Abstract: To effect a quasi-isothermal catalytic reaction of SO.sub.2 to SO.sub.3, a plurality of consecutive rows of banks of cooling tubes, are provided in the bed of shaped catalyst bodies in a contact reactor in such a manner that the banks of succeeding rows are staggered from the banks of the preceding rows. The distance between the cooling tubes in the banks is so selected that a penetration of entire catalyst bodies into the banks will virtually be prevented. The banks are so designed that the pressure drop of the gas in the banks is approximately the same as the pressure drop in the layer of catalyst between the bank. The distance between the banks is larger than the width of the banks.

Abstract: Disk-shaped magnetic recording media essentially consisting of a flexible substrate, a thin ferromagnetic metal film applied to one or both sides and a protective or antifriction layer present on this metal film and essentially consisting of carbon, a process for the production of these recording media and information stores containing these recording media.

Abstract: Magnetic recording media for perpendicular recording are produced by coating a non-magnetic substrate by a PVD method with a cobalt-containing, ferromagnetic metal layer which has magnetic anisotropy perpendicular to the plane of the layer, by a process in which the temperature of the substrate is increased by external heating during coating.

Abstract: A photosensitive recording material for recording information by means of a local change in the optical properties of a recording layer under the action of light having a high energy density, and a process for its preparation.

Abstract: The invention provides means to protect a widely used keyboard such as the IBM XT PC and PS/2 keyboard against vandalism and spill if such a keyboard is used in exposed situations, e.g. in self-service application/transaction machines which are publically accessible and unattended. On the base plate or housing 1 respectively of the keyboard 12 a grid plate 8 is fixed. This grid plate has openings 10 arranged in the pattern of the keys and in such a size that the cone-like keys 11 cannot be removed toward the top. The grid plate may be fixed directly to the keyboard housing or by means of a supporting frame 4 which is secured to the housing. In both cases grid plate or supporting frame respectively include a rim 5 to form a shallow trough 21 with the keyboard housing. A gasket 2 is provided between grid plate or supporting frame respectively and the keyboard housing. A drain 3 is provided in the rim to give controlled outflow.

Abstract: A photosensitive recording material for recording information by means of a local change in the optical properties of a recording layer under the action of light having a high energy density, and a process for its preparation.

Abstract: Magnetic recording media essentially consisting of a disk-shaped aluminum substrate, a nonmagnetic (Ni-P) lower film, a chromium-containing intermediate film and a ferromagnetic metal film are produced by a process in which the surface of the (Ni-P) lower film is cleaned by RF sputter etching and then oxidized.

Abstract: Irreversible optical recording media record information through local alteration of the optical properties of a recording layer on exposure to light.

Abstract: Optical recording media for recording and retrieval of information by means of high energy radiation, which media consist essentially of a polymeric base having uniaxial orientation and, applied on this, a metal film of high reflectivity having the orientation of the crystallites corresponding to the orientation of the base and retrieval of information are effected by means of high energy radiation.

Abstract: An irreversible optical medium for storing information by local modification of the optical properties of a recording layer under the action of a light beam with an irradiance of from 0.05 to 10 nJ .mu.m.sup.2, essentially consisting of a substrate and, applied on this, a particulate recording layer from 0.01 to 10 .mu.m thick, wherein the recording layer consists of a three-dimensional arrangement of particles having a mean particle diameter of from 4 to 40 nm, and a process for its production.