Zeolites, for example those of the pentasil type or faujasite type, or phosphates, acidic oxides, phosphoric acid or boric acid on a carrier can be used as the solid heterogeneous catalysts.

Abstract: An electrophotographic recording element comprising(A) an electrically conducting base and(B) at least one photoconductive layer consisting essentially of(b.sub.1) at least one binder,(b.sub.2) at least one sensitizer which on exposure of layer (B) generates charge carriers and which is selected from the group of the naphtholactam dyes of the general structure I ##STR1## where the indices and variables have specified meanings, (b.sub.3) at least one photoconductor which transports the generated charge carriers and optionally(b.sub.4) additives, and also novel naphtholactam dyes of the general formula I where R.sup.2 is substituted monocyclic 1,3-thiazolyl bonded to the naphtholactam structure via a carbon ring atom, the use of these novel naphtholactams I in electrophotographic and laser-optical recording elements and also novel reprographic processes and novel processes for producing offset printing plates and photoresists using the novel electrophotographic recording element.

Abstract: Compounds of the formula ##STR1## where R, Hal and Z have the meanings given in the disclosure. The compounds are suitable for use as fungicides.

Abstract: Urea-aldehyde polycondensates usable as surface coating binders are obtainable by step-wise reaction of(a) urea and/or urea derivatives with acidic CH aldehydes in a molar ratio of urea:aldehyde of 1:2 in the presence of acids and at from 60.degree. to 120.degree. C. with(b) a mixture of 3 moles of formaldehyde per mole or urea and 3 moles of an acidic CH aldehyde per mole of urea at from 60.degree. to 120.degree. C. with subsequent removal of the water of reaction and treatment of the reaction mixture with an alkali metal alcoholate at from 80.degree. to 100.degree. C.

Abstract: 3-pentenoates are prepared by isomerization of 2-pentenoates to 3-pentenoates by a process in which the 2-pentenoate is treated with from 0.01 to 0.5 mole of cyclic tertiary amine having a pK.sub.a of >6 per mold of 2-pentenoate at from 50.degree. to 250.degree. C. and the 3-pentenoate is distilled off continuously.

Abstract: Ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acids and/or carboxylic anhydrides are grafted onto polyolefin blends by a process in which the polyolefin blend consists of from 5 to 49 parts by weight of an ethylene/propylene block copolymer having an ethylene content of less than or equal to 20% by weight and from 51 to 95 parts by weight of a homopolymer or copolymer of ethylene, and the resulting graft copolymer blends are used as adhesion promoters, in particular for polyethylene/adhesion promotor/steel composites, and for the preparation of ionomers.

Abstract: A method for controlling molluscs with 2-(2-chloro-1-methoxyethoxy)phenyl methylcarbamate of the formula ##STR1## and molluscicides containing a mixture of 2-(2-chloro-1-methoxyethoxy)phenyl methylcarbamate with methyl benzimidazol-2-ylcarbamate is described.

Abstract: This invention pertains to variable denier filaments prepared from synthetic polymers having a glass transition temperature of at least 30.degree. C. and yarns made therefrom. The filaments have longer length slubs, which results in their use in fabrics desiring a variable texture and dyeing effects. The filaments are prepared by drawing at ambient temperature a feeder yarn having sufficient molecular orientation at carefully controlled draw ratios and in draw zones having a specified length.

Abstract: Isoindolenines of the general formula (I) ##STR1## where R.sup.1 is hydrogen, unsubstituted or chlorine-, hydroxylphenyl- or cyano-substituted C.sub.1 -C.sub.12 -alkyl or C.sub.5 -C.sub.8 -cycloalkyl or unsubstituted or chlorine- or methyl-substituted phenyl,R.sup.2 is hydrogen or unsubstituted or chlorine-, hydroxyl-, phenyl- or cyano-substituted C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 -alkyl, or is morpholino, pyrrolidino or piperidino, andR.sup.3 is hydrogen or methyl and the benzene ring A may be substituted by from 1 to 4 chlorines, 1 or 2 C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkyls or 1 nitro,are obtained by condensing 3-aminophenols of the formula (II) ##STR2## with 3-amino-1-oxoisoindolenines of the general formula (III) ##STR3## in the presence of acids, and are hydrolyzible in very good yields into benzoylbenzoic acids (IV) ##STR4## which are very difficult, if not impossible, to prepare by prior art methods.

Abstract: Blue anthraquinonoid disperse dyes are prepared by reacting a 1-amino-4-nitroanthraquinonecarboxamide (II) with a cyanide in an aqueous medium in the presence of hydroxyl ion acceptors at above 20.degree. C. by a process in which the reaction is carried out in water at a pH of from 7.5 to 10.5 and in the presence of one or more quaternary ammonium salts at from 60.degree. to 100.degree. C.The process gives disperse dyes which are similar to C.I. Disperse Blue 87 and have similar color properties in high yields by an environmentally compatible process, the said disperse dyes having excellent properties.