Abstract: The invention relates to a storage medium for storing information/data, wherein the storage medium comprises a dielectric storage material, more particularly a disk-shaped storage material on which a metal ion donor medium is arranged or can be applied on at least one side thereof. Metal ions can be transferred from the donor medium into the storage medium by exposing the storage medium to radiation, more particularly to laser radiation. The invention also relates to a storage medium for storing information/data, wherein the storage medium comprises a dielectric storage material, more particularly a disk-shaped storage material having at least one local metal ion doping, wherein the metal ions can be converted into metal particles and/or metal particles agglomerations by means of radiation, more particularly laser radiation.

Abstract: The invention relates to a storage medium for storing information/data, wherein the storage medium comprises a dielectric storage material, more particularly a disk-shaped storage material on which a metal ion donor medium is arranged or can be applied on at least one side thereof. Metal ions can be transferred from the donor medium onto the storage medium by exposing the storage medium to radiation, more particularly to laser radiation. The invention also relates to a storage medium for storing information/data, wherein the storage medium comprises a dielectric storage material, more particularly a disk-shaped storage material having at least one local metal ion doping, wherein the metal ions can be converted into metal particles and/or metal particles agglomerations by means of radiation, more particularly laser radiation.

Abstract: An optical storage system capable of use as a business card or a credit card of a rectangular card lying flat against an optical storage medium which can have a circular track for the optical storage of data. Symmetrical fastening elements around the whole optical storage medium secure the card and the optical storage medium together in two positions at right angles to one another. In one position the system has a rectangular configuration corresponding to that of a card. In the second position arcuate ends of the optical storage element lie along the longitudinal edges of the card to enable the system to be placed in a reader or writer for the optical data.

Abstract: The invention relates to a system comprising two elements. The first element is an optical storage medium which has the form of a circular disc having two parallel cutting edges of segments that are cut symmetrically in relation to the center. The second element is a rectangular card, especially formed from a synthetic material, having the size of a business or credit card. Said card, together with the optical storage medium, can be inserted into a disk drive of a writing and/or reading appliance. The inventive system comprises means which enable the two elements to be fixed in two positions in which said elements are rotated towards each other when the card (1) and the storage medium (3) are placed flat one upon the other.

Abstract: A container comprising a non-deformable shell under ordinary stresses made from at least two cooperating parts which together constitute said shell, said shell being lined internally with and thermoplastically fused with a lining made of a liquid-impermeable thermoplastic material and a method of making said container, comprising(a) introducing at least two cooperating parts which together constitute a non-deformable shell under ordinary stresses into molding tool members which each have a contour corresponding to at least a portion of the outer surface of each part of the shell,(b) bringing the parts together,(c) applying a substantially even film of thermoplastic material at an elevated temperature and in an at least plastic state to the inner surface of the parts to produce on the internal surface of the wall of the shell a lining, which is liquid-impermeable and thermoplastically fused to the shell when the container is at ambient temperature, and(d) removing the container from the molding tool members.

Abstract: A laundry finishing treatment rope for use in a mechanical laundry drier comprising an entwined strand of textile fibers in a cord form having both ends secured against fraying, the rope being impregnated with 10% to 90% by weight of a substance of the laundry finishing treatment type effective in a mechanical laundry drier; as well as the method of finishing laundry by tumble drying the laundry in the presence of the rope in a mechanical laundry drier.

Abstract: A laundry finishing treatment article for use in a mechanical laundry drier to treat fabrics with a substance of the laundry finishing type and a laundry odorant, the article comprising a hollow bag of two-layer composite sheeting having a pillowlike form closed on all sides, the external layer of said two-layer composite sheeting being an open-celled absorbent layer containing an amount effective to treat said fabrics of the substance, which substance is substantially solid at room temperature and softened or liquefied at elevated drier temperatures to enable a transfer of the substance to the laundry during the drying thereof, and the internal layer of the two-layer composite sheeting being a plastic film substantially gas-impermeable at room temperature and gas-permeable to the odorant at elevated drier temperatures, the film enclosing an effective amount of the odorant; as well as the process for after-treating laundry in a drier in which the above laundry finishing treatment article is introduced into a