Abstract: New substituted 1-(1,2,4-triazolyl-1)-1-(4'-phenylazo)-phenoxy-3,3-dimethylbutan-2-one compounds having a good fungicidal action, and fungicides containing these compounds as active ingredients.

Abstract: A photopolymerizable composition for the manufacture of printing plates and relief plates, based on a mixture, containing a photoinitiator, of photopolymerizable olefinically unsaturated monomers and a polymeric binder, contains up to 0.1% by weight of an etherified thioanthraquinone for improving the relief image in the production of relief plates.The composition advantageously also contains a small amount of an organic tertiary amine or of an aromatic .alpha.-ketocarboxylic acid or its ester and/or of an inhibitor, e.g. the salt of an organic N-nitrosohydroxylamine.

Abstract: A process for continuously testing the thickness of the enamel coating of electric wires, in which the wire, after enamelling, passes between a fixed and a movable measuring roller. The wire is wrapped around the fixed measuring roller such that its wrap-around angle has a value between 0 and 15 degrees and the fixed and movable measuring rollers are positioned relative to each other such that their respective planes of symmetry are vertically displaced by a value between 0.5 and 2 mm. Using the process according to the invention, the thickness of enamel applied to the wire can be kept constant to about 0.5 .mu.m.

Abstract: A positioning device for a write/read magnetic head in a magnetic disc data storage device comprising a motor-driven guide disc, with a spiral-shaped guide wall arranged at right angles to the plane of the guide disc, for a guide element in the form of a ball-bearing on a magnetic-head support. Due to the greatly reduced friction it is possible to achieve highly accurate positioning within an extremely brief period of time and with an extremely low power requirement. This device may be used to position the heads in magnetic disc systems for the recording and/or reproduction of analog or digital signals.

Abstract: .alpha.-Formylethane-phosphonic acid esters are manufactured by reacting vinylphosphonic acid esters with carbon monoxide and hydrogen in the presence of conventional rhodium-containing hydroformylation catalysts. The reaction is carried out at from 50.degree. to 180.degree. C. and at pressures from 20 to 1,500 bars. The products are intermediates for the synthesis of insecticidally active phosphoric acid ester derivatives.

Abstract: Polyurethane foams are prepared employing as the polyisocyanate ingredient a highly stable liquid 4,4'-diphenylmethane diisocyanate (MDI) containing MDI-carbodiimide adducts prepared by heating MDI at a temperature of from 180.degree. C. to 250.degree. C. for a period of from one hour to ten hours in the presence of tris(chloromethyl)phosphine oxide and thereafter equilibrating the adduct formation. Equilibration can occur by any of several methods, i.e., by cooling the composition to a temperature of from 60.degree. C. to 90.degree. C. within twenty minutes, maintaining the composition at this temperature for a period of from one hour to four hours and thereafter cooling the composition to room temperature or by cooling the composition to a temperature less than 100.degree. C. within twenty minutes, further cooling to room temperature, and maintaining the composition at room temperature for one week to two weeks.

Abstract: Dye formulations for dyeing or printing cellulose or cellulosic fibrous material which in addition to the usual dispersing agents, water retention agents, disinfectants and water contain dyes devoid of sulfonic acid groups and of the general formula: ##STR1## in which A is an anthraquinonyl, anthrapyrimidone or anthrapyrimidine radical which may bear substituents; X is hydrogen or an aliphatic, cycloaliphatic, araliphatic or aromatic radical; B is hydrogen or an aliphatic radical; B.sup.1 is an aliphatic, araliphatic or aromatic radical or the group ##STR2## is a five-membered, six-membered or seven-membered heterocyclic ring; and n is 1 or 2. Dyeings and prints having very good fastness properties and particularly very good fastness to wet treatments and crocking are obtained on cellulose. The dyes contained in the formulations are fixed on swollen cellulosic fibers by heating.

Abstract: p-alkylphenols are manufactured by continuous reaction of phenol with olefins in the presence of a pulverulent polystyrenesulfonic acid ion exchanger which is suspended in the reaction mixture.

Abstract: A winding shaft having a plurality of winding sleeves which are mounted next to one another on the winding shaft in such a way that they can rotate independently of one another, and which can be frictionally connected thereto, the frictional connections between the winding sleeves and the winding shaft being independently adjustable, and the parts exposed to friction being slow-wearing and the device being producible at low cost.

Abstract: New 1,3-bis-(trihalomethylsulfenyl)-imidazoline-2,4-diones and their use as fungicides.

Abstract: There are disclosed surface lubricants or processing aids for synthetic fibers particularly polyester, polyacrylic, and polyamide (nylon) fibers or mixtures thereof comprising an ethylene oxide capped heteric polymer of tetrahydrofuran (tetramethylene oxide) and ethylene oxide designated as a heteric/block copolymer having the formula:Y--(A).sub.n --(C.sub.2 H.sub.4 0).sub.m --H].sub.

Abstract: Stable, liquid polyisocyanate compositions are prepared by reacting a polyisocyanate or a mixture of polyisocyanates and halogen-containing carboxylic acids. The polyisocyanates hereof are used to prepare polyurethanes, polyisocyanurates, poly(isocyanurate-urethane) and the like. These isocyanates can be used in foam formation, films, fibers, coating solutions, elastomers and the like.

Abstract: 2-Halomethyl-, 2-alkoxymethyl- and 2-acyloxymethyl-3-methyl-3-formyl-bicyclo[2.2.1]heptane and -hept-5-ene and a process for their preparation.The new compounds are obtained by reacting cyclopentadiene or dicyclopentadiene with the corresponding 4-halo-, 4-alkoxy- or 4-acyloxy-2-methyl-crotonaldehydes under the conventional conditions for Diels-Alder reactions, with or without subsequent catalytic hydrogenation of the Diels-Alder adduct obtained. The new compounds provide an industrially easily realized and advantageous method of synthesis of the sought-after essential ingredients of natural sandalwood oils.

Abstract: The manufacture of N-disubstituted 1-aminoalk-2-yn-4-ols by reacting a secondary amine, e.g. a dialkylamine, formaldehyde and an acetylene-alcohol by a Mannich reaction, using a copper catalyst, takes place with better yield and at a higher rate if carried out in the presence of iodine or of a bromide or iodide.

Abstract: In a process for the manufacture of 1-amino-2-bromo-4-hydroxyanthraquinone by hydroxylating previously prepared and isolated 1-amino-2,4-dibromoanthraquinone in sulfuric acid in the presence of boric acid at from 110.degree. to 130.degree. C., the improvememt that 1-aminoanthraquinone is brominated (from 1.5 to 2.1 moles of bromine per mole) in sulfuric acid of from 50 to 85 percent strength at from 80.degree. to 130.degree. C., the reaction mixture is brought to a concentration of from 96 percent strength sulfuric acid to 5 percent strength oleum by adding oleum; and the dibromo compound is then hydroxylated in the presence of boric acid. Very pure 1-amino-2-bromo-4-hydroxyanthraquinone, which can be used for all purposes, is obtained in a high yield.

Abstract: A positioning device for objects of low mass, particularly magnetic heads in memory processing units having at least one pivotable head support and at least one pivotable support for at least one coil, which coil support is located in the air gap of a magnet assembly, the magnet assembly comprising pairs of flat permanent magnets whose air gaps are arranged next to each other and whose poles are so arranged that poles of unlike polarity are opposite each other, and the coil(s) being of elongate shape, the longitudinal conductors of which coil(s) are always located inside the said air gaps and the transverse conductors are always located outside said air gaps.The device of the invention can be used for all positioning operations requiring a very high degree of accuracy, in particular to position write/read devices of every kind and measuring and testing probes in control engineering and the laboratory.

Abstract: Elastomeric coatings capable of reverting to their initial dimensions for the permanent bridging of joints and cracks in facades, walls and ceilings of old and new constructions, industrial floors, constructions at subgrade level, using coating materials which are deposited and dried employing coating apparatus known per se by painting, plastering, caulking or spraying or rolling. The coating materials are prepared from aqueous emulsions and/or aqueous dispersions and/or solutions of film forming binders in organic solvents possibly containing water, possibly also containing pigments, extenders, fillers, softeners, admixtures and additives and furthermore contain a fine-particle, elastomeric powder dispersed through the coating materials which dry into elastomeric films.

Abstract: A process for desizing and bleaching textile goods containing, or consisting of, cellulose, by simultaneous enzymatic desizing and pretreatment with a solution of sodium dithionite and a conventional heavy metal complexing agent in the presence of a buffer system at pH 6-9 and subsequent conventional peroxide bleaching in the presence of little or no silicate as a stabilizer. The process improves the bleaching effect and the economics and reduces the risk of fiber damage or destruction or of silicate deposits without an additional treatment stage.

Abstract: N-Alkylanilines are obtained by alkylating anilines with alcohols in the absence of hydrogen under a pressure substantially higher than the autogenous pressure of the reaction mixture, at from 50.degree. to 250.degree. C., preferably in the presence of a fixed catalyst containing cobalt, nickel and copper.

Abstract: Cyclic ethers are manufactured by eliminating water from corresponding diols in the presence of aluminum oxide which has been obtained by precipitating aluminum hydroxide from an alkali metal aluminate solution by means of an acid and calcining the hydroxide at from 300.degree. to 1,000.degree. C.